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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, September 22, 2012

22 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • NewYorker: Why Is Romney Such A Loser ?
    It’s a serious question. On the basis of fundamentals, the race should be a squeaker. The Yale economist Ray Fair’s prediction model, which ignores the opinion polls and just looks at economic factors, currently puts Obama’s share of the popular vote at 49.5 per cent, implying that Romney would ...
  • Hayden: Obama's Libya Adventure to Blame for A ...
    Violent protests in Libya that claimed the life of the U.S. ambassador were the result of President Obama’s decision to intervene in the Libyan revolt without a “deep appreciation” for what would follow, former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells Newsmax. Hayden, a former four-star Air Force ge ...
  • Comprehensive survey of Antarctic sea-ice starts
    A TOP international team of polar experts will deploy an array of hi-tech sensors to carry out the most thorough survey ever of Antarctic sea ice thickness. The Australian Antarctic Division's first scientific expedition of the 2012/13 season will use under-ice and airborne vehicles to invest ...
  • Assange to get Aboriginal passport
    WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been offered an Aboriginal Nations passport in an inner-city Sydney ceremony after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities. His father, John Shipton, accepted the document at a celebration at Darlington. He said his son had been jilted by the Austr ...
  • Questions surround the 'Muslim Innocence" movie
    Think about it. Who the hell is going to loan Nakoula — a guy guilty of freakin’ bank fraud — the sum of five million dollars? Even if the actual budget was $50,000, how would this jailbird scrape up the dough? He was sent to prison for 21 months in 2010; how did he secure an early release? Y ...

Independent - London

  • Libyan Islamist militia swept out of Benghazi ...
    An Islamist militia was driven out of the city of Benghazi early today in a surge of anger against the armed groups that control large parts of Libya more than a year after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.Related StoriesSouth Africa issues arrest warrant for Julius MalemaSomali café owner defi ...
  • Teen's 'Facebook party' turns into riot in Net ...
    Thousands of revelers descended on a small Dutch town sparking a riot after a party invitation posted on Facebook went viral, authorities said today. Related Stories330 Turkish military officers convicted for attempted coupGreece: General strike with a silver lining - even the taxman's walked o ...
  • Rebel army leaders move from Turkey to Syria
    The leaders of the rebel Free Syrian Army said Saturday they have moved their command center from Turkey to Syria with the aim of uniting rebels and speeding up the fall of President Bashar Assad's regime. Related StoriesAt least 54 killed in Syria blast as air strike hits fuel depotSyrian air s ...
  • French police detain man for threatening to de ...
    French police in the western city of La Rochelle have detained a man suspected of threatening to decapitate the editor of a French satirical weekly that published lewd caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Related Stories330 Turkish military officers convicted for attempted coupGreece: General st ...
  • Libyan protesters storm Islamist militia compo ...
    Hundreds of protesters angry over last week's killing of the US ambassador to Libya stormed the compound of the Islamic extremist militia suspected in the attack, evicting militiamen and setting fire to their building. Related StoriesMosquitoes now wait for early risers to beat bed netsSouth Af ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • 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.
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • 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

  • 60 MPH Winds and Sheets of Rain in the Forecas ...
    The glorious autumnal weather is to be blown away by "severe" conditions and potential flooding over coming days, forecasters have warned. Households across swathes of the country were placed on high alert from tomorrow night as gale force winds and torrential showers threaten to bring about ...
  • Privacy Investigation Prompts Facebook to Drop ...
    Facebook said Friday it had switched off the facial-recognition tool that prompts users to "tag" photographs uploaded to its website following a privacy investigation. The feature was identified by regulators as one of the main privacy threats posed by the social networking site. Ireland's Dat ...
  • Victorian Catholic Church Reveals 620 Abuse Cases
    The Catholic Church in Victoria has revealed that at least 620 children have been abused by its clergy since the 1930s, sparking a fresh call for an independent inquiry into sex abuse. The Catholic Church in Victoria revealed the number in a submission to a state parliamentary hearing on Friday ...
  • Measles Epidemic Claims 22 Lives
    An outbreak of measles, which has been raging in Likouala, North-eastern Congo since April, has already killed 22 people, the state-run radio said Friday. The epidemic, which initially hit Liranga and Bétou, have now reached Impfondo and Epena.
  • West Nile Virus Kills 5, Dozens Hospitalized
    At least five people in the Balkans have died from West Nile virus and several dozen others have been hospitalized in the past four weeks, according to health authorities in Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Croatia. West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne disease usually found in temperate and tropica ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Elasticity of demand
    I got yer business model of higher edumacation right here: It seems there is an upper limit to how much people are able or willing to pay (or borrow) for their education. HM Goverment's appalling move to increase the upper limit on university fees has resulted in a decline of 54 000 admissions. ...
  • Friday's futures . . .
    SOME GOOD, SOME BAD. RSN has a chiller for your perusal: "Monsanto Corn Causes Tumors, Organ Damage in Rats". The study is disputed by some, but it sure looks scary. A tumor problem The French government asked the country's health watchdog to investigate the findings further, altho ...
  • The power of oil . . .
    IRANIAN OIL has all sorts of political complexities, a lot of which are not immediately apparent to those of us who rely on orthodox news sources and commentary. Indeed, as we see, the Iranian nuke project and the posturing over Hormuz is rather a side-show, a distraction for American conservati ...
  • Up, up and away . . .
    FLY WITH MITT: Enter for a chance to join Mitt on board the campaign plane for an exciting day on the campaign trail -- at 30,000 feet! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go behind the scenes and see the campaign from the inside. Donate $3 for a chance to ta ...
  • Booming costs . . .
    UNLIKE FINE VINTAGE WINES, nuclear warheads don't get better with age. According to Dana Priest's article, "The B61 bomb: A case study in costs and needs" at The Washington Post, Uncle Sugar is concerned, because the B61 is over 50 years old as a design. It's a two-stage radiation implos ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Conspiracy Theory: Obama Admin. Is Engaged ...
    Fox News hosts accused President Obama and his administration of perpetuating a "cover-up" of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. But the Obama administration is conducting an investigation into the attack, the State Department is setting up an independent panel to investigate it, and ...
  • Fox's Week-Long Attempt To Distract From Romne ...
    After GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney disparaged 47 percent of Americans, Fox News spent several days attacking Obama with a series of misleading and false attacks.Monday MOTHER JONES RELEASED VIDEO OF ROMNEY DISPARAGING 47 PERCENT OF AMERICANS Mother Jones Reported On Video Of Romney Say ...
  • Myths And Facts About Coal
    Conservative media have claimed that the Obama administration is waging a "war" on "cheap," "clean" coal that will cause blackouts and massive layoffs. In fact, the Obama administration has simply implemented long overdue and legally required clean air regulations to protect public health withou ...
  • Conservative Media Baselessly Claim Obama Will ...
    Dismissing evidence to the contrary, conservative media this week claimed the Obama administration is considering releasing Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as "the Blind Sheikh," who was convicted of planning terrorist attacks against the U.S. Even after administration officials denied accusations ...
  • Right-Wing Media's Misplaced Outrage Over Obam ...
    Right-wing media expressed outrage over the Obama campaign's use of flag imagery in a campaign poster. But this is not unique to the Obama campaign: a modified American flag was used as a banner for Abraham Lincoln's 1860 presidential campaign.Right-Wing Media Attack Obama Campaign Over Flag Pos ...

Global Research.ca

  • US Soldiers in Nepal on China’s Tibet Bo ...
    Early this week, sixty-five American soldiers landed in Kathmandu and moved to Dhikurpokhari of Kaski district of Nepal. They are also travelling in Manang and Mustang districts bordering China’s Tibet region.  Ostensibly they are on a “humanitarian mission” of assessing the quality of healthca ...
  • “UN Embassies” Coming to a City Ne ...
    The UN is currently expanding beyond its traditional citadels in New York City and Geneva,  dispatching brand new missions to the various global ‘regions’ which many believe will join a new ‘global government’ over the coming decade. The UK appears to be paving the way, hosting the first ‘UN Hou ...
  • Does America Plan to Use Nukes against Iran?
    Documented in Michel Chossudovsky’s recently released book, Towards a World War III Scenario, The Dangers of Nuclear War,  the U.S. has steadily loosened the restrictions on the use of its nuclear weapons in time of war. Based on the fallacious notion advanced by the Pentagon that “ ...
  • American-Killing Terror Cult: US Delists Mujah ...
    As the US government confirms that terrorists involved in the Benghazi, Libya US consulate attack were indeed the very militants funded, armed, and provided air support in last year’s bid to overthrow the government of Libya, yet another disturbing announcement has been made.…
  • “Hockey is Canada’s Game”: The National ...
    by Julian Ammirante and Tyler Shipley Sport has always been a matter of deep social significance. In contemporary society there are few individuals who do not, directly or indirectly, encounter elements of sport in their daily social lives. Some may be actively involved as participants in some ...

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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Water - AlterNet

