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Digital Journal
- Canadian Prime Minister inks deal with China a ...At the last day of the APEC meeting in Vladivostok Russia China and Canada have signed a new trade deal that will give protection to Canadian investments in China
- Leonard Cohen brings 'Old Ideas' to LondonLeonard Cohen delivered a scintillating performance at London's Wembley Arena on September 8, as part of the European Leg of his 'Old Ideas' tour. Cohen captivated the crowd with a mix of more recent songs and classics drawn from his past albums.
- Magazine man Larry Flynt offers $1 million for ...In the ongoing saga of Mitt Romney's tax returns - or a lack thereof - a salvo is being fired by Hustler magazine publisher, Larry Flynt. Flynt, a self-proclaimed 'free speech activist', is offering a million bucks for the returns.
- 'Jack Sparrow' poses with Johnny Depp fans dur ...Johnny Depp fans who may have missed the actor's appearance during the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday afternoon when "Jack Sparrow" was spotted.
- Why Aliens are hiding from usFrom wars of religion to aggressive intent on the territories of others, Earthlings have killed for a variety of reasons. They are now entering an era of exceptional hatred of the difference. Is it really a wonder that no one wishes to pay Earth a visit?
End Homelessness | Change.org
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
Ceasefire.ca
- Sixth Annual Ottawa Peace Festival to honour v ...Canadian Peace Initiative (CPI) together with Ottawa's peace and justice groups will be holding its annual Peace Festival from September 21st to October 2.
- $188M for Arctic research stationPM Harper announces money for Arctic research -- as long as it supports Canadian industry.
- Return of the submarine debacleThe navy wants brand new submarines.
- Cleaning up after the Cold WarCanada is still cleaning up the legacy of the Cold War in the Arctic.
- Staples on Snowbirds spendingThe government has decided that spending three quarters of a billion dollars to give the aerobatics team new jets is important because of the "recruiting value"' that the team provides.
Kevin Trudeau Show
- Is That A Crushed Bug In Your Frothy Starbucks ...April 2, 2012 NPR By Nancy Shute “If you are still going to Starbucks, stop! Not only have they killed almost every mom and pop coffee shop, by now it’s been proven they are using crushed up beetles in their beverages. Gross!” –KTRN Call it the tempest in the Frappuccino. ...
- Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme CourtApril 2, 2012 Associated Press By AP “Even the Supreme Court thinks Congress is lame.” –KTRN The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week’s marathon arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress’ abili ...
- Japan’s Okinawa Island – The Healthiest Place ...April 2, 2012 Oddity Central By Sumitra “It’s really not that odd. The people living on Okinawa eat real food and have no stress – thus they live long lives. We can all learn a lot by studying the people living on this island.” –KTRN I used to think that there were ...
- Secrets of Prometheus Film Leaked!April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Info Wars “According to Alex Jones, the new film Prometheus has a hidden global elite agenda.” –KTRN No, we’re not going to give away any SPOILERS here; instead we will reveal the agenda behind Prometheus, the new film by legendary director Ridley Sc ...
- FDA Discounts More Than a Million Signatures O ...April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “So apparently more than a million signatures is not enough for the FDA.” –KTRN The FDA is with Monsanto and agribusiness. They don’t want you to know what’s in the food you eat. On Tuesday, the FDA reached a deadline for the “Just Label It ...
Armies of Liberation
- State Department ends Yemen arms embargoWithout much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
- Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
- Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostagesAl Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
- Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...
- Former Yemen president’s intended US tri ...As pressure builds on the Obama administration to deny a diplomatic visa to ousted Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the family of a sailor killed in the al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole urged that Saleh be denied entry to the United States. In a public plea, Gary and Deborah Swenchonis are c ...
Dark Politricks
- Ask Alex Jones #9Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Aug 11, 2012 Alex answers Planet Infowars members’ questions.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
- Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney’s V ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...
- American ValuesDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Blum The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990 ...
- U.S. Army tests football field-sized super spy ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...
- Historic Hypocrisy: UN-Backed Rogue States Pla ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...
Dandelion Salad
- 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 ...
- The End of the LineDandelion Salad Jun 28, 2012 by docurama As the world’s demand for fish and other seafood increases and the technology available to commercial fisherman becomes more sophisticated, the annual harvest from global seaports has grown tremendously in recent years. However, the rise of industri ...
- Fracked: New Yorkers Visit the Marcellus Shale ...Dandelion Salad Note: Part 4 has not been uploaded yet, so when it becomes available, I’ll post it here. Aug 29, 2012 by nothingofficial Montrose, Susquehanna Co., Pa, August 26– Senator Adriano Espaillat sponsors a tour for New Yorkers of several Pennsylvania hydrofracking sites own ...
- After Dempsey Warning, Israel May Curb War Thr ...by Jim Lobe and Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP Sept. 5, 2012 President Barack Obama’s explicit warning that he will not accept a unilateral Israeli attack against Iran may force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from his ostensible threat of ...
Your New Reality
- No titleOnly A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
- No titleJulian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
- No titleThis man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
- No titleTupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
- No titleHypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
Wired - Science
- Why All Hurricanes Look the Same From SpaceEver notice how every satellite image of a hurricane looks a lot like the last one? We asked a meteorologist from NOAA to explain why.
- NASA’s Newest Autonomous Lander Passes Flight TestA prototype NASA lander completed a successful free flight on Sept. 5, helping to bring a new generation of landing vehicles closer to reality.
- Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Weird St ...If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
- Amazing New Image Captures Curiosity Rover’s T ...A new image shows a beautiful example of two spectacular robots at work, capturing the Curiosity rover's tracks on Mars using the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
- New Exploratorium Promises Awesome Science, Ea ...San Francisco's famous interactive science museum, the Exploratorium, is making a big move to a new waterfront location in a play to get more people interested in science with easy access and Bay views.
Israeli Occupation Archive
- Lia Tarachansky: Israel Denies Food and Entry ...Israel's anti-refugee policy reached a new peak this week when on Tuesday the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that a group of 20 asylum seekers was being denied entry and was stuck in the fenced area... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Noam Chomsky: Why America and Israel are the g ...Like its patron, Israel resorts to violence at will. It persists in illegal settlement in occupied territory, some annexed, all in brazen defiance of international law and the U.N. Security Council.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- Yuval Ginbar: Double standard on tortureRecently, the [Israeli] High Court of Justice also made a contribution that helps perpetuate torture among the Shin Bet: It approved a mechanism that was apparently created to ensure that no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
- Nurit Peled-Elhanan: The presentation of Pales ...Tzipi Livni: "The national solution for Israel’s Arabs lies elsewhere: in order to maintain a Jewish-Democratic state we must constitute two nation-states with clear red-lines. Once this happens, I... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
- New Matzpen websiteIOA Editor: For 50 years now, Matzpen has been the leading anti-occupation, anti-Zionist activist organization in Israel; its new website covers five decades of steadfast, principled opposition to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
Ria Novosti - Military
- Ukraine to Halve Armed Forces by 2017The Ukrainian Armed Forces are to be downsized almost 50 percent by 2017, General Staff chief Igor Nikolaenko said on Friday.
- New Russian ICBM Can Carry Bigger Warhead - ExpertRussia’s new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile will have a 5-ton warhead, which is four times that of its predecessors, a former military commander said on Friday.
- MiG-29 Fighter Jet Crashes in SiberiaA Russian Air Force MiG-29 fighter crashed on Thursday near Chita, in Siberia, the Defense Ministry said.
- Russia to Sell 52 Mi-171Е Helicopters to ChinaRussia on Thursday signed a contract with China for the delivery of 52 Mi-171Е (Hip) transport helicopters.
- India, Russia to Make Multiple Rocket SystemsMoscow and Delhi have agreed to set up a joint venture in India for manufacturing and post-sales servicing of rockets for Russian Smerch multiple rocket launchers, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
NewsWise
- Researchers Show Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Tes ...Less than half of community-based substance abuse treatment programs in the United States currently make HIV testing available on-site or through referral. A new study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College shows the cost-effectiveness of integrating on-site rapid HIV testing into d ...
- Health Care Spending in Last Five Years of Lif ...As many as a quarter of Medicare recipients spend more than the total value of their assets on out-of-pocket health care expenses during the last five years of their lives, according to researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. They found that 43 percent of Medicare recipients spend more th ...
- Better Disease Tracking System Could Limit the ...
- New SLU Center Fights Cancer in MinoritiesThrough a combined $1.25 million grant, three national organizations based in St. Louis have joined in supporting a new Saint Louis University initiative to improve screening, detection and treatment of cancer in minority groups.
- Tension on Gut Muscles Induces Cell Invasion i ...Towards a better understanding of how tissue stiffness drives cancer, researchers show that epithelial cells lining the intestine of zebrafish with a mutation of the smooth muscle myosin gene form protrusions called invadopodia that allow the cells to invade surrounding tissue. The protrusions f ...
Natural Health News
- The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep UpBird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
- 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
- NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
- Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
- Study Says More Vitamin D = Less LbsIf you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.
Climategate
- Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
- ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
- How to avoid your own Climategate scandalWhat are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
- What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
- Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
Opinio Juris
- Upcoming Events: September 9, 2012by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Upcoming Events The SHARES Research Project on Shared Responsibility in International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam has launched its SHARES Lecture Series on topics related to shared responsibility. The complete schedule of the lectures ...
- Weekend Roundup: August 25 – September 7 ...by An Hertogen by An Hertogen At the start of the US academic year, Peggy welcomed Stephen Walt’s recommendation, though not his reasons, that wannabe foreign policy wonks study international law, and Roger Alford posted about James Phillips and John Yoo’s analysis of international ...
- Weekend Roundup: August 25 – September 7, 2012by An Hertogen by An Hertogen At the start of the US academic year, Peggy welcomed Stephen Walt’s recommendation, though not his reasons, that wannabe foreign policy wonks study international law, and Roger Alford posted about James Phillips and John Yoo’s analysis of international ...
- New Study Analyzes the Best Law Schools and To ...by Roger Alford by Roger Alford James Phillips and John Yoo have just published a thoughtful analysis critiquing Brian Leiter’s approach to ranking faculty relevance. They suggest that what we should be looking at is all-stars, not superstars. If you measure a school based on their all-s ...
- New Study Analyzes the Best Law Schools and To ...by Roger Alford by Roger Alford James Phillips and John Yoo have just published a thoughtful analysis critiquing Brian Leiter’s approach to ranking faculty relevance. They suggest that what we should be looking at is all-stars, not superstars. If you measure a school based on their all-s ...
Public News Service
- Experts Say Arizonans' Health Riding on Strong ...Experts Say Arizonans' Health Riding on Strong Soot Rules PHOENIX - After collecting around 400,000 comments from people concerned about soot pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency is in the final stages of crafting new rules to curb the amount of soot in the air we breathe. The move get ...
- Report: Summer's Signs of Things to ComeReport: Summer's Signs of Things to Come PHOENIX - Arizona's weather this summer is telling us a lot about climate change and where we're headed in the future, according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation. NWF senior scientist Doug Inkley says the heat waves we've been expe ...
- "Look Before You Lock" – Keeping AZ Kids ..."Look Before You Lock" – Keeping AZ Kids Out of Hot Cars PHOENIX – With school back in session, Arizona parents are again running kids around to all their activities. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says it's important for parents and day care providers to ...
- Eating Healthy Helps AZ Kids Succeed in SchoolEating Healthy Helps AZ Kids Succeed in School PHOENIX, Ariz. - With Arizona schools back in session, parents are reminded that eating right is important for children's bodies as well as their brains. Tammy Gallow, a registered nurse and dietitian, says it's absolutely critical to get a student' ...
- Is My Child Ready for Social Media?Is My Child Ready for Social Media? PHOENIX – Kids tweet, they post pictures on Facebook, and they connect through many social media channels - while their parents, in Arizona and around the nation, seem to accept it. A new national study by Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics finds 83 ...
Center for Food Safety
- Stanford Research on Organics Hits the Stats, ...By Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D, Organic Policy Coordinator, Center for Food Safety “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier than Conventional Alternatives?” Stanford University researchers attempted to answer this question in their recently released analysis of published literature on the health, nutrition ...
- Environmental, Public Interest Groups Ready fo ...Longstanding violation of Endangered Species Act provisions highlights Sixty-Day Notice filing Today, the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and the Sierra Club, along with affected citizens from around the country, filed a Sixty-Day Notice letter with the Environmental Protection Agency ...
- Oregon Court of Appeals Grants Stay, Canola Pl ...Groups and producers pleased with court ruling, damage to local growers temporarily averted The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) failed to provide adequate justification for a temporary rule issued earlier this month that would have allowed the un ...
- Center for Food Safety Lawsuit Targets FDA, OM ...Food Safety and Modernization Act rules unlawfully delayed as risks increase, public health threatened The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) today filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for their failure to im ...
- USDA-Appointed Committee’s Recommendations Fai ...Proposed AC21 “co-existence” policy would harm conventional growers, endanger U.S. organic industry The Center for Food Safety (“The Center”) issued a position paper today critical of proposals made by the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21), a group appointed ...
Angry Indian Op-Eds
- The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
- House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
- Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
- IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
- Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Pensieve
- Where’s the switch?I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
- Older and WiserI had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
- Disney-Pixar PollutionFor a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
- GrainI feel like sand crumbling in the wind. I try to take a step only to find my feet are no longer there. I am a particle, speeding away to nothingness. I was once a rock, solid, assailed by waves, broken by none. But one day I fell from the lofty cliff that was my [...] Related posts: Hurricane Al ...
- Thermodynamics and Jenga TowersI imagine one type of probability space as an extremely wide and extremely high tower of Jenga blocks under bombardment from an arbitrarily large number of bored children wearing jetpacks. The vertical, y axis represents the passage of time. The higher you go up that axis, the further you travel ...
Green Times
- Kangaroo cullLast week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
- Environmental News 01/06/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
- Green Capital AustraliaToday is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
- Environmental News 31/05/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
- Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
The Briefing Room | Investigate
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
- Hiroshima Survivors to Visit IsraelThe Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
- Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
- A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susyain May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
- SusyaJune 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...
- My Home is Everything: the People of Susiya Sp ...Dear Friends and supporters, The latest news from Qamar, the lawyer from Rabbis for Human Rights representing Palestinian Susiya: the occupation’s “Civil Administration” agreed to extend the period for the submission of the juridical objections to the demolition orders issued f ...
Politics in the Zeros
- David Peel – Up Against The Wall (1968)Crude, stoned, definitely NSFW. But he does get his point across…
- Merkel about to cave on Greek debt. Let the ch ...Angela Merkel is caving on Greek debt and will give Greece more flexibility to pay debt it can not possibly afford, in hopes that Greece somehow remains in the eurozone. Germany doesn’t have the money or the will to do another bailout. Oh, the ECB can now buy unlimited amounts of sovereign ...
- Vermont Progressive Party getting unwanted thr ...The Vermont Progressive Party chair set out to win her party’s nomination for governor, planning all along not to run against incumbent Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin, and then a funny thing happened: an insurgent write-in candidate almost won. Now Republicans are up in arms, at least rhetori ...
- Wells Fargo forecloses on wrong house – Elderl ...Wells Fargo foreclosed on the wrong home and instructed a crew to break into the house and take everything. The house is legally owned by an elderly couple. The husband helped build it when he was a teenager. All their belongings are gone.Everyone involved in this obscenity needs to be arrested ...
- Wind turbine produces water tooA new wind turbine design uses some of its 30 kW of energy to extract as much as 315 gallons of water a day from the air, making it ideal for small communities, especially in dry, rural areas.
Coteret
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
Deadline Live
- The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying̶ ...
- Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012! The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
- More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted / regulated. By the time regular folks find out it will ...
- “The Great Culling” Official Water ...Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
- Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...Gag…. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
The Air Vent
- Proof and GeniusI know you guys missed me, Real Climate sure did. Eric Steig has written a letter to “The Guardian” (booming voice) in response to a Nic Lewis letter patiently explaining problems in an article written by yet-another-know-nothing with a keyboard. Unfortunately for us, the article it ...
- Simulated UniverseCalculated galactic formation. This is just way too good to miss: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/17/scientists-create-universe-simulation/ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itc/research/movingmeshcosmology/index.html
- NH Sea Ice Heading for Record Minimum?From Cryosphere Today: Seeing the yellow line drop so far below the historic curves with much of the melt season ahead of us means we are probably on the way to a new record minimum for the Northern hemisphere. Correspondingly, NH Sea ice anomaly is approaching the second lowest value in histo ...
