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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

4 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • 1/3 of Americans Fear They Will Never Retire
    More than one-third of Americans near retirement age expect they'll never retire, a poll finds. Thirty five percent of Americans don't expect to retire, up from 29 percent two years ago, according to findings from a “2011 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey Report” from the Society of Actu ...
  • A sense of possibility in Alice Springs
    Alice Springs, or Mparntwe, as the place is known by its traditional owners, the Arrernte people, is at the continent’s centre. As you fly towards Alice, the reptilian spine of the MacDonnell Ranges rises out of the plains. According to the Arrernte, the ranges were created by ancestral beings – ...
  • AEP: China’s fears grow over eurozone crisis
    Premier Wen Jiabao told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Europe must "strike a balance" between fiscal tightening and measures to promote growth. "Europe's debt crisis has continued to worsen, giving rise to serious concerns in the international community. Frankly, I am also worried," he sai ...
  • Obama camp rips into Romney’s RNC speech
    President Barack Obama’s team ripped into Republican Mitt Romney’s big convention speech Friday, complaining it lacked a governing vision and disguised plans to punish the middle class.
  • Nixon-Whitlam tapes shed new light
    .. major Australian companies, especially the mining giants, now rely heavily on exports to China and other China-dependent Asian economies, and these markets are threatened by the Obama administration’s all-out diplomatic and economic operation throughout the region to undercut China, and to li ...

Independent - London

  • High Court once again rejects investigation in ...
    Unbowed after six decades, the elderly descendants of 24 Malaysian plantation workers killed by British soldiers insisted they would fight on despite being refused a public investigation yet again today.Related StoriesJudges block 1948 Malaya 'massacre' probe
  • Friends testify in Zakynthos taxi driver stab case
    The trial of a Greek taxi driver accused of murdering a British teenager on the holiday island of Zakynthos heard today from the friends who witnessed his death.Related StoriesGreek doctors charge patients in protest over unpaid billsUkrainian journalists stage silent protest against government ...
  • 42 die as bus falls into Moroccan ravine
    News reports say dozens of people have died after a bus drove off a road in central Morocco and plunged down a 500-foot (150-meter) ravine. Related StoriesAnger of the Marikana miners: 'Police are against us. That's apartheid'Cleric charged with inciting violenceKenya: 280,000 school teachers st ...
  • Suicide bomber kills 25 in east Afghanistan
    A suicide bomber killed at least 25 civilians and wounded another 30 at a funeral for a village elder in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said.Related StoriesRed Bull heir accused after policeman dies in hit-and-runHilary Clinton pushes for South China Sea changesBurma: New ...
  • Red Bull heir accused of killing policeman aft ...
    The heir to the Red Bull empire has been arrested on suspicion of killing a police officer in a hit-and-run incident in Bangkok, Thailand.Related StoriesRed Bull heir accused after policeman dies in hit-and-runHilary Clinton pushes for South China Sea changesBurma: New hope for private newspape ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • BEST OF THE WEB: We're one crucial step closer ...
    Desmond Tutu has helped us see the true nature of what the former prime minister did to Iraq and increased pressure for a prosecution For years it seems impregnable, then suddenly the citadel collapses. An ideology, a fact, a regime appears fixed, unshakeable, almost geological. Then an inch of ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: 'Special'
    What makes us 'special'? Is it our selfishness, our self-absorbed, mentally lazy non-critical sleepwalking zombie approach to life? Is it our capacity for sculpted selective empathy-on-demand - as long as the subject we empathize with falls within specific parameters and is...one of US? What m ...
  • UFO sighting over Barrow County, Georgia
    A moving, flashing light. Centered over the Barrow County jail but not remaining stationary. A UFO? A report posted on UFO Stalker, a website that tracks reported UFO sightings throughout the country, indicated a recent sighting in Winder. The following information was submitted on Saturday, S ...
  • Large bright meteor reported over Texas, Arkan ...
    Several (?) meteor events reported September 3rd over Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. From the times and reported directions of travel it is hard to make heads or tails of these events; perhaps more sighting reports will help clear up the picture. Initial Reports 03 SEP 2012 Mike Denton, TX USA ...
  • Study: Vitamin D Deficiency Equates to Frailty ...
    Two recent studies - one from Oregon State University and another from the University of Maryland's School of Medicine - have determined that lower blood levels of the "sunshine vitamin" - vitamin D (serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D)) - equates to earlier death and greater incidence of frailty ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The struggle continues . . .
    98 YEARS AGO, on April 20, 1914, it was not a good day to be in Ludlow, Colorado, when the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards started shooting a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families, killing between 19 and 25 people. According to Wiki ...
  • Kinky chemistry . . .
    TRANS FATS ARE A NO-NO and kinks in the chemistry are good.  Keith Veronese, at io9, has a great explanation why trans fats are so dangerous with his article, "Trans fats and the chemistry of evil". If you care about what kind of chow you digest, do check it out as it shows how very, very sm ...
  • Gopper gynecology . . .
    TOM THE DANCING BUG checks in on Todd's ignorance, for our edification.
  • The hole gets deeper . . .
    AND THE D.E.A. JUST KEEPS ON DIGGING. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has grown from its creation by Nixon on July 1, 1973. According to Wiki, DEA's headquarters is located in Arlington, Virginia across from the Pentagon. It maintains its own DEA Academy located on the United ...
  • Comparisons . . .

Media Matters for America

  • Cable News' One-Sided Attempt To Answer The Qu ...
    Cable news outlets are attempting to assess the economy by once again asking the question, "are you better off than you were four years ago?" but they are leaving out half the story. A Media Matters analysis found that in 60 percent of the segments attempting to answer that question, no context ...
  • Michelle Obama Derangement Syndrome: Four Year ...
    Conservative media figures have spent the past four years smearing, attacking, and hurling insults at Michelle Obama. As the first lady prepares to address the Democratic National Convention, Media Matters details the right-wing media's Michelle Obama derangement syndrome.Right-Wing Media Attack ...
  • Fox's Dishonest Handling Of Whether Americans ...
    On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace advanced Mitt Romney's claim that Americans can't say they are better off than they were four years ago. Wallace ignored that economists have said the economy has indeed improved since President Obama took office following the worst economic quarter in deca ...
  • Michelle Malkin Smears Fuel Economy Standards ...
    In her syndicated column, Michelle Malkin depicted newly finalized fuel economy standards as dangerous to consumers. But in fact, standards have been reformed to remove incentives for smaller, potentially less safe cars, and technological improvements have made many smaller cars just as safe as ...
  • Media Ignore Romney's Double Standard On Busin ...
    In his speech at the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney suggested that Barack Obama was unqualified to be president because he didn't have enough experience working in a business. In reporting this claim, media outlets have not noted that Romney selected a vice presidential candidate, P ...

Global Research.ca

  • Dangerous Crossroads: America Pressures ASEAN ...
    The predication the US is using to not only reassert itself in Asia Pacific, but to both create and dominate the agenda of ASEAN countries. The US is openly encouraging confrontation with China...
  • Bahrain Regime Finances Britain’s Office ...
      Sandhurst took £3m Bahrain gift after regime’s crackdown by Simon Murphy and Martin Williams Sandhurst recruits are about to get a new sports facility thanks to the King of Bahrain. Britain’s world-famous officer training school, Sandhurst, has accepted a…
  • Database: US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen ...
    by Chris Woods and Jack Serle Pakistan: August sees the highest number of CIA strikes in Pakistan since October 2011. A number of senior militants are killed along with at least two named civilians. Yemen: At least 26 people are…
  • Terrorist attacks intensify after Western war ...
      Over the weekend the Western-backed opposition in Syria stepped up its attacks on government buildings, military facilities and civilians as it aims to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and install a pro-Western client regime in Damascus. Fighting between…
  • Debt Cancellation in Mesopotamia and Egypt fro ...
    We must pierce the smoke-screen of creditors and re-establish the historical truth. Repeated and generalised debt cancellation has occurred throughout history. Hammurabi, king of Babylon, and debt cancellation The Hammurabi Code is in the Louvre Museum, in Paris. The term…

TPM Cafe

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

  • A One-Two Punch in the Fight For Clean Water
     It has been a week of good news in the fight for stronger protections against coal ash pollution. A court settlement in South Carolina and a major decision regarding the 2008 TVA Kingston coal ash spill make for a one-two punch against the poorly regulated toxic waste.A federal court foun ...
  • Pledge to Resist Fracking: Writer-Biologist Sa ...
     The following was a speech given by Sandra Steingraber for the Don’t Frack New York Rally in Albany, August 27, 2012.On this day, 53 years ago, a pregnant college student walked into a hospital in rural Illinois and gave birth to a child.And then she walked out. By herself.The bab ...
  • It's Eerie -- The Global Climate Disaster Is H ...
     There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening.What we are seeing, here and now, is the tran ...
  • The Climate Breakdown Is Right Here, Right Now
     There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening.What we are seeing, here and now, is the tran ...
  • Don't Want to Be a Vegetarian? You May Not Hav ...
     Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.Humans deriv ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • No new nuclear plants for Texas any time soon
    Excelon at Victoria, TX Earlier this week, Exelon Generation announced plans to withdraw its Early Site Permit application for an 11,500-acre tract of land southeast of Victoria, TX. The company said the decision was based mainly on economics and sited current market conditions that make it impo ...
  • State Employee Charitable Campaign up for Suns ...
    In 1993, the state legislature created the State Employee Charitable Campaign (SECC) to provide a new benefit for state workers.  The ability to make tax-deductible contributions to a wide range of charities through their paychecks has giving state employees an easy way to donate to charities of ...
  • BREAKING – 4 Blockaders are Locked to Truck Ca ...
    4 Tar Sands Blockaders are Locked to Truck Carrying Keystone XL Pipeline in Livingston, TX, bringing construction on the Keystone XL pipeline to a stop!! Follow the action right now on the Tar Sands Blockade LIVE BLOG and tell the world about it. Just minutes ago four landowner advocates and cli ...
  • OMG! East Texas Judge rules foreign company ca ...
    Wednesday evening, Lamar County Court at Law Judge Bill Harris sent an email from his iPhone (complete with new internet slang – MSJ and NEMSJ) ruling in favor of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, allowing them to act as common carrier and giving them to right to condemn land for use ...
  • TVA found liable for toxin ladened coal ash spill
    Finally a positive ruling for those adversely affected by coal power plants.  Today a federal judge ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in 2008 in Tennessee when containment dike at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant burst. About 5 million cu ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Silence is spreading over the natural world
    As habitats are lost and species die out around the world, so too do the sounds of nature. Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause has spent over four d...
  • Does wheat contribute to ill-health ?
    Dr. William Davis believes modern wheat crops could be contributing to several chronic health conditions. Dr. Davis contends that the wheat that is gr...
  • Zombie makes US presidential bid
    In a publicity stunt for 'The Walking Dead', a zombie is attempting to become the next US president. Mr A. Zombie and his wife Patty Morgan-Zombie arr...
  • NASA seeking asteroid for manned mission
    A new detector instrument is being planned to locate and track possible destinations for astronauts. NASA's manned space program includes a plan to se...
  • Can bears count as well as primates ?
    New research suggests that black bears are surprisingly adept at performing numerical calculations. When it comes to animals with advanced cognitive a...

Grassroots

  • The Struggle for Justice Continues for Rachel ...
    rachel.jpg Today, a civil court in Israel issued a verdict in the 2003 death of Rachel Corrie. Judge Oded Gershon of Haifa District Court concluded that Rachel’s death was not caused by the negligence of the Israeli state or army. Rachel, a ...
  • “Land, water and food are part of our existenc ...
    honduras201204-41.jpg They left San Vicente searching for a peaceful place to live, free of the oppressive British colonial powers. Three thousand women, men and children sailing atop the blue waters of the Caribbean Sea were thirsty and hu ...
  • Supporting Indigenous Peoples' Struggle for Ri ...
    conic-2009.jpg Today [August 9] is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. The United Nations pronounced this day to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. Today also gives us an opportunity to ...
  • Traveling to Brazil, but not 'that' Brazil
    brazil_delegation_2012.jpg This summer, a group of Grassroots International supporters and allies participated in a delegation to Pernambuco, Brazil. There they saw first-hand the resilient and powerful work of the Landless Workers Movement ...
  • Campaign for Permanent Housing Solutions in Haiti
    4752570635_3dfd8c7f7b_m.jpg Article 22 of Haiti’s 1987 Constitution guarantees adequate housing to all Haitians, yet hundreds of thousands of Haitians are languishing in makeshift tents two and a half years after the January 2010 earthqu ...

