Short Sharp Science
- Catcher of elusive neutrinos takes shape at Fe ...Huge plastic blocks were being set in place this week to help catch some of the most elusive, mysterious particles known
- Today on New Scientist: 7 September 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Armadillo heads for space, the roof that defies gravity, the origins of racism, and more
- Armadillo's first space trip may speed commerc ...Step aside SpaceX and Virgin Galactic: this launch will be a sign that a genuine diversity of operators is emerging, which has long been the promise of commercial spaceflight
- Today on New Scientist: 6 September 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: a breakthrough on so-called "junk" DNA, the Dawn probe's asteroid hop, the sprinting robot that's faster than Usain Bolt, and more
- Dawn departs Vesta to become first asteroid hopperNASA's Dawn probe is departing the asteroid Vesta to visit the asteroid-cum-dwarf-planet Ceres, a "hop" that could pave the way for space refuelling stations or crewed asteroid missions
Tech Drive In
- Chrome Overtakes IE to become the World's Most ...The sheer pace of changes in world of technology sometimes scares me. Four years ago, Google Chrome was a nobody. After the initial surge, which helped Chrome gain nearly 1% market share quickly in the fiercely competitive browser market, things went down a bit and everyone was busy writing aw ...
- Slow or Erratic Wi-Fi in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Try ...Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Wi-Fi connection has become a pain in the neck. In my laptop, though the network-manager detects my router and easily connects to it through Wi-Fi, internet connection itself was really slow and erratic. On the other hand, Wi-Fi connection itself star ...
- Reditr - A Brilliant New Reddit Client for Des ...Reddit clients for Android already exists in every size and shape. But things are a little bit different for desktops, especially Linux desktops. A few Reddit apps popped up during Ubuntu App Showdown contest, but even those were not good enough. Looks like Reditr, a new Reddit client for Linu ...
- Google Not Only Uses Goobuntu, It Actually is ...Rumors about the use of Ubuntu inside Google is not new. Some say Google has their own version of Ubuntu called Goobuntu and they have it deployed in large numbers inside Google campuses. All such rumors can finally be laid to rest. Thomas Bushnell, the tech lead of the group that distrib ...
- 20 Most Exciting Linux Games for 2012In terms of stability and flexibility, Linux blew away its proprietary counterparts a long time ago. What it sorely lacks is developer interest, especially in the gaming department. But there are signs of a major revival. To the delight of Linux gaming enthusiasts, EA started publishing games ...
Case About Bird Flu
- The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
- Stronach’s new “false flag” ...You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
- Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...At a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
- FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...*Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
- Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
Invisible Opportunity
- Be Smart as PaintBy Visible …Oh the frost is on the pumpkin and the aft has gone agley, come you back, you British soldiers to the swamps of Mandalay, where the Chinese Checkers gamers, have Clint Eastwood thinking that he is Dr. Seuss and the dawn comes up like thunder on your iPod, cheek to cheek. Was th ...
- New 9/11 truth documentary among ‘most w ...By Victoria N. Alexander “9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out” is getting public attention and casting doubt on the scientific validity of the U.S. government’s investigation into the WTC tragedy. PBS is the first major network to air the program. Just days away ...
- Nestlé Exec Says: GMOs Are Unnecessary, But Ou ...by Annie Urban Has Nestlé been caught in a contradiction? According to Take Part, they have. Nestlé USA has donated more than $1 million dollars to the “Say No to 37″ campaign, fighting against the proposed labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in California. Then, seemingly out of l ...
- World’s richest woman lauds $2-a-day wagesBy Martha C. White, NBC News contributor An Australian mining heiress who courted controversy last month for suggesting her countrymen were just too lazy to be rich is at it again. Gina Rinehart, thought to be the world’s richest woman, chastised miners for being “too expensive,” saying, “ ...
- SRS nuclear growth “biological,” b ...By Rob Pavey A mysterious, cobweblike growth with a fondness for Savannah River Site’s spent nuclear fuel has been identified – but not formally named. A mysterious, cobweblike growth at Savannah River Site first observed in October has been identified but not given a name. “We did a genetic ana ...
Veterans Today
- Vietnam Vet Leaves This World – To Live ...- Mike Garnier - One of the big things in my life was to try to make a living at something that I liked...on that I didn't sell out on.
- Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Sept ...Stafford County resident Mike Curry drove to Chancellor High School on Aug. 24, looking forward to an evening of high school football featuring one of his grandsons on the visiting Riverbend team.
- Misplaced Hate From The LeftThis past week has come and gone and what a week it was following on the heels of the Republican National Convention.
- Israel relationship with US damaged beyond rep ...- The real loss to Israel will be the “special relationship” with the United States which may have been damaged beyond repair
- Press TV: Special Ops con, imaginary warfare a ...Special Ops con, imaginary warfare and non-existent enemies By Gordon Duff and Press TV With an election book by a SEAL, real or imaginary, out now, it is time for an honest discussion of “Special Operations” from someone who has actually sat through “mission planning” sessions in ...
electric politics
- Another Take on American DivisionsStipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...
- American DivisionsBill Schneider says that the U.S. is more politically divided today than it has been at any time since the Civil War. I think he's right. Which is not to say that compromise is the ticket. Instead, I'd like to see some brains reclaimed by reason from among those who want His Almightiness to run ...
- Billionaires vs. ScienceSociopath billionaires. They cause a ton of trouble across the board but the very worst thing they do is to deny global warming. They should, in my view, be thrown in jail for subverting science. Because, however, we don't have laws yet against scientific malpractice the next best thing, the onl ...
- Dictatorship By FilibusterGiven the filibuster, forty one percent of the U.S. Senate can block any vote they don't like. Thus, a minority of reactionary right wing Senators gets to kill a lot of worthy legislation. In recent years abuse of the filibuster has become increasingly intolerable; even ordinary Senate business ...
- ContactIt stands to reason, though remains as yet unproven, that advanced civilizations exist elsewhere in our galaxy, in other galaxies, and indeed throughout the entire universe. The prudent thing is to plan ahead for contact, not to wait until we know for sure. But it's complicated. To get a sense o ...
PR News
- IRS, NIH renew pacts with OgilvyWASHINGTON: Both the Internal Revenue Service and the National Institutes of Health have re-signed contracts with Ogilvy to promote federal initiatives.
- Butler Manufacturing hires Bader Rutter as AORMILWAUKEE: Butler Manufacturing has selected Bader Rutter & Associates as AOR.
- Former PR Newswire exec launches own agencyBROOKLYN, NY: Former PR Newswire manager Jonathan Evans has launched his own PR agency, called Evans Brooklyn, specializing in media relations, content creation, and marketing.
- Pharma shows it has changed for the post-block ...Major pharmaceutical companies and healthcare comms experts want audiences to know that the state of the industry is more complex than bleak.
- J&J's McNeil begins RFP process for Tylenol fr ...FORT WASHINGTON, PA: Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare business has issued an RFP for consumer PR work for its Tylenol franchise.
A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation
- Leaving AfghanistanSeven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
- Raging at RawalpindiAmerican leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
- The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest WarAn FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
- Crazy Like a FoxIn a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
- Addicted to ContractorsThe United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
Field Notes - Alberta Environment
- Volunteer Opportunities with the Nature Conser ...Position: Conservation volunteers Organization: Nature Conservancy of Canada ...
- Stand up for Canada's National ParksJasper Environmental Association CPAWS Northern Alberta 7 Sep 2012 - 12:00 - 16:00 In spite of recent announcements of new parks being cre ...
- Job Opportunity: Regional Monitoring Coordinat ...Position: Regional Monitoring Coordinator Organization: Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute ...
- Job Opportunity: Public Program Coordinator, C ...Position: Public Program Coordinator Organization: City of Calgary Water Resources/Residential Programs ...
- Help protect Canada's national parks!CPAWS - Northern Alberta Chapter Jasper Environmental Association 7 Sep 2012 - 12:00 - 16:00 We invite you to take part in a public demons ...
Stop NATO
- Global Balance Of Power: U.S.’s Strategi ...The Nation September 9, 2012 USA – managing China’s rise By Imran Malik* ==== The USA’s strategic moves do indicate an emerging crescent of containment around China. It ranges from Afghanistan in the west to Arunachal Pradesh on the Sino-India border in the Himalayas in the centre and onto ...
- Byron: War cuts up not only branch, but root==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Byron: War did glut himself again, all earth was but one thought – and that was death Stendhal and Byron: Military leprosy; fronts of brass and feet of clay ==== George Gordon Byron From Don Juan “Let there be Light! sa ...
- Interview: Global U.S. Drone Warfare Sees Dang ...Press TV September 7, 2012 ‘Global US drone warfare sees dangerous expansion’ AUDIO The recent spate of U.S. drone attacks inside Yemen signals a deadly expansion of drone warfare around the world by the U.S., says Rick Rozoff, manager of the organization Stop NATO in Chicago. “The steady and br ...
- Cesare Pavese: Every war is a civil warAnti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Cesare Pavese From The House of the Hill (Prima che il gallo canti) (1949) Translated by R. W. Flynt But I have seen the unknown dead, those little men of the Republic. It was they who woke me up. If a stranger, an enemy, becomes a thin ...
- Kosovo: West Obstructs Trial Over Murder-For-O ...Strategic Culture Foundation September 7, 2012 Trial over Human Organs Business in Kosovo Pyotr Iskenerov ==== Evidence in the case being absolutely convincing, chances are still slim that the trial held in Pristina and supervised by the EU would help Serbia or Kosovo Serbs some day see justice ...
Before It's News
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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- Eats on Feets
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Intel Hub
- They Live: The Matrix is Realtheintelhub.com | David Icke breaks down the full control of the internet in China and other control structures in the world as they relate to "They Live".
- Rising Food Prices Continue to Climb, with Pri ...theintelhub.com | Costs have gone up 10 percent between June and July alone, with corn, soybeans, and wheat reaching record prices.
- Iraq, Annunaki & Pearl HarborDean Henderson | The process of stealing Iraq’s oil began when the Illuminati bankers baited Saddam Hussein into invading Iran. While Saddam was preoccupied with the Iranians, the puppet Kuwaiti government busied itself slowly moving its long-disputed border with Iraq northward into the are ...
- Mystery Hum Blamed on Fishtheintelhub.com | SEATTLE — Mechanized mystery hums have sounded out in random parts of the US over the last year and a half.
- Police Exempt From Red-Light CamerasDemocrat and Chronicle September 8, 2012 Over the past 18 months, city of Rochester employees have committed at least 119 red light violations while driving city vehicles, records show. But while employees can be disciplined for the violation, “payment of the related fine will not be required,” ...
FRS
- Nepal: New Maoist party discussing options in ...Baidya party threatens to take up arms for power KAMAL DEV BHATTARAI, The Kathmandu Post KATHMANDU, SEP 05 – CPN-Maoist Chairman Mohan Baidya on Wednesday threatened to take up weapons to come into power if his party fails to achieve its goals through peaceful means. The party has a standi ...
- Denouncing the “Snitch Jacketing” ...
- Historian challenges exaggerated claims and tw ...Countering Subversion– Black Panther Scholarship, Popular History, and the Richard Aoki Controversy By Donna Jean Murch, October 2012 issue of Perspectives on History, American Historical Review Starting early Monday morning, August 20, with a barrage of texts, emails, and Facebook posting ...
- Book Exposes Violent Role of Paramilitaries in ...By Judith Scherr, Inter Press Service OAKLAND, California, Aug 16 2012 (IPS) – Haiti’s brutal army was disbanded in 1995, yet armed and uniformed paramilitaries, with no government affiliation, occupy former army bases today. President Michel Martelly, who has promised to restore the army, ...
- Nepal: Chairman of the CPN-Maoist on the persp ...( Interview with Comrade Kiran) 1. International 1.1 How do you evaluate present international situation? Electronic communication and information technology ha developed significantly since some decades. It is a qualitative progress in the sector of productive force. But, the hegemony of imp ...
Ken O'Keefe
- Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
- Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
- Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
- Interview with Mark Glenn on ‘The Ugly T ...We shall discuss this and more; “When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their alta ...
- Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption &# ...Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by ...
StillSmallVoice
- Life is change and change is lifeAnd here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
- Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
- De-pinkifying breast cancerThere's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
- Why the occupation?You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
- Cleansing after Yom KippurYom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
Associated Content
- Social Security's Need for Bullets Odd but LogicalSocial Security Administration's need for ammunition starts rumors and provides an opportunity for giving information to the public.Contributor: Susan Graybeal Published: Sep 04, 2012
- Obama Shows Good Tactics by Openly Supporting ...As the Democratic National Convention is set to begin the president has chosen to confirm his support for health care reform. To win, Obama must stick to firm policy while highlighting that the Republicans have provided no details for their own policies.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 03 ...
- Furor Over SEAL Bin Laden Mission Highlights H ...A Navy SEAL who was part of the mission that ended the life of al Quada terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has written a book, "No Easy Day," of his team's exploits. While critics and admirers abound, who remains silent speaks volumes.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 03, 2012
- Mr. President, Sometimes Older Ideas are BetterOne of the more irritating lines coming out of the Democratic Party is the notion that their opponents, the Republicans, advocate ancient and therefore obsolete ideas from the past that have outlived their usefulness on the modern world.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Sep 03, 2012
- Harvard Cheating Scandal Makes Case Against Ho ...I have begun teaching my first Advanced Placement classes this fall, presiding over three sections of AP Microeconomics. The high school seniors in my classes will be heading to college next fall. Advice given to me? Don't take homework for a grade.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Aug 31, 2012
Popsci - Science
- This Week In The Future, September 3-7, 2012Artificial lightning lashes the fastest robot in the world, as it reclines on its robotic carpet. That is this week in the future. Want to win this irresistible Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in the Futu ...
