4 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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• Right-Wingers & Unions
   The biggest thing that I took away from my recent swim in the fetid swamps of right-wing insanity is that unions are full of thugs. Thugs. Thugs who practice bullying and intimidation. That's it. Nothing else. Thugs. Thugs. Thugs. Corrupt. Corrupt. Corrupt. And if you question that stupid, ...
• Canadian "Conservatives" and Artistic Brilliance
  So, the following videos are pretty much a portrait of the desperate living" quality of your average right-wing mind. But there's also some brilliance there. Look at how easily and carelessly Eunice could have avoided this tragedy. Look at the self-importance of these stunted souls. This isn't m ...
• Idiots
  Having immersed myself in the brain-dead culture of right-wing whining and crying for about a week, I realize the extent of their insanity with some more precision. In their world (as I last posted) their is no robocall scandal. Nothing happened. We (leftards) made it all up. There is literally ...
• We Made it All Up
  Yep. The "coalition coup" was planned well in advance! There was no reason for it other than a burning lust for power. Also, wanting to know whether we were upholding international law with regards to our transfers of prisoners in Afghanistan was just a smoke-screen to embarrass the harpercon go ...
• Two Books
  Nothing else to do. I'll post about two books I read. The first is called Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Willis. Willis says that the trappings of the imperial presidency are almost all the fault of the huge increase in power to that office created by ...

on Government Oversight

• Break-in reveals "ineptitude" at nuke facility ...
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• Some Senators Want to Waste Big Bucks on Unnec ...
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• Conservatives Tell Rep. Issa: Federal Whistleb ...
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• Video: Signing and Celebrating the Camp Lejeun ...
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• Pentagon's Testing Czar Questions F-35 Program ...
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Digital Journal

• Iowa Senator Tom Harkin (D) gets laugh mileage ...
  Politics is not such a bad thing when it's funny and the Democratic Senator from Iowa, Tom Harkin, can raise a guffaw now and again. He managed to do so at a breakfast function for Iowa Democrats at the DNC in Charlotte this morning.
• Roberto Luongo wants trade to Florida but clai ...
  Roberto Luongo talked to the Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper Monday and said what some media, Digital Journal included, have said all along: he wants to go to Florida. He spoke to the paper as Scott Clemmensen and Jose Theodore worked out on nearby ice.
• Canadians spending more time, money TV watchin ...
  Canadians spent more time watching television and television on the Internet and listening to the radio in 2011 than in 2010, according to a new report from a Canadian commission. Consumers also spent more money enjoying this "creative content."
• Scotiabank Giller Prize Announces their Longli ...
  The Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist was announced today. Thirteen authors will be vying for the coveted award and the publicity that comes along with one of Canada’s largest literary award.
• Internet wildlife trading biggest threat to en ...
  Conservation groups report that for many endangered species, internet wildlife trading is now the principal threat to their survival.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• $188M for Arctic research station
  PM Harper announces money for Arctic research -- as long as it supports Canadian industry.
• Return of the submarine debacle
  The navy wants brand new submarines.
• Cleaning up after the Cold War
  Canada is still cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War in the Arctic.
• Staples on Snowbirds spending
  The government has decided that spending three quarters of a billion dollars to give the aerobatics team new jets is important because of the "recruiting value"' that the team provides.
• Recruitment unlikely to meet equity goals
  The Canadian Forces appear unlikely to meet their employment equity targets for 2013.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Correct, Easy Way To Make Green Smoothies ...
  April 3, 2012 Natural News By Paul Fassa “Adding green super food smoothies to your diet is a great thing to do for your health. There are many amazing benefits of adding more green vegetables in your diet and making smoothies is an easy way to get them in your tummy.” –KTRN Du ...
• Pfizer Execs To Stand Trial For Cover-Up Of Dr ...
  April 3, 2012 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff “Here is more proof that drug companies are evil to the core.”  –KTRN Four former executives at Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company. — Henry McKinnell, John LaMattina, Karen Katen, Joseph Feczko — as well a ...
• Three Benefits Of Dark Chocolate That Will Hel ...
  April 3, 2012 Natural News By Celeste M. Smucker, MPH, PhD “More evidence that chocolate is quite healthy. But don’t confuse real chocolate over the garbage called Hershey’s.” –KTRN The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 68 percent of adults over the age ...
• McDonald’s Stock Slides As More Consumers Turn ...
  April 3, 2012 The Onion By The Onion “Even though this is satire, The Onion nailed it – McDonald’s does not serve real food.” –KTRN The McDonald’s Corporation announced Tuesday that it will close 175 restaurants and cut nearly 600 corporate jobs, responding to ...
• Ron Paul Is Trying To Save GOP From Themselves
  April 3, 2012 RT By RT “Ron Paul may be the only one who can save the GOP. The party is in complete turmoil these days.” –KTRN Presidential hopeful Ron Paul might not represent what his Republican rivals are touting this election year, but the Texas congressman says that he won ...

Armies of Liberation

• State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
  Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
• Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
  Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
• Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
  Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
• Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...
  A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...
• Former Yemen president’s intended US tri ...
  As pressure builds on the Obama administration to deny a diplomatic visa to ousted Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the family of a sailor killed in the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole urged that Saleh be denied entry to the United States. In a public plea, Gary and Deborah Swenchonis are c ...

Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

• Spain’s Robin Hood Mayor and Landless Pe ...
  Dandelion Salad Sep 3, 2012 by TheRealNews In Southern Spain, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, mayor of the small town of Marinaleda, is helping organize a growing protest movement against the austerity measures imposed by the Spanish government. Sánchez Gordillo and the landless peasants that foll ...
• Labor Day: The Unknown Holiday by Walter Brasc ...
  by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com Originally published September 7, 2009 Sept. 3, 2012 It’s Labor Day, and that means millions of Americans are celebrating. Most Americans have no idea what Labor Day is, other than self-serving political speeches, hot dogs, bu ...
• The Polish Bin-Laden Revelation: Uninformed, N ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post Aug. 31, 2012 Yesterday, after I finished reading McClatchy’s ‘juicy story’ based on some Ex-Polish spy’s recent ‘revelations,’ I kept going back and forth between several theories to explain the ‘real fa ...
• Socialism: Our Alternative To The Madness Of T ...
  Dandelion Salad by Eric Ruder SocialistWorker.org August 30, 2012 THE WORLD economy is still suffering from the worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Around the world, the consequences have been devastating–jobs wiped out, exploitation intensified for those who remain emplo ...
• Green-washing “Sustainability” by Shepherd Bliss
  by Shepherd Bliss Guest Writer Dandelion Salad August 31, 2012 “Sustainability” has become a buzzword. But what does “sustainability” really mean? One definition is that it requires a triple-E bottom line—economics, the environment and equity. However, this word sometimes is used to “green-wash” ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

• New Matzpen website
  IOA Editor: For 50 years now, Matzpen has been the leading anti-occupation, anti-Zionist activist organization in Israel; its new website covers five decades of steadfast, principled opposition to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Report: US scales back joint military exercise ...
  Time Magazine reports number of American troops in mid-October exercise to be cut by two-thirds, in what a senior Israeli official says is a message of mistrust conveyed by Washington. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
• Gideon Levy: Arab villages, bulldozed from our ...
  Our beloved Tel Aviv, whose reputation for enlightenment and openness is world renowned, is built in part on ruined Palestinian villages - and refuses to acknowledge it. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. G ...
• Sami Michael: An immigrant in his own country
  The Occupation is the embodiment of disaster for Israel. Greater Israel, the enthusiasm to conquer, rule and colonize in the very heart of a dense Palestinian population, that sweeping wave was... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Stephen Zunes: California state assembly seeks ...
  The California State Assembly has just passed a bipartisan resolution (HR 35) by voice vote which constitutes a serious attack on academic freedom and the rights of students and faculty to raise... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia Delays 2012 Military Launches After Sat ...
  Russia will delay launches of military spacecraft this year because of a failed satellite launch last month, a top defense official said on Tuesday.
• Russia to Complete Helicopter Gunship Deal to ...
  Russia has delivered the next batch of Mi-35M Hind E attack helicopters to Brazil and will complete the contract by the end of the year, a military trade think tank said on Monday.
• Russia to Build New ICBM by 2018 - SMF Chief
  Russia will build a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile by 2018, Strategic Missile Forces commander Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said on Monday.
• Russian Vessels Return from United States afte ...
  A Russian Pacific Fleet task force has returned to the Russian Far Eastern port of Vladivostok following an international military exercise, the Fleet’s spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Roman Martov said.
• Russian Warships Visit Japan
  A Russian Navy group has visited Japan’s naval base Maizuru and is on its way to the home port of Vladivostok, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said on Saturday.

NewsWise

• Swallowed Magnets in Children Need Quick Evalu ...
  Children who swallow powerful neodymium magnets are at risk of serious complications, requiring emergency evaluation and possible treatment. That's the message of a new clinical algorithm published in the September issue of The Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, official journ ...
• Reducing Pressure on Children to Eat May Help ...
  An educational program for parents helps to reduce pressure on children to eat--which may reduce the child's risk of obesity, reports a study in the September Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, the official journal of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. The j ...
• Experts Needed: 1- Democratic Convention 2- S ...
• Allstate New Jersey Lends a Hand in Cancer Fig ...
  When one thinks of a "quote," words of wisdom usually come to mind. But in talking about an annual campaign with Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company that benefits The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), the word "quote" takes on a different meaning - one with impact on saving lives. Throug ...
• Advances in Understanding Anesthesia
  Even though anesthetics have been used in many procedures for more than 150 years, doctors and scientists still don't know exactly how these medicines work in the body. Researchers funded by the NIH have helped identify and explore different aspects of anesthesia, and here are a few things they' ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, September 4, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has said that Iran can strike US bases in the Middle East if Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. In other Hezbollah news, the group ponders an uncertain future if one of its two closest allies, Presi ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Monday, September 3, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Rebels have hit army headquarters in Damascus planting bombs targeting high-level officers. More US drone strikes in Yemen kill at least eight, including five suspected of having al-Qaeda ties, while a Yemeni warplane missed its intended target and killed 10 ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Monday, September 3, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Rebels have hit army headquarters in Damascus planting bombs targeting high-level officers. More US drone strikes in Yemen kill at least eight, including five suspected of having al-Qaeda ties, while a Yemeni warplane missed its intended target and killed 10 ...
• Upcoming Events: September 2, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers The Southern Illinois University Law Journal is seeking scholarly legal articles from newer legal scholars for possible inclusion in a special Symposium issue, Guantanamo Bay: What Next?, on legal issues arising from the continued detention ...
• Upcoming Events: September 2, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers The Southern Illinois University Law Journal is seeking scholarly legal articles from newer legal scholars for possible inclusion in a special Symposium issue, Guantanamo Bay: What Next?, on legal issues arising from the continued detention ...

Public News Service

• Campaign Money “Arms Race” Goes Nu ...
  Campaign Money “Arms Race” Goes Nuclear TAMPA, Fla. - The people watching money in politics say the fundraising arms race has gone nuclear. Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, was an observer at the Republican National Convention. ...(Read More)
• Poll: AZ Remains in Top Third of States for Fo ...
  Poll: AZ Remains in Top Third of States for Food Hardship PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona remains in the top third of states for food hardship in a Gallup survey about families' health and well-being. The findings confirm what Arizona food banks see every day as they help cobble together assistance for ...
• GOP Courts Women's Vote at Convention
  GOP Courts Women's Vote at Convention TAMPA, Fla. - With President Obama leading in the polls among women voters and gaffes such as the “legitimate rape” comment to overcome, political strategists say the Republican National Committee is working hard to court women voters. Democrats ...
• Young People Work to Boost Latino AZ Primary T ...
  Young People Work to Boost Latino AZ Primary Turnout PHOENIX - Hundreds of young Latino volunteers with the group "Promise Arizona in Action" (PAZ in Action) have spent the summer registering more than 8,400 new voters across the state. During today's primary election, they are making sure those ...
• What You Might Not Know About Generic Drugs
  What You Might Not Know About Generic Drugs PHOENIX - Across the country, dozens of lawsuits against manufacturers of generic drugs have been dismissed because of a decision by the Supreme Court a year ago that makes it all but impossible to sue the firms for failing to provide adequate warning ...

Center for Food Safety

• Oregon Court of Appeals Grants Stay, Canola Pl ...
  Groups and producers pleased with court ruling, damage to local growers temporarily averted The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) failed to provide adequate justification for a temporary rule issued earlier this month that would have allowed the un ...
• Center for Food Safety Lawsuit Targets FDA, OM ...
  Food Safety and Modernization Act rules unlawfully delayed as risks increase, public health threatened The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) today filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for their failure to im ...
• USDA-Appointed Committee’s Recommendations Fai ...
  Proposed AC21 “co-existence” policy would harm conventional growers, endanger U.S. organic industry The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) issued a position paper today critical of proposals made by the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21), a group appointed ...
• Feds Playing Politics with Food Safety is Enou ...
  By Michele Simon Rarely does the mainstream media bother to connect the dots when it comes to our broken food safety system. Consider these two recent headlines: • Foodborne Outbreaks Falling Short of U.S. Reduction Goals • USDA to purchase $170 million worth of meat to help farmers struggling w ...
• Center for Food Safety Statement on the Oregon ...
  The Center for Food Safety (‘The Center’) is pleased to announce that the legal action filed yesterday at the State of Oregon’s Court of Appeals requesting an immediate stay on illegal planting of genetically engineered (GE) canola in the Willamette Valley was successful. The Court found suffici ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

• Older and Wiser
  I had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
• Disney-Pixar Pollution
  For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
• Grain
  I feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
• Thermodynamics and Jenga Towers
  I imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
• The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
  An article on the blog “Shake Off the Grind“, titled “You Only Live Once so Make it Meaningful“,  asks the questions below. Here are my answers: Who am I: A semi-aware bundle of perceptions, habits, and quirks. My personality is simply the structure of the relationships b ...

