27 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 1: Iraqi Christian lawmaker, Younadem Kana (C-L) Iraq's top Catholic prelate, Chaldean Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly (C) and Bishop Shlimone Wardoni (C-L) are flanked by Iraqi security forces in front of the Syrian Catholic church Our Lady of Deliverance on November 1, 2010 in Baghdad, Iraq. Gunmen stormed the church yesterday evening during a Sunday night mass firing and bombing the building while wounding and killing dozens of parishioners held hostage inside. The Death toll from the massacre in the church has risen to at least 52 killed. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 16: Protestors are kettled by police outside St Andrews house where Prime Minister David Cameron was meeting Alex Salmond on February 16, 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland. David Cameron said he will do everything he can to stop Scottish independence; however he would consider devolving further powers. Prime Minister David Cameron met with Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond in Edinburgh for talks on the proposed independence referendum. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

MOFFETT FEDERAL AIRFIELD, CA:(EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by U.S. Military prior to transmission. ) In this handout provided by the U.S. Air force, California Air National Guard pararescuemen of the 129th Rescue Wing, Moffett Federal Airfield, Ca. climb up a moving rope ladder, from the chilly waters outside the Golden Gate Bridge, up to a HH-60G Pave Hawk. Tech. Sgt. Mike Sampognaro, flight engineer, monitors the training mission from the troop door. Hovering only six feet above the waves, Lt. Col. Thomas Laut must fly with extreme care as he deals with gusting winds, sea spray, sun glare, and sea swells, as he maintains a 'low-and-slow' flight. The HH-60G's primary wartime mission is combat search and rescue, infiltration, exfiltration and resupply of special operations forces in day, night or marginal weather conditions. Some members of the 129th provided technical assistance for the production of the movie 'The Perfect Storm.' (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Stop NATO

• Interview: Egypt Must Reclaim Non-Aligned Legacy
  Press TV September 27, 2012 Israel refusal to join NPT inexcusable: Analyst Interview with Rick Rozoff, Center for Research on Globalization VIDEO Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has warned Israel over its saber-rattling against Iran and the obstructionism of Tel Aviv which is preventing the re ...
• Syria: David Cameron As Ivan Karamazov
  Voice of Russia September 17, 2012 David Cameron poses as Ivan Karamazov Boris Volkhonsky 1862: Dostoevsky on the new world order ==== He did not particularly mention those who are “of no conscience”, but British diplomats have made it clear that the British Premier had in mind Russi ...
• Qatar’s Threat To Syria: Time To Slap Sa ...
  Voice of Russia September 27, 2012 Syrian crisis: polarization of opinion Ilya Kharlamov ==== Western leaders making similar statements in New York is only natural given their permanent drive to rein in Damascus and Tehran and revise the current system of international relations in circumvention ...
• Russia, BRICS, NAM Condemn West For Syrian Ter ...
  Voice of Russia September 27, 2012 Lavrov on Syria: “Inactivity incites terror” Olga Denisova ==== Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: “To a great extent the ongoing violence in Syria should be blamed on the countries that incite anti-Assad forces to deny a ceasefire and seek a change ...
• Drone Carnage: The Moral Question the American ...
  Frontier Post September 27, 2012 A moral question ==== Indeed, with what peace of mind can President Obama sleep when even children get slaughtered in the drone assaults that he now personally approves? Appallingly enough, as part of his drone adventurism he has decreed that everyone within the ...

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Intel Hub

• Police Provocateurs Exposed at Spanish Protests
  By JG Vibes theintelhub.com September 27 2012 Police Agent Provocateurs were caught on video inciting violence by media cameras at the September 25th bailout and financial crisis protests in Madrid Spain. There were also several videos uploaded to youtube and liveleak showing similar events. As ...
• 9 Year Old Autistic Child Beat up by Police th ...
  By JG Vibes theintelhub.com September 27 2012 At Baldwin South Intermediate School in Quincy Illinois a 9 year old autistic child was taken from his special needs classroom with bruises all over his face and incarcerated after he was beat up by police. The incident began when Roger Parker, Jr. h ...
• LRAD Sonic Weapons To Be Deployed “Throughout” ...
  Devices commonly used by police to quell civil unrest, disperse protests By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com September 27, 2012 The U.S. Air National Guard has purchased half a million dollars worth of portable LRAD acoustic systems, which are commonly used by police to quell protests and civil u ...
• Exposing the Truth Radio Show – Listen T ...
  theintelhub.com September 27, 2012 Today at 3pm Pacific 6pm Eastern the Exposing the Truth Radio Show will be live, covering a wide variety of freedom orientated topics including the dangers of GMO foods, the importance of Proposition 37, Innocence of Muslims and its government ties, Iran war pr ...
• Riots Over Rotten Apple Mania
  James Hall | You may know someone who is part of the rampage. It could be a neighbor or even a family member. Even in some circumstance, you yourself might be part of the wow rage.

FRS

• Dear Mandela — a film on the new generat ...
  Theatrical Trailer — When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ of South Africa’s new generation rise from the shacks and take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test. DEAR MANDELA was awarded the & ...
• Philippines: Catholic Church leader an illegal ...
  [The neo-colonial domination of the Philippines by imperialism has long relied upon semi-feudal and comprador forces to ensure the ongoing subservience of the islands.  A crucial part of this equation has been the role of the Catholic Church.  Sections of the Catholic Church have, for many years ...
• Julian Assange Addresses UN General Assembly & ...
  [In a bold new move to bring his case, Wikileaks, and the case of accused whistleblower and political prisoner Bradley Manning, to the United Nations, Julian Assange has delivered this electronic media.  While he addresses special appeals to President Obama, which will fall on deaf imperialist e ...
• India: Uproar over political prisoner status ...
  | Video | Uproar over political prisoner status to jailed Maoists | India Videos | – India Today. (Click for Indian news video) [A background note, by Revolutionary Frontlines, on why capitalist governments refuse to grant “political prisoner” status to democratic and r ...
• Spain steps up more austerity amid protests
  The government is due to pass its 2013 austerity budget, which includes further salary freezes for government workers.  27 Sep 2012  [Photo: Protesters have gathered for a second day in a row to rally against the austerity measures in the country [Reuters]] Thousands of protesters rallied near t ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
  I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
• Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...
  Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
• Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni Family
  It is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that, it has c ...
• Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Palestinians
  Today is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe
• Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
  'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

• The Wellcome Collection's Best Science Photogr ...
  The best of the 2012 Wellcome Image Awards take viewers under the microscope, under the human cranium, and inside an avian embryo. Wellcome Images owns one of the most amazing collections of scientific imagery--mostly pertaining to the medical and biological sciences--spanning everything from s ...
• Today On Mars: First Physical Evidence Of A On ...
  For the first time, scientists can actually observe the remnants of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have known that water flowed on Mars at one point, but until now, what that flow looked like has remained educated speculation. Now a discovery changes that. Mars rover Curiosity has found grav ...
• New Speckly Image Shows Non-Planet Pluto In th ...
  It may be blurry, but it's a feat for ground-based observations in visible light — and it could help verify possible exoplanets around other stars. This blurry image of Pluto and Charon may not seem that impressive at first glance, but consider this: The resolution here is equivalent to separat ...
• Where Is It Legal To Get Drunk And Shoot Someo ...
  The graphic plots 99 state laws that make it easier to carry and own guns, or harder to track them. The U.S. has 99 more problems than it had three years ago--or 99 more freedoms, depending on your point of view. That's the upshot of a new interactive graphic by Mother Jones. The graphic plot ...
• After Pregnancy, Many Women Have Bits Of Male ...
  Carrying a male fetus found to cause microchimerism Mothers aren't just emotionally connected to their sons. A new study shows how genetic material can be passed on from fetuses during pregnancy, travelinging through the human blood-brain barrier and settling in--and it might be relatively norm ...

Veterans Today

• How Poor Leadership Threatens Israel
  - Is Netanyahu's Iran War Hype a National Security Threat to America
• James H. Fetzer: 9/11 IRAN REVIEW Interview
  According to Dr. Fetzer, George W. Bush and his administration officials were responsible for the atrocities which happened on September 11, 2001.
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  SNCT dba SNC Manufacturing*, Orocovis, Puerto Rico, was awarded contract SPM1C1-12-D-1063.
• Background to Mossad Try at Egypt Civil War ov ...
  The deadly bombing of Alexandria church has shed more light on the long congested sectarian strife in Egypt. Nobody can deny that the Egyptian society has been showing symptoms of sectarianism based on religious friction between the two main religious groups in the country.
• Are Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby now a thre ...
  In her first response to the killing of the American ambassador and three others in Libya, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she had asked herself the question that many Americans were asking - how it could have happened?

War is Business

• State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...
  Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
• “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...
  Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
• 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...
  Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
• Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...
  Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
• Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...
  Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...
  The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
• Yorkshire at risk from renewed flooding
  Heavy rainfall in the next 30 hours could lead to yet more flooding across parts of Yorkshire. Current indications suggest some Pennine catchments of North & West Yorkshire could be most at risk. The very active weather system which I wrote about here on Friday and is currently affecting much o ...
• Autumn blast on its way
  A deep area of low pressure looks set to dominate our weather late in the weekend and into next week as the official start of autumn (which is the 22nd September this year, defined as the day the sun crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere) coincides nicely with the first meteorological ...
• Wet end to September raises autumn flooding co ...
  The second half of September look set to be dominated by low pressure, with little chance of a prolonged dry settled spell of weather. All computer weather models are indicating that temperatures are likely to be below normal, with rain expected at times across the UK - although there will be s ...
• Global temperature update
  Global temperatures in August were 0.34C above the 30 year running average, according to the UAH satellite measure, showing a small increase on the previous month, shown below. It's the 3rd warmest August in this particular satellite data set which began in 1979. Using the more standard ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Meet China's Real Challenger, Mexico (No Kidding)
  Military man-turned-president Porfirio Diaz is usually attributed with saying, "Poor Mexico--so near the United States, so far from heaven." It is true that more than a fair share of Mexico's law and order woes stem from being a gateway to the world's largest consumer market for drugs in the Uni ...
• Cooked Books & Worse: Argentina's IMF 'Red Card'
  Say what you will about the IMF, but they're pretty thick-skinned folks by now with all the criticism they engender year after year. Materially, however, the power they have over countries emanates from them being able to withhold emergency lending to countries that do not stick to the (structur ...
• Pol Eco of Trade Stats: Value-Added, Anyone?
  Can it be that a large part of economic conflict in the world is down to artifactual statistical considerations? That in fact could be the conclusion you would draw if the latest effort to change the way the world records trade comes true in due time. Everyone is by now aware of the fact that th ...
• Agrodiplomacy: PRC-Ukraine $3B Loans-for-Corn
  It's no big secret that Ukraine has been on the ropes financially for the past few years. Alike every sort of commodity exporter nowadays, however, it's found itself in luck as the the world's banker du jour and its voracious appetite have come to the rescue. That is, troubled countries can of c ...
• Vladimir Putin Tells USAID to Beat It (Just Be ...
  Let me preface this blog post by saying I don't want to see no blood, so there's no point in USAID acting like a macho man. It doesn't matter who's wrong or who's right--just beat it. I believe that I have been fair in criticizing the US development agency USAID on two main grounds. First and f ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 14 Signs That The World Economy Is Getting Weaker
  The United States is not the only one with massive economic problems right now.  The truth is that just about wherever you look around the globe things are getting even worse.  China is experiencing a substantial economic slowdown, and Japan has resorted to yet another round of money printing in ...
• Quantitative Easing Did Not Work For The Weima ...
  Did printing vast quantities of money work for the Weimar Republic?  Nope.  And it won't work for us either.  If printing money was the secret to economic success, we could just print up a trillion dollars for every American and be done with it.  The truth is that making everyone ...
• QE4? The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Com ...
  QE3 has barely even started and some folks on Wall Street are already clamoring for QE4.  In fact, as you will read below, one equity strategist at Morgan Stanley says that he would not be "surprised" if the Federal Reserve announced another new round of money printing by the end ...
• Americans Are Literally Being Worked To Death
  Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time?  Well, that means that there is a really good chance that you are a typical American worker.  Even though our incomes are going down, Americans are spending more time at work than ever before.  In f ...
• 21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infras ...
  You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure.  So what does our infrastructure say about us?  It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay.  At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers.  Our roads are ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
  Despite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
• July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
• Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For Papers
  Jurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
• Break the Chains Blog Turns Six Years Old
  Since June 2006 to present day, the Break the Chains Blog (http://breakthechains.info) has published over 5,400 stories on government violence a...
• Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now available
  Greetings! The Summer Fifth Estate has been delivered to us by our printer and we are in the process of mailing subscriptions and shipping bulk ...

