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Thursday, July 21, 2011

21 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Covanta tops estimates with improved 2Q results
BusinessWeek
Renewable energy company Covanta Holding Corp. posted an $18 million second-quarter profit on Wednesday, topping Wall Street's expectations amid what it said is an improving market. Net earnings for the three months ended June 30 amounted to 13 cents ...
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Principal Solar, Inc. (PSWW) Launches World's First Solar Energy Library
MarketWatch (press release)
"Interfacing with the Electrical Grid," co-authored by Ken Allen, chief operating officer, Principal Solar, and Ron Seidel, PE, board of directors, Principal Solar, outlines the interconnection of power sources with renewable generation and the roles ...
Pros and Cons: 'Renewable' energy also comes at a price
Syracuse.com (blog)
By The Post-Standard Editorial Board “Renewable fuel” is the preferred energy source for environmental stewards. Power generated from water, the sun, the wind and geothermal deposits, and bio-based ethanol in gasoline taps into virtually inexhaustible ...
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PNM to meet demand with natural gas, renewables
BusinessWeek
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN New Mexico's largest electric utility has a plan for meeting future demand, and it includes new natural gas power plants, more renewable energy and greater efficiency. Public Service Company of New Mexico filed its latest ...
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WA E-Cycle program collects 100 million pounds
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(AP) — The Washington Department of Ecology reports that in the first 2 1/2 years, the state e-cycle program has collected over 100 million pounds of unwanted TVs, computers and monitors. The program has more than 250 collection sites statewide. ...
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Kittitas County investigating Ecology Department
The Seattle Times
Kittitas County is investigating whether the Washington state Department of Ecology violated the law as the agency was working to impose groundwater well restrictions there in 2009. The Associated Press This is just another example of the Seattle/King ...
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Cyanobacteria and Human Health: Workshop on Merging Ecology, Epidemiology and ...
Bowdoin News
The three-day workshop brings together specialists in medicine, neurology, toxicology, epidemiology, ecology, oceanography and limnology from medical, academic, research, federal and state institutions from across the US and abroad, to discuss the ...
See Pharrell Act in Short Film
BET
By Kenrya Rankin Years after a three-minute teaser hit the Internet in 2004, the short film “Ecology of Love” is finally available. The 17-and-a-half-minute project stars Pharrell as Andre, a heartbroken actor who finds himself stranded in the desert ...
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New York Times Still Treading Water With Digital Subcriptions
TechCrunch
As a result, overall circulation revenues at the company are now treading water, which is an improvement from the declining revenues last quarter. Circulation revenues were $235 million, up exactly 0 percent, stemming the previous decline. ...
US wins gold in open water team event
San Francisco Chronicle
Ng Han Guan / AP From left, gold medalists United States' Andrew Gemmel, Ashley Grace Twichell and Sean Ryan stands at attention as the US national anthem is played during the medal ceremony for the 5km Team open water swimming event at the FINA ...
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St. Paul's Ecolab to enter big new markets with $5.4B deal
Pioneer Press
By Julie Forster Ecolab, the St. Paul-based cleaning giant, is deploying its hefty cash for its biggest purchase ever: an Illinois-based company that makes chemicals used in water treatment, pollution reduction and the oil and gas industry, ...
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Audits show health violations in drinking water
Washington Post
By Darryl Fears, Environmental Protection Agency audits show that many states are failing to accurately note health violations such as elevated levels of arsenic and chlorine in drinking water, according to a new report . ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran Opens Oil Bourse - Harbinger of Trouble f ...
    Summary: So, while Washington prepares to commit political hara-kiri, Iran is preparing to take away a little of the capitalist glow from New York and London. If the Chinese decide to start paying for their Iranian purchases strictly in yuan, expect the trickle away from the dollar in energy ...
  • Pakistan, Iran become 'natural allies'
    Summary: The participation by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the two-day conference on terrorism held at Tehran on June 25 was invested with political symbolism as a mark of displeasure towards the United States. But Zardari's return to Tehran within three weeks on a second visit on ...
  • Iran urges US, Russia to meet commitments on e ...
    Summary: Iran’s ambassador to the Netherlands has called on the United States and Russia, as the countries that have the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, to fulfill their commitments based on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and meet the deadline of April 29, 2012 for the eradica ...
  • Former CIA Official: Israel Will Bomb Iran in ...
    Summary: A longtime CIA officer who spent 21 years in the Middle East is predicting that Israel will bomb Iran this fall, dragging the United States into another major war and endangering U.S. military and civilian personnel (and other interests) throughout the Middle East and beyond. sour ...
  • AMERICA GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE IN THE MIDDLE ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsThe latest methodologically serious poll of Arab public opinion—the “Arab Attitudes, 2011” survey, see here, conducted by IBOPE Zogby International for the Arab American Institute Foundation—should (but probably won’t) be read in the White House as a wake-up call about ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Faint Red Dot --Is This the Most Distant K ...
    A deep optical image of the afterglow of the gamma-ray burst GRB 090429B, arguably the most distant object known in the universe.The light from this object has been traveling towards us for about 13.2 billion years, or 96% of the...
  • Supermassive Black Holes in the Centers of Gal ...
    This past spring, two UK astronomers have found that the supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the Universe. Dr Alejo Martinez-Sansigre of the University of...
  • Was Earth's Original Water Delivered via Extra ...
    \ Contrary to preconceived notions, the atmosphere and the oceans were perhaps not formed from vapors emitted during intense volcanism at the dawning of our planet. Francis Albarède of the Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS / ENS Lyon...
  • Have Earth's Pandemics Originated in Outer Space?
    An alternative theory to the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) suggests that the disease may have originated in outer space. Chandra Wickramasinghe from Cardiff University, UK, and colleagues described how around a ton of bacteria is deposited on...
  • A Mars Impact Basin Deep Enough to Swallow Mou ...
    An impact basin deep enough to swallow Mount Everest and surprising slopes in Valles Marineris highlight a global map of Mars showing four hemispheric views at 90 degree intervals. Colors correspond to elevations measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter...