Climate

  • Drought has Mississippi River Barge Traffic Al ...
    (Los Angeles Times) LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. — Eight grim-faced men sit in a cramped, impromptu war room in the shadow of a levee on the Mississippi River. With laptops opened to Web pages of the National Weather Service and the Army Corp ...
  • US and EU Must Change Biofuel Targets to Avert ...
    (The Guardian) Nestlé, the world's largest food company, has added its weight to calls by the UN and development groups for the US and EU to change their biofuel targets because of looming food shortages and price rises. "We say no fo ...
  • Minister: Japan to Set Energy Policy But 'No S ...
    (Reuters) Japan is scheduled to set national energy policy early next week, national policy minister Motohisa Furukawa said on Sept. 4, although he said the government had not taken any particular position on the main question over the ...
  • Project Aims to Harness the Power of Waves
    (New York Times) PORTLAND, Ore. — About 15 years ago, this environmentally conscious state with a fir tree on its license plates began pushing the idea of making renewable energy from the ocean waves that bob and swell on the Pacific h ...
  • Northwest Territories Premier Pushes for Oil S ...
    (Alaska Dispatch) Analysis: Canada may have the second largest oil reserves in the world, but the vast majority are locked up in Alberta's oil sands, far from any ocean. That means that pipelines are needed to transport the oil west to ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Obama Has the Momentum
    We can talk about polling bounces all we want, but what we should be seeing in today's polls is a bit of distortion in favor of Romney because he just held a three-day convention and the Democrats have not yet responded with their own convention. In other words, we should expect Romney's curren ...
  • Bold Prediction
    I still think this campaign is like an arm-wrestling match where Romney is expending everything he has to try to move Obama into a defensive position, but he just can't budge him. But we know how that works. You fight and fight and fight and then, finally, your strength is gone and your arm is ...
  • Talking Smack
    How's this for talking smack? President Obamas campaign team said Tuesday that its on-the-ground efforts to turn out voters are much greater than rival Mitt Romneys and will make their own renowned ground game of four years ago seem prehistoric a tactical advantage that could add a point or ...
  • Convention Thread
    I loved the thing with Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic women of Congress (including some great candidates for Congress). They came out to "I'm Every Woman," and left to ""Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" by Arefa and Annie Lennox. Harry Reid was comcally pugnacious, too. I don't r ...
  • Chuck Norris, Kung Fu, and Religious Tests
    I always kind of thought of the audience for Kung Fu movies as a bit Sinophile, or at least Japanophile. Along with that, of course, comes an open mind about alternative medicine, alternative religion, and a broadened horizon about the world. While the athleticism of martial arts has an appeal ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 15 Incredible Pictures of Owls with Freshly Ca ...
    Owls are not only amazingly beautiful birds, they are also highly efficient (as well as useful) predators, as these stunning images show. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Tallest Concrete Dams as Seen From Above
    They generate power, withstand enormous pressure, and when viewed from above are enough give anyone vertigo. Prepare for the 10 Tallest Concrete Dams as Seen From Above. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Stuck in the Mud: Camel Gets Rescued from Stic ...
    The endangered Kharai breed of camels are unique in their ability to swim. But only a human rescue team can help this one out of it's muddy trap. Humph! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Beautiful Bamboo Forest of Kyoto
    The giant grass of Kyoto's bamboo forest is not only a captivating part of Japanese culture; it can also help us in our efforts to make our planet a greener place. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mysteries and Tragedy of Russia's Bottomle ...
    Like a deep blue gemstone nestled in the Caucasus Mountains, this karst lake, one of the largest and deepest on Earth, guards dark and mysterious secrets in its depths. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
  • Paul Ryan: Quiet But Far-Right On Social Issues
    Rep. Paul Ryan is considered a single-issue candidate -- someone who bolsters Mitt Romney's argument that this election is about the economy and only the economy.Ryan hasn't dedicated much time to social issues. But the Wisconsinite, best understood as an anti-tax, anti-spending purist, has tak ...
  • Assange will be refused safe passage even if E ...
    Source: RT The UK will do everything in its power to block Assange’s passage to Ecuador even if he is granted asylum by the nation’s government, officials said, claiming a legal obligation to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to Sweden. UK authorities sparked a minor scandal when ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • This Week in OtherWords: September 3-9, 2012
    Sam Pizzigati explains that the windfalls extracted from Apple's patenting bonanza will pad its top executives' pockets.
  • The Six Stages of Climate Grief
    I have discovered a new sixth stage, beyond acceptance of the truly depressing climate science: doing The Work.
  • Mining for Gold: A Pact With the Devil?
    The economic crisis - and the rising price of gold - have spurred North American firms to reopen mines and attack environmental regulations. Here's what we can learn from El Salvador's moratorium on new mining permits.
  • Korea and the U.S. Elections
    When it comes to foreign policy, significant transformation is as unlikely in Washington as it is in Pyongyang.
  • IPS Salutes a Golf Win
    The end of Augusta's men-only membership marked a victory for IPS associate fellow Martha Burk.

IntelNews

  • CIA Director reportedly in Turkey for secret talks
    Could the CIA Director’s second unannounced visit to Turkey in less than six months be heralding an intensification of Washington’s intelligence involvement in the Syrian crisis?
  • Mossad allegedly behind assassination of Egypt ...
    Israeli intelligence operatives were allegedly behind the assassination late last month of an Egyptian militant who died when his motorcycle suddenly exploded in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
  • News you may have missed #788
    US spy planes violated Israeli airspace in 1950s. US guard pleads guilty to espionage. CIA torture probe ends without any charges.
  • Afghan President replaces spy chief with contr ...
    The office of the Afghan President announced yesterday the dismissal of the country’s intelligence chief and his replacement with a controversial official accused by Canadian and British sources of using torture to implement his policies.
  • News you may have missed #787
    An interview with a senior Yemeni spy. Cyprus wants answers from UK over Syria spy claims. CIA 'turned down offer' to kill bin Laden in 1999.

War is a Crime.org

  • Organizing Against War Within a War Party
    Remarks prepared for Progressive Central in Charlotte NC, Sept. 4, 2012 Last week in Tampa, Clint Eastwood proposed immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Republican crowd applauded.  This week here in Charlotte, I wouldn't hold my breath for any speaker at the convention to dare to ...
  • News Media Blind (Again) to GOP Racism
      By Linn Washington, Jr. The news media have failed once again to report a significant story about an example of the racism always so obvious at Republican National Conventions. read more
  • Dear Occupy: Does The 2012 Election Matter?
  • Sucking Up Shamelessly to Israel
      Sucking Up Shamelessly to Israel   by Stephen Lendman   America's special relationship with Israel too often reflects the tail wagging the dog. Increasingly, the Jewish state is more strategic liability than asset.   read more
  • This Land Is Their Land
      This Land Is Their Land   by Stephen Lendman   Palestine belongs to Palestinians. They're willing to settle for what lies within 1967 borders. It's 22% of what they lost. They also rightfully claim East Jerusalem as their capital. It's theirs, not Israel's.   Israeli settle ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Central Banks are the Real Target for West&#82 ...
    Brandon Turbeville Activist Post With any move made by the globalist controllers and their surrogates of the Anglo-American NATO strong arm, it is safe to assume that there is rarely only one reason for the implementation of any given plan. Thus, the wars of conquest and aggression raging in the ...
  • Mandatory Chemotherapy for Children with Cancer?
    Elizabeth Renter Activist Post Most people have some second or even first-hand experience with cancer. Whether you’ve watched a loved one struggle, or if you are a survivor yourself, you know how difficult the battle can be. And if you’ve gone through it or seen someone go through chemotherapy t ...
  • Did America Say NO to Israel?
    By Gilad Atzmon on September 1, 2012 In the last few hours we have learned that the US had made massive reductions to joint military exercise with Israel. Originally slated to include 5,000 US troops, Washington will now only send 1,500 to participate in Austere Challenge 12 with Israel. Apparen ...
  • Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney ...
    By Matt Taibbi The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn’t stand for anything. He’s a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who’ll say anything to get elected. The critics couldn’t be more wron ...
  • Rebellion erupts over school’s student-chippin ...
    by Bob Unruh A rebellion is developing in Texas against a plan by a school district in San Antonio that would monitor the exact location and activities of all students at all times through RFID chips they are being ordered to wear. Katie Deolloz, a member of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy ...

Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • How Sustainable is Mitt Romney’s Vision for Am ...
    With the Republican National Convention in the rearview mirror and anti-tax pledging, Koch-funded House Representative Paul Ryan named the GOP Vice Presidential candidate, less than two months remain until the 2012 Presidential Election. Critical decisions regarding how the United States should ...
  • Gabriel Dawe’s Dynamic Colored Thread Sculptur ...
    Read the rest of Gabriel Dawe’s Dynamic Colored Thread Sculptures Imitate Prisms of Light Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, eco textiles, embroidery, Gabriel Dawe, gender roles, masculinity, mexico, Plexus, thread
  • Georgia Tech’s Hinman Research Building is a B ...
    Read the rest of Georgia Tech’s Hinman Research Building is a Beautifully Renovated LEED Gold Architecture Studio Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptive reuse, architecture studio, college of architecture, eco design, georgia tech, g ...
  • Berlin’s Hektikfood is a Two-Story Restaurant ...
    Read the rest of Berlin’s Hektikfood is a Two-Story Restaurant in an a Vintage British Double-Decker Bus Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, berlin, double-decker bus, eco design, Friedrichshain, green design, hektikfood, sustainable design, vegan fri ...
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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Gorgeous Decay: The Second Death of the Swedis ...
    The Swedish Warship Vasa never made it out of Stockholm harbor. It sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, and nearly 400 years later, the ship is suffering a slow, inexorable decay in Sweden's Vasa Museum.
  • Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass
    Before you down that pint, check the shape of your glass — you might be drinking more beer than you realize. According to a new study of British beer drinkers, an optical illusion caused by the shape of a curved glass can dramatically increase the speed at which we swill.
  • Fantastic New Video Shows Huge Eruption on the Sun
    A spectacular new video by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a dramatic filament eruption on the sun on Aug. 31.
  • Watch Live: Amazing Images of Blue Moon and a ...
    Tonight's blue moon will dazzle viewers all over the world. But for a truly unique experience, watch this live Slooh Space Camera show to get incredible telescopic close-ups of the lunar surface and a special tribute to Neil Armstrong starting at 3 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. EDT.
  • High-Res Interactive Panorama Lets You Stand o ...
    Zoom in on every pebble and stone around the Curiosity rover in this amazing high-resolution interactive panorama taken on Mars.

PakAlert

  • First Audit Results In The Federal Reserve’s N ...
    Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) wins (again) the most significant victory of his congressional career. He has taken his pet issue since the 1970s–the unwarranted power and secrecy of the Federal Reserve–from something pretty much no one but him cared about six years ago, through a bestselling book and ma ...
  • Obama Executive Order Will Nationalize the Dem ...
    The demonization of US veterans has been a reoccurring theme in mainstream media of late. Last week, it was recounted by mainstream media (MSM) that Terence Tyler, former US Marine had opened fire on his co-workers at a New Jersey supermarket called Pathmark before turning the gun on himself ...
  • Group says it found 30,000 dead North Carolini ...
    RALEIGH A Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote. The Voter Integrity Project compiled the list after obtaining death rec ...
  • NATO secretly authorizes Syrian attack
    On Monday, August 27, 2012, in a meeting in Brussels, NATO military leaders in consultation with “telephonic liaison” with officers of military forces in several former Soviet Republics, major African states, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states came to a combined decision to act aga ...
  • 10 Signs That You’re Fully Awake
    Isn't it obvious that there is a significant global awakening happening? Just as the Mayans predicted so many years ago, the apocalypse would become apparent in 2012. But many misinterpret the apocalypse to be the end of the world, when in fact it actually means an "un-covering, a revelation of ...

Andy Worthington

  • Chasing Clouds in Greenwich: Photos of a Journ ...
    Chasing Clouds in Greenwich: A Journey East Along the Thames, a set on Flickr. On July 11, as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, I decided to revisit a journey I had made last year, when my wife’s sister visited from Scotland and we went cycling along the ...
  • Green London: Photos of Surrey Quays, Brockley ...
    Green London: Surrey Quays, Brockley, Telegraph Hill, Blackheath and One Tree Hill, a set on Flickr. These photos are the latest contributions to my ongoing project, on Flickr, to photograph the whole of London by bike — the sixteenth instalment in what will eventually comprise many hundre ...
  • Photos of the Paralympics Demonstration Agains ...
    The Paralympics Demonstration Against Atos Healthcare in London, a set on Flickr. Yesterday, Friday August 31, was the last day of the Atos Games, a week of events organised by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and UK Uncut against the jaw-dropping hypocrisy involved in Atos Healthcare, the Fr ...
  • Photos of Lewisham: Hills, Rivers, Secret Corn ...
    Lewisham: Hills, Rivers, Secret Corners and Blatant Skyscrapers, a set on Flickr. For most of the last 16 years I have lived in the London Borough of Lewisham — first in Forest Hill, London SE23, and, since November 1999, in Brockley, London SE4, which overlooks Lewisham town centre, the c ...
  • Photos of the Olympics: In Search of the Paral ...
    The Olympics: In Search of the Paralympic Torch, a set on Flickr. With the main Olympic Games now a memory, the focus, for the next 11 days, is on the Paralympic Games, before Britain returns to the gloom of life under the crushing yoke of a myopic Tory-led government. While the Games were a gre ...