- Archive Gallery: PopSci Admires the PresidentsJefferson, Kennedy and some other guys Popular Science has seen 28 presidents (Grover Cleveland twice) since its founding in 1872. Though the magazine tries to stay out of politics, there were two presidents whose contributions to science earned them our special admiration: inventor Thomas Jeff ...
- Archive Gallery: PopSci's Favorite PresidentsJefferson, Kennedy and some other guys
- The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, S ...Okay, so that's not a real bear being arrested. But, in this week's image roundup, there is a very real and very adorable baby Tasmanian devil, plus gorgeous space pics, a book that collects every single color the human eye can perceive, a web of sensors that'll help you on dates, and much more ...
- Images of the Week, September 4-7, 2012
Veterans Today
- Vietnam Vet Leaves This World – To Live ...- Mike Garnier - One of the big things in my life was to try to make a living at something that I liked...on that I didn't sell out on.
- Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Sept ...Stafford County resident Mike Curry drove to Chancellor High School on Aug. 24, looking forward to an evening of high school football featuring one of his grandsons on the visiting Riverbend team.
- Misplaced Hate From The LeftThis past week has come and gone and what a week it was following on the heels of the Republican National Convention.
- Israel relationship with US damaged beyond rep ...- The real loss to Israel will be the “special relationship” with the United States which may have been damaged beyond repair
- Press TV: Special Ops con, imaginary warfare a ...Special Ops con, imaginary warfare and non-existent enemies By Gordon Duff and Press TV With an election book by a SEAL, real or imaginary, out now, it is time for an honest discussion of “Special Operations” from someone who has actually sat through “mission planning” sessions in ...
War is Business
- State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
- “Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
- 2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
- Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
- Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
Hudson's Weather & Climate
- Global temperature updateGlobal temperatures in August were 0.34C above the 30 year running average, according to the UAH satellite measure, showing a small increase on the previous month, shown below. It's the 3rd warmest August in this particular satellite data set which began in 1979. Using the more standard ...
- Summer 2012 - 2nd wettest on recordThe Met Office have said that summer 2012 will be the second wettest (summer is June, July and August combined for statistical purposes) on record across England and the UK as a whole, using rainfall data back to 1910. So far 367mm of rain has fallen, compared with 384mm which was recorded in ...
- Arctic sea ice now lowest on satellite recordThe extent of sea ice in the Arctic region has dropped sharply in the last few months. Only in April, Arctic sea ice had staged an impressive recovery and was close to the 1979-2012 average, reaching levels not seen in April for over 10 years. But yesterday, the National Snow and Ice data ce ...
- Jet stream set to spoil summer againAfter a fine and warm weekend across much of the country, temperatures today have reached 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Bridlington in East Yorkshire for the first time this summer - although similar values were reached in places for a time during late May. It's certainly come as a welcome relief af ...
- What's causing our extreme weather? Is it unpr ...The awful weather which continues to affect the UK led yesterday to the Great Yorkshire show being cancelled (because of the weather) for the first time in its 154 year history. And on Monday, serious flash flooding devastated parts of the Calder valley for the second time in as many weeks. ...
Internat'l Political Economy
- Patrice Lumumba Friendship University RevisitedYounger readers probably don't know what the USSR's Patrice Lumumba Friendship University was, so a short introduction is required. Having spent a while in Western academic circles, I can assure you that although many instructors have leftist sympathies--they know their Antonio Gramsci and Karl ...
- CSR: From 'Blood Diamonds' to 'Conflict Minerals'In 2006, there was a movie entitled "Blood Diamonds" starring Leonardo DiCaprio (before he became blubberized and American-sized) that brought popular attention to the titular cause. For those of you covering corporate social responsibility (CSR), the issues should be familiar: Repressive govern ...
- Peddling Geo-Influence: PRC/Cambodia, US/EgyptGeopolitics may have gone somewhat out of fashion after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but they've never become truly unfashionable. With the US nosediving in terms of global competitiveness and so many other things, various parts of the world are literally up for grabs to those displaying enough ...
- Thailand Still Dreams About an 'OPEC of Rice'I guess there are few truly novel ideas in international political economy. Since the formation of OPEC, developing nations have envied its perceived success in buoying oil prices. As such, there have been any number of cartels for other commodities which have been mooted or even made. Bauxite, ...
- Non-Alignment Reborn? Morsi, UN's Ban, etc in IranThe Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) came into existence at a time when developing countries could, yes, align themselves with either the United States and its allies or the Soviet Union and its allies. Even the United States--which dissuaded many countries from attending the 1955 Bandung Conference i ...
Economic Collapse Blog
- Are You Better Off? 40 Statistics That Will Ab ...Are you better off today than you were four years ago? This is a question that comes up nearly every election. This year the Romney campaign has even created a Twitter hashtag for it: #AreYouBetterOff. The Democrats are making lots of speeches claiming that we are better off, ...
- $83,046 For A 3 Hour Hospital Visit – Wh ...The fastest way to go broke in America is to go to the hospital. These days it seems like almost everyone has an outrageous hospital bill story to share. It is getting to the point where most people are deathly afraid to go to the hospital. All the financial progress that you ...
- Some Of The Really Bad Things That Could Happe ...Most people just assume that since things have always been a certain way that they will always be that way in the future. Most people just have blind faith that the people running our government and our financial system know exactly what they are doing and that they are doing th ...
- 18 Indications That Europe Has Become An Econo ...Summer vacation is over and things are about to get very interesting in Europe. Most Americans don't realize this, but much of Europe shuts down for the entire month of August. I wish we had something similar in the United States. But now millions of Europeans are returning fr ...
- Economic Failure: 58 Percent Of The Jobs Being ...Are you good at flipping burgers , waiting tables or stocking shelves? Are you proficient with a cash register? Do you enjoy doing mindless work for very low pay? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you are probably going to fit in very well in the new U.S. eco ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
- Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire ArmedDespite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
- July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
- Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For PapersJurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
- Break the Chains Blog Turns Six Years OldSince June 2006 to present day, the Break the Chains Blog (http://breakthechains.info) has published over 5,400 stories on government violence a...
- Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now availableGreetings! The Summer Fifth Estate has been delivered to us by our printer and we are in the process of mailing subscriptions and shipping bulk ...
E U Times
- Nicaragua Volcano Erups, Thousands EvacuatedThe Nicaraguan government plans on evacuating some 3,000 people from areas around Nicaragua’s San Cristobal volcano as it spewed out a column of ash and gas 5 km high into the air. Three powerful explosions emitting from the volcano were heard by residents in nearby villages on Saturday. “ ...
- Europe to Open Its Skies to Drones by 2016In an obscure working document, the European Commission has announced it is working on plans to open European civil airspace to unmanned drones by 2016. This follows the signing by President Obama earlier this year of the FAA Appropriations bill which mandated that US airspace must be opened to ...
- Tunisian migrant boat sinks near Italy, 50 deadAbout 50 illegal migrants, including women and children, have been feared dead after their boat sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. Italian rescue services said on Friday that search operation continued by the coastguard who had called on private vessels and teams to ...
- Feds seize gold coins worth $80 million from P ...A federal judge has upheld a verdict that strips a Pennsylvania family of their grandfather’s gold coins, worth an estimated $80 million, and has ordered ownership transferred to the US government. Judge Legrome Davis of the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a 2011 jury decision th ...
- Greeks take to streets in light of new budget cutsThousands have taken to the streets throughout Greece to protest the drastic budget cuts proposed by the government. In Athens some 2,000 pensioners marched through the city to protest newly introduced pension cuts. It was announced that those who earn more than 1,000 euros a month will have 10 ...
Voiceless Victim
- Heartless Hart at it AgainMelbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
- True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
- Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
- Vale John PironaJohn Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
- Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
WL Central
- 2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
- 2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
- 2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different DirectionsBy Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
- 2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
- 2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...
U N News
- UN-backed commission presents plan to fight im ...A United Nations-backed commission today presented a strategic work plan at the world body's Headquarters in New York outlining efforts to combat impunity in Guatemala and support the country's justice system.
- UN report urges joint action to ensure all ch ...Over 22 million boys, girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean are not in school or are at serious risk of dropping out, according to a new United Nations report, which calls for a joint effort across sectors to ensure that all children can complete their education.
- Many children in Guatemala still facing sexual ...In spite of protection measures by the Guatemalan Government, many children are still victims of sexual exploitation and forced labour, a United Nations independent expert warned today.
- In wake of Tropical Storm Isaac, UN steps up H ...Humanitarian efforts are underway in Haiti following the torrential rains and blustery winds that battered the country over the weekend as Tropical Storm Isaac swept across the nation, the United Nations said today.
- UN chief gathers with fellow alumni of Red Cro ...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday gathered in Washington, D. C. with friends he made half a century ago during their visit to the United States, which was organized by the American Red Cross and which inspired him to pursue a life of public service.
Conspiracy Reality TV
- Aurora Batman Shooting – Many CoincidencesThe trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
- CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
- The Magic WeedHemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
- Blood ColtanBlood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
- CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the StateSome state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Rewilding Institute
- Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...(September 4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
- Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
- Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...Natural History: the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango. It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
- The Politics of Climate ChangeOriginally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change. We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels. Whoever controls ...
Asia Sentinel
- Favorite Eats: Carnevino Hong Kong• (http://twitter.com/share) The Mario Batali empire blossoms into three new restaurants in Hong Kong
- Give Up the Senkakus• (http://twitter.com/share) And pigs will fly. But still...
- The US and the Future: Middle East to Asia• (http://twitter.com/share) What will the next US President do, whoever he is?
- Asean Front and Center• (http://twitter.com/share) From talking-shop to crucible of big-power politics, maybe
- Malaysia's UMNO Goes After A Critic• (http://twitter.com/share) Never mind 150 million euros in bribes, a dead woman and a global scandal, go for the whistle-blower's throat
We Know the Lies
- August Jobs Report... Another LieNew jobs created for the month of August came in at 96,000. The experts estimated that number would be 140,000. So much for the experts. Related article read more
- QE3 Expected Next Week!... Excuse?... Disaster ...The fraudulent unemployment numbers continue to be reported, I cannot even feel sorry for anyone left out there that is too stupid to believe such blantant lies and propaganda. read more
- ‘Mind If I Violate Your 4th Amendment’?Brilliant (and hilarious) example of how to refuse an ID checkpoint. ~ Videos read more
- A Guide to 'No Comment' Police InterviewsBeing arrested isn’t a whole lot of fun but it’s a whole world away from doing time at her majesties pleasure, and one of the most important factors which can turn an arrest into a conviction is the police interview and how you handle it. read more
- Poisoned Horses – Fluoridation KillsThough many experts assert that water fluoridation is a harmless practice which is beneficial to a community’s dental health. ~ Video read more
Tarpley
- Romney’s Top Aide Mike Leavitt Implicate ...Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com September 6, 2012 [download audio]
- Romney, Obama Plot Shredding of Social Safety ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 5, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
- To Stop the Killing in Syria, Fulfill JFK̵ ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 23, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
- Profile of the Republicans: Wall Street’s Reac ...by Webster G. Tarpley PressTV August 24, 2012 Unless Hurricane Isaac interferes, the US Republican Party will convene next week in Tampa, Florida to nominate the Wall Street raider Mitt Romney for president of the United States. The Republican Party has been meeting every four years since 1856, ...
- Fascist-Style Threats from French Foreign Mini ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 17, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
Modern Survivalism
- Gold To $10,000Whether you are interested in gold and precious metals or not, you may be interested to watch and hear Greg Hunter’s (USAWatchdog.com) interview with Nick Barisheff, CEO of Bullion Management Group Inc. (bmginc.ca) in which I believe a very logical, and easy-to-grasp case is made as to why ...
- EMP WeaponsReported over a year ago in the Washington Times, “China’s military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers…” A redacted but now declassified report from the NGIC (National Ground Intelligence Center) reports on ...
- If You HAVE TO Bug-Out… and I mean……”HAVE TO” I’ve written about this before. This time though, think about this… If for some reason you had to bug-out, and you had no choice… let me repeat, “you had no choice”, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? and WHERE WOULD YOU GO? Instead of imagining a scena ...
- 5 Steps To Buy Boots That FitThe average shoe store does not stock a wide selection of hiking boots. You may have better success seeking out shops/stores catering to backpackers. Try on as many boots as necessary until you find a proper fit, which is snug enough to prevent your feet from moving inside (which is how blisters ...
- September Discount at Ready Reserve Foodsmsb-note From ReadyReserveFoods.com I just wanted to let you know that we are offering a 10% off of any order of $50 or more through the end of this month in honor of National Preparedness Month. We’ve also set up a Coupon code for Modern Survival Blog readers to use at checkout. Use code ...
Fast Company
- The 3 Steps To Getting Better At Breaking Bad NewsThe first step in giving tough feedback is checking our assumptions, says NineSigma Director Of Strategic Programs Denys Resnick. Watch to better understand an often painful process.
- Closer Look At Amazon’s New Kindle Serials: Pa ...When a slide showing eight book covers popped up in Jeff Bezos’s presentation on Thursday, Jennifer 8. Lee--who was following along on a live blog from New York City--gasped. The books are part of Amazon’s new Kindle Serials format, and she published three of them: Hacker Mom, The Many Lives of ...
