6 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Pak Meng pier (Photo credit: hans zwitzer)

Pakistani Karahi Bindi (Okra) (Photo credit: powerplantop)

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Kyle Rhea (Photo credit: AlxTheRed)

Common Dreams-Views

• Stanford Scientists Shockingly Reckless on Hea ...
  Frances Moore Lappé I first heard about a new Stanford "study" downplaying the value of organics when this blog headline cried out from my inbox: "Expensive organic food isn't healthier and no safer than produce grown wit ...
• Politicians in Tampa, Charlotte Massaged by Me ...
  Steve Rendall When it comes to journalists socializing and otherwise cozying up to the powerful, there's not a lot new under the sun. More than 20 years ago, then-FAIR associates Martin Lee and Norman Solomon wrote about it in their boo ...
• Corporate Power on Full Display at Dem and GOP ...
  Laura Bonham In the past week, we have been witness to the spectacle of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, events where both parties leave no stone unturned in their attempts to gain the confidence of voting Americans. Perh ...
• Fracking Water Hogs
  Mijin Cha Bob Bellis filled his tanker at a hydrant in Greeley, Colo., in August to supply a drilling site. (Matthew Staver for The New York Times)As summer comes to an end, much of the country is still suffering from drought conditions.re ...
• Moms Discriminated Against at the DNC?
  Laura Flanders While Democrats are effusing over the Mom-in-Chief, it’s worth noting that a California branch of the National Organization for Women (NOW) is currently petitioning Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to stop discrimin ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

• Water Wars: North Rhea Utility District demand ...
  After the Town of Spring City began providing water to a business in the North Rhea Utility District [NRUD] earlier this year, NRUD President Doug MacEwen called the move an “invasion.”
• J&K irrigation project attacked by Pak terrorists
  In a foretaste of "water wars", Pakistani insurgents last week attacked Jammu & Kashmir government’s ambitious upcoming Rs 50 crore irrigation project at Navtour in Bandipora in north Kashmir marking a rare departure from usual civilian and security targets.
• Water wars
  WE have been warned for years about an impending water crisis and its dangerous repercussions on a country’s economic and political stability. Still, the story written by Thalif Deen of Inter Press Service—“Water scarcity feared to lead to ‘mass killings’ in the future” which we published on Aug ...
• Corps decision to landlock Columbus will have ...
  There's an old saying out west: "Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over." It was born of the famed water wars between competing upstream and downstream interests in the evolving new world of the 1800s, but it has migrated back east as swelling populations place increas ...
• Teenager faces felony burglary, pointing firea ...
  The victim said he was later ordered to go to the back. He was forced to his knees, along with his friend, with one of the subjects holding a shotgun to their backs.

WordPress | Economics

• The Net Positives of Migration
  This is somewhat off-topic, but it is important. Migration Watch UK, chaired by retired diplomat Sir
• Frenchonomics : the Good News for Euro(land) i ...
  The French would not miss a single day of their “summer holiday”, which can last anywher
• * China to spend massively on farmland improvement
  Xinhua: “The government will spend 37.36 billion yuan(about 5.93 billion U.S. dollars) to impr
• The Democrats’ Middle Class Campaign Platform
  Watching the Democrat Convention this week it is obvious that the party is trying to reach out to mi
• US plunge on Global Competitive Index.
  US has fallen from 1st to 7th place in just five years – on the Global Competitiveness Index d

Electronic Intifada

• Why aid projects in Palestine are doomed to fail
  Jeremy Wildeman 6 September 2012 Israeli control and major donors prioritizing their relationship with Israel prevent the delivering effective aid to Palestinians living under occupation.
• Stuck in limbo between Egypt and Gaza
  Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 6 September 2012 The Electronic Intifada contributor Rami Almeghari on playing the Palestinian waiting game in Cairo.
• Month in Pictures: August 2012
  4 September 2012 A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
• Egypt reopens border crossing with Gaza -- for now
  Eva Bartlett Rafah Crossing 4 September 2012 Palestinians are cautious about the future of freedom of movement between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
• Israel, settlers committing war crime of pilla ...
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Jerusalem 3 September 2012 By mining natural resources from the occupied West Bank for its own economic purposes, Israel is committing the war crime of pillage.

The Wonk Room

• Exclusive Interview With President Obama On Gl ...
  JR: Invisible Obama, I must confess that all these years I was eating lunch at home between blog posts I had no idea you were sitting right next to me. But Clint Eastwood opened my eyes — and ears — and for that I’m grateful. IO: JR: I’m sorry. You’re right.  You&#8 ...
• Civil Rights Icon John Lewis: GOP Voter Suppre ...
  At the DNC Thursday night, civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) recounted his fight for voting rights, the progress made, and the continued threat to ensuring the right to vote for all Americans. Lewis, who still bears scars from beatings in his struggle for racial equality told the DNC au ...
• Senate Committee Investigating JP Morgan&#8217 ...
  The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has begun a probe into JP Morgan Chase’s $9 billion “London Whale” trading loss, Reuters reports. The committee, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), is interviewing current and former JP Morgan employees about the failed trade, ...
• Attorney General Lisa Madigan Asked If She Can ...
  Working a demanding job? And being a parent? How could Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan possibly handle them both? This was a question from the Chicago Sun-Times who were pressing Madigan about a possible gubernatorial run in 2014 against Governor Pat Quinn. She and her husband, Pat Byrnes ...
• Maryland Delegate Attacks Ravens Football Play ...
  Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo joined many Marylanders for Marriage Equality by posting a video endorsement last October. Ten months later, rabidly anti-gay state Del. Emmett C. Burns Jr. (D) has decided to retaliate, writing to Ravens owner Steven Disciotti on Maryland House let ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Malnutrition in Afghanistan
  It's "shockingly" high say UN officials: "What's shocking is that [the malnutrition statistics are] very high by global standards," Michael Keating, deputy head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, told the Guardian. "This is the kind of malnutrition you associate with Africa and some of the mo ...
• Following Ford's Testimony Re: Conflict of Int ...
  Rob Ford is a fucking dunce.
• 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 ...

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

• Should Canada's public servants be able to opt ...
  Conservative Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre said that Canada's largest union of federal civil servants should not have endorsed Quebec's separatist parties and is now calling for legislation that would allow workers to opt out of paying union dues.
• Fewer Canadians living paycheque to paycheque, ...
  Although much of the country is reporting that they live paycheque to paycheque and would be in a difficult situation if their pay was delayed, there are fewer Canadians who are having a difficult time making ends meet.
• Video: Billy, the 250-pound 'teddy bear', beco ...
  Billy the grizzly bear is quickly becoming a YouTube sensation after he and his owners, Mark and Dawn Dumas, had their story posted in a YouTube video.
• Ford recalls 7,600 2013 Escapes for coolant le ...
  Ford Motor Co. has announced a new recall for its 2013 Ford Escape. This is the company's third recall on this new model SUV.
• Economic benefits are debated as Enbridge hear ...
  The Enbridge Northern Gateway hearings resumed on Tuesday, September 4th as Calgary-based Enbridge and the Alberta Government prepare to convince Canadians that the 6 billion dollar pipeline is important to Canada’s economy.

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

• Is That A Crushed Bug In Your Frothy Starbucks ...
  April 2, 2012 NPR By Nancy Shute “If you are still going to Starbucks, stop! Not only have they killed almost every mom and pop coffee shop, by now it’s been proven they are using crushed up beetles in their beverages. Gross!” –KTRN Call it the tempest in the Frappuccino. ...
• Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court
  April 2, 2012 Associated Press By AP “Even the Supreme Court thinks Congress is lame.” –KTRN The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week’s marathon arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress’ abili ...
• Japan’s Okinawa Island – The Healthiest Place ...
  April 2, 2012 Oddity Central By Sumitra “It’s really not that odd. The people living on Okinawa eat real food and have no stress – thus they live long lives. We can all learn a lot by studying the people living on this island.” –KTRN I used to think that there were ...
• Secrets of Prometheus Film Leaked!
  April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Info Wars “According to Alex Jones, the new film Prometheus has a hidden global elite agenda.”  –KTRN No, we’re not going to give away any SPOILERS here; instead we will reveal the agenda behind Prometheus, the new film by legendary director Ridley Sc ...
• FDA Discounts More Than a Million Signatures O ...
  April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “So apparently more than a million signatures is not enough for the FDA.” –KTRN The FDA is with Monsanto and agribusiness. They don’t want you to know what’s in the food you eat. On Tuesday, the FDA reached a deadline for the “Just Label It ...

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

• The Myth That Japan Is Broke by Ellen Brown
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Sept. 5, 2012 Japan’s massive government debt conceals massive benefits for the Japanese people, with lessons for the U.S. debt “crisis.” In an April 2012 article in Forbes titled “If Japan Is Broke, How Is It Bailing Out Europe?”, Eam ...
• The Real News Network’s Interview with J ...
  Dandelion Salad Sep 5, 2012 by TheRealNews Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo has become the face of the growing protest movement in Spain. The mayor of a small town in Southern Spain called Marinaleda, he has become well-known for leading combative protests and sit-ins, including a protest in a super ...
• Trans-Pacific Partnership: Stop ‘NAFTA o ...
  Dandelion Salad http://ran.org Right now, negotiations for what’s being called ”NAFTA on steroids,” the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are being conducted in secret. The corporate lobbyists pushing this agreement include a who’s who list of Big Oil, Big Ag and Wall Street pow ...
• Juice Rap News: Episode 15 – Big Brother ...
  Dandelion Salad Sep 5, 2012 by thejuicemedia http://www.thejuicemedia.com Juice Rap News: Episode 15 – Big Brother is WWWatching You. September 2012 rocks around with some crucial developments in the ongoing struggle over the future of the internet. Will it remain the one open frequency wh ...
• Formal Announcement: Cindy Sheehan Leaves the ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Sept. 4, 2012 No Longer on Campaign. Formal announcement For personal and health reasons, I regret that I have to pull out of active participation in the Barr/Sheehan 2012 campaign. I strongly b ...

