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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, October 1, 2012

1 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Tears of Steel: Fourth Official Blender Movie ...
    Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics to bac ...
  • Google Play Store Celebrates 25 Billion Downlo ...
    Google is on a roll. Few weeks ago, Chrome had already surpassed IE to become world's most popular web browser and now this. According to official Android blog, Google Play Store has just hit the magic 25 billion downloads mark and to celebrate the occasion, Google is now offering a ...
  • Steam for Linux is Coming Next Month!!
    All you Linux aficionados can breath a sigh of relief. Steam is coming to Linux and no, you don't have to wait till 2013 since Steam for Linux is coming next month! Steam for Linux Coming Next Month In a recent blogpost, where the launch of Steam workshop for L4D2 game wa ...
  • ZTE's Firefox OS Plans Confirmed, ZTE Will Lau ...
    Based out of China, ZTE Corp is world's fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer and fifth-largest telecoms equipment maker (based on 2011 statistics). And when such a big player decides to go ahead with something entirely new and unknown, things can get interesting. For starters, Firefox ...
  • Humble Indie Bundle 6 Introduces Linux to 6 Br ...
    As always, the brand new edition of Humble Indie Bundle is packed with surprises. The latest Humble Bundle marks the introduction of 6 brand new games which didn't had a Linux version prior to this. We had introduced you to some of the hottest Linux games for 2012 recently, but the latest Humb ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney ...
    By Matt Taibbi And this is where we get to the hypocrisy at the heart of Mitt Romney. Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a “turnaround specialist,” a shrewd financial operator who revived moribund companies as a high-priced ...
  • The S**t is About to Hit the Fan, Here’s ...
  • Mr. Apocalypse does, Ground and Pound
    By Visible The changing of an age, is such a fundamentally comprehensive thing, going on inside and outside at the same time. It’s hard to get a handle on what’s happening and the sluggish progress, is like a constipated dinosaur, lumbering across the plain, roaring out in discomfort ...
  • The False Flag That Started The Iraq War
    by Alexander Higgins – September 30, 2012 at 2:00 am On the anniversary of the Anthrax attacks used to justify the Iraq war are now known to have been an inside job and the corporate media blackout continues. The Iraq War False Flag: The Anthrax they said came from Iraq’s non-existent WMD ...
  • UN Considering Global Carbon And Agenda 21 Taxes
    by Alexander Higgins The UN is set to hold debates to consider whether several global taxes including a carbon tax and financial transaction tax to fund Agenda 21 initiatives. The United Nations will stay busy even after the annual General Assembly meetings wrap up this week, and on the agenda f ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Assessing Bradley Manning
    According to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether, indeed, ...
  • Inner Worlds
    Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what was cry ...
  • Mormon Madness
    It's not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be ...
  • Another Take on American Divisions
    Stipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...
  • American Divisions
    Bill Schneider says that the U.S. is more politically divided today than it has been at any time since the Civil War. I think he's right. Which is not to say that compromise is the ticket. Instead, I'd like to see some brains reclaimed by reason from among those who want His Almightiness to run ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Pakistan's Bid for Tolerance
    A tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Japanese Nobel Laureate, 1,300 Others Urge Cau ...
    Xinhua News Agency September 29, 2012 Commentary: Japanese government must listen to voices of reason Kenzaburō Ōe: Categorical imperative to renounce war forever BEIJING: Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate, has called on the Japanese government to reflect on its view of history an ...
  • U.S. Asia-Pacific Strategy Destabilizes Region
    China.org.cn September 29, 2012 US Asia-Pacific strategy destabilizes region By Zheng Yongnian ==== Thinking that the U.S. will invest huge resources to confront China as it did against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, these countries, especially the ones which have maritime boundary disput ...
  • Pakistan-Russia Ties
    The News International September 29, 2012 Pak-Russia ties ==== In the final analysis, as the Central and South Asian configuration of states undergoes a new transformation, Russia and Pakistan need to reach out to each other to reap the full and positive benefits of a real relationship, includin ...
  • Syria: Russian Foreign Minister Warns of Abyss ...
    RT September 28, 2012 Rebel support ‘pushes Syria deeper into the abyss of bloody sectarianism’ – Lavrov 14-minute video of Lavrov’s address to the United Nations General Assembly Those who insist on a ceasefire only by the Syrian government encourage the opposition to intensify its hostil ...
  • Outside Meddling In Syria Threat To Whole Worl ...
    Xinhua News Agency September 28, 2012 Syria crisis can only be solved within U.N.: Russian official         MOSCOW: Attempts to solve the Syria crisis outside the U.N. would have destructive consequences for both Syria and the existing world order, a senior Russian diplomat s ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Dear Monsanto: Thank You for Making the World ...
    theintelhub.com October 1, 2012 From PlanetInfowars User Benjamin Lantz: Dear Monsanto, I wanted to write you this letter thanking you for all of your hard work leading the food industry towards the future.  I have seen some incredible things as of late and I believe that your efforts have been ...
  • East St. Louis Mayor Enacts Martial Law
    Alec Scheer | This is an unprecedented government control and it is the suspension of ordinary law, including the Constitution. This is martial law.
  • Julian Assange Declared Enemy of the State
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com October 1, 2012 America is Exhibit A on how democracies aren’t supposed to work. Of course, the US isn’t one now and never was. Contrary to popular myth, it wasn’t established as one. America’s founders had other ideas. From ...
  • Pressure Builds for Full-Scale War on Syria
    Stephen Lendman | Expect military intervention ahead against both countries. It's longstanding policy.
  • Lakota Sioux Nation Leaves America
    By Stephen Lendman, Contributor theintelhub.com October 1, 2012 America betrayed them and all Native Peoples. Throughout US history and earlier, genocide was policy. Historian Ward Churchill explained four centuries of systematic slaughter. It went on from 1492 – 1892. It continues today a ...

FRS

  • Arab Spring activist arrested in New York for ...
    Egyptian-born activist Mona Eltahawy defaces ‘anti jihad’ ad- New York Sep 25, 2012 by NYPost Protesters clash over provocative ‘pro-Israel’ subway poster. – New York Post Jerome Taylor, Religious Affairs Correspondent, The Independent Thursday 27 September 2012 The ...
  • Arab Spring activist arrested in New York for ...
    Egyptian-born activist Mona Eltahawy defaces ‘anti jihad’ ad- New York Sep 25, 2012 by NYPost Protesters clash over provocative ‘pro-Israel’ subway poster. – New York Post Jerome Taylor, Religious Affairs Correspondent, The Independent Thursday 27 September 2012 The ...
  • Dear Mandela — a film on the new generat ...
    Theatrical Trailer — When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ of South Africa’s new generation rise from the shacks and take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test. DEAR MANDELA was awarded the & ...
  • Dear Mandela — a film on the new generat ...
    Theatrical Trailer — When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ of South Africa’s new generation rise from the shacks and take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test. DEAR MANDELA was awarded the & ...
  • Philippines: Catholic Church leader an illegal ...
    [The neo-colonial domination of the Philippines by imperialism has long relied upon semi-feudal and comprador forces to ensure the ongoing subservience of the islands.  A crucial part of this equation has been the role of the Catholic Church.  Sections of the Catholic Church have, for many years ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
    I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
  • Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...
    Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
  • Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni Family
    It is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that, it has c ...
  • Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Palestinians
    Today is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe
  • Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...
    'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • There is a Lot Riding on the New iPhone 5
    The iPhone 5 might look like just an upgrade, but Apple needs to continue its hot streak and deliver a product that will entice new buyers as well as dedicated fans.Contributor: Jason Gallagher Published: Sep 12, 2012
  • Florida A&M Correct in Asserting Deceased Stud ...
    26-year-old Robert Champion, a drum major at Florida A&M University, died after being hazed by bandmates aboard a team bus. The university has asserted that it should not be held liable for the death because Champion was an adult.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 11, 2012
  • Bear-Hugging the President and Why Pizza Shoul ...
    Scott Van Duzer, the owner of a Florida pizza restaurant, garnered some measure of fame when he “spontaneously” grabbed the president of the United States and lifted him off the ground. Hot Air is suggesting that he now wishes he hadn’t.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Sep 11, 2012
  • Patience Should Be a Major Deciding Factor in ...
    One can't necessarily expect a major change in the economy between presidential elections. Sometimes it's best to trust the process of the current leadership in the White House.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Sep 10, 2012
  • Romney Needs to Show Math, Not Just Principles ...
    Americans care more about performance than rhetoric and will vote for whichever politician seems like the surest bet to enhance economic prosperity. Mitt Romney has an advantage to gain control of the economic conversation but is failing to do so.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 10, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Today On Mars: Check Out Curiosity's Martian R ...
    The intrepid rover still has a long, pitstop-less journey on its way toward Glenelg. Mars rover Curiosity has already made some neat discoveries on its still-short mission, and this roadside map plots those. But it still has a way to go: It's Glenelg or bust. At Glenelg, on the far right of th ...
  • Adam Cohen Lights Up Neurons To See How They Fire
    Goodbye, electrodes; hello, bright lights. Other 13-year-old boys want cash for their bar mitzvah. Adam Cohen asked for an oscilloscope. Shortly thereafter, he startled his parents by wandering into the living room with a home-built EKG machine taped to his chest. “They were a bit concerned tha ...
  • Experiment: Look At Pictures Of Cute Baby Anim ...
    A Japanese study suggests looking at cute animal pics can help your concentration. We've thoughtfully provided some so you can test that out for yourself. A study at Hiroshima University in Japan suggests that the empathy brought on by looking at pictures of cute baby animals can actually aid i ...
  • We Are All Born Scientists, Study Finds
    Toddlers learn by testing hypotheses and analyzing evidence, just like scientists are trained to do. Young kids think and learn about their surroundings much the way that scientists think and learn in advanced experiments, a new study says. They form hypotheses, test them, analyze their finding ...
  • Cute Baby Animal Pictures, For Productivity