- Bing Now Default Search Engine on Amazon's Kin ...Bing, Microsoft's search engine competitor to Google, hasn't quite made the dent in Google's market share that Redmond had hoped for. But as revealed this week, Microsoft may have just scored an important victory in helping to foster consumer awareness for its search service. Today, Amazon co ...
- This Week In Bots: The "Extreme Use" Of A Robo ...Bot Vid: Quadrocopters At Night We're used to seeing quadrocopters perform feats of aerial acrobatics or coordinated dances in a strictly controlled lab environment, where position sensors can give them precision location info. But swarming quadrocopters outside the lab is trickier, and also ...
- Age does not make a leader. Age does not make a leader. Attribution: Amber King, Marketing Executive & Commenter, "3 Ways To Become An Authoritative Leader, Even If You're Under 30"
Jadaliyya
- صور من كاميراهنا، في هذه المنطقة، في خضم الحماس الأوّلي، المؤكّد، الدائم. الذي يضع أجسادنا في اضطراب دائم (ومرحّب به)؛ من هذه اللحظات التي تتنوّع ما بين الحيرة، والخيبة، والنشوة، والرهبة، والإلهام ــ من هذه اللحظات فصاعداً، سنرى أنفسنا معروضين ونتخلّص من متاحف التقادم. وفي محاولة النهوض المطلقة الصدق، يعاد ت ...
- Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (August 2012)This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Egypt-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis a ...
- الأردن: بريق إخواني وعدائية سلفيةيشكل المسلمون 97 في المئة من عدد سكان الأردن البالغ عددهم، وفق أرجح الإحصائيات، ستة ملايين نسمة. يصفُ 90 في المئة منهم أنفسهم بـ "المتدينين" أو "المتديّنين إلى حدّ ما"، بحسب استطلاع أجراه مركز الدراسات الإستراتيجية في الجامعة الأردنية ضمن مشروع قياس الرأي العام العربي "ا ...
- Tunisian Media: Al-Nahda Tightens its Control Tunisia’s Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the ruling Islamist al-Nahda party, Hamadi Jebali, was invited to close a two-day event held in Tunis in May to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. In his speech, Jebali remarked upon the importance of a free press for a properly functioning democ ...
- What is to be Done: The Website as an Organize ...The Revolutionary Socialists Movement launched its new website on 7 August. The site represents a qualitative change in our propaganda work, but it also presents some major challenges to the membership of the movement as a whole and not only to the comrades in the media committee alone ...
mediagazer
- Meet Apple's Favorite Blogger (Business Week)Business Week: Meet Apple's Favorite Blogger — On a cold day in February, John Gruber traveled from his home in Philadelphia to New York City for a meeting. At a posh hotel near Central Park, the 39-year-old tech blogger was greeted by Phil Schiller, Apple's (AAPL) senio ...
- Newspaper restructuring - think steel, cars an ...Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Newspaper restructuring — think steel, cars and airlines — If there is a poster child for the “digital first” newspaper movement, it is probably Journal Register Co., which manages a chain of dailies and weeklies in the eastern U.S. Jo ...
- News orgs want journalists who are great at a ...Bill Grueskin / Nieman Journalism Lab: News orgs want journalists who are great at a few things, rather than good at many — Editor's Note: It's the start of the school year, which means students are returning to journalism programs around the country. As the media indust ...
- My Turn in Between the Readers and the Writers ...Margaret Sullivan / New York Times: My Turn in Between the Readers and the Writers — WHEN Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor, phoned to congratulate me on my appointment as public editor, he closed the call with a quip: “I look forward to you trashing me.” ...
- Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version (J ...Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version — If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming musi ...
Chemtrail News
- CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
- Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
- 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Videoprobably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
- ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
- Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTubeChemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
World News - Top Stories
- Obama launches Florida bus tour SEMINOLE, Fla. -- President Barack Obama kicked off a bus tour in battleground Florida on Saturday, urging voters to back his plan for economic recovery and reject Republican proposals that he says will give tax breaks to the wealthy, gut retiree benefits and put oil rigs offshore. Repeating ...
- Nissan rolls out Chinese brand's new mode ...BEIJING - Nissan Corp. has unveiled the second model from its new low-priced Chinese brand Venucia following what an executive said was a temporary dip in sales during anti-Japanese protests last month. The compact R50 hatchback will sell for as little as 67,800 yuan ($10,760), Nissan announ ...
- Russia rebuffs Clinton on Syria, Iran pen ...VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Russia on Saturday soundly rejected U.S. calls for increased pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to relinquish power. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to prod Moscow into supporting U.N. action to end the crisis in Syria and she expressed hope that ...
- Miley Cyrus rocks her new blond Mohawk wi ...Related topics Emma WatsonKaty PerryRihannaTaylor SwiftAtlanta fashion Atlanta style Advertisement In case you missed the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards that aired last Thursday September 6, here’s a recap of the hottest looks captured on the red carpet at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Califor ...
- Kim Kardashian appearance draws few fans Related topics Kim KardashianKUWTK Advertisement Kim Kardashian's appearance at Club Hush in Charlotte, North Carolina was kind of a bust. The reality star showed up, hoping to see tons of screaming fans but according to Radar Online, less than 50 people showed up to catch a glimpse of Kimmy ...
no frakking consensus
- Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...This blog will return in mid-September. In the meantime, here’s a video of a presentation I gave in Australia last month – and some thoughts on the bankruptcy of contemporary green analysis.
- Green Death Threats: ‘Change or Die’The key message of today's environmentalists is: Accept our worldview, submit to our solutions - or else. This is, let us be blunt, a death threat. It is the voice of an extortionist.
- US Official: ‘Activate Your Science’A senior public servant thinks scientists should be passionate, engaged activists.
- Delusions Down UnderConcerned about climate change, coral reef experts say they can predict the future with startling precision.
- The WWF’s Supermarket OffensiveThe World Wildlife Fund is reaching into new corners of your life.
Anna's News
- National Parks at Risk: PhotosNational parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
- Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
- Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World |& ...
- South Sudan becomes an independent nationSouth Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all FaithHaji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
Medical Marijuana
- 9/7/12 - NEW: US and State Prostitution Arrest ...prostitution.procon.org - NEW: US and State Prostitution Arrests, 2001-2010 - Learn which 10 states had the most prostitution arrests by percentage of population (Nevada was number one with 0.1384%) and number of arrests (California was number one with 11,334). See prostitution arrest numb ...
- 9/5/12 - 105 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuanamedicalmarijuana.procon.org - 105 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuana - One new study (#79) found that women who used marijuana regularly up to the point of conception have a "significant and strong" risk of spontaneous preterm birth. Another new study (#78) found that marijuana may help to im ...
- 8/28/12 - Vegetarianism Needed to Stem Drought ...vegetarian.procon.org - Vegetarianism Needed to Stem Drought-Related Food Crisis, Scientists Say
- 8/23/12 - Medical Marijuana Initiative Approve ...medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Medical Marijuana Initiative Approved for Arkansas Ballot
- 8/23/12 - NEW: 6 States with Legal Gay Marriag ...gaymarriage.procon.org - NEW: 6 States with Legal Gay Marriage and 41 States with Same-Sex Marriage Bans - See which states have legalized same-sex marriage by state supreme court decisions or legislative actions, which states have banned same-sex marriage by constitutional amendment, legi ...
Truth About Our World
- NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
- Trudell Documentary
- Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
- The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
- World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...
Gyrovague's Raves
- Once Upon a TimeThe lure of the fairy tale. Joan Acocella Once upon a time there was a stubborn child who never did what his mother told him to do. The dear Lord, therefore, did not look kindly upon him, and let him become sick. No doctor could cure him and in a short time he lay on … Read more
- Violence as a way of lifeHumanity has hardly produced a more destructive version of itself than the new breed of terrorists, who are convinced that they have been chosen to show mankind the way to utopia. Helene Lööw The scenes and testimonies of the disaster in Norway make it difficult to justify. Pictures of children ...
- You’ll never be ChineseMark Kitto Death and taxes. You know how the saying goes. I’d like to add a third certainty: you’ll never become Chinese, no matter how hard you try, or want to, or think you ought to. I wanted to be Chinese, once. I don’t mean I wanted to wear a silk jacket and cotton slippers, … Rea ...
- Psychiatry’s CrisisAndrew Scull ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO, American psychiatry faced an escalating crisis of legitimacy. All sorts of evidence suggested that, when confronted with a particular patient, psychiatrists could not reliably agree as to what, if anything, was wrong. To be sure, the diagnostic process in all are ...
- CONFLICT RESOLUTIONRebecca Saxe The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That’s the question that I’m asking myself right now, can ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
- Lessons from across the pond?When it comes to scientific research, the US and UK are the world’s undisputed heavyweights (see Rising Above the Gathering Storm and The Scientific Century). The US invests heavily in quality research, and the UK relies on its productivity and ability to punch well above its weight. Both nati ...
- Sowing the seed corn…Having worked in environment and sustainable development policy for the past couple of years, my recent foray into the world of science and innovation policy represents something of a paradigm shift. Thankfully, the GovNet Science & Innovation conference presented me with an opportune idiot’ ...
- A timely contribution to a fractious debateFor a nation that’s only drilled three shale gas wells, and only hydraulically fractured (‘fracked’) one of them, the UK is remarkably engaged in the shale gas debate. The reasons for this are manifold, but two seem particularly salient. Firstly, the UK’s lone instance of fracking for shale gas ...
- Science’s Olympic legacyCredit: johnthescone Earlier this week I attended a Parliamentary Links Day on the subject of Science and Sport. As an armchair athlete and a bit of an equipment geek I was looking forward to fuelling my conviction that but for the will and resources I would currently be entering my pre-Olympic ...
- Making an open enterprise workCalls for media, business or government transparency have never been so noisy or so widespread. The mantra “sunlight is the best of disinfectants” (usually attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) has been picked up as a cure for bad governance across the piece. But there is an err ...
NAU Resistance
- End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
- Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ..."On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
- The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ..."Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
- Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase OneWe knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
- Paving The Way For A North American UnionBy: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
Gaea Times
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mindWASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: StudyWASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
- Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
TruthNews Australia
- Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Alahum, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about t ...
- News roundup and an interview with Frank Legge NOTE: Due to major commitments, I am currently unable to remove ads from TNRA podcasts. I welcome any offers of assistance in this regard. In this week's show we begin with a roundup of breaking news within Australia and around the world. Some of the topics covered include Julian Assange's b ...
- David Chandler and John Bursill address the fr ...Today John Bursill takes the helm as guest host. John is joined by two excellent guests who have become known within the 9/11 Truth Movement as two of it's most wise and reasonable voices. We warmly welcome Ken Jenkins in the first hour and David Chandler in the second. Also we are very lucky ...
- Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...Part 2 of Exposing the criminal injustice system with George Georgios
- Exposing the criminal injustice system with Ge ...In today's show we are joined in the first hour by Josh Jackson from Germany. We cover the fiscal crisis in Europe and Josh gives us some interesting insights. In the second hour George Georgios returns to talk about the systemic injustice and corruption within the criminal justice system. Geo ...
Beacon
- Guest Post: Live from the Seafood Summit©Wikimedia Commons Editor's note: This is a guest post by Simone Lewis-Koskinen, Program Assistant at SeaWeb, reporting from the Seafood Summit in Hong Kong. Oceana is a sponsor of the summit. After many months and several thousand emails, phone calls and meetings, the Seafood Sum ...
- Victory: Power Plant Defeated in ChileSeagrass near where the power plant would have been built. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Great news from Chile: A planned coal-fired plant, located dangerously close to several biodiverse marine habitats, was shot down by the Chilean Supreme Court on Tuesday. Coal-powered thermoelectric po ...
- Ocean Health Gets a Failing GradeThe oceans scored a disheartening 60 out of 100 on the Ocean Health Index. It’s no secret that the health of our oceans is under extreme threat. With dangers like overfishing, climate change and ocean acidification, keeping our oceans healthy is a complex problem that has proved diffic ...
- Video: How Seismic Testing WorksWe've been working to stop proposed seismic testing in the Atlantic, which could injure marine mammals such as the endangered right whale. But seismic testing is a pretty hard thing to visualize, so I asked one of our marine scientists, Matt Huelsenbeck, to draw it for us. He could use s ...
- Q&A: Alexandra CousteauThe new issue of Oceana magazine is hot off the presses! In this issue, I interviewed Oceana senior advisor Alexandra Cousteau, who also graces this issue's cover. The granddaughter of famed ocean explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alexandra doesn’t take her family legacy lig ...
Civilian Military Intelligence Group
- Code Breakers Knew About The Ardennes Offensiv ...By the middle of 1944, the Germans were retreating on all fronts. In the East, the Russians were in Poland, as far as the border of Germany, caviling away at the Wehrmacht. In the West the English, Americans, Free French and the Canadians were moving the Nazis into their original borders. Natura ...
- The Mendeleev Super Heavy Tank.The Russian Mendeleev Super Heavy Tank looked more like a reprisal of a train car than a main battle tank. Thirty feet long and 15 feet high, it carried a single 120mm main naval cannon mounted inelegantly sprouting forth from the front of the train car like tank. This behemoth would have ...
- The Arado 381. Germany’s Parasite Aircra ...In The Parasite Aircraft folder we have another redesign that apparently did not come to fruition. Launched from an Arado 234C 4 jet bomber, the Arado E. 381, was designed to carry a single man in a fuselage equipped with a 20mm cannon and perfunctory controls. The cockpit allowed pilots ...