E U Times

• China launches aircraft carrier amid rising te ...
  China sent its first aircraft carrier into formal service on Tuesday amid a tense maritime dispute with Japan in a show of force that could worry its neighbours. China’s Ministry of Defence said the newly named Liaoning aircraft carrier would “raise the overall operational strength of the Chines ...
• Russia Bans Monsanto Corn Over Cancer Fears
  Russian authorities temporary suspended the import and sale of Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn after a French study suggested it may be linked to cancer. ­The Russia’s consumer-rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor asked scientists at the country’s Institute of Nutrition to review the study. The ...
• Lobbyist: Launch Staged Provocation To Start W ...
  A member of the influential pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) think tank has brazenly suggested that the United States should launch a false flag provocation in order to start a war with Iran. Speaking at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheo ...
• Clashes erupt as thousands rally in Athens, fi ...
  A rally in the Greek capital turned violent when protesters in Syntagma Square lobbed Molotov cocktails at police. Thousands gathered in front of parliament for the country’s biggest anti-austerity protest since the new government came to power. Sporadic clashes erupted in different parts of Ath ...
• Madonna: “We Have a Black Muslim in the White ...
  At a Washington, D.C. concert on Monday night, pop star Madonna praised Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights progress, leading her to demand the audience to support President Barack Obama, whom she sarcastically called the country’s “black Muslim in the White House”. “ ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

• Drug trafficking threatens rule of law in Cent ...
  Drug trafficking and related violence constitutes a serious threat to the rule of law in Central America, a new United Nations report states, stressing the need to strengthen institutions so they are not exploited by cross-border criminals.
• UN committed to addressing most pressing issue ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated the commitment of the United Nations to help Caribbean countries tackle some of the most pressing issues in the region, including climate change, organized crime and debt.
• Jamaica and Guyana flag need for more aid for ...
  Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller spoke up for middle-income states before the United Nations General Assembly today, calling on the international community not to forget them in aid for development and the fight against disease.
• At UN, Mexico urges countries to increase meas ...
  In his remarks to the United Nations General Assembly today, Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa today strongly urged Member States to increase their efforts to combat the illegal drug trade, stressing that it is necessary to explore new options to find a solution to this scourge, which c ...
• At General Debate, Colombia encourages UN in e ...
  In a speech to the General Assembly, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos today called on the United Nations to persevere in its efforts to resolve the fighting in Syria and reduce poverty in Haiti.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Morning in Vietnam?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Political infighting masks sensible economic corrections
• The End for Indonesia's Bakrie?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Troubles mount in London as well as Indonesia, threatening political bid
• Women and HIV
  • (http://twitter.com/share) It will be impossible to eliminate infections without paying attention to women's needs
• Malaysia's Budget and the Election
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Prime Minister Najib seeks to deliver the goodies to his core constituencies
• Singapore's Potemkin Moment
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A tableau for the Duke and Duchess

We Know the Lies

• LAND PATENTS 101 ... Basic Knowledge Every Rur ...
  If you are under the impression that you "own" your property because you paid good money for it and have the original deed with your name on it stored in a secure place for safekeeping, then read on ... read more
• Organ Harvesting... Doctors Pressured Into Dec ...
  The New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could be harvested — and even hired “coaches” to train staffers how to be more persuasive, a bombshell lawsuit charged yesterday. ~ MUST see related article read more
• What Are the Odds Obama is Constitutionally Qu ...
  Entire books have been written about the problems with the “birth certificate” that was released by the White House purportedly documenting Barack Obama’s birth in Hawaii. read more
• 100% Probability The USA Is Finished... We May ...
  Pete Santilli says, "the United States has entered a point of no return, and present the sobering reality that the USA is finished. Life as we know it is over, and there is a very high probability that the end will come possibly within the next 30 days". ~ Pete Santelli Show - Another MUST HE ...
• Pennsylvania Voter ID Law... Democrats Use Nur ...
  Determined to counter the Republicans’ voter photo ID law, Democrats in Pennsylvania have decided to issue identification cards through nursing homes and universities to residents threatened with being turned away at the polls in November. ~ Noel Brinkerhoff read more

Tarpley

• Terror Attacks in the Sinai: Is NATO Preparing ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 25, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Chicago Strike Reaches Stalemate as OWS Sinks ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 22, 2012 The Chicago public schools are the third largest school system in the United States, and with almost 30,000 members the Chicago Teachers Union is one of the flagships of public sector labor in the country. The strike was provoked by the bullyi ...
• “Free Syrian Army” Claims HQ in Sy ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 22 2012 [download video] [download audio]
• Support the No Cuts Coalition! National Anti-A ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio September 22, 2012 [download audio]
• Syrian National Council Crumbles as Assad Warn ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 21, 2012 [download video] [download audio] PressTV has interviewed Mr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian from Washington about the Syrian crisis. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview. Press TV: About President Assad s ...

Modern Survivalism

• This Is About CONTROL!
  Guest Post: by ‘NightOwl’ I just saw a segment on ABC’s Nightline about school lunch. The jist of the story was since new government mandated food “choices” have been added to the menus “plate waste” has increased by 90-97% in most schools! Kids, especia ...
• Respecting The Elements Of Weather
  As I sit here and type this, the wind is howling outside of our 5th-wheel trailer as we explore some of the Maine coastline. It is a stormy morning while we are camped on the edge of an Oceanside inlet as periodic splats of windswept rain pelt against the south facing windows, and whitewater cho ...
• 4 Simple Self Defense Techniques
  When it comes to basic self defense technique, it does not have to be complicated, and in fact it (the technique) will arguably be MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE if it is kept VERY SIMPLE. During intense periods of stress and/or panic, the human mind will seemingly slow down, you may get tunnel vision, and ...
• Water And Dehydration
  *75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. *37% of people make the mistake that what they think are hunger pangs are actually thirst. *Lack of hydration is the number one trigger of daytime fatigue. *Losing just 2% of body weight in water compromises your overall judgment by 25% and severely ...
• Then What?
  Guest Post: by ‘TripodXL’ It’s the Denver Broncos at San Diego and you can’t wait to see what Peyton does to the Chargers. The ref signals the start and the Denver kicker puts his all into the kick to start the game. As the ball shoots up into an arc above the field, the picture [...]

Fast Company

• Clucks Is Draw Something Meets Viddy, And AOL' ...
  Last year, AOL purchased a sprawling real estate property in startup mecca Palo Alto. There the New York-based online merchant has been busy squirreling away engineering talent to work on, among other things, mobile products, such as apps for vintage properties MapQuest, Moviefone, and AIM; an i ...
• Why HBO, NBC, and Comcast Are Betting On A Sta ...
  Let’s say you’re the television industry. A Nielsen study says that says 88% of tablet owners and 86% of smartphone owners are using mobile devices while they watch your shows. Some of them are playing Angry Birds, but some of them are Shazaming to get more information, checking into content wit ...
• Have Airbnb's Mobile Apps, Will Travel Faster
  To rent out a city studio for the weekend or book an offbeat sea-facing summer retreat, Airbnb’s traveling community is increasingly relying on smartphones and tablets to firm up their travel plans. Airbnb says that more than 25% of its traffic now comes from trip planners on mobile devices. And ...
• Fuzz.com Is Trying To Find The Sweet Spot Betw ...
  Listening to music online is either about leaning forward or leaning back. You either know which songs you want to listen to and go out to find them, say using an on-demand service such as Spotify, or you're not quite sure what you want to listen to, so you turn to a service, such as Pandora, th ...
• The 2012 Presidential Software Race
  With the 2012 American election season in high gear, Democratic and Republican party activists have been pulling out all the stops for November. These days, cutting-edge software packages are borrowing techniques from the worlds of marketing and retail to let election campaigns analyze the daily ...

Jadaliyya

• Syria Media Roundup (September 27)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
• George Habash: A Profile From the Archives
  [”A Profile from the Archives“ is a new series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconic figures who left indelible marks in the politics and culture of the Middle East and North A ...
• “Rescue Benghazi Friday”: Peaceful Crowds Fill ...
  [The following is part two of a two-part piece. Part one was posted Tuesday, 25 September.] Peaceful crowds are mushrooming in Benghazi and in other cities as a direct challenge to Libyan government’s weak politics. The small group of people that attacked the US Embassy in Benghazi has pro ...
• Jadaliyya's New (and super user-friendly) iPad ...
  Finally, after months of tweaking to incorporate all pages, sections, and sidebars, we are happy to announce the new Jadaliyya iPad App! And, آًكيد, it's free, and includes our expanded Arabic section, or as Fouad Ajami says, عarabic section. Previously, you had to access Jadaliyya via the tiny ...
• إدوارد سعيد: الثقافة وطن ومقاومة
  عرَّف قاموس وبستر المقاومة بأنها فعل المقاومة أو المعارضة أو القدرة على أي منهما، ولأن الفعل –أي فعل- إنساني لا يتأتى واقعاً دون مسير قيمية متخيلة له تحدد فضاءه المؤدى و نتائجه المرغوبة، ويمثل تمظهراً أداتياً للقيمة المحددة، وكذلك لأن التعريف القيمي للوجود الإنساني (فرداً أو/و جمعاً) ينتجه الإدر ...

mediagazer

• US documents reportedly refer to Assange, Wiki ...
  NBC News: US documents reportedly refer to Assange, WikiLeaks as ‘enemy’  —  The U.S. Defense Department has formally declared WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange an enemy on par with al-Qaida, according to documents that an Australian newspaper said Wednesday it had ob ...
• Italy Becomes Latest Jewel in Huffington Post' ...
  Eric Pfanner / New York Times: Italy Becomes Latest Jewel in Huffington Post's Crown  —  PARIS — Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy who left office last year in the depths of the economic crisis, resurfaced this week in a new place: the Italian-language ...
• Bryan College: Ordering student newspaper to k ...
  Jim Romenesko: Bryan College: Ordering student newspaper to kill story about prof's arrest ‘may have been a mistake’  —  Bryan College sent this statement from President Dr. Stephen Livesay about his decision to order the student newspaper to kill its story about a p ...
• Quartz's practice of 'linking out' renews atte ...
  Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Quartz's practice of ‘linking out’ renews attention to aggregation debate  —  CJR's Hazel Sheffield took a look at the new publication Quartz and didn't like a few things: links take you away from the site, there's no commenting, infographic ...
• Book Publisher Goes To Court To Recoup Hefty A ...
  The Smoking Gun: Book Publisher Goes To Court To Recoup Hefty Advances From Prominent Writers  —  Buster  —  A New York publisher this week filed lawsuits against several prominent writers who failed to deliver books for which they received hefty contractual ad ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• We don't want to focus too heavily on Har ...
  The hype surrounding off-spinner Harbhajan Singh's return to form notwithstanding, Australia captain George Bailey is least bothered as he said his team would not be focussing on any particular individual when it takes on India here tomorrow. "We don't want to focus too heavily on one bowler ...
• Slum children learning for better lifesty ...
  The two-month training programme for students of 42 government primary schools of Ahmedabad, which began in August aims to improve quality of education and living in these educational institutes. These children are being trained in health & hygiene, sports, arts and education. Called Gandhia ...
• EADS-BAE talks look set for extra time
  Nicosia: Talks on a tie-up between aerospace groups EADS and BAE Systems looked set for extra time on Thursday, after German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere and another source said negotiations had some way to go. “I think we need more time,” de Maiziere told journalists in N ...
• UN Predicts 700,000 Syria Refugees
  The UN's refugee agency has warned that as many as 700,000 people could have fled Syria by the end of the year, a huge increase on its previous estimate. Some 294,000 refugees have already left Syria, and the UNHCR is appealing for money to help deal with the crisis. Most of the refugee ...
• Katrina Kaif, the show stealer for Manish ...
  An endless wait, a harmless mishap, Bollywood in full attendance and the sizzling 'Sheila' (Katrina Kaif) on the ramp are some of the defining moments of the Manish Malhotra show on Day 4 at the Delhi Couture Week. 'Breaking' news at DCW: A sudden collapse of the chandelier into smithereens, ...

no frakking consensus

• Calgary, Here I Come
  I'll be speaking in Calgary on Wed., October 17th at the Friends of Science annual luncheon. The scientific method needs all the friends - and defenders - we can muster.
• Back Soon
  I am traveling unexpectedly this week due to a relative’s medical condition, so my return to full time blogging is a little delayed. In case you missed it, the cover story of the September issue of Wired magazine was written by Matt Ridley and is titled Apocalypse Not. It surveys a rather ...
• Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...
  This blog will return in mid-September. In the meantime, here’s a video of a presentation I gave in Australia last month – and some thoughts on the bankruptcy of contemporary green analysis.
• Green Death Threats: ‘Change or Die’
  The key message of today's environmentalists is: Accept our worldview, submit to our solutions - or else. This is, let us be blunt, a death threat. It is the voice of an extortionist.
• US Official: ‘Activate Your Science’
  A senior public servant thinks scientists should be passionate, engaged activists.