- Surface Stations Project Hits PaydirtIt seems as always, I don’t have much time. I have been waiting for this to break for a long time now, holding my tongue through a lot of critique from the usual advocate trolls. This extraordinary moment in climate science is FAR to important not to call attention to and I will absolut ...
- CG File Date TimelineAn interesting Climategate timeline discussion has started in a recent Blackboard thread.
Focal Point
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
- Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
- Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
Inside Facebook
- Facebook roundup: stock back up after dipping ...Stock rebounds slightly – Facebook shares closed at $18.98 today, up after an all-time low earlier this week when the stock traded at $17.59 mid-day Tuesday. The company this week decided not to make a secondary offering, which would have … Continue reading →
- Facebook platform industry hires: Kenshoo Soci ...If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post. Also, please note that information about most new hires, below, … Continue reading →
- Photo apps, welcome tabs, international apps a ...Topping our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week was Le Mie Foto, an Italian photo app on the Facebook canvas. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in … Continue reading →
- The Facebook Marketing Bible: Updates for Sept ...Ever wonder how to run a contest on Facebook or if you should try out Page Post Ads? Learn abou these topics and much more with the September 2012 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Leading Resource for Marketing and … Continue reading →
- Zynga Slingo, Yahoo, Shazam, Birthday Calendar ...Zynga Slingo came in as No. 1 on our list of top growing Facebook apps by daily active users this week, with 81 percent gain. Titles on our list gained the most DAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between … Continue reading →
Truthout - Tweets
- truthout: California Spends More on Jails Than ...truthout: California Spends More on Jails Than Higher Education http://t.co/zMGQ6i3Z #newjimcrow
- truthout: Primal Outrage: Can Homo Sapiens Use ...truthout: Primal Outrage: Can Homo Sapiens Use Our Inherent "Inequity Aversion" to Topple the 1 Percent http://t.co/UXoemUpV #occupy
- truthout: Debt Collectors Cashing In on Studen ...truthout: Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup http://t.co/9TOlXzwh
- truthout: Pink Shrouds Aimed to Draw Attention ...truthout: Pink Shrouds Aimed to Draw Attention to Iran Military Site, Analysts Say http://t.co/DAmJO1uQ
- truthout: High-Performing Charter Schools: Bea ...truthout: High-Performing Charter Schools: Beating the Odds, or Beating the Test? http://t.co/ZigUVDnM?
ReDress News
- Israeli leaders score own goal over non-aligne ...Uri Avnery argues that the Israeli premier’s and defence minister's reactions to the UN and Egyptian leaders' participation in the Tehran non-aligned summit show their ideological fixations, mental outlook and low intelligence.
- Ethiopia’s opportunity: a new day beckonsGraham Peebles argues that the death of Ethiopia's dictatorial prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provides a golden opportunity for the country to embark on the long delayed journey to reunite its fragmented communities, restore human dignity and establish democracy and human rights.
- Israel says "Rachel made me do it"Lawrence Davidson argues that behind the Israeli court ruling that Rachel Corrie, the US peace activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home, lies a culture of pathological racism that considers all Palestinians and th ...
- Is Palestine a lost cause?Alan Hart outlines a strategy for saving the Palestinian cause from extinction: making Israel accountable for its occupation by dissolving the quisling Palestinian Authority and exposing Zionism's propaganda, and mobilizing Palestinians everywhere to engage by peaceful and democratic means in th ...
- Israel's underemployed foreign minister seeks ...Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's bizarre letter to the Middle East "Quartet", in which he accused the Palestinian Authority of "diplomatic terrorism", is a symptom of an attention-seeking disorder rooted in the fact that Lieberman is underemployed.
Amazon Rainforest
- Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
- Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
- European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
- Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
- Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
- Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...Political Language & the Debt Crisis George Orwell wrote that political language is meant to give “solidity to pure wind.” Are politicians and economists simply liars? Or do they speak a different language? Using the example of the European debt crisis, we are able to actually t ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 16, ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
- Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial AgendaRecent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
- Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...Smokey Robinson- “Quiet Storm” It’s been over a half year now of Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol Music Pick. A lot of Saturday-night listening to an eclectic selection of music here at BFP. I hope you have enjoyed my selections (and the requests) so far. This weeks pick is al ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 10, ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
Afro Spear
- sat’day riddymz
- Hating on Love: The Fallacy of Black Unity“It’s so amazing to me that so many of us speak of unity, yet we are to assume we know what is meant by unity and unification. The word is never clearly defined by the user. In the between time, there is a mean spirited tone to the discussion that should be avoided if we [...]
- sat’day riddymz
- 270 South African miners charged with murder o ...This is outrageous! How far the ANC has fallen! Murder charges stun and enrage South African miners South Africa’s Mine Massacre Reveals Ugly Realities Squalor surrounds South Africa’s platinum treasure chest Mnikelo Ndabankulu speaks at Marikana memorial service (video) Lonmin
- “Between Truths and Indulgences” b ...Repost inspired by this commentary from Sis. Carolyn Moon: “The difference that I’m noticing more now and it’s a perception which I’m sure can be debated but there is this extreme animus towards the various countries on the continent of Africa and their historical role in promoting the tri ...
Expose the BNP
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double lifeA BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeatThe British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick GriffinOn the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents pennilessOn yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
Ode Magazine
- Sonic boonA search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
- The secret’s in the sauceWhat my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
- Clean water, clean energyIn the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
- Blocking CO2 to beat malariaMosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
- A winter’s taleCelebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
OpEd News
- The Hypocrisy of the DemocratsThe hypocrisy of the democratic party teaches us a lesson, what is it? It's tells us we can't rely on politicians and their officials to effect positive change.
- Chick-fil-A, the Party of Hate, and the 2016 G ...Remember when the name "Chick-fil-A" was all the rage in national politics? Why it was only about a month ago, not that you would know it now, with the national party conventions underway. But given what came out of the Republican Convention, both in its platform and certain choice words that em ...
- Don't Take My Vote For GrantedThe Democratic Party is taking the Progressive for granted. While Romney is the worst possible choice, why should we hold our nose and vote for 4 more years of broken promises?
- Sure Obama caved again on Palestine but will h ...Obama erred politically and humiliated himself and his partly needlessly with his sell-out in Charlotte. He gained nothing in the way of Zionist support because the lobby has made clear form Tel Aviv to New York that it will never trust him on Israel as they increasingly coalesce around the Ro ...
- One Man Revolution Meets Botox Horror. The Ris ...The old Walmart--made in America; the new Wang-Mart--made off with America
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 ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
- Applying the Lessons of Abu Ghraib to Our SchoolsThis op-ed about the growing use of physical restraint and torture in public schools should outrage us all: Among the recent instances that have attracted attention: Children in Middletown, Conn., told their parents that there was a “scream room” in their school where they could hear other child ...
- And, Finally, Jeffrey Maier is AvengedAs I waited to the replay on the key call in tonight’s Yankees/Orioles game, it was pretty clear how it was going to come out, given that the first base umpire was Mr. Jerry “The Buffet At The Golden Corral Ain’t Getting Any Warmer” Meals. (Well, that, and the fact that I ...
- The Case of Thomas GrangerThe always useful site Executed Today details the execution of Thomas Granger, a Puritan executed on this day in 1642 for bestiality in Plymouth Colony. William Bradford’s description of the case: Ther was a youth whose name was Thomas Granger; he was servant to an honest man of Duxbery, b ...
- I didn’t know conservatives wrote poetry!The mysterious conservative poet known only as “Taboola” posted this masterpiece at the National Review: If you can’t see the tiny print, that reads: You may like: Jon Voight ‘feeding’ daughter Angelina Jolie 10 eye-catching looks From last night’s MTV. Is Kar ...
- The St. Ralph Lecture SeriesAs a bookend to Salon inexplicably publishing a ridiculous argument asserting that Mitt Romney is a harmless moderate who if anything is more liberal than Barack Obama, the man who made the Iraq War, massive upper-class tax cuts and Sam Alito possible is back to lecture us with arguments that ma ...
Desert Research Institute
- 2012 Tahoe Summit ReportThe Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
- DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
- DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
- DRI attaining renewable energy power sources f ...Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
- Hallar Named Regents' Rising ResearcherThe Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.
Earth Techling
- Seattle Mariners Pitch Ballgame Peanuts In A C ...
- Passive House In Phoenix: The Shadow Knows
- California’s 1 Gigawatt Solar Milestone: What ...
- Innovation Down Under Could Mean Off-Grid AC
- This LED Lamp Charges Your Phone Using Only Sa ...
National Law Journal | U.S.
- IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: Insights that graphics offer ...Beyond tables, graphical plots and insightful statistics help GCs better understand compensation figures.
- THE PRACTICE: Out-of-office smartphone use: ri ...Employers could face claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act for failure to pay overtime or keep accurate records.
- OPINION: Enlarging executive powerFederal Circuit ruling puts many federal employees at risk.
- OPINION: Lessons from Happy ValleyPenn State's missteps offer four important lessons for any organization that finds itself involved in a criminal investigation.
- ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: Predictive coding: more ...Two often-cited studies do not definitely prove computer-assisted review is as good as manual.
How Shall We Do The Mountain ?
- Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
- New State Impact PA AppSince I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
- OilandGasHelp.comI happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
- The Passage of House Bill 1950…I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
- Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
News Blaze
- Agreement Reached: Protecting The Health of La ...United States and Canada Sign Amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
- James W. Rawley Named Deputy Special Coordinat ...Reports say Mr. Rawley will also serve as the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory.
- Kyrgyz Republic Forms New Coalition GovernmentIn Washington DC, Acting Deputy Spokesperson Patrick says the formation of the new coalition government is a testament to the strength of the Kyrgyz Republic's democratic institutions.
- US Should Work For Justice Over US-Backed Crim ...The CAVR called on countries like the United States that actively supported Indonesia's illegal occupation to take specific actions.
- Omkareshwar 'Dam' Protest Stirs ControversyConcerned about the health and safety of the protesters Mr. Fernando said: 'Eleven days have passed, the water level is rising and their bodies could very badly be injured due to prolonged submergence.'
environment 360
- LED Bulb Technology Widening Gap in Energy Eff ...While today’s light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs are slightly better for the environment than compact fluorescent lamps, the energy efficiency gap will widen over the next five years as the technology and manufacturing methods of LEDs improve, according to a new report. In an analysis of the impac ...
- Key Asian Species Need Urgent Recovery Plans, ...The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has called on Asian nations to work together to save a handful of critically endangered species, including tigers, Asian rhinos, orangutans, Asian vultures, View gallery WCS A Mekong giant catfish. Batagur turtles, and the Mekong gian ...
- Destruction of Tropical Forests Reduces Region ...A new study has found that destruction of the world’s tropical forests may significantly reduce regional rainfall across large regions, a phenomenon researchers say could have devastating effects for people living in and around the Amazon and Congo basins. Using satellite observations of rainfa ...
- Record Levels of DDT Found in Breast Milk of W ...A new study has found record levels of DDT in the breast milk of nursing women living in South African villages where the toxic pesticide has been used for decades. In samples taken from women in three malaria-stricken villages where spraying occurs inside homes, researchers found that DDT level ...
- A Quarter of Liberian Land Ceded to Logging Co ...One quarter of Liberia’s total land area has been sold to logging companies over the last two years, a development that threatens widespread devastation in West Africa’s most heavily forested nation, a new investigation has found. According to a report by Global Witness, Save My Future Foundatio ...
Red Ice Creations
- September Approaches: Are We Closer To Truth?Global Research Editor’s Note: As September approaches, we are reminded that the anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11 will soon be upon us once again. 11 years laters, are we any closer to the truth about what really happened on that fateful day? For the next month until September 11, 2012, ...
- The Sun’s almost perfectly round shape baffles ...The sun is nearly the roundest object ever measured. If scaled to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference between the widest and narrow diameters would be much less than the width of a human hair. The sun rotates every 28 days, and because it doesn’t have a solid surfa ...
- London 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony: "Enl ...To begin Wednesday, August 29, the paralympic games are set to inspire a generation. But this time instead of a theme of Britain’s past as highlighted in ceremonies surrounding the historical industrial revolution and the heydays of rock music gone by, the paralympic games will be focused on the ...
- Former Marine arrested by FBI over 9/11 Truth ...A former Marine whose controversial Facebook posts accused the US government of being behind the 9/11 terror attacks and who spoke of "revolution" has been arrested in Virginia. Business Insider reports that agents from the FBI, Secret Service and Chesterfield County Police detained 26-year-old ...
- A Real-Life Indiana Jones Wants You to Find Hi ...Forrest Fenn has hidden a million dollars’ worth of antiques—and he wants you to discover it. Is he a modern-day treasure hunter or a grave robber? Tony Dokoupil digs into the mysterious scheme. “I’m sure not going to die in a hospital bed,” Forrest Fenn likes to say, and at 82 years old his is ...
Russia Today
- Nicaragua volcano awakens, 3,000 to be evacuat ...The 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. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Hong Kong elects officials after controversial ...Hong Kong votes on new legislature Sunday after China changed course on a controversial new education booklet extolling one-party rule. The move may affect the elections, having been announced on Saturday after... Read Full Article at RT.com
- 'Foreign Islamists seek to turn Syria into Sha ...Around half of the rebel fighters in Syria are foreign Islamists who aren’t interested in toppling the Assad regime. Instead, they’re seeking to implement Sharia law throughout the country, according to a prominent... Read Full Article at RT.com
- 'Russia won’t fund EU political influence in E ...The ongoing economic crisis in the eurozone has political roots, as the EU took on too many obligations with new members. Now Brussels wants Russia to share the burden, said President Vladimir Putin at the final APEC... Read Full Article at RT.com
- Borderline conflict: Rockets from Syria hit Ir ...A 5-year-old girl was killed after four rockets launched from Syria landed in a border town in western Iraq in what has been the worst cross-border violence between the neighboring countries since Syria plunged into... Read Full Article at RT.com
Not My Tribe
- America hits the dead end all zoned out this z ...America is zoning out of paying the national elections much heed. Once again, we are presented only 2 horrifying ALLOWED visions for our country; Family Bush and assorted Far Right Christian aligned lunatics or Family Clinton and assorted capitalist governmental bureaucratic hacks? An ugly choic ...
- Washington D.C.’s Syrian puppet head beg ...******The Syrian National Council US puppet head is already begging for money from the governments in US and Europe to help repair the destruction that his ‘council’ has left Syria with. See Syrian rebel leader calls for "Marshall Plan" to rebuild country after Assad regime falls
- Sad Sack gang of aged, confused, and political ...___’Understanding the Syrian revolution as one of the deepest movements for human freedom in this period of human history is a challenge for the left.’___ says the so-called ‘unrepentant marxist, Louis Proyect, on his blog, HIS well censored and controlled discussion list, R ...
- ‘Labor Day’ in a country that hate ...We just got past the nation’s so-called ‘labor day’. There is no more meaningless Holiday around though since our country’s corporate elites actually hate laborers and think that they are the bottom scrapings of society and should be treated like shit…. ALWAYS. They ...
- Thugs and misfits are finding a sanctuary in t ...The modern US army: unfit for service? …’Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.’ We’ve been pointing this out for some time now, and it’s nice to see ...
Debunking the Debunkers
- 911 Truth and the Mainstream Media's Failure t ...The mainstream media has never been any good at explaining the nature of the War on Terror to the public. Their superficial, 'official talking-point' based stories almost always omit important documented facts that could provide real context to the 'war' and point to evidence showing that 911 wa ...
- RECAP: Fake al-Qaeda> Anwar Al Awlaki PLUS Ada ...The following videos are posted in light of recent media reports about the death of the "international terrorist leader" Anwar Al Awlaki in Yemen. Please note that Al Awlaki was also reported dead, killed in 2009 by a US air strike. Dead or alive, names like Al Awlaki, Zarqawi, and others will ...
- Go To New York 9-11 2012 A shout out to the Infowarriors and WeAreChange chapters from WeAreChangeColorado! For Derek and the boys at Houston Free Thinkers. Get to New York! Related: The goal of this website is to hopefully encourage activists, politicians, celebrities, whistleblowers, alternative media, truthers ...
