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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 III

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

  • The Healing Blog
    A new election is coming and thankfully nobody is claiming that they will lower the ocean level this time.  My taxes are still insanely high and as a business owner, I’m expecting to be hammered in a very impressive way by the non-paying public for my reprehensible misdeed of trying to mak ...
  • The Pragmatic Skeptic
    I read some of this earlier, and hadn’t intended to post on it but now that I’ve read the complete version of the interview, this is very much worth reading.   Anthony Watts gave an interview to PBS whereby he made  a very accurate case for what makes myself and others climate skepti ...
  • SKS Behind the Scenes – On Deaf Ears
    The below discussion was passed to me by email. It is apparently from the hacked SKS background discussions. I found it revealing to see the kind of thinking which went on behind the scenes during the release of the corrected Antarctic temperature trends. 2011-02-09 04:45:30 Antarctic Temperatur ...
  • Lewandowsky’s Bodge
    The term “conspiracy” is one of the most overused words in climate jargon. Just using the word conspiracy with a person has become a popular way to discredit those who question any of the facts presented by an official body. With so much information available there is only enough tim ...
  • The Lewandowsky Incident
    I have avoided critique of Lewandowsky’s paper because I am still awaiting a reply from Lewandowsky on my demand for removal of a false citation. He has agreed in part that the citation was inaccurate but due to some minor sophistry in his reply there is delay in finalizing the issue. It s ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: facial recognition policy, d ...
    Facebook removes facial recognition in EU, addresses other concerns - Per recommendations from the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which has audited Facebook policies and practices, Facebook has removed the facial recognition feature that made suggestions for who to tag in a photo. … C ...
  • Threads of Mystery, Amazon Sweepstakes, My Loc ...
    Playdom’s Threads of Mystery led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 31 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top … Continue reading &# ...
  • Facebook career postings: engineers, account m ...
    Facebook added 15 job listings to its careers page this week, including one for a merchant operations analyst that included mention of a new “Facebook Gifts” product to be launched. The company removed that job description after we inquired about … Continue reading →
  • Facebook hires: market research, media solutio ...
    Facebook appears to have made about 20 hires this week based on LinkedIn activity and listings that have been removed from its careers page. The company gained a former Procter & Gamble analyst to work in monetization and insights. Facebook … Continue reading →
  • The two paths of Facebook advertising
    Facebook is simultaneously pursuing two distinct paths when it comes to advertising. One is the idealistic drive toward a more social world where people have control over their experiences and companies have to be authentic and engaging to get noticed. … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
    Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
  • What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
    Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
  • Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
  • Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #92: The Latest on Syria-Iran-Tur ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Pepe Escobar Roving journalist Pepe Escobar returns to our show to discuss the latest on Syria and Iran. He provides us with his take on Russia’s position, Turkey’s real intentions and internal debate, and the seldom discussed Kurdish factor. Pepe Escobar, born in ...
  • NarcoNews: Mexican Diplomat Traded Secrets wit ...
    “Exchange of Sensitive Information Focused on the US/Mexican Operations in the Drug War” By Bill Conroy US soldiers are operating inside Mexico as part of the drug war and the Mexican government provided critical intelligence to US agents in the now-discredited Fast and Furious gun-running opera ...
  • The Anti-Empire Report: The United States & It ...
    There is No Moral Factor Built into the DNA of US Foreign Policy By William Blum Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s … Libya 2011 … Syria 2012 … In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its as ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet- “Take Five” This week’s the “Soothing the Beast” BFP/Jamiol music pick takes form in the jazz piece Take Five written by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. It is without a doubt the quartet’s most popular song. It has been in ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 9 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Is a Duke Degree Worth the Paper It’s Pr ...
    It’s hardly surprising that a school full of the douchiest basketball fans in the world like Duke would also lead the nation in grade inflation. I mean, when you have worse grade inflation than Harvard, you are really saying something. Do Duke students just get an 4.0 when they write their ...
  • Every time I have this dream I want to kill my ...
    Thank you Louie for the reminder: My nightmare typically ends there. But this one? Lynch wants to start the interview. Lynch will not stop yelling. There is no one in that chair. Start the interview. Lynch will not stop yelling. There is no one in that chair. Lynch will not stop yelling. Start t ...
  • Game of Thrones: “Winter Is Coming&#8221 ...
    (This is another one of those visual rhetoric posts that’s born of this upcoming course.) In the previous post we established that the director of “Winter Is Coming,” Tim Van Patten, went to great lengths to transform Will into a sympathetic character. He can choose immediate d ...
  • Romney campaign releasing tax information
    In what very much smacks of sheer panic, the Romney campaign is suddenly releasing a whole bunch of the candidate’s tax information: Romney camp: In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income. Romney camp: The Romneys’ effective tax rate for 2011 ...
  • “The 47%
    It wasn’t a “gaffe”; if anything, it understates Republican contempt for working people.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE PRACTICE: New uniform act covers postnups ...
    The drafters of the Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act chose to treat both agreements in a similar fashion.
  • The Supreme Court's reliance on amicus curiae ...
    The Supreme Court's 2011-12 term could be considered the "year of the amicus" based on the prominent role friend-of-the-court briefs played at the high court. The term saw a record-breaking 136 amicus briefs — plus two court-appointed amici — in the health care cases.
  • OPINION: Will the high court be a dream killer?
    A century-old vision of the United States as committed to common global values of justice and humanity is being sorely tested by the Kiobel case before the Supreme Court.
  • OPINION: Eminently reasonable
    Using the power of eminent domain to restructure underwater mortgages is constitutional, beneficial and administratively feasible.
  • White House visitor log access debated
    The Justice Department is fighting a federal trial judge's order to release White House visitor logs, claiming national security and confidentiality concerns.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Interview: Shining a Light on Africa’s Elephan ...
    With the mass killing of African elephants sharply escalating recently as global prices for ivory have risen, few articles have conveyed the scope and brutality of Jeffrey Gettleman that trade as vividly as the one written earlier this month by Jeffrey Gettleman, East Africa bureau chief fo ...
  • Shining a Bright Light on Africa’s Elephant Sl ...
    Fueled by a rising demand for ivory, the mass killing of African elephants has reached extraordinary levels. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman discusses his in-depth investigation of the deadly ivory trade, which involves the U.S.-backed militar ...
  • Fuel Consumption in New Cars Can Be Halved by ...
    With advanced technologies and innovative government policies, fuel consumption in new vehicles can be cut in half by 2030, saving billions of dollars in fuel costs worldwide and significantly reducing CO2 emissions, a new report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency says. According to ...
  • Video: Debating the Complex Impacts of Shale G ...
    At a panel discussion at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies this week, a group of experts tackled the controversial drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and questions about its impacts on the environment, human health, and the U.S.’s energy f ...
  • San Francisco Program Would Give Consumers Opt ...
    City officials in San Francisco, Calif. are considering a $19.5 million program that would give consumers the option of buying 100-percent renewable power at a higher cost. The so-called CleanPowerSF plan, which would be done in partnership with Shell Energy North America, would also invest abou ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Aurora theater shooting court documents blows ...
    Newly released court documents in the Aurora, CO theater “Batman massacre” case reveals startling inside accusations about who may actually be behind the shootings that left at least 70 people either dead or injured in the early morning hours of July 20th. Friday’s report by the online version o ...
  • Who Owns Antiquity?
    In 1966, curators at the archaeological museum of the University of Pennsylvania bought a pile of gorgeous Bronze Age jewelry from a Philadelphia dealer. They couldn’t know their purchase would change how museums work. The 24 gold objects had come to Penn with no trace of where they’d been unear ...
  • Canada closes embassy in Iran, expels Iranian ...
    Baird says Iran viewed as world’s ’most significant threat to global peace and security’ Canada has suspended diplomatic relations with Iran and is expelling Iranian diplomats from Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced in a statement today. Speaking to reporters in Russia, where ...
  • Source of Oceanic Mystery Methane Was Under No ...
    Researchers have been seeing methane produced from the world’s oceans for years, but like methane produced in a crowded elevator, the source was a minor mystery that annoyed many in the field. But researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign may have finally cracked the secret be ...
  • Restricting Calories Does Not Necessarily Exte ...
    A calorie-restricted diet can extend the lives of organisms from yeast to fruit flies to rodents, as well as improving their health and preventing disease. But just because cutting calories helps animals with short lifespans doesn’t mean that humans will reap similar benefits. So the 2009 discov ...

Russia Today

  • Iran: Siemens placed explosives in equipment t ...
    Iran has accused German industrial giant Siemens of placing small explosives in equipment that forms the backbone of the country’s nuclear program. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Drunk Moscow driver runs over 10 people (PHOTOS)
    Seven people have been killed after a drunken driver ran his car into a bus stop in the Russian capital on Saturday. Three others were injured. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'No to Beijing terrorists': Japanese stage ant ...
    Hundreds of Japanese nationalists have marched through the streets of Tokyo in protest against Chinese foreign policy, as the diplomatic row between the two countries over an archipelago in the East China Sea threatens... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Quebec students to protest despite tuition hik ...
    Students in Quebec are planning a new protest despite the government’s recent cancellation of a proposed tuition hike, which caused massive street demonstrations and the creation of the controversial Bill 78 last spring. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • No rush to flush: Synchronized toilet flush ti ...
    City authorities in Zimbabwe’s second largest city of Bulawayo, are appealing to home owners to flush their toilets at a specific time, in order to unblock sewers after days of severe water rationing. The ‘big flush’... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach’s down ...
    As I was listening this AM to Right Wing talk radio on 105.5 today, they had Colorado Springs mayor telling us in an interview that it was no secret that he wants a baseball stadium to be built downtown which he claims will somehow revitalize the center of the city. That’s as doubtful a cl ...
  • Randy Newman dreams of a White President and a ...
    “He won’t be the brightest, but he’ll be the whitest, and I’ll vote for that!” sings Randy Newman of his dream president, drawing the reaction he got when he penned “I’m a Redneck” or “Short People.” America needs a laugh track to know ...
  • Still no unions in racist Delano, California a ...
    …Despite having over a 2/3 majority Hispanic population, it is the racist Anglo community that still runs affairs in Delano, California. For those youngsters who only dimly know their own country’s history, Delano was where the Farm Workers Union tried to organize way back in the &#8 ...
  • We need better gun control in the US
    I just read that about 6 out of 10 Colorado residents are actually worried that guns might become better regulated than they are at present in a poll taken after the Aurora theater shootings! Are these people crazy just like the parents in the following news story certainly are? See Woman shot i ...
  • Prince Harry the Hedonist shows war for what i ...
    A young prince who can do anything he wants, might go to war for some noble cause, if he hadn’t already exposed his and its deeply immoral character. After his Vegas binge, Prince Harry has returned to Afghanistan, at his request, to be a gunner on an attack helicopter in the UK squad with ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The Good News and the Bad News
    The good news is that physicist Dr. Crockett Grabbe’s ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com. The book is 7 chapters long, roughly 113 pages in length, and delivers strong, responsible scientific evidence that the WTC buildings were brought down with expl ...
  • National Swindle of the World Trade Center now ...
    Dr. Crockett Grabbe's ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com for the Kindle. Purchase the ebook here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0098JOSJS Related info: Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the World Trade Center
  • Would 2Pac Have Been a 9/11 Truther?
    On this day in 1996 Tupac Amaru Shakur died from gunshot wounds he suffered 6 days prior. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time and I don't think he would have been a 9/11 debunker. RIP. Published on Apr 26, 2012 by Aware Awake Tupac Shakur breaks down the tru ...
  • 911 Truth and the Mainstream Media's Failure t ...
    The mainstream media has never been any good at explaining the nature of the War on Terror to the public. Their superficial, 'official talking-point' based stories almost always omit important documented facts that could provide real context to the 'war' and point to evidence showing that 911 wa ...
  • RECAP: Fake al-Qaeda> Anwar Al Awlaki PLUS Ada ...
    The following videos are posted in light of recent media reports about the death of the "international terrorist leader" Anwar Al Awlaki in Yemen. Please note that Al Awlaki was also reported dead, killed in 2009 by a US air strike. Dead or alive, names like Al Awlaki, Zarqawi, and others will ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Palast in San Fran, Santa Rosa, Portaland, Sea ...
    This weeks Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Tour stops. Bring you copy of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits - or get it there and I'll sign 'em. Please - bring your friends, spread the word and once you've read it - review it on Amazon, B&N and Goodreads. Monday, September 24 BERKELEY KPFA ...
  • The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: 2012
    by Greg Palast  I can't believe that I had to write the sequel. When I wrote The Best Democracy Money Can Buy after the 2000 swipe by Bush and his Ballot Bandits, I thought America would clean up its damn act and start counting ALL the votes. Boy, am I a schmuck. Just when you [...]
  • Romney's Breakfast of Billionaires
    by Greg Palast - Dollars & Sense Magazine On Friday, Governor Mitt Romney had breakfast with billionaires. JOHN PAULSON, Paul Singer and Ken Langone have dropped more than a million dollars each into the Romney “Super-PAC” Restore Our Future. As Butch said to Sundance, “Who ARE these guys?” ...
  • This is it, folks...
    A personal request from Greg Palast Saturday, September 16, 2012 Today, our foundation releases my investigation/comic book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. I am asking you to order it today, right now, on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble or Indiebound. ...
  • “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012”
    Greg Palast, The Nation of Change An excerpt from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012” is the title of a column Karl Rove wrote in the Wall Street Journal in June 2011. It’s not Rove’s prediction: this is his plan [...]