Natural News

  • Heartworm drugs for pets; Big Pharma's cash cow
    (NaturalNews) In a seemingly diabolical plot, veterinarians and pharmaceutical companies have teamed up in a marketing campaign to frighten pet guardians into giving year-round heartworm preventatives to their cats, as well as dogs. These so-called experts say they're doing this to improve prote ...
  • Patrick Timpone joins NaturalNews Radio Networ ...
    (NaturalNews) Radio host Patrick Timpone, creator of One Radio Network (www.OneRadioNetwork.com) joins the NaturalNews Radio Network today with a daily broadcast of his two-hour show. His show will now be carried on www.NaturalNewsRadio.com each weekday at 9am - 11am central time, followed by th ...
  • Murdoch's media malpractice and the genetic al ...
    (NaturalNews) Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corp., which represents the second largest media conglomerate in the world behind the Walt Disney Company, is taking a severe beating as Murdoch himself is having to address various criminal allegations, including that his News of the World tabloi ...
  • A true American hero: Woman grabs, twists brea ...
    (NaturalNews) The next time you are assaulted by TSA agents at the airport that try to force you through the naked body scanner or perform a full-body grope down on you, why not just grab them back?This is exactly what 61-year-old Yukari Mihamae recently did at Phoenix Sky Harbor International A ...
  • Dead body of woman found hanging from balcony ...
    (NaturalNews) The body of 32-year-old Rebecca Nalepa was recently found hanging dead off the balcony of the historic Spreckels mansion in Coronado, Calif., which is owned by Arizona based Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. CEO Jonah Shacknai.The woman's hands were tied tightly behind her back, her fee ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Arrest 14 ‘Anonymous’ Suspects Over PayPa ...
    Federal agents arrested 14 suspected Anonymous members Tuesday on charges of participating in denial-of-service attacks against online payment service provider PayPal. Five additional suspects were arrested overseas — one in the United Kingdom and four in the Netherlands — for related crimes. T ...
  • Urging Obama’s Assassination Is Lawful Online ...
    A Southern California man was wrongly convicted of online threats against Barack Obama two weeks before Obama was elected president in November 2008, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
  • Feds Charge Activist As Hacker For Downloading ...
    Well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz was arrested Tuesday, charged with violating federal hacking laws for downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription database service that MIT had given him access to. If convicted, Swartz faces up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million f ...
  • FBI Raids Homes of Three ‘Anonymous’ Suspects
    FBI agents conducted early-morning raids at three homes in New York where suspects believed to be involved in the Anonymous hacking group live. Investigators seized at least one laptop from one of the homes. Police believe the device may have been used in denial-of-service attacks against severa ...
  • LulzSec Defaces Murdoch Paper With Mogul’s Fak ...
    They're back. The hacker gang LulzSec declared retirement last month, but cracked the Rupert Murdoch-owned New Times on Monday and used it to host a fake news story declaring that the embattled media mogul had been found dead at his home.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • For Republicans, Greece is the Word
    Well before the current debt ceiling crisis, Americans learned from the elephant's mouth that virtually every GOP talking point is "not intended to be a factual statement." In their perpetual crusade to gut the federal government, Republicans have now distilled their debt duplicity and fear-mon ...
  • GOP Will Vote to Criminalize Reagan
    If nothing else, you have to hand it to Congressional Republicans for sheer "choot-spa" when it comes to the national debt. Not content to destroy the U.S. economy rather than raise a dime of revenue from the wealthiest Americans, Republicans will vote Tuesday for the "Cut, Cap and Balance Act" ...
  • Either Way, Washington Prepares to Bring the P ...
    Whatever the resolution to the Republican hostage-taking of the U.S. debt ceiling, it's becoming increasingly clear it will a painful one. Failure to boost the $14.3 trillion limit by August 2nd, as even some of the GOP extortionists are only now beginning to understand, would produce what Spea ...
  • From Political to Pathological: Republicans an ...
    "The chief consequence of the conservatives' unrelenting faith in the badness of government," Thomas Franks wrote three years ago in The Wrecking Crew, "is bad government." But would happen if virtually every article of that faith were wrong or, much worse, a blatant lie? Then you'd have somet ...
  • The Republicans' Constitutional Con Job
    As the GOP hostage-taking drama over raising the debt limit appears headed towards a final showdown, Republican Congressmen, Senators and presidential candidates alike are pushing the "Cut, Cap and Balance" pledge. While Mitch McConnell's "Plan B" would see Republicans yield on boosting the $14 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Amazon.com: Culture Jam: How to Reverse Americ ...
    Amazon.com: Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must (9780688178055): Kalle Lasn: Books
  • Israeli MK: "anti-Boycott Law Threatens Democracy"
    Parliament member Dov Khenin and many on Israeli left warn new anti- Boycott law violates freedom of speech
  • Assange & Žižek in conversation
    This conversation is great, and not just because it’s revealed Žižek watched the last season of 24 for the same reasons and reached the same conclusions as I did (more on that later.) But amongst everything else to also hear them talk about the power of Murdoch‘s “Evil Empire”, News Internati ...
  • Muslim Victim of Post-9/11 Hate Crime Calls on ...
    In Texas, a hate crime victim is attempting to save the life of a convicted murderer who shot him in the face at close range after 9/11. Rais Bhuiyan is suing Governor Rick Perry in order to stop the execution of death row prisoner Mark Stroman scheduled for Wednesday. Stroman shot Bhuiyan in 20 ...
  • Ralph Nader's Solution to Debt Crisis: End Cor ...
    As negotiations continue on a debt deal, we ask longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader for his solution. Nader says, “Now we have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And it's not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate we ...