- C2CAM - 9-11 Truth - Coast To Coast AM9/11 material starts at 0:39:27 Published on Jul 17, 2012 by Boomdaddy03 CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LATEST UPDATED VIDEO THAT CAME OUT TODAY http://www.youtube.com/user/Boomdaddy03 Subscribe To Get Notified Of The Latest Releases As They Come Out http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add ...
- 9/11 Free Fall-- Graeme MacQueen Interview (8/ ...Published on Aug 26, 2012 by Free Fall Following up last week's show, which covered reports of explosions at the World Trade Center on 9/11, Bernie and Andy's guest this week is Graeme MacQueen-- widely respected peace activist, and the author of various 9/11 related papers, including "118 Wit ...
Fooducate
- What to Eat When You’ve Got Diabetes? There’s ...
- This Protein bar only got a ‘D+’ on Fooducate? ...
- B Vitamin Supplements: Controversy and Commercials
- Butter Meets Bacteria: Ilios Greek Yogurt Butter
- Food Safety: What the FDA Doesn’t Know, Could ...
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- Twitter Step by StepTwitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
- SEO Tips For Your Blog and BusinessWhen was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
- How To Choose KeywordsEvery day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
- Why Social Media Isn’t Working For YouSo you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
- How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
Survival International
- Survival denounces Venezuela’s 'whitewash' of ...The Yanomami way of life is threatened by illegal goldmining in the Amazon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival has denounced the Venezuelan government’s repeated denials of a massacre against Yanomami Indians, calling on President Chávez to evict all illegal goldminers from indigenous territory and ...
- Campaigners target Rio 2016 exhibition over ‘E ...Visitors to the Rio 2016 exhibition in London read leaflets about threats to Brazil’s Awá.© SurvivalTribal rights campaigners today targeted a London exhibition celebrating Brazil’s cultural heritage ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics, to highlight the plight of ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe.’ Vis ...
- UK newspaper confirms tourists still ‘flock’ t ...Hundreds of vehicles pass through the Jarawa reserve each day, many carrying tourists© G Chamberlain/ SurvivalThe British newspaper whose coverage of the ‘human safari’ scandal on India’s Andaman Islands prompted international outrage, has confirmed the practice still goes on, with thousands of ...
- Illegal loggers 'closing in' on Earth's most t ...The Awá depend on hunting for their survival. Now they fear entering the forest because of illegal loggers in the area.© SurvivalA recent investigation by Brazil’s Indian affairs department FUNAI has uncovered shocking evidence that illegal loggers are rapidly closing in on the Awá, Earth& ...
- Yanomami Indians 'massacred' by goldminers in ...Survivors of Brazil's 1993 Haximu massacre hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives. Goldminers killed 16 Yanomami in the attack.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalGoldminers in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Su ...
Greg Palast
- Colonels in Mirrored SunglassesAn excerpt from Greg Palast's Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Here are the facts, ma'am: In the 2008 election, no less than: 767,023 provisional ballots were cast and not counted; 1,451,116 ballots were "spoiled," not counted; 488,136 absentee ballots were mailed in, but not counted. ...
- Billionaires & Ballot Banditsby Greg Palast If you're not sick and outraged and ready to vomit, then don't talk to me. When I see a cruel bucket of garbage and winky-winky racism and bullshit and venom like Paul Ryan talk to America like he's some kind of Boy Scout, I want a gun, or a TV network where I can [...]
- RNC Opens with Pol who "Should be in Jail"by Greg Palast for Truth-out.org "Tim Griffin should be in jail." That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review. But Griffin's not in jail: he's in Congress. And Tuesday, he'll be the first Congressman the Republican ...
- Fukushima: They Knew"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel w ...
- Why We Occupy - Greg Palast Live!Get the DVD of Greg Palast LIVE from the Vultures' Picnic speaking tour. Undercover at the Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast rips the sheets off the One Percent. Palast shows you the documents marked "secret" and "confidential" from the files of Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, the IMF, WTO ...
How Can I Recycle This ?
- How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...(Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
- How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
- How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
- She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
Age of Autism
- Off the GridBy Cathy Jameson We’ve had a tough couple of months. It’s hard to pinpoint the rough patches on just one thing (not that I’m looking to blame any one thing on life’s difficulties). It’s worth it to point out that...
- Autism and Bullying in Time Yields Harsh CommentsTime Magazine ran an article on why autistic students are targets for bullies. Our kids lives are tough enough - whether they have full blown preverbal autism or Asperger's and an IQ of 150. A friend of mine with an...
- Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Which Candidate Wil ...By Dan Olmsted There is a problem with both President Obama and Governor Romney when it comes to autism. They're all for research and treatment and acceptance, but they also want to vaccinate the bejesus out of America's kids --...
- Actor Rob Schneider Protests California's AB2109 By Sylvia Pimentel Above is a photo of Joseph Pimentel, my 17 year old son with autism, with actor Rob Schnieder at the California Capitol Building during the AB 2109 (requires a signed doctor's note to use non-medical vaccine exemption)...
- President Obama and Governor Romney on Vaccina ...President Obama and Governor Romney tackle 14 science questions in this Scientific American article. The last set of answers (below) will be of interest to our readers. Topics included 1. Innovation and the Economy, 2. Climate Change, 3. Research and...
Global BDS Movement
- G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
- Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
- BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
- Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
- Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDSDocuments obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government
Farm Wars
- Islands at Risk: GMO in HawaiiWhen the biotech industry decides to use the lands and people of Hawaii as its test guinea pig, local farmers, activists, researchers, and others speak out.
- Poisoned Horses – Fluoridation KillsJustus's horses are found to be suffering from chronic fluoride poisoning from drinking fluoridated water. Study published in peer reviewed scientific literature.
- Seeds of Monopoly – Monsanto and Goldman SachsAll species that feed off of others want a monopoly, and Monsanto and Goldman Sachs are no different. They don’t like to share their food supply, and we are on the table, dressed up like Thanksgiving turkeys. They feed off our ignorance, and if we do not recognize the deceptions they use, we can ...
- These Brands Want To Defeat GMO Labeling In Ca ...Want to know the latest anti-labeling contributors fighting our right to know about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food? Thanks to Jon Abrahamson, here is the latest info.
- Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails 2012: Jeffrey ..."Are Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops Akin to Weapons of Mass Destruction?" Jeffrey Smith
Open Your Eyes News
- An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride Documentary
- The USA’s best poodle? Canada closes emb ...Independent – Canada has closed its embassy in Iran and will expel all remaining Iranian diplomats in Canada within five days, Foreign Minister John Baird said today, denouncing Tehran as the biggest threat to global security. “Diplomatic relations between Canada and Iran have been s ...
- 29 Dead in 8 Days as U.S. Puts Yemen Drone War ...Wired – 29 dead in a little over a week. Nearly 200 gone this year. The White House is stepping up its campaign of drone attacks in Yemen, with four strikes in eight days. And not even the slaying of 10 civilians over the weekend seems to have slowed the pace in the United States’ [...]
- Taiwan banks to clear renminbi transactionsFinancial Times – Beijing’s attempt to make the renminbi a global currency took a step forward on Friday with an agreement that will let banks in Taiwan clear transactions in the Chinese currency. Establishing Taiwan as an offshore centre for renminbi transactions further cements the growi ...
- Thousands in Hong Kong education protestFinancial Times – Thousands of Hong Kong parents and their children marched on Sunday against a plan to introduce Chinese national education at local schools, in a show of resistance to official attempts to shape the identity of the former British colony. Eddie Ng, secretary for education, ...
L.A. Times - Greenspace
- UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
- Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Th ...
- Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
- EPA proposes more stringent soot rulesThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
- Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
water.org
- Change Ten LivesIt seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.
- Stop the Crisis, Share our Stories!Subscribe to the official Water.org YouTube channel to be among the first to see our weekly videos. These shorts, which provide a glimpse of life in the heart of the water crisis, can help give a face to a world-wide struggle.
- A Promise to HaitiJoin co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White on a recent visit to Haiti following up on our promise to help 50,000 people get safe water. The video ends with Matt, along with his father and brother, celebrating the opening of a new well with a community in the Central Plateau.
- Urban water collection in HaitiNo matter how many times one visits the developing world, it seems there is always another shocking image around every corner. Last week in Port-au-Prince we followed several people to collect water. After traversing a trash-lined creek bed and about 300 meters from the road we came across this ...
- Community Latrines in IndiaMany slum communities in India have this type of shared, public latrine, which, while helpful when brand new, can deteriorate within a couple of years.
Before It's News
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- Eats on Feets
- Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen
Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
Margaret's News
- Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
- What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
- Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World |&nb ...
- Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World |&nb ...
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
- Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know ...
- Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know so well is in fac ...
- Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again. Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
- Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again. Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
- Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc. The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
News Blaze
- Agreement Reached: Protecting The Health of La ...United States and Canada Sign Amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
- James W. Rawley Named Deputy Special Coordinat ...Reports say Mr. Rawley will also serve as the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory.
- Kyrgyz Republic Forms New Coalition GovernmentIn Washington DC, Acting Deputy Spokesperson Patrick says the formation of the new coalition government is a testament to the strength of the Kyrgyz Republic's democratic institutions.
- US Should Work For Justice Over US-Backed Crim ...The CAVR called on countries like the United States that actively supported Indonesia's illegal occupation to take specific actions.
- Omkareshwar 'Dam' Protest Stirs ControversyConcerned about the health and safety of the protesters Mr. Fernando said: 'Eleven days have passed, the water level is rising and their bodies could very badly be injured due to prolonged submergence.'
Worldnews
- 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 ...
Alex in Wonderland
- Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
- Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
- Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
- Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
- U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.
MY Daily Apple
- Warning of right-to-die law 'row'There would be "an almighty row" if laws on assisted suicide were re-examined, says an MP after calls by ministers to reform legislation.
- Paralympics 2012: Steve Brown reveals how he o ...Steve was left paralysed from the chest down after a fall in 2005 broke his back. Yet his story is one of triumph - he is one of the best-known faces in disability sport. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
- Screening For Hypertriglyceridemia Every Five ...Adults should be screened for hypertriglyceridemia every five years, according to a Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for the diagnosis and treatment of the condition, which has been issued today by the Endocrine Society in theÂ�Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and MetabolismÂ& ...
- Mom's age no impact on kid's adult healthROSTOCK, Germany, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The theory that mothers who get pregnant later in life have children who are less healthy as adults is challenged by a study, German researchers say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Have a look at The Psychology Daily ...
- CERAVE SUNSCREEN BROAD SPECTRUM SPF 30 WET SKI ...Updated Date: Sep 7, 2012 EST
Common Dreams
- Wave of Deadly Attacks Hits IraqSecurity forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)A wave of attacks hit Iraq Sunday, displaying another alarming hike in violence in the country. ...
- Greek Anger, Protests After Fresh Austerity Cuts
- Greek Anger, Protests After of Fresh Austerity ...
- Miracle-Gro Caught Violating Pesticide LawsLawn and Garden company Scotts Miracle-Gro poisoned bird feed and violated pesticide laws, according to a Columbus, Ohio federal court ruling Friday. The company will now be ordered to pay $12.5 million in fines. read more
- Miracle-Gro Caught Violating Pesticide LawsLawn and Garden company Scotts Miracle-Gro poisoned bird feed and violated pesticide laws, according to a Columbus, Ohio federal court ruling Friday. The company will now be ordered to pay $12.5 million in fines. read more
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
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Energy Collective
- Innovation Down Under Could Mean Off-Grid ACSlowly but surely, the technology behind solar air conditioners is starting to improve, improving our chances of cutting the carbon footprint of cooling. Paolo Corrada, a PhD science and engineering student in at the Queensland University of Technology in Queensland, Australia has designed a sol ...
- Energy and Real Job CreationListening to President Obama’s convention speech, it’s hard to avoid the thought that if his administration had adopted pro-development energy policies a few years ago – clearing the way for America’s oil and natural gas industry to find new resources, create
- China Solar Probe A Go In EuropeChinese solar makers, already hit with duties in the United States, could within nine months face similar trade sanctions in Europe, according to the European Commission, which said today it would launch an antidumping investigation into solar panels and their key components originating in China.
- What If Saudi Arabia Became an Oil Importer?
- Suntech woe’s- the inside story
Green House - USA Today
- Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
- What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
- U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
- Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
- Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hikePresident Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.
Prior Art
- With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...HASH(0xa1dc540)
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Peoples Voice
- Real Unemployment at 23% - Dampening the Excit ...By Michael Collins There was a shadow over the national conventions of both political parties. The people know that the economy is much worse than anyone in the power structure will admit. As usual, the people are right. The real rate of unemployment is 23%, not the official figures we hear ...
- Legitimizing Illegal Spyingby Stephen Lendman On August 15, federal district court Judge Cormac Carney dismissed a class action ACLU of Southern California/Council on Islamic American Relations (CAIR) lawsuit. Fazaga v. FBI charges lawless FBI surveillance. More on what's involved below. Southern California Muslim ...
- Canada: Selling Its Soul to Americaby Stephen Lendman Canada is more colony than sovereign state. Canadians perhaps wonder when it'll grow up, act like an adult, and regain its rightful independence. They're also worried about a country junior partnering with imperial America, Israel, and other rogue NATO allies. A ...
- America's Dismal August Jobs Reportby Stephen Lendman Headlines obscured its ugliness. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported a dismal 96,000 jobs created. Whisper numbers suggested around 200,000. June and July totals were revised down 41,000. They're usually momentum drivers for future data releases. U-3 unemploymen ...
- Irrational Draghi Exuberanceby Stephen Lendman Thursday was Draghi day. He explained what ECB watchers knew. At his Frankfort press conference, he said Governing Council members agreed to unlimited bond buying. It's called Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT). Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann alone dissented. He cal ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- A Sustainable Vision for Our Community: Altern ...A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations. The Alternative Budget contains 65 action item ...
- Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...Next Up taking applications for 2012/13 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ...
- Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the United ...The age and educational attainment of the US workforce have increased significantly since 1979. Since older and better educated workers generally have higher pay and better benefits, one might expect a greater share of workers to be in good jobs today compared to 30 years ago. In a Center ...
- Crime and Declining UnionizationIn an article entitled "Crime and the Decline of Unions," economics professors Robert Baumann and Bryan Engelhardt of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts estimate the elasticity of crime with respect to union membership. They contend that the drop in US union membersh ...
- Final Report Released on CAW-CEP New Union ProjectThe final report of the proposal committee for a new union combining the CAW and CEP contains many intriguing ideas, not least being the 5 regional councils, funded by a separate per capita levy, that give the new union the feel of a labour central. All local unions in each region will be ...
World Wide Hippies
- Fiction Has Become Reality How the feds are t ...By Christina DesMarais, PCWorld – Privacy watchdog groups have some concerns. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the NGI system will allow photo submissions independent of arrests. “This is a problem because the FBI has stated it wants to use its facial recognition system to ...
- WWH/CJE Hippy Digest: 60s Art, Bowie – S ...David Bowie: the godfather of ch-ch-change His talent for transforming himself is to be marked by a major V&A retrospective, yet he has constantly embodied the essence of pop. Pity we couldn’t see him at the Olympic closing party For any David Bowie fans eagerly hoping that the V&A ...
- HOW’D WE GET IN THIS MESS?By Loren Adams,tpjmagazine.us – When seriously seeking solutions rather than constantly complaining, one has to diligently dig for the root reason. What caused 9/11? By knowing the root, could it have been averted? I believe so. Identifying the root opens the opportunity to eliminate or, a ...
- WWH/CJE Sunday News BriefsNYC CLEANS UP FROM 2 TWISTERS AFTER EASTERN STORMS NEW YORK (AP) — Strong storms that pummeled the East Coast spawned at least two damaging tornadoes in New York City, flooded the streets of some New England towns and left tens of thousands in the dark in the Washington, D.C., area. No ser ...
- President Obama’s Record on Indian Affairs for ...BY: TERRANCE H. BOOTH, SR,examiner.com – President Obama’s Record on Indian Affairs for Alaska Native and Native Americans By Terrance H. Booth, Sr. – Tsimshian Tribe Earlier this week all of America listened to our President Obama acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention th ...
FourWinds10
- US Energy Department panel endorses shale frac ...(NaturalNews) Hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent. But a US Energy Dep ...