- Pussy Riot’s Yekaterina Samutsevich Closing St ...Why did Putin feel the need to exploit the Orthodox religion and its aesthetics? After all, he could have employed his own, far more secular tools of power—for example, national corporations, or his menacing police system, or his own obedient judiciary system. It may be that the tough, fa ...
- The Handley Page 115 Testbed.The British in the late 1950s were in a race along with everyone else to produce the next generation of jet fighters and bombers. So test aircraft were built for very narrow technological purposes. The Handley page 115 was one such plane. In fact its narrow mission was to co ...
Taylor Marsh
- News Desk: Pakistani Christian Girl Released, ...CHARGED WITH BLASPHEMY, a young Pakistani girl who also is a Christian was released from jail in Pakistan, seen with a cloth over her head to block her identity, which in the video above is reveal as nothing less than an escape. Mentally challenged, according to reports, she was whisked away fro ...
- Conservative Trolling Pushed Cable StoriesDURING THE Democratic convention, the trending articles continually were written by right wing blogs, with conservatives following along, before the cable networks caught wind. I noticed this myself when looking at Memeorandum, that it looked like conservatives were swarming over stories and suc ...
- Where Was Donald Trump?HURRICANE ISAAC was just too much for him. Was it a hair thing? Heavy wind, rain, not a pretty picture. So we didn’t get his “big surprise.” Not much was made of it, because the Democratic convention was on everyone’s mind, so Trump got away with it. “I think they&# ...
- Media, Mania and the Meaning of NothingThe Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook IT’S ALWAYS better to have the media buzzing about a bounce after your convention, but it doesn’t mean much. National polls are irrelevant, because of the E ...
- Queer Talk: Barney Frank Being Barney FrankIt’s Barney Frank, so it’s unlikely anyone is going to be shocked when he says something a bit “out there.” And since he’s retiring, and this was his last Democratic National Convention as a member of Congress, maybe he felt even more free than usual. Whatever he was, or wasn’t, thinking, his re ...
Hudson New York
- Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood Bomb?When Egypt's first civilian, democratically elected dictator,[1] Mohamed Mursi became his country's first head of state to visit Iran since its own Islamic revolution in 1979 for the annual meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on August 30, the two
- Closed: Last Synagogue in EgyptFears for the future of religious minorities in Egypt were accentuated last week when it was announced that the last synagogue in the country would be closed down. The Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, which had operated in Alexandria, was the last functioning
- The Libya We Fought ForIn Benghazi, a car bomb aimed at Libyan intelligence officials shook a crowded street. It's not the first car bomb to strike Libya after the fall of Gaddafi. Benghazi has its own insurgency and remains a flashpoint for the looming civil war that no one
- J'Accuse: Shame on Germany for Circumcision BanWhy do countries with long histories of anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry seem to care more about the so-called rights of young children not to be circumcised than do other countries in the world with far better histories of concern for human
- The End of US-Israel Strategic Cooperation?"I don't want to be complicit if they (Israelis) choose to do it (attack Iran's nuclear program)," said Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey. News flash, General Dempsey: You are complicit in the way that counts; you are trapped: the Iranian leadership
Urban Survival
- Nice Bounce–Gobs of Jobs?Nice bounce in the markets yesterday, perhaps because there has been some evidence that the end of the world isn’t here yet…and we may just muddle through this mess, after all. Latest grist is in this morning’s jobs report just … Continue reading →
- Coping: FATWj– Friday at the WuJoOK, so here’s my new pet theory: As the Earth gets to this place where we cross the galactic ecliptic (December on?) we enter a different kind of space. “What the hell is he talking about now?” you’re wondering. Just … Continue reading →
- Glittering! At least momentarily…Silver was up to $32.85 when I looked and gold passed the $1,700 level today in anticipation of action by the European Central Bank. As one story in the WSJ notes, this is also an anniversary of gold’s all time … Continue reading →
- Coping: Can We End summer Now…Please?We love East Texas…but yes, we are still pondering a move to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to the kids. Why? Because East Texas, for all its glory, chili festivals, dogwood festivals, Texas State Railroad rides (I’ve yet to … Continue reading →
- Dart-Tossing TuesdayWhat a load-a crap in the news this morning! Since the US market was closed for Labor Day, the rest of the world was a somewhat rational place Monday. But, that’s not likely to last very long. For one thing, … Continue reading →
Trends & Forecasts
- The American Revolution 2.0The Revolution is individual. These mass protests... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
- They Hate Us For Our Freedom - America has mor ...America with about 5 percent of the world's... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
- Obama Exposed - No Change Just Nice SpeechesObama 2008/2012 same speeches same promises and... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
- WW3 will be Thermonuclear and will last an hou ...We are on the verge of World War 3 says Lyndon... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
- Build up to WW3 - The Nightmare Scenario. Mike ...The US public need to wake up, realize that your... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Radical Chic
- NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLANDOnce you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
- AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
- AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
- RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
- FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
Boston Blog ( Nature Network)
- Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
- Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
- New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
- BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
- Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells outMost of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
NRDC Switchboard
- California Solar Keeps Growing, Breaking RecordsNoah Long, Staff Attorney, Energy and Land Programs, San Francisco This week brought word that in the last month the California transmission system twice broke U.S. records for solar powered energy by bringing on 1,000 MW of solar ene ...
- Dear Government: Food Waste is a Matter of Urg ...Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco This past January, the European Parliament adopted a resolution to reduce food waste by 50 percent by 2020 and designated 2014 as the “European year against food waste.&rdquo ...
- The fall - and rise - of small downtown Americ ...Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC A few years ago, I co-authored a post here that featured the small town in which I grew up in Pennsylvania. I tried not to be nostalgic, but the town did have many of th ...
- Money for Trucks: The $100 Million Milestone ...Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco Last week marked an important milestone in California’s effort to reduce diesel truck pollution. The State Treasurer announced that $100 million in funds has been given so far to small busine ...
- 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 ...
Injustice Everywhere
- Officer Shoots a Fleeing, Handcuffed SuspectFrom the Washington Post: Calvin Kyle, 26, had been pulled over, handcuffed and put in a police cruiser after he was seen riding a stolen motorcycle near County Road and Marlboro Pike in District Heights, law enforcement officials said. But … Continue reading →Officer Shoots a Fleein ...
- Police Exempt from Red Light Cameras?From the DemocratandChronicle.com: Over the past 18 months, city of Rochester employees have committed at least 119 red light violations while driving city vehicles, records show. But while employees can be disciplined for the violation, “payment of the related fine … Continue readin ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 9 stories of police misconduct tracked for Thursday September 6th, 2012: Hialeah Gardens, Florida: A police officer has been sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for his role in a marijuana distribution ring. He … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
- Malfeasance at State Police Crime LabFrom MassLive.com: BOSTON – The scope of the investigation into the improper handling of drug samples by a state crime lab chemist spans 34,000 cases over the past nine and a half years, according to the Patrick administration, heightening fears … Continue reading →Malfea ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, September 5, 2012: Youngstown, Ohio: Two deputies have been placed on leave while there is an investigation going on into a deputy that was caught on video beating an … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
Total Collapse
- Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mex ...A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. It is only the second time sin ...
- Russian warships hold drills in MediterraneanA Russian joint naval task force on a training mission in the Mediterranean has conducted two-day tactical exercises with live-firing drills, the defense ministry said. The task force comprises three large amphibious assault ships, two Neustrashimy class frigates, an Udaloy class destroyer and t ...
- 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes IranAt least 87 people have been killed and 600 others injured in magnitude 6.4 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks that rocked Iran’s northwestern provinces. On Saturday, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the city of Ahar, near East Azerbaijan’s provincial capital Tabriz at 15:53 loca ...
- 87 dead and hundreds injured after two quakes ...Two strong quakes have shaken Iran’s northwest, leaving 87 people dead and over 400 injured, according to the country’s state television. The quakes have also disrupted communications, complicating rescue efforts. The quakes, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck near th ...
- The US Civil War of 2016U.S. military officers are told to plan to fight Americans Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles. At issue is an article in the r ...
Daily Dose
- TNW’s Daily Dose – Nokia’s big Windows P ...Nokia unveils its first Windows Phone 8 handsets, the FBI says it hasn’t suffered a UDID data breach, and Twitter launches a new widget to allow your to embed a...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – Antisec leaks Apple IDs, Th ...Antisec leaks over a million Apple device IDs, The White House launches new Web, iOS and Android apps and Valve heads into the hardware business. It’s all in today’s Daily...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – Samsung blogger furore, hin ...Samsung faces criticism over its handling of bloggers at the IFA show in Berlin, a 3G Nexus 7 tablet could be in the works from Google and Asus, and Chrome...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – Amazon’s ...Amazon hooks up with Nokia for mapping, Apple loses patent case in Japan and Grooveshark comes back to Google Play, but only for 48 hours. You can catch The Daily Dose...
- TNW’s Daily Dose – New Twitter ad ...Twitter launches more targeted advertising options. President Obama takes to Reddit for an AMA. A botnet is spreading malware via purported Facebook messages. You can catch The Daily Dose every...
Beyond Zero Emissions
- Paid Contractor Position: Development and Rela ...Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) is a community and volunteer-based climate and renewable energy think-tank. A small team of contracted coordinators enable hundreds of volunteers to actively engage and deliver Beyond Zero Emissions' objective of moving Australia from a 19th century fossil fuel-based ...
- Zero emissions homes: save the climate and mon ...If you aim for a zero-emissions house, you can live in comfort, while saving money and the climate. That’s the message from research and practice, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. Members of th ...
- Trigeneration: Sydney's white elephantMatt Wright The City of Sydney is comparing apples with oranges when it promotes its Trigeneration Master Plan (designed in partnership with Origin Energy and subsidiary Cogent Energy) as cleaner than burning coal in centralised power plants. Beyond Zero Emissions’ fundamental criticism of the ...
- Gas industry in denial over carbon emissionsMEDIA RELEASE 4th September 2012 Industry talk of developing an industry in “low emissions” coal-seam gas is a fantasy, according to renewable energy and climate think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Yesterday, the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) released their Austra ...
- Clouding a bright solar thermal futureThe July 31 Australian Energy Technology Assessment from the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics has been hailed by the government, and renewable energy advocates, as a step forward for Australia’s ‘clean energy future’. It is true that the estimates in the AETA are an improvement over t ...
Monga Bay ( News )
- Mangrove deforestation 3x worse for climate th ...Degradation and destruction of the world's seagrasses, tidal marshes, and mangroves may generate up to a billion tons in carbon dioxide emissions annually, reports a new study.
- Tiny new frog discovered in India bypasses the ...A tiny new frog species has been discovered in the rainforests of India's Western Ghats.
- Diversity helps ecosystems cope with stressEcosystems with higher levels of biodiversity tend to better cope with more stress than those with less biodiversity, finds a new study published in Ecology Letters.
- Mangroves protect coastal areas against storm ...Mangroves reduce wave height by as much as 66 percent over 100 meters of forest providing a vital buffer against the impacts of storms, tsunamis, and hurricanes, according to a new report published by The Nature Conservancy and Wetlands International.
- APP establishes deforestation moratorium in Ja ...Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has established a moratorium on natural forest conversion in Jambi province on the island of Sumatra, according to a report issued by the Indonesian forestry giant.
Sierra Express
- RUFP visits Foday Sankoh’s graveThe Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP) on Thursday August 23rd paid a memorial visit at the cemetery of the late leader and founder of the party, Foday Sabana Sankoh. (Photo: RUFP at Foday Sankoh’s graveside) The visit was carried out by a high powered delegation of party stalwarts at the ...
- Prevention is best for Cholera…Sierra Express Media would like to add voice to the latest threat of existence that has scourged our land and is still threatening the lives of our treasured country folks. As of the first week in September, the cumulative cases and death from cholera as reported by the Health and Sanitation Min ...
- Timap Launches Paralegal ManualTimap for Justice an organization agitating for legal issues facing the poor, on Thursday September 6th, officially launched the paralegal manual, at the office headquarter of OSIWA, Murray Town Road, Freetown. The ceremony witnessed host of dignitaries’ across various support base organization ...
- “Plan Sierra Leone has a policy on gender equa ...The Country Director of Plan Sierra Leone, Mr. Augustine Allieu, has intimated to this press that his institution has a policy on gender equality. In an exclusive interview with him in his Kinghaman Road office past Wednesday 5th Mr. Allieu revealed that Plan Sierra Leone’s vision is a worldwide ...
- Man Remanded for Robbery With AggravationAccused person, Yusuf Bangura, made his first appearance before Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No 2 with four count robbery with aggravation and wounding with intent, contrary to Section 23 (1) (a) of the Larceny Act 1916 of which the accused pleaded not guilty on all count charges on Thursda ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
- Meet Fonterra's big cheeseSurprisingly little is known about Fonterra's chief executive, Theo Spierings, considering he holds down New Zealand's top corporate job.Like his predecessor, Andrew Ferrier, he isn't much of one for the corporate limelight.But...
- Co-op's TAF scheme on track to start this yearThe Government has postponed the share market float for Mighty River Power, but the other big equity event - Fonterra's trading among farmers (TAF) scheme - is on track for introduction before year's end, says Fonterra chief executive...
- Fonterra NZ Dairies purchase approvedThe Commerce Commission said it had cleared Fonterra to acquire the dairy processing assets of New Zealand Dairies, which is in receivership.NZ Dairies processes raw milk at its Studholme factory near Waimate, in the South Island.The...
- Dairy prices recovering from slump - FonterraFonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction shows that the market is recovering after prices slumped in May and June.Spierings, commenting on the 6 per cent lift in prices at the latest GlobalDairyTrade...