Green Times

• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• The Vitamin D Briefing
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• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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• Vitamin D – the new book that could save your ...
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• Chemical linked to low IQ found in sunscreens
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• Kahui coroner’s verdict out this week
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
  The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
• Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
  We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
• A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
  in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
• Susya
  June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
• My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...
  Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

• Simulated Universe
  Calculated galactic formation. This is just way too good to miss: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/17/scientists-create-universe-simulation/ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/research/movingmeshcosmology/index.html
• NH Sea Ice Heading for Record Minimum?
  From Cryosphere Today: Seeing the yellow line drop so far below the historic curves with much of the melt season ahead of us means we are probably on the way to a new record minimum for the Northern hemisphere.   Correspondingly, NH Sea ice anomaly is approaching the second lowest value in histo ...
• Surface Stations Project Hits Paydirt
  It seems as always, I don’t have much time.   I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls.  This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
• CG File Date Timeline
  An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
• CG File Date Timeline
  An interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Top 25 Facebook Pages September 2012
  Entertainment continues to dominate the list of most popular Facebook pages, according to our PageData tool, which counts the number of fans added to a page daily. After Facebook’s own pages for its mobile app and main company page, the most Liked pages … Continue reading →
• Facebook re-opens notifications channel for de ...
  Facebook has launched the new Notifications API beta giving developers a way to reengage users with custom messages through the native notifications channel. These notifications are different from app requests in that users do not need to allow further permissions to … Continue reading →
• Facebook to increase automated efforts to remo ...
  Facebook has updated its integrity systems in order to prevent false Likes, according to the Facebook Security page. This upgrade looks to improve the authenticity of the social network, providing pages with more accurate measurement of fan counts and demographics. … Continue reading →
• Word of Mouth at Scale with Facebook: Understa ...
  This is a guest post by Hussein Fazal, CEO of AdParlor, an ad management and technology company for Facebook campaigns. AdParlor manages over 1 billion daily ad impressions on Facebook for clients such as Groupon, Audi, American Express, OMD, Mindshare & … Continue reading →
• Bing continues to expand Facebook integration ...
  Bing has added a new feature which allows users to search through their friends’ Facebook photos directly within the search engine. Users can access this through the Bing social sidebar or at www.bing.com/friendsphotos. With a reported 300 million photos uploaded to … Continue readin ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Marjorie Cohn: Amnesty for Torturers ...
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  truthout: Reforming #Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform http://t.co/kkqbq6do @meeshellchen #p2 #TANF #inequality
• truthout: Noam Chomsky: Why is #Iran the great ...
  truthout: Noam Chomsky: Why is #Iran the greatest threat to world peace, as seen in official Western discourse?
• truthout: RT @democracynow: Backed by Record C ...
  truthout: RT @democracynow: Backed by Record Campaign War Chest, #MittRomney Accepts GOP Presidential Nomination in Tampa http://t.co/dWBkO6Un #RN ...

ReDress News

• Is Palestine a lost cause?
  Alan Hart outlines a strategy for saving the Palestinian cause from extinction: making Israel accountable for its occupation by dissolving the quisling Palestinian Authority and exposing Zionism's propaganda, and mobilizing Palestinians everywhere to engage by peaceful and democratic means in th ...
• Israel's underemployed foreign minister seeks ...
  Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's bizarre letter to the Middle East "Quartet", in which he accused the Palestinian Authority of "diplomatic terrorism", is a symptom of an attention-seeking disorder rooted in the fact that Lieberman is underemployed.
• Israeli expansionism versus imaginary Palestin ...
  Jamal Kanj argues that Israeli expansionism and Western connivance with and complacency towards Israel's land grabbing - not the Palestinian quest for state recognition at the UN - are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
• Domestic terrorism American style
  Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...
• Restoring Syria's uprising to the Syrian people
  Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Etta James- “I Sing The Blues” This week’s BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast music pick is a song from the phenomenal late Etta James. There’s not much I can say about Ms James that hasn’t already been said so tonight her music will say it all. I hope you enjoy this performance of ...
• The Polish Bin-Laden Revelation: Uninformed, N ...
  Yesterday, after I finished reading McClatchy’s ‘juicy story’ based on some Ex-Polish spy’s recent ‘revelations,’ I kept going back and forth between several theories to explain the ‘real factors and purposes’ behind this entire nonsense. Of course, in coming up with my possible ‘possibilities’ ...
• Barbarians at the Gate: Terrorism, the US, and ...
  The shootings and bombings in Ingushetia and Dagestan this week rekindled a long-standing, brutal campaign of violence and terrorism in Russia’s Caucasus region – one that has seen more than its share of terror stretching back to the Chechen “rebellion” of the 1990s.  However, in examining the r ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  The Empire of Terror To know the history of your own nation, you must know the history of those whom your nation has oppressed. This episode takes a brief look at some of the stories of modern American imperialism in the post-World War II period, looking at Indonesia, Central America, and the ro ...
• The EyeOpener- Australia, the US, and the Asia ...
  Formalized under the so-called ANZUS treaty in 1951, the military alliance between Australia and the United States has long defined Australia’s role in the security context of the Asia-Pacific region. Formed in the wake of World War II when memories of Japanese aggression in the Pacific we ...

Afro Spear

• Hating on Love: The Fallacy of Black Unity
  “It’s so amazing to me that so many of us speak of unity, yet we are to assume we know what is meant by unity and unification. The word is never clearly defined by the user. In the between time, there is a mean spirited tone to the discussion that should be avoided if we [...]
• sat’day riddymz
• 270 South African miners charged with murder o ...
  This is outrageous! How far the ANC has fallen! Murder charges stun and enrage South African miners South Africa’s Mine Massacre Reveals Ugly Realities Squalor surrounds South Africa’s platinum treasure chest Mnikelo Ndabankulu speaks at Marikana memorial service (video) Lonmin
• “Between Truths and Indulgences” b ...
  Repost inspired by this commentary from Sis. Carolyn Moon: “The difference that I’m noticing more now and it’s a perception which I’m sure can be debated but there is this extreme animus towards the various countries on the continent of Africa and their historical role in promoting the tri ...
• The scourge of NGO’s in Haiti: why the r ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• It's for the Birds
  There was a time when the "great" thinkers of the Middle Ages proclaimed that animals were mere automatons. Thankfully, we have moved forward since then- not nearly enough for most of us. Pope John Paul II admitted that animals have "souls" - and certainly it should be evident in the stories o ...
• Benedict Mainstream Media Arnold MSM Covertly ...
  Petroleum companies, frackers, nuclear energy corps pay for expensive ads; the 'news' will not do exposes on the MSMs' highest paying advertisers. Wallsteet, banks, candidates Citizen's United pay big advertising money to the MSM; in return the MSM demonize Occupy and coddle advertisers. There i ...
• Does p*ssy Riot News Story Have Hidden Agenda?
  Popular news reports characterize the p*ssy Riot group as brave activists standing up for free speech. But some evidence suggests that storyline is a ruse to conceal a hostile plot against Russia.
• All roads lead to Tehran: 16th Non-Aligned Mo ...
  After staying virtually dormant for years, the 51 year-old Non-Aligned Movement of 120 countries took a center stage in Tehran last week which perhaps put on hold Iran's prolonged diplomatic isolation.The summit adopted a document that condemned unilateral sanctions, backed the right of Iran and ...
• Pakistan rules out handing over Dr Shakeel Afr ...
  No proposal is under consideration to hand over Dr Shakeel Afridi, who helped CIA in Osama Ben Laden compound raid in May 2011, to the United States, says chief of Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

Switchboard

• 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 ...
• Team NRDC gears up for Climate Ride - 320 mile ...
  Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco One week from tomorrow, the eleven riders that make up Team NRDC will embark on Climate Ride, a 320-mile bicycle journey that starts near Eureka and makes its way down the North C ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The Retroactive Legalization of Torture
  That’s the effect of the Obama administration’s final determination that no official, high or petty, should be held accountable for the Bush administration’s institutionalized torture regime. Laws on the books are beside the point if it’s clear they can be violated with i ...
• Bummer about the Whole “Resolve” T ...
  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 ...
• Why New York Needs A Better Democratic Party, ...
  Vito Lopez. And let us not forget his enabler Shelly Silver.
• Is there a blog in this course?
  As most of you know, my brand of film theory is heavily indebted to David Bordwell and neoformalism. So it should come as no surprise that I believe Bordwell’s compilation of posts from 2012 could very well function as an online film theory textbook, especially when read in tandem with sim ...
• “He writes the lyrics. Burt just writes ...
  R.I.P.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Glaring Oversight: Airport Solar Panels Irk Co ...
• The World’s Largest Sustainable Retail Store?
• NYC To Open World’s Largest UV Water Purificat ...
• Deal With The ‘Devil,’ Invest In Iranian Renew ...
• Report: 71,000+ Green Jobs For Massachusetts

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Penn center will examine the ethics of nationa ...
  National security and the rule of law are sometimes at odds, but a new center at the University of Pennsylvania Law School seeks to shine a light on hot-button issues including cyber warfare and targeting killings.
• Candidate fined for wearing judge's robes in photo
  The Ohio Supreme Court on Aug. 30 found that Jeanette Moll violated three provisions of the state's code of judicial conduct by appearing in judicial robes in campaign flyer photos.
• Seventh Circuit revives suit by teacher forced ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has revived a civil rights suit brought by an Illinois junior high school teacher against a school district and officials for forcing him to resign after he reported a student's threat to the police.
• Ruling could give Louisiana its first black ch ...
  In a dispute over who should serve as the next Louisiana Supreme Court chief justice, a federal judge has ruled for Associate Justice Bernette Johnson, who would become the first black jurist to preside over the court.
• Federal judge orders sex-reassignment surgery ...
  A Boston federal judge has ordered sex reassignment surgery for a prisoner serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murdering his wife.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Displaced Syrians Find Fewer Refuge Amid Turmoil
  The agency reports that people have been killed in their homes or on the streets as they seek food or try to evacuate the wounded.
• Federal Court Says Boston Can Prohibit The Con ...
  The case, Hightower v. Boston, arose out of the revocation of a license to carry a handgun in public in Massachusetts. During the oral arguments before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Hightower's attorney, Alan Gura, was asked if his was an 'Open
• Will Facebook Replace eBay?
  Communities are starting groups to sell, buy, and trade anything and everything on Facebook, could this replace sites like eBay and Craigslist?
• US Honors Ethiopia's PM Meles as 'Brilliant Le ...
  According to Ms. Rice, she was always struck by two things about the former leader: Meles was consistently reasoned in his judgments and thoughtful in his decisions; and, he was driven not by ideology but by his vision of a better future
• Around 680 Ashraf Residents Ready to Move to L ...
  Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope, as pointed out in the State Department's statement, that the United States will take the appropriate measures in order to resolve the essential humanitarian issues such as water,

environment 360

• Record Levels of DDT Found in Breast Milk of W ...
  A new study has found record levels of DDT in the breast milk of nursing women living in South African villages where the toxic pesticide has been used for decades. In samples taken from women in three malaria-stricken villages where spraying occurs inside homes, researchers found that DDT level ...
• A Quarter of Liberian Land Ceded to Logging Co ...
  One quarter of Liberia’s total land area has been sold to logging companies over the last two years, a development that threatens widespread devastation in West Africa’s most heavily forested nation, a new investigation has found. According to a report by Global Witness, Save My Future Foundatio ...
• A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
  This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock. These extreme events were not freak occurrences – this is how the Earth works no ...
• Method Uses DNA Technology to Track Marine Lif ...
  Danish scientists say they have developed a process to detect the presence of fish and whales in local waters through the DNA analysis of water samples, an innovation that will help researchers more safely monitor biodiversity in the world’s oceans. Using sophisticated DNA sequencing technology, ...
• EU Ban on Incandescent Bulbs Goes into Effect ...
  The incandescent light bulb, in use for more than a century, will be officially banned across the European Union on September 1. Over the past three years, the Wikimedia Commons EU has been phasing out 60-watt and 100-watt incandescent bulbs, and on Saturday retailers will no longer be all ...

Red Ice Creations

• Man Builds Himself Bionic Hands After Losing B ...
  You may wonder how did he make himself a pair of bionic hands when he actually doesn’t have hands. Well, he just did it. He named Sun Jifa, a 51-year-old Chinese man who lost both hands when he was building a bomb for blast fishing. Since the prosthetic limbs would cost a fortune, he decided to ...
• Ecuador grants Assange asylum; UK vows to ‘car ...
  Ecuador’s foreign minister announced on Thursday that the country would grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, defying threats by the British government to storm the Ecuadorean Embassy and extradite Assange to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning in cases of alleged rape and sex ...
• Holder went on ‘Reefer Madness’-like campaign ...
  In late 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder authorized raids against marijuana dispensaries in California, where medicinal marijuana is legal, in an effort to create a distraction from the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, a new book set for release Tuesday claims. “Eri ...
• Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel New Show ...
  Critics say show promotes an “inglorious tradition of glorifying war and armed violence” Nine Nobel Peace Laureates on Monday joined a growing chorus of critics calling on NBC entertainment to cancel the new “reality” show—“Stars Earn Stripes”—saying that “war isn’t entertainment” and challenged ...
• Why Do Koalas Have Human Fingerprints?
  Some accuse evolution of being pretty directionless. After all, the whole process involves random genetic mutations. But if evolution is just a toss of a million-sided die, why do so many animals turn out eerily similar? Nope, it’s not intelligent design. We take a look at the creepy look-alikes ...