Consortium News

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 that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Crazy Environmental & Global Warming Politics ...
    Some of the best and worst politics and policy news of the week....
  • Shocking Animal Cruelty Exposed In UK Circus I ...
    After watching this video I wanted to share this with everyone. This is just plain cruelty and I will never think of a circus the same way again. At the bottom of this post is a link to causes.com, if this disturbs you as much as me then please take the time to join the cause!
  • Bicyclists Beat JetBlue Passenger in Californi ...
    Bicycling not fast enough for you? Well, it turns out that, in some situations, bicyclists are even faster than jets.
  • Loss of Predators Is Our Greatest Impact
    "The loss of apex consumers is arguably humankind's most pervasive influence on the natural world,” argue the authors of a new report published in the journal Science, which looked at the decline of large predators and other ‘apex consumers’ at the top of the food chain.
  • The Painted Desert From Space [Photo of the Day]
    The Painted Desert in northern Arizona, US, lies between the Grand Canyon and northwest of the Petrified Forest National Park, and is captured here in two beautiful images taken by the Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite.

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • OPEC: Venezuela Has Largest Oil Reserves, Surp ...
    Venezuela's crude oil proven reserves exceeded those of Saudi Arabia last year according to OPEC's annual statistical report. In 2009, OPEC listed Saudi as having the highest reserves at 264.59 billion barrels or 25.9% of OPEC's overall reserves and Venezuela at 211.17 billion barrels or 19.8% o ...
  • Rupert Murdoch's News of the World phone-hacki ...
    In their report below, the BBC announces the sudden and "unexplained" death of Sean Hoare, a former News of the World reporter and before that a reporter at The Sun, who blew the British media and political establishment wide open. He left News of the world in 2005. In March,...
  • Venezuela’s Chavez Seeks to Combat Inflation, ...
    Merida, July 15th 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Yesterday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez used his standing legislative authority to sign into law a new price control mechanism aimed at putting an end to speculation and hoarding. The newly enacted Law for the Protection and Defense of Econom ...
  • The madness continues in the US Police State: ...
    On the website, The American Dream, Michael T. Snyder, writes: Police Shut Down Lemonade Stands And Cookie Stands Run By Kids All Over America – Is There Anything We Are Still Free To Do Without Government Permission? If you plan on using the bathroom before you get done reading this...
  • Murdoch scandal spreads. Britain’s police chie ...
    18 July 2011 Britain’s senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson, has been forced to resign in the latest turn in the expanding scandal over phone hacking and other illegal acts by British media outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch. Stephenson stepped down after the arrest of Neil Walli ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The President continues to evolve on marriage equality. "President Obama is throwing his support behind the Respect for Marriage Act - the bill to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage even for couples married under state ...
  • Protect Yourself; Exercise Your Rights
    With the Fourth Amendment in tatters, tasers used like toys, non-white communities under attack, we could all use a reminder of how to protect ourselves democratically. Lisa Derrick at Firedoglake: � Flex Your Rights' straightforward, informative video 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police gives ...
  • And so we come to the endgame
    On Monday, General David Petraeus officially handed over command in Afghanistan to Marine General John Allen. Petraeus leaves the country in worse shape than he found it after his much-vaunted COIN strategy failed to show results or decrease the violence. He leaves behind mounting NATO casualtie ...
  • Kentucky Cuts $70,000 from Blind Children; Sti ...
    No, Kentucky's governor is not a republican; why do you ask? From the Courier: Kentucky has sharply reduced funds to a non-profit organization that serves young blind children across the state, a move advocates say will limit much-needed services to families. The cuts involve state money that th ...
  • Another commie pinko liberal weighs in on the ...
    The transcript, from September 26, 1987: ....Ronald Reagan: Congress consistently brings the government to the edge of default before facing its responsibility. This brinkmanship threatens the holders of government bonds and those who rely on Social Security and veteran benefits. Interest rat ...

