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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

25 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Michael Hayden, director of the CIA.Michael Hayden, director of the CIA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Personal & Noted  ( Worth a look - but often not on RSS here )

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

  • Barack Obama calls for Middle East focus
    President Barack Obama has challenged the international community to confront the causes of Middle East turmoil, saying the world faces “a choice between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common.”Related StoriesBill Clinton hints Hillary could run for the White House ...
  • East China islands dispute sparks sea battles
    A water cannon battle erupted between Japanese and Taiwanese ships in the latest confrontation over tiny islands in the East China Sea, as Japan met another rival, China, in an effort to reduce tension.Related StoriesVietnamese bloggers jailed for criticising the stateThousands go on rampage dur ...
  • Syrian refugees clash with Jordanian police
    Syrian refugees angry over harsh living conditions in their desert tent camp have clashed with Jordanian police. Related StoriesSyrian opposition holding talksLibyan plan to disband armed militiasSiemens denies Iran sabotageOlmert free to run for office after escaping prison termChildren of Syri ...
  • Outrage at CIA's deadly 'double tap' drone attacks
    Late in the evening on 6 June this year an unmanned drone was flying high above the Pakistani village of Datta Khel in north Waziristan.Related StoriesCarry on campaigning: Romney sweeps critics asideBill Clinton hints Hillary could run for the White HouseCarry on campaigning: Mitt Romney sweep ...
  • Postcard from... Delhi
    He was a thick-set man and in truth he took up most of the space on the Delhi Metro's narrow seat. Related StoriesPostcard from... Maastricht

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • 'Mystery Shopper' Scam Shut Down; Duped Victim ...
    Two websites that conned people by recruiting them as "mystery shoppers," only to trick them out of their money have been shut down by the state of New York. The sites, Idealcorp.net and Survsonl.com, promised the chance to work from home, helping a market research company gauge customer servic ...
  • Chinese Billionaire Sells Canned Fresh Air to ...
    It was bound to happen at some point, I guess. Chen Guangbiao, a famous Chinese businessman and philanthropist, has recently launched a line of canned fresh air collected from various parts of China and Taiwan. The product is called "Chen Guangbiao: Nice Guy" and sells for about $0,80. It's no s ...
  • Encouraging The Public With A 'Nudge' Or 'Think'
    If approached in the right way, citizens are willing to change their behaviour and do more to help themselves and others, according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The project, carried out jointly at the universities of Manchester and Southampton, experimen ...
  • County Faith Healer Rapped Over Advert
    A county Londonderry faith healer has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) for claiming he could treat "serious or prolonged ailments or conditions requiring the attention of a registered medical or other qualified practitioner." Danny Gallagher, a self-styled 'S ...
  • How Many Asteroids Are Out There?
    Answer: a LOT. And there's new ones being discovered all the time, as this fascinating animation by Scott Manley shows. Created using data from the IAU's Minor Planet Center and Lowell Observatory, Scott's animation shows the progression of new asteroid discoveries since 1980. The years are not ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Lightning does not glide
      This really should end all 'debate' on the F-35. Via MoS.
  • Jason Kenney, creep
    Via Dawg, I learn the following: An email extolling the Conservative government’s record on gay rights has some recipients wondering how Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney knows their sexual orientation. The email from Kenney’s MP’s office sent Friday trumpets the Co ...
  • Thoughts on thoughts . . .
    THE HUMAN BRAIN is astoundingly complex, according to a report on ScienceDaily, "Human Brains Share a Consistent Genetic Blueprint and Possess Enormous Biochemical Complexity". Indeed, the human mind is astoundingly complex in both construction and operation. Scientists at the Allen In ...
  • Pre-Con...
    ...federists. Suddenly their obsession with the War of 1812 makes a whole lot more sense. This bit is cringing: "As the Prime Minister [David Cameron] said when addressing the Canadian parliament last year: 'We are two nations, but under one Queen and united by one set of values,'" Hague ...
  • Elasticity of demand
    I got yer business model of higher edumacation right here: It seems there is an upper limit to how much people are able or willing to pay (or borrow) for their education. HM Goverment's appalling move to increase the upper limit on university fees has resulted in a decline of 54 000 admissions. ...

Media Matters for America

  • Despite National Security Concerns, Fox Sugges ...
    Fox News personalities have called for the United States to cut off foreign aid to several countries in the wake of protests and attacks on U.S. consulates abroad. However, top military officials and Republicans say cutting foreign aid is "foolish" and bad for national security.Fox Calls For U.S ...
  • Fox Distorts Obama's Words On Democracy In The ...
    Fox News is claiming that on 60 Minutes President Obama characterized the death of an American ambassador and other violence as "bumps in the road." In fact, when Obama made that statement, he was referring to the fact that he supported the transition of Arab countries from autocratic rule to de ...
  • Fox Distorts 14-Year-Old Video To Accuse Obama ...
    Fox is distorting comments President Obama made in 1998 to claim he has "a manifesto" for engaging in "class warfare." In fact, Obama was simply outlining government's role in creating a society where everyone has a fair chance at success.Fox Claimed Obama Comments In 1998 Are "Absolutely Class ...
  • Hannity's America , A Nation Of Right-Wing Smears
    In a special edition of his Fox News show titled, Hannity's America: The Dirtiest Campaign Ever, that purportedly examined President Obama's reelection campaign, Sean Hannity reprised a succession of right-wing media smears against Obama, his administration, and progressives that ...
  • Fox Wins Straw-Man Argument Against Taxing Mil ...
    Fox News is distorting President Obama's economic agenda by pushing the straw-man argument that taxing the entirety of millionaires' incomes would fund the government for less than three months. In fact, Obama has proposed no such thing, and this Republican talking point obscures the billions in ...

Global Research.ca

  • The Globalization of NATO
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  • In Liaison with Washington: Canada’s Com ...
    The ease with which self-described democratic states embroil themselves in torture continues to be illustrated by the manner in which agencies of the Canadian state, from spies to judges, have wedged open a door to legitimize complicity in a practice that both domestic and international law ban ...
  • Education and Democracy in America
    Democracy and an educated citizenry go hand in hand. Public education is the great equalizer. America’s founders believed it was insurance against loss of liberty. Jefferson said: “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, t ...
  • Benghazi Attack disrupted Major CIA Operation: ...
    The September 11 attack that claimed the life of the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans disrupted a major CIA operation in the North African country. According to the New York Times, at least half of the nearly two dozen US personnel evacuated from the eastern ...
  • British Banking and the Global Drug Trade
    Death penalty doesn’t mean anything unless you use it on people who are afraid to die. Like… the bankers who launder the drug money. The bankers, who launder, the drug money. Forget the dealers, you want to slow down that drug traffic, you got to start executing a few of these fuckin ...

TPM Cafe

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

  • South Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium; Citize ...
    South Africa announced the end to its moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (known as fracking) on September 7. The African National Congress-led government first declared the moratorium on fracking in April 2011 because of the growing public outcry. This controversial technique for extracting na ...
  • Why Capitalism, Not Population Is Our Greatest ...
    I have long detested the work of Paul and Anne Ehrlich. I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas in Austin when I was first introduced to the Ehrlichs’ infamous book, The Population Bomb, which was first published in 1968 and reprinted countless times before being “updated” and reissu ...
  • The North Dakota Oil Fracking Boom Creates Cla ...
    This story was produced with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.NEW TOWN N.D. --When the black gold rush began, no one on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation expected it to take down Main Street.A modest strip of one- and two-story buildings framed by undulating plains, Main ...
  • Beware! 5 Depressing Stories About Food in the ...
    As we continue to manipulate nature in detrimental ways to ensure our comforts, we put one of our great needs at risk: food. From creating polluted environmental conditions that both contaminate and deplete food, to putting weird chemicals in our food that just do not belong, we continue to ta ...
  • Global Frackdown Begins Tomorrow
     On September 21st activists across the world are rising up against the proliferation of the shale gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. As Mark Schlosberg writes for Food and Water Watch:Tomorrow, communities across the world are fighting back with one unified message: our ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Solar for our community, colorado community pr ...
      When you subtract out shady roofs, renters, and other factors, only about 25% of Americans have a place to install solar power. With the high upfront cost of a complete system, the potential solar universe shrinks further. That changes with “community solar.” After a long wait on the stat ...
  • BREAKING – 8 blockaders begin tree-sit in path ...
    Eight Tar Sands blockaders just climbed 80 feet into trees in the path of Keystone XL construction, and pledged not to come down until the pipeline is stopped for good. TransCanada workers are starting to arrive on the scene. The tar sands blockade folks will be tweeting and live blogging as tod ...
  • Tar Sands Blockaders held for two days on Clas ...
    On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 around 8:00AM, three landowner advocates and climate justice organizers locked themselves to a piece of machinery critical for Keystone XL construction in Franklin County, Texas. They did so to defend David Hightower’s. As construction crews arrived at Mr. Highto ...
  • Three Mile Island – Deja vu
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has reported that a reactor at Three Mile Island, the site of the nation’s worst nuclear accident, shut down unexpectedly on this afternoon when a coolant pump tripped and steam was released.  Right now they are saying the plant is stable with no impact on publi ...
  • Halliburton loses radioactive rod used in frac ...
    Somewhere between Pecos and Odessa in southwestern Texas, Halliburton has lost a seven inch radioactive rod used in natural gas fracking. Workers discovered the rod was missing on September 11th.  A lock on the container used to transport the radioactive rod was missing, along with the rod insid ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Did a comet hit Canada 12,900 years ago ?
    Did a massive impact explosion wipe out humans in North America and initiate a new Ice age ? It's a theory that has been discussed by scientists for s...
  • Hospital removes eel from man's posterior
    A man who had managed to get an eel stuck up his rectum sought assistance at an Aukland hospital. No explanation has been provided as to how the unnam...
  • Scientists to build clock that lasts forever
    Theoretical scientists have come up with a way to build a four-dimensional space-time crystal clock. The idea behind such a device is that it will lit...
  • Mystery of the 'Franken-mummies
    Two skeletons discovered on a remote Scottish island have been at the centre of a mystery for 10 years. Considered to be the first evidence that the a...
  • New Mexico spaceport almost complete
    As the world's first commercial spaceport nears completion the project's future is called in to question. The $200 billion project is to be the first ...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Ocean Creatures Face Climate Consequences
    (USA Today) Sharks, blue whales and loggerhead turtles look like losers due to climate change coming to the Pacific Ocean in this century, scientists report. Sea birds, tuna and leatherback turtles, on the other hand, look more likely ...
  • Deal to Turn Whisky 'Leftovers' into Biofuel f ...
    (BBC News) A deal has been signed to turn by-products from a Scottish distillery into fuel for cars. In what is claimed to be a world first, the Tullibardine distillery in Perthshire has linked up with a spin-out company from Napier U ...
  • Daimler Drives German Catchup in Electric Cars
    (Bloomberg) Harald Geisbauer has meticulously planned his purchase of an electric car. For months, the 52- year-old engineer from southwest Germany kept a log of his driving in his Toyota Prius to determine range, he has read volumes a ...
  • GM Discounts Volt, Showing that Electric Cars ...
    (AP) General Motors rolled out the Chevrolet Volt two years ago with lofty sales goals and the promise of a new technology that someday would help end America’s dependence on oil. So it seemed like a good thing in August when sales of ...
  • Nuclear Industry Slowed by Its Own Waste
    (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Just as the nuclear industry is starting to build reactors after a 30-year drought, it faces another dry spell. The industry thought it had what it needed for its rebirth: federal loan guarantees; a ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

