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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

25 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Zynga games, War Commander, Causes, Chase Comm ...
    Zynga Slingo is No. 1 on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week, adding 7.8 million new players. Zynga games made up four out of the top five apps, and CastleVille came in at No. 18. Titles … Continue reading →
  • Facebook partnership with Datalogix helps meas ...
    Facebook has been working with Datalogix, which connects digital media and offline purchasing data, to help advertisers understand how their spends on Facebook affect in-store sales, the Financial Times reports. After measuring 45 campaigns, the companies found that in 70 percent of … Cont ...
  • Facebook roundup: facial recognition policy, d ...
    Facebook removes facial recognition in EU, addresses other concerns - Per recommendations from the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which has audited Facebook policies and practices, Facebook has removed the facial recognition feature that made suggestions for who to tag in a photo. … C ...
  • Threads of Mystery, Amazon Sweepstakes, My Loc ...
    Playdom’s Threads of Mystery led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 31 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top … Continue reading &# ...
  • Facebook career postings: engineers, account m ...
    Facebook added 15 job listings to its careers page this week, including one for a merchant operations analyst that included mention of a new “Facebook Gifts” product to be launched. The company removed that job description after we inquired about … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    A Hope in Hell: A Look at Greece Is the world, and what’s taking place in it, purely depressing, simply bad, and totally negative? Hell no! In this episode, I look at the social devastation currently wreaking havoc on the population of Greece, a frightful, dehumanizing situation to be sure ...
  • Classified Woman at Lew Rockwell Show
    The United States of Terrorism Last Thursday, one day before leaving the sin city, in our temporary suitcase-filled rental apartment, I gave an interview to Lew Rockwell on Classified Woman and much more. I say much more because despite all the chaos I was unusually relaxed and open during this ...
  • The EyeOpener- The South China Sea: Flashpoint ...
    If the Asia-Pacific region is becoming, in the words of Hillary “We came, we saw, he died” Clinton, “the strategic and economic center of gravity,” then the South China Sea may just be the strategic center of that strategic center. At first glance, there is nothing partic ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Joe Cocker- “Unchain My Heart” Joe Cocker on stage live in Dortmund, Germany back in 1992 performing Unchain My Heart is this week’s Soothing the Beast” BFP/Jamiol music pick. Unchain My Heart was written by Bobby Sharp and first recorded by Ray Charles in 1961. English rock and blue ...

Afro Spear

  • The Forgotten Namibian Genocide
    This documentary covers Germany’s use of genocide, concentration camps and ‘extermination’ policies in Africa – decades before World War Two and their use in Europe. A hundred years ago, three quarters of the Herero people of the German colony of Namibia were killed, many ...
  • Baldwin’s Nigger (1969)
  • The windows into your soul
  • “Apartheid never died in South Africa. I ...
    Excellent article by John Pilger The murder of 34 miners by the South African police, most of them shot in the back, puts paid to the illusion of post-apartheid democracy and illuminates the new worldwide apartheid of which South Africa is both an historic and contemporary model. In 1894, long b ...
  • The Evolution Conundrum
    I have been thinking about this proposition, the relationship between evolution and revolution since I read a recent comment by Amenta: “…This post is a reflection as to why my personal concepts center around an evolution rather than a revolution. The world is being revealed to an ex ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Piss Christ, Anyone?
    There's a free speech argument being tossed about regarding the latest surge in vulgar depictions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, which seems to have become somewhat of an intermittent ritual for much of the Western world over the past few years. The Innocence of the Muslims is of course, the late ...
  • Stealing Palestinian Resources
    Israel wants it all. For decades, it's been systematically stealing Palestinian land and resources.
  • Privatizing Israel's Legal System
    Israel's Mandatory Arbitration Bill (MA) is troubling. Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman proposed it. It mandates compulsory arbitration for civil suits filed in Magistrate Courts.
  • Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a t ...
    A large group of prominent former US government officials from both political parties has spent the last several years receiving substantial sums of cash to give speeches to the MEK, and have then become vocal, relentless advocates for the group, specifically for removing them from the terrorist ...
  • Koch Group Kicks Off Massive Voter Mobilizatio ...
    The Koch network, which is actively training Tea Partiers, via a partnership with True the Vote, to harass and intimidate voters, may tip the scales in this election. And you won't see their work on television, or through FEC disclosures. Like Wisconsin, liberals might see the ground shifting be ...

Switchboard

  • Energy Efficiency: Good Business Practice
    Greg Hale, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, New York City Guest post by Jay Orfield, Welch Environmental Innovation Fellow with NRDC's Center for Market Innovation. -- Energy efficiency and sustainability should be standard business practice f ...
  • New reports about fracking: crisis in enforcem ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. There are three important new reports out from conservation groups about fracking and the environment. They all have critical data and findings, as outlined below: Breaking All the Ru ...
  • Getting to the Game: Delivering Green Transpor ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Growing up in the Washington region -- albeit off-and-on because my Dad was in the foreign service -- steeped me in fandom for the Washington Redskins. My college years were ...
  • Independence or Co-Dependence: The Keystone C ...
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA When a mining partnership, having already spent hundreds of millions of dollars to advance its proposed mine, hires a consultant to conduct an “independent scientific review,&r ...
  • How California is planning growth for a prospe ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   A thorough new report developed by my colleagues at the Natural Resources Defense Council, together with Move LA, a transportation and smart development partnership in souther ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Are Sex Workers Labor?
    Wendy Lyon with an interesting piece about the Irish labor movement explicitly excluding sex workers from its definition of labor. It’s hardly surprising, both within the Irish context of discomfort over such matters and within labor writ large excluding those outside of “respectable ...
  • How Ayn Rand is wrecking football (and America)
    Bringing it all back home to Green Bay.
  • Was Fail Mary An Even More Epic Screw-Up? (UPD ...
    Excellent point made here by longtime friend of LGM gmack.    I took the word of the ESPN analysts that the question of who caught the ball is unreviewable.   But, like gmack, having looked at the rules I don’t see the textual justification for this assertion.   Unlike the field goal that ...
  • A Perfect System
    Clearly we should continue to allow private investors to determine the price of resources that the world needs to survive: It’s probably not uncommon for City traders to wonder how they burnt so much cash during a drunken night on the town. But Steve Perkins was left with a bigger black ho ...
  • No Scab Left Behind!
    After her exclusive comments in the wake of last night’s game, former Washington D.C. Chancellor of Public Schools and current full-time grifter head of some union-busting “students first” organization Michelle Rhee wishes to modify her remarks slightly: There is a crisis in Am ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Stanford lands $7.2 million federal grant to s ...
    Stanford Law School students will help design a law degree program for Afghanistan under a $7.2 million grant from the U.S. State Department. The federal grant was directed to the school's Afghanistan Legal Education Project, a student-led initiative launched in 2007 to promote legal training in ...
  • As new term approaches, Supreme Court adds six ...
    Getting an early start on the new term, the U.S. Supreme Court on September 25 added six new cases to its docket, including a case asking whether the litigation exception to thefederal Driver's Privacy Protection Act protects lawyers who use car buyers' personal information for a potential class ...
  • ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: Study to rate computer-a ...
    Electronic Discovery Institute's goal is to evaluate multiple human and technology-assisted systems.
  • Judges and prosecutors: Where is the line betw ...
    Did the apparent collusion between a judge and federal prosecutors constitute misconduct on a level that deprived the defendant of the right to a fair trial?
  • Penn using $180 million to boost faculty, aid, ...
    The University of Pennsylvania School of Law this month wrapped up the capital campaign it launched in 2006, topping its initial $175 million fundraising goal by $5 million.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • US Outraged By Murder of Honduran Lawyer Anton ...
    Reports say the prominent Honduran human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo Cabrera has been shot to death while attending a wedding.
  • Belarusian Elections Fall Short of Internation ...
    Reports say a large number of democratic opposition candidates were denied registration on the grounds of minor inaccuracies in their income. Some of them were prohibited to be part of the electoral commissions as well.
  • Hollywood Sentinel Releases Interview with Co ...
    The Hollywood Sentinel Brings Readers an Exclusive Interview with Impressions Master Jim Meskimen, rap star Chill EB, and movie and TV star Joe Mantegna of the hit show Criminal Minds among more, in the new issue of the free site
  • Is Forced Abortion Officially Banned in China?
    AGA's claim that 'the Chinese Government issued a document to Family Planning offices that bans forced abortion and sterilization' is based on links to two Chinese documents and a call to a family planning official in Chonqing City.
  • Threats to Internet Freedom Emerging Worldwide
    The battle over Internet freedom comes at a time when nearly one third of the world's population has used the internet. Governments are responding to the increased influence of the new medium by seeking to control online activity,

environment 360

  • Sluggish Electric Car Market Forces Discounts ...
    With electric vehicles still struggling to find a foothold in the mainstream market, General Motors has offered major discounts on its Chevrolet Volt to move cars off sales lots, and Toyota has scrapped plans for widespread sales of its new all-electric minicar. While Courtesy of GM A Chevro ...
  • Coral Biodiversity Hotspot Is Found in Western ...
    The western Indian Ocean, especially the waters between Madagascar and Africa, contain one of the highest levels of coral diversity worldwide, with 369 coral species identified in a recent study and more still to be identified. Scientists say the western Indian Ocean may contain as much coral bi ...
  • Air Pollution in Europe Shortening Lives of Ur ...
    Air pollution in Europe is shortening lifespans by an average of eight months and by as much as two years in the most polluted cities and regions, according to a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). While the European Union has cut emissions of many harmful pollutants over the last ...
  • Majority of Undecided Voters Call Global Warmi ...
    The majority of undecided voters in the U.S. presidential race say that the candidates’ views on global warming will be an important factor in determining how they vote, according to a new poll. While very few participants called global warming their single-most important issue, about 61 percent ...
  • High-Altitude Wind Energy: Huge Potential — An ...
    A host of start-up companies are exploring ways to harness the enormous amount of wind energy flowing around the earth, especially at high altitudes. But as these innovators are discovering, the engineering and regulatory challenges of what is known as airborne wind power are daunting. BY DAVE ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The World’s Shiniest Living Thing
    In the forests of central Africa, there’s a plant that looks like it’s growing its own Christmas decorations. Shiny baubles sprout from between its leaves, shimmering in a vibrant metallic blue. Look closer, and other colours emerge – pinpricks of red, orange, green and violet. It looks as if Se ...
  • How to Avoid the Natural Reactions that Preven ...
    Most of us like to think that we are in control of our actions. Turns out, your brain can be a big jerk, and you are susceptible to a large list of biases and reactions that can hold you back from acting objectively. Luckily, some good social psychology books (spurred on by well-research papers ...
  • Radical bi-directional flying wing design gets ...
    A team that has created a supersonic jet design resembling a flying shuriken has been awarded a US$100, 000 grant from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to continue development of the aircraft. Aside from looking suitably futuristic, the concept plane’s four-pointed star design ...
  • U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in attack
    The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed as they rushed away from a consulate building in Benghazi, stormed by al Qaeda-linked gunmen blaming America for a film that they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad. Gunmen had attacked and set fire to the U.S. consulate in the eas ...
  • The 9/11 Monument on Mars
    NASA has sent geology-capable surrogates in the form of rovers like Spirit and Opportunity. And in the case of these two rovers, their geologic instruments are also a tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Engineers watched the morning’s events unfold from ...

