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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 II

DNA vaccine and Gene therapy techniques are si...DNA vaccine and Gene therapy techniques are similar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Photo of Ann Romney at the Reagan Dinner in De...Photo of Ann Romney at the Reagan Dinner in Des Moines on October 27, 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Data Confirms Christie’s Keynote Speech More A ...
    Voters enjoyed Chris Christie’s speech, but seemed to wonder whether it was more about touting Christie than Romney. A comparison of Christie’s speech with Obama’s Keynote Speech in 2004 confirms this.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Aug 29, 2012
  • Ann Romney Talks About Love of a Man Who Would ...
    When Ann Romney strode out onto the dais at the Republican National Convention, she had the singular task of talking about the man next to whom she has slept these past 42 years who just happens to want to be president of the United StatesContributor: Mark Whittington Published: Aug 29, 2012
  • Mixed Feelings on RNC Weapon Artur Davis
    Former Democratic congressman Artur Davis spoke at the Republican National Convention about not falling for well-spoken words. But there's a lot to consider behind his own words, as well.Contributor: Susan Graybeal Published: Aug 29, 2012
  • Republicans Must Focus on Future, Not the Last ...
    Republicans are spending too much time trying to pin unemployment blame on Obama, which invites terrible comparisons of today to Bush of 2008. It’s better to focus on what’s happening now what will happen in the near future.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Aug 29, 2012
  • GM's Strong Move: Banning Presidential Candida ...
    General Motors has banned the presidential candidates from visiting its plants during the election. This is a very strong move by the auto company and other automakers should follow suit.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Aug 28, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • The Labs That Go Boom: The Lightning Research ...
    At the University of Florida This month, as part of our special on the future of education, PopSci presents 10 labs where students do serious research (and career training) by blowing stuff up. Lab: Lightning Research Lab Career: Lightning-tolerant spacecraft designer, power utilities enginee ...
  • Researchers Manipulate the Dreams of Rats, Ope ...
    Never mind the Jose Canseco method for dream control. MIT researchers have successfully reached inside the brains of rats and manipulated their dreams using an audio cue conditioned into them during the previous day. It’s a development that lends insight into the whole sleep/memory consolidatio ...
  • Viral Gene Therapy Gives Non-Smelling Mice the ...
    Science can make blind mice see again and deaf mice hear — now scent-deprived mice can sniff their surroundings and smell for the first time, after a new gene therapy. It may be a while before this treatment percolates up to humans, but it’s a sign that gene therapy could restore smell in this ...
  • Smart Carpet Detects Your Gait, Knows if You'v ...
    Packed with smart meters, smart appliances, smart windows and doors, smart lighting, smart HVAC and other smart what-have-you, the smart home of the future is purportedly going to be overflowing with sensors that make life more efficient and convenient. Now, it could be packed with sensors that ...
  • The Labs That Go Boom: The Beckman Laser Insti ...
    University of California at Irvine This month, as part of our special on the future of education, PopSci presents 10 labs where students do serious research (and career training) by blowing stuff up. Lab: Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic Career: Optics engineer, medical-device eng ...

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.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Summer 2012 - 2nd wettest on record
    The Met Office have said that summer 2012 will be the second wettest (summer is June, July and August combined for statistical purposes) on record across England and the UK as a whole, using rainfall data back to 1910. So far 367mm of rain has fallen, compared with 384mm which was recorded in ...
  • Arctic sea ice now lowest on satellite record
    The extent of sea ice in the Arctic region has dropped sharply in the last few months. Only in April, Arctic sea ice had staged an impressive recovery and was close to the 1979-2012 average, reaching levels not seen in April for over 10 years. But yesterday, the National Snow and Ice data ce ...
  • Jet stream set to spoil summer again
    After a fine and warm weekend across much of the country, temperatures today have reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for the first time this summer - although similar values were reached in places for a time during late May. It's certainly come as a welcome relief af ...
  • What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...
    The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...
  • Parts of UK at risk of renewed flooding
    UPDATE at 6.30pm Lastest information from American GFS model shifts emphasis for heavy rain towards the earlier ECMWF solution detailed below, i.e with much of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at risk of some of the highest rainfall totals. ENDS Amber alerts are in force for parts of the UK tomorro ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Thailand Still Dreams About an 'OPEC of Rice'
    I guess there are few truly novel ideas in international political economy. Since the formation of OPEC, developing nations have envied its perceived success in buoying oil prices. As such, there have been any number of cartels for other commodities which have been mooted or even made. Bauxite, ...
  • Non-Alignment Reborn? Morsi, UN's Ban, etc in Iran
    The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) came into existence at a time when developing countries could, yes, align themselves with either the United States and its allies or the Soviet Union and its allies. Even the United States--which dissuaded many countries from attending the 1955 Bandung Conference i ...
  • Developing an 'Autocracy Index' (World Policy ...
    You are doubtlessly familiar with the "world's worst dictators" feature from Parade. Apparently, this concept of comparing authoritarian rule remains popular as our colleagues over at the World Policy Institute have come up with their own compilation. In their composite measure, they take a loo ...
  • Hillary, More White Man's Burdenish Than Kissinger
    Say what you will about Henry Kissinger and the practice of realpolitik, but it is interesting to note the degeneration in US foreign policy attitudes over four decades. From Kissinger-era live and let live, Missus Clinton has largely returned to the "America knows best" attitude familiar to Ame ...
  • Pragmatist Islamists? Those IMF-Loving* Egyptians
    In case you haven't been following the news, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde recently visited Egypt, where she was promptly serenaded by a plea from their Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed "Islam is the Solution" Morsi to increase the prospective bailout amount to $4.8 billion ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN report urges joint action to ensure all ch ...
    Over 22 million boys, girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean are not in school or are at serious risk of dropping out, according to a new United Nations report, which calls for a joint effort across sectors to ensure that all children can complete their education.
  • Many children in Guatemala still facing sexual ...
    In spite of protection measures by the Guatemalan Government, many children are still victims of sexual exploitation and forced labour, a United Nations independent expert warned today.
  • In wake of Tropical Storm Isaac, UN steps up H ...
    Humanitarian efforts are underway in Haiti following the torrential rains and blustery winds that battered the country over the weekend as Tropical Storm Isaac swept across the nation, the United Nations said today.
  • UN chief gathers with fellow alumni of Red Cro ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday gathered in Washington, D. C. with friends he made half a century ago during their visit to the United States, which was organized by the American Red Cross and which inspired him to pursue a life of public service.
  • UN chief gathers with fellow alumni of Red Cro ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday gathered in Washington, D. C. with friends he made half a century ago during their visit to the United States, which was organized by the American Red Cross and which inspired him to pursue a life of public service.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Agenda 21 Rejected By Republican Party Platfor ...
    The official GOP platform approved at the Republican National Convention in Tampa included tough language rejecting the United Nations “sustainability” scheme known as Agenda 21 for the threat it represents to national sovereignty, drawing praise from conservative and Tea Party leaders acros ...
  • Strange, Creeping Camping Stories
    Summer vacation is always a fun time to get out and do things that you have wanted to do all winter long, such as swimming, hiking, or boating. During the good weather we travel to places we have wanted to see, or like a lot of us, we go camping. ~ Sebastian Clouth read more
  • Where Is The Best Place To Live In America?
    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 types of questions these days.  read more
  • Warning!... It’s Official... Lose All Of Your ...
    Writer & researcher Susanne Posel of occupycorporatism.com joins me to discuss recent court rulings declaring it LAWFUL for banks to use YOUR money to pay THEIR debts and bad bets. ~ Audios read more
  • The Guardianship Gulag... Too Often, Death is ...
    There are many ways elderly, sick and disabled people can wind up in a court-appointed guardianship, where a complete stranger wields total control over their lives and assets. ~ Barbara Hollingsworth read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • ALL Water In Oregon Belongs To The State
    Update: The original article [below] from end of July reports on an Oregon man who is now evidently in jail for having collected rainwater from runoff on his own property into 3 small ponds which he was permitted to build (yes, in Oregon you can’t dig a hole and allow rainwater to fill it ...
  • TSA Wants To Test Your Drink — At The Gate
    The article [below] was originally posted early July when I first heard about the TSA now testing your drinks INSIDE the airport security perimeter – even though the drinks were purchased inside the secure zone. Now it is being reported on again (Drudge & InfoWars) as someone has recor ...
  • Earthquakes Bristling At Tectonic Plate Boundaries
    For those of you who have been reading this site for awhile know that one of my interests and curiosities is the geophysical going’s on of our planet, including earthquakes. Well, it is interesting to notice that there have been a curious number of earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater d ...
  • Making Cheese
    Preserving Milk by cheese-making….. Colby Cheese Guest post: by Christine Coburn Cheese has been around for centuries as a way of preserving milk without refrigeration. The starters will last several years in the freezer and the rennett tabs also have a super long shelf life if kept cool. It can ...
  • 10,000 At Risk Of Hantavirus, Says CDC, 3,000 ...
    The virus starts out causing flu-like symptoms, including headache, fever, muscle ache, shortness of breath and cough, and can lead to severe breathing difficulties and death. The incubation period for the virus is typically two to four weeks after exposure, with a range between a few days and s ...