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

SPL Center

  • Anti-LGBT Zealots Target Fox and Bill O’Reilly
    Leave it to extreme elements of the anti-LGBT right to make Fox News look almost “fair and balanced” after all. Frequently the target of left-leaning criticism, the cable news network and its most popular host, Bill O’Reilly, are now coming under fire for “helping violent homosexuals to kill Chr ...
  • Conspiracy Theorists: Isaac Caused by God, Gov ...
    Hurricane Isaac has inconvenienced a lot of people. Many thousands of Gulf Coast residents have boarded up windows and sought shelter inland. And many others are now facing the prospect of cleaning up and rebuilding flooded homes and businesses. But the inconvenienced people we’ve been hearing a ...
  • Two ‘Sovereigns’ Plead Guilty in Alaska Murder ...
    An Alaska couple who are antigovernment “sovereign citizens” face lengthy prison terms after pleading guilty Monday to charges they plotted to kill a federal judge and an IRS agent involved in a tax case against them. Lonnie Vernon, 56, a member of Schaeffer Cox’s Alaska Peacemakers Militia, and ...
  • Prosecutors: Secret ‘Militia’ in Army Pl ...
    Four members of secret militia group, now facing murder charges in Georgia, operated inside the ranks of the U.S. Army and discussed blowing up a dam and poisoning fruit crops in Washington State, authorities said Monday. The motives of the alleged plotters remained murky. The revelation came as ...
  • Arizona Neo-Nazi Was Sober, Drug-Free During M ...
    Immigrant-hating neo-Nazi J.T. Ready was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs when he went on a murderous rampage in early May in Gilbert, Ariz., killing four people before taking his own life, a newly released autopsy report says. Jason Todd “J.T.” Ready, 39, died from a single bullet he ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • 'Blow to Justice': Bahraini Court Upholds Sent ...
    An appeal court's ruling in Bahrain to uphold the sentences of 13 opposition activists on Tuesday, including seven who face life in prison, has been slammed by rights activists. read more
  • US-Funded Armies Slaughtering Record Number of ...
    The illegal elephant ivory trade is reaching record levels and “Africa is in the midst of an epic elephant slaughter,” reports the New York Times. As demand for elephant ivory grows in China, more and more poachers, including some of Africa’s most infamous armed groups, are kil ...
  • Food Crisis Looms, UN Agencies Urge Action to ...
    A 'catastrophe affecting tens of millions' and repeat of the 2007-2008 world food crisis must be prevented with urgent action, UN agencies stated on Tuesday.A drought-hit corn field in Kentucky. (photo: CraneStation / Flickr) read more
  • Speculating Banks Profit as World's Poorest Go ...
    Reports over the weekend saw some of the world's most powerful financial institutions accused of profiteering on the backs of the world's poorest people and those most vulnerable to the wild price fluctuations caused by over-rampant speculation on the price of food commodities like wheat ...
  • Love for Labor Lost? Little to Celebrate This ...
    On a day set aside to honor the sacrifices and accomplishments of organized labor in the US, this Labor Day, according to many observers, may well be noted as the one in modern history where labor unions looked around and found the fewest reasons to cheer. ...

Lifehacker

  • Remains of the Day: You Can Now Automate Googl ...
    IFTTT adds a Google Drive Channel, Wal-Mart is testing a new mobile payment system, Amazon adds more movies to its Prime Instant Video library, and CyanogenMod 10 will get new Quick Message feature. More »
  • The Best Things to Buy in September [Best Time ...
    Summer may be slowly drawing to a close, but that doesn't mean September can't still be awesome. Soothe your summer sadness by getting in on great deals this month. More »
  • How did your first water cooling attempt go? [ ...
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  • The Illustrated Workspace [Featured Workspace]
    There are many ways to design a home office, but a consistent style can bring the entire workspace together. Flickr user purplelime (a.k.a Sam) took inspiration from designer toys, matched the colors, and illustrated a backdrop for both the d ...
  • Most Popular Audio Editing Tool: Audacity [Hiv ...
    Whether you need a simple audio editing tool, or you plan to make music and need a full-fledged digital audio workstation (DAW), you weighed in last week with five great audio editing applications to get the job done. Last week, we asked you ...

Water Privatization

  • Water rights petition first under new EU direc ...
    Brussels (dpa) - A petition to prevent the privatization of water supplies has become the first that European Union citizens can sign under efforts to give them more say in the bloc‘s affairs, the European Commission announced Tuesday.Advocacy group Right2Water, which wants the EU to safeguard a ...
  • Groups intensify campaign against water privat ...
    Anti-privatization groups led by Mindanawons against Privatization of Water and Energy Resources (M-POWER) joined today the nationally-coordinated protest action against Senate Bill 2997 and House Bill 5497 otherwise known as Water Sector Reform Act (WSRA) authored by Senator Edgardo Angara and ...
  • Water districts get shot in the arm via sector ...
    LOCAL water districts would not be abolished in the forthcoming water sector reform, according to Sen. Edgardo Angara.
  • Water Sector Reform will not abolish local wat ...
    August 30, 2012. Stakeholders in the water sector from the public and private sectors applauded Senator Edgardo J. Angara for vowing not to harm or destroy players under the Water Sector Reform Act (WSRA) he authored. Angara said that proposed water sector reform will improve operations and make ...
  • Allentown council hears people pan, praise wat ...
    City council hears earful on Pawlowskis plan to lease water system to fund pensions. If Allentown leases its water system, the sky might fall. If the city doesn't lease its water system, that same sky might fall.

Guardian

  • Azelle Rodney's mother says son was 'executed'
    As video footage of the incident is released, officer who opened fire claims he feared for his life and those of his colleagueThe mother of a suspected criminal shot dead by police said that her son was "executed", as the officer who killed him told an inquiry that he opened fire fearing his lif ...
  • FBI denies hacking group AntiSec obtained Appl ...
    Group said it found over 12m Apple IDs on agent's computer, but FBI says it has no knowledge of any data breachThe FBI has denied claims by a hacking group that says it obtained details of more than 12m Apple IDs from the laptop of a federal agent.The group, called AntiSec, said it found 12.36m ...
  • Paralympics 2012: roaring crowd drives David W ...
    Richard Williams sees the outstanding Paralympian triumph again in the blue riband wheelchair racing eventFour years ago David Weir was Britain's only gold medal-winning Paralympic track athlete in Beijing. This time around he has had to share that honour with others, but the 33-year-old from Su ...
  • David Cameron's right turn in cabinet reshuffle
    The prime minister shifted his government firmly to the right in a substantial government reshuffle that left Nick Clegg weakenedDavid Cameron shifted the political gravity of his government firmly to the right in a substantial government reshuffle that left Nick Clegg weakened and raised the pr ...
  • Barclays accused of misusing taxpayer-backed s ...
    Bank accused of lending multimillionaire businessman £200,000 under scheme meant for budding entrepreneurs who do not have enough assets to get traditional financeBarclays Bank has been accused of using a taxpayer-backed scheme – designed to get finance to budding entrepreneurs – to provide a sa ...

McClatchey

  • Former WW2 POWs help feed hungry Kansas families
    The first day of his capture Jan. 8, 1945 the Germans refused Willam Paschal, 19, food. Hunger tore at his belly, Paschal said, recalling imprisonment at Stalag IX-B…Click to Continue »
  • On Labor Day, workers want politicians to know ...
    Politicians the next few days in Charlotte, 23 miles from the kitchen at Jacksons Cafeteria, will talk endlessly about the economy. The party will be different, but it will sound…Click to Continue »
  • Death toll soars in Syria since U.N. monitors ...
    The number of people killed in violence in Syria has skyrocketed since U.N. efforts to broker a peace agreement fell apart in June, with the total number of dead, including…Click to Continue »
  • Paul Ryan says Obama is worse than Carter
    With Mitt Romney lying low on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan pounded President Barack Obama's economic record on Tuesday and tried…Click to Continue »
  • Britain's Cameron shakes up government amid st ...
    British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday overhauled his Cabinet for the first time since being elected, with several key ministers sacked or demoted as the prime minister seeks to…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • UPDATE Suicide bomber kills at least 25 at Afg ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber killed at least 25 civilians and wounded another 30 at a funeral for a village elder in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials ...
  • At least 20 killed in Afghan suicide blast
    The bomber struck in Nangarhar province near the Pakistani border when residents, along with relatives of a chief from a distant district, were gathered at a graveyard. An interior ministry ...
  • Afghan Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 25 At Funeral
    Afghan officials say at least 25 people were killed and 30 others injured by an apparent suicide bombing at a funeral in eastern Afghanistan. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for the governor of ...
  • Bomb attack at funeral in eastern Afghanistan ...
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bombing at a funeral in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 25 people on Tuesday and wounded dozens, a spokesman for the provincial governor said. The bomb attack ...
  • Suicide bombing at Afghanistan funeral
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens, officials said, one of the biggest attacks on ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Honesty Without Fear Radio Moving to 5:00pm We ...
    Beginning this week, our weekly Honesty Without Fear radio show will be moving to Wednesdays at 5:00 pm ET. You can still listen to the show live at www.whistleblowersradio.org or you can download the podcast after the show. We hope you tune in at the new time!
  • AILA amicus brief urges protection for interna ...
    Last week, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) filed an amicus brief with the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) urging the Board to restore a broad interpretation of "members of a particular social group." The "social group" status is important because those ...
  • Happy Birthday! Lloyd-La Follette Act
    Today is the 100th anniversary of the Lloyd-La Follette Act, a milestone in our nation's protections for government whistleblowers and a watershed in the balance of power between Congress and the President.  In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order prohibiting all fed ...
  • NWC Applauds First SEC Whistleblower Award
    Under a new program championed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) to reduce securities fraud, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced its first whistleblower award of nearly $50,000. The SEC's announcement is the mark of success for its new Whistleblower Program, w ...
  • Why Retaliation is a Company "Felony"
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. “One way or another, I'm gonna find ya' I'm g ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • DailyDirt: Living Longer And Longer
    The fountain of youth has been an elusive solution to the problem of aging. Sure, there are plenty of drawbacks to staying young forever, but living longer seems to be an ongoing trend, so if everyone is living longer anyway, we might as well try to stay young for as long as possible, right? Her ...
  • Massachusetts Senate Race Still Steers Clear O ...
    I'd meant to write about this back when it was first announced, but the story got lost in the sea of unwritten stories around here. But with On The Media providing an update, I can revisit it. There's been lots of talk this election season about the rise of SuperPACs and their ability to take ...
  • FBI Denies That Hacked Apple Info Came From FBI
    Earlier today, we wrote about Antisec releasing some Apple UDIDs to show that it had apparently collected info on 12 million Apple users, which it claims to have found when it hacked into an FBI's laptop. As we noted at the time, the file was called "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv," which implied ...
  • 4Chan Reroutes Promotional Contest, Lines Tayl ...
    Hey, various musicians, celebrities and sponsors! How would you like a swift lesson in Crowdsourcing Your Ignominy? What's that? You'd rather not? Oh... I see... OK. I'll pass that alo-- LESSON IN PROGRESS........ PLEASE STAND BY Lessons (un)learned to date: Tim ...
  • Dear Sir, I Am A Nigerian Prince And If You Be ...
    I'm no longer surprised that people fall for Nigerian advance fee "419" scams. It seems that every generation falls for something along those lines. In the past, I've talked about the bogus story of Drake's fortune, which was the "Nigerian scam" of nearly a century ago. But what certainly has ...

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BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    My friend Mark, also one of the founders of the punk collective I’m in, wrote this article comparing the Russian government’s reaction to Pussy Riot to the reaction Positive Force got for their “Meese is a Pig” postering back in the day. I know I should say something abou ...
  • Obey or Pay…Unless
    I came across this truancy scare video the other day. The video talks about how truancy leads to dropping out and how dropping out leads to a “lifelong inability to find gainful employment (and) make a meaningful life.” It has kids talking about how they were rebellious (the horror). ...
  • Beware of Strange Men on Airplanes
    It seems that Virgin airlines has a policy that unaccompanied children cannot sit next to men on their airplanes. An Australian man, who was assigned a seat next to two boys he did not know, was asked to switch seats with a woman. Pissed off about being treated like a presumed predator, he blogg ...
  • Big Tents, Little Bridges, Vested Interests
    This piece over at Cubik’s Rube reminded me of something I have been wanting to write about for a while. James is worried that the atheism+ idea that Blag Hag wrote about, and that I linked to on Wed, will be just one more divide in a movement that already has plenty of “splits, schi ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Sorry I dropped out for a few days. I was at the beach having the greatest shit show on earth. I actually brought my laptop. But who the hell was I kidding? Shane Thayer is having a contest. Writing a blog post that links to his artwork enters you in a contest for a free [...]