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Poison, Apples, Pol ...
    By Dan Olmsted The drumbeat is especially loud this fall -- get vaccinated, get your kids vaccinated, and protect yourself from the modern plagues. You know, chickenpox, mumps, hepatitis B in infancy. Not to mention the mercury, I mean flu,...
  • Polly Tommey Launches "Polly's Place" For Youn ...
    (London, England) Polly Tommey launches ‘Polly’s Place’: supporting Real World Living for young adults with Autism Polly Tommey, a mother from London with a son with autism and Founder of The Autism Trust will be opening Polly’s Place in Sunninghill,...
  • NVIC Reports: Doctors Engaging in Class Warfar ...
    It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty trick is to...
  • University College London Pulls out of Holding ...
    By John Stone Eighteen months after University College London, the parent institution of the Royal Free Hospital, announced their intention of holding an inquiry into the “Wakefield affair” in a controversial BBC radio documentary they have finally backed down according...
  • Reporters -The Next Generation
    By Anne Dachel On Sept 9, 2012, I found the news report, CARLSBAD: Award-winning broadcast class tackles documentary on vaccines, from the North County Times in Escondido, CA. HERE Award-winning broadcast class tackles documentary on vaccines, from the North County...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Iranian hackers target Bank of America, JPMorg ...
    Reuters – Iranian hackers have repeatedly attacked Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc over the past year as part of a broad cyber campaign targeting the United States, according to people familiar with the situation. The attacks, which began in late 2011 and es ...
  • Greek economy set to shrink by 25pc
    Telegraph – Greece’s economy will have shrunk by a quarter by the time the recession ends, according to the country’s finance minister, as pressure grew on international creditors to give Athens more time to catch up. Yiannis Stournaras forecast on Tuesday that by 2014, the Gre ...
  • British Army ‘should be first choice&#82 ...
    Independent – Britain’s armed forces, rather than private companies, should be used to protect future major public events in the wake of the G4S Olympic security fiasco, MPs suggest today. In a report examining the failure of G4S to recruit and train enough security guards, the Home ...
  • West Nile virus kills 5 in Balkans, dozens in ...
    Reuters – At least five people in the Balkans have died from West Nile virus and several dozen others have been hospitalized in the past four weeks, according to health authorities in Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Croatia. West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne disease usually found in temper ...
  • Would YOU like to become part of the Open Your ...
    There are currently six volunteers based worldwide who bring you Open Your Eyes News. As we continue to expand, and in advance of our new website launch, we are seeking one additional member to join our team to become a category editor, taking responsibility for publishing articles in one of our ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • The Power of a Smile
    Why are these women smiling? You'd be smiling to if you and your family have access to clean drinking water and a toilet in your own home for the very first time.
  • Water Changes Lives: VIDEO
    Access to clean water or a safe toilet doesn't just make people healthier, it affords women time to learn a trade, and allows them to spend more time caring for their families. Change ten lives by taking our challenge, and you will be entered to win a trip to visit our work in the field!*
  • Change Ten Lives
    It seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.
  • Recognition for Impact in Social Innovation
    Gary White, Water.org CEO and Co-founder, has been honored by the Schwab Foundation as a 2012 Social Entrepreneur. Each year, the Foundation identifies the world’s leading social entrepreneurs from around the globe for its Social Entrepreneur award. Awardees are selected for implementing innovat ...
  • Stop the Crisis, Share our Stories!
    Subscribe to the official Water.org YouTube channel to be among the first to see our weekly videos. These shorts, which provide a glimpse of life in the heart of the water crisis, can help give a face to a world-wide struggle.

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • [Editorial] NCDs and the UN: danger of a misse ...
    The global health movement to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is at a pivotal point. This week is the first anniversary of the watershed high-level UN meeting on NCDs. The meeting was a crucial step for putting diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease high on the global health ...
  • [News of the Week] Newsmakers
    This week's Newsmakers are developmental neurogeneticist Christopher Austin, who has been chosen to direct the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and mechanical engineer C. Daniel Mote Jr., who has been nominated as the next president of the National Academy of Engineering.
  • [Report] Specifying and Sustaining Pigmentatio ...
    The genes specifying tabby cat coat patterns also affect big cats, including king cheetahs. Authors: Christopher B. Kaelin, Xiao Xu, Lewis Z. Hong, Victor A. David, Kelly A. McGowan, Anne Schmidt-Küntzel, Melody E. Roelke, Javier Pino, Joan Pontius, Gregory M. Cooper, Hermogenes Manuel, ...
  • Seal calf season prompts warning
    Wildlife experts in the Isle of Man issue a seal pup warning ahead of the annual breeding season.
  • LOPERAMIDE HYDROCHLORIDEtablet [Chain Drug Mar ...
    Updated Date: Sep 20, 2012 EST

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • A View From 47%-land
    by Kentw007 I've never written a letter to an elected official before, but I couldn't let a man running for President get away with personally insulting my family so I sent him the following letter. The sad thing is that he would have actually had an outside chance at getting my vote if he had ...
  • Wake Up: Reject the Two-Party Plutocracy
    Joel S. Hirschhorn Here we go again. Millions of Americans will soon vote for either the Republican or Democratic presidential candidate not because they deeply believe that he is absolutely the best possible president the country needs and can have. No, they will know that they are compro ...
  • Hypocrisy Not Democracy in America
    by Stephen Lendman US elections are farcical. Obama and Romney represent two sides of the same coin. Neither offers choice. Democracy never existed and doesn't now. Rhetoric substitutes for reality. Republicans and Democrats offer the worst of all possible worlds. Ordinary people are ent ...
  • Unconditional Surrender in Chicago
    by Stephen Lendman September 18, 2012 will be remembered in Chicago as a day of infamy. Corrupt city officials and union bosses won. Teachers, parents, and kids lost. On September 10, teachers walked out. Core issues were at stake. Most important is saving public education. An American ...
  • One Place to Cut Spending: Kidnapping and Torture
    By David Swanson I know it seems like more of a noble sacrifice to cut spending on things people less fortunate than ourselves need, but can somebody explain to me why it wouldn't be at least that noble to eliminate the budget of the CIA, which serves no one? The Washington Post and the Obama ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Ontario could be hard hit by new trade deal
    A trade deal between Canada and the EU that's being negotiated in Ottawa this week could have devastating effects on Ontario. The CCPA's new report, Straightjacket: CETA’s Constraining Effects on Ontario, details the ways in which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could accel ...
  • Time for Ontario to go public with child care
    The Ontario government is in a consultation phase over how to modernize the province's child care system. Child care expert Martha Friendly and CCPA Ontario Director Trish Hennessy have co-authored a primer on child care in Ontario, making the case for the government to take leadership and commi ...
  • The New Saskatchewan or Oklahoma North?
    Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still recieve the full benefits o ...
  • How affordable is a university education in yo ...
    A new report from the CCPA’s Education Project tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordabil ...
  • A Sustainable Vision for Our Community: Altern ...
    A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations. The Alternative Budget contains 65 action item ...