Fast Company

  • 37signals Invests In The Starter League To Red ...
    Last week, we caught up with Jason Fried, CEO of Chicago-based software company 37signals, about why his cleaning lady is also his business icon. Today, Fried and 37signals announced the company's new minority stake in the Starter League, a small, bootstrapped Chicago outfit that offers classes ...
  • Meth for Your Ears: Behind The Signature Sound ...
    On "Breaking Bad," expert use of sound amplifies a menacing undertone while helping advance the story. Supervising sound editor Nick Forshager explains how the show’s suspenseful soundscapes come together.
  • Linkin Park's Personalized Music Video Leaves ...
    From the makers of "Take This Lollipop," Linkin Park’s interactive video invites users to connect through Facebook and see themselves onscreen.
  • 3 Ways To Become An Authoritative Leader, Even ...
    I started and sold my first company, ChiTown Deals, before most of my peers had finished college. Not only did I have to secure investors and convince others of the profitability of a "group coupon" before sites like Groupon became well known, but I had to prove myself as a leader despite being ...
  • How To Run A Harvard Lab From The Battlefield
    As a former major in the Rhode Island National Guard, Kevin Kit Parker has been called into duty in Afghanistan three times in the last decade. Somehow, he also finds time to run a 20-member bioengineering lab at Harvard that’s innovating itself onto the cutting edge of microfluidics, tissue eng ...

Jadaliyya

  • This Sea Is Mine: A Review
    Dictaphone Group, This Sea Is Mine. Beirut, Lebanon, 28 August - 8 September 2012. A familiar feature of the Beirut waterfront is the ongoing struggle between Beirutis who want access to the sea and the barriers erected to precisely prevent that on the part of a constellation of powers – privat ...
  • The FSA: How to Lose Support and Alienate Peop ...
    By December 2011, peaceful protests had stopped being confined to Fridays and had become part of our daily life. Regime suppression continued apace, but we felt we had a modicum of safety. In response to regime attacks on peaceful protests, members of the FSA took on the responsibility of protec ...
  • To Participate or Boycott? Challenges of the 2 ...
    The upcoming 2013 presidential election in Iran seems to be activating and deepening the fissures within the Iranian opposition. While parts of the opposition have started deliberating and discussing about participation in the election, other sections oppose participating on principle. A promine ...
  • The Love Affair with Erdogan (Part 2)
    [The following is part one of a two-part piece on Tayyip Erdogan.  Part one was posted Monday, 27 August.] How, then, has Erdoğan managed to escape with his international reputation relatively unscathed, and his domestic popularity only marginally diminished? One might be tempted to argue ...
  • Crimes Against Civilization in the Hejaz
    In March of this year, a Tuareg armed rebellion in northern Mali and the consequent coup d’état that renegade soldiers staged in the Malian capital Bamaku empowered Salafi fighters, like Ansar al-Din group, to seize the northern part of Mali, including the ancient city of Timbuktu, known as the ...

mediagazer

  • Anne Fulenwider to Head Marie Claire (Amy Wick ...
    Amy Wicks / WWD: Anne Fulenwider to Head Marie Claire  —  Anne Fulenwider is the new editor in chief of Marie Claire, succeeding Joanna Coles, who will become editor in chief of Cosmopolitan.  Fulenwider previously served as executive editor at Marie Claire before taking th ...
  • Pro-Assad hackers have taken over Al Jazeera's ...
    Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: Pro-Assad hackers have taken over Al Jazeera's hompage to protest its coverage  —  Hackers have taken over the Al Jazeera homepage, using it as a billboard to protest the news organization's coverage.  The hackers appear to be pro-Bashar al-Assa ...
  • Why, Exactly, Are 15,000 Journalists in Charlo ...
    John Aloysius Farrell / National Journal: Why, Exactly, Are 15,000 Journalists in Charlotte?  —  Emily Ramshaw didn't hesitate when asked why she was on her way to North Carolina on Friday to cover the Democratic convention as a one-woman bureau for The Texas Tribune.  &ldq ...
  • New Editor at Cosmopolitan: Joanna Coles Repla ...
    Media Decoder: New Editor at Cosmopolitan: Joanna Coles Replaces Kate White  —  In January, Kate White the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, went to David Carey, the president of Hearst Magazines, and told him she was thinking about retiring after 14 years on the job.  Given ...
  • For conventions, TV viewing down, social media ...
    Beth Fouhy / Associated Press: For conventions, TV viewing down, social media up  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — When it comes to following political conventions, Twitter may soon trump television.  TV viewership for last week's Republican National Convention dropped sharp ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Back-to-school time: Has technology made ...
    Thousands of students are already back in school. Thousands more will return this week. But Toronto Sun columnist Dahlia Kurtz has a concern. She thinks the explosion of technology has lowered the standards for school-age children. She writes: âWhile there are positives to the proliferation ...
  • Stanford study finds organic food is safe ...
    Related topics food safetyHealth & FitnessOrganic LifestyleHouseholdhealthy livingGardening Advertisement A newly-released study by Stanford University sifted through data from 223 research papers in an effort to compare organic and conventionally grown food. They found that organically ...
  • UK retailers get no Olympic joy in August
    LONDON (AP) — Retail sales in Britain fell in August, disappointing hopes that the Olympic Games in London would provide a boost....
  • Why women beat men when it comes to picki ...
    Tweet London, September 4 (ANI): Women are not wrong if they think they can better decorate a house than their husbands, and men can also boast about their computer gaming skills. Scientists say women are better able to tell fine differences between colours, but men are better at keeping an ...
  • Hulk: Zenit deal came as a surprise to me
    The Brazilian attacker says that he is very pleased to have moved to the Russian champions, but has admitted that the move was rather unexpected for him...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
  • Tokyo’s Katsumi
    Japan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
  • Women’s Migraines
    Carol Cruzan Morton Migraines are a battle of the sexes that women might prefer not winning. Each year, roughly three times more women than men—up to 18% of all women—suffer from the debilitating headaches, as tallied by epidemiological surveys in Europe and the United States. A new brain imagin ...
  • Make Love
    Sara Wheeler This stimulating book examines the ways in which legal systems have attempted to regulate sexual activity over millennia, from the ‘slow impalement of unfaithful wives’ in Mesopotamia to the ‘sterilisation of masturbators’ in the United States. ‘I have ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Lessons from across the pond?
    When it comes to scientific research, the US and UK are the world’s undisputed heavyweights (see Rising Above the Gathering Storm and The Scientific Century).  The US invests heavily in quality research, and the UK relies on its productivity and ability to punch well above its weight.  Both nati ...
  • Sowing the seed corn…
    Having worked in environment and sustainable development policy for the past couple of years, my recent foray into the world of science and innovation policy represents something of a paradigm shift. Thankfully, the GovNet Science & Innovation conference presented me with an opportune idiot’ ...
  • A timely contribution to a fractious debate
    For a nation that’s only drilled three shale gas wells, and only hydraulically fractured (‘fracked’) one of them, the UK is remarkably engaged in the shale gas debate. The reasons for this are manifold, but two seem particularly salient.  Firstly, the UK’s lone instance of fracking for shale gas ...
  • Science’s Olympic legacy
    Credit: johnthescone Earlier this week I attended a Parliamentary Links Day on the subject of Science and Sport.  As an armchair athlete and a bit of an equipment geek I was looking forward to fuelling my conviction that but for the will and resources I would currently be entering my pre-Olympic ...
  • Making an open enterprise work
    Calls for media, business or government transparency have never been so noisy or so widespread. The mantra “sunlight is the best of disinfectants” (usually attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) has been picked up as a cure for bad governance across the piece. But there is an err ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...

TruthNews Australia

  • International news and analysis with George Ge ...
    Part 2 of International news and analysis with George Georgios
  • International news and analysis with George Ge ...
    Today's show covers a variety of both local and international news with our in-studio guest Georgios. Some of the topics covered include developments in the Assange stand-off in London, and a final ruling in the protracted civil lawsuit over the death in Gaza of activist Rachel Corrie. We al ...
  • Public grief over deaths of 5 Australian soldi ...
    5 Australian soldiers killed and the media/government oligarchy are engaging in a paroxysm of fake grief - really just a form of propaganda. Obama kills dozens of innocents in drone attacks every week and the media doesn't give a rat's backside. They talk about "rogue attacks" as if this is ...
  • Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and ...
    Part 2 of Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and Julian Assange
  • Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and ...
    Today's show is cram packed with discussion, analysis and interviews. In the first hour we have a four way discussion between the host, Hereward Fenton, Leon Pittard of Fair Dinkum radio and regulars John Bursill and Josh Jackson. The topic of our discussion is the current stand-off between ...