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War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Discovery News Category 6 hurricanes – & ...
    Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue pulls no punches when it comes to putting John Abraham of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team in his place: Here’s what Abraham has to say at Discovery News:  But wind speeds don’t tell the … Continue reading →
  • NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day doub ...
    Gee, the AGW meme seems to permeate everything these days. Here’s a place where I least expected it to show up, the venerable Astronomy Picture of the Day, one of the oldest running daily features on the Internet. The first … Continue reading →
  • Warming increases biodiversity, except when it ...
    From the University of York  news that warming increases biodiversity. Since that’s a buzzword in the biology protectors circle, you’d think they’d be happy about this. Nope. Research reveals contrasting consequences of a warmer Earth A new study, by scientists … Continue ...
  • A stern rebuttal to the Stern review
    A member of the UK parliament, MP Peter Lilley, has written a scathing rebuttal study to the 2006 “Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change” which has been used a a basis for UK government to move forward with … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy news Roundup
    Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: In God we trust; all others bring data! Motto of the Apollo Space Team ################################################### Numbers of the Week ...

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Biosingularity

  • Coffee drinkers have lower risk of death, stud ...
    Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee, according a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP. Coffee drinkers were ...
  • All cancer cells are not created equal
    A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers suggests that specific populations of tumor cells have different roles in the process by which tumors make new copies of themselves and grow.  In their report in the May 15 issue of Cancer Cell, researchers identify a tumor-propagatin ...
  • How the worm knows where its nose is
    For decades, scientists have studied Caenorhabditis elegans – tiny, transparent worms – to glean clues about how neurons develop and function. A new Harvard study suggests that the worms’ nervous system is much more capable and complex than previously thought, and has a way to monitor its ...
  • Mystery gene reveals new mechanism for anxiety ...
    A novel mechanism for anxiety behaviors, including a previously unrecognized inhibitory brain signal, may inspire new strategies for treating psychiatric disorders, University of Chicago researchers report. By testing the controversial role of a gene called Glo1 in anxiety, scientists uncovered ...
  • Researchers crack part of common cancer mutati ...
    Researchers have identified a compound that could correct a mutation and stop cancer from spreading — a development that could eventually be used to treat tens of thousands of cancer patients in the United States each year. In a study published today in the journal Cancer Cell, four scientists f ...

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Iran Frees Two Azeri ‘Spies’
    Tehran has released the two Azeri nationals who were arrested in May on espionage charges, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Tuesday.
  • KHL Gets Under Way With Dynamo Victory
    Gagarin Cup champion Dynamo Moscow beat runner-up Avangard Omsk to win the season-opening Lokomotiv Cup on Tuesday after a star-studded gala.
  • Moscow City Hall Okays Opposition March Sept. 15
    Moscow city authorities have allowed an opposition march and rally on September 15, city security chief Alexei Mayorov said on Tuesday.
  • Bird’s-eye View of the APEC-2012 Host City
    Vladivostok has a population of 620,000. It is the historical administrative center of the Primorye Territory and is an important passenger and freight seaport. It is also the venue for APEC-2012, which concludes after the meeting of the heads of states and governments of the Asia-Pacific region ...
  • Dzyuba to Miss World Cup Qualifiers
    Russia striker Artem Dzyuba has injured his knee and will miss Friday's World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland and next Tuesday's against Israel.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Hey - hand me that wrench over there, willya?
    I’m working under the hood this week.  I’m looking into moving the site to a new architecture, so I’ve got a test site underway.  If I can get it looking right, I’ll cut over.  Otherwise it will stay the same and I’ll just have some wasted time to sho ...
  • How the decline in CO2 emissions is like NAFTA
    The quality of reporting on fracking in large outlets has been of varying quality. Day-to-day coverage of the latest developments is usually pretty good, but bigger picture trend pieces have a tendency to be positively fawning towards the industry. A couple of recent articles in the New York T ...
  • Rallying for Aramark Laundry Workers
    The Immigrant Workers Union (UTI) Local 229 held a rally at an Aramark uniform service facility in Madison to bring to light the abuses being committed by management against the laundry workers they employ.     The workers, formerly organized under UNITE, are now organized under the& ...
  • Fighting fracking: introverts edition
    One of the biggest threats fracking poses to the environment is the way it endangers the water supply. It does so in several ways, one of which has large-scale implications. Global impact like that is a little unusual; environmental issues are more likely to be local. Whether it’s frack ...
  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • Policy expert Mark Winne has watched food move ...
    Long-time food policy expert Mark Winne has seen this nation’s food movement follow a path that mirrors his own professional journey. More and more advocates are delving into policy to get support for the hands-on projects that were their first forays into food issues. As a result of this shift ...
  • The Question at Smithsonian: Shrimp and Safety
    The emerging common concern was about imported shrimp.
  • Multi-Drug Resistant Infections at the NIH Hos ...
    Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda.  (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.)  Initially, the ...
  • New Orleans Groups Awarded Grants for New Farm ...
    I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans.   The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics.  These last two are methods ...
  • How Industrialized Farming Could Facilitate Pa ...
    With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses

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My Care2 Picks

  • Public Schools Use RFID Chips to Track and Pun ...
    In the San Antonio school district, the Student Locator Project (SLP) is being beta-tested at Jay High School and Jones Middle School. The SLP includes the use of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...
  • Why Does The U.S. Government Treat Military Ve ...
    The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it i Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...
  • The $6 QUADRILLION Cost Of The Climate Scam!
    U.N.s absurd climate panel had already at least tripled the true (and harmless) rate of warming to be expected from our adding CO2 to the air.Divided by 10 the true cost of effective action. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Ten-Year-Old Convinces Jamba Juice To Go Styro ...
    Now this truly is a heartwarming story that goes to show how a little effort can go a wrong way. Ten-year-old Mia Hansen, with a little help from her mother, started a Change.org petition to get Jamba Juice, a smoothie franchise, to quit styrofoam. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nbsp ...
  • Beefing up security on skeptical blogs
    If you ever thought 'debate' occurred on a 'level playing field'....Heads Up ! Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Higher Education Opportunities for Everyone
    Higher education is something that many people would like to achieve, but that not all people believe is in their reach. You may think of higher education as limited to universities and colleges with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Distance Learning Online Degree - A Great Way ...
    For those individuals who are working, it would be a reasonable assumption that going back to school is the last thing on your mind. Most people that have full time jobs work because they have to,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Democrats 'talking up' Simpson-Bowles aka the ...
    ShareThisDemocrats 'talking up' Simpson-Bowles aka the Cat Food Commission By Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org/ 04 Sep 2012 President Obama's surrogates and other key Democrats are pimping bipartisanship again (which worked so well the first time, doncha' know) and pushing Simpson-Bowles aka ...
  • The Democratic convention opens
    ShareThisThe Democratic convention opens 04 Sep 2012 On issue after issue, Obama continued the policies of George W. Bush. He embraced the Wall Street bailout, insuring that countless trillions of Treasury dollars were made available to save the banks, while millions of homeowners were plunged i ...
  • Homeland Security's domain seizures worries Co ...
    ShareThisHomeland Security's domain seizures worries Congress 03 Sep 2012 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seizing domains and taking down URLs in the name of 'copyright infringement,' but its tactics are worrying certain members of Congress. In a letter sent last week to Attorney Gen ...
  • Secret Service U-Haul truck stolen in Detroit ...
    ShareThisSecret Service U-Haul truck stolen in Detroit ahead of VP Joe Biden's visit to city 03 Sep 2012 The U.S. Secret Service and local police are investigating after a U-Haul truck loaded with high-tech security equipment that belongs to the Secret Service was stolen just ahead of Vice Presi ...
  • ICE chief of staff resigns amid misconduct claims
    ShareThisICE chief of staff resigns amid misconduct claims 01 Sep 2012 A senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned Saturday amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior lodged by at least three Immigration and ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Counter IED training in Norway: Day Two
    04 September 2012 Day two of Ground Sign Awareness (GSA) training has just come to a close.  Before I get cracking on tonight’s homework assignment, here comes a quick, unedited dispatch.  Please excuse the roughness.  Time is limited. Today started with a short written test a ...
  • Counter IED Course in Norway: Day One
    03 September 2012 The Norwegian military is conducting CIED (counter-IED) training, and I was lucky to be invited.  The course is run by Pencari LTD.  The instructors are recently retired British Soldiers/Marines that I got to know at the British tracking school in Brunei, on Borneo ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-004 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 3) – Afghan and coalition security forces today confirmed the arrest of a Taliban bomb specialist in Washer district, Helmand province, Saturday. The detained bomb special ...
  • Statement on contribution of New Zealand forces
    03 September 2012 2012-09-CA-05 Statement on contribution of New Zealand forces KABUL, Afghanistan / Sep. 3, 2012 – The Government of New Zealand has announced that it will withdraw its forces operating the Bamiyan Provincial Reconstruction Team in April 2013.  This decision, which had ...
  • Netherlands: Why I Chose the Gun
    02 September 2012 There are elements within the Netherlands that wish to dismantle the Dutch Army.  The Dutch military, as General Petraeus once told me, “Punches above its weight class.”  And it is true.  They perform well in Afghanistan and are a valued friend, and military a ...

The Killing Train

  • Two small outrages
    While these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me, even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by now. (1) Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in November
    Hi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Moe Thee Zun: ‘I’ve been fighting for 24 ...
    During a conference in Rangoon today, former All Burma Students’ Democratic Front leader Moe Thee Zun said that he had no intention to start a political party but was interested in participating in civil society. DVB’s Min Lwin caught up with Moe Thee Zun on Friday before he headed back to Burma ...
  • Rice federation to begin selling off reserves
    The Myanmar Rice Federation will sell off 10,000 bags of rice reserves a day to combat the increase in prices after flooding destroyed about 600,000 acres of paddy across the country this summer
  • FDI and Burma’s future development
    As Burma prepares to install its new investment law, the country's leader's will be faced with tough decisions in order to make sure that FDI is utilised properly and not allowed to harm the economy
  • Monks rally in support of plan to deport Rohingya
    Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched in Burma Sunday to support President Thein Sein's suggestion that Muslim Rohingya be deported or held in camps, in the biggest rally since the end of junta rule
  • Firm steps needed to protect children from mil ...
    The government's effective implementation of a joint action plan to put an end to the recruitment of children by the country's military will be the true test of the agreement's significance

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Bahrain court upholds sentences for opposition ...
    [JURIST] A civilian court in Bahrain upheld lengthy prison sentences for 20 opposition and human rights activists on Tuesday, including eight life sentences. The lesser prison terms upheld ranged between five and 12 years [AP report], and seven of the activists were convicted in absentia. The ac ...
  • South Africa prosecutor withdraws murder charg ...
    [JURIST] A South African prosecutor on Monday announced that the government had withdrawn murder charges against 270 miners who were participating in a strike when police officers shot and killed 34 participants. The miners were charged with murder last week under an old South African law that d ...
  • Alleged UK visa blacklist for human rights off ...
    [JURIST] Russia's Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko [official website] asked the British government [press release] on Monday to confirm or deny the existence of a visa blacklist for Russian officials linked to the the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky [JURIST news archive], a ...
  • Egypt lifts ban on veiled news anchors
    [JURIST] Egypt lifted a decades-long ban on veiled female news reporters on Sunday by having Fatma Nabil read the noon news in a headscarf. This broadcast marked the first time a woman appeared on Egyptian state TV wearing a veil in over 50 years. The ban had been perpetuated by previous regimes ...
  • ICTY denies Karadzic request for new trial
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Monday denied [order, PDF] the request for a new trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [ICTY case summary, PDF; JURIST news archive]. Karadzic accused prosecutors [JURIST report] of ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Former Mossad Chief, Halevy, is Iran Contrarian
    NOTE: My web host, Hostgator, suspended my site for what seems like the tenth time over the weekend. These stoppages are agonizing and inexplicable to me. I apologize for the inconvenience to you. Former Mossad chief, Ephraim Halevy, has–unlike some relatively new converts to the cause lik ...
  • Navy SEALs Assassinated Bin Laden
    In the aftermath of the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid the contradictory reports from the Obama administration about the event, I came to believe that the Isalmist was likely assassinated deliberately. The stories about resistance put up by Bin Laden made little sense since they were imm ...
  • Nahum Barnea: Settlers Have Won, Two States ar ...
    Nahum Barnea is Israel’s most respected daily columnist.  He is something akin to Tom Friedman.  Everyone reads him and his columns are a barometer of where centrist-mainstream political sentiment lies.  He provokes both the right and the left with his coverage and always comes down somewh ...
  • Israeli Attack on Iran: Driving Off a Cliff
  • Rachel Corrie Among First in Long Line of Fore ...
    The list below was compiled by the Institute for Middle East Understanding and lists foreign peace activists brutally maimed or murdered by the IDF over the past nine years.  It’s a list of ignominy.  It should also be noted that hundreds of Palestinian activists have been similarly maimed ...