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...
    The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
  • Yorkshire at risk from renewed flooding
    Heavy rainfall in the next 30 hours could lead to yet more flooding across parts of Yorkshire. Current indications suggest some Pennine catchments of North & West Yorkshire could be most at risk. The very active weather system which I wrote about here on Friday and is currently affecting much o ...
  • Autumn blast on its way
    A deep area of low pressure looks set to dominate our weather late in the weekend and into next week as the official start of autumn (which is the 22nd September this year, defined as the day the sun crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere) coincides nicely with the first meteorological ...
  • Wet end to September raises autumn flooding co ...
    The second half of September look set to be dominated by low pressure, with little chance of a prolonged dry settled spell of weather. All computer weather models are indicating that temperatures are likely to be below normal, with rain expected at times across the UK - although there will be s ...
  • Global temperature update
    Global temperatures in August were 0.34C above the 30 year running average, according to the UAH satellite measure, showing a small increase on the previous month, shown below. It's the 3rd warmest August in this particular satellite data set which began in 1979. Using the more standard ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Hedonism in Retreat: FT 'How to Spend It' Now Free
    [After many months going without one, dear readers I bring you an honest-to-goodness weekend feature.] The Financial Times has always been regarded as an excellent source of business news, hence it struck many as odd that it would cater to the upscale demographic by expanding its "How to Spend I ...
  • Perestroika 2012? Cuba's Zany Capitalist Trans ...
    The reforms that Mikhail Gorbachev introduced in the Soviet Union a quarter of a century ago or so ultimately put its demise into motion. Authoritarian regimes have thus been wary every since of following the USSR's fate. Certainly, China's more deliberate pace of adopting market reforms has suc ...
  • An Economic Case for Catalan Independence?
    Nothing stokes popular discontent like economic malaise, and Spain's current plight of enduring, among other things, borrowing costs characteristic of a third world country instead of a first world one is now the Catalan cause. Never fond of Spanish central government to begin with, the rallying ...
  • Meet China's Real Challenger, Mexico (No Kidding)
    Military man-turned-president Porfirio Diaz is usually attributed with saying, "Poor Mexico--so near the United States, so far from heaven." It is true that more than a fair share of Mexico's law and order woes stem from being a gateway to the world's largest consumer market for drugs in the Uni ...
  • Cooked Books & Worse: Argentina's IMF 'Red Card'
    Say what you will about the IMF, but they're pretty thick-skinned folks by now with all the criticism they engender year after year. Materially, however, the power they have over countries emanates from them being able to withhold emergency lending to countries that do not stick to the (structur ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Federal Reserve Sends Thank You Letters To ...
    The Federal Reserve continues to pump up this "bubble economy" by recklessly printing money and by setting interest rates artificially low, and the U.S. Congress continues to stand aside and allow them to systematically destroy our economy.  The U.S. Congress could choose to end this madness at ...
  • Why Does Our Society Look Down On Unemployed M ...
    If you are unemployed for an extended period of time, people are going to look at you differently.  Unfortunately, this is especially true if you are a man.  In our society, men are primarily defined by "what they do".  If you have been unemployed for a long period of time, that can make social ...
  • 14 Signs That The World Economy Is Getting Weaker
    The United States is not the only one with massive economic problems right now.  The truth is that just about wherever you look around the globe things are getting even worse.  China is experiencing a substantial economic slowdown, and Japan has resorted to yet another round of money printing in ...
  • Quantitative Easing Did Not Work For The Weima ...
    Did printing vast quantities of money work for the Weimar Republic?  Nope.  And it won't work for us either.  If printing money was the secret to economic success, we could just print up a trillion dollars for every American and be done with it.  The truth is that making everyone ...
  • QE4? The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Com ...
    QE3 has barely even started and some folks on Wall Street are already clamoring for QE4.  In fact, as you will read below, one equity strategist at Morgan Stanley says that he would not be "surprised" if the Federal Reserve announced another new round of money printing by the end ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US Family Massacred After Begging Russia For Help
    A shocking new Federal Security Service (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today alleges that an entire American family that sought Russian protection from the Obama regime was massacred by US intelligence agents within hours of their planned escape from the United States. According to this ...
  • Convicted TSA Agent: ‘Stealing from bags is ve ...
    It was a scandal that rocked the nation – a New York Transport Security Agency security officer found guilty of stealing close to $1million worth of belongings from passenger luggage. But according to the convicted officer, the problem was even more widespread than ever feared and is still ...
  • Gangs of convicted terrorists recruit prisoner ...
    To reach the heart of HM Prison Belmarsh is a bleak and time-consuming process. It means a thorough search at the gate, the issuing of a special biometric identity card, and a long, repetitive journey through successive electronic gates in the vast, brick-built perimeter and concentric layers of ...
  • World Cup 2018 host cities revealed
    FIFA President Sepp Blatter appeared on Russian national television to name the eleven cities where the 2018 World Cup will be played. ­There were 13 venues in the running, which were all visited by the FIFA inspectors during the two years after Russia won the World Cup bid. Russia’s Sport ...
  • US Government Legalize Sterilization for Minor ...
    A new propaganda study promoting the population control agenda of the global Elite says that castration will assist men in living longer. Dr. Cheol-Koo Lee, member of the research group for the study and professor at the Korea University, explains that pre-pubescent castration prevents the biolo ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • At UN debate, Ecuador calls for increased focu ...
    The protection of human rights and preservation of the environment must feature more prominently in the global development agenda, Ecuador's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marco Albuja, told the United Nations General Assembly today.
  • Need for United Nations underscored by current ...
    The crisis in Syria, terrorism and environmental degradation underscore the vital need for the United Nations, Costa Rica's Foreign Minister, Enrique Castillo-Barrantes, told the General Assembly today, on the last day of its annual high-level debate.
  • Amid challenges to global peace, Canadian Fore ...
    The United Nations must focus on achieving results rather than process, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Baird, told the UN General Assembly today, noting that security issues in Syria and Iran trumped the world body's procedural considerations.
  • At General Debate, Cuba calls for UN reform to ...
    Cuba's Foreign Minister today called for the urgent reform of the United Nations by reinforcing the powers of the 193-member General Assembly and expanding the 15-member Security Council to make it truly representative of the world as it exists today, 65 years after its creation.
  • UN experts voice shock at killing of prominent ...
    Three independent United Nations experts have expressed their dismay at the killing in Honduras of prominent human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo Cabrera, who was very active in the media denouncing alleged abuses by landowners and politicians.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The War on Kids ... The Failures of Public Edu ...
    An award winning, critically acclaimed documentary of the complete and utter failure of the public education system and United States demonization of home schoolers. ~ Full length Documentary read more
  • Vaccinated Children Develop the Disease Vaccin ...
    This is not alternative health conspiratorial conjecture. This has been officially recorded but barely reported. So here is a sampling of recorded disease breakouts among children who were vaccinated for that disease. ~ Paul Fassa ~ Video Link read more
  • The Obamas Blow Through $1.4 BILLION In 2012! ...
    While most of America is suffering through one the worst economic downturns in U.S. history, the Obamas are living the high life at your expense!  read more
  • Paving The Road To Dictatorship ... Disarming ...
    Before I get to my main topic today,  let me call your attention to the pro-Obama,  pro-Communist Party USA   SEIU  (Service Employees International Union)  radio ads which are aired daily throughout Florida to scare seniors away from  Romney and Ryan. ~ Dr. ...
  • Secession!... Lakota Sioux Nation Leaves The U ...
    President Barack Obama has an unexpected foreign policy problem – in the Western United States. The Lakota Sioux nation has seceded from the United States, according to a story on the anti-American website La Voz de Aztlan. read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Here It Comes, The October Surprise
    In American political jargon, an October surprise is a news event with the potential to influence the outcome of an election, particularly one for the U.S. presidency. The reference to the month of October is because the date for national elections (as well as many state and local elections) occ ...
  • Executive Orders Are Blueprint For Takeover?
    President Obama has signed 139 Executive Orders to date during his Administration. Many of them, such as the following list from ‘The Western Center For Journalism’, appear to be a blueprint for the takeover by the government (White House), entirely bypassing Congress. A recent summa ...
  • Preserving Cheese by Waxing
    Guest Post: by Christine Waxing cheese is the best way to preserve it for storage. It keeps out any unwanted beasts like mold. I wax all of my cheese before putting it to age. You can also use wax to store the cheese that you buy at the store. Wax is fairly inexpensive if you [...]
  • TSA ‘Freeze Drill’ video at Phoeni ...
    We are being trained like DOGS. The latest TSA tactic of ‘control’ is the ‘freeze drill’, a scare tactic coming randomly to an airport near you. “Its a good way of steadily brainwashing sheeple into cooperating.” Uploaded to YouTube: As if air travel couldn’t get an ...
  • Paracord
    Paracord: A must-have for every survival kit! 550 Paracord has made its name in the commercial industry through its use by the military as an important tool. It was first introduced and applied in parachute construction during World War II and was quickly recognized for its use in other tasks. T ...

Fast Company

  • Pyongyang Style: "Comrade Kim Goes Flying" Str ...
    Duck Kim Jong-un! A creative missile flies out of North Korea--the Western-financed movie "Comrade Kim Goes Flying."
  • On Leadership and Listening
    Simple concept; as leaders we should listen, observe and question more often and resist the temptation to talk, do or solve. Attribution:  Commenter, "How To Ask--And Listen--Like You Mean It"
  • Citizinvestor: Crowdfunding For Community Projects
    What’s a person to do if you want a project done in your neighborhood that the city simply can’t afford? A new crowdfunding platform lets people pay for their own civic improvements.
  • Piggybacking On Coke's Supply Chain To Deliver ...
    You can get a Coke just about everywhere in the world, even places where you can’t get medicine. So ColaLife thought: "Let’s just send the medicine with the Coke."
  • Chinese Hackers Infiltrate White House Militar ...
    Chinese hackers have gained access to the secure White House Military Office network, government sources confirm. In early September, a spear-phishing attack originating in China successfully infiltrated the sensitive office--which handles, among other things, the codes used for the President's ...