  • Global Frackdown Begins Tomorrow
     On September 21st activists across the world are rising up against the proliferation of the shale gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. As Mark Schlosberg writes for Food and Water Watch:Tomorrow, communities across the world are fighting back with one unified message: our ...
  • The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Shockingly Lax R ...
    On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon, Texas. There, under a steel shed, they began to unload thousands of gallons of wastewater for burial deep beneath the earth.The waste – the byproduct of oil and g ...
  • Farmers Warned to Watch for Carcinogen as Drou ...
     Continuing heat and drought are withering corn crops across the Midwest, creating prime conditions for a fungus that produces aflatoxin, a toxic carcinogen that causes health problems in livestock that eat the contaminated feed, according to Purdue University researchers."Aspergillus ear rot ...
  • Profiting from Climate Change? Oil & Gas Compa ...
    The New York Times reports today that thanks to the increasing loss of sea ice, Big Oil Companies in the West are in a race with China to just "Drill, Baby, Drill" and "Mine, Baby, Mine" in the previously unexploited areas of the Arctic. Previously unexploited because the Arctic was covered by ...
  • Can Fracking Ever Be Done Safely?
    Governor Andrew Cuomo appears to have hit the pause button on once-imminent plans to frack New York. This is a turnaround from June, when someone in his administration leaked to the New York Times a tentative plan to begin drilling in New York’s Southern Tier. In place of the predicted post-La ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Tar Sands Blockaders held for two days on Clas ...
    On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 around 8:00AM, three landowner advocates and climate justice organizers locked themselves to a piece of machinery critical for Keystone XL construction in Franklin County, Texas. They did so to defend David Hightower’s. As construction crews arrived at Mr. Highto ...
  • Three Mile Island – Deja vu
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has reported that a reactor at Three Mile Island, the site of the nation’s worst nuclear accident, shut down unexpectedly on this afternoon when a coolant pump tripped and steam was released.  Right now they are saying the plant is stable with no impact on publi ...
  • Halliburton loses radioactive rod used in frac ...
    Somewhere between Pecos and Odessa in southwestern Texas, Halliburton has lost a seven inch radioactive rod used in natural gas fracking. Workers discovered the rod was missing on September 11th.  A lock on the container used to transport the radioactive rod was missing, along with the rod insid ...
  • NRC Whistleblower Claims Threat To Nuclear Pla ...
    According to the Huffington Post, not one, but two, whistleblower engineers at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have accused regulators of deliberately covering up information relating to the vulnerability of U.S. nuclear power facilities that sit downstream from large dams and reservoirs and f ...
  • Don’t blame wind energy for lack of new power ...
    Check out Public Citizen’s Texas director’s, Tom “Smitty” Smith, response to CPS Energy CEO Doyle  Beneby‘s op-ed in the San Antonio Express last week that blamed Texas wind power plants for creating problems by producing such cheap power that it made it hard to bui ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • New Quebec Gov't Takes on Nuclear, Shale Gas a ...
    (The Canadian Press) MONTREAL - Within 24 hours of taking office, the new Parti Quebecois government slammed the door on two controversial industries and dropped a hint about shutting down a third. The government moved to shore up its ...
  • Electric Grid Regulator Creates Cybersecurity ...
    (The Hill) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) established a division to mitigate cyber threats on the electric grid Thursday, but noted it still lacks many of the enforcement capabilities it needs from Congress. The offic ...
  • Nissan Drivers Confirm Heat Taking Toll on Lea ...
    (Autoblog Green) Ouch. There's now some independent analysis that says the Nissan Leaf wilts in the heat. Led by Leaf owner Tony Williams, a group of Nissan EV owners tested a dozen Leafs in Phoenix last weekend. The group put the Lea ...
  • The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules for Dr ...
    (ProPublica) The remains of a tanker truck after an explosion ripped through an injection well site in a pasture outside of Rosharon, Texas, on Jan. 13, 2003, killing three workers. The fire occurred as two tanker trucks, including the ...
  • Drought Grows, Forecast to Persist Through Ear ...
    (Climate Central) The massive and widespread 2012 drought that has gripped the nation since the spring refuses to die, according to the latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor — and in fact, it’s expanded a little: as of September ...

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

  • Confusing Behavior
    Nothing against the owners, patrons, or the dining establishment, but there is something poignant about Paul Ryan getting booed in Miami by a conference hall full of AARP members, and him waking up the next morning to make an appearance at Versailles Restaurant in the same city. If Rep. Ryan is ...
  • Where's the Motivation?
    Mitt Romney has raised less money from small donors than John McCain did in 2008. And, overall, he has roughly $40 million less under his direct control than the president. His big donors have already maxed out, but Obama can keep going back to a massive pool of small donors. The RNC has a bi ...
  • Rasmussen Polls Should Be Shunned
    Just a reminder about Rasmussen Polls. They suck. Here's a snippet from Nate Silver's post-2010 midterms analysis: The 105 polls released in Senate and gubernatorial races by Rasmussen Reports and its subsidiary, Pulse Opinion Research, missed the final margin between the candidates by 5.8 ...
  • The Honest Republican
    Tommy Thompson, Republican US Senate candidate in Wisconsin -- unlike Paul Ryan who still tries to hide the stinky cheese that his vaunted plan to save Medicare would essentially kill Medicare -- makes no bones about the fact Republicans want to "do away with Medicare and Medicaid," and he's "j ...
  • You Can't Be Indifferent
    I used to live in Venice, California. In fact, I lived there when we invaded Panama for no discernible reason and killed a bunch of people for no obvious principle. To this day, I don't think 99% of Americans know why Manuel Noreiga suddenly became unacceptable to our foreign policy elites aft ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Shameful History of WWII Japanese American ...
    The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese left thousands dead and injured, but also had grave consequences for resident Japanese Americans. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Open Rebellion Breaks Out at a Boston Cannabis ...
    Activists rally at Hempfest to reform state and federal marijuana policies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Picture of Mental Health
    This infographic shines a searchlight on how Americans face mental health issues today - and just how shockingly common they really are. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Cutest Baby Animals of the Desert
    Sometimes the best things can come from the harshest environments - so here are some pictures of baby animals of the desert we think are just too adorable! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Exploring the Abandoned Island of Drug Lord Pa ...
    Scattered around small islands off Colombia's Caribbean coast, these crumbling homes were once the playground of powerful drug lords – not least Pablo Escobar. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Return to Adversity
    The author returns to East-Central Europe amidst concerns that its governments are showing signs of greater authoritarianism.
  • Baby Scooping "Stateless" Children
    Pending legislation may make it possible for international adoption agencies to "baby scoop" children who aren't actually orphaned.
  • Liberal Hawk Poised to Swoop Down on Iran
    A prominent disarmament and nonproliferation advocate gives his surprise endorsement to an attack on Iran.
  • Heart-to-Heart on the Drug War
    Mexican families touched by the drug war have brought their Caravan for Peace to the U.S., laying the groundwork for a binational peace movement.
  • India: Linchpin of the Pivot?
    Indian leaders are open to cooperating with the U.S. but wary about being drawn into a Cold War with China.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Wind Sprints to the Cliff
    Three months before a tax credit is due to expire, officials in Oregon will cut the ribbon on what some say is the largest onshore wind farm in the United States.
  • The Etiquette of Electric Car Ownership
    What to do when your electric car needs a charge and all the available plugs are taken?
  • Remembering 'Silent Spring'
    "Silent Spring" made the case for the idea that if humankind poisoned nature, nature would in turn poison humankind.
  • Mixed Reactions on N.Y. Fracking Decision
    The gas industry and landowners who want to lease their property are deflated by the state's decision to conduct a study of health impacts. Still, some express relief that the state won't delegate it to outsiders.
  • Greenland's 'Ice Quakes' May Set a Record
    Glacial earthquakes have been spreading northward, from the warmer southern parts of Greenland to the colder northern parts, researchers report.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #795
    US 'cannot verify authenticity' of Afridi interview. Evidence suggests US covered up Soviet massacre in Poland. Yemen President sacks intel agency heads.
  • Situation Report: China’s Huawei Going M ...
    The Chinese telecommunications hardware firm, Huawei Technologies has been constantly under fire around for the world for its supposed deep ties to China’s military and intelligence establishment. On September 13, Huawei Technologies and another Chinese firm, ZTE, were the subject of a Congress ...
  • Magazine publishes CIA-trained burglar’s fasci ...
    A captivating article about a break-in specialist for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, who turned against the Agency in the 1990s, appears in the October issue of The Smithsonian magazine. Written by David Wise, the article contains some new information about “The Shop”, a secretiv ...
  • News you may have missed #794
    Racism charge against GCHQ settled out of court. US spy agencies renew call for electronic surveillance rights. Yemen claims arrest of 'Mossad agent'.
  • Nuclear smugglers to get reduced prison senten ...
    Three Swiss engineers imprisoned for participating in an international nuclear smuggling ring are about to have their prison sentences significantly reduced, allegedly for having acted as agents for the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

War is a Crime.org

  • Score One for Hedges v. Obama
      Score One for Hedges v. Obama   by Stephen Lendman   On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong called his Apollo 11 landing "one step for man, a giant leap for mankind."   Hedges v. Obama perhaps reflects a baby step, if temporary, for justice.   read more
  • Long Knives Target Iran
      Long Knives Target Iran   by Stephen Lendman   Some background:   February 11, 2012 marked the 33rd anniversary of Iran's 1979 revolution. It ended a generation of repressive rule under Washington's installed Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.   read more
  • Impeaching Obama
    CONGRESSMAN WALTER B. JONES (R-NC) TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ON HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 107   On Friday, September 21, Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC) will be joined at a press conference by a group of senior retired military officials, constitutional lawyers, and congressional co-sponso ...
  • Nadler and Schakowsky Rush to Protect Military ...
    The sociopathology of war spending as (least efficient possible) jobs program is on display in Congress: Reps Nadler and Schakowsky Push to Repeal Sequestration and Prevent Catastrophic Cuts to Defense and Domestic Programs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, September 21, 2012 CONTACT: Ilan Kayatsky ...
  • Syria News - Sep 22
        VIDEO: Romney aide: Obama "dragged his feet" on Syria, President Romeny will work " with our allies - like the Turks, like the Saudis, like the Qataris" - CBS News Saudi millions and special forces expertise turn Syria's rebels into a fighting force - Telegraph The war on Syria is ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Raw Milk Police Defeated As Jury Finds Minneso ...
    A small victory over the raw milk police, though the government is quick to state this ruling doesn’t set any precedent. The Star Tribune reports: A soft-spoken Minnesota farmer was cleared of violating state laws for distributing raw milk Thursday, a verdict advocates for such foods called thei ...
  • World renowned scientist lost his job when he ...
    Dr Arpad Pusztai evoked world wide media attention in August 1998, when he said in British TV that he would not eat genetically engineered food because of the insufficient testing procedures they have undergone. Pusztai is a world renowned expert on food safety, who worked at UK’s leading ...
  • Sliding Down an Endless Wall into the Silence
    By Visible Sliding down the silence of an endless wall, blowing on a leprechaun’s horn. I don’t know if a leper or a khan got their word names tangled together, all I know is that I am in the saucer pod, hovering over the petri dish, a simmering stew it is. Well there’s wars and [...]
  • The GMO debate is over; GM crops must be immed ...
    (NaturalNews) The GMO debate is over. There is no longer any legitimate, scientific defense of growing GM crops for human consumption. The only people still clinging to the outmoded myth that “GMOs are safe” are scientific mercenaries with financial ties to Monsanto and the biotech i ...
  • UC Professor Eyes Permanent Sterilant To Cull ...
    Jurriaan Maessen ExplosiveReports.Com September 18, 2012 During a speech earlier this year given by University of California-Riverside professor Richard Cardullo, the cottonseed derivative Gossypol is being proposed as an adequate sterilant to bring down the birthrate in the United States. Stati ...

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

Inhabitat

  • Gwyneth Paltrow To Collaborate Fashion Label C ...
    Is there anything Gwyneth Paltrow can’t do? The actress-turned-lifestyle-guru-turned-food-expert is now trying her hand at fashion design. This week, Paltrow announced that she is teaming up with British ethical fashion label Chinti and Parker to create a pair of cashmere sweaters for her ...
  • 8 Organic School Lunches That Can Be Prepared ...
    Photo via Shutterstock Let’s face it: school day mornings can be pretty chaotic, and preparing a well-balanced lunch for your kid can add to the stress. The best way to ensure that you’re sending your kids packing with a nutritious mid-day meal is to prepare it the night before. From ...
  • The World’s Largest Living Wall Flourishes Wit ...
    Read the rest of The World’s Largest Living Wall Flourishes With 44,000 Plants at Milan’s Il Fiordaliso Shopping Center! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "living wall", eco design, Francesco Bollani, green design, Il Fiordaliso, Patrick Blanc, sustainable de ...
  • Siemens Develops More Efficient Wind Turbine B ...
    In the past we’ve seen biomimetic wind turbines inspired by whale fins and species of trees, however now designers are looking to extinct animal species to create next-generation turbines. Engineering giant Siemens has unveiled three designs for aerodynamic wind turbine blades based on the ...
  • Portugal’s Modular Casas Em Movimento House Ro ...
    Read the rest of Portugal’s Modular Casas Em Movimento House Rotates to Follow the Sun at the Solar Decathlon Europe Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Casas Em Movimento, CEM+NEM=, clean tech, eco design, green design, madrid, modular design, portugal, SDE 2012, so ...