World Wide Hippies

  • WWH/CJE Hippie Digest: Lennon’s Island & ...
    What Happens If Colorado Legalizes Marijuana? By Scot Kersgaard If Amendment 64 passes, it will become almost immediately legal under Colorado law for adults to possess, grow, consume and give away (to another adult) up to an ounce of marijuana. It may take more than a year, however, before adul ...
  • Global protests Today over “Fracking&#82 ...
    By KEVIN BEGOS,AP - PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than 100 protests against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking are scheduled to take place around the world on Saturday, building on public concerns but also using an overly simplified message to spur outrage. The GlobalFrackdown website a ...
  • WWH/CJE Saturday News Briefs
    Standard Chartered inks $340 million deal with NY regulator. No jail! How’s that for in your face corruption? (Reuters) – Standard Chartered Bank signed a final agreement with New York’s banking regulator to pay $340 million to settle allegations that it hid transactions with I ...
  • A Hippies Guide To The Law of Attraction: So w ...
    Previous Chapters: A Hippies Guide To The Law of Attraction Enough with the Preliminaries – What IS it? So what is The Law of Attraction? The Law of Attraction states, quite simply, that in all of the universe, across all dimensions, vibrations that are alike are drawn together. Huh? That’ ...
  • Where is the Radioactive Rod? How Halliburton ...
    BY TERRENCE HENRY,stateimpact.npr.org  - Somebody call Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy. A radioactive rod is missing in the West Texas desert. Sometime last Monday, September 11, a three-man team of Halliburton oilfield workers lost a radioactive rod used in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Ethanol Policy: How to Grow Production Sustain ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss potential improvements to U.S. ethanol policy. I explain the fundamental principles that guide my thoughts on energy policy, which primarily involve moving toward more sustainable and locally-sourced energy, but understanding the tra ...
  • Gasoline Prices Doubled Under Obama: True or F ...
    The Claim: President Obama Has Doubled Gasoline Prices During the Republican primaries, a number of candidates made a claim that at first glance seems improbable: That under President Obama, gasoline prices have doubled. A current advertising campaign by the American Energy Alliance repeats that ...
  • Mitigating the Long Recession; and CNG Vehicle ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first question is whether I believe that nuclear energy or hydraulic fracturing will offset the impacts of my “Long Recession” scenario. The second is about the EPA licensing requirements for comp ...
  • Responses to Thorium Reactor Story
    Following last week’s R-Squared Energy TV episode that discussed thorium nuclear reactors, there were a number of comments and emails from readers that added a lot of clarity to the discussion. I want to highlight some of those comments, because as I had indicated that was definitely outsi ...
  • Are Democrats More Likely to Release Strategic ...
    If the Obama Administration orders a release, it would be the 2nd time the administration had tapped the SPR. In 2011 the Obama Administration ordered a release of 30 million barrels of oil in conjunction with a 30 million barrel release from other members of the International Energy Agency.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • FDA Moves to Limit Arsenic in Food
    Most people don't ask for a side of arsenic with their California rolls, but the heavy metal is pervasive in the world's rice supply. And the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday that it is finally looking into whether the presence of arsenic in the food we eat poses as big a ...
  • GMOs Cause Tumors and Early Death in Rat Study
    Part of the problem with genetically engineered food, or GMOs, in the food system is that there aren't a whole lot of GMO studies investigating their safety. That reason alone has sparked dozens of health experts to call for a GMO ban or, at the very least, labeling of foods containing the ques ...
  • Whole Foods Officially Endorses GMO Labeling
    Should genetically modified (GM) foods be labeled? Yes, says the nation's largest natural and organic food retailer, Whole Foods. The store's owners officially came out in support of California's GM-foods labeling initiative, Proposition 37, a law that would require any food containing ingredie ...
  • Meat Industry Sues ABC Over "Pink Slime"
    The meat industry is suing ABC for $1.2 billion in a pink slime lawsuit, claiming the news network's coverage of the meat industry's "pink slime" (otherwise known as "lean finely textured beef") product was untrue, costing the industry hundreds of millions in profits. The defamation lawsuit fi ...
  • The 15 Worst Things In Your Lunch Bag
    what to eat for lunch "Convenience" Foods That Aren't The healthiest lunch you can eat is the one you make for yourself. It'll also save you a bundle over restaurant food, and the landfills will thank you for leaving all the disposable wrapp ...

big think

  • Nanotechnology Ready to Treat Cancer, Alzheime ...
    What's the Latest Development? University of Georgia researchers have refined how nanoparticles are used to deliver drugs to parts of individual cells, specifically mitochondria, the powerhouse of cells. During their experiments, scientists tested treatments currently underway against ca ...
  • Global Health Objective #1: Prevent Non-Commun ...
    What's the Latest Development? Given the increasing threat that non-communicable diseases pose to global health, as well as to the global economy, health experts have called for a series of global studies to examine strategies for preventing conditions like diabetes and obesity. "With in ...
  • Genetically Modified Foods Cause Tumors, Says ...
    What's the Latest Development? A new study out of France concludes that a diet of genetically modified corn, specifically Monsanto's Roundup-resistant corn, gave rats who ate it a series of tumors, as well as trouble with their livers and kidneys. "During the two-year study, the scientis ...
  • Romney and Obama: Separately But Equally Elitist?
    So Romney is taking a big and deserved hit for his stupid and arrogant remark that 47% of Americans won't vote for him because they don't pay income taxes and, because of government hand-outs, lack personal responsibility. Last campaign, Obama took a not-as-big-as-he-deserved hit for his ...
  • Obesity is an Addiction, Just Like Smoking
    What's the Latest Development? While nutritionists and addiction specialists have long drawn a line between drug addiction and obesity, government health authorities now believe they are essentially the same conditions for some people. Earlier this year, secretary of health Kathleen Sebe ...

Information Liberation

  • "Out Of Control" Off-Duty Cop "Acting Insanely ...
    A witness to an altercation involving an off-duty Montgomery County, Maryland police officer was too afraid to publicly tell what she saw because she "fears retribution" from an "out of control" police officer who was "acting insanely" when he pulled...
  • 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 Thur...
  • UC Davis Pepper Spray Cops Get Off Scot Free
    "We hereby find our enforcers not guilty," said the District Attorney. Just joking, but that's essentially what just happened. Via The Sacramento Bee: The pepper-spraying of students by UC Davis police officers last November was not criminal con...
  • Pasadena police officers accused of kidnapping ...
    PASADENA - A complaint alleging that Pasadena Police Officer Kevin Okamoto perjured himself during the investigation and prosecution of Edward Damas has been filed with the Pasadena Police Department. The complaint, received Monday, is the latest ...
  • DOJ-Funded Training Manual Lists Bumper Sticke ...
    A leaked training manual used in the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) program for law enforcement and funded by the Department of Justice lists political bumper stickers expressing opposition to the United Nations and support for the b...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...
  • Faecal matters
    One of the most trivial ethical debates raged on my Facebook page after I posted about whether one should hang a toilet roll “over” or “under”. Of course, for those with a vertical toilet roll holder, it’s a moot point. But, silliness aside, there is an important mo ...
  • Toilet paper orientation
    Whoever said Wikipedia, or Sciencebase come to that, was trivial? This is meaning-of-life stuff: Toilet paper when used with a toilet roll holder with a horizontal axle parallel to the wall has two possible orientations: the toilet paper may hang over (in front of) or under (behind) the roll. Th ...
  • Toilet paper orientation
    Whoever said Wikipedia, or Sciencebase come to that, was trivial? This is meaning-of-life stuff: Toilet paper when used with a toilet roll holder with a horizontal axle parallel to the wall has two possible orientations: the toilet paper may hang over (in front of) or under (behind) the roll. Th ...

RFF Library

  • Climate Negotiations Open a Window: Key Implic ...
    Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Centers, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / This policy brief expands upon the Science article, “Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars” by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins. http://bit.ly/R85dld [Abstract]  A key outcome ...
  • The Costs of Fracking: The Price Tag of Dirty ...
    Environment America http://www.environmentamerica.org/reports/ame/costs-fracking [From Press Release] …The report’s documented examples of fracking costs include the following: Drinking water contamination:   In Dimock, Pennsylvania, permanently replacing residents’ contaminated drinking water w ...
  • Cooling the Planet, Clearing the Air: Should C ...
    Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies | Ecotrust / by James Boyce and Manuel Pastor http://www.jointcenter.org/events/cooling-the-planet-clearing-the-air http://bit.ly/UyOt86  (executive summary) [From Press Release]  Expanding climate change mitigation approaches beyond greenhous ...
  • Stormy Future for U.S. Property/Casualty Insur ...
    A Ceres report / by Cynthia McHale & Sharlene Leurig http://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/stormy-futures [BusinessInsurance.com] …Among other things, the report recommends that insurers and reinsurers update pricing and underwriting to reflect changes in extreme weather impacts and p ...
  • Technology Roadmap: Fuel Economy of Road Vehicles
    International Energy Agency http://www.iea.org/publications/fueleconomy_2012_final_web.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd] …with the right mix of policies, conventional vehicles can cut fuel consumption in half in the next 20 years.  According to IEA’s &#8220 ...

Scientific American - News

  • Kids Exposed to Mercury or Lead More Likely to ...
    Children exposed to higher levels of mercury or lead are three to five times more likely to be identified by teachers as having problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, according to a scientific study published today. [More]
  • Herbal Menopause Supplement Often Contains Oth ...
    When hormone replacement therapy was found to put some menopausal women at increased risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease, many went in search of safer treatments to decrease their symptoms. In the ensuing decade black cohosh has won out as an overwhelming consumer favorite, now reaping m ...
  • Ball Wet: Massive Asteroid Vesta Harbors Scant ...
    New evidence suggests that frozen water lurks in the dusty, pitted surface of our solar system's second most-massive asteroid. The discovery at Vesta is helping researchers understand how a once-molten protoplanet--a category that includes Earth's embryo--could gather water early in its ...
  • Simply Irresistible: Scientists Trace Gluttony ...
    How much is too much chocolate? Desperately devouring 5 percent of one's body weight might sound extreme, but scientists tinkering with the brain chemistry of rodents have found it's certainly possible. [More]
  • Safety Rules for Fracking Disposal Wells Often ...
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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Losing Frequencies #1: OpenMedia.ca on the Big ...
    88.1FM CRTC Turns the Dial on CKLN: An interview with OpenMedia.ca's Lindsay Pinto on Bell's Proposed Acquisition of Astral Media and OpenMedia's Stop the Takeover Campaign CKUT speaks with OpenMedia.ca's Lindsay Pinto to ...
  • Losing Frequencies #2: National Campus/Communi ...
    88.1FM CRTC Turns the Dial on CKLN: An interview with Shelley Robinson, Director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association This is Losing Frequencies: the CRTC Turns the Dial on CKLN 88.1FM. A special broadcast in honour of CKL ...
  • Letting Earth Speak
    Nova Scotian wine reveals its source, and its competitive edge, in a climatically-changing world In the midst of a national wine event that is less about wine and more about its stewards, the competitors, judges, volunteers and fans of Can ...
  • An Inside Look: Submit your Investigative Stor ...
    Next round of pitching to The Media Co-op Investigative Fund is now open The Media Co-op has broken critical stories and probed issues glossed by the mainstream media.  We've published exposés of unchecked racism in the Canadian mi ...
  • The indictments of Pam Palmater
    An interview On Sept. 13, Dr. Pamela Palmater addressed the Ottawa community at Carleton University. She spoke about the assimilation –  which she refers to as elimination – of First Nations peoples, and about Harper&rsquo ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Mitt Romney or "Class Struggle for Dummies"
    We thought Romney was secretly moderate, but it turns out that he’s secretly cruel, a social Darwinist just like his running mate. Maureen Dowd - New York Times What these comments definitely tell us, though, is what Mitt Romney, master consultant, feels his “clients” in the Republican donor b ...
  • 9/11... on the record
    ”fae ghosties & ghoulies & lang-legged beasties & things that go bump in the nicht...guid lord, deliver us” (traditional scottish prayer)David Seaton's News Links Today is the anniversary... a time to remember where you were, and what happened that day.September eleventh, 2001, at 9A ...
  • Democrats and the vanishing American middle class
    It seems that the Democrats have had the modicum of mother wit to make the middle class the framework and theme of their 2012 campaign. We know that the Democrats can't really walk the walk, but it is nice to hear somebody at least talk the talk for a change. For the sad truth is that the Am ...
  • Clint Eastwood and his contempt for America
    "This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama." @jabouie tweet re Eastwood's speech (ht Doonesbury)Clint Eastwood’s performance was the most decadent, self indulgent thing I have ever seen. Watching him wank for 12 minutes to wild ap ...
  • Mooned... with aplogies to Neil Armstrong
    Mother of tidesThe great white kiteFloats gently cross the breathless nightGiant leaps are soon forgotten. David Seaton