Russia Today

  • Iran blocks Gmail over anti-Muslim film
    Iran has blocked Google's Gmail service following a court order saying the email service did not follow Islamic Law. The block comes in response to the highly contentious film “Innocence of Muslims.” Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Smolensk crash victim families received wrong ...
    The plane crash in Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others back in 2010 may once again stir controversy as two families in Poland discover that bodies they received for burial had been swapped. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Powerful blast rocks eastern Turkish city, sev ...
    At least seven soldiers are feared dead after a powerful explosion hit the center of Tunceli, a provincial city in eastern Turkey. Security sources believe it was a terrorist attack. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Live on RT: Assange to address UN on human rights
    Julian Assange will address permanent representatives to the UN General Assembly at a high-level talk on the legal and ethical legitimacy of diplomatic asylum. RT has exclusive rights to broadcast the event live from... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Democracy kidnapped!' Spanish protesters surr ...
    Dozens of activists have begun to congregate in Madrid’s Plaza de Neptune, 100 meters from the Congress building, to protest Spanish austerity measures. The demonstrators pledged to march around the building, and called... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • What’s kosher for the goose should be ha ...
    If Israel can threaten to attack Iran, without drawing the unanimous rebuke of the international community, then it follows Iran cannot be criticized for warning of its imperative to make a preemptive strike. Except that both would be illegal, the United States being the reigning serial aggresso ...
  • Student power triumphs in Quebec
  • What’s fueling Muslim riots? Success!
    Are Muslim anti-Western demonstrations raging against a defamatory video of dubious provenance? More likely it’s decades of war and drone-strikes. But after years of insurgency, IEDs, and suicide bombers, it takes storming a consulate to finally bag a high ranking US official. How should l ...
  • Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach’s down ...
    As I was listening this AM to Right Wing talk radio on 105.5 today, they had Colorado Springs mayor telling us in an interview that it was no secret that he wants a baseball stadium to be built downtown which he claims will somehow revitalize the center of the city. That’s as doubtful a cl ...
  • Randy Newman dreams of a White President and a ...
    “He won’t be the brightest, but he’ll be the whitest, and I’ll vote for that!” sings Randy Newman of his dream president, drawing the reaction he got when he penned “I’m a Redneck” or “Short People.” America needs a laugh track to know ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Tales from the Crypt of Democracy
    Pow! Zap! Full color investigative comics by Ted Rall: Tales from the Crypt of Democracy - Soul Crushing Political Terror. Out Today! This astonishing 48 page graphic exposé is wrapped inside the new eBook edition of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, the hot new book by Greg Palast with Bobby K ...
  • The Good, The Bad and the Ballot Bandits - The ...
  • Palast in San Fran, Santa Rosa, Portaland, Sea ...
    This weeks Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Tour stops. Bring you copy of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits - or get it there and I'll sign 'em. Please - bring your friends, spread the word and once you've read it - review it on Amazon, B&N and Goodreads. Monday, September 24 BERKELEY KPFA ...
  • The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: 2012
    by Greg Palast  I can't believe that I had to write the sequel. When I wrote The Best Democracy Money Can Buy after the 2000 swipe by Bush and his Ballot Bandits, I thought America would clean up its damn act and start counting ALL the votes. Boy, am I a schmuck. Just when you [...]
  • Romney's Breakfast of Billionaires
    by Greg Palast - Dollars & Sense Magazine On Friday, Governor Mitt Romney had breakfast with billionaires. JOHN PAULSON, Paul Singer and Ken Langone have dropped more than a million dollars each into the Romney “Super-PAC” Restore Our Future. As Butch said to Sundance, “Who ARE these guys?” ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]

Age of Autism

  • Rally Friday: California AB2109 Will Take Away ...
    By Michelle Gutierrez AB2109 WILL TAKE AWAY OUR CALIFORNIAN RIGHTS Education. Everybody wants it, right? I ask because the legislators of California have pushed through Assembly Bill 2109. The author, Assemblyman Richard Pan, states the bill is about vaccine education....
  • Best of AofA: What's Behind Ben Goldacre?
    (Reprinted from August, 2010) By John Stone After years of secrecy on the matter confirmation has finally come to light that Guardian ‘Bad Science’ journalist Ben Goldacre is the son of Oxford professor of public health Michael J Goldacre (HERE)....
  • Guess Who's Coming To America? Brian Deer To S ...
    By Ed Arranga Brian Deer – a liar, fraud, and former reporter for The Sunday Times of London – is coming to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse October 4 and 5 to lecture you about Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the...
  • Life Care Planning and Autism
    Tuesday on VoiceAmerica www.health.voiceamerica.com 9 am Pacific / 12 noon Eastern A BEACON OF LIGHT AND HOPE FOR LIFE CARE PLANNING: Dr. Mary Joann Lang and Edward Miguel, COO, interview Michael Sanders, MBA, and Lisa Rudley, MBA What do you...
  • Old Wounds and Righteous Indignation
    By Cathy Jameson As I watched my post last week being shared by other parents of affected children I could see that it evoked emotions similar to those that inspired me to write it. I had wanted to share the...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Fresh protests in Japan-China island row
    Aljazeera – Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
  • Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...
    NY Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a cut above the r ...
  • Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attack
    Al Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven ...
  • Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...
    BBC – Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
  • Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...
    A truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
    In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • US Outraged By Murder of Honduran Lawyer Anton ...
    Reports say the prominent Honduran human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo Cabrera has been shot to death while attending a wedding.
  • Belarusian Elections Fall Short of Internation ...
    Reports say a large number of democratic opposition candidates were denied registration on the grounds of minor inaccuracies in their income. Some of them were prohibited to be part of the electoral commissions as well.
  • Hollywood Sentinel Releases Interview with Co ...
    The Hollywood Sentinel Brings Readers an Exclusive Interview with Impressions Master Jim Meskimen, rap star Chill EB, and movie and TV star Joe Mantegna of the hit show Criminal Minds among more, in the new issue of the free site
  • Is Forced Abortion Officially Banned in China?
    AGA's claim that 'the Chinese Government issued a document to Family Planning offices that bans forced abortion and sterilization' is based on links to two Chinese documents and a call to a family planning official in Chonqing City.
  • Threats to Internet Freedom Emerging Worldwide
    The battle over Internet freedom comes at a time when nearly one third of the world's population has used the internet. Governments are responding to the increased influence of the new medium by seeking to control online activity,

Worldnews

  • LMFAO deny split: 'We'll come together st ...
    LMFAO have denied reports that they are splitting up. Band member SkyBlu has confirmed that he and Redfoo will pursue solo projects, but said they plan to regroup for a new album in the future. "Well, you know, first of all, we're not breaking up," SkyBlu told MTV News. "I know that for sure ...
  • Nissan to launch 10 models by FY'16
    Nissan to launch 10 models by FY'16 Print this article Share on Reditt Google BookmarksNewsvineLive BookmarksTechnoratiYahoo BookmarksBlogmarksDel.icio.usApnaCircle Tweet Nissan launches MUV Evalia at a starting price of Rs 8.49 lakh. The author has...
  • Olympic bronze medal has changed my life: ...
    SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet Mary Kom said her bronze medal had changed her life. (AFP Photo) MUMBAI: Indian boxer MC Mary Kom could stroll through her hometown unnoticed despite winning five world amateur titles, but all that has changed since the pint-sized puncher won a bronze medal at the 201 ...
  • Wiz Khalifa, The Weeknd team up for new s ...
    Wiz Khalifa has debuted his new single online. The rapper has teamed up with The Weeknd for new cut 'Remember You', which has been lifted from his forthcoming album O.N.I.F.C. The track is available to download in the US now and is expected to be released in the UK in the coming months. 'Rem ...
  • Dogs brighten life for residents, staff, ...
    An older woman, sitting with two friends in the lobby of Delaware Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Delaware Avenue spots the large black dog standing outside the records office, where he spends his days. "Fletcher!" she calls out. "Fletcher, come here!" Hearing his name, Fletcher, a blac ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Cancer research yields unexpected new way to p ...
    In their quest for a cancer cure, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute made a serendipitous discovery -- a molecule necessary for cheaper and greener ways to produce nylon.
  • Young cancer survivors often forgo medical car ...
    Many survivors of adolescent and young adult cancers avoid routine medical care because it's too expensive, despite the fact that most have health insurance. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal
  • What Is Nopalea?
    Are you a night owl? Do you watch television late at night? If you answered yes, you probably have encountered the infomerical for Nopalea. I had never heard of Nopalea until I saw the infomercial recently.... Read Full Post
  • Potential Solution To Reducing Inflammation
    Research carried out at The University of Manchester has found further evidence that a simple solution, which is already used in IV drips, is an effective treatment for reducing inflammation...
  • Event highlights latest updates on pancreatic ...
    Mayo Clinic cancer experts, pancreatic cancer survivors and caregivers highlight educational event featuring research updates, patient stories.