- Industrial waste blamed as millions of fish di ...MILLIONS of dead fish have been found floating on the Minjiang River in southeast China's Fujian Province and it has started to stink. A cleanup has begun and authorities are investigating the cause and trying to find out whether there is any danger to drinking water. Local farmers suspect t ...
- EPA finally acknowledges fracking dangersDec. 14, 2011 (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency on December 7 released its first report linking fracking to water contamination. The report identified fracking as the source of poisons, including the carcinogen benzene, in the groundwater of a central Wyoming community. So ...
- Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...
- Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to Portect Badl ...Feb. 4, 2012 Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to protect Badlands National Park from coal pollution. Scenic Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota is visited by nearly a million people each year,1 but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from ...
Crisis Maven
- The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
- The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
- Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
- Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
- Archaeology, the Internet and NeutrinosOr: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
Capital Flow Analysis
- Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
- Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
- How long would it take to work off the US trad ...The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
- Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
- Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
R-Squared Energy Blog
- Are Democrats More Likely to Release Strategic ...If the Obama Administration orders a release, it would be the 2nd time the administration had tapped the SPR. In 2011 the Obama Administration ordered a release of 30 million barrels of oil in conjunction with a 30 million barrel release from other members of the International Energy Agency.
- 4 Reasons Why Gas Prices Are About to Fall RapidlyWhile U.S. gasoline prices have been on the rise for the past two months -- and are presently $0.15/gallon higher than they were a year ago -- Robert Rapier expects that gasoline prices will start to fall rapidly in the weeks ahead.
- Carbon Trading & Thorium ReactorsIn this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first is on California’s upcoming carbon trading markets, which includes a discussion on resource shuffling. The second question is on the potential of thorium nuclear reactors. Readers who have specifi ...
- What Mitt Romney’s Energy Plan Should Look LikeFollowing Mitt Romney’s release of his energy plan, I intended to offer a detailed critique. However, there are already numerous critiques out there that would not differ much from my own. My critique would have been a near mirror image of Michael Levi’s Pipe Dreams at Foreign Policy ...
- Interview On My Energy Positions After ASPO 2011Following last year’s ASPO conference, I was interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future, which is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. Aaron just made that interview available, and instead of an R-Squared Energy TV epis ...
Discovery Educator Network
- YouTube Teachers - YouTubeComments:Click on the Classroom Videos tab below the featured video to see hundreds of playlists arranged by subject and objective. - Randy RodgersTags: youtube, video, multimedia, technology, edtech, web2.0, resources, teaching, learning, Internet, social mediaby: Randy Rodgers
- Personalize Learning: Infographic: Personaliza ...Tags: learning, infographics, differentiation, instructionby: Dean Mantz
- Share what you know | LearnistComments:Education alternative to Pinterest - Dean MantzTags: education, Pinterest, learnist, learning, curation, web2.0, tools, Imagesby: Dean Mantz
- How You're Using Your iPad [INFOGRAPHIC]Comments:Nice infographic comparing the 3 different models of iPads. - Dean MantzTags: infographics, iPad, Mashable, comparisonby: Dean Mantz
- Weather Wiz Kids weather information for kidsTags: weather, wizkids, Science, interactive, elementary, meteorology, education, resourcesby: Dean Mantz
Rodale News
- 4 Reasons You Need to Eat More KaleLike water? Who doesn't? But if you really like it, you might want to also start liking lentils, kale, nuts, and bread—and pretty much anything that doesn't come from an animal. A new report from the Stockholm International Water Institute suggests that the world's limited supply of fresh water ...
- 5 Unexpected Heart Attack TriggersA bacon cheeseburger fetish topped with a couch potato mentality is a surefire recipe for a heart attack. But those obvious bad choices aren't the only things taking a toll on your ticker. Scientists discovering surprising new heart attack causes—including ones you may unknowingly be exposing y ...
- Canned Food's Long-, Long-, Long-Lasting ImpactThe Iroquois nation has a saying you've likely heard repeated by environmentalists: "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." But they were probably thinking more about preserving land and protecting water supplies than ab ...
- Strange New Suspects That Could Be Causing Bre ...About 12 percent of U.S. women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at some point in their lives. Increasingly, researchers are pointing out a connection between environmental chemicals and breast cancer. The latest evidence comes as two separate studies find a link between breast canc ...
- The Top Natural Treatments for Lyme DiseaseLyme disease is a complicated infection, tough to diagnose and even harder to treat if doctors miss an early diagnosis, which is all too often the case. Lyme disease treatment is tricky because the most popular blood tests used in most doctors' offices to detect the disease miss about 55 percen ...
big think
- Does a “War on Women” Really Exist? A View fro ...I enjoy reading George Will for a variety of reasons but I don’t often agree with him. He commented on “This Week” that the genesis of the ballyhooed war on women really boiled down to a 30- year old unemployed graduate student (Sandra Fluke), upset because her Catholic institution wouldn’t buy ...
- Why can't we be friends?Thanks to the hilarious and provocative Rob Reiner film, When Harry Met Sally, there is one debate that still gets even the most reticent people taking a stand. And, that, of course, is whether men and women can really be friends (y'know, of the strictly platonic variety). In the film, ...
- It's Time to Repeal No Child Left BehindWhat's the Big Idea? As the K-12 school year starts up again in full force, it's worth asking: are American public schools really failing? According to the measure set by the country's most important piece of federal education legislation, the answer is yes. In 2011, nearly half ...
- Can the Human Body Learn to Photosynthesize? What's the Latest Development? In 2011, UCLA biologist Christina Agapakis discovered that vertebrate animals can tolerate the presence of photosynthetic microbes after she injected zebra fish embryos with photosynthetic bacteria. In a follow up to the experiment, she was able to tweak th ...
- Why Everyone Has an Internet-Addiction GeneWhat's the Latest Development? A German scientist recently caused controversy by claiming to have found evidence that a gene which plays a role in nicotine addiction is also correlated with Internet addiction. The controversial claim made by the scientist is that, based on his findings . ...
Information Liberation
- NYPD Kill Hostage Who Escaped Armed Standoff - ...Last Friday police in Minnesota shot and killed a hostage who fled from an armed gunman in a standoff in a motel. Just one week later, this Friday police in New York shot and killed another hostage who fled a standoff with armed robbers at a Bronx B...
- CNN Reporter Questions Obama On His Kill List, ...Drone Striker in Chief is questioned by CNN on his kill list, he claims national security and says he can't tell people whether or not he is killing anyone. The reporter asks him are the "standard different if the targets are American?" Interesti...
- Feds: Cop Pulled Over Female Drivers To Look A ...Via CBS Tampa: MIAMI (CBS Tampa) * An officer with the Miami-Dade police department was arrested by federal authorities for stopping female drivers for no other reason than to initiate *sexually suggestive conversations.* [...]During one stop on ...
- Texas judge who beat daughter gets his job bac ...BROWNSVILLE -- The Aransas County family law judge last year seen beating his then-teenaged daughter in a YouTube video can return to the bench after he was issued a "public warning" by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. Judge William A...
- One Man's Journey to FreedomJeff Berwick of the Dollar Vigilante talks about living free outside the United States....
Be Responsible - Be Free!
- The Rainbow ConnectionLast Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
- Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
- One More Five-Ring CircusThe Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
- More Of The Shiny StuffA few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
- Meet The Asylum’s New ManagementThe iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
Sciencebase - Breaking Science News
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
RFF Library
- The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic H ...Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins http://bit.ly/QJcS5w [Abstract] Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That syst ...
- Revisiting Leopold: Resource Stewardship in th ...National Park System Science Board Advisory Committee http://www.nps.gov/calltoaction/PDF/LeopoldReport_2012.pdf [National Parks Traveler] Climate change, biodiversity, and the current state and understanding of ecosystem management all were unknown to A. Starker Leopold 50 years ago when he ove ...
- Assessment of New York City Natural Gas Market ...ICF International for New York City Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/2012/icf_natural_gas_study.pdf [WNYC] As the state weighs whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come out in favor of the controversial technique ...
- Assumptions to Annual Energy Outlook 2012US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/assumptions/ This report presents the major assumptions of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) used to generate the projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2012, including general features of the model ...
- Carbon Tax Revenue and the Budget Deficit: A W ...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change / by Sebastian Rausch and John Reilly http://globalchange.mit.edu/research/publications/2328 [Green Car Congress] A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change sugge ...
Scientific American - News
- Amino-Acid Deficiency Found to Underlie Rare F ...From Nature magazine [More]
- Science and Archaeopteryx Overcome Creationism ...From Nature magazine [More]
- Patagonian Glaciers Melting in a HurryIce fields in southern South America are rapidly losing volume and in most cases thinning at even the highest elevations, contributing to sea-level rise at "substantially higher" rates than observed from the 1970s through the 1990s, according to a study published Wednesday. [More] ...
- Super-Stretchy Hydrogel Can Take a HitFrom Nature magazine [More]
- Voices of ENCODE ENCODE, the Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements, is the most ambitious human genetics project to date. It takes the 3 billion letters described by the Human Genome Project in 2000, and tries to explain them. Remarkably, ENCODE scientists have managed to assign a biochemical function to 80% of the geno ...
First Truths
- The Anarchist LineageInteresting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
- "Crisis of the State"From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
- "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
- "Integrated Geographies"From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
- Colbert on AtheistsI enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
Media Co-Op
- "Stop This Kind of Violence"Interview with Liz Brockfest - Organizer of Anti-Sexual-Assault Rally Ed. Note - A string of sexual assaults have occured in a number of areas in Toronto over the past few weeks. Four women were assalted in the east of downtown core - ...
- Abusive Authority Means Little Hope: No Books ...(originally posted on Alex's blog which he is updating from prison via mail and phone) I have been in prison for 10 weeks, and I have still yet to see a library cart come around the unit. I have been led to believe that at the Central ...
- Québec Strike: Reform or RevolutionThe Québec election raises important questions about the relationship between electoral and radical politics. Rosa Luxemburg’s “Reform or Revolution” is still one of ...
- Vancouver Welcomes Canada's Venal Prime MinisterVancouver, Coast Salish Territories: On September 6th, people of Vancouver caught wind that Stephan Harper was participating in an invite only event, and on short notice came to voice their concerns with the direction he is leading Canada. Harper is widely seen by many to be f ...
- The Media Co-op is seeking Directors! Now taking nominations for new contributor, editor, and local reps for the Board The Media Co-op is planning our 2012 AGM for September 25, 2012 in Montreal, with meet-ups across the country. Members can also participate via phon ...
David Seaton's News Links
- Democrats and the vanishing American middle classIt seems that the Democrats have had the modicum of mother wit to make the middle class the framework and theme of their 2012 campaign. We know that the Democrats can't really walk the walk, but it is nice to hear somebody at least talk the talk for a change. For the sad truth is that the Am ...
- Clint Eastwood and his contempt for America"This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama." @jabouie tweet re Eastwood's speech (ht Doonesbury)Clint Eastwood’s performance was the most decadent, self indulgent thing I have ever seen. Watching him wank for 12 minutes to wild ap ...
- Mooned... with aplogies to Neil ArmstrongMother of tidesThe great white kiteFloats gently cross the breathless nightGiant leaps are soon forgotten. David Seaton
- Meditations on Republican crazinessAt the center of all the nuttiness of today’s Republicans is their bankrollers’ fear of regulation… The ceaseless culture warfare is merely a tactic to simultaneously attract and confuse a sufficient number of the ignorant to enable the “one-percenters” to paralyze the political process.Examined ...
- The Rhymes of Ayn Rand and Ryan: tea for twoIn the withered heart of Any Rand’s world, the weak, the hungry, The violated, the broken, the disorganized are condemned, They have no brothers Unlettered children, tiny, lonely, light-starved beings, Like mushrooms fed on excrement, are free: Free to sicken, free to die. In unhe ...
MoJo - Kevin Drum
- Mitt Romney Unveils Yet Another Secret PlanNow that he's definitively trailing in the polls and needs to appeal to non-wingnuts, it turns out that Mitt Romney doesn't hate Obamacare quite as much as he's been telling the tea partiers for the past year: "Of course there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I'm g ...
- Obama is Apparently a Tougher Negotiator Than ...I never have a good sense of how much to trust Bob Woodward, so I'd take the following recreated dialog with a grain of salt. Still, here it is. It's all taking place at the tail end of last year's debt ceiling talks, after John Boehner has pulled out of negotiations twice, House Republicans a ...
- Can Spain Get Competitive With Germany Fast En ...On Thursday I wrote that fiscal imbalances were the eurozone's fundamental problem. In a nutshell, if the euro is going to survive, either periphery countries have to become more competitive and boost their exports or else core countries will have to subsidize them with gigantic amounts of aid ...
- Friday Cat Blogging - 7 September 2012Today's catblogging demonstrates the changing of the guard around here. For many years, freshly laundered sheets were Inkblot's exclusive preserve. In fact, the entire bed was his exclusive preserve. I guess he chased Domino off it once too many times. But that's slowly changing, and Domino is ...
- Weird Republican Outrage WatchAndrew Sullivan just put up a post that happens to include a video of Marco Rubio making a joke a couple of years ago about a blizzard-induced power outage in Washington DC: "The president," he said, "couldn't find anywhere to set up a teleprompter to announce new taxes." It got big yuks from t ...
Insanity Report
- IC 346: Complacent Ass Nigga #1Topics: Working for a job with no passion Being complacent is awesome Fuck School NBA 2k13 and the worst collector’s edition ever Marvel gets sued & tells the plaintiffs to go fuck themselves It’s just a movie, its not realistic The Democratic party has never been liberal You ...
- IC 345: Black UnicornTopics: Avengers tops $1.5 Billion Michael Bay tries to distance himself from the Ninja Turtles Script Your opinion represents the minority I know my opinion is fucked up, you don’t have to tell me Kev goes to the Red Light District in Amsterdam The RNC & DNC The media isn’t inf ...
- IC 344: Fuck FranceTopics: Kriss officially loses empathy Expendables 2 Michael Bay and the Ninja Turtle script WAS that bad Part 1 of Kev’s Europe Trip recap Share with your friends:
- IC 343: nWFoTopics: Special Guests: Jaxx the Rapper, Rod & Karen from the Black Guy Who Tips The formation of the nWFO Lots and Lots of rants on everything from Politics to Rape to Rod complaining about women who fucked up his Fantasy Football bar nights Share with your friends:
- IC 342: Land SharksTopics: Ghostwriting You can’t force people to be activists Worse things than Kristen Stewart What Kevin Shouldn’t Do in Europe Shark Week Land Sharks The annoyance of politics Fix-a-Flat butt lifts Share with your friends:
Simple Climate
- Sun loses grip on Earth’s temperature changesPatterns in the heat we feel stopped being caused by the Sun since the 1970s, mathematical tests done by Antonello Pasini from the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome and his teammates show, with greenhouse gases and other human influences likely to be drowning its influence out.
- More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan
- Finding nature’s part in Arctic ice loss puts ...With Arctic ice heading for reaching its smallest area yet, Jonny Day from the University of Reading, UK and his colleagues have found an ocean circulation pattern could be responsible for up to three-tenths of the ice loss since the 1970s – but that humans remain most responsible.
- Temperature rises could hamper developing worl ...Annual variations show every 1°C temperature increase shaves 1.3 percent off a poor country’s growth, over the course of a given year, according to MIT economist Ben Olken.
- CO2-focused breeding can arm crops for food fightHigher CO2 levels could ensure we have enough food in the face of other climate and population changes, says Lewis Ziska from the US Department of Agriculture, if crop breeding programs tailored to take advantage get enough support
e!Science News
- Skin and immune system influence salt storage ...High blood pressure is responsible for many cardiovascular diseases that are the leading cause of death in industrialized countries. High salt intake has long been considered a risk factor, but not every type of high blood pressure is associated with high salt intake. This has puzzled scientists ...
- Treatment with fungi makes a modern violin sou ...A good violin depends not only on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. The Swiss wood researcher Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland) has succeeded in m ...
- Subsidies change incentives for adoption of fo ...The structure of a federal program that provides monthly subsidies to promote the adoptions of special needs children in foster care may actually be delaying some adoptions, according to a new study by University of Notre Dame economist Kasey Buckles. read more
- Coping skills, marital satisfaction help pregn ...Expectant mothers who learn from prenatal diagnosis that they are carrying a fetus with a congenital heart defect (CHD) commonly suffer post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety. However, a healthy relationship with one's partner and positive coping mechanisms can reduce this intense stress, ...