- Maori leaders eager to win Chinese investmentA group of Maori business leaders will travel to China next month to talk to Shanghai Pengxin about potential investment opportunities. The group will be led by the Maori Trustee, Jamie Tuuta.The trip follows a hush-hush visit to...
Hit & Run | Reason
- Tim Cavanaugh on Antonio Villaraigosa's Disast ...Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's bumbling chairmanship of the Democratic National Convention revealed his untrustworthiness, emotional neediness and severe intellectual limits, writes Tim Cavanaugh. But it also showed how shallow the Democrats' bench is in California. With W ...
- The NFL 2011 Lockout Labor MessThe 2012 NFL season officially kicked off this week under the cloud of a referee lock-out. Back in 2011 Reason covered another NFL labor dispute, this time between players and team owners, with a bit of government interference to make things interesting. Here is the ...
- Paul Ryan Says Something Sensible About Mariju ...Running for vice president is turning into the most cowardly thing Paul Ryan has ever done: As the Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan gets ready to begin debate preparation on Sunday in Oregon, the Wisconsin lawmaker raised a few eyebrows when he ...
- Sheldon Richman on the Importance of Subjectiv ...After many years, Frédéric Bastiat remains a hero to libertarians. No mystery there. He made the case for freedom and punctured the arguments for state socialism with clarity and imagination. He spoke to lay readers with great effect. Bastiat loved the market economy, and badly ...
- George Gilder on "The Israel Test," Obama, the ...Earlier this week, after being criticized for the omission of "God" and "Jerusalem" from their party platform, Democrats quickly amended the text. Whether it was an "oversight," a "technical error," or a "mistake," the controversy surrounding the wording and the dubious ...
Mercury Rising
- Charles Pierce: Election 2012, Vote Suppressio ...Charles Pierce speaks. You listen, Mr. President: I have never talked to so many people who were so thoroughly convinced that their vote didn’t matter, that it would not be counted, or that it would be stolen, or that their very right to cast it would be so hamstrung with official bother t ...
- The Grand Old (Bolshevik) PartyVia Paul Krugman and Digby, a very enlightening historical find and a modern graphic illustrating it. (Cover is from National Review via secotm. Yes, I personally verified that this is their cover.) ACHIEVING A “LENINIST” STRATEGY Stuart Butler and Peter Germanis Introduction Marx believed that ...
- You knew it had to be something like this: com ...Via Ritholtz, an article from Greg Stevens of Kernel Mag on comment spam.
- Friday Cat Blogging
- Why Obama’s style drives me crazyObama’s speech may have been pitched, as one commenter at Eschaton sagely noted, at the undecided voter. Those voters have an entirely different notion of what’s important, and they may be persuaded by things that wonks like me think are irrelevant. To my mind, an effective political ...
Reality Sandwich
- MeshNet: A Possible Uncensored Internet Altern ..."Get out there, and help us build a way to freedom," says narrator Josh Harkema at the end of a 3-minute animated presentation of the MeshNet project. Still a dream in need of support, MeshNet (originally called the DarkNet) is intending to become "an alternative to the internet ...
- Psychedemia in Philadelphia Psychedemia is an academic conference hosted at the University of Pennsylvania from September 27-30, 2012. By incorporating research and visionary art into current models of psychedelic culture, this conference captures the state of the state for psychedelics in Western culture. read more
- Nets of Being: An Interview with Alex GreyThis article was originally published on The Huffington Post. read more
- Plant Communication read more
- The Sun: The Heart and Mind of Our Galaxyread more
Desertification
- Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sc ...Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius – unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains. “I sold more than 70 air-conditioners in just one month,” Ahmed, who ru ...
- Whose Timber is it Anyway?With Pakistan’s last major stands of deodar (cedar) threatened by a ‘timber mafia’, the local people in the Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are resorting to direct action to stop the denudation of their picturesque alpine homeland. Since April, the community in Ayun town has been ...
- Q&A: Water and Food Security Are InseparableIPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews PER BERTILSSON, acting executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute
- Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper ...Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe. The Aug. 20-26 protests in Tampa were organised to draw attention to the Republican Part ...
- U.S. Drought Exposes “Hydro-Illogical ...The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term. On Friday, the U.S. Agriculture Department said that corn yields – which ac ...
Blogging Canadians
- Cloud Computing Benefits For Small BusinessCloud Computing is the concept which has emerged as a solution for every small and medium business as it helps them to earn good profit and reach to the next stage of progress.
- Solar Panels CostThe use of solar system has been gaining its popularity day by day it is because of the nonstop rise in electricity costs which is encouraging the people to go for an alternative energy source. The solar systems are able to fulfill all the energy needs required for the daily domestic and busines ...
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Press TV - Middle East
- Baghdad car bombs kill 51 people A series of car bombs in six mainly Shia districts around the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 51 people, and injured some 109 others.
- Deadly explosion rocks heart of AleppoSeveral civilians have been killed or injured after an explosive-laden car went off in Syria's northwestern city of Aleppo as the Army soldiers are fighting against insurgents to purge the violence-plagued city of foreign-sponsored terrorists.
- Turkish soldier killed in mine explosionA Turkish soldier has been killed by a roadside bomb planted by members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Sirnak.
- ‘Al Khalifa regime hiding its atrocities’ Bahrain's main opposition party has accused the ruling Al Khalifa monarchy of covering up brutality against peaceful protesters.
- Four killed in central Syria bus bombing At least four people have been killed after a roadside bomb ripped through a bus in Syria’s central province of Homs.
CUNY SPS Community Blog
- Alumni SpotlightAlumni Spotlight Nelson Franco The Alumni Spotlight feature highlights one of SPS’s proud graduates. We asked Nelson Franco (B.A. Communication and Culture, Class of 2012) five questions about his experiences before, during, and after SPS. 1. What was your background prior to coming to SPS? I ha ...
- I Really Want to Fall in LoveBefore a run, I wake up—excited… Usually it’s about 4 a.m. and I begin forcing myself to eat some oatmeal and a spoonful of peanut butter. I am anxious to leave the house, but I take my time filling up my water bottle, eating my breakfast and dressing for my big run. My mind wonders [...]
- Search the SkyRecently, I a friend told me that we were moving into the ‘Age of Aquarius” and I should be on the lookout for major positive changes in my life. Only vaguely aware of the concepts behind astrology and the planetary sign under which I was born, I simply laughed her statement away and asked if [...]
- What I Did On My Summer VacationI know I could graduate two or more semesters early if only I would take summer classes. But I won’t. Two courses a semester on top of working full-time and trying to have a life (and have some fun!) is too stressful and I need the three-month break from formal education, tests, papers, discussi ...
- Stepping Up: The Summer of 2012Recently, while browsing the CUNY SPS Community Blog, I noticed a post by Ms. Shannon Gallo in which she posed the oft-asked question of “What did you do this summer?” Although I have heard this question countless times before, just as I am sure most of us have, it never fails to catch my attent ...
Dissident Voice
- Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
- The Dawn of MedicareA highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
- Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
- Inflation of the University DegreeCatch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
- After The Fireworks Have FadedOn July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
Destructionist
- Gray State Film: The Systematic Abolishment of ...[WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT] Tagged: gray State, movie trailers, movies, new films, new movie releases, tyranny
- Study Finds BPA Actually Changes Your BrainResearchers at North Carolina State University found that bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure in early life stages can actually cause gene expression changes. These effects are seen in a part of the brain called the amygdala, which can lead to increased levels of anxiety. What may surprise you is that so ...
- Thousands of Greek police join anti-austerity ...Thousands of police marched through Athens on Thursday, chanting “thieves, thieves” and carrying black flags, to oppose planned pay cuts under a huge new austerity package meant to save Greece from defaulting on its mountain of debt. The 4,000 protesters, who also included firefighters and co ...
- Thousands of Greek police join anti-austerity ...Thousands of police marched through Athens on Thursday, chanting “thieves, thieves” and carrying black flags, to oppose planned pay cuts under a huge new austerity package meant to save Greece from defaulting on its mountain of debt. The 4,000 protesters, who also included firefighters and co ...
- ADAM vs. THE MAN catches up with two slightly ...Tagged: Adam Kokesh, Adam vs. The Man, alternative news, latest alternative news, Libertarians, Teat Party, USMC
Wayne Madsen
- September 8-9, 2012 -- Special Election Weeken ...2012 may be like 1976
- September 7-9, 2012 -- Soros-funded group's "B ...Deep inside the weird science labs of the U.S. government.
- September 7-9, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC WEEKEND FORUM
- September 7-9, 2012 -- ON-TOPIC WEEKEND FORUM
- September 7-9, 2012 -- Want to shake Paul Ryan ...It snot what you think!
PS - Inter Press Services
- Losing Land, and Finding a RoofAsmahan Ramadan and her family have taken thousands of photos on the rooftop of their home. Not of themselves, or of the overcrowded Dheisheh refugee camp they see every day. “It’s like raising a child,” says Ramadan, smiling widely under the netting of the small greenhouse on the rooftop of her ...
- Kyoto Protocol May End With the YearAs government negotiators from the world’s poorest countries ended a round of United Nations climate change talks in the Thai capital, they sounded a grave note about what appears imminent when they assemble in November in Doha – the reading of the last rites of the Kyoto Protocol. “We are conce ...
- Culture of Peace Should Replace Culture of Vio ...When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the High-Level Forum on Culture of Peace later this week, he will transmit a message that underlines his political philosophy: all disputes need to be resolved by peaceful means, not through military might. And time and again, he has warned that ...
- Gaza Economy Tailored to Fail“Gaza’s economy is expected to grow modestly and people will likely still be worse off in 2015 compared to the mid-1990s,” reads a press release announcing the United Nations’ August 2012 report, ‘Gaza in 2020 – A Liveable Place?’ In the no-frills office of his stalled Ja ...
- U.S. Declares Haqqani Network a Terrorist Orga ...The U.S. State Department on Friday declared the Haqqani network, a militant group based in Pakistan, a “terrorist organisation”. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed the order while in Brunei and also sent a formal report to Congress, two days before a congressional deadline. Clinton’s sta ...
My AntiWar
- ?Sanctions on Tehran, Damascus won?t solve pro ...Summary: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says US and UN sanctions against Iran and Syria serve no purpose and are causing harm to Russian business. His comments came after meeting with Hillary Clinton at the APEC summit in Vladivostok. source: Russia Todayread more
- Clinton Says US May Lift Cold War-Era Sanction ...
- Iraq Vp Tariq Al-Hashemi Sentenced to Death
- Bombs Kill 1, Wound 16 in Western Afghanistan
- Fort Detrick to Receive $100 Million Grant to ...
CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
- ‘Sanctions on Tehran, Damascus won’t solve pro ...Summary: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says US and UN sanctions against Iran and Syria serve no purpose and are causing harm to Russian business. His comments came after meeting with Hillary Clinton at the APEC summit in Vladivostok. source: Russia Todayread more
- Bogus Iranian Nuclear ThreatSummary: Red lines, timelines, deadlines, sanctions, sabotage, subversion, cyber attacks, assassinations, saber rattling, falsified IAEA hype, ad nauseam warmongering, Netanyahu/Barak bluster, spurious accusations, manipulated to fail P5+1 talks, and inflammatory headlines up the stakes for w ...
- Attacking Iran would be ‘disastrous’ Russia warnsSummary: As Iranians reel under the pressure of international sanctions, a Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said Washington’s unilateral sanction regime against Iran is a violation of international law. Saying that Russia has found no evidence that Iran is intent on developing a weapon, Deput ...
- Pink Shrouds Aimed to Draw Attention to Iran M ...Summary: Diplomats from an unidentified country and a Washington research organisation considered close to the International Atomic Energy Agency have alleged in recent weeks that Iran has covered two buildings at a military site to hide a clean-up of evidence of nuclear weapons related testi ...
- Ex-Canadian ambassador condemns cutting ties w ...Summary: John Mundy, a retired Canadian diplomat who was posted in Iran in 2007, said ending communication with the country could be a strategic misstep that undermines Canada’s role as an international player in the international peacekeeping effort preventing Iran from acquiring and deployi ...
The Daily Galaxy
- "Is There Unstoppable Global Warming Every 150 ...Climate-change contrarian, S. Frederick Singer, a former space scientist and government scientific administrator, who holds PhD in Physics from Princeton University and is co-author of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, presents the theory that global temperatures have been rising...
- Spectacular Globular Cluster Found Harboring a ...This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the center of globular cluster M 4. The power of Hubble has resolved the cluster into a multitude of glowing orbs, each a colossal nuclear furnace. M 4 is relatively close to us,...
- Small Magellanic Cloud Reveals a Challenge to ...Stars in the Milky Way have about four times less lithium on the surface than expected by Big Bang predictions. Some scientists suggest that stellar activity might destroy lithium, or the element might sink from the surface through lighter hydrogen,...
- Star's Chemistry Key to Creating Habitable ZonesThe search for potentially habitable planets involves discussion of what is sometimes referred to as the "Goldilocks Zone" – the relatively thin band in a solar system in which conditions on a planet can support life. Astrobiologists and planetary scientists...
- Image of the Day: Tracks of Human Technology ..."No cities. No seas. No forests and no battlegrounds. No prairies. No nations. No histories and no legends. No memories. Just features, features and names. Argyre and Hellas and Isidis. Olympus and Alba and Pavonis. Schiaparelli and Antoniadi, Kasei and...
Natural News
- Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers caught us ...As China continues to rise as the new Asian powerhouse, there has been a steady stream of reports which have detailed the country's staggering lack of standards when it comes to producing manufactured goods, so it was only mildly shocking to learn that authorities there...