Russia Today

• Iran will send navy to US coast in ‘next few y ...
  Iran says it will counter US presence in its waters by sending ships to the international waters off the US coast, says Iranian Navy chief Admiral Sayyari. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Anonymous FBI laptop hack nets 12 million Appl ...
  A hacktivist group associated with Anonymous claims it has lifted over 12 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) from an FBI computer and released 1 million of them as an archive. The leaked data includes... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Leaked: Troika requires 6-day working week in ...
  A leaked email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labor from the Troika says that Greek private sector workers should work six days a week and longer hours. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Three rare white Bengal cubs in Czech zoo to b ...
  Residents of the Czech city of Liberec can now not only “ooh” and “ah” over three rare white Bengal tiger cubs happily playing next to their mother. They have a chance to choose a name for one of the cubs, recently born... Read Full Article at RT.com
• SEALs 'pulled off duty' over Bin Laden raid book
  US Navy SEALs have reportedly been taken off active duty as a consequence of the leaked firsthand account “No Easy Day” about the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan which resulted in his death. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Thugs and misfits are finding a sanctuary in t ...
  The modern US army: unfit for service? …’Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.’ We’ve been pointing this out for some time now, and it’s nice to see ...
• Occupiers determined to protest DNC in spite o ...
  OCCUPIED CHARLOTTE, North Carolina– Activists emerged from Marshall Park on Monday night to attempt to give the Charlotte DNC security forces a mild tongue lashing.
• Christian fascist leader dies and does not ari ...
  The repulsive Korean Christian sect nut has died. ‘In 2003 he provoked outrage when he used a sermon to condone the Holocaust, claiming that it was the Jews’ payment for killing Jesus.’ (from news report that 'Moonies' founder Sun Myung Moon dies at 92)
• March on Wall Street South
  People are not very satisfied with Barack Obama… Hundreds take part in 'March on Wall Street South' in Charlotte, NC
• US Troops Out of Guatemala Now!
  One cannot think of a more disgusting military in the Americas than that of the country of Guatemala for the US to be cooperating with in joint operations! US Out of Guatemala Now! Marines vs. Zetas: U.S. Hunts Drug Cartels in Guatemala The internal journals of the US Marine Corps have been brag ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Go To New York 9-11 2012
  A shout out to the Infowarriors and WeAreChange chapters from WeAreChangeColorado! For Derek and the boys at Houston Free Thinkers. Get to New York! Related: The goal of this website is to hopefully encourage activists, politicians, celebrities, whistleblowers, alternative media, truthers ...
• C2CAM - 9-11 Truth - Coast To Coast AM
  9/11 material starts at 0:39:27 Published on Jul 17, 2012 by Boomdaddy03 CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LATEST UPDATED VIDEO THAT CAME OUT TODAY http://www.youtube.com/user/Boomdaddy03 Subscribe To Get Notified Of The Latest Releases As They Come Out http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add ...
• 9/11 Free Fall-- Graeme MacQueen Interview (8/ ...
  Published on Aug 26, 2012 by Free Fall Following up last week's show, which covered reports of explosions at the World Trade Center on 9/11, Bernie and Andy's guest this week is Graeme MacQueen-- widely respected peace activist, and the author of various 9/11 related papers, including "118 Wit ...
• COME TO NEW YORK THIS SEPTEMBER
  It's been 11 years since nearly 3 thousand people were murdered that tragic day in New York City. Officially they say 19 Muslims hijacked planes and attacked us because they hate our freedoms. However, since 2001 there have been many questions that have been raised and not answered. The 9/11 Com ...
• Excerpt from Jesse Ventura's New Book 'DemoCRI ...
  Yes, Ventura has endorsed the theory that Directed Energy Weapons were used to demolish the buildings on 9/11 and the theory that the plane that hit the Pentagon actually flew over it while a bomb exploded, and no he doesn't always have all his facts as straight as we like around here. That ...

Fooducate

• Organic Food More Nutritious? Yet Another Stud ...
• Can’t Take the Heat? Get Out & Grill [Recipes]
• Interesterifed Oils – What Are They Doing in M ...
• Want to be Sexy? Eat Veggies with Cartenoids
• “Secrets” of Lower-Calorie Wine Spritzers

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

• Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
  by Greg Palast If you're not sick and outraged and ready to vomit, then don't talk to me. When I see a cruel bucket of garbage and winky-winky racism and bullshit and venom like Paul Ryan talk to America like he's some kind of Boy Scout, I want a gun, or a TV network where I can [...]
• RNC Opens with Pol who "Should be in Jail"
  by Greg Palast for Truth-out.org "Tim Griffin should be in jail." That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review. But Griffin's not in jail: he's in Congress. And Tuesday, he'll be the first Congressman the Republican ...
• Fukushima: They Knew
  "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel w ...
• Why We Occupy - Greg Palast Live!
  Get the DVD of Greg Palast LIVE from the Vultures' Picnic speaking tour. Undercover at the Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast rips the sheets off the One Percent. Palast shows you the documents marked "secret" and "confidential" from the files of Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, the IMF, WTO ...
• 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
  Print me out, use me, spread me around! 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits 1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
  (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
• How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
  Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
• How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
  Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
• She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
  Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
• How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
  Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

• Advocating in America for Autism: How We Met P ...
  By Lin Wessels You know, I get discouraged sometimes with my government, with my president, with my countrymen and women, with my country as whole. I suppose it is a natural thing. We all want a better life, especially when...
• Support the Doctors Who Help Children With Autism
  On September 8th in Chicago, we parents of children with numerous health issues, will be honoring Dr. Anju Usman, to recognize the outstanding medical care she has provided to thousands of children with complex medical issues and support her ability...
• Republican Party Convention Outrage on Delegat ...
  In this election year, we will showcase the happenings on "both sides of the aisle." Neither party has been much help to the autism community - each from their own perspective. Labor Day is an often overlooked holiday, seen more...
• Anti-Vaccine Surveillance and Alert System Fun ...
  Note: From the GreenMedFoundation, "Education Equals Empowerment," comes this sober report on the great lengths and dollars going to protect the pharmaceutical industry. Read the full story HERE. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation launched the Grand Challenges in Global...
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Anti-Vaccine S ...
  The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation launched the Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) in partnership with the National Institutes of Health in 2003 which, according to the GCGH website, is aimed at "creating new tools that can radically improve...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• Seeds of Monopoly – Monsanto and Goldman Sachs
  All species that feed off of others want a monopoly, and Monsanto and Goldman Sachs are no different. They don’t like to share their food supply, and we are on the table, dressed up like Thanksgiving turkeys. They feed off our ignorance, and if we do not recognize the deceptions they use, we can ...
• These Brands Want To Defeat GMO Labeling In Ca ...
  Want to know the latest anti-labeling contributors fighting our right to know about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food? Thanks to Jon Abrahamson, here is the latest info.
• Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails 2012: Jeffrey ...
  "Are Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops Akin to Weapons of Mass Destruction?" Jeffrey Smith
• WHY in the World are They Spraying? FULL LENGT ...
  Watch the full length version of WHY in the World are They Spraying? free online.
• Pro-GMO Propaganda in California Dismantled by ...
  Opponents of GMO labeling say it will raise food costs by hundreds of dollars per family when in fact it will likely cause NO cost increase at all!

Open Your Eyes News

• China probes ‘gutter oil in medicine&#82 ...
  BBC – Chinese officials have told pharmaceutical firms to check their suppliers after claims that some have used “gutter oil” to make antibiotics, state-run media report. Officials are looking into firms that reportedly use the cheaper gutter oil rather than the more expensive ...
• To Calm Israel, U.S. Offers Ways to Restrain Iran
  NY Times – With Israel openly debating whether to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months, the Obama administration is moving ahead with a range of steps short of war that it hopes will forestall an Israeli attack, while forcing the Iranians to take more seriously negotiat ...
• Wind farms made of wood
  Deutsche Welle – German engineering firm TimberTower seeks to revolutionize the design of conventional wind power plants, making its turbine towers from wood. The construction reaches new dimensions in height and cost-efficiency. This revolutionary wind-turbine mast construction is still i ...
• Open Your Eyes News recommends – I am Fi ...
  A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. Broken into three parts, our search for the
• FEATURE PAGE – Problem, Reaction, Solution
  How can you sell the seeming unsellable? How can you pursuade the public that Iran has WMD’s when clearly you were caught lying less than a decade ago over Iraq? Welcome to the twisted logic of Problem, Reaction, Solution. To find out more CLICK HERE

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• Change Ten Lives
  It seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.
• Stop the Crisis, Share our Stories!
  Subscribe to the official Water.org YouTube channel to be among the first to see our weekly videos. These shorts, which provide a glimpse of life in the heart of the water crisis, can help give a face to a world-wide struggle.
• A Promise to Haiti
  Join co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White on a recent visit to Haiti following up on our promise to help 50,000 people get safe water. The video ends with Matt, along with his father and brother, celebrating the opening of a new well with a community in the Central Plateau.
• Urban water collection in Haiti
  No matter how many times one visits the developing world, it seems there is always another shocking image around every corner. Last week in Port-au-Prince we followed several people to collect water. After traversing a trash-lined creek bed and about 300 meters from the road we came across this ...
• Community Latrines in India
  Many slum communities in India have this type of shared, public latrine, which, while helpful when brand new, can deteriorate within a couple of years.

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know ...
• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know so well is in fac ...
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
• Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more

News Blaze

• Displaced Syrians Find Fewer Refuge Amid Turmoil
  The agency reports that people have been killed in their homes or on the streets as they seek food or try to evacuate the wounded.
• Federal Court Says Boston Can Prohibit The Con ...
  The case, Hightower v. Boston, arose out of the revocation of a license to carry a handgun in public in Massachusetts. During the oral arguments before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Hightower's attorney, Alan Gura, was asked if his was an 'Open
• Will Facebook Replace eBay?
  Communities are starting groups to sell, buy, and trade anything and everything on Facebook, could this replace sites like eBay and Craigslist?
• US Honors Ethiopia's PM Meles as 'Brilliant Le ...
  According to Ms. Rice, she was always struck by two things about the former leader: Meles was consistently reasoned in his judgments and thoughtful in his decisions; and, he was driven not by ideology but by his vision of a better future
• Around 680 Ashraf Residents Ready to Move to L ...
  Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope, as pointed out in the State Department's statement, that the United States will take the appropriate measures in order to resolve the essential humanitarian issues such as water,

Worldnews

• 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...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Blood Pressure Lowered By Kidney Stenting In P ...
  Patients with uncontrolled renovascular hypertension saw a significant improvement in their blood pressure with renal artery stent deployment. The multicenter HERCULES trial, evaluating the safety and effectiveness of the RX Herculink Elite Stent, found that patients with higher blood pressure l ...
• Do cuts mean 'dial 999 and wait'?
  Are cutbacks hitting the front line?
• Ditch the minty toothpaste and try coconut oil ...
  Researchers in Ireland found that, when coconut oil was treated with digestive enzymes, it became a powerful killer of the main bug responsible for tooth decay.
• Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
• Singer Katie Melua Marries Superbike Star
  The artist marries World Superbike champion James Toseland at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, West London.

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Are there haunted locations y ...
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• ExamineReligion: We need to define what life i ...
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• ExamineReligion: Missing the ball http://t.co/ ...
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• ExamineReligion: Does PolitiFact say Republica ...
  ExamineReligion: Does PolitiFact say Republicans lie nine times more? Really? http://t.co/RLF2c5aM
• ExamineReligion: Spies undermine nation's dest ...
  ExamineReligion: Spies undermine nation's destiny http://t.co/S7emaXD2

Energy Collective

• A carbon trading linkup between Australia and ...
  Last week the Australian Government and the European Commission announced that their respective emission trading systems would link up progressively over Phase III of the EU system, but for Australian entities from the start of full carbon allowance trading in 2015. This is a bold move by both p ...
• Does declining gas exploration indicate a pric ...
  A few interesting points came out of the follow-up discussion on my prior post, in which I argued that, contra Rod Adams, natural gas prices are not set to "explode" anytime soon.
• Power projects seek investors on a global scale
  China's huge sovereign wealth fund is a frequent target of power proposals
• How Energy Shapes the Economy
  In the beginning, the Master Economist created the Economy.  He created businesses large and small, consumers, governments with their regulation, and financial institutions of all types. And the Master Economist declared that the economy should grow. And it did grow, but only for a while. T ...
• Will the Smart Grid Start A New American Revol ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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Peoples Voice

• This Land Is Their Land
  by Stephen Lendman Palestine belongs to Palestinians. They're willing to settle for what lies within 1967 borders. It's 22% of what they lost. They also rightfully claim East Jerusalem as their capital. It's theirs, not Israel's. Israeli settlements are illegal. This article discusses M ...
• Sucking Up Shamelessly to Israel
  by Stephen Lendman America's special relationship with Israel too often reflects the tail wagging the dog. Increasingly, the Jewish state is more strategic liability than asset. The Israeli Lobby has a virtual stranglehold on US foreign policy. Blunt pressure is applied to get Washington ...
• Venezuela's Oil Refinery Blaze - Seven Good Re ...
  By James Petras Only 43 days before the Venezuelan presidential election and with President Chavez leading by a persistent margin of 20 percentage points, an explosion and fire at the Amuay refinery killed at least 48 people - half of those were members of the National Guard – and destroy ...
• Let's Have Another War
  by Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. America is directly or indirectly responsible for most world conflicts. Across North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, it plays the lead role. Afghanistan has been occupied for nearly 11 years. US air and ground attacks murder civilians daily. ...
• Bona Fide Eurozone Crisis
  by Stephen Lendman Economist Jack Rasmus appears regularly on the Progressive Radio News Hour. He calls Eurozone conditions today "a bona fide crisis." It's threefold, he says. What first affected sovereign debt became a banking crisis. Both reflect two sides of the same coin. Regional r ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• A Sustainable Vision for Our Community: Altern ...
  A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations. The Alternative Budget contains 65 action item ...
• Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
  Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...
• Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the United ...
  The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979.  Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...
• Crime and Declining Unionization
  In an article entitled "Crime and the Decline of Unions," economics professors Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts estimate the elasticity of crime with respect to union membership.  They contend that the drop in US union membersh ...
• Final Report Released on CAW-CEP New Union Project
  The final report of the proposal committee for a new union combining the CAW and CEP contains many intriguing ideas, not least being the 5 regional councils, funded by a separate per capita levy, that give the new union the feel of a labour central.  All local unions in each region will be ...

World Wide Hippies

• The Facts About Voter ID Laws and Voting Fraud
  By Ars Moriendi,WWH/CJE – Can someone please explain to me why it is that this whole voter ID law feels so much like cheating? I won’t claim brilliance in the area of voter laws. To date I have only voted and helped other sign up to vote in my home state of South Carolina, thousands [...]
• Who owns your downloaded music after you die?
  by Zack Whittaker and Charlie Osborne,cnet.com – Bruce Willis may not challenge Apple to who owns his iTunes collection after his death, but one question remains: What does happen to your downloaded music collection once you fly to the sky? Earlier today, a story emerged from the British t ...
• Illegal loggers ‘closing in’ on Earth’s most t ...
  From survivalinternational.org – A recent investigation by Brazil’s Indian affairs department FUNAI has uncovered shocking evidence that illegal loggers are rapidly closing in on the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe, sparking fears for their safety. Only three weeks ago, a government tea ...
• Revolution 99 Updates: World unrest continues ...
  Gaza teenager burns himself to death in poverty protest GAZA (Reuters) – A young man has died after setting himself on fire in the Gaza Strip, apparently in protest at economic hardship in the Palestinian enclave, the man’s family and police said on Monday. Ehab Abu Nada, 18, left hi ...
• WWH/CJE Tuesday News Briefs
  Hunger Games: The price of feeding the world Have banks been speculating on food markets and could this contribute to pushing millions into hunger and poverty? The World Development Movement, a UK-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has accused Barclays Bank of profiting from world hunger ...