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Football in Lo-Def Really Sucks
    For the first time in a couple of years I'm watching a football game in lo-def. It's like a big blur of colorful blobs moving randomly around the screen. It's hard to believe we used to watch games like this all the time. And why am I watching a game in lo-def? Because the Pac-12, like every ...
  • One More Round on the YouTube Bleg
    I'm going to test everyone's patience by taking one last shot at seeing if anyone can solve my YouTube problem. To recap: several weeks ago YouTube videos stopped playing on my computer. I've uninstalled Flash completely and reinstalled it. I've tried going back to a previous version of Flash ...
  • Mitt Romney's Cynical Tax Ruse
    So this afternoon's big news is that Mitt Romney finally released his 2011 taxes. He paid $1.9 million on $13.7 million in income, for an effective tax rate of 14.1%. But there's more! His tax rate would have been about 9% or so, but he decided not to deduct all of his charitable contribution ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 21 September 2012
    Domino would like everyone to know that she's even more of a moocher than the 47%. Not only does she pay no federal income tax, but she also pays no sales taxes, no property taxes, no payroll taxes, and no excise taxes. She's part of the 1% that pays no taxes at all, and she thinks all of you ...
  • The Generic Congressional Ballot: Take 2
    Yesterday I asked whether the results of generic congressional polling were a good predictor of the actual national House vote. I was skeptical because conventional wisdom says that Republicans usually outperform the generic ballot. Today, Sam Wang produces the following historical numbers fro ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 349: Creep By Association
    Topics: Politics sucks Gun control 2012 has been a great year for movies The Hobbit & Skyfall trailers Patrick Stewart back for X-Men? Porn in a Disney movie Phat asses in the gym Creep by association Worst wait ever Share with your friends:
  • IC 348: Random
    Topics: This show is more random than usual. We jump from continuing the Heaven conversation from last show to Comic Books to Monica Lewinsky (And Kev’s ridiculously funny Bill Clinton impersonation) to Rush Limbaugh’s absolutely ridiculous theory on Al Qaeda and President Obama. Sha ...
  • IC 347: 21st Century Heaven
    Topics: Redskins back? Baltimore ComicCon and real nerds You gotta workout if you are gonna wear a superhero costume WB/DC and making the Justice League Ex-OJ Simpson Prosecutor can’t let it go A Joe Paterno/Penn State scandal movie? President Obama got jokes Mitt Romney needs to be more B ...
  • IC 346: Complacent Ass Nigga #1
    Topics: Working for a job with no passion Being complacent is awesome Fuck School NBA 2k13 and the worst collector’s edition ever Marvel gets sued & tells the plaintiffs to go fuck themselves It’s just a movie, its not realistic The Democratic party has never been liberal You&#8 ...
  • IC 345: Black Unicorn
    Topics: Avengers tops $1.5 Billion Michael Bay tries to distance himself from the Ninja Turtles Script Your opinion represents the minority I know my opinion is fucked up, you don’t have to tell me Kev goes to the Red Light District in Amsterdam The RNC & DNC The media isn’t inf ...

Simple Climate

  • Warming cost estimates cheat our children
    Economic analysis of the social cost of carbon that treats future generations as less important is close to insanity, according to economist Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.
  • Could pollution be stopping warming’s impact o ...
    Considering both space and time in climate records shows predictions for how rainfall will change are wrong, say Michael Roderick and his teammates from Australian National University, Canberra, who speculate that atmospheric aerosols are to blame.
  • Sun loses grip on Earth’s temperature changes
    Patterns in the heat we feel stopped being caused by the Sun since the 1970s, mathematical tests done by Antonello Pasini from the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome and his teammates show, with greenhouse gases and other human influences likely to be drowning its influence out.
  • More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?
    Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan
  • Finding nature’s part in Arctic ice loss puts ...
    With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.

e!Science News

  • Cell death discovery suggests new ways to prot ...
    Melbourne researchers have identified a new way of protecting female fertility, offering hope to women whose fertility may be compromised by the side-effects of cancer therapy or by premature menopause. read more
  • Naked mole-rats may hold clues to pain relief
    Naked mole-rats evolved to thrive in an acidic environment that other mammals, including humans, would find intolerable. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report new findings as to how these rodents have adapted to this environment. read more
  • Professor publishes on first-ever imaging of c ...
    Shengyuan Yang, Florida Institute of Technology assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, with graduate student Sang Joo Lee, has published a paper on the first-ever imaging of cells growing on spherical surfaces. The paper is published in the online journal Review of Scientif ...
  • Growing corn to treat rare disease
    The seeds of greenhouse-grown corn could hold the key to treating a rare, life-threatening childhood genetic disease, according to researchers from Simon Fraser University. read more
  • Researchers examine how characteristics of aut ...
    The personality and gender of the automated voices you hear when calling your credit card company or receiving directions from your GPS navigational system may have an unconscious effect on your perception of the technology. Human factors/ergonomics researchers have studied how the gender and to ...

unEarthed

  • House Passes Pro-Coal War On Health Bill
    On way out of town, House votes industry a free pass to pollute It's been a long two years with the 112th Congress. In that time, House leadership has often trie ...
  • Happy 98th To Living Legend Ken Hechler
    Still ferocious in the fight against mountaintop removal mining after all these years Ken Hechler, thank you and Happy Birthday!  (Photo courtesy of Ken Hechler) ...
  • Waging War On Health And The Environment
    H.R. 3409’s all-out assault on bedrock environmental protections H.R. 3409 contains five of the most-anti-environmental bills previously passed by a House distinguished by its radical anti- ...
  • Russel Train--Best Friend Of The Clean Water Act
    His legacy flows through America's waterways Russel Train -- Photo Courtesy The Heinz Awards It’s not the passing of Russell Train – who died ...
  • The Earth Needs YOU This Election Season
    Your voice can help put the environment on the political agenda After the summer we have had, my mind is on climate change, what more Earthjustice can do about it, and what’s at stake in this election. I experienced the effe ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • How Does Voter Suppression Feel?
    I have a great idea. Tell all your Republican friends and relatives there is new voting rules in your town. All Republicans will have to share one voting machine, and all Democrats will have all the rest of the machines. All registered Democrats will also get a free taxi ride to the polls and th ...
  • Ken Williamson – National Review – ...
    On Up With Chris Hayes Mr. Williamson stated: “I have always sort of of disliked the kind of right wing talking point about people that don’t pay federal income taxes because of course even very poor people tend to pay a lot of taxes in the form of payroll taxes, sales taxes, things ...
  • Sorry Mitt (Laughing)
    You know you are in trouble when your campaign sucks so bad that your opponents supporters are laughing at you. I just watched Up With Chris Hayes, and it was all they could do to keep from laughing. It looks like running a campaign based on lies, distortions, out of context quotes, and more lie ...
  • Mitt Wants To Run America
    After the disaster they call the Mitt Romney for President campaign, Mitt thinks he can run America. He can’t even run a decent campaign, how could he possibly lead the free world. Sure he was great at private equity. How hard is it to steal workers pensions and outsource their jobs in tod ...
  • Jesus Joe – Give It Up
    Joe, I am sick of you trashing the “47%” that pays no federal income tax. I have a friend that works for Boeing. He makes good money, but since they like to move him between Everett and Renton, he rents, instead of owning a home. He says he doesn’t want to spend 1 to 2 [...]

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
  • Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

+972

  • Sifting through the propaganda while touring I ...
    Tour companies operating in Israel often have a very specific political agenda and a deep impact on the perspectives of their participants. A critical approach is necessary to resist the propaganda that so often accompanies such tours. By Gary Spedding Quite often we hear Israel advocacy groups ...
  • Spotlight: The Paris Protocol and the Palestin ...
    ‘There is no denying that we are a part of Israel’s economy. If Israel raises the price of cigarettes, our cigarette prices go up. If the price of gas goes up, so does ours. If things are expensive in Israel, they are expensive here too.’ In April 1994, Israeli and Palestinian negoti ...
  • Racist ‘Kodak moment’ with African ...
    The first time I “met” Ayala Ben-Naftali was just before I was about to interview Hagai Amir. She posted the following picture on Amir’s wall, apparently a blessing she received before or after a certain celebration – I think it might have been her wedding. Yigal Amir, Yi ...
  • ‘Nothing will happen. Maybe some more te ...
    Declassified documents from meetings held before and during the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982 reveal Ariel Sharon’s contempt for Palestinian lives. Published last week by the New York Times, the documents demonstrate the arrogance of Sharon and a young Benjamin Netanyahu in their deal ...
  • Asylum seeker to Israel: Probe claims Eritrean ...
    By Isayas Teklebrhan I traveled to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on September 3, 2012 in order to submit the following letter, designed to expose the Eritrean dictatorial regime. When I arrived at the building, I explained to the security guards, that I am an Eritrean asyl ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Heritage grant to share footprints of convict ...
    The yards of the Cascades Female Factory will be filled with the footprints of the convict buildings that housed the women who were once held and worked there, as part of a conservation and interpretation project funded by the Gillard Labor Government's Your Community Heritage program.
  • Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 2012
    Australia today welcomes more than 300 delegates from among the 50 Antarctic nations to Hobart for the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
  • $469 million for NSW to deliver major rural wa ...
    Federal Water Minister Tony Burke has approved $469 million in funding to support four major projects that will return an average of 80 billion litres of water to the system each year as part of the Basin-wide commitment to infrastructure projects.
  • Review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity
    The Australian Government has released the independent review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity to respond to future extreme weather and natural disaster events and to provide seasonal forecasting services.
  • Meeting with the Queensland Government
    The meeting with Deputy Premier Seeney and Minister Powell today was productive and is hopefully the first step in resolving the differences which have unfolded between the Commonwealth and Queensland over the past fortnight.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • THE GMAC/RESCAP BANKRUPTCY OBJECTION- THE CORP ...
    The goal of our nation’s bankruptcy laws is to ensure the efficient disposition and wind down of failed companies.  But these objectives must be carefully balanced against the needs of all stakeholders, and in the case of foreclosure cases, the rights of homeowners living in properties sec ...
  • Wall Street Hedge Funds Will Spend $1 Billion ...
    St. Pete Times is today is reporting: A Wall Street behemoth plans to spend $1 billion on Tampa Bay’s hobbled housing market, dispatching teams of brokers to scour neighborhoods and buy hundreds of homes a month. But rather than resell the homes, the Blackstone Group is opting to become a ...
  • The GMAC Bankruptcy/Residential Capital Advers ...
    These are must read pleadings just for their interesting content… (Take a look under “adversary proceedings” tab) GMAC BANKRUPTCY Scridb filter
  • FASCISM ALERT! States That Protect Consumers i ...
    The Federal Housing Finance Administration, working in cooperation with the banks that are robbing Amerikans, sucking every bit of wealth out of the middle class and destroying our economy, just announced that they have drawn a new battle line in their strategic alliance that has successfully lo ...
  • URGENT HELP NEEDED…..THE GMAC BANKRUPTCY ...
    ATTEN: If you have a GMAC originated or serviced loan – A RALI, RASC, RAMP, RFC TRUST – or a foreclosure that was conducted by ETS – PLEASE assist us in the formation of an Official Homeowner Committee in the RESCAP-GMAC case in NY. One of the assertions in the objection to our ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

  • Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
    Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
  • Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
    August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
  • Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
    Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
  • Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
    Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
  • The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
    Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Momentum for shale gas builds in Europe
    The momentum is now growing fast and it is difficult to keep up with the number of parties coming out in favour of the exploitation of shale gas in Europe. However the self-righteousness behind the "environmental correctness" of the European political establishment will not be overcome without ...
  • In Europe, coal now offers both lower prices f ...
    European utilities are poised to add more coal-fired power capacity than natural gas in the next four years, boosting emissions just as the era of free carbon permits ends.
  • 22nd IgNobel awards – 2012
    This year's Ig Nobels were handed out by five Nobel laureates including the 2009 physics laureate Roy Glauber, 2009 physiology or medicine winner Jack Szostak, and 2007 economics winner Eric Maskin. Researchers who worked on statistics which show brain activity in dead salmon, changed height per ...
  • Solar Energy is in crisis
    The real cause of the solar industry’s malaise runs deeper, rooted, as it is, in the inescapable fact that, in terms of current technology, commercial scale solar energy remains a non-viable proposition.
  • Tax on income is easy to levy but fundamentall ...
    It is unfortunate that income tax often becomes a class-debate where the possession of great wealth is seen by some - usually those without - as being immoral. The possession of wealth should not however be confused with the creation of wealth. Taxation as a means of getting resources for helpin ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Best Of Comments: Confusion, Chaos, Comcast
    dangermike: I can’t be the only here who uses [surveys given by retailers] to spread just a enough chaos and misinformation to feel good about myself when I lay down my head at night. Most recent example, one of my favorite online shooting supply stores offers entry into a daily drawing for a $2 ...
  • Enough People Take Surveys For Us To Know That ...
    Whether you personally are sick of taking surveys or not, we can thank the people who were asked about their burger preferences for filling us all in on which chains we like best. Relative newcomer Five Guys Burgers and Fries won the day in every region, coming in at No. 1 out of 16 restaurants. ...
  • Facebook’s New Mobile Ad Network Uses Yo ...
    Yesterday, Facebook announced that it's new mobile ad network (the one that analysts are counting on to rescue the company's stock price) would allow advertisers to pay to use your Facebook data to target you with ads outside the Facebook environment. So, for example, if you've authorized Facebo ...
  • Kroger Recalls Spinach In 15 States Because No ...
    It's baaaack and this time it could be plaguing Kroger stores supply of spinach — our old foe Listeria has returned and is once again triggering a recall. Kroger is alerting customers in 15 states that its Fresh Selections Tender Spinach might be contaminated with Listeria. The affected spinach ...
  • Net Worth Of 400 Richest Americans Hits $1.7 T ...
    First of all — yes, rich people also might enjoy cereal for dinner. The point is that the 400 richest Americans don't have to opt for a bowl of corn flakes for four straight meals in a row because all together they're worth $1.7 trillion. Impressive, right? And that's a 13% bump from last year's ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Fed Officials Take Over ND Tribe's Social Serv ...
    The New York Times: A Tribe’s Epidemic of Child Sex Abuse, Minimized for Years Summary: Federal officials are now taking over the social service programs of the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation in North Dakota, after revelations this past summer from a federal employee whistleblower in the Burea ...
  • صفقة أخرى من صفقات الخصخصة الفاسدة يتم إبطالها ...
    مايكل ترميني، 20 سبتمبر/أيلول 2012  إقرأ المقال مترجماً هنا الى اللغة العربية في الثالث عشر من سبتمبر/ايلول 2012 أصدرت محكمة القضاء الاداري باسيوط  حكمها التي أبطلت بموجبه صفقة بيع حوالي 96% من أسهم شركة اسمنت اسيوط التي بيعت للشركة العالمية المكسيكية المنشأ "سيمكس"  و المتهمة س ...
  • صفقة أخرى من صفقات الخصخصة الفاسدة يتم إبطالها ...
    مايكل ترميني، 20 سبتمبر/أيلول 2012  إقرأ المقال مترجماً هنا الى اللغة العربية في الثالث عشر من سبتمبر/ايلول 2012 أصدرت محكمة القضاء الاداري باسيوط  حكمها التي أبطلت بموجبه صفقة بيع حوالي 96% من أسهم شركة اسمنت اسيوط التي بيعت للشركة العالمية المكسيكية المنشأ "سيمكس"  و المتهمة س ...
  • Another Corrupt Privatization Deal in Egypt An ...
    في نهاية هذا التقرير تجد ترجمة له باللغة العربية On September 13, 2012, Egypt’s Administrative Court ruled that the selling of nearly 96% of the stake of Assiut Cement to a foreign investor (CEMEX, a global building materials firm based in Mexico accused of violating environmental laws in the U ...
  • Another Corrupt Privatization Deal in Egypt An ...
    في نهاية هذا التقرير تجد ترجمة له باللغة العربية On September 13, 2012, Egypt’s Administrative Court ruled that the selling of nearly 96% of the stake of Assiut Cement to a foreign investor (CEMEX, a global building materials firm based in Mexico accused of violating environmental laws in the U ...

UK Progressive

  • What Mitt Romney Really Represents
    by Robert Reich It’s not just his giant income or the low tax rates he pays on it. And it’s not just the videotape of him berating almost half of America, or his endless gaffes, or his regressive budget policies. It’s something that unites all of this, and connects it to the biggest underlying p ...
  • The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules for Dr ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon, Texas. There, under a steel shed, they began to unload thousands of gallons of wastewater for burial deep beneath the earth. The was ...
  • Four Reasons Why Romney Might Still Win
    by Robert Reich Can Romney possibly recover? A survey conducted between Sept. 12 and Sept. 16 by the Pew Research Center — before the “47 percent victim” video came to light – showed Obama ahead of Romney 51% to 43% among likely voters. That’s the biggest margin in the September survey prior to ...
  • Escobar Shocked “Fag” is a Slur
    by Rev. Irene Monroe Homophobia is part and parcel of male professional sports. Gay epithets are so pervasive among players that they are sadly totally unaware of the weight and meaning of the terms. “It didn’t have significance to the way that’s being interpreted right now,” Toronto Blue Jays s ...
  • President Obama Univision Town Hall – Miami
    Context and nuance are frequently missing from political discourse today. The Mainstream Media provide short sound bytes to build their narrative. At UK Progressive we pride ourselves on depth and an audience sophisticated enough to read and formulate their own opinion based on fact vs. commenta ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Massive Eltanin Meteor 2.5 million years ago s ...
    From the file of “Things that would really be catastrophic”. Did a meteor have a role in a major shift in Earth’s Climate? The start of the Quaternary period (2.588 million years ago, where the Pliocene became Pleistocene) coincides with evidence of a mega tsunami in the South ...
  • McIntyre v Lewandowsky — Can we call in ...
    The Lewandowsky view is Drilling into noise. The McIntyre response: Lewandowsky’s Fake Correlation My favourite Lewandowsky line is: “We cannot get into the details here…” McIntyre can and does in gory depth. He posts the equations, the code, the tables, everything. He graphs t ...
  • Antarctic sea ice trends at record highs. Fear ...
    While stories of the Arctic record fall in sea-ice have been all over the news, all over the world, it’s almost as if the Southern Hemisphere didn’t exist. Right now, this week apparently, the sea ice is at or near record highs (bearing in mind that we’re still only talking 30 ...
  • Lewandowksy, Oberauer, Gignac – Is the p ...
    Stephan Lewandowsky, Gilles Gignac, Klaus Oberauer The scathing blog posts are popping up everywhere. From William Briggs we get a sense of the historical importance of the Lewandowsky et al effort. One day a terrific psychological study is going to be written on the madness and mass lunacy whi ...
  • Government burn $70 billion a year subsidizing ...
    When activists protest about “fossil fuel” subsidies, it is a case of extreme-wordsmithing. Like chinese-whispers, the truth gets turned 180 degrees. It takes a string of half truths stacked in a series to come up with something which is so completely counter to reality it is meaning ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Lapka Environment Monitor
    Years ago I imagined I’d be spending Dec 25 deep in a bunker, surrounded by monitoring equipment, and a periscope. I want to safe, but I also want to know what it happening. Now I expect to be at my safe spot (but not in a bunker), and using online resources to monitor the world. But if th ...
  • Is This A Real Dragon?
    This image is doing the rounds. It doesn’t look photoshopped (check out what the puppy is doing…), but it could be a model. But if it is real, well I’m glad it is so small! Source: http://tt.mop.com/read_12716265_1_0.html Your're reading Is This A Real Dragon? by Robert Bast, ...
  • How Easy Could It Be: Start World War 3
    One of my key concerns regarding Dec 21, 2012 is that some crazy religious leader might believe it is a good time for Armageddon to occur. A Biblical apocalypse involves all sorts of strife, but especially wars – lots of wars. A third World War kicking off in the Middle East could be the b ...
  • Man Builds Stolen Truck Bunker
    There are many lessons to be learned from this, although I presume that nobody reading this would be so foolish and ignorant… A conspiracy theorist ‘preparing for the worst’ stole a truck and trailer to build a doomsday bunker in his garden. Police tracked down a stolen food truck to the ...
  • A David Wilcock Fact Checker
    I saw David Wilcock give a long talk promoting his new book The Source Field Investigations. During that talk he proudly mentioned how many references his book had – linking his ideas to legitimate scientific studies and news items. His talk was good, but some of the scientific studies he ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Fine for spitting, urinating in public places ...
    People spitting, urinating, defecating or dumping garbage in public places will attract a fine under stringent norms. Reported by Zee News 52 minutes ago
  • World Twenty20: South Africa beat Sri Lanka by ...
    Rain played spoilsport but failed to dampen the spirit of the 34,000 spectators, who had turned up for the first Twenty20 international between SL and SA. The start of the match was delayed by two-and-a-half-hours and when rain stopped only seven overs per side were possible. Reported by Firstp ...
  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says expects Israel ...
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Israel will eventually go beyond threats and will attack Iran, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Saturday. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • ‘Barfi’ chosen as India’s entry for the Oscars
    The movie, starring Ranbir Kapoor as Murphy aka Barfi, and Priyanka Chopra as Jhilmil, has been lauded in film circles for its simplistic and moving narrative that has managed to tug at the heartstrings of audiences which equally enjoy commercial potboilers. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • FDI in retail: Political doublespeak
    There is something terribly ironic about the current political storm over the decision to allow FDI into multi-brand retail. Ironic because , as we found out when we first reported this a year ago, bi... Related Stories Reported by NDTV.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Taliban Perspectives on Reconciliation
    One of the most important events related to the war in Afghanistan to occur over the past few weeks was the publication of a report by a group of British experts concerning an inclination towards compromise among the Taliban. The authors interviewed several informed sources to prepare a report a ...
  • The Eastern Sector of the US Missile Defense S ...
    The issue of establishing an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system in Europe recently received a lot of attention both in Russia and in the West. The positions of the two nuclear superpowers — Russia and the United States — differ greatly, and that is hindering the process of further reducing thei ...
  • Death of US Ambassador in Libya Marks the Coll ...
    ‘They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind…’ The recent tragedy provoked by the release of the movie “Innocence of Muslims” – the killing of US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three members of the US consulate staff – in Benghazi, the city which became famous as the e ...
  • Libya: Permanent Chaos a.k.a. Permanent Revolution
    In Libya, the US consulate in Benghazi came under attack which took the lives of the US ambassador and other mission staff. While the unrest was immediately sparked by the release of an anti-Muslim film on YouTube, an overview of the developments during the past several months should place the c ...
  • Secrets Behind September 11
    Surveys conducted across the US show that the majority of Americans, including senior citizens old enough to remember the US entry into World War II, regard the September, 11, 2001 drama as exceeding in historical importance the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Speaking of the latter, these days it is ...