Care 2

  • ACTION ALERT: Serbia: Take Action For Zoo Ani ...
    One only has to look at the photographs of �VUK� Zoological Park, Novi Pazar to see that these places are hell for the animals there.Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PETITION ALERT: Stop the extermination of Nor ...
    It is given 16 killing permits for bears in Norway only in July. One every day! It is given 21 hunting permits in June. It was given 8 in May. This is just for bears. During these spring / summer months that is not yet over. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Stop Illegal Killing of Songbir ...
    Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus Parts of Europe are now "death traps" for migrating songbirds, according to the Committee Against Bird Slaughter, which reports that millions of birds are illegally poached each year -- literally. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • GOOD NEWS! Report: More Americans have green ...
    Clean energy and other parts of the 'clean economy' account for 2 percent of US jobs, employing some 2.7 million Americans, according to a recent report.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • BAD BUSINESS: SEC Investigates Monsanto's Rou ...
    Monsanto said it was cooperating with a previously undisclosed US Securities and Exchange Commission probe into its customer incentive programs for herbicides in fiscal years 2009 and 2010, and had received a subpoena to provide related documents.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Do You Like Good Music? (& Open Thread)
    It upsets me that so many of Obama’s defenders continue to play the Race Card, accusing anyone who disagrees with Obama, disrespects Obama, or votes against Obama of being an evil racist who hates all black people and everything about black people. God, I hate that shit. It just makes me sick. I ...
  • White House Media Bias and Dangerous U.S. Medi ...
    I have been listening to testimony of Father and Son Murdoch before the UK’s parliament, and wonder if a full-blown U.S. investigation will soon follow. Already, the FBI is looking into reports that Murdoch’s News Corp. newspaper(s) hacked the telephones of relatives of 9/11 victims. However, it ...
  • A Dump Obama Primary?
    Is there a Dem revolt in the air?  Or another tea party in the making? I found this article Dump Obama: a Primary Focus (see excerpts below) at FDL (FireDogLake.com).  Besides the obvious point that they are slow learners regarding dem party corruption and who Obama really is.  And it is nice to ...
  • “Nothing in his life/ Became him like the lyin ...
    Is this the end of the Press Lords Murdoch? The answer looks more and more to be affirmative. The latest bulletins from London, thanks to live blogs being kept by both the Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian, point to massacres, dagger thrusts, lawyering up, prisoner’s dilemma (sell him ...
  • Priorities * Open Thread
    Questions. I have questions. Why did the U.S. Department of Justice and a cadre of U.S. Attorneys spend $10 million to indict baseball great Roger Clemons? Why are U.S. Attorneys going after Lance Armstrong? As Mike Barnicle said on Morning Joe today, each sport has its own organizations dedicat ...

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...

Therapy News

  • Do People Make Decisions Based on Mood?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline “There has been considerable debate about how affect (moods, emotions, feelings) influences the quality of people’s decisions,” said the authors of a new study that found a link between a person’s positive mood and their ability to make decisions more quickly and ...
  • Sex After Baby: A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
    The words postpartum depression and sex could basically be juxtaposted in a Sesame Street song: “Which of these things is not like the other? Which of these things is kinda the same? Can you guess which thing is not like the other?” In other words, if you are recovering from postpartum depressio ...
  • The Fear of Hurting the Other and the Inhibiti ...
    Even when it is unintended, some people find it intolerable to hurt someone they love. To experience hurting the other can create shame, guilt and strong “I am a bad person” feelings. As a result, we may avoid saying what is on our mind and put aside our own feelings and needs. This inhibiting o ...
  • New Study Suggests Omega-3 Reduces Inflammatio ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers at Ohio State University conducted a study that found fish oil caused a reduction in inflammation and anxiety when administered to healthy medical students. The findings are in line with nearly thirty years of research that links immune system function ...
  • Is Just Saying “I’m Sorry,” Enough?
    Mercer Mayer authored a series of children’s books entitled The Little Critter Series. I used to read these wonderful and inspiring books to my children when they were young, and was able to draw profound life lessons from them to share with my budding adults. They learned the art of sharing, ho ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Possible birth defects link to MTR deserves st ...
    Possible birth defects link to MTR deserves study, Rahall says Charleston Gazette Nick Rahall said Tuesday that a possible link between mountaintop removal and increased rates of birth defects in the Appalachian coalfields needs further investigation. But the West Virginia Democrat said that he ...
  • Firm Alleges Inbreeding, Not Mountaintop Remov ...
    State Journal Firm Alleges Inbreeding, Not Mountaintop Removal to Blame for Birth Defects State Journal PINEVILLE -- The report from the DC-based law firm, Crowell & Moring, suggests inbreeding, not mountaintop removal is to blame for birth defects among children near the sites. It was written ...
  • Rutherford claims victory as man acquitted in ...
    Rutherford claims victory as man acquitted in Boar's Head protest The Daily Progress He and others were protesting Dominion's consumption of coal mined by the process of mountaintop removal, the release said. �This is a victory for the First Amendment right to assemble and protest,� said John H ...
  • Fracking in New York: The real cost - GlobalCo ...
    Fracking in New York: The real cost GlobalComment.com Mountaintop removal coal mining tears apart the West Virginia mountains; a recent study has connected mountaintop removal with a rise in birth defects. Coal industry lawyers responded by blaming the defects on incest. Oil drilling in the Gul ...
  • Big Coal Lawyers Blame Inbreeding for Problems ...
    AllGov Big Coal Lawyers Blame Inbreeding for Problems Caused by Mountaintop Removal AllGov But the coal company vowed to continue its quest for a mountaintop removal permit and earlier in July the House of Representatives passed a bill that impairs the EPA from enforcing federal water pollution ...