FourWinds10

• Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leav ...
  (NaturalNews) Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water ...
• TEXAS GULF ALERT TO SAY AWAY, 4.2 MILLION POIS ...
• Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Wat ...
• TAR SANDS: PROTECTING THE SACRED , Josh Fox's ...
• MONTEZUMA WELL UNDER ATTACK AGAIN! PLEASE SIG ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• 4 Reasons Why Gas Prices Are About to Fall Rapidly
  While U.S. gasoline prices have been on the rise for the past two months -- and are presently $0.15/gallon higher than they were a year ago -- Robert Rapier expects that gasoline prices will start to fall rapidly in the weeks ahead.
• Carbon Trading & Thorium Reactors
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first is on California’s upcoming carbon trading markets, which includes a discussion on resource shuffling. The second question is on the potential of thorium nuclear reactors. Readers who have specifi ...
• What Mitt Romney’s Energy Plan Should Look Like
  Following Mitt Romney’s release of his energy plan, I intended to offer a detailed critique. However, there are already numerous critiques out there that would not differ much from my own. My critique would have been a near mirror image of Michael Levi’s Pipe Dreams at Foreign Policy ...
• Interview On My Energy Positions After ASPO 2011
  Following last year’s ASPO conference, I was interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future, which is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. Aaron just made that interview available, and instead of an R-Squared Energy TV epis ...
• Why Sugarcane Bagasse is the Most Promising Pa ...
  The history of cellulosic ethanol is a lot longer than most people probably realize. The Germans first commercialized cellulosic ethanol production from wood in 1898. The technology was commercialized in the U.S. in 1910, when Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in South Ca ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Personalize Learning: Infographic: Personaliza ...
  Tags: learning, infographics, differentiation, instructionby: Dean Mantz
• Share what you know | Learnist
  Comments:Education alternative to Pinterest - Dean MantzTags: education, Pinterest, learnist, learning, curation, web2.0, tools, Imagesby: Dean Mantz
• How You're Using Your iPad [INFOGRAPHIC]
  Comments:Nice infographic comparing the 3 different models of iPads.  - Dean MantzTags: infographics, iPad, Mashable, comparisonby: Dean Mantz
• Weather Wiz Kids weather information for kids
  Tags: weather, wizkids, Science, interactive, elementary, meteorology, education, resourcesby: Dean Mantz
• Wonderopolis
  Tags: no_tagby: Cheryl Lykowski

Rodale News

• Strange New Suspects That Could Be Causing Bre ...
  About 12 percent of U.S. women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at some point in their lives. Increasingly, researchers are pointing out a connection between environmental chemicals and breast cancer. The latest evidence comes as two separate studies find a link between breast canc ...
• The Top Natural Treatments for Lyme Disease
  Lyme disease is a complicated infection, tough to diagnose and even harder to treat if doctors miss an early diagnosis, which is all too often the case. Lyme disease treatment is tricky because the most popular blood tests used in most doctors' offices to detect the disease miss about 55 percen ...
• The Most Toxic Pesticide You'll Soon Be Eating
  So-called "superweeds" are taking over American farmland. Impervious to chemical herbicides, like Roundup (the most widely used herbicide in the U.S.), these weeds don't die when exposed to chemicals. Instead, they just grow taller and thicker and become so sturdy, they've been known ...
• How Your Parents' Diet Could Help You Lose Weight
  The generation that spawned Woodstock and free love didn't completely abandon its ideals during the "Me Decade" of the '80s. Baby boomers are among the nation's largest percentage of vegetarians, according to a recent survey out from the Vegetarian Resource Group. The survey, given t ...
• It's OK To Visit Jamba Juice, Thanks to This 1 ...
  How do you get a huge fast-food chain to make a major shift in its environmental policies? Sick a precocious, Internet-savvy 10-year-old on it, and just wait for it to see the error of its ways. It worked in California! One day this past summer, Mia Hansen's mom took her to Jamba Juice, her fa ...

big think

• For Love of Sci-Fi: Company Releases Vintage T ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Brooklyn-based Singularity & Co has taken it upon itself to bring forgotten science fiction books back from the virtual dead by tracking down copyright holders and getting permission to republish them i ...
• No Marriage? No Kids? What Does the Power Woma ...
  Who is the “Power Woman?” In our recent Power Woman Deep Dive report, we explored the Content Network, or dynamic web of cultural activity that makes up the world of the Power Woman: The modern Power Woman is strong minded and balances traditionally feminine qualities wit ...
• The Nuisance of Nudging
  When is a nudge a nuisance? Thanks in large part to the work of Richard Thaler, an economist at the University of Chicago, the science of "nudging" - getting people to make choices based on how their options are presented - has become all the rage in business and government.  Nudging is nothing ...
• Addis Ababa: The Next Big Travel Hub?
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Last month Ethiopian Airlines became the first commercial airline outside of Japan to operate a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a passenger jet that seats up to 290 people and is 20 percent more fuel-efficient than ...
• How Barbara Kruger Asks the Questions This Ele ...
  Every election comes with questions, ranging from the serious (How will we fix the economy?) to the ludicrous (Was he born in this country?). But this election season, artist Barbara Kruger is asking the open-ended questions that this election (and every election) must answer in her exhibition ...

Information Liberation

• Cop Claims Teen Assaulted Him, Video Shows He ...
  Prince George's County, Maryland police officer Corporal Donald Taylor, a 13-year-veteran, claimed that after catching up to an aggressive youth who swung at him and began to flee, the youth reached for his gun, at which point he fired his gun at t...
• Video Shows TSA's Bizarre New Security Policy
  A video clip shot yesterday at Columbus Ohio Airport illustrates how the Transportation Security Administration has dreamed up a bizarre new way to waste time and taxpayer dollars * by testing drinks purchased by travelers for explosives inside the...
• Peter Schiff Talks Rising Food Prices On Al Ja ...
  Inside Story - Hunger Games: the price of feeding the world We discuss the reasons for the increasing cost of food and what is being done to curb record highs. Teymoor Nabili discusses with Christine Haigh, Peter Schiff, & Aly Khan Satchu....
• Tucker Carlson Doesn't Know Anything About The ...
  Luke Rudkowski talks to The Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson who claims he doesn't know anything about the NDAA. Follow Luke @ http://www.twitter.com/lukewearechange Become a WeAreChange Sponsor and get exclusive behind the scenes conte...
• Organic food no healthier than non-organic: study
  Organic milk and chicken may also contain more omega-3 fatty acids, they found - but that was based on only a few studies....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Rainbow Connection
  Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...
  Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
• One More Five-Ring Circus
  The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
• More Of The Shiny Stuff
  A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
• Meet The Asylum’s New Management
  The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic H ...
  Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins http://bit.ly/QJcS5w [Abstract] Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That syst ...
• Revisiting Leopold: Resource Stewardship in th ...
  National Park System Science Board Advisory Committee http://www.nps.gov/calltoaction/PDF/LeopoldReport_2012.pdf [National Parks Traveler] Climate change, biodiversity, and the current state and understanding of ecosystem management all were unknown to A. Starker Leopold 50 years ago when he ove ...
• Assessment of New York City Natural Gas Market ...
  ICF International for New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2012/icf_natural_gas_study.pdf [WNYC] As the state weighs whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come out in favor of the controversial technique ...
• Assumptions to Annual Energy Outlook 2012
  US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/assumptions/ This report presents the major assumptions of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) used to generate the projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2012, including general features of the model ...
• Carbon Tax Revenue and the Budget Deficit: A W ...
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / by Sebastian Rausch and John Reilly http://globalchange.mit.edu/research/publications/2328 [Green Car Congress] A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change sugge ...

Scientific American - News

• Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions
  Scientific American partnered with grassroots organization  ScienceDebate.org  earlier this summer to encourage the two main presidential candidates--Barack Obama and Mitt Romney--to answer 14 questions  on some of the biggest scientific and technological challenges facing th ...
• Space Elevator Enthusiasts Push On despite Len ...
  SEATTLE--“I think building an elevator to space is maybe the best thing I could do in the world,” Michael Laine says. [More]
• India's Forest Area in Doubt
  By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine [More]
• Biodiversity Found to Increase During Warm Per ...
  From Nature magazine [More]
• A TB Test You Can Do at Home
  From Nature magazine [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• KI Nation members and supporters are paddling ...
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• Labour Day Photo Spread
  K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - Buoyed on by temperatures fitting an endless weekend, encouraged by the smell of b-b-q and tantalized by the sounds of Joe Murphy and the Water Street Blues Band, Haligonians descended by the hundreds t ...
• Slam en joual vert dans la Baie-des-Chaleurs
  La Gaspésie actuelle, politique et critique, en slam avec Bilbo Cyr
• Rebuilding the Wabanaki Confederacy
  Non-Indigenous participate in Confederacy Gathering for first time in centuries.   St. Mary's First Nation, Unceded Wabanaki Territory (New Brunswick) – On September 1st and 2nd, for the first time in several hundre ...
• Auto Manufacturing Workers at a Crossroads
  (first published in Basicsnews.ca) “The place is hot like hell, especially in the summer time at night, bad ventilation, a lot of humidity and of course machines emitting heat doesn’t help.’ said Iain*, a temporary worker at an auto parts plant in the Toronto area.  &ldquo ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Clint Eastwood and his contempt for America
  "This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama." @jabouie tweet re Eastwood's speech (ht Doonesbury)Clint Eastwood’s performance was the most decadent, self indulgent thing I have ever seen. Watching him wank for 12 minutes to wild ap ...
• Mooned... with aplogies to Neil Armstrong
  Mother of tidesThe great white kiteFloats gently cross the breathless nightGiant leaps are soon forgotten. David Seaton
• Meditations on Republican craziness
  At the center of all the nuttiness of today’s Republicans is their bankrollers’ fear of regulation… The ceaseless culture warfare is merely a tactic to simultaneously attract and confuse a sufficient number of the ignorant to enable the “one-percenters” to paralyze the political process.Examined ...
• The Rhymes of Ayn Rand and Ryan: tea for two
  In the withered heart of Any Rand’s world, the weak, the hungry, The violated, the broken, the disorganized are condemned, They have no brothers Unlettered children, tiny, lonely, light-starved beings, Like mushrooms fed on excrement, are free:  Free to sicken, free to die. In unhe ...
• Of course the Democratic Party sucks... so what?
  My favorite description of the Democratic Party is Woody Allen's restaurant; you know the one, “such bad food and such small portions”.The American political system is corrupt and both political parties are part of the problem and in my opinion only a massive citizen’s movement similar to the Ci ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Quote of the Day: Paul Ryan Misses By a Factor ...
  From Paul Ryan, on the stump in North Carolina yesterday: In 1980 under Jimmy Carter, 330,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy. Last year, under President Obama’s failed leadership, 1.4 million businesses filed for bankruptcy. It turns out this isn't true. In 1980 there were 43,000 ...
• Factlet of the Day: Prosecuting Bribery Leads ...
  Here's a fascinating little factlet. The New York Times reports today that most big prosecutions under America's anti-bribery law are against foreign companies. Siemens, for example, paid a fine of $800 million even though it's a German company and the bribes in question were paid to Argentini ...
• My Personal Stake in the Election
  Ramesh Ponnuru writes today that if Barack Obama wins reelection, nothing will change. Republicans will not feel chastened one bit. Instead, they'll conclude that they can't win with a faux conservative like Romney, and will spend the next four years amping up the obstruction machine while the ...
• Paul Ryan Is a Tax Hawk, Not a Deficit Hawk
  Are Republicans—and in particular, Paul Ryan—dedicated deficit hawks? Let's make this simple. Here's a timeline: 2001-08: Republicans, including Ryan, repeatedly vote to increase the deficit during the George Bush administration. This includes votes in favor of two huge tax ...
• Presidential Campaigns Will Soon Be Done Entir ...
  Dylan Byers reports today on an open secret: the 2012 campaign is a relentless, joyless exercise in trench warfare, and reporters hate it. So what's the solution? Some reporters believe it is just a matter of waiting out 2012 in hopes that 2016 will see the return of 2008-level excitement....O ...

Insanity Report

• IC 345: Black Unicorn
  Topics: Avengers tops $1.5 Billion Michael Bay tries to distance himself from the Ninja Turtles Script Your opinion represents the minority I know my opinion is fucked up, you don’t have to tell me Kev goes to the Red Light District in Amsterdam The RNC & DNC The media isn’t inf ...
• IC 344: Fuck France
  Topics: Kriss officially loses empathy Expendables 2 Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtle script WAS that bad Part 1 of Kev’s Europe Trip recap Share with your friends:
• IC 343: nWFo
  Topics: Special Guests: Jaxx the Rapper, Rod & Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips The formation of the nWFO Lots and Lots of rants on everything from Politics to Rape to Rod complaining about women who fucked up his Fantasy Football bar nights Share with your friends:
• IC 342: Land Sharks
  Topics: Ghostwriting You can’t force people to be activists Worse things than Kristen Stewart What Kevin Shouldn’t Do in Europe Shark Week Land Sharks The annoyance of politics Fix-a-Flat butt lifts Share with your friends:
• IC 341: Moral High Horse Olympics
  Topics: Olympic fails Worst Olympic swimmer in history Domestic Violence CAN be funny Beware White Boys Bearing Drugs Shark Week Real Fear Factor The fear of prison rape keeps me out of prison Peeing in the pool Man beats woman with her dead dog Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?
  Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan
• Finding nature’s part in Arctic ice loss puts ...
  With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.
• Temperature rises could hamper developing worl ...
  Annual variations show every 1°C temperature increase shaves 1.3 percent off a poor country’s growth, over the course of a given year, according to MIT economist Ben Olken.
• CO2-focused breeding can arm crops for food fight
  Higher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support
• Continued emission growth promises US megadroughts
  2000-2004 western US drought was worst in 800 years, but will become normal in future, reversing the region’s absorption of CO2 and worsening climate change, says Christopher Schwalm from Northern Arizona University

e!Science News

• Hormone therapy for fruit flies means better p ...
  Released en masse, sterile Mexican fruit flies can undermine a wild population of the fruit-damaging pests so that fewer applications of insecticide are needed. But the irradiation used to sterilize the flies weakens them, hindering their ability to outcompete wild-type males for female mates. ...
• New study shows promise in using RNA nanotechn ...
  A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows promise for developing ultrastable RNA nanoparticles that may help treat cancer and viral infections by regulating cell function and binding to cancers without harming surrounding tissue. read more
• The eyes have it: Men do see things differentl ...
  The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between co ...
• Deadly witch hunts targeted by grassroots wome ...
  Witch hunts are common and sometimes deadly in the tea plantations of Jalpaiguri, India. But a surprising source -- small groups of women who meet through a government loan program -- has achieved some success in preventing the longstanding practice, a Michigan State University sociologist found ...
• Sleep apnoea linked with increased risk of can ...
  Sleep apnea severity has been associated with increased cancer mortality in a new study. read more

unEarthed

• Feds Betray Wyoming Wolves
  Shoot-on-sight killing of endangered wolves allowed in 30 days The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose a blue moon to announce the delisting of the gray wolf in ...
• Judge Holds TVA Liable For Kingston Disaster
  But disastrous Senate bill would let utilities off the hook Kingston, TN coal ash spill In a stunning victory for victims of the 2008 Tennessee Valley Authori ...
• Musicians Join Hit Parade As Mountain Heroes
  Warren Haynes, My Morning Jacket oppose mountaintop removal mining Guitarist Warren Haynes has joined the Mountain Heroes campaign. John Denver’s &ldquo ...
• Unplugged: Stop Energy Hogs At The Border
  Earthjustice urges customs to act on noncompliant imports Courtesy: energyhog.org In June of 1976, the country had not yet marked its bicentennial. Gerald For ...
• Age Of Extreme Energy Needs Extreme Caution
  U.S. lax about chemicals used in oil and gas operations In April 2010, a national nightmare began with a blowout into the Gulf of Mexico. But the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill were just th ...