- Pfizer faces $1 billion charge in bogus patent ...Several years ago, drug giant Pfizer Inc. tried to pull a fast one in Jamaica where several local companies were legally distributing generic versions of Pfizer's formerly-patented blood pressure drug Norvasc (Amlodipine). Though the drug was already off-patent elsewhere...
- Children in danger from exposure to common che ...Although the mainstream medical establishment and the FDA frequently warn against the supposed dangers of alternative health treatments and supplements, they hardly ever mention the perfectly legal and widely used chemical poisons that enter our bodies through the environment...
- Life-long vegans show no sign of anticipated d ...(Natural News) A study of the bone health of long term vegan women showed density that surprised many western physicians. Comparing the bones of over two hundred vegan and non-vegan women, researchers were caught off-guard by the finding almost identical density levels...
- The milk of the kaoThe other day I'm sitting with a bunch of Hawaiian guys and we're just talking story. While doing so, a Kahuna (Hawaiian for wise man or Shaman) comes by. So, we get into a conversation about the initial contacts between the western world and the indigenous peoples...
Threat Level
- Pirate Bay Founder Arrested for Alleged HackIt turns out that last week's arrest of The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm seems to be unrelated to his pending one-year prison sentence for running Sweden's and the world's most notorious and illicit file-sharing service. Swedish media is reporting that Svartholm's confinement in Camb ...
- AT&T’s FaceTime Blocking Hurts the DeafAT&T's decision to prohibit FaceTime cellular calls for some plans simply as a ploy to force people to upgrade to unlimited voice calls isn't just a slap in the face to net neutrality. It's a blow to the deaf and hard of hearing.
- ACLU Sues Police for Seizing Man’s Phone After ...The ACLU has sued the District of Columbia and two police officers for allegedly seizing the cellphone and stealing the memory card of a man who photographed a police officer allegedly mistreating a citizen.
- Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It’s ...Radio frequency identification devices are a daily part of the electronic age, and are fast becoming a part of passports and payment cards and are widely expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods. And now RFID chips are being used to track public school children. Just as the U.S. Dep ...
- Sleuths Trace New Zero-Day Attacks to Hackers ...The attackers who hacked Google two years ago have been busy hitting other companies with a series of eight zero-day exploits, according to new findings from Symantec that link them to ongoing activity against the defense industry and other sectors.
PERRspectives : Blog
- Clinton Paints GOP Threat to Medicaid by the N ...Bill Clinton's address to the Democratic National Convention accomplished a good many things for his party. Among them was shining a spotlight on one of the least reported but potentially most far-reaching proposals Mitt Romney and his Republican Party have promised to pursue. While all eyes h ...
- Clinton at DNC as GOP Uses 1993 Talking Points ...As Bill Clinton prepares to take center stage at the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, Republicans have mounted a blistering attack on the President's economic plan. His proposal, the GOP warned, was "class warfare" and a "job killer" which will "kill the current recovery ...
- GOP Silent as Founders, American People Leave ...The United States Constitution has many timeless and powerful words. "God" just doesn't happen to be one of them. Our Founding Fathers did included freedom of religion, the establishment clause and a prohibition on religious tests for office. (Memo to Mitt Romney: that's why so many people co ...
- Who Killed Washington? Republicans Caught Red- ...On the eve of Barack Obama's address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a media cottage industry has emerged examining why the President "failed to change the tone in Washington." Writing in the Washington Post, Dan Balz asked, "Was there a way around united Republican opposition?" and ...
- Labor Day Greetings from Mitt RomneyThe labor movement, as its supporters rightly say, is just the folks who brought you the weekend. Now as Americans mark this Labor Day, it seems that Mitt Romney wants to take it back. After all, the man who said that "corporations are people, my friend" routinely decries the "crony capitalism ...
Blackspot News Feed
- Black Agenda Report Editor: "Obama is not the ...Glen Ford: President Obama has managed the crisis on behalf of the 1% more effectively than a Republican could have
- Green Party Presidential Candidate Presents a ...Jill Stien: Neither Obama nor Romney have a program that will create millions of jobs
- Will Disillusioned Young People Vote for Obama?Julianne Malveaux: People do need to develop independent politics, but even if they are disillusioned, people must consider what Romney/Ryan would do to the country
- Glen Ford vs. Michael Eric Dyson: Debate on Ob ...Dandelion Salad Sep 7, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – As President Obama accepts the Democratic nomination to seek four more years in the White House, we host a debate on his presidency with Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report and Michael Eric Dyson, professor at Georgetown Universit ...
- Where’s the War on Lethal Super-bugs? by Ralph ...Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Sept. 5, 2012 What if two thousand U.S. soldiers were losing their lives every week in Afghanistan? Would the peddlers of the electoral politics of trivia, distraction and avoidance take notice? Of course. Every week, two thousand Americans, or about ...
Consortium News
- A Test for the Right’s Machine
- ‘Mushroom Cloud’ Sales Pitch Is Back
- Jerusalem as Political Football
- Narrowing ‘Love Thy Neighbor’
- Obama Ruling Shields Torturers
TruthOut
- Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
- News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
- In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
- Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
- Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
- Mother Nature’s Gift: Soap NutsI’ve struggle for a long time to find a laundry soap I’m really satisfied with. I was always looking for something that is not only good for your skin and fabrics, but also good for the environment. I’ve finally discovered something perfect — soap nuts (picture of ...
- Emergency On The International Space Station S ...A power emergency on the International Space Station was solved on September 5th by two astronauts using makeshift tools created out of some spare parts and a toothbrush. “Two spacewalking astronauts successfully replaced a vital power unit on the International Space Station today defeatin ...
- Sea Otters To Combat Climate Change?Does a large population of sea otters reverse one of the principal causes of climate change? New research from the UC Santa Cruz is suggesting that a population boom of sea otters would go a long way to reduce sea urchin numbers, and therefore allow kelp forests to become very large. R ...
- Robotic Cheetah Runs Faster Than Usain BoltDARPA’s robotic cheetah has now surpassed the human land speed record, running as fast as 28.3 mph, faster than the fastest known human, Usain Bolt. In a new video just released by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the robot designed around the anatomy of a cheetah, is seen &# ...
- Caribbean Coral Reefs Are Mostly Dead, IUCN SaysThe coral reefs of the Caribbean have, to put it bluntly, completely collapsed. Overfishing and climate change are the primary causes according to a new report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In the most comprehensive study yet of Caribbean coral reefs, sci ...
Water Quality - WordPress
- Water, Florida's most Precious ResourceMy job allows me to work to facilitate a bridge between policy makers and the environment. If you li
- Senator Bennet wants public input on Thompson ...From Zane Kessler, Executive Director Thompson Divide Coalition Holy Smokes! This is important. I do
- Water, water not everywhereThe July issue of Texas Monthly was devoted to a series of articles discussing the recent record-br
- CBF: House Drought Aid At Expense Of ConservationWASHINGTON (AP) — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says drought relief aid passed by the House of
- Cadiz project refuses to dieThe Cadiz project to extract groundwater from the Mojave desert was just approved the other night to
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
- The Real Health Care Debate by Chris Hedges (r ...Reposting in case you missed it. by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig April 9, 2
- William Morris' Vision of Socialism: Self-sust ...by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 30 June 2012 Image by Dandelion
- “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 26th Instal ...Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Twenty can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan W
- The Righteous Road to Ruin by Chris Hedgesby Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig June 28, 2012 Image by greenwise art via Fl
- Five Years for Dandelion Salad ... So Time for ...Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr by Lo Editor Dandelion Salad June 27, 2012 Well, it’s been
Axis of Logic
- Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ..."The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
- CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
- UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
- The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
They Gave Us a Republic
- Mitt Owes His Candidacy To Barack ObamaBy @TomBales1 OK, so nobody wants to talk about Mitt's plan for education so my nefarious scheme to do public opinion posts would appear to be as doomed as all my other big ideas. Back to the drawing board (again). In the meantime: Mitt Romney committed an what should have been unpardonab ...
- "Leadership Gap" Separates Romney and ObamaBy @TedFrier Pulitzer-prizing winning business writer Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post pens one of the smartest analysis I've yet seen on the "leadership gap" between Mitt Romney and President Obama. His bottom line: While Barack Obama has yet "to fully deliver on his considerable leader ...
- This Is 'Gone With The Wind' For BirthersSomeone I know urged me to watch this, so I did, all 76 minutes of it: http://youtu.be/alVzyfptF80 The bottom line seems to be the insistence of one Verna Lee, 95, that neither she nor her office could ever have made a mistake on a birth certificate in her official capacity in Hawaii back in 196 ...
- First I rolled my eyes...now I'm just really, ...By @BGinKC Twenty years ago a movie called Rain Without Thunder was released - and widely panned - as a "pro-abortion tract." It was dismissed as hyperbolic and hysterical and ridiculous and extreme because the premise is not just that a fetus has full rights of personhood, but is the property o ...
- Changing Venues (Kinda)From this point on I'm going to be scaling my politics related presence on Facebook back drastically. It doesn't mean I won't be there to share and support the positions of my friends and to showcase information I feel is important to the making of rational political decisions but only tha ...
Care 2
- Tell Congress - stop the international poachin ...Send a letter to your U.S. senators and representative, asking them to pass the Global Conservation Act of 2012 and protect threatened wildlife across the world. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Pledge to Vote Wildlife-friendly this Year ! P ...Sign your name below to show your pledge to cast your vote on November 6th for panthers, polar bears and many more wildlife in need of our help today. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Save Hawaiian Monk Seals from Extinction ! PLE ...With fewer than 1,100 left in existence, the Hawaiian monk seal is America's most endangered marine mammal. Impacts from climate change, including sea level rise and worsening storms that send marine debris into the monk seal's habitat Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Not ...
- 10 Peculiar Things Public Schools Have BannedRemember Pogs? The game featured cardboard discs printed with some kind of design on one side (sometimes a TV show or company promo), and was played by stacking the pieces face-down and pummeling them with a slammer (a heavier metal piece). Submitted by Carrie B. to Offbeat |&n ...
- South Africa: Official pictures of the rescued ...These are the official pictures of the dogs rescued from smugglers on the Angola/Namibia border. More information to follow. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Smirking Chimp
- The Conscience of a Voter
- A Test for the Right's Machine
- We Must Act Now to Save the Elephants
- Grade Inflation; Education Degradation
- Obama's Vision Versus Economic Reality
Paul Krugman
- Government EmploymentWay down.
- Arms And The MittWeaponized Keynesianism rides again.
- This Week This WeekHead, talking.
- The Jobs Program That Wasn'tWhat might have been.
- Employment in Two AdministrationsBush the socialist?
No Quarter
- Holy Mother of God!!* Bumped Up * Obama has awakened a sleeping beast and it will help crush him in 58 days. I don’t recall any religious group ever weighing in with a film and call to action like this: If your memory is better than mine please show me something more weighty than this. Marriage, freedom and [...]
- We Can Help! + tweets & hk2′s open threadToday is Super Saturday, and all across battleground states, supporters will knock on doors to put America’s Comeback Team in the White House. You can support the effort from your own home. Go to HOME LANDING to start contacting voters. (We can do this EVERY DAY ’til November 7th.) G ...
- Piss or get off the potThe time is nigh, Mitt. It is NOW OR NEVER: Kristol advises Mitt: ‘Are you a man or a mouse? Squeak up!’ bit.ly/Qmcwrh — Melvin Martinez (@MartinezReport) September 8, 2012 I am not happy. Today, I tried to post videos from the YouTube channel that I never knew existed — ...
- Unkept Promises and Outright Lies (& open thread)Obama is or should be a dissapointment to his most ardent Kool-Aid drinking supporters. He came to office with a long list of promises. Nearly four years later, few were kept. The more pragmatic and cynical among us might simply dismiss his unkept promises as lies. A fine line divides a promise ...
- War, if it is 2014, it must be over.War, for Barack Obama, is simply a to-do on his calendar. In this he is as bad as any chicken hawk rushing to send our citizens to war, yet not willing to put themselves or their families at risk. As a veteran of the U.S. Navy, I am personally offended that President Obama treats war [...]
Futurismic
- Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
- The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
- Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
- The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
- New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Therapy News
- Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
- Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
- GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational ThoughtsNovember 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
- Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
- Three Steps for Dealing with Panic AttacksPanic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
Mountaintop Removal
- Appeals panel should uphold rebuke of EPA - Ar ...Appeals panel should uphold rebuke of EPA - Arch Coal SteelGuru Mountaintop removal is a highly efficient but destructive form of strip mining that blasts apart mountain ridge tops to expose multiple coal seams. The resulting rock and debris is dumped in streams, creating so-called valley fills. ...
- Arch: Appeals panel should uphold rebuke of EP ...Arch: Appeals panel should uphold rebuke of EPA CBS News Mountaintop removal is a highly efficient but destructive form of strip mining that blasts apart mountain ridge tops to expose multiple coal seams. The resulting rock and debris is dumped in streams, creating so-called valley fills. Spruce ...
- Arch: Appeals panel should uphold rebuke of EP ...Arch: Appeals panel should uphold rebuke of EPA Ventura County Star Mountaintop removal is a highly efficient but destructive form of strip mining that blasts apart mountain ridge tops to expose multiple coal seams. The resulting rock and debris is dumped in streams, creating so-called valley fi ...