- Next generation of advanced climate models nee ...The United States' collection of climate models should advance substantially to deliver more detailed, smaller scale climate projections, says a new report from the National Research Council. To meet this need, the report calls for these assorted climate models to take a more integrated path and ...
unEarthed
- Tr-Ash Talk: The High Price of Coal Ash PondsSenate bill would force Americans to pay even more for lost fish, wildlife Clearly, coal ash ponds are harmful to both our economy and ecology. (EST) Each yea ...
- Tr-Ash Talk: Increasing The Price Of Coal Ash ...Senate bill would force Americans to pay even more for lost fish, wildlife Clearly, coal ash ponds are harmful to both our economy and ecology. (EST) Each yea ...
- In Memory Of Earthjustice Board Member Ted SmithLifelong outdoorsman and humanitarian dies in hiking accident Theodore (Ted) McRoberts Smith. It was with great sadness that we learned of the loss of a membe ...
- Feds Betray Wyoming Wolves Shoot-on-sight killing of endangered wolves allowed in 30 days The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose a blue moon to announce the delisting of the gray wolf in ...
- Judge Holds TVA Liable For Kingston DisasterBut disastrous Senate bill would let utilities off the hook Kingston, TN coal ash spill In a stunning victory for victims of the 2008 Tennessee Valley Authori ...
Brave New Climate
- 21st century nuclear… for beginnersSACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
- Two books on sustainable nuclear energyThis is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
- Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costsThis the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
- Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...
- No easy substitutes for fossil fuelsThe following guest post is republished (with permission from the author) from Opinion Online. Tom Biegler, who wrote this piece, worked with Martin Nicholson and me on our 2010 Energy paper, How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. ...
Indigenist Opinion
- The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
- House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
- Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
- IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
- Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Republicans are a Disease
- Priebus Upset That Ted Kennedy Is Still Suppor ...Whaaaaa. Priebus is upset that the Democrats used video of the late Ted Kennedy to remind Americans that Teddy supported Obama, even in the primaries, and that showing a video of him just isn’t fair. By the way, there has been one whole day of convention speakers, and I haven’t heard ...
- Republicans And The TruthOf the many things that bother me about Republicans, is the fact that they don’t care if they are being lied to. All facts support my positions, and I am never wrong about anything. Numbers matter. Facts matter. The truth is the truth whether it fits my ideology or not. All of my statement ...
- New Republican Attack Strategy“Are you better off” is all you are going to hear from Republicans the next few days, or weeks. It seems they have been sabotaging our recovery for 3 1/2 years just so they can use this line of attack. Republicans have done everything they possibly could to make sure President Obama ...
- Romney “I Wish President Obama Had Succe ...So Mitt in his convention speech claimed he wanted President Obama to succeed. Sure you did Mitt. And President Obama was going to have an easy time succeeding with the full support of Republican Senators right? Republican Senators making sure he is not successful in any way, and filibustering a ...
- Hard Times for Republican Convention Speakers ...I heard speaker after speaker at the convention talk about how hard their, or their parents lives were, and how hard they struggled. It must have been tough, and I am sure for many it was. Just don’t forget. Because of Republican policies, it is getting tougher, and tougher, and tougher to ...
Appalachia Rising
- Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
- Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
- Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 ArrestedAll 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
- Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and ProtestOn Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
- Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
Amped Status
- As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
- The Evolution of the ButterflyRenowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
- After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
- Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
- Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & J ...Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.
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- WATCH: Does ‘iVoteIsrael’ campaign ...The campaign to get Americans in Israel to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, on which I have reported extensively, has recently released a new video. While the last video they put out incited against Arab Americans, this one essentially endorses an Israeli strike on Iran, the tar ...
- If Israel wants to end the race, let it get ri ...Iran didn’t start the Mideast nuclear arms race – Israel did. Nearly all the frightening forecasts of what life would be like with a nuclear Iran strike me as being hollow. I’m not worried about Iran nuking Israel – because the Iranians don’t want to commit suicide. ...
- Palestinians take to streets in call for Fayya ...In the past few days, protesters have filled the Palestinian streets. This time, their protest is not against Israel, but rather against the Palestinian Authority and specifically Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The Palestinians are coming out to protest the rising prices in the West Bank, which ha ...
- Netanyahu votes Romney, Ehud Barak endorses ObamaAll political pundits in Israel are touting the same line this weekend: Barak is splitting from Netanyahu. The defense minister opposed the prime minister’s tone and messages towards the American administration, doesn’t think that Israel must attack during “the political window ...
- Canada shuts Iranian embassy, expels officialsVLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA – The Canadian government has became the latest country to crack down on the Islamic Republic of Iran, announcing a cut in diplomatic relations. The Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, in Russia’s Far East port city for the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Coo ...
Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't
- Supporting jobs in northern AdelaideThe Gillard Labor Government is supporting local jobs in northern Adelaide with a new employment precinct receiving support under the Suburban Jobs program.
- Recycling improves Phillip Island's water securityPhillip Island residents and businesses are set to benefit from improved water security following the completion of the Phillip Island Recycled Water Scheme project.
- Dr Rob Vertessy to head Bureau of MeteorologyRenowned water scientist Dr Rob Vertessy has been appointed director of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, announced today.
- Tough new evironmental conditions imposed on s ...The Super trawler will need to adhere to stringent new conditions under national environment law in order to operate in Australian waters.
- Meeting the challenges of the future on the Gr ...Work is set to begin on the strategic assessment of the Great Barrier Reef to ensure future development along the Queensland Coast is well planned and the area's unique values are protected.
Matt Weidner Blog
- The Bank Bullies Break into Wrong Home (TWICE! ...The Republican and the Democrat candidates parade all across this country, babbling nonsense against one another and at us. From the local races to the state races and straight up to the Presidential race, but I have yet to hear a single candidate suggest that they would hold any of the robber ...
- (Another) Bank Break In…Elderly Couple L ...We’ve all grown accustomed to everyone around us being labeled as terrorists. The republicans especially have us all whipped into a frenzy, looking for terrorists under every protestor and dissenter. Really? Those that are speaking out against tyranny are terrorists? Well, what about t ...
- An Anecdote from an InsiderPhilosophically, every law firm is different in how they approach defending foreclosures. This office does not believe in “free houses.” We believe that we, our clients, and the banks should all be working towards a reasonable resolution. So much so that our office requires in our re ...
- The Democratic Convention- Failure on Foreclos ...I know I was on an anti-Republican tear for a while. And while I see nothing that suggests I should change that tone, it should also be noted that I have no love for the other party either. Having said that, I find it most striking that, while the terror-obsessed Republicans turned Tampa into ...
- The LIBOR Scandal May (Will) Be Bigger Than Th ...The scandal over global interest rates has state officials like Janet Cowell of North Carolina working intensely behind the scenes to build a case for suing the nation’s largest banks. Ms. Cowell, the state’s elected treasurer, and several of her staff members have spent the summer combing throu ...
abelard - news
- euro meltdown continues | economics news at ab ...Spain fears being subjugated to Germany, Germany worries about subsidising the south, and the euro creaks.
- 'democrats' are lying, about gdp, about 'recov ...Playing on the innumeracy, on the lack of political and financial sophistication, on gullibility of the faithful.
- raising GDP does not necessarily improve your ...Comparing and contrasting borrow and spend with save and work.
- tories take over in the uk, obama continues to ...The numbers tell the story - Socialism, or US Liberalism, is not good for a country's economic health.
- 'democrats' are lying, about gdp, about 'recov ...Playing on the innumeracy, on the lack of political and financial sophistication, on gullibility of the faithful.
The Parallel Parliament
- How Politics Changes Us (3)It set us back for a minute. The email message had come in from someone in the riding that I …Continue reading »
- On the Queen and ColonelsEvery discipline carries its own recognition and rewards. Business, sports, the arts, educational institutions, and many more – all these …Continue reading »
- How Politics Changes Us (2)Seth Godin writes a blog. It’s always short and terse but carries nuggets within it. Here’s what he put out …Continue reading »
- How Politics Changes Us (1)Last week there was a conversation stream going on among some on Twitter asking why it is that politics always …Continue reading »
- My Own StargateO the things I’ve learned in the last three days! My last post spoke of my loss of a few …Continue reading »
Vaccine Awakening
- Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
- Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
- Americans Fight for Vaccine ChoicesPosted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
- The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...
- Vermont Parents Fight to Save Philosophical Ex ...Posted: 2/21/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Informed consent to medical risk taking is a human right.[1] You have the right to be fully informed about the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical products – like vaccines - and be allowed to make a voluntary choice about whether or to take the risk ...
2020 Science
- Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
- Risk Science – A personal perspectiveAs Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?” What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer. Which is why I decided to spend ...
- Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions. It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
- Lost in the MaizeAs you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week. In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
- Small gods and the art of technology innovationThere’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything. So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...
Reader Supported News
- The Good of WikiLeaksAsan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...
- Race War in ArizonaThree Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images) Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
- Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
- Rachel Takes Us Back to the FutureRachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
- Corporate Election Machine Fires UpFuture Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...
War Resisters League
- A.J. Muste Peace Mural DedicationBy Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
- The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...“On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
- The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...[Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
- Saying No To Tear Gas[An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
- Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
Center for a Livable Future
- Policy expert Mark Winne has watched food move ...Long-time food policy expert Mark Winne has seen this nation’s food movement follow a path that mirrors his own professional journey. More and more advocates are delving into policy to get support for the hands-on projects that were their first forays into food issues. As a result of this shift ...
- The Question at Smithsonian: Shrimp and SafetyThe emerging common concern was about imported shrimp.
- Multi-Drug Resistant Infections at the NIH Hos ...Last Wednesday, The Washington Post reported on an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda. (The Post was covering an interesting report by NIH investigators in Science Translational Medicine.) Initially, the ...
- New Orleans Groups Awarded Grants for New Farm ...I want to congratulate my friends at the Recirculating Farms Coalition who were recently awarded two grants to construct an Urban Farming and Food Center in downtown New Orleans. The center will be home to a community garden, fruit trees, aquaponics and hydroponics. These last two are methods ...
- How Industrialized Farming Could Facilitate Pa ...With cases of H3N2v influenza on the rise, a look at where we stand and the key role of our system of food animal production in strengthening viruses
k2p blog
- Uncertainty in the Uncertainty Principle could ...Heisenberg probably rules - OK? It seems that there are clouds of doubt surrounding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and - by extension - around some of the basic tenets of quantum mechanics. The "observer effect" where the observation itself alters the observation may be uncertain. The ques ...
- Has Obama dumped Al Gore?I expect that President Obama does have some electoral advantage in not being saddled with Al Gore - or it could just be that Gore is really upset that the income that would be generated for his companies by cap-and trade is not materialising.
- ORI finds misconduct by Marc Hauser in 4 NIH g ...Psychology is an academic discipline but it is not (yet) a science. The Hausergate affaire followed by the Diedrik Stapel affaire only confirmed my view that psychology as an academic discipline is permeated by confirmation bias. Now the Marc Hauser affaire reaches some kind of a conclusion (at ...
- The year when “hot air avoided Sweden wi ...In summary, one can say that the summer of 2012 was the year when "hot air avoided Sweden with uncanny precision."
- Carbon dioxide lags temperatureCO2 released from use of fossil fuels have little influence on the observed changes in the amount of atmospheric CO2, and changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.
Left Foot Forward
- Review: “2016: Obama’s AmericaR ...Shamik Das reviews “2016: Obama’s America”, the new film by conservative author and commentator Dinesh D’Souza.
- Comment: Paleo-Unionism needs to fully accept ...Paleo-Unionism needs to fully accept equality and tolerance in the new Northern Ireland, writes Kevin Meagher.
- Look Left – Cameron’s reshuffle, Balls and Cab ...Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
- Balls woos Cable, in Plan B plea to “sen ...Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has followed Labour leader Ed Miliband’s lead, making fresh overtures to business secretary Vince Cable.
- Serious Obama shows stomach for the fight and ...Sara Ibrahim, chair of the Young Fabians, reports from Charlotte, North Carolina on President Barack Obama’s speech.
Consumerist
- Restaurant Owner Gets Revenge On A Customer Wi ...We're constantly amazed at businesses that just don't know how to take criticism. No, it likely doesn't feel good to read negative reviews about your establishment on the Internet, but posing as a customer on an site for adults looking to hook up in order to get your revenge is not only childish ...
- Comment Of The Day: Bacon Is A VegetableCoffee: I’ve heard that vegetarian bacon is proof of the existence of God. If there is vegetarian bacon, Then there is a devil. If there is a devil, There must be a God. There is vegetarian bacon. God exists. QED
- Cop Claims He Was Only Issuing Tickets To Dead ...As my grandma used to say, honesty is the best policy. But you know what else is a pretty good policy? Giving traffic tickets only to people who are actually alive. The cop fired by the New York Police Department says he was issuing summonses to deceased people, but only because he had to fill [...]
- Turns Out It Was An Angry (Now Arrested) Ex-Gi ...I do have to say that while there is no direct evidence that it was an angry ex-girlfriend who was responsible for calling in a security threat and naming her former boyfriend as a bad guy smuggling bad things on a flight to Dallas-Fort Worth this week, someone who isn't upset doesn't do that to ...
- Longest-Serving Macy’s Employee Retires ...Rose Syracuse went to work at Macy's flagship store in Herald Square when she was nineteen years old, and she stayed there until she retired. That's unusual enough to us today, but that's before you learn how long she worked there. She began work at the department store in 1939. She retired earl ...
Whistleblogger - GAP
- GAP Releases USAID FOIA Documents about Contro ...Today, GAP is releasing nearly 2,000 pages of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The request sought specific records related to the KEK Network and Supply Project in Kosovo and th ...
- HFCS – Autism Link?: Daily Whistleblower NewsFoodConsumer.org: High Fructose Corn Syrup Increases Autism Risk – Review Suggests Summary: More coverage of GAP client and whistleblower Renee Dufault's study detailing the potential role of high fructose corn syrup in the growing autism epidemic, including the ingredient's ability to cause m ...
- Judicial Smackdown of Guantanamo GamesChief US District Judge Royce Lamberth has long had a reputation for being a fiery jurist, but in yesterday's opinion on Guantanamo Bay detainees' access to counsel, Lamberth conveyed his understandable outrage with the government. Mincing no words, Lamberth accused the Executive Branc ...
- Study Reports More Retaliation Against Corp Wh ...Wall Street Journal: Whistleblower Retaliation on the Rise, Study Finds Summary: A new study from the Ethics Resource Center has found that 22 percent of corporate employees who spoke up about misconduct in 2011 faced retaliation for their actions. This is up from 15 percent in 2009. ...
- Vatican Whistleblower Claims 20 More Like Him: ...The U.K. Independent: Vatican Whistleblower Warns He is Not Alone in Fighting Corruption Image courtesy of wikimedia user Myrabella In the ongoing scandal involving whistleblowers exposing financial corruption inside the Vatican, the whistleblower who is charged with document theft – the pope' ...
UK Progressive
- RE Sperm Rights and in Defense of Egg Layorsby Rick Spisak News Director Progressive News Network It could only be the thoughtless who reject this author’s logic as horsing around; I say neigh! I say excess in defense of LIFE goes hardly far eough! And we hardly goes far enough when it comes to the mass murder of sacred ejaculate an ...
- Revealed: The Dark Money Group Attacking Sen. ...by Justin Elliott ProPublica In May, a previously unknown group started pouring money into Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, considered one of the most important in the country and currently the nation’s most expensive. The group, the Government Integrity Fund, has spent over $1 million so far on TV ads ...
- I’ve Been Kicked Out of the United Arab Emiratesby Matt J. Duffy Over the summer my wife and I both received notices that our contracts had been terminated and our residency visas would be canceled. Our employers told us that the order came from “outside the organization” and with no further explanation. Without a residency visa or a job, my ...
- First Lady Shows the Wayby Brent Budowsky After her genuine, moving and powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention, I propose that Michelle Obama is the first lady of the nation, the first mom of her loving family, a bonus military mom for every man and woman who serves our country, and one strong heir to th ...
- Clinton Rolls Out The Old Magicby Charley James Bill Clinton reminded America of what it is – and who he is. Whatever the former president’s many personal flaws and weaknesses might be – and they are both numerous and legendary, from triangulating critical policies to Monica – he rolled out his astounding ability to wea ...