Beacon

  • Victory: Power Plant Defeated in Chile
    Seagrass near where the power plant would have been built. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen  Great news from Chile: A planned coal-fired plant, located dangerously close to several biodiverse marine habitats, was shot down by the Chilean Supreme Court on Tuesday. Coal-powered thermoelectric po ...
  • Ocean Health Gets a Failing Grade
    The oceans scored a disheartening 60 out of 100 on the Ocean Health Index.  It’s no secret that the health of our oceans is under extreme threat. With dangers like overfishing, climate change and ocean acidification, keeping our oceans healthy is a complex problem that has proved diffic ...
  • Video: How Seismic Testing Works
    We've been working to stop proposed seismic testing in the Atlantic, which could injure marine mammals such as the endangered right whale. But seismic testing is a pretty hard thing to visualize, so I asked one of our marine scientists, Matt Huelsenbeck, to draw it for us.  He could use s ...
  • Q&A: Alexandra Cousteau
    The new issue of Oceana magazine is hot off the presses! In this issue, I interviewed Oceana senior advisor Alexandra Cousteau, who also graces this issue's cover.  The granddaughter of famed ocean explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alexandra doesn’t take her family legacy lig ...
  • Tonight: Ted Danson Narrates ‘Great White Highway’
    There is still a lot of mystery surrounding great white sharks. ©Terry Goss Shark Week is almost over, but one of the most exciting shows of the year is airing tonight. Tonight at 9 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific) tune in to Discovery Channel to watch “Great White Highway,” which follows the ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • “A Shotgun Is Just Like A Shoe,” K ...
          Shooter Kim Rhode brought home her fifth medal in the Olympics in skeet shooting. First it was Atlanta, then Barcelona, then Athens and then Beijing. Now she took a gold home for skeet shooting with a new shotgun, an Italian Perazzi. This is a story about her shotgun.   ...
  • The Imperial Russian Evstafi Class Battleship ...
    Ioann Zlatoust was an Evstafi class battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was the last of the pre-dreadnought battleships to be built in the west and served in the Black Sea Fleet. She was the second ship of the Evstafi class. This particular ship engaged the German battlecruiser SMS Goeb ...
  • The Normandie-Niemen Squadrons.
    The Normandie-Niemen Squadrons were Free French combat pilots that flew missions against the Nazis for and from Russia. They flew 869 missions and scored 273 victories with 37 non-certified shoot-downs. French pilots were flying the Soviet Yakovlev 1, and fast nimble and easy to fly fighter that ...
  • The Amazing Rich Culture Of Brothels And Prost ...
      Rome was surprisingly progressive regarding prostitution. They saw sex as a human drive that does not necessarily imprecate those who take part in it. Some believe that a bacchanalian cult from somewhere else brought the celebration and constant access of sexual congress in the second cen ...
  • “Le Pantalon Rouge, C’est La France!”
        Ancient battlefields were inundated with colorful uniforms, tall easily visible hats festooned with tassles and feathers, ornate unit flags, horns, and all of these attention getting and vibrant vestments were simply ways for warriors to identify where they were on a battlefield, a ...

Taylor Marsh

  • The Democratic Convention LIVE
    GATHER ‘ROUND. It’s on. First Lady Michelle Obama will also speak tonight. Team Obama has released the following video of spotlighting San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro’s mentor, his mom. It comes as we await his historic speech tonight.
  • Romney Releases “Another Broken Promise” After ...
    “My point was not to lay blame on a plant shutdown, but this is yet another example of the president’s broken promises,” added the GOP vice presidential candidate. “In 2008, he traveled all around the country making promises he would break, just like in Janesville.” [Politico] AFTER PAUL RYAN&#8 ...
  • Julian Castro’s Moment Reflects the Era of Obama
    **UPDATED VIDEO FROM TEAM OBAMA** Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com IT’S A BIG night for the mayor of San Antonio, Julian Castro, who will give the keynote speech tonight. Sen. Marco Rubio is good, but Mayor Julian Castro has serious game and without Rubio’s baggage, with m ...
  • Now Playing Charlotte: The ‘Uber-Contrived Rea ...
    My first thought when I saw the news about the Democratic National Convention Streaming the entire event (see Taylor’s post here): that’s to keep the peanut gallery – where most of us reside, including the delegates to a pre-determined, scripted convention – under the illusion that we’re a part ...
  • News Desk: Al Jazeera Website Hacked by Pro-Sy ...
    “We have hacked you because your lack of support of Syrian government and militant groups backed by that government. Al Jazeera has been spreading lies. We’re compelled to do so on behalf of the Syrian people.” [GIZMODO] THERE WAS SOME confusion about whether it was the .com or ...

Hudson New York

  • Jordan's King Abdullah Declares War on Internet
    Is Jordan's King Abdullah trying to hide something from his people and the rest of the world? Last week, the king managed to alienate journalists, bloggers and human rights and political activists by allowing his government to amend a law so it could
  • Egypt: Kill a Christian, Collect a Reward
    Recently an Egyptian Muslim posted a YouTube videotape of himself cursing Islam and its holy book, the Koran; then tearing it to pieces and throwing it in the garbage. Here are excerpts of what he said: There it is, Allah's book; this is the basic
  • Eight Reasons Why Containment Is Not an Option ...
    1. Iran's regime is outspokenly dedicated to the goal of destroying the State of Israel. Iranian political, religious, and military leaders have expressed their desire to annihilate Israel at every opportunity they have received. Iran's supreme leader,
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: July, 2012
    Several reports appearing in July indicate that Christian minorities all around the Muslim world—especially women and children—are being abducted, tortured, raped, forced to convert to Islam, and/or enslaved. In Egypt, at least 550 such cases have been
  • US Security Interests in Egypt
    How much recent events have eroded U.S. security interests in Egypt depends on how deeply rooted those interests were in the first place. Although the Mubarak government did some things we wanted it to do, it did other things that were anathema. Mubarak,

Urban Survival

  • Dart-Tossing Tuesday
    What a load-a crap in the news this morning!  Since the US market was closed for Labor Day, the rest of the world was a somewhat rational place Monday.  But, that’s not likely to last very long.  For one thing, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Dental Cowardice
    I spent the entire night dreaming about (of all things) bad breath.  Now, that’s not the usual fare for me.  Normally I’m playing in these marvelous 3-dimensional/nearly real dreams with all kinds of neat stuff going on (flying, massively cool … Continue reading →
  • Labor Day: The Prozac Nation’s Mindless ...
      Go ahead…pill up!  Enjoy this Labor Day to its fullest, because this is one of those American traditions which economists (like me?) can absolutely guarantee is headed for the scrap heap of history.  Not that we want it to, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Coming Quakes and Flares
    OK, on to the serious side of things this morning.  Patrick Geryl who got close enough to call last week’s quake predictions a hit has sent me his latest work which may give us some hints as to what’s ahead… … Continue reading →
  • A Super-Prepper Hint?
    OK, maybe this isn’t the first financial story of the day, or maybe it is THE DEFINING HINT.  Going to let you figure that out but here’s the story:  “Remote Alaska to Stockpile food, just in case…“   Parnell’s Lunch … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Scorecard for the Sea: The Ocean Health Index
    Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco Wincing from the cold of the ocean spray on his face, a fisherman hauls ice-covered crab pots from the frozen waters of the Bering Sea. Half a world away, beneath warm waves a tour guide leads her ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC *Please Note: NRDC's weekly Latin America news round-up will not be posted for the next two weeks, as our staff will be traveling. We will return on the week of Sept. 17-21. Thanks for reading! ...
  • LADWP resolves to build clean, cheap, local en ...
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica On August 7, LADWP adopted guiding principles for the development and implementation of its energy efficiency portfolio.  The resolution commits LADWP to "aggr ...
  • Boston and New York Are Turning Climate Change ...
    Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Although the federal and state governments have an integral role when it comes to planning and preparing for the impacts of a changing climate, cities are the ones on the front lines.  Municipali ...
  • India Environmental News Compilation, August 2 ...
    Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Climate Ministry Objects to Panel’s Climate Draft, Funds Proposal “The Environment Ministry has asked the Planning Commission to re-write the ent ...

Injustice Everywhere

Total Collapse

  • Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mex ...
    A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. It is only the second time sin ...
  • Russian warships hold drills in Mediterranean
    A Russian joint naval task force on a training mission in the Mediterranean has conducted two-day tactical exercises with live-firing drills, the defense ministry said. The task force comprises three large amphibious assault ships, two Neustrashimy class frigates, an Udaloy class destroyer and t ...
  • 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Iran
    At least 87 people have been killed and 600 others injured in magnitude 6.4 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks that rocked Iran’s northwestern provinces. On Saturday, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the city of Ahar, near East Azerbaijan’s provincial capital Tabriz at 15:53 loca ...
  • 87 dead and hundreds injured after two quakes ...
    Two strong quakes have shaken Iran’s northwest, leaving 87 people dead and over 400 injured, according to the country’s state television. The quakes have also disrupted communications, complicating rescue efforts. The quakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck near th ...
  • The US Civil War of 2016
    U.S. military officers are told to plan to fight Americans Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles. At issue is an article in the r ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Paid Contractor Position: Development and Rela ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) is a community and volunteer-based climate and renewable energy think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based ...
  • Trigeneration: Sydney's white elephant
    Matt Wright The City of Sydney is comparing apples with oranges when it promotes its Trigeneration Master Plan (designed in partnership with Origin Energy and subsidiary Cogent Energy) as cleaner than burning coal in centralised power plants. Beyond Zero Emissions’ fundamental criticism of the ...
  • Gas industry in denial over carbon emissions
    MEDIA RELEASE 4th September 2012 Industry talk of developing an industry in “low emissions” coal-seam gas is a fantasy, according to renewable energy and climate think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Yesterday, the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) released their  Austra ...
  • Clouding a bright solar thermal future
    The July 31 Australian Energy Technology Assessment from the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics has been hailed by the government, and renewable energy advocates, as a step forward for Australia’s ‘clean energy future’. It is true that the estimates in the AETA are an improvement over t ...
  • Santos’ shale gas adventure to slug SA househo ...
    Santos’ foray into expensive shale gas will increase household bills by a whopping $263 each year. Santos has admitted that shale gas will double the wholesale price of gas, adding $163 to average gas bills, but neglected to mention ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Tigers and humans can coexist, says study
    Humans and tigers can coexist in the same area with minimal conflict, finds a new study that raises hopes for big cat conservation.
  • Forest expands 3% in Colombia during 2000s, bu ...
    Colombia gained nearly 17,000 square kilometers of forest between 2001 and 2010 as forests recovered in mountainous regions in the Andes, reports a new study published in the journal PLoS One.
  • Bolivia should prioritize cattle ranching, law ...
    Bolivia should prioritize environmental law enforcement and slowing expansion of large-scale cattle ranching to reduce Amazon deforestation, argues a study published last month by researchers from Germany and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
  • New contest seeks for-profit efforts to save r ...
    The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Switzerland has kick-started a new contest to award innovative ideas devoted to protecting tropical forests. Focusing on for-profit enterprises, the Tropical Forest Challenge will reward the best idea, startup, and company as voted by the public.
  • Tiger and cubs filmed near proposed dam in Tha ...
    A tigress and two cubs have been filmed by remote camera trap in a forest under threat by a $400 million dam in Thailand. To be built on the Mae Wong River, the dam imperils two Thai protected areas, Mae Wong National Park and Huay Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, according to the World Wide Fund ...

