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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 II

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Inner Worlds
    Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what was cry ...
  • Mormon Madness
    It's not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be ...
  • Another Take on American Divisions
    Stipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...
  • American Divisions
    Bill Schneider says that the U.S. is more politically divided today than it has been at any time since the Civil War. I think he's right. Which is not to say that compromise is the ticket. Instead, I'd like to see some brains reclaimed by reason from among those who want His Almightiness to run ...
  • Billionaires vs. Science
    Sociopath billionaires. They cause a ton of trouble across the board but the very worst thing they do is to deny global warming. They should, in my view, be thrown in jail for subverting science. Because, however, we don't have laws yet against scientific malpractice the next best thing, the onl ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Afghan War: Payback Time
    Frontline September 22-October 5, 2012 Payback time John Cherian ==== When President Barack Obama took office in 2008, there had been only around four such attacks. The “Green on Blue” killings leapfrogged after the President ordered his military surge in 2010 in tandem with the announcement of ...
  • Benghazi: Uncle Indispensable Was Here
    The Taylor Report September 21, 2012 The Benghazi Thing It is play-like time in the “indispensible nation” From the Halls of Montezuma, take one: Let’s play-like we care about international law and respect for other peoples. Libya has oil but we care only for humanity and progr ...
  • State Department Lays Out Global Interceptor M ...
    U.S. Department of State September 10, 2012 Growing Global Cooperation on Ballistic Missile Defense Remarks by Frank A. Rose Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Berlin, Germany Edited by RR Standard Missile-3 Block IB launch June 27, 2012 (Missile Defe ...
  • As East Asia Tensions Rise: U.S. Campaign Play ...
    Global Times September 21, 2012 Election rhetoric drives China to speak out ==== The provocations by these presidential candidates are too much for the Chinese people to bear. US politicians show an indifferent attitude toward the feelings of the Chinese people. China should not turn a blind eye ...
  • West Tests Double Standard Policy In Syria
    Voice of Russia September 21, 2012 West tests double standards on Syria Konstantin Garibov The West is testing its double standard policy on Syria. That’s how Russian experts have reacted to the reports that Western countries are planning to supply a large batch of heavy arms to the Syrian oppos ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Libyan Fighters in Syria Admit al Qaeda Suppor ...
    By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com September 22, 2012 The calls for foreign intervention amongst the armed rebel forces in Syria have never ceased despite the United States directly assisting the rebels in obtaining funding to get their hands on heavy weaponry on top of carrying out intelligence ...
  • Take the Test to See If You Might Be Considere ...
    Washingtonsblog.com September 21, 2012 Find Out If You Are Doing Things Which Might Be Considered Suspicious There have been so many anti-terrorism laws passed since 9/11 that it is hard to keep up on what kinds of things might get one on a “list” of suspected bad guys. We’ve prepared this quick ...
  • Score One for Hedges v. Obama
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com September 21, 2012 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. On September 12, Southern District o ...
  • US to Delist & Arm American-Killing Terror Cult
    Continuity of Agenda: Neo-Cons and Obama administration sponsor global terror against Iran By Tony Cartalucci theintelhub.com September 22, 2012 As the US government confirms that terrorists involved in the Benghazi, Libya US consulate attack were indeed the very militants funded, armed, and pro ...
  • Long Knives Target Iran
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com September 21, 2012 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. In 1953, CIA operative Kermit ...

FRS

  • Tracking Hate Crimes, Tracking the FBI’s Crimes
    [Ever since the criminal/hate massacre of Sikhs took place on August 5, 2012, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the shock and anger at that horrifying murderous act by a white-supremacist gunman has fueled an intense discussion and debate within the Sikh community and South Asians, and among all who stan ...
  • Tracking Hate Crimes, Tracking the FBI’s Crimes
    [Ever since the criminal/hate massacre of Sikhs took place on August 5, 2012, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the shock and anger at that horrifying murderous act by a white-supremacist gunman has fueled an intense discussion and debate within the Sikh community and South Asians, and among all who stan ...
  • Nepal: former Liberation fighters’ disa ...
    [Years after the abandonment of the revolutionary people's war, in exchange for false promises, the illusory "gains" have proven empty and are losing their remaining adherents. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————————&# ...
  • Nepal: former Liberation fighters’ disa ...
    [Years after the abandonment of the revolutionary people's war, in exchange for false promises, the illusory "gains" have proven empty and are losing their remaining adherents. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————————&# ...
  • China’s migrants and the desperate strug ...
    ["Civil society" activists examine the barriers to their "underground" influence and the effect of their activism among migrant workers in the post-socialist, capitalist China.  --  Frontlines ed.] China: The view from the ground Hsiao-Hung Pai , http://www.opendemocracy.net, 18 September 2012 T ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Today On Mars: Curiosity Shows American Pride
    U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! This self-portrait was taken by Mars rover Curiosity's MAHLI camera on Sept. 19 (its 44th sol, or Martian day, if you're keeping track). It shows off one of four logos on its arm--logos for NASA, the Jet Proulsion Laboratory, and the Curiosity mission itself are also repres ...
  • The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, September ...
    A mind-bending videogame, shoes with GPS, a charming liliger cub, and more of our favorite images from this week
  • Timeline: Space Shuttle Endeavour's Greatest M ...
    Record-setting space walks, the dawn of the International Space Station, and other highlights from the retiring shuttle's 25-mission career As the Endeavour Orbiter heads west from Cape Canaveral, Florida on its way to its retirement home in Los Angeles this week, we take a look back at the NAS ...
  • Images Of The Week, September 17-21, 2012
  • The Statistical Physics Of Ponytails And Other ...
    Science is our key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe, and also occasionally the key to unlocking the brain waves of dead salmon. Thus: another year, another announcement of the Ig Nobel prize winners, the men and women behind the most unlikely, hilarious, thought-provoking science of t ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Autumn blast on its way
    A deep area of low pressure looks set to dominate our weather late in the weekend and into next week as the official start of autumn (which is the 22nd September this year, defined as the day the sun crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere) coincides nicely with the first meteorological ...
  • Wet end to September raises autumn flooding co ...
    The second half of September look set to be dominated by low pressure, with little chance of a prolonged dry settled spell of weather. All computer weather models are indicating that temperatures are likely to be below normal, with rain expected at times across the UK - although there will be s ...
  • Global temperature update
    Global temperatures in August were 0.34C above the 30 year running average, according to the UAH satellite measure, showing a small increase on the previous month, shown below. It's the 3rd warmest August in this particular satellite data set which began in 1979. Using the more standard ...
  • Summer 2012 - 2nd wettest on record
    The Met Office have said that summer 2012 will be the second wettest (summer is June, July and August combined for statistical purposes) on record across England and the UK as a whole, using rainfall data back to 1910. So far 367mm of rain has fallen, compared with 384mm which was recorded in ...
  • Arctic sea ice now lowest on satellite record
    The extent of sea ice in the Arctic region has dropped sharply in the last few months. Only in April, Arctic sea ice had staged an impressive recovery and was close to the 1979-2012 average, reaching levels not seen in April for over 10 years. But yesterday, the National Snow and Ice data ce ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Agrodiplomacy: PRC-Ukraine $3B Loans-for-Corn
    It's no big secret that Ukraine has been on the ropes financially for the past few years. Alike every sort of commodity exporter nowadays, however, it's found itself in luck as the the world's banker du jour and its voracious appetite have come to the rescue. That is, troubled countries can of c ...
  • Vladimir Putin Tells USAID to Beat It (Just Be ...
    Let me preface this blog post by saying I don't want to see no blood, so there's no point in USAID acting like a macho man. It doesn't matter who's wrong or who's right--just beat it. I believe that I have been fair in criticizing the US development agency USAID on two main grounds. First and f ...
  • Japan, PRC & Dumbly Shooting Down Flying Geese
    The migration of the so-called "Flying Geese Model" has been responsible not only for integrating more regional economies into the world economy's fold but also raising living standards in East Asia as the centre of economic gravity is rapidly heading towards our part of the world. The essential ...
  • What Euro at $1.31 Says About Western Economies
    Not to my particular surprise--I too believe that the world should worry about the dollar and not the euro--the common currency went back up to $1.31 after the Federal Reserve announced QE3. Oh, the irony. Here we were supposing that old Europe had been left for dead, yet even this currency used ...
  • The World's Best Central Bankers Don't Do QE3
    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results - Albert Einstein Here in the rest of the world, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is regarded somewhere between a joke and a menace. It thus comes no surprise that the world's most infamous central b ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Fracking Industry Dumping TRILLIONS Of Gallons ...
    The fracking industry is secretly dumping trillions of gallons toxic waste with all kinds of pollutants from all kinds of sources into wells during and after drilling. ~ Alexander Higgins - Video - Related article read more
  • Another Schmuck Walks!... Eric Holder Cleared ...
    The release of the final report on the Fast and Furious investigation came late Tuesday. The report rips the Congressional contempt charge against Holder to utter shreds. ~ Nathaniel Downes - Related article read more
  • Stolen Identity?!?... What To Do If Your Ident ...
    Identity theft occurs when someone steals your personal information and uses it without your permission. It is one of the fasting growing crimes in the nation! ~ Related articleread more
  • USDA Wants RFID Tracking Technology To Be Mand ...
    “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16-17) read more
  • H. R. 3553... Dennis Kucinich Calls Out Monsan ...
    ”In 1992 the Food and Drug Administration decided that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are the functional equivalent of conventional foods. They arrived at this decision without testing GMOs for allergenicity, toxicity, anti-biotic resistance and functional characteristics." ~ Video r ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • The Ant and the Grasshopper
    The Ant and the Grasshopper (Aesop’s version) In a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest. “Why not come and chat with me ...
  • Peter Schiff Says Massive Collapse Of The Dollar
    During a recent interview between Peter Schiff (CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals) and Greg Hunter (USAWatchdog.com), Schiff says the latest round of ‘QE3′ by the Fed has only postponed the coming collapse. The longer we wait the worse it’s going to be because we simply compo ...
  • Best Popular Mid-Priced Pocket Knife
    Tell us about your pocket knife! There are quite a number of makes and models of pocket knives covering a wide range of price, quality, style and purpose. Buying a pocket knife is a personal choice of this combination of preferences. As I often do when looking to determine some of these factors ...
  • Favorite Survival Books Reader Poll Results, S ...
    The results are in and counted from those who responded to the reader poll for their favorite survival books, regardless of category (fiction, reference, etc.). Thanks to all who participated! We ended up with about 150 titles. I have organized them and created a PDF for you to download so you c ...
  • Medicine in Your Bug-Out-Bag
    Advice from a MSB reader… “I found myself in a situation to use my (B.O.B. RX) for a few days and they had lost their potency. When I checked with my pharmacist she said, ‘Never leave blood pressure pills or heart/nerve pills in a hot car as the heat will nullify the effect wit ...