NewsAlert
- Obama 49% Romney 45%Rasmussen
- Illinois Towns borrow, you payThe Chicago Tribune reports:Just above the cash register at Sam's Auto Service, the owner has taped up a photo of his elderly father, a snapshot of his granddaughter and his property tax bills. Owner Bassam Shaheen knows it may seem odd to tape up an old $53,000 annual tax bill. But he wants to ...
- Are wind farms saving or killing us? A provoca ...The Daily Mail on the dangers of wind farms.
- Part-time nationThe New York Post
- Chicago's Top Cop: 'We are Doing Better Than B ...The Chicago Tribune reports:So far this month, the number of homicides has surpassed an average of one per day. Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy found some consolation in that statistic on Saturday. “The fact is, we’re doing better than we were doing before,” McCarthy said, after a ...
JoNova
- Steve McIntyre on Lewandowsky (and Josh)Steve McIntyre weighs in and concludes: “Lewandowsky, like Gleick, probably fancies himself a hero of the Cause. But ironically. Lewandowsky’s paper will stand only as a landmark of junk science – fake results from faked responses. As Tom Curtis observed, Lewandowsky has no moral alternati ...
- Lewandowsky hopes we meant “Conspiracy” but we ...What can I say? Prof Lewandowsky, expert in conspiracies, thinks we are postulating a conspiracy — but the bad news for him is that we are postulating straight out incompetence, no conspiracy required. How does Lewandowsky define “conspiracy”? However he wants. I hate to say I ...
- NZ Justice shows courts are useless in a scien ...The NZ court case of skeptics versus NIWA has come down against the skeptics. The National Business Review does tabloid-style sensational namecalling in the headline (does it consider itself to be a proper newspaper?) “Climate change deniers shot down in NIWA court challenge” Judge G ...
- Do greenhouse gases warm the planet by 33°C? ...Jinan Cao has been dissecting the nature of the greenhouse effect and a key calculation that I normally just accept without questioning. This will set a few pigeons loose, but it will be interesting to see where they land. The claims analyzed here are the oft repeated ones that the Earth’s ...
- 10 conspiracy theorists makes a moon landing p ...There were only ten positive responses. There are many questions to be answered about this paper in “Psychological Science.“ Questions worth asking at all kinds of levels. The authors, Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, C. E., drew conclusions about skeptics by largely surveying alarmi ...
ReNew America
- Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
- From preserving liberty to destroying it(Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
- Building the free-market case against big business(Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
- New hope for life worldwide(Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
- Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...(Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...
Truth Offering
- The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
- S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom ActIn the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
- Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
- Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
- TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:
2012 Blog
- Prepper Refuses To Eat Iguana For TVThere’s no doubting that Doomsday Preppers is a popular and useful TV series. With what might prove to be perfect timing it is surely inspiring thousands of people to prepare for the worst. For that, we should be thankful. For the preppers who appear on the show it means five minutes of fa ...
- Amazing Solar Eruption PicThis happened yesterday. Note the size of our wee planet. Full sun view below. Source: NASA Your're reading Amazing Solar Eruption Pic by Robert Bast, and originally posted at 2012 Blog Related posts: Amazing Solar Flare Photo 2012 Solar Storm = Long-Term Power Blackout Solar Storm Cause ...
- Expert Opinions #8: David WilcoxNote: I haven’t asked for David’s opinion directly, as I am sure he is way to busy bringing the world’s financial hoodlums to justice. This is the best I can determine from multiple rambling posts on Mr Wilcox’s Divine Cosmos site. If anyone can find a succinct version o ...
- Doomsday 2012 Fact Sheet: FlawedThe source of the disinformation (once again) is David Morrison from NASA. Over at the SETI Institute is a 2012 Doomsday Fact Sheet. I’ve reproduced it in full, with my more expert opinion in red: There is widespread and unnecessary fear of doomsday on December 21, 2012. Some peopl ...
- Bear Grylls Survival KitI used to really enjoy watching Bear Grylls on the TV – but after a while it got a bit repetitive (no problem with that, means that basic skills work in numerous scenarios). What really ruined it for me is how it was all a little bit fake. Unless they specifically stated that he spent all ...
Facing South
- UAW vs. Nissan in Mississippi: Operation Dixie ...When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows. read more
- Will Latino voters fully flex their voting pow ...Latinos are a fast-growing electoral force -- but will they realize their political potential in November? read more
- INSTITUTE INDEX: The party conventions' extrao ...In light of planned protests, the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. and Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. will be taking unprecedented security measures. read more
- Mysterious environmental disaster unfolding in ...Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish has been evacuated after a massive sinkhole opened up last week following months of mysterious bubbling, rumblings and a strong diesel smell. The community sits atop an old salt mine where companies including Chevron and Dow Chemical store gas products, and the s ...
- Lawsuit seeks better regulation of oil spill d ...The unprecedented use of chemical dispersants following BP's Gulf disaster led to complaints of health problems among cleanup workers and local residents. A coalition of groups is now suing the EPA in hopes of spurring regulatory action. read more
One News Page
- Owner of Sivakasi cracker factory arrestedThe Tamil Nadu government has ordered a magisterial probe into the mishap at Sivakasi, the hub of the country's cracker industry. Reported by India Today 1 hour ago
- Djokovic advances to U.S. Open finalNEW YORK (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic completed a weather-interrupted 2-6 6-1 6-4 6-2 victory over fourth-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer on Sunday to return to the men's final at Flushing Meadows in his pursuit of a repeat U.S. Open title. Reported by Reuters India 1 hour ago
- Uneasy calm prevails as anti-KNPP protesters s ...An uneasy calm prevailed at nearby Kudankulam on Sunday with anti-nuclear protesters bracing for a showdown with authorities, protesting against the loading of fuel at the controversial nuclear plant. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
- Does history suggest China growth is about to ...BEIJING (Reuters) - The last time China's vast manufacturing sector had conditions like those in August it was March 2009 and the economy was about to rebound from the global financial crisis. Reported by Reuters India 2 hours ago
- College principal commits suicidePrincipal of a college at Chikadpally here allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Hussain Sagar lake, police said today. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
Global Research TV
- NAM Summit: Diplomatic Triumph for Iran?
- How Many Golf Courses Does the Pentagon Need?
- Timely Massacre? Pushing Russia and China to C ...
- Israel Drops Iran-Attack Hints to US
- Non-Aligned Movement Summit Kicks Off in Iran
Daily Tech
- GM is Gaga For Texas IT CenterCompany is hiring hundreds of American workers, building new facilities, and trying to improve efficiency
- Apple In Talks with Record Labels for Pandora- ...A few of the record labels that Apple is speaking with include Sony Music, Warner Music Group and EMI
- Interview: Tesla Documentary Needs $17,000 in ...Kickstarter project needs the help of the famous inventor's many fans
- Intel's Cuts Median Q3 Earnings Outlook by $1. ...Ultrabooks may not be selling as well as expected; 7.7 percent drop in outlook warns of trouble ahead
- Quick Note: Windows Phone 8's Lumia 920 to Lau ...Phone carries top of the line processor, class-leading lens, and intriguing body design
Oriental Review
- Non-Aligned Movement Re-EnergizedIt was a given from the outset that the conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which convened late August in Tehran would grab the headlines internationally. In an epoch that never sank into oblivion, the organization founded as an alliance of 120 countries by the charismatic trio of Josip ...
- Turkey Headed for TroubleRecent developments in the Middle East had a considerable impact on the standing of Turkey, a country deeply involved in the unfolding Syrian tragedy. It currently appears that Turkey’s neighbors – Iran and Iraq – are growing allergic to the attempts made by Ankara to establish itself as t ...
- Lessons of World War IIOn September 2, 1945, Japan, Nazi Germany’s last remaining ally, signed the act of unconditional surrender, putting the last dot in the history of the Second World War. The bloodiest war ever fought, it lasted 6 years, affected 40 countries and claimed 55 million lives. The historic signing cere ...
- Ankara Has Fallen into the “Syrian Trap”Turkey’s foreign policy is going through a fiasco. The leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party even accused the country’s foreign minister of “narrow-mindedness” on live television. A scandal erupted after RPP MPs from were prevented from inspecting a Syrian refugee camp. In 2009, Tur ...
- Pacific Ocean Navies in 2020Wars don’t happen by accident. Any armed conflict is prepared for and planned well in advance. That’s a fact. People living in an absolutely peaceful country sometimes aren’t even aware that their country has decided to go to war and preparations for it are already in full swing. To better under ...
BlogHer
- Amazon Releases Several New Kindle Fire TabletsSarah at Smart Bitches Trashy Books is ready to fill you in on the latest releases from Amazon in its Kindle Fire lineup. She describes some big changes and improvements. Sarah explains, Amazon unveiled all the new toys today including the Kindle Paperwhite, available with WiFi only and with 3G ...
- Vermont Whole Wheat Oatmeal Honey BreadThe smell of bread rising and baking in my kitchen is so comforting to me! While browsing the web, I found this recipe on the King Arthur Flour website. I love their flour and they have a wonderful database of great recipes. They also make a good gluten-free flour mix from what I've heard from m ...
- Build Your Own Indoor/Outdoor Swing[Editor's Note: Blogger Tresa Edmunds AKA Reese Dixon has a son who loves to swing. Not like on a swing at the park or the plastic Little Tikes kind you can buy at Walmart, he needs and enjoys a special kind of swing. When Tresa started shopping for a swing like the one her son uses in physical ...
- Stale 'War on Women' Rhetoric Underscores Tone ...It's bad enough when men regard women as single-issue voters, but it's insulting when women buy into that brainless nonsense.Hence, the entire one-trick pony "war on women" of a Democratic National Convention agenda this week showcased a party bereft of fresh ideas for women, unless they happen ...
- Hollywood Liberal Elite? Yes And Proud Of It.On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, three women took the stage with stories to tell. There were many women who spoke at the DNC over the last three days but, next to Michelle Obama, actresses Kerry Washington, Scarlett Johannson and Eva Longoria were probably the most easil ...
Health Freedom Alliance
- Nazi Convicted Mass Murderers Became Executive ...It’s been only 70 years since World War II, and the mad scientists from companies like I.G. Farben, BASF, Hoechst, Dow and Bayer, who created the gas chambers and tested dangerous vaccines on innocent Jews, didn’t just ...
- OTC Weed-Killing Toxin Causes Birth Defects, P ...Back in May, Syngenta, one of the world’s largest pesticide manufacturers—a company with offices in 90 countries and a workforce of 26,000 people—settled an eight-year-old class action lawsuit for $105 million. The agreement provides funding ...
- In Vaccines We Trust? Paul Offit Threatens Rel ...Millionaire vaccine inventor and mandatory vaccine advocate Paul Offit recently released a short VIDEO for doctors on medscape. Here is a transcript of the speech. Please read it before moving along. It is only one page long. This statement ...
- The ‘Naked Mole Rat’ That Could Ho ...He’s ugly, squat – and he could hold the secret to humans living for 200 years. This is the ‘naked mole rat’, a species which can live for 30 years – approximately ten times longer than ...
- ‘No on 37′ Campaign Against GMO La ...As Californians gear up to head to the polls on November 6 in support of Proposition 37 and food labeling transparency, the biotechnology industry and its corporate allies are desperately trying, in any way possible, ...
Live News Wire
- Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
- Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
- Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
- “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
- Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” ProportionsThe worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
Coal Tattoo
- Friday roundup, Sept. 7, 2012In this Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012 photo, rescuers work outside the Xiaojiawan coal mine following the Wednesday’s explosion in Panzhihua city in the southwestern province of Sichuan. The death toll in China’s worst mine accident in nearly three years rose to 41 on Friday with five othe ...
- Sen. Manchin’s bizarre flat-Earth societyFor a minute there yesterday, I thought there had been a gigantic shift in the political landscape regarding coal issues in West Virginia. There it was on Twitter, Sen. Joe Manchin saying something like this: Manchin says idea that burning coal is clean & good for the environment “anti ...
- President Obama: Climate change is not a jokeIn a blunt and direct response to Governor Mitt Romney and the entire GOP, President Obama declared last night: And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. Th ...
- Coal’s future: ‘All the good seams ...Gazette photo by Chip Ellis Over at The State Journal, the great Pam Kasey and Taylor Kuykendall have put together a package of three stories (see here, here and here) that puts some faces on the numbers that the fine folks from the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy outlined in updating ...
- Clinton on Obama energy, climate policiesPresident Barack Obama, left, joins former President Bill Clinton, right, at the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) As Columbia Journalism Review’s Curtis Brainard points out in The Observatory blog, the national ...
Daniel Miessler
- Trickle-down (Supply Side) Economics is a Libe ...This message isn’t stressed enough. Fiscal conservativeness means taking less chance by having solid evidence and analysis to back up your fiscal plans and projections. Austerity is only conservative when there are no rational avenues for investment that can be reasonably expected to pay i ...
- Perhaps the Most Important Health Article Anyo ...New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Reynolds wrote a whole book about the subject matter called The First 20 Minutes. To get the highest level of happiness and benefits for health, the key is not to become a professional athlete. On the contrary, a much smaller amount is needed to reach t ...
- Red State Babylon | Vanity FairIf the blue states are sinkholes of moral decay, as right-wing pundits insist, how come red states lead the nation in violent crime, divorce, illegitimacy, and incarceration, among other evils? via vanityfair.com A valid question. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ...
- There’s Something to Fear in Both Obama and RomneyThere is something frightening in both Obama and Romney, but the difference couldn’t be more clear. With Obama, I fear that he won’t be able to accomplish his goals. Partisanship, diversions, external factors, etc., could all keep him from doing what he set out to do, and that’ ...
- On Failure and SuccessRelated ContentBike ParkourDinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About ObamaJava TrailerCultivating Gratefulness | TEDMagnet Through Copper Pipe
Fitwatch
- Police Liaison Officers – the new FITPolice Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
- Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
- Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
- Welcome to the Future, Today.For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...
- The Most Dangerous Armed Gang in the CountryA mini-rant from a few FITwatchers - not necessarily representative of the views of the organisation as whole. On Thursday, 19th July, killer cop PC Simon Harwood was acquitted of manslaughter at Southwark Crown Court for his role in the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in 2009. Despit ...
Worldwide Hippies
- President Obama’s Record on Indian Affairs for ...BY: TERRANCE H. BOOTH, SR,examiner.com – President Obama’s Record on Indian Affairs for Alaska Native and Native Americans By Terrance H. Booth, Sr. – Tsimshian Tribe Earlier this week all of America listened to our President Obama acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention th ...
- High school principal holds valedictorian̵ ...BY: KELLY COZZONE,examiner.com – Kaitlyn Nootbar graduated from a high school in Prague Oklahoma with a 4.0 grade point average. However, after using the word “hell”, the principal is withholding her diploma. High school principal, David Smith has stated that if Nootbar wants her diploma, ...
- Collapse of Capitalism, Part IV: Razor Wire an ...Check out the series: The Collapse of Capitalism, Part One: Planned Obsolescence Collapse of Capitalism, Part II: Squeezing Blood from a Stone Collapse of Capitalism, Part III: Sustainability By Phil Polizatto,WWH/CJE - When Egyptians rose up to oust the decades-long, brutal, dictatorial rule of ...
- Say Yes to the Breast Part 3By Diana May-Waldman,WWH/CJE- It’s been five days since I’ve been told I need a biopsy of a breast mass. I’m scheduled for tomorrow morning. I can’t sleep. I can’t turn off my mind. I stare at my breast in the mirror. Wondering if it looks different. It doesn’ ...
- In Copenhagen’s Christiania neighborhood, the ...By Steve Vickers,washingtonpost.com – Down by the grocery store, Pusher Street is buzzing. Wasps flit noisily between the trash cans, which are overflowing with empty beer bottles, and little swarms of tourists crowd around the market stalls, cooing excitedly at the variety of products on ...
reference frame
- Pseudoscience hiding behind "weak measurements"Jason Rush sent me a link to a new insane anti-quantum article spread by the BBC: Quantum test pricks uncertainty Subtitle: Pioneering experiments have cast doubt on a founding idea of the branch of physics called quantum mechanics. The subtitle is particularly "cool". In recent months, ...