Sierra Express

  • A Call for Female Participation in Sierra Leon ...
    Women for Political Change (WCP) on Saturday September 1st called on all women to take the forefront alongside their male counterparts in the politics of the country. The organization which is based in Bo, southern Sierra Leone, is formed purely on the motive of encouraging women to build confid ...
  • A Man of the People… Sierra Leone’s President ...
    Leadership with much exception to other roles and statuses is a divine appointment that can never be purchased from a shopkeeper. Shopkeeper represents our wants and needs and of course we cannot possibly access our needs in this current planet of worries without the availability of legal tender ...
  • Peace returns to Gbonkolenken Chiefdom in Sier ...
    The people of Gbonkolenken Chiefdom in the Tonkolili District have demonstrated their willingness to join the president’s call for attitudinal and behavioural change. It can be recalled that allegations and counter allegations were made against the incumbent Member of Parliament, Hon. David Bai ...
  • Chinese Embassy donates to SLAJ
    Freetown – The National Secretariat of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists wishes to inform its members and the general public that it has received a donation of two desktop computers, two printers, two Nokia mobile phones and a carton of 100 black T-shirts from the Chinese Ambassador in ...
  • ABC Secretariat thank NATCOM
    The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat wishes to express its profound thanks and appreciation to the Management and Staff of the National Telecommunications Commission-NATCOM who were the sole sponsors of the programme.  To all invitees and participants of the One Day Workshop ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • A2 Corp doubles profit as sales soar in Australia
    A2 Corp, which claims a health benefit from the protein variant in its milk, more than doubled annual profit by expanding in Australia and is looking at building its footprint in China and Britain for its next stage of growth.Net...
  • Big dry fuels dairy price rise
    After falling for seven months in a row export commodity prices picked up last month, led by dairy products and beef.ANZ's commodity price index rose 0.5 per cent in world price terms, but a stronger exchange rate wiped out the...
  • NZ business earnings up in 2011, says Stats NZ
    Increased overseas demand for New Zealand's milk powder, butter and cheese helped increase business earnings for 2011.Statistics New Zealand's annual ent
  • Baby formula rips off NZ Inc
    Kiwi exporters are fuming at Chinese infant formula makers falsely claiming their product is made in New Zealand.Around 20 Chinese manufacturers blatantly tried to pass off their infant formula as New Zealand-made at a major Mother...
  • Govt dividend down as Landcorp profit dips
    Landcorp, the country's biggest farming company, said its operating profit fell 36 per cent and was forecast to halve in the current year with prices expected to be generally lower.The state-owned farmer said its operating profit...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Democrats Have (Nominally) Changed Their Tune ...
    While political party platforms usually mean little or nothing when it comes to the actual policies proposed and rammed down or throats by real-life lawmakers, they are an important indicator of what party apparatchiks think the public — the persuadable part of the public, anyway — w ...
  • Reason Staff Live Tweets the 2012 Democratic C ...
    Pour your cocktails or crack open that beer and join us as the Reason staff tweets about the first day of the 2012 Democratic Convention. The day's schedule is here. Highlights include a Jimmy Carter tribute video in the first hour and Michelle Obama speaking in the 10 o' clock hour ...
  • Democrats Vow to Amend the Constitution “If Ne ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court gets only two shout-outs in the 2012 Democratic National Platform, and you will probably not be surprised to hear that one of them involves demagoguing the Court’s free speech ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. As the platform puts it: ...
  • "The Government Is the Only Thing That We All ...
    From today's convention program videos: And you silly rubes think the government belongs to us. (Hat tip to Julian Sanchez)
  • The No Agenda Election
    CHARLOTTE - The message from the Obama White House is that the 2012 election offers a stark choice between radically different visions for the country. And yet if you look at the campaigns the two major party candidates are actually running, the core argument is almost exactly the sa ...

Mercury Rising

  • MN GOP’s Photo ID Amendment Hits Minneso ...
    First it was Rice County. Then it was Kittson County. Now, as BSP’s Sally Jo Sorensen notes, yet more parts of greater Minnesota are noticing the huge holes that the state Republicans’ “Photo ID” vote-restriction amendment would blow into their budgets –budgets that ...
  • The most important news of the last week
    Rev. Sun Myung Moon Dead; Unification Church Founder Dies At 92 This man is responsible for a great number of evil deeds. See for example Robert Parry. Whether the remaining empire will go in a more positive direction or will simply continue to do more and more wrong remains to be seen. What is ...
  • Hayes ICE Lawsuit Bait-And-Switch: Why Didn&#8 ...
    Of all the things that can be said about the bizarre lawsuit brought by James T. Hayes, who is being worshiped as a god by by various right-wing Obama haters nationwide as his story is pushed by the New York Post and other right-wing presses, here are the things that stand out for me: 1) [...]
  • Bookmarked for later review: organized crime a ...
    A fascinating look inside the Japanese nuclear industry and its dependence on organized crime by Richard Wilcox.
  • Bookmarked for later review: organized crime a ...
    A fascinating look inside the Japanese nuclear industry and its dependence on organized crime by Richard Wilcox.

Reality Sandwich

  • Lasers Uncover the World
    Oh, for the love of lasers! When they're not busy animating our favorite concerts or annoying our pets, the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation serves far greater purposes. For the past half-century, lasers have aided in efficiency for countless areas of industry, medic ...
  • Evolutionary Astrology
    Ari Moshe Wolfe will be a special guest for "Galactic Alignments: Charting the Soul's Journey Through Astrology," a live interactive video course hosted by Adam Elenbaas. It starts on September 16. For more information, click here. This intention of this article is to expla ...
  • Gone to Burning Man '12
    This week, while much of the Reality Sandwich team decamps for the Burning Man Festival in Gerlach, Nevada, we offer a selection of noteworthy articles that appeared on the site earlier this year. We'll be back on Tuesday, September 4. Enjoy!   read more
  • Air Fuel
    Those of you who are around 25-30 years old and grew up in Britain may remember a kids TV show called Aquila. It was about two boys who found a small, pod-like alien craft that ran on air. Well, this type of vehicle, or at least power source, is finally here!  read more
  • The Man Behind the Kirtan: A Talk with Krishn ...
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Desertification

  • Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sc ...
    Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius – unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains. “I sold more than 70 air-conditioners in just one month,” Ahmed, who ru ...
  • Whose Timber is it Anyway?
    With Pakistan’s last major stands of deodar (cedar) threatened by a ‘timber mafia’, the local people in the Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are resorting to direct action to stop the denudation of their picturesque alpine homeland. Since April, the community in Ayun town has been ...
  • Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews PER BERTILSSON, acting executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute
  • Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper ...
    Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe. The Aug. 20-26 protests in Tampa were organised to draw attention to the Republican Part ...
  • U.S. Drought Exposes “Hydro-Illogical&#8 ...
    The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term. On Friday, the U.S. Agriculture Department said that corn yields – which ac ...