  • Union Refs Must Be Laughing at Scott Walker
    The Green Bay Packers got hosed last night because the regular NFL referees are in a labor dispute with the NFL owners and are not working. Instead, a bunch of high school and small college referees are doing the pro games, and they aren't very good. They made a couple of ludicrous calls, incl ...
  • The Worst Coalition in the World
    As I have mentioned several times before, David Brooks loves his dichotomies. His approach to almost every column is to reduce a problem down to two categories and then let those two categories duke it out until the one he agrees with emerges victorious. So, for Mr. Brooks, it used to be that ...
  • Politico's Concern-Trolling
    Politico is getting pretty desperate. They accuse the president of running a campaign that is lacking in audacity. I get that they are riffing on the title of the president's book, but "audacity" is not normally seen as a good thing. That's why the book title was clever. To see that this art ...
  • Obama is Strong with White Working Class
    Here's another reason that the national polls don't matter, even if the polls are taken of just white people. A new survey of 2,501 adults, Beyond Guns and God: Understanding the Complexities of the White Working Class in America, published on Sept. 20 by the Public Religion Research Institu ...
  • Romney Shambles
    I don't want to be cavalier about something that must have been quite frightening for Ann Romney. A plane she was traveling on had to make an emergency landing last week because an electrical fire was filling the cabin with smoke. I'm sure that Mitt Romney was quite emotional about it when he ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Greatest Nurses of WWI
    These brave women deserve greater plaudits for what they achieved in the face of unimaginable adversity; the 10 Greatest Nurses of World War I. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Shameful History of WWII Japanese American ...
    The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese left thousands dead and injured, but also had grave consequences for resident Japanese Americans. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Open Rebellion Breaks Out at a Boston Cannabis ...
    Activists rally at Hempfest to reform state and federal marijuana policies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Picture of Mental Health
    This infographic shines a searchlight on how Americans face mental health issues today - and just how shockingly common they really are. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Cutest Baby Animals of the Desert
    Sometimes the best things can come from the harshest environments - so here are some pictures of baby animals of the desert we think are just too adorable! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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

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  • News you may have missed #797
    Egypt names new intelligence chief. Ex-Blackwater firm to teach US spies survival skills. Turkey court convicts 326 of coup plotting.
  • Court papers reveal Australian official’s affa ...
    A statement filed with a federal court in Australia reveals that a Vietnamese intelligence officer, who is accused of having received millions of dollars in bribes to secure an international business contract, had an affair with an Australian government official involved in the deal.
  • News you may have missed #796
    Iranian spy scandal sparks outrage in Turkey. British SIGINT agency 'helps US drone attacks'. Canada's top spy dismisses call for human rights scrutiny.
  • News you may have missed #795
    US 'cannot verify authenticity' of Afridi interview. Evidence suggests US covered up Soviet massacre in Poland. Yemen President sacks intel agency heads.
  • Situation Report: China’s Huawei Going M ...
    The Chinese telecommunications hardware firm, Huawei Technologies has been constantly under fire around for the world for its supposed deep ties to China’s military and intelligence establishment. On September 13, Huawei Technologies and another Chinese firm, ZTE, were the subject of a Congress ...

War is a Crime.org

  • You’re in Good Hands with Happy Hands Homeland ...
    Political movements never succeed by one method or strategy alone. It takes many tactics, many plans, many approaches, many disparate–even at times conflicting–actions to get things done. And artists are always an important part of the effort. Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Education and Democracy
      Education and Democracy   by Stephen Lendman   Democracy and an educated citizenry go hand in hand. Public education is the great equalizer. America's founders believed it was insurance against loss of liberty.   Jefferson said:   read more
  • Occupation Hell in Palestine
      Occupation Hell in Palestine   by Stephen Lendman   Forty-five years and counting. In 1977, John Pilger titled his documentary film "Palestine Is Still The Issue." It's no different today than then. In many respects, it's worse.   read more
  • A Response to Raha/Havaar's 'Open Letter' Atta ...
    By Phil Wilayto read more
  • Syria News - Sep 25
        Free Syrian Army leaders face challenges of unifying the disparate fighters on home ground - Reuters Syria frontline rebels indifferent to FSA command move to Syria - Middle East Online Syria’s rebel groups are independent actors, sharing little in ideologies or resources - Mc ...

Grist - News

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

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  • We Are Change UK – Phil Hayton and WTC7
  • ‘Israeli subs with nukes in Gulf…
    Yet another admission of Israeli nukes… Israel is planning to permanently station a submarine carrying nuclear cruise missiles in the Persian Gulf, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday. Israeli submarines have visited the Gulf before, but the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanen ...
  • Jesse Ventura Vindicated on WTC 7 vs Piers Morgan
  • Furor over Israeli Facebook user who called Af ...
    Photographs uploaded by an Israeli Facebook user on Friday caused a furor, as users responded to the photo album, which included a caption connoting African migrants as “animals.” via Furor over Israeli Facebook user who called African migrants ‘animals’ in photo caption ...
  • Distrust Of Media Hits Record High
    by Alexander Higgins The results of a new Gallup poll reveal that Americans’ distrust with the media is more severe than ever and that is just those willing to admit it. More American’s than ever have woken up to the fact that the media is often used for little more than parroting press releases ...

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    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Escaravox is a Greenhouse-Inspired Pavilion on ...
    Read the rest of Escaravox is a Greenhouse-Inspired Pavilion on Wheels in Madrid Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Andres Jaque Architects, Escaravox Mobile Pavilion, green urban design, greenhouses, irrigation systems, madrid architecture, Recycled Materials, spanish ar ...
  • NASA Records Earth’s “Dawn Chorus” Produced By ...
    Previously we reported on the work of two researchers who recorded the ‘sounds of smog’ in and around California, but now NASA has successfully recorded the sound of the entire planet! Using twin spacecrafts known as Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSPs), NASA was able to record the pl ...
  • Mecanoo Architecten Completes Green-Roofed Ams ...
    Read the rest of Mecanoo Architecten Completes Green-Roofed Amsterdam University College Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Amsterdam, amsterdam university college, delft, eco design, eco university, green architecture, Green Building, green de ...
  • Design, Sketch and Communicate With Morpholio’ ...
    Read the rest of Design, Sketch and Communicate With Morpholio’s New Trace App – Now Available for Free! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: architecture portfolio, columbia morpholio, custom portfolio, design a portfolio, design portfolio, digital portfolio, d ...
  • Tesla Unveils Six FREE Solar-Powered Electric ...
    Electric vehicle company Tesla has unveiled six solar-powered rapid Superchargers in California that will provide Model S owners with a free charge! As reported by Katie Fehrenbacher at GigaOm, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the company is using technology developed by SolarCity – and ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Fly Over the Moon With New High-Res 3D Images
    Soar over canyons, mountains, and craters on the moon in amazing high-resolution 3D with these new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
  • Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Final Flight a ...
    The Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final flight last week was likely one of the most photographed plane flights in history. Riding piggyback on a specially adapted Boeing 747, Endeavour’s farewell tour took it from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Los Angeles International Airport, crui ...
  • Castration Led to Longer Life in Historical St ...
    Again and again in the animal world, males have shorter lifespans than females, an effect scientists attribute in part to the deleterious effects of testosterone. Now researchers who looked at historical records of Korean eunuchs castrated during boyhood found that the eunuchs lived considerably ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Colorful ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • Khoe-San People Represent Earliest Branch Off ...
    The Khoe-San people of southern Africa have been recognised as one of the earliest formed distinct human genetic groups for several years now, but new research appears to peg them as the earliest split from the main human family tree so far discovered.