Fast Company

  • Second Hostage Situation In A Month Liveblogge ...
    A hostage situation unfolded over Facebook today when a 22-year-old Pittsburgh man held a victim hostage in a downtown skyscraper... and updated his Facebook status in real time. Klein Michael Thaxton, 22, updated his Facebook page throughout the day with real-time, public status updates such as ...
  • When Innovation Makes You Drool: The Hand-Made ...
    What does pretzel-infused ice cream have to do with business innovation?
  • At Facebook, Vevo, And Apple, The Hare Is The ...
    This week, Facebook released a slew of updates for its iOS app and its Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps for Android. The company also announced we can expect to see updates every 4-8 weeks for each of its mobile products, including Facebook for iOS and Android, Camera, and Messenger. As Vent ...
  • DARPA's Cybernetic Binoculars Tap Soldiers' Br ...
    Binoculars on the battlefield are fine, as long as soldiers know what they're looking at. But when a target's not so clear or, say, a shopkeeper with a broom could easily be mistaken for an insurgent with an RPG, the eyes--even the conscious, rational mind--might not be the best tool for threat- ...
  • Crash The Super Bowl, Work For "Transformers" ...
    The winner of this year’s Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ad contest will be rewarded with a job on Transformers 4 and possibly $1 million. Sh*t just got real. Michael Bay discusses.

Jadaliyya

  • Jadaliyya Celebrates Its Two-Year Anniversary
    Jadaliyya completes its second year today. In trying to keep up with events and expectations, we slept even fewer hours during this year. We are happy to do it all over again, at least for a few decades. There is so much to keep up with, so we will not write much here. Suffice it to say that we ...
  • Statehood Bid One Year Later: No State, No Bid ...
    In early August 2012, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to renew the United Nations statehood bid in September: "Even if this step conflicts with other parties' interests … [W]e will not step back. . . . Israel neither halted settlement activities, nor recognized ...
  • الكنيسة والنهضة: عفا الله عمّا سلف
    تبدو الكنيسة في تونس، التي ينطبق عليها بحق نعت الكنيسة العابرة جراء التبدّل الدائم لرأسها ولقاعدتها، قد تخطّت مرحلة التوجّس، بعد أن مرّ زهاء العام على تسنّم "حركة النهضة" ظهر السلطة في تونس. فبعد أن أدمنت الكنيسة ريبة من بلوغ حزب إسلامي مقاليد الحكم، وعملت على إشاعة تلك الريبة في الغرب ...
  • Egyptian Workers and the Revolution: An Interv ...
    The following interview was conducted on 14 September 2012 with Kamal Abu-Eita, General Secretary of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU), and the head of the Real Estate Tax Authority Union, which was founded in 2008 as Egypt’s first independent union. In the first part ...
  • Labor Strikes in Egypt; Iran Tribunal in London
    For the past week, the world's attention has been focused on the protests in front of US embassies in Muslim majority countries. There has been special attention devoted to the protests in front of the American embassy in Cairo,  however, Egyptians were gearing up for a different kinds of p ...

mediagazer

  • Four years later, the Ann Arbor Chronicle is s ...
    Michael Andersen / Nieman Journalism Lab: Four years later, the Ann Arbor Chronicle is still weird and wonky — and it's growing  —  For four years, Mary Morgan and Dave Askins have been the change David Simon was waiting for.  —  The married couple's websit ...
  • How Romney Packed The Univision Forum (McKay C ...
    McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed: How Romney Packed The Univision Forum  —  Tense moments as the campaign demands to bus in supporters and to retape an introduction.  “A little bit of disrespect,” complains Univision's Salinas.  —  Romney at Univision an ...
  • Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over ...
    Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry  —  Google's “billions of clicks” are only half of the story.  —  In April of 2010, Eric Schmidt delivered the keynote address at the conference of the ...
  • CNN Reveals Finding Libya Ambassador's Journal ...
    Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: CNN Reveals Finding Libya Ambassador's Journal  —  NEW YORK — Anderson Cooper revealed Friday night that CNN had found U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens' personal journal following the attack on the U.S. consulate in Beng ...
  • Twitter CEO says curation tools for newsrooms ...
    Craig Silverman / Poynter: Twitter CEO says curation tools for newsrooms are coming  —  “So, how does it feel to be the voice of the press in the 21 century?,” Emily Bell asked Twitter CEO Dick Costolo during a keynote interview Friday at the Online News Association ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Valsecchi takes GP2 title
    Max Chilton underlined his F1 credentials with a commanding win in Singapore, but the day belonged to Davide Valsecchi who claimed the GP2 Series title. A fourth-place finish was enough for the Italian to claim DAMS' second title in as many years - Romain Grosjean took the 2011 title for the ...
  • Vettel maintains practice dominance
    Singapore: Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel made it a clean sweep of practice domination for the Singapore Grand Prix, clocking the fastest time for the third straight session hours ahead of qualifying on Saturday. The 60-minute session was red-flagged with three minutes remaining ...
  • Su-wei beats Robson in 3 sets to win in G ...
    GUANGZHOU, China — Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan scored beat Laura Robson of Britain 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 Saturday to win the Guangzhou Open. Robson had nine aces but was let down by her serve, offering 22 break opportunities to Hsieh and hitting 11 double faults. Hsieh, who made the third round at ...
  • Di Matteo rebuts ex-Chelsea manager Gulli ...
    Tweet London, Sep 22(ANI): Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo has refuted one of his predecessors at Stamford Bridge, Ruud Gullit's criticism of Fernando Torres, who had claimed the striker is not good enough for the club. Gullit had said the current team often appears to be playing with only ...
  • Fognini advances to St. Petersburg Open f ...
    ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Fabio Fognini of Italy beat Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain 6-3, 6-4 Saturday to advance to the final of the St. Petersburg Open. Fognini will play in his second career final after winning his maiden title in April in Bucharest, Romania. The 53rd-ranked Fognini r ...

no frakking consensus

  • Back Soon
    I am traveling unexpectedly this week due to a relative’s medical condition, so my return to full time blogging is a little delayed. In case you missed it, the cover story of the September issue of Wired magazine was written by Matt Ridley and is titled Apocalypse Not. It surveys a rather ...
  • Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...
    This blog will return in mid-September. In the meantime, here’s a video of a presentation I gave in Australia last month – and some thoughts on the bankruptcy of contemporary green analysis.
  • Green Death Threats: ‘Change or Die’
    The key message of today's environmentalists is: Accept our worldview, submit to our solutions - or else. This is, let us be blunt, a death threat. It is the voice of an extortionist.
  • US Official: ‘Activate Your Science’
    A senior public servant thinks scientists should be passionate, engaged activists.
  • Delusions Down Under
    Concerned about climate change, coral reef experts say they can predict the future with startling precision.

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 9/21/12 - Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return, Pai ...
    2012election.procon.org - Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return, Paid Rate of 14.1%
  • 9/20/12 - Candidate Videos
    2012election.procon.org -  Candidate Videos - Watch Obama and Romney's convention nomination speeches and speeches from third party candidates Virgil Goode (Constitution Party), Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), and Jill Stein (Green Party). We have also posted the recently released full vi ...
  • 9/18/12 - Biden vs. Ryan on 30 Issues
    2012election.procon.org - Biden vs. Ryan on 30 Issues - Read the positions of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.
  • 9/14/12 - Should college football replace the ...
    collegefootball.procon.org - Should college football replace the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) with a playoff system? - The top pro and con quotes have been updated with a poll showing fan opinion on the four-team playoff and a quote from ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowsk ...
  • 9/14/12 - Paul Ryan
    2012election.procon.org - Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's official nominee for US vice-president, now has his pro and con positions on our issues available at 2012 Election ProCon.org.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • School trips and history lessons
    It isn’t often that you see your boss’s face light up like a kid in a sweet shop, but when Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society, walked in to Power Hall at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MOSI) on Tuesday morning, the noise and steam coming from the working engines [...]
  • Lessons from across the pond?
    When it comes to scientific research, the US and UK are the world’s undisputed heavyweights (see Rising Above the Gathering Storm and The Scientific Century).  The US invests heavily in quality research, and the UK relies on its productivity and ability to punch well above its weight.  Both nati ...
  • Sowing the seed corn…
    Having worked in environment and sustainable development policy for the past couple of years, my recent foray into the world of science and innovation policy represents something of a paradigm shift. Thankfully, the GovNet Science & Innovation conference presented me with an opportune idiot’ ...
  • A timely contribution to a fractious debate
    For a nation that’s only drilled three shale gas wells, and only hydraulically fractured (‘fracked’) one of them, the UK is remarkably engaged in the shale gas debate. The reasons for this are manifold, but two seem particularly salient.  Firstly, the UK’s lone instance of fracking for shale gas ...
  • Science’s Olympic legacy
    Credit: johnthescone Earlier this week I attended a Parliamentary Links Day on the subject of Science and Sport.  As an armchair athlete and a bit of an equipment geek I was looking forward to fuelling my conviction that but for the will and resources I would currently be entering my pre-Olympic ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Lasers can cure long-sightedness too
    LONDON - Laser surgery, presently used to treat short-sightedness, is being tested as a cure for presbyopia, or long-sightedness that develops with age, as well. If successful, it could dramatically reduce the need for reading glasses. The deterioration results from the stiffening of the eye ...
  • Protests over pension reform cripple life in F ...
    PARIS - The protests by French labour unions against President Nocolas Sarkozy’s pension overhaul plan entered its second week Wednesday, thwarting fuel and other supplies and disrupting normal life across the country. Sarkozy has proposed increasing the standard, minimum retirement age ...
  • Clenching fists can help ease painful moments
    LONDON - People facing unpleasant tasks can ease their painful moments by simply tensing their muscles, a study says. The study also found that clenching fists temporarily boosts self-control and willpower. Iris Hung from the National University of Singapore and Aparna Labroo from the Univers ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • 156 Million Pounds of Fish Wasted in Northeast
    Bycatch a threat to fisheries ©Wikimedia Commons Bycatch is a word that is thrown around a lot in the fishing industry, but when a trawler is throwing away half the fish it catches, somehow “bycatch” doesn’t seem to adequately capture the scope of the problem. It’s that sort of scale of waste ...
  • Victory! Strict Shark Finning Ban Moves Forwar ...
    Blue sharks are targeted for their fins. © Karin Leonard/Marine Photobank Today we moved closer to a complete ban on shark finning in the European Union! The Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament voted in Brussels today to support a strict ban on shark finning, both in European Unio ...
  • Shell Halts Offshore Oil Drilling in Arctic fo ...
    ©Wikimedia Commons After a disastrous few weeks that saw drilling shut down in the Arctic due to unpredictable ice floes, and then the failure of its oil containment dome during testing, Shell has decided to scale back plans for drilling in the Chukchi Sea North of Alaska this season. Instead ...
  • Creature Feature: Pacific Barreleye
    Prepare to witness what has to be one of the strangest animals on planet Earth. Behold: the Pacific barreleye. As this video shot by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute demonstrates, NASA need not look to the heavens to find aliens. 2,000 feet deep in the Pacific ocean lurks this o ...
  • The Hidden World of the Pacific Seafloor
    In this gorgeous new Oceana video Alexandra Cousteau delves into Monterey Bay to illuminate the diversity of life at the bottom of the ocean, a crucial habitat that is under the constant threat of obliteration from bottom trawling. Using an ROV the camera captures an otherworldly scene, as scall ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Massacre On The Nueces.
      12:15 AM, Aug. 10, 1862, about a hundred dismounted Confederate cavalry and state militia crept across the dry Texas Hill Country towards the banks of the clear Nueces River. There 67 men were garrisoned and currently a sleep. The silence was shattered in the dark night in the din of gunf ...
  • The Bell P-59 Airacomet. It Saw Little Action ...
        There’s a rusty spavined Bell P-59 Airacomet sitting in the museum bone yard at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mohave Desert. The sun bakes and preserves this old dinosaur that at one time represented the hopes of a nation just entering the exciting jet age. The fact is only 66 of t ...
  • Military Anecdote Day
      “Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.”    
  • The Thai Police Use A Dowsing Rod To Find Bombs.
      Introducing the GT200, the newest technology that allows the Thai paramilitary to detect bombs. There is one problem with the rational, cool, evening marketing name of the GT200. It is little more than a plastic rod and a plastic shell. Whether or not it works depends on who you ask. But ...
  • The Day The Passengers Had To Pick Up The Bill.
      OK, so this is a first I believe in aviation history. So earlier this month an Air France flight from Paris to Beirut, Lebanon had to be diverted to Damascus, Suria.   Turns out that France had imposed sanctions on Syria because of the internecine fighting and the apparent crimes of ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: DADT Repeal Anniversary, and The S ...
    There have been some extra rainbow sighting type events, such as uniformed members of the military marching in Pride Parades. But Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed a year ago on September 20, and none of the dire, apocalyptic, the sky is falling warnings have occurred. Servicemembers Legal Defe ...
  • AARP Boos Paul Ryan
    WHEN YOU work in Congress crafting policy it’s a different story than when you stand in front of the very people you’re planning to shiv if you get the power. From Think Progress, their post was tweeted 5,493 as of this post, with Ryan getting called “liar” and told him to “go ...
  • News Desk: Libyans in Benghazi Rise Up Against ...
    THE KILLING of Ambassador Chris Stevens seems to have crystallized the intense power the militias are exerting. What’s being reported is that this led citizens to the doors of the headquarters of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia, with members shooting as they fled from the citizen surge. From ...
  • Top Story: Romney’s Tax Dump Friday, with a 20 ...
    WHAT ARE they thinking by allowing Price Waterhouse to release a 20-year summary of the Romneys tax returns? Maybe the Romney Team figures it’s been such a bad 3 weeks there’s nothing that can make it worse. Well, released tax teasers could and just might. It’s stupefying. &#82 ...
  • 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 percenta ...