Jadaliyya

  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (Sep 24-30)
     This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles.  Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.  Top 50 Most Read Articles on ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (October 1)
     [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com b ...
  • September Culture
    Jadaliyya's September culture bouquet is out with sumptuous fiction and art from Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt: * Shadow Sites: Recent Works by Jannane al-Ani by Maymanah Farhat * An Excerpt from Salam Ibrahim's "The Attic" translated by Ghada Mourad * An Excerpt from Bilge Kara ...
  • Dissipating Dissent: Morocco's Stabilizing Spa ...
    When considering the wave of uprisings that swept the Arab world recently, otherwise known as the “Arab Spring,” Morocco is often perceived as the exception to the rule. The country’s socio-political profile led many to believe that it was only a matter of time for the disgruntled masses to take ...
  • هل كان الربيع العربي جديراً بذك كله؟: غطرسة ال ...
    إنها البداية فحسب كنا على وشك ركوب الطائرة من واشنطن إلى إسطنبول، عندما ظهرت هذه الصورة على الشاشة عند البوابة: عنوان على قناة سي إن إن: "هل كان الربيع العربي جديرا بذلك العناء كله ؟" اعتاد المرء، عموماً، أن يرى ويسمع تعليقات "خاصة" حول المنطقة في وسائل الإعلام الرئيسية. ول ...

mediagazer

  • Post reporter David Finkel among 23 awarded Ma ...
    Paul Farhi / Washington Post: Post reporter David Finkel among 23 awarded MacArthur grants  —  David Finkel, a Washington Post journalist whose immersive reporting has produced illuminating stories about the toll of war on American soldiers and the struggles of refugees around t ...
  • A Big Bet on Creative Print Advertising: USA T ...
    Larry Kramer / Business Insider: A Big Bet on Creative Print Advertising: USA Today Offers $1 Million In Free Advertising  —  We believe in print advertising.  We also believe in digital advertising and we particularly love multi-platform advertising campaigns.  But we ...
  • Afghan media claim small victory in fight for ...
    Miriam Arghandiwal / Reuters: Afghan media claim small victory in fight for press freedom  —  (Reuters) - Afghan journalists are claiming a small victory in their battle for press freedom after the government agreed to some softening of media restrictions, industry representativ ...
  • Report: Over 100 layoffs at Syracuse Post-Stan ...
    Jim Romenesko: Report: Over 100 layoffs at Syracuse Post-Standard … (Michael Benny is a Syracuse TV news anchor.)  —  The Syracuse Press Club's reaction: … * Post-Standard to announce layoffs as the paper prepares to cut its publishing schedule (ynn.com)  &mda ...
  • Yes, Mitt Romney Is Getting a Raw Deal From th ...
    John Cook / Gawker: Yes, Mitt Romney Is Getting a Raw Deal From the Press  —  First off—there is no such thing as “the media.”  The people and entities who shape our political coverage represent a fractured, disaggregated, chaotic mass of divergent agendas ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Voters Explain Why Romney's Chances Of Wi ...
    Meet the High Priest of Runaway College Inflation (He Regrets Nothing) Why Texas Is America's Export King Here's One Tax Break All Americans Can Support This Number Shows Why The Election Is Far From Over In Ohio Here's The Attack Ad That Is Killing Mitt Romney In Ohio Republicans Overwhelmi ...
  • Afghanistan: Bomber kills 14 including 3 ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle packed with explosives rammed his bike into a joint Afghan-American patrol on Monday morning in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 14 people including three U.S. troops and their translator, officials said. The Taliban claimed re ...
  • White House says it thwarted cyberattack
    WASHINGTON - (AP) -- The White House is acknowledging an attempt to infiltrate its computer system but says it thwarted the effort A White House official said the attack targeted an unclassified network. He said the attack was identified and that the system was isolated to prevent spread. He ...
  • Greece's 2013 budget forecasts sixth year ...
    Greece will bring forward painful budget cuts to end a decade of primary deficits while grappling with a sixth year of recession, according to a 2013 draft budget. Austerity-weary Greeks have taken to the streets in often violent protests against the waves of salary and pension cuts Photo: R ...
  • Aguero accuses English refs of bias
    Malaga on track after uncertain summer Spain 3 hours ago Aguero accuses English refs of bias England 5 hours ago Schiavi villain-turned-hero to bag Boca point South America Today, 03:45 Milan and Chelsea seek Champions League kickstart Champions League Today, 02:59 Benfica's new midfield fac ...

no frakking consensus

  • The Anti-Free-Speech Brigade
    Last week 18,000 people signed a petition demanding that a publicly-funded television station 'never again' report on a particular point-of-view.
  • Calgary, Here I Come
    I'll be speaking in Calgary on Wed., October 17th at the Friends of Science annual luncheon. The scientific method needs all the friends - and defenders - we can muster.
  • Back Soon
    I am traveling unexpectedly this week due to a relative’s medical condition, so my return to full time blogging is a little delayed. In case you missed it, the cover story of the September issue of Wired magazine was written by Matt Ridley and is titled Apocalypse Not. It surveys a rather ...
  • Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...
    This blog will return in mid-September. In the meantime, here’s a video of a presentation I gave in Australia last month – and some thoughts on the bankruptcy of contemporary green analysis.
  • Green Death Threats: ‘Change or Die’
    The key message of today's environmentalists is: Accept our worldview, submit to our solutions - or else. This is, let us be blunt, a death threat. It is the voice of an extortionist.

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 9/28/12 - Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Spea ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Speak at UN General Assembly
  • 9/21/12 - Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return, Pai ...
    2012election.procon.org - Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return, Paid Rate of 14.1%
  • 9/20/12 - Candidate Videos
    2012election.procon.org -  Candidate Videos - Watch Obama and Romney's convention nomination speeches and speeches from third party candidates Virgil Goode (Constitution Party), Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), and Jill Stein (Green Party). We have also posted the recently released full vi ...
  • 9/18/12 - Biden vs. Ryan on 30 Issues
    2012election.procon.org - Biden vs. Ryan on 30 Issues - Read the positions of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.
  • 9/14/12 - Should college football replace the ...
    collegefootball.procon.org - Should college football replace the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) with a playoff system? - The top pro and con quotes have been updated with a poll showing fan opinion on the four-team playoff and a quote from ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowsk ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
  • CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    Rebecca Saxe The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That’s the question that I’m asking myself right now, can ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Brighton rock and cupcake campaigning
    Strolling along the Brighton seafront in neon FRACK OR NOT? t-shirts, my colleague and I drew the attention of a local member of Frack Off, an organisation campaigning against shale gas extraction in the UK. Our seaside location was on account of the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference. A ...
  • An ecosystems approach: the holy grail for inn ...
    From Monday 24 September 2012 Yesterday evening I attended the Big Innovation Centre’s Lib Dem Fringe event: It’s innovation stupid: Is the strategy for growth working? This was by far the liveliest event I’ve attended during the Lib Dem conference so far. Although Will Hutton only used the F wo ...
  • Lib Dems pass motion for sensible vs stop-star ...
    From Monday 24 September 2012 I’m new to party conferences, but I felt remarkably at home during Julian Huppert’s policy motion: Developing a future – policies for science and research. The science-savvy Lib Dems, voted unanimously to pass a motion (available here) for a ring-fenced science budg ...
  • Science: a progressive tool for international ...
    From Sunday 23 September 2012 I found myself at a BOND event at the Lib Dem party conference Fringe on Sunday evening. Sadly no martinis or Daniel Craig, but a very interesting debate: Beyond Aid – A Liberal Democrat approach to International Development. Like many others of the Comic Relief gen ...
  • Partying at the conferences
    Once again, the Royal Society is following the politicians out of London, and is heading to the Party Conferences for some science policy chat. At the Liberal Democrat Conference this week we have been talking about shale gas, next week at Labour we will be talking about population, and we will ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
  • Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
    BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1
    Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...
  • Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Al-Laham, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about ...
  • International news and analysis with George Ge ...
    Today's show covers a variety of both local and international news with our in-studio guest Georgios. Some of the topics covered include developments in the Assange stand-off in London, and a final ruling in the protracted civil lawsuit over the death in Gaza of activist Rachel Corrie. We al ...
  • Public grief over deaths of 5 Australian soldi ...
    5 Australian soldiers killed and the media/government oligarchy are engaging in a paroxysm of fake grief - really just a form of propaganda. Obama kills dozens of innocents in drone attacks every week and the media doesn't give a rat's backside. They talk about "rogue attacks" as if this is ...
  • Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and ...
    Today's show is cram packed with discussion, analysis and interviews. In the first hour we have a four way discussion between the host, Hereward Fenton, Leon Pittard of Fair Dinkum radio and regulars John Bursill and Josh Jackson. The topic of our discussion is the current stand-off between ...