PakAlert

  • Obama and FEMA Create Civilian Army Trained in ...
    On August 13th a new class of 231 FEMA Corps members graduated to assist the US government in future disaster preparedness whether state sponsored or natural. These members trained with at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and will be leaders at FEMA’s Center for Domestic ...
  • 19 Signs That America Is Being Systematically ...
    You are being watched. The control freaks that hold power in the United States have become absolutely obsessed with surveillance. They are constantly attempting to convince the American people that we are all "safer" when virtually everything that we do is watched, monitored, tracked and recor ...
  • You Know You Are A Conspiracy Theorist If…
    You Know You Are A Conspiracy Theorist If
  • Swedish Politician Raises Concerns About Chemt ...
    A Swedish green party politician named Roy Hagberg has recently expressed concern about aerosol pollution that has been littering the skies at a growing rate over the past several years. Last week she told the Swedish publication Katrineholms Courier that the CIA and the U.S. Security Authori ...
  • Kissinger: Obama Will Create A New World Order
    Globalist kingpin Henry Kissinger has stated that the main task of Barack Obama will be to create a New World Order, suggesting that the chaos unfolding around the world is an opportunity rather than a crisis.

Andy Worthington

  • This Week at Guantánamo: More on Adnan Latif, ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • The Old and the New: Photos of a Journey throu ...
    The Old and the New: A Journey through Waterloo, Borough and Bermondsey, a set on Flickr. These photos are the last in a series of photos from Friday August 31, 2012, when, as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, I cycled through central London and back to my [...]
  • Why Does the Government So Desperately Want In ...
    What is the government doing? Last year, when Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with its contentious passages endorsing the mandatory military detention of terror suspects, there was uproar across the political spectrum from Americans who believed that it would be us ...
  • Andy Worthington Speaks at Event in London Mar ...
    I’m sorry to report that it’s two years since the Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui received an 86-year sentence in a court in New York for allegedly having tried and failed to shoot the US soldiers in whose custody she was being held in Afghanistan in August 2008. There is ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 5: The Future of My G ...
    Please support my work! Hello, my friends, readers and supporters. For several years now, I have been asking you, every three months, for donations to support my work as an independent freelance journalist and researcher, specializing in Guantánamo and the “war on terror,” which I fi ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Co-Defendant in Alaska Militia Case Gets Five- ...
    As he sits in jail awaiting sentencing in November, Alaska Peacemaker Militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox may now be a bit more worried about his fate. A co-defendant, Coleman Barney – found by an Alaska federal jury to be the least culpable in a murder-conspiracy plot hatched by Schaeffer a ...
  • Tattooed White Supremacist Arrested in Oregon ...
    A white supremacist with a 10-state criminal record dating back to the 1980s was arrested in Oregon over the weekend and charged with the brutal knife killing of a recently retired man he had apparently never met. It was extensive media coverage and the use of electronic billboards displaying th ...
  • Misogyny on the Web: ‘How to Smack a Bitch’
    There’s war-of-the-sexes satire aplenty on the Internet, and much of it (including some that is very funny) borders on the offensive. The more effective satire is, the more likely it is to make you squirm. But then there’s just plain woman-hating. The website Itsguycode.com was launched in 2008 ...
  • Amish Leader, 15 Others Convicted of Hate Crim ...
    The leader of an Amish splinter sect in Ohio and 15 of his followers were convicted of federal hate crimes today for forcibly shaving the beards and hair of breakaway members of the religious community.
  • Anti-LGBT Propagandist Published Again in Acad ...
    Psychologist Paul Cameron has been bashing LGBT people for at least 30 years. His continued demonization of LGBT people and the shoddy and suspect research methods he uses to advance his claims have earned his Family Research Institute (FRI) a place on the SPLC’s anti-LGBT hate group list. They ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Police Turn Spanish Parliament into 'Fortress' ...
    Protestors gather close to Spain's Parliament ahead of a demonstration in Madrid September 25, 2012. (AFP Photo / Dominique Faget)Police in Spain blocked off access to the Spanish Parliament Tuesday in anticipation of "Occupy Congress," a mass protest expecting to draw thousands to the ...
  • Champions of De-Growth Offer Alternatives to D ...
    VENICE - “We should find the way, with our small degrowth movement in the global North, to align ourselves with the environmental justice movement originating with indigenous peoples from the South,” Catalan ecological economist Juan Martinez-Alier said at the third international deg ...
  • US Marines to Face Criminal Charges Over Urina ...
    Two US Marines will be court-martialed to face criminal charges over an incident in 2011 wherein several soldiers urinated on the dead bodies of murdered Afghans and distributed a video of the incident on the internet. read more
  • UN: Yemen Plummets Into Severe Food, Humanitar ...
    A worsening food crisis is sweeping Yemen, leaving nearly half of the population food insecure according to the UN's World Food Program (WFP). "Yemen is sliding ever further into a humanitarian crisis," WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, and said th ...
  • Report: "Counterproductive" US Drone Program " ...

Lifehacker

  • Updated: The Best Email Client for iPhone [Ann ...
    Despite the nice updates to Apple's stock Mail client in iOS 6, it hasn't been the best for some time. Ever since Sparrow hit the iPhone, we've loved it more than any other mail client on iOS despite its shortcomings. Even though they've cea ...
  • Most Popular Alarm Clock: Your Smartphone [Hiv ...
    If you're looking for an alarm clock, there are hundreds of models and types to choose from, but when we asked you which alarm clocks were the best at getting you out of bed or waking you so you have the best start to the day, you had some g ...
  • How to Get Unstuck: The Big Paper Experiment [ ...
    If you ever find yourself stuck and unclear of where you are and where you're going, try the following exercise to get moving again. All you need is a pen or pencil and two sheets of paper. More »
  • The Aperture Home Screen [Featured Android Hom ...
    Reader Jays2Kings created a home screen using the style of the popular Portal video games, with big square icons and a few text widgets. Here's how it works. More »
  • All That Gross Bacteria on Your Toothbrush and ...
    You know how everything is killing you? It's not. You've likely heard claims about gross (and possibly dangerous) bacteria invading your body when you flush the toilet, wash your pillowcase irregularly, or just go near a kitchen sink. Even ...

Water Privatization

  • Mayor renews call for water district privatization
    Sun.Star website empowers Philippine communities by providing news and information from the provinces to a national and global audience. It is your link to home in the Philippines.
  • Westfield plans to sell water utility to Citiz ...
    For the past year, Mayor Andy Cook has been searching for solutions for this rapidly growing suburb, which is blessed with land ripe for development but cursed with outdated infrastructure and little money to get ahead.
  • Westfield plans to sell water utility to Citiz ...
    For the past year, Mayor Andy Cook has been searching for solutions for this rapidly growing suburb, which is blessed with land ripe for development but cursed with outdated infrastructure and little money to get ahead.
  • Camden's Adventure Aquarium will get a rev ...
    Outside the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, visitors marveled at penguins waddling over the ground, then quietly slipping into the water. Nearby, seals glided effortlessly through another tank, surfacing to eat fish offered by trainers.
  • Adventure Aquarium to get revamp, including mo ...
    Outside the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, visitors marveled at penguins waddling over the ground, then quietly slipping into the water. Nearby, seals glided effortlessly through another tank, surfacing to eat fish offered by trainers.