Anna's News

• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
  For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Green energy investment hits record global high
  Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• V. Bush
  Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
• The Killing of the Liberal Arts
  JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
• Tyrants and Art
  Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
• Barthes in China
  Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
• CONFLICT RESOLUTION
  Rebecca Saxe The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That’s the question that I’m asking myself right now, can ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• An ecosystems approach: the holy grail for inn ...
  From Monday 24 September 2012 Yesterday evening I attended the Big Innovation Centre’s Lib Dem Fringe event: It’s innovation stupid: Is the strategy for growth working? This was by far the liveliest event I’ve attended during the Lib Dem conference so far. Although Will Hutton only used the F wo ...
• Lib Dems pass motion for sensible vs stop-star ...
  From Monday 24 September 2012 I’m new to party conferences, but I felt remarkably at home during Julian Huppert’s policy motion: Developing a future – policies for science and research. The science-savvy Lib Dems, voted unanimously to pass a motion (available here) for a ring-fenced science budg ...
• Science: a progressive tool for international ...
  From Sunday 23 September 2012 I found myself at a BOND event at the Lib Dem party conference Fringe on Sunday evening. Sadly no martinis or Daniel Craig, but a very interesting debate: Beyond Aid – A Liberal Democrat approach to International Development. Like many others of the Comic Relief gen ...
• Partying at the conferences
  Once again, the Royal Society is following the politicians out of London, and is heading to the Party Conferences for some science policy chat. At the Liberal Democrat Conference this week we have been talking about shale gas, next week at Labour we will be talking about population, and we will ...
• School trips and history lessons
  It isn’t often that you see your boss’s face light up like a kid in a sweet shop, but when Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society, walked in to Power Hall at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MOSI) on Tuesday morning, the noise and steam coming from the working engines [...]

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1
  Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...
• Celebrating year zero of the eco-technic dicta ...
  To mark the introduction into Australia of the most barbaric, pointless and deceptive tax ever conjured up by a phony democracy, we bring you a replay of an interview with Christopher Monckton which dates back to January 2010. At that time Lord Monckton was touring Australia to talk about clim ...
• World Roundup with George Georgios - Part 1
  Today we bring you a show which covers a wide range of stories from around the world, including news on all the latest annoying Nanny State measures which our listeners have come to expect from TNRA. Some topics covered include the introduction of high tech surveillance drones in Queensland, f ...
• News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge
  NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...
• David Chandler and John Bursill address the fr ...
  Today John Bursill takes the helm as guest host. John is joined by two excellent guests who have become known within the 9/11 Truth Movement as two of it's most wise and reasonable voices. We warmly welcome Ken Jenkins in the first hour and David Chandler in the second. Also we are very lucky ...

Beacon

• Leatherback Declared New CA State Symbol
  Leatherback joins ranks of purple needlegrass, west coast swing dancing and benitoite as California state symbol ©Oceana It's been a leatherback-heavy news week and for all the right reasons. First a dramatic leatherback sea turtle rescue off of Cape Cod grabbed headlines over the weekend and ...
• Leatherback Sea Turtle Rescue
  Over the past week, the New England Aquarium pulled off the dramatic rescue, rehabilitation and release of a 655-pound, 7-foot leatherback sea turtle which had stranded on Cape Cod (as seen in the video above). The prehistoric-looking reptile was found suffering from dehydration and shock with a ...
• Vanishing Arctic Ice
  Previous low from 2007. This year's minimum smaller by an area the size of Texas ©Wikimedia Commons  The National Snow and Ice Data Center has announced that Arctic sea ice melted to its yearly minimum extent last Sunday, which was the smallest extent since measurements began in 1979 and ...
• Three is a Magic Number
  Another succesful triathlon for the Oceana team©Oceana A triathlon is an athletic competition comprised of three events – a swim, a bike, and a run – that must be completed in sequence. Last week, while Nautica hosted Oceana at the Nautica Malibu Triathlon for the 4th year in a row, we tackle ...
• CO2 Emissions Threaten Ocean-Based Food Security
  Oceana’s new report, Ocean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2 World ranks nations to show which are most vulnerable to reductions in seafood production as a result of climate change and ocean acidification. While seafood is currently a primary source of protein for more than a billio ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Operation Frankton, A Daring Raid On German Sh ...
    (Blondie Hasler Picture above and in the front of the kayak)   In December 1942, the HMS Tuna, a submarine serving with the Royal Navy launched in the middle of a cold night into the North Atlantic. It crept its way through the Continental shelf under the Bay of Biscayne. Six canoes, ...
• Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini Vs. Duk Ko ...
          On September 9th, 1982, there was a fight that changed the lives of everyone involved. I remember seeing it. I remember the excitement. And a NYT article about an upcoming documentary “The Good Son” talks about it.   Nineteen seconds into the 14th rou ...
• The Political Posters On Facebook Just Keep Co ...
           
• So Many Nations Capitulated To The Germans Ear ...
  On his way to power, there were many who suffered at the hands of his proxies and the insane lieges he created. Not surprisingly, some 130,000 dissident voices were extinguished by Adolph Hitler. It was the necessary antecedent to having competing security apparatuses fight to see who can be mor ...
• Harvey Alan Russ, United States Army Veteran, ...
        Harvey Alan Russ, (8/1/47-9/22/12) a veteran of the US Army, died of a sudden heart attack Saturday in his home in Canton, Georgia. He is survived by his brothers Barry and Daniel and his sister Estelle who resides in Jerusalem, and his wife Ann, and her stepson Don.   ...

Taylor Marsh

• Benghazi Investigation: All Loose Ends, FBI St ...
  From CNN, citing “senior law enforcement officials,” CNN National Security Analyst Fran Townsend was joined by two senators, reporting that the FBI is stuck in Tripoli, still unable to make it to Benghazi 15 days after the assassination and murder of Americans. Also reported was that ...
• Barney Frank, Obama’s War, and the Need to Dec ...
  “I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.” – Barney Frank FREEDOM REALLY means nothing to Republicans or Democrats, especially so-called conservatives on both sides. If we had freedom in this country we wouldn’t be arguing about gambling, marijuana, ...
• Syrian Slaughter Continues, Syrian Army HQ in ...
  REPORTS COMING out of Syria claim as many as 700,000 people will be displaced by the end of the year. The death toll on Wednesday was reportedly 300. From the Christian Science Monitor today: Yesterday was one of the deadliest days in Syria so far, with a human rights group reporting more than 3 ...
• Early Voting is On
  THIS IS one very big reason Mitt Romney’s troubles are bigger than your average political observer realizes. …the Obama camp believes we’re really 10 days out — or we’re already there. Indeed, voters in 30 states — including the battleground states of Iowa, New Hampshire, ...
• Dueling Ads, with Obama Pitching “Clean Coal” ...
  OBAMA BEGINS by saying straight to camera, we were “losing nearly 800,000 a month” and were “mired in Iraq.” Romney’s ad to the camera is below, which debuted yesterday. Obama’s in a suit; Romney’s casual. The direct pitch from Romney straight to camera ...

Hudson New York

• US and Europe's "Oneness" Integration Project
  In the Bronx Zoo, David Villalobos was rescued from a tiger den after leaping inside to, in his own words, "Be one with the tiger." Being "one with the tiger" is a popular goal in the modern world, and our leaders are forever leaping into tiger dens in
• British Voters Sour on Immigration
  Three new opinion surveys show that British voters are increasingly skeptical about immigration and multiculturalism. Taken together, the reports highlight the widening gulf between the views of the British people and those of the governing elite who run
• Kick Me: European Union Backs Iran's Hezbollah
  The Lebanon-based Islamic organization Hezbollah is one of the most dangerous groups in the world. Recently, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah incited violence against American and European interests over the movie The Innocence of Muslims. And yet, the
• The "Offense Against the Prophet" Wars
  If a film flops in the middle of the internet and nobody hears it, can it still be "offensive?" "Anti-Muslim film" is by now probably one of the most Googled terms on the net. As a result, millions of people have once again been treated to the familiar
• "Honeymoon with Galloway Nearing Its End"
  The voters of Bradford West are quickly learning what it means to have George Galloway as their Member of Parliament. At the moment, the residents of Bradford West are regretting their decision. Constituents first became concerned with his behavior after

Urban Survival

• Dawn Over the Monkey Patch
  We’ll get to the collapse of durable goods orders in a minute.  But before we go there, we need to set some longer-term economic context here so you can see what’s coming, probably Monday, or sometime next week.   As … Continue reading →
• Coping: With WuJo and Worry Quotients
  Let’s start with a really serious wujo report from reader Vic, who has recently experienced one of those seemingly “Can’t Happen!” events which indicate to me that time-space displacement is coming closer… “Had an incident I can’t explain this morning. … ...
• Housing Looks Up…But…
  No real surprise to the Case-Shiller/S&P Housing price index just released:   “New York, September 25, 2012 – Data through July 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. … Continue reading ...
• Coping: Forced Consumption Arriving?
  A couple of weeks back, I was discussing with Peoplenomics readers how America (and the whole world) have a major problem with factory automation that no one in the mainstream is talking about, although I mention it in my new … Continue reading →
• Waiting on Housing Data
  Will be posted around 8:15 AM Texas time, or so.  More coffee?

Trends & Forecasts

• Your Smart Phone is your Enemy not your Friend
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Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

• California's Private Utilities Show Strong Ene ...
  Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency Policy, San Francisco The California Public Utilities Commission, the agency that regulates California’s private utilities, recently released a staff report indicating that utility energy-e ...
• Bike Touring - The Ultimate Road Trip
  Kelly Coplin, Water Program Assistant, San Francisco I’m officially convinced that I have the best job. Ever. In early September my colleagues and I biked from Fortuna, CA to San Francisco, CA with 150 other concerned citizens to raise money ...
• "We Want Meat without Drugs!"
  Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York If you happened to be in New York City’s Union Square this morning, you may have seen something unusual — “Joe the Pig”, decked out in a Hawaiian shirt, and a crowd of concerned consum ...
• What Does Wild Bison Habitat in Montana Look Like?
  Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana   Wild bison in Yellowstone National Park   Yesterday, I provided an update on Montana’s historic proposal to give wild bison from Yellowstone National Park access to yea ...
• Some Observations on What Really Drives Water ...
  Tina Swanson, Director, Science Center, San Francisco Yesterday, I posted this piece about California’s recent experiences with its Delta water supply and the challenges that the ongoing Bay Delta Conservation Plan process still faces to ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, September 26, 2012 Update: East Haven, Connecticut: More charges are pending against one of four police officers charged with conspiring to violate and violating civil rights, and more “overt … Continue reading &#8594 ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, September 25, 2012: Truckee, California: An officer was arrested on accusations that he committed sex acts on a minor in his home. http://cbsloc.al/RGfSGg Update: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: A jury … Continue reading →Natio ...
• Man Dies in Police Custody. Medical Examiner ...
  From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The Journal Sentinel reported Sunday that the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office has revised its ruling on the death of Derek Williams, who died in Milwaukee police custody in July 2011, from natural to homicide, according … Continue readi ...
• Mayor of Memphis Says His Police Dept Has Prob ...
  From the Associated Press: Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. is ordering a review of internal police procedures following repeated cases of alleged officer misconduct as well as an off-duty officer’s involvement in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy. … Continue reading →Mayor ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, September 21 to Monday, September 23, 2012: Cleveland, Ohio: A police officer was arrested for domestic violence charges. She was assigned to restricted duty pending the outcome of the … Continue reading →National Pol ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

• TNW’s Daily Dose – Costolo says no to Twitter ...
  Twitter feels no IPO pressure, Google Play hits a new milestone, and Google Street View goes underwater. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – iPhone 5′s 5 million ...
  Apple reveals iPhone 5 sales and iOS 6 upgrade numbers, Facebook start to roll carrier billing out to users, and LinkedIn launches a new feature called endorsements. It’s all in...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Pinterest, stoc ...
  Today on the Daily Dose, Pinterest gets interesting for Vimeo and the iPhone 5, possible changes ahead for the London Stock Exchange and the US Sentate says no thank you...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple’s O ...
  Apple operating systems launched, Sony gets slimmer, Uber grabs taxis in Boston and China and Japan’s island conflict hits cyberspace. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – ITC investigate ...
  The ITC has launched an investigation into Apple via Motorola Mobility. Twitter’s new app removes image hosts, forcing users into Photobucket instead. Apple breaks $700 per share in after-hours trading....