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  • NIH Decision Signals the Beginning of the End ...
    With the retirement of 110 government-owned chimpanzees at the New Iberia Research Center, the end of medical research on man’s closest living relative may be near. New Iberia operates the largest research chimp colony in the United States and is a bastion of a practice abandoned in every other ...
  • Royal Observatory Picks Best Astronomy Photos ...
    This year's best images of the heavens include colliding galaxies, open star clusters, and frozen waterfalls beneath a twinkling night sky. All these photos are winners in the Royal Observatory Greenwich's annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
  • Slime Molds Take Over the Globe
    By traveling from city to city on a map, microscopic protists known as slime molds have figured out how to take over the world.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Lunar La ...
    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 ...
  • Romantic or Reckless? The Plan to Message Alie ...
    If you've ever pondered what you would say to an alien, you may get that chance between 7:30 and 8 p.m. PT tonight. Tweets in Space is a project to capture 30 minutes worth of tweets with the hashtag #tweetsinspace to beam toward an exoplanet in hopes of messaging any aliens that live there.

PakAlert

  • “Innocence of Muslims”, the GOP and World War III
    As Mike Rivero observes, this may well be a propaganda run-up to a false flag attack in which one of Israel’s Dolphin submarines, admitted by Germany to be armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, sneaks up along the Iranian cost and fires an attack at a US ship, quite possibly the soon-to-be- ...
  • PLA Admiral: China Should Prepare For Conflict ...
    A People’s Liberation Army Admiral has fanned the flames of tensions surrounding the island dispute between China and Japan by suggesting that China would comfortably defeat Japan in a war and that Beijing should prepare for the United States to become involved in the conflict
  • 21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infrastructu ...
    You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure. So what does our infrastructure say about us? It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay. At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers. Our roads are crumbling and t ...
  • France Launches Major Investigation Into GMOs ...
    Following the release of a peer-reviewed piece of research linking the consumption of Monsanto’s Roundup-containing GMO crops to tumors and organ damage, the French government is now calling for a health agency investigation. Seeking to analyze the research and potentially ask European authoriti ...
  • The Mayan Countdown
    It won’t be long now. Just over 90 days until the end of the Mayan calendar arrives. Normally such well publicized “apocalyptic” dates come and go without much serious notice from me. My friends all warned me not to buy a ten thousand dollar computer software program in 1999, but I did; just ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Speaks at Event in London Mar ...
    I’m sorry to report that it’s two years since the Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui received an 86-year sentence in a court in New York for allegedly having tried and failed to shoot the US soldiers in whose custody she was being held in Afghanistan in August 2008. There is ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 5: The Future of My G ...
    Please support my work! Hello, my friends, readers and supporters. For several years now, I have been asking you, every three months, for donations to support my work as an independent freelance journalist and researcher, specializing in Guantánamo and the “war on terror,” which I fi ...
  • A Future for Occupy? Why We Need A Campaign fo ...
    A year ago, when Occupy Wall Street began, people occupying public spaces in large numbers and refusing to go home was innovative and radical, but then those spaces were reclaimed by the establishment — with violence, or through legal machinations — essentially bringing the first pha ...
  • Video: On Omar Khadr’s 26th Birthday, Su ...
    Sign the petition! Watch the video! Post your own “Omar Khadr is Welcome Here” photo! The imprisonment of Omar Khadr, just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan, has always been a disgrace of colossal proportions. The US and the Canadian government have bot ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: $2000 Still Needed ...
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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

  • Amish Leader, 15 Others Convicted of Hate Crim ...
    The leader of an Amish splinter sect in Ohio and 15 of his followers were convicted of federal hate crimes today for forcibly shaving the beards and hair of breakaway members of the religious community.
  • Anti-LGBT Propagandist Published Again in Acad ...
    Psychologist Paul Cameron has been bashing LGBT people for at least 30 years. His continued demonization of LGBT people and the shoddy and suspect research methods he uses to advance his claims have earned his Family Research Institute (FRI) a place on the SPLC’s anti-LGBT hate group list. They ...
  • SPLC Urges U.S. Government to Take Domestic Ex ...
    U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is convening an important hearing in Washington today to examine the threat of domestic extremism and hate crime in the wake of the horrific attack on Sikh worshippers in Wisconsin last month. If the hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constit ...
  • Sovereign Citizen ‘President’ Indicted for Tax ...
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  • Klein Cultivated Ties With Copts to Advance An ...
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  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
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  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

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  • Add a Cat Scratching Post to Your Table or Des ...
    If you like to have furniture serve double duty and don't like commercial cat scratch posts or towers consider wrapping a table or desk leg with a thick natural rope to create a built-in scratching post. More » ...
  • Make Your Own Rubber Stamps [Crafts]
    If you want to add a personal touch to invitations, cards, and scrapbooks you can create your own custom rubber stamps by cutting an image into a rubber eraser. More »
  • Roast Coffee Beans with an Iron Skillet, a Whi ...
    We've covered a few methods of roasting coffee beans at home over the years using a popcorn popper, a soup can and a drill, or a hand-crank popcorn popper. To that list we're now adding a method that only needs a cast iron skillet, a steel wh ...
  • Top 10 Secret Features of iOS 6 [Lifehacker To ...
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    If you're gearing up for a fall garden consider creating a planting yardstick from a four-foot long four-inch wide board. It'll help space out both your garden rows and the amount of space you need between each seedling. More » ...

Water Privatization

  • Camden's Adventure Aquarium will get a rev ...
    Outside the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, visitors marveled at penguins waddling over the ground, then quietly slipping into the water. Nearby, seals glided effortlessly through another tank, surfacing to eat fish offered by trainers.
  • Adventure Aquarium to get revamp, including mo ...
    Outside the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, visitors marveled at penguins waddling over the ground, then quietly slipping into the water. Nearby, seals glided effortlessly through another tank, surfacing to eat fish offered by trainers.
  • Event hopes to get water knowledge flowing
    Environmental groups are pouring on water knowledge this fall at four Salisbury University events as state and local officials grapple with a federally mandated 'pollution diet' for the Chesapeake Bay.
  • Make prison privatization a three-time loser
    The Legislature will not be in session until March, but already the signs point to another battle over whether to privatize South Florida’s state prisons.
  • Allentown water/sewer lease could create cash gap
    Leasing city's water and sewer operations would leave estimated $10.2 million hole in city's budget. Allentown hopes to get $150 million to $200 million up front for its beleaguered pension funds by leasing its water and sewer systems, but before officials hand over the keys, they must f ...

Guardian

  • Lib Dem conference: Politics live blog
    Andrew Sparrow and Paul Owen with rolling coverage of the Lib Dem conference in BrightonAndrew SparrowPaul Owen
  • Jack Straw reveals battle with depression and ...
    Autobiography describes how former home secretary suffered from condition as result of political tensions and illnessThe former home secretary Jack Straw has revealed how he suffered from depression as a result of political tension and illness.In his autobiography, summarised in the Daily Mail, ...
  • Premier League clockwatch – as it happened! | ...
    Chelsea left it late to beat Stoke, while Southampton's second-half performance could be the fillip their season needsPreamble: Good afternoon and welcome to rolling coverage of all today's 3pm kickoffs in the Premier League. Chelsea are the only club who started the day in the top four of the l ...
  • Chelsea 1-0 Stoke City | Premier League match ...
    Ashley Cole popped up five minutes from time to score his first Chelsea goal in over two years and give his team a generous reward for an uncertain performance.Chelsea went into the match on top of the league but that fact did not fool anyone into thinking this team is flawless. The demolition b ...
  • Syrian rebels move headquarters from Turkey in ...
    Free Syrian Army says command centre moved into liberated areas last week to speed Bashar al-Assad's downfallSyrian rebels have moved their headquarters from Turkey to areas they control in Syria, according to one of their leaders.Brigadeer General Mustafa al-Sheikh, who heads the Free Syrian Ar ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: The Cairo embassy statement was fa ...
    For Republican Mitt Romney, it must have seemed a clear shot: A mob storming the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and a limp embassy statement apologizing for an anti-Islam YouTube film…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Personal bankruptcy and the sin of ...
    This weekend, a friend was mixing it up at a wedding shower, helping ease another womans path into that bedrock institution. The next day she was lying in a hospital…Click to Continue »
  • French insult to Prophet Muhammad draws little ...
    One week after violence swept across much of the Middle East over a YouTube video extremists blamed on the United States, there were only subdued demonstrations against France over cartoons…Click to Continue »
  • Romney releases 2011 income tax return
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday released income tax returns showing that he and wife, Ann, paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent last year.Click to Continue »
  • U.S. to remove MEK from terrorist list; group ...
    The State Department is poised to remove a militant Iranian dissident group from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, the culmination of a long, multi-million-dollar lobbying effort to sway U.S.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistan Death British Soldier Named
    A British soldier who died in Afghanistan on Friday, has been named by the Ministry of Defence as Sergeant Jonathan Eric Kups. A 29-year-old father of three, Sergeant Kups joined the Royal ...
  • England thrashes Afghanistan in World Twenty20
    COLOMBO — Luke Wright hammered an unbeaten 99 to steer defending champion England to a crushing 116-run win over Afghanistan in their World Twenty20 match on ...
  • Two soldiers die in Afghanistan
    Two soldiers have died in incidents in southern Afghanistan.The Ministry of Defence said next of kin of both have been informed, and it is expected they will be named on Saturday.The first death was ...
  • Pak to conduct anti-terror talks with US Afgha ...
    Pakistan's Foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar has announced that her country is likely to hold confidential talks with the US and Afghanistan in a bid to improve a three-way counterterrorism ...
  • NATO service member killed in eastern Afghanistan
    NATO says a service member with the international military force in Afghanistan has been killed in an insurgent attack in the eastern part of the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • "State Out of the Union" performance this Wedn ...
    The Zinn Education Project is sponsoring State Out of the Union, a performance about civil rights, immigration and education, this Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington, DC (at V St.; use U St. Metrorail station). The performance features author Jeff B ...
  • Why Summary Judgment Must be Removed from the WPEA
    TAKE ACTION! The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) may move through Congress in the coming days, or even hours, and contains many important reforms that will help federal employees. However, both the House (H.R. 3289) and Senate (S. 743) versions still have one provision that, if ...
  • NWC joins in amicus to 5th Circuit to preserve ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 24 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The D.R. Horton company has appealed a major decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) holding that employees have an inalienable right t ...
  • IRS whistleblower program offers a bright futu ...
    Attorney Dean Zerbe (pictured) published an article in Forbes magazine explaining how recent events in the IRS whistleblower program give reasons for whistleblowers to see an even brighter future. Since 2006, federal law has had a reward system for those who blow the whistle on tax fraud. The p ...
  • Ry Cooder writes song for Dr. Marsha Coleman-A ...
    Singer-Songwriter Ry Cooder has written and recorded a song honoring environmental whistleblower Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo.  Called "Kool-Aid," the song is featured in Cooder's new album, "Election Special." Cooder (pictured in this photo by Dani Canto) felt inspired t ...