Guardian

  • Eurozone crisis live: Riot police clash with a ...
    Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, tells audience in Berlin that policymakers must continue striving to save the euroGraeme WeardenBen Quinn
  • Secret courts plan receives blow at Lib Dem co ...
    Delegates vote overwhelmingly against part of justice and security bill rejecting the advice of Nick CleggCoalition plans to introduce a new system of secret courts have been thrown into disarray after Liberal Democrat delegates voted overwhelmingly to oppose them, rejecting the advice of Nick C ...
  • BBC apologises to the Queen for Abu Hamza disc ...
    Security correspondent Frank Gardner prompts crisis by telling how Queen lobbied home secretary for arrest of radical clericAn unscripted Today programme revelation about the Queen's hostility to the radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri forced the BBC into making an embarrassing apology to ...
  • Floods hit 300 homes in north England
    Pennine and Cheviot areas deluged by nearly twice the average rainfall for September in two daysMore than 300 homes have been flooded in the north of England in two days, as almost twice the average rainfall for September drenched the Pennine and Cheviot catchments and streamed off both sides.Bo ...
  • British Bankers' Association to be stripped of ...
    Banking lobby group will be replaced by formal regulator following scandal that led to departure of Bob DiamondThe British Bankers' Association is to be stripped of its role of setting the Libor interest rate – used as the benchmark for the cost of borrowing for households and businesses around ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • The CIA 911 Afghanistan and Central Asia
    " Report of May 1963 to Joint Chiefs of Staff Bush's Terror War and the Fixing of Intelligence On September 11, 2001, within hours of the murderous 9/11 attacks, Bush, Rumsfeld, and ...
  • China leader in Afghanistan for first time in ...
    Kabul on Saturday. The visit signaled Beijing's diminishing confidence in Pakistan's ability to check terrorists from crossing the border to the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The last visit ...
  • Two Charged Over Video Showing Marines Urinati ...
    Two Marines now face criminal charges for urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last year, the Marine Corps announced Monday. Staff Sergeants Joseph W. Chamblin and Edward W. Deptola ...
  • Combined Force Kills Taliban Weapons Dealer
    From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 25, 2012 An Afghan and coalition security force killed a Taliban weapons dealer and destroyed ...
  • US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1995
    As of Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, at least 1,995 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • DailyDirt: Defying Nature -- The Quest For A L ...
    In the quest for a longer life and eternal youth, people have come up with many different (and sometimes crazy) theories on how to get there. Add years to your life with vitamins, supplements, and hormones! Eat this, not that! Postpone death with suspended animation! Here are just a few examples ...
  • Once Again, If Someone Has The Same Lame Story ...
    Over the years, we've noted time and time again that people seem to think that if a book, movie or TV show comes out that has some basic similarities to a project they worked on, it simply must be copyright infringement. But, of course, copyright is supposed to apply to specific expression, rath ...
  • Rep. Lofgren Introduces Global Free Internet Act
    Rep. Zoe Lofgren has recently announced two brand new, but important bills (pdf): there's HR 6529, which is an ECPA reform act and HR 6530, the Global Internet Freedom Act. The ECPA reform effort is one we've discussed a few times recently. It's much needed, but law enforcement officials are p ...
  • Can 'The Internet Vote' Be The Next Important ...
    I recently talked about how the cynicism of the "internet generation" is only helping to keep broken systems in place. I recognize that many people feel that their vote is useless, and think that voting for "the lesser of two evils" is not worth it. I also have sympathy for those who argue tha ...
  • Brazilian Judge Overreacts, Orders Arrest Of H ...
    We've noted in the past that Brazil doesn't seem to have much of a concept of safe harbors for secondary liability, as it's blamed Google for actions of its users in the past, even once ordering that YouTube be shut down, or blocked due to a video that someone didn't want seen. Once more, the B ...

VacTruth

  • Dangerous Banned Vaccine Repackaged and Given ...
    Yet again the UK government has allowed a previously banned and dangerous vaccine onto the UK market, by repackaging it and giving it a new name in a bid to deceive parents. The first time the UK government tried this tactic and succeeded was in 1988 when the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination ...
  • New Mandate for Healthcare Workers — Get ...
    From nurses, lab techs, and students, to clerical, security, and volunteer personnel, you may be given an ultimatum anytime now: get a flu vaccine or lose your job.
  • “We are being forced to take a flu shot ...
    John writes: “We are being forced to take a flu shot or wear a mask October 31st at the hospital I work at. Are there any support groups I can contact. I’m highly against this and I have contacted an attorney who pretty much said I can take it or lose my job. That can’t... [Co ...
  • Do Vaccines Contain Formaldehyde and Mercury?
    This question comes from Tina: “Hi there, a dear friend and client is expecting her baby any day and they are still not decided on vaccinations. She told me that she’s heard not to take notice of people putting you off vaccinations as they do not contain formaldahyde and mercury anym ...
  • “Is there any proof out there that react ...
    This message is from Mandi: “Is there any proof out there that reactions to vaccines can lead to /cause generalized pediatric dystonia in a toddler? I believe in my heart that it has in my daughter,now 20 months old And furthering by belief genetics teams can find no genetic mutation or li ...

BroadSnark

  • On Love, Life, Cocaine, and Impossible Monday ...
    Somehow my last post on mental illness ended up in a Facebook discussion about love. Well, I know how it happened. My friend asked if love was a mental illness and informed me that cocaine and love release the same chemicals in the brain. This is an intense question for a hungover Monday morning ...
  • Thoughts on Societal Mental Illness
    Make a claim that one snort of cocaine makes you irredeemably insane and people will line up behind laws that lock cocaine users up for life. But read that 73% of incarcerated women have mental health issues and many of those same people will find it a compelling argument against mass incarcerat ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Loved In Defense of Lust. I am sincerely sad that I was unable to attend this American Enterprise Institute event entitled Assange’s asylum in Correa’s Ecuador: Last refuge for scoundrels? Roger Noriega, the man who – among other things – was hired to lobby for the Hondur ...
  • Drug War History – And So It Begins
    While I was pulling up articles for my last post, I re-read the infamous New York Times piece Negro Cocaine “Fiends” Are a New Southern Menace. The article is a very convoluted argument against prohibition. And it is made by trying to scare the crap out of  ignorant people. The docto ...
  • Victims, Villains, and Heroes
    When I first started delving into the drug war and criminal injustice system, I saw it as a process of dehumanization that I couldn’t ignore. While I had friends who were caught up in the system, as one of the least targeted people, the only connection I saw to my personal life was what I ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Living under drones
    Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (Stanford Law School) and the Global Justice Clinic (NYU School of Law) have released a new 182-page report, Living Under Drones: Death, injury, and trauma to civilians from U.S. drone practices in Pakistan. Here are the report&# ...
  • Untold atrocities: Stories of Syria’s children
    Save the Children has released a new report containing testimony from children who, along with their parents, are now receiving help as refugees. Wael, a sixteen-year old boy describes his experience in Syria. I’ve been here in Za’atari for a month now. Why did I leave? What a question. There’s ...
  • The U.S. and Iran on a dead end path to war?
    At Open Democracy, Trita Parsi writes: There are three ways war between US and Iran can begin: through a deliberate decision by either Washington, Tehran or Tel Aviv; through a naval incident in the Persian Gulf that escalates out of control; or through the gradual elimination of all other polic ...
  • Defusing Israel’s ‘detonator’ strategy
    Patrick Tyler writes: Over six decades and through as many wars, the U.S. has escalated its commitment to Israel’s security, but it has neglected a corresponding insistence that Israel develop the institutions of diplomacy, negotiation and compromise necessary to fully engage the Arabs dur ...
  • Andrew Bacevich: Even dumb ideas have consequences
    It came and went in a flash and now it’s long forgotten, buried in the rubble heap of history.  But maybe, given recent events, a little excavation is in order.  After all, as the author of Constantine’s Sword, James Carroll, wrote in 2004, looking back on the 9/11 moment, ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Al Gore’s ‘dirty weather’ ti ...
    From NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) Facebook page, a silver lining to the heat wave/drought of 2012: Check out these 2012 numbers from NOAA SPC, showing only 757 confirmed tornadoes as of September 21. That compares to an annual average … Continue reading →
  • Remember the panic over methane seeping out of ...
    Remember this BBC story? Turns out it is another one for the Climate FAIL file. All sorts of wailing came from that by climate alarmists. The New Scientist claimed there were megatonnes of methane bubbling out at that time. It … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale: How Much of an Impact Does the Atlant ...
    Last week I asked Bob Tisdale to take a hard look at potential correlations between the AMO and Arctic sea ice extent, and he rose to the challenge – Anthony Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post presents reference graphs … Continue reading →
  • NASA on Arctic sea ice record low – stor ...
    NASA finally admits it Arctic cyclone in August ‘broke up’ and ‘wreaked havoc’ on sea ice — Reuters reports Arctic storm played ‘key role’ in this season’s sea ice reduction. ‘The cyclone remained stalled over the arctic for several days&#823 ...
  • Weekly Weather and Energy News Roundup
    Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “To single out one variable, namely radiation through the atmosphere and the associated ‘greenhouse effect,’ as being the primary driving forc ...

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Biosingularity

  • Understanding the brain by controlling behavior
    In the quest to understand how the brain turns sensory input into behavior, Harvard scientists have crossed a major threshold. Using precisely-targeted lasers, researchers have been able to take over an animal’s brain, instruct it to turn in any direction they choose, and even to implant f ...
  • Aging heart cells rejuvenated by modified stem ...
    Damaged and aged heart tissue of older heart failure patients was rejuvenated by stem cells modified by scientists, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2012 Scientific Sessions. “Since patients with heart failure are norma ...
  • Rabbits kept alive by oxygen injections
    Rabbits with blocked windpipes have been kept alive for up to 15 minutes without a single breath, after researchers injected oxygen-filled microparticles into the animals’ blood. Oxygenating the blood by bypassing the lungs in this way could save the lives of people with impaired breathing ...
  • Successful transplant of patient-derived stem ...
    Stem cells from patients with a rare form of muscular dystrophy have been successfully transplanted into mice affected by the same form of dystrophy, according to a new study published June 27 in Science Translational Medicine. For the first time, scientists have turned muscular dystrophy patien ...
  • Calcium: Good; Calcium Supplements: Not So Much
    After years of hearing that we should consume more calcium and supplement our diets with calcium pills, a new study questions that advice and suggests that calcium supplements may increase the risk of having a heart attack. Calcium supplements have been widely accepted by physicians and the publ ...