If Americans Knew

  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • LocalWiki Releases First API, Enabling Innovat ...
    We're excited to announce that the first version of the LocalWiki API has just been released! What's this mean? In June, folks in Raleigh, N.C., held their annual CityCamp event. CityCamp is a sort of "civic hackathon" for Raleigh. During one part of the event, people broke up into tea ...
  • The Unheard Millions: A New Audience Joins Glo ...
    The field of journalism has faced a number of technology-driven changes in the past decade, including the advent of blogs, the generating and sharing of news via social media, and the tentative move by many governments to provide open data. So many elements of news have evolved that many exp ...
  • PANDA Development Wraps Up
    September 6 will be both the PANDA Project's one-year anniversary, as well as my last day as a full-time developer. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. To celebrate the end of primary development, we've spent ...
  • Mapping the Rise of Violence Against Journalis ...
    New reports gathered by Internews and their on-the-ground partner Nai show that 2011 had the most incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan yet, with local news and TV networks experiencing the worst of it. Last year there were 72 cases of violence against journalists, with Kabul ...
  • The State Decoded, Now Solr-Powered
    The State Decoded project is putting U.S. state laws online, making them easy to search, understand and navigate. Our laws are organized badly, but The State Decoded is reorganizing them automatically, connecting people with the legal information they need with the ease of a Google search. In ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Space - Birth of a Planet
    The Earth and the planets of our solar system are not alone in the universe. Over the past few decades, the hunt for extrasolar planets has yielded incredible discoveries, and now planetary researchers have a new tool—simulated models of how planets are born. Most planets form when a molecular ...
  • Broken Labor - AFL-CIO Head Calls NFL Replacem ...
    Replacement referees being used by the National Football League (NFL) are incompetent scabs, according to one of the country's most prominent union leaders. Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO and an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan, said he hasn’t watched a game since the NFL has employe ...
  • The Race for Wind - Saphonian Blade-less Wind ...
    While solar advancements continue apace, wind energy technology has remained fairly stagnant over the years, making it in most cases less viable than fossil fuels or nuclear energy. It’s expensive, harmful to birds and bats, deeply inefficient and comes with a host of annoyances such as noise ...
  • Afganistan on Edge - Afghan NGO Inspires Unlik ...
    Recent Afghan history has been marked by war, much of it fought among Afghans themselves on the basis of religious, ethnic, or political rivalries. So it should come as no surprise that even if they are all under the Afghan flag today, there are few places where onetime enemies can work together ...
  • The New Egypt - US Nears Deal for $1 Billion i ...
    The United States is close to a deal with Egypt's new government for $1 billion in debt relief as part of a U.S. and international assistance package designed to prop up the country's faltering economy and aid its transition to democracy.A team of senior U.S. diplomats has spent the last week in ...

High Country News

  • (Don't) Let it burn
    A "temporary" policy change requires Forest Service firefighters to put out fires they might have let burn in previous years, for fear of them raging out of control.
  • Who is Denny Rehberg, really?
    Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg has exploited his family's long Montana history to get where he is today, but his current campaign for Democrat Jon Tester's Senate seat is raising questions about his record and that history.
  • Rehberg and Tester: Policy differences
    A list of some of Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg's major policy differences with incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
  • For Western politicians, roots matter
    In the rural West, how deep a candidate's family roots go -- how long they've lived in the area -- sometimes matters more than his or her experience or political opinions.
  • The Bay Area Chevron explosion shows gaps in r ...
    Oil refineries pose serious health hazards for nearby residents as well as workers, as the recent explosion in Richmond and other incidents, like one in Sinclair, Wyo., have made clear.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • DNC's Lying Response to Jerusalem Platform Issue
    The RNC released a statement regarding the omission of Jerusalem in the DNC platform, first seen on this site early this morning. “The Obama Administration has followed the same policy towards Jerusalem that previous U.S. Administrations of both parties have done since 1967,” a DNC spoke ...
  • Newsbusted: Mainstream Media Gives Their Fact- ...
    Last week, the mainstream media created their own biased narrative of the proceedings going on in Tampa during the Republican National Convention.  In an exclusive investigative report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller we learn that since the next three days the Democrats have their tu ...
  • Democrats Strip Pro-Israel Language From Platform
    As Obama told President Mevedev of Russia he will have more flexibility to do what he wishes in a second term. If the Democratic platform is any indication, his "flexibility" is not going to be a good thing for the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel. Comparing the language of the 2 ...
  • Answering The Question-NO We Are Not Better Of ...
    Yesterday Obama surrogates had a problem answering one simple question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?  Since they could answer the question, i thought we would answer it on these pages.  The answer is a resounding NO and the evidence is below: Jobs: Since Presid ...
  • New Report Reveals Obama's Role in Creating Ho ...
    The origin of the banking mess can be found in the Community Reinvestment Act. The bill was meant to encourage banks to make loans to minorities living in unstable neighborhoods. Based on that bill and subsequent amendments, ACORN was able to intimidate banks into lower mortgage standard ...

The Real Agenda

  • How Long Will the Dollar Remain the World&#821 ...
    RON PAUL | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 We frequently hear the financial press refer to the U.S. dollar as the “world’s reserve currency,” implying that our dollar will always retain its value in an ever shifting world economy. But this is a dangerous and mistaken assumption. Si ...
  • Former Malaysian Minister calls for UN to be G ...
    JURRIAN MAESSEN | EXPLOSIVEREPORTS.com | SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 Yesterday the Malaysian Daily Express reported on a plea by former Malaysian “first minister”, Harris Salleh calling on the United Nations to reform itself, changing the current system to a single “World Parliament with member ...
  • Chinese scientists unveil mind-controlled drone
    RUSSIA TODAY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 Chinese researchers have unveiled a system that allows users to control drones with their thoughts. The technology was designed to help handicapped people, but could have ample applications in other fields as well. A video posted to YouTube by researchers at ...
  • Spanish Social Security taps into Reserve Fund ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 The looting of the Spanish Pension system has officially begun as the country’s Social Security Administration announced that it has taken money from the program’s prevention fund to face its obligations to millions of l ...
  • Avisam sobre Evento de Falsa Bandeira para ree ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | 3 SETEMBRO 2012 Douglas J. Hagmann, fundador da Rede de Inteligência do Nordeste apareceu no programa de Alex Jones semana passada e disse que a sua fonte, que trabalha no Departamento de Segurança Interna, avisou sobre a possibilidade de um evento ...

Wind Watch

  • Land-based turbines face headwinds
    There are more commercial-scale wind turbines on the Rhode Island horizon than ever before and offshore wind farms that could generate a substantial portion of the state’s energy remain on track. But in many respects, the outlook for land-based wind power in the Ocean State has darkened recently ...
  • Towns amend plans to fight commercial wind
    In an effort to strengthen their stance against the proposed Grandpa’s Knob wind project, four Rutland County towns are working on amending their town plans. Castleton, West Rutland, Hubbardton and Pittsford hope the new language will discourage development of commercial and industrial wind proj ...
  • Eva Creek Wind Farm project transforms small I ...
    FERRY — Whether residents of Ferry support or oppose the Eva Creek Wind Farm, they seem to agree on one thing: The project has changed this tiny community forever. The estimated 33 residents who live in Ferry, 14 miles north of Healy, chose to settle here for a reason. It is remote yet accessibl ...
  • Hopes of slashing greenhouse emissions just bl ...
    Alongside the politics of the carbon tax, a floor price, a linking to Europe or whether a direct investment scheme would be better than a market-based scheme, the bottom line surely must be whether any carbon emissions actually are being saved. The early signs are that a $23 carbon tax has displ ...
  • Proposed North Carolina wind farm on collision ...
    Troubles keep mounting for a proposed wind farm in Eastern North Carolina that already faces questions about whether it will harm the local bald eagle population. In the latest round of complications for the Pantego Wind Energy Project, U.S. military officials in Wayne County have disclosed that ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • At Least Fun in the Sun Isn’t Banned. For Now& ...
    “‘Somebody has to take a stand,’ said Jeffrey Prang, West Hollywood’s mayor. ‘We don’t ban things on a whim. It’s about impacting public policy more broadly; other cities follow us, partly because it gives them cover.’ Mr. Prang said progressive groups looking to start grass-roots movements have ...
  • With Military at ‘Turning Point,’ Defense Chie ...
    “. . . Panetta sometimes sounds more like a congressman representing the “Pentagon district” than the leader of the world’s largest military. . . . And he regularly rails against the possibility that the Pentagon will have to absorb $500 billion in automatic cuts if Congress cannot agree on how ...
  • TANSTAAFL and Saving: Not the Whole Story
    Saving and rising capital accumulation accompany significant economic development, but they are not the source of the prosperity.
  • New Jobs Don’t Pay Well
    “While a majority of jobs lost during the downturn were in the middle range of wages, a majority of those added during the recovery have been low paying, according to a new report from the National Employment Law Project.” (New York Times) Botched “recovery.” FEE Timely Classic &#822 ...
  • A Novel about “Guttiness” and Inde ...
    In accounting, “book value” is the term used to describe the estimated value of an asset that has been held for a long time and has depreciated over the years. It seemed an ideal title for this new book review column, which will revisit favorite old works and rediscover unjustly neglected works ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Use Instapaper to capture, read blog posts
    I’ve been using Instapaper, a free on- and off-line reading tool, for a while, maybe more than a year. Mostly I use it for its most common purpose — to capture very long articles from a Web page and read them later. Often I read them on my Kindle when I’m not connected to wi-fi ...
  • Using Storify to share links and videos
    In a graduate-level course, like many educators, I require students to make presentations to the class. A while back, I forbade the use of PowerPoint — or any other slides — during the presentation. However, students must find, show and discuss some websites and videos as part of th ...
  • A few thoughts about MOOCs: Massive Open Onlin ...
    Educators are talking about the phenomenon of large-enrollment free online courses offered by very reputable professors and universities. Now the University of Texas “is in negotiations with Coursera and edX, two of the most prominent companies engaged in the mass distribution of course c ...
  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.

Facing South

  • UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie ...
    When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more
  • Will Latino voters fully flex their voting pow ...
    Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The party conventions' extrao ...
    In light of planned protests, the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. and Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. will be taking unprecedented security measures. read more
  • Mysterious environmental disaster unfolding in ...
    Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...
  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Some basics on the economy
    1) the majority of new jobs are bad. 2) the economy has still not recovered all lost jobs, either in absolute #s or as a percentage of the population 3) so there are fewer jobs, and what new jobs have been created are worse. They pay worse. 4) The upper middle class job market has [...]
  • Some basics on the economy
    1) the majority of new jobs are bad. 2) the economy has still not recovered all lost jobs, either in absolute #s or as a percentage of the population 3) so there are less jobs, and what new jobs have been created are worse. They pay worse. 4) The upper middle class job market has [...]
  • Arthur Silber could use some help
    If you haven’t read Arthur, you should.  He doesn’t write often, but it’s powerful stuff when he does.  The right hand column has links to the articles he considers his best. The donation link is on the top right of the blog.  The beg post is worth reading, as it’s more t ...
  • Arthur Silber could use some help
    If you haven’t read Arthur, you should.  He doesn’t write often, but it’s powerful stuff when he does.  The right hand column has links to the articles he considers his best. The donation link is on the top right of the blog.  The beg post is worth reading, as it’s more t ...
  • To say that people must never revolt violently ...
    The question is not if it is ever justified.  The question is when. The credible threat of revolt was understood by America’s founders to be necessary for liberty to exist, just as they understood that standing armies were a great threat to liberty and that eternal war is the graveyard of ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Barack Obama’s New Chicago Politics Abandon Bi ...
    While the Democratic convention this week celebrates the party’s new coalition, Bill Clinton will no doubt try to recapture the white middle class that’s largely deserted the Democrats since his presidency ended. But it’s likely his efforts will be a case of too little, ...
  • Barack Obama’s New Chicago Politics Abandon Bi ...
    While the Democratic convention this week celebrates the party’s new coalition, Bill Clinton will no doubt try to recapture the white middle class that’s largely deserted the Democrats since his presidency ended. But it’s likely his efforts will be a case of too little, ...
  • Obama Fuel Economy Rules Trump Smart Growth
    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just finalized its regulation requiring that new cars and light trucks (light vehicles) achieve average fuel efficiency of 54.5 miles per gallon (MPG) by 2025 (4.3 liters per 100 kilometers). This increase in the "CAFE" standard (Corporat ...
  • The Creative Destruction of Creative Class-ifi ...
    Bits and pieces of ideal cities have been incorporated into real ones; traffic projects and housing schemes are habitually introduced by their sponsors as at least preliminary steps to paradise. The ideal city gives us the authority to castigate the real one; while the sore itch of real ...
  • Travel Bans: Do No-Go Lists Fight Freedom?
    Had the 1789 constitutional amendments protected travel alongside the rights to freedom of the press, religion, and assembly, the United States might be a less xenophobic country. It might be less prone to treat arriving tourists as terror suspects, and more encouraging to those of its own citi ...