Beyond Zero Emissions

• BZE submission to the Renewable Energy Target ...
  To download the full submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the link and "save link as" to save the file onto your computer) We welcome the opport ...
• Adelaide, SA: Repowering Port Augusta, Rally f ...
  When: SUNDAY September 30th Time: 1.pm Location: Rundle Park, Adelaide (next to Rymill Park opposite the corner of East/North tce) Want help to make SA the solar state? We know we need to move away from ancient fossil fuel technology, to clean renewable energy – now is our chance! Port August ...
• 6:30pm Monday 1 Oct - Zero Carbon Australia Bu ...
  The Zero Carbon Australia (ZCA) Buildings Plan is set to launch in the coming months. The ZCA Buildings Plan aims to demonstrate that there are no technical barriers to zero emission buildings in Australia. Project Director, Trent Hawkins, will take us through energy efficiency retrofits, therma ...
• Zero emissions homes: save the climate and mon ...
  If you aim for a zero-emissions house, you can live in comfort, while saving money and the climate. That’s the message from research and practice, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. Members of th ...
• Trigeneration: Sydney's white elephant
  Matt Wright The City of Sydney is comparing apples with oranges when it promotes its Trigeneration Master Plan (designed in partnership with Origin Energy and subsidiary Cogent Energy) as cleaner than burning coal in centralised power plants. Beyond Zero Emissions’ fundamental criticism of the ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Another journalist attacked in Cambodia for co ...
  Two weeks after an environmental journalist was found murdered in the trunk of his car, another journalist has been brutally attacked in Cambodia. Ek Sokunthy with the local paper Ta Prum says he was beaten in his home by three assailants by a pistol and a stick. The attack follows swiftly after ...
• World Bank agrees to fund project related to c ...
  Originally refusing to provide funding to Ethiopia's controversial Gibe III hydroelectric dam, the World Bank has now announced plans to fund the power lines that will carry generated electricity away from it. In their official statement they report that the lines will "connect Ethiopia’s ...
• Jaguar conservation gets a boost in North and ...
  Jaguar conservation has received a huge boost in the past few months both in Latin America and in the U.S. An historic agreement singed between the world's leading wild cat conservation organization Panthera and the government of Costa Rica in addition to a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (F ...
• Livelihoods depend on the environment in the W ...
  In the Uttar Kannada district of the Western Ghats, the livelihood of the average individual depends largely on the well being of the environment. Six months ago, before large-scale mangrove planting of the area, if someone were to walk through the banks of the mangroves in the Western Ghats he ...
• Penguins face a slippery future
  Penguins have spent years fooling us. With their image seemingly every where we turn—entertaining us in animated films, awing us in documentaries, and winking at us in commercials—they have made most of us believe they are doing just fine; the penguin's charming demeanor has lulled ...

Sierra Express

• Mountain Community Concerned over Poor Electri ...
  The people of Gloucester, Leicester, Regent, Charlotte, and environs in the Mountain Community in the Western Area Rural District are not happy with the way and manner they are being neglected by the regime saying they have not been reflected in the President’s agenda for change, especially in t ...
• NEC: No Extension of Deadline
  Chief of External Outreach at the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Albert Masaquoi has categorically noted that there will be no extension of the Friday September 28 deadline date for the submission of nomination lists from all political parties. In an interview with this press Albert Masaqu ...
• IMC Suspends 3 Newspapers in Sierra Leone
  The Independent Media Commission (IMC) on Wednesday September 26TH, issued suspension letters to three leading newspapers, namely Awareness Times, Observer, and Senator for gross violation of the IMC code of ethics. The IMC decided to issue the suspension letter owing to a trend of reckless prac ...
• Tunisia 2nd Leg Encounter, 20 Players Invited
  The Head coach of Leone Stars, Lars Olof Mattsson (in photo) has invited 20 players for the 2nd leg against their Tunisian counterpart in Tunis in October 12-1th. The 1st leg ended 2-2 in Freetown and the qualifier will compete in the 2013 African Nations Cup slated in South Africa. A win for Le ...
• Sorious Ends Testimony in Timbergate Trial
  Sorious Samura returned to Freetown on Monday September 24, 2012 appearing before Justice Abdulai H. Cham in the now infamous Aljazeera ‘timber trial’ on September 26, 2012, currently held at the High Court of Sierra Leone. The amateur strand producer disappeared from jurisdiction so ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Ngai Tahu boosts earnings, looks to diversify
  Ngai Tahu Holdings, which manages the South Island iwi's commercial operations, boosted earnings across all of its units and is looking to ramp up its exposure in dairy.Net profit climbed to $95.7 million in the 12 months ended...
• Fonterra deal lures Asians
  Asian investors are lining up to buy into Fonterra's soon-to-be-listed Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, says a market source.The investment fund, which will be linked to Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers market, is expected to attract...
• Ferrier payout exceeds $8m
  Former Fonterra chief executive Andrew Ferrier has received more than $8 million in his final payout from the dairy co-op, new documents reveal.It is a lot of money "on the face of it", says Federated Farmers, but Mr Ferrier was...
• Fonterra net profit down 19pc
  Fonterra said its net profit fell by 19 per cent to $624 million in the 2011-12 year, mostly due to the unavailability of tax credits.The dairy cooperative said tax credits of $202 million in the previous year were not repeated...
• Brian Gaynor: Rural sector shows city slickers ...
  A trip to Dunedin for the South African rugby test last weekend has reinforced the view that New Zealand is rapidly developing a two-tier economy.On one hand is the rural community which is increasingly inhabited by energetic and...

Hit & Run | Reason

• We Must Discourage Medical Use of Opioids and ...
  The results from the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), released this week, are not very different from the 2010 results. Reaching for evidence of success in the war on drugs,  the federal government is highlighting a 14 percent drop in the number of 18-to-25- ...
• Italian Prosecutors Target Scientists Who Fail ...
  I understand the impulse to kill the bearer of bad news — it's rude, but understandable — but what about punishing people who fail to properly read their tea leaves so as to foresee unpleasantness in the future? That's what Italian prosecutors are doing in the wake of the devastatin ...
• 70 Percent of Americans Favor Auditing the Fed ...
  Despite increasing interest in the Federal Reserve’s actions since the 2008 financial crisis, few polls have asked Americans about auditing the nation’s central bank. Consequently, the Reason-Rupe September Pollasked Americans if they would favor or oppose a law that would allo ...
• Greg Beato on the Age of the Infographic
  In 1982, when USA Today debuted and first began to present its data-driven “Snapshots” as a key component of its editorial mix, these perky charts and graphs (no one called them infographics yet) were often derided as a primary symptom of journalism’s decline, a way t ...
• U.S.A. Wins In Beer Affordability Index
  UBS Bank gets set for Oktoberfest with a chart of beer affordability around the world. Using median income figures and prices for a pint, the chart calculates how long the Average Jose has to work in various countries to buy some suds. Raise your glass and chant "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"&#16 ...

Mercury Rising

• Sparring over Senkaku
  For some time, I have been concerned about the strengthening of the Chinese navy. In 2009, there was a clash between the USS Impeccable and Chinese vessels. In 2010, there was an incident between the Chinese and Japan. Now there is rising tension over the Senkaku (Chinese: Diaoyutai) Islands. Pr ...
• It’s a date! Murdoch phone hacking pros ...
  Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been told at the Old Bailey that they are not due to face a full trial until …. 9 September 2013 by Mr Justice Fulford, who is presiding over two batches of charges against them and 12 others. … Coulson, Brooks ...
• The Fiscal Cliff/Bobblespeak translation
  Bloomberg did an edition on the fiscal cliff and what it means in detail. A lot of it is bulls–t to persuade the reader of things that are wrong. So here it is run through the bobblespeak decoder ring. Continues below the fold. Minus the cliff, they estimate growth at about 2% next year: b ...
• Hooboy: Rotten Florida Republican Edition
  Kudos to Mark Caputo, Manny Garcia, and Scott Hiassen of the Miami Herald for this most entertaining story. It was summarized by Eric Lach, TPM Muckraker: [Ana] Alliegro, a self-described “conservative bad girl” who this summer served as campaign manager to Justin Lamar Sternad, disappeared just ...
• Such a soft touch, that Romney
  When it was reported that Mitt Romney had given 29% of AGI to charity in 2011, I was intrigued, and went to look at the tax returns to see what I had been missing about the philanthropic side of this man. It seems this represents another flip flop. Ben Adler, The Nation: While running for [...]

Reality Sandwich

• "Tranced Fixations" -- Kerouac's Breakthrough
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• Media and Green Cultural Citizenship
    This article is excerpted from The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice, recently released by Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books.     read more
• Psi in the News
  The debate continues over Daryl Bem’s experimental psi results, the Global Consciousness Project looks at Burning Man, an NDE experiencer gets revelations about iatrogenic medicine, and a Galician festival for ‘those who saw death,’ in this edition of the Psi News Round-up read more
• Gospel of Wifey
  In a world of Twitter-driven social revolutions, contemporary historians have an array of material to reference, collect, and access in order to formulate the details of any given event.  We live in a time where everything Wikileaks at one point or another because our society strives to share ...
• Green Healing
  This will probably come across as old news to the RS community, but cannabis can actually improve your quality of life! I know, shocking, isn’t it? We’ve all come to know of the euphoria and non-linear, creative potentials the plant can induce upon our mental processes, but perhaps you have ye ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

• iPhone 5 from Bell Mobility - Bell Canada
  The iPhone 5 features a 4-inch Retina display, ultrafast wireless, iOS 6, and iCloud. Get it with Bell and enjoy blazing-fast speeds on Canada's largest LTE network, over 25 live TV channels on your phone with Bell Mobile TV and Canada's largest Wi-Fi.
• car rental new zealand
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• Speech therapy in new york
  Speech-Language Development is a Queens based private practice dedicated to improving speech and language in children, teens and young adults, ages three through 21 who have communication disorders. We are approved Providers by the Department of Education and are also Network Providers with Magn ...

Press TV - Middle East

• 13 PKK members killed in SE Turkey
  Two Turkish soldiers and 13 members of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in Ankara's latest military operation against the group in the country's southeast.
• West policies fueling Syria chaos: Putin
  Russian President Vladimir Putin says West's policies have destabilized a number of Arab states and are now creating chaos in Syria.
• Press TV slain reporter laid to rest
  Press TV correspondent in Syria, Maya Naser, is laid to rest near the country’s western city of Homs after a funeral ceremony attended by the Syrian Army personnel.
• ‘Three abducted Iranians freed in Syria’
  Three Iranian truck drivers who had been abducted by the Syrian insurgents over four months ago have been released, an informed source in the Iranian Embassy in Damascus says.
• Bomb blast shakes Damascus suburb
  A bomb has exploded near the capital of Damascus as the Syrian Army seizes more weapons from foreign-backed insurgents in the country’s west.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• The Final Countdown
  Does anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...
• Alumna Linda Ames Key Receives Fulbright Speci ...
  The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. In 2011, while completing her M.A. in Applied Theatre degree at SPS, Ms. Key participated in the School’s Project Rw ...
• Beta Testing “In Your Class”
  SPS is participating in a CUNY pilot program this fall of the Beta version of In Your Class, a unique social networking service developed by CUNY students for CUNY students. The pilot launch date is today, September 20th, 2012. In Your Class connects students with their classmates, professors, a ...
• Getting to Know… Lisa Poelle
  Lisa Poelle, faculty member for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, is author of the soon to be released book, The Biting Solution: The Expert’s No-Biting Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Early Childhood Educators. Lisa’s twenty-five years ...
• Looking for Cowbell Cheers
  On Your Mark, Get Set…. Go!!! Last Sunday, I joined the CUNY School of Professional Studies “Race for the Cure” team comprised of students, faculty, and staff. Being with our team of over 20-strong was such an emotional high for me. All dressed in our CUNY SPS blue shirts, we (and our mascot, Le ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

• Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...
  Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
• Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...
  Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
• Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...
  A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
• Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...
  A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
• Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...
  On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...

Wayne Madsen

• September 28-30, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC DAILY FORUM
• September 28-30, 2012 -- ON-TOPIC DAILY FORUM
• September 28-30, 2012 -- Beijing, China -- Hon ...
  Romney benefits from dodgy money from Macau casinos
• September 28-30, 2012 -- EXTENDED DAILY FORUM
• September 28-30, 2012 -- Romney "family values ...
  The Romney cash shuffle from Asia.

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Pressure Mounts on Nuclear States to Ratify Te ...
  The United States and a small group of other nuclear-armed nations are apparently coming under increasing pressure to accept the international community’s resolve to legally ban nuclear testing without delay. “The elimination of nuclear weapons is the ultimate guarantee that they will never be u ...
• Major Extractives Firms No Longer Ignoring Com ...
  New research from Oxfam, an international aid agency, finds that some of the largest multinational oil and mining companies are increasingly incorporating principles of community consent into their day-to-day operations. Oxfam’s researchers looked at 28 of the world’s largest extractives compani ...
• U.S.: Consumer Protection Agency Takes on &#82 ...
  In the wake of the epidemic of home foreclosures, banking scandals and resulting massive financial regulation overhaul two years ago known as the Dodd-Frank legislation, the U.S. government created a new federal agency to protect consumers from being taken advantage of by banks and other institu ...
• Breast Milk Banks, From Brazil to the World
  Cíntia Rose Regis, 23, not only breastfeeds her 16-month-old daughter Zelda but has also been donating 600 ml a week of breast milk to a mothers’ milk bank in Brazil over the last year. It was her paediatrician who suggested she donate her milk. “As long as my daughter is nursing and stimu ...
• Penang’s Women Lead Local Democracy
  A unique electoral exercise in Penang state, promoting  participatory and gender-responsive decision-making at the grassroots level, may serve as a cue for the revival of local elections in Malaysia.   Over three consecutive days, ending Sep. 23, low-income residents of high-rise flats on River ...