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Three Ways to Fix the Climate in 2012 and Beyond
    Over the last two years, the consequences of 150 years of fossil-fuel development have materialized with a vengeance. The U.S. has experienced the worst drought in 80 years, replete with unprecedented Western fires and fears of widespread crop failure.Click here to read this article
  • Get Out the Vote: Proposition 37, California's ...
    So hey, did you hear? There's an election coming up! And while we all know it's important to vote in the presidential election, in California there's another reason to vote: Proposition 37.Click here to read this article
  • Jack Johnson: Why This Famous Musician Wants Y ...
    "We are what we eat, so we should know what we're eating," says musician Jack Johnson. Click here to read this article
  • 'The World According to Monsanto': Fighting a ...
    A giant, multinational agribusiness is using its market share and patent system to spread genetically modified crops throughout the world. A movie documenting this problem generated quite a stir. By piecing together facts and presenting it in a powerful, visual way, she can carve out a vision fo ...
  • Meet Monsanto's number one lobbyist: Barack Obama
    During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals that he understood the GMO issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to their concerns and act on them.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

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My Care2 Picks

  • Engineered Viruses Created in Government Labs ...
    Canadian researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot caused more physiological issues Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
  • Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies
    decoding astroturfing & malicious forum & Internet operations, trolls, sockpuppets, crapflooding & disinfo specialists Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Public Schools Use RFID Chips to Track and Pun ...
    In the San Antonio school district, the Student Locator Project (SLP) is being beta-tested at Jay High School and Jones Middle School. The SLP includes the use of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...
  • Why Does The U.S. Government Treat Military Ve ...
    The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it i Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...
  • The $6 QUADRILLION Cost Of The Climate Scam!
    U.N.s absurd climate panel had already at least tripled the true (and harmless) rate of warming to be expected from our adding CO2 to the air.Divided by 10 the true cost of effective action. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US Marines face courts martial over urinating ...
    ShareThisUS Marines face courts martial over urinating on three bloodied corpses --Marines also charged with dereliction of duty for number of other command failures 24 Sep 2012 Two US Marines will face trial by courts martial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan a ...
  • Ontario confirms H1N1 flu infection
    ShareThisOntario confirms H1N1 flu infection 25 Sep 2012 A Canadian man in southwestern Ontario has been confirmed to have the H1N1 virus, or so-called swine flu, provincial health officials said Tuesday. The unidentified man was being treated at an undisclosed southwestern Ontario hospital, Ont ...
  • Democrats Worried Obama, in GOP Concession, Co ...
    ShareThisDemocrats Worried Obama, in GOP Concession, Could Cut Social Security During Lame Duck Session --Chained CPI, or consumer price index, is an alternative measure of calculating inflation that would lessen the cost of living increases for Social Security payments. When the president and S ...
  • Democratic Rep. to White House: Search, social ...
    ShareThisDemocratic Rep. to White House: Search, social networks should be exempt from cyber order 24 Sep 2012 Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) on Monday urged the White House's top cybersecurity official to ensure that social networking, search engines and e-commerce networks are exempt from any sec ...
  • Voter suppression laws may disenfranchise 10 m ...
    ShareThisVoter suppression laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study --Republican-led state legislatures passed most of new laws after 2010 election victories 23 Sep 2012 New voting voter suppression laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Armed Medics in Bloody Combat
    Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan (2011) 25 September 2012 Much controversy continues to swirl around the fact that our “Dustoff” MEDEVAC helicopters fly unarmed into combat.  They wear the Red Crosses, alerting the enemy that they are unarmed.  Note that this Afghan med ...
  • Always remembered, never forgotten: Marines ho ...
    25 September 2012 Marines kneel beside the battlefield cross to pay their final respects to Sgt. Bradley Atwell during a memorial ceremony, Sept. 20. During the ceremony, Marines paid tribute to Atwell, an aircraft electrical, instrument and flight control systems technician with Marine Aviatio ...
  • Stuck in the Mud
    24 September 2012 Chazray Clark was blown up in September 2011. His buddies posted his image on the door, and on the wall of our tent. Nearly everyone in the tent had been wounded at least once. Before Staff Sergeant Matthew Sitton was blown up and killed in Afghanistan, he wrote to U.S. Repre ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-037 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 24) – Afghan Local Police recruits under close supervision of Afghan Local Police and coalition forces killed a number of enemy insurgents in Shaghowlay village, Qara Bagh ...
  • Running toward gunfire: Marines, British force ...
    24 September 2012 Written By: Sgt. John Jackson CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan – Sergeant Rasheem Thomas never thought his first night working on Camp Bastion would turn into a gun battle with 15 insurgents. When Thomas was told he was transferring from 1st Platoon to 2nd Platoon, the landing supp ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • A call for peace
    Hundreds of people, including farmers and members from various ethnic groups, participated in a march against civil war on 21 September 2012. The Rangoon police will press charges against the leaders of the march because the event was held without official permission, Police Major Myint Htwe sai ...
  • Police to charge peace activists following Fri ...
    The activists who organised the International Day of Peace demonstrations in Rangoon and several other towns last Friday have been charged for protesting without a permit
  • Thein Sein heads to US for landmark visit
    President Thein Sein is set to head to the US on Monday for a milestone trip that coincides with a triumphal American tour by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Ban Ki-moon meets with Suu Kyi
    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tells Aung San Suu Kyi that the UN's continuing to prioritise working with the Burmese government to assist with the country's social and economic development
  • Peace activists rally in Rangoon
    Peace activists dressed in blue planning to travel from Rangoon to Naypyidaw to call for an end to the country’s civil wars were barred from leaving the city by authorities on Friday

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • ACLU files suit for information on automatic l ...
    [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Massachusetts (ACLUM) [advocacy websites] on Tuesday filed suit [complaint, PDF; press release] to obtain records and information regarding the use of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) by federal law enforcement and agencie ...
  • UN SG urges greater access for women to justic ...
    [JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] called [official statement] Monday for the implementation of measures to allow women greater access to justice systems. In his statement to leaders of around 80 nations during the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule ...
  • Federal judge dismisses challenge to Florida e ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday that Florida does not have to provide 96 hours of early voting for the November elections. Under a 2004 version of the state's early voting statute, the early voting perio ...
  • France high court upholds oil company liabilit ...
    [JURIST] The French Court of Cassation [official website, in French] on Tuesday upheld [judgment, PDF, in French] a lower court's 2008 decision finding French oil company Total [corporate website] and several other defendants criminally liable for an oil spill that occurred of the coast of Britt ...
  • Norway court opens first Rwandan genocide trial
    [JURIST] A Rwandan businessman pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive] during Norway's first genocide trial. Sadi Bugingo is accused of taking a lead role in planning and leading attacks [Reuters report] against ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • “Muslim Rage” and the Hypocrisy of the Western ...
    The western liberal élite has a problem with Muslims, in particular with Muslim Rage, as Newsweek’s cover called it.  It reminds me of that priceless, old misogynist quotation from Sigmund Freud: women–what do they want? What do Muslims want, columnists like Roger Cohen, Bill Keller, ...
  • New Comment is Free Post on U.S. Delisting of ...
    The Obama administration leaked to several reporters including Scott Shane of the NYT that it planned to remove the MEK from the Treasury Department’s terrorist list.  Note that it leaked this story on a Friday, which is the day of the week that U.S. presidents always announce embarrassing ...
  • New Rachel Corrie Story Published at Truthout
    I submitted an article about the Israeli court decision against the Corrie family regarding her 2003 death, to Truthout a few weeks ago.  It’s just now been published and I hope you’ll visit and read it.  I dissected the claims of the State against Corrie and used the defense’s ...
  • Netanyahu Shilling for Romney in Florida TV Ad
    Now, I’ve seen everything.  Back in the day, an Israeli prime minister wouldn’t breathe a word about his personal political preferences regarding U.S. presidential races.  Israel’s leaders knew that they’d need to work with whoever became president, and for them discretio ...
  • Why Bibi, Barack and Mitt Are All Wrong on Iran
    Many of you will remember the title of Milan Kundera’s major novel of the 1990s, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.  My original title for this post was The Unbearable Chutzpah of Bibi, till I decided the current title was more apt.  But when you read farther below into the talk I delivere ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Humanity on Edge - Obama Calls Human Trafficki ...
    After his speech to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama used an appearance at the Clinton Global Initiative to announce new efforts to help crack down on human trafficking.Calling the fight against human trafficking "one of the great human rights causes of ou ...
  • The Edge of the Universe - First Two Webb Tele ...
    The first two of the 18 primary mirrors destined for installation aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have arrived at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The mirrors are going through receiving and inspection and will then be stored in the Goddard cleanroom until engine ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Nigerian Military Clai ...
    The Nigerian military says it killed 35 Islamist militants and arrested more than 150 in recent days in two northeastern states.  The military says this is a sign it is overpowering the group known popularly as Boko Haram.  But some analysts say battles will not be enough to eliminate ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Romney’s ER Care
    For months, Mitt Romney’s strategy has been to attack the specifics of President Obama’s policies while offering none of his own. On healthcare reform, Romney continuously says he would repeal ObamaCare while awkwardly trying to Etch A Sketch away from the similar plan he championed as gover ...
  • China Rising - China Commissions First Aircraf ...
    China’s first aircraft carrier officially entered service Tuesday, amid a worsening territorial dispute with Japan and regional concerns over Beijing’s rapidly modernizing navy. The Defense Ministry said in a statement that the Soviet-built aircraft carrier, named Liaoning after China’s no ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • DENIAL! Obama Can't Use the "T" Word at the UN
    It's time for Barack Obama to wake up and smell the couscous. The attack on the US consulate in Benghazihad nothing to do with the anti-Muslim movie on You-tube.  The attack was not a the result of a mob action it was planned way in advanced.  So why the heck didn't he say that during ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Mainstream Media Declar ...
    A good business plans ahead. And the mainstream media wants to act like a good business. Next week is the first of the crucial presidential debates and the pressure to get the story out first has driven the media to action. According to a report by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, since the "jo ...
  • Influential Jewish Democrats Warn "Don't Trust ...
    Last night on 60 Minutes President Obama called Bibi call for the US to establish a red line for Iran as just noise to be ignored. Obama, interviewed for Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" on broadcaster CBS, said he understands and agrees with Netanyahu's insistence that Iran not be a ...
  • Cover Up?: FBI Not Yet In Benghazi-State Depar ...
    According to CBS News there is something weird going on in Libya. Its been two weeks since four Americans were killed by Islamist terrorists, and the investigation on the ground hasn't yet begun. On CBS this morning we learned from reporter Margaret Brennan that reporters can trounce through t ...
  • Obama’s Appeasement Has Convinced Radicals Ame ...
    By Barry Rubin It is amazing how events in international affairs that would have been easily and accurately understood decades ago are now surrounded by obfuscation and misunderstanding. Such is the case with Libya and the U.S. role there. Forget Obama's Cairo speech and all that ...