- Klaus: West is, disappointingly, returning to ...The Mont Pelerin Society was founded in 1947 by free-market luminaries Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises, George Stigler, and Milton Friedman, among others. Its 2012 General Meeting took place at the Prague Castle between last Sunday and today. Czech president Václav K ...
- Science debate, 14 questions: Romney beats ObamaSome people wanted American politicians to explicitly address scientific questions. Whether it's important or not, the project has become a reality. Your humble correspondent and Slate are among those (see Google News for media reactions) who think that judging by the answers, Romn ...
- Pascual Jordan and foundations of QMAmong the fathers of quantum mechanics, Pascual Jordan is the least well-known one. Needless to say, politics is the single most important reason behind his invisibility although it is not necessarily the only one. While he genuinely believed in the ideals of the NSDAP that he joined at ...
- WISE finds millions of black holes, thousands ...As lots of media outlets such as HJ News point out, the WISE satellite assembled in Logan, Utah (Mitt Romney's mother's hometown) has observed millions of galaxies. WISE, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, is looking at the sky in the infrared. The mission ended in 201 ...
Tatumba 2.0
- Dozens killed in bombings across IraqAt least 44 people have been killed in a wave of attacks across Iraq. In the deadliest single incident, 11 soldiers were killed in a shooting and bombing attack on an army checkpoint north of Baghdad. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Syria civil war killed 5,000 in August, activists ...
- Lew Rockwell: Gov’t is Far Worse Than The MafiaOn the Tuesday, August 14 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman and CEO of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell. Rockwell served as Ron Paul’s congressional chief of staff from 19 ...
- Coming Food Crisis Play into Global Elite’s De ...by Susanne Posel, Occupy Corporatism: Since 2010, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization have stated that the rise in food prices is directly correlated to the 80 million people being added to the world’s population annually. This fact, according to the globalists at the UN, is beginning to “ ...
- Israel could reoccupy parts of Gaza Strip.The army could conquer and control the Gaza Strip today if the government orders such an operation, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday. âIf the cabinet will want… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys(Band) Has Much To S ...
- Harper meets China leader at APEC summitPrime Minister Stephen Harper is meeting Chinese President Hu Jintao on the final day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Harper meets with Putin at APEC summit Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a one-on-one meeting with Russian... Harp ...
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 ...
Bloomberg
- Can't Stop the Big MoHealthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
- No Lull in the Airlines' HeadwindsThe industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
- Higher Gas Tax? Smart MoveRaising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
- Grading Back-to-School StocksSome outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
- IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys AreThe Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
Enviroblog
- Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the ...By Jason Rano, Director of Government AffairsIt's fair to say that I'm not a beach person. My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles. I have nightmarish memories of being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
- Water- The New Inconvenient TruthBy Heather White, Environmental Working Group chief of staff Guaranteeing a clean and ample supply of water should be at the core of our energy policy. Sometimes Washington seems to have forgotten that. But a recent survey shows that the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
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- Ham and Cheese Again? Revamp your Lunch, Rethi ...By Altelisha Taylor, EWG food and nutrition intern Let me guess. You, like most Americans, usually have a sandwich for lunch. Or maybe it's a panini or a wrap, if you want to get technical. Regardless, it's what you eat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
Quick Hits
- More Teachers Being Replaced By TechnologyThe neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
- Food costs at record levels, likely to go higherMANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
- Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
- Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia UprisingsWellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
- Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.
Capital - NYC
- Cuomo on the Lopez investigation as a trust-bu ...
- Batra wants a federal probe of JCOPE, Jef Poll ...
- 'A step away from life': Why you should watch ...
- Fall Preview 2012: Music, featuring Jay-Z, Bob ...
- Fashion Week grows bigger for media this year, ...
Views & News from Norway
- Iceland nightmare dents Brazil dreamIceland recorded their first win over the Norwegian national football team (landslaget) in 25 years with a 2-0 home victory on Friday, giving Norway a nightmare start to their own qualifying campaign for the World Cup 2014 in Brazil. Goals from Kari Arnason and Alfred Finnbogason gave the Icelan ...
- Iceland nightmare dents Brazil dreamIceland recorded their first win over the Norwegian national football team (landslaget) in 25 years with a 2-0 home victory on Friday, giving Norway a nightmare start to their own qualifying campaign for the World Cup 2014 in Brazil. Goals from Kari Arnason and Alfred Finnbogason gave the Icelan ...
- Car sales shift into high gearNorwegians are buying new cars at such high speed that even car dealers can feel left in the dust as they try to keep track of new orders. While car sales elsewhere in Europe have hit the skids, the situation is completely different in Norway. Sales were up by another 2.8 percent in August and [...]
- Car sales shift into high gearNorwegians are buying new cars at such high speed that even car dealers can feel left in the dust as they try to keep track of new orders. While car sales elsewhere in Europe have hit the skids, the situation is completely different in Norway. Sales were up by another 2.8 percent in August and [...]
- A-ha wins royal honoursThe members of Norway’s most internationally successful rock band, a-ha, have been informed they’ll be receiving one of their country’s highest royal decorations for their contribution to Norwegian music. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that a-ha members Morten Harket, Ma ...
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
- Survival Tips – How to Start a Fire with FungusEditor’s preclude: Just as with climate change, where we’re finding ourselves having to move from prevention to mitigation, I think permaculturists, who major in prevention of environmental and economic collapse, also need to build some of their skills in outright survival. In the fu ...
- Adding Calcium One Egg at a Timeby Noah Sabich, Eco-Ola Building soil fertility in the humid tropics is a difficult project. Not only because the soil itself is thin, but due to the fact that below the fertile surface of leaf litter, rotting trees and decaying organic matter is a mineral and nutrient deficient zone of usually ...
- We Need Your Help to End the Era of EcocideEditor’s Note: We’ve covered a little of Polly Higgin’s important work before (see here and here). If you’re not already familiar with Polly’s work, I would strongly encourage you to check out the web pages and videos linked to below, as well as our aforementioned p ...
- Vandana Shiva and Geoff Lawton Talk Together A ...Regular readers will know we are doing what we can to support Vandana Shiva’s "Occupy the Seed" campaign, running between 2 — 16 October, 2012. This worthy "Seed Freedom Fortnight of Action" is a call to respect and liberate the world’s seeds and to maximise ...
- Perennial Food Plants, Food Forest Gardens, an ...This article and research proposal were initially inspired by reading Eric Toensmeier’s article User-Generated Food Forest Resource is Online, encouraging food forest gardeners to contribute to this expanding database, and the discussion ensuing from Angelo Eliade’s article on Peren ...
Pointman's
- An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
- Time to cull the prat nominations.I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...
- The repair man.He repaired people. He used a little bit of human insight but mostly patience and kindness. He was good at it, so all the bad cases nobody wanted to touch or didn’t quite know how to handle, were referred to him in the end and he patched them up. Mostly, he got the ugly sex … Re ...
- Butt wiggling and the science of uncertainty.Being a climate realist, I’m used to a certain underdog status. I’ve learnt that it’s our advantage. We don’t have many of those, so you learn to work them hard. While they yap a lot, we get told to shut up but we watch them carefully while they’re yapping. We don&# ...
- Announcing the inaugural Climate Prat of the Y ...I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but notables of the green persuasion seem to win a lot of awards from various green organisations. They give prizes to each other, occasionally with a nice bit of money as well; sometimes with a very very nice bit of money. You may also have noticed, t ...
Journalists' Toolkit
- Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQueryThere are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
- Baby Steps in Data JournalismThis is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
- The best video export optionsHow do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
- Video Resources updatedThe new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
- Flash Journalism updatesI have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
Justice Roars - Louisiana
- Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...
- Seven Years After Katrina, A Divided City, By ...A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org. Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The ...
- Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bil ...1 Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011. Source: Census Bureau. 1 Rank of New Orleans, Louisiana in world prison rate. Louisiana imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of ...
- Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck, a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spot on the ballot for the city council election in District B, the seat formerly held by Stacy Head. He is one of several candidates who have declared their inten ...
- Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate Universi ...While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly transforming an already-under-resourced school into a shadow of its former self. Below is a letter from UNO President Peter Fos outlining some of the cuts. While ...
Information Underground
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Here's what the late Ben Freedman had to say in his 1961 Speech in the Willard Hotel in Washington DC : So the Jews had a monopoly in England and they charged so much interest, and when the Lords and Dukes couldn't pay, they [Jews] foreclosed. And they were creating so much trouble that the k ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Statistics: Posted by rmstock — Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:50 am
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8FKn6U7fWwStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:39 am
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...There is credible evidence men landed on the moon, infact it is the hoaxers who have NO PROOF whatsoever, every argument they have completely fails under any close inspection, I stand BEHIND WHAT I HAVE SAID 100%. Thank you Christopher Marlowe, about there not being a blast crater from the LM r ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...No human being has landed on the moon so far. There is no credible proof. Period. Your fault that you let Jews rule your ass. Now they are going to kill you. And americans are going to blamed for it. Bye. Statistics: Posted by Shlomo_Shloppy — Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:19 pm
TVNZ
- Wave of bomb blasts hits IraqAt least 34 people have been killed in a series of attacks across Iraq.
- Hitman could be responsible for French murdersA British family shot in France could be the victims of a professional hit, police believe.
- Tornado touches down in New YorkA rare tornado hits New York City as storms lash the region.
- Police search house of Britons shot in French AlpsFrench and British police began searching the house of a British man shot dead in the French Alps with his wife and another woman.
- Hong Kong backs down on China patriotism classesHong Kong's government has withdrawn plans for a compulsory Chinese school curriculum.
environment 360
- LED Bulb Technology Widening Gap in Energy Eff ...While today’s light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs are slightly better for the environment than compact fluorescent lamps, the energy efficiency gap will widen over the next five years as the technology and manufacturing methods of LEDs improve, according to a new report. In an analysis of the impac ...
- Key Asian Species Need Urgent Recovery Plans, ...The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has called on Asian nations to work together to save a handful of critically endangered species, including tigers, Asian rhinos, orangutans, Asian vultures, View gallery WCS A Mekong giant catfish. Batagur turtles, and the Mekong gian ...
- Destruction of Tropical Forests Reduces Region ...A new study has found that destruction of the world’s tropical forests may significantly reduce regional rainfall across large regions, a phenomenon researchers say could have devastating effects for people living in and around the Amazon and Congo basins. Using satellite observations of rainfa ...
- Record Levels of DDT Found in Breast Milk of W ...A new study has found record levels of DDT in the breast milk of nursing women living in South African villages where the toxic pesticide has been used for decades. In samples taken from women in three malaria-stricken villages where spraying occurs inside homes, researchers found that DDT level ...
- A Quarter of Liberian Land Ceded to Logging Co ...One quarter of Liberia’s total land area has been sold to logging companies over the last two years, a development that threatens widespread devastation in West Africa’s most heavily forested nation, a new investigation has found. According to a report by Global Witness, Save My Future Foundatio ...
oldephartte/Diigo
- Darker Net | Linking frontline news-gatherers ...Ecuador embassy siege: more evidence it was a raid called off at last moment Tags: frontline data underground web
- Savage Minds | Notes and Queries in Anthropolo ...Tags: anthropology blog culture education ethnography academia media ...
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- Multi-Science Publishing websiteTags: website research science academic search
- CorporateMediaExposed.comTags: media information crime
backofthebook
- Our sexist religion is better than your sexist ...By David@Sixthestate.net The Gideons have a strange knack for inciting controversy, and they’ve done it again. Ontario pundits are in a tizzy over a new human rights case filed by an atheist couple whose main purpose seems to be to get religious handouts, like Gideon Bibles, banned from schools. ...
- Not in my Quebec. Not in my Montreal.By Montreal Simon For a Montrealer like me, who lives and plays happily in both solitudes, and is always trying to bring Quebecers and Canadians together, it was the ultimate nightmare. An old Anglo, in a balaclava . . . and a bathrobe . . . screaming “The English are rising up!!! There ...
- Stockwell Day shoots an old canardBy David@Sixthestate.net Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind seeing a Conservative politician writing a column for CBC. Even if he is a creationist. But I’m dismayed to see, once again, a spirited defence of the “left-wing media” myth being promulgated here in Canada, especially by the state broadc ...
- Relax Canada, it’s just democracyBy Montreal Simon On a sunny afternoon, in my favourite Montreal neighbourhood, both the Quebec election and the hysterical reaction in English Canada, seemed very far away. Which was a good thing eh? Because following the election campaign from Toronto and a beach in Maine has been very exhaust ...
- Dieppe and the Lost MythBy Montreal Simon It was good to see that some of the soldiers who took part in the Dieppe Raid were able to make it back to that bloody beach today. And that so many people in the town turned out to greet them like heroes. I’m also glad that we may finally know the [...]
Daily Beast
- What the Church KnewA new film about the Vatican’s sexual-abuse scandal gives voice to its victims.
- Gay Jews For TebowLiberal Jets fans are fretting about the conservative QB. Richard Just says they should embrace him.
- Good Riddance To Iranian DiplomatsIn my column for the National Post, I detail why Canada severed diplomatic relations with Iran.
- Canadian TalksI'll be delivering five talks and lectures in Canada over the coming week, three of them open to all. If you are possibly able to join, I'll be delighted to see you.
- Lance’s Teammate Tells AllThere were more drugs in cycling than in a game of Dr. Mario, claims a new book.
Loonwatch
- [Open Thread Sunday] Sam Harris in full: court ...In a scathing rebuttal Theodore Sayeed responds to Sam Harris' claim that his views have been "misrepresented."
- White Plains: Protesters denounce Geller’ ...Protester: "I know they are opportunists who seek to prey on the fears and worries of hard-working Americans."
- What Catholics Can Learn From the QuranAmong my greatest lessons from the Quran was to be reminded to have faith, seek the truth, praise God, pray, forgive, be kind, be peaceful and take care of people who are most vulnerable — those who are oppressed and often forgotten.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Bush and Blair Should ...South African Nobel Peace Prize Winner says former leaders should face international criminal court for war crimes.
- Breaking: Pastor Nadarkhani Released, Aquitted ...Youcef Nadarkhani: "Thank you to everyone that has supported me with your prayers."
Energy News
- Reactor No. 3 has 20 times more oxygen in cont ...
- Fukushima Medical U. Professor: Onset of radia ...
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- Video: Plume rising from area outside Fukushim ...
- FRCSR: “Inhumane, inexcusable act” as many chi ...
Japan Times
- Stop panicking over birthratesRegarding the Sept. 4 front-page article "Population of Tokyo to drop to half by 2100": So much fuss has been made in the news media about the declining birthrate that it would be easy to mistake it for an impending disaster. However, despite the pressure on an overburdened pension system, per ...
- "Give it a try!"; A winning family drama; CM o ...Long-running variety show "Otameshi Ka!" ("Give it a Try!"; TV Asahi, Monday, 7 p.m.) usually tests its guests' knowledge about products offered by famous manufacturers or retail and restaurant chains. This week's two-hour special tries something different. Two teams, one captained by comedy d ...
- Manga artist drops royalty claim on secondary usePopular manga artist Shuho Sato is planning to let others adapt one of his works, royalty free, for secondary uses such as movies and merchandising in an unusual move aimed at gauging its impact on an author and his works. Sato said starting Sept. 15 he will make available the "Black Jack ni Y ...
- Single-mother households average only ¥2. ...The average annual income in 2010 for single-mother households was ¥2.91 million, or 44.2 percent of the average for all households with at least one child, according to a study by the welfare ministry. The survey, conducted last November, targeted 1,648 single-mother families around Japa ...
- Better ways to spend ¥2 billion!Regarding the Sept. 6 front-page article "Government seen sealing Senkaku deal at ¥2.05 billion": All that for a few small, more-or-less useless islands? Doesn't the government have any better ideas on how to spend such an amount?
Alexander Higgins
- Not Seen On TV: 20 Minutes Of Graphic Syria Te ...20 Minutes video documenting the crimes of the Free Syrian Army. You don't need to know Arabic to understand the cruelty and terror of such group.
- Judge Tells Woman Sexaully Assaulted By Cop It ...An judge tells a woman sexually assaulted by a cop in a bar not to blame others, it's her fault for being there after not giving the cop a jail sentence.
- Bin Laden Interview 1993 – Before He Was ...Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace. The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building projects in Sudan.
- US Backed Syria Rebels Announce Plans To Targe ...The terrorist Free Syrian Army has threatened to shoot down any civilian airliners flying over the country from next week.