Hudson New York

  • Blasphemy for Fun and Prophet
    The last time that Americans spent this much time concerning themselves with blasphemy, witches were being tried in Salem and many a settler suspected that on a dark and stormy night the devil might come wandering through the woods. But in those parts of
  • BBC Backs Down; Threats of Physical Violence
    The British Broadcasting Corporation has cancelled the screening of a controversial documentary about the history of Islam after the presenter was threatened with physical violence. The private screening was to take place, followed by a debate, at the
  • Where Are the Muslim Protests for... ?
    Muslims who are outraged by an amateur film produced by an Egyptian Christian do not seem to be equally offended when many crimes are committed in the name of Islam. There are only three reasons why Muslims could be speaking out against the terrorists.
  • France Condemns the Holocaust and Antisemitic ...
    The recent french film, "Sarah's Key," released in 2010, and based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, portrayed accurately the willing participation during World War II of the French Vichy State, its authorities and police in facilitating the Holocaust.
  • The Peace Process: View from the West Bank
    The day the video was released containing US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remarks that the "Palestinians are not interested whatsoever in peace," the PLO announced that it was studying the possibility of canceling the Oslo Accords. The

Urban Survival

  • Beware the Next Week or Two
    Screaming upside ahead?  Massive gold/silver pop?  Or, does a wide swath of smart money get panicky (realizing the run from the 2009 low is over) and blow out…leaving markets to crumble.  Although a lot of pundits have been expecting the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Friday’s Serious WuJo
    Reader Ivan wants to go a little deeper into the topic we touched on earlier this week:  Things mysteriously disappearing and then reappearing.  Seems people do the same thing and Ivan points to a CoastToCoast AM report on topic in … Continue reading →
  • Another Day in the Handbasket
    You know the old saying?  “World’s going to hell in a handbasket.”  Except, thanks to advances in technology, we don’t need no stinking handbaskets.”   We have several things which are better.  Starting with a bunch of contested islands which &#8 ...
  • Coping: Thursday at the WuJo
    Reader Mark and his girlfriend have just had what we might call a “two-fer” – which is to say two Wujo-like events in quick succession: “Howdy!   Girlfriend and I each had a neat wujo today.   Here’s mine… I live next … Continue readi ...
  • Watching the Detectives
    Cue Elvis Costello and the Attractions….we’ve got Theme Tuesday going.  True to this new concept in  concept creative economic snooze-writing, I’m decked out this morning in my Sherlock Holmes attire: hat and pipe, ready to deduct like crazy.  Slowly, I … C ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Dwindling Arctic Ice Signals a Clear Need for ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC In Hollywood’s latest cetacean love-fest, Big Miracle, three gray whales are trapped in the encroaching Arctic ice of the Chukchi Sea, soon to be part of a heroic rescue attempt ...
  • Stop the War on Health
    Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco The House of Representatives approved a bill today that hits the environment and our health squarely in the face while profiting the powerful coal industry.  Th ...
  • The Clean Water Act: Still Needed in the Real ...
    Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. On my bike ride into work today, I was stopped in my tracks by the scene pictured below – huge, billowing piles of some kind of foamy substance flowing out of a storm drain and into Four Mile Run, ...
  • Do a home energy check-up this fall
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City As the seasons transition from summer to fall, you've likely put together a running home checklist with to-do's like: (1) check the batteries and test the smoke alarms, (2) rake the leaves, an ...
  • Bill proposed to end tax exemption for tar san ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC House Members proposed a bill to require tar sands companies to pay into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund (OSLTF), which is used to pay for spill response. As NRDC and Oil Change Int ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, September 20, 2012: Beach Park, Illinois: A family is still wondering what happened when a package was delivered and then 10 minutes later drug raiders burst through the front … Continue reading →National Police Miscon ...
  • Police Raid Wrong House, Kill 61-Year Old Man
    From ABC News: A 61-year-old man was shot to death by police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug raid on the wrong house.  Police admitted their mistake, saying faulty information from a drug informant contributed … Continue reading →Police Raid Wrong Hou ...
  • Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Agency & Dept of J ...
    From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog on Wednesday faulted the agency for misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that disregarded public safety and resulted in hun ...
  • Victim of Police Raid Says ‘It Changes Your Fr ...
    From the Sun Times: Architect Paul Brown was in the basement of his home at the end of Adelphi Avenue when he heard a “huge noise” Friday afternoon that drew him up the stairs where he was met by gun … Continue reading →Victim of Police Raid Says ‘It Changes Your Fr ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday September 20, 2012: Las Vegas, Nevada: The families of two men who died during encounters with police officers have each filed a lawsuit. The lawsuits allege that the officers … Continue reading →National Police Misco ...

Total Collapse

  • Children born to parents who eat GM wheat may ...
    Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism that some scientists are now saying could cause serious problems for the human ...
  • U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan De ...
    U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said islands at the heart of a dispute between Japan and China fall under an American defense pact with Japan, while urging the sides to resolve the standoff via diplomacy. “We want to focus more on issues associated with the maintenance of peace a ...
  • France to close embassies, schools in 20 count ...
    France said it would temporarily close its embassies and schools in 20 countries Friday after a satirical magazine in Paris published insulting cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a move it fears will add “fuel to the fire” of global tensions over an anti-Islam film. The French government, ...
  • China Warns World War III Being Planned To Ous ...
    A new report prepared by the Foreign Military Intelligence Main Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces for President Putin is warning today that the mysterious 5-day visit by Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie to India this past week (the first such visit to India by a h ...
  • US And Britain Send Warships To The Persian Gu ...
    An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme. Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically im ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Pinterest, stoc ...
    Today on the Daily Dose, Pinterest gets interesting for Vimeo and the iPhone 5, possible changes ahead for the London Stock Exchange and the US Sentate says no thank you...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple’s O ...
    Apple operating systems launched, Sony gets slimmer, Uber grabs taxis in Boston and China and Japan’s island conflict hits cyberspace. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – ITC investigate ...
    The ITC has launched an investigation into Apple via Motorola Mobility. Twitter’s new app removes image hosts, forcing users into Photobucket instead. Apple breaks $700 per share in after-hours trading....
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – iPhone 5 sees 2 million pre ...
    Apple’s iPhone 5 is predictably selling like hotcakes, Square closes its Series D funding round, and a report suggests that Samsung’s next flaship smartphone will emerge smack bang in the...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple events, p ...
    Apple, Apple and a bit more Apple as well as patent wars and a sex party. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • BZE submission to the Renewable Energy Target ...
    To download the full submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the link and "save link as" to save the file onto your computer) We welcome the opport ...
  • Adelaide, SA: Repowering Port Augusta, Rally f ...
    When: SUNDAY September 30th Time: 1.pm Location: Rundle Park, Adelaide (next to Rymill Park opposite the corner of East/North tce) Want help to make SA the solar state? We know we need to move away from ancient fossil fuel technology, to clean renewable energy – now is our chance! Port August ...
  • Zero emissions homes: save the climate and mon ...
    If you aim for a zero-emissions house, you can live in comfort, while saving money and the climate. That’s the message from research and practice, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. Members of th ...
  • Trigeneration: Sydney's white elephant
    Matt Wright The City of Sydney is comparing apples with oranges when it promotes its Trigeneration Master Plan (designed in partnership with Origin Energy and subsidiary Cogent Energy) as cleaner than burning coal in centralised power plants. Beyond Zero Emissions’ fundamental criticism of the ...
  • Gas industry in denial over carbon emissions
    MEDIA RELEASE 4th September 2012 Industry talk of developing an industry in “low emissions” coal-seam gas is a fantasy, according to renewable energy and climate think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Yesterday, the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) released their  Austra ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Amazon deforestation jumps in August
    Satellite imagery released by the Brazil's National Space Research Institute (INPE) reveals a sharp jump in deforestation during the month of August. The new data, which wasn't publicized by usual press release on INPE's homepage, was first highlighted by O Eco, a Brazilian environmental news site.
  • Industrial plantations in the tropics
    Several social and environmental groups are commemorating 'International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations' today, September 21, due to concerns about deforestation, pollution, and displacement of local communities.
  • What's wrong with tree plantations?
    Public environmental awareness has come a long way since September 1962, when Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' was published, stimulating the birth of the environmental movement.
  • New forest map shows 6% of Amazon deforested b ...
    An update to one of the most comprehensive maps of the Amazon basin shows that forest cover across the world's largest rainforest declined by about six percent between 2000 and 2010. But the map also reveals hopeful signs that recognition of protected areas and native lands across the eight coun ...
  • Religious fervor drives elephant slaughter
    The legal ivory trade is failing to protect elephants which are being slaughtered en mass across the African continent to meet demand for religious trinkets, argues a new investigative report published in National Geographic by Bryan Christy.