The Real Agenda

  • Otra presidencia Figueres entregará a Costa Ri ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTIEMBRE 25, 2012 La primera vez que oí hablar de desarrollo sostenible fue durante la escuela secundaria y durante mis años de universidad. En 1994, Costa Rica había elegido presidente a un miembro de una de las familias más influyentes en la his ...
  • Microsoft evade el pago de $4,5 mil millones e ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTIEMBRE 24, 2012 En los Estados Unidos, la falta de pago de los impuestos es visto por las autoridades como uno de los mayores delitos cometidos contra el gobierno. Los individuos que evaden impuestos son etiquetados como delincuentes, incluso an ...
  • NSA Whistleblower: “We are headed toward ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 According to former National Security Agency employee, Kirk Wiebe, the agency had the capability to grab everyone’s data even before 9/11. He said that the terrorist events of 2001 were a trigger for the NSA to act with compl ...
  • Documents show Trapwire links to Cubic Corporation
    But the surveillance is not limited to video surveillance. The United States is also adopting Russian-made software to recognize voices in seconds. RUSSIA TODAY | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 Just discovered documentation concerning the TrapWire secret surveillance system suggests that the San Diego- ...
  • A new Figueres Presidency to hand Costa Rica o ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 The first time I heard about sustainable development was during high school and throughout my college years. In 1994, Costa Rica had elected president a member of one of the most influential families in the history of the country. ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • New Ruling on Katrina Favors Corps of Engineers
    “While the government is generally immune from flooding claims resulting from failures of flood control projects, Judge Duval ruled that damage related to the MR-GO canal was different because its purpose was navigation, not flood protection, even though it was lined with levees. The government ...
  • Riot at Foxconn Factory Underscores Rift in China
    “A spokesman for Foxconn said the company was investigating the cause of the incident. But analysts say worker unrest in China has grown more common because workers are more aware of their rights, and yet have few outlets to challenge or negotiate with their employers.” (New York Times) One can ...
  • Crown, Church, and Rent-Seeking
    We don’t have to go very far in Henry V to see that, no matter what Henry V wants his subjects to think, rents are being sought and awarded as often as ever
  • Crown, Church, and Rent-Seeking
    We don’t have to go very far in Henry V to see that, no matter what Henry V wants his subjects to think, rents are being sought and awarded as often as ever
  • Voters Weigh Eased Pot Laws
    “Two years after California voters rejected an initiative to legalize marijuana, advocates are promoting similar measures on the ballot this fall in Colorado, Oregon and Washington state—and recent polls suggest at least a couple of the campaigns have realistic chances of success. Details ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • The Hollow Boom Of Brooklyn: Behind Veneer Of ...
    After a decade of increasingly celebrated gentrification, many believe Brooklyn — the native borough of both my parents — finally has risen from the shadows that were cast when it became part of New York City over a century ago.  Brooklyn has gotten “its groove back” as a &ldqu ...
  • A Look at Commuting Using the Latest Census Data
    Continuing my exploration of the 2011 data from the American Community Survey, I want to look now at some aspects of commuting. Public Transit Public transit commuting remains overwhelmingly dominated by New York City, with a metro commute mode share for transit of 31.1%. There are an estim ...
  • The Road Less Understood
    The Economist confuses ends (objectives) and means in its current number examining the peaking of per capita automobile use in the West in two articles ("The http://www.economist.com/node/21563327" and "Seeing the Back of the Car"). In congratulating metropolitan areas for ...
  • America’s Last Politically Contested Territory ...
    Within the handful of swing states, the presidential election will come down to a handful of swing counties: namely the suburban voters who reside in about the last contested places in American politics. Even in solid-red states, big cities tilt overwhelmingly toward President Obama and t ...
  • What to Look For in the Nordic Model
    The Nordic nations, and Sweden in particular, are seen by many as the proof that it is possible to combine innovative and entrepreneurial economies with high tax rates. It is often argued that nations such as the US can gain the attractive social features of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto are merchants of death in Paraguay, s ...
    1.Monsanto, Coup Gov't are Merchants of Death, Says Lugo 2.Videos on the devastation caused by GM soy in Paraguay NOTE: Paraguay's former president, Fernando Lugo, who was democratically elected in 2008, was forced out of power at the end of June via a swift impeachment process. Almost immediat ...
  • GM health risks – a conspiracy of silence
    1.UK media – a conspiracy of silence over GM health risks 2.Has BBC reporting effectively limited the damage done to the current corporate–political drive to promote GM crops in Britain? 3.Who is Séralini? --- --- 1.UK media – a conspiracy of silence over GM health risks Lawrence Woodward NYR Na ...
  • Russia suspends import, use of GM corn
    Russia Suspends Import, Use Of Genetically Modified Corn Michael Haddon Dow Jones, 25 September 2012 http://www.nasdaq.com/article/russia-suspends-import-use-of-genetically-modified-corn-20120925-00065 LONDON--Russia's consumer rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said Tuesday it has suspended the ...
  • Crisis in Brussels over Seralini study
    NOTE: Catherine Geslain-Laneelle, director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has confirmed that EFSA will review Seralini's study on GM NK603 maize and Roundup and decide on its merits. This is a bit like asking someone accused of a crime to act as judge in his own trial. EFSA has ...
  • Farmers' unions oppose Bt maize field trials
    1.Farmers' unions oppose Bt maize field trials 2.Cotton farmers protest against FDI in retail EXTRACTS: Bhartiya Kisan Union [Indian Farmers' Union]... threatened to launch a state-wide agitation against [Bt maize field trials], claiming that many states, including Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • QE4? The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Com ...
    QE3 has barely even started and some folks on Wall Street are already clamoring for QE4.  In fact, as you will read below, one equity strategist at Morgan Stanley says that he would not be "surprised" if the Federal Reserve announced another new round of money printing by the end ...
  • Americans Are Literally Being Worked To Death
    Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time?  Well, that means that there is a really good chance that you are a typical American worker.  Even though our incomes are going down, Americans are spending more time at work than ever before.  In f ...
  • 21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infras ...
    You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure.  So what does our infrastructure say about us?  It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay.  At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers.  Our roads are ...
  • Is America The Most Materialistic Society In T ...
    When it comes to materialism, has any nation ever surpassed what we are seeing in the United States right now?  We define our lives by how much stuff we have, to a large degree our personal and business relationships are defined by how much money we make, and even most of the imp ...
  • The Federal Reserve Is Systematically Destroyi ...
    Last week the mainstream media hailed QE3 as the "quick fix" that the U.S. economy desperately needs, but the truth is that the policies that the Federal Reserve is pursuing are going to be absolutely devastating for our senior citizens.  By keeping interest rates at exceptionall ...

Desertification

  • What farmers can do themselves for better land ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...
  • Local solutions to combat desertification (The ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This film highlights the global problem of desertification ...
  • The bottle tower method highly appreciated (Ll ...
    A message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea. I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in … Continue reading →
  • A drastic reduction in the flow of rivers that ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96329/MALAWI-Shrinking-lake-threatens-livelihoods MALAWI: Shrinking lake threatens livelihoods MACHINGA, 18 September 2012 (IRIN) – Mposa Village, in south-eastern Malawi’s Machinga District, used to sit on the shores of Lake Chilwa. Now its residen ...
  • Revamping simple traditional methods to captur ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96335/BURKINA-FASO-Low-cost-steps-for-long-term-food-security BURKINA FASO: Low-cost steps for long-term food security OUAHIGOUYA, 18 September 2012 (IRIN) – From rocks hemming in water on farms to large surface reservoirs for irrigation, farmers in ...