GM Watch

  • Ecuador: food sovereignty or transgenics?
    THE COUNTRY THAT WE DREAM: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY OR TRANSGENIC The 2008 Constitution declared Ecuador Free of GE crops and seeds. Now they want to review this decision. Elizabeth Bravo 2-SEP-2012 In an interview to the media in August 2012, the President of Ecuador expressed regrets for the incorp ...
  • Glyphosate and GMOs impact on crops, soils, an ...
    NOTE: For more on Dr Don Huber, see: http://gmwatch.org/component/content/article/13628 http://gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13021 --- --- The woes of GMOs - Glyphosate and GMOs impact on crops, soils, animals and man Dr. Don M. Huber, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology, Purdue Univ ...
  • Chinese government denies Golden Rice was fed ...
    Following protests from international scientists and Greenpeace about breaches of medical ethics and scientific good practice, the Chinese government has denied that any experiments have been conducted to feed GM Golden Rice to children in the country (see article below). But it seems the autho ...
  • In a surprising contradiction, Nestle official ...
    In a surprising contradiction, Nestle official says GMOs aren't necessary Though the corporate giant has donated more than $1M to fight GMO labeling, a senior exec says we don't need modified foods By Clare Leschin-Hoar TakePart.com August 30, 2012 http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/08/30/nest ...
  • Alteration of the living: New biotechnology te ...
    Alteration of the living: New techniques explained to the layman (just published) Inf'OGM http://www.infogm.org/spip.php?article5191 31 August 2012 Inf'OGM published in October 2011 a report (in French) on the new techniques of biotechnology. In summer 2012, Inf'OGM decided to provide the Europ ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 18 Indications That Europe Has Become An Econo ...
    Summer vacation is over and things are about to get very interesting in Europe.  Most Americans don't realize this, but much of Europe shuts down for the entire month of August.  I wish we had something similar in the United States.  But now millions of Europeans are returning fr ...
  • Economic Failure: 58 Percent Of The Jobs Being ...
    Are you good at flipping burgers , waiting tables or stocking shelves?  Are you proficient with a cash register?  Do you enjoy doing mindless work for very low pay?  If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you are probably going to fit in very well in the new U.S. eco ...
  • What Is The Best Place To Live In America? Pro ...
    If you could live in any state in America, where would you go?  During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live?  A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days.  Our economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are ...
  • Obama Has Stolen $5.3 Trillion From Our Childr ...
    Barack Obama has destroyed the future of America in order to improve his chances of winning the next election.  Under Obama, 5.3 trillion dollars has been ruthlessly stolen from our children and our grandchildren.  That money has been used to pump up the debt-fueled false prosper ...
  • Is There Going To Be A Stock Market Crash In T ...
    Is the stock market going to crash by the end of this year?  Are we on the verge of major financial chaos on a global scale? Well, this is the time of the year when investors start getting nervous.  We all remember what happened during the fall of 1929, the fall of 1987 and the [...]

Desertification

  • Improving African women’s socio-economic statu ...
    Read at : UNCCD http://www.facebook.com/UNCCD http://www.sei-international.org/publications?pid=2150 Transforming gender relations in agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promising approaches This discussion brief offers a preview of a forthcoming SIANI book on how working to improve African women ...
  • Desertification monitoring approach (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/article.aspx?articleid=828383 Simplified desertification monitoring approach based on K-TTCT: a case study on Guyuan County, Heibei Province, China by Bao Cao ; Qiming Qin ; Lin Zhu ; Baishou Li SPIE doi:10. ...
  • Hydropower Potential in East Africa (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.afribiz.info/content/hydropower-potential-east-africa Written by: Editorial Team on September 3, 2012. The African continent faces the same immense challenges as the rest of the world – ensuring security of energy supply, &#8 ...
  • Water and energy saving practices (rrstar.com)
    Read at : http://blogs.e-rockford.com/gogreen/2012/09/03/sustainable-practices-help-vegetable-gardeners-weather-drought-conditions/ Sustainable Practices Help Vegetable Gardeners Weather Drought Conditions by Meghan Bowe If you’re interested in local foods, you must be interested in things that ...
  • Nigeria to check the problems of land degradat ...
    Read at : http://www.punchng.com/business/homes-property/fg-seeks-states-partnership-to-check-desertification/ FG seeks states’ partnership to check desertification September 3, 2012 by Akinpelu Dada The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadiza Mailafia, has reaffirmed the resolve of the Federal Gov ...

The Paper Trail

  • Corporate cash helps fuel Democratic conventio ...
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — While Democrats have touted their grassroots fundraising efforts for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, deep-pocketed corporate donors are helping underwrite the event.Among the corporate sponsors at the Charlotte convention: AT&T Inc., Bank of America, Duke Ener ...
  • Daily Disclosure: RNC continues to hammer Obam ...
    “There are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery,” President Barack Obama’s voice says as the camera pans over men and women lying on their backs across a dirt road.A man in a plaid shirt rolls over. He stands up. In his hands is a sign saying, “I want a job when I graduate.”“I’m an A ...
  • Profile: Political cartoonist Rob Tornoe
    You may have noticed something funny around here lately: political cartoons.Rob Tornoe, a political cartoonist based in Delaware,is now drawing original cartoons for The Center, based on our stories. You'll see his work pop up on publicintegrity.org, our Facebook page and on Twitter. Tornoe also ...
  • "Proper Photo ID", by Rob Tornoe
  • Third-party candidates may hurt Romney in key ...
    Dark-horse presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Virgil Goode may not be household names, but with a little help from super PACs, they could peel away precious support from Republican Mitt Romney and possibly even President Barack Obama in some key state races.The conserva ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Stockwell Day shoots an old canard
    By David@Sixthestate.net Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind seeing a Conservative politician writing a column for CBC. Even if he is a creationist. But I’m dismayed to see, once again, a spirited defence of the “left-wing media” myth being promulgated here in Canada, especially by the state broadc ...
  • Dieppe and the Lost Myth
    By Montreal Simon It was good to see that some of the soldiers who took part in the Dieppe Raid were able to make it back to that bloody beach today. And that so many people in the town turned out to greet them like heroes. I’m also glad that we may finally know the [...]
  • That’s Canada Shop
    We’re delighted to introduce backofthebook.ca‘s new That’s Canada Shop, featuring Canadian books and music in all categories, with more products on their way. Get your Canada on, while you support independent journalism.
  • The Plan, Part Deux
    By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...

libcom

  • Support Pussy Riot by all means. But support t ...
    kazakh-oil-1.jpg A campaign is building to free oil worker activists jailed in Kazakhstan, where last year's strike culminated in a massacre that left at least 16 dead and 64 wounded ...
  • The Marikana Massacre: Details of deliberate p ...
    This article is from the mainstream media in South Africa but has invaluable details on what actually happened when the police left 35 strikers dead and another 78 injured. The murder fields of Marikana. The cold murder fields of Mari ...
  • Syrian embassy invites Polish Fascists to demo ...
    balanga falangi.JPG Short news about protest which changed into Fascist event. 26th of August in front of the Syrian embassy two demonstrations took place. The first one was org ...
  • Italian miners barricade themselves undergroun ...
    100 Sardinian workers in Italy's only coal mine have barricaded themselves into the Carbosulcis mine overnight, with 350kg of company explosives. The occupation comes ahead of a government meeting to decide the future of the pit. ...
  • Russian writer and antifascist Pjotr Silajev i ...
    Silajev had been granted a political asylum in Finland early this year. The Finnish embassy in Madrid has said that Silajev can be kept arrested for 40 days! The Spanish police arrested Silajev in Granada because of request from Interpol on the 21st of augu ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Tree of Life
    The Tree of Life The Incredible Story of Sulfur (Final Chapter of the Righteous Blood Series) By A. True Ott, PhD, ND   In 1913, poet Joyce Kilmer wrote the oft-quoted, yet poignantly simple verse: I Think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.   A tree whose hungry mouth is [...]
  • Why I am a Christian
    I simply stand amazed at the incredible evidence that proves to my mind the fact that everything in this universe was indeed created! The lie of evolution is tied to the hopelessness of lack of faith in not only a loving Creator/God, but also in ignorance of His divine Rescue Plan. Christ was/is ...
  • Why I am a Christian
    I simply stand amazed at the incredible evidence that proves to my mind the fact that everything in this universe was indeed created! The lie of evolution is tied to the hopelessness of lack of faith in not only a loving Creator/God, but also in ignorance of His divine Rescue Plan. Christ was/is ...
  • Update on the IRS Rebate to Aliens Scandal
    The followup to this story is even more “shocking” not so much “disappointing”. In a simple nutshell, the IRS is absolutely not necessary if the U.S. Treasury printed and circulated  our currency freely and WITHOUT USURY (aka Plunder) as the Founding Fathers outlined in t ...
  • Update on the IRS Rebate to Aliens Scandal
    The followup to this story is even more “shocking” not so much “disappointing”. In a simple nutshell, the IRS is absolutely not necessary if the U.S. Treasury printed and circulated  our currency freely and WITHOUT USURY (aka Plunder) as the Founding Fathers outlined in t ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
  • Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
    Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
  • Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
    Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Letter to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher Regardi ...
    Dear Congressman Rohrabacher, I am writing this letter to you regarding your letter to the US encouraging the break-up of Iran (a fellow member country at the United Nations) by forcing the secession of its Azarbaijan province. It is clear that you have adopted or been influenced by post-Sov ...
  • Fair minded Jewish reporter reveals "Anti-Iran ...
    Anti-Iranian Rage by Stephen Lendman, Author of, "How Wall Street Fleeces America"read more
  • Iran could strike U.S. bases if Israel attacks ...
    Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. read more
  • Scientology 'auditioned' potential wives for T ...
    How Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes first met has always been shrouded in secrecy. Although it has been widely speculated that she was selected for him by the Church of Scientology, this is something that the organization has always denied. But if the rumor is true, Holmes wouldn’t have been the fir ...
  • چهارمین مدال طلای ایران در پارالمپیک لندن
    علی حسینی، ورزشکار ایرانی در رقابت های پارالمپیک لندن چهارمین مدال طلا را برای کاروان ورزشی ایران به دست آورده است. آقای حسینی در رشته پاورلیفتینگ منهای هفتاد و پنج کیلوگرم مردان و با ثبت وزنه ۲۲۵ کیلوگرمی به مدال طلا رسید. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Cities Go After America's Biggest Slumlords
    According to the Los Angeles city attorney, the two biggest slumlords in California are US Bank and Deutsche Bank. US Bank (aka US Bancorp) is the fifth largest bank in the US and Deutsche Bank the fourth largest bank in the world. Both acquired thousands of foreclosed properties in the 20 ...
  • The Demise of "Current Affairs"
        I have recently returned from a week in Australia, where I was pleasantly surprised by the extensive coverage of “current” (government) affairs on mainstream TV and in the major newspapers. Current affairs programming is very much lacking in New Zealand, as in Ca ...
  • Wall Street's $270 Million Loss
    Wall Street Volume at 10 Year Low Another worrying article on Zero Hedge raises concerns about the declining health of the US economy. An 8/16/12 post by Tyler Durden points out that Wall Street has lost hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth over the past two years. Durden cites data ...
  • It Can't Happen Here - US Troops Plot to Overt ...
    FEAR members arrested The website Newser has an update on the four soldiers arrested in Georgia yesterday for plotting to overthrow the government and assassinate President Obama. According the initial report on MSN , they formed an “anarchist” militia within the military, tho ...
  • The Tipton 3 vs the CIA
      The Road to Guantanomo (Free download – 2006 Directed by Morgan Spurlock)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HCw-5Qnm8c Film Review The Road to Guantanomo is docudrama about the Tipton 3, three British Muslims who were captured along with dozens of civilian refugees when ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • UK Threatens to Violate Ecuadoran Embassy Grou ...
    Reuters, August 15th, 2012: Ecuador said on Wednesday the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday. "Today we've received a threat by the Un ...
  • FLASHBACK: Ann Coulter Says Rage Against the M ...
    New York Times, April 29, 2012: WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. Daily Beast, August 11, 2012: Ryan seems to have a taste for hard-rock bands like Rage Against ...
  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Armenia expresses readiness for war with Azerb ...
    Armenia has expressed readiness for a war with its arch-foe, the Republic of Azerbaijan, after Baku pardoned and promoted an Azerbaijani officer who axed an Armenian soldier to death. “We don’t want a war, but if we have to, we will fight and win. We are not afraid of killers, even if they ...
  • France warns of ‘massive’ response if Syria us ...
    The West will retaliate harshly if the Syrian army deploys chemical weapons, France’s foreign minister said Monday. Damascus vowed not to use its chemical arsenal against its own people, but left the option open in the event of a foreign invasion. ­The Syrian army is believed to possess stockpil ...
  • Chinese top official’s son car crash covered u ...
    The high-speed road death of a playboy son of a high-ranking Chinese government official has caused another rare scandal in China’s ruling Communist Party just weeks ahead of its once-in-a-decade leadership transition. Ling Gu, 23 – the son of Ling Jihua, who ranks fourth in the all-powerf ...
  • Moody’s cuts EU outlook to “negative”
    Moody’s ratings agency has downgraded its outlook on the Aaa rating of the European Union from ‘stable’ to ‘negative,’ linking the decision to a recent outlook downgrade of the bloc’s major economies. “The negative outlook on the EU’s long-term ratings reflects the negative outlook o ...
  • Italian cardinal: Catholic Church left 200 yea ...
    The former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate warned in his last interview that the Roman Catholic Church was left “200 years behind.” Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, who was once regarded as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II, died on Friday at the age of 85 because of Parkinson’s dis ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Kelly Ripa welcomes new co-host: Michael Strahan
    Michael Strahan retired from the New York Giants in 2008. Phto credit: Mike Derer/AP Photo As widely expected, Michael Strahan will join Kelly Ripa as co-host of “Live!” She made the announcement Tuesday morning. When Strahan joined her on the set, Ripa welcomed him with hugs, kisses and ballo ...
  • Green Mile Actor Michael Clarke Duncan Dead at 54
    Fabulous actor. Apparently of a heart attack . on July 13th, this year. Michael Clarke Duncan, the tall and massively built actor with the shaved head and deep voice who received an Academy Award nomination for his moving portrayal of a gentle death row inmate in the 1999 prison drama “The Gree ...
  • BBC iPlayer shows can now be downloaded on iPh ...
    The BBC has announced that shows from BBC iPlayer can now be downloaded for mobile devices and viewed until up to 30 days after. Once youâve pressed play, you have another seven days to finish watching. The new feature is available for the iPhone and iPad now, with Android compatibility to foll ...
  • Hackers post a million Apple ID codes stolen f ...
    A masturbator, yesterday Naughty hackers have released more than a million Apple device IDs into the wild. They claim to have swiped them from the laptop of an FBI employee, which is exciting. The AntiSec group claims to have over 12 million Unique Device Identifiers, as well as personal info l ...
  • Nokia PureView chief slaps down Lumia 920 came ...
    Nokia’s photography expert has struck out at PureView criticisms, apparently taking to task those who doubt the rumored Lumia 920 PureView is eligible to bear the brand. Damian Dinning, who spent five years developing PureView , took to Twitter to give an impromptu lesson in the advanced came ...