Beacon

  • Oceana CEO: World's Fisheries are in Crisis
    Editor's note: A new study from researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Washington shows that most of the world's fisheries are overexploited but could be improved considerably through conservation measures. The following is Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless' r ...
  • Are You Buying Soggy Sea Scallops?
    75% water, the way nature intended ©Wikimedia Commons It turns out many consumers have been getting soaked paying too much for scallops artificially plumped with excess water. According to a Boston Globe investigation seafood processors routinely load up the shellfish meat, which can sell for ...
  • Leatherback Declared New CA State Symbol
    Leatherback joins ranks of purple needlegrass, west coast swing dancing and benitoite as California state symbol ©Oceana It's been a leatherback-heavy news week and for all the right reasons. First a dramatic leatherback sea turtle rescue off of Cape Cod grabbed headlines over the weekend and ...
  • Leatherback Sea Turtle Rescue
    Over the past week, the New England Aquarium pulled off the dramatic rescue, rehabilitation and release of a 655-pound, 7-foot leatherback sea turtle which had stranded on Cape Cod (as seen in the video above). The prehistoric-looking reptile was found suffering from dehydration and shock with a ...
  • Vanishing Arctic Ice
    Previous low from 2007. This year's minimum smaller by an area the size of Texas ©Wikimedia Commons  The National Snow and Ice Data Center has announced that Arctic sea ice melted to its yearly minimum extent last Sunday, which was the smallest extent since measurements began in 1979 and ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Dark Side Of Thomas Jefferson
      Thomas Jefferson by Rembrant Peale   Thomas Jefferson is once quoted as describing slavery as an “execrable commerce …this assemblage of horrors,” a “cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberties. Yet the new book by John Cheste ...
  • Boing Boing: Carrying The Casio F-91 W Tells I ...
      “This item in the Guardian‘s coverage of the latest Wikileaks dump is not the first time I’ve heard that the Casio F-91W digital watch is thought to be “the sign of al-Qaida,” and “a contributing factor to continued detention of prisoners by the analyst ...
  • Baltic Sea Artifact Probably Nazi Radar Jammin ...
        So there is an artifact in the Baltic Sea that looks like a UFO.   Experts however think it is was structure that was meant to interfere with enemy radar. Perhaps it could cause a submarine or a surface ship to crash. If so it would certainly be an experimental weapon. The ide ...
  • Foot In The Mouth Disease
      Mitt Romney’s Secret Speech I made this prediction to friends as soon as I saw the video. Romney’s comment has backfired in ways he never expected. Here is what he said:   “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are d ...
  • Operation Frankton, A Daring Raid On German Sh ...
      (Blondie Hasler Picture above and in the front of the kayak)   In December 1942, the HMS Tuna, a submarine serving with the Royal Navy launched in the middle of a cold night into the North Atlantic. It crept its way through the Continental shelf under the Bay of Biscayne. Six canoes, ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Secy. Clinton on Saving Lives through Global H ...
    WRITING ON Huffington Post, Secretary Clinton talks about what the Obama administration has done under President Obama’s leadership. It’s as close as she’s come to politics and campaigning for her boss since she became his Secretary of State. Writing about the continuation and ...
  • Bill O’Reilly Opines on Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
    “…and Arnold Schwarzenegger getting beat up by a small lady.” – Bill O’Reilly THAT WAS the intro to one of Bill O’Reilly’s segments on Monday night. “A small lady” referred to veteran journalist, broadcaster and “60 Minutes” contr ...
  • Democracy NOW! Expanded Debate Coverage Includ ...
    Last week in another of several posts about the 2012 presidential “debates,” I included an idea from Anthony Noel, that of using TiVo to expand the Commission on Presidential Debates’ two party only production. Democracy NOW!, with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales, is actually using the same genera ...
  • UPDATED Texas Blockade of Tar Sands Continues ...
    UPDATE on Blockader Locks to Underground Capsule to Protect a Family Farm at end. The efforts to stop the construction of the Keystone / Tar Sands pipeline in East Texas continue. Before a few details, a reminder that this project is supported by both Obama and Romney. From FDL: ‘ … I’m di ...
  • Warren Leads Brown by 2 Points on Debate Night ...
    TONIGHT’S ANOTHER debate in Massachusetts. The latest poll shows Warren up 46% to 44%, which is within the margin of error. From NPR’s WBUR: More people agree with Warren on the key issues that matter to them than they do with Brown (45 to 39 percent), and more voters still believe W ...

Hudson New York

  • Ethnic Cleansing of Christians in the Sinai
    In events being ignored not only by the Egyptian authorities, but also by the mainstream media and human rights organizations in the West, Muslim terrorists have in recent weeks attacked Christian families and forced them out of their homes and
  • Sweden: Mosque to Blast Prayer Calls from Minaret
    A mosque in Stockholm has received initial approval to begin sounding public prayer calls from its minaret, the first time such permission has ever been granted in Sweden. A majority of the members of the city planning committee in the southern Stockholm
  • Turkey's Treacherous Show Trials
    As Turkey writes its new constitution, a trial will resume on October 1 at Silivri L Type Prison, just outside Istanbul, that could well determine whether Turkey's future will be determined by the rule of law under an impartial judicial system, or
  • The Palestinian Authority's Policy of Duplicity
    The Palestinian Authority's duplicity -- which has become an integral part of the Palestinian Authority's strategy in dealing with both its people and Israel -- reached new heights last week when its leaders called for a "day of solidarity" with
  • What the US and Europe Encourage
    The offer by Pakistan's railways minister, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, for suborning the murder of an American amateur film-maker, of $100,000 of his own money for a murder – despite his colleagues' attempts to distance themselves - only reminds us of what a

Urban Survival

  • Perot’s Got It Right
    One-time presidential contender Ross Perot (who some conspiracy types thinks was blackmailed/threatened out of the 1992 presidential vote festival) was talking about the choices this fall and says he won’t endorse either Romney or Obama.  Reason?  Simple economics and the … ...
  • Coping: Web Bot Run Released
    In case you haven’t heard yet, or figured it our from all the references so far thsi morning, the long awaited web bot run which looks at our questionable future as a species, has been release by Clif at the … Continue reading →
  • Quarter Dressing and the Joke du Jour
    We don’t hold the opinion that markets are “rigged” per se.  Only that they are highly inter-active complex systems which are loosely coupled and that there are “factions” of the PowersThatBe which are always trying to “game” one another to … ...
  • Coping: With New Comets, New Worries
    Since this morning isn’t yet a white knuckle ride, we’ll just move on to an email from my friend G.A. Stewart, expert on all things Nostradamus: “George,   This looks like two comets for 2013 come close to what I was … Continue reading →
  • Dawn Over the Monkey Patch
    We’ll get to the collapse of durable goods orders in a minute.  But before we go there, we need to set some longer-term economic context here so you can see what’s coming, probably Monday, or sometime next week.   As … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Remembering John Hoffman, Ozone Defender and C ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. John Hoffman, brilliant leader of the EPA team that saved the ozone layer, founder of the hugely successful Energy Star programs, and climate protection pioneer, passed ...
  • A Decade of Progress at Southern California Ports
    Melissa Lin Perrella, Staff Attorney, Southern California Air Project, Santa Monica This month marks the 10th anniversary of a landmark legal victory against the Port of Los Angeles.  In 2002, two environmental groups teamed up with San Pedro a ...
  • Memo to Federal and State Highway Agencies: Ke ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Congress included an innovative program in the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) that for over 20 years has helped clean up the environment by providi ...
  • This Summer Was Horrible for Polar Bears; Will ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica   This Summer Was Horrible for Polar Bears; Will They Finally Get Some Good News? It was a bad summer for polar bears; the Arctic sea ice, upon which they depend to survive, ...
  • Moving beyond 'food vs. fuel' means making bet ...
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Food prices are rising, exacerbated this summer by the worst U.S. drought since the 1930’s, which wrought havoc on corn crops across the Midwest. With 40% of U.S. corn production going to corn ethanol, ca ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct Daily Recap 09-28-12
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, September 28, 2012: San Clemente, California: An LAPD officer was charged with threatening a woman with whom he had a relationship. The charges include a felony count of criminal … Continue reading →National Police Misc ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of Police Misconduct tracked for Thursday, September 27, 2012 Richmond, Virginia: Authorities say a police officer was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence. A sheriff’s investigation will determine whether charges will be pressed against him. … Continue r ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, September 26, 2012 Update: East Haven, Connecticut: More charges are pending against one of four police officers charged with conspiring to violate and violating civil rights, and more “overt … Continue reading &#8594 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, September 25, 2012: Truckee, California: An officer was arrested on accusations that he committed sex acts on a minor in his home. http://cbsloc.al/RGfSGg Update: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: A jury … Continue reading →Natio ...
  • Man Dies in Police Custody. Medical Examiner ...
    From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The Journal Sentinel reported Sunday that the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office has revised its ruling on the death of Derek Williams, who died in Milwaukee police custody in July 2011, from natural to homicide, according … Continue readi ...

Total Collapse

  • Children born to parents who eat GM wheat may ...
    Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism that some scientists are now saying could cause serious problems for the human ...
  • U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan De ...
    U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said islands at the heart of a dispute between Japan and China fall under an American defense pact with Japan, while urging the sides to resolve the standoff via diplomacy. “We want to focus more on issues associated with the maintenance of peace a ...
  • France to close embassies, schools in 20 count ...
    France said it would temporarily close its embassies and schools in 20 countries Friday after a satirical magazine in Paris published insulting cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a move it fears will add “fuel to the fire” of global tensions over an anti-Islam film. The French government, ...
  • China Warns World War III Being Planned To Ous ...
    A new report prepared by the Foreign Military Intelligence Main Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces for President Putin is warning today that the mysterious 5-day visit by Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie to India this past week (the first such visit to India by a h ...
  • US And Britain Send Warships To The Persian Gu ...
    An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme. Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically im ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • ACT Labor: renewables policy for 2016 not 2012
    Climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions congratulate ACT Labor for ambitious targets in their early-announced 2016 renewable energy policy, “Action Plan 2”. “The plan for 90% renewable energy is a great step forward compared to the national 20% renewables target. It’s part ...
  • BZE submission to the Renewable Energy Target ...
    To download the full submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the link and "save link as" to save the file onto your computer) We welcome the opport ...
  • Adelaide, SA: Repowering Port Augusta, Rally f ...
    When: SUNDAY September 30th Time: 1.pm Location: Rundle Park, Adelaide (next to Rymill Park opposite the corner of East/North tce) Want help to make SA the solar state? We know we need to move away from ancient fossil fuel technology, to clean renewable energy – now is our chance! Port August ...
  • 6:30pm Monday 1 Oct - Zero Carbon Australia Bu ...
    The Zero Carbon Australia (ZCA) Buildings Plan is set to launch in the coming months. The ZCA Buildings Plan aims to demonstrate that there are no technical barriers to zero emission buildings in Australia. Project Director, Trent Hawkins, will take us through energy efficiency retrofits, therma ...
  • Zero emissions homes: save the climate and mon ...
    If you aim for a zero-emissions house, you can live in comfort, while saving money and the climate. That’s the message from research and practice, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. Members of th ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Cute animal picture of the day: caracal kitten ...
    The first ever research project on the caracal (Caracal caracal) in Yemen has taken an astounding photo of a mother caracal and her kitten in the Hawf Protected Area. Conducted by largely local researchers, the study is aiming to estimate Yemen's caracal population and better understand the thre ...
  • British government comes out against drilling ...
    The British government has come out in opposition against oil drilling plans by UK-based, SOCO International, in Virunga National Park, reports Reuters. The first national park established on the continent, Virunga is home to one of only two populations of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei ber ...
  • Illegal logging worth $30-100B annually
    Illegal logging accounts for 15-30 percent of forestry in the tropics and is worth $30-100 billion worldwide, alleges a new report published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and INTERPOL. Consuming countries play a major role in the trade, which is increasingly sophisticated an ...
  • Rarest gorillas lose half their habitat in 20 ...
    Cross River gorillas and eastern gorillas lost more than half their habitat since the early 1990s due to deforestation, logging, and other human activities, finds a comprehensive new assessment across great apes' range in West and Central Africa.
  • Jaguar conservation gets a boost in North and ...
    Jaguar conservation has received a huge boost in the past few months both in Latin America and in the U.S. An historic agreement singed between the world's leading wild cat conservation organization Panthera and the government of Costa Rica in addition to a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (F ...