Common Dreams

  • 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 " ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • QE Shell Game
    by Stephen Lendman Now you see it. Now you don't. QE III is the Fed's latest scam. A previous article quoted PIMCO's Bill Gross. He called it money printing "till the cows come home." Doing it won't resolve festering economic problems. They're getting worse while Bernanke, the ECB, Bank ...
  • 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. He said his film "was about a nation of people - the Palestinians - forced off their land an ...
  • 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: "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The peo ...
  • Hamas & the Brotherhood: Homogenous ideology b ...
    Khalid Amayreh Hamas thought the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's accession to power would create a dramatic transformation in Gaza, however, they have discovered their Brothers in Cairo have different priorities When Mohamed Morsi was finally declared the winner in the hotly-contested Egyptian ...
  • China in closed door negotiations to purchase ...
    Von Helman the Pemex CEO Juan Jose Suarez CoppelSources inside the Mexican government refuse to confirm that the Mexico government has been in secret negotiations with China over possible crude oil sales to China without using the US dollar. China officials claim meetings held with the Mexi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Analysis of Saskatchewan's Renewal of Labour L ...
    Unions in a Democratic Society: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, a new CCPA report by Christopher Schenk, critically reviews the contemplated changes to labour legislation proposed by the Saskatchewan government in their Consultation Pape ...
  • Ontario could be hard hit by new trade deal
    A trade deal between Canada and the EU that's being negotiated in Ottawa this week could have devastating effects on Ontario. The CCPA's new report, Straightjacket: CETA’s Constraining Effects on Ontario, details the ways in which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could accel ...
  • Time for Ontario to go public with child care
    The Ontario government is in a consultation phase over how to modernize the province's child care system. Child care expert Martha Friendly and CCPA Ontario Director Trish Hennessy have co-authored a primer on child care in Ontario, making the case for the government to take leadership and commi ...
  • The New Saskatchewan or Oklahoma North?
    Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still recieve the full benefits o ...
  • How affordable is a university education in yo ...
    A new report from the CCPA’s Education Project tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordabil ...

World Wide Hippies

  • A Crucible of Political Disenchantment: “Dismi ...
    By Phil Rockstroh  -  Weltschmerz (from German; from Welt (world) + Schmerz (pain) delineates the type of sadness experienced when the world revealed does not reflect the image of the world that one believes, or has been led to believe, should exist. The corporate/consumer state (as well as, its ...
  • Suicide – A Permanent Solution to a Temp ...
    By Linda Wolf,WWH/CJE - One of my daughters’ friends committed suicide a couple of days ago. The day before, a co-worker of mine attended the funeral of a fourteen year old girl who killed herself. That night, the TV news detailed the death of yet another suicide. About thirty years ago, I ...
  • In a “Lawless America” The EPA pla ...
    More propaganda released by the corrupt EPA. Paid for by  you the US taxpayer. How is this anything more than Public Relations for Corporations and the EPA? We are to believe that; Intel, Kohl’s, Staples, Hilton, McDonald’s, Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, the f$cking NYSE, TD Bank and others are su ...
  • WWH/CJE Tuesday News Briefs
    US soldiers charged (Not really) in Afghan pee-pee case Marine Corps punishment for incident, a video of which was circulated on internet, falls short of criminal prosecution. wo US soldiers are to face criminal charges for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the Mar ...
  • A Hippies Guide To The Law of Attraction: Get ...
    Previous Chapters: A Hippies Guide To The Law of Attraction 4. Ask the Universe for your Desire to Manifest Here’s another step that many people overlook. That is, if you want something, you need to ask for it. You need to state your desire explicitly. That doesn’t mean getting down on your knee ...

FourWinds10

  • Industrial waste blamed as millions of fish di ...
    MILLIONS of dead fish have been found floating on the Minjiang River in southeast China's Fujian Province and it has started to stink. A cleanup has begun and authorities are investigating the cause and trying to find out whether there is any danger to drinking water. Local farmers suspect t ...
  • EPA finally acknowledges fracking dangers
    Dec. 14, 2011 (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency on December 7 released its first report linking fracking to water contamination. The report identified fracking as the source of poisons, including the carcinogen benzene, in the groundwater of a central Wyoming community.   So ...
  • Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...
    Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...
  • Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to Portect Badl ...
    Feb. 4, 2012 Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to protect Badlands National Park from coal pollution.   Scenic Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota is visited by nearly a million people each year,1 but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from ...
  • Judge Bars 17 Chevron Executives From Leaving ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Potential of Methanol
    Last week I received an email from John Bockris, a retired Distinguished Professor from Texas A&M University. I presume Professor Bockris had come across some of my writings on methanol, as that was the topic of his correspondence. I don’t think Professor Bockris realized that we had m ...
  • Ethanol Policy: How to Grow Production Sustain ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss potential improvements to U.S. ethanol policy. I explain the fundamental principles that guide my thoughts on energy policy, which primarily involve moving toward more sustainable and locally-sourced energy, but understanding the tra ...
  • Gasoline Prices Doubled Under Obama: True or F ...
    The Claim: President Obama Has Doubled Gasoline Prices During the Republican primaries, a number of candidates made a claim that at first glance seems improbable: That under President Obama, gasoline prices have doubled. A current advertising campaign by the American Energy Alliance repeats that ...
  • Mitigating the Long Recession; and CNG Vehicle ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first question is whether I believe that nuclear energy or hydraulic fracturing will offset the impacts of my “Long Recession” scenario. The second is about the EPA licensing requirements for comp ...
  • Responses to Thorium Reactor Story
    Following last week’s R-Squared Energy TV episode that discussed thorium nuclear reactors, there were a number of comments and emails from readers that added a lot of clarity to the discussion. I want to highlight some of those comments, because as I had indicated that was definitely outsi ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 9 Healthy Herbs for Every Meal
    Snip, Snip! What's the quickest way to load your dinner down with antioxidants? Add oregano. Need more iron? Add lavender. If you’re not utilizing all the fresh herbs overflowing at farmers’ markets right now, you’re missing out nature’s real mirac ...
  • Why This Famous Musician Wants You to Eat Organic
    Jack Johnson has the laid-back vibe you'd expect of any folk-rock singer-songwriter who hails from the Aloha State of Hawaii. But when it comes to food, he doesn't mess around. "In Hawaii, 80 to 90 percent of our food is shipped in," he says. "Why are we shipping in so much food when we could b ...
  • The Easiest Way for Kids to Lose Weight?
    You would never give your child a birth control pill. But the food industry is feeding children something almost as damaging every time it packages food in a can. Bisphenol A, a chemical that was initially developed as a drug to aid in healthy pregnancy, is commonly used in the epoxy linings of ...
  • The Danger in Your Meat
    Unless you're eating organic meat, you're getting a mouthful of antibiotics with every burger, fried chicken wing, or turkey sandwich you eat. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that 80 percent of the antibiotics used in this country are fed to farm animals or slipped into the ani ...
  • The Danger in Your Meat
    Unless you're eating organic meat, you're getting a mouthful of antibiotics with every burger, fried chicken wing, or turkey sandwich you eat. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that 80 percent of the antibiotics used in this country are fed to farm animals or slipped into the ani ...

big think

  • One New Friend Request from Robot
    What’s the Latest Development? With the number of people on Facebook, it’s likely that you’ll receive friend requests from people you aren’t exactly sure you know. Now there’s a robot, developed by the London based Robosavvy, that wants to be your friend on Facebook. Once you accept its ...
  • You Cannot Be Serious: Bring Sports Into The 2 ...
    [Updated: 9/25/12] While NFL replacement refs blow call after call after call, it is clearly time for the Commissioner to resolve the labor dispute, bring back the pros, and restore some integrity to the game. However, I have long believed that sports in the 21st century will never have ...
  • Car’s Online Tune-Up Replaces Mechanic with Co ...
    What’s the Latest Development? In the computer world, updates are a necessary part of making sure that your laptop or iPad or cell phone is running as smoothly as possible. The time has come for cars to get tune-ups by online update as well, with the electric powered Tesla Model S. “Over ...
  • How Medical Research Can Harm Us All
    Doctor and journalist Ben Goldacre, reinforced by Stuart Armstrong, is calling attention to what might be the worst, biggest example of intentional confirmation bias in recent history, that is killing and harming many of us. This is the problem of much medical drug research. Writes Golda ...
  • Hear Me on Freethought Radio!
    Over the weekend, I was interviewed by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor from the Freedom from Religion Foundation for their Freethought Radio show. That episode is now available for download and podcast, so if you'd like to hear me talk, give it a listen! In the interview, we talk abou ...

Information Liberation

  • Pasadena police officers accused of kidnapping ...
    PASADENA - A complaint alleging that Pasadena Police Officer Kevin Okamoto perjured himself during the investigation and prosecution of Edward Damas has been filed with the Pasadena Police Department. The complaint, received Monday, is the latest ...
  • DOJ-Funded Training Manual Lists Bumper Sticke ...
    A leaked training manual used in the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) program for law enforcement and funded by the Department of Justice lists political bumper stickers expressing opposition to the United Nations and support for the b...
  • Civil Unrest: Do Our Rulers Actually Want It T ...
    There have been several different predictions and scenarios involving how inflation and austerity measures in the U.S. could bring about food shortages and other shortages, food riots, looting, violent protests, flash mobs, and martial law. ...
  • The Invisible Fence Works as Well as a Real One
    You know how they say history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme? Well, it's absolutely true, especially in the case of governments. States pull the same nonsense repeatedly throughout history, but they don't do it in exactly the same way, so ...
  • Jeff Berwick: 0% Interest Rates Until the Syst ...
    Jeff Berwick of Dollarvigilante.com says, *We*re on 0% interest rates . . . and quantitative easing (money printing) until the system dies.* Berwick is predicting *chaos* when it all comes down. He doesn*t know how exactly it will all shake out ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Getting The Government We Deserve
    I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
  • Violence An Inch Beneath The Surface
    What are we to make of this lot? A comically amateurish anti-Islam propaganda film, made by some bloke in America who claimed to be Jewish and have financial backing from the Jewish business community, but who in fact turned out … Continue reading →
  • The Rainbow Connection
    Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...
    Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
  • One More Five-Ring Circus
    The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • The perfect app for vampires
    The Transylvania branch of the National Health Service has just launched a free app for iOS and Android devices that lets vampires target willing victims easier than ever before without all that late-night stalking and morphing into bats malarkey. The app lets victims donors search for a blood d ...
  • The next SARS? Coronavirus case in UK
    The UK alerted the World Health Organisation on Saturday to a case of acute respiratory syndrome with renal failure in a 49-year old man who had visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The man, a previously healthy, Qatari national, first showed symptoms on 3 September 2012 and was admitted to intensive ...
  • The next SARS? Coronavirus case in UK
    The UK alerted the World Health Organisation on Saturday to a case of acute respiratory syndrome with renal failure in a 49-year old man who had visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The man, a previously healthy, Qatari national, first showed symptoms on 3 September 2012 and was admitted to intensive ...
  • Pearls of wisdom
    Various people have been leaving a trail of pearls regarding my forthcoming book Deceived Wisdom. You can get a free sampler here or if you’re in the UK pre-order the print edition in plenty of time for Christmas. Ahaargh! Francis Wheen – Judging by the sampler, it’s my dream b ...
  • Pearls of wisdom
    Various people have been leaving a trail of pearls regarding my forthcoming book Deceived Wisdom. You can get a free sampler here or of you’re in the UK pre-order the print edition in plenty of time for Christmas. Ahaargh! Francis Wheen – Judging by the sampler, it’s my dream b ...