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

  • Alana's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    It's that time of the week again! Yes, the time where a lucky person gets to list their favorite Techdirt articles of the week. Well, it's my turn at the bat, so no time for dilly-dallying, let's hop to it! The first post is a rather interesting one. The internet never ceases to amuse, in ...
  • Amanda Palmer Destroys/Saves Musicians; Chance ...
    In terms of incendiary writing, the following sentence ranks so low on the scale as to be imperceptible: we will feed you beer, hug/high-five you up and down (pick your poison), give you merch, and thank you mightily for adding to the big noise we are planning to make. That was Amanda Palmer ...
  • When Even Hilarious Web Comic Artists Are Mock ...
    ... isn't it about time that we recognize the patent system is really, really broken? Courtesy of the always awesome Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (and my friend Tom who sent this over), I present to you, yet another example of "the patent system" being a punchline: Also, I splork ...
  • FTC's Attempt To Broadly Expand Misguided Chil ...
    We've written a few times about the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and how it was put in place without any data and without much concern for unintended consequences. As danah boyd has shown in her research, COPPA hasn't necessarily done much to protect children. Instead, it's ...
  • DailyDirt: Uses For Wine (Besides Drinking It)
    Drinking wine on special occasions is a popular tradition all over the world, but it seems like more people would like some other excuses for drinking wine, too. Red wine had gotten a lot of publicity for various health benefits, but if you want to drink some wine, maybe you should be asking you ...

VacTruth

  • New Mandate for Healthcare Workers — Get ...
    From nurses, lab techs, and students, to clerical, security, and volunteer personnel, you may be given an ultimatum anytime now: get a flu vaccine or lose your job.
  • “We are being forced to take a flu shot ...
    John writes: “We are being forced to take a flu shot or wear a mask October 31st at the hospital I work at. Are there any support groups I can contact. I’m highly against this and I have contacted an attorney who pretty much said I can take it or lose my job. That can’t... [Co ...
  • Do Vaccines Contain Formaldehyde and Mercury?
    This question comes from Tina: “Hi there, a dear friend and client is expecting her baby any day and they are still not decided on vaccinations. She told me that she’s heard not to take notice of people putting you off vaccinations as they do not contain formaldahyde and mercury anym ...
  • “Is there any proof out there that react ...
    This message is from Mandi: “Is there any proof out there that reactions to vaccines can lead to /cause generalized pediatric dystonia in a toddler? I believe in my heart that it has in my daughter,now 20 months old And furthering by belief genetics teams can find no genetic mutation or li ...
  • “My sons are both diagnosed with autism ...
    This question comes from Jill: “My sons are both diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. They are both vaccinated. The younger one was supposedly vaccinated w/ moral vaccines (using animals instead of humans). The younger one is in preschool and they are requiring him, under nj state law ...

BroadSnark

  • Thoughts on Societal Mental Illness
    Make a claim that one snort of cocaine makes you irredeemably insane and people will line up behind laws that lock cocaine users up for life. But read that 73% of incarcerated women have mental health issues and many of those same people will find it a compelling argument against mass incarcerat ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Loved In Defense of Lust. I am sincerely sad that I was unable to attend this American Enterprise Institute event entitled Assange’s asylum in Correa’s Ecuador: Last refuge for scoundrels? Roger Noriega, the man who – among other things – was hired to lobby for the Hondur ...
  • Drug War History – And So It Begins
    While I was pulling up articles for my last post, I re-read the infamous New York Times piece Negro Cocaine “Fiends” Are a New Southern Menace. The article is a very convoluted argument against prohibition. And it is made by trying to scare the crap out of  ignorant people. The docto ...
  • Victims, Villains, and Heroes
    When I first started delving into the drug war and criminal injustice system, I saw it as a process of dehumanization that I couldn’t ignore. While I had friends who were caught up in the system, as one of the least targeted people, the only connection I saw to my personal life was what I ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I have heard nothing about the killings in Kashmir. I get that I am supposed to be excited about the teacher strike. But in addition to the bullshit I wrote about a bit ago, all I am reading is how evil our schools are. Gay students have to put up with constant harassment and violence. [...]

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War in Context

  • Saudi millions and special forces expertise tu ...
    The Daily Telegraph reports: Hidden under olive groves in the rolling countryside of Syria’s northern Idlib province, of which a vast swathe is now in opposition hands, more than a dozen training camps have been set up in which young men prepare for the fight against President Bashar al-Assad’s ...
  • Egypt’s president spells out terms for U.S.-Ar ...
    The New York Times reports: On the eve of his first trip to the United States as Egypt’s new Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi said the United States needed to fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world, showing greater respect for its values and helping build a Palestinian state, if it ...
  • Bodies of six militiamen found in Benghazi aft ...
    The Guardian reports: The Libyan city of Benghazi was tense after the bodies of six militiamen apparently executed after the storming of a base on the southern outskirts were discovered in a field. The bodies were found the day after crowds marched on three militia bases, including that of Ansar ...
  • Video: Al Jazeera talks to Rachid Ghannouchi — ...
  • MEK decision: multimillion-dollar campaign led ...
    The Guardian reports: Supporters of a designated Iranian terrorist organisation have won a long struggle to see it unbanned in the US after pouring millions of dollars into an unprecedented campaign of political donations, hiring Washington lobby groups and payments to former top administration ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Open thread weekend
    The Autumnal Equinox has just occurred, at 2:40PM UTC (7:49AM PDT) marking the end of summer. Despite our Jay Zwally countdown to the end of summer reaching zero on the sidebar, the Arctic sea ice is still there and gaining … Continue reading →
  • Dr. Judith Curry on the PBS debacle
    From her blog - Centering this show on the faux conversion of Richard Muller set this story down a certain path that turned out to be unfortunate. … IMO, Watts handled himself very well in the on-air interview and also … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny Bonus – Forget to pay your ...
    Jim Hoggan’s flagship propaganda outlet, releaser of the Gleick stolen files, Desmogblog.com – is D.O.A. …or maybe they just gave up, according to Alexa, they had their last measurable traffic blip almost 6 months ago (lower number is better): The … Continue reading →
  • Dr. John Christy’s testimony before cong ...
    Hot on the heels of Nature’s editorial about not linking Global Warming to extreme weather, we have this testimony today from Dr. John Christy. ‘Extreme events, like the recent U.S. drought, will continue to occur, with or without human causation’      … Continue reading ...
  • Bizarre reactions to my PBS interview continue ...
    UPDATE: 1:50PM – The PBS News Hour Ombudsman has posted his essay, you can read it here. ============================================================= For the record, just now, I’ve called PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler to give him an opportunity to ask me questions before he … C ...

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Biosingularity

  • Research teams discover cellular system for de ...
    Two Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research teams, along with a group from the University of California at San Diego, have discovered that animals have a previously unknown system for detecting and responding to pathogens and toxins. In three papers published in the journals Cell and ...
  • Excessive Worrying May Have Co-Evolved with In ...
    Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other institutions. Jeremy Coplan, MD, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Downstate, and colleagues found that high intelligence and worry both cor ...
  • Excellent 3D animation explaining atherosclerosis
  • Researchers convert skin and umbilical cord ce ...
    Ripe for biomedical applications Until recently, the production of pluripotent “multipurpose” stem cells from skin cells was considered to be the ultimate new development. In the meantime, it has become possible to directly convert cells of the body into one another – without the tim ...
  • Cooperative Neural Networks Suggest How Intell ...
    Working together can hasten brain evolution, according to a new computer simulation. When programmed to navigate challenging cooperative tasks, the artificial neural networks set up by scientists to serve as mini-brains “learned” to work together, evolving the virtual equivalent of b ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Partial transcript, trustee meeting
    From here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought? There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow. ...
  • Trustees reject symbolic statement on fracking ...
    The trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and it’s defi ...
  • Communities rally against toxic fracking waste
    On Wednesday communities held Freedom From Toxic Fracking Waste rallies to raise awareness on one of the largest environmental risks from fracking: dealing with the waste it produces. In the best case scenario the toxic stew - of unknown composition due to the Halliburton Loophole - is removed ...
  • ODNR official: we'll let the public know what' ...
    The fracking industry has dramatically increased its activity in Portage county recently. In some cases the activity is unmistakably tangible (more on that next week), but the real action at the moment seems to be preparing the ground for the deluge. The paperwork is coming in fast and furious ...
  • Hey - hand me that wrench over there, willya?
    I’m working under the hood this week.  I’m looking into moving the site to a new architecture, so I’ve got a test site underway.  If I can get it looking right, I’ll cut over.  Otherwise it will stay the same and I’ll just have some wasted time to sho ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic Consumers Calls on Natural Products As ...
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  • Victory in Brooklyn Over Walmart
    Good news from the fight against the aggressive corporate consolidation of our nation's food system: in America's largest city, Walmart has been beaten back! Last week, the oppressive retail giant and the country's second-largest company (trailing only the fossil fuel mega-giant Exxon Mobil) ann ...
  • Portland Citizens Vow to Fight Back Against Wa ...
    The Portland, Ore., City Council may be adamant about becoming one of the last major cities in the U.S. to add fluoride to the local water system, but citizens opposed to the move are equally adamant about stopping them.Click here to read this article
  • Kids Exposed to Mercury or Lead More Likely to ...
    Children exposed to higher levels of mercury or lead are three to five times more likely to be identified by teachers as having problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, according to a scientific study published today.Click here to read this article
  • Author Defends Monsanto GM Study as EU orders ...
    The French author of a study linking a type of genetically modified corn to higher health risks in rats dismissed criticism of his research methods on Thursday, describing the work as the most detailed study to date on the subject.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