Sierra Express

  • New Tractor for Herbalist
    A tractor worth over £1,500 has arrived at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay meant for the voluntary organization known as Council of Traditional Healers Sierra Leone. President of the Council of Traditional Healers, Dr. Sheku Tarawally informed this medium that the organization is not having any supp ...
  • AMA Donates Free Marklate at Kossoh Town
    The Salaam Clinic of Africa Muslims Agency has donated free multi-vitamin Marklate to under five children and lactating mothers at Kossoh town, Western rural areas.  Over 100 children and lactating mothers benefited from the 3 day activities especially for the western area. Speaking to this pres ...
  • “I’m Delighted that my son is recovering well” ...
    Madam-Aminata Strasser, the biological mother of AC Milan and Leone Stars midfielder Rodney Strasser has told Sierra Express Media Sports that she thanks God that he has listened to her cry that her son will finally make a comeback nest month. I’ve been praying all this while together with my hu ...
  • “We will revive Royal Stars FC this weekend” T ...
    The team manager of Royal Stars FC has told Sierra Express Media Sports that he, other officials, and old players of the club, will today Saturday 22nd September 2012 have a reunion and revival meeting at the Aberdeen playing field at 4:00pm. According to T.M-Ishmael Bah, he said the club was a ...
  • World Vision boosts Health Ministry on Cholera ...
    World Vision Sierra Leone a child focused organization has donated a consignment of cholera treatment drugs, water purification supplies, mobile phones and Le 25m to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to respond to the cholera emergency that has killed hundreds and infected thousands in Sierr ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Brian Gaynor: Rural sector shows city slickers ...
    A trip to Dunedin for the South African rugby test last weekend has reinforced the view that New Zealand is rapidly developing a two-tier economy.On one hand is the rural community which is increasingly inhabited by energetic and...
  • Risk of farmer 'civil war' over mutant calves ...
    A genetics company's refusal to pay compensation to farmers whose calves were born with a genetic mutation could result in a "civil war" between farmers, says Federated Farmers. Around 900 farmers nationwide had been affected after...
  • World dairy prices up 2.4pc + graphic
    World dairy prices rose overnight in the fourth straight gain on the GlobalDairyTrade online auction platform, with gains for whole and skim milk powder, the largest products by volume sold.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 2.4 per...
  • Milk with additive comes out on top in taste test
    New Zealanders prefer the taste of milk with permeate in because they don't know any different, a consumer advocate says.The Herald yesterday put 10 people through a blind taste test of two different dark-blue-top milks - one...
  • What's really in our milk? The added ingredien ...
    Dairy giants are coming under increasing pressure to reveal how much of a controversial "snot-like" byproduct they put in their milk.Fonterra and Goodman Fielder, which dominate the country's milk market, put permeate in their milk...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason TV Replay: Remy's "Why They Fought"
      As anti-American protests break out across the globe - even in countries we ostensibly helped to liberate - it's worth recalling the past dozen or so years of U.S. foreign policy and the sacrifices we've all made to make America safer. Watch "Why They Fought," internet ...
  • Shikha Dalmia on Immigration and America’s Str ...
    Many U.S. cities caught in a spiral of economic decline think they have a rescue plan: an influx of immigrants. Officials are carrying out policies aimed at attracting foreigners in hopes that their energy and drive will reverse decades of population losses and set the stage for a re ...
  • Reason TV Replay: Attack Ads, Circa 1800
      ABC News mainstay Ted Koppel recently took on "the truthsayers" during an segment for the show Rock Center. The veteran former host of Nightline tried to make the case that characters ranging from Bill O'Reill to Bill Maher to Ann Coulter are driving contemporary poli ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on the USDA’s Failing School L ...
    January 2012 saw the release of new federal school lunch rules which added more fruits and vegetables to USDA-provided public school lunches; capped salt, fat, and calories; and replaced white flour with whole wheat flour. First Lady Michelle Obama, who "championed" the rule changes, ...
  • Forget Romney's 47/53 Divide, the Real Split i ...
    Improbably enough, there was a kernel of truth at the core of Mitt Romney's much-derided comment about 47 percent of Americans paying no income taxes and, therefore, being bound to serve as Barack Obama's government-dependent minions. That bit of discussion-worthy data is that th ...

Mercury Rising

  • This may be the first victory in the war on terror
    Conal Urquhart, The Guardian: Militias blamed for the killing of US ambassador Chris Stevens have been forced out of Libya’s second city, Benghazi, by popular protests. At least 11 people were killed and 60 wounded as militiamen tried to defend their compounds against thousands of demonstr ...
  • The corruption of medicine
    Ben Goldacre, The Guardian: In 2010, researchers from Harvard and Toronto found all the trials looking at five major classes of drug – antidepressants, ulcer drugs and so on – then measured two key features: were they positive, and were they funded by industry? They found more than 500 trials in ...
  • Why, hello there, Megan McArdle!
    Via Ritholtz, and Yves a review of the career of Atlantic/Newsweek/Daily Beast columnist Megan McArdle by Yasha Levine and Mark Ames of Project S.H.A.M.E. . The part I found most interesting: * McArdle received journalism training from the right-wing Institute for Humane Studies, headed by Charl ...
  • Which Candidate Would Be Better for America&#8 ...
    Would our country be more respected with Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the White House? I think the answer to that is “not the candidate whose party is bluntly criticized by members of other governments”. The Australian treasurer, Wayne Swan, in an unusually blunt criticism of US po ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Alexander “helps” me make the bed. Notice that his tummy fur is growing back, but the pink skin still shows through.

Reality Sandwich

  • Sharing Economies
      Sharing is taught at an early age and is an important part of life. Partly due to the growth of the Internet, it is now the driving force behind an industry with great potential. A national survey of nearly 400 U.S. consumers shows that trust is the primary barrier to participation in a shar ...
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  • Sex in the News
    The N.F.L. and gay marriage, why the gross things you do aren't gross when you're turned on, The Australian Sex Party takes on Google, and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
  • Communion with the Infinite
    Join Howard G. Charing, for the live interactive video course, "Plant Spirit Shamanism: Exploring Plant Consciousness." This groundbreaking series will explore techniques to communicate with the plant world, accessing their elder species wisdom for personal and collective healing. For ...
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Desertification

  • Water for Phosphate, Not People
    Gafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis. “This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says Lakhdar Souid, coordinator of the Blue Plan for a Green Tunisia. “Gafsa (343 km south of capital Tuni ...
  • Laissez-Faire Failing World’s Dwindling ...
    Growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the U.N. Security Council, a panel of experts said in a new report. However, that report ignores the biggest threat to water security: neoliberal policies of the free m ...
  • China Puts Up a Green Shield Against Sandstorms
    The setting sun is still streaming in through the poplars along the shelter belts, but Horquin Lianjun is done with farm work for the day. The desert wind has turned bone chilling. Lianjun’s half hectare of farmland sports neat spaced-out rows of maize crops, as in that of Hua Limei, his neighbo ...
  • Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sc ...
    Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius – unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains. “I sold more than 70 air-conditioners in just one month,” Ahmed, who ru ...
  • Whose Timber is it Anyway?
    With Pakistan’s last major stands of deodar (cedar) threatened by a ‘timber mafia’, the local people in the Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are resorting to direct action to stop the denudation of their picturesque alpine homeland. Since April, the community in Ayun town has been ...

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Press TV - Middle East

  • 'West bars political solution for Syria’
    An Iranian lawmaker says Western countries helped by reactionary Arab states seek to bring to deadlock any political solution aimed at resolving the Syria crisis.
  • Bomb attacks claim six lives in Iraq
    Security and medical sources say at least six people, mostly soldiers, have been killed and 10 others wounded in separate bomb attacks across Iraq.
  • Bahrain regime detains 29 activists
    Saudi-backed security forces in Bahrain have arrested at least 29 protesters in the capital Manama as the regime continues its brutal crackdown on popular protests.
  • Syrian army finds mass grave
    Syrian security forces have discovered a mass grave in the capital Damascus, containing the bodies of at least 25 civilians killed by Western-backed insurgents.
  • Syria insurgents raid Lebanon army post
    Syrian insurgents have attacked a Lebanese military checkpoint near the border with Syria, Lebanon’s army says.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Beta Testing “In Your Class”
    SPS is participating in a CUNY pilot program this fall of the Beta version of In Your Class, a unique social networking service developed by CUNY students for CUNY students. The pilot launch date is today, September 20th, 2012. In Your Class connects students with their classmates, professors, a ...
  • Getting to Know… Lisa Poelle
    Lisa Poelle, faculty member for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, is author of the soon to be released book, The Biting Solution: The Expert’s No-Biting Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Early Childhood Educators. Lisa’s twenty-five years ...
  • Looking for Cowbell Cheers
    On Your Mark, Get Set…. Go!!! Last Sunday, I joined the CUNY School of Professional Studies “Race for the Cure” team comprised of students, faculty, and staff. Being with our team of over 20-strong was such an emotional high for me. All dressed in our CUNY SPS blue shirts, we (and our mascot, Le ...
  • Candidacy Phase for BS in Health Information M ...
    Great news!  Our BS in Health Information Management is now in the candidacy phase of the CAHIIM (www.cahiim.org) accreditation process.  Our students can now register as students with AHIMA (www.ahima.org)  using our SPS Educational Program Code (#159).  This will allow students to reap the ben ...
  • Your Thoughts Become Your Reality
    The power of positive thinking; if you can believe it, you can achieve it; walk by faith, not by sight; what you think about, you bring about; keep your eyes on the prize… All these sayings and mantras are what millions of people repeat and live by every day. All stem from the law of attra ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...
    A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
  • Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...
    A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
  • Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...
    On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
  • Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...
    On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
  • US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice ...
    Instead of putting genetically modified foods through proper trials as consumers have been demanding for years, it appears the United States Department of Agriculture in alliance with the Chinese government have instead chosen to secretly test their latest GMO rice on young Chinese children. Wha ...