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

• Amazing New Image Captures Curiosity Rover’s T ...
  A new image shows a beautiful example of two spectacular robots at work, capturing the Curiosity rover's tracks on Mars using the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
• New Exploratorium Promises Awesome Science, Ea ...
  San Francisco's famous interactive science museum, the Exploratorium, is making a big move to a new waterfront location in a play to get more people interested in science with easy access and Bay views.
• Q&A: Co-Inventor of ‘The Pill’ Talks Art, Scie ...
  "To be really frank, I want to push this play and not talk about The Pill," says Carl Djerassi, 89-year-old playwright and co-inventor of the oral contraceptive that changed the world. In this Q&A, Djerassi talks about art, science and the tension between them.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Neighbor ...
  If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
• Man Walks With Aid of Brain-Controlled Robotic ...
  A new brain-computer interface allows an able-bodied person to walk using a pair of mechanical leg braces controlled by brain signals (video), as reported on the electronic database arXiv. The device, while limited, lays a foundation for helping people with paralysis walk again.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Lia Tarachansky: Israel Denies Food and Entry ...
  Israel's anti-refugee policy reached a new peak this week when on Tuesday the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that a group of 20 asylum seekers was being denied entry and was stuck in the fenced area... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Noam Chomsky: Why America and Israel are the g ...
  Like its patron, Israel resorts to violence at will. It persists in illegal settlement in occupied territory, some annexed, all in brazen defiance of international law and the U.N. Security Council.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Yuval Ginbar: Double standard on torture
  Recently, the [Israeli] High Court of Justice also made a contribution that helps perpetuate torture among the Shin Bet: It approved a mechanism that was apparently created to ensure that no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Nurit Peled-Elhanan: The presentation of Pales ...
  Tzipi Livni: "The national solution for Israel’s Arabs lies elsewhere: in order to maintain a Jewish-Democratic state we must constitute two nation-states with clear red-lines. Once this happens, I... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• MiG-29 Fighter Jet Crashes in Siberia
  A Russian Air Force MiG-29 fighter crashed on Thursday near Chita, in Siberia, the Defense Ministry said.
• Russia to Sell 52 Mi-171Е Helicopters to China
  Russia on Thursday signed a contract with China for the delivery of 52 Mi-171Е (Hip) transport helicopters.
• India, Russia to Make Multiple Rocket Systems
  Moscow and Delhi have agreed to set up a joint venture in India for manufacturing and post-sales servicing of rockets for Russian Smerch multiple rocket launchers, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
• India, Russia to Make Multiple Rocket Systems
  Moscow and Delhi have agreed to set up a joint venture in India for manufacturing and post-sales servicing of rockets for Russian Smerch multiple rocket launchers, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
• Tehran Plans Massive Military Drills
  The Iranian Army will hold a series of exercises with airborne and armor units before the end of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2012), a top military commander said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

• Get Your Flu Shot: U-M Offers Convenient Optio ...
  The University of Michigan Health System's Michigan Visiting Nurses and health centers will once again offer flu vaccinations, the most reliable way to ward off the flu this season.
• Alcoholics Anonymous Participation Promotes Lo ...
  A new study published in a special issue of Substance Abuse finds that recovering alcoholics who help others in 12-step programs furthers their time sober, consideration for others, step-work, and long-term meeting attendance.
• Suicide Prevention, Telemedicine Among Topics ...
  The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation is holding Transform 2012, its fifth symposium on redesigning how health care is experienced and delivered.
• Biopsies May Ovelook Esophagus Disease
  University of Utah engineers mapped white blood cells called eonsinophils and showed an existing diagnostic method may overlook an elusive digestive disorder that causes swelling in the esophagus and painful swallowing.
• Genetic Test Will Help Dose Blood Thinner
  Patients suffering from dangerous blood clots will receive genetic testing to help health professionals at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System prescribe the proper dose of the blood-thinner warfarin.

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

• Legislative Fixes to the Problem of Executing ...
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Having followed the terrorism litigation against Iran for years, I was fascinated to read of the recent legislation—Section 502 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights–that creates a legislative fix for victims of one particular group of terror ...
• Judge Sow to Testify for Charles Taylor? (Updated)
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Just when you thought you’ve seen everything — you haven’t: According to a statement posted on the website of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Judge El Hadji Malik Sow, a Senegalese jurist who served as alternate judge for Trial Cham ...
• Judge Sow to Testify for Charles Taylor?
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Just when you thought you’ve seen everything — you haven’t: According to a statement posted on the website of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Judge El Hadji Malik Sow, a Senegalese jurist who served as alternate judge for Trial Cham ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, September 6, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Liberian Daily Observer has reported that Judge Sow of the Special Court for Sierra Leone has been called by the defense team of Charles Taylor and will testify in his appeal. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has accused both the government and the rebel ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, September 6, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Liberian Daily Observer has reported that Judge Sow of the Special Court for Sierra Leone has been called by the defense team of Charles Taylor and will testify in his appeal. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has accused both the government and the rebel ...

Public News Service

• New Poll Shows Strong Support for Food Stamps, ...
  New Poll Shows Strong Support for Food Stamps, Opposition to Cuts PHOENIX, Ariz. - Three-quarters of Americans say cutting billions from the food stamp program is the wrong way to reduce federal spending. That's the result of a new survey from the Washington, D.C.-based Food Research and Action ...
• AZ Tax Backers Seize on New School Spending Report
  AZ Tax Backers Seize on New School Spending Report PHOENIX - Arizona has made the deepest cuts to elementary and secondary education of any state in the nation during the past five years, according to a new report from the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Report co ...
• Report: Summer's Signs of Things to Come
  Report: Summer's Signs of Things to Come PHOENIX - Arizona's weather this summer is telling us a lot about climate change and where we're headed in the future, according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation. NWF senior scientist Doug Inkley says the heat waves we've been expe ...
• 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

• Environmental, Public Interest Groups Ready fo ...
  Longstanding violation of Endangered Species Act provisions highlights Sixty-Day Notice filing Today, the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and the Sierra Club, along with affected citizens from around the country, filed a Sixty-Day Notice letter with the Environmental Protection Agency ...
• 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 ...

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

• Where’s the switch?
  I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
• 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 ...

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

• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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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

• Biggest offshore wind farm in world could powe ...
  The proposed £4.5bn complex in the ocean off Scotland will have 339 wind turbines generating 1.5 gigawatts, making it the biggest in the world. Even better, 4.5 GW of other offshore wind projects will be proposed soon for Scotland, with a whopping 18 GW becoming operational in the next few years ...
• Creeping fascism alert
  Court rules you can’t storm a meeting and moon your bosses at Bank Of America and expect not to be fired .Is not freedom of moonery as important as freedom of speech????
• DNC filled with faux populism – but no hard at ...
  Based on DNC speeches, Democrats appear to be born-again rip-snorting Populists. Yet we’ve not heard a peep from any of them about putting start putting bankers in prison or enforcing Rule of Law. So cancel my subscription to the resurrection of their cynical faux populism until they actua ...
• Spain economy collapses in “breathtaking implo ...
  Spain’s economy has collapsed and the country itself will need a ginormous bailout soon. But no one has that much money to spare. The pretend-and-extend teams in Europe and the US, parasites in expensive suits, will no doubt continue to avoid facing reality and keep siphoning money in the ...
• Burn Wall Street build fake Wall Street at Bur ...
  The Burn Wall Street Project at Burning Man 2012. The names on the buildings are “Bank of Un-America”, “Merrill Lynched”, “Goldman Sucks” and “Chaos Manhattan”.Burn Wall Street says the point of the piece is that the Tea Party and Occupy both know ...

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

• Facebook career postings: ad product designers ...
  Facebook added 19 job listings to its careers page this week, including a number of positions focused on advertising product design. The company is looking for a product design manager for ad products, as well as two product designers, a … Continue reading →
• Facebook hires: account managers, media soluti ...
  Facebook appears to have made 20 hires this week based on listings that have been removed from its careers page. The company hired a number of vertical-specific account managers and leads, as well as two international media solutions employees. There … Continue reading →
• Pretty Little Liars, American Horror Story, De ...
  Pretty Little Liars is this week’s top gainers for the People Talking About This metric among TV show pages on Facebook. The ABC Family program leads with over 350,000 new engagements this week. The top 10 pages gaining People Talking … Continue reading →
• How to get more value out of Facebook promotio ...
  Facebook Open Graph is often associated with frictionless sharing apps like Spotify or Washington Post Social Reader, but any application can use this protocol to amplify the reach of its user actions. So far, though, few in the marketing industry … Continue reading →
• Facebook-Instagram deal officially closes
  Facebook today announced that its acquisition of Instagram is complete. The mobile photo sharing network will continue to operate under the Instagram brand, but its 16 employees will join the team in Menlo Park, Calif., and Facebook will support the … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Can the Black Middle Class Survive? ...
  truthout: Can the Black Middle Class Survive? #Obama Is in the Oval Office but the Black Bourgeoisie is Foundering http://t.co/JsK6wnH5
• truthout: Birthdays, pre-existing conditions a ...
  truthout: Birthdays, pre-existing conditions and Republican-style #Medicare http://t.co/LrlkK5UD #Romney #ACA #hcr #Obamacare
• truthout: Beyond November: Thoughts on Politic ...
  truthout: Beyond November: Thoughts on Politics, Social Movements & the 2012 Elections http://t.co/AyCcuiZq #connecttheleft @jacobinmag
• truthout: Forget the Polls: #Obama Is the Odds ...
  truthout: Forget the Polls: #Obama Is the Odds-On Favorite to Win in November http://t.co/yWcneO9v @sbabones #Election2012
• truthout: Will Global Financialization & t ...
  truthout: Will Global Financialization & the #Eurozone Debt Crisis Defeat European Cosmopolitan Democracy? http://t.co/eWjLFGZN #Europe

ReDress News

• Ethiopia’s opportunity: a new day beckons
  Graham Peebles argues that the death of Ethiopia's dictatorial prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provides a golden opportunity for the country to embark on the long delayed journey to reunite its fragmented communities, restore human dignity and establish democracy and human rights.
• Israel says "Rachel made me do it"
  Lawrence Davidson argues that behind the Israeli court ruling that Rachel Corrie, the US peace activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home, lies a culture of pathological racism that considers all Palestinians and th ...
• 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.

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

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 25, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener- Health Freedom & Freedom of Speech
  Of the many constitutionally-guaranteed rights of the American public that the federal government has sought to destroy in recent decades, the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech is arguably the most important. If the ability for citizens to express themselves in the political, person ...
• Austerity, Adjustment, and Social Genocide
  Political Language & the European Debt Crisis   Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.-- George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946 Political language functions through euphemism, b ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 24, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Stop Imperialism Podcast – African disco ...
  Eric Draitser Presents Abayomi Azikiwe Eric sits down with Abayomi Azikiwe to discuss a variety of topics related to Africa. Eric and Abayomi examine African discourse in the Western world and how it is shaped to benefit the ruling class. Additionally, they analyze the conflicts in Nigeria, Suda ...

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

• Romney's Success at Bain Capital: The Business ...
  Private equity companies like Bain Capital are not primarily about producing wealth. They profit largely by siphoning off wealth created elsewhere in the economy. There are many different ways in which this diversion of wealth is accomplished. It is not clear that Mitt Romney understands that fa ...
• Video: A Real Democrat Gives One of the Best, ...
  Andy Schmookler, a long time contributor to Opednews.com, is running in the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, a solidly "red" district currently MISrepresented by the abysmal Bob Goodlatte - or as I call him BADlatte. No, this race isn't on the DCCC target list or anything, but Andy's a gr ...
• Flawed organic foods study really just a media ...
  The "study" isn't even a study. It was just a review of other studies. No new laboratory analysis was done whatsoever! It comes down to being a total psyop pushed by the mainstream media for the purpose of confusing the public and ultimately promoting GMOs.
• Emerging Archetypal Themes: Service Without S ...
  Service without Self-Sacrifice. That's our emerging archetypal theme for this astrological month of Virgo. As we leave behind the Piscean Age, which embraced self-sacrifice (a very Piscean notion) as well as service to the world (its Virgo counterpart), we have to shine a new light on the sub ...
• Celebrate Labor Day by Voting Democratic!
  A former union shipfitter and first- and mid-level corporate manager reflects and opines on the causes of the USA's severe and painfully prolonged manufacturing slump.