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My Care2 Picks

  • 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
  • Syria And Iran Dominos Lead To World War
    Recomended article about the attention in Syria and Iran, I would like to read your comment here on Care2, let it kick start by saying: War is a problem to everyone but to the exception of minority top wealthy inhabitants of the earth. Submitted by Marco Da Silva to World  |   N ...
  • The Peculiar Stability of Instability
    We actually deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, and SE Asia as if we were still living in the WW-II era : we deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, separately Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
  • The Rape of Society
    I had just been told that my daughter was raped. I glance toward the door. I feel drunk, as if my legs cant hold my weight. I grasp the window sill and push my forehead against the window. I need air. I gasp, choking on the silent scream that sticks Submitted by joseph m. to Society & Cult ...
  • Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...
    In a recent interview prominent green activist Bill McKibben declared that fossil fuel barons are taking away the future and must therefore be stopped Those of us who regard affordable energy as a golden ticket out of drudgery marvel Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |  &n ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Swine flu vaccine linked to child narcolepsy: ...
    ShareThisSwine flu vaccine linked to child narcolepsy: EU watchdog 21 Sep 2012 A swine flu vaccine used in 2009-10 is linked to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children and teens in Sweden and Finland, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said Friday. The E ...
  • Ecuador mulls Assange transfer to Sweden
    ShareThisEcuador mulls Assange transfer to Sweden 22 Sep 2012 Ecuador is considering asking Britain to authorise the transfer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to its embassy in Sweden so he can respond to sex crimes allegations there. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters on Friday t ...
  • 2 British soldiers die in Afghan war, MOD confirms
    ShareThis2 British soldiers die in Afghan war, MOD confirms 21 Sep 2012 The British Ministry of Defense (MOD) has confirmed that two British soldiers have died in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan. Friday's incidents bring the death toll for UK servicemen deployed in Afghanistan to 432, ...
  • 5 killed, several injured in US terror drone s ...
    ShareThis5 killed, several injured in US terror drone strike in Pakistan 22 Sep 2012 At least five people have been killed and several others wounded in a US assassination drone attack in Pakistan's tribal area of North Waziristan. The attack took place in the Datta Khel area on Saturday when Am ...
  • Pentagon should take over nuclear plant securi ...
    ShareThisFacilitate the false flags: Pentagon should take over nuclear plant security: lawmaker 21 Sep 2012 The Defense Department should take over security for U.S. nuclear weapons sites after a nuclear complex was broken into with ease in July by an 82-year-old nun and two other peace activist ...

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

  • Embassy Security: The Strategic Context
    Published: 21 September 2012 Written By: Billy Birdzell 19 September 2012 US Naval Institute On the 11th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, al Qaeda affiliates staged a series of attacks against U.S. diplomatic missions in the Middle East.  Inciting protest ...
  • Red Air: One Year Later
    19 September 2012 Last Friday night, 14 September, I was asleep and had a strange dream.  I was walking and a car stopped in front of me so that I could not pass.  I looked inside and it was Chazray Clark.  I said, “hey, Chazray.”  Chazray said, “let’s go.” So we were talki ...
  • Afghan pilot follows father’s footsteps, flies ...
    19 September 2012 Photo DVIDS - An Afghan Air Force flight crew with 441st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, lands on Camp Tombstone, Sept. 12, 2012. The Afghan crew runs a variety of missions including resupply, medical evacuation and troop movement. As a child, AAF Capt. Najibullah Khogian ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED NEWS RELEASE ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan 2012-09-S-027 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 19) - An Afghan and coalition security force arrested the senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) leader for Kunduz prov ...
  • Afghanistan: When the Moon Sets, Watch Out
    18 September 2012 Last Friday night, the moon phase left Afghanistan in near total darkness.  Even with clear skies, the enemy knew that at the brightest moment, the moon would only appear as an irrelevant orange sliver.  Such times are called “red illumination,” or “red illum.”&nbs ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Peace activists rally in Rangoon
    Peace activists dressed in blue planning to travel from Rangoon to Naypyidaw to call for an end to the country’s civil wars were barred from leaving the city by authorities on Friday
  • Interview with Khun Htun Oo
    The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy leader Khun Htun Oo was one of five awardees to accept the National Endowment for Democracy Award in the US this. Khun Htun Oo spoke to DVB about receiving the award and his plans for the future.
  • Activists call for peace in Rangoon
    Activists, who planned to travel to Naypyidaw early this morning to call for an end to the country’s civil wars, were prevented from leaving the city by authorities and later marched through the streets of Rangoon
  • Suu Kyi calls for release of Pussy Riot
    Aung San Suu Kyi calls for the release of Russian punk band Pussy Riot while speaking in Washington DC on 20 September 2012.
  • Suu Kyi addresses Pussy Riot, Burmese Army in DC
    Aung San Suu Kyi, on a landmark visit to the US, called Thursday for the release of jailed members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot and said she was 'fond' of the Tatmadaw

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Iran should reverse policies impairing equal a ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said [press release] on Saturday that Iran should reverse new policies for this academic year that deny many students, particularly women, academic freedom. The policies, announced in a manual released by the country's Science and Technology M ...
  • ACLU: US government releases names of Guantana ...
    [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] announced [press release] on Friday that, following a request it made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text, PDF], the government has released the names of 55 detainees who were approved for release from Guantanamo ...
  • Apple seeks sales ban on Samsung products alle ...
    [JURIST] Apple [corporate website] filed a motion on Friday with the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] asking the court to issue an injunction prohibiting Samsung [corporate website] from selling products in the US that supposedly infringe on Apple's pa ...
  • Illinois appeals court rules pharmacists can r ...
    [JURIST] The Appellate Court of Illinois [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] on Thursday that the state cannot force pharmacists to fill prescriptions for emergency contraceptives if they have religious objections to these drugs. The appeals court held that an Illinois law known as the Curre ...
  • France Constitutional Council rejects national ...
    [JURIST] The Constitutional Council of France on Friday rejected [decision, in French] a challenge to the bullfighting exception contained in the animal cruelty provisions of the country's criminal code. Article 521-1 of the Criminal Code [text, PDF] provides for two years in prison and a 30,000 ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • New Rachel Corrie Story Published at Truthout
    I submitted an article about the Israeli court decision against the Corrie family regarding her 2003 death, to Truthout a few weeks ago.  It’s just now been published and I hope you’ll visit and read it.  I dissected the claims of the State against Corrie and used the defense’s ...
  • Netanyahu Shilling for Romney in Florida TV Ad
    Now, I’ve seen everything.  Back in the day, an Israeli prime minister wouldn’t breathe a word about his personal political preferences regarding U.S. presidential races.  Israel’s leaders knew that they’d need to work with whoever became president, and for them discretio ...
  • Why Bibi, Barack and Mitt Are All Wrong on Iran
    Many of you will remember the title of Milan Kundera’s major novel of the 1990s, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.  My original title for this post was The Unbearable Chutzpah of Bibi, till I decided the current title was more apt.  But when you read farther below into the talk I delivere ...
  • Mossad Sabotages Power Lines to Iranian Nuclea ...
    Iran’s chief nuclear scientist held a news conference yesterday in Vienna at which he revealed that the electrical power lines to Iran’s highly secure nuclear plant at Fordo were sabotaged in August by unknown assailants. Given that the IAEA demanded a spot inspection the following d ...
  • Romney’s No-State Solution
    David Corn has published the sequel to yesterday’s blockbuster video in which Mitt Romney acknowledges that pretty much everyone except his family and a bunch of vulture capitalists are shifty, layabouts looking for a big fat welfare check. In the latest installment, Romney tells his Flori ...

If Americans Knew

  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.

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

  • MapSurvey: Start a Map-Visualized Survey in 1 ...
    A few months ago, we became the largest crowdsourced journalism project in Latvia to date. We reached 2% of the general population and gathered unique data. However, to generate the data and launch the survey we had to program, design and test the system for weeks and invest several thousand dol ...
  • The State Decoded Debuts Version 0.4
    Version 0.4 of The State Decoded was just tagged on GitHub and bundled up for download, the result of six weeks of work. The State Decoded is a platform that displays state codes, court decisions, and information from legislative tracking services to make it all more understandable to normal hum ...
  • Love PANDA? Try csvkit to Standardize Your Data
    Now that PANDA has been out in the world for a while, we would like to suggest you also take a look at a "cousin" project of sorts: csvkit. csvkit is a suite of powertools for working with Comma-separated values (CSV) files. It's a command line toolkit, so you will need some minimal technical kn ...
  • Data Journalism Takes Center Stage at OKFestiv ...
    OKFestival, the world's largest open knowledge and data event, will take place September 17-22. We're pleased to announce that streams on three whole days of this year's festival (two festival days and a satellite event) will be dedicated to the topic of data journalism and visualization to enco ...
  • Behavio: Opening Up the Power of Mobile Sensing
    What three things do you always take with you when you leave your home? Most people would say their keys, their wallet, and their mobile phone. But what if your phone wasn't just a phone? It already isn't. At Behavio, we want to help small developers, researchers, data gatherers, and end-u ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Arab Winter of Rage - Muslim anti-West Rio ...
    Muslim demonstrators in Islamic countries and elsewhere held new protests Saturday against an Internet video that mocks the Prophet Muhammad. In Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, at least 10 people were injured in clashes between police and protesters. Security forces fired tear gas and used batons t ...
  • Russia on Edge - South Ossetia and Georgia in ...
    Meeting earlier this week with the co-chairmen of the ongoing Geneva talks on the security and human rights repercussions of the August 2008 war, two senior South Ossetian politicians accused Georgia of engaging in a new military buildup that they fear presages a new attack on their breakaway re ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - 4 Journalists Killed i ...
    A Mogadishu radio station program producer has became the fourth Somali journalist killed in less than 24 hours.  Despite relative peace and normalcy returning to the streets of Mogadishu, the death underscores the constant threat against journalists working in the war-torn country.  A ...
  • Africa on Edge - Lesbian, Gay Rights in Africa ...
    The arrest in Uganda of British theatre producer David Cecil, who staged a play about a gay man despite a ban by the country's media authorities, has raised questions about the influence of some Western Christian groups in Africa. Analysts say this influence has had a part to play in a number of ...
  • The Edge for Food - Scientist Savage Study of ...
    Are GM foods harmful or nutritionally less beneficial when compared to conventional or organic foods? Scientists and regulators almost universally say “no.� That’s why a study published this week claiming that GM corn causes cancer in rats is creating such a furor. What’s the story behin ...

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

  • The Ten Things You Should Know About Romney's ...
    Today GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his 2011 tax return--The Gov. And Mrs. Romney  have released enough financial data to keep accountants busy till after the election--a complete 2011 tax return as well as their already completed 2010 tax return.  On top of all that, ...
  • Obama Lies Again: Tells Univision Fast And Fur ...
    Habits are hard to break and the liar-in-chief just cant get out of blaming George Bush for everything.  Jake Tapper of ABC News reported that during the Univision forum yesterday,  Obama falsely claimed that Operation Fast and Furious began under "W." “I think it’s impo ...
  • Libyan Prime Minister: The Attack Was PLANNED!
    As much of the Arab world erupts around him and the intelligence community denying there was any protest prior to the horrible attack that killed four Americans in Libya, the administration is still clinging to it's "spontaneous"attack story. Yesterday Libya's Prime Minister Mustafa Abus ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama Blames Increase In Entitleme ...
    A desperate man will try anything and with his failed economic record weighing down his reelection campaign Barack Obama is getting desperate.  Following up on Mitt Romney's 47% comment, many pundits provided evidence reflecting the incredible increase of the number of people in entitlement ...
  • Barack Obama: Crony Capitalist Protector of SL ...
    A version of this story was originally posted on this site in late June 2008.  But in light of yesterday's story in the Washington Examiner regarding the Obama You Don't Know, it is an appropriate time for its re-telling. Below is the updated story of how State Senator Barack Obama p ...