- Blair Could Face War Crime TrialFormer British Prime Minister Tony Blair could face trial in Scotland for his war crimes in Iraq after the proposal was backed by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs).
Macleans - Central
- Our readers tweetJust some of the reaction to our stories this week
- The Maclean’s Photo Daily 524 hours, five photos and focus — lots of focus
- A roadmap for the Democrats after CharlotteIt should be about the future of America than the president's record
- Local man accepts teaching position at prestig ...Michael Ignatieff will soon be splitting his time between faculty positions at the University...
- Partnering with Coke for the greater good?(Yes.)
Making It Count - CCPA
- The End of Men?The Globe and Mail on Saturday devoted two pages of its Focus section to a discussion of Hanna Rosin’s book, The End of Men. There are a few interesting anecdotes on changing sex roles, but there are no facts cited to substantiate the argument that North America is seeing the rise of a mat ...
- Unionization and Labour Market PerformanceFurther to my earlier post on the “own goal” scored by the Fraser Institute report on North American labour markets, the Table below shows the rankings of the Canadian provinces – out of 60 states and provinces – for (1) labour market performance, 2007-11 and (2) the unio ...
- More Dead MoneyThe sector and financial-flow accounts released with today’s GDP figures indicate an expansion of the pool of dead money flagged by this blog and by Mark Carney. The National Balance Sheet Accounts have not yet been released for the second quarter, so we cannot update the accumulated total of $5 ...
- Labour Market Regulation and Labour Market Per ...A release by the Fraser Institute – Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States, 2012 Edition – registers as a spectacular own goal. The Fraser Institute believes – and argues in this study – that strong unions, high minimum wages and high levels of public se ...
- Raising Saskatchewan’s Minimum WageSaskatchewan Federation of Labour president Larry Hubich and I have the following joint op-ed in today’s Regina Leader-Post (page A10). It’s been fourteen years since I first wrote into The Leader-Post advocating a minimum-wage increase. Why higher wages make economic sense Recent Saskatchewan g ...
ReDress
- Israeli leaders score own goal over non-aligne ...Uri Avnery argues that the Israeli premier’s and defence minister's reactions to the UN and Egyptian leaders' participation in the Tehran non-aligned summit show their ideological fixations, mental outlook and low intelligence.
- Ethiopia’s opportunity: a new day beckonsGraham Peebles argues that the death of Ethiopia's dictatorial prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provides a golden opportunity for the country to embark on the long delayed journey to reunite its fragmented communities, restore human dignity and establish democracy and human rights.
- Israel says "Rachel made me do it"Lawrence Davidson argues that behind the Israeli court ruling that Rachel Corrie, the US peace activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home, lies a culture of pathological racism that considers all Palestinians and th ...
- Is Palestine a lost cause?Alan Hart outlines a strategy for saving the Palestinian cause from extinction: making Israel accountable for its occupation by dissolving the quisling Palestinian Authority and exposing Zionism's propaganda, and mobilizing Palestinians everywhere to engage by peaceful and democratic means in th ...
- Israel's underemployed foreign minister seeks ...Uri Avnery argues that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's bizarre letter to the Middle East "Quartet", in which he accused the Palestinian Authority of "diplomatic terrorism", is a symptom of an attention-seeking disorder rooted in the fact that Lieberman is underemployed.
Physics Today
- Graphene offers clear window on liquidsBBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
- Rival teams shared in Nobel celebrationScience: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
- No titleTalking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
- Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sectorEarth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
- Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...
Revolutionary Politics
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Peakwater
- A River in New Zealand Gets a Legal Voice“It speaks the language of riffles and babbles, not legal rights and codes, but the Whanganui River, New Zealand’s third largest, has received something no other river in the country – and possibly the world – yet has: a legal voice. In a framework agreement signed last week between the Cr ...
- INDIA: Victims protest, while the government t ...“The Narmada Valley Project, of which the Omkareshwar Dam is part of, is one of the most controversial development projects in the world. The project is plagued with proven claims of adverse environmental impacts to say the least. Allegations of – absence or partially executed and bi ...
- Palestinian farmers fighting to survive“Foqaha’s case isn’t unique. Instead, according to human rights groups, it represents a growing inability among Palestinian farmers to engage in sustainable agriculture in the occupied West Bank. Almost 63 per cent of arable agricultural land in the West Bank is located in Area ...
- Water-transfer projects “essential” ...Photo retrieved from: www.chinadialogue.net “cd: We’ve seen a lot of public debate over water transfer projects. What role and impacts do regional water transfers have? How should we evaluate all the projects getting under way? See ”China’s South-North water transfer is ‘ ...
- Drought wreaks havoc on Indian farmers“The drought, India’s first since 2009, will not cause a shortage of staples as the nation’s grain stores are overflowing with rice and wheat, and sugar output is set to exceed demand for a third straight year. But the drought will deal a devastating blow to grain crops used fo ...
D. Kucinich
- Kucinich Calls For Bold Action to Create JobsAs Members of the Democratic Party converge in Charlotte, North Carolina, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for bold action to create jobs. “Later this week President Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for President at the Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, North Carol ...
- Victory For Voting Rights in OhioCleveland, Ohio (August 31, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement after a judge in Ohio overturned a state law and allowed in-person early voting leading up to the election in November. “Today is a good day for our democracy. This is a step in the right direct ...
- America Deserves a RaiseThis Labor Day, President Obama has the opportunity to defend the economic rights of millions of Americans by supporting a substantial increase in the minimum wage. Presently $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage is inadequate. The purchasing power of a worker earning minimum wage in 1968 is ...
- Kucinich Remembers Legacy of Neil ArmstrongCongressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement upon learning of the passing of Neil Armstrong, the legendary astronaut who inspired all humanity: “Neil’s voyage to the moon carried the hopes of a nation and reminded the world for all time that in America nothing is ...
- Kucinich Asks Inspector General to Review FDA’ ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of an investigation of tainted jerky treats for dogs made in China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been investigating consumer complaints for five years while th ...
Authentically Wired
- for Romney/Paul … Corporation$ rule… But for Romney/Paul … Corporation$ rule … Elizabeth Warren’s DNC Speech: "Corporations Are Not People" By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet Elizabeth Warren: ‘ The System Is Rigged’ Filed under: Blogroll
- Why should it come as any surprise… Why should it come as any surprise that Child Protective Services (CPS) which is an agency staffed by public employees is having a difficult time finding and keeping competent personnel …. After all our Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and her GOP minion$ controlling our state legislature made bein ...
- government will NOT disclosure… It’s not just the cost … it’s the fact our government will NOT disclosure what the hell they are releasing into our atmosphere … Cost of Chemtrail Program Put At $5 Billion a Year 09-05-2012 • http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson … Read Full St ...
- any more ? ?… Republican information $ource … Republicans Have Amnesia About Obama’s Bipartisanship By Ed Kilgore | Washington Monthly Filed under: Blogroll
- FACE IT … OUR JU$TICE $Y$TEM IS OWNED… FACE IT … OUR JU$TICE $Y$TEM IS OWNED … How the Big Banks Are Trying to Destroy Our Justice System Meet the lawyer who keeps getting Citigroup off the hook for fraud. READ MORE» ..Pam Martens / AlterNet Filed under: Blogroll
Popular Technology
- The Truth about Richard Muller"I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
- The Truth about Judith CurryJudith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
- The Truth about Skeptical ScienceSkeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
- Mastering the Firefox Search BarAs a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
- The Truth about SourceWatchSourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
Monga Bay ( Articles )
- An interview with conservation writer David Qu ...David Quammen has done consistent and conscientious reporting from the trenches of ecological and evolutionary research for over thirty years now. Few in the world can claim as intimate and broad an understanding of conservation biology as he can. His books such as The Song of the Dodo and Mons ...
- Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
- Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
- Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
- Chart: Forest loss in Latin AmericaLatin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
Science - NZ Herald
- 'Her Deepness' lives for the seaOceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle is arguably the ocean's biggest champion, with six decades of first-hand experience in the world's big blue backyard. It was a rogue wave on a New Jersey beach that first sparked the then 3-year-old...
- DNA encyclopaedia a 'huge breakthrough' - expertA New Zealand genetics expert has heralded the Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements as a "huge breakthrough".The ENCODE Project has discovered that so-called "junk DNA" in the human genome is more useful than previously thought. Rather...
- Business 'lethargic' about world collaboration ...New Zealand's role in the biggest scientific discovery in decades shows what can happen when kiwis get involved in international collaborations, says a leading physicist.Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher in Switzerland...
- Sue Kedgley: Beware GM heavyweights visiting N ...Some of the leading figures in the global campaign to get genetically modified crops accepted around the world, have been in New Zealand this week.They were keynote speakers at the International Conference for Agricultural Biotechnology,...
- DNA encyclopaedia shows complex inner workingsA colossal international effort has yielded the first comprehensive look at how our DNA works, an encyclopaedia of information that will rewrite the textbooks and offer new insights into the biology of disease.For one thing, it...
The Bovine
- Was Rawsome raw milk raid all about enforcemen ...From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “Almost like a mirage, the Rawesome Food Club case seems to be disappearing before our eyes. A big chunk of it vaporized Friday when two defendants–Sharon Palmer and Victoria Bloch–settled the … Continue reading →
- How antibiotic use fuels weight gain in animal ...From Discover Magazine blog: “We aren’t single individuals, but colonies of trillions. Our bodies, and our guts in particular, are home to vast swarms of bacteria and other microbes. This “microbiota” helps us to harvest energy from our food by … Continue reading →
- Those midwesterners are finally doing somethin ...From GMO Free Midwest: Occupy Monsanto (Sept. 17) begins a global week of action celebrating the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. All across the world there will be events and demonstrations expressing concerns regarding Monsanto’s increasing control of food and … Continue reading ...
- Pushing FDA to go after small farmersFrom David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “The Center for Food Safety has filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its alleged failure to enforce the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). You may remember the FSMA–it’s the contentious law … ...
- How Stanford study sells organics shortFrom Tom Philpott, in Mother Jones: “Is organic food little more than a trumped-up marketing scheme, another way for affluent consumers to waste money? A just-released paper by Stanford University researchers—and the reaction to it by the media—suggests as much. … Continue reading &# ...
Mish's Global Economic Trends
- Plenty of Jobs if You are "King of the Road"This post is about "Bobo". I wrote about Bobo before. He is in his early 50s, highly skilled, and willing to travel. In his latest email, he says "I'm down to one bag, one laptop, and one phone." When he loses his job, he gets another within a few days. King of the Road My previou ...
- No One Happy Except Stock Market; Discord Emer ...Discord Emerges It's not just Germany expressing reservations about the ECB's plan to "Save the Euro". Spain, Italy, and Germany all have concerns about the plan launched last week by ECB president Mario Draghi. Germany does not like the plan because it does too much (please see 54% of ...
- 54% of Germans Want Constitutional Court to Ki ...Moment of Recognition It appears a majority of German citizens have finally had enough of chancellor Angela Merkel saying one thing and doing another in regards to bailouts. They have also had enough of Mario Draghi and his policies. According to Der Spiegel a Majority of Germans Want ...
- Facebook Users, I Have a Favor to Ask Chase is giving away $5 million to charity. Anyone with a Facebook account can vote for their favorite charity. This supersedes information I gave earlier regarding a need to have a Chase account to vote. The charity with the most votes will receive $250,000! The next 10 charities w ...
- Germany Trifecta: Steep Drop in Construction N ...Eurozone activity is crumbling at a steep pace. A close look at Germany provides all the information you need to understand that it's not just the club-med states that are in deep trouble. Steep Drop in Services New Business The Markit Germany Services PMI® shows Sharpest drop in Germ ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
- Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...Political Language & the Debt Crisis George Orwell wrote that political language is meant to give “solidity to pure wind.” Are politicians and economists simply liars? Or do they speak a different language? Using the example of the European debt crisis, we are able to actually t ...
- The EyeOpener- Forced Vaccinations & the Death ...Nothing could be more antithetical to the very idea of individual freedom than to have governments telling us that we must put some substance in our bodies. Without ownership of our body and the attendant right to refuse this or that medicine as we see fit, we are nothing more than slaves of the ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 17, ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 16, ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
- Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial AgendaRecent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
bloody crossroads
- Is Obama a Fraud?The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
- Today’s StoriesGood politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
- The Tyranny of American HealthcareFor those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
- Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
- Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
gCaptain
- Shell Says Alaska Drilling Starting This WeekendRoyal Dutch Shell PLC‘s (RDSA, RDSA.LN, RDSB, RDSB.LN) U.S. unit said Friday drilling in Alaska’s Arctic offshore will likely begin over the coming weekend, after a drillship sets down anchor over [...]
- Petrobas Seeking Partners in Deepwater U.S. GulfBrazilian state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, is seeking a joint-venture partner to invest as much as $4 billion into the company’s deepwater drilling operations in the U.S. Gulf of [...]
- ECO’s Aggressive Newbuild Program is Now Even ...Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), one of the industry’s largest, most diverse and dynamic marine transportation solutions providers, announced the addition of eight new vessels to an aggressive newbuild campaign first [...]
- Ship Photo of The Day – Despite What You May B ...I’ve honestly never been known to have an inferiority complex, but I’m feeling REALLY inferior right about now. The photo was taken during two days of search and rescue exercises [...]
- Rena’s Front Fell Off… LiterallyNearly a year after the MV Rena ran aground on Astrolabe Reef off New Zealand, the vessel is still not done breaking up. Maritime New Zealand says that high winds [...]
Press TV
- 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.
- Moscow hosts nonproliferation confabRussia has held the 2012 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference, hosting researchers, scientists, diplomats and experts in the Russian capital, Press TV reports.
- ‘US losing influence across world’A political analyst and US war veteran says that the US is losing its influence around the world, as people are understanding its “blatant lies” said to launch wars around the world, Press TV reports.
- UK wage inequality cheats workers £7KThe Trades Union Congress (TUC) says that workers in Britain are being cheated £7,000 a year due to wage inequality caused by doubling economic growth over 30 years.
SciDev.net
- Rich nations commit to help Pacific fight clim ...Australia and the United States have made financial commitments to help nations in the Pacific Islands adapt to climate change.
- Africa and Brazil to share cotton know-howResearch hubs in Africa and Brazil have identified opportunities for exchanging of agricultural expertise for cotton production.
- Afghan academy appeals for help in reviving sc ...Researchers have called for support in regenerating Afghan science, weakened by years of war, at a summit of science academies in New Delhi.
- Climate change a mixed blessing for wheat, say ...Scientists say climate change can both boost and diminish wheat production, and integrated adaption is needed to ensure food security.
- Africa Analysis: Kenya's ICT lab is just the b ...IBM's choice of Kenya for its African research lab is not the end of private sector tech investment for other countries, says Linda Nordling.
Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog
- The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
- Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
- Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
- Presentation to the National Economists ClubYesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
- Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
Naked Scientists - News
- Robotic routerHave you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
- Flexible batteriesOne of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
- Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blameSoil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
- Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
- Nanoparticles poison soilNanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...
Nick Turse
- Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Ma ...Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.]: 08/28/1963 (NARA)
- nwkarchivist:Happy 48th Birthday, Ford Musta ...nwkarchivist: Happy 48th Birthday, Ford Mustang! At first, it was known only as the T-5- a coded abstraction with no meaning outside the four windowless walls of a room in Dearborn, Mich. This week, it is the Mustang; and Americans will have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to avoid the name. ...
- guardian:Photographs, clockwise from top lef ...Photograph: Dunja Zupanic/Royal Observatory Photograph: Bill Snyder/Royal Observatory Photograph: Thomas O'Brien/Royal Observatory guardian: Photographs, clockwise from top left: Dunja Zupanic/Royal Observatory; Bill Snyder/Royal Observatory; Thomas O’Brien/Royal Observatory Picture ...
- Family of Mrs. Motto making flowers in a tenem ...Family of Mrs. Motto making flowers in a tenement. Josephine, 13 years, helps outside of school hours until 9 P.M. sometimes. She is soon to be 14 and expects to go to work in an embroidery factory, then. Says she worked in that factory all last summer. All work, except baby and she plays with ...
- Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Entert ...Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Entertainment: Vocalist Joan Baez. A sign hanging near the microphones reads “We Shall Overcome.” ]: 08/28/1963 (NARA)
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