Sierra Express

  • How about occupying Yenga, Sierra Leone now?
    The Yenga issue between Sierra Leone and Guinea is reportedly coming to an end as Guinean military presence is being withdrawn. President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and his Guinean counterpart, President Alpha Konde succeeded in concluding the Yenga saga through peaceful and diplomatic me ...
  • Windfall for the Blind & Needy
    Over 1000 blind pupils and needy children in Bo, south Sierra Leone, and the capital Freetown, benefited from donations by Save the Children in Africa in Need (SCAN).  The organization donated teaching and learning materials, and equipment worth in the cumulative values of millions of Leones. In ...
  • As FIFA Postpones Elective Congress Delegates ...
    As we said in our previous publication, Sierra Leone football is a time bomb involving political interference, racial abuse, allegation of match fixing, banning of sports journalists and stakeholders, the selection of national players based on nepotism, and several feelings of bad blood within t ...
  • Sierra Leone Ports Authority New GM Tasks Staf ...
    The Sierra Leone Ports Authority’s newly appointed General Manager, Abubakarr Bangura on Thursday 27th September held his first consultative meeting with his staff at the SLPA premises, Queen Elizabeth II Quay, Cline Town, on the issue of tackling some of the problems disturbing the progre ...
  • Bumbuna Report Shows Police Highhandedness in ...
    Over the ongoing Human Rights Probity involving violation of human rights featuring industrial strike action of African Mineral Workers (AML) earlier this year, on Wednesday September 26th  journalists were called to a press  conference at Tower Hill, Freetown, were the Sierra Leone Police were ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Hypo-allergenic milk from GE cow in sight
    New Zealand scientists have genetically engineered a cow that may be the first in the world to produce hypo-allergenic high-protein milk.The breakthrough - hailed as internationally "seminal" - had been kept under wraps by AgResearch...
  • Dairy co-op Tatua reports record profit
    Tatua, the tiny Morrinsville-based based dairy co-operative, today reported a record profit for 2011-12 and lifted its final payout to well in excess of that paid out by the market leader, Fonterra.Tatua generated revenue of $200...
  • Full steam ahead for Fonterra TAF scheme
    The Fonterra shareholders' council has voted in favour of the Trading Among Farmers (TAF) share trading scheme, paving the way for the scheme's introduction before year's end.Council chairman Ian Brown said in a statement there...
  • Ngai Tahu boosts earnings, looks to diversify
    Ngai Tahu Holdings, which manages the South Island iwi's commercial operations, boosted earnings across all of its units and is looking to ramp up its exposure in dairy.Net profit climbed to $95.7 million in the 12 months ended...
  • Fonterra deal lures Asians
    Asian investors are lining up to buy into Fonterra's soon-to-be-listed Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, says a market source.The investment fund, which will be linked to Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers market, is expected to attract...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Camden Cops Get Bonus Pay to Work Day Shifts! ...
    Camden, New Jersey has been a hell-hole for as long as I can remember. Indeed, I remember reading a Wall Street Journal story in the late 1980s about "America's Forgotten Cities" which included both Camden and Newark in New Jersey (along with East St. Louis, Illinois if memory serves ...
  • Breaking: Morgan Freeman Censored After Allowi ...
    That's Morgan Freeman - obviously not the male African-American actor who donated $1 million to President Obama's re-election effort. This MF is a student at Sam Houston State University (SHSU) in Huntsville, Texas (about 80 miles north of Houston and Dan Rather's alma mat ...
  • California Deals with State Pension Crisis by ...
    Trust California to make what might seem at first glance to be a good idea – setting up an easy way for private workers to contribute to a retirement fund if their employers don’t offer it – and turn it into what has the potential to be yet another disaster. Gov. Jerry Brown signed ...
  • Video: Nanny of the Month! (Special interactiv ...
    "Obama vs Romney: You Decide Who "Wins" Nanny of the Month! (Special interactive election edition)" is the latest offering from Reason TV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more Reason TV clips. Vie ...
  • A. Barton Hinkle on How Local Governments Are ...
    The First Amendment is unequivocal when it states that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. But lesser government powers, writes A. Barton Hinkle, apparently can make as many as they like, so long as they come up with some kind of excuse. View this article. ...

Mercury Rising

  • Getting your just deserts
    Found on Huffington Post, this graph explains why work feels like a treadmill: it is. We’re doing things more and more efficiently (meaning there’s less demand for labor), and all the credit for that since 1978 has gone to capital. Well, sure, capital is part of productivity, buildin ...
  • Chris Kluwe For Anything, 2016
    If not sooner. The man is simply awesome, as shown again here and here. Chris, your country needs you.
  • More Republican Vote Fraud
    We should believe the Republicans when they say that there’s a problem with vote fraud, since they seem to be the main ones committing it. Brad Friedman, truthout: The Republican Party of Florida’s top recipient of 2012 expenditures, a firm by the name of Strategic Allied Consulting, ...
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    Sorry about the commercial.
  • Hint: when they’re laughing at you, you& ...
    So, here’s the original: (Image from Jethro Mullen, CNN) Here’s how they see you: (Images from Umberto Bacchi, IBT) (Image from DeSwiss)

Reality Sandwich

  • The Bio-Net
    Researchers at Stanford University have engineered a biological messenger that connects cells to each other in much the same way that Wi-Fi transmitters connect personal computers. Scientists have modified a harmless virus, called M13, enabling it to package and distribute large amounts of ce ...
  • The Forgotten Underworld of Japan
      The following is excerpted from Forgotten Worlds: From Atlantis to the X-Woman of Siberia and the Hobbits of Flores, published by Inner Traditions, Bear & Company.   read more
  • Origins of Life
    Have you ever wondered if life on Earth could have been seeded by extra-terrestrials?  Findings of a recent study suggest that this may, indeed, have taken place.  This phenomenon, called lithopanspermia, is the transfer of micro-organisms between meteors or planetoids that collide in outer sp ...
  • Sex in the News
    Sexting replaces heavy petting department, online dating goes to the zoo, porn star Stoya speaks on sexual harassment, Meryl Streep on relationships, and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
  • Poetic Re-Evolution: An Interview Alejandro Jo ...
      The following originally appeared in The Third Eye.  read more

Desertification

  • Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food ...
    Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans. Less well known to many is the fact that emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are both heating up the oceans a ...
  • Water for Phosphate, Not People
    Gafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis. “This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says Lakhdar Souid, coordinator of the Blue Plan for a Green Tunisia. “Gafsa (343 km south of capital Tuni ...
  • Laissez-Faire Failing World’s Dwindling ...
    Growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the U.N. Security Council, a panel of experts said in a new report. However, that report ignores the biggest threat to water security: neoliberal policies of the free m ...
  • China Puts Up a Green Shield Against Sandstorms
    The setting sun is still streaming in through the poplars along the shelter belts, but Horquin Lianjun is done with farm work for the day. The desert wind has turned bone chilling. Lianjun’s half hectare of farmland sports neat spaced-out rows of maize crops, as in that of Hua Limei, his neighbo ...
  • Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sc ...
    Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius – unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains. “I sold more than 70 air-conditioners in just one month,” Ahmed, who ru ...

Blogging Canadians

  • iPhone 5 from Bell Mobility - Bell Canada
    The iPhone 5 features a 4-inch Retina display, ultrafast wireless, iOS 6, and iCloud. Get it with Bell and enjoy blazing-fast speeds on Canada's largest LTE network, over 25 live TV channels on your phone with Bell Mobile TV and Canada's largest Wi-Fi.
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Press TV - Middle East

  • Sept. was Iraq's bloodiest mon. in 2 yrs.
    Three hundred and sixty-five people were killed in Iraq in September, making it the country’s deadliest month in over two years.
  • No more Israel in 10 years: Kissinger
    The idea of Israel’s inexorable collapse is no longer a taboo as more top brass US officials are explicitly attesting to the fact, with prominent US diplomat Henry Kissinger saying, “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.”
  • Syria condemns West 'interference'
    Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has condemned “blatant” interferences by the West and its allies in the internal affairs of his country.
  • Yemenis hold anti-corruption rallies
    Over the past weeks Yemen has been witnessing an escalation of anti-corruption protests, Press TV reports.
  • ‘US plays HR card in Syria deceitfully’
    The US has been hypocritically playing the human rights card in Syria in an attempt to achieve its geopolitical objectives in the country, a political analyst tells Press TV.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • The Final Countdown
    Does anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...
  • Alumna Linda Ames Key Receives Fulbright Speci ...
    The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. In 2011, while completing her M.A. in Applied Theatre degree at SPS, Ms. Key participated in the School’s Project Rw ...
  • Beta Testing “In Your Class”
    SPS is participating in a CUNY pilot program this fall of the Beta version of In Your Class, a unique social networking service developed by CUNY students for CUNY students. The pilot launch date is today, September 20th, 2012. In Your Class connects students with their classmates, professors, a ...
  • Getting to Know… Lisa Poelle
    Lisa Poelle, faculty member for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, is author of the soon to be released book, The Biting Solution: The Expert’s No-Biting Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Early Childhood Educators. Lisa’s twenty-five years ...
  • Looking for Cowbell Cheers
    On Your Mark, Get Set…. Go!!! Last Sunday, I joined the CUNY School of Professional Studies “Race for the Cure” team comprised of students, faculty, and staff. Being with our team of over 20-strong was such an emotional high for me. All dressed in our CUNY SPS blue shirts, we (and our mascot, Le ...