Brave New Climate

• 21st century nuclear… for beginners
  SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
• Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
  This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
• Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costs
  This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
• Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
  This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...
• No easy substitutes for fossil fuels
  The following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Republicans And The Truth
  Of the many things that bother me about Republicans, is the fact that they don’t care if they are being lied to. All facts support my positions, and I am never wrong about anything. Numbers matter. Facts matter. The truth is the truth whether it fits my ideology or not. All of my statement ...
• New Republican Attack Strategy
  “Are you better off” is all you are going to hear from Republicans the next few days, or weeks. It seems they have been sabotaging our recovery for 3 1/2 years just so they can use this line of attack. Republicans have done everything they possibly could to make sure President Obama ...
• Romney “I Wish President Obama Had Succe ...
  So Mitt in his convention speech claimed he wanted President Obama to succeed. Sure you did Mitt. And President Obama was going to have an easy time succeeding with the full support of Republican Senators right? Republican Senators making sure he is not successful in any way, and filibustering a ...
• Hard Times for Republican Convention Speakers ...
  I heard speaker after speaker at the convention talk about how hard their, or their parents lives were, and how hard they struggled. It must have been tough, and I am sure for many it was. Just don’t forget. Because of Republican policies, it is getting tougher, and tougher, and tougher to ...
• “We’re not going let our campaign be dic ...
  Quote – Neil Newhouse, Mitt Romney’s campaign pollster. Whoda Thinkit! New York Times Article Lyin’ Ryan and Mitt The Plunderer. The best the GOP has to offer. (Puke)

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
• Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...
  Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

+972

• Migron evacuation proves Israel’s land p ...
  The question is whether Israel will ever realize that regardless of the somersaults it does to try and establish legitimate claims to to the land, its power will one day run out. So, Migron, the little illegal outpost that made big headlines in recent months, was finally evacuated in its entiret ...
• The Arab Bedouin of the Naqab – Myths an ...
  In September 2011, the Israeli government approved the Prawer Plan for mass expulsion of the Arab Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) desert. If fully implemented, this plan will result in the forced displacement of tens of thousands Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel and the destruction of 35 “ ...
• Photo essay: Palestinians displaced as Israel ...
  The last week of August saw a sharp increase in home and property demolitions by Israeli authorities after a relatively calm period during Ramadan. Now large-scale operations are forcing the displacement of many Palestinians, particularly targeting isolated communities in the South Hebron Hills. ...
• Women of the Wall and Pussy Riot: Unlikely par ...
  From Pussy Riot to Women of the Wall, our male religious authorities are so intimidated by women mobilizing support for religious freedom and expression, that they feel the need to restrain, detain and jail this great potential for change. By Shira Pruce I admit that a few weeks ago, if you aske ...
• Hagai Amir: I don’t regret Rabin’s murde ...
  Hagai Amir, accomplice in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was released in May after serving 16 years in jail. He discusses with +972 Magazine his pride in the assassin, his brother Yigal; his contacts with Hamas representatives in prison; his views on a binational state; and m ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Statement on Queensland Environmental Assessments
  Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has issued a response to a statement issued by Queensland Deputy Premier Jeff Seeny
• Minister welcomes UNESCO's Great Barrier Reef ...
  Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has welcomed the release of a joint UNESCO World Heritage Centre and International Union for the Conservation of Nature report on the Great Barrier Reef.
• Tasmania's largest irrigation scheme ready to ...
  The construction of Tasmania's biggest ever irrigation scheme is ready to start in the Midlands.
• Joyce says no to spending on infrastructure up ...
  Today in The Australian, the Shadow Minister for Water, Barnaby Joyce, reached new heights in the Opposition's obsession with saying no to everything.
• New weather bureau radar for south-east Tasmania
  Tasmania's new state-of-the-art Doppler weather radar will provide coverage to large sections of the state for the first time.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Deutsche Bank hands out Millions of Dollars th ...
  Deustche Bank, who has filed thousands of lawsuits as trustee for trusts in the State of Florida, made big news this weekend by handing out millions of dollars. There is just one catch, homeowners weren’t targeted by the bank. Instead, millions were given to professional golfers for placin ...
• Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most ir ...
  From Matt Taibbi, one of the only reporters left in this country: And this is where we get to the hypocrisy at the heart of Mitt Romney. Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a “turnaround specialist,” a shrewd financial operat ...
• Matt Stoller: A Roll Call of All The Activist ...
  We have such a disgustingly short attention span in this country….just a few short weeks ago, the bobble heads and the press were lauding the “Landmark Attorney General Foreclosure Settlement” The banks were being punished…..right? WRONG…….AND IT JUST GETS WOR ...
• Did The Republicans Just Lose The Election? Do ...
  Forget about old school Chicago ward style politics…the corruption on display by the GOP in Tampa was off the charts.  The ReTHUGliCON party was completely hijaked by the fascist neo cons, but in doing so they cut out even the hard right factions of the party.  Rush Limbaugh was up in arms ...
• Brand New Service of Process Case out of the Fifth
  This firm regularly looks at the released cases out of every circuit case in the state of Florida that concerns mortgage foreclosures. Today, the 5th DCA came out and reiterated what has been said many times before: that service of process must be strictly complied with. In Schofield v. Wells Fa ...

abelard - news

• david davis speech - "i still wish i was pm" | ...
  Former leadership rival rehashes Cameron's plans as his own.
• bernanke suggests economic triggers on money p ...
  Emulating Bank of England strategy and providing a safety net.
• iran deliberately lies about ban ki-moon warni ...
  As with any socialist state, Iran cannot face the truth, preferring to censor it instead.
• first week - short report | vuelta a espagna 2 ...
  After a mere bumpy week, with tactical cycling by the front runners, work will start.
• down with fascism, up with fascism | politics ...
  On analysis, George Orwell appears to have very mussled thinking.

The Parallel Parliament

• On the Queen and Colonels
  Every discipline carries its own recognition and rewards. Business, sports, the arts, educational institutions, and many more – all these …Continue reading »
• How Politics Changes Us (2)
  Seth Godin writes a blog. It’s always short and terse but carries nuggets within it. Here’s what he put out …Continue reading »
• How Politics Changes Us (1)
  Last week there was a conversation stream going on among some on Twitter asking why it is that politics always …Continue reading »
• My Own Stargate
  O the things I’ve learned in the last three days! My last post spoke of my loss of a few …Continue reading »
• On Blood and Belonging
  It started out well enough. Jane and I had just finished sending my new book about London, Ontario to be …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

• Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
  August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
• Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
  Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
• Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
  Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
• The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
  Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...
• Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...
  Posted: 2/21/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – like vaccines - and be allowed to make a voluntary choice about whether or to take the risk ...

2020 Science

• Basic research and personal responsibility
  Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
• Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
  Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
• Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
  Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• Carbon dioxide lags temperature
  CO2 released from use of fossil fuels have little influence on the observed changes in the amount of atmospheric CO2, and changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.
• Long term investment: Avoid the carbon taxers ...
  So my message for the next 5 or 6 years is to shift your investments away from Australia (and other virtuous but economically silly countries) and into countries promoting low energy prices (US and other countries where the environmental regulations and tax regimes allow production of electrici ...
• Anders Behring Breivik’s cell to be
  He killed 77 people and this is what his cell will look like. Sentenced to "luxury for life"?
• Reality Check: add renewables subtract nuclear ...
  Germany’s increasing coal consumption is part of a global return to the fossil fuel that’s cheaper than most alternatives. The amount of coal burned worldwide rose 5.4 percent to account for 30 percent of total energy use last year.
• Fisker Karma electric hybrid car is a gold-min ...
  The subsidy effectively provides a real incentive for Fisker not to make the car work or to sell more cars but to cease production as soon as practically possible without incurring any risk for repayment of the subsidy.

Left Foot Forward

• Reshuffle: Wales and Northern Ireland: Reactio ...
  Welsh secretary David Jones and Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers settled into their new cabinet seats today, advice aplenty ringing in their ears.
• Reshuffle: DFID: Mitchell’s record, and ...
  As Justine Greening is announced as the new international development secretary, it’s worth pausing to reflect on the record of her predecessor Andrew Mitchell.
• Economy, money and demography: Which will prov ...
  Is it now safe to assume job numbers and economic visions will determine who occupies the White House? Matt Browne of the Center for American Progress reports.
• Watch: George Osborne gets bood at the Paralym ...
  George Osborne was booed at the Paralympics yesterday - while Gordon Brown was cheered.
• All change as Cameron reshuffles the Coalition ...
  The new Cabinet is beginning to take shape with ministers who've been demoted, moved sideways or axed learning their fate this morning.

Consumerist

• New Best Buy CEO To See What It’s Like T ...
  New Best Buy CEO Hubert "Don't Call Me Q*bert" Joly is settling into his comfy new digs at the company's HQ this week, but the former hotel & restaurant chain exec says he plans to jump into the Best Buy pool with both feet by finding out what it's like to work for the retailer [...]
• Durex Ad Stunt Replaces Boring Pre-Flight Safe ...
  The cabin door is closed, you're tuning out and maybe reading a book as your flight attendants are in the aisle demonstrating all the safety features of... a condom? Say what now? Durex Poland pulled a considerably sassy prank on some airline passengers for the sake of making advertising gold, r ...
• Comment Of The Day: Keep Practicing
  Applekid: I’m hoping to haunt the inventors of DRM when I’m dead. So far my spooky moan isn’t that great, but I’ll hit it eventually. Seen an especially funny, insightful, or useful comment? Nominate it for Comment of the Day by sending it to laura@consumerist.com by e-mail or Google Chat.
• Apparently Not Many People Pay Off Their Stude ...
  John had the money on hand to pay off the rest of his student loans all at once. Lenders don't seem to get a lot of customers approaching them to do this, since student loan debt generally has lower interest rates than consumer debt. At least we're guessing that they don't get very many customer ...
• Chicago Public Library’s Amnesty Period ...
  Fear of the inevitably ginormous fine she'd face after hanging onto a Chicago Public Library copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde for 78 years too long kept one woman from bringing the overdue back to its proper place. But thanks to the library's recent three-week amnesty period, th ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Can Corp Lawyers Sue Under False Claims Act: D ...
  National Journal: Whistleblowing Incentives for Lawyers? Image courtesy of wikimedia user Avjoska An interesting case before the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit deals with whether or not former corporate attorneys – who have access to privy information – may be parties on false clai ...
• Manning Defense Demands Access to Emails: Dail ...
  Daily Telegraph (UK): ‘US Withheld Hundreds of Emails in the Bradley Manning Case’ Summary: The latest pretrial hearing for Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeaks, continues its third day today. Manning’s defense has accused the prosecution of w ...
• Young Niece of Indian Whistleblower Attacked: ...
  IBN Live (India): Whistleblower’s Niece Attacked in Bikaner Summary: The four-year-old niece of an Indian whistleblower was attacked and thrown against a wall in order to “get even” with her uncle. She has suffered permanent damage to her nervous system. Her whistleblower uncle has been trying ...
• Is New Orleans Ready for Isaac?: Daily Whistle ...
  Seven Years after Katrina, New Orleans Still Has Defective Pumps Revealed by Whistleblower Summary: A US Army Corps of Engineers whistleblower revealed, years ago, major safety and reliability issues with the hydraulic pumps installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. GAP National Securi ...
• Seven Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still H ...
  Tropical Storm Isaac, on the verge of becoming a hurricane, is headed toward Louisiana. Officials have pronounced New Orleans ready, while at the same time the governor urged people in low-lying areas and places outside of levee protection to leave for safe ground. The Army Corps of Engine ...

UK Progressive

• Op Ed: U.S. Policies Contributed to Poverty in ...
  By Sherwood Ross The United States has worked across Latin America to enrich private clients at the expense of the pauperized masses, Professor of Sociology Emeritus James Petras of Binghamton University, N.Y.,  charges. “Never in the 20th Century (1990-2001) were so many lucrative public monopo ...
• George W. Bush as Hurricane Isaac
  by Robert Reich There is nothing Republicans would rather the American people forget more than George W. Bush, who doesn’t even have a bit-part at the GOP convention opening in Tampa. But W’s ghost may be there, anyway. The National Weather Service says tropical storm Isaac is now heading for Ne ...
• Wendell Potter on the Illusory Promise of Free ...
  by Wendell Potter for iWatch News While listening to the promises to repeal ObamaCare during the Republican National Convention, I was reminded of what those of us in the health insurance industry said when our friends in Congress were able to block passage of President Clinton’s health care ref ...
• Suddenly Homeless – Five First Steps To Ending ...
  By Charley James Making a dent in the nation’s homeless problem might not be easy but it’s possible to draw a picture to show a way forward. At its core, there are five, broadly defined, component pieces to eliminating much of America’s homeless problem. And, yes, the devil is ...
• Labor Day 2012 and the Election of 2012: It’s ...
  by Robert Reich The most troubling economic trend facing America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top – among a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people – and the steady decline of the great American middle class. Inequali ...