Blogging Canadians

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Press TV - Middle East

  • ‘Arms suppliers increase misery in Syria’
    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the countries supplying arms to Syria are only increasing the misery in the country.
  • ‘Air raids on Yemen serve Saudi goals’
    A US journalist says the United States’ assassination drone strikes in Yemen are part of a bigger scheme to help Saudi Arabia keep its tiny and impoverished neighbor divided.
  • Pro-govt. demonstrator slain in Syria
    Foreign-sponsored insurgents have killed a pro-government citizen who had joined hundreds of people at a demonstration held on the outskirts of Damascus to express support for President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
  • Two Israeli drones buzz over Lebanon
    Two Israeli reconnaissance drones have penetrated Lebanese airspace and flown over areas of the country in blatant violation of a UN Security Council resolution.
  • Israeli bomb kills woman in Lebanon
    A woman has been killed and a soldier seriously injured after an unexploded cluster bomb detonated in Nabatiye Governorate in southern Lebanon, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Search the Sky
    Recently, I a friend told me that we were moving into the ‘Age of Aquarius” and I should be on the lookout for major positive changes in my life. Only vaguely aware of the concepts behind astrology and the planetary sign under which I was born, I simply laughed her statement away and asked if [...]
  • What I Did On My Summer Vacation
    I know I could graduate two or more semesters early if only I would take summer classes. But I won’t. Two courses a semester on top of working full-time and trying to have a life (and have some fun!) is too stressful and I need the three-month break from formal education, tests, papers, discussi ...
  • Stepping Up: The Summer of 2012
    Recently, while browsing the CUNY SPS Community Blog, I noticed a post by Ms. Shannon Gallo in which she posed the oft-asked question of “What did you do this summer?” Although I have heard this question countless times before, just as I am sure most of us have, it never fails to catch my attent ...
  • Running for the Cure: Fundraising 101
    With the start of the Fall 2012 semester this week, those of us who took the summer off are quickly reminded of the juggling we will need to do in order to maintain our family responsibilities and jobs. Schedules need to be re-arranged, social outings declined or cancelled, and sometimes we have ...
  • New Age Parenting
    Parenting is an energy consuming challenge in the best of times. This past year I haven’t been employed outside my home, giving me a chance to spend a year as a stay-at-home mom for the first time since my 18 year old was a baby. It was eye opening to say the least. I had [...]

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • ADAM vs. THE MAN catches up with two slightly ...
      Tagged: Adam Kokesh, Adam vs. The Man, alternative news, latest alternative news, Libertarians, Teat Party, USMC
  • Activist Put On Terror Watchlist To Prevent Hi ...
    An activist was designated as a terror suspect, put on a watchlist and arrested, ostensibly it seems to prevent him attending a protest at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. Charlotte resident and activist James Tyson was arrested on Sunday after his name showed up on a ...
  • Debunked: Ridiculous Study Claims Organic Same ...
    The latest study to demonize foods free of GMO ingredients and mercury-containing high-fructose corn syrup once again fails to accurately address key aspects of the conventional verses organic debate and falls short of properly addressing the limited scope of concerns it does attempt to analyze. ...
  • Half man, half machine: Scientists engineer fi ...
    It like it’s something out of a science-fiction movie – genius scientists engineer a synthetic skin that’s part living, part electronics. But scientists at Harvard University have done just that, creating meshes of electronic and biological tissue. The end result is cyborg tissue, which is ...
  • Half man, half machine: Scientists engineer fi ...
    It like it’s something out of a science-fiction movie – genius scientists engineer a synthetic skin that’s part living, part electronics. But scientists at Harvard University have done just that, creating meshes of electronic and biological tissue. The end result is cyborg tissue, which is ...

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Community Scores New Win in Legal Battle Again ...
    A Chilean Supreme Court decision ordering a halt to the construction of the Castilla thermoelectric power plant has sparked a debate over the country’s energy security. The authorities and some specialists claim that if projects of this size are not allowed to go through, national development wi ...
  • How to Get People to Make More Babies in Singapore
    How to get Singaporeans to have more babies has become a major part of the debate about this country’s future, and the government is encouraging people to speak out on the issue. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in his national day speech on Aug. 26, assured this nation of four million people tha ...
  • Declaration of War in Mato Grosso do Sul
    The land conflict between the Guaraní-Kaiowá indigenous people and large landowners in the southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul is a powder keg ready to explode, say observers. Nísio Gomes, Jenivaldo Vera, Rolindo Vera, Teodoro Ricardi, Ortiz and Xurete Lopes are just a few of the ...
  • Nearer the Church, Farther From MDGs
    When Philippines President Benigno Aquino III delivered his annual state of the union address in July, he appealed to the country’s lawmakers to break a  deadlock on progressive birth control laws in this predominantly Catholic nation. An estimated 15 Filipina women currently die from pregnancy- ...
  • Angola’s “Free and Fair” Elections Could Be Co ...
    Question marks hang over the legitimacy of Angola’s general election as Africa’s second-longest serving leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos has won a five-year term in office following his party’s landslide victory. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) – which has ruled Ango ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Understanding the IAEA inspection standards fo ...
    Summary: The NonProliferation Treaty -- which Iran signed in 1968 -- has three "pillars". First, is that the "recognized" nuclear-armed countries (China, US, Russia, France, Britain -- collectively known as the nuclear weapon states or NWS) must work towards their own disarmament. This of cou ...
  • "Striking Iran may endanger Israel's future"
    Summary: Former judge lashes out at Barak, Netanyahu for ignoring advice of defense establishment; Mofaz: PM is "confused, unfocused." source: CASMIIread more
  • NAM Leaders Support Iran
    Summary: After six historic days, over 100 participating nations expressed support for common interests as well as host country Iran. The New York Times said NAM "handed….Iran a diplomatic victory." source: Independent Media Bay Arearead more
  • Non-Aligned Movement: Iran's Real Achievements
    Summary: The 16th Summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which had started out on August 26, wrapped up on Friday, August 31, with Iran officially assuming rotational presidency of the movement for the next three years. In addition to the fact that global media focus on this Summit ...
  • IRANIAN SOFT POWER, LAKHDAR BRAHIMI, AND THE P ...
    Summary: Hillary notes that the rise of Tehran’s regional influence over the last decade has little to do with hard power. (As CNN’s Nicole Dow documents, “the numbers would certainly seem to bear this out. Last year, Saudi Arabia reportedly purchased as much as six times as much military e ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Unsolved Mystery of Molecules Found in Androme ...
    In the summer of 2011, a team of NASA and European scientists recorded the "fingerprints" of mystery molecules in two distant galaxies, Andromeda and the Triangulum (image above). Astronomers can count on one hand the number of galaxies examined so...
  • Binary-Star Systems may be 'Hot Zones' for Lif ...
    "Star-Wars" like Tatooine binary-star worlds may prove to be hot spots for the existence of smaller, rockier planets at distances where liquid water can exist. NASA's Kepler mission has just discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first...
  • "A New Species" of Strange Weirdly-Shaped Gala ...
    A full-sky survey by Nasa's wide-field Wise telescope turned up about 1,000 hot, dust-obscured galaxies, each of which emit as much light as 100 trillion sun-like stars. The objects are rare, accounting for about one in 100,000 light sources, and...
  • Image of the Day: Jupiter's Ganymede --Only Mo ...
    Some scientists have seen the ultimate sky show, and the fact that the sky isn't ours only makes it cooler. Gas giant Jupiter features some epic aurora beyond-borealis (and ultra-australis) and the causes make ours look like two small sparklers...
  • Origins of Supermassive Black Holes --Formed 1 ...
    The first supermassive black holes were formed shortly after the "Big Bang". That is the conclusion reached by an international research group led in 2011 by Prof. Lucio Mayer from the University of Zurich. The supermassive black holes were formed...