Memeorandum

  • Feds: Harvard fellow hacked millions of papers ...
    Jay Lindsay / Associated Press: Feds: Harvard fellow hacked millions of papers … BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University fellow who was studying ethics was charged with hacking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer network to steal nearly 5 million academic articles.  —  Aaron Sw ...
  • Obama to Back Repeal of Law Restricting Marria ...
    Helene Cooper / New York Times: Obama to Back Repeal of Law Restricting Marriage  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will endorse a bill to repeal the law that limits the legal definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman, the White House said Tuesday, taking another step in support ...
  • Rep. Allen West Unloads On 'Vile, Unprofession ...
    The Note: Rep. Allen West Unloads On ‘Vile, Unprofessional, and Despicable’ Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz  —  ABC News' John R. Parkinson (@JRPabcDC) reports:  —  Rep. Allen West unleashed an scathing email to House leadership to raise his objections to “unprofessional and inappropriate sophomo ...
  • At this Point, Anyone with an Obama 2012 Bumpe ...
    Allen West / National | Red County: At this Point, Anyone with an Obama 2012 Bumper Sticker is a Threat to the Gene Pool  —  Greetings to our constituents, fellow Floridians, and all Americans, here we are for another weekly update.  There is only one word that describes the past week: appalling.
  • Jay Carney: 'Leadership Is Not Proposing a Pla ...
    Jim Geraghty / National Review: Jay Carney: ‘Leadership Is Not Proposing a Plan.’  —  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney argues, with a straight face, that leadership means waiting for House and Senate negotiators to come up with a plan:

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • The plight of the public (2)
    Despite some successes, broad environmental participation remains largely academic, concludes Zhang Jingjing. With deficient regulations and no legal redress, citizen engagement faces an ongoing battle.Of the four cases described in the first part of this article, three ended with the hoped-for ...
  • The plight of the public (1)
    How easy is it for Chinese citizens to challenge government decisions that affect the environment? Opening a two-part article, lawyer Zhang Jingjing reviews four key cases.Five or six years ago, “public participation” became a buzzword in environmental circles: the attempt to allow citizens and ...
  • Green litigation in China today
    Despite ambitious top-down environmental policies, there are still many obstacles to public supervision through the courts, writes Alex Wang, opening a special series on Chinese law.Environmental litigation is difficult business in China. Even as the country enters its 12th Five-Year Plan period ...
  • A dog fight in China
    In a culture in which views of canines can be contradictory, animal-protection activists’ recent rescue of over 500 dogs bound for slaughter has ignited controversy. Meng Si examines the dispute.The “April 15th Incident” -- when a group of animal-lovers halted and rescued a truck-load of dogs bo ...
  • Scientists and sceptics
    On climate change, vaccine safety and other issues, science is under attack from increasingly vocal critics. Researchers are fighting back, but will they be able to change minds? Andrew Jack reports.Emily Shuckburgh spends much of her time wrapped up against the cold on the far side of the world ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Apocalypse? Here or to go?
    Sometimes we have to start over or we can’t see the end… Reverend Billy’s Freakstorm #11 Watch more episodes & subscribe: http://revbilly.com/podcast Sign up for our e-bulletin: http://revbilly.com/bulletin What is The Church of Earthalujah? http://bit.ly/EarthalujahExplained ...
  • We Don’t Live on the Moon Or Have Flying ...
    Something different for the weekend… As a ghetto nerd, I love some good science fiction. As a ghetto nerd military history buff grognard I am a sucker for a good counter-factual or “what if?” scenario. Much of the latter is pure pablum–although I have to admit that I have a soft-spot for Harry T ...
  • The 13 Best Hacker Attacks Against Military Se ...
    Hackers have declared war on anyone or anything that threatens to censor the Internet or its citizens. Here are some of their wildest targets.
  • 7 Winning Issues for Democrats (If They Only H ...
    It's not enough for progressives to count on Republicans to lose in 2012. Democrats need to find some issues to fight for. Here's a few suggestions.
  • Worse Than a Low Wage Job? A Low Wage Job with ...
    “They Pretend to Pay Us And We Pretend to Work” used to be attributed to the employment situation in the former Soviet Union. But in today’s “jobless recovery,” US workers are also performing low-wage jobs with no benefits, future and, sometimes, purpose. Jobs whose main perks are air-conditioni ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Arrest 14 ‘Anonymous’ Suspects Over PayPa ...
    Federal agents arrested 14 suspected Anonymous members Tuesday on charges of participating in denial-of-service attacks against online payment service provider PayPal. Five additional suspects were arrested overseas — one in the United Kingdom and four in the Netherlands — for related crimes. T ...
  • Urging Obama’s Assassination Is Lawful Online ...
    A Southern California man was wrongly convicted of online threats against Barack Obama two weeks before Obama was elected president in November 2008, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
  • Feds Charge Activist As Hacker For Downloading ...
    Well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz was arrested Tuesday, charged with violating federal hacking laws for downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription database service that MIT had given him access to. If convicted, Swartz faces up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million f ...
  • FBI Raids Homes of Three ‘Anonymous’ Suspects
    FBI agents conducted early-morning raids at three homes in New York where suspects believed to be involved in the Anonymous hacking group live. Investigators seized at least one laptop from one of the homes. Police believe the device may have been used in denial-of-service attacks against severa ...
  • LulzSec Defaces Murdoch Paper With Mogul’s Fak ...
    They're back. The hacker gang LulzSec declared retirement last month, but cracked the Rupert Murdoch-owned New Times on Monday and used it to host a fake news story declaring that the embattled media mogul had been found dead at his home.