Groklaw

  • Bill Gates Sends Ex-Con to Law School After Su ...
    Shon Hopwood robbed five banks, went to jail, learned law, wrote a petition that made it to the Supreme Court, served his time, got out, got married, had kids and is now in law school at the University of Washington on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. - Bloomberg News
  • Oracle's emergency Java patch brings sandbox b ...
    However, the latest patch (update 7) may have another vulnerability that allows an attacker to escape the Java Virtual Machine sandbox in a different manner to the previous exploit. According to Security Explorations, it has sent Oracle proof of concept code, which demonstrates the vulnerabilit ...
  • What the Apple vs. Samsung Lawsuit Means for t ...
    Electronics manufacturers, especially mobile device makers, license patented technologies from each other all the time, for a fee. For instance, after a patent "misunderstanding" last year, Apple started paying Nokia an estimated $11.50 for every iPhone sold. Similarly, in a settlement agree ...
  • Anonymous Hackers Claim To Release One Million ...
    In their message, posted initially in the Anonymous twitter feed AnonymousIRC, the hackers say they used a vulnerability in Java to access the data on an FBI Dell laptop in March of this year. They say the database included not only the UDIDs, but also "user names, name of device, type of device ...
  • FBI Agent's Laptop 'Hacked' To Grab 12 Million ...
    Two years ago special agent Christopher Stangl appeared in a video calling on people with computer science degrees to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying they were needed "more than ever." Last night, hackers with subversive online networks Anonymous and Antisec answered that call w ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Tea Party Economist says Obama is not Marxist
    In a detailed post showing serious understanding of Marxism, Gary North presents the basic tenets of Marxism then shows how Obama isn’t even slightly Marxist.He also traces Obama’s docility and compliance to corporate power back to the early 1990′s when he and Michelle were bot ...
  • Rumors persist that Morgan Stanley will go ban ...
    The whispers are growing louder. Will Morgan Stanley, which has huge exposure in Europe, collapse soon?The stock price of Morgan Stanley inches from its Armageddon lows of Oct. 2008, whispers of the imminent overnight collapse of this U.S. broker-dealer begin to surface.The Fed will no doubt int ...
  • Salt of the Earth – Rolling Stones w Axl and Izzy
    “Say a prayer for the common foot soldier Spare a thought for his back breaking work Spare a part for his wife and his children Who burn the fires and who still till the earth … Raise your glass to the hard working people Let’s drink to the uncounted heads Let’s think of ...
  • Chief Happiness Officer proposed for EU
    Meerkats train to be photographers at the new EU sanctuaryPolizeros friend and EU journalist Andy Carling proposes becoming Chief Happiness Officer for EU institutions in an effort to banish current gloomy spirits. His innovative and bold plans include keeping bars open for journalists during al ...
  • Merle Haggard – Workin’ Man’s Blues

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • A night on patrol
    In which I spend a night on patrol with the Lower Hutt Police. LHBD Blues, if you will.
  • What does a List MP do?
    Monday – Woke up in a hotel room next to a racecourse in Rotorua with Jeanette Fitzsimons. We had worked all weekend at the Ka Nui conference on mining threats and ended it protesting at the mining industry cocktail party; Jeanette dressed as the elephant in the room, climate change. My pa ...
  • Last chance to have your say on MMP
    Public submissions on the MMP Review Proposal Paper close this Friday, so there are only a few days left to have your say on changes to our voting system. The proposal paper is the last stage of public consultation on MMP, before the Electoral Commission reports their findings to the Minister at ...
  • General debate, September 1, 2012
    Beautiful Spring day in Wellington!
  • 3 way voting on alcohol purchase age more demo ...
    in the wake of the parliamentary vote on alcohol purchase age there are some people (the ones I have seen are people who favoured 20) who are suggesting that the voting procedure used led to a perverse outcome. I disagree completely. This is not a post about the merits or otherwise of the variou ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Radiation from Fukushima
    By Dr. Mercola On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan, and fatally crippled TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power plant. Exactly how much radiation has poured out, contaminating not only cleanup crews but also residents in surrounding areas, remains unclear, as does the ...
  • Measles Vaccine Likely Caused Death of Four In ...
    By Dr. Mercola Four infants between nine and 14 months of age recently died within 24 hours of receiving their measles and DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) vaccines in the Doti area of Nepal, a small country between India and China. The children allegedly began vomiting profusely jus ...
  • Nearly Half of U.S. Doctors Struggling with Bu ...
    By Dr. Mercola A substantial portion of U.S. doctors suffer from burnout on the job, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.1 Of the nearly 7,300 doctors who participated in the survey, nearly half had at least one symptom of burnout; 38 percent had high emotiona ...
  • Shocking Secrets about Clinical Trials: 2,061 ...
    By Dr. Mercola Clinical research on humans is regarded as an essential component of drug research and development. It is only after successfully being tested on people that drugs are supposed to be brought to market, but how can it be ethical to use people as guinea pigs in drug trials witho ...
  • Why Half of America May Have Impaired Brain Fu ...
    By Dr. Mercola It's a fact that excess dietary fructose can harm your body by setting up the conditions for diabetes, obesity, and fatty liver, but what does it do to your brain? Studies have not addressed this question—until now. A new UCLA study1 is the first to show how a steady diet high ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • UK newspaper confirms tourists still ‘flock’ t ...
    Hundreds of vehicles pass through the Jarawa reserve each day, many carrying tourists© G Chamberlain/ SurvivalThe British newspaper whose coverage of the ‘human safari’ scandal on India’s Andaman Islands prompted international outrage, has confirmed the practice still goes on, with thousands of ...
  • Illegal loggers 'closing in' on Earth's most t ...
    The Awá depend on hunting for their survival. Now they fear entering the forest because of illegal loggers in the area.© SurvivalA recent investigation by Brazil’s Indian affairs department FUNAI has uncovered shocking evidence that illegal loggers are rapidly closing in on the Awá, Earth& ...
  • Yanomami Indians 'massacred' by goldminers in ...
    Survivors of Brazil's 1993 Haximu massacre hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives. Goldminers killed 16 Yanomami in the attack.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalGoldminers in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Su ...
  • Dongria's message to Vedanta ahead of AGM: "We ...
    The Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their sacred mountain from being mined for bauxite. © Lewis Davids/SurvivalAhead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has sent a strong message to the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal. ‘Even if Anil ...
  • Paraguay’s government confirms Spanish tycoon’ ...
    Jacinto Rey González is President of a ranching firm which has been illegally destroying the Ayoreo's land.© AnonAccusations that a ranching company owned by one of Spain’s richest men illegally bulldozed forest inhabited by uncontacted Indians have been upheld by the Paraguayan authorities ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • Why Does Canada Have a Strategic Maple Syrup R ...
    from theatlantic.com: Oh, Canada. On Friday, news broke that thieves had stolen stole $30 million dollars worth of Quebec's strategic maple syrup reserves. Yes, you read correctly. Much as the United States keeps a stock of extra oil buried in underground salt caverns to use in case of a geop ...
  • Why Half of America May Have Impaired Brain Fu ...
    from mercola.com: A new UCLA study is the first to show how a steady diet high in fructose can damage your memory and learning. The study was published in the Journal of Physiology. Researchers investigated the effects of high-fructose syrup, similar to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a chea ...
  • #BingeAndPurge: Weather Wars, Steroids, Nugget ...
    #Geoengineering Could Turn Skies White: Scientific American* Video: Isaac Hammers Key West, Florida Social Spotlight* Video: CNN on Isaac + Cholera 400,000 Haitians At Risk* Bat Lyssavirus Fears At Bat House in Cape Tribulation* USADA strips Lance Armstrong of Tour De France titles, ...
  • Why have Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Childr ...
    from mercola.com: Most of the atypical antipsychotics were approved in the 1990's, at which time they were reserved for a very small minority of serious mental illnesses; primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – diseases afflicting an estimated three percent of Americans. More recently, ...
  • Michael Mann gets four minutes for high-sticking
    from sunnewsnetwork.ca: Marc Morano discusses Michael Mann’s ‘hockey stick’ hyperbole and his threats to sue Mark Steyn for calling him a climate fraud. Related: The Climate Change Racket: Finally a 'day in court'?*New blockbuster paper finds man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warmin ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 18 Indications That Europe Has Become An Econo ...
    Summer vacation is over and things are about to get very interesting in Europe.  Most Americans don't realize this, but much of Europe shuts down for the entire month of August.  I wish we had something similar in the United States.  But now millions of Europeans are returning fr ...
  • Economic Failure: 58 Percent Of The Jobs Being ...
    Are you good at flipping burgers , waiting tables or stocking shelves?  Are you proficient with a cash register?  Do you enjoy doing mindless work for very low pay?  If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you are probably going to fit in very well in the new U.S. eco ...
  • What Is The Best Place To Live In America? Pro ...
    If you could live in any state in America, where would you go?  During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live?  A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days.  Our economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are ...
  • Obama Has Stolen $5.3 Trillion From Our Childr ...
    Barack Obama has destroyed the future of America in order to improve his chances of winning the next election.  Under Obama, 5.3 trillion dollars has been ruthlessly stolen from our children and our grandchildren.  That money has been used to pump up the debt-fueled false prosper ...
  • Is There Going To Be A Stock Market Crash In T ...
    Is the stock market going to crash by the end of this year?  Are we on the verge of major financial chaos on a global scale? Well, this is the time of the year when investors start getting nervous.  We all remember what happened during the fall of 1929, the fall of 1987 and the [...]

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...
  • Lloyds TSB running scared of lawful rebels?
    We have in our possession a letter written by Lloyds TSB, emailed in by a correspondent who claims that no enforceable agreement exists between him/her and Lloyds TSB - nor has it ever done. Neither, our correspondent tells us, does any contract exist. Despite this and despite our corresponde ...
  • 15 years on... we still miss you dreadfully, Diana
    Fifteen years ago today, our Princess - Diana - was stolen away from us; unlawfully killed in Paris. As each year passes, the external displays of grieving for someone we thought of as a friend diminish but this does not displace the internal melancholy at her increasingly noticeable absence ...