Switchboard

• Common sense reasons to support organic agricu ...
  Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Everyone loves a good [rhetorical] food fight. This week, a ruckus erupted over a Stanford University study, which found that organic foods are no more nutritious than their conventional counterparts. With head ...
• Toward a More Sustainable Charlotte
  Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. I just flew back from Charlotte, North Carolina and obviously my arms aren't too tired to blog. This week there are a lot of exciting things happening in the Queen City. While there& ...
• India Environmental News Compilation, August 2 ...
  Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Climate Storms, Drought Overshadow New UN Climate Talks “World climate change negotiators faced warnings on Thursday that a string of extreme weather e ...
• What makes a great city street? Consider these ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC      Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina My friend Victor Dover has taught me more about the importance of streets to community, and the characteristics that can ...
• China Environmental News Alert
  Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• The ongoing fiasco of mass transit in Seattle
  When I was in Seattle this summer, I saw a number of the fancy new stations showing on 15th NW in anticipation of the launch of Rapidride D, ostensibly a new Bus Rapid Transit service that will replace the old, slow 15 local for service to Ballard from downtown Seattle. It seemed like a good [...]
• I Have A Script For That
  To answer Scott’s question, the narrative that would be used to try to counter Clinton was already in place: Even here, Lawrence couldn’t quite make himself say that Clinton had given a very good speech. He went straight to a standard old scripted concern: Bill Clinton talked too long! Law ...
• Does the existence of conservative “indi ...
  No. You don’t need to be a white Republican to appeal to white Republicans: you merely need to tailor your rhetoric so that it appeals to white Republicans. Doesn’t matter what color you are. It’s not about the person on the stage: it’s about the audience that person&#821 ...
• What War On Women?
  The relative inability of the Republican Party to attract women voters sure is mysterious. Related.
• Obama Embracing the Bully Pulpit?
  I am agnostic on the Bully Pulpit debate we frequently have on the blog. I think both Scott and those who disagree with him make good points. So I don’t link to this Peter Baker piece in the Times how Obama’s governing style has changed with any agenda except that I think it’s ...

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

• Eco-Friendly Accommodations In Ely, Minnesota
• Huge Artificial Icebergs Could Turn Ocean Garb ...
• LADWP Resolves To Build Clean, Cheap, Local Energy
• Kohl’s Looks To Pass 100 Mark In EV Charging S ...
• Rhode Island Renewable Sector Addresses Wind O ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Ninth Circuit rewrites rejection of Kellogg's ...
  A federal appeals court that struck down a consumer class action settlement based in part on "impermissibly high" attorney fees has withdrawn its opinion, issuing a revised version that nevertheless denied the fees request.
• Judge doesn't buy novel bid to shift patent ju ...
  Hiring a Massachusetts lawyer to file a federal lawsuit in another state doesn't mean the party can be sued in Massachusetts, a Boston federal judge has ruled.
• Sugar refiners draw counterclaim in row over h ...
  Four corn refiners fighting accusations that their claims that high fructose corn syrup is no different from table sugar are misleading have countersued, accusing the sugar industry's trade association of ignoring science to argue its product is somehow healthier.
• EEOC draft plan prioritizes employer hiring pr ...
  Faced with a rising caseload and shrinking resources, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a draft strategic enforcement plan that calls for bringing cases with the broadest possible impact and eliminating systemic barriers in recruitment and hiring.
• Herrick, Feinstein picks up litigation partner ...
  Litigation partner Jeffrey Wasserman has left Chadbourne & Parke for Herrick, Feinstein. Wasserman, whose work focuses on cross-border disputes and complex litigation, will practice as a partner in the Newark, N.J., office of the 150-attorney firm, which is based in New York.

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

• Lebanon 'Overwhelmed' by Flood of Syrian Refugees
  He also voiced concern over the spate of violence and kidnappings which have raised fears of renewed sectarian conflict in Lebanon.
• New Study Shows Young Women Suffer Under Obama ...
  Young women in particular, after inheriting a legacy in which greater opportunity is not just a right, but an expectation, will not sit idly by and let it slip away.
• Canberra Hailed as Role Model for 'Making Citi ...
  The campaing is a UN-sponsored initiative which aims to reduce urban risks from climate-related disasters.
• Factionalism Remains Nepal's Largest Problem
  All Nepal's constitutional issues are less important to the Congress leadership than who gets tipped to be the next prime minister.
• Hollywood's Power Player - Bruce Edwin
  Hollywood film producer and talent manager Bruce Edwin is posed his own questions he asks those he reports on, by The Hollywood Sentinel.

environment 360

• Destruction of Tropical Forests Reduces Region ...
  A new study has found that destruction of the world’s tropical forests may significantly reduce regional rainfall across large regions, a phenomenon researchers say could have devastating effects for people living in and around the Amazon and Congo basins. Using satellite observations of rainfa ...
• 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 ...
• 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

• The secret tomb of China’s 1st emperor: Will w ...
  Buried deep under a hill in central China, surrounded by an underground moat of poisonous mercury, lies an entombed emperor who’s been undisturbed for more than two millennia. Ancient writings say the emperor created an entire underground kingdom and palace, complete with a ceiling mimicking the ...
• Has Amelia Earhart’s plane been found on the o ...
  A team of researchers trying to solve the mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance said on Friday that underwater video from a Pacific island has revealed a field of man-made debris that could be remnants of her plane. The footage was collected in July by The International Group fo ...
• Nurse Who “Saw Everything” At Hospital After S ...
  Jenny Gallagher, a nurse who treated victims of the highly suspicious “Batman” shooting in Aurora, Colorado last month, is dead at age 46. The reported cause of death: drowning. “She worked the morning after the Batman massacre in a very busy unit of the hospital — so she saw everything really, ...
• pewpew! NASA rover Curiosity shoots a Mars roc ...
  NASA’s Curiosity rover has zapped its first Martian rock, aiming its laser for the sake of science. During the target practice on Sunday, Curiosity fired 30 pulses at a nearby rock over a 10-second window, burning a small hole. Curiosity’s social media team made a reference to Austin Powers when ...
• Man wants phone back after videotaping arrest
  An Edmonton man wants police to return an iPhone that he says was seized by an officer while he was videotaping an arrest. Corey Maygard, 25, captured the video last Friday because he thought police were using excessive force to detain a man near the Salvation Army in downtown Edmonton. "They ha ...

Russia Today

• Aid for Syrian rebels: ‘France taking US hitma ...
  France has taken the responsibility for supplying Syrian rebels with money and artillery on behalf of the US, which is not interested in soiling their hands before Novembers presidential elections, professor Engdahl... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Swede deal: Cambodia gets $60M ‘social aid’ af ...
  In a move that’s set the blogging world alight, Sweden has pledged to give Cambodia $60 million for ‘democratic development’. Some think the timing of the deal - right on the heels of Pirate Bay co-founder Warg’s arrest... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Blue on blue: Greek police face off in Athens ...
  Striking Greek policemen have clashed with riot police, after blockading their colleagues' headquarters in Athens. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Double dipping: Britain faces second round of ...
  The UK’s economic forecast is cloudy with little chance of a speedy recovery, as the nation struggles to overcome its double-dip recession. Meanwhile, EU leaders are meeting to come up with a solution to the euro crisis... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Boat tragedy off Turkey coast: 61 refugees dead
  At least 61 people, including women and children, are reported to have drowned when a fishing boat carrying up to a hundred illegal migrants sank off the coast of western Turkey. So far 46 people have been rescued,... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• ‘Labor Day’ in a country that hate ...
  We just got past the nation’s so-called ‘labor day’. There is no more meaningless Holiday around though since our country’s corporate elites actually hate laborers and think that they are the bottom scrapings of society and should be treated like shit…. ALWAYS. They ...
• 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

Debunking the Debunkers

• RECAP: Fake al-Qaeda> Anwar Al Awlaki PLUS Ada ...
  The following videos are posted in light of recent media reports about the death of the "international terrorist leader" Anwar Al Awlaki in Yemen. Please note that Al Awlaki was also reported dead, killed in 2009 by a US air strike. Dead or alive, names like Al Awlaki, Zarqawi, and others will ...
• 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 ...

Fooducate

• Butter Meets Bacteria: Ilios Greek Yogurt Butter
• Food Safety: What the FDA Doesn’t Know, Could ...
• Organic Food More Nutritious? Yet Another Stud ...
• Can’t Take the Heat? Get Out & Grill [Recipes]
• Interesterifed Oils – What Are They Doing in M ...

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

• Survival denounces Venezuela’s 'whitewash' of ...
  The Yanomami way of life is threatened by illegal goldmining in the Amazon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival has denounced the Venezuelan government’s repeated denials of a massacre against Yanomami Indians, calling on President Chávez to evict all illegal goldminers from indigenous territory and ...
• Campaigners target Rio 2016 exhibition over ‘E ...
  Visitors to the Rio 2016 exhibition in London read leaflets about threats to Brazil’s Awá.© SurvivalTribal rights campaigners today targeted a London exhibition celebrating Brazil’s cultural heritage ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics, to highlight the plight of ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe.’ Vis ...
• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Colonels in Mirrored Sunglasses
  An excerpt from Greg Palast's  Billionaires & Ballot Bandits  Here are the facts, ma'am: In the 2008 election, no less than: 767,023 provisional ballots were cast and not counted;
 1,451,116 ballots were "spoiled," not counted;
 488,136 absentee ballots were mailed in, but not counted. ...
• 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 ...

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 empty bottled gas/p ...
  Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
  Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
• 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 ...

Age of Autism

• Dan Olmsted at Autism One on The Wakefield Inq ...
  We invite you to watch Dan Olmsted discuss and dissect the GMC and mainstream media's battle against Dr. Andrew Wakefield in his presentation from last May at Autism One. Abstract: The unprecedented journalistic attack on Dr. Wakefield and colleagues after...
• Philadelphia: We Can only Guess about Autism
  By Anne Dachel The Philadelphia Inquirer recently had the op-ed piece, “And the latest cause of autism is . . .” HERE by Michael Yudell. In keeping with the usual spin from the mainstream press, Yudell shows no alarm over...
• Best of AofA: Autism From a Flu Shot? The Omin ...
  Note: Flu vaccine season is upon us, appearing each September along with Halloween Candy and early Thanksgiving decorations. Below is a post from November of 2010. By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill Seventy-three years ago, Elizabeth Peabody Trevett, a pediatrician...
• Thalidomide/Thimerosal
  By Anne Dachel There is recent news that after 50 years of silence the German pharmaceutical company, Gruenenthal, has apologized for the horrific damage caused by thalidomide, the morning sickness drug given to pregnant women in the late 1950s and...
• 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...

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

• 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out
  Colorado Public Television Presents – 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out Over 40 experts in high-rise architecture, structural engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, physics, explosives, and controlled demolition share their professional expertise and insights about the events ...
• A mobile app to combat armed robbery in Ghana
  DW – Armed robbery in Ghanaian cities is on the increase. The capital city Accra tops the list. Now a software company has developed an SMS-triggered alert system to reduce the number of robberies in the country. All that is required is a blank text message and the rest will be taken care ...
• Japan government ‘reaches deal to buy&#8 ...
  BBC – The government will pay 2.05bn yen ($26m, £16.4m) to buy islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. There was no confirmation from officials, but the reports were carried by major Japanese media outlets, citing government sources. The outspoken Tokyo governor had also bee ...
• New Zealand confirms early Afghan exit
  AFP – New Zealand confirmed Monday that its troops would end a decade-long deployment in Afghanistan at the end of April next year, about six months earlier than originally planned. The withdrawal was flagged last month after the deaths of three soldiers, two men and a woman, in a roadside ...
• Met Éireann confirms Irish summer was dullest, ...
  MANY SUSPECTED it and now it’s official. This summer has been one of the dullest, wettest and coolest in years, Met Éireann confirmed yesterday. Temperatures and sunshine were below average, while rainfall was higher than usual in June, July and August. Total rainfall was above average across th ...