Equality Trust

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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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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.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • 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, Sha ...
  • 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

  • Two Raw Milks - one for the Pasteurizer and on ...
    My friend, David Gumpert, over at the Complete Patient, took Food Safety News to task a bit the other day in his post – “The Food Safety Ideologues Have a New Spin on That Pesky WI Commercial Dairy Campy Outbreak; In Praise of Camel, Horse and Other Non-Cow's Milk” over the reporters failure to ...
  • Non-O157 E. coli in Beef - How does FSIS justi ...
    Presently the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is holding hostage FSIS's desire to move forward with deeming certain other non-O157 E. coli's adulterants.  I will forgo arguing that FSIS did not in fact need to ask OMB's permission, or that it should have been done years ago, but WE are whe ...
  • Tucker Adkins Raw Milk Dairy linked to as many ...
    The FDA is working with officials in North Carolina and South Carolina to investigate an outbreak of campylobacteriosis in three people who consumed raw milk from Tucker Adkins Dairy in York, S.C. The three confirmed cases and another five probable cases are from three different households and e ...
  • 500 Pennsylvania Inmates Sickened by Salmonella
    According to the AP, the Pennsylvania Department of Health has confirmed a suspected outbreak of salmonella poisoning at a federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania, that has reportedly sickened more than 500 inmates and guards. The Health Department's director of communications, Christine Cr ...
  • Testing for non-O157 E. coli - "American consu ...
    In response to Obama Administration inaction, Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro issued a statement today following the announcement by Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) that it will begin testing for an additional six strains of E. coli currently not required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: … We kno ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: NYC fleet adds 70 plug-in vehicles, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric NYC Chevy Volt Police Car - Click above for high-res image gallery As much as the average driver doesn't really have to worry about "range anxiety" during a normal driving day, we will gran ...
  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...
  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...
  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...

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!

  • VIDEO: Rupert Murdoch hit with paper plate cov ...
    Prior to pieing, assailant tweets, “It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat.” Unharmed, the Murdochs continued hearing.
  • Watch Live: Rupert Murdoch Testifies Before Br ...
    Live Streaming at 9:30 a.m. EDT Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, his son James Murdoch, and former News International executive Rebekah Brooks are testifying before the British Parliament today as the phone hacking scandal engulfing the Murdoch media empire continues to grow. Watch the heari ...
  • Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan: "The Questions ...
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan To accuse Rupert Murdoch of shedding crocodile tears, with his head-in-hands apology to the family of Milly Dowler and his widely printed apology at the weekend, would be an insult to honest crocodiles everywhere. A more fitting comparison would be to Lewis ...
  • Sharif Abdel Kouddous: "Five Months of Waiting ...
    *The following is from a new article Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous has just published in 'Foreign Policy' * Five months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Tahrir Square has, once again, been transformed into a mass protest encampment and the epicenter of the struggle for ...
  • Book Excerpt: "Haiti: After the Earthquake," B ...
    Read the first chapter of Haiti after the Earthquake, the new book by Paul Farmer, renowned physician and social justice advocate. On Thursday’s show we will talk to Farmer about his book, and his experience working with Special Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton in post-earthquake recovery efforts ...