RFF Library

  • Energy Tax Incentives: Measuring Value Across ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41953.pdf [PEN-e posting] The 27 page report authored by Molly F. Sherlock provides, an analysis of the value of energy tax incentives relative to primary energy production levels. Relative to their share in overall energy productio ...
  • Climate Negotiations Open a Window: Key Implic ...
    Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Centers, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / This policy brief expands upon the Science article, “Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars” by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins. http://bit.ly/R85dld [Abstract]  A key outcome ...
  • The Costs of Fracking: The Price Tag of Dirty ...
    Environment America http://www.environmentamerica.org/reports/ame/costs-fracking [From Press Release] …The report’s documented examples of fracking costs include the following: Drinking water contamination:   In Dimock, Pennsylvania, permanently replacing residents’ contaminated drinking water w ...
  • Cooling the Planet, Clearing the Air: Should C ...
    Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies | Ecotrust / by James Boyce and Manuel Pastor http://www.jointcenter.org/events/cooling-the-planet-clearing-the-air http://bit.ly/UyOt86  (executive summary) [From Press Release]  Expanding climate change mitigation approaches beyond greenhous ...
  • Stormy Future for U.S. Property/Casualty Insur ...
    A Ceres report / by Cynthia McHale & Sharlene Leurig http://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/stormy-futures [BusinessInsurance.com] …Among other things, the report recommends that insurers and reinsurers update pricing and underwriting to reflect changes in extreme weather impacts and p ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Have a story to tell? Send in your pitches by ...
    Have a story to tell? Tell it to The Dominion and our many unique readers. We will pay two contributors for news features to be published in the next issue of The Dominion.  We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, including photo essays, info-graphics and video p ...
  • Anti-Fracking Lake Ainslie Protest
    Special Thanks to the Mi'kmaq community for inviting a group of us from Halifax to  take part in protesting Fracking near Lake Ainslie over the past weekend. Tha ...
  • Anti-Fracking Protest in Nova Scotia Draws Hun ...
    Auld's Cove, Nova Scotia – Upwards of 200 people, coming from all corners of Nova Scotia, responded to the imminent threat of exploratory oil and gas drilling on the shores of Lake Ainslie, and on Sept. 22 staged a ...
  • CKUT's Off the Hour: Occupons le Sud-Ouest: Oc ...
    Occupy Montreal activists took over a St. Henri park for a weekend to keep spreading their message of change This piece was originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Friday, September 21st, 17h-18h. Last October, a band of unlikely bed ...
  • Radio CKUT : manif pour la gratuité scolaire !
    22/09/2012 Écoutez une série de témoignages spontanés enregistrés dans les rues de Montréal, le samedi 22 septembre 2012 dans le cadre de la manifestation pour la gratuité scolaire organisée par la CLASSE.  Ce reportage inclue diverses ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Does the American Public Really Support Bowles ...
    Andrew Sullivan thinks that defeat in November will chasten Republicans and make them more likely to compromise. I doubt it. I think it takes several successive defeats to accomplish that (think Democrats under Reagan/Bush or Labor under Thatcher/Major), and at least one of those defeats needs ...
  • Cut Mitt Some Slack on His Airplane Window Gaffe
    Last Friday, after smoke from an electrical fire forced Ann Romney's plane into an emergency landing, Mitt Romney told reporters that airplane fires were a big problem because "you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't k ...
  • Paul Ryan Has Something He Wants to Sell You
    Rebecca Kaplan reports that Paul Ryan is "letting his wonk flag fly": It came to a head on Saturday, when he stepped to the podium for a town hall at the University of Central Florida. In addition to a debt clock — now a must-have prop at Republican political rallies —&nbsp ...
  • Being Rich: Not That Tough After All
    I don't think this will come as a big surprise to anyone familiar with the real world, but it might come as a surprise to the Fox News set that endlessly glorifies all those job creators. It turns out that the rich and powerful don't lead especially tough lives after all: A new study reveal ...
  • Obama's Lead is Starting to Look Insurmountable
    Nate Silver has an epic post today about late September polls from past years and how well they predict the eventual winner of a presidential race. Here are the highlights: Obama is currently up by 3.7%. No candidate in the past 50 years has lost a lead that big. No candidate with more ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • NYU biologists uncover dynamic between biologi ...
    Biologists at New York University have uncovered one way that biological clocks control neuronal activity -- a discovery that sheds new light on sleep-wake cycles and offers potential new directions for research into therapies to address sleep disorders and jetlag. read more
  • New UF study shows river turtle species still ...
    University of Florida researchers studying river turtles in Missouri found populations of the northern map turtle have not recovered from harvesting in the 1970s. read more
  • Cutting-edge technology makes NASA's hurricane ...
    Cutting-edge NASA technology has made this year's NASA Hurricane mission a reality. NASA and other scientists are currently flying a suite of state-of-the-art, autonomously operated instruments that are gathering difficult-to-obtain measurements of wind speeds, precipitation, and cloud structure ...
  • Urban coyotes never stray: New study finds 100 ...
    Coyotes living in cities don't ever stray from their mates, and stay with each other till death do them part, according to a new study. read more
  • What can the water monster teach us about tiss ...
    Based on two new studies by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, regeneration of a new limb or organ in a human will be much more difficult than the mad scientist and supervillain, Dr. Curt Connors, made it seem in the Amazing Spider-man comics and films. read more

unEarthed

  • Critical Mass At 20
    A bike ride that changed how we think about cities and our planet In the USA, transportation is the second largest emitter of carbon dioxide pollution causing cl ...
  • Monday Reads: The Pacific Fisher & Socks Edition
    Who is the Pacific fisher, and why does he want your socks? The last, valiant moments of a bait-filled sock, doing his part for science. (Courtesy of SNAMP) D ...
  • House Passes Pro-Coal War On Health Bill
    On way out of town, House votes industry a free pass to pollute It's been a long two years with the 112th Congress. In that time, House leadership has often trie ...
  • Happy 98th To Living Legend Ken Hechler
    Still ferocious in the fight against mountaintop removal mining after all these years Ken Hechler, thank you and Happy Birthday!  (Photo courtesy of Ken Hechler) ...
  • Waging War On Health And The Environment
    H.R. 3409’s all-out assault on bedrock environmental protections H.R. 3409 contains five of the most-anti-environmental bills previously passed by a House distinguished by its radical anti- ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Mitt It’s A Trap
    I wonder if Mitt understands the fact that every time he opens his mouth about taxes, he is twisting the knife he and his wealthy friends have in every American’s back. Almost every single American wants the rich to pay a greater share of our country’s bills. Most Americans understan ...
  • What Is Going On In The Polls?
    Most of the visitors to this website, and myself, understand what the difference is between Republicans and Democrats. Even though I am pleased with the movement in the polls in the favor of Democrats, I don’t know exactly what is causing the increased popularity of the Dems. Are people wa ...
  • Koch Brothers Wealth Was 32 Billion Now 62 Billion
    Since president Obama was inaugurated the wealth of the Koch Brothers has grown from 32 billion dollars to 62 billion dollars. And they want him out? What is wrong with Charles, and David. I mean besides the fact that they would kill your family if it was profitable of course.
  • Wrong Ken – Medicare Is Here To Stay
    Yesterday on Up With Chris Hayes Ken Williams made this statement about Medicare “It’s a stupid program, it’s going away anyway, it’s totally financially unsustainable, anybody that can do math can tell you that. It’s a question of whether it goes away in 10 years, ...
  • It’s Not Mitt It’s All Republicans
    More Americans are beginning to realize exactly what the Republican Party stands for. Most Americans want to ignore politics. They don’t want to talk about politics. Now that an election is getting closer some voice deep inside of them is telling them they have to pay attention at least a ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • In the ghetto of self-righteousness and self-pity
    From attacks on our site to talking points for rabbis: thoughts for the Jewish New Year. So it’s that time of year again, when Gerald Steinberg writes an article about us. Steinberg, the head of a right-wing organization called NGO Monitor, has been using +972 (along with a few of other or ...
  • WATCH: Atonements and Apologies, 5773
    Every year around this time – the Jewish High Holy Days – I send out a note of reflection. This year, I’ve made use of my resources and friends and put the whole thing to video! However, if you are still inclined to read, here is the text… Hello and Shana Tova. A Happy New [...]
  • Spineless bookkeeping: The use of Mizrahi Jews ...
    Calls to define Jews from Arab countries as refugees were silenced in the past by Israeli governments. The change of policy has to do with the relatively new recognition that Israel will not be able to escape its responsibility for the Nakba. But leaders of the new campaign should first learn th ...
  • How Youtube became Hebrew poetry’s last ...
    This is a story about poetry, but like many Israeli stories, it too begins with Netanyahu. When Netanyahu was minister of the treasury, in the mid aughts, Israel’s anti-monopoly laws became less than tightly enforced. One sector to suffer the implications was the publishing business. Israe ...
  • WATCH: IDF turns blind eye to settlers throwin ...
    On Saturday, a group of Israeli activists came under attack from masked settlers who used slingshots to hurl stones at them while they walked between Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills, close to the illegal outpost of Havat Maon. According to the Israeli Ta’ayush activist who f ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