Natural News

  • Zombified government workers and regulation en ...
    Tyranny is upon us. But tyranny isn't put in place by some all-powerful evil force that suddenly assaults our freedoms; it's ratcheted up one day at a time by the People themselves -- the government workers who are willing to do anything as long as they're told "it's...
  • Flawed organic foods study really just a media ...
    If you read the mainstream news headlines today, you might be shocked to see headlines that say things like, "Organic foods no healthier than conventional foods" or "Organic foods may not be healthier for you." You'll see these headlines all across the usual disinfo...
  • Backpacks: Tips to avoid pain and discomfort g ...
    With school underway or just around the corner, it's important to consider your child's workload. Not only will they have new classmates, extra-curricular obligations, and homework; but an increasing number of students are experiencing neck, shoulder, and low back pain...
  • An apple a day keeps diabetes at bay?
    Obesity is a growing problem in North American, with over one fifth of school-aged children and adolescents classified as overweight, and roughly 35 percent of adults considered clinically obese. Obesity related medical complications account for roughly 10 percent of...
  • Is saturated fat really a deadly nutrient?
    Many doctors and health experts vilify dietary fat, urging everyone to cut down on the macronutrient in favor of low fat alternatives. Even more common is for health experts to talk about good fats and bad fats. More often than not, saturated fat is at the top of the...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Release 1 Million Apple Device IDs Sto ...
    The hacker group AntiSec has released 1 million Apple device IDs that they say they obtained from an FBI computer they hacked.
  • Dems Release Voter Registration Apps, Includin ...
    The Democrats released two new web-friendly apps to help citizens register to vote - including one that's free for anyone to modify as they like -- including Republicans.
  • Broadcasters Defeat TV Streaming Service
    A federal appeals court is dealing a death blow to an upstart service that streams broadcast television over the internet, ruling that ivi Inc. is not a cable system and therefore is not protected by the Copyright Act.
  • Murder Suspect Allegedly Used GPS Tracker to F ...
    A North Carolina man is facing first-degree murder charges after using a GPS tracker to follow his estranged wife to the home of a man he then shot.
  • TSA Denies Stonewalling Nude Body-Scanner Cour ...
    The Transportation Security Administration denied Thursday it was stonewalling a federal appeals court's year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Who Killed Washington? Republicans Caught Red- ...
    On the eve of Barack Obama's address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a media cottage industry has emerged examining why the President "failed to change the tone in Washington." Writing in the Washington Post, Dan Balz asked, "Was there a way around united Republican opposition?" and ...
  • Labor Day Greetings from Mitt Romney
    The labor movement, as its supporters rightly say, is just the folks who brought you the weekend. Now as Americans mark this Labor Day, it seems that Mitt Romney wants to take it back. After all, the man who said that "corporations are people, my friend" routinely decries the "crony capitalism ...
  • Which Party is Best for the Economy? It's Not ...
    If for nothing else, you have to give Republican leaders and their conservative echo chamber credit for staying on message. After Paul Ryan famously declared the America was becoming a nation of "makers versus takers," Jeb Bush praised Ryan's defense of "the right to rise" supposedly now under ...
  • Romney Goes AWOL on Afghanistan
    In his meticulously choreographed entry into the convention hall last night, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney greeted the assembled delegates to convey the feel of a State of the Union address. But any resemblance to a Commander-in-Chief last night ended there. With tens of thousands ...
  • Jeb Bush Complains Even as Dubya, Mitt Still C ...
    By all appearances, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush hopes use his Republican National Convention address to rehabilitate his brother's shattered reputation. After claiming on Sunday that it was "unbecoming" for Barack Obama to continue to "blame others" for the economic calamity he inherited f ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • No Papers, No Fear: Busload of Undocumented Im ...
    A busload of more than 40 undocumented immigrants and their supporters known as the Undocubus has arrived in Charlotte after traveling more than 2,000 miles, through 11 states, to deliver a message to President Barack Obama and the Democrats under the slogan of "No Papers, No Fear." In many of t ...
  • Why Did the Dems Choose Charlotte? Examining O ...
    Duke Energy, the nation's largest utility, has played a major role in bringing the Democratic National Convention to Charlotte, North Carolina. Duke has a lot riding on future policies governing coal, nuclear energy and climate change, regardless of who wins November's election. The company has ...
  • Diverse Causes Join Forces in Charlotte to Kic ...
    On Sunday ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, more than 1,000 people gathered for a March on Wall Street South. Before the march kicked off speakers from organizations around the country gathered in Charlotte's Frazier Park. We hear some of their voices. [Transcript to come ...
  • Bright Lights of Charlotte's DNC Cast Shadow O ...
    In the shadow of the world headquarters of Bank of America and the media frenzy surrounding the Democratic National Convention, we look at a side of Charlotte you will not see this week in the network coverage -- the city's poor. We're joined by Charlotte Observer reporter Fred Clasen-Kelly. Cla ...
  • Baldemar Velasquez Draws on Years of Farm Work ...
    Baldemar Velásquez, founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee of the AFL-CIO, has been organizing migrant workers since he worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. An Ohio delegate at the Democratic National Convention, Velasquez has been working to organize migran ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Evolution Of The Mustard Plant
    Wild mustard plants vary widely in terms of the level and variation of their spiciness. Until now the reasons for these variations wasn’t well understood. Now, in new work from Duke University researchers have “figured out why some of those wild mustard plants vary as much as they do ...
  • No-Till Farming Helps Capture Snow and Soil Water
    By using no-till farming practices farmers can increase their snow coverage in winter and “boost dryland crop productivity in the summer,” according to new research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). “Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist David Huggins ...
  • $4.1 Billion for Electric Vehicles and Hybrids ...
      Electric and hybrid vehicle production is receiving a very large boost in India courtesy of their national government. Just over $4 billion will be invested in green vehicles over the next eight years. The goal is to have six million environmentally-friendly vehicles in operation by 2020. ...
  • Human Bacteria and Soil Bacteria Swap Antibiot ...
    The bacteria that live in soil and bacteria that are known to cause human diseases have recently exchanged at least seven key antibiotic-resistance genes, according to researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers are suggesting that more studies are ...
  • NASA’s WISE Survey Finds Millions Of Black Holes
    Millions of black holes have now been discovered thanks to NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The WISE mission has led to the discovery of “newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.” Images taken by the te ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • If this is true...
    By @BGinKC A few weeks ago, when fulminating about Mitt Romney's tax returns -- you know, the ones that have a greater right to privacy than my vagina -- I quipped that he might very well be the first candidate in history to campaign his way into a cell in a federal lockup. If this is true -- ...
  • A Labor Day Warning About Job Scams
    Ever heard the old adage that if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is? I recently joined the ranks of America's unemployed, and that bit of wisdom is coming in quite handy for me as my job search heats up. There are job scams galore out there, and if you've got e-mail addresses involved ...
  • A Quick Note For MY RW Facebook Friends
    By @TomBales1Just wanted to let you all know a few things all you antiunion and antilabor types might not be giving much thought as you busy yourself on your day off on this Labor Day by posting support for those who seek nothing but to undo everything that has ever been done for the working sti ...
  • Yes we should blame George W. Bush for current ...
    By @TedFrier I like to read conservative economists from time to time just to keep track of what the other side is saying and to see what I may be missing, and so I began reading Robert J. Samuelson of the Washington Post this morning with high hopes. I should have stuck with the comics instead. ...
  • Monday Morning Quad Shot
    By @BGinKC I'm sticking with the Monday-morning schedule for this, even though the long weekend isn't over until tomorrow because I'm pretty sure I'll be up to my eyeballs in school and the convention for the rest of the week. So without further ado, here are the things that caught my attention ...

Care 2

  • Misinformation In Psychiatry
    A no-nonsense short new video by Dr. Terry Lynch, medical doctor and psychotherapist, stating fact after fact about the myths and misinformation people have about the field of Psychiatry, 'brain chemical imbalances', and psychiatric drugs. Submitted by Kenneth L. to Health & Wellness  | ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Why America and Israel Are the G ...
    It is not easy to escape from ones skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Lets take a few examples. Submitted by Carrie B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Lorax-themed educational resources released fo ...
    Its the start of a brand new school year. And what better way to connect children to their natural surroundings than with an interactive media campaign, featuring a beloved character? Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • A mixed bag for animal welfare
    The first report on our five ground-breaking pledges has revealed progress on dog legislation, but is also showing a worrying increase in the import of live reptiles. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 10 Photos that Will Make You Love Pit Bulls
    For a breed that's not even really a breed, Pit Bulls sure get a lot of press. Pit Bull, a generic term, may refer to any number of breeds: the Staffordshire Bull Submitted by SUE BARKO H. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Thirteen Keys to Romney’s Historic Win
    Years ago—a lifetime ago—I was a graduate student of Professor Allan Lichtman, author of 13 Keys to the presidency. Lichtman, to his credit, has not been a media whore like Larry Sabato. In fact, I’m sure most people will not even recognize his name and likely have not even heard of his 13 keys. ...
  • “Keep The Dream” (a 2013 Calendar) * Monday/T ...
    These are actual images of pages from the 2013 (!) calendar that vendors are selling at the Democratic convention. Someone is rather optimistic. Did any Republican vendors sell such merchandise at the GOP convention in Tampa last week? (Do you think that the Republicans would even give such a ve ...
  • Paul Ryan Proved Obama and Democrats are Liars
    Want further proof of the ignorance and desperation of the Democrats? Look no further than their frenzy in the aftermath of Paul Ryan leveling a charge about the closing of the GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin in 2009. Here’s the Dem claim courtesy of the inmates at Big Orange: And now? H ...
  • Where Have The Jobs Gone? Reposted
    This is a reprint of a Labor Day post I wrote two years ago.  I ran it again last year on Labor Day.  I’m running it again, not because I’m too lazy to come up with something new, but because I have the day off, so…   No, really, I’m posting it again because I think [...]
  • Nothing to See Here, Move Along
    As I described in my Friday post (Obama Goes to Gunfight with No Ammo), the absurd Democrat theater is up and running and it is hysterical. The Dems are scurrying frantically like rats on crack dumped on a scalding hot metal roof. The Democrat dilemma is this–Do they admit that the Obama r ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Environmental clubs react to university ties w ...
    Environmental clubs react to university ties with PNC, fracking University of Delaware Review “There were students handing out leaflets, information about mountaintop removal, urging people to do their research on the issue and then deciding whether or not to open an account with PNC,” Holubinka ...
  • Coal's Road To Nowhere: The Coalfields Express ...
    Coal's Road To Nowhere: The Coalfields Expressway ThinkProgress Coal companies plan to use mountaintop removal mining to flatten the area to make way for the road, while they keep the profits from the coal they extract. While the coal companies call it a road, local residents are calling it ...
  • Travelling “True Cost of Coal” Mural Sparks Lo ...
    Travelling “True Cost of Coal” Mural Sparks Local Conversation Sewardcity News The Beehive Design Collective is demonstrating its concerns about Climate Change, mountaintop removal and the struggle for justice in Appalachia through a large, extremely detailed portable mural. Some 20 copies of th ...
  • Why the Democratic Party Platform Should Call ...
    Why the Democratic Party Platform Should Call for End to Mountaintop Removal ... Democratic Underground Calling it "Judy's plank," in honor of beloved West Virginia mountaineer Judy Bonds, whose untimely death in 2011 served as a wakeup call to the mounting humanitarian and health ...
  • Federal Judge Rules Against EPA Mining Restric ...
    Federal Judge Rules Against EPA Mining Restrictions GreenAnswers Mountaintop removal coal mining operations – a form of surface mining that gathers coal from the summit of mountains – commonly dump waste water into waterways in the Appalachian valleys. The polluted water disrupts biodiversity in ...