- Arch: Appeals panel should uphold rebuke of EP ...Arch: Appeals panel should uphold rebuke of EPA Belleville News Democrat Mountaintop removal is a highly efficient but destructive form of strip mining that blasts apart mountain ridge tops to expose multiple coal seams. The resulting rock and debris is dumped in streams, creating so-called vall ...
- Environmental clubs react to university ties w ...Environmental clubs react to university ties with PNC, fracking University of Delaware Review “There were students handing out leaflets, information about mountaintop removal, urging people to do their research on the issue and then deciding whether or not to open an account with PNC,” Holubinka ...
Memeorandum
- McCain calls out Obama over Syria, again (John ...John McCain / CNN: McCain calls out Obama over Syria, again — (CNN) - Sen. John McCain, a consistent critic of U.S. inaction regarding the civil war in Syria, on Saturday again blasted the Obama administration's handling of the crisis in an interview with CNN. —&nb ...
- Gov. Brown renews fitness test challenge again ...Jeremy Herb / The Hill: Gov. Brown renews fitness test challenge against Christie — California Gov. Jerry Brown still wants New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to take him up on a three-part fitness challenge. — Brown renewed his call Sunday to battle Christie in ...
- State of the race: Advantage, Obama (Politico)Politico: State of the race: Advantage, Obama — President Barack Obama heads out of the national political conventions with a much clearer path to winning, top advisers to Mitt Romney privately concede. — The Romney campaign, while pleasantly surprised by Oba ...
- A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children (Bill ...Bill Lichtenstein / New York Times: A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children — IN my public school 40 years ago, teachers didn't lay their hands on students for bad behavior. They sent them to the principal's office. But in today's often overcrowded and underfunded ...
- The Age of Trolling - How a small band of cons ...David Weigel / Slate: The Age of Trolling — How a small band of conservatives generated half of the Democratic Convention's headlines. — Vice-president Biden speaks at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. — © Richar ...
Energy & Environment News
- Afghans Wary as Efforts Pick Up to Tap Mineral ...With a trillion-dollar cache of oil, gold and other resources underground, hopes of self-sufficiency in Afghanistan are tempered by worries about corruption and security.
- Russia and Japan Move Forward on Major Natural ...Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, signed an accord on Saturday with the government of Japan to continue with plans for construction of a $13 billion natural gas terminal.
- Chilling Effect: Smugglers Sell Coolant Tied t ...As government authorities work to phase out an air-conditioner coolant, HCFC-22, a black market has sprung up for it.
- DealBook: Glencore's Bid to Buy Xstrata Is Inc ...Glencore International, the world's biggest commodities-trading company, sweetened its offer for Xstrata in a last-minute bid to save the mega-merger.
- Green Blog: Indonesia's Furtive Snake TradeA survey of traders suggests that many reptiles and amphibians captured in Indonesia were illegally seized and wind up as Western collectors' pets.
5+ quakes - 7 days
- M 5.1, Kuril IslandsSunday, September 9, 2012 09:36:40 UTC Sunday, September 9, 2012 09:36:40 PM at epicenterDepth: 30.80 km (19.14 mi)
- M 6.0, Kuril IslandsSunday, September 9, 2012 05:39:20 UTC Sunday, September 9, 2012 05:39:20 PM at epicenterDepth: 58.70 km (36.47 mi)
- M 5.6, Costa RicaSaturday, September 8, 2012 20:29:32 UTC Saturday, September 8, 2012 02:29:32 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.60 km (22.12 mi)
- M 5.1, Molucca SeaSaturday, September 8, 2012 16:27:39 UTC Sunday, September 9, 2012 12:27:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
- M 6.1, Papua, IndonesiaSaturday, September 8, 2012 10:51:43 UTC Saturday, September 8, 2012 07:51:43 PM at epicenterDepth: 14.10 km (8.76 mi)
China Dialogue
- The damaging truth about Chinese fertiliser an ...Excessive and inappropriate use of fertilisers and pesticides is causing agricultural and rural pollution, as well as food safety problems. What’s more, Chinese agriculture has now become reliant on these chemicals. Yang Meng reports.“If China used one half of the fertiliser it used ...
- Chinese fear price hikes after electricity reformsAs growth slows in China, the time is ripe to reform water, electricity and fuel pricing. But balancing development and household interests is a tricky game, writes Cui Bin.This summer, Chinese people have been thinking twice before turning on their air conditioners. In July, tiered electri ...
- Sinking Shanghai “not prepared to admit& ...China’s coastal megacities and soon-to-be one billion urban population face growing threats from flooding and natural disasters. Olivia Boyd reports.It’s been a brutal summer for much of urban China. From the once-in-60-years storm that lashed Beijing in July, killing 79 people and c ...
- Why complex food chains are to blame for China ...In response to a constant stream of food safety issues, Wu Chen looks at how once simple food supply chains have become complex, and examines the technological, economic and social causes of the change.Problems with food safety are nothing new – in the Tang Dynasty the poet Liu Zongyuan fo ...
- How long can the caterpillar fungus craze last?Sky-high prices have prompted a rush to collect caterpillar fungus in China, but quality discoveries are becoming rare. An ecological crisis is inevitable. Cui Xuan reports.The prices paid for caterpillar fungus, believed to possess remarkable medicinal properties, have increased tenfold since 2 ...
AlterNet Top Stories
- Mitt Romney Is the Poster Child for Why There' ...The Romney campaign has started asking the snitch, Ronald Reagan’s question, “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” And partly because Obama’s advisors don’t have a ready answer, and partly because Democrats are misconstruing whoȁ ...
- How Reforming Welfare and Gutting Programs for ...The following article first appeared at Working In These Times, the labor blog of In These Times magazine. For more news and analysis like this, sign up to receive In These Times' weekly updates. The Romney camp's new attack line on the Obama administration--that he “gutted&# ...
- America's Ku Klux Klan Mentality The Ku Klux Klan (the name derives from the Greek word Kuklos meaning circle with a modification of the word clan added), an American terrorist organization, was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. It was organized by Southerners who refused to reconcile themselves to the defeat ...
- NFL Player's Amazing Tirade Against Homophobia ...Deadspin has published an incredible letter written by Minnesota Vikings player Chris Kluwe. Kluwe's letter is in response to another letter written Maryland state politician Emmett C. Burns Jr., who expressed his discomfort with a Ravens football player speaking out in support of same-sex mar ...
- Women's Orgasms as High Art?The black-and-white video begins with a woman sitting at a table with a book in front of her. She looks into the camera and states her name, the name of the book, and begins to read. It seems she’s overwhelmed by the words — there’s a slight twitch, a smirk, a straightenin ...
Threat Level
- Pirate Bay Founder Arrested for Alleged HackIt turns out that last week's arrest of The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm seems to be unrelated to his pending one-year prison sentence for running Sweden's and the world's most notorious and illicit file-sharing service. Swedish media is reporting that Svartholm's confinement in Camb ...
- AT&T’s FaceTime Blocking Hurts the DeafAT&T's decision to prohibit FaceTime cellular calls for some plans simply as a ploy to force people to upgrade to unlimited voice calls isn't just a slap in the face to net neutrality. It's a blow to the deaf and hard of hearing.
- ACLU Sues Police for Seizing Man’s Phone After ...The ACLU has sued the District of Columbia and two police officers for allegedly seizing the cellphone and stealing the memory card of a man who photographed a police officer allegedly mistreating a citizen.
- Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It’s ...Radio frequency identification devices are a daily part of the electronic age, and are fast becoming a part of passports and payment cards and are widely expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods. And now RFID chips are being used to track public school children. Just as the U.S. Dep ...
- Sleuths Trace New Zero-Day Attacks to Hackers ...The attackers who hacked Google two years ago have been busy hitting other companies with a series of eight zero-day exploits, according to new findings from Symantec that link them to ongoing activity against the defense industry and other sectors.
Equality Trust
- The Spirit Level Documentary FilmWe're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...
- Act Local = Reduce the GapFind out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
- We work in partnership with One SocietyVisit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
- Among Equals: read our newsletterRead the latest edition of our supporter newsletter
- Action for HappinessAction for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon. They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
PDA AMERICA
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
- An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
- Salmonella Cases Linked to Cantaloupe and Mang ...We got through the week with no increase in Salmonella cases. The CDC and FDA have reported that a total of 204 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella... Continue Reading
- Why I Love What I DoThis is an email I got today: Dear Mr. Marler, I should begin by saying I am not a victim of a foodborne illness. I am a Medical Technologist who... Continue Reading
- Salmonella, Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and ...As I said last week, shortly after I resolved the 1996 Odwalla E. coli O157:H7 outbreak on behalf of five kids that suffered Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), and long before... Continue Reading
- Walmart McDonald’s Linked to Hepatitis A RiskThe San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) in warning anyone who may have eaten at a College Avenue McDonald’s on August 25, 26, 27 and 30) that... Continue Reading
- They Don’t Eat Hedgehogs – Do They?The CDC reports tonight that a total of 14 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 6 states. The number of ill persons identified... Continue Reading
AutoblogGreen
- Exclusive: In deep with Tesla CEO Elon Musk: F ...Filed under: Etc., Tesla Tesla Motors Elon Musk spends about half his working life - i.e., almost all of his waking hours - in his office at SpaceX in Los Angeles. The automotive CEO is, after all, also in charge of the rocket company, which means that he's thinking about a lot more than just ...
- Exclusive: Elon Musk: 'The credit for saving T ...Filed under: Earnings/Financials, Tesla, Electric Back in 2009, the plug-in vehicle world was surprised to learn that Daimler had invested $50 million in Tesla Motors. What we didn't know at the time was that the money came deus ex machina style just before the EV startup reaper was about to ...
- Report: GM will sell 2,500 Chevy Volts in Augu ...Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric We should be getting August's official sales numbers early next week, but The Detroit Free Press is already reporting that General Motors will have something to be proud of in the announcement: 2,500 Chevrolet Volt sales, the car's best ...
- Official: New CAFE rules officially finalized; ...Filed under: Government/Legal Increasing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for model year 2017-2025 cars to 54.5 miles per gallon was first proposed in July 2011. Since then, there has been a lot of back and forth, a lot of positive and negative responses, and, lately, a delay for ...
- Report: Motor Trend tests Tesla Model S ...Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Electric Tesla has said the highest-end Model S has a range of 300 miles (at 55 miles per hour), but until recently, it's been tremendously difficult for anyone outside the company to verify this number. When the EPA did its testing thing, it came up with a 265-mile ...
Rafe's Radar
- Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computersPointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
- First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
- Groupiter makes workflow as simple as DropboxTiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
- Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
- Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...
Camera Obscura
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
- No Papers, No Fear at the Democratic ConventionBy Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan CHARLOTTE , N.C.—As the Democratic National Convention was gaveled into session Tuesday, outside in the rain, in the paramilitarized heart of Charlotte, democracy in its finest form found expression. Democracy, that is, if you believe that it’s built on ...
- Workers Feel the Pain of BainBy Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan TAMPA , Fla. — Four hardy souls from rural Illinois joined tens of thousands of people undeterred by threats of Hurricane Isaac during this week’s Republican National Convention. They weren’t among the almost 2,400 delegates to the convention, thou ...
- Breaking WIth Convention: Democracy Now! Repor ...Democracy Now! will expand to a daily two-hour broadcast during the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew will travel to Tampa Bay and Charlotte to report from the streets, to the suites, to the convention floor. Tune in on Monday, August 2 ...
- Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred?By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan People remember 1929 as the year of the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the global economic disaster which remains the only one in history that dwarfs the one in which we now find ourselves. It was also the year Martin Luther ...
- Read an Excerpt from "Subversives: The FBI's W ...Read "Spies in the Hills," Chapter 1 of the new book, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power, by Seth Rosenfeld. Decades in the making, the book reveals that the FBI tried to disrupt the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, helping ...
Suzie-Q
- Barack Obama Speech Text: Read The President&# ...Huff Post Posted: 09/06/2012 10:26 pm President Barack Obama delivered his Democratic National Convention speech at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday night. Below, his prepared remarks as prepared for delivery. Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire co ...
- Bill Clinton’s 2012 DNC Speech – FULL TE ...Being Liberal 9/5/12 Here is the text of President Bill Clinton’s speech to the Democratic National Convention as prepared for delivery and released by the convention’s press office: We’re here to nominate a President, and I’ve got one in mind. I want to nominate a man whose own life has known ...
- This Seat’s Taken…This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st… — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012
- Paul Ryan Address: Convention Speech Built On ...Huff Post Ryan Grim Posted: 08/30/2012 12:29 am Updated: 08/30/2012 11:52 am TAMPA, Fla. — Paul Ryan pledged Wednesday that if he and his running mate Mitt Romney were elected president, they would usher in an ethic of responsibility. The Wisconsin congressman and GOP vice presidential can ...
- Paul Ryan Fails — The TruthThe Washington Post By Jonathan Bernstein Posted at 11:56 PM ET, 08/29/2012 It was, by any reasonable standards, a staggering, staggering lie. Here’s Paul Ryan about Barack Obama: He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their ...
Solari
- An Anniversary Prayer – September 11, 2012Catherine’s Anniversary Prayer — September 11, 2012 By Catherine Austin Fitts Lord, we gather in prayer on the eleventh anniversary of 9-11; We thank you for the many blessings you have given us, among them the gift of life; Let our hearts be in your heart, our mind in your mind;
- What’s UP With Gold?By Catherine Austin Fitts For most of 2012, gold and silver have been in a period of consolidation: both US equity markets and agricultural commodities have outperformed precious metals. But, as Franklin Sanders predicted in our report last month, this period of consolidation appears to be over ...