Wayne Madsen

  • September 20-23, 2012 -- WEEKEND FORUM
  • September 20-23, 2012 -- Beyond the corporate ...
    Political views from behind the doors in Beijing
  • September 19-20, 2012 -- Micro blogging from China
    Island fever in Beijing
  • September 18-19, 2012 -- Micro-blogging from China
  • September 17-18, 2012 -- Micro blog from China

  • IPS - Inter Press Services

  • A Day Off to Riot in Peace
    The holiday declared by the Pakistani government on Friday seems to have given free rein for the rioting and killing over the American film that is disrespectful of Prophet Muhammad. “If people had gone for work, they wouldn’t have had time to join these protests,” says Khan, 37, mother of two w ...
  • Maldives Talks Condoms
    For an orthodox Islamic country, the Maldives has made remarkable progress in halting the spread of HIV in the Indian Ocean archipelago through bold awareness programmes and the distribution of condoms.     A few years ago, condoms were available in the Maldives only at drug stores and on produc ...
  • A Lake of Hope and Conflict
    Parvez Ahmad Dar climbs three hours to reach the hilltop, generator-equipped tourist centre in Ajaf village, 35 kilometres from Srinagar, to recharge his mobile phone. The 46-year-old president of the Wular Valley People’s Welfare Forum is in high demand as an activist and organiser – he c ...
  • Water for Phosphate, Not People
    Gafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis. “This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says Lakhdar Souid, coordinator of the Blue Plan for a Green Tunisia. “Gafsa (343 km south of capital Tuni ...
  • Reluctant Farewell to Arms in Côte d’Ivoire
    In his black boots and green fatigues – complete with arm patches bearing the name of the national army, Forces Republicaines de Côte d’Ivoire – Ousmane Kone looked every bit the soldier as he stood guard over an electricity and water distribution company one Tuesday afternoon in Abidjan. But hi ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • By Delisting the MEK, the US is Taking the Mor ...
    Summary: The U.S. Department of State took the moral and strategic bankruptcy of America’s Iran policy to a new low today, by notifying Congress that the Obama administration intends to remove the mojahedin-e khalq (MEK) from the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTO ...
  • Iran: "We Lied!" -- not really
    Summary: Naturally, the New York Times seized on this -- the story that an official in charge of Iran's nuclear program, Fereydoon Abbasi, has "admitted" that Iran occasionally tried to mislead on its nuclear program: "Iran's top atomic energy official said in an article published Thursday th ...
  • Consequences of war with Iran
    Summary: The US military forces can destroy Iran, or as an Iranian-American analyst told the author of this article, they can take that country back to the 19th century, but they will become trapped in another long, unconventional, asymmetric conflict - known as fourth generation warfare (4GW ...
  • Stop Last Minute Senate Vote to Adopt Netanyah ...
    Summary: I am calling to ask that the Senator oppose S.J.Res. 41, which sets dangerous red lines for war with Iran. This measure could be headed to the Senate floor today and I strongly urge the Senator to oppose it and to support a peaceful, diplomatic resolution to the standoff with Iran, ...
  • US Warns Israel: Attacking Iran May Ruin Treat ...
    Summary: According to reports in the print version of Israel’s Yediot Achronot, the Obama Administration has recently warned Israel that an attack against Iran could mean an end to their existing peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. source: antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Weekend Image: Supermassive Star Lights Up a N ...
    The breathtakingly beautiful Cocoon Nebula is located about 4,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cygnus. Hidden inside the Cocoon is a newly developing open cluster of stars dominated by a massive star in the center of the above...
  • "Basic Organics Needed to Ignite Life Started ...
    Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the lab, then zapping them with lasers. Their goal: to better understand how life arose on Earth. In a new...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Twitter Followers Soar Abov ...
    Join the 217,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations such as NASA,...
  • Comment of the Day --Is a Habitable Exoplanet ...
    "So - What happens when scientists actually find a planet that strongly appears to have life - and it is out of reach? Too far away to reach in a human life span by current technology, and technology to get...
  • "There May Be Trillions of 'Earths' Orbiting R ...
    So believes Yale University astronomer Pieter Van Dokkum, who also says that red dwarf stars have been discovered that are over 10 billion years old, which means they've had enough time for complex life to develop and evolve. Van Dokkum...

Natural News

  • The basis of mass mind control
    It's so simple. And everybody knows it. Mass mind control focuses on two elements: image and feeling. By linking the two primary elements, it is possible to short-circuit thought and "cut to the chase," when it comes to enlisting the allegiance of huge populations...
  • Brad Pitt goes public in support of American f ...
    Say what you will about his politics, Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt definitely believes in his First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and expression. Oh, and he most definitely believes in his Second Amendment right to own a firearm. Pitt recently put it out...
  • New autism risks for school-aged children: Pla ...
    According to the work produced by the Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility in 2000, In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats To Child Development, millions of U.S. children exhibit learning disabilities, reduced IQ, and destructive, aggressive behavior due to toxic...
  • 'AlphaDog' military robots are built to be qui ...
    As the military looks for new and better ways to become lighter, more highly mobile and lethal, research continues looking into a number of projects that will allow our forces in the near future to better shoot, move and communicate on tomorrow's battlefields. One...
  • A daily dose of chocolate is shown to help pre ...
    A wealth of scientific evidence continues to demonstrate the powerful health benefits of consuming a wide variety of polyphenols from natural foods. In past studies, resveratrol, curcumin and grape seed extract have been shown to help prevent cardiovascular disease,...

Threat Level

  • Hostage Taker Updates FaceBook During Police S ...
    Posting on his Facebook page that he “cant take it no more,” an armed man was posting updates on the social-networking site after taking a man hostage in downtown Pittsburgh. The profile page of Klein Michael Thaxton went down hours after police said he went into a building while arm ...
  • Facebook’s $9.5 Million ‘Beacon&#8 ...
    A divided federal appeals court is approving a $9.5 million settlement to a class action lawsuit challenging Facebook's program that monitored and published what users of the social networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. A dissenting judge said th ...
  • Judge Refuses to Order YouTube to Remove Anti- ...
    A California judge refused Thursday to order YouTube to remove controversial footage from "Innocence of Muslims," the inflammatory film that sparked a U.S. backlash in the Middle East.
  • E-Mail Privacy Reform Vote Postponed Until Aft ...
    A Senate committee on Thursday delayed until after the November elections whether to approve sweeping digital privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.
  • Open Season on Patents Starts Thursday, Thanks ...
    Thanks to a change in U.S. patent law, citizens can now help challenge patents before they are issued -- and a collaboration between the Patent Office, Stack Exchange and Google hope to turn the power of crowdsourcing on unworthy applicants.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Haunted by Reagan's Ghost
    During his failed 1994 Senate race, Mitt Romney tried to reassure liberal Massachusetts voters that "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush; I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." Now, Reagan's ghost is getting his revenge. After Romney defended the carried interest exemption t ...
  • Romney and Netanyahu of One Mind on Two State ...
    Earlier this year, Mitt Romney spoke glowingly of his friend and former Boston Consulting Group colleague, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We can almost speak in shorthand," Romney told the New York Times, adding, "We share common experiences and have a perspective and underpinning ...
  • You Know Mitt Romney is Out of Touch When...
    Ann Romney picked the wrong week to complain that her husband "has been demonized in many ways as being heartless." As a video released Monday from a recent big dollar donor event once again confirmed, "heartless" doesn't begin to describe Mitt Romney. After all, the same man who said last yea ...
  • Remember When Republicans Accused Greenspan of ...
    Last summer, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified that if Congress did not act to spur the sluggish economic recovery, the central bank would. Now, more than a year after fleeting GOP presidential front-runner Rick Perry (R-TX) first suggested the "treasonous" Fed chief should be lyn ...
  • Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Kama Sutra
    Mitt Romney's foreign policy manual is a lot like the Kama Sutra. It contains virtually every possible position. As it turns out, Romney's tried them all. But he's offering no apology for being unable to maintain any of them for very long. As a quick glance shows, the Romney guide to interna ...

Blackspot News Feed

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    SPEKTRMODULE 14    Galactocentric      52 minutes and 37 seconds     Up from the dirt, all the way out and back again. Direct mp3 link.  Or press Play on the player.  iTunes link. @warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com / t-shirt? mug? Hel ...
  • Max Keiser: Mike Ruppert: Peak Oil and The End ...
    Dandelion Salad Sep 22, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews In this edition of the show Max interviews Mike Ruppert from collapsenet.com. He talks about the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil. Mike Ruppert is an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, and ...
  • CLOSEDOWN: Lunar Miasma
    Because every now and then, in the middle of the night, what you want is some classic Berlin School style synth washes.  And Lunar Miasma does the best ones.  G’night. Impermanent Nature (sicsic022) by Lunar Miasma
  • ARIADNE AND THE SCIENCE: 2/5 – by Molly Crabap ...
    There was lots of names for the thing Ariadne made: computational flora, iGrass, memory trees, That Damned Stuff. There were lots of names for Ariadne, too, because when she got tired of nobody being able or willing to answer her questions, she just released Ariadne’s Meadow into the world ...
  • The Neocons and 9/11
    Robert Parry: The emerging history of 9/11 reveals that President George W. Bushâs failure to protect the nation resulted from neocon insistence that Iraq was the real threat, not al-Qaeda. The political relevance today is that the neocons want back into power under a Mitt Romney presidency

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • SpaceX Dragon Capsule Set To Launch Again Octo ...
    SpaceX is in preparation to launch its Dragon spacecraft for the first of its planned twelve cargo resupply flights to the International Space Station, as per their contract with NASA. “On Thursday, NASA confirmed that the much-anticipated launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft aboard the 18 ...
  • NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Will Now Be Able T ...
    Curiosity, NASA’s newest Mars rover, is continuing its journey to its first major science destination, Glenelg. Covering nearly 40 yards per day, it scans the surface for interesting rocks, using its mast-mounted camera. In order to improve this ability, NASA is planning to deploy new soft ...
  • Solar Energy Take-Up Across the World
      The global solar power industry has experienced remarkable growth since the 2009 recession. The growth rate each year between 2007 to 2011 was around 70%. At the end of 2011, the total GW of solar panels installed worldwide was 62, divided between residential roofs, commercial buildings, ...
  • Fossilized Forests Of The North Will Return Wi ...
      The recently discovered fossilized forests in the far north of Canada will eventually return along with the changing climate, according to Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of the University of Montreal’s Department of Geography. “According to the data model, climate conditions on By ...
  • Massive Solar Explosions May Be Caused By ‘Cor ...
      Coronal cavities, which are holes in the sun’s outer atmosphere or corona, may be the root cause behind solar eruptions, according to new research. Understanding them may lead to a much better ability to predict potentially dangerous solar storms. The coronal cavities act as “ ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Another week come and gone...and frankly, I don't know how many more like this one I can take. That's how you want to spin it, eh @SpeakerBoehner?. The Weeper of the House has a novel reason for why President Obama is beating Mitt Romney like a rented mule in Ohio...Governor Kasich h ...
  • Voters Face "Choice" Not "Referendum" Election ...
    By @TedFrier The Republican game plan for 2012 was to make this a "referendum election" not one asking voters to make a "choice" between the parties.  Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men? Despite Republican's best efforts, we've now got ourselves an elect ...
  • Plastic Annie has a Meltdown
    By @BGinKC I have been saying for weeks that Ann Romney is not a help to her husband's presidenatial aspirations, but instead she hurts him every time she opens that rich, entitled, two-Cadillac-driving mouth of hers in public. Yesterday, she had a meltdown on Iowa Public Radio, where she had b ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Ye gods and little fishes...is it November 6th yet? Can it be? Please? Even Romney is turning against Romney, if you can believe that. @SenatorReid made @USSenScottBrown face his opponent Harry didn't play nice with wittle Scottie and the GOP goons in the Senate who were apparently t ...
  • Serfin' USA
    By @BGinKC When I was a child studying European history in school, I vividly recall being grateful that I was born in the United States in the middle of the 20th century in an enlightened and egalitarian era where everyone had a shot at a job that paid a living wage and when they got old and cou ...