The Real Agenda

  • Acabar con monedas reserva y el control financ ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 21 SEPTIEMBRE 2012 Durante muchos años, los Estados Unidos ha disfrutado de una ventaja injusta con respecto al resto del mundo: casi todo el comercio internacional se realiza en dólares estadounidenses. Tanto amigos como enemigos de los EE.UU. han ...
  • Microsoft Evades Paying $4.5 billion in Taxes
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 In the United States, the non-payment of taxes is seen by the authorities as one of the infuriating offenses against the government. Individuals who evade taxes are labeled as criminals, even before being tried in a court of law. T ...
  • Cannabidiol Stops Metastasis of Aggressive Cancers
    By MARTIN A. LEE | THE DAILY BEAST | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 Cristina Sanchez, a young biologist at Complutense University in Madrid, was studying cell metabolism when she noticed something peculiar. She had been screening brain cancer cells because they grow faster than normal cell lines a ...
  • Russia kicks out USAID for “meddling in ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 The Agency for International Development (USAID) will stop work in Russia as a result of a government ban on the American organization due to what the Russian government says it is the continuous meddling of USAID in its political ...
  • GM Maize and Roundup Linked to Premature Death ...
    SUSTAINABLE PULSE | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 In a study published in “Food and Chemical Toxicology”, researchers led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini from CRIIGEN have found that rats fed on a diet containing NK603 Roundup tolerant GM maize or given water containing Roundup, at levels permitted ...

Wind Watch

  • Amid statewide debate, Newark revises plan to ...
    The town of Newark has amended its town plan to make clear that it does not support industrial wind development. During a special town meeting on Monday, voters approved an advisory resolution 169-to-59. It called for the select board to approve a new plan that identifies specific ridgelines, hi ...
  • Fourmile wind project has its share of blowback
    FINZEL — A majority of the Frostburg Road residents in attendance at the Synergics Wind Energy LLC meeting on Tuesday were opposed to the proposed Fourmile Ridge Wind Energy Project, according to resident Jim McCann. Engineers met with immediate property owners to update them on the status of th ...
  • Troubling study indicates wind turbines may ca ...
    A study published in a German scientific journal this summer indicates that wind turbines in one area may pose a serious risk to populations of bats over the better part of a continent. The study, performed by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), showed tha ...
  • Town can’t support Green Energy Act
    PETAWAWA  – Council has taken a stand on the province’s Green Energy Act. On the heels of Xeneca’s recent Public Information Centre, Petawawa Council voted unanimously at a recent meeting to no longer support the province’s Green Energy Act 2009. In a move to stand up to the gre ...
  • Concerned Citizens of DeKalb County inform com ...
    DeKalb County commissioners are said to finalize their ordinance on wind energy on Thursday, but the Concerned Citizens of DeKalb County fear that will happen before everyone in the community is informed. When it comes to a 125 proposed wind turbines in DeKalb County, nothing is final. But if it ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • World trade to grow by just 2.5% this year, sa ...
    “World trade will grow by a mere 2.5 percent this year, dragged down by Europe to less than half of the previous 20-year average, the World Trade Organization said on Friday. The estimate was a revision of the WTO’s previous 2012 growth forecast of 3.7 percent, which it made in April ...
  • Minneapolis Fed Proposes Exit Strategy
    “The Federal Reserve should set a plan to keep short-term interest rates near zero until the unemployment rate has fallen below 5.5% or the inflation rate tops 2.25%, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, said Thursday. This “liftoff plan,” h ...
  • The Constitution or Liberty
    Alas, in the eyes of at least some framers, Article I, Section 8, did not exhaust the national government’s powers.
  • On Individualism and Economic Order
    Many of the themes that characterize Austrian economics since its revival in the mid-1970s emerged from these essays.
  • Fed’s Latest Stimulus May Have Little Impact o ...
    “The Federal Reserve took aim at the nation’s wobbly housing market last week with its biggest stimulus action in two years, but that firepower is doing little to lower mortgage rates or make home loans more available for Americans. Instead, banks are set to see a windfall since the Fed’s action ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Report: Extending insurance coverage could red ...
    Under the Affordable Care Act, racial and ethnic differentials in health insurance coverage are poised to shrink due to the extension of coverage to hundreds of thousands of individuals and families, particularly through the Medicaid expansion. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The reality behind Romney's t ...
    In a speech to wealthy donors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said 47 percent of Americans "pay no income tax," are "dependent upon government," and "will vote for the president no matter what." A look at the numbers behind those claims. read more
  • University of Virginia prevails against climat ...
    A Virginia circuit court judge rules that the school does not have to turn over former professor Michael Mann's e-mails to the American Tradition Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded think tank that works to discredit climate scientists. The case is now expected to move on to the state Supreme Court. ...
  • Art Pope translates dollars into influence at UNC
    Conservative donor Art Pope has given millions to North Carolina's public universities, often to have his offers rejected over political controversies. Now he has a seat at the table in deciding the UNC system's future. read more
  • Preaching Koch Brothers gospel on public education
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his administration's school leaders have come perilously close to sounding like one of those Mississippi legislators back in 1985 who dealt with a statewide teachers' strike by giving them a pay raise -- but at the cost of a provision that prevented them from ever ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • America’s Last Politically Contested Territory ...
    Within the handful of swing states, the presidential election will come down to a handful of swing counties: namely the suburban voters who reside in about the last contested places in American politics. Even in solid-red states, big cities tilt overwhelmingly toward President Obama and t ...
  • What to Look For in the Nordic Model
    The Nordic nations, and Sweden in particular, are seen by many as the proof that it is possible to combine innovative and entrepreneurial economies with high tax rates. It is often argued that nations such as the US can gain the attractive social features of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland ...
  • Rethinking Brand Chicago
    So many Midwest places flail around looking for a brand image or identity. Not Chicago. In fact, the identity and stories of Chicago overflow the page. They are too numerous to be written in a mere blog posting. Yet Chicago has in effect decided to jettison that powerful, historic bran ...
  • 2011 Census Sub-County Allocations Masquerade ...
    This is by far the most difficult article I have ever had to write. I have been a fan of the US Bureau of the Census since I began following its numbers in the second grade. Much of my career has been spent analyzing these numbers and those of similar national statistical bureaus around the ...
  • The Rise of Telework and What it Means
    Teleworking (also known as telecommuting) has taken flight as a global trend. During July of 2002, European Union collectively decided on a shared framework agreement on telework, which regulates issues such as employment and working conditions, health and safety, training, and the collectiv ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infras ...
    You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure.  So what does our infrastructure say about us?  It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay.  At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers.  Our roads are ...
  • Is America The Most Materialistic Society In T ...
    When it comes to materialism, has any nation ever surpassed what we are seeing in the United States right now?  We define our lives by how much stuff we have, to a large degree our personal and business relationships are defined by how much money we make, and even most of the imp ...
  • The Federal Reserve Is Systematically Destroyi ...
    Last week the mainstream media hailed QE3 as the "quick fix" that the U.S. economy desperately needs, but the truth is that the policies that the Federal Reserve is pursuing are going to be absolutely devastating for our senior citizens.  By keeping interest rates at exceptionall ...
  • How QE3 Will Make The Wealthy Even Wealthier W ...
    The mainstream media is hailing QE3 as a great victory for the U.S. economy.  On nearly every news broadcast, the "talking heads" are declaring that Ben Bernanke's decision to pump 40 billion dollars a month into our financial system is definitely going to help solve our economic ...
  • QE3: Helicopter Ben Bernanke Unleashes An All- ...
    You can't accuse Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of not living up to his nickname.  Back in 2002, Bernanke delivered a speech entitled "Deflation: Making Sure 'It' Doesn’t Happen Here" in which he referenced a statement by economist Milton Friedman about fighting deflation ...

Desertification

  • Some distraction : leafhoppers (Willem Van Cot ...
    A short video made for your distraction : http://youtu.be/tOXtJrwsRSQ Rhododendron Leafhoppers (jassids) Small insects on the Rhododendron plants in my garden.  Beautiful minuscule creatures, about 1 cm long.  
  • Gardening systems in the drylands (Google / Th ...
    Read at : Google Alert – dryland gardening http://matronofhusbandry.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/dryland-update/ Dryland Update Dryland gardening used to be pretty common around here.  I learned to garden that way and for the bulk of our gardening we practice dryland.  It’s pretty easy for me ...
  • Desertification and small-scale farmers in Gha ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.wudpeckerresearchjournals.org/WJAR/Abstract/2012/September/Owusu.htm Farmers coping with the threat of desertification: A case study of the Upper East region, Ghana Alex Barimah Owusu Department of Geography and Resource Development, Univ ...
  • Desertification in Iraq (Google / Iraq’s ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.oneiraqidinar.com/completion-of-the-report-on-the-phenomenon-of-desertification/ Completion of the report on the phenomenon of desertification UNCCD Committee Chairman in the Cabinet Chief  Thamir Ghadhban, advisor to the Committee, compl ...
  • Thematic day on desertification (Google / The ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://global-mechanism.org/es/eventos/thematic-day-on-desertification-at-the-congo-basin-forest-partnership-meeting Jornada temática sobre la desertificación en la reunión de la Alianza Forestal de la Cuenca del Congo 19 Septiembre 2012 – 22 ...