Dissident Voice

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

Destructionist

  • Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...
    Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
  • Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...
    Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
  • Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...
    A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
  • Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...
    A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
  • Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...
    On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...

Wayne Madsen

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu on the Iranian Nucle ...
    Summary: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in New York this week, for his valedictory appearances as President of the Islamic Republic before the United Nations General Assembly. He gave several significant addresses, multiple interviews, and even held a session with a small group of ...
  • Delisting MKO: U.S. Officially Taking up Arms ...
    Summary: In an act of unequivocal and explicit hostility toward Iran, the United States took the name of Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) off its list of foreign terrorist organizations on Friday, September 28, showing its unconditional support to the sworn enemies of the Iranian nation s ...
  • U.N. summit: What the U.S. media fails to rep ...
    Summary: The U.N. summit this week featured two fiery speeches, one by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the other by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s speech received full media coverage on several networks in the U.S. that included photos of his cartoon-quality b ...
  • Nuclear Crucifixion: Fake Data and Ficticious ...
    Summary: With over 2000 highly operational nuclear weapons already in the world, it is ironic, to say the least, that Iran’s nuclear energy program is considered by the US and its allies as a threat to “global security”. source: Global Researchread more
  • Netanyahu's UN Speech, An Exercise in Futility
    Summary: As expected, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his address to the UN General Assembly completely sidestepped the issue of Middle East peace process by focusing on Iran's nuclear threat and making a strong pitch for a "red line" on Iran's nuclear activities. source: ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Titan's Alien Seasons --New Discoveries
    Detailed observations of Saturn's moon Titan have now spanned 30 years, covering an entire solar orbit for this distant world. Dr Athena Coustenis from the Paris-Meudon Observatory in France has analysed data gathered over this time and has found that...
  • Did a Massive Extraterrestrial Body Impact Ear ...
    New research results are consistent with a controversial theory that an extraterrestrial body – such as a comet – impacted the Earth approximately 12,900 years ago, possibly contributing to the significant climatic and ecological changes that date to that time...
  • New First Images of the Quantum World
    Physicists have directly imaged Landau Levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behavior in a strong magnetic field – for the first time since they were theoretically conceived of by Nobel prize winner Lev Landau in 1930 using scanning...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Twitter Followers Soar Abov ...
    Join the 221,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations such as NASA,...
  • Comment of the Day: "What Will a Civilization ...
    "All of these conjectures assume human beings simply getting more advanced in some linear way... and assuming the same for biological creatures elsewhere. Yet, in less than a century of the existence of binary ai, we have many scientists talking...

Natural News

  • Natural News Store launched, offering discount ...
    The Natural News Store is now open for business and offering a direct-to-consumer discount on a wide variety of superfoods and nutritional supplements. Visit www.ShopNaturalNews.com to see the selection right now. Shipping is FREE on order of $99 or more (continental...
  • Monsanto Mind Games: Health Ranger interviews ...
    Yes indeed, readers, we have secured the world's first interview with a top Monsanto scientist named Alex Blaine Layder. (Read the name out loud, quickly.) He provides some real answers about GMOs and why Monsanto's technology can help save the world. Adams: So,...
  • Pee-Wee football coach pays his children to ma ...
    It's a mirror of the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, in which NFL players allegedly won bonuses by knocking opposing players out of games. But this is Pop Warner football in Orange County, California. These are 10 and 11 year olds. Two coaches of the Tustin Red...
  • Russia completely suspends use of Monsanto's G ...
    What does Russia know about genetically modified corn that we don't? Well, maybe not much, but the difference is Moscow is at least prepared to act on the information it has. According to recent reports, the Russian consumer-rights watchdog agency, Rospotrebnadzor...
  • 30 great reasons to make home remedies from Al ...
    Over 6,000 years have passed since the Egyptians referred to the common houseplant Aloe vera as the "plant of immortality," due to its myriad of uses for everything from acne to baldness, insomnia, digestive upsets, sepsis and cancer. Aloe vera plants produce a variety...

Threat Level

  • Payment Processor Stripe Buys Into Transparenc ...
    Stripe, a company that makes it easy to accept credit cards online, says it's been inspired by Google and Twitter and is adopting policies that increase transparency and user rights.
  • Justice Department’s Warrantless Spying Increa ...
    The Justice Department use of warrantless internet and telephone surveillance methods known as pen register and trap-and-trace has exploded in the last decade, according to government documents the American Civil Liberties obtained via a Freedom of Information Act claim. Pen ...
  • Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign ...
    The ongoing security saga involving digital certificates got a new and disturbing wrinkle on Thursday when software giant Adobe announced that attackers breached its code-signing system and used it to sign their malware with a valid digital certificate from Adobe.
  • Actress in Anti-Islam Film Sues YouTube on Cop ...
    A California actress who appeared in the controversial "Innocence of Muslims" flick on YouTube is again asking the courts to remove the anti-Islam footage that has spawned deadly protests and sparked a U.S backlash in the Middle East. The latest ...
  • Inside NZ Police Megaupload Files: U.S. Invest ...
    Newly released files from New Zealand police show that the country set up a special task force to aid the U.S. investigation of file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom and questioned whether dawn paramilitary raid with helicopters was warranted for fraud charges.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • How Bain is Bilking Taxpayers and Making Ameri ...
    Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to five hospital trade organizations warning against the abuse of electronic medical record systems to seek inflated Medicare reimbursements. The Obama administration's concern is well-founded. Earlier th ...
  • President and His Allies Opposed Terror Attack ...
    On September 20, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the creation of an independent panel to investigate the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The need for such a probe is clear, given the tragic loss of lif ...
  • Mitt Touts Romneycare He Plans to Gut
    To secure the Republican nomination for President, Governor Mitt Romney ran away from his signature Massachusetts health care law he once touted as a model for the nation. Ran away, that is, until his general election prospects started to dim. Facing a persistently large gender gap in the poll ...
  • Will Mitt Romney Marry the Blind Sheik?
    With his baseless claims that waterboarding enabled the killing of Osama Bin Laden and that the Obama administration drafted a memo to protect the President from blame if the mission failed, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has emerged as the new go-to fabulist for Team Bush. Now with hi ...
  • Romney Endorses Bush's ER Plan to Replace Obam ...
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    Broadcasting from Richmond, we look at a new law that could force many of Virginia's abortion clinics to shut down. Passed last month, the so-called "Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers," or TRAP, law requires clinics that provide abortions to meet the same building standards as hospitals. ...

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TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
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Planetsave

  • Clean Groundwater Only Comes From Healthy Grou ...
    More than two thirds of the drinking water used in Germany is groundwater, but currently the groundwater ecosystems that purify this water don’t have their habitat protected by law. The more than 2,000 known species and uncounted microorganisms that live in these underground ecosystems do ...
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    Saturn’s moon Titan has been observed in detail for the past 30 years, that covers an entire solar orbit for this ‘distant world.’ Researcher Dr Athena Coustenis from the Paris-Meudon Observatory in France has finished an analysis of the data that was gathered during this time period ...
  • Global Fisheries Approaching Collapse
    A new report by the Sustainable Fisheries Group (SFG) has confirmed the suspicions held by many researchers that the thousands of fisheries that there isn’t much data on, that’s nearly 80 percent of the world’s fisheries, are in steep decline but could potentially recover to a ...
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    New research from the University of Washington is suggesting that the earliest land microbes were probably much more widespread than previously thought, creating oxygen and weathering pyrite, which is an iron sulfide mineral that releases sulfur and molybdenum into the oceans when ‘weather ...
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    Carnivorous plants use many different complex mechanisms to thrive in places that are poor in nutrients: by using trapping systems to lure in, trap, kill, and eat small prey animals, and then reap the bounty of nutrients. Some of these traps can actually move, and it’s these ‘active& ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Samuel L. Jackson Says His Piece
    Politicians are, generally, not good people. But no, they are not quite all the same. Some are more on your side, others less so. Samuel, in this video, tells it like it is, from my standpoint, anyway. http://www.mostwatchedtoday.co... Check it out. I'll try to get a better version up soon. -- M ...
  • Movers & Shakers, Givers & Takers
    I find myself bugged by several things this week not least among them the attitude of a lot of right wing types toward people who, for whatever reason, didn't have an opportunity to become wealthy or even financially independent during their working lives.  These RW folks need to simply fac ...
  • Conservatives Believe Size Does Matter
    By @TedFrier So that's why Bill O'Reilly is always bragging about his ratings. I was under the impression the Fox News pug ugly constantly tells us how much bigger his rating share is than his liberal tormenters over at MSNBC because O'Reilly's just an arrogant bully who believes he can win argu ...
  • Todd Akin (r) in Clinton, Missouri - Q and A
    On the square in Clinton, Missouri. Todd Akin's (r) senate campaign now comes complete with protesters and their signs. Think of it as political Missouri's version of a Greek chorus for 2012. Todd Akin spoke at locally organized open candidate forum in downtown Clinton, Missouri this evening. ...
  • Romney Just Another Drone in the Right Wing Hive
    By @TedFrier If events turn out as polls predict and President Obama beats Mitt Romney to win a second term, the iconic moment of the 2012 campaign just might be MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, head clenched firmly in hands, muttering to himself "Oh, sweet Jesus" after witnessing yet a ...