NewsAlert

• New ad knocks Obama for Canadian-style health care
• California Dem bashes GOP convention for lack ...
  The Hill
• The History of Classical Liberalism
• Chicago Teachers Union Boss Compares Strike to ...
• Schakowsky: Joe Walsh is an "embarrassment." I ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times

JoNova

• A review of “Madlands: a journey to chan ...
  Anna Rose is the head of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. She visited us with Nick Minchin to film the doco “I can change your mind” and has produced a book called Madlands about the filming of the doco. Another author, David Mason Jones, has written a review and comes at this ...
• Monckton: Climate ($$$ and) change. The AMS Ar ...
  A Disinformation Statement by the Armenian Meteoastrological Society (Adapted by AMS Archdruids 20 August 2012) As told to Christopher Monckton of Brenchley   The following is an AMS Disinformation Statement calculated to provide an untrustworthy, prejudiced, and scientifically-outdated mi ...
• Did everyone miss it? Combet brags that Labor ...
  The line that everyone seems to have missed (or become numbingly inured to) is one where Combet claims that Australians won’t be able to get rid of the carbon price even if they want to: “(Greg Combet) said the linkage of the schemes would make it more difficult for Mr Abbott to axe ...
• Wind farms — are 96% useless, and cost 1 ...
  Thanks to Steve Hunter Victoria’s windfarms have saved virtually no coal from being burnt. South Australian windfarms have saved 4% of their rated capacity in fossil fuels at a cost of $1,484 per ton. That’s only $1,474 above the current price of carbon credits per ton in the EU. The ...
• So much for certainty? Just two months later, ...
  The Australian Government,via Greg Combet, announced this week that Labor’s version of certainty is the kind that is un-certain. For two years they’ve been emphatically declaring that “Australia needs certainty” or it’s variant, “Business needs certainty&#8221 ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Doomsday 2012 Fact Sheet: Flawed
  The source of the disinformation (once again) is David Morrison from NASA. Over at the SETI Institute is a 2012 Doomsday Fact Sheet. I’ve reproduced it in full, with my more expert opinion in red:   There is widespread and unnecessary fear of doomsday on December 21, 2012. Some peopl ...
• Bear Grylls Survival Kit
  I used to really enjoy watching Bear Grylls on the TV – but after a while it got a bit repetitive (no problem with that, means that basic skills work in numerous scenarios). What really ruined it for me is how it was all a little bit fake. Unless they specifically stated that he spent all ...
• Power Grid Failure and Nuclear Meltdowns
  I have frequently discussed the worrisome prospect of long-term power grid failures. NASA has acknowledged the risk, and it all it will take is a massive solar storm – like the Carrington Event of 1859. If the grid is down for months on end, it is expected that millions of people would die ...
• Medical Books You Might Need One Day
  I found this list in a book titled The Doom and Bloom™ Survival Medicine Handbook, and it seems to be comprehensive enough to give you piece of mind. Combine it with a doctor and a nurse and you’ll be just fine. Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Gray’s Anatomy for Students The Phys ...
• Bizarre: Skeptics Cashing in on 2012
  I’m a skeptic at heart, but when things pass by BS detector I can be a believer of sorts. So while I dismiss Planet X, I believe there could be a scientific basis to the Long Count calendar. If I were to devote my time to writing about skeptical topics, I’d try to avoid saying things ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Coalgate: 'All Jaiswals are related to me'
  Denying any link with businessman Manoj Jayaswal against whom CBI has filed an FIR in the Coalgate scam, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said a wrong impression was being created that a relative of his was allocated a coal block. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago
• BSF maps vulnerable spots along border with Pa ...
  The BSF identified spots along India’s boundary with Pakistan and Bangladesh vulnerable to crime, illegal migration and border firing. The highest number of such spots is in West Bengal on the eastern side and Jammu and Punjab on the western border. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
• Taxi driver held for molesting French woman in ...
  A taxi driver in Jaipur was arrested for molesting a French woman at Mundawa area in Jhunjhunu district on August 8. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
• Return of Punjabi youths delayed from Sharjah Jail
  Return of 17 Punjabi youths from Sharjah Jail has been further delayed after the Civil Court demanded closure certificates from the Supreme Court and the Appeal Court during a hearing held on Tuesday. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
• Two Swedes booked for burning Indian currency ...
  Two Swedish nationals were booked under sedition charges on Tuesday for publically burning Indian currency notes in Bhilwara's Gulabpura area. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• How Many Golf Courses Does the Pentagon Need?
• Timely Massacre? Pushing Russia and China to C ...
• Israel Drops Iran-Attack Hints to US
• Non-Aligned Movement Summit Kicks Off in Iran
• Afghan War Forgotten by Americans

Daily Tech

• Congress Questions Why DHS is Obeying RIAA Ord ...
  In red Russia, the domain takes down you
• Valve Aims to Fill "Void" in PC Hardware Marke ...
  Job posting hints at novel peripherals, but full plans are anyone's guess
• Quick Note: Samsung's Galaxy S III Takes U.S. ...
  Samsung score a victory over Apple
• Quick Note: Angry Birds Creator to Release "Ba ...
  The game will allow users to play as the pigs instead of the birds
• Quick Note: Apple "iPhone 5" Confirmed for Sep ...
  Next generation iPhone is fast approaching

Oriental Review

• Lessons of World War II
  On September 2, 1945, Japan, Nazi Germany’s last remaining ally, signed the act of unconditional surrender, putting the last dot in the history of the Second World War. The bloodiest war ever fought, it lasted 6 years, affected 40 countries and claimed 55 million lives. The historic signing cere ...
• Ankara Has Fallen into the “Syrian Trap”
  Turkey’s foreign policy is going through a fiasco. The leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party even accused the country’s foreign minister of “narrow-mindedness” on live television. A scandal erupted after RPP MPs from were prevented from inspecting a Syrian refugee camp. In 2009, Tur ...
• Pacific Ocean Navies in 2020
  Wars don’t happen by accident. Any armed conflict is prepared for and planned well in advance. That’s a fact. People living in an absolutely peaceful country sometimes aren’t even aware that their country has decided to go to war and preparations for it are already in full swing. To better under ...
• NATO’s Pan-Arab Terrorist Blitzkrieg
  Western policy makers admit that NATO’s operations in Libya have played the primary role in emboldening Al Qaeda’s AQIM faction (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb). The Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution’s Bruce Riedel in his article, “The New Al Qaeda Menace,” ...
• The Independent Kosovo: Gangland Spills Savage ...
  Part I A feature common to the serial outbreaks of unrest in the course of the Arab Spring and the conflicts in the post-Yugoslavian space was the involvement of the armed opposition which had grown out of local criminal or downright terrorist groups in the resulting transitions. The Arab countr ...

BlogHer

• When Mom Wants to Run Away
  Today is one of those days where I want to run away. I woke up this morning with a cloud just hanging over my head and feeling defeated by life. For as long as I can remember I've struggled with finding my identity and feeling claustrophobic with the world around me. As early as 10-years-old, I ...
• Creamy & Delicious Open Faced Croque Monsieurs
  [Editor's Note: This creamy casserole comes together quickly and bakes up in a flash, making it the perfect Quicker Dinners option for a night when you're really craving some comfort food. --Genie] Open Faced Croque Monsieurs This is one of those oops-I-just-ate-the-whole-pan types of dinners. ...
• (PICS) DNC Day 1: Welcome to Charlotte
  The speeches don't begin until Tuesday, but it's already a who's who of the political and media world gathered for the Democratic National Convention. There are delegates, journalists, and local families milling around uptown Charlotte. Ariana Huffington signs a book at the Huffington Post Oasi ...
• Family Game Night: Let The Kids Win or Clobber ...
  Hubby and I decided to execute the greatest form of torture on our kids that we could think of... Family Game Night. Well, we didn't think it would be the greatest form of torture ever. We thought we had a few more years to go before Family Game Night was seen as torture. Apparently 10- and 7- ...
• Mary Beth of Liberating Working Moms Featured ...
  Mary Beth, blogger at Liberating Working Moms: One Voice at a Time, was featured in a CNN commercial. Photo Credit: Liberating Working Moms Billie Criswell, blogger at Bossy Italian Wife, was featured twice on HuffLive for a spot titled "Dude, You're Not Italian!" BlogHer Publishing Network ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Audit of the Federal Reserve Reveals $16 Trill ...
  The first ever GAO (Government Accountability Office) audit of the Federal Reserve was carried out in the past few months due to the Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill, which passed last year.
• The Power of Being an Introvert in a World Tha ...
  “Mom, you’re reading that, too!?” My 23-year-old-son, home for a visit, was astonished to see that each of us had picked up the same book: Susan Cain’sQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That ...
• An Open Letter to Consumer Reports: 10 Misinfo ...
  By James J. Gormley It is personally disappointing for me that Consumer Reports, the flagship of the respected marketplace-empowerment organization, Consumers Union, has once again seen fit to arm the American consumer with detrimental misinformation regarding safe, ...
• The Importance of Fever
  Childhood fevers can be frightening, mostly because they are misunderstood. A fever is an increase in body temperature above the “normal range.” But the definition of “normal” can vary from person to person. Body temperature also ...
• Is Your Tatoo Making You Sick?
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation after new research turned up troubling findings about toxic chemicals in tattoo ink. Recently published studies have found that the inks can contain a host of ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• An update on W.Va.’s coal economy
  The good folks over at the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy have produced a fine report called the State of Working West Virginia 2012, which includes a chapter that provides a detailed primer on the state of West Virginia’s coal economy. In that chapter, called West Virginia’s M ...
• Happy Labor Day
  Phil Smith at the United Mine Workers of America was kind enough to share this photograph he took recently of a union miner at the Cliffs Natural Resources Pinnacle Mine in Wyoming County. It’s a good day not only to spend time with family and friends, but to remember the workers who do so much ...
• Friday roundup, Aug. 31, 2012
  In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, rescuers work at Xiaojiawan Coal Mine in Panzhihua City, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Zhong) Again this week, the news from the coalfields of China isn’t good: The deat ...
• Patriot: Some common ground in coal debate?
  Gazette photo by Chip Ellis We have an update in this morning’s Gazette about the United Mine Workers of America’s new “Fighting for Fairness at Patriot” campaign, reporting this: Kelly Elswick mined coal for more than 30 years, finishing his career running a grader at th ...
• Is climate change just a joke to the GOP?
  Folks are going to be talking a lot about last night’s appearance by Clint Eastwood at the closing of the Republican National Convention, but as I watched events unfold, the really remarkable moment was when GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney started off this sentence: President Obama pr ...

Daniel Miessler

• Obama’s Love for America Questioned | CNN
  via cnn.com Unbelievable ignorance and bigotry. Just look at her face. She is a perfect representative of her side. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentJesus Is a Liberal Democrat | Comedy CentralVideo of the iPhone 4′s ResolutionCharter Cities &#1 ...
• Reddit Only Uses Two Tables | Highscalability.com
  The essence of this lesson is: don’t worry about the schema. They used to spend a lot of time worrying about the database, keeping everthing nice and normalized. You shouldn’t have to worry about the database. Schema updates are very slow when you get bigger. Adding a column to 10 mil ...
• Shed the Titles of Atheist and Skeptic | Plove ...
  As we have seen, skepticism is a broad and varied church — welcoming, among others, elitist, sexist and racist views. One thing all skeptics have in common, though, is that they support the freedoms they believe to exist in present-day western civilization, and think those freedoms should be spr ...
• Romney’s Game Plan for RNC Speech
  http://www.theonion.com/articles/romneys-acceptance-speech-to-avoid-mentionin… Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentPhenomenal Speech by a War VeteranStarving Third World Masses Warned Against Evils Of Contraception | The OnionLook, Are We Going To ...
• HP ShadowLabs is Looking for an Infrastructure ...
  HP Shadowlabs is looking for someone with extremely strong skills in the following areas: Linux Oracle InfoSec Uber sysadmin skills Wicked Problem Solving General kickassedness We’re looking for someone with a good amount of experience in these areas. People interested must be willing to d ...

Fitwatch

• Police Liaison Officers – the new FIT
  Police Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
• Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...
  The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
• Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...
  The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
• Welcome to the Future, Today.
  For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...
• The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the Country
  A mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...

Worldwide Hippies

• The Facts About Voter ID Laws and Voting Fraud
  By Ars Moriendi,WWH/CJE – Can someone please explain to me why it is that this whole voter ID law feels so much like cheating? I won’t claim brilliance in the area of voter laws. To date I have only voted and helped other sign up to vote in my home state of South Carolina, thousands [...]
• Who owns your downloaded music after you die?
  by Zack Whittaker and Charlie Osborne,cnet.com – Bruce Willis may not challenge Apple to who owns his iTunes collection after his death, but one question remains: What does happen to your downloaded music collection once you fly to the sky? Earlier today, a story emerged from the British t ...
• Illegal loggers ‘closing in’ on Earth’s most t ...
  From survivalinternational.org – A recent investigation by Brazil’s Indian affairs department FUNAI has uncovered shocking evidence that illegal loggers are rapidly closing in on the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe, sparking fears for their safety. Only three weeks ago, a government tea ...
• Revolution 99 Updates: World unrest continues ...
  Gaza teenager burns himself to death in poverty protest GAZA (Reuters) – A young man has died after setting himself on fire in the Gaza Strip, apparently in protest at economic hardship in the Palestinian enclave, the man’s family and police said on Monday. Ehab Abu Nada, 18, left hi ...
• WWH/CJE Tuesday News Briefs
  Hunger Games: The price of feeding the world Have banks been speculating on food markets and could this contribute to pushing millions into hunger and poverty? The World Development Movement, a UK-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has accused Barclays Bank of profiting from world hunger ...

reference frame

• Pascual Jordan and foundations of QM
  Among the fathers of quantum mechanics, Pascual Jordan is the least well-known one. Needless to say, politics is the single most important reason behind his invisibility although it is not necessarily the only one. While he genuinely believed in the ideals of the NSDAP that he joined at ...
• WISE finds millions of black holes, thousands ...
  As lots of media outlets such as HJ News point out, the WISE satellite assembled in Logan, Utah (Mitt Romney's mother's hometown) has observed millions of galaxies. WISE, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, is looking at the sky in the infrared. The mission ended in 201 ...
• Sunlight or neutrinos affect the radon gamma d ...
  Seasonal and daytime variations in the gamma decay rate Several readers have directed my attention to a recent, May 2012 Stanford-Purdue-Israel preprint on the seasonal variations of the gamma decay: Analysis of Gamma Radiation from a Radon Source: Indications of a Solar Influence Th ...
• Stratospheric geoengineering: undoing global w ...
  Bits of Science, Revmodo, and Fars News talk about a new Aurora-Harvard-Carnegie paper in Environmental Research Letters Cost analysis of stratospheric albedo modification delivery systems (fulltext PDF) by Justin McClellan, David W Keith, and Jay AptThey quantify the aircraft- or roc ...
• EU: all incandescent light bulbs banned tomorrow
  In the article aptly titled "Light-Bulb Ban Casts Shadow over EU Democracy", The Spiegel reminds us, the Europeans, about an important change that will affect our continent starting from tomorrow, Saturday, September 1st, 2012. No, Germany isn't invading Poland in the same way as it did on Se ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Paul Craig Roberts: The Left-Wing’s Endless Wa ...
  On the Wednesday, July 25th edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex welcomes long-time returning guest, economist, and contributing writer Paul Craig Roberts to discuss the assault on gun rights in the aftermath of the Colorado shooting, the West’s unsuccessful efforts to muster support for S ...
• Jim Rogers: QE1 and QE2 Didn’t Work, But They’ ...
  from JimRogersChannel: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Jim Rogers: QE1 and QE2 Didn’t Work, But They’re All Going To Print Money, That’s All They Know To Do from JimRogersChannel: SGTreport – The Corp ...
• Jim Rogers: QE1 and QE2 Didn’t Work, But They’ ...
  from JimRogersChannel: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Jim Rogers: QE1 and QE2 Didn’t Work, But They’re All Going To Print Money, That’s All They Know To Do from JimRogersChannel: SGTreport – The Corp ...
• 5 things to watch in tonight’s Quebec election ...
  The Quebec election campaign was marked by confusion and contradiction, backtracking and barnstorming on some of the most contentious issues in the province. Here’s a look at some of the trends to watch in tonight’s result. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: 5 reasons to pa ...
• Gerald Celente: Ron & Rand Paul Are Killing Th ...
  www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv twitter.com www.facebook.com [Check out Alex’s New Social Network-’Planet Infowars’ planet.infowars.com Video Rating: 4 / 5 On the Tuesday, June 19 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with Russian ex-patriot and Bilderberg researcher ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

• Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the ...
  By Jason Rano, Director of Government AffairsIt's fair to say that I'm not a beach person.  My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles.  I have nightmarish memories of being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• Water- The New Inconvenient Truth
  By Heather White, Environmental Working Group chief of staff Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
• EWG, NRDC Sue California for Failing to Act on ...
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• Johnson & Johnson Takes a Big Step in the Righ ...
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• Ham and Cheese Again? Revamp your Lunch, Rethi ...
  By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern Let me guess. You, like most Americans, usually have a sandwich for lunch. Or maybe it's a panini or a wrap, if you want to get technical. Regardless, it's what you eat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Asked about Clinton's reported 'bags' comment, ...
• The musical ads you saw if you grew up in New ...
• Bloomberg: Of course soda-size limits are unpo ...
• The Knicks will be seeing lots of Josh Harrell ...
• Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, wi ...

Views & News from Norway

• Teen found dead, suspects charged
  After a dramatic day of intense investigation, police confirmed that a body found in a forest at Kolbotn Monday night was that of missing 16-year-old Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne of Oslo. Two men have been arrested, both of them charged with her murder. One of the men, said to be an ethnic Norweg ...
• Forests targeted by farmers’ party
  The small but powerful political party best known for representing Norwegian farmers chose an unusual weekend to roll out its latest, often unpopular demands. Just as organizations promoting hiking and conservation were urging folks out into the great outdoors, a top Center Party official was sa ...
• Breivik’s e-mail branded as ‘boring’
  A new book that’s based on more than 7,000 e-mails sent and received by convicted mass murderer and right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik “is no page-turner, to put it mildly,” according to one Norwegian commentator. He thinks Breivik’s e-mail was downright “b ...
• High housing prices, low property tax
  Housing prices rose again in Norway last month, to a level that now even worries real estate brokers. Homeowners and buyers, though, enjoy among the lowest property taxes in the world and politicians seem reluctant to raise or even impose them any time soon. Norway is generally known as a high-t ...
• Body found may be missing teen’s
  Police confirmed on Tuesday that they found a body in the woods behind an industrial area at Kolbotn, just south of Oslo, on Monday night. They wouldn’t rule out that it may be the body of 16-year-old Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne, who disappeared while on her way home just over a month ago. ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Obama Promised to Label GMOs – Sign This Petit ...
  Editor’s Note: I think there should be a law against not keeping campaign promises…. And for those voting in the upcoming U.S. elections, don’t forget — they lie. This week, OCA launched a SignOn petition asking Michelle Obama to tell the President it’s high t ...
• Teaching Permaculture Interactively
  Permaculture is such a hugely broad and challenging subject to teach. But it doesn’t have to be hard work. We can make permaculture education fun and interactive! by Theron Beaudreau How many of us have ever felt challenged by attempting to sum up permaculture into a 30 second ‘ele ...
• Vandana Shiva Invites Us to Act For Seed Freedom
  Join the Global Alliance for Seed Freedom in a global Fortnight of Action from the 2-16 October 2012. Find out more and get involved here and here.
• A Step Towards the Dock
  Editor’s Note: When I’ve put posts like the following up in the past, some people have commented expressing their dissatisfaction for such articles being on a permaculture site (see here and here, for example). But, I make no apologies for putting this material up, as it directly re ...
• Jordan PDC and Jordan Internship (October, Nov ...
  The triangular shaped ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ site, a two-year comparison. Photographs © Craig Mackintosh The next Jordan PDC course run by the PRI starts on October 27, 2012 and runs for 14 days. There are still a few places available for this awesome ‘two-thirds world ...

Pointman's

• Time to cull the prat nominations.
  I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...
• The repair man.
  He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...
• Butt wiggling and the science of uncertainty.
  Being a climate realist, I’m used to a certain underdog status. I’ve learnt that it’s our advantage. We don’t have many of those, so you learn to work them hard. While they yap a lot, we get told to shut up but we watch them carefully while they’re yapping. We don&# ...
• Announcing the inaugural Climate Prat of the Y ...
  I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but notables of the green persuasion seem to win a lot of awards from various green organisations. They give prizes to each other, occasionally with a nice bit of money as well; sometimes with a very very nice bit of money. You may also have noticed, t ...
• Legislation by regulation.
  What is now called the European Union (EU), grew out of the aftermath of WWII, which had devastated both the economies and infrastructures of most countries in Europe. It was really the product of several treaties but the first big one was the 1957 treaty of Rome, which created a common market a ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...
  This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...
• Seven Years After Katrina, A Divided City, By ...
  A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org.   Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The ...
• Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bil ...
  1          Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011.  Source: Census Bureau. 1          Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate.  Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...
• Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?
  New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...
• Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate Universi ...
  While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  LL, perhaps you could call into Mr. Mike Rivero's show and discuss this matter with him. He is always yapping about the moon landings being 100% real.Statistics: Posted by scorpio — Tue Sep 04, 2012 4:36 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I agree none of them looked happy at all, but I think a good explanation of that is they were extremely run down emotionally and likely feeling very depressed. Yes. After winning the super bowl, I'll bet most players just want to crawl in bed and cry. The better explanation is that they are b ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Happy birthday to him anywayStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:43 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I listened to the audio program of Mr White, all I can say is he just brings up all the same points that are easily debunked by all the other moon hoax guests. He keeps pushing Apollo going through the Radiation In the Van Allan which is not true. On the Gulliani show, I remember them saying ho ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  Do the Jews Live Within the Belly of the Holy Serpent? Is he the Deity Whom the Jews Worship? By Texe Marrs “Ye serpents, ye generation (race or nation) of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” — Jesus Christ Matthew 23:33 If I were to tell you that in the religion of Judaism th ...

TVNZ

• Egypt president takes steady steps in new fore ...
  Mohamed Mursi has so far shown skill in moving Egypt back towards the centre of regional diplomacy.
• EU advises girls need cervical cancer vaccines
  Health officials say all European girls should be immunised against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
• Jack Tame: Live from the Democratic Convention
  Our US correspondent tweeting from Charlotte, North Carolina.
• Obama 'incomplete' as convention starts
  Democrats have launched their case for Barack Obama's re-election in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• Suicide bomber kills 25 at Afghan funeral
  In the latest large-scale attack on civilians, a suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens at a funeral.

environment 360

• Record Levels of DDT Found in Breast Milk of W ...
  A new study has found record levels of DDT in the breast milk of nursing women living in South African villages where the toxic pesticide has been used for decades. In samples taken from women in three malaria-stricken villages where spraying occurs inside homes, researchers found that DDT level ...
• A Quarter of Liberian Land Ceded to Logging Co ...
  One quarter of Liberia’s total land area has been sold to logging companies over the last two years, a development that threatens widespread devastation in West Africa’s most heavily forested nation, a new investigation has found. According to a report by Global Witness, Save My Future Foundatio ...
• A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
  This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock. These extreme events were not freak occurrences – this is how the Earth works no ...
• Method Uses DNA Technology to Track Marine Lif ...
  Danish scientists say they have developed a process to detect the presence of fish and whales in local waters through the DNA analysis of water samples, an innovation that will help researchers more safely monitor biodiversity in the world’s oceans. Using sophisticated DNA sequencing technology, ...
• EU Ban on Incandescent Bulbs Goes into Effect ...
  The incandescent light bulb, in use for more than a century, will be officially banned across the European Union on September 1. Over the past three years, the Wikimedia Commons EU has been phasing out 60-watt and 100-watt incandescent bulbs, and on Saturday retailers will no longer be all ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Savage Minds | Notes and Queries in Anthropolo ...
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• CorporateMediaExposed.com
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• The Toronto Post
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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Katie Couric Questions Kate Middleton's Weight
  Couric Criticises Kate's Weight
• Fiscal Hawks Should Anticipate Bitter Disappoi ...
  Conor Friedersdorf wants fiscal conservatives to recognize that Romney and Ryan won't possibly be able to balance the budget if elected.
• Obama vs. Obama
  There is one candidate looming over the race whom the president can never beat. Howard Kurtz on the ghost of Barack Obama 2008.
• Katie Couric: Kate Middleton's Too Thin
  Katie Couric: Kate Middleton's Too Thin
• A Little Charlotte History
  Charlotte's main role in US history: a really ugly school desegregation battle.

Loonwatch

• British far-right extremists voice support for ...
  A number of rightwing British activists have publicly praised mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik – one describing him as a "role model" – since the Norwegian extremist was sentenced.
• Arab-Muslim to join ‘Green Lantern&#8217 ...
  Simon Baz's hails from Dearborn, his story begins when he and the rest of his Muslim family watch their television in horror as airplanes fly into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
• Israeli police say vandals deface monastery wi ...
  Suspicion fell on Jewish settlers and their supporters who retaliate against anti-settlement measures, by attacking Palestinian property and also Palestinian religious sites.
• Hank Williams Jr. Watch: Says President Is Mus ...
  "We’ve got a Muslim for a President who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we hate him," Williams Jr. bellowed.
• Canada: Walk Your Dog in Front of the Mosque Day
  Of dogs, Islamophobia and anti-Mosque protests.

Energy News

• US Newspaper: “Couple wants to leave Fukushima ...
• Officials: 3 new bubbling spots confirmed near ...
• Kyodo: Gov’t calls for shut down of Japan’s on ...
• Bombshell: Gov’t agrees with blogs, BP not tel ...
• “Appalling”: Tepco admits there’s no prepositi ...

Japan Times

• Fukushima zones to be prepared for evacuees' r ...
  The Reconstruction Agency said Tuesday it will aim to allow evacuees to return in two years to zones in Fukushima Prefecture where preparations are under way for lifting emergency off-limits orders. The agency specified the goal in a grand plan for 12 municipalities where evacuation zones were ...
• New Japanese cellphone numbers to start with 0 ...
  The government is expected to assign phone numbers starting with 070, a code currently assigned to personal handyphone system phones, to new mobile phone subscriptions starting in the second half of 2013, officials said Tuesday. The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry released a draft ...
• Hosono resists call to take on Noda for presid ...
  Environment Minister Goshi Hosono expressed reluctance Tuesday to run in this month's Democratic Party of Japan presidential election despite internal calls for him to take on Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. Although most political insiders and observers believe Noda will most likely be re-elec ...
• NFL downplays referee lockout
  Officially — at least in their comments — NFL players and coaches aren't concerning themselves with refereeing. The NFL and its locked-out officials weren't talking two days before the season begins, a clear indication replacements will be on the field for Wednesday night's opener. ...
• Obama earns mediocre marks on economy
  President Barack Obama's economic report card is at best mediocre. I'd give him a C+, while acknowledging that presidents usually don't much influence the economy. It's too big and subject to too many complex forces, from new technologies to global conditions. Moreover, policy levers are share ...

Alexander Higgins

• US Assassination Drone ‘Mistake’ K ...
  A US drone strike targeting 'Al Qaeda' has 'misses its target' in Yemen killing 13 civilians, including three women, three security officials report.
• Will The Feds Worst Nightmare Come True?
  Bernanke has called a full audit of the Fed his wost nightmare as legislation to do so has passed the house. Now a few Senators are holding out. Let's change that.
• Declare Your Independence From The Two Corpora ...
  The Two Party political monopoly has made fair ballot access nearly impossible for 3rd party candidates that actually represent the people and not corporate overlords.
• Official Alexander Higgins Blog Facebook Fan P ...
  An official Fan Page has been created for The Alexander Higgins Blog as users who previously liked the site were not getting updates on their Facebook timelines.
• It’s Time to Look Forward… Deconstructing the ...
  Exposing the latest Orwellian meme 'time to look forward' as another ploy divert attention from the crimes of the criminal elite and their henchmen.

Macleans - Central

• The Maclean’s Photo Daily 5
  Best photos from the past 24 hours
• With world conditions tying Carney’s han ...
  OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney chafes at any suggestion his hands may be tied on monetary policy.
• Facebook to allow employees to sell stock soon ...
  Zuckerberg says he'll hold on for a year
• Stephen Gordon’s mission statement
  The ULaval economist is joining Econowatch. Welcome to a whole new conversation.
• Charest in former times, shrewd and heavy-hearted
  As you wait for the Quebec election results to trickle in tonight, you won’t...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Unionization and Labour Market Performance
  Further to my earlier post on the “own goal” scored by the Fraser Institute report on North American labour markets, the Table below shows the rankings of the Canadian provinces – out of 60 states and provinces – for (1) labour market performance, 2007-11 and (2) the unio ...
• More Dead Money
  The sector and financial-flow accounts released with today’s GDP figures indicate an expansion of the pool of dead money flagged by this blog and by Mark Carney. The National Balance Sheet Accounts have not yet been released for the second quarter, so we cannot update the accumulated total of $5 ...
• Labour Market Regulation and Labour Market Per ...
  A release by the Fraser Institute – Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States, 2012 Edition – registers as a spectacular own goal. The Fraser Institute believes – and argues in this study – that strong unions, high minimum wages and high levels of public se ...
• Raising Saskatchewan’s Minimum Wage
  Saskatchewan Federation of Labour president Larry Hubich and I have the following joint op-ed in today’s Regina Leader-Post (page A10). It’s been fourteen years since I first wrote into The Leader-Post advocating a minimum-wage increase. Why higher wages make economic sense Recent Saskatchewan g ...
• Harper in the Arctic — the End of Ice Tour?
  News that multi-year Arctic sea ice was melting towards a record low did not put a dent in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s annual northern road show last week. So far in August, the Arctic has lost about 75,000 square kilometres of ice every day. To put this into perspective, the sea ice area be ...