My AntiWar

• Iran?s IAEA envoy denies IPS interview on enri ...
  Summary: Iran?s ambassador to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has denied false remarks the Inter Press Service (IPS) attributed to him about the Islamic Republic?s nuclear energy program, Press TV reports. source: PressTVread more
• High Profile Officer Suicide Adds to Pressure ...
• Campaigners mobilising to fight ‘hundred ...
  Campaigners are hoping to kick-start opposition to ‘hundreds of new roads’ with actions in Twyford Down and Hastings this weekend.Government and local councils are planning to spend billions of pounds on dozens of new roads over the next few years, and new ‘growth’ funds ...
• On Outskirts of Kabul, ‘Warlordistan&#82 ...
• US Envoy Praises Yemen on Militants Despite Em ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• WikiLeaks cables show how Australia works with ...
  Summary: WikiLeaks cables show Australian officials have colluded with the US to get the IAEA to declare Iran in breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. source: Green Leftread more
• Why Iran resists pressure to open Parchin to I ...
  Summary: Parchin is a military site that has been in the news lately because the IAEA is insisting on sending inspectors there, and Iran has been resisting the pressure. While this has naturally led many US media outlets to suggest that Iran is hiding something there, Hassan Beheshtipour expl ...
• US repeats nuclear bomb allegations against Iran
  Summary: US President Barack Obama has once again accused Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon and of failing to meet its international obligations. source: Press TVread more
• Iran condemns U.S. removal of MEK group from t ...
  Summary: Iran condemned the planned removal of the Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) from the United States' list of terrorist organizations, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. source: Terraread more
• Iran Reveals More About What It Calls Foreign ...
  Summary: Iran said Tuesday that it had amassed new evidence of attempts by saboteurs to attack Iranian nuclear, defense, industrial and telecommunications installations, including the use of computer virus-infected American, French and German equipment. source: The New York Timesread more

The Daily Galaxy

• Mars' Curiosity Rover Finds Ancient River Bed
  NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence -- images of rocks...
• Image of the Day: Buddhist Statue Discovered b ...
  The image above shows a thousand year-old ancient Buddhist statue known as the Iron Man. The statue was discovered in 1938 by an expedition of German scientists led by renowned zoologist Ernst Schäfer and supported by Nazi SS Chief Heinrich...
• Dawn Mission Asteroid May Be a Dwarf Planet
  Enormous troughs that reach across the asteroid Vesta may actually be stretch marks that hint of a complexity beyond most asteroids. Scientists have been trying to determine the origin of these unusual troughs since their discovery just last year. Now,...
• NASA Mars 'Curiosity' Science Update Live-Stre ...
  NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, Sept. 27, to present science findings from the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. The news conference from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,...
• BioAlert --Scientists Unlock Secrets of the Va ...
  Biologists reported this week that they had unlocked secrets about the vampire squid, a mysterious creature known as a "phylogenetic relic," that combines features of octopuses and squids in a unique evolutionary formula that has survived for millions of years....

Natural News

• How to raise an extraordinary child in a toxic ...
  First of all, let's make one thing perfectly clear - the health of our children is at risk - like never before in the history of mankind. Toxic vaccination programs; GMO-laced, processed food; too much television time; modern day radiation exposure from cell phones and...
• The end of present civilization and the dawn o ...
  This may be the most important episode of Mental Health Exposed to date. On this week's show, Dr. Bruce Lipton said the following: We are at the end of an old civilization that is based in beliefs that are fundamentally flawed, and the beginning of a new civilization...
• Bedlam on Monday Night Football: a lesson for ...
  Whether you love pro football or hate it, follow the logic here. We have some important evidence in front of us on a crucial issue. Rarely, if ever, in life do we see a corrupt public institution get its comeuppance. The FDA? The GMO-loving USDA? The New York Times...
• Regular exercise synergistically improves phys ...
  There is little doubt that we have evolved from a past carved from consumption of nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables and free-range animal meats, all necessary components in shaping our present genome, muscular strength and intelligence. Similarly, we are products of regular...
• Raw milk victory: Farmer found innocent in raw ...
  A Minnesota farmer who has been repeatedly targeted by his state's agriculture department for facilitating the transport and delivery of raw milk to private cooperative members has been ruled innocent of the ridiculous charges filed against him in Hennepin County. The...

Threat Level

• Justice Department’s Warrantless Spying Increa ...
  The Justice Department use of warrantless internet and telephone surveillance methods known as pen register and trap-and-trace has exploded in the last decade, according to government documents the American Civil Liberties obtained via a Freedom of Information Act claim. Pen ...
• Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign ...
  The ongoing security saga involving digital certificates got a new and disturbing wrinkle on Thursday when software giant Adobe announced that attackers breached its code-signing system and used it to sign their malware with a valid digital certificate from Adobe.
• Actress in Anti-Islam Film Sues YouTube on Cop ...
  A California actress who appeared in the controversial "Innocence of Muslims" flick on YouTube is again asking the courts to remove the anti-Islam footage that has spawned deadly protests and sparked a U.S backlash in the Middle East. The latest ...
• Inside NZ Police Megaupload Files: U.S. Invest ...
  Newly released files from New Zealand police show that the country set up a special task force to aid the U.S. investigation of file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom and questioned whether dawn paramilitary raid with helicopters was warranted for fraud charges.
• In U.N. Speech, Assange Demands U.S. End Perse ...
  In a speech to a U.N. panel, Julian Assange called on the U.S. Wednesday to stop persecuting Wikileaks and live up to the words spoken by President Obama the day before.

PERRspectives : Blog

• Will Mitt Romney Marry the Blind Sheik?
  With his baseless claims that waterboarding enabled the killing of Osama Bin Laden and that the Obama administration drafted a memo to protect the President from blame if the mission failed, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has emerged as the new go-to fabulist for Team Bush. Now with hi ...
• Romney Endorses Bush's ER Plan to Replace Obam ...
  Appearing on Meet the Press two weeks ago, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced, "We're going to replace Obamacare. And I'm replacing it with my own plan." Now we know what the Romney health care plan is. As Mitt explained on CBS 60 Minutes Sunday, the federal government wil ...
• Romney's "Job Creators" Voted for Obama in 2008
  When Mitt Romney slandered the veterans, working families, college students, senior citizens and the rest of the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax, he didn't just inadvertently smear millions of reliably Republican voters in addition to the Democrats he meant to insult. As i ...
• Romney Haunted by Reagan's Ghost
  During his failed 1994 Senate race, Mitt Romney tried to reassure liberal Massachusetts voters that "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush; I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." Now, Reagan's ghost is getting his revenge. After Romney defended the carried interest exemption t ...
• Romney and Netanyahu of One Mind on Two State ...
  Earlier this year, Mitt Romney spoke glowingly of his friend and former Boston Consulting Group colleague, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We can almost speak in shorthand," Romney told the New York Times, adding, "We share common experiences and have a perspective and underpinning ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Infographics in Hickman’s PAX ROMANA
    As I mentioned previously, Jonathan Hickman, who was an actual graphic designer before he got into comics, has done the lion’s share of the most striking recent use of infographics in comics. Check out his first series, THE NIGHTLY NEWS.  This, which I think was his second or third b ...
• Exposed: U.S. May Have Designated Julian Assan ...
  Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may have been designated an "enemy of the state" by the United States. U.S. Air Force counterintelligence documents show military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or its supporters may be at risk of bein ...
• In U.N. Address, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Urg ...
  Speaking via videolink from the Ecuadorean embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a side meeting of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday evening. In his remarks, Assange gave thanks to the United Nations for its treaties on political asylum and denounced the U.S. treatme ...
• The United States of ALEC: Bill Moyers on the ...
  Democracy Now! premieres "The United States of ALEC," a special report by legendary journalist Bill Moyers on how the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council has helped corporate America propose and even draft legislation for states across the country. ALEC brings together major U.S. cor ...
• Headlines for September 27, 2012
  Anti-Austerity Protests Continue in Greece, Spain, Activists Claim More Than 300 Killed in Syria; U.N. Warns of 700,000 Refugees, Egyptian President Opposes Syria Intervention, Ahmadinejad Says "Uncivilized Zionists" Threaten Iran, Obama, Romney Spar on China Trade in Ohio, UC Davis Reaches $1 M ...

Consortium News

• Robert Parry’s Upcoming Book
• The Price of US Interventionism
• Netanyahu’s ‘Red Line’ on Obama
• Dark Days Ahead in Afghan War
• Americans Sour on Endless War

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Our Ocean Once Again
    Shell Oil has had its eyes on the Arctic for over five years now. Hundreds of meetings and billions of dollars later, this summer was supposed to be Shell’s year to finally drill in the Arctic Ocean. Thankfully, a series of embarrassing safety setbacks have held Shell back. The announceme ...
• Tar Sands Opposition Escalates: Human Blockade ...
    Protest against the controversial Keystone XL “Tar Sands” Pipeline has escalated dramatically in recent days, largely unreported in the national media. Protesters have established a human blockade in front of the construction path of the pipeline, in an old oak forest outside ...
• In Historic Reversal, US House of Representati ...
    Over the past few days, a strange and unexpected role reversal has come into focus in the realm of international energy policies. On September 21, the US House of Representatives voted in favor of the “Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act,” a ...
• Historic “Wave Energy” Power Station Set To Be ...
    In a little-noticed breakthrough for sustainable, non-fossil-fuel electricity generation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last month issued the first-ever license for a wave power station in the United States. The license was issued to Ocean Power Technologies, a New Jerse ...
• Supernova SN 1006, The Brightest Stellar Event ...
    The brightest stellar event in recorded history occurred in 1006, between April 30th and May 1st. It was a supernova that was so bright and large that it was observed by a variety of different civilizations throughout the world at the time. And now, after more than a thousand years, resea ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• This week in Gasland
  1 killed, 3 injured in Weld County gas well blast Dear Encana, Solar panels and wind mills don
• CoalPac Expansion to go Ahead
• George Fox Biofalls beginning install!
  The district is working with George Fox to do some work on campus in order to improve how storm wate
• The Value of a Healthy Urban Forest
  Aesthetics– Trees play an important role in adding beauty to an area. They soften the look of buildi
• How to Make the Perfect Cup of Coffee
  It seems fitting that my inaugural post is about coffee – the substance which has fueled me th

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Battle of Blair Mountain by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 16, 2012 Image by beelaineo via Flickr
• Michael Parenti: Privatization by Bombing, int ...
  Image by evanlavine via Flickr by Carl Boggs with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Mi
• Mother Energy and Hemp: Part 1 by Rand Clifford
  by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 12, 2012 Image by CSLP via Flickr An all-perva
• Absurdity Rules the World by Siv O’Neall
  by Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com, 13 July 2012 Lyon, France 15 July 20
• It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like... Autumn ...
  by Lo Dandelion Salad July 15, 2012 Thought I’d share how the drought and very high temperatur

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• It's the Medicare, Stupid.
  By @BGinKC There is one issue that seems to unite all Americans from every walk of life and income level and motivates them to action, and I ain't talking about a blown call by a scab ref that changed the outcome of a football game, either. I'm talking about Medicare. In three critical swing sta ...
• The Rich Are Really the Ones Most "Dependent" ...
  By @TedFrier When Mitt Romney linked the "Lower 47" who do not pay federal income taxes and are "dependent" on government with those who "do not take responsibility for their own lives," he was not only confessing an unfamiliarity with the American people (including his own Republican base) that ...
• Why Do Republicans Hate The Poor?
  Why do Republicans hate the poor?  Or the elderly, the unemployed, the sick or anyone else they see as the reason they don't get to "keep all they make"?   The highly oversimplified one word answer is "conscience".  Now before you all start going off with massive generalizations a ...
• Want Me To Fix It Mitt?
  By @TomBales1 Dear Mitt: I've put off writing for a while now, waiting to see if you were ever going to get your crap together and find a truck big enough to haul it in but with everything that's happened over this past week or ten days, it's obvious that you're not going to pull this thing tog ...
• 'Slick Willard' Isn't So Slick Anymore
  After the past couple of weeks, I'll have to stop using the nickname of "Slick Willard" to refer to Mitt Scumney. He hasn't been slick at all, and some of the American people are getting a chance to see whom this really is. I suppose his asinine behavior while visiting the Summer Olympic Games i ...

Care 2

• Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family l ...
  Costs for staffing, housing, flying & entertaining President Obama & his family last year, per the author of a new book Presidential Perks Gone Royal on taxpayer-funded presidential perks. British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. Submitted by Carol Kocsis to US Politics & ...
• Protect Whooping Cranes ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
  The proposed 1700-mile Keystone pipeline XL would destroy vulnerable habitats and harm many endangered creatures. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell Wyoming Governor Mea ...
  Less than a month ago, wolves in Wyoming were stripped of federal Endangered Species Act protection. Now, under current Wyoming state law, many of its wolves will find themselves in free fire zone on 12:01 AM September 30. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it! &nbs ...
• Clinton to 'Expand' Egypt Aid After Embassy Attack
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi the U.S. would "expand economic assistance" to Egypt on Monday. Submitted by Maui Gal to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Organs taken from patients that doctors were p ...
  The federally funded nonprofit New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could be harvested, & even hired coaches to train staffers how to be more persuasive, a bombshell lawsuit charged. Submitted by Carol Kocsis to Health & Well ...