Care 2

  • Southwest US Forests could suffer greatly as c ...
    If the Southwest is warmer and drier in the near future, widespread tree death is likely and would cause substantial changes in the distribution of forests and of species, the researchers report this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |&n ...
  • As the Oceans Turn Acidic, Scientists Report a ...
    Coral reefs under threat--the latest. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Oil Espionage: Traders Spy on Oklahoma Hub Wit ...
    The bottleneck of crude stored in Cushing, Okla., has become the country's "biggest bank vault of oil," Businessweek's Matthew Phillips writes. And it's only getting bigger. Submitted by Judy C. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION NEEDED Australian Sheep 'buried alive ...
    Distressing news from the live export trade is nothing new, but today's news surpassed even our worst fears: Thousands of Australian sheep exported to Pakistan have been clubbed, stabbed and buried alive. Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Online October
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No Quarter

  • Questions about our nation’s judiciary … and h ...
    Ordinarily, you’d never have any reason to be aware of a state supreme court candidate like Bridget Mary McCormack, who lives in Michigan where judges are not appointed. Many states opt to appoint judges, in part because the vast majority of people, including regular voters, don’t kn ...
  • Devils of Tehran and the Obama Vision
    My best information is that an Israeli attack would not be against the nuke fuel facilities, which are hardened sites, but rather against the leadership — a decap strike. Spoke to Larry Kudlow, CNBC Kudlow Report, in re the threat of the rogue regime of Tehran. Does the Obama administratio ...
  • Some of the Media Hit Romney Again
    Faux conservative Joe Scarborough uses his vanity-plate show “Morning Joe” to promote himself every way possible. The show is sponsored for big bucks by Starbucks’ “Cup of Joe” signature ad seen in every segue from commercials for Obama “news” segments t ...
  • Pat Caddell: “The Media Has Become the Enemy o ...
    Devastating video: I have nothing to add, save a hat tip to Jake Tapper/ABC News, Sharryl Atkisson/CBS and Kirsten Powers/Daily Beast and FOX News for attempting to break this disgusting trend. Talk amongst yourselves.
  • The Benghazi Bungle
    Obama and his team of incompetents are in full overdrive to divert attention from their failure to protect Ambassador Stevens and take appropriate precautions for an attack that intelligence had clearly warned was a possibility. Their latest ploy is to blame it on faulty intelligence: Extremists ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Tomblin raises $1.2M in W.Va. gov race - State ...
    Tomblin raises $1.2M in W.Va. gov race State Journal ... mining operations. CHARLESTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it will appeal a federal judge's July ruling that it overreached by setting up water-quality criteria for mountaintop removal mining operations in several Ap ...
  • EPA to appeal ruling on mining water-quality r ...
    EPA to appeal ruling on mining water-quality rules State Journal ... mining operations. CHARLESTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it will appeal a federal judge's July ruling that it overreached by setting up water-quality criteria for mountaintop removal mining operations i ...
  • WV coal group sticks with Manchin for US Senat ...
    HNN Huntingtonnews.net WV coal group sticks with Manchin for US Senate State Journal ... mining operations. CHARLESTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it will appeal a federal judge's July ruling that it overreached by setting up water-quality criteria for mountaintop removal ...
  • Anti-Islam Filmaker Arrested - WVNS-TV
    Anti-Islam Filmaker Arrested WVNS-TV The Environmental Protection Agency says it will appeal a federal judge's July ruling that it overreached by setting up water-quality criteria for mountaintop removal mining operations in several Appalachia... The Environmental Protection Agency says ... ...
  • EPA to appeal ruling it overreached with new w ...
    EPA to appeal ruling it overreached with new water quality rules for ... Washington Post The Environmental Protection Agency says it will appeal a federal judge's July ruling that it overreached by setting up water-quality criteria for mountaintop removal mining operations in several Appalac ...

Memeorandum

  • Bachmann Warns Obama May be Aiding the Rise of ...
    Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch: Bachmann Warns Obama May be Aiding the Rise of Global Sharia Law  —  We know that when Michele Bachmann speaks, even fact-checkers can't fully cover all of her dubious and debunked claims in just a single article.  Now that Bachmann is comp ...
  • Haley Barbour: Debates alone won't decide elec ...
    Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box: Haley Barbour: Debates alone won't decide election  —  Mitt Romney needs to deliver a strong debate performance on Wednesday but will be hard-pressed to completely alter the trajectory of the campaign in one appearance, former Mississippi Gov. Haley ...
  • Official resigns after report finds VA spent $ ...
    Jordy Yager / The Hill: Official resigns after report finds VA spent $6.1M on lavish conferences  —  The head of Human Resources for the Veterans Affairs Department resigned on Monday after an inspector general's report found that the agency spent $6.1 million on two weeklong co ...
  • The Parade of Bad Polls, Continued (John Hinde ...
    John Hinderaker / Power Line: The Parade of Bad Polls, Continued  —  Today the Romney campaign is trumpeting the latest CNN/ORC poll which shows President Obama with a three-point lead over Mitt Romney among likely voters, 50%-47%.  The Romney campaign likes this result, ap ...
  • Bush-Appointed Judge Upholds Obama Administrat ...
    Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress: Bush-Appointed Judge Upholds Obama Administration's Birth Control Coverage Rules  —  On Friday, Judge Carol Jackson, a George H.W. Bush appointee to a federal court in Missouri, rejected a Catholic business owner's challenge to the Obama Administra ...

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AlterNet Top Stories

  • Why the Election Will Turn Less on Wednesday's ...
    The biggest election news this week won't be who wins the presidential debate Wednesday night. It will be how many new jobs were created in September, announced Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Rarely in the history has the monthly employment carried so much political significa ...
  • After the Debates, Who Will Be Voted Off the I ...
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the  latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.With that jutting jaw of steel, think of him as the next Clark Kent, hence also Superman, promising to save our world (don’t worry about just how).  Opposite him, imagine Chris Pin ...
  • 7 Ways Mormonism Shaped Mitt Romney
    Say what you will about Mitt Romney; he is a devoted to his religion. A multi-generational Mormon, he has held high-ranking leadership positions and donated millions of dollars to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). For many, religion goes to the core of their belief system, ...
  • Orwell Time: 5 Creepy New Ways You Are Being T ...
    Is there any moment in life where you’re not being watched? It doesn’t seem so. Over the past week, a number of news articles reported on the latest ways your privacy is being undermined by technology and law enforcement. Talk of a “national security state” or a “brave new world” is often dis ...
  • Everything You Need to Know About the New Supr ...
    The Supreme Court's fall term began with a eyebrow-raising suprise on Monday. Minutes after bringing down the gavel, Chief Justice John Roberts asked the federal government to reply to a brief by Liberty University—started by Christian evangelists—over whether Obamacare’s constitutionality sho ...

Threat Level

  • Payment Processor Stripe Buys Into Transparenc ...
    Stripe, a company that makes it easy to accept credit cards online, says it's been inspired by Google and Twitter and is adopting policies that increase transparency and user rights.
  • Justice Department’s Warrantless Spying Increa ...
    The Justice Department use of warrantless internet and telephone surveillance methods known as pen register and trap-and-trace has exploded in the last decade, according to government documents the American Civil Liberties obtained via a Freedom of Information Act claim. Pen ...
  • Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign ...
    The ongoing security saga involving digital certificates got a new and disturbing wrinkle on Thursday when software giant Adobe announced that attackers breached its code-signing system and used it to sign their malware with a valid digital certificate from Adobe.
  • Actress in Anti-Islam Film Sues YouTube on Cop ...
    A California actress who appeared in the controversial "Innocence of Muslims" flick on YouTube is again asking the courts to remove the anti-Islam footage that has spawned deadly protests and sparked a U.S backlash in the Middle East. The latest ...
  • Inside NZ Police Megaupload Files: U.S. Invest ...
    Newly released files from New Zealand police show that the country set up a special task force to aid the U.S. investigation of file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom and questioned whether dawn paramilitary raid with helicopters was warranted for fraud charges.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

AutoblogGreen

  • Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
  • Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
  • Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...
    Filed under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric 2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
  • Official: Renault donates all-electric Popemob ...
    Filed under: Minivan/Van, Etc., Europe, Renault, Electric Popes know how to travel in style, as the long list of iconic Popemobiles can attest to. In recent years, His Holiness Benedict XVI - aka the "Green Pope" - has been trying to clean up those bubbly vehicles with alternative powertrains ...
  • Exclusive: In deep with Tesla CEO Elon Musk: F ...
    Filed under: Etc., Tesla Tesla Motors Elon Musk spends about half his working life - i.e., almost all of his waking hours - in his office at SpaceX in Los Angeles. The automotive CEO is, after all, also in charge of the rocket company, which means that he's thinking about a lot more than just ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • SATURDAY: Amy Goodman on C-SPAN's Washington J ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Saturday, September 29th at 7:45 am EST .
  • Third Party Candidates To Join in Real Time on ...
    As President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney square off in the first presidential debate in Denver on October 3, Democracy Now! will broadcast live from Denver with a special expanded presidential debate from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. ET. We will air the debate, pausing after questions ...
  • Romney Has a Jobs Plan ... for China
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Freeport, Ill., is the site of one of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. On Aug. 27, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated there in their campaign for Illinois’ seat in the U.S. Senate. Lincoln lost that race, but the Freeport debate set the ...
  • Tune in Wednesday: Protesters in Spain Attempt ...
    Tune in Wednesday when we will get a report from Madrid, Spain, where thousands of protesters today attempted to surround the country’s Parliament and 'Occupy Congress' to protest ongoing austerity measures. The manifesto for the #25s claims the people of Spain consider themselves ...
  • Pt. 2: Eve Ensler on Her Battle with Cancer: " ...
    We continue our conversation with award-winning playwright — and uterine cancer survivor — Eve Ensler. After getting news she has been cancer-free for two years, Ensler describes how her struggle to survive the disease "got rid of everything that didn’t matter," and ...