BlogHer

  • Get Emergency Help with This App
    Sarah Kimmel from Technology for Moms reviews an app called iHelp+ that is meant to increase your personal safety. Sarah explains, There are a lot of apps out there that claim to help you in a jam or an emergency. Many of them are very capable of doing just that. What sets iHelp+ apart from th ...
  • Cupcakes Made In Coffee Filters
    [Editor's Note: I love it when food bloggers find new ways to use items that can be found in almost any kitchen. This particular idea, baking cupcakes (quite oversized ones, to be sure) in coffee filter liners, caught my attention for its inventiveness. It's a lot of fun in an unexpected package ...
  • Do Extroverts Make More Money than Introverts?
    There is an assumption out there that extroverts make more money than introverts. But is that really so? We tend to get this picture of leaders as extroverts because many are outspoken, visible, and share their ideas openly. We see the polished well-spoken, well-connected CEO and think he must ...
  • How to Make and Use Compound Butter
    Though butter by itself is certainly lovely (particularly if it's a good, European-style variety), it's fun and simple to jazz it up by turning it into a compound butter. A compound butter, or Beurre composé in French, is simply butter that has been softened, then mixed with a variety of delicio ...
  • Should I Give My Boyfriend a Marriage Ultimatum?
    This post is dedicated to all of the hopeful couples out there who are hoping to someday get a ring. I know that a lot of women hope to be in a long-term relationship some day, but take it from somone who is on the other side of the relationship fence -- the grass is not always greener. I recent ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • How Long is a Good Nap?
    THE NANO-NAP: 10 to 20 seconds. Sleep studies haven’t yet concluded whether there are benefits to these brief intervals, like when you nod off on someone’s shoulder on the train. THE MICRO-NAP: two to five minutes. ...
  • UPDATE 1-US needs arsenic limits in rice-Consu ...
    * Group tests more than 60 popular rice products * Finds nearly all contained some level of inorganic arsenic * Recommends consumers limit weekly intake of such products * Food industry groups argue against singling out one source ...
  • Scientists: Overuse of Antibiotics in Animal A ...
    Former FDA commissioner is among 150 scientists and 50 farmers calling on Congress to regulate antibiotic use. The overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture and medicine is putting human lives at unnecessary risk and driving up medical costs, according to ...
  • Vitamin D in Pregnancy Critical for Brain Deve ...
    Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy could hinder babies’ brain development, impeding their mental and motor skills, a new study suggests. Researchers in Spain measured the level of vitamin D in the blood of almost 2,000 women ...
  • New York Probes Energy-Drink Makers
    New York’s attorney general is investigating whether the multibillion-dollar energy-drink industry is deceiving consumers with misstatements about the ingredients and health value of its products. Eric T. Schneiderman issued subpoenas in July to PepsiCo Inc., maker of AMP, Monster Beverage ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Sept. 21, 2012
    A conveyor belt that takes coal from the storage pile at Consumer Energy’s B.C. Cobb Plant in Muskegon on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. Before the coal will be burned it will be ground into a talcum powder consistency.  This increases the surface area and burning speed of the coal. (AP Photo/T ...
  • Coal is changing, so when will W.Va. catch up?
    In their announcement earlier this week of a “strategic repositioning plan,” Alpha Natural Resources officials spoke some real truths about what’s happening with the coal industry in general and the Appalachian region’s coalfields in particular. Kevin Crutchfield, Alpha&# ...
  • Alpha announces ‘strategic repositioning ...
    Here’s the announcement just out early this morning from Alpha Natural Resources: Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR), a leading U.S.-based coal supplier, today outlined plans to reshape its portfolio of operations to meet the evolving demands of a changing global coal market. By early 201 ...
  • Sen. Rockefeller to Patriot Coal CEO: Strippin ...
    In this Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., gestures during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Finally, another of our state’s elected officials has stepped forward to exp ...
  • Friday roundup, Sept. 14, 2012
    In this image made out of film “Comrade Kim Goes Flying” released by Another Dimension of An Idea/Koryo Group, Comrade Kim Yong Mi played by Han Jong Sim smiles as she wears a coal miner’s helmet. It’s a classic tale of a small town girl who follows her dreams to the big ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Flower at the Apple Store
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content4S FlowerFlower at COIT TowerA Grey Wolf in the Apple StoreStudent FailFlowers and Stone
  • Why I’m Camping for the iPhone 5
    When things are roughly similar, I value form over function. It’s that simple. Elegance, beauty, and design are all magnifiers of experience for me, and my daily device is the place where this matters most. But I also see the other side. Google Now is overwhelmingly superior to Siri. Googl ...
  • The Merits of Admitting When You’re Wrong | Aa ...
    When Oprah started defending fabulist James Frey, she was savaged by the press. So she invited her critics on the show and apologized, saying “You were right, I was wrong.” It didn’t destroy her reputation; it rescued it. When the space shuttle Columbia exploded, launch manager Wayne Hale took f ...
  • On Cognitive Dissonance | Arronsw
    We all know people don’t like to hear bad news about themselves. Indeed, we go out of our way to avoid it — and when we do confront it, we try to downplay it or explain it away. Cognitive dissonance psychologists have proven it in dozens of experiments: Force students through an embarrassing ini ...
  • Fixies vs. Grothers | Aaronsw
    Fixed-mindset people feel smart when they don’t make mistakes, growth-mindset people feel smart when they struggle with something for a long time and then finally figure it out. Fixies try to blame the world when things go bad, growthers look to see what they can change about themselves. Fixies ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • When Grandma Gets Raped
    by Noelle Howey,thedailybeast.com – The rape of a 73-year-old bird-watcher in Central Park this week ignited shock around the world. But why? Rape isn’t about sex but violence—and in this case, possibly revenge. Noelle Howey reports. The suspect, 42-year-old David Albert Mitchell, was arre ...
  • WWH/CJE Hippie Digest: Lennon’s Island & ...
    What Happens If Colorado Legalizes Marijuana? By Scot Kersgaard If Amendment 64 passes, it will become almost immediately legal under Colorado law for adults to possess, grow, consume and give away (to another adult) up to an ounce of marijuana. It may take more than a year, however, before adul ...
  • Global protests Today over “Fracking&#82 ...
    By KEVIN BEGOS,AP - PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than 100 protests against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking are scheduled to take place around the world on Saturday, building on public concerns but also using an overly simplified message to spur outrage. The GlobalFrackdown website a ...
  • WWH/CJE Saturday News Briefs
    Standard Chartered inks $340 million deal with NY regulator. No jail! How’s that for in your face corruption? (Reuters) – Standard Chartered Bank signed a final agreement with New York’s banking regulator to pay $340 million to settle allegations that it hid transactions with I ...
  • A Hippies Guide To The Law of Attraction: So w ...
    Previous Chapters: A Hippies Guide To The Law of Attraction Enough with the Preliminaries – What IS it? So what is The Law of Attraction? The Law of Attraction states, quite simply, that in all of the universe, across all dimensions, vibrations that are alike are drawn together. Huh? That’ ...