Memeorandum

  • Pro-Romney Super PAC Launches Anti-Gay Marriag ...
    Hunter Walker / Politicker: Pro-Romney Super PAC Launches Anti-Gay Marriage Ad to Snag Southern Swing State Votes  —  A still from the “New Morning” ad.  (Photo: YouTube)  —  GASTONIA, NC — A super PAC with ties to evangelist leader Gary Ba ...
  • Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Israeli ambassador c ...
    Philip Klein / Washington Examiner: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Israeli ambassador called GOP “dangerous for Israel” … CHARLOTTE - Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed on Monday that Israel's ambassador to the United States has accused Republican ...
  • Democrats Strip Pro-Israel Language From Platf ...
    Jeff Dunetz / “The Lid”: 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&rd ...
  • Obama Camp Touts Romney's Debate Strength (Ben ...
    Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo: Obama Camp Touts Romney's Debate Strength  —  CHARLOTTE — Raising expectations for your opponent ahead of a debate is an ancient political art, and a supremely confident Obama team almost pulled it off on Tuesday.  —  &ld ...
  • UN says Syria refugees hit record in August (BBC)
    BBC: UN says Syria refugees hit record in August  —  The increasing flow of refugees is putting pressure on Syria's neighbours, including Turkey  —  More than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August, the UN says - the highest monthly number of refugees since ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Why complex food chains are to blame for China ...
    In response to a constant stream of food safety issues, Wu Chen looks at how once simple food supply chains have become complex, and examines the technological, economic and social causes of the change.Problems with food safety are nothing new – in the Tang Dynasty the poet Liu Zongyuan fo ...
  • How long can the caterpillar fungus craze last?
    Sky-high prices have prompted a rush to collect caterpillar fungus in China, but quality discoveries are becoming rare. An ecological crisis is inevitable. Cui Xuan reports.The prices paid for caterpillar fungus, believed to possess remarkable medicinal properties, have increased tenfold since 2 ...
  • How milk standards triggered uproar in China
    In 2010, new regulations for China’s scandal-ridden dairy industry sparked a storm over safety risks and the role of business in setting policy. Zhu Hongjun, who covered the story, looks back on the controversy.The melamine milk scandal of 2008, when babies across China were poisoned by ta ...
  • China’s food scares show the system is bust
    Our lives – and the safety of our food – are determined by the structures we live in, writes Tang Hao. Without systemic reform, there’s no point increasing enforcement powers.The Chinese people have had their imaginations challenged by a series of food and drug safety scares. I ...
  • American dairy cooperatives claim to offer pat ...
    In the US, health concerns about industrialised dairy farming are leading the public to go in search of safer milk. Zhou Li visited Organic Valley, a Wisconsin dairy cooperative that claims to present a safer example of local food provision.Dairy products are a major source of nutrition in the U ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Narcocorridos: Mexico's Deadly Drug Wars Have ...
     It’s 2 a.m. when El Komander, the bestselling balladeer of cartel life and death, takes the stage at Club El Rodeo in Mexicali, Mexico, a maquiladora boomtown just across the border from sleepy Calexico, Calif. Buzz-cut, goateed and dressed in an all-black costume of oversize tint ...
  • Could You Raise Your Kids on Less Than $15,000 ...
     Sometimes, it's useful to state the obvious. Here's a fact, for example, that we all know to be true: America's economy is enormous. It's worth saying that out loud and repeating it to ourselves and others, because today's Powers That Be (economic, political, and media) are wrongly ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Why America and Israel Are the G ...
     It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let’s take a few examples.The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to be reversed.Iran is car ...
  • Asian Woman Writes That She Refuses to Date As ...
     On Friday, xoJane, the irreverent women’s blog founded by Jane Pratt, posted the latest in its “It Happened to Me” series, first-person confessionals on topics that are sometimes whimsical (“My Toilet Exploded. Again.”), sometimes dark (“This is ...
  • 7 Worst Media Brown-Nosers Who Enable Paul Rya ...
    The myth of “Paul Ryan, serious budget wonk” has a history that dates since the 2010 Tea Party sweep of the elections, at least into the Bush administration. It's been untrue for at least that long.There were magazine stories of the Young Guns of the GOP—Ryan, Eric Cantor ...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Release 1 Million Apple Device IDs Sto ...
    The hacker group AntiSec has released 1 million Apple device IDs that they say they obtained from an FBI computer they hacked.
  • Dems Release Voter Registration Apps, Includin ...
    The Democrats released two new web-friendly apps to help citizens register to vote - including one that's free for anyone to modify as they like -- including Republicans.
  • Broadcasters Defeat TV Streaming Service
    A federal appeals court is dealing a death blow to an upstart service that streams broadcast television over the internet, ruling that ivi Inc. is not a cable system and therefore is not protected by the Copyright Act.
  • Murder Suspect Allegedly Used GPS Tracker to F ...
    A North Carolina man is facing first-degree murder charges after using a GPS tracker to follow his estranged wife to the home of a man he then shot.
  • TSA Denies Stonewalling Nude Body-Scanner Cour ...
    The Transportation Security Administration denied Thursday it was stonewalling a federal appeals court's year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Another NY MDP Recall – This Time Listeria in ...
    Manna Organics, Inc. of Newark, NJ, is recalling various soybean sprouts and tofu products listed in the table below because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes,... Continue Reading
  • Forget sharks or airplanes or venomous snakes. ...
    Ouch! That was the opening sentence in the National Law Journal’s Jenna Greene’s article this morning – “Ripe for litigation.”  (You need a subscription to read the article). With Listeria-tainted... Continue Reading
  • E. coli and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Si ...
    Shortly after I resolved the 1996 Odwalla E. coli O157:H7 outbreak on behalf of five kids that suffered Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), and long before Google became synonymous with searching... Continue Reading
  • Its a Friday Night Salmonella Mango Salsa Reca ...
    It started out this week with produce distributor Splendid Products voluntarily recalling certain lots of Daniella brand mangoes because they may be contaminated with Salmonella braenderup. The recalled mangoes, a... Continue Reading
  • What’s up with Cantaloupes and Mangoes in Illi ...
    Over the last weeks the CDC and FDA have reported that a total of 204 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 22 states... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: GM will sell 2,500 Chevy Volts in Augu ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric We should be getting August's official sales numbers early next week, but The Detroit Free Press is already reporting that General Motors will have something to be proud of in the announcement: 2,500 Chevrolet Volt sales, the car's best ...
  • Official: New CAFE rules officially finalized; ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal Increasing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for model year 2017-2025 cars to 54.5 miles per gallon was first proposed in July 2011. Since then, there has been a lot of back and forth, a lot of positive and negative responses, and, lately, a delay for ...
  • Report: Motor Trend tests Tesla Model S ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Electric Tesla has said the highest-end Model S has a range of 300 miles (at 55 miles per hour), but until recently, it's been tremendously difficult for anyone outside the company to verify this number. When the EPA did its testing thing, it came up with a 265-mile ...
  • Official: Fisker Q&A sheds light, lots of ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Despite what some media outlets are saying, the long list of questions and answers about the Fisker Karma now floating around (and available below) is not a leaked document. Instead, it is part of Fisker's ongoing customer service operation ...
  • Official: Fisker: cooling fan responsible for ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Recalls, Fisker, Electric, Luxury After two short "we're looking into it" official statements (1, 2), Fisker Automotive has announced that it has completed a "detailed investigation" into the strange, spontaneous combustion of a Karma plug-in hybrid that happened i ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Workers Feel the Pain of Bain
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan TAMPA , Fla. — Four hardy souls from rural Illinois joined tens of thousands of people undeterred by threats of Hurricane Isaac during this week’s Republican National Convention. They weren’t among the almost 2,400 delegates to the convention, thou ...
  • Breaking WIth Convention: Democracy Now! Repor ...
    Democracy Now! will expand to a daily two-hour broadcast during the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew will travel to Tampa Bay and Charlotte to report from the streets, to the suites, to the convention floor. Tune in on Monday, August 2 ...
  • Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred?
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan People remember 1929 as the year of the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the global economic disaster which remains the only one in history that dwarfs the one in which we now find ourselves. It was also the year Martin Luther ...
  • Read an Excerpt from "Subversives: The FBI's W ...
    Read "Spies in the Hills," Chapter 1 of the new book, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power, by Seth Rosenfeld. Decades in the making, the book reveals that the FBI tried to disrupt the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, helping ...
  • Craig Murray and Tariq Ali Speak In Support of ...
    See Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, and writer and activist Tariq Ali, speak outside the Ecuadorean embassy, where WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange spoke Sunday. "The invasion of a diplomatic premises is a crime in international law and a crime in the state whose ...