The Paper Trail

  • How doctors and hospitals have collected billi ...
    Thousands of doctors and other medical professionals have steadily billed higher rates for treating elderly patients on Medicare over the last decade — adding $11 billion or more to their fees and signaling a possible rise in medical billing abuse, an investigati ...
  • How an 82-year-old exposed security lapses at ...
    The hammering on the wall of America’s premier storage vault for nuclear-weapons grade uranium in pitch-darkness six weeks ago was loud enough to be heard by security guards. But they assumed incorrectly that workmen were making an after-hours repa ...
  • About the 'Cracking the Codes' project
    The “Cracking the Codes” stories are but the latest in a series of Center pieces that illuminate questionable Medicare practices and policies by marrying traditional shoe-leather reporting with rigorous data analysis.The foundation of these pieces is the Center’s ...
  • Trending toward higher fees
    Established patients
  • Methodology for 'Cracking the Codes'
    For this series, the Center for Public Integrity and Palantir Technologies analyzed Medicare claims data obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).For privacy purposes and other reasons, the Center was limited to a 5 percent sample of nat ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Is there an echo in here?
    By Frank Moher The blog Media Culpa has spent the past week coming up with some breathtaking examples of what appear to be plagiarized passages in columns by The Globe and Mail‘s Margaret Wente. The examples offered are so damning that I don’t know why I’m bothering with the &# ...
  • As the armadas mass in the Gulf . . .
    By Montreal Simon The other night I accused Stephen Harper of timing his decision to sever ties with Iran in order to ratchet up tensions, just before Benjamin Netanyahu went ballistic. From The Atlantic: “Why is he doing this? “My guess is that he’s saying what he’s sayi ...
  • Peter Lougheed delivered
    By Frank Moher To young people living in Alberta in 1971, Peter Lougheed, who died on Thursday, offered the promise that we were not living in a provincial backwater after all. What is astonishing, even now, is the extent to which he delivered on that promise. Lougheed was elected that year not ...
  • Open season on critics
    By Zoe Grams Fringe, film fest and publishing season is upon us – a time when the smell of suntan lotion lingers as we push into theatres. But it’s the critics, not just the performers, who are making headlines. With 76 events in the Vancouver Fringe, more than 100 in the Toronto International F ...
  • A Modest Opinion – The Art of Getting By
    By Nathaniel Moher I’m sure most of you have heard about the madman Lynden Dorval, an Edmonton schoolteacher who thought it was okay to give students a zero on assignments they failed to turn in. Don’t bother checking your eyes, you read that right! These poor students received a zero out of 100 ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Future of Medicine is Here NOW!
    Part of the “programming” of the masses is brainwashing them that only those “MD’S” (i.e. Medical Deities) in white coats are qualified to dispense health information. The Truth is that most “MD’s” are themselves programmed from day one in “M ...
  • Update on “Event Contract” Post
    This is an update to my February 2011 post on “Event Contracts” -  http://wp.me/pUCM2-4P Just to refresh your memory – the term “Event Contract” is big EDOMITE money strategically invested to reap a huge profit following a devastating event that is in reality CAUSED ...
  • Great Expose – MUST READ!
    This is an absolutely correct assessment. Remember the following definition: HEGEMONY 1: preponderant influence or authority over others : domination 2: the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group 3 Reasons the US an ...
  • The REAL Reason the Israe-lies Want to Attack Iran
    The work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is FREE 2. Food is readily available 3.  Money is obsolete. This was the situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE ...
  • The REAL Reason the Israe-lies Want to Attack Iran
    The work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is FREE 2. Food is readily available 3.  Money is obsolete. This was the situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Palestine's Arab Spring
    Palestine's Arab Spring A September 15th article (Revolution in the Air at Last) in the highly conservative Economist is predicting possible revolution in Palestine. It’s extremely good news for antiwar activists, economists, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Demp ...
  • CNN and the Bahraini Royal Family - Part II
    (This second post relates to US media censorship of Obama’s hypocritical policy towards Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.) Amber Lyon For the most part, the US media has been totally silent on the Bahraini pro-democracy movement and Obama’s decision to back the repressive ...
  • Obama and the King of Bahrain - Part I
    (This is the first of two posts about the Obama Administration’s hypocritical policy towards Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.) Protestors retake Pearl Roundabout Bahrain, one of the Arab Spring countries, has been in the international news recently, owing to the controversy over ...
  • Getting Rich Off Food Shortages
    Fined $450 million in the LIBOR scandal According to Britain’s Independent, Barclays Bank made more than half a billion pounds (around $810 million – their fine for the LIBOR interest-fixing scandal was $450 million) in two years from speculating on food staples such as wheat a ...
  • Countdown to Currency Collapse
    No Comments Max Keiser Below is a link to an excellent hour long interview with Max Keiser on Bonnie Faulkner’s Guns and Butter. Countdown to Currency Collapse Although Keiser, a former Wall Street broker (and fellow exp ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • A Holy Thursday
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore “Don’t just stand there, the niggers are comin’!” Walter was twelve, and he was only trying to be helpful. “Whaddaya mean?” I asked while standing in his driveway with my baseball glov ...
  • Audio of 'Boys State'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore
  • Activists Cheer Court's Ruling Against Indefin ...
    StopNSAA.org New York - Judge Katherine Forrest today ruled that the so-called "indefinite detention" provision of the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act violates the Constitution and issued a permanent injunction against its use. The law would have allowed the military to indefini ...
  • UK Threatens to Violate Ecuadoran Embassy Grou ...
    Reuters, August 15th, 2012: Ecuador said on Wednesday the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday. "Today we've received a threat by the Un ...
  • FLASHBACK: Ann Coulter Says Rage Against the M ...
    New York Times, April 29, 2012: WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. Daily Beast, August 11, 2012: Ryan seems to have a taste for hard-rock bands like Rage Against ...

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

  • Fracking Regulation: Let the States Lead
    Lynn Helms, director of North Dakota’s Department of Mineral Resources, reports that the number of oil-focused rigs in the state has dropped to its lowest point since July 2011. Helms mentions a handful of reasons, but let’s focus on one: uncertainty over where the federal government might go in ...
  • Devil is in the Details: Comparing the Candida ...
    Last week, ITIF released a side-by-side comparison of President Obama’s and Governor Romney’s technology and innovation policies. As with nearly all policy areas, on energy innovation, we see common goals but often dramatic divergence on how to achieve them.
  • Wind Energy and the Battleground States
  • Is the 2 degree target likely to save most cor ...
    The new paper in Nature Climate Change by Katja Frieler, a number of other collea
  • Are low-income consumers slowing smart grid pr ...
    The answer thus far would appear to be that low-income consumers are looking forward to smarter energy offerings based on fresh data from the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative.A recent survey for Collaborative sheds light on the opportunity and the challenge of engaging consumers who have annual ...

EU Times

  • Georgia’s interior minister resigns over priso ...
    Georgia’s interior minister has resigned amid protests over videos showing physical and sexual abuse of inmates in the country’s prisons. “I feel moral and political responsibility that we failed to eradicate the horrible practice (of torture),” Bacho Akhalaia said in a stateme ...
  • Mysterious underground pyramids found in Italy
    A group of Italian and American archaeologists discovered unique underground pyramid in the town of Orvieto, Italy, says Utro.ru. The constructions carved in volcanic limestone rock were found underneath a wine cellar of a residential house. All lower constructions were completely buried under t ...
  • Bank of America plans to cut 16,000 jobs by en ...
    Major US financial services corporation Bank of America plans to slash 16,000 jobs by the end of the year as part of an extensive cost-cutting measure to make the institution more profitable. Following the planned reduction in the Bank’s workforce, the multinational US company would no longer ho ...
  • Pakistani protesters try to siege US embassy, ...
    Pakistani police have fired teargas and used batons to repel over 1,000 protesters trying to march on the US Embassy in Islamabad. Official Mohammed Iqbal says the protesters are mainly students. Eight police officers have already been reported as injured. The US embassy in Islamabad is located ...
  • Russia resumes cooperation with world’s most i ...
    Russia and North Korea signed an agreement to settle the debt of $11 billion. 90 percent of the debt is forgiven, and the remaining amount will be used in exchange for aid. Russia made it clear that it was ready for partnership. But will the courage of Moscow return North Korea into the ranks of ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Forget Bill, Barack, and Mitt, Joe Biden Cream ...
    THE MOST watched speech of both conventions was the barn burner from Vice President Joe Biden. Nielsen ratings are out and New York Daily News has the story . Nielsen has finished compiling the ratings from all the networks that covered the conventions, right down to C-Span, and a higher percen ...
  • Florida State Seminoles vs Clemson Tigers: Gam ...
    Number 4 Florida State, fresh off of a beat down of Wake Forest, welcomes division rival Clemson to Doak Campbell Stadium. Tenth ranked Clemson enters with their own signature win over Auburn. The Tigers defeated Auburn without sophomore phenom Sammy Watkins . Watkins did return for Clemson's w ...
  • President Barack Obama makes fun of Mitt Romne ...
    Obama makes fun of Romney in Virginia after the Republican presidential hopeful said he would fix Washington from the ‘inside’. Report by Matt Blake. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn . Subscribe to ITN News! http://www.youtube
  • iPhone 5 vs. iPhone 4S vs. iPhone 3GS vs. iPho ...
    The iPhone 5 Apple’s 6th version, and 4th major design revision, of the iPhone . It might well have been inevitable , and still be working its way towards Jonathan Ive’s Platonic ideal, but it’s also a fascinating visual evolution of case shrinking, screen lengthening, and materials improving o ...
  • In Libya Anti-Extremist Protestors Storm Islam ...
    BENGHAZI, Libya â Forces allied with the Libyan government took control of at least two powerful militiasâ bases in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday after protesters overran the compounds in the early morning hours. Clashes erupted outside one base, the stronghold of the influential Raf ...

Groklaw

  • HTML5 not ready yet?
    James Governor ‏@monkchips last week Zuck said HTML5 wasn't ready yet. This week @benioff launched @salesforce touch, and proved it is. #df12 - James Governor, Twitter
  • Apple Cuts Display Orders to Samsung, Loses Pa ...
    The Korean Times is reporting this morning that "Apple has reduced purchases of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for tablet computers from Samsung Display amid the deepening patent disputes, said a leading market research firm, Friday. Market experts said that the move is aimed at minimizing ...
  • A New Gold Rush: Montana's Judicial Elections ...
    Guess which judicial candidates these folks are going to endorse? And guess at the extent of the obligations, both spoken and unspoken, those candidates, if they win, will automatically bring with them to the bench? Americans evidently have decided that they are okay with the idea of having thei ...
  • Whats a Good Replacement for Apples Unreliable ...
    1. Open up Safari on your iPhone and head to https://maps.google.com/. 2. Tap the export button in the bottom menu bar. 3. Tap "Add to Home Screen. 4. Name the icon, and tap "Add." Now you get a direct home screen shortcut to the mobile version of Google Maps. - LifeHacker
  • Microsoft launches Google-is-evil campaign tar ...
    Microsoft is launching an attack-ad campaign, warning Safari users that Google might have tracked them without their permission, and promising that Bing won't do the same. It's not clear how widespread the campaign is, but it's certainly an attention-grabber....I don't expect the campaign to get ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Commercial-scale tidal energy now a reality
    Credit: marineturbines.comSeaGen tidal turbines in Northern Ireland are now producing enough power for 1,500 homes in the world’s first commercial-scale tidal energy installation. They’ve shown it can be done. May everyone else join in. All that tidal power is just waiting to be conv ...
  • Romney campaign races on, oblivious
    “No campaign turnaround needed here. Everything is fine, just fine.”Quote of the day:The wheels are not coming off the Mitt Romney campaign. They came off some time ago. The press is just beginning to notice.The Romney campaign is skidding along on its axles and scraping its muffler. ...
  • Illinois wants a public pension bailout from t ...
    Can California be far behind in wanting a public pension bailout too? Apparently Illinois Governor Pat Quinn thinks the federal government should just go ahead and pony up the $200 billion or so the Illinois public pension system needs to remain solvent.Zero HedgeMoments ago we saw the following ...
  • GoFoods dehydrated food
    We’re concerned by the direction current events are going, and like many of our neighbors are striving to become more prepared.Recently, we met some people selling GoFoods, dehydrated packages of food that are good for up to 25 years. The price per serving is reasonable, generally under $2 if yo ...
  • UC Berkeley researchers map California Proposi ...
    UC Berkeley researchers are studying how people use social media in politics by mapping California Proposition 30 social media references onto graphs. They invite users to join in and see how their graphs grow. [...]