reference frame

  • Are black holes surrounded by firewalls?
    Dilaton has noticed a new, extremely provocative concept that was introduced among the quantum gravity researchers two months ago: the firewall. For decades, people teaching general relativity – including your humble correspondent (e.g. here) – have been explaining that nothing spe ...
  • Australia: qubit as a single silicon atom
    Peter F. has pointed out the following intriguing experimental advance in quantum computing: Australians Create 1-Atom Silicon Quantum Computing Bit (quBit) (Daily Tech) How does it work? Well, they take an ordinary single silicon atom, rotate its electron spin (bound to a ...
  • Chu and CMS' Incandela's DOE Higgs talk
    Steve Chu is going to get some positive TRF publicity. ;-) A week ago, Joe Incandela, the boss of CMS, gave a talk for the Department of Energy. Nobel prize winner Steven Chu who happens to be a secretary at the department gave an introduction. In the U.S., you may become a secreta ...
  • May the name legitimately influence the fate o ...
    Yes. Cosmic Variance promotes something that feminists consider to be science, namely this paper in PNAS: Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students The paper claims that they wrote 127 applications for a lab manager position, attached a random name of the applicant w ...
  • German biogeochemistry postdoc proposes to ext ...
    Nathaniel Virgo (SE) is a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Jena. His DPhil was about the effect of limited energy supply on organisms. You may see lots of similar "conventional physics" topics that are always "tainted by the environmentalist ideology" a little bit. ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Canadian linked to anti-Islam film seeks prote ...
    A Coptic Christian activist say he fears for his family’s safety after being accused of playing a role in the notorious anti-Islam film that has sparked violence throughout the Muslim world. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: California man linked to anti-Islamic movie questioned ...
  • Canadian Department of Justice Lawyer Commits ...
    Murdered Judges and Suicided Lawyers  The mainstream Canadian media is reporting that a lawyer  at Canada’s Department of Justice has committed suicide. This breaking news comes only a few short months after the alleged murder of Canadian Justice Carolyn Layde ...
  • Dr. Steve Pieczenik: Bin Laden, The Oswald Lik ...
    the critically acclaimed author of psycho-political thrillers and the co-creator of the best-selling Tom Clancy’s Net Force paperback series, Steve Pieczenik. Alex covers the latest on the Osama bin Laden assassination spectacle. www.stevepieczenik.com www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv ...
  • Who or What is News Politics Now AKA Stanley I ...
    Here is a man with a great detective mind who has used meta data embedded in photos, cache search files, and excellent sleuthing to expose that the US Government is directly responsible for the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film. The company, Stanley Incorporated, is a CIA/DHS front and hav ...
  • Libyan protesters storm militia bases leaving ...
    At least two protesters were killed in Libya, a hospital official says, as hundreds of demonstrators attacked militia compounds in Benghazi, angry at the unchecked excesses of armed groups in the eastern city including last week’s killing of the U.S. ambassador. CBC | Top Stories News ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Research Analyst and Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • FDA Warns Leading Cosmetics Maker on Anti-Agin ...
    By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently (Sept. 7) warned Lancôme to stop making grand claims for several of its anti-aging products -- claims that would require the agency to approve them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  • Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve You ...
    By Ken Cook President, The Environmental Working Group Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
  • EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning: How did we do it?
    By Rebecca Sutton, Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist What's in those bottles on top of my washing machine and under my sink? We've been asked that question thousands of times - especially by fans of EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database, who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
  • Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the ...
    By Jason Rano, Director of Government AffairsIt's fair to say that I'm not a beach person.  My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles.  I have nightmarish memories of being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Another young teen was victim of attempted abd ...
    For the second time in as many days, a young teenage girl was the victim of an attempted abduction while walking to school in the region north of Oslo. Police have launched a major investigation to determine whether the two cases are related. They haven’t found any immediately clear links ...
  • Jens presents his re-election team
    Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg wants a third term as Norway’s prime minister, and on Friday he revealed a new ministerial line-up aimed to help them all win re-election. At the forefront is Jonas Gahr Støre, who will leave the foreign ministry after seven years to take over the even ...
  • Stoltenberg shakes up government
    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, acutely aware that his government coalition parties have taken a dive in public opinion polls, was expected to announce a major shake-up of his own government ministers from the Labour Party on Friday. Among the many moves: Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre will ...
  • Police braced for demonstrations
    UPDATED: Police in Oslo took up positions around the US  and French embassies, the French school and the central square, Youngstorget, on Friday as various Muslim organizations protested what they consider to be insulting characterizations of their prophet Mohammed. US officials had warned US ci ...
  • Terror defendants lose on appeal
    Three men charged with planning terrorist attacks in Norway were found guilty by an appeals court in Oslo on Thursday. All three men came to Norway as refugees, were arrested on terror charges in 2010 and now face several more years in prison. One of the men, Mikael Davud , was sentenced to seve ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • First Ever Long Term Study of Monsanto’s Round ...
    We, unfortunately, live in a world where the dollar is king. It takes priority over everything, and everyone — well, except for those few who possess a lot of it. Any attempt to regulate profit-centric industry is proclaimed as ‘communism’ and deemed an injustice and an obstac ...
  • Reframing Our Values With the Law of Ecocide ( ...
    I write to you from the UN in NY where I am in meetings and talks about the law of Ecocide. It’s been a busy few days; I have also been speaking at various classes in NYU and downtown to a group of students studying Corporate Governance. On Monday I shared a platform with Jill [...]
  • Geoff and Nadia Lawton – Full Day Workshop at ...
    What: Full Day Workshop on Desert Agriculture Where: Cal-Earth, 10177 Baldy Lane, Hesperia, California 92345, U.S.A. When: Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, 9am to 5pm Cost: $100 Cal-Earth Institute and Midwest Permaculture are proud to announce a special event at the very end of our joint traini ...
  • Darren Doherty Speaking at FACETS 2012
    On August 24, 2012 Skillset in partnership with Net Balance and ABC Rural presented FACETS 2012, a TEDx styled event that focused on key issues for regional Australia: Food, Agriculture, Climate, Energy, Topsoil and Sustainability. FACETS 2012 consisted of 16 presentations of no more than 18 ...
  • Why are the FAO and the EBRD Promoting the Des ...
    Editor’s Note: It is intensely infuriating when people in suits make wholly inaccurate, ignorant statements about incredibly important issues, and due to their position get it published in the mainstream media, where far too many people take it at face value. The rapid conversion of the wo ...

Pointman's

  • The creeping betrayal of democracy in Australia.
    For various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...
  • The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...
    Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...
  • An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.
    It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
  • Time to cull the prat nominations.
    I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...
  • The repair man.
    He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • ‘We All Count’ Campaign To Combat Historic Lev ...
    From a press release from Project South: More than 30 million people will be discouraged or prevented from voting in this election. “This is the highest number since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. We know that many of those people are African-Americans, LGBT people, people displaced b ...
  • Aramark Uses Hurricane Isaac to Loot the City ...
    From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: On August 29, Hurricane Isaac swept through New Orleans and surrounding areas with raging winds and torrential rains causing widespread flooding and epic power outages that lasted in some cases as long as a week. Businesses and schools were closed for up ...
  • Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...
    This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...
  • Seven Years After Katrina, A Divided City, By ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org.   Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The ...
  • Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bil ...
    1          Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011.  Source: Census Bureau. 1          Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate.  Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...

Information Underground

  • Gun Talk • Re: TEENS REACT TO FPS RUSSIA
    iframe http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97c_1316373919 ......those copters whilst cgi, in real life you betcher they're real. There are tons of videos with model helicopters, add one high caliber pistol and a small computer(with thermal cam) and bang! Don't be foolish guncopters are real enough ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/ ... Fy9grJlRXx US Prepares for Riots, Buys 1.2 Billion Bullets U.S. Homeland Security is preparing for an all-out “American Spring” rebellion and has bought 1.2 billion bullets for trained snipers. AAFont Size By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 9/19/2 ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:14 pm
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HcDTE1W6DkStatistics: Posted by fighter4good — Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:00 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I don't know if there is any truth to this but his site is still down...or rather, difficult to access/navigate. http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2012/09/wha ... 8227180765 1776blues said... Miami, heard from a friend who contacted ZCF and ZCF said his site was probably hacked and his webhost re ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Interview: Shining a Light on Africa’s Elephan ...
    With the mass killing of African elephants sharply escalating recently as global prices for ivory have risen, few articles have conveyed the scope and brutality of Jeffrey Gettleman that trade as vividly as the one written earlier this month by Jeffrey Gettleman, East Africa bureau chief fo ...
  • Shining a Bright Light on Africa’s Elephant Sl ...
    Fueled by a rising demand for ivory, the mass killing of African elephants has reached extraordinary levels. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman discusses his in-depth investigation of the deadly ivory trade, which involves the U.S.-backed militar ...
  • Fuel Consumption in New Cars Can Be Halved by ...
    With advanced technologies and innovative government policies, fuel consumption in new vehicles can be cut in half by 2030, saving billions of dollars in fuel costs worldwide and significantly reducing CO2 emissions, a new report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency says. According to ...
  • Video: Debating the Complex Impacts of Shale G ...
    At a panel discussion at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies this week, a group of experts tackled the controversial drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and questions about its impacts on the environment, human health, and the U.S.’s energy f ...
  • San Francisco Program Would Give Consumers Opt ...
    City officials in San Francisco, Calif. are considering a $19.5 million program that would give consumers the option of buying 100-percent renewable power at a higher cost. The so-called CleanPowerSF plan, which would be done in partnership with Shell Energy North America, would also invest abou ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • Jil Sander’s Quiet Return
    Designer Jil Sander Returns to the Runway with a Ripple Not A Splash. Robin Givhan reports from Milan.
  • 'Sense Of The Congress' With Bibi Over Obama
    After midnight yesterday, the Senate voted 90 to 1 to express the "sense of the Congress" as weighing in on the debate about what red lines the U.S. should declare against Iran. You'll remember this issue as the one roiling the relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu and President ...
  • Alps Victims' Pasts Probed
    Investigators of the shocking quadruple murder are looking into the victims' unusual histories.
  • Muslims to Obama: No We Won't
    My National Post column reflects on President Obama's failure to deliver his promised new era of peace with the Islamic world.
  • Why the Rush to Label Islam and Liberalism Inc ...
    Hussein Ibish offers a powerful and pointed reply to those who'd condone attacks on free speech in the name of Islam, such as literary critic and New York Times contributor Stanley Fish:

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • INCJ aims to jointly buy 50% of Renesas
    The state-backed Innovation Network Corp. of Japan is thinking of jointly acquiring troubled chip-maker Renesas Electronics Corp. with major private-sector companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Panasonic Corp., sources said Saturday. The public-private support initiative is aimed at helpi ...
  • Benefits of joint development
    When a conflict of opinion over ownership of something makes it impossible for either side to give up its claim, why not propose that both sides share the thing equally? The whole issue with the Senkakus is the value of the gas reserves, so it's about money. Continue to call the islands as eit ...
  • Cubs rally late, beat Cardinals
    It was all going so well for St. Louis. Chris Carpenter had a solid 2012 debut and Pete Kozma swiped home for the go-ahead run, putting the Cardinals in position to extend their timely winning streak. Then it all fell apart in a hurry.
  • Panetta should worry about U.S.
    Regarding the Sept. 18 article "Panetta tells Japan, China to resolve Senkaku row peacefully": U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot of nerve telling Japan and China what to do. The United States has failed to withdraw its forces from Okinawa and remove its air bases from throughout Ja ...
  • Harumafuji faces final test against Hakuho
    Harumafuji put one hand up on his fourth career Emperor's Cup with a ransacking of fellow ozeki Kakuryu on Saturday, setting up a final day showdown against yokozuna Hakuho for all the marbles at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament. After Harumafuji blazed through Kakuryu in the day's penultimate ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Happy Crashiversary! Are you better off now t ...
    Four years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, it’s time to take stock of things by asking a stock political question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Where you stand on the answer depends on where you sit. Many people, businesses and communities are still struggling to regain ...
  • The “New” Saskatchewan: Oklahoma North?
    Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still receive the full benefits of unio ...
  • There’s Nothing Inevitable About Eduflation
    It might have been my imagination (or perhaps wishful thinking), but in the midst of this year’s back-to-school media coverage, the issue of student debt seemed a little more prominent than usual. At least two surveys identified high levels of debt ($28k on average), and the stress—more than tha ...
  • Electoral campaign in Québec: three parties, t ...
    The elections in Québec are finally behind us. We know the results, the suspense is over. The point of this blog post is neither to weigh out its outcome or the degree of satisfaction or despair which its conclusion generates. It was however a very interesting campaign when one stops to think of ...
  • Do Corporate Tax Cuts Really Pay For Themselves?
    A new paper by Jack Mintz ( with Duanjie Chen) argues that “corporate tax reductions of more than 30% since 2000 have, contrary to the critics’ cries, failed to make an appreciable dent in tax revenues thanks to multinationals habit of shifting profits to Canada to take advantage of ...