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

• Lebanon 'Overwhelmed' by Flood of Syrian Refugees
  He also voiced concern over the spate of violence and kidnappings which have raised fears of renewed sectarian conflict in Lebanon.
• New Study Shows Young Women Suffer Under Obama ...
  Young women in particular, after inheriting a legacy in which greater opportunity is not just a right, but an expectation, will not sit idly by and let it slip away.
• Canberra Hailed as Role Model for 'Making Citi ...
  The campaing is a UN-sponsored initiative which aims to reduce urban risks from climate-related disasters.
• Factionalism Remains Nepal's Largest Problem
  All Nepal's constitutional issues are less important to the Congress leadership than who gets tipped to be the next prime minister.
• Hollywood's Power Player - Bruce Edwin
  Hollywood film producer and talent manager Bruce Edwin is posed his own questions he asks those he reports on, by The Hollywood Sentinel.

Worldnews

• UN commissioner to visit Turkey soon
  U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres will pay a two-day visit to Turkey next week that comes as “a result” of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s severe warning to the international community on the worsening humanitarian tragedy in Syria, according to Turkish diplomatic sourc ...
• Decibels rise as Cong, BJP slug it out on ...
  Congress and BJP on Thursday sharpened their attack on each other on the coal block allocation giving a clear indication that the controversy over the issue is going to further escalate in coming days even after the Monsoon session of Parliament concludes tomorrow. Stepping up the attack on ...
• India hopes to normalize its relations wi ...
  Tweet New Delhi, Sep 6 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Thursday said the main intention of his visit to Pakistan was to normalize the relations between the two Asian neighbours. Krishna, however, said that he did not expect much during his visit to Pakistan. "We don't expect ...
• Open to coaching India: Ganguly
  Tweet New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Former India captain Sourav Ganguly Thursday expressed his willingness to coach the national cricket team if the board feels he is the best candidate for the job. "Obviously, I have interest in coaching but only time will tell what can happen in future. If the B ...
• FIFA's regional development inaugurated i ...
  Tweet New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke inaugurated the world body's regional developmental office at Dwarka in the national capital here Thursday. The regional office has been shifted to Delhi from Colombo. "It's really pleasing to see our endeavour taking shape i ...

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

• DOXEPIN HYDROCHLORIDE (Doxepin Hydrochloride) ...
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• EXCHANGE SELECT LANSOPRAZOLE (Lansoprazole) Ca ...
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• Wildlife Conservation Society releases list of ...
  The Wildlife Conservation Society today released a list of Asian species that are at a conservation crossroads calling for governments to take immediate action with the 'Three R's Approach: Recognition, Responsibility, Recovery.'
• MUSKEL-S (Anti-Interleukin-1.Alpha. Immunoglob ...
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• Implantation of the Right Ventricular Lead of ...

Common Dreams

• Mount Fuji Eruption Imminent? 2011 Quake Build ...
  Japan's Mount Fuji (Flickr/emrank) Scientists say last year's Great East Japan Earthquake has greatly increased the pressure of the magma chamber underneath Mount Fuji. The pressure is now higher than it was the last time the volcano erupted more than 300 years ago, scientists say, according ...
• 'NAFTA on Steroids': New Round of Secret Trade ...
  Trade negotiators from the US and eight other Pacific Rim countries met outside of Washington, DC Wednesday, commencing a new round of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement negotiations, also known as 'Nafta on steroids.' ...
• 750,000 Cluster Munitions Have Been Destroyed ...
  750,000 cluster munitions have been destroyed by governments that have signed the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, a report issued Thursday shows, highlighting the effectiveness of the treaty in destroying the deadly weapons. The findings are included in the Cluster Munition Monitor 2012 fr ...
• Arizona's Real Immigration Question: Not 'Pape ...
  In the shadows of the Democratic Party's applause for President Bill Clinton last night, whose Operation Gatekeeper policy in the mid-1990s drew widespread condemnation by human rights groups, federal court Judge Susan Bolton denied a motion on racial profiling objections and allowed Arizona ...
• Green Groups: Keystone XL Reroute No Fix; We N ...
  Canadian energy giant TransCanada announced on Wednesday that it has submitted an alternative route for the tar sands-pumping Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska that would "support the safe construction and operation of the pipeline." But environmental groups said the new route still thr ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Diplomatic immunity for Mexic ...
  ExamineReligion: Diplomatic immunity for Mexican Ex-President Ernesto Zedillo and repercussions http://t.co/NkbXudbm
• ExamineReligion: The Holy Spirit empowers the ...
  ExamineReligion: The Holy Spirit empowers the people of God: Spiritual gifts and Spirit-baptism http://t.co/1RBDkhg2
• ExamineReligion: Free tele-class week 1: True ...
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• ExamineReligion: Spirituality, Politics & ...
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• ExamineReligion: The Devil Made Me Do It http: ...
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Energy Collective

• Experts Warn Of ‘Near Ice-Free Arctic In Summe ...
  The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched by a harder-to-see — but equally sharp — drop in sea ice thickness. The combined result has been a collapse in total sea ice volume.
• Summer from Hell: Climate Change Makes Its Pre ...
  The summer of 2012 has come to a close, but it won’t be forgotten anytime soon. It delivered one extreme weather event after another, from heat waves to freak storms, wildfires to drought. People lost their homes and livelihoods, yet even as they try to pick up the pieces, more powerful weather ...
• Cleantech sector expects greater profits in ne ...
  Leaders of cleantech firms around the world are more optimistic than their counterparts in other sectors, a new survey has found.
• As the U.N. climate talks make little progress ...
   Protesters in Bangkok outside the UN climate talks.
• What is (Obama vs. Romney) Energy Independence?
  When you think about ‘energy independence’ how do you define this concept? With the upcoming Presidential election we all have a choice to make on which candidate’s energy plan is most consistent with our personal view of ‘energy independence’.

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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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Mitt and Mormonism: Does It Matter?
  by Stephen Lendman Romney is America's first non-Christian presidential nominee. He's a Mormon (aka Latter Day Saints Church member - LDS). Does it matter? More on that below. Before he entered politics, he spent years as a Massachusetts Mormon leader. He began in the mid-1970s. From 1986 - ...
• Fars News Agency Interviews Lendman
  Stephen Lendman Stephen LendmanIranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari conducted the interview. Topics included Tehran's successful NAM summit, Iranian/US/Israeli relations, Syria, potential war against both countries, and related issues. Fars (FNA) calls itself "Iran's leading independent ne ...
• The Myth That Japan Is Broke: The World’ ...
  by Ellen Brown Japan’s massive government debt conceals massive benefits for the Japanese people, with lessons for the U.S. debt “crisis.” In an April 2012 article in Forbes titled “If Japan Is Broke, How Is It Bailing Out Europe?”, Eamonn Fingleton pointed out th ...
• 9/11 & Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
  By Robert Singer Below is an animated image of Flight 175 "crashing" into the south tower. Plato’s allegory of the Cave Plato wrote his allegory of the cave when he realized that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awarenes ...
• America’s inevitable dictatorship
  By John James America has now entered on the inexorable path towards military dictatorship. President Obama has signed into law the the National Defense Authorization Act, allowing for the arbitrary detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition of Americans without trial. This is a slippery s ...

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

• America- The Bipolar Tween of the World
  An American’s POV By Milenova Matseva,WWH/CJE-The past weeks I have shown some Europeans’ viewpoints on The States and its ups and downs. Today we sit with an American to tackle an issue which may or may not have a simple solution. The ability of Americans to control their emotions or the so cal ...
• Life Is Sacred
  By Chris Hedges,truthdig – I retreat in the summer to the mountains and coasts of Maine and New Hampshire to sever myself from the intrusion of the industrial world. It is in the woods and along the rugged Atlantic coastline, the surf thundering into the jagged rocks, that I am reminded of ...
• WWH/CJE Thursday News Briefs
  EVIDENCE OF WIDER US WATERBOARDING and other nasty stuff CAIRO (AP) — Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the United States, in a report Thursday that details further brutal ...
• Mom Says,Thin Lizzy Singer Would Have Objected ...
  From The Hot Press Newsdesk - Philomena Lynott, mother of the late Irish rocker Philip Lynott, says Philip would not support anti-gay policies. Philomena Lynott has reacted strongly against the use of her son Philip Lynott’s music by the Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney’s camp, ...
• The Collapse of Capitalism, Part One: Planned ...
  Over the next four days, WWH will be re-posting Phils series “The Collapse of Capitalism”. The response to this series was amazing. So, if you haven’t read it yet, enjoy. And if you have. Read it again. It’s Phil Polizatto at his best.   The Collapse of Capitalism -  ...

FourWinds10

• Climate 'science' gone wild: UK researchers to ...
  (NaturalNews) Deniers of geo-engineering, or man-made weather manipulation, truly are the real conspiracy theorists, as climate "scientists" have once again openly admitted that they have the technology to alter weather at will. And a recent piece in Scientific American highlights a ne ...
• Is crude oil still gushing in the Gulf? New te ...
• What The Frack?
• Too Dirty to Fail
    mericans must once again stand up for their right to clean air and clean water. Since the beginning of this year, Republicans in the House have averaged roughly a vote every day the chamber has been in session to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency and our nation's environme ...
• Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected ...
  (NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores m ...

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

• Are Democrats More Likely to Release Strategic ...
  If the Obama Administration orders a release, it would be the 2nd time the administration had tapped the SPR. In 2011 the Obama Administration ordered a release of 30 million barrels of oil in conjunction with a 30 million barrel release from other members of the International Energy Agency.
• 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

• YouTube Teachers - YouTube
  Comments:Click on the Classroom Videos tab below the featured video to see hundreds of playlists arranged by subject and objective. - Randy RodgersTags: youtube, video, multimedia, technology, edtech, web2.0, resources, teaching, learning, Internet, social mediaby: Randy Rodgers
• 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

Rodale News

• 5 Unexpected Heart Attack Triggers
  A bacon cheeseburger fetish topped with a couch potato mentality is a surefire recipe for a heart attack. But those obvious bad choices aren't the only things taking a toll on your ticker. Scientists discovering surprising new heart attack causes—including ones you may unknowingly be exposing y ...
• Canned Food's Long-, Long-, Long-Lasting Impact
  The Iroquois nation has a saying you've likely heard repeated by environmentalists: "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." But they were probably thinking more about preserving land and protecting water supplies than ab ...
• 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 ...

big think

• Forget Big Data. What your business needs is D ...
  Nikolaus Otto invented the basic design of the 4-stroke internal combustion engine – the power plant that today moves most of the vehicles on the world’s roads – back in 1862.  The engines of Otto’s day were clattering, weak, and inefficient smoke bombs that drank in rivers of gasoline in return ...
• Recreating Your Company
  Your Only Friend Innovation is different from everything you do as a leader in three distinct ways. First, innovation happens in the future for which you currently have no data. In fact, one of the most common forms of resistance to innovation is excessive data collection because it stop ...
• The True Superhumans Are Already Among Us
  We used to think of “superhumans” as comic book heroes possessing extraordinary, even divine-like powers. Now, we are realizing that the true superhumans are already among us – they are the extraordinary Paralympians who are actively embracing technology as a way to transform their “disabilities ...
• Can a Comic Book Make Economics—the “Dismal Sc ...
  “It’s the economy, stupid!” James Carville crowed throughout the 1992 presidential election, and has pretty much continued crowing since. What do you do when you know it’s the economy that matters, but you’re feeling stupid about how it all works? Do you plunge headfirst into Adam Smith’s We ...
• Walkie-Talkie Apps Gaining in Popularity
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Several new smartphone apps exist that defy easy categorization, yet, according to David Pogue at the New York Times, they're quietly gaining approval from millions of users: "You open the app, tap someone’ ...