Suzie-Q

  • This Seat’s Taken…
    This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st… — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012  
  • Paul Ryan Address: Convention Speech Built On ...
    Huff Post Ryan Grim Posted: 08/30/2012 12:29 am Updated: 08/30/2012 11:52 am TAMPA, Fla. — Paul Ryan pledged Wednesday that if he and his running mate Mitt Romney were elected president, they would usher in an ethic of responsibility. The Wisconsin congressman and GOP vice presidential can ...
  • Paul Ryan Fails — The Truth
    The Washington Post By Jonathan Bernstein Posted at 11:56 PM ET, 08/29/2012 It was, by any reasonable standards, a staggering, staggering lie. Here’s Paul Ryan about Barack Obama: He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report.  He thanked them, sent them on their ...
  • Why It’s So Important For Rape To Be &#8 ...
    Daily Kos by Dante Atkins Sun Aug 26, 2012 at 06:00 AM PDT Unless you’ve been spending the past week or so living under a rock—and given the political climate these days, it would be hard to blame you for doing so—you can’t have missed the fact that Republican Congressman and newly m ...
  • Crossroads GPS And Americans For Prosperity Ou ...
    Think Progress Justice By Rebecca Leber  on Aug 14, 2012 at 3:50 pm Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS (an affiliate of the super PAC American Crossroads) and the Koch brothers’ Americans For Prosperity have spent more on TV ads than every super PAC combined, according to a ProPublica analysis of CMAG d ...

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
    “It’s a very goofy situation.” - European money manager commenting on the general investment environment given events unfolding in Europe, North America and the Middle East.
  • U.S. Companies Prepare in case Greece Exits Euro
    By Nelson D. Schwartz Even as Greece desperately tries to avoid defaulting on its debt, American companies are preparing for what was once unthinkable: that Greece could soon be forced to leave the euro zone. Bank of America Merrill Lynch has looked into filling trucks with cash and sending the ...
  • Just a Taste – 8.23.12
  • Money & Markets – Week of 9.2.12
    Goldman Sachs Invests in First U.S. Social Impact Bond Institutional Investor | 29 August 2012 Goldman Sachs has signed on as the investor in the U.S.’s first social impact bond.
  • Geopolitical – Week of 9.2.12
    ‘Massacre’: Scores of Amazon Indigenous Tribe Members Killed by Miners Common Dreams | 30 August 2012 As many as 80 Yanomami Indians have been killed in a “massacre” carried out by unauthorized gold miners from Brazil. Secret Royal Veto Powers Over New Laws to be ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Seeing our society’s dsyfunctionality in ...
    Summary:  Polling acts as one kind of mirror to our society; Internet comments provide a reflection of another kind. With over 23 thousand comments about geopolitics, the FM website gives us a perspective on America’s ills. Here we sort them and find one ominous pattern. There is conflict ...
  • At the Tampa Convention Right & Left display o ...
    Summary: Today we have another weekend discussion post. It’s a summary of primary theme driving my posts, the new tribalism of the American people. It probably makes impossible reform of our society and salvage of the Second Republic. I have no idea how to do more than describe it.  Please ...
  • I come not to praise COIN but to bury it. And ...
    Summary: As our foreign wars slowly continue — withdrawals in the main theaters plus expansion into other even more fruitless conflicts — it’s time to look back and learn. Today we ask why COIN was considered a reasonable option, despite long history of failure when used by for ...
  • Cyberwar, the Power of Nightmares
    Summary: Today’s post by Marcus Ranum discusses Adam Curtis’ brilliant BBC documentary series “The Power of Nightmares”. Cutris deconstructs the dynamic of government as protector against unknown threats. His analysis of how generalized fears of terrorism manipulate the p ...
  • Two vital lessons from the election so far, ab ...
    Summary:  This campaign season has, as they should, taught us much about the condition of the Republic’s most vital political processes.  We should have learned that the Republic is dying.  Watch your TV and smell the rot.  Our leaders lie — big lies — and are willing to casual ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The Rise of Afghan Fratricide
    The number of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldiers killed by their Afghan counterparts has risen precipitously this year. So-called “green on blue” attacks have killed 42 soldiers, more than the 35 killed last year and twice as many as were killed in 2010. Official ...
  • What the Democrats Have to Say about the UN
    The United Nations is mentioned several times in the Democratic National Convention’s official party platform. Not surprisingly, the attitude toward the UN is a bit warmer in the Democratic platform as opposed to the GOP platform released last week. (However, polling consistently shows tha ...
  • The Coming Future of Autonomous Drones
    The inherent advantages of U.S. Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) drones—like the Predator, Reaper, and Global Hawk—for spying on potential adversaries and attacking suspected militants has made them the default counterterrorism tools for the Obama administration. Unlike manned aircraft, or ...
  • Bummer about the Whole “Resolve” Thing…
    It appears that years of breathless warnings of an impending Israeli attack on Iran have had effects beyond making Michael Oren look like a liar and Jeffrey Goldberg a credulous fool: As the Washington Post’s editorial board noted after the IAEA report’s release, “What’s particularly striking ab ...
  • Torture Without Accountability
    In the wake of 9/11, dozens of people were arbitrarily detained and tortured by the American government, sometimes with lethal consequences. These practices were not only grotesquely immoral but illegal. Last week, the Department of Justice announced that nobody would be held legally responsible ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Gay Rights Are Women's Rights
    As predicted, when the Democratic National Convention rolled out its platform today, we learned that one of the planks calls for marriage equality, along with a call for federal protection from being fired for being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. The marriage-equality plank signals a s ...
  • Richard Shelby Can't Make Up His Mind
    Republicans haven't been shy about voicing their distaste for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Many opposed the very creation of the new federal regulator created under the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010. Yet no element of the CFPB has quite raised their ire as much as the structure of the age ...
  • The Media Whinefest Commences
    I have a lot of sympathy for campaign reporters. Their time on the trail can be exhausting, a weird combination of high stress and utter boredom. Every day they have to follow their candidate around to another event that was just like the last one, where he'll say exactly the same things and th ...
  • Poll Spells Trouble for Iowa Judge
    It looks like another Iowa Supreme Court justice may lose his job this year. Conservatives are once again railing against one of the judges who legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa. Bob Vander Plaats, a prominent social conservative on the local scene who led an anti-retention campaign against t ...
  • Nine and a Half Conventions
    (AP Photo) Then-Senator John F. Kennedy stands in the spotlight on the rostrum of the Los Angeles Sports Arena and promises Democratic convention delegates, who nominated him as their presidential candidate on July 14, 1960, that "we will win" in November. My first Democratic Nati ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Will you outlive your cat?
    According to stats prof David Spiegelhalter, whom I met for the first time only this year, “Our survival is governed by the “force of mortality” – the wonderfully archaic expression for the chance of dying each year. Each year, an average adult ages, this unavoidable forc ...
  • DIY spectroscopy
    From the Kickstarter blurb: “A spectrometer may not sound like what you wanted for your birthday, but it’s a ubiquitous tool for scientists to identify unknown materials” The open hardware kit is just $35 or you could make your own from a piece of a DVD-R, black paper, a VHS bo ...
  • Spectral lines
    My latest clutch of science news is now available on SpectroscopyNOW.com including the first feedback from NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars, MRI’s magnetic memory effects, how the all-carbon buckyball traps water, a new way to detect even the vaguest sniff off the explosive TNT, a clea ...
  • Teenage Kids
    A bit of parental-adolescent psychology for today’s Sciencebase blog post, encapsulated in a song. You’ll remember The Undertones’ classic – Teenage Kicks – a song of nostalgia, of lost youth, of unrequited love, of the pleasure, the pain, the angst of teenage years ...
  • Chemistry matters
    Latest chemistry news round-up from the ChemWeb Alchemist, who this week looks through an ITO coated glass darkly this week with another step taken towards transparent electronics for solar panels. In earthly news, life’s inorganic components may have emerged as supercontinents were formed ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Report Offers Solutions to Expand Sustainable ...
    The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today released a report, “Wood for Good: Solutions for Deforestation-Free Wood Products,” analyzing tropical wood production’s effect on deforestation and offering solutions for sustainable production. According to the report, governments ...
  • Forest Service Shirks Environmental Review for ...
    A six-day off-road vehicle rally that started today in Arizona’s Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest was tacitly authorized by U.S. Forest Service officials without analysis or approval under the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act.read more
  • Wyoming Wolves Lose Federal Protection, Will B ...
    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that gray wolves in Wyoming will be taken off the endangered species list — a death sentence for a majority of the animals, which will now be managed under a state plan that delineates more than 80 percent of Wyoming as a “predator zone& ...
  • ACLU Comment on Closure of Justice Department’ ...
    Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Thursday that the Justice Department will close its investigation into the CIA’s torture and abuse of detainees without bringing charges.read more
  • Earth First! Blockades Florida’s Dirtiest Powe ...
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Common Dreams-Views

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    Robert Naiman Some time ago, following press reports of suicides of gay teens who had been subjected to bullying, the sex advice columnist Dan Savage organized a series of videos addressed to gay teens on the theme of "it gets better.& ...
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    Noam Chomsky It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us day after day. But it is useful to try. Let’s take a few examples. The war drums are beating ever more loudly ...
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Water Wars

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    After the Town of Spring City began providing water to a business in the North Rhea Utility District [NRUD] earlier this year, NRUD President Doug MacEwen called the move an “invasion.”
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    In a foretaste of "water wars", Pakistani insurgents last week attacked Jammu & Kashmir government’s ambitious upcoming Rs 50 crore irrigation project at Navtour in Bandipora in north Kashmir marking a rare departure from usual civilian and security targets.
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    The victim said he was later ordered to go to the back. He was forced to his knees, along with his friend, with one of the subjects holding a shotgun to their backs.

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The Wonk Room

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