ReDress

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
    Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
  • What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
    Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
  • Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
  • Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • Desalination And You
    “This Nov. 6, Santa Cruzans will not only cast their votes for a new president or an incumbent one, but also for local city council candidates and ballot measures. Citizens may dedicate much of their political consternation to the presidential election, but there are important decisions to ...
  • 5 Crazy Schemes We May Turn to For More Water
    “For decades Canadians have lived with a fear that the U.S. will come for their plentiful freshwater. Perhaps not in the form of armed soldiers crossing the border with empty buckets, but through trade agreements and corporate shenanigans. With each U.S. drought, our northern neighbors gro ...
  • Water shortage sparks ‘crisis’ in ...
    “The lack of clean water in refugee camps in South Sudan has become a “major humanitarian crisis” with people exposed to diseases due to contamination, the Red Cross said Thursday. “Severe water shortages in refugee camps close to the Sudanese border have contributed to a ...
  • Water deficit leads to consumption of dirty water
    “Local residents in Kupang, Timor Tengah Selatan and Timor Tengah Utara, are reportedly consuming unhygienic fecal-contaminated water from nearby dikes, as sources of fresh water have dried up in the last few weeks. “We’re using dirty water from a dike for drinking water. We have no choice ...
  • Vanishing Arctic Ice Is the Planet’s Whi ...
    “In 2007, a new record was set for the minimum summer sea ice cover in the Arctic had halved. This furious flag waving attracted attention. That year, the world’s scientists declared the end of any doubt that our addiction to burning fossil fuels was changing the face of the planet. ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Marks 31st International Day of Peace
    Washington D.C. (September 21, 2012) – On the 31st anniversary of the International Day of Peace, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for reflection and a shared commitment to peace. ...
  • The “Surge” is Over. The War is Not
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement following the announcement that the “surge” in Afghanistan has ended. In 2009, 33,000 additional troops were deployed to Afghanistan. Today, troop deployment levels have returned to the pre-“surge” levels. Sixty-eight thou ...
  • International Monetary Experts Meet in Chicago
    Today a panel of international monetary policy experts gather in Chicago at an event sponsored by the American Monetary Institute (AMI) to discuss major changes in U.S. monetary policy proposed by United States Congressman Dennis Kucinich.  The meeting is occurring on the one year anniversa ...
  • War by Coal Expanded to Include Ratepayers
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 21, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke out against the so-called “Stop the War on Coal Act” on the House Floor. He called for an end of coal’s war on the health and safety of the American people. See video here. “The ‘Stop The War on Coal Act’ i ...
  • Kucinich Addresses Coalition of Anti Nuclear A ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today addressed an overflowing audience of enthusiastic supporters as he explained the current status of the nuclear industry in the United States. He cited the problematic Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Northern Ohio as an example of the state of the indus ...

Authentically Wired

  • SNEERING IS NATURAL FOR SOME
    … SNEERING IS NATURAL FOR SOME… Why Sneering at Public Servants Comes So Naturally to Many of America’s Richest Citizens  …  In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the indi ...
  • wasn’t water boarding
    … HEY … it wasn’t water boarding so it’s legal just ask “W” & Cheney … New Evidence Supports Claims Of ‘Pharmacologic Torture’ At Guantánamo 09-18-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley Witness testimony that was to be used in court by former Guantánamo ...
  • IS THIS WHAT MITTEN HAD IN MIND
    … IS THIS WHAT MITTEN HAD IN MIND …? Here Are The 47% Of The Population Who Don’t Pay Federal Income Tax Joe Weisenthal | Sep. 17, 2012, 8:33 PM … Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romneys-47-who-are-dependent-on-the-government-2012-9#ixzz26wCbn6Pe Mitt Romney’s lat ...
  • Any form of taxation is a redistribution
    … Any form of taxation is a ‘redistribution’ of wealth … Romney changes message to attack Obama’s talk on ‘redistribution’ Filed under: Blogroll
  • position backed by many of America’s so- ...
    … Draconian … sinister … YES… but a position backed by many of America’s so-called elite … UC Professor Eyes Permanent Sterilant To Cull US Population 09-19-2012  •  http://www.prisonplanet.com, Jurriaan Maessen During a speech earlier this year given by University of California-Rivers ...

Popular Technology

  • Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al Gore
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly posted, "This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's Climate ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pics ...
  • Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share t ...
  • Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In these it is revealed their lack of humanity for the death of a political adversary. In a forum thread titled, "Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43" fre ...
  • Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech
    "The impact of that ban on PopTech was to silence him." - Sphaerica (Bob Lacatena) [Skeptical Science] In March of 2012, the same computer illiterates at Skeptical Science who do not know how to use Google Scholar had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In these I am mentioned i ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • An interview with conservation writer David Qu ...
    David Quammen has done consistent and conscientious reporting from the trenches of ecological and evolutionary research for over thirty years now. Few in the world can claim as intimate and broad an understanding of conservation biology as he can. His books such as The Song of the Dodo and Mons ...
  • Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
    A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
  • Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
    Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
  • Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments
    When the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest, stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in rivers and giant ant ...
  • Turning gorilla poachers into conservationists ...
    Although founded only four years ago, Endangered Species International-Congo, has ambitious plans to protect dwindling Western gorilla populations and aid local people in the Republic of the Congo. The organization, an offshoot of Endangered Species International (ESI), has been spending the las ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Space shuttle Endeavour home after final flight
    The US space shuttle Endeavour took its final flight on Friday (local time), making a spectacular series of flypasts over California before landing in Los Angeles where it will retire near its birthplace.Riding piggyback on a specially...
  • SpeechJammer gadget among Ig Nobel prize winners
    For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer.The SpeechJammer, a device that disrupts a person's speech by repeating his or her own voice at a delay of...
  • Scientists smell a rat over GM study
    A controversial French study linking GM corn to cancer has been pulled apart by Kiwi scientists and others overseas.The study has led the French Government to order an investigation and GE Free New Zealand has requested an "immediate...
  • Teacher fired for supporting pro-gay protest
    A Far North teacher who was suspended last month after he supported a pro-gay protest at the Catholic College he taught at has lost his job.Pompallier Catholic College science teacher Nigel Studdart was formally dismissed from his...
  • 'God particle': Pays to ask questions
    "It's unique, like finding a unicorn. You can't explain how it got there, you're just amazed that it has."Actually, David Krofcheck's take on the discovery of the strangest piece in the tiniest jigsaw in the universe makes a fair...

The Bovine

  • CFIA came to Montana Jones’ farm…
    They came, they saw the lambs, but they did not kill them… at least not yet. Will they be back? Montana posted the following pictures and commentary on her Facebook page yesterday:        
  • CFIA came to Montana Jones’ farm…
    They came, they saw the lambs, but they did not kill them… at least not yet. Will they be back? Montana posted the following pictures and commentary on her Facebook page yesterday:        
  • Jury returns not guilty verdict on raw milk fa ...
    From Abby Simons in the Star Tribune: “A Hennepin County jury Thursday found a Stearns County farmer not guilty of violating the state’s food safety laws when he distributed raw milk from an Amish farm to Twin Cities customers. Alvin … Continue reading →
  • Jury returns not guilty verdict on raw milk fa ...
    From Abby Simons in the Star Tribune: “A Hennepin County jury Thursday found a Stearns County farmer not guilty of violating the state’s food safety laws when he distributed raw milk from an Amish farm to Twin Cities customers. Alvin … Continue reading →
  • Montana Jones says the CFIA are coming to kill ...
    Video posted five hours ago (that would be 3 am): See yesterday’s post about the Montana Jones’ situation.

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Greek Bailout on Hold Again, Is Obama Partly t ...
    Once again talks between the Troika and Greek politicians broke down. Talks between the Greek political parties have also broken down. Meanwhile support for Golden Dawn, a political party with a Nazi-like symbol is on a huge upswing. For details, please see, Greek State Tries to Stem Neo-Na ...
  • Christine Lagarde, IMF Chief, Warns US About S ...
    For a brief moment, I almost thought Christine Lagarde, head of IMF, gained control of her senses. The Telegraph headline IMF chief Christine Lagarde says US needs to rein in its banks is the illusion that briefly (very briefly) led me astray. Not to fear, in the end, Lagarde proved i ...
  • Davidowitz on QE and the Economy: "Bernanke is ...
    Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., talks about the performance of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and the impact of Fed policy on consumer confidence. Davidowitz speaks with Tom Keene, Sara Eisen and Scarlet Fu on Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance." ...
  • Spain's Fiscal Deficit 8.56% of GDP in First H ...
    Spain's original deficit target for 2012 was 4.4%, then revised to 5% then 5.3%. The last revision brought the target all the way up to 6.3%. So how is Spain doing? Via Google Translate Libre Mercado says Spain recorded a fiscal deficit of 8.56% of GDP in the first half The government s ...
  • Help Stop Special Interest Groups and Unions F ...
    In general, if union leaders and organizers are raising money for some political purpose, I am against the proposal (and vice versa). In the case at hand, public unions are raising money to defeat proposition 32, so it is nearly automatic that I would be for it. And I am. But what is C ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Update: Gone- But Not Fishing
    I’ve been intending to write this update since … well, mid July. Many of you have been wondering (some of you out loud) as to the reason for the absence of my usual long narratives and commentaries here at Boiling Frogs Post. I certainly owe you an explanation, and by ‘you’ I mean our loyal [...]
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet- “Take Five” This week’s the “Soothing the Beast” BFP/Jamiol music pick takes form in the jazz piece Take Five written by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. It is without a doubt the quartet’s most popular song. It has been in ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 9 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Shipyard Photos – Teekay’s Knarr FPSO Taking Shape
    In mid-2011, Teekay Corporation agreed to supply BG Norge Limited with a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Knarr field located off the westernmost coast of Norway in the North [...]
  • USCG Adds $250 Million FRC Order to Bollinger ...
    The office of U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.), acting as chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, announced Friday that the USCG has opted to build an additional six Sentinel-class Fast Response [...]
  • Brazilian Private Equity Fund Puts Up $180 Mil ...
    With an estimated 250 extra OSV’s needed to support Brazil’s offshore oil and gas industry by 2020, Brazilian private equity fund P2 has promised $180 million to help fund the construction [...]
  • Seatankers Opts For A Dozen X-BOW’s
    Ulstein said Thursday that it has entered into a contract with China’s Sinopacific’s Zhejiang yard for the delivery of twelve design packages for a series of platform supply vessel’s being [...]
  • Iranian Tankers Doing the Flag State Shuffle
    LONDON–Iranian ships have started sailing under the Moldovan flag as others lose their Tuvalu flags, databases and campaigners say, as Iran to play an increasingly complex game of cat and [...]

Press TV

  • Protest to anti-Islam film held in Bern
    Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of Swiss capital Bern to express their anger over the blasphemous movie and anti-Islam cartoons.
  • London to host Iranian music ensemble
    Iranian prominent Rastak music ensemble is slated to perform concert in the British capital, London, presenting contemporary Persian folk music.
  • US must shut down Guantanamo prison
    The lawyer of a Yemeni Gitmo inmate that suspiciously died in early September has blamed his continued detention for his demise, urging closure of the camp.
  • ‘World’s rich people have got richer’
    A research company, Wealth-X, says world’s rich people have gained more wealth last year as the number of billionaires rose 9.4 percent to 2,160 people.
  • 'US violates human rights at Bagram'
    A US-based network of legal rights campaigners has called for an end to the illegal practice of “administrative detention” exercised by the United States at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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