  • VOTE YES TO RETAIN ALL FLORIDA SUPREME COURT J ...
    It’s understandable why Gov. Rick Scott and his Republican allies have no love for the courts. After all, their batting average is pretty low in trying to overturn laws they don’t like and defending their own extreme lawmaking. But the state Republican Party’s unprecedented cal ...
  • Max Gardner Foreclosure Boot Camp!
    Max Gardner’s Bankruptcy Boot Camp is presenting our most complete Foreclosure & Mortgage Litigation Boot Camp yet for attorneys representing homeowners fighting foreclosure in state and bankruptcy courts.   Max and his handpicked panel of experts and insiders will address the essential issu ...
  • April Charney And Foreclosure 101–MORE T ...
    After a standing-room only turnout to hear April Charney and Matt Weidner at the CONA September meeting, Foreclosure Mess 101, about the impact on our whole community, planning for Foreclosure Mess 102 has begun already. If you missed this first meeting, thanks to Michael Woodward and Will Franc ...
  • IT’S PERFECTLY REASONABLE FOR THE BANKS ...
    Remember all that nonsense about “a man’s home is his castle” and “no unreasonable searches and seizures”? Right…..all that nonsense…. The banking industry will explain to you…..in page after page after page of detailed reports…. THAT THE BAN ...
  • Florida Attorney General Will Send Claim Forms ...
    Forgive me if you find me less than a little bit excited….Floridians that lost their homes will get a few dollars thrown their way…. Attorney General Bondi Announces that Qualified Borrowers Who Lost Homes to Foreclosure May Be Eligible for Payment TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Living In A Post-Political World
      We have lived as a species in times of kings and despots and decided we had experienced enough. The majority …Continue reading »
  • A Dance For the Generations
    Today’s the big day, as I head in shortly for the six-hour operation to have half of my stomach removed. …Continue reading »
  • Dog Gone
    Sometimes, big things in our lives come in threes. That was my experience in the last couple of weeks. First …Continue reading »
  • How Politics Changes Us (3)
    It set us back for a minute. The email message had come in from someone in the riding that I …Continue reading »
  • On the Queen and Colonels
    Every discipline carries its own recognition and rewards. Business, sports, the arts, educational institutions, and many more – all these …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

  • Why Barron’s Facebook valuation of $15 p ...
    Barron's valuation of $15 for Facebook shares which would be 35 times earnings is certainly no level for me to enter - especially when the future earnings are still so much in doubt. At half that vale at around $8 per share (around 18 times earnings) I could be persuaded to invest - though still ...
  • Arrogant and overbearing political correctness ...
    An arrogant young man presumes that his world-view shall prevail and takes it upon himself to be a censor by removing all copies of Tintin from the shelves of the 10-13 year old library of Stockholm's Culture Centre. Behrang Meri failed to impress on the radio today and I cannot help feeling tha ...
  • Now Toyota sees sense and backs away from all- ...
    The current capabilities of electric vehicles do not meet society's needs, whether it may be the distance the cars can run, or the costs, or how it takes a long time to charge.
  • At least 275 water molecules needed to form an ...
    It takes at least 275 ± 25 molecules of water to make an ice crystal.
  • Electric cars in the US: $7.5 billion of taxpa ...
    U.S. federal policies to promote electric vehicles will cost $7.5 billion through 2019 and have "little to no impact" on overall national gasoline consumption over the next several years, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report issued on Thursday.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • An Insider's Perspective on USDA's Problematic ...
    An Insider's Perspective on USDA's Problematic Poultry Rule Summary: A retired USDA poultry inspector, and grandmother of eight, speaks out against the agency's flawed poultry inspection proposal (known as HIMP) that she believes will compromise public health and hurt workers. "If the general ...
  • What Do a Retired Catholic Bishop, UAE Comment ...
    What do a retired Catholic Bishop, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and a United Arab Emirates' newspaper commentator have in common? They are all critical of the government's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers. Yesterday, I wrote about a signific ...
  • Did Siemens & Argentina Hire Thugs to Beat Whi ...
    Miami New Times: Argentinean Government, Siemens Hired Goons to Rough Up Whistleblower, Miami Lawsuit Claims Summary: According to a whistleblower suit recently filed in Miami, electronics company Siemens AG and the Argentinean government conspired to retaliate against a whistleblower who expo ...
  • Former FEMS General Counsel/Whistleblower in C ...
    Today, September 24, former DC Fire & Emergency Medical Services (FEMS) department General Counsel and whistleblower Theresa Cusick will finally get her day in court. Cusick served as FEMS General Counsel until 2007, when she informed an Assistant US Attorney that a FEMS officer – who the a ...
  • Leak Hypocrisy: UAE Gets It, Why Doesn't US?
    United Arab Emirates' English-language newspaper The National ran a significant piece by Peter Muir criticizing the U.S. government's hypocrisy in declining to criminally prosecute government officials who authorized, orchestrated and committed torture during the G.W. Bush-er ...

UK Progressive

  • Hey Senator Brown, I’m 1/16th Arawack Indian, ...
    by Denis G. Campbell When “Big Massa” Campbell (one of the Campbells of Argyll) emigrated to the Caribbean Island of Jamaica from Scotland in the 1700’s, he married a native Indian woman. They produced 10 children that started what would become the prolific Jamaican clan Campbell. That island (a ...
  • Guatemalan Massacre Survivor Wins Political As ...
    by Sebastian Rotella ProPublica U.S. immigration authorities have granted political asylum to Oscar Ramírez Castañeda, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who learned only last year that he was a survivor of a civil war massacre of 250 villagers in 1982. Ramírez Castañeda, a 33-year-old father o ...
  • The Monday Line: Half a Loaf in Iraq for MEK
    by Denis G. Campbell For 15 years the justification for doing nothing, never changed. The USA considered the MEK (Mujahedin el Khalq of Iran or People’s Mujahedin of Iran-PMOI) a terror organisation and the penalties for aiding any terror group included Federal imprisonment and fines. After cove ...
  • We Are All ‘Dependent on Government’
    Last year when I was covering the Occupy movement, I crashed a “teach-in” at the Cal campus (a public—meaning—government university) where an activist announced they didn’t need government. “We can govern ourselves!” She declared. Now the problem with a group of people governing is they essentia ...
  • The Method to the Post 9/11 Madness
    By David Swanson To your average educated careful consumer of U.S. news media, our militarism looks like ad hoc reactionary responses. A crisis flairs up here. We “intervene” there. An irrational foreign dictator threatens the peace over yonder. We get into wars because we have no ch ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • still not there yet…
    Sorry for further delays, but it may be another day or two before the site is fixed. I am having interesting conversations though. This is an excellent networking opp (a chance to get-to-know-your-local and not-so-local skeptic). It could turn out … Continue reading →
  • Massive Eltanin Meteor 2.5 million years ago s ...
    From the file of “Things that would really be catastrophic”. Did a meteor have a role in a major shift in Earth’s Climate? The start of the Quaternary period (2.588 million years ago, where the Pliocene became Pleistocene) coincides with evidence of a mega tsunami in the South ...
  • McIntyre v Lewandowsky — Can we call in ...
    The Lewandowsky view is Drilling into noise. The McIntyre response: Lewandowsky’s Fake Correlation My favourite Lewandowsky line is: “We cannot get into the details here…” McIntyre can and does in gory depth. He posts the equations, the code, the tables, everything. He graphs t ...
  • Antarctic sea ice trends at record highs. Fear ...
    While stories of the Arctic record fall in sea-ice have been all over the news, all over the world, it’s almost as if the Southern Hemisphere didn’t exist. Right now, this week apparently, the sea ice is at or near record highs (bearing in mind that we’re still only talking 30 ...
  • Lewandowksy, Oberauer, Gignac – Is the p ...
    Stephan Lewandowsky, Gilles Gignac, Klaus Oberauer The scathing blog posts are popping up everywhere. From William Briggs we get a sense of the historical importance of the Lewandowsky et al effort. One day a terrific psychological study is going to be written on the madness and mass lunacy whi ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Revolution (TV): A Disappointment
    The premise was both interesting and extremely timely: a world without electricity*. The TV series could have gone in any extreme direction, but unfortunately it seems to be going nowhere. The lack of electricity is not meaningful in the slightest. On the positive side: interesting characters ...
  • Tarot and 2012: Scary Connection
    2012 keeps on surprising me. I thought I’d seen and heard every angle there could be by now, and this one took me totally by surprise. I’m not new to Tarot – twenty years ago I was giving readings and wearing a Crowley deck Death (above) t-shirt. And I’m not new to the nu ...
  • Lapka Environment Monitor
    Years ago I imagined I’d be spending Dec 25 deep in a bunker, surrounded by monitoring equipment, and a periscope. I want to safe, but I also want to know what it happening. Now I expect to be at my safe spot (but not in a bunker), and using online resources to monitor the world. But if th ...
  • Lapka Environment Monitor
    Years ago I imagined I’d be spending Dec 25 deep in a bunker, surrounded by monitoring equipment, and a periscope. I want to safe, but I also want to know what it happening. Now I expect to be at my safe spot (but not in a bunker), and using online resources to monitor the world. But if th ...
  • Is This A Real Dragon?
    This image is doing the rounds. It doesn’t look photoshopped (check out what the puppy is doing…), but it could be a model. But if it is real, well I’m glad it is so small! Source: http://tt.mop.com/read_12716265_1_0.html Your're reading Is This A Real Dragon? by Robert Bast, ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