Care 2

  • 10 States Where Income Inequality Is Growing F ...
    The findings are hardly surprising. Currently, the wealth held by the top 400 Americans is more than the combined wealth of the bottom 150 million, as economist Robert Reich pointed out earlier this year. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Troy Davis One Year Later
    We speak with three people who joined us for our special live broadcast on the night Troy Davis was executed in Jackson, Georgia, including his sister, Kimberly Davis. "This is a tough time both for me and my family, but as my brother said, he always..." Submitted by Nancy C. to US Politics &amp ...
  • Open Thread - 9/22/2012
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop Brutal Killings of ...
    Most importantly, Navi Mumbai officials must start taking action against inhumane stray dog killings. Sign this petition and demand that the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation start enacting laws against civilians torturing stray dogs and severely punish Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals ...
  • Help Pass Ban On Exotic Animals In Circuses In ...
    Send a message to Anaheim Mayor Tait and the City Council, urging them to pass this important legislation. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama Surrendering to Terrorists
    Despite Obama’s attempt to position himself as a hard-hitting, pipe laying killer of terrorists, his actual policy is helping fuel a resurgence of terrorist strikes. It is true that CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen have killed a raft of suspected terrorist operatives. Good. It is tr ...
  • Old News 47% vs New News 46%
    While Candidate Obama enjoys his serenades to class warfare, hacking at millionaires and billionaires who don’t pay a fair share of the tax burden, Mr. Romney must learn to enjoy taking a hatchet to free riders hoping Democrats will continue transfer payments to themselves or to the worthy ...
  • “How Romney Can Win”: Talk Prosperity
    Karl Rove. “Bush’s Brain.” The mastermind behind American Crossroads. Here is its latest TV ad, “Next,” the latest of many: As I was prepping this post to share “Morning Jay: How Romney Can Win,” at The Weekly Standard, I noticed that Jay Cost, the autho ...
  • Tweeeeeeting into the Weekend (No Mo’ Work, Yo ...
    First, the political goodies: Stephen Hayes, always on top of things, as is Bret Baier and Charles Krauthammer (who’s a neocon but …) — both Steve and Charles are on Bret’s special panel daily: Pentagon report last month warned that Libya jihadist group in final stages of ...
  • Prince Romney of the Middle Class [Update]
    John Batchelor’s response to any unhappy with his remarks about Romney’s speech: “Whatever Romney is or wants to be, it is not the determinant of the election. Obama and the economy are the question before us. Romney is a stand in for NOT POTUS.” _________________________ ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Groups to court: Uphold EPA rebuke over W.Va. ...
    Groups to court: Uphold EPA rebuke over W.Va. mine Marietta Times Mountaintop removal is a highly efficient but destructive form of strip mining that blasts apart mountain ridge tops to expose multiple coal seams. The resulting rock and debris is dumped in streams, creating so-called valley fill ...
  • Happy 98th To Living Legend Ken Hechler - unEA ...
    Happy 98th To Living Legend Ken Hechler unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Terry Tempest Williams Joins Mountain Hero Campaign. Fighting against mountaintop removal, this week we're proud to announce the support of an incredibly strong woman: writer and activist Terry Tem... by Liz Judge: B ...
  • Groups to court: Uphold EPA rebuke over W.Va. ...
    Legal News Line Groups to court: Uphold EPA rebuke over W.Va. mine Ventura County Star Mountaintop removal is a highly efficient but destructive form of strip mining that blasts apart mountain ridge tops to expose multiple coal seams. The resulting rock and debris is dumped in streams, creating ...
  • Public memorial scheduled for activist Larry G ...
    Public memorial scheduled for activist Larry Gibson Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Friends and family of anti-mountaintop removal activist Larry Gibson will celebrate his life and legacy on Sunday, Oct. 14 from 2 to 6 p.m. in a public event at the Charleston Municipal Auditorium. Gibson ...
  • 'We don't have the right to blow up mountains' ...
    'We don't have the right to blow up mountains' Asheville Citizen-Times Mountaintop or “mountaintop removal” mining is a legal and a very efficient way, according to mining experts, to extract coal, a powerful source of energy that brings electricity to homes, businesses, schools, and ...

Memeorandum

  • Chris Matthews Says 'Unemployment Was Well Pas ...
    Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs: Chris Matthews Says ‘Unemployment Was Well Past 10%’ When Obama Took Office - It Was Only 7.8%  —  “When your guy left town, Dubya - who nobody asked him to come back by the way at the Republican convention - unemployment ...
  • FBI checks envelopes used in probe of Rep. Dav ...
    North Miami / NMB: FBI checks envelopes used in probe of Rep. David Rivera  —  The FBI is checking envelopes that were stuffed with cash in a campaign run by a suspected front man for Republican U.S. Rep. David Rivera.  —  MCAPUTO@MIAMIHERALD.COM  —&nb ...
  • US drone strike kills three in North Wazirista ...
    DAWN.COM: US drone strike kills three in North Waziristan: officials  —  US drone.  - File Photo  —  MIRAMSHAH: A US drone strike on Saturday killed at least three militants in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said. ...
  • Biden mocks Republicans on Medicare plan (Amie ...
    Amie Parnes / Ballot Box: Biden mocks Republicans on Medicare plan  —  Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday mocked Republicans for acting like they invented Medicare.  —  “If you came from another country and you just listened to their convention, you'd say ...
  • OBAMA TO CONDEMN CHRISTIAN FILMMAKER BEFORE UN ...
    John Nolte / BREITBART.COM: OBAMA TO CONDEMN CHRISTIAN FILMMAKER BEFORE UNITED NATIONS  —  Not only are we seeing the White House and State Department call more attention to the Mohammed-mocking “Innocence of Muslims” than any terrorist network ever could've hoped fo ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
    Saturday, September 22, 2012 13:31:04 UTC Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:31:04 PM at epicenterDepth: 59.00 km (36.66 mi)
  • M 5.4, Oaxaca, Mexico
    Saturday, September 22, 2012 12:30:01 UTC Saturday, September 22, 2012 07:30:01 AM at epicenterDepth: 35.70 km (22.18 mi)
  • M 5.2, Sakhalin, Russia
    Saturday, September 22, 2012 09:37:01 UTC Saturday, September 22, 2012 08:37:01 PM at epicenterDepth: 325.10 km (202.01 mi)
  • M 5.6, Tonga
    Saturday, September 22, 2012 06:58:26 UTC Saturday, September 22, 2012 07:58:26 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.50 km (6.52 mi)
  • M 5.1, Greece
    Saturday, September 22, 2012 03:52:25 UTC Saturday, September 22, 2012 06:52:25 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 晦涩的术语&#2510 ...
    一项新的研究表明，横贯可持续性日程的语言碎片化正在加速。约翰•艾尔金顿认为&# ...
  • 中国高原的&#8220 ...
    长江、黄河上游重要的水源涵养地，被誉为“高原之肾”的四川若尔盖县湿地，正面&# ...
  • Yellow River threatened by desertification in ...
    The Tibetan plateau’s Zoige wetlands, a crucial water source for the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, continue to deteriorate despite conservation efforts.The “kidneys” of the Tibetan plateau are failing. The Zoige Wetland National Nature Reserve, which sits on the northeastern ...
  • 日本无核能&#2830 ...
    2040年之前在全日本境内停止使用核能的决定不过是短期的政治动作，存在很大的回旋&#20 ...
  • Japan’s no-nuclear policy could prove &# ...
    The decision to scrap all Japanese nuclear plants over the next 30 years is a short-term political move that leaves plenty of room for u-turns.After months of turmoil, on September 14 the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) announced a new energy policy. As Japan’s Asahi newspaper co ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Romney Releases 2011 Tax Returns and By His Ow ...
    Desperate to shift the national discussion away from his dismissal of half the country as indolent, unwashed and irredeemable, Mitt Romney released his 2011 tax returns today. According to his own words, the return “disqualifies” him from the presidency.Why? Because the Romneys inflated their ...
  • Marijuana Can Prevent the Spread of Cancer, Re ...
    Two scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-toxic marijuana compound that delivers many of weed's benefits without the high, might stop metastis in aggressive cancer, "potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever."Th ...
  • Paul Ryan Loudly Booed by AARP Crowd
    Senior citizens: wise to the Ryan plan? The VP Candidate most well-known for his desire to privatize medicare was soundly booed--repeatedly--at an appearance before the senior citizen lobbying group AARP.From the Washington Post's writeup here's what happened after the first round of boos came ...
  • Something Big Is Shifting in the Electorate -- ...
    President Obama has pulled ahead in the swing states of Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin, according to a new poll by released Friday morning by the Wall Street Journal/ NBC News/Marist College, “reaching the 50 percent threshold in all three battlegrounds.”The WSJ/NBC/Marist poll finds that Obama ...
  • Elizabeth Warren Plays the GOP Card Against Sc ...
    Earlier this week, I swore off making sweeping pronouncements about the direction of the Massachusetts Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, which is probably a good thing, since I don’t think their first debate last night moved the needle dramatically for either candidate.That ...