Information Liberation

• Reporter Confronts Obama On Kill List, Assassi ...
  Ben Swann from FOX19's "Reality Check" confronts Obama on his presidential kill list and assassinating Americans without trial. Obama says he's never "confirmed" the existence of such a kill list, despite multiple members of his administration adm...
• Hostage Escapes Motel Standoff, Gets Shot & Ki ...
  An unarmed 19-year-old hostage was gunned down by police after narrowly escaping an armed gunman engaged in a standoff in a hotel in Minnesota. The StarTribune reports: Mark Eric Henderson Jr. saw his opportunity to escape from the Woodbury mot...
• 11% Of Likely Voters Favor Legalizing, Regulat ...
  The prohibitionist mentality is still alive and well. Via Rasmussen Reports: Voters may be sympathetic to legalizing marijuana with the proper controls, but they strongly draw the line at making cocaine legal. Eighty-four percent (84%) of Like...
• Reich-Publican Platform: Preserve the Fedgov's ...
  "Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced," decrees the 2012 Republican Party Platform in a section entitled "Renewing American Values." That plank also urges the implementation of unspecified measures "to...
• Texas Students Revolt Against Mandatory RFID T ...
  'Students and parents at two San Antonio schools are in revolt over a program that forces kids to wear RFID tracking name tags which are used to pinpoint their location on campus as well as outside school premises. Students at John Jay High Sc...

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

• The science of orgasms video
  It’s all about nerve signals, dopamine and oxytocin…well…not all about that! From the Wiki entry: Orgasm is the sudden release of accumulated sexual tension during the sexual response cycle involving an intense sensation of pleasure. It is experienced by males and females and i ...
• Chiropractic stroke
  Interesting search phrase hit the Sciencebase site today: for how long should you be watching out for a stroke after a cheiro practioner aligns your neck? Spelling and grammar aside, I presume the visitor was concerned about the problem of cerebral stroke that has been known to occur following m ...
• Follow me, I’m right behind you
  When we were kids, Dad used to have this recurring joke (actually, he still does have lots of recurring jokes), we’d be out walking and as we set off he’s say “Follow me, I’m right behind you”. Obviously, at first glance a purely oxymoronic statement akin to “ ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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

• Patagonian Glaciers Melting in a Hurry
  Ice fields in southern South America are rapidly losing volume and in most cases thinning at even the highest elevations, contributing to sea-level rise at "substantially higher" rates than observed from the 1970s through the 1990s, according to a study published Wednesday. [More] ...
• Super-Stretchy Hydrogel Can Take a Hit
  From Nature magazine [More]
• Voices of ENCODE
  ENCODE, the Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements, is the most ambitious human genetics project to date. It takes the 3 billion letters described by the Human Genome Project in 2000, and tries to explain them. Remarkably, ENCODE scientists have managed to assign a biochemical function to 80% of the geno ...
• "Junk" DNA Holds Clues to Common Diseases
  When the draft of the human genome was published  in 2000, researchers thought that they had obtained the secret decoder ring for the human body. Armed with the code of 3 billion basepairs of As, Ts, Cs and Gs and the 21,000 protein-coding genes, they hoped to be able to find the genetic ...
• Fishing Vessels Level Seafloor
  Trawlers are smoothing the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, much as farmers flattened fields across Europe centuries ago. And it's likely that similar smoothing is occurring wherever bottom trawlers operate across the Seven Seas. [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

• The Media Co-op is seeking Directors!
  Now taking nominations for new contributor, editor, and local reps for the Board The Media Co-op is planning our 2012 AGM for September 25, 2012 in Montreal, with meet-ups across the country. Members can also participate via phon ...
• Response to Fire This Time Activists Article
  This is a response to an article written after a group of Fire This Time activists were harassed, assaulted and handcuffed by the Vancouver Transit Police and RCMP. While we are in solidarity with the three activists - as we are with anyone who is a target of the state – we feel like the r ...
• The Media Co-op is recruiting a volunteer soci ...
  Help spread grassroots, co-operative news far & wide Are you quick to tweet? Familiar with Facebook? A real redditor? A Google+ groupie? We're looking for someone to put about 15 hours per month into helping us manage and build the ...
• The Media Co-op is recruiting a volunteer soci ...
  Help spread grassroots, co-operative news far & wide Are you quick to tweet? Familiar with Facebook? A real redditor? A Google+ groupie? We're looking for someone to put about 15 hours per month into helping us manage and build the ...
• The Media Co-op is recruiting at-large editors!
  Help make radical news happen Do you ever find yourself sitting around home thinking, “Damn, I wish I could be editing some radical, grassroots, co-operative news?” Then we've got the thing for you! The Media Co-op is lookin ...

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

• The Eurozone Is Still Doomed, Isn't It?
  The stock market, a bit to my surprise, has reacted euphorically to today's official announcement that the European Central Bank will begin unlimited purchases of government bonds from economically depressed countries in the eurozone (though this policy applies only to countries that behave the ...
• Mitt Romney's Amazing Negative Convention Bounce
  I thought I'd check in with Sam Wang today to see what he thought about Romney's convention bounce, and the news for Republicans isn't good. Not only does he think they got no bounce, he thinks they probably got a negative bounce. In terms of electoral votes, he figures they lost a bit, then ga ...
• It's Time to End the Baseline Games
  Comparing different plans to reduce the deficit is maddeningly difficult. This is because any proper comparison between two plans has to be done against the same baseline — and as soon as you say the word "baseline," you might as well just pack up your bags and go home. You are doomed to ...
• Romney Doesn't Just Want to Cut Medicare, He W ...
  Lots of healthcare wonks have been beating the drums to focus a little more attention on Mitt Romney's proposed cuts to Medicaid, which acts as an indispensable backstop to Medicare. Last night, Bill Clinton went there: Now, folks, this is serious, because it gets worse. And you won’t be ...
• Bill Clinton Wows 'Em in Charlotte
  It's hard to judge convention speeches when you're a partisan yourself, but it sure seems as if Democrats have the better of things this year on the rhetorical front. Yesterday Michelle Obama gave probably the best speech a First Lady has given since Eleanor Roosevelt, and tonight Bill Clinton ...

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

• Crews complete first block of North America's ...
  Today, technicians in Minnesota will begin to position the first block of a detector that will be part of the largest, most advanced neutrino experiment in North America. read more
• Mining the blogosphere
  Can a computer "read" an online blog and understand it? Several Concordia computer scientists are helping to get closer to that goal. read more
• UF Guantanamo Bay Lepidoptera study sets basel ...
  University of Florida scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity in an area previously unknown to researchers. read more
• Weapon-wielding marine microbes may protect po ...
  Competition is a strong driving force of evolution for organisms of all sizes: Those individuals best equipped to obtain resources adapt and reproduce, while others may fall by the wayside. Many organisms -- mammals, birds and insects, for instance -- also form cooperative social structures that ...
• Chikyu sets a new world drilling-depth record ...
  Scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu sets a world new record by drilling down and obtains rock samples from deeper than 2,111 meters below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the i ...

unEarthed

• Tr-Ash Talk: The High Price of Coal Ash Ponds
  Senate bill would force Americans to pay even more for lost fish, wildlife Clearly, coal ash ponds are harmful to both our economy and ecology. (EST) Each yea ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Increasing The Price Of Coal Ash ...
  Senate bill would force Americans to pay even more for lost fish, wildlife Clearly, coal ash ponds are harmful to both our economy and ecology. (EST) Each yea ...
• In Memory Of Earthjustice Board Member Ted Smith
  Lifelong outdoorsman and humanitarian dies in hiking accident Theodore (Ted) McRoberts Smith. It was with great sadness that we learned of the loss of a membe ...
• 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 ...

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

• Priebus Upset That Ted Kennedy Is Still Suppor ...
  Whaaaaa. Priebus is upset that the Democrats used video of the late Ted Kennedy to remind Americans that Teddy supported Obama, even in the primaries, and that showing a video of him just isn’t fair. By the way, there has been one whole day of convention speakers, and I haven’t heard ...
• 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 ...

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

• I remember when Israel rescued non-Jewish refugees
  In 1977, Prime Minister Begin authorized citizenship for 66 Vietnamese refugees. The captain of an Israeli freighter in the South China Sea found them huddled on a leaky boat, low on food supplies, and took them in, bringing them to Israel after they were denied refuge in Taiwan. Begin granted t ...
• Turning one’s back on the world and all ...
  A group of twenty people who fled the horrors of Eritrea is being prevented from crossing the fence to Israel at gunpoint. The army is preventing doctors and volunteers from supplying the refugees with food and medicine.  As I write these words, the IDF is preventing a group of senior Israeli do ...
• LIVE BLOG: Trapped refugees at Israel’s ...
  A group of some 20 Eritreans has been trapped for seven days between the Israeli and Egyptian fences in Sinai. Until Wednesday, soldiers were ordered to give them some water but no food. Activists who went there over the last several days were prevented from reaching the asylum seekers by soldie ...
• A week in photos: August 30-September 5
  Demonstrations against the imprisonment of refugees and asylum seekers, protests in Ramallah over the high cost of living, an anti-war candlelight vigil, and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.    
• WATCH: Chaos at DNC as Obama seeks to declare ...
  The uniqueness of the American political system with regards to Israel/Palestine is a form of self-deception. The Republicans are clearly living on the moon, as many have yet to hear about the existence of Palestinians. But the Democratic elite is not much better, especially when elections are a ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• $20 million to conserve Melbourne's Royal Exhi ...
  Melbourne's iconic Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens will be returned to its former glory with a $20 million injection from the Gillard Government.
• 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.
• Gillard Government commits to another five yea ...
  The Gillard Government has today announced it will continue its commitment to Labor's flagship Caring for our Country program for another five years, providing $2.2 billion from 2013-14 to 2017-18.
• Strengthening the Bureau of Meteorology
  The Gillard Government will improve the capacity of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to respond to severe weather events by boosting funding in the 2012-13 Budget.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The LIBOR Scandal May (Will) Be Bigger Than Th ...
  The scandal over global interest rates has state officials like Janet Cowell of North Carolina working intensely behind the scenes to build a case for suing the nation’s largest banks. Ms. Cowell, the state’s elected treasurer, and several of her staff members have spent the summer combing throu ...
• 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 ...

abelard - news

• tories take over in the uk, obama continues to ...
  The numbers tell the story - Socialism, or US Liberalism, is not good for a country's economic health.
• 'democrats' are lying, about gdp, about 'recov ...
  Playing on the innumeracy, on the lack of political and financial sophistication, on gullibility of the faithful.
• tax, tax, it's all hidden tax | politics uk/ec ...
  More on how politicians lie to the mostly innumerate populous.
• 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.

The Parallel Parliament

• How Politics Changes Us (3)
  It set us back for a minute. The email message had come in from someone in the riding that I …Continue reading »
• On the Queen and Colonels
  Every discipline carries its own recognition and rewards. Business, sports, the arts, educational institutions, and many more – all these …Continue reading »
• 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 »

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

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• 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

• ORI finds misconduct by Marc Hauser in 4 NIH g ...
  Psychology is an academic discipline but it is not (yet) a science. The Hausergate affaire followed by the Diedrik Stapel affaire only confirmed my view that psychology as an academic discipline is permeated by confirmation bias. Now the Marc Hauser affaire reaches some kind of a conclusion (at ...
• The year when “hot air avoided Sweden wi ...
  In summary, one can say that the summer of 2012 was the year when "hot air avoided Sweden with uncanny precision."
• 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"?