Suzie-Q

  • Barack Obama Speech Text: Read The President&# ...
    Huff Post Posted: 09/06/2012 10:26 pm President Barack Obama delivered his Democratic National Convention speech at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday night. Below, his prepared remarks as prepared for delivery. Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire co ...
  • Bill Clinton’s 2012 DNC Speech – FULL TE ...
    Being Liberal 9/5/12 Here is the  text of President Bill Clinton’s speech to the Democratic National Convention as prepared for delivery and released by the convention’s press office: We’re here to nominate a President, and I’ve got one in mind. I want to nominate a man whose own life has known ...
  • This Seat’s Taken…
    This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st… — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012  
  • Paul Ryan Address: Convention Speech Built On ...
    Huff Post Ryan Grim Posted: 08/30/2012 12:29 am Updated: 08/30/2012 11:52 am TAMPA, Fla. — Paul Ryan pledged Wednesday that if he and his running mate Mitt Romney were elected president, they would usher in an ethic of responsibility. The Wisconsin congressman and GOP vice presidential can ...
  • Paul Ryan Fails — The Truth
    The Washington Post By Jonathan Bernstein Posted at 11:56 PM ET, 08/29/2012 It was, by any reasonable standards, a staggering, staggering lie. Here’s Paul Ryan about Barack Obama: He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report.  He thanked them, sent them on their ...

Solari

  • United States Fiscal Cliff
    [click on the image for a larger version] The United States fiscal cliff refers to a large predicted reduction in the budget deficit and a corresponding projected slowdown of the economy if specific laws are allowed to automatically expire or go into effect at the beginning of 2013. These laws ...
  • Google’s Self-Guided Car Could Drive the ...
    Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on to his state’s roads from 2015. Insofar as most people noticed this event at all, they probably sniffed deris ...
  • The Latest Genetic “Chimera”
    By Dr. Joseph Farrell The latest brain child to cross the desks of the Victor Frankensteins running the world’s science laboratories is this little story about engineering goats to produce human breast milk substitute(doubtless for those occasions when mom is too busy to breastfeed, little juni ...
  • The Food Crises and Political Instability in N ...
    A Special Thanks to Simon Black for this find. Social unrest may reflect a variety of factors such as poverty, unemployment, and social injustice. Despite the many possible contributing factors, the timing of violent protests in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011 as well as earlier riots i ...
  • QE3 – Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Est ...
    With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money…and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The Truth and Beauty about Russia
    Summary: The inaccurate descriptions of Russia in the western media shows its fraudulent nature. Today we have an excerpt from Truth & Beauty that gives a more accurate picture of one the world’s three great powers. Today we have an excerpt from the September 14 issue of Truth & Be ...
  • How clearly do we see the rising inequality in ...
    Summary:  Among the serious problems eroding the Republic’s foundations, rising inequality of wealth & income must rank high. It’s the worst kind of problem, generating its own positive feedback (like a pebble thrown down a rocky hillside). Today we have the crack analysts of the ...
  • The Truth and Beauty about the Pussy Riot
    Summary: The Pussy Riot episode revealed much about Russia, and the coverage in the western media shows its fraudulent nature. Today we have an excerpt from Truth & Beauty that explains both. Today we have an excerpt from the their September 14 issue of Truth & Beauty, by Eric Kraus and ...
  • Chuck Spinney explains our broken OODA loop
    Summary:  Today we have our of America’s sharpest observers, Chuck Spinney, explain what might be our core problem — our broken Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action loop. Until we can clearly see and act, even unlimited good will and patriotic spirit will accomplish nothing. Some ...
  • Bulletins about the birth of the New America, ...
    Summary:  Today we look at an important source of information about our nation — and what’s it’s becoming. And we look at our opposition, sources of disinformation to cloud our minds. The @FabiusMaximus01 Twitter feed documents the slow sad story of the evolution of the America ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • From Refugee to IDP in Somaliland
    Ed note. This is a special guest post from  Mark Yarnell of Refugees International  (Hargeisa, Somaliland) “What we need most is to have our own land.” This is the message I heard during my recent visit to a displacement settlement in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The people I met have spent the ...
  • Foreign Policy Is Hard
    In today's Wall Street Journal, Mitt Romney takes to the op-ed page to offer his vision for a new American policy in the Middle East. Apparently, the tragic recent events in Benghazi have convinced Romney and his advisors that something is going on over there, and though they aren't sure exactly ...
  • Iranian Regime Change’s Unusual Suspects
    The recent delisting of the MEK from the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list aside, it’s depressingly unsurprising that the group is now being bandied about to receive a label as the “legitimate opposition” of Iran. Larison explains here: Of course, this has been what many of ...
  • Top of the Morning: Elections in Georgia; Iraq ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest  Georgians Go to the Polls in High Stakes Election There is a lot riding on this parliamentary election, being held today. “Voters in Georgia are choosing a new parliament in a heated election Monday that will decide the future of the pro-Western government of Presi ...
  • Obama Foreign Policy - A Six-Week Appraisal
    According to David Ignatius, President Obama's refusal to make major foreign policy moves in the final weeks before the election will leave the 2012 campaign without a meaningful public airing of the subject: This strategy of avoiding major foreign policy risks or decisions may help get Obam ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Carter Surprise
    Ask Americans about Jimmy Carter, and the most popular response may well be: “Um. Wait. Was he a president or something?” After all, the man left office more than three decades ago, long before many voters were born. Unlike the Reagan years, there was nothing definitional about Carter’s preside ...
  • To the Spin Room!
    Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will be debating on Wednesday night, and as Michael Calderone tells us, an absolutely incredible 3,000 journalists will be trooping out to Denver to be there when it happens. They won't actually be in the hall, though. They'll be in a nearby gym, watching it on TV l ...
  • Foreign Policy Is Hard
    In today's Wall Street Journal, Mitt Romney takes to the op-ed page to offer his vision for a new American policy in the Middle East. Apparently, the tragic recent events in Benghazi have convinced Romney and his advisors that something is going on over there, and though they aren't sure exactl ...
  • CSI: David Byrne
    (Flickr/Dividedsky46) David Byrne at Bonnaroo in Manchester Tennessee, 2004. If you listen to music too soon after reading David Byrne’s new book, How Music Works, especially Chapter 5 (how recording studios shape what we hear), Chapter 6 (how collaborations shape what we hear), a ...
  • CFPB Catches American Express Breaking the Law
    After a slow start, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is beginning to live up to consumer advocates' hopes and Wall Street's fears. On Monday, the new federal regulator announced a steep penalty and fine against American Express for ripping off their customers. Three subsidiaries ...

Buzzflash

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Scientific research into female orgasm
    This is scientific research, honestly, but should this blog post have an NSFW flag? Well, if your boss doesn’t expect you to be reading about sex while on the job, as it were, then perhaps, yes it should be classed as not safe for work. The scientific conclusions come from an online survey ...
  • Pressing on with Deceived Wisdom
    My new book Deceived Wisdom has now been typeset, and been proof-read; it’s on schedule for print publication 8th November. It will also be available for Kindle users and in other electronic formats. Order now to avoid the holiday rush. If you’re in the UK, you can grab the free exte ...
  • Intermittent fasting and life
    The BBC showed a Horizon program recently in which it extolled the benefits of the so-called 5:2 diet, the on-off, alternating fasting diet. Apparently, scientists are “uncovering evidence that short periods of fasting, if properly controlled, could achieve a number of health benefits&#822 ...
  • The flaming sulfurous monster of the deep
    UPDATE: Nothing new under the sun. Woehler himself described this reaction back in the 19th century. As a pyrotechnic snake firework it is of course banned because it’s highly toxic. An explanation in an old ACS paper for what’s going on thanks to Stuart Cantrill. Ever burned mercury ...
  • Tracking with a purpose
    The Human Face of Big Data app for iOS and Android will anonymously track your behaviour and help scientists crowdsource a big picture of humanity over the coming days. The free app launches later today and will learn not only about yourself but also how you compare to others. You can compare an ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Veterans For Peace Now in Pakistan Opposing Dr ...
    VFP members Leah Bolger, Dave Dittemore, Bill Kelly, Jody Mackey, Rob Mulford, and Ann Wright are meeting with drone victims' families, elected officials, tribal elders, and residents of South Waziristan, where U.S. drone strikes have killed thousands, while injuring and making refugees of m ...
  • Kafkaesque IG Polar Bear Report at Odds with Facts
    A controversial investigation into polar bear research has ended but its main findings and recommendations have been rejected by the federal agency to which it was submitted, according to documents posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).  The investigation grew o ...
  • Three Sponsors Drop Presidential Debate Commis ...
    Just days before the first debates organized by the Presidential Debate Commission, scheduled for Wednesday, Politico reports: “Philips Electronics has dropped its sponsorship of the 2012 presidential debates, citing a desire not to associate itself with ‘partisan politics,’ PO ...
  • US Green Party Signs International Green State ...
    The Green Party of the United States has joined Green Parties of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand in a "Joint Statement on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement" that strongly criticizes the proposed international trade pact. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), which has ...
  • Poll: Edison’s Customers Want to Keep San Onof ...
    Southern California Edison is expected to submit a plan any day to restart the crippled San Onofre nuclear power plant, maintaining that one of its ailing twin reactors can be run safely. But a strong majority of Edison’s customers want to keep San Onofre shut down, and almost half don&rsq ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Success in Quebec Speaks to Power of Mass Move ...
    Yves Engler Usually it takes social movements years, even decades, to significantly affect public policy. The movement unleashed by Québec students last spring has had a much quicker impact.(Image: montrealsimon.blogspot.com)read more
  • Tough Talk for America: A Guide to the Preside ...
    Mattea Kramer Five big things will decide what this country looks like next year and in the 20 years to follow, but here’s a guarantee for you: you’re not going to hear about them in the upcoming presidential debates.read more
  • The Real Referendum
    Paul Krugman Republicans came into this campaign believing that it would be a referendum on President Obama, and that still-high unemployment would hand them victory on a silver platter.read more
  • 50 Months to Avoid Climate Disaster – and a Ch ...
    Andrew Simms "One or other of us will have to go," Oscar Wilde is supposed to have said on his deathbed to the hated wallpaper in his room. The perilous acceleration of Arctic ice loss, and the imminent threat of irreversible clim ...
  • $34.4 Million Can’t Seem To Buy Prop 37 Oppone ...
    Zack Kaldveer Apparently $34.4 million in pesticide and junk food money can’t buy the opponents of Proposition 37 their own set of facts.read more

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