  • Young people in cities like Mumbai give me hop ...
    US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said young people in cities like Mumbai, Seoul and Jakarta, who are eager to use their knowledge for the benefit of mankind, have given him 'hope' about the world. Related Stories Reported by NDTV.com 1 hour ago
  • Obama urges United Nations to confront roots o ...
    The US president also condemned the anti-Islam film that helped spark the recent attacks, calling it 'cruel and disgusting'. Reported by India Today 2 hours ago
  • Taiwan expo in B'lore from tomorrow
    *Several top companies and educational institutions from Taiwan will participate in a four-day expo to be held in Bangalore from September 27.* Disclosing this to Deccan Herald here on Tuesday, Wenchyi Ong, Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre, observed that the EMMA ... ...
  • Gujarat HC orders CBI probe in RTI activist's ...
    *In a further blow to the Gujarat Police, the High Court on Tuesday ordered for a CBI probe into the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa, allegedly killed at the behest of land and mining mafia in July 2010 at the High Court premises. * Jethwa was at the forefront of exposing illegal mining .. ...
  • State govt asked to conduct early civic polls
    *The Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to hold early elections for civic bodies and block development councils, given intelligence alert that a Pakistan-based terror outfit is intimidating people against participating in the democratic exercise.* Last April, ...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Pashtun Awakening: Defeat The Taliban By Chang ...
    Pakistan has systemically weakened Afghanistan by undermining the sacred tribal structure of the Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group, by attempting to replace it with the extremist ideology and practices of the Taliban – a process we refer to as “de-Pashtunization”. The only way to stop ...
  • US Economy Sustained by Export of Dollars and Wars
    For those who feel that 13 is an unlucky number, the belief was vindicated on September 13, considering that a new liquidity injection – a massive infusion of freshly printed and essentially worthless money into the global economy – was announced in the US on the day. Federal Reserve chairman Be ...
  • Taliban Perspectives on Reconciliation
    One of the most important events related to the war in Afghanistan to occur over the past few weeks was the publication of a report by a group of British experts concerning an inclination towards compromise among the Taliban. The authors interviewed several informed sources to prepare a report a ...
  • The Eastern Sector of the US Missile Defense S ...
    The issue of establishing an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system in Europe recently received a lot of attention both in Russia and in the West. The positions of the two nuclear superpowers — Russia and the United States — differ greatly, and that is hindering the process of further reducing thei ...
  • Death of US Ambassador in Libya Marks the Coll ...
    ‘They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind…’ The recent tragedy provoked by the release of the movie “Innocence of Muslims” – the killing of US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three members of the US consulate staff – in Benghazi, the city which became famous as the e ...

BlogHer

  • Beef Tamale Casserole
      Sometimes I just need comfort food. Minimal effort, layered flavors and easy to eat. And to me, that is normally in the form of a casserole dish. A messed up car, broken laptop and wrongfully doubled bank deductions played a huge role in my bad day, so something comforting and ...
  • Why We Can't Open The Windows Inside A Plane
    Mitt Romney is shocked, just shocked, that you can't roll the windows down in a commercial aircraft. We'll let the News & Politics section tackle what that means as far as our country's future in terms of science and technology, and enjoy this opportunity purely for its educational value. A ...
  • Tantrums & Grief in the Grocery: More Than Mee ...
    My son is almost five-years-old. It's been a while since I've witnessed him suffer a temper tantrum of a Force Ten velocity. I can attribute that to him growing older, I guess, but I think it’s a cruelly inverse combination of his youth versus the reality of the real world. Sometimes, no matt ...
  • What Is Inherited From Growing Up Poor
    I didn't grow up poor, but my parents are extremely frugal in many ways. I inherited the need to save in order to feel secure, which is making me crazy in the current economy when it is so, so hard to save. Crystal's story makes me realize how good I had it then, and how good my daughter has it ...
  • Natalie McNeal Featured on Anderson Live + More!
    Natalie McNeal of The Frugalista was a guest on Anderson Cooper's show Anderson Live for the "Frugal Friday" segment. Susan Goldberg of Mama Non Grata recently received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council to work on "Overflow," a performance piece that deals with breast cancer, bodies and br ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste ...
    This year 2.25 million Americans will get married—and a million will get divorced. Could birth control be to blame for some of these breakups? Recent research suggests that the contraceptive pill—which prevents women from ovulating ...
  • New SARS-Like Virus Found, Man Critically Ill ...
    A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS infection and the common cold is critically ill in hospital in Britain, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. The U.N. ...
  • Feds May Acknowledge Ground Zero Cancer Link
    The federal government may formally acknowledge that Ground Zero first responders and residents of the surrounding neighborhoods could have gotten cancer as a result of their exposure to toxic dust following the Sept. 11 terror ...
  • Common Cat Parasite Linked to Personality Chan ...
    The cat parasite linked to an increase in suicide attempts in infected woman can also cause changes in personality and behavior, according to research. Toxoplasma gondii, or T. gondii, is a protozoa that typically infects cats, but can make ...
  • Nearly One in 10 Children Get Asthma ‘Be ...
    Nearly one in 10 children with asthma get the life-threatening illness because they live near a busy road, according to a new study. Researchers found young sufferers living near traffic laden streets are also more likely ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

  • First Thoughts on the iPhone 5
    So it’s been about four days or so and here are my first thoughts on the iPhone 5. It’s basically an iPhone. But it’s the iPhone we should have had a long time ago. It’s the iPhone perfected. I used it all day yesterday and ended up with a 20% charge after 21 hours– ...
  • A Flower at the Apple Store
    Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content4S FlowerFlower at COIT TowerA Grey Wolf in the Apple StoreStudent FailFlowers and Stone
  • Why I’m Camping for the iPhone 5
    When things are roughly similar, I value form over function. It’s that simple. Elegance, beauty, and design are all magnifiers of experience for me, and my daily device is the place where this matters most. But I also see the other side. Google Now is overwhelmingly superior to Siri. Googl ...
  • The Merits of Admitting When You’re Wrong | Aa ...
    When Oprah started defending fabulist James Frey, she was savaged by the press. So she invited her critics on the show and apologized, saying “You were right, I was wrong.” It didn’t destroy her reputation; it rescued it. When the space shuttle Columbia exploded, launch manager Wayne Hale took f ...
  • On Cognitive Dissonance | Arronsw
    We all know people don’t like to hear bad news about themselves. Indeed, we go out of our way to avoid it — and when we do confront it, we try to downplay it or explain it away. Cognitive dissonance psychologists have proven it in dozens of experiments: Force students through an embarrassing ini ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • The (Not-So-Secret) Angry-Old-White-Man Agenda
    By Craig Taro Gold,huffingtonpost – Our country’s Mitt Romneys, Pat Robertsons, and Rush Limbaughs killed my father. I’ve never spoken publicly about it before, but now as I witness supposedly “conservative” rhetoric spewing across America, it’s time to do my ...
  • A Crucible of Political Disenchantment: “Dismi ...
    By Phil Rockstroh  -  Weltschmerz (from German; from Welt (world) + Schmerz (pain) delineates the type of sadness experienced when the world revealed does not reflect the image of the world that one believes, or has been led to believe, should exist. The corporate/consumer state (as well as, its ...
  • Suicide – A Permanent Solution to a Temp ...
    By Linda Wolf,WWH/CJE - One of my daughters’ friends committed suicide a couple of days ago. The day before, a co-worker of mine attended the funeral of a fourteen year old girl who killed herself. That night, the TV news detailed the death of yet another suicide. About thirty years ago, I ...
  • In a “Lawless America” The EPA pla ...
    More propaganda released by the corrupt EPA. Paid for by  you the US taxpayer. How is this anything more than Public Relations for Corporations and the EPA? We are to believe that; Intel, Kohl’s, Staples, Hilton, McDonald’s, Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, the f$cking NYSE, TD Bank and others are su ...
  • WWH/CJE Tuesday News Briefs
    US soldiers charged (Not really) in Afghan pee-pee case Marine Corps punishment for incident, a video of which was circulated on internet, falls short of criminal prosecution. wo US soldiers are to face criminal charges for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the Mar ...