The Paper Trail

  • IMPACT: Cabinet officials signal crackdown on ...
    Top federal officials are stepping up scrutiny  for doctors and hospitals that may be cheating Medicare by using electronic health records to improperly bill the health plan for more complex and costly services than they deliver.U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ...
  • How doctors and hospitals have collected billi ...
    Thousands of doctors and other medical professionals have steadily billed higher rates for treating elderly patients on Medicare over the last decade — adding $11 billion or more to their fees and signaling a possible rise in medical billing abuse, an investigation by the Center for Public In ...
  • OPINION: Center series demonstrates dangers of ...
    The months-long Center for Public Integrity investigation into the Medicare program has uncovered a textbook example of the expensive consequences of  what’s known as “regulatory capture.” Doctors and hospitals are likely being overpaid billions of dollars, which is hastening the depleti ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Ad hits Obama on child soldiers
    Conservative nonprofit Let Freedom Ring attempts to link President Barack Obama to child soldiers in a new ad focusing on the United States’ military aid to certain countries in Africa and the Middle East.The ad opens with brief background on child soldiers and notes that Sen. Obama supported ...
  • National unions and Chamber of Commerce face o ...
    After two bruising years for organized labor in the Midwest, the movement has managed to land two pro-union measures on the November ballot in Michigan.Michigan locals and their national leaders now face an ad campaign by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and its friends, urging voters to resi ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Warp speed is possible . . . if we don’t ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net You may remember, as I do, how quickly even the most fervent anti-science hyper-skeptics went into fits of excitement over the announced discovery of the Higgs boson earlier this summer. I doubt any of them could tell you what a Higgs boson is, beyond the fact that some ...
  • The Wente plagiarism question grows
    By Frank Moher The furor over what appears to be plagiarism in Margaret Wente’s columns for The Globe and Mail continues to grow, helped along by The Globe itself. On Wednesday I reported that the blog Media Culpa had identified numerous instances where Wente appeared to have lifted prose ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • A letter from Alexey Sutuga, imprisoned in Moscow
    Hello everyone! Yet another period of our remand imprisonment is approaching its end, but I am certain, that we will be kept locked up a few months more, even without any developments whatsoever in the fabricated criminal case against us. ...
  • Warning strike in the education sector in Slov ...
    rozhovor_skolstvo_front.png On Thursday 13th September 2012, a one day warning strike was organized in the education sector in Slovakia. On Thursday 13th September 2012, a one d ...
  • What the Marikana Massacre Highlights
    Cape Town anarchist Shawn Hattingh on the Marikana Massacre The sight of policemen gunning down striking workers at Marikana was truly galling. Reports too have now emerged that on the day of the shooting some workers may have been ex ...
  • Striking Agreement: How one neighborhood schoo ...
    CTU.jpg A first-hand account from the Chicago Teachers Union strike, from education worker Agnieszka Karoluk. This morning at 7am I went to one of my neighborhood public schools ...
  • Mr Tommy Takes A Trip!
    berks1.jpg EDL 'leader' Mr Tommy is gadding about despite being skint. Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! As the entire media is in a flap over a few photos of a minor ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • Japan v. China: Smoke or Fire?
    Thanks in part to U.S. announcement of deployment of an ABM system in Japan, the smoldering between Japan and China could burst into open flames.
  • Liberal Hawk Poised to Swoop Down on Iran
    A prominent disarmament and nonproliferation advocate gives his surprise endorsement to an attack on Iran.
  • Heart-to-Heart on the Drug War
    Mexican families touched by the drug war have brought their Caravan for Peace to the U.S., laying the groundwork for a binational peace movement.
  • WaPo's Dana Priest's Alarmist Excursion Into t ...
    One of the Washington Post's star reporters has assigned herself the task of scaring up funds for "nuclear modernization."
  • No to War with Iran
    War with Iran could spark a regional conflagration that would cause untold suffering across the Muslim world and spark deadly blowback for decades to come.

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • مهدی هاشمی پس از بازجویی روانه زندان اوين شد
    مهدی هاشمی، فرزند رييس مجمع تشخيص مصلحت نظام که به دست داشتن در ناآرامی های پس از انتخابات دهم رياست جمهوری و فساد مالی متهم شده است روز دوشنبه، سوم مهرماه، پس از بازجویی، روانه زندان اوین شد.read more
  • Ex-Iran president's son returns from exile to ...
    The son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has reportedly returned to Iran from exile to answer charges of inciting unrest after a disputed election in 2009, fueling speculation that Rafsanjani's influence in Tehran may once again be growing. Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani arrived i ...
  • A 21st-Century Islam
    The Muslim world cannot have it both ways. It cannot place Islam at the center of political life — and in extreme cases political violence — while at the same time declaring that the religion is off-limits to contestation and ridicule.
  • UN experts' concern for religious minorities i ...
    GENEVA — Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs have expressed their deep concern at the situation of minority religions in Iran. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, has joined with the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Biel ...
  • یک فرمانده سپاه:درگیری با ایران میتواند به جنگ ...
    سرتیپ امیرعلی حاجی‌زاده، فرمانده هوافضای سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی ایران، در مصاحبه شبکه العالم گفته است که در صورت حمله به ایران "هیچ کشور بی‌طرفی در منطقه وجود نخواهد داشت." او هشدار داده که درگیری با ایران می‌تواند "به جنگ جهانی سوم تبدیل شود." read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Assange Seeks Transfer to Stockholm
    Assange at Ecuadorian embassy According to the New Zealand Herald, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino proposed on Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be Ecuador’s embassy in Stockholm. In this scenario, Assange would remain under Ecuadorian protection while und ...
  • Palestine's Arab Spring
    Palestine's Arab Spring A September 15th article (Revolution in the Air at Last) in the highly conservative Economist is predicting possible revolution in Palestine. It’s extremely good news for antiwar activists, economists, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Demp ...
  • CNN and the Bahraini Royal Family - Part II
    (This second post relates to US media censorship of Obama’s hypocritical policy towards Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.) Amber Lyon For the most part, the US media has been totally silent on the Bahraini pro-democracy movement and Obama’s decision to back the repressive ...
  • Obama and the King of Bahrain - Part I
    (This is the first of two posts about the Obama Administration’s hypocritical policy towards Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.) Protestors retake Pearl Roundabout Bahrain, one of the Arab Spring countries, has been in the international news recently, owing to the controversy over ...
  • Getting Rich Off Food Shortages
    Fined $450 million in the LIBOR scandal According to Britain’s Independent, Barclays Bank made more than half a billion pounds (around $810 million – their fine for the LIBOR interest-fixing scandal was $450 million) in two years from speculating on food staples such as wheat a ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • ‘Demand Response’ in Electricity: Economists v ...
    As noted here at KP in August, a group of electric power economists (including me) filed an amicus brief on FERC’s demand response pricing rule.
  • How To Relate Climate Extremes to Climate Change
    Trenberth: The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question. All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be….
  • Why the Power Grid Should Go The Way of the Sh ...
    The final voyage of the Endeavour made its way to San Francisco and Silicon Valley on September 21, 2012.  It was a gloriously beautiful day, and many people turned out to bid farewell to the fifth and final space shuttle.  The shuttle program lasted thirty years, and has a remarkable ...
  • An Apology to our Members
    Early Sunday morning, we published a post about energy efficiency from one of our most valued contributors that discussed the regional differences in attitudes towards efficiency.  The moderator who reviewed and published this post mistakenly believed that because of its allusion to souther ...
  • Why Germany Owns 1/3 of the World`s Photovoltaics

EU Times

  • World’s Earliest Dental Filling Discovered in ...
    Italian researchers using x-ray imaging have discovered the earliest dental filling in a broken Stone Age tooth dating back to some 6500 years ago. The groundbreaking discovery demonstrates a surprisingly sophisticated knowledge of dentistry in the far past era. The fossilized jawbone, which is ...
  • Japan attacks Taiwanese flotilla with water ca ...
    Taiwan sends boats to waters around disputed islands. Dozens of Taiwanese vessels and coastguard ships have entered waters around a disputed island chain also claimed by the world’s second and third largest economies, China and Japan. “Tens of fishing boats entered the waters. They were ac ...
  • US threatens sanctions against Ukraine over Ty ...
    The US Senate has threatened to impose political sanctions on Ukraine over the jailing of former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, urging Kiev to immediately release the opposition leader. The Senate adopted a resolution on Saturday that stressed that the Tymoshenko trial was “politically motiva ...
  • Russia to liberate the world from US occupation
    A State Duma deputy, the head of the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship of the Russian State Duma, Yevgeny Fyodorov, told Pravda.Ru of his impressions from visiting the APEC summit in Vladivostok. According to him, the meeting showed that the U.S. gradually loses absolute power in ...
  • Agenda 21 Mega-Cities to Replace Growing Citie ...
    The globalist march toward Agenda 21 includes the demonization of population growth and our current urban cities. As if there were a correlation between social upheaval and the explosion of urbanization, the propaganda abounds creating villains out of those who fight against eminent domain, the ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Hendriks gives up 4 homers; Yankees top Twins 6-3
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) т Liam Hendriks got that first win out of the way in his last start. Now he has to work on keeping the ball in the park. Andy Pettitte turned in another ageless performance by pitching six scoreless innings and the New York Yankees hit four home runs Monday night to beat the Mi ...
  • Seahawks stun Packers on final play 14-12
    SEATTLE (AP) т In a bizarre ending that capped a brutal weekend for replacement officials, the Seattle Seahawks somehow beat the Green Bay Packers 14-12 on Monday night in a game that's certain to re-ignite frustrations over the locked-out refs. Russell Wilson threw a disputed 24-yard touchdown ...
  • Rihanna prays for Chris Brown - tests positive ...
    In the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 18, Jesus tells us the parable of the woman and the judge. In the parable, a woman beseeches a judge to grant her justice but he doth not, until she geteth really really annoying and then he, erm, doeseth. Anyway, the point is something about how God answers praye ...
  • Update On Benghazi Terrorist Attack
    At Foreign Policyâs The Cable , Josh Rogin provides an update on reports connecting a former Guantanamo detainee named Sufyan Ben Qumu to the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Rep. Adam Smith, the Democratsâ ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, said ...
  • Brown Revives Issue of Warrenâs Heritage
    Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) released a new ad questioning the credibility  of his Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren , by highlighting what she has said about her Native American heritage. The 30-second spot relies entirely on TV news clips from this spring, when Ms. Warren spent weeks fieldin ...