Left Foot Forward

• The population scaremongerers are pedalling th ...
  Don Flynn, director of the Migrants' Rights Network, rebuts the population myths being pedalled by anti-immigration MPs like Nicholas Soames and Frank Field.
• Umunna: The case for an active government and ...
  Read the text of shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna's speech todoay to Policy Network’s conference on growth and a new political economy.
• Reshuffle: Housing: Shapps’s legacy, and the c ...
  Kevin Gulliver looks at Grant Shapps's legacy as housing minister and the challenges facing his successor Mark Prisk.
• While the government are blaming everybody but ...
  Londoners are suffering as the government blames everybody else for their economic mess, writes Labour's City Hall Planning spokesperson Nicky Gavron.
• Salmond shuffle paves the way for referendum c ...
  Ed Jacobs reports on Alex Salmond's reshuffling of the Scottish government.

Consumerist

• Woman’s Social Security Number Displayed ...
  How do you know you're watching television with a Consumerist editor? Our commenters will probably formulate all kinds of punchlines for that setup, but last night, I was half paying attention to former President Bill Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention on CNN when I happened ...
• If A Project Funded By Online Backers Never Ta ...
  As is the case with many emerging Internet trends, we're all learning as we go with online funding sites like Kickstarter. Kickstarter allows small business owners with big dreams, artists without the cash to create and other entrepreneurs to raise money by pitching to the Internet community. Bu ...
• King Soopers: Man’s “Popcorn Lung& ...
  A man in Colorado is claiming in a lawsuit against grocery chain King Soopers that there is indeed, a condition called popcorn lung, and he's got it after eating microwave popcorn from the store. He says King Soopers should've warned him that an ingredient in the popcorn's butter flavoring calle ...
• Nokia Shows Off Lumia 920′s Video Capabi ...
  Listen, companies, if you want to sell us stuff, we've got to trust that you're representing your products honestly. Which makes this a good time to call out Nokia for doing just the opposite of that, by faking video footage purportedly shot on its new Lumia 920 in an ad bragging about how aweso ...
• Best Buy, Where A Used TV Without A Remote Is ...
  If you're looking for a bargain on a 55" TV, you might think that choosing an "open-box" item would be less expensive than a brand new one, especially since the used TV lacks a remote control or owner's manual. But then you might never have looked at the shelves at your local Best Buy. Eagle-eye ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Study Reports More Retaliation Against Corp Wh ...
  Wall Street Journal: Whistleblower Retaliation on the Rise, Study Finds Summary: A new study from the Ethics Resource Center has found that 22 percent of corporate employees who spoke up about misconduct in 2011 faced retaliation for their actions. This is up from 15 percent in 2009. ...
• Vatican Whistleblower Claims 20 More Like Him: ...
  The U.K. Independent: Vatican Whistleblower Warns He is Not Alone in Fighting Corruption Image courtesy of wikimedia user Myrabella In the ongoing scandal involving whistleblowers exposing financial corruption inside the Vatican, the whistleblower who is charged with document theft – the pope' ...
• 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 ...

UK Progressive

• Governance And Ethics
  by Kaustubh Kulkarni The collusion between government, industry, power brokers and policy makers has completely been exposed in the series of scams that are unfolding in the UPA 2 regime. What is worse is that the industry which talks highly of corporate governance and transparency in governance ...
• Suddenly Homeless – Down, Up And Down Again
  By Charley James There are many truly hideous things about being homeless but high on the list is the constant roller coaster ride my emotions are on. It’s not just day-to-day; it can be hour-by-hour. Every time the coaster pulls up to a platform and I thank all that’s decent for end ...
• A Thinking Man in a World of Political Idiots
  By Denis G. Campbell President Bill Clinton is a fiery orator. Last night was less fire and more substance as he continued the tradition started the evening before by First Lady Michelle Obama and spoke intelligently to the crowd assembled. The First Lady spoke to the crowd at the 12th grade lev ...
• Make My Day, Mitt
  by Brent Budowsky I am a big fan of Clint Eastwood. After his appearance at the Republican convention I imagined what he might do addressing Mitt Romney with an empty chair at the Democratic gathering. While Lloyd Bentsen would say I am no Clint Eastwood, here goes: Glancing at the chair, I begi ...
• Money Can’t Buy Love or Class
  by Denis G. Campbell First Lady Michelle Obama took to the Democratic Convention stage and used the FLOTUS ‘voice’ to convey more in 20 minutes about why her husband should be re-elected than the Romney campaign did in 200 minutes of prime time television the previous week. No snark, just pure r ...

NewsAlert

• Excerpts of Obama’s Planned Remarks in Charlotte
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• S.C. Dem. Party Chairman Explains Comments Com ...
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• Prepare For The Coming Housing Collapse Part Two
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JoNova

• Do greenhouse gases warm the planet by 33°C? ...
  Jinan Cao has been dissecting the nature of the greenhouse effect and a key calculation that I normally just accept without questioning. This will set a few pigeons loose, but it will be interesting to see where they land. The claims analyzed here are the oft repeated ones that the Earth’s ...
• 10 conspiracy theorists makes a moon landing p ...
  There were only ten positive responses. There are many questions to be answered about this paper in “Psychological Science.“ Questions worth asking at all kinds of levels. The authors, Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, C. E., drew conclusions about skeptics by largely surveying alarmi ...
• Carbon Tax could raise $1.5 Trillion for the U ...
  Why do we need a carbon tax? A study by John Reilly candidly explains why this is not and has never been about the environment. It’s all about power and money — specifically $1,500 billion dollars of it over 10 years. What better excuse to raise funds for politicians? They pretend to ...
• 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 ...

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

• Amazing Solar Eruption Pic
  This happened yesterday. Note the size of our wee planet. Full sun view below. Source: NASA   Your're reading Amazing Solar Eruption Pic by Robert Bast, and originally posted at 2012 Blog Related posts: Amazing Solar Flare Photo 2012 Solar Storm = Long-Term Power Blackout Solar Storm Cause ...
• Expert Opinions #8: David Wilcox
  Note: I haven’t asked for David’s opinion directly, as I am sure he is way to busy bringing the world’s financial hoodlums to justice. This is the best I can determine from multiple rambling posts on Mr Wilcox’s Divine Cosmos site. If anyone can find a succinct version o ...
• 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 ...

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

• Ganeshotsav 2012: Decking up the Lord in gold, ...
  Gold and silver prices are going through the roof, but that has done nothing to dampen demand for the precious metals when it comes to decking up Lord Ganesha. Reported by DNA 18 minutes ago
• Accused employed without verification
  According to Dr Amit Thadhani, general surgeon and medical director of Nirmaya Hospital, one of his employees colluded with personnel from Airtels franchisee and procured 396 additional connections fraudulently. Reported by DNA 26 minutes ago
• Hyper inflated real estate causing collateral ...
  The astronomical commercial property prices are driving new businesses and expansion of existing ones away to other cities. Reported by DNA 34 minutes ago
• iPhone 5: Apple reduces memory chip order from ...
  Apple Inc has reduced its orders for memory chips for its new iPhone from key supplier and competitor Samsung Electronics Co, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. Reported by Firstpost 34 minutes ago
• Mary Kom gets Rs 2 lakh from Mamata; eyes Olym ...
  'The colour of the (bronze) medal is not something that makes me very happy. And I would certainly want it to change in 2016. At the moment, I can only say Mary Kom is not yet proud of herself,' she said. Reported by Firstpost 48 minutes ago

Global Research TV

• NAM Summit: Diplomatic Triumph for Iran?
• 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

Daily Tech

• Microsoft Adding 1,000 Workers to R&D, Sales i ...
  It will hire the extra 1,000 employees throughout 2012
• New Self-Powered, Wireless Health Monitoring S ...
  The system is small, wearable and collects information about a person's health in regards to environmental factors
• Amazon Reveals $299 8.9" Kindle Fire HD, $499 ...
  Kindle Fire HD features 8.9" IPS display with 1920x1200 resolution
• Prepare for a Windows Phone Explosion on Verizon
  Windows phone slowly accelerates amid Android difficulties
• 9/6/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday

Oriental Review

• Non-Aligned Movement Re-Energized
  It was a given from the outset that the conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which convened late August in Tehran would grab the headlines internationally. In an epoch that never sank into oblivion, the organization founded as an alliance of 120 countries by the charismatic trio of Josip ...
• Turkey Headed for Trouble
  Recent developments in the Middle East had a considerable impact on the standing of Turkey, a country deeply involved in the unfolding Syrian tragedy. It currently appears that Turkey’s neighbors – Iran and Iraq – are growing allergic to the attempts made by Ankara to establish itself as t ...
• 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 ...

BlogHer

• Prepare For A Great Weekend: The Moon Is On Yo ...
  Start the weekend on Friday September 7th and experience 2 days of a variety loving Gemini Moon. Ruled by the planet Mercury, we will be compelled to communicate – some way, somehow. This versatile Air sign may mean leisurely networking, or active socializing, it can be fun for us and/or just bu ...
• God, Jerusalem, and the Democratic Party Platform
  In the midst of speeches, worrying about a balloon drop and listening to James Taylor, the delegates to the Democratic National Convention also have a little business to tend to. Not only must they nominate a candidate for President of the United States (done with much fanfare and praise late We ...
• Democrats Relocate Tonight's Big Party: Will I ...
  When I asked some of the volunteers at the Democratic National Convention about Barack Obama's acceptance speech being moved from the outdoor Bank of America Stadium to the more weather-friendly Charlotte Convention Center, I could see the disappointment on their faces. They've been working long ...
• I Don't Know if My Mom Would Be Proud of Me
  [Editor's Note: The relationship between mother and daughter can be complicated at times, and that's putting it mildly. Kimberly at Healthy Strides recently shared the difficult relationship she had with her mom before she died, and the feelings that have bubbled under the surface since. Her gra ...
• DNC 2012: Latinos, Interrupted?
  "This is a big night for our community." "El Julián is going to go national after tonight." San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro opened the 2012 Democratic National Convention, one sign of the Obama campaign's aggressive outreach to Latinos, an emerging community and voting bloc. In addition to Cas ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Nazi Convicted Mass Murderers Became Executive ...
  It’s been only 70 years since World War II, and the mad scientists from companies like I.G. Farben, BASF, Hoechst, Dow and Bayer, who created the gas chambers and tested dangerous vaccines on innocent Jews, didn’t just ...
• OTC Weed-Killing Toxin Causes Birth Defects, P ...
  Back in May, Syngenta, one of the world’s largest pesticide manufacturers—a company with offices in 90 countries and a workforce of 26,000 people—settled an eight-year-old class action lawsuit for $105 million. The agreement provides funding ...
• In Vaccines We Trust? Paul Offit Threatens Rel ...
  Millionaire vaccine inventor and mandatory vaccine advocate Paul Offit recently released a short VIDEO for doctors on medscape. Here is a transcript of the speech. Please read it before moving along. It is only one page long. This statement ...
• The ‘Naked Mole Rat’ That Could Ho ...
   He’s ugly, squat – and he could hold the secret to humans living for 200 years. This is the ‘naked mole rat’, a species which can live for 30 years – approximately ten times longer than ...
• ‘No on 37′ Campaign Against GMO La ...
  As Californians gear up to head to the polls on November 6 in support of Proposition 37 and food labeling transparency, the biotechnology industry and its corporate allies are desperately trying, in any way possible, ...

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

• Coal’s future: ‘All the good seams ...
  Gazette photo by Chip Ellis Over at The State Journal, the great Pam Kasey and Taylor Kuykendall have put together a package of three stories (see here, here and here) that puts some faces on the numbers that the fine folks from the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy outlined in updating ...
• Clinton on Obama energy, climate policies
  President Barack Obama, left, joins former President Bill Clinton, right, at the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) As Columbia Journalism Review’s Curtis Brainard points out in The Observatory blog, the national ...
• Coal and the party platforms
  First Lady Michelle Obama waves after speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) My previous post, “Is climate change just a joke to the GOP?” generated a little bit of discussion about party platforms. ...
• 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

• Top 30 American Companies Spent More on Lobbyi ...
  What’s happened is that Washington now works for those that can hire an army of lobbyist, and an army of lawyers. If you’re in the drug business and you are selling prescriptions to seniors and you don’t want to have to negotiate over the prices, Washington works beau ...
• 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 ...