reference frame

  • Did EPA test toxins on humans?
    Steve Milloy of JunkScience.COM and pals have sued Lisa Jackson's EPA for having deliberately exposed unhealthy humans to harmful and lethal substances: EPA Human Testing.COM, a special website about the story The initial text over there Canada Free Press, WUWT, PR Web, Tucson Citizen, ...
  • Almost all particle physics papers will be free
    Journals will sign a deal with libraries In many other fields such as Earth sciences, people are dreaming about the free access for everyone. In high energy physics, this dream is becoming a reality. After all, most high energy physicists have relied on arXiv.org, a freely accessible pre ...
  • BBC: How small is the universe?
    If you haven't watched this BBC2 Horizon program named How small is the universe? four weeks ago, here is the 60-minute video: Is the narrator speaking in conventional British English? It's about Nature at very short distance scales and topics such as the string theory landsca ...
  • EU carbon market will be saved by a new boom o ...
    An hour ago, I saw a fascinating article on Patria.CZ, a Czech server for investors, which revealed a highly paradoxical, nearly comical plan. Analysts at UBS are predicting that by 2015, energy giants such as E.ON and RWE will build lots of new coal power plants – in fact, their capacit ...
  • Klaus in Telegraph: on final stages of destruc ...
    The Telegraph is running a story on Czech President Klaus' view on the EU and promotes his new book to appear in the U.K. next week, Václav Klaus warns that the destruction of Europe's democracy may be in its final phase The book is called The Shattering of Illusions. It has 200 pag ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Robocalls abuse requires new laws, election ch ...
    Canada’s top election official, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand, says he wants to see the law changed to deal with deceptive phone calls. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Quebec Liberals complain to police over robocalls The Quebec Liberal Party is alleging its opponents a ...
  • America is an Insecure Empire with Catherine A ...
    On this first Infowars Nightly News show of 2012, Alex talks about the imploding economy with Catherine Austin Fitts, the former managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., and Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal ...
  • Spanish Uprising – They have had it with the N ...
    Watch the Spanish Uprising Live. They have had it with the NWO Globalist Control Freaks and are marching by the thousands! Watch live streaming video from spanishrevolutionsol at livestream.com Related posts: A Greece Fire: Greece burns. Troika was the match. Live from the Greek front in the G ...
  • Lets invade all the middle east and get it ove ...
    Am I buying into the propaganda? I dont know: Children being tied to tanks to stop them being fired on in syria, syrian army killing children for the sake of it. Womans rights… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: The big bang the middle East Surrey has been in ...
  • U.S. killer linked to 3 B.C. highway cold cases
    RCMP in B.C. are asking the public to help reconstruct the movements of a convicted U.S. murderer suspected of killing at least three women in the B.C. interior during early 1970′s CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: U.S. suspect in B.C. teen’s slaying linked to 5 other kill ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Minister orders reindeer slaughter
    Norway’s agriculture minister wants to slaughter nearly 40,000 more reindeer in the country’s most northerly county of Finnmark as quickly as possible. He claims there’s not enough grass for the animals to graze on, and reducing the size of the herds is the best way to save the ...
  • Bureaucrat hailed for exposing and questioning ...
    A divisional director in Norway’s Ministry of Culture has been hailed by outsiders as being very brave, for daring to air his thoughts on how the ministry bureaucracy functions – or doesn’t. His frank and almost brutally straightforward commentary in one of Norway’s bigge ...
  • Cyclist’s sport on a roll
    Norwegian cycling star Edvald Boasson Hagen has won another major victory, and commentators claim it shows how Norwegian cycling in general is on a roll. Boasson Hagen himself was happy after winning the silver medal in the cycling world championships, but not entirely satisfied. “It&#8217 ...
  • July 22 attacks left many scars
    New studies are showing how the attacks of July 22 last year have left many scars and changed various aspects of Norwegian society. More than 70 percent of those who survived the massacre on the island of Utøya now suffer from anxiety or depression, Norwegians have less faith in their police, an ...
  • Ryanair faces case in Norwegian court
    Low-fare Irish airline Ryanair must, for the first time, defend itself in a Norwegian court and prove that its firing of a Norwegian-based worker was in line with tough Norwegian labour law. The case may have international consequences for the unconventional carrier, which also has experienced t ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • “GM Crops Cannot Be the Answer,” say scientists
    The evidence favors ecological approaches New Delhi, September 24 2012: World renowned scientists, addressing a media briefing here, asserted that India’s lack of food and nutrition security is not just a technological problem. However, the solution will require both social and technologic ...
  • Scientists Warn on CSIRO GM Wheat Threat
    by Safe Food Foundation Expert scientists warn that genetically modified wheat may cause Glycogen Storage Disease IV, resulting in an enlarged liver, cirrhosis of the liver, and failure to thrive. Children born with this disease usually die at about the age of five. Australia is on track ...
  • Media Release: Rebuttal of GM Study Critics
    Editor’s Note: In the wake of the recent two-year GM corn and roundup study, Russia has suspended imports of Monsanto’s ‘Roundup Ready’ GM corn. GM and Roundup linked to tumours in rats by Safe Food Foundation In the podcast below, ABC Rural talks to Mark Tester, Pro ...
  • Darwin’s Nightmare (Video)
    Some time back, in the 1960s, someone had the brilliant idea to introduce Nile Perch into Lake Victoria. The voracious predator soon went to work eating everything, until there was not much left in the entire lake but Nile Perch and crocodiles. But there’s always an upside to these thin ...
  • Blue Gold: World Water Wars (Video)
    This is a must-watch video for all who need water (the rest of you are excused). I actually covered a lot of the material in the video in my Water Worries post, which I put together several years ago (but being one of the earliest posts on this site, when we had a [...]

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Local Artists Truth Universal and Mos Def Amon ...
    From a press release from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: In 2012 the police kill a Black man, woman, or child every 36 hours! In July, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee (MXSC), issued “Every 36 Hours: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Bl ...
  • Neither Candidate: Fifteen Issues this Electio ...
    Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes. Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads. Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison. Neither candidate has called for arrest ...
  • ‘We All Count’ Campaign To Combat Historic Lev ...
    From a press release from Project South: More than 30 million people will be discouraged or prevented from voting in this election. “This is the highest number since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. We know that many of those people are African-Americans, LGBT people, people displaced b ...
  • Aramark Uses Hurricane Isaac to Loot the City ...
    From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: On August 29, Hurricane Isaac swept through New Orleans and surrounding areas with raging winds and torrential rains causing widespread flooding and epic power outages that lasted in some cases as long as a week. Businesses and schools were closed for up ...
  • Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...
    This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Ahmadinejad Doubts The Holocaust "This video is not available in your country" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... xStkKPm5NkStatistics: Posted by imsamhi1 — Tue Sep 25, 2012 2:58 pm
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    CrackSmokeRepublican wrote: I've shook a few hands like that on occasion, not that I was trying to but it just kind of happened that way. I guess I'm a Mason huh? “Yeah I remember back in 1978, my friend Haim, um I mean Henry and I had a few too many and man we were thumbing and knuckling a ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012 ... Around-to- by AWR Hawkins 24 Sep 2012 315 post a comment When Iranian President Ahmadinejad ascended the podium to speak on the rule of law at the UN today, Israeli UN envoy Ron Prosor rose from his seat and walked out while the U.S. envoys remained, ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    CSR..........can you answer my previous post regarding the churchill/bruening letters of jew banks in germany financing nsdap? am listening to the deanna show now.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:14 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    It's funny to hear Stern sound so judgmental about these people who don't listen enough to the jewsnews to KNOW that Emmanuel Goldstein was killed.Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Tue Sep 25, 2012 2:41 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Sluggish Electric Car Market Forces Discounts ...
    With electric vehicles still struggling to find a foothold in the mainstream market, General Motors has offered major discounts on its Chevrolet Volt to move cars off sales lots, and Toyota has scrapped plans for widespread sales of its new all-electric minicar. While Courtesy of GM A Chevro ...
  • Coral Biodiversity Hotspot Is Found in Western ...
    The western Indian Ocean, especially the waters between Madagascar and Africa, contain one of the highest levels of coral diversity worldwide, with 369 coral species identified in a recent study and more still to be identified. Scientists say the western Indian Ocean may contain as much coral bi ...
  • Air Pollution in Europe Shortening Lives of Ur ...
    Air pollution in Europe is shortening lifespans by an average of eight months and by as much as two years in the most polluted cities and regions, according to a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). While the European Union has cut emissions of many harmful pollutants over the last ...
  • Majority of Undecided Voters Call Global Warmi ...
    The majority of undecided voters in the U.S. presidential race say that the candidates’ views on global warming will be an important factor in determining how they vote, according to a new poll. While very few participants called global warming their single-most important issue, about 61 percent ...
  • High-Altitude Wind Energy: Huge Potential — An ...
    A host of start-up companies are exploring ways to harness the enormous amount of wind energy flowing around the earth, especially at high altitudes. But as these innovators are discovering, the engineering and regulatory challenges of what is known as airborne wind power are daunting. BY DAVE ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Sharp to cut 11,000 jobs, sell off assets
    Struggling Sharp Corp. plans to slash a total of 10,966 employees in Japan and overseas while selling off assets to generate ¥213.1 billion by the end of next March, according to the company's restructuring plan obtained Tuesday. The plan, submitted Monday to financial institutions by the ...
  • Canada qualifies for 2013 WBC
    Chris Robinson, Adam Loewen and Jimmy Van Ostrand smacked home runs to lead Canada over Germany 11-1 on Monday to win a four-nation qualifying tournament for next year's World Baseball Classic. Canadian pitcher Andrew Albers allowed the hosts only one hit in six innings for the victory in adva ...
  • 11 people hurt as mudslide derails train
    Eleven people were hurt, five seriously, when an eight-car Keikyu Line commuter train around midnight Monday ran into a pile of mud left by a landslide in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, caused by heavy rain, police said. The five who were seriously injured were men and women all in their 30s t ...
  • After police warning, Softbank stops taking ol ...
    Warned by police that it may be violating the law on dealing in used products, Softbank Mobile Corp. has stopped paying new iPhone 5 purchasers for their old models, sources said Tuesday. The mobile phone carrier failed to get permission from the Public Safety Commission to deal in used items. ...
  • Yokohama Chinatown parade is canceled
    A group of local Chinese people said Tuesday they have decided to call off the annual Oct. 1 Chinese National Day parade in Yokoyama's Chinatown due to the deterioration of bilateral ties over the Senkaku territorial row. Around 200 people, including students of a local Chinese junior high sch ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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

  • South Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium; Citize ...
    “The decision to end the moratorium in South Africa, which may have the fifth largest supply of natural gas in the world, has ignited another phase of opposition to fracking, as citizens demand more research and public education. The Karoo, an arid farming region in the Eastern Cape of the ...
  • Arctic sea ice melts to lowest level on record
    “The extent of ice probably hit its low point on September 16, when it covered 1.32 million square miles (3.42 million square km) of the Arctic Ocean, the smallest amount since satellite records began 33 years ago. Changing weather conditions could further shrink the extent, the center sai ...
  • Deluge of water protests hit India
    “Flooded farmers in central India have submerged themselves neck-deep in water – some for as long as 17 days – to protest a state government’s dam project that has inundated their lands. The concept of demonstration by submersion appears to be spreading in India. Hundreds ...
  • India’s water crisis’ cheap soluti ...
    “Where will India get its water from in the coming years? The water challenge is already grave and could get graver. By 2050, for instance, it is estimated that demand would go up to 1,180 million cubic metres, 1.65 times the current levels, a situation that would be made worse by fast dwi ...
  • ‘Big flush’ ordered amid Zimbabwe ...
    “The Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo has ordered its residents to flush toilets at the same time once a week to prevent blockages during frequent periods of water rationing, the mayor said on Saturday. “Bulawayo’s chronic water shortages force the city authorities to order rationin ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Asks SEC to Probe Peabody Deal
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to fully “investigate any and all agreements” related to the Peabody State Energy Campus (PSEC) in southern Illinois. See the full letter here. Peabody Energy Corporation persuaded nine regional power ...
  • Kucinich Marks 31st International Day of Peace
    Washington D.C. (September 21, 2012) – On the 31st anniversary of the International Day of Peace, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for reflection and a shared commitment to peace. ...
  • The “Surge” is Over. The War is Not
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement following the announcement that the “surge” in Afghanistan has ended. In 2009, 33,000 additional troops were deployed to Afghanistan. Today, troop deployment levels have returned to the pre-“surge” levels. Sixty-eight thou ...
  • International Monetary Experts Meet in Chicago
    Today a panel of international monetary policy experts gather in Chicago at an event sponsored by the American Monetary Institute (AMI) to discuss major changes in U.S. monetary policy proposed by United States Congressman Dennis Kucinich.  The meeting is occurring on the one year anniversa ...
  • War by Coal Expanded to Include Ratepayers
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 21, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke out against the so-called “Stop the War on Coal Act” on the House Floor. He called for an end of coal’s war on the health and safety of the American people. See video here. “The ‘Stop The War on Coal Act’ i ...