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

  • Marriage equality sacking is discrimination
    A Northland Catholic school has sacked a teacher for supporting students. The students challenged the Principal for writing anti marriage equality remarks in the school newsletter and wore rainbow wrist bands with their uniforms as a protest. The students stood up for human rights against an int ...
  • Lobbying for transparency
    Lawyer and lobbyist Jordan Williams, in his opinion piece on my Lobbying Disclosure Bill in the Dominion Post today, has taken a narrow view of the importance of transparency in our political system and is misguided in some of his concerns about the effects of the bill. The intent of this bill i ...
  • Climate change and human psychoses – see ...
    It has been a week of climate change. A quarter century, actually, since the US Senate and the Brundtland Report put the issue on the international agenda.  We’ve had, since then, Rio and Cairo, Kyoto and Marrakesh, Copenhagen and Cancun and Durban, and Rio again. But the past week has been espe ...
  • Take the Step – Auckland!
    After spending Wednesday in the House on that crazy, toilet free, golf course plentiful Planet Key, I landed smoothly in the real world at Edmund Hillary Primary at Papakura on Thursday; a decile 1 school with a volunteer breakfast program and a community garden. You might have seen them on Camp ...
  • The journey to Planet Key
    In the House this week in response to questions from Metiria, John Key gave us an insight into his aspirations – which centred on golf courses and holidays. National ministers have been casting aspersions on the opposition by creating straw man fantasy worlds Planet Labour and Planet Green. Sick ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • First-Ever Lifetime Feeding Study Finds Geneti ...
    By Dr. Mercola The first-ever lifetime feeding study1 evaluating the health risks of genetically engineered foods was published online on September 19, and the results are troubling, to say the least. This new study joins a list of over 30 other animal studies showing toxic or allergenic pr ...
  • Nature's Remarkable "30 Minute" Painkiller and ...
    By Dr. Mercola When's the last time you kicked off your shoes and reveled in the feeling of the Earth under your feet? Been awhile? It may sound hard to believe, but engaging in this simple pleasure could give your health a much-needed boost. Often it is the case that engaging in activiti ...
  • The Diet Doctor Everybody Loves – Gary Taubes
    By Dr. Mercola Gary Taubes, a prominent scientific journalist and author of several books, has blown the lid off of several fallacies of conventional wisdom with respects to diet and health. He gained his initial experience as a research journalist debunking the cold fusion theory in physics ...
  • 10 More Amazing Things About Our Bodies
    By Dr. Mercola Your body truly is amazing, and we’ve only scratched the surface as far as discovering all of the mysteries of its extremely complex capabilities and inner workings. The featured article highlighted 10 particularly noteworthy facts you may not be aware of, but which are utterl ...
  • Foundational Lifestyle Strategies to Maintain ...
    By Dr. Mercola According to CDC director Thomas Frieden1, high blood pressure is public healthy enemy No. 2. The CDC says 36 million people in the U.S. have uncontrolled high blood pressure, and of that number, 14 million don't even know it. Interestingly, 16 million Americans who are on bl ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • European poll shows overwhelming support for J ...
    Voters in the Italian poll overwhelmingly supported a buffer zone to ‘safeguard’ the Jarawa’s future.© SurvivalAn opinion poll in a leading European newspaper has shown overwhelming support for a buffer zone, to protect India’s Jarawa tribe from ‘human safaris’. Published in Italy’s most ...
  • Victory: Vedanta to close Orissa refinery
    The Dongria Kondh have fought a David and Goliath battle against Vedanta© Lewis Davids/SurvivalSupporters of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe are celebrating after controversial British mining company Vedanta Resources declared it will close its bauxite refinery in the state of Orissa, this December. ...
  • Alleged Yanomami massacre: Survival's reaction
    Illegal goldmining threatens Yanomami communities in both Brazil and Venezuela.© SurvivalSurvival International has been accused of a ‘climbdown’ over its announcement that, apparently contrary to earlier reports, a Yanomami settlement in Venezuela has not been destroyed in an attack by goldmine ...
  • Venezuela: miners' invasion continues, but no ...
    Illegal goldminers have been occupying the Yanomami territory for years.© SurvivalHaving received its own testimony from confidential sources, Survival now believes there was no attack by miners on the Yanomami community of Irotatheri. Yanomami from the area – in which many illegal gold miners a ...
  • Countdown: Brazil has three months to evict in ...
    Brazil has three months to evict illegal loggers from Awá land.© SurvivalBrazil has just three months to evict illegal loggers from land belonging to Earth’s most threatened tribe before it will be in breach of a court order, but Survival International can reveal that logging is still rife insid ...

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

  • Farmers To Begin 'Mass Slaughter' Of Animals D ...
    from grist.org: The mass slaughter of millions of farm animals across the world is expected to push food prices to their highest ever levels. Farmers across the world have begun a mass slaughter of their pig and cattle herds because they cannot afford the cost of feed, which has soared following ...
  • #Video: The Truth About The Health Care Crisis
    from realecontv.com: You can watch TV news all day and read every newspaper and you'll never get the real reason behind the US health care crisis. First the standard view and then the reality behind the curtain... Quality goes down, prices go up. What's going on? You can watch the news for month ...
  • Food Fraud: Something Fishy Is Going On
    from therealfoodchannel.com: There aren't many things you have immediate control over. But one thing you do have control over is what you put in your mouth. The challenge is cutting through all the fraud in the food business... Seafood eaters, this one's for you. Ten million pounds of fish sold ...
  • ACLU of Oregon Won't Take A Stand On Portland ...
    Last week, I wrote to the ACLU of Oregon to basically ask if we can sue the city council members over the lack of a public vote on the fluoridation of public water. They wrote me back Monday night, here is their response: The ACLU of Oregon has not taken a position on the pros or cons of fl ...
  • Portland City Council Approves Adding Fluoride ...
    #PDXfluoride opponents vow to launch citizen referendum 'within the hour'* from oregonlive.com: The Portland City Council voted 5-0 during a raucous public meeting on Wednesday to add fluoride to Portland's drinking water. The vote follows a nearly seven-hour public meeting last week in ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infras ...
    You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure.  So what does our infrastructure say about us?  It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay.  At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers.  Our roads are ...
  • Is America The Most Materialistic Society In T ...
    When it comes to materialism, has any nation ever surpassed what we are seeing in the United States right now?  We define our lives by how much stuff we have, to a large degree our personal and business relationships are defined by how much money we make, and even most of the imp ...
  • The Federal Reserve Is Systematically Destroyi ...
    Last week the mainstream media hailed QE3 as the "quick fix" that the U.S. economy desperately needs, but the truth is that the policies that the Federal Reserve is pursuing are going to be absolutely devastating for our senior citizens.  By keeping interest rates at exceptionall ...
  • How QE3 Will Make The Wealthy Even Wealthier W ...
    The mainstream media is hailing QE3 as a great victory for the U.S. economy.  On nearly every news broadcast, the "talking heads" are declaring that Ben Bernanke's decision to pump 40 billion dollars a month into our financial system is definitely going to help solve our economic ...
  • QE3: Helicopter Ben Bernanke Unleashes An All- ...
    You can't accuse Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of not living up to his nickname.  Back in 2002, Bernanke delivered a speech entitled "Deflation: Making Sure 'It' Doesn’t Happen Here" in which he referenced a statement by economist Milton Friedman about fighting deflation ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Report: Extending insurance coverage could red ...
    Under the Affordable Care Act, racial and ethnic differentials in health insurance coverage are poised to shrink due to the extension of coverage to hundreds of thousands of individuals and families, particularly through the Medicaid expansion. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The reality behind Romney's t ...
    In a speech to wealthy donors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said 47 percent of Americans "pay no income tax," are "dependent upon government," and "will vote for the president no matter what." A look at the numbers behind those claims. read more
  • University of Virginia prevails against climat ...
    A Virginia circuit court judge rules that the school does not have to turn over former professor Michael Mann's e-mails to the American Tradition Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded think tank that works to discredit climate scientists. The case is now expected to move on to the state Supreme Court. ...
  • Art Pope translates dollars into influence at UNC
    Conservative donor Art Pope has given millions to North Carolina's public universities, often to have his offers rejected over political controversies. Now he has a seat at the table in deciding the UNC system's future. read more
  • Preaching Koch Brothers gospel on public education
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his administration's school leaders have come perilously close to sounding like one of those Mississippi legislators back in 1985 who dealt with a statewide teachers' strike by giving them a pay raise -- but at the cost of a provision that prevented them from ever ...

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 →

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Tech Drive In

  • Steam for Linux is Coming Next Month!!
    All you Linux aficionados can breath a sigh of relief. Steam is coming to Linux and no, you don't have to wait till 2013 since Steam for Linux is coming next month! Steam for Linux Coming Next Month In a recent blogpost, where the launch of Steam workshop for L4D2 game wa ...
  • ZTE's Firefox OS Plans Confirmed, ZTE Will Lau ...
    Based out of China, ZTE Corp is world's fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer and fifth-largest telecoms equipment maker (based on 2011 statistics). And when such a big player decides to go ahead with something entirely new and unknown, things can get interesting. For starters, Firefox ...
  • Humble Indie Bundle 6 Introduces Linux to 6 Br ...
    As always, the brand new edition of Humble Indie Bundle is packed with surprises. The latest Humble Bundle marks the introduction of 6 brand new games which didn't had a Linux version prior to this. We had introduced you to some of the hottest Linux games for 2012 recently, but the latest Humb ...
  • 5 Best Open Source Tools to Create Scalable On ...
    While Facebook and Twitter is the core of the Internet’s social networking world, some companies and organizations may have reasons to set up their own social networking applications. For some companies, setting up their own social network is a good option because the public Internet may not b ...
  • NexPhone: Futuristic Concept Smartphone Using ...
    NexPhone concept is a new kick-starter like project where the promoters intend to build a smartphone that becomes your tablet, laptop and PC, all at the same time. Might sound familiar since ASUS has a similar project called ASUS PadFone. The interesting thing about NexPhone project is that, ...

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    Renewable Fuel Standard, Ethanol Use, and Corn Prices
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    News Nearby: Holtsville Ecology Center on Chopping Block
    Patch.com
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    Conway Daily Sun
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    Desalination no panacea for Calif. water woes
    The Seattle Times
    Squeezing salt from the ocean to make clean drinking water is a worldwide phenomenon that has been embraced in thirsty Californian. There are currently 17 desalination proposals in the state. But many projects have been stymied by skyrocketing ...
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    Flood waters recede in Talkeetna
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    Ghanaian scientist says water pollution threatens coastal fishes
    Ghana News Agency
    The Director-General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr. Rose Mamaa Entsua-Mensah, said the eating of fish had become unsafe as a result of the release of toxic substances into water bodies by miners, which were harmful to ...
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