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

• America- The Bipolar Tween of the World
  An American’s POV By Milenova Matseva,WWH/CJE-The past weeks I have shown some Europeans’ viewpoints on The States and its ups and downs. Today we sit with an American to tackle an issue which may or may not have a simple solution. The ability of Americans to control their emotions or the so cal ...
• Life Is Sacred
  By Chris Hedges,truthdig – I retreat in the summer to the mountains and coasts of Maine and New Hampshire to sever myself from the intrusion of the industrial world. It is in the woods and along the rugged Atlantic coastline, the surf thundering into the jagged rocks, that I am reminded of ...
• WWH/CJE Thursday News Briefs
  EVIDENCE OF WIDER US WATERBOARDING and other nasty stuff CAIRO (AP) — Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the United States, in a report Thursday that details further brutal ...
• Mom Says,Thin Lizzy Singer Would Have Objected ...
  From The Hot Press Newsdesk - Philomena Lynott, mother of the late Irish rocker Philip Lynott, says Philip would not support anti-gay policies. Philomena Lynott has reacted strongly against the use of her son Philip Lynott’s music by the Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney’s camp, ...
• The Collapse of Capitalism, Part One: Planned ...
  Over the next four days, WWH will be re-posting Phils series “The Collapse of Capitalism”. The response to this series was amazing. So, if you haven’t read it yet, enjoy. And if you have. Read it again. It’s Phil Polizatto at his best.   The Collapse of Capitalism -  ...

reference frame

• Science debate, 14 questions: Romney beats Obama
  Some people wanted American politicians to explicitly address scientific questions. Whether it's important or not, the project has become a reality. Your humble correspondent and Slate are among those (see Google News for media reactions) who think that judging by the answers, Romn ...
• 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Ax murderers pardon stirs fears of war
  Source: I know a very similar thread was posted already () but thought it warranted another thread about how this scandal could spark a regional (or possibly global) conflict…. AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys(Band) Has Muc ...
• Accused in fatal Quebec election night shootin ...
  The alleged gunman in the Quebec election night shooting that left one man dead and another wounded during the Parti Québécois victory rally earlier this week was formally charged today with first-degree murder and 15 other offences. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Suspect in fatal ...
• Judicial Murder Prompts Surprise Royal Visit
  Royal Family Announces Surprise Canadian Visit in Wake of Judicial Murder The Canadian media announced, today, that Queen Elizabeth has ordered Prince Edward to pay a surprise “working visit” to Canada in the week of September 11, 2012.The annoncement fo ...
• Chuck Baldwin’s Warning to Ron Paul
  Chuck calls Ron Paul, the greatest congressman in us history, but warns if he endorses Mitt Romney, it will be the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off, detrimenting to the heart of the whole movement! www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv twitter.com www.facebook.com [Check out Alex’s Ne ...
• Sadists in Costumes Police the Streets of America
  from Silver Vigilante: The United States is becoming day-by-day a stranger and wackier place. The population is being filled with pills that create psychosis, vaccinations that create disease, and foods that create illness. Americans are literally eating Americans in hallucinatory zombie episode ...

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
• 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
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• 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

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

• Grading Cuomo, on the first day of school
• Bloomberg administration promises to come to t ...
• 'Was she hot?': Jeans commercials, from Brooke ...
• A record of the last, awful moments of Lamin S ...
• Fall Preview 2012: Dance music

Views & News from Norway

• A-ha wins royal honours
  The members of Norway’s most internationally successful rock band, a-ha, have been informed they’ll be receiving one of their country’s highest royal decorations for their contribution to Norwegian music. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that a-ha members Morten Harket, Ma ...
• Murder suspects held in isolation
  The Oslo City Court has ordered two men charged in the murder of 16-year-old Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne to be held in prison for at least the next four weeks, the first two in full isolation. Police now believe the teenager was intentionally run down by a car driven by one of the suspects. &#82 ...
• Survivor assumes top advisory post
  At age 24, Tonje Brenna has become the youngest person ever to work as a top aide to a Norwegian prime minister. She started her new job as political adviser for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg after the summer holidays, and many predict a bright future for the survivor of last year’s mass ...
• Fewer foreign tourists check in
  Norwegian hotel operators suffered a noticeable decline in their number of overnight guests from several European countries this summer, including some that traditionally have played a major role in the tourism market. One hotel in particular is struggling to win back visitors after last year&#8 ...
• Border trade rises again
  More Norwegians are heading across the border to do their shopping than ever before. New figures from the state statistics bureau SSB shows that Norwegians have spent NOK 11.7 billion in Sweden during the past year, a 9 percent increase from the year before. The number of day trips made over the ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Vandana Shiva and Geoff Lawton Talk Together A ...
  Regular readers will know we are doing what we can to support Vandana Shiva’s "Occupy the Seed" campaign, running between 2 — 16 October, 2012. This worthy "Seed Freedom Fortnight of Action" is a call to respect and liberate the world’s seeds and to maximise ...
• Perennial Food Plants, Food Forest Gardens, an ...
  This article and research proposal were initially inspired by reading Eric Toensmeier’s article User-Generated Food Forest Resource is Online, encouraging food forest gardeners to contribute to this expanding database, and the discussion ensuing from Angelo Eliade’s article on Peren ...
• Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course o ...
  phanganearthworks is stoked to announce another two-week Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course with internationally acclaimed teacher Rhamis Kent, to take place… 22 October – 3 November, 2012 11 February – 23 February, 2013 …on our property on Phangan Island, ...
• 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 ...

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 ...
  Today I was talking at length with a Farmer of 4,000 acres in the Southern Central Valley of California. I was there on business and while the Farmer watched me, he happened to mention Chemtrails. I was amazed that he brought up the topic and more amazed to discover that he was well along his ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
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• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
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• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Looks like Deanna has discontinued the other chatroom and set up a new one, so she can actually be the moderator. The new chatroom is: http://spingola.chatango.com/Statistics: Posted by Amanda — Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:41 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I am endorsing the scientist because he is apparently accredited. The interviewer, however, is pushing another agenda to delve into soft-headed areas like New Age mysticism. What he means by "beyond chemtrails" is really Project Camelot, psyops and, dare I say, Kikes. No great loss ...

TVNZ

• At least 39 dead as migrant boat sinks off Turkey
  A boat carrying illegal migrants has sunk off Turkey's coast, leaving at least 39 people dead and many more missing.
• Girl hid under bodies after French Alps shootings
  A four-year-old British girl spent hours cowering among the bodies of three adults.
• Aid workers face expulsion over Bin Laden search
  Pakistan is expelling staff of the Save the Children aid group, an agency official said today.
• Russians defend Iran against nuclear weapon ac ...
  Russia sees no evidence that Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at developing weapons, the Interfax news agency has quoted deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying
• Michelle Obama wins presidential reviews for D ...
  Michelle Obama sent TV viewing figures soaring after an emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention.

environment 360

• Destruction of Tropical Forests Reduces Region ...
  A new study has found that destruction of the world’s tropical forests may significantly reduce regional rainfall across large regions, a phenomenon researchers say could have devastating effects for people living in and around the Amazon and Congo basins. Using satellite observations of rainfa ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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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 ...
• Relax Canada, it’s just democracy
  By Montreal Simon On a sunny afternoon, in my favourite Montreal neighbourhood, both the Quebec election and the hysterical reaction in English Canada, seemed very far away. Which was a good thing eh? Because following the election campaign from Toronto and a beach in Maine has been very exhaust ...
• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• Watch Out: The Jobs Number is Deceptive
  The August nonfarm payroll report, released Friday morning, will be spun by both campaigns. But, as Alex Klein writes, it’s already fails to capture our real unemployment woes.
• A Poignant Reminder About Jerusalem
  Sometimes what can be forgotten in all the back and forth about the Democratic platform and the absent then re-inserted language recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital is that there are real flesh-and-blood people involved on the ground there. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) offered a reminder ...
• Will the Economy Doom Obama?
  At a breakfast for business leaders, real estate entrepreneur Barry Sternlicht talks politics and the economy with Newsweek/Daily Beast writers Niall Ferguson, Megan McArdle, and Daniel Gross.
• Kicking Biden to the Curb
  He’s been given a lesser spot in the lineup. The networks are barely covering him. And the GOP is in his face. Michelle Cottle on the veep’s bumpy convention.
• What's This Jerusalem Flap All About?
  Since we've spent more than a full day now discussing a line in a policy platform that, as history shows, bears no relationship to reality, perhaps it's worth discussing what it's all about. What made the Democratic Party—nay, the President of the United States take the unusal ste ...

Loonwatch

• The EDL’s ‘fascist end-goal’
  We have already drawn attention to the English Defence League's response to Warsi's appointment (see above). However, it's also worth checking out the comments that followed this official post on the EDL's Facebook page.
• Senior Islamic cleric defends Christian girl: ...
  The Christian girl who was allegedly framed for blasphemy by her local mullah was hailed as a ''daughter of the nation'' by one of Pakistan's most senior Islamic clerics.
• French actor’s anti-Muslim tweets
  Véronique Genest, star of a French TV series claims Islam is a threat to democracy and claims it is a historical fact that Muslims are allies of Nazis.
• Dispatch International: CounterJihad Publishes ...
  The "Counterjihad" movement launches a newspaper in Europe.
• EDL gang in court over Leeds pub attack
  A gang of English Defence League supporters caused terror when they attacked a pub as an anti-racism rock concert was being staged.

Energy News

• Sinkhole: Officials concerned gas has entered ...
• Japanese Professor: All the nuclear interests ...
• Yomiuri: Only farmer left in Fukushima town sh ...
• FRCSR Alert: Fukushima peaches on sale outside ...
• US Military starts registry for people develop ...

Japan Times

• Focus on longer-term JGBs raises yield risks
  Japanese institutional investors are more exposed than ever before to potential losses if interest rates rise, as Finance Minister Jun Azumi extends a decade-long campaign of increasing longer-term debt. The duration of Japan's securities, an estimate of how much prices will change when yields ...
• Movie buffs in Sapporo get the chance to see c ...
  One of the promotional gambits used by the Sapporo International Short Film Festival (SSF), which takes place Sept. 12-17, is that people who see short films for the first time are often surprised by their reaction. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short as "an origina ...
• Iconic baseball cartoon to turn cricket in India
  The famous TV cartoon series "Kyojin no Hoshi" ("Star of the Giants") is to be adapted for modern-day India, but will be based around cricket, the country's dominant sport, instead of baseball. The new series will be jointly produced by Japanese and Indian animation studios and aired from late ...
• Sharp puts up properties in bid to secure fres ...
  Struggling Sharp Corp. said Thursday it has put up some of its properties, including its Osaka headquarters and flagship Kameyama plant in Mie Prefecture, as collateral for ¥150 billion in fresh bank loans, confirming earlier news reports. The move underlines the deteriorating finances of ...
• BOJ briefs foreign execs in English
  The Bank of Japan has started briefing sessions for foreign businesspeople in Japan on its economic outlook and monetary policy. Hoping to promote understanding of the economy and the BOJ, officials have been holding briefings at the chambers of commerce of the United States, Canada and Britai ...