Groklaw

  • Samsung goes after jury foreman in bid to reve ...
    In an exclusive interview Tuesday about Samsung's secret new allegations, Hogan, an engineer, confirmed that he was a party in two cases cited in Samsung's brief, a 1993 case from municipal court in Santa Cruz titled Seagate Technology v. Hogan and a 1993 federal bankruptcy case titled In re Vel ...
  • Samsung raises jury misconduct in bid for new ...
    Samsung is alleging juror misconduct in new court filings asking a federal judge to throw out Apple's billion-dollar jury verdict and allow a new trial. In a flurry of court documents, Samsung's attorneys list a series of cases, including ones that federal courts in California must follow, in w ...
  • Samsung Appeals Billion-Dollar Verdict; Allege ...
    Let's just say loose lips sink ships, and might even scuttle billion-dollar patent verdicts.... Samsung also requested that jurors be prohibited from talking with the press going forward to avoid any more foot-in-mouth situations. Whatever the court orders in the short term, Hogan may want to p ...
  • Vietnam Bloggers Hit with Lengthy Prison Sentences
    The bloggers sentenced were: - Nguyen Van Hai, aka Dieu Cay or The Peasant's Pipe. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. - Ta Phong Tan, a former police office and former Communist Party member who blogged at "Justice & Truth." She was sentenced to 10 years. Her mother died in July afte ...
  • Apple IPhone 5s Thin Display Drives Supply Sh ...
    Manufacturing enough of those parts for Apple has been challenging for LG and Japan Display, analysts at the London- based financial-services provider said. "Apple is facing significant production constraints due to a move toward in-cell display technology," Ben Reitzes, an analyst at Barclays, ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • LIVESTREAM: Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Saw ...
    Democrat Frank Chopp of the Washington House of Representatives’ 43rd legislative district has agreed to debate his opponent, Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant. Sawant received over 10% in a blanket primary against Chopp, allowing her to run against him in the November election o ...
  • The Agonist relaunches in WordPress!
    The venerable progressive blog The Agonist relaunches in WordPress, and I helped in the conversion. It had been running a version of Drupal so ancient (4.x) that upgrading to modern Drupal was not possible. So, we choose WordPress / BuddyPress using the Atahualpa theme. In any big conversion the ...
  • Proposed Vermont F-35 base pits militarization ...
    Noise is one of the basic tools torturers use to break down their prisoners at Guantanamo or Bagram. The proposed Vermont F-35 base for fighter-bombers promises to bring significant noise to Burlington, Vermont and now the Burlington Board of Health has decided to hold hearings on the connection ...
  • Carmageddon returns to Los Angeles
    The 405 freeway in Los Angeles will be completely shut down all this coming weekend in Sepulveda Pass as a bridge is torn down and other construction occurs. This, the second and final Carmageddon, is bigger than the previous one as major surface streets in the area will be closed or narrowed to ...
  • Bad days for The Empire
    Democracy Now headlines for the day.Anti-U.S. Protests Leave 21 Dead in Pakistan Anti-U.S. government protests continue in Muslim countries angered over a U.S.-made amateur film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. In Pakistan, at least 21 people were killed and more than 200 were wounded on Friday whe ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Live below the line – Metiria
    Today I started the Live Below the Line challenge where I spend no more than $2.25 a day for 5 days. Please donate to help raise funds to eliminate poverty around the world. Thankfully, Jan and Denise are doing it too, which will make it better and easier because we are allowed to combine funds. ...
  • Billy McKee should be discharged
    Sick and injured New Zealanders deserve respect and dignity, but the prohibition laws on cannabis persecute and punish.  We have highlighted this before, put legislation up to fix the system and to make it possible for people to use cannabis as a medicine.  Thousands of New Zealanders agree to a ...
  • General debate, September 24, 2012
  • First Do No Harm – League Table Fail the ...
    The media over the weekend was interesting reading for some but for other people whose schools were ranked as below standard it was depressing and debilitating and lacking respect for their children, teachers and parents. There are several major problems with the publication of the data which wa ...
  • Marriage equality sacking is discrimination
    A Northland Catholic school has sacked a teacher for supporting students. The students challenged the Principal for writing anti marriage equality remarks in the school newsletter and wore rainbow wrist bands with their uniforms as a protest. The students stood up for human rights against an int ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Do Tanning Beds Really Cause Melanoma?
    By Dr. Mercola If you believe all the negative hype on tanning beds that's going around lately, you'll run the other way instead of enjoying this easy and pleasurable way to get some vitamin D. But Dr. William Grant of the Vitamin D Council has taken a closer look at the claims that sunbeds c ...
  • The Fluoride Debate Heats Up and Finally Gets ...
    By Dr. Mercola An Inconvenient Tooth, a documentary by Guy Wagner about fluoride, premiered at City Hall in Portland, Oregon on September 6, 2012, the same day a public hearing was held before the five-member City Council about whether or not the city should fluoridate its water supp ...
  • Alzheimer’s May be Caused by Poor Diet
    By Dr. Mercola The cause of the debilitating, and fatal, brain disease Alzheimer's is conventionally said to be a mystery. While we know that certain diseases, like type 2 diabetes, are definitively connected to the foods you eat, Alzheimer's is generally thought to strike without warning or ...
  • Could Oral Facial Therapy Be the Answer for Sl ...
    By Dr. Mercola Not sleeping well? You're not alone... A recently published study1 from Sweden highlights just how common more severe sleep problems, like sleep apnea, might be. Apnea is a Greek word that means "breathe." Sleep apnea is the inability to breathe properly, or the limitation of b ...
  • Mounting Evidence Pegs Broccoli as One of Natu ...
    By Dr. Mercola Mounting scientific studies have demonstrated that broccoli is one of nature's most valuable health-promoting foods. Science has proven time after time that Mother Nature is the best physician, and food is the best medicine. A recent study, published in the American Journal o ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Earth’s most threatened tribe demands help ‘ur ...
    The Awá tribe is one of the world’s few hunter-gatherer peoples. Their survival is now at risk.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Awá of Brazil, known as Earth’s most threatened tribe, have written to the country’s Justice Minister telling him to ‘evict invaders urgently’, as news emerges that their hun ...
  • Guilty: Australia’s Channel 7 censured over ‘r ...
    Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s Channel 7 network has been found guilty by the press regulator of serious violations of the bro ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • QE4? The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Com ...
    QE3 has barely even started and some folks on Wall Street are already clamoring for QE4.  In fact, as you will read below, one equity strategist at Morgan Stanley says that he would not be "surprised" if the Federal Reserve announced another new round of money printing by the end ...
  • Americans Are Literally Being Worked To Death
    Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time?  Well, that means that there is a really good chance that you are a typical American worker.  Even though our incomes are going down, Americans are spending more time at work than ever before.  In f ...
  • 21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infras ...
    You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure.  So what does our infrastructure say about us?  It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay.  At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers.  Our roads are ...
  • Is America The Most Materialistic Society In T ...
    When it comes to materialism, has any nation ever surpassed what we are seeing in the United States right now?  We define our lives by how much stuff we have, to a large degree our personal and business relationships are defined by how much money we make, and even most of the imp ...
  • The Federal Reserve Is Systematically Destroyi ...
    Last week the mainstream media hailed QE3 as the "quick fix" that the U.S. economy desperately needs, but the truth is that the policies that the Federal Reserve is pursuing are going to be absolutely devastating for our senior citizens.  By keeping interest rates at exceptionall ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • We Are Change UK – Phil Hayton and WTC7
  • ‘Israeli subs with nukes in Gulf…
    Yet another admission of Israeli nukes… Israel is planning to permanently station a submarine carrying nuclear cruise missiles in the Persian Gulf, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday. Israeli submarines have visited the Gulf before, but the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanen ...
  • Jesse Ventura Vindicated on WTC 7 vs Piers Morgan
  • Furor over Israeli Facebook user who called Af ...
    Photographs uploaded by an Israeli Facebook user on Friday caused a furor, as users responded to the photo album, which included a caption connoting African migrants as “animals.” via Furor over Israeli Facebook user who called African migrants ‘animals’ in photo caption ...
  • Distrust Of Media Hits Record High
    by Alexander Higgins The results of a new Gallup poll reveal that Americans’ distrust with the media is more severe than ever and that is just those willing to admit it. More American’s than ever have woken up to the fact that the media is often used for little more than parroting press releases ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

  • Definition 6 buys Synaptic Digital, expands gl ...
    NEW YORK: Unified marketing agency Definition 6 has acquired Synaptic Digital, an earned media and content distribution company, expanding the firm's global reach and increasing its revenue to in excess of $45 million.
  • Sinclair exits Weber
    SEATTLE: Heidi Sinclair is leaving her role as president of Weber Shandwick's global technology practice.
  • NFL admits error to fans amid referee lockout
    NEW YORK: The National Football League reached out to fans through mainstream and social media as it faced backlash against its ruling during the final play of Monday's game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers.
  • Ogilvy names Wilson EVP, Chicago corporate dir ...
    CHICAGO: Ogilvy Public Relations has hired Weber Shandwick SVP Heather Wilson to serve as EVP and director of its Chicago corporate group.
  • The Dalmore taps Emanate as first US PR agency
    GLASGOW, SCOTLAND: Scottish spirits company Whyte & Mackay has selected Emanate as its first PR agency partner in the US for its single malt scotch whisky brand The Dalmore, following a competitive RFP.

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

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