Smirking Chimp

• Hedge Fund Hype, Wall Street Horoscopes, And D ...
• 6 Ways Mitt Romney's Getting His Butt Kicked
• ALEC: The Scheme to Remake America, One State ...
• Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, We Could Be Heroes
• Ohio And China: One Side Promises While The Ot ...

Paul Krugman

• Not The Election They Were Expecting
  Guess who's enthusiastic.
• Same As It Ever Was
  Good news, bad news, from old newspapers.
• How Capital Went Into the GIPSIs
  Bank to bank.
• Notes On Internal Devaluation (Wonkish)
  What a Keynesian perspective really says.
• Death By PowerPoint, Continued
  More Ryan awesomeness.

No Quarter

• Thursday/Friday Open Thread!
  RNC Research rocks: WSJ: “GOP Pushes Back With Obama ‘Redistribution’ Audio” on.wsj.com/NAPAmg #MustRead — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 19, 2012 Jamie knows it all about food stamps: CRS report: number of able-bodied adults on food stamps doubled after Obama suspended work require ...
• The Obama Benghazi Coverup
  There is now no doubt. The Obama Administration is lying to the American people and pushing a storyline about what happened in Benghazi that is not supported by the intelligence reports. When members of Congress have the chance to review the intelligence produced in the three months prior to the ...
• Benghazi Bump Questions To Be Asked
  CNN reported starting Friday 21 that its agents in Benghazi found a personal diary of the slain Ambassador Chris Stevens on the floor of the abandoned US Consulate. CNN reports now that it photocopied the contents and returned the diary to the Stevens family. CNN reports that it has confirmed de ...
• John Sununu at GMT 04:45 … & hk2′s late open t ...
  I’m just sorry it’s Monday for so many of you, if you still have a job. Well, it was Monday. It’s a good thing I never became the time-keeper for Greenwich Mean Time aka Zulu Time … I’m ripping this off from Wikipedia, a modern-day equivalent of encyclopedias I read ...
• Obama and Al Gore’s Man Playing Politics at CIA
  * BUMPED UP * We’ll keep bumping this up until the media pay attention. This is very important and it is NOT receiving any attention whatsoever from the MSM. Astonishing considering what Larry and Retired’s finds mean about what Obama forced the CIA to do! Please also TWEET this to e ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

• Q&A with Ben Sollee - The Daily Tar Heel (blog)
  Q&A with Ben Sollee The Daily Tar Heel (blog) On top of his full-time music career, Sollee also champions environmental sustainability, often touring by bicycle and campaigning against mountaintop removal coal mining in his home state of Kentucky. Email this article | Share on Delicious &mid ...
• Selecting "Surrogate Species" for Conservation ...
  Selecting "Surrogate Species" for Conservation: How About an 800-Pounder? Huffington Post Mountaintop removal, shale oil excavation, fracking, helicopter logging, stern trawling, factory farming, manufacturing, road construction, dams, invasive species, air pollution, water pollution, ...
• Alpha CEO looks at the future role of coal - S ...
  Global Warming Alpha CEO looks at the future role of coal State Journal The Keepers of the Mountains Foundation will hold a public memorial service for late mountaintop removal mining activist Larry Gibson. The Keepers of the Mountains Foundation will hold a public memorial service for late moun ...
• Expert: Reserve depletion, not 'war on coal,' ...
  Global Warming Expert: Reserve depletion, not 'war on coal,' is WV's problem State Journal The Keepers of the Mountains Foundation will hold a public memorial service for late mountaintop removal mining activist Larry Gibson. The Keepers of the Mountains Foundation will hold a public ...
• Environmental Conservation Organization to hos ...
  Environmental Conservation Organization to host Guest Speaker easttennessean.com (subscription) The student-led Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) will be hosting an event titled “Stories from the Field: The Direct Action Campaign to Stop Mountaintop Removal” in which Ricki Draper, an ...

Memeorandum

• Employment: Preliminary annual benchmark revis ...
  Bill McBride / Calculated Risk: Employment: Preliminary annual benchmark revision shows 386,000 additional jobs  —  This morning the BLS released the preliminary annual benchmark revision showing an additional 386,000 payroll jobs as of March 2012.  The final revision will ...
• RNC cuts ties with firm over voter registratio ...
  Michael Isikoff / First Read: RNC cuts ties with firm over voter registration allegations  —  The Republican National Committee has fired a controversial consulting firm it was paying millions of dollars to conduct voter registration in five battleground states, NBC News has lea ...
• U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N. (Br ...
  Brian Winter / Reuters: U.S.-led “war on drugs” questioned at U.N.  —  (Reuters) - The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala all called for a vigorous global debate of anti-narcotics laws at the United Nations on Wednesday, raising new questions about the wisd ...
• Drama! Intrigue! Habeas! On October 1, the Sup ...
  Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online: Drama!  Intrigue!  Habeas!  On October 1, the Supreme Court Returns  —  Fresh off their most partisan ruling since Bush v. Gore, the justices face a docket and a vibe that are still taking shape.  —  Reuters&nbsp ...
• Poll: Libertarians Are, In Fact, Voting For Ro ...
  BuzzFeed: Poll: Libertarians Are, In Fact, Voting For Romney  —  A Reason-Rupe poll shows that libertarians (defined loosely) will turn out for Romney after all.  —  Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters  —  A new poll from Reason Magazine indicates tha ...

Energy & Environment News

• Sudan and South Sudan Sign Cooperation Deal
  The agreement signed by the two countries’ leaders should permit oil exports to resume, which their economies desperately need, but leaves important disputes unresolved.
• Green Blog: A Bipartisan Vote Against European ...
  Just before dashing out of town, Senate Republicans and Democrats voted to defy European emission fees imposed on American carriers.
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Miracle Crop, or a ...
  Officials in North Carolina debate whether to allow mass cultivation of arundo, a high-energy crop, for biofuels production.
• Green Blog: Q. and A.: Farming for an Uncertai ...
  Wes Jackson, a co-founder of the Land Institute, reflects on population growth, resource depletion and the accumulation of carbon -- and what it means for contemporary agriculture.
• Dot Earth Blog: How Rachel Carson Spurred Chem ...
  A detailed study of drafts of "Silent Spring" reveals something rare: a writer unafraid to embrace uncertainty as a means of engaging her audience.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, south of the Fiji Islands
  Thursday, September 27, 2012 16:54:44 UTC Friday, September 28, 2012 04:54:44 AM at epicenterDepth: 515.10 km (320.07 mi)
• M 6.9, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 23:39:58 UTC Wednesday, September 26, 2012 02:39:58 PM at epicenterDepth: 40.50 km (25.17 mi)
• M 5.3, Antofagasta, Chile
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 17:45:00 UTC Wednesday, September 26, 2012 01:45:00 PM at epicenterDepth: 108.00 km (67.11 mi)
• M 5.0, south of the Fiji Islands
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 17:15:53 UTC Thursday, September 27, 2012 05:15:53 AM at epicenterDepth: 110.20 km (68.48 mi)
• M 5.2, Tonga
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 06:45:18 UTC Wednesday, September 26, 2012 07:45:18 PM at epicenterDepth: 162.10 km (100.72 mi)

China Dialogue

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  实验室生产人造肉或许有助于减少集约化养殖对环境的影响。但是，这种肉能够吸引 ...
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  加州大规模引水计划被批是一场以环境为代价来造福农业产业和农民的政治博弈。美 ...
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  德国海因里希•基金会联合主席芭芭拉•翁米斯希在接受Schattenblick网站采访时，批判了当&#20170 ...
• 晦涩的术语&#2510 ...
  一项新的研究表明，横贯可持续性日程的语言碎片化正在加速。约翰•艾尔金顿认为&# ...
• 中国高原的&#8220 ...
  长江、黄河上游重要的水源涵养地，被誉为“高原之肾”的四川若尔盖县湿地，正面&# ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Why Do Some Professors Still Think Women Scien ...
  When former Harvard professor Lawrence Summers said that there were “innate differences” between the genders that led to fewer professional female scientists, he kicked off a firestorm of debate about why women are still so absent in the field. On Monday, a study revealed some answers--and it ...
• Red States Outpace Blue States in Income Growt ...
   Americans love nothing more than a good Red-State-Vs.-Blue-State argument, especially during election time.So a new story in USA Today, looking at the changes in income, state by state, since the beginning of the Great Recession, of course breaks down the results into “red,” “blue” and “swing ...
• Sudden Wealth Syndrome? Daily Show With Jon St ...
  On last night's Daily Show, correspondent Jason Jones interviewed two folks who've invented a syndrome for the poor, poor super rich: Sudden Wealth Syndrome (SWS).In the intro to his segment, Jones notes, "Amongst all the terrible news about people who've lost their jobs or their homes, there' ...
• Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico Beg for an End ...
  Wednesday's United Nations General Assembly session saw not one, not two, but three Latin American heads of state call on it to promote debate on alternatives to the war on drugs. The presidents of Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico all used their 15-minute addresses at the Assembly to call for e ...
• Mitt Says His Heart "Aches" For You -- Convinced?
   “My heart aches for the people I’ve seen,” Mitt Romney said, on the second day of his Ohio bus tour. He’s now telling stories of economic hardship among the people he’s met.Up until now, Romney’s stories on the campaign trail have been about business successes – people who started businesses ...

Threat Level

• Justice Department’s Warrantless Spying Increa ...
  The Justice Department use of warrantless internet and telephone surveillance methods known as pen register and trap-and-trace has exploded in the last decade, according to government documents the American Civil Liberties obtained via a Freedom of Information Act claim. Pen ...
• Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign ...
  The ongoing security saga involving digital certificates got a new and disturbing wrinkle on Thursday when software giant Adobe announced that attackers breached its code-signing system and used it to sign their malware with a valid digital certificate from Adobe.
• Actress in Anti-Islam Film Sues YouTube on Cop ...
  A California actress who appeared in the controversial "Innocence of Muslims" flick on YouTube is again asking the courts to remove the anti-Islam footage that has spawned deadly protests and sparked a U.S backlash in the Middle East. The latest ...
• Inside NZ Police Megaupload Files: U.S. Invest ...
  Newly released files from New Zealand police show that the country set up a special task force to aid the U.S. investigation of file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom and questioned whether dawn paramilitary raid with helicopters was warranted for fraud charges.
• In U.N. Speech, Assange Demands U.S. End Perse ...
  In a speech to a U.N. panel, Julian Assange called on the U.S. Wednesday to stop persecuting Wikileaks and live up to the words spoken by President Obama the day before.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Are there E. coli Illnesses linked to XL Foods ...
  XL Foods Meat was “produced under insanitary conditions.” Yesterday, Matt McClure of the Calgary Herald reported: No deaths have been linked to the contaminated meat, but Alberta’s health authority said... Continue Reading
• First Sunland and Trader Joe’s Salmonella Bred ...
  We have been retained by the family of the 8-year-old North Carolina boy who the CDC has identified as one of the victims in this spreading Salmonella Bredeney peanut butter... Continue Reading
• CDC: Sunland Salmonella Bredeney Peanut Butte ...
  Marler Clark has been retained and we will file suit Wednesday against Sunland. A total of 30 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Bredeney have been reported from... Continue Reading
• Really? MDP Test Prompts Recall of “Bully Stic ...
  Kasel Associated Industries of Denver, CO is voluntarily recalling its BOOTS & BARKLEY 6 COUNT 5 INCH AMERICAN BEEF BULLY STICKS product because it may be contaminated with Salmonella. The... Continue Reading
• Washington, California, Arizona, Texas, Louisi ...
  Sunland, Inc. today announced a voluntary limited recall of its Almond Butter and Peanut Butter products, manufactured between May 1, 2012 and September 24, 2012, because these products may be... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

• Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
• Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...
  Filed under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric 2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
• Official: Renault donates all-electric Popemob ...
  Filed under: Minivan/Van, Etc., Europe, Renault, Electric Popes know how to travel in style, as the long list of iconic Popemobiles can attest to. In recent years, His Holiness Benedict XVI - aka the "Green Pope" - has been trying to clean up those bubbly vehicles with alternative powertrains ...
• Exclusive: In deep with Tesla CEO Elon Musk: F ...
  Filed under: Etc., Tesla Tesla Motors Elon Musk spends about half his working life - i.e., almost all of his waking hours - in his office at SpaceX in Los Angeles. The automotive CEO is, after all, also in charge of the rocket company, which means that he's thinking about a lot more than just ...
• Exclusive: Elon Musk: 'The credit for saving T ...
  Filed under: Earnings/Financials, Tesla, Electric Back in 2009, the plug-in vehicle world was surprised to learn that Daimler had invested $50 million in Tesla Motors. What we didn't know at the time was that the money came deus ex machina style just before the EV startup reaper was about to ...