Suzie-Q

  • Murdochs face grilling by MPs
    MPs to quiz Murdochs over hacking BBC, 19 July 2011 News Corporation chiefs Rupert and James Murdoch and former executive Rebekah Brooks will be quizzed by MPs later about the phone-hacking scandal. The Murdochs agreed to appear before the Commons media committee after it issued a summons for th ...
  • The President’s Meeting with His Holiness the ...
    The White House Blog Posted by Kori Schulman on July 17, 2011 Yesterday morning President Obama met with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House. Here’s the statement from the Press Secretary on their meeting: The President reiterated his strong support for the preserv ...
  • White House welcomes Dalai Lama, China irked
    Rawstory By Reuters Saturday, July 16th, 2011 WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – China accused the United States on Saturday of “grossly” interfering in its internal affairs and damaging relations after President Barack Obama met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House. Oba ...
  • Neocons Fume Over US Boat to Gaza
    opednews.com July 16, 2011 By Ray McGovern My co-passengers and I of the U.S. Boat to Gaza have now gone from “High-Seas Hippies,” according to the right-wing Washington Times, to participants in a flotilla full of “fools, knaves, hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism,” says Alan Dersh ...
  • Murdoch lieutenant Hinton quits Dow Jones
    By Paul Thomasch and Yinka Adegoke NEW YORK, July 15 (Reuters) – Les Hinton, the top executive of Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones & Co, resigned on Friday after becoming a target of criticism for the phone-hacking scandal that occurred when he oversaw News Corp’s British newspapers. Hinton stepped do ...

Solari

  • QE Perpetual
    Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and House Speaker John Boehner. By: Reuters Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders. The United States is one of the few countries where Congress set ...
  • Scott Tips on Codex: The Global Scheme to Cont ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report I interview Scott Tips, president of the National Health Federation. Scott is an attorney and an expert on Codex Alimentarius. He will be speaking with us from Paris. Codex Alimentarius are international standards, codes o ...
  • Treasury To Stop Funding Its Market Manipulati ...
    Update: As Previously Announced, Treasury to Employ Final Extraordinary Measure to Extend U.S. Borrowing Authority Until August 2 Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released the following statement from Jeffrey Goldstein, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, regarding the use of the las ...
  • Quote du Jour
    âI’ve found that you don’t need to wear a necktie if you can hit.â ~Ted Williams Related reading: Ted Williams Wikipedia Biography on Ted Williams The Wall Street Journal (16 July 09)
  • Announcing Paul Levy’s New Book
    Paul Levy’s Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity From the Foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts: “My search to understand evil and its transformation is what attracted me to Paul Levy’s invaluable work…In helping us understand and face the lies that weave through our lives, Pau ...

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 Lank ...
  • 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

  • Book review: The Next Wave: On the Hunt for A ...
    Summary:   A review of The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits by Catherine Herridge.  Reviewed by “GI” Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired). When reading Catherine Herridge’s smashing investigative work on terrorism, The Next Wave, the lyrics from Jimmy Buffet’s “Trouble on ...
  • Attritionist Letter #2 — our military se ...
    Summary:   With US forces engaged around the world in six conflicts (and many small ones), each the day our media paint a picture of the armed services.  News, articles, books, movies — seldom have we been so well informed about our mechanized high-tech defense professionals — the very model ...
  • Today’s tea party propaganda
    Summary: The Tea Party movement provides a picture of the increasingly dysfunctional OODA-loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) of American society, where outlandish statements are accepted unquestioningly by true believers. In this environment we can work 24-7 correcting these misrepresentaions (and ...
  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...

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, calle ...
  • 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 since mid-Dece ...
  • 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 7,000 ...
  • 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. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Our Friends, the MeK (and Other Persian Perple ...
    The specter of Iranian power sometimes strikes a certain madness into the foreign policy commentariat. At once, Iran is a rising and potential hegemon, soon to acquire the military power to dominate the Persian Gulf, and at the same time, supposedly supremely vulnerable to internal subversion or ...
  • As UN Declares Famine in Somalia, US Should Re ...
    Our guest blogger is Sarah Margon, associate director for Sustainable Security at the Center for American Progress. With more than 10.7 million people in desperate need of food assistance across the Horn of Africa, the U.N. is expected to officially declare a famine in parts of Somalia tomorrow. ...
  • Cyber Statecraft: Linking Geeks and Wonks to R ...
    There are many reasons why cyber conflict is considered an awkward and destabilizing national security problem. One of the more overlooked is the gap between the technical elite and senior politicians and policymakers, a disconnect that could become tragic during fast-moving cyber conflicts.   W ...
  • Oren's Israeli Strike Deadline Passes
    Who could have known that Michael Oren wasn’t an entirely reliable source regarding Israel’s military plans?  After all, he totally predicted that Israel would strike Iran within eighteen months of January 2007.  That must mean that he’s really, really well connected. The only other explanati ...
  • Climate Change and International Security
    Nauru is one of several small island states that risks to literally be wiped off the map in the not-so-distant future if sea-levels rise to their predicted levels. Its president takes to the New York Times op-ed page to call for the Security Council to firmly establish the link between climate ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Free the JSTOR Four Million!
    The news that Aaron Swartz, a technologist and activist involved in the early days of Reddit and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, has been indicted in Boston for allegedly breaking into an MIT wiring closet and downloading in excess of four million academic journal articles from JSTOR ...
  • There's More to Poverty Than Just Money
    As Washington fights about which benefits to cut for low-income families, the Heritage Foundation throws an assist by arguing – in typical conservative fashion – that poor people can’t be poor if they own consumer electronics and air conditioning: f poverty means lacking nutritious food, ade ...
  • Rules and Norms on Capitol Hill
    Jonathan Bernstein assesses GOP strategy, with a great baseball story: The GOP practice, for the last twenty years or so, has been to play the "game" of politics in part by looking through the rule book for strategies that go beyond the norms of politics but are allowed under the literal readin ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    Paul Starr explains the twisted psychology behind the Balanced Budget Amendment. Gabriel Arana asks why it took an undercover investigation to bring light to Bachmann's anti-gay views. Anna Clark looks to the future of American women's soccer after the World Cup.
  • The List Supporters for Ignoring the Debt Ceil ...
    Bill Clinton offered his take Tuesday for how he would solve the debt ceiling: Oder the Treasury to keep issuing debt under the 14th Amendment, which states: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties fo ...