Authentically Wired

  • A look through a different lens at the current ...
    Paul Miller Onsite Industry White Paper 8/20/2012   . . . A look through a different lens at the current state of affairs in the Arizona On-Site residential wastewater treatment & effluent disposal industry…   While I have actively engaged in this industry for over 30 years, by no ...
  • can you spell “whitewash” …?
    …What you thought you and I would be provided with full disclosure … that just ain’t going to happen … can you spell “whitewash” …? Secret Service did not compromise security during Colombia prostitute scandal: probe 09-22-2012  •  Reuters 13 employees of the Secret Service were entang ...
  • Oh, yea, like $ure I trust Goldman $ach$
    … Oh, yea, like $ure I trust Goldman $ach$ who has provided to us effective leader$hip as guardian$ of our nation’$ money …NOT… 44 Companies That Could Get Crushed If The Government Cuts Spending 09-22-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile … Read Full Story.   Click he ...
  • Ambush America style
    … Ambush America style … Military-style tactics seen in US Consulate siege 09-22-2012  •  AP The heavily armed extremists who laid siege to the U.S. Consulate in Libya used military-style tactics that may have steered Americans toward a waiting ambush, U.S. officials said Friday as the ...
  • $elective memory
    … Romney … $elective memory … $elective distribution of information … FACT CHECKER: Romney earns 4 Pinocchios for 14-year-old Obama clip Republican’s campaign leaves out key portion of comments about "redistribution." » Read full article Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

  • Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe Romm
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress, "Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...
  • Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al Gore
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly posted, "This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's Climate ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pics ...
  • Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share t ...
  • Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In these it is revealed their lack of humanity for the death of a political adversary. In a forum thread titled, "Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43" fre ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
    Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
  • Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
    A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
  • Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...
    For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...
  • Building indigenous resilience in the face of ...
    In the 1980s images of loincloth-clad tribesmen blockading blocking logging roads in Malaysian Borneo shocked the world. But while their protests captured the spotlight momentarily, Borneo's forests continued to be destroyed at rapid rates, undermining traditional communities that are dependent ...
  • In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
    In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Now you can download Einstein's brain
    The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for US$9.99. But it won't help you win at Angry Birds.While Albert Einstein's genius isn't included, an exclusive iPad application launched today promises to...
  • Space shuttle Endeavour home after final flight
    The US space shuttle Endeavour took its final flight on Friday (local time), making a spectacular series of flypasts over California before landing in Los Angeles where it will retire near its birthplace.Riding piggyback on a specially...
  • SpeechJammer gadget among Ig Nobel prize winners
    For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer.The SpeechJammer, a device that disrupts a person's speech by repeating his or her own voice at a delay of...
  • Scientists smell a rat over GM study
    A controversial French study linking GM corn to cancer has been pulled apart by Kiwi scientists and others overseas.The study has led the French Government to order an investigation and GE Free New Zealand has requested an "immediate...
  • Teacher fired for supporting pro-gay protest
    A Far North teacher who was suspended last month after he supported a pro-gay protest at the Catholic College he taught at has lost his job.Pompallier Catholic College science teacher Nigel Studdart was formally dismissed from his...

The Bovine

  • Mother Jones’ surprising raw milk story
    From Kiera Butler, on Mother Jones: “Over the past year, I’ve been involved in an illegal, underground, super-secret speakeasy. I smuggled contraband to my house, even distributed it among my friends. Nope, not meth: milk. Creamy, delicious, unpasteurized milk. When … Continue ...
  • CFIA: 4, Shropshire lambs: 0
    This just in from Montana Jones: The CFIA’s seemingly on again, off again plan to kill lambs from Montana Jones’ farm was on again Saturday, as agents came to the farm and reportedly took  four lambs away, presumably to be … Continue reading →
  • MDA sore losers in raw milk case
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “The 250 or so people attending my presentation Saturday on “America’s Underground Food War” at the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania broke into applause when I told them, near the end of … Continue reading & ...
  • Seed Saving vs Seed Slavery
    Via Ultraculture blog: “Physicist and Activist Dr. Vandana Shiva Calls for Seed Freedom Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist and environmental activist who has been incredibly outspoken against Monsanto and its efforts to patent seeds and create “killer seeds” which … Continue reading &# ...
  • CFIA came to Montana Jones’ farm…
    They came, they saw the lambs, but they did not kill them… at least not yet. Will they be back? Montana posted the following pictures and commentary on her Facebook page yesterday:        

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Thanks! (and a Reminder)
    As a result of a Facebook push late last week, the Les Turner ALS Foundation moved up 25 places from 100th place to 75th place in competition for $5 million in grants from JPMorgan Chase. That was good enough to win a $20,000 grant from JPMorgan. Things went viral towards the end, wit ...
  • Polls Shows American Believe There is Too Much ...
    Gallup Polls show Little Appetite in U.S. for More Gov't Regulation of Business Americans say there is too much (47%) rather than too little (26%) government regulation of business and industry, with 24% saying the amount of regulation is about right. Americans have been most likely to say t ...
  • Canada New Home Sales Plunge 64 Percent; Lowes ...
    New home sales in Canada plunged 64% in the wake of government's changes to insured mortgages (30yr to 25yr) and home equity line of credit restrictions (80% max to 65% max) which took effect in July. Lowest August on Record Reader Corey emailed the above comments and a news link from ...
  • Bernanke Declares War on Canadian Economy (Res ...
    The financial world cheered when Bernanke announced QE3 until it works (which is essentially forever, because it never will work). Bruce Stewart, writing for the Winnipeg Free Press, is one of few who figured out QE for what it really is: A Beggar-Thy-Neighbor competitive currency debaseme ...
  • Spain Warns Catalonia Separatists of Treason C ...
    The Spanish military warned officials who do not guard the sovereignty and constitution of Spain. Specifically, Spain is prepared to bring charges of treason in a military court against separatists. Via Google translate, please consider military warn of the consequences of promoting "fractu ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 1 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Social Engineering & Global Governance The process of global governance is a result of an embedded institutional system of social engineering. This podcast looks at some of the recent history of social engineering, focusing on the role of educational institutions, philanthropy, and the soci ...
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    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The EyeOpener- Health Freedom: Answers & Solutions
    As we have demonstrated over the past several weeks on the EyeOpener, health freedom is a subject of growing importance for citizens of the United States and freedom lovers around the world as would-be “authorities” like the American Food and Drug Administration attempt to assert ever more contr ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • For Sale: World’s Most Ridiculous Ship
    “The world’s only planing, beaching, swath hulled ferry built at a hideously great expense ($80M+?) to the US Navy for a route to nowhere and a service that nobody wants”, [...]
  • WISTA Annual Conference to Focus on Shipping’s ...
    PRESS RELEASE — The Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) conference program scheduled to be held in Paris October 3-5 will focus on issues facing shipping today.  In addition [...]
  • So China Has an Aircraft Carrier. Now What?
    Introducing the ‘Liaoning’: China’s New Aircraft Carrier and What it Means By Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins China’s first aircraft carrier, now referred to as the “Liaoning ” by China’s Ministry of [...]
  • Soviet Nuclear Waste Dump Poses Threat to Arct ...
    The Kara Sea, a body of Arctic waters so remote that the Soviet Union used it as an atomic- waste dump for more than 25 years, has become the focus [...]
  • Dolphin Drilling Awarded $252 Million Contract ...
    Dolphin Drilling AS, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy ASA has subject final approvals entered into a Letter of Award for the provision of the semi submersible drilling rig Bredford [...]

Press TV

  • N Korea parliament hold 2nd meeting
    North Korea's parliament has convened for the second time in the past six months, enacting a law of extending compulsory education for children, Press TV reports.
  • Police break up Madrid demo, make arrests
    Spanish police have fired rubber bullets to break up a demonstration near the parliament in central Madrid and arrested and injured several protesters.
  • Israeli spy drone skims Lebanon skies
    An Israeli reconnaissance plane has penetrated Lebanese airspace and flown over parts of the country in flagrant violation of a UN Security Council resolution.
  • Iraq attacks kill 9 security forces
    Security and medical sources say nine members of the Iraqi security forces have been killed and eleven others wounded in separate attacks targeting the police and army.
  • Attack on Turkey military vehicle kills 7
    At least seven people have been killed in an attack on a military vehicle carrying security personnel in the eastern Turkish city of Tunceli, local sources say.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Knocking epilepsy on the head, electrically
    Electrical brain stimulation triggered by the impending onset of a seizure could be used to prevent epileptic attacks, scientists have shown. Epileptic seizures are caused by intermitten bursts of a...
  • Artifical protein scaffold props up heart repair
    Using short, self-assembling bio-degradable protein nanofibres impregnated with a blood-vessel growth factor, scientists have been able to prevent some of the negative changes that occur in the heart ...
  • The violent histories of hot Jupiters
    A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are likely to have had violent pasts. The evidence stems from a difference in the way th...
  • Black holes, as revealed by X-rays
    This week, the journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated to the subject of black hole research, and Rob Fender of the University of Southampton reviewed what we know about the X-ray emi...
  • Do elephants purr?
    The way elephants make the low-frequency rumbles they use to communicate over long distances has been revealed by scientists in Austria. Humans and other mammals use sound extensively; whales and elep...

Nick Turse

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  • What the Foxconn Riot Says About China
    What the Foxconn Riot Says About China: newyorker: Anything attached to Apple gets more than its...
  • They Just Couldn’t Stay AwayToday, the New Yo ...
    They Just Couldn’t Stay Away Today, the New York Times reported this little gem in a front-page piece: “Syrian War’s Spillover Threatens a Fragile Iraq”: “At the request of the Iraqi government, according to General Caslen, a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Ira ...
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