Rafe's Radar

• Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computers
  PointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
• First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...
  CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
• Groupiter makes workflow as simple as Dropbox
  Tiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
• Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...
  New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
• Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...
  New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• SATURDAY: Amy Goodman on C-SPAN's Washington J ...
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Saturday, September 29th at 7:45 am EST .
• Tune in Wednesday: Protesters in Spain Attempt ...
  Tune in Wednesday when we will get a report from Madrid, Spain, where thousands of protesters today attempted to surround the country’s Parliament and 'Occupy Congress' to protest ongoing austerity measures. The manifesto for the #25s claims the people of Spain consider themselves ...
• Pt. 2: Eve Ensler on Her Battle with Cancer: " ...
  We continue our conversation with award-winning playwright — and uterine cancer survivor — Eve Ensler. After getting news she has been cancer-free for two years, Ensler describes how her struggle to survive the disease "got rid of everything that didn’t matter," and ...
• New "Harvest of Empire" Film Examines U.S. Int ...
  At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, Onyx Films presents "Harvest of Empire," a feature-length documentary that examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. Based on the ...
• Alfred McCoy: "Torture and Impunity: The U.S. ...
  In this online exclusive, we continue our discussion with University of Wisconsin professor Alfred McCoy on U.S. torture policy, the Obama administration’s refusal to prosecute war crimes, and new revelations that waterboarding was used more often than the government ever acknowledged. ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

• KPFA 94.1 Guns and Butter Fundraiser
  Guns and Butter – September 26, 2012 at 1:00pm Click to listen (or download)   “Dillon Read and The Aristocracy of Stock Profits”, live with Catherine Austin Fitts. KPFA fundraiser – a 6-month subscription to the Solari Report. See More Here.
• Transcript of Genetic Roulette with Jeffrey M. ...
  Transcript of Genetic Roulette with Jeffrey M. Smith is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: I have been your admirer for many years and one thing we do on The Solari Report every Solari Report we have a hero and you will be the hero this week. Jeffrey Smith: Okay. Cathe ...
• Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series
  Creating and disseminating media to help regenerate the Earth. These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 1994 and 1995. They are a definitive selection from our original 16 part series. These tapes bear man ...
• Turn Your Phone into Your Digital Wallet
  By Kim Komando According to one research firm, mobile smartphone payments will grow by a factor of four and account for $1.3 trillion of all retail transactions by the year 2017. That’s a lot of electronic money flying around! And that’s exactly why Google and Apple are scrambling to ...
• Money & Markets – Week of 9.23.12
  California Takes On the Retirement Crisis New York Times | 22 September 2012 When you think of California as a trendsetter, retirement policy is probably not the first thing that comes to mind, but that may soon change.

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...
  Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
• Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...
  There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
• Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...
  A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
• Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...
  The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
• Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...
  A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• How clearly do we see the rising inequality in ...
  Summary:  Among the serious problems eroding the Republic’s foundations, rising inequality of wealth & income must rank high. It’s the worst kind of problem, generating its own positive feedback (like a pebble thrown down a rocky hillside). Today we have the crack analysts of the ...
• The Truth and Beauty about the Pussy Riot
  Summary: The Pussy Riot episode revealed much about Russia, and the coverage in the western media shows its fraudulent nature. Today we have an excerpt from Truth & Beauty that explains both. Today we have an excerpt from the their September 14 issue of Truth & Beauty, by Eric Kraus and ...
• Chuck Spinney explains our broken OODA loop
  Summary:  Today we have our of America’s sharpest observers, Chuck Spinney, explain what might be our core problem — our broken Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action loop. Until we can clearly see and act, even unlimited good will and patriotic spirit will accomplish nothing. Some ...
• Bulletins about the birth of the New America, ...
  Summary:  Today we look at an important source of information about our nation — and what’s it’s becoming. And we look at our opposition, sources of disinformation to cloud our minds. The @FabiusMaximus01 Twitter feed documents the slow sad story of the evolution of the America ...
• Michael Yon suggests that we leave Afghanistan ...
  Summary:  Today we have two articles by Michael Yon from his online magazine, reposted here with his generous permission.  He says its time to leave Afghanistan.  I agree. Once free from outside interference, their civil war that began in 1978 might eventually burn itself out. And we can turn to ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

• Drone War AWOL From Presidential Campaign
  A new study released this week by researchers at Stanford and NYU has found that American drone strikes in Pakistan are killing far more civilians than advertised, taking out few high value targets, and have become the primary recruiting tool for the terrorist groups the policy is aimed at comba ...
• P5+1 Stacks the Deck Against Iran
  At Sic Semper Tyrannis (Pat Lang's blog), Dr. Christopher Bolan of the U.S. Army War College wrote about "the relative ease with which the US and Iran could now easily drift toward war with dire consequences for both sides." He cited five reasons: Fear and honor, "rational&quo ...
• Top of the Morning: USA & France Disagree on M ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest. USA And France at Odds Over Mali Intervention A high level meeting at the United Nations on the crisis in the Sahel exposed some divisions in the Security Council over potentially backing an ECOWAS military intervention in Mali. “French President Francois Hollande ...
• At the Frontline of the Battle for Syria
  Earlier this week PBS’s Frontline aired a powerful new documentary on Syria that lets viewers see the ongoing fighting up close and through the eyes of the rebels, the regime, and those trapped in the middle. It does a fantastic job of integrating the micro-level dynamics of the violence on the ...
• Powell and Solana: Fast Resolution in Syria Un ...
  While they agreed that the international community must do all it can to stop the bloodshed in Syria, neither former US Secretary of State General Colin Powell nor former EU High Commissioner Javier Solana hold out much hope for a rapid solution. Speaking at the second Rafik Hariri Debate o ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• The Comeback Mitt
  Even for the flintiest of liberals, it was hard to watch the sad spectacle of Mitt Romney yesterday, after touching down for a rally in Dayton, Ohio, and not feel a little sad for the guy. Here was a beaten-up (and self-harmed) candidate coming off two catastrophic weeks, his poll numbers tanki ...
• An Antidote to Voter Suppression
  Yesterday, hundreds of non-partisan organizations came together for National Voter Registration Day to ensure that hundreds of thousands of Americans will be able to exercise their freedom to vote and make their voices heard this upcoming November. While a 21st century upgrade of our elections ...
• How the Tea Party Could Cost Republicans the S ...
  Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson built his reputation as a moderate, policy-oriented Republican. But in his Senate race against Democrat Tammy Baldwin, he has had to go through the same uncomfortable shift to the right faced by other Republicans who made their names in a less dogmatic G ...
• Pain in Spain
  The European authorities seem determined to drive the continent into a repeat of the Great Depression. The European Central Bank keeps playing a cute game designed more to impress the Germans than the financial markets or to provide real relief. Mario Draghi, ECB president, offers to buy unlimi ...
• The Ohio Problem
  I wrote yesterday that President Obama is building a solid margin over Governor Romney in the state. The picture is similar in Ohio—where Obama has led in every poll since the Democratic National Convention—and Nevada, where he's led in almost every survey since the beginning of the year. Tuesd ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Tracking with a purpose
  The Human Face of Big Data app for iOS and Android will anonymously track your behaviour and help scientists crowdsource a big picture of humanity over the coming days. The free app launches later today and will learn not only about yourself but also how you compare to others. You can compare an ...
• The moral dilemma
  According to evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm, “our moral sense is a sophisticated defence mechanism that enables individuals to survive and thrive in groups. One of the biggest risks of group living is the possibility of being punished for our misdeeds by those around us. Bul ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• TransCanada Endangers Lives of Dozens of Peace ...
  TransCanada has been operating heavy timber clearing machinery within 20 feet of the site of a massive tree blockade, endangering the lives of nine protesters prepared to remain in the trees to halt the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Tar Sands Blockaders in trees remain undeterred by TransCanad ...
• Amnesty International Calls on Sweden to Assur ...
  Amnesty International calls on the Swedish authorities to issue assurances to the United Kingdom and to Julian Assange that if he leaves Ecuador’s London embassy and agrees to go to Sweden to face sexual assault claims, he will not be extradited to the United States in connection with Wiki ...
• Veterans For Peace Take on Drone Makers in San ...
  San Diego Veterans For Peace and Veterans For Peace-United Kingdom are protesting drone manufacturer General Atomics today, September 27th, in both Poway, California, and London, England. Both protests are scheduled for 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. local time.read more
• NWC and No FEAR Coalition Announce Endorsement ...
  The National Whistleblowers Center and the No FEAR Coalition announce their support for the immediate passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) for federal employee whistleblowers.  The decision to support the Senate version (S. 743) of the WPEA came after the Senate re ...
• Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Widow ...
  The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unfairly forced Edith “Edie” Windsor to pay more than $360,000 in federal estate tax after the death of her spouse, Thea Spyer, that she would not have had to pay had she been married to a man, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit was told ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Bad Lessons From 'Won't Back Down'
  Dana Goldstein Won’t Back Down is a crude work of art.  read more
• Voting As A Constitutional Right: What A Real ...
  Bruce Dixon Anyplace black or brown people, or students or the elderly gather this election season, anyplace frequented by the groups the Democratic party likes to call its base come together, the political air is full of talk about protect ...
• Calling US Drone Strikes 'Surgical' Is Orwelli ...
  Conor Friedersdorf The Obama Administration deliberately uses the word "surgical" to describe its drone strikes.read more
• Salam Fayyad, the World Bank and the Oslo game
  Neve Gordon Triggered by gas-price increases, tens of thousands of Palestinian taxi, truck and bus drivers in the West Bank observed a one-day strike, effectively shutting down cities. This, as Al Jazeera reported, was the culmination of se ...
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Iran and the Bom ...
  Christian Stork As our Nobel laureate President ascended to the podium on September 25 at the United Nations for his last international speech before the election, we again were the recipients of fine oratory and rhetorical flourish about A ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• This Is The War That Never Ends
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• Who could have expected...?
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• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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• The Costs of War
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• NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?
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Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

• Australians Suddenly Richer
  Australians are suddenly a whole lot better off after the government statistician “found
• Student debt record: 1 in 5 U.S. homes now in ...
  College student debt (most of it owed directly to the federal government) continues to grow and has
• Some thoughts on the Green Party's Economic De ...
  A friend has asked me to write my thoughts on the Green Party’s recent Economic Democracy Moti
• The Poor and Low Wage Workers Pay More in Taxe ...
  cartoon by David Horsey, LA Times     Article by John Funiciello published in Issue 487 of
• The Elusive Romney's Immigration Gibberish
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romneys-immigration-muddle/2012/09/26/4e3cbc8e-0370-11e2

Electronic Intifada

• Family of Cast Lead victims wins "compromise, ...
  Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 26 September 2012 Israel still refusing to accept responsibility for killing civilians in Gaza.
• Palestinians risk death to work without permit ...
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Ramallah 26 September 2012 As Israel dismantles Gaza’s economy, job opportunities also shrink for the West Bank’s Palestinians.
• Why Palestine is a key issue for UK trade unions
  Sarah Colborne United Kingdom 24 September 2012 Members of the Trades Union Congress in the UK unanimously voted to campaign towards ending Israel’s devastating siege on Gaza.
• Why did a young man in Gaza set himself on fir ...
  Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 21 September 2012 A wave of self-immolation attempts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is ringing alarm bells.
• "They shot my father in the head": interview w ...
  Moe Ali Nayel Sabra-Shatila camp 19 September 2012 A survivor of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon recounts the three days of horror in Beirut refugee camps.