Facing South

  • UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie ...
    When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more
  • Will Latino voters fully flex their voting pow ...
    Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The party conventions' extrao ...
    In light of planned protests, the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. and Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. will be taking unprecedented security measures. read more
  • Mysterious environmental disaster unfolding in ...
    Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...
  • Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...
    The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

  • Today on New Scientist: 4 September 2012
    All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: how life gets its myriad shapes, inspiration from the moon's magnetic umbrellas, the mass honeytrap for illegal downloaders, and more
  • Knotty old technology found on high-tech Mars ...
    Knot enthusiasts have been poring over photos of NASA's Curiosity rover to determine the type of knots used to hold together its various cables. They have found NASA's efforts lacking
  • Ancient fish-eating pterosaur found in Germany
    A perfectly preserved fossil is a new species of pterosaur, with its last fishy meal beautifully preserved in its stomach
  • Today on New Scientist: 3 September 2012
    All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: stem cells return some feeling to paralysed patients, satellite images of Brazil's ravaged rainforests, the ultimate food scare, and more
  • Today on New Scientist: 3 September 2012
    All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: stem cells return some feeling to paralysed patients, satellite images of Brazil's ravaged rainforests, the ultimate food scare, and more

Tech Drive In

  • Reditr - A Brilliant New Reddit Client for Des ...
    Reddit clients for Android already exists in every size and shape. But things are a little bit different for desktops, especially Linux desktops. A few Reddit apps popped up during Ubuntu App Showdown contest, but even those were not good enough. Looks like Reditr, a new Reddit client for Linu ...
  • Google Not Only Uses Goobuntu, It Actually is ...
    Rumors about the use of Ubuntu inside Google is not new. Some say Google has their own version of Ubuntu called Goobuntu and they have it deployed in large numbers inside Google campuses. All such rumors can finally be laid to rest. Thomas Bushnell, the tech lead of the group that distrib ...
  • 20 Most Exciting Linux Games for 2012
    In terms of stability and flexibility, Linux blew away its proprietary counterparts a long time ago. What it sorely lacks is developer interest, especially in the gaming department. But there are signs of a major revival. To the delight of Linux gaming enthusiasts, EA started publishing games ...
  • How to Disable 'System Program Problem Detecte ...
    Ever since I upgraded to latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, this issue has been bugging me a lot. Every now and then, a notification pops up saying "Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced and internal error" or "System Program Problem Detected" without actually causing any real troubles. I believe this has everyt ...
  • Ubuntu App Showdown: 15 Hot Apps to Watch
    Ubuntu App Showdown contest was introduced more than a month ago by Canonical to encourage application development for Ubuntu in a big way. And the initiative is showing results already. More than 150 applications were submitted out of which, 133 has been qualified and made it to the final l ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
  • New French pandemic plan targets internet
    The role information circulating on the internet played in persuading people in France not to take the pandemic vaccine in 2009 is confirmed by the country’s new pandemic plan. The plan states that number of French people willing to take the pandemic vaccine dropped from 65% at the end of August ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Central Banks are the Real Target for West&#82 ...
    Brandon Turbeville Activist Post With any move made by the globalist controllers and their surrogates of the Anglo-American NATO strong arm, it is safe to assume that there is rarely only one reason for the implementation of any given plan. Thus, the wars of conquest and aggression raging in the ...
  • Mandatory Chemotherapy for Children with Cancer?
    Elizabeth Renter Activist Post Most people have some second or even first-hand experience with cancer. Whether you’ve watched a loved one struggle, or if you are a survivor yourself, you know how difficult the battle can be. And if you’ve gone through it or seen someone go through chemotherapy t ...
  • Did America Say NO to Israel?
    By Gilad Atzmon on September 1, 2012 In the last few hours we have learned that the US had made massive reductions to joint military exercise with Israel. Originally slated to include 5,000 US troops, Washington will now only send 1,500 to participate in Austere Challenge 12 with Israel. Apparen ...
  • Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney ...
    By Matt Taibbi The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn’t stand for anything. He’s a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who’ll say anything to get elected. The critics couldn’t be more wron ...
  • Rebellion erupts over school’s student-chippin ...
    by Bob Unruh A rebellion is developing in Texas against a plan by a school district in San Antonio that would monitor the exact location and activities of all students at all times through RFID chips they are being ordered to wear. Katie Deolloz, a member of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy ...

Veterans Today

  • File Sharer from Sweden Kidnapped in Cambodia
    Murdoch’s “Wall Street Urinal” Calls Swede Internet Freedom Advocate “Notorious Criminal”   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor ———- Sweden went 800 miles to capture and extradite what to most is their greatest national hero, Gottfrid Warg, the man ...
  • Mitt Romney’s Father Was A Mexican Citizen Whe ...
    Mitt Romney’s Father Was A Mexican Citizen When Mitt Was Born.   Is Mitt Romney a “natural born citizen”? ———- It is absolutely clear that Mitt Romney is NOT a Natural Born Citizen unless he can prove that George Romney gained citizenship from naturalization prior to Mitt’ ...
  • Breaking: Afghanistan – America’s “Tota ...
    Everyone in the world knows America’s invasion of Iran was a lie, an oil raid, from day one.
  • Press TV: NATO Secretly Authorizes Syria Attack
    Yesterday afternoon, Monday, August 28, 2012, in a meeting in Brussels, NATO military leaders in consultation with “telephonic liaison” with officers of military forces in several former Soviet Republics, major African states, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states came to a combined decision ...
  • Why Does Israel Hate Gentiles?
    Gentiles in general and Gentile children in particular are targets of Judaism. For example Psalm 137:9 reads, Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

electric politics

  • American Divisions
    Bill Schneider says that the U.S. is more politically divided today than it has been at any time since the Civil War. I think he's right. Which is not to say that compromise is the ticket. Instead, I'd like to see some brains reclaimed by reason from among those who want His Almightiness to run ...
  • Billionaires vs. Science
    Sociopath billionaires. They cause a ton of trouble across the board but the very worst thing they do is to deny global warming. They should, in my view, be thrown in jail for subverting science. Because, however, we don't have laws yet against scientific malpractice the next best thing, the onl ...
  • Dictatorship By Filibuster
    Given the filibuster, forty one percent of the U.S. Senate can block any vote they don't like. Thus, a minority of reactionary right wing Senators gets to kill a lot of worthy legislation. In recent years abuse of the filibuster has become increasingly intolerable; even ordinary Senate business ...
  • Contact
    It stands to reason, though remains as yet unproven, that advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in our galaxy, in other galaxies, and indeed throughout the entire universe. The prudent thing is to plan ahead for contact, not to wait until we know for sure. But it's complicated. To get a sense o ...
  • Plutonium Is Poison
    Objecting to nuclear power is sensible. But objecting to nuclear bombs should be mandatory. Not only are they useless in and of themselves but making them cannot be done safely, for both cultural and technological reasons. Unused, they are nevertheless deadly. And even if we forget about the poi ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Clinton In Asia: Maintaining World Hegemony, U ...
    Global Times September 4, 2012 Hillary reinforces US-China mistrust ==== If US elites believe their own democracy can eternally guarantee their dominance of the world and that China’s path of development will come to a dead end sooner or later, the US does not need to conduct reforms at al ...
  • Robert Bly: War, writers and government money
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== The New York Review of Books December 21, 1967 Robert Bly Protest To the Editors: The fact that so few Americans have resigned from the government or from responsible posts to protest ...
  • Asia: U.S. Tries To Dribble Globe Like A Baske ...
    China Daily September 3, 2012 Deceit pivots US foreign policy By Philip J. Cunningham ==== Japan’s intransigence about far-flung territorial claims is particularly hard to fathom given its undisputed role as aggressor nation, aligned with Nazi Germany. It invaded nearly all of its neighbor ...
  • U.S. Launching Cyber Warfare
    Voice of Russia August 31, 2012 Epoch of ‘computer virus wars’ starts? Svetlana Kalmykova The US is launching a new stage of the arms race – a race of offensive computer weapons. Namely, the US is going to arm itself with computer viruses in order to destroy the enemy’s computer netw ...
  • Thomas Wolfe: Santimony and cant of war
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Thomas Wolfe From Look Homeward, Angel (1929) As the war developed, and the literature of war-enchantment began to appear, Margaret Leonard gave him book after book to read. They were ...

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Intel Hub

  • Occupy Charlotte DNC Protest Crosses the Red L ...
    theintelhub.com September 4, 2012 Update: 1:06pm: Police helicopters flying overhead, entire area almost completely blocked off. Update: 1:03pm: Officers are moving towards the protesters in what very well could result in confrontation. Update 12:55pm: – Luke is reporting that the proteste ...
  • Syrian Minister Accuses Mossad of Assassinatin ...
    Israel Hayom September 4, 2012 Information minister criticizes Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi after the latter voices sympathy for the Syrian revolt: “There is no difference between Mubarak and Morsi, who has done nothing for the Palestinians and continues to sell gas to Israel.” ...
  • Marines, Civilian Police Officers Conduct Urba ...
    theintelhub.com September 4, 2012 Marines and police from across the country are wrapping up a three week training exercise at Camp Lejeune.
  • Vitamin B3 May be the Cure for Drug-resistant ...
    Natural News September 4, 2012 While the pharmaceutical industry is busy trying to conjure up new drugs to tackle the antibiotic-resistant “superbug” epidemic, a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation explains how simple vitamin B3, also known as nicotinamide ...
  • “Sunshine” Vitamin D May Aid in Tr ...
     cbsnews.com September 4, 2012 A little bit of sunshine never hurt anyone. Now, a new study shows that the “sunshine” vitamin – vitamin D – may help speed up the recovery of tuberculosis patients. Before antibiotics were readily available, doctors used to send their patie ...

FRS

  • “Phantom Control”: Israel’s ...
    Aug 26, 2012 by TheRealNews Yael Berda’s new book The Bureaucracy of Occupation sheds light on Israel’s more invisible control over the Palestinians. For more www.therealnews.com
  • “Phantom Control”: Israel’s ...
    Aug 26, 2012 by TheRealNews Yael Berda’s new book The Bureaucracy of Occupation sheds light on Israel’s more invisible control over the Palestinians. For more www.therealnews.com
  • Taking back Palestine’s streets: exclusive int ...
    Maath Musleh, The Electronic Intifada, Jerusalem, 29 August 2012 [“There’s no voice greater than the voice of the intifada” (Image courtesy of the artist)] Graffiti has been a tool of the Palestinian liberation struggle for decades; during the first intifada in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Pal ...
  • Taking back Palestine’s streets: exclusive int ...
    Maath Musleh, The Electronic Intifada, Jerusalem, 29 August 2012 [“There’s no voice greater than the voice of the intifada” (Image courtesy of the artist)] Graffiti has been a tool of the Palestinian liberation struggle for decades; during the first intifada in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Pal ...
  • Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14. ...
    [It is only right that we introduce the article below by remembering the poem "THOSE WHO TAKE THE MEAT FROM THE TABLE" by Bertolt Brecht. -- Frontlines ed.]   THOSE WHO TAKE THE MEAT FROM THE TABLE Teach contentment. Those for whom the contribution is destined Demand sacrifice. Those who ea ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
  • Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
    We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
  • Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...
    We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
  • Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...
    Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...

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Renewable Energy Sources Could be the Key to Reaching Through to Iran
NASDAQ
Why are we even talking about Iran's nuclear program when renewable energy offers a clear way out of this conundrum? If we can remove bad politics from the equation for a moment and get back to business as usual, energy diplomacy with Iran could render ...
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National Security and Renewable Energy
Triple Pundit
For almost 20 years after its inception in 1980, Borrego Solar existed as a small enterprise doing one-off residential solar installations within a small network. Jump ahead to August 2012, and Borrego has been named by Inc. Magazine as one of the ...
Can Solar Robots Cut The Cost of Renewable Energy?
Forbes
In a corner of a Silicon Valley neighborhood of modest tract homes, robots are quietly at work generating electricity. Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride.
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Zero Nuclear Option Would Require 50-T.-Yen Investment in Renewables
Power Engineering Magazine
Japan would need to invest some 50 trillion yen in renewable energy such as solar and wind power if it opts to reduce its dependence on nuclear power to zero in 2030, the government said Tuesday. The estimate was presented to a government committee ...
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Human Habitat

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Gentler Tasmanian devils could help save species from extinction
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
The new study, published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Animal Ecology, found the less often a devil gets bitten, the more likely it is to become infected with the cancer. According to lead author Dr Rodrigo Hamede of the University of ...
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Teaching ecology with emotional intelligence
Metro.us
Now Goleman is incorporating his environmental passions into his educational philosophy. His latest, "Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Incorporating Emotional, Social and Ecological Intelligence," was written in partnership with the Berkeley-based Center ...
Invasive species hurting Southeast resources
KRBD
Invasive species – whether they are plants or marine life – can have dramatic effects on Southeast Alaska's ecology. There are state and federal agencies, like the Cooperative Extension Service, that are working to manage and raise awareness about ...
The Ecology Center to host Green Feast on Sept. 8
Los Angeles Times
The Ecology Center, Orange County's premiere environmental education group, will host its fourth annual Green Feast on Saturday, Sept. 8, at its lush San Juan Capistrano facility. More than 200 people will sit at a lavish outdoor table feasting on a ...
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Schumer declares 'peace' on inaugural water concerns
Washington Post (blog)
In case you haven't heard enough about the greatest public policy matter of our time, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) has declared “peace” on the issue of inaugural hydration. To recap: Schumer, chair of Congress' inauguration planning committee, announced last ...
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Govt 'unlikely' to attend water hui
New Zealand Herald
Prime Minister John Key says his Government is "unlikely" to attend next week's hui on Maori water rights called by Maori King Tuheitia. Mr Key this week ruled out a national hui to consider water rights after announcing the delay of the partial sale ...
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In southern Louisiana, residents blame levees for flooding
Dallas Morning News
Instead, weather experts say a unique set of circumstances about the storm — not the floodwalls surrounding the New Orleans metro area — had more to do with flooding neighborhoods that in recent years have never been under water because of storm ...
Alex Kane's 'Fog Water Polo' is making a splash at the Jean E. Brink pool
San Jose Mercury News
In the late 19th century, Scotsman William Wilson — a swimmer, swimming instructor and water sports journalist — developed "aquatic football." This new swimming sport was a form of soccer, rugby, wrestling and American football played while treading ...
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