- Privately Run Cities: Honduras Sets the StageBy Kevin Flaherty The link on this update mentions Decree #123-2011, which is just 15 pages long, but will have you wondering, “Is this real?” I’m asking everyone out there: Is this real? Let’s assume it is, for a few minutes anyway. I took one semester of International Law, so I’m far from bei ...
- Steve Hanke and Nicholas Krus, “World Hy ...Steve Hanke and Nicholas Krus, “World Hyperinflations”. Cato Working Paper no. 8, August 15, 2012. Forthcoming in: Randall Parker and Robert Whaples (eds.) (2013) The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History, London: Routledge Publishing. (expected publication date: Summer 2013) ...
- Initial Reflections on the Annals of Internal ...By: Charles Benbrook Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources Washington State University In a comprehensive paper published in the September 4, 2012 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (Smith-?Spangler et al., Vol. 157, Number 5: pages 349–369), a Stanford University Medic ...
Insurgency Watch - Newswire
- Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
AlterNet - Rights and Liberties
- Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
- Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
- Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
- Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
- Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.
Sideways News
- Could you be a 10:10 community champion?The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
- Brit mums strict about eco-choresFamilies in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
- UK venue offers rainforest weddingsGetting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
- Battery recycling 'too difficult'The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
- 10 green resolutions to save you moneyBy taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...
Fabius Maximus
- Do we need so many and such well-paid generals ...Summary: In today’s post guest author Richard A Pawloski (Captain, USMC, retired) asks some hard questions about the senior ranks of the US officer corps. The military is the most trusted institution in America, and so has successfully resisted most efforts to reform it — or even sl ...
- A mystery about a possible domestic hit by the ...Summary: Many odd stories mark the evolution of America-that-once-was into the New America. Dark and mysterious stories, often about the uses of government power for private ends. Today we look at the death of Sunny Sheu, and the cover-up of the death of this anti-corruption whistleblower by n ...
- What you need to know about today’s jobs ...Summary: I don’t have time for our usual analysis of the monthly US jobs report. Here’s a brief with the important news. For a fast analysis I use the household survey. Although less accurate than the establishment survey, BLS does not revise it — providing a firm if broad base ...
- What would a gold-backed currency do to America?Summary: The history of gold-based currencies, from Newton to the Great Depression, warns us that they are no panacea. If not carefully structured they can destroy an economy in extremis by preventing radical monetary easing. This is part two of two looking at gold-based monetary systems, the ...
- Why do so many Americans want a gold-based cur ...Summary: Periods of economic stress tend to bring forth quack simplistic economic theories, like during the 1930s. We will see more of these if this slow period continues, more so if we have another recession before a recovery. Not just gold, but other fringe ideas such as Ayn Rand and her mut ...
Open Your Eyes News
- Vatican kicks out Roma on EasterPress TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
- Euro strikes 16-month high against dollarBreitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
- British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrsPressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
- Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
- Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...
The Progressive Realist
- US Flagged Ship Seized in Venezuela, Captain A ...It is not every day when an American ship is seized, the cargo is unloaded, the Captain is jailed, and the crew is being told to prepare to be interrogated, but these events are apparently unfolding in Venezuela. This is the Forbes report that helped bring attention to the issue. The Venezuela ...
- Romney's Poland ObsessionAssociated Press Although he doesn't get the European Phased Adapted Approach (EPAA) quite right, Mark Adomanis at Forbes makes the right point about the BMD portion of the Romney foreign-policy memo: I don’t think I’m being uncharitable, but if you read this paragraph and didn’t hav ...
- The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Al Qaeda an ...Yesterday I was quoted in a Spencer Ackerman article over at Wired, saying, “We don’t know whether there is a current relationship between LIFG [the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group] and al Qaeda.” I wanted to expand upon that quote here, because I feel that it represents a minority opi ...
- You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killin ...“Interview with President Obama,” Fox 19, September 6, 2012. Q: Well let me ask then also about the so-called presidential kill list that has gotten a lot of attention…and on that list have been U.S. citizens who have not been afforded trial, including Anwar al-Awlaki. How do you as president an ...
- Obama v. Romney on Foreign Policy - A Guide fo ...Many thanks to the Des Moines Register for publishing -- on a day Obama and Biden are in Iowa -- my latest in a series of commentaries on the 2012 foreign policy debate. You can see it on the DMReg web site, but the text is below. BYPASSING RHETORIC IN FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE The presidential ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
- Friday Music BreakWe're going historical for the music break today. Fifty years ago on this day, the #1 song on the Billboard 100 was "Sheila," by Tommy Roe. It didn't survive quite as well as some other songs on the chart that week—I have to admit I'd never heard of the song, or Roe himself, before looking it u ...
- We're Wasting $750 Billion a Year on Health CareThe Institute of Medicine just came out with a report showing that the American health care system wastes an astonishing $750 billion dollars a year, one out of every three health care dollars spent. As Sarah Kliff explains, "So much wasteful spending leaves a lot of space for fixes. The Instit ...
- Part Two of the Blue-Collar OffensiveThere aren’t many Democratic politicians who can connect with white, working-class voters. But Bill Clinton, born and raised in Arkansas, and Average Amtrak Joe have the bona fide red, white and blue credentials and oratorical ease that makes them gifted salesmen of the Democrats’ vision. Wedne ...
- Grading the Dems' 2016 ArithmeticElizabeth Warren walks offstage after addressing the 2012 Democratic National Convention (Photo by Jared Soares for PBS NewsHour) Wow. That was some humdinger of a speech, huh? Clears up a lot about the upcoming election! No, I’m not talking about Barack Obama's closing address. Sure, ...
- Third Night of the DNC: TV & Twitter ReviewSo the DNC gave us a week that got more and more sober as it went on. By last night, we were down and dirty with tough choices and grim policies. Foreign policy dominated the early part of the evening, with a salute to military veterans that had many in my Twitter feed commenting on how strange ...
Buzzflash
- Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
- Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent AdventureWILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
- BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
- We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
- The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOPMARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...
Glenn Greenwald - Salon
- The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speechMuslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
- Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian sagaA series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
- Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
- Celebrating the fall of a dictatorReports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
- A tweet that explains everythingThe nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict
The BiPartisan Report
- Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
- Nihilism 1 American People Nil
- Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
- Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
- Those holier than thou Conservatives
Sciencebase
- Raspberry ketoneRaspberry ketone, more specifically, 4-(4-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-one, is an organic compound, a phenolic or ketonic compound depending on which end you focus on, present in red raspberries, it’s the main chemical that gives them their distinctive aroma. As such, it is used widely in perfume ...
- Flip-flop wetwareAn aqueous computer based on water droplets rolling around a superhydrophobic surface has been developed by researchers in Finland. See flip-flop memory logic in action: Source From the abstract to the paper: “When water droplets impact each other while traveling on a superhydrophobic surf ...
- The science of orgasms videoIt’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 strokeInteresting 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 youWhen 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 “ ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
- Report: Ocean Acidification Making Puget Sound ...A new report has found that ocean acidification continues to threaten water quality and wildlife in the Puget Sound. According to the report, surveys revealed the waters from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Great Bend of the Hood Canal are corrosive during part of the year — a troubling ...
- Report: Ocean Acidification Making Puget Sound ...A new report has found that ocean acidification continues to threaten water quality and wildlife in the Puget Sound. According to the report, surveys revealed the waters from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Great Bend of the Hood Canal are corrosive during part of the year — a troubling ...
- Colorado Initiative on Campaign Spending Quali ...Coloradans have responded to the barrage of campaign advertising in Colorado by putting an initiative on the ballot to instruct Colorado’s elected officials to pass a federal constitutional amendment to limit campaign contributions and spending. After completing the signature verification, ...
- Colorado Initiative on Campaign Spending Quali ...Coloradans have responded to the barrage of campaign advertising in Colorado by putting an initiative on the ballot to instruct Colorado’s elected officials to pass a federal constitutional amendment to limit campaign contributions and spending. After completing the signature verification, ...
- Obama, Romney “Playing Games” with Environment ...DAPHNE WYSHAM , via Lacy MacAuley read more
Common Dreams-Views
- Romney and Ryan’s Dangerous Tax RoadmapDavid Cay Johnston Together Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have put human faces on how the super-rich game the tax system to pay less, pay later and sometimes not pay at all. Both want to expand tax favors for the already rich, like themselves. ...
- Assange Case: Sweden's Shame in Violating Huma ...Mark Weisbrot It was like a scene from a Hollywood movie, where the kidnapper walks up from behind, with a gun protruding from his trench coat pocket. “Keep walking, and don’t say anything,” he warns.The Swedish government ...
- A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New NormalBill McKibben Just as the baseball season now stretches nearly into November, and the National Football League keeps adding games, so the summer season is in danger of extending on both ends, a kind of megalomaniac power grab fueled by the ...
- A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New NormalBill McKibben Just as the baseball season now stretches nearly into November, and the National Football League keeps adding games, so the summer season is in danger of extending on both ends, a kind of megalomaniac power grab fueled by the ...
- We Eat by the Grace of Nature, Not by the Grac ...Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez “Organic, schmorganic,” fumes New York Times columnist Roger Cohen sarcastically in an article entitled “The Organic Fable.” He bases his sweeping dismissal of the organic foods movement ...
Newshoggers - AfPak
- This Is The War That Never EndsHASH(0xa903c40)
- Who could have expected...?HASH(0xa09d238)
- Making Afghanistan Safe For ChinaHASH(0xb4f0fb0)
- The Costs of WarHASH(0x9061ce8)
- NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?HASH(0xaac03c0)
Water Wars
- Future Water Wars?Growing populations, climate change, and diminishing water resources are combining to make water the oil of the 21st century.
- Uzbekistan Leader Warns of Water Wars in Centr ...President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan has upped his rhetoric against neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, warning that their efforts to build hydroelectric power stations on rivers upstream could spark war. Speaking during an official visit to Astana on September 7, Karimov launched a broadsid ...
- Attorney General Olens Talks WaterAttorney General Sam Olens was in Albany today and talked about many issues, including the water wars between Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
- 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 terroristsIn 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.
WordPress | Economics
- The Human Condition
- Politics Lost: The 'Special Relationship' that ...Whilst the media buzz surrounding a Presidential election in an age of soundbite politics suggests,
- Road to FailureRoad to Failure.
- The Romney Campaign's Disdain For Community, C ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romney-and-ryan-are-overlooking-the-underclass/2012/08
- Why Americans Feel No Better Off Than Four Yea ...Although the US as a whole is doing better than when the Republican created economic collapse began
Electronic Intifada
- Would a Green US president end aid to Israel?Titus North 7 September 2012 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s proposed policy toward Israel and the Palestinians is analyzed by Titus North, former Green Party congressional candidate.
- Palestinians fleeing Syria denied help in LebanonMoe Ali Nayel Beirut 7 September 2012 Palestinian refugees fleeing the violence in Syria to Lebanon are not able to access the same relief as Syrian nationals.
- Artists, writers respond to "vile city" of Ram ...Sarah Irving 6 September 2012 In Ramallah, Running is a set of visual and written thoughts, questions and responses about the city of Ramallah.
- Why aid projects in Palestine are doomed to failJeremy 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 GazaRami Almeghari Gaza Strip 6 September 2012 The Electronic Intifada contributor Rami Almeghari on playing the Palestinian waiting game in Cairo.
The Wonk Room
- Harnessing The Power Of Crowds For Community R ...by John Farrell, via Renewable Energy World Back in April, President Obama signed the JOBS Act and one of the most-heralded elements was so-called crowdfunding. The law sought to solve a major problem: it’s hard to finance small-scale business ventures. Wall Street only cares about multi-millio ...
- Ryan: I Didn’t Vote For The Defense Cuts ...Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has gotten in hot water before for criticizing President Obama for the very same defense cuts that he voted for in 2011. When confronted with this incongruity today on Face The Nation, Ryan simply denied that he ever voted for the cuts, telling an incredulou ...
- Romney Says His Plan To Cut Taxes On The Rich ...On Meet The Press this morning, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney claimed that his tax plan — which provides a 20 percent tax cut for all Americans — would not “reduce the tax burden” on the rich, even as he has touted the plan as a tax cut for everyone and inde ...
- Romney: ‘There Are A Number Of Things I ...The Affordable Care Act’s core framework — a requirement that all Americans can obtain insurance even if they have preexisting conditions, subsidies for Americans who cannot afford insurance, and a requirement that everyone buy into the insurance system rather than simply taking mone ...
- Interactive Timeline Of 2012 Extreme Weatherby Kelly Levin, via WRI’s Insights Over the past several months, extreme weather and climate events in the form of heat waves, droughts, fires, and flooding have seemed to become the norm rather than the exception. In the past half-year alone, millions of people have been affected across t ...
thwap's schoolyard
- Learn From JapanYeah, I know. The right-wing are braying like the jackasses they are saying that THEIR favourite politicians should be able to engage in any conflict of interest with no penalties, and that the RCMP is pulling private airplanes out of the sky because they are pulling banners that offend his maje ...
- Malnutrition in AfghanistanIt'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 & UnionsThe 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 BrillianceSo, 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 ...
on Government Oversight
- Video: POGO's Michael Smallberg Dissects the R ...HASH(0x3fb07d0)
- Break-in reveals "ineptitude" at nuke facility ...HASH(0x4f34ca8)
- Some Senators Want to Waste Big Bucks on Unnec ...HASH(0x46db6a8)
- Conservatives Tell Rep. Issa: Federal Whistleb ...HASH(0x5448628)
- Video: Signing and Celebrating the Camp Lejeun ...HASH(0x579c530)
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