The Wonk Room

• Board May Reconsider Clemency For Death Row In ...
  As the date approaches for the scheduled execution of Terrance “Terry” Williams, who was sentenced to death in Pennsylvania for killing two men that he says sexually abused him, the state’s Board of Pardons voted unanimously today to “hold the case under advisement” in light of new evidence. The ...
• Record Number Of Americans Now Have Student Lo ...
  Nearly one-in-five American households now have student loan debt, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center. Overall, 19 percent of households carried some amount of student debt in 2010, up from just 15 percent in 2007. Borrowers on average owed more than $26,000, double what th ...
• How Smartphones Are Facilitating Better Health ...
  What do you get when you combine the tech industry with the health care industry? One answer is “mHealth,” which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines as “the use of mobile and wireless devices to improve health outcomes, healthcare services, and health research.” ...
• Romney Falsely Claims Defense Cuts Will Impact ...
  In a speech to the American Legion today, Mitt Romney leveled fresh criticism against President Obama, accusing his administration of cutting the benefits of veterans who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and going so far as to call plans to cut the Veterans Affairs Department budget a &#8 ...
• Former Employee: Chick-fil-A Has Become A ‘Saf ...
  Steve Cammett, 60, worked for nearly a decade at various Chick-fil-A branches and at their corporate offices, but he resigned in protest last month. He is now speaking out about the anti-gay environment nurtured by the fast food chain: CAMMETT: It’s become a safe place for people to hate and the ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Margaret Wente "Wrote" Three Columns a Week?
   There's a howler! Oh my! Such a workload! Writing 3 rambling and stupid diatribes a week, based on cutting and pasting other people's work and pulling facts out of your ass?  Sounds like BLOGGING motherfuckers!! Except when I write a post as long as one of Wente's columns I feel guilt ...
• Margaret Wente & Elite Immunity From Consequences
   Margaret Wente is a lazy, stupid person. As such, she has a great deal of animosity towards people who aren't lazy and stupid and so she writes column after column of lazy, stupid bullshit, mocking her betters and sucking-up to her enablers. (She is enabled by people for whom a debased pol ...
• Hedges vs. D'Souza ...
   Chris Hedges gets to confront the nauseating Dinesh D'Souza in a surprisingly extended moderated debate. Perhaps D'Souza is so disconnected by reality (and cosseted by wingut welfare) that he's incapable of perceiving when he's being utterly humiliated.
• Video Magic
  This guy looks like he's been through a lot ... ... what??? I'm busy again!
• Kim Rivera
  So, the harpercon cartel has decided to deport US war resister Kim Rivera. The harpercon government (and their brain-dead fans) believe that because you voluntarily join the US military you are bound, legally and morally, to participate in illegal wars and all the other war crimes that follow fr ...

on Government Oversight

• Deja Vu--Again--for Whistleblowers
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• New Podcast: Just How Secret is the Government?
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• POGO Cheers MSPB for Granting Stay for Whistle ...
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• One Year Into the Open Government Partnership
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Digital Journal

• Search.XXX – The red-light district for Intern ...
  ICM Registry will officially launch Thursday a new pornography search engine: Search.XXX. For porn connoisseurs and enthusiasts in the world, searches will be much more secure, narrow and categorical.
• Cyber-bullying victim wins partial victory, ca ...
  The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a 15-year old girl can pursue her cyber-bullies, without having to give up her identity. The court decided unanimously, the girl deserves to be protected from further victimization by having her name released.
• Monster 1000-lb Sturgeon caught in British Col ...
  For the second time this year, a massive Sturgeon has been caught and released from BC's Fraser River weighing in at over one-thousand pounds.
• Motion to reopen abortion debate in Canada goe ...
  Canadian Members of Parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject a motion that would have reopened the debate over abortion. But 10 Conservative cabinet ministers are under scrutiny for supporting the motion, including the minister for the Status of Women.
• Nova Scotia teen boy allegedly chained, sexual ...
  Nova Scotia RCMP began an investigation after the 16-year-old boy knocked on a neighbour's door and asked for help. His wrists and ankles were bound in chains.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Canadian Forces getting “New Generation ...
  What lies in store for the Canadian Forces' latest, not-so-new generation acquisitions?
• Watch CTV’s W5 Documentary on the F-35 Today
  Our campaign to stop Harper's stealth fighter jets is kicking into high gear.
• Rideau Institute Responds to Dubious “Bu ...
  Let’s leave the military-industrial complex to the Americans.
• The Canadian Press and the Stealth Lobbyist
  Canadians are receiving mixed messages from the government on the F-35s and the media's misleading reporting is not helping to clear things up.
• Sixth Annual Ottawa Peace Festival to honour v ...
  Canadian Peace Initiative (CPI) together with Ottawa's peace and justice groups will be holding its annual Peace Festival from September 21st to October 2.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Secrets of Prometheus Film Leaked!
  April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Info Wars “According to Alex Jones, the new film Prometheus has a hidden global elite agenda.”  –KTRN No, we’re not going to give away any SPOILERS here; instead we will reveal the agenda behind Prometheus, the new film by legendary director Ridley Sc ...
• FDA Discounts More Than a Million Signatures O ...
  April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “So apparently more than a million signatures is not enough for the FDA.” –KTRN The FDA is with Monsanto and agribusiness. They don’t want you to know what’s in the food you eat. On Tuesday, the FDA reached a deadline for the “Just Label It ...
• Junk Food, Fast Food Proven to Cause Depression
  April 2, 2012 Natural Society By Mike Barrett “If you already don’t have enough reasons to stop eating garbage, here is another one.” –KTRN According to recent research conducted by scientists from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada ...
• U.S. Ambassador: Al Qaeda Could Plan Other 9/1 ...
  April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The US Ambassador is lying.” –KTRN According to Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Kabul, if the United States does not continue to occupy Afghanistan, al Qaeda would be able to plan and carry out another September 11, 2001- ...
• Lawyer For Soldier Accused Of Afghan Slaughter ...
  April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Should anyone be surprised by this?  What are they trying to hide?” –KTRN John Henry Browne, the attorney for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the man accused of single-handedly massacring 17 Afghan villagers, is now accusing the Unit ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

• Julian Assange Addresses UN On Human Rights: U ...
  Dandelion Salad Sep 26, 2012 by RTAmerica On Wednesday night, Julian Assange, the creator of Wikileaks, addressed the United Nations General Assembly in an event called “Strengthening Human Rights” from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has been trapped for several months. Th ...
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Speech at the United Nat ...
  Dandelion Salad Sep 26, 2012 by RussiaToday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s eighth address to the UN General Assembly was defined mostly by its absences: The Syrian conflict and an infamous anti-Muslim film weren’t mentioned, and the US delegation wasn’t present in the ...
• Iranian Diplomat Says Iran Offered Deal to Hal ...
  by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP Sept. 24, 2012 WASHINGTON, Sep 24 2012 (IPS) – Iran has again offered to halt its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, which the United States has identified as its highest priority in the nuclear talks, in return for easi ...
• President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Intervie ...
  Dandelion Salad Transcript: CNN Sep 24, 2012 by MOXNEWSd0tC0M President Ahmadinejad Interview With Piers Morgan pt.1 * * * * see Benghazi Attack and The NATO Cover-up by Finian Cunningham and Mark Robertson The Separate Security Interests of the United States and Israel by William John Cox 9/11: ...
• How Do You Take Your Poison? by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 24, 2012 We will all swallow our cup of corporate poison. We can take it from nurse Romney, who will tell us not to whine and play the victim, or we can take it from nurse Obama, who will assure us that this hurts him even [...]

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Curiosity Rover Steps Right Into Ancient River ...
  NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence that the area in Gale crater it is traveling through once had vigorously flowing water for perhaps thousands or millions of years. Scientists don't know exactly how long ago this river would have flowed but it would likely be billions of years in the past.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: The Cosm ...
  If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
• Bearing Sons Leaves Male DNA Traces in Mom’s Brain
  Giving a whole new meaning to "pregnancy brain," a new study shows that male DNA—likely left over from pregnancy with a male fetus—can persist in a woman's brain throughout her life. Although the biological impact of this foreign DNA is unclear, the study also found that women with more male DN ...
• Taxidermists, Artists Bring Aging Museum Anima ...
  The North American mammals at the American Museum of Natural History are coming back to (near) life. Artists, taxidermists, conservators and designers have been working for a year on everything from re-coloring faded bear fur and restoring paintings of the Grand Canyon to dusting leaves and inst ...
• Amateur Astronomer Maps Jupiter’s Moon Ganymed ...
  Using little more than a backyard telescope and his own expertise, amateur astronomer Emmanuel Kardasis has produced a detailed albedo map of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Akiva Eldar: Israel’s five ‘nos’
  Until now, there were only four: no to withdrawal from the territories that we occupied in 1967; no to dividing Jerusalem; no to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and no to the Arab Peace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Israel rejects US-backed Arab plan for confere ...
  Israel expressed its strong opposition on Wednesday to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Russell Tribunal on Palestine – New York sessi ...
  The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) will be holding its fourth international session in New York City on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday, October 7. The RToP is an International People’s Tribunal... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Wally Shawn: On the necessity of the Russell T ...
  Actor Wally Shawn explains why the Russell Tribunal on Palestine is, at this moment in time, crucial, and why you should join. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
• APJP: End all demolitions in Al Bustan, Silwan ...
  Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine call upon the mayor of Jerusalem to put an end to all house demolitions in Al Bustan, Silwan, and the rest of East Jerusalem. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth deca ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• U.S. Army ‘Stand-Down’ for Suicide Prevention ...
  The U.S. Army put normal operations on hold Thursday in a service-wide “stand-down” for a day of mandatory suicide prevention training to try and combat record numbers of suicides among active-duty troops.
• An-70 Aircraft Conducts Test Flight After 2-ye ...
  An upgraded Antonov An-70 propfan tactical transport aircraft carried out a test flight on Thursday after a two-year delay, the company's president Dmytro Kyva announced.
• Russian Aerobatics Team 'The Swifts' Coming Apart
  Two reserve pilots from the Russian aerobatic team The Swifts stepped down following a recent scandal that cost their commander's job, a source in the group told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
• China Denies Second Aircraft Carrier Reports
  China is not building a second aircraft carrier, Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said on Thursday.
• Compromise on Missile Shield Possible – Vershbow
  A compromise with Moscow on U.S. missile defense system in Europe is possible despite the current deadlock, NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said on Thursday.

NewsWise

• Challenges for Families of Those Jailed
  Virginia Tech human development research studies how incarcedation affects the inmate's family.
• Work-Family Conflict Translates to Greater Ris ...
  Nurses and other hospital workers, especially those who work long hours or the night shift, often report trying to juggle the demands of the job and family obligations. A study out suggests that the higher the work-family conflict the greater the risk that health care workers will suffer from n ...
• Nickelblock: An Element's Love-Hate Relationsh ...
  Battery materials on the nano-scale reveal how nickel forms a physical barrier that impedes the shuttling of lithium ions in the electrode, reducing how fast the materials charge and discharge.
• Surgery for Crossed Eyes Not Just for Kids
  Strabismus (crossed eyes) can be psychologically debilitating. But many adults who have this defect wrongly believe there's no treatment.
• World's First Glimpse of a Black Hole "Launchpad"
  A strange thing about black holes: they shine. The current issue of Science features a new paper by the Event Horizon telescope team - a collaboration that includes Avery Broderick, Associate Faculty at Perimeter Institute.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Levina and Vaid Guest Post On The Recent HRW T ...
  by Polina Levina and Kaveri Vaid [Polina Levina is a masters in international law candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Kaveri Vaid is an Institute for International Law and Justice Scholar at New York University School of Law.] Overview Recently, Human Rights Watch relea ...
• HILJ Symposium: Ozan Varol Responds
  by Ozan Varol by Ozan Varol [Ozan Varol is Assistant Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School.] This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 53(2) symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. I would like to thank David Landau, Wi ...
• HILJ Symposium: A Commentary on Ozan Varol’s “ ...
  by Brad Roth by Brad Roth [Brad Roth is Professor of Political Science & Law at Wayne State University.] This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 53(2) symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Ozan Varol’s article, “The Democr ...
• HILJ Symposium: A Review of Ozan Varol’s The D ...
  by William Partlett by William Partlett [William Partlett is an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School and a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution.] This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 53(2) symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the rela ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, September 27, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Japan has promised that it will not compromise on the dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, calling them an integral part to the country’s territory. It did not take very long for China to react. The High Court of England and Wales issued an injunct ...

Public News Service

• Report: The Backstory on Who "Doesn't Pay" Taxes
  Report: The Backstory on Who "Doesn't Pay" Taxes PHOENIX - Pundits and politicians are throwing around a lot of numbers these days on who is, or who isn't, paying taxes. One group aims to separate the facts from fiction. Chuck Marr, the director of federal tax policy for the Center on Budget and ...
• 50 Plus Voters the Most “Anxious” ...
  50 Plus Voters the Most “Anxious” of All PHOENIX – Jobs may be the overriding issue for many voters in the upcoming election, but an AARP survey finds for one segment of voters, it's financial security in retirement, taxes, and health expenses that have them the most anxious. ...
• Caution Urged in Wake of JAMA Study Linking BP ...
  Caution Urged in Wake of JAMA Study Linking BPA and Obesity PHOENIX - A new study cites a link between obesity and a chemical found in food packaging such as plastics and aluminum cans. Bisphenol-A (BPA) has been banned from use in baby bottles and toddlers' "sippy cups," because scientists say ...
• An AZ Success: Stimulus Weatherization Program
  An AZ Success: Stimulus Weatherization Program PHOENIX - Some 6,400 low-income Arizona homes have been weatherized in the past three years, as the result of a program funded by federal stimulus dollars that just wrapped up. The Arizona Community Action Association helped coordinate the $57 mill ...
• What You May Not Know About Your Red Plastic G ...
  What You May Not Know About Your Red Plastic Gas Can PHOENIX - Every year, dozens of people, many of them children, are severely burned or killed when plastic gas cans explode. Attorney Diane Breneman represents several victims of such explosions, and says these tragedies could easily be prevent ...

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