Alexander Higgins

• Obama Is Officially Bragging About Cracking Do ...
  Obama is bragging about using the Espionage Act twice as many as all other administrations combined to prosecute those who revealed CIA torture and other government crimes.
• Cargill And Others Behind Anti-Organic Stanfor ...
  Stanford's easily debunked anti-organic 'study' is not news, rather, coordinated propaganda campaign funded by Wall Street and Fortune 500 companies.
• Nowhere To Hide: Secret Agency Launching Total ...
  America’s secretive spy satellite agency is developing a massive computer automated satellite array system to conduct simultaneous surveillance across the globe.
• Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Cen ...
  Amber Lyon: I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.
• Sleeping With the Devil: How U.S. and Saudi Ba ...
  Hidden History - The US and Saudi backing of Islamic Jihadists, which continues today, created Bin Laden and is responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks.

Macleans - Central

• The increasingly inexact science of polls
  Peter Loewen considers the recent failures of political polling. The problem is not with...
• I see it now. The NDP would destroy everything.
  Paul Wells on the latest Conservative strategizing
• Back-to-school request: Teach the kids to code
  It's one of the key languages we use to communicate. Yet, most of us are illiterate.
• ‘Now more than ever, Canadians are count ...
  The prepared text of Thomas Mulcair’s remarks in St. John’s this morning at the...
• Spank ‘em if you got ‘em
  Whatever the Canadian Medical Association Journal says, Rob Nicholson isn’t interested in banning spanking....

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

• Ethiopia’s opportunity: a new day beckons
  Graham Peebles argues that the death of Ethiopia's dictatorial prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provides a golden opportunity for the country to embark on the long delayed journey to reunite its fragmented communities, restore human dignity and establish democracy and human rights.
• Israel says "Rachel made me do it"
  Lawrence Davidson argues that behind the Israeli court ruling that Rachel Corrie, the US peace activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home, lies a culture of pathological racism that considers all Palestinians and th ...
• 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.

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 ...
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  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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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

• Kucinich Calls For Bold Action to Create Jobs
  As Members of the Democratic Party converge in Charlotte, North Carolina, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for bold action to create jobs. “Later this week President Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for President at the Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, North Carol ...
• 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 ...

Authentically Wired

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    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 ...
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  …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 )

• An interview with conservation writer David Qu ...
  David Quammen has done consistent and conscientious reporting from the trenches of ecological and evolutionary research for over thirty years now. Few in the world can claim as intimate and broad an understanding of conservation biology as he can. His books such as The Song of the Dodo and Mons ...
• WWF: Asia Pulp & Paper misleads public about i ...
  Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups including WWF-Indonesia. The report, t ...
• The dark side of new species discovery
  Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
• 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 ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Business 'lethargic' about world collaboration ...
  New Zealand's role in the biggest scientific discovery in decades shows what can happen when kiwis get involved in international collaborations, says a leading physicist.Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher in Switzerland...
• Sue Kedgley: Beware GM heavyweights visiting N ...
  Some of the leading figures in the global campaign to get genetically modified crops accepted around the world, have been in New Zealand this week.They were keynote speakers at the International Conference for Agricultural Biotechnology,...
• DNA encyclopaedia shows complex inner workings
  A colossal international effort has yielded the first comprehensive look at how our DNA works, an encyclopaedia of information that will rewrite the textbooks and offer new insights into the biology of disease.For one thing, it...
• Editorial: Global GE use should spur a rethink ...
  Genetic engineering of food crops appears to have largely disappeared from public concern since the Environmental Risk Management Authority was set up a decade ago. It is hard to know whether the disappearance of the issue is because...
• Evolution pushed women to become grandmothers: ...
  How come women in their 50s stop having babies? And could it be that the increasing number of older mothers is evidence that evolution is working in reverse and menopause is now coming later rather than sooner?Research from Britain's...

The Bovine

• Pushing FDA to go after small farmers
  From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “The Center for Food Safety has filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its alleged failure to enforce the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). You may remember the FSMA–it’s the contentious law … ...
• How Stanford study sells organics short
  From Tom Philpott, in Mother Jones: “Is organic food little more than a trumped-up marketing scheme, another way for affluent consumers to waste money? A just-released paper by Stanford University researchers—and the reaction to it by the media—suggests as much. … Continue reading &# ...
• FDA approved GMO foods in spite of death, and ...
  From the Alliance for Bio-Integrity: A. Introduction In May 1998 the Alliance for Bio-Integrity led a group of public interest organizations, life scientists, and religious leaders in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to gain … Continue reading →
• CCF litigation director Karen Selick writes to ...
  This letter was sent to the CFIA on August 31st on Montana Jones’ account, by her lawyer, Karen Selick, litigation director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation. As of Sept 5, no answer has yet been received. Inspector Duane Boyd attended at … Continue reading →
• 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• New York State Employment Situation in Graph Form
  With jobs data coming out tomorrow, let's take a look at the current situation in New York, the country's second most populous state. Here is a chart courtesy of Tim Wallace. New York State Employment Situation click on chart for sharper image The chart shows second q ...
• Unlimited Bond Buying "With Strings"; Mario Dr ...
  This post inspired by reader Mark who suggested ECB president Mario Draghi looks likes like Randall from Monsters Inc. Inquiring minds seeking a humorous time-out from economic news might be interested, so here are some comparative images that I found. Meet Randall from Monsters Inc. ...
• August Services ISM +53.7; All News Good News
  The Non-Manufacturing ISM for August came in positive one again showing a clear divergence between manufacturing and services. IndexAugustJulyChangeDirectionRate of ChangeTrend in Months NMI™53.752.6+1.1GrowingFaster32 Business Activity55.657.2-1.6GrowingSlower37 New Orders53.754.3- ...
• Attention JP Morgan Chase Customers and Credit ...
  Attention JP Morgan Chase customers and those with Chase Credit cards. You have a splendid opportunity at zero cost to raise as much as $250,000 for the charity of your choice. All you have to do is login to your account online and vote for the charity of your choice. Voting is open only ...
• Australia Department Store Sales Slump 10.2 Pe ...
  Interest rates cuts that helped boost retail sales in Australia over the past two months have already worn off. Economists expected a further rise in sales this month only to see a seasonally adjusted .8% decline. Now Retailers want RBA action as sales dive Retailers hope the biggest mo ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 31, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The EyeOpener- Milk Wars: The Latest Battlefro ...
  For centuries, the image of the family farmer has been as iconic a piece of Americana as baseball and apple pie. Rugged and independent, the farmer still represents in the minds of many those true ideals of American individualism that the country was based on, with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 30, ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• The Rise of Police State & the Absence of Mass ...
  One of the most significant political developments in recent US history has been the virtually unchallenged rise of the police state. Despite the vast expansion of the police powers of the Executive Branch of government, the extraordinary growth of an entire panoply of repressive agencies, with ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Booker T & the MG’s- “Green Onions” Tonight’s BFP/Jamiol pick for Soothing the Beast is Booker T & the MG’s Green Onions. It is one of my all time favorite songs. This is one of the bands earlier performances from 1967 in Oslo, Norway. Booker T and the MG’s set the tone for ...

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

• Inside the Amazing Estonian Maritime Museum
  This summer I had the opportunity to take a day trip to the wonderful Capital city of Tallinn, Estonia. While I have been to the city many times before, this [...]
• Leading Car Carrier Operators Raided by Japan ...
  (Bloomberg) — Japan’s antitrust regulator raided the offices of five shipping lines, including Nippon Yusen K.K. and Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA, that control about 70 percent of the global market for [...]
• Brazil Court Allows Chevron Exec to Leave Country
  RIO DE JANEIRO–A federal court in Brazil will allow one of the executives charged in a criminal lawsuit related to a November spill at an offshore oil field operated by U.S. major Chevron [...]
• Captain of U.S.-Flagged Ocean Atlas Held in Ve ...
  The American Captain of the U.S.-flagged heavy-lift carrier MV Ocean Atlas has been detained by Venezuelan authorities amid an alleged weapons smuggling investigation, gCaptain sources have confirmed. According to our [...]
• Will Watson Named Advanfort President
  The AdvanFort Company today announced that maritime professional William Hughes (Will) Watson has joined the company as president. Will comes to AdvanFort from the Office of the Maritime Administrator of [...]

Press TV

• Israel cabinet urge limited Iran sessions
  Israeli ministers have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to limit the number of cabinet members attending sensitive sessions on Iran after details about disagreement between intelligence services over Iran were leaked to the media.
• ‘Shia elites, new targets in Pakistan’
  The massacre of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, which has grown in quantity and become more focused, is aimed at ‘smashing the pillars of the Pakistani society to smithereens,’ a prominent analyst says.
• Spaniards slam govt. economic policies
  Spaniards have taken to the streets in the capital Madrid to voice their anger at Germany's role in blocking moves to share European sovereign debt.
• ‘US lost war to Iran in NAM summit’
  An Iranian lawmaker says the United States has lost the political competition over hosting the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to Iran.
• OECD slashes UK econ. growth forecast
  The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has downgraded its outlook for the UK’s economic growth as it predicts a 0.7 percent fall in 2012, compared with its previous prediction of a rise of 0.5 percent.

SciDev.net

• Africa Analysis: Kenya's ICT lab is just the b ...
  IBM's choice of Kenya for its African research lab is not the end of private sector tech investment for other countries, says Linda Nordling.
• Deforestation reduces rainfall in tropics, say ...
  Scientists predict that, unless Amazon and Congo deforestation is checked, rainfall rates in the region could plummet.
• Conflicting reports highlight scientific data ...
  A WHO study that blames arsenic for rising levels of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka is in conflict with another report that points to poor quality drinking water, report Dilrukshi Handunnetti and Smriti Daniel.
• Syrian conflict forces research institute to r ...
  The headquarters of a major agricultural research institute, ICARDA, has left Syria after armed gangs attacked its Aleppo base.
• Asia 'will be hit hard by drought in 2020s'
  Drought will have a severe impact on Asian agriculture in the next decade, and policymakers must take action now, a report warns.

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

• Robotic router
  Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
• Flexible batteries
  One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
• Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
  Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
• Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
  A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
• Nanoparticles poison soil
  Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

Nick Turse

• msnbc:From Lean Forward:If you hung around ...
  msnbc: From Lean Forward: If you hung around the lower 48 U.S. states this July then this news likely won’t surprise you. It was the hottest month on record with an average temperature of 77.6 degrees, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That’s 3.3 degrees ...
• SUBWAY PASSENGERS ABOARD A NEW YORK CITY TRANS ...
  SUBWAY PASSENGERS ABOARD A NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY CAR ON THE LEXINGTON AVENUE LINE ARE OBLIVIOUS TO THE GRAFFITI SCRAWLED ON THE WALLS: 07/1974
• fastcompany:Before you click to enlarge, do ...
  fastcompany: Before you click to enlarge, do you think the US is in the top 10? The Best And Worst Places In The World To Be A Woman This infographic crunches data on maternal health, economic status, education, contraception use, and other factors to show where women are doing well and wh ...
• In the Shadow of Wounded KneeAfter 150 years ...
  In the Shadow of Wounded Knee After 150 years of broken promises, the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota are nurturing their tribal customs, language, and beliefs. A rare, intimate portrait shows their resilience in the face of hardship.  Almost every ...
• nwkarchivist:On This Date In 1963: ‘On The M ...
  nwkarchivist: On This Date In 1963: ‘On The March’ For Civil Rights! From across the nation they were coming, in black and white, in twos and threes and scores and hundreds, in cars and buses and trains and chartered jets… Newsweek September 2, 1963

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