Threat Level

  • Hostage Taker Updates FaceBook During Police S ...
    Posting on his Facebook page that he “cant take it no more,” an armed man was posting updates on the social-networking site after taking a man hostage in downtown Pittsburgh. The profile page of Klein Michael Thaxton went down hours after police said he went into a building while arm ...
  • Facebook’s $9.5 Million ‘Beacon&#8 ...
    A divided federal appeals court is approving a $9.5 million settlement to a class action lawsuit challenging Facebook's program that monitored and published what users of the social networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. A dissenting judge said th ...
  • Judge Refuses to Order YouTube to Remove Anti- ...
    A California judge refused Thursday to order YouTube to remove controversial footage from "Innocence of Muslims," the inflammatory film that sparked a U.S. backlash in the Middle East.
  • E-Mail Privacy Reform Vote Postponed Until Aft ...
    A Senate committee on Thursday delayed until after the November elections whether to approve sweeping digital privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.
  • Open Season on Patents Starts Thursday, Thanks ...
    Thanks to a change in U.S. patent law, citizens can now help challenge patents before they are issued -- and a collaboration between the Patent Office, Stack Exchange and Google hope to turn the power of crowdsourcing on unworthy applicants.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Fattorie Chiarappa points at Forever Cheese, P ...
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a total of 15 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes from 12 states and the District of Columbia. Nationwide, 15... Continue Reading
  • The “Veil of Vomit” Continues – More Silence w ...
    Last December I wrote, “Information as Currency in Public Health.”  My point being that there are many foodborne illness outbreaks that happen and the only people who are aware of... Continue Reading
  • Cantaloupe Listeria Lawsuit Filed in Louisiana
    We filed a lawsuit today on behalf of the sons of a Baton Rouge, Louisiana woman who died as a result of a Listeria infection she contracted during last year’s outbreak... Continue Reading
  • UPDATED: Another Salmonella Peanut Butter Out ...
    According to a press release, the Pennsylvania Department of Health was the first to advise consumers that Trader Joe’s Valencia Creamy Salted Peanut Butter made with sea salt may be... Continue Reading
  • 15 Hospitalized with 3 Dead in Imported Lister ...
    According to the CDC, as of September 20, 2012, a total of 15 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from 12 states and the... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • New "Harvest of Empire" Film Examines U.S. Int ...
    At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, Onyx Films presents "Harvest of Empire," a feature-length documentary that examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. Based on the ...
  • Alfred McCoy: "Torture and Impunity: The U.S. ...
    In this online exclusive, we continue our discussion with University of Wisconsin professor Alfred McCoy on U.S. torture policy, the Obama administration’s refusal to prosecute war crimes, and new revelations that waterboarding was used more often than the government ever acknowledged. ...
  • Amy Goodman's Fireside Chat with Workers Set t ...
    Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman speaks with three workers at the Bain-owned Sensata Technologies factory in Freeport, Illinois, all of whom are camping in a tent city called "Bainport" across the street from the factory. Dot Turner has worked there for 43 years, Cheryl Randecker ...
  • Get the Frack Out of Our Water: Shale-Shocked ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Western Pennsylvania is considered the birthplace of commercial oil drilling. On Aug. 27, 1859, Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pa., and changed the course of history. Now, people there are busy trying to stop wells, and the increasingly pervasive d ...
  • Tune in Thursday: Mother Jones Reporter David ...
    As Romney tries to contain the fallout from the recently released secret video of his conversation with high-end donors, we’ll speak with David Corn of the magazine Mother Jones , which broke the news and posted the video online. Corn is the magazine’s Washington bureau chief ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • The Gold ‘Shadow Chart’
    By Jesse’s Café Américain A “Cup and Handle” is a bullish continuation pattern in an uptrend.  The greatest factor working against this current gold chart as a cup and handle is that it appears during a consolidation pattern in a broader uptrend.  The ‘cup’ is best ...
  • Listen to Catherine Austin Fitts’ Interv ...
    Guns and Butter Host Bonnie Faulkner interviews Catherine Austin Fitts: Unpacking Mr. Global, Part III QE3: Infinite Quantitative Easing The world that is dying and the world that is being born Where the money went Where some of the money is returning Fraud and the black budget The three big lie ...
  • “You Are Here” 2.0
    By Michael Keller The days of getting lost in the art museum or mall might be drawing to a close. So, too, might the universal experience of forgetting where you parked your car and stomping around angrily, then hopelessly, through floor upon floor of multistory garage. Last November, Google un ...
  • Microsoft, HP Skirted Taxes via Offshore Units ...
    By Kim Dixon Technology giants Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co used offshore units to shield billions of dollars from U.S. taxes by taking advantage of loopholes and stretching the limits of the tax code, a Senate panel said on Thursday. Calling tax avoidance rampant in the technology sec ...
  • Transcript for Precious Metals Market Report w ...
    Transcript for the Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Well, you sent me the German constitutional court report today, and you know, I’m used to – it’s kind of pretty hard to applaud you, but that one really did get ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • What’s happening in Greece? News from th ...
    Summary:  The euro crisis began 30 months ago. The cheers for each new solution proved unwarranted. Likewise the fears of the skeptics, as the periphery nations have held together under horrific stress. So far. Here we look at public sentiment in Greece. See the For More Information section at t ...
  • Question time on the FM website. Post your qu ...
    Summary: It’s time again for question time — “ask the mineshaft”. In the comments post your questions about geopolitics — and post your answers to other people’s questions.  This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedi ...
  • Our choice of a leader reflects our true self. ...
    Summary:  We watch the campaign to learn about the candidates. But we too are a key part of the game.  We help set its rules, style, and form. It reveals much about us, and the New America now under construction on the ruins of the America-that-once-was. During the 1960 campaign against Nixon so ...
  • What are the limitations of the Fed’s po ...
    Summary:  Although one of the most power agencies of the US government, obsessively discussed in the financial news, it remains one of the least well understood. Here we examine the limitations on its power.  Readers can decide for themselves if these limitations are too tight, or too loose. Cha ...
  • About the violent mobs in the Middle East. And ...
    Summary: Every large event, every fork in the road, signals the need to stop and think about our course of action. America today is defined by our refusal to do so, as we see in our reaction to the riots. Our mob psychology mirrors theirs, but we tend to reply with greater firepower. That doesn& ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Russian Military Reform: Not Quite There Yet
    With the last year defense budget of $72 billion, Russia has overtaken Britain and France to become the world’s third-largest defense spender. The Russian armed forces are in the midst of wide ranging transformation whilst acquiring some state-of-the-art weapons, including French-built Mis ...
  • The Freedom Tour of Aung San Suu Kyi
    The hour before Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrival at a human rights town hall hosted by Amnesty International Thursday wasn’t quiet. The audience chanted (“What do we want? Human rights!”). A biographic video was played. Magazines with Suu Kyi’s face on the cover were distributed. Like pre-match hype, ...
  • Palestine Seeking Observer Membership Status at UN
    The Palestinian Authority is making waves at the United Nations over its status, wanting a vote by year-end. If this sentence sounds familiar, it’s because this is the second year in a row that Palestine has made a push for statehood at the U.N. around the start of a new General Assembly s ...
  • You Might Have Missed: National Security Threa ...
    Margaret Coker, Adam Entous, Jay Solomon, and Siobhan Gorman, “Miscues Before Libya Assault,” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2012. Some officials say the U.S. could have sent military forces to Benghazi from U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella, which is some 450 miles away in Sicily, or mobiliz ...
  • Democracy Is Not Fading Away
    On September 15, the U.N. observed the International Day of Democracy, an occasion meant to encourage reflections on the state of democracy around the world and ways to promote and consolidate it. Many of the reflections I saw stuck with a theme that’s been sounded a lot in the past few ye ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Nine Is the Loneliest Number
    I try to resist the temptation to argue that any particular statement a candidate makes represents his "true" self, revealing what he wants to conceal the rest of the time. This is something that campaigns say whenever their opponent makes a "gaffe," but in general what matters isn't what someo ...
  • Could Romney Have Been a Different Candidate?
    Mitt Romney has made a lot of mistakes in this campaign, not all of which came in the last couple of weeks. Now that we've moved into the "Is he doomed?" phase of campaign coverage, the always thoughtful Ron Brownstein wonders if Romney sowed the seeds of his own undoing by the way he ran his p ...
  • What Makes An Activist?
    Faced with being despised and threatened, the normal human instinct is to hide. You keep your head down. You pass, if you can. If you can’t, you try not to draw attention to whatever it is about you that your government and your neighbors believe is evil. Throughout history, those who’ve tried ...
  • Friday Music Break
    For today's Music Break, we're doing kind of a swaying-back-and-forth-with-gentle-head-bob thing. This is Virginia Coalition, doing "Home This Year" in somebody's back yard. The guy in the back is the keyboard player, who, having no keyboards, decides to make the most out of that tambourine.
  • The Democrats Have a Lot of Governors' Mansio ...
    Republicans already dominate governor's mansions around the country. Twenty-nine states have GOP governors, thanks largely to 2010, when the party took 11 governorships away from the Democrats. Given those numbers, it might not seem like there's much left for Democrats to defend. But, as it hap ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Pearls of wisdom
    Various people have been leaving a trail of pearls regarding my forthcoming book Deceived Wisdom. You can get a free sampler here or of you’re in the UK pre-order the print edition in plenty of time for Christmas. Ahaargh! Francis Wheen – Judging by the sampler, it’s my dream b ...
  • Faecal matters
    One of the most trivial ethical debates raged on my Facebook page after I posted about whether one should hang a toilet roll “over” or “under”. Of course, for those with a vertical toilet roll holder, it’s a moot point. But, silliness aside, there is an important mo ...
  • Toilet paper orientation
    Whoever said Wikipedia, or Sciencebase come to that, was trivial? This is meaning-of-life stuff: Toilet paper when used with a toilet roll holder with a horizontal axle parallel to the wall has two possible orientations: the toilet paper may hang over (in front of) or under (behind) the roll. Th ...
  • Notes for a Periodic Table of Elements Songs
    Working on creating a Periodic Table of the Elements in which each entry is a song: Love is Like Oxygen – The Sweet Gold – Spandau Ballet Helium – Feeder Titanium – David Guetta Pocket full of Kryptonite?” http://t.co/dMtlfLFu Radiohead ‘My Iron Lung’? L ...
  • A blacksmith’s good heat and bad heat
    An engineer friend visited a working blacksmith on a museum and asked him about the metallurgy and heating processes. The blacksmith pointed out that coke is the best fuel for getting a good hot furnace and that a gas-fired furnace, while able to get up to the same temperature does not produce a ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Government Releases List of Prisoners Cleared ...
    The government today released the names of 55 of the prisoners cleared for transfer from the prison at Guantánamo Bay. The prisoners were unanimously approved for transfer by President Obama’s inter-agency Guantánamo Bay Review Task Force, which announced a summary of its fin ...
  • Leading Guantanamo Lawyers Welcome Partial Dis ...
    In response to the Department of Justice’s release today of the identities of 55 of the 86 Guantanamo prisoners who have been approved for transfer, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren issued the following statement:read more
  • Arlington, Va. Becomes 300th Community to Supp ...
    This week, Arlington, Va. became the 300th community in the country to pass a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The five-member County Board of Arlington voted unanimously on the ...
  • “In What Ways Did Standardized Tests Prepare Y ...
    AP reports: “The Chicago Teachers Union says its members will vote Oct. 2 on a tentative contract with the school district that was reached after a seven-day strike.”read more
  • Over 150 Organizations to Call for Ban on Hydr ...
    The global grassroots movement to protect public health and the environment from the risks associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) will intensify this weekend as concerned citizens around the world come together for the Global Frackdown. The first coordinated international day of action ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Shocker Stat of the Day: Life Expectancy Decr ...
    Kathleen Geier Yesterday, the New York Times reported on an alarming new study: researchers have documented that the least educated white Americans are experiencing sharp declines in life expectancy. Between 1990 and 2008, white women witho ...
  • Romney and the Neocons Court Nuclear Disaster
    Eric Margolis Chinese and Japanese vessels prowl menacingly in the sea around the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands as Beijing and Tokyo exchange threats. A few wrong moves could spark a clash between China and Japan that would likely draw in ...
  • Recognizing the Importance of Goldwater, or L ...
    Thomas S. Harrington If you get a chance, you should take a look at the debate between Glen Ford and Michael Eric Dyson that aired as part of the September 7th edition of Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now (video below). The extended interch ...
  • Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Mak ...
    Michelle Chen These terrace apartments in Sydney, Australia--known as 'The Block'--are the home to many impoverished Aborigines, who now face the indignity of an Income Management program. (Torsten Blackwood/AFP)read more
  • Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Mak ...
    Michelle Chen These terrace apartments in Sydney, Australia--known as 'The Block'--are the home to many impoverished Aborigines, who now face the indignity of an Income Management program. (Torsten Blackwood/AFP)read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • The Journey From High Schoolers To Climate Lea ...
    by Amanda Peterson, via Climate Access School is back in session for high schools all across the country and the one thing on every student’s mind is, of course, climate change. OK, maybe in most schools who’s dating whom, getting into college and the elections are getting a bit more play.  But ...
  • Romney’s Housing ‘White Paper’: No Plans For F ...
    Our guest blogger is John Griffith, a Policy Analyst with the Economic Policy team at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. There’s an old rule of thumb in politics: if you have rotten news to drop, do it late on a Friday afternoon. Mitt Romney tweaked that rule yesterday: if you have a ...
  • How Less Education Leads To Lower Life Expectancy
    White Americans without high school diplomas have seen their life expectancy fall by four years since 1990, according to results from a recent Health Affairs study. The New York Times reports that the drop was sharpest among less-educated white women, whose life expectancy dropped by five years, ...
  • Open Thread Plus Toles Cartoon Of The Week
    A cyber-penny for your thoughts.
  • We Saved The Ozone Layer. We Can Save The Climate.
    by David Doniger, via NRDC’s Switchboard Climate change is not the first planetary pollution crisis we have faced.  That distinction belongs to the depletion of the earth’s protective ozone layer. This Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the world’s most successful environm ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Video Magic
    This guy looks like he's been through a lot ... ... what??? I'm busy again!
  • Kim Rivera
    So, the harpercon cartel has decided to deport US war resister Kim Rivera. The harpercon government (and their brain-dead fans) believe that because you voluntarily join the US military you are bound, legally and morally, to participate in illegal wars and all the other war crimes that follow fr ...
  • harper the Pants-Pissing Coward
    There are a lot of "conservative" scum-bags who are given to braggadacio about harper's political longevity and how their hero has successfully crushed his opponents time and time again. Which is stupid nonsense of course. harper LOST the last election and he'd be on the road to prison if a coal ...
  • Mitt Romney's Bad Day
    I don't want to talk too much about this; what with the disastrous state of Canada's political culture (as represented by the Mayoralty of Rob Ford in Toronto), and the opening of a new session of Parliament which the fraudulent, illegitimate harpercon cartel chose to mar with the constant repet ...
  • No Oversight Needed For CSIS
      At least that's what CSIS Director Richard Fadden said in response to the Canadian Human Rights Commissioner's recommendations: In a newly declassified memo, CSIS director Dick Fadden dismisses the Canadian Human Rights Commission's recommendation that national security agencies do mor ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Promoter waves the red flag on the Edmonton Indy
    The IZOD IndyCar Series will not be returning to Alberta in 2013 and, possibly, not again in the near future after the promoter pulls the plug on the race.
  • Mitt Romney's 2011 tax returns reveal a calcul ...
    Mitt Romney's trying to make himself look like a upfront, caring guy. He released his 2011 tax returns earlier than promised - so cooperative! - and they show he paid more taxes than needed. But they also show a calculated and deceptive plan.
  • Lola Dutronic to release new album
    Innovative pop duo Lola Dutronic have announced the release of a new full-length album 'Everyone's A Star'. An advanced preview of the album was made available to the Digital Journal for review.
  • Canada's Walk of Fame honours 1972 Summit Seri ...
    On the 40th anniversary of the Summit Series between Team Canada and Russia, the remaining survivors from that legendary Canadian squad were honoured with a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame on Friday in Toronto.
  • Return of the Olympians: Thousands commemorate ...
    More than a month since the end of the 2012 Summer Olympics, Canada's Olympic athletes were congratulated and celebrated with events and festivities. In Toronto, the Olympians were given a parade by an enthusiastic crowd.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
  • Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...
    A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...

Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

  • Max Keiser: Mike Ruppert: Peak Oil and The End ...
    Dandelion Salad Sep 22, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews In this edition of the show Max interviews Mike Ruppert from collapsenet.com. He talks about the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil. Mike Ruppert is an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, and ...
  • Not A Gaffe, But The Real Romney by Ralph Nade ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Sept. 20, 2012 There was something missing from the release of a tape showing Mitt Romney pandering to fat cats in Boca Raton, Florida with these very inflammatory words: “There are 47 percent who are with him, (Obama) who are dependent upon governme ...
  • Dennis Kucinich Calls Out Monsanto: Americans ...
    Dandelion Salad http://kucinich.house.gov Washington, Sep 19, 2012 On the Floor of the House of Representatives, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called out Monsanto by name for opposing efforts to grant consumers their right-to-know about genetically engineered food. Congressman Kucinic ...
  • Obama Wins Right To Indefinitely Detain Americ ...
    Dandelion Salad Sep 18, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – The Obama administration has filed an emergency appeal of a federal judge’s decision to block a controversial statute that gave the government the power to carry out indefinite detention. Judge Katherine Forrest ruled ag ...
  • Chris Hedges: OWS – The Ruling Elite Is ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 15, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 by RTAmerica Today protesters are gathering in downtown Manhattan to mark the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street movement which kicked out a year ago in Zuccotti Park. RT’s Marina Portnaya is speaking wi ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel rejects US-backed Arab plan for confere ...
    Israel expressed its strong opposition on Wednesday to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Russell Tribunal on Palestine – New York sessi ...
    The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) will be holding its fourth international session in New York City on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday, October 7. The RToP is an International People’s Tribunal... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Wally Shawn: On the necessity of the Russell T ...
    Actor Wally Shawn explains why the Russell Tribunal on Palestine is, at this moment in time, crucial, and why you should join. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • APJP: End all demolitions in Al Bustan, Silwan ...
    Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine call upon the mayor of Jerusalem to put an end to all house demolitions in Al Bustan, Silwan, and the rest of East Jerusalem. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth deca ...
  • Jonathan Cook: US love affair with Israel mask ...
    Politicians may prefer to express admiration of Israel, and hand over billions of dollars in aid, but the US security establishment has - at least in private - always regarded Israel as an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Screening for Specific Genetic Mutations with ...
    Screening air-dried fine needle aspirations (FNA) for a panel of genetic mutations linked to follicular or papillary thyroid cancer could reduce the need for diagnostic thyroid surgery, according to data presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) in Quebec Cit ...
  • New Mouse Model May Provide Insights Into Rare ...
    ew mouse models can help scientists study a rare disease, called SECISBP2 syndrome, that causes abnormal thyroid hormone metabolism, delayed bone maturation, as well as other abnormal characteristics that vary by individual, according to new data presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Ameri ...
  • Novel Sequencing Tools to Play Important Role ...
    Next-generation sequencing analyses of the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma may elucidate the biological underpinnings and clinical behavior of an increasingly common disease, according to data presented at the 82nd ATA Annual Meeting in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
  • Disparities Exist in Surgical Management of Th ...
    A spectrum of disparities exist in the surgical management of well-differentiated thyroid cancer, according to new data presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
  • What Is the Smithsonian? First Ad Campaign Pla ...
    Most Americans know the Smithsonian―or at least they think they do―with its iconic objects, like the Hope Diamond and Dorothy's ruby slippers, coming to mind. But the Smithsonian is far more than objects on exhibit. To help people understand that it is a place of scientific discovery, cultural e ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup: September 15-21, 2012
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we posted Harold Koh’s speech on international law in cyberspace, delivered earlier this week, as part of our efforts to make important international law speeches more readily available. The decision by the Obama administration to ...
  • A Common Prayer: Religious Sensibilities and t ...
    by Robyn Curnow [Robyn Curnow is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. She works as a lawyer in Melbourne.] Reactions to the prosecution and sentencing of three members of Pussy Riot in August this year have revealed sharp disparities in the ways different ...
  • U.S. to Delist “Good” Terrorist Group
    by Kevin Jon Heller Just in case you are not yet convinced that the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies are actually worse than the Bush administration's: The officials said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had made the decision to remove MEK from the list, and that it was ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, September 21, 2012
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey A Syrian airstrike has killed at least 54 amid heavy fighting in northern Syria. At a UN Security Council meeting, Iran was attacked about the aid it is providing to Syria’s government forces. At the IAEA’s meeting in Geneva, Iran and Israel squa ...
  • Is the U.S. Obligated to Defend Japan’s Senkak ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku As things continue to get ugly between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, the U.S. has tried to stay out of the way.  Still, although the U.S. has tried to stay neutral on the territorial dispute, it appears the U.S. is obligated by treaty to defend any ...

Public News Service

  • Parties Debate How to Slow Medicare Costs
    Parties Debate How to Slow Medicare Costs PHOENIX - Both sides in this year's national election agree the country is going to have to cut spending growth in Medicare. But Democrats want to reduce payments to health-care providers, while Republicans want to change Medicare to a voucher program. R ...
  • Westerners Back Impact Fees for Renewable Ener ...
    Westerners Back Impact Fees for Renewable Energy on Public Lands PHOENIX – In western states, including Arizona, party lines practically disappear in a new poll about balancing renewable energy development with protection for public lands. Nearly three out of four voters in 11 states said ...
  • Food Fight? Expert Weighs In on Benefits of Or ...
    Food Fight? Expert Weighs In on Benefits of Organic PHOENIX - Much media attention has been given to the recent release of a Stanford University study that found little evidence of additional health benefits from organic foods. But other experts, including Joe Pedretti, an organic-education spec ...
  • New Poll Shows Strong Support for Food Stamps, ...
    New Poll Shows Strong Support for Food Stamps, Opposition to Cuts PHOENIX, Ariz. - Three-quarters of Americans say cutting billions from the food stamp program is the wrong way to reduce federal spending. That's the result of a new survey from the Washington, D.C.-based Food Research and Action ...
  • AZ Tax Backers Seize on New School Spending Report
    AZ Tax Backers Seize on New School Spending Report PHOENIX - Arizona has made the deepest cuts to elementary and secondary education of any state in the nation during the past five years, according to a new report from the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Report co ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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