ReDress

• Is Palestine a lost cause?
  Alan Hart outlines a strategy for saving the Palestinian cause from extinction: making Israel accountable for its occupation by dissolving the quisling Palestinian Authority and exposing Zionism's propaganda, and mobilizing Palestinians everywhere to engage by peaceful and democratic means in th ...
• Israel's underemployed foreign minister seeks ...
  Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's bizarre letter to the Middle East "Quartet", in which he accused the Palestinian Authority of "diplomatic terrorism", is a symptom of an attention-seeking disorder rooted in the fact that Lieberman is underemployed.
• Israeli expansionism versus imaginary Palestin ...
  Jamal Kanj argues that Israeli expansionism and Western connivance with and complacency towards Israel's land grabbing - not the Palestinian quest for state recognition at the UN - are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.
• Domestic terrorism American style
  Lawrence Davidson analyses the roots of domestic American terrorism, racism and bigotry, arguing that what is needed now is "consistent educational and legal pressure against racist behaviour both in terms of individual and institutional behaviour", or else the US will become as racist and bigot ...
• Restoring Syria's uprising to the Syrian people
  Jamal Kanj warns against the creeping hijacking of the the Syrian people's fight for freedom by foreign powers with ulterior motives, and argues that "widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal Assad regime and shifting the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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• New debt ceiling deal
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Peakwater

• INDIA: Victims protest, while the government t ...
  “The Narmada Valley Project, of which the Omkareshwar Dam is part of, is one of the most controversial development projects in the world. The project is plagued with proven claims of adverse environmental impacts to say the least. Allegations of – absence or partially executed and bi ...
• Palestinian farmers fighting to survive
  “Foqaha’s case isn’t unique. Instead, according to human rights groups, it represents a growing inability among Palestinian farmers to engage in sustainable agriculture in the occupied West Bank. Almost 63 per cent of arable agricultural land in the West Bank is located in Area ...
• Water-transfer projects “essential&#8221 ...
  Photo retrieved from: www.chinadialogue.net “cd: We’ve seen a lot of public debate over water transfer projects. What role and impacts do regional water transfers have? How should we evaluate all the projects getting under way? See ”China’s South-North water transfer is ‘ ...
• Drought wreaks havoc on Indian farmers
  “The drought, India’s first since 2009, will not cause a shortage of staples as the nation’s grain stores are overflowing with rice and wheat, and sugar output is set to exceed demand for a third straight year. But the drought will deal a devastating blow to grain crops used fo ...
• Salmon Re-enter Olympic National Park River Th ...
  “The National Park Service reported this week that adult Chinook (king) salmon have been seen in the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, less than five months after removal began on the Elwha Dam. According to the Park Service, the fish are the first of their kind known to enter the park ...

D. Kucinich

• Victory For Voting Rights in Ohio
  Cleveland, Ohio (August 31, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement after a judge in Ohio overturned a state law and allowed in-person early voting leading up to the election in November. “Today is a good day for our democracy. This is a step in the right direct ...
• America Deserves a Raise
  This Labor Day, President Obama has the opportunity to defend the economic rights of millions of Americans by supporting a substantial increase in the minimum wage. Presently $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage is inadequate. The purchasing power of a worker earning minimum wage in 1968 is ...
• Kucinich Remembers Legacy of Neil Armstrong
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement upon learning of the passing of Neil Armstrong, the legendary astronaut who inspired all humanity:  “Neil’s voyage to the moon carried the hopes of a nation and reminded the world for all time that in America nothing is ...
• Kucinich Asks Inspector General to Review FDA’ ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of an investigation of tainted jerky treats for dogs made in China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been investigating consumer complaints for five years while th ...
• Kucinich Honors Dear Friend at Memorial for th ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke at a crowded memorial ceremony for the late Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal was a prolific author and a close personal friend to Congressman Kucinich as well as a public and vocal supporter of Congressman Kucinich’s political career. Also speaking at the m ...

Authentically Wired

• OOPS … ROMNEY AND GOP FORGOT TO MENTION ...
  OOPS … ROMNEY  AND GOP FORGOT TO MENTION THI$ …     News Link  •  Economy – Economics USA This Chart Showing That Most Debt Growth Came Under Republican Presidents Is Accurate, But… 09-03-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget  ...
• MITTENS FORGOT ABOUT THIS TOO …
    GOP Shocker: Value-Added Tax Plank 09-04-2012  •  Barron’s The 2012 Republican Platform calls for a complete overhaul of the federal tax system. No surprise there. But then it endorses a value-added tax or national sales tax as one possible solution to the nation’s b ...
• No title
  …WHY…?  Because Arizona Governor Jan Brewer ha$ campaign IOU’s to pay off … at our expense of course … Why are we building private prisons when crime is down? 09-02-2012  •  Arizona Republic On Friday, the state of Arizona plans to award one lucky – or perhaps just well connected ...
• …Who’s Responsible For the Explosi ...
  …Who’s Responsible For the Explosion In Government Spending… Mention anything about the US’s huge debt, deficit, and debt-ceiling problem, and fans of both political teams will immediately begin shouting at each other. Republicans howl that the whole problem is the fault of President ...
• HEY … they $aid they were $orry …
       50 years too late… thalidomide drug maker issues an ‘apology’ to victims (NaturalNews) Remember thalidomide, developed for morning sickness and prescribed to pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s? The aftermath of this Big Pharma fiasco left around 10,000 re ...

Popular Technology

• The Truth about Richard Muller
  "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
• The Truth about Judith Curry
  Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
• The Truth about Skeptical Science
  Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
• Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
  As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
• The Truth about SourceWatch
  SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Saving Indonesia's monkey with a heart-shaped ...
  North Sulawesi is one of the world's most beautiful places. Verdant forests and stunning coral reefs, combined with high levels of species endemism, make it a top biodiversity hotspot. But pressure on the region's natural resources is mounting. Mining projects, conversion of forests for plantati ...
• The rarest rhino's last stand
  Trekking through deep mud and sawgrass we find a stinking wallow. The elite rangers, dressed completely in black despite the tropical heat, mark the site with the GPS unit, measure the mucky puddle's depth, and move on. This is the first sign of one of the planet's rarest animals—the Javan ...
• Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
  Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
• Forest and environmental news in Indonesian
  Mongabay.com is pleased to announce the launch of Mongabay-Indonesia (mongabay.co.id), an environmental news web site published in Indonesian. The site was officially unveiled Saturday, May 19 at an event in Jakarta.
• Can loggers be conservationists?
  Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Bio-tech giant keen to plant in NZ soil
  One of the world's largest and most controversial bio-tech companies is keen to bring its GM crop technology to New Zealand.But it may be more than a decade before the country has the genetically modified commercial crops to use...
• GM panel warns NZ it could miss bus
  New Zealand has been issued an ultimatum by GM heavyweights - change our tune on genetically modified food or watch our exporting lifeblood lag behind the rest of the world.The warning was delivered yesterday by a high-powered panel...
• Angry protests greet top players in GM
  A major conference bringing together the world's biggest players in genetic modification opened to the angry chants of protesters yesterday.The week-long international agricultural biotechnology conference is being described by...
• Cartoon: Fuel price madness
• Nobel laureates show students science of the f ...
  Some of the brightest young scientific minds in the Asia/Pacific region, including five students from New Zealand, yesterday completed a week-long immersion in cutting-edge science in Jerusalem featuring lectures by five Nobel Prize...

The Bovine

• Raw milk initiative in New Zealand
  From Stuff.co.nz: “A South Island company is setting a precedent by selling raw milk to consumers. But plans to set up franchises around the country have stalled while other farmers await the outcome of a Ministry of Primary Industries review … Continue reading →
• Prions, organophosphates & mad cows
  From Mark Purdey, in Acres USA: ACRES U.S.A. What led you into your consideration of Mad Cow disease to your findings, which are somewhat at variance with the conventional wisdom? PURDEY. It all started in 1984, appropriately, when I was visited by a … Continue reading →
• Dr. Don Huber on “the woes of GMOs”
  From Dr. Don Huber on GM Watch: “The woes of GMOs – Glyphosate and GMOs impact on crops, soils, animals and man Dr. Don M. Huber, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology, Purdue University September 2012 What we have in our … Continue reading →
• Oregon blueberry farmers facing “extorti ...
  From Eric Mortensen, The Oregonian: “In late July, investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor visited three blueberry farms in Marion County and announced finding “widespread” record-keeping and minimum wage violations at each. Farm labor law investigations are often conte ...
• West Nile fear mongering and spraying
  From Ethan A. Huff, at Natural News: “(NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently engaged in a massive fear mongering campaign that would have everyone in America believe that the so-called West Nile virus (WNv) is spreading … Continue reading ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• By 2015 Hard Commodity Prices Will Collapse; A ...
  I have been calling for a base metals bust for some time, fueled by a slowdown in China. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets has been saying the same thing. Indeed, it is analysis from Pettis that influenced my views in the first place. Pettis now believes commodity prices will collap ...
• Manufacturing ISM Contracts 3rd Month Led by D ...
  Those looking for evidence the US is already in recession (and has been since June) need look no further than the August Manufacturing ISM Numbers released today. IndexAugustJulyChangeDirectionRate of ChangeTrend in Months PMI™49.649.8-0.2ContractingFaster3 New Orders47.148.0-0.9Contrac ...
• Central Bankers Fail to Understand Forces Hold ...
  Central bankers Debating the Limits of Power in Jackson Hole are wondering what's holding back the economy. "What is holding the economy back? Why is it that we've had such incredibly accommodative monetary policy for so long (but) we've had so little growth? I think it remains a puzzle," sa ...
• German Manufacturing Declines Again, New Expor ...
  The Markit Germany Manufacturing PMI® – Final Data shows the German export downturn gathers momentum. Key points: Manufacturing PMI rises from July’s 37-month low Output, new orders and employment all drop at slower rates... ...but export downturn continues to gather pace A ...
• How to Get to Mars
  In the spirit of Labor Day weekend, and a well-deserved break from grim economic news, please consider "How to Get to Mars" Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post ListMike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• The EyeOpener- Forced Vaccinations & the Death ...
  Nothing could be more antithetical to the very idea of individual freedom than to have governments telling us that we must put some substance in our bodies. Without ownership of our body and the attendant right to refuse this or that medicine as we see fit, we are nothing more than slaves of the ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 17, ...
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• Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial Agenda
  Recent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• MSC Flaminia Sets Off On Trek Home
  The damaged MSC FLAMINIA has started its trek back to German waters via the English Channel where the ship will eventually undergo salvage operations, the vessels management company says. Germany’s [...]
• Russell Crowe Rescued By USCG in Kayaking Mishap
  Actor Russell Crowe was forced to wave down the U.S. Coast Guard Saturday night after nearly drifting out to sea while kayaking off the coast of Long Island. The USCG [...]
• “Don’t Let Your Guard Down”, Counter-Piracy Fo ...
  East Africa’s “Big-Three” counter-piracy forces warned Tuesday that despite a recent downturn in global piracy incidents, shipowners should not let their guard down. In a recent report published by the [...]
• Bureau Veritas Surpasses 10,000 Vessel Mark
  The Bureau Veritas classed fleet has grown past the 10,000 mark, the international classification society said Tuesday. In a statement Bureau Veritas said it’s classed fleet now stands at 10,055 [...]
• BP Drilling First Producing Wells at Atlantis ...
  (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, whose Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico caused the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, is drilling the first producing wells at the region’s Atlantis field since a [...]

Press TV

• ‘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.
• China to rebuild parts of Congo capital
  China has signed a series of million dollar contracts with the Republic of the Congo to rebuild parts of the capital Brazzaville.
• UK cabinet reshuffle raises concerns
  Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has raised concerns over Cameron’s decision to demote anti-Heathrow runway campaigner Justine Greening in his cabinet reshuffle.
• ‘NAM creating new global framework’
  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) will seek to create the infrastructure for the management of world affairs.
• Ebola outbreak in Congo worsens
  The World Health Organization (WHO) says the number of people who have contracted the disease Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tripled since mid-August.

SciDev.net

• Brazilian science 'invisible' in press, hears ...
  Despite appearing in some of the world's most popular journals, Brazilian science is failing to feature in the national press, experts say.
• Ten African countries unite to protect rainforests
  A US$7.7 million project aims to protect biodiversity and help manage sustainably the Congo Basin rainforest.
• African science initiative, RISE, likely to expand
  The Regional Initiative in Science and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa may expand to Francophone countries and to North Africa.
• UN launches network for sustainable development
  The UN has launched an international network aiming to link researchers and policymakers to forge post-2015 sustainable development solutions.
• First GM camels to be engineered for drug prod ...
  Dubai scientists hope their first GM camel, to be conceived later this year, will eventually make drug production in the region more affordable.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Thinking cap makes impossible problem soluble
  A small dose of electrical current passed across their heads enabled a group of volunteers to immediately solve a puzzle they had previously found to be impossible. This surprising result is the work...
• Pint sized rocket
  A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
• Seeing Around the Corner
  Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
• Drugs in sewage
  Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
• Messages from Mercury
  The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

• There were 505 U.S. bases in Iraq, from tiny o ...
  There were 505 U.S. bases in Iraq, from tiny outposts to mega-establishments, but how many are there in Afghanistan?  400?  450? 550? 1500?!  The situation is confused and confusing, but I attempt to sort it out in my latest TomDispatch article: “Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza.” Afghanistan ...
• Police officers stands next to a damaged polic ...
  Police officers stands next to a damaged police car after demonstrators occupied the local government building during a protest against an industrial waste pipeline under construction in Qidong, Jiangsu Province July 28, 2012. Reuters
• Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenk ...
  Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins Farm. “I’m just beginnin’. Licked two boxes yesterday.” Gets 2 [cents] a box. Rock Creek, Md.: 06/07/1909 (NARA)
• University students with their necks painted p ...
  University students with their necks painted protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Nov. 3, 2011. Their signs read in Spanish “We have the right to be outraged,” left, and “Excellent education and for all!!” Students are protesting education reforms planned by the government th ...
• Wanderlust-Inspiring Photos of the Most Remote ...
  Wanderlust-Inspiring Photos of the Most Remote Places on the Planet by Marina Galperina.

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