Buzzflash

  • Hunger Strike: California Prison Inmates Prote ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "What else can the powerless, the weak and disenfranchised offer up to the world but their own soft bodies? The frailty of that body is contrasted with the might of authority." -- Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History Life in prison ...
  • Would the DC Republicans Really Prefer to Have ...
    STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The GOP faces a major dilemma in the upcoming presidential election. Before I get into that, let's define what I mean by "The GOP." First, I don't mean most of their public figures. Their elected officials for the most part are bought and paid f ...
  • The Rich Do Increase Employment, For Wealthy L ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTPity the poor rich.Allow me to offer up a few words in defense of one of the most maligned groups in America today. Citizens, who through a simple twist of fate, are routinely subjected to some of the most scathing condemnation and slanderous stereotyping in t ...
  • The GOP to the Working Class is Like Colonel S ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I was there when it happened, but I'm still not entirely clear why it happened. I am speaking of the late 1970s when working Americans became Reagan Democrats... Democrats who voted for Republican Ronald Reagan, and have since largely voted for GOP candida ...
  • Why McConnell Blinked
    ROBERT CREAMER FOR TRUTHOUTSenate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has blinked. His proposal late last Tuesday afternoon to give President Obama the power to raise the Federal Debt Ceiling -- without the previously demanded budget cuts -- is the beginning of the Republican collapse in their sta ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Daylight video of the ISS and Atlantis from th ...
    According to Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy you can see details when the ISS flies overhead with a decent pair of binoculars, but with an 8-inch reflector telescope and a decent video camera set up for astrophotography you can grab yourself a Youtube clip…in broad daylight: I’ve seen the ISS fly ov ...
  • Latest Alchemist from ChemWeb
    Latest Alchemist from ChemWeb – Some unusual chemical news this week, beginning with the discovery of hydrogen peroxide in interstellar space by European astronomers, while British chemists hint that organic life might have had a start in an inorganic shell. German analysts are hoping to track d ...
  • UK cancer trends
    UK cancer trends – The media has been all over the Cancer Research UK announcements on cancer rates. Specifically, the focus was on middle-aged people and the increases seen between 1979 and 2008. NHS Choices, as ever, provides some rational words following the media frenzy and cites a few of th ...
  • Caricatures and face recognition
    Caricatures and face recognition – The “Ugly, pretty girls” post and video I blogged the other day got lots of interest. It seems face recognition and perception of faces is a fascinating subject for many people. Not surprising, really. Even in this digital age, face to face still beats any elec ...
  • Edible cat litter for drug delivery
    Edible cat litter for drug delivery – Having published a bog about bulldogs and cats, seems quite apt that I was also writing recently about kitty litter the main component of which is the absorbant mineral sepiolite. Sepiolite has been known since Roman times when it was used to filter and puri ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • The Promise of No-Cost Birth Control for Women ...
    Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, praised a panel of medical experts for recommending that health-insurance plans cover a full range of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved contraception at no cost.read more
  • Co-Chairs Raúl M. Grijalva and Keith Ellison & ...
    By walking away from every negotiation – from the Deficit Commission to the Biden Commission to direct talks with the President – Republicans have made it clear that they place politics above responsibly solving the country’s budget challenges. Now they have introduced their extreme “Cut, Cap an ...
  • Planned Parenthood Hails Institute of Medicine ...
    Planned Parenthood today hailed the Institute of Medicine (IOM)’s recommendation on including prescription birth control as a women’s preventive health service, which would be covered without co-pays by new insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act.  If adopted by the U.S. Department of Heal ...
  • Eating is Xtreme as Ever at America's Chains
    If this year’s winners of the Xtreme Eating Awards are any indication, the overfeeding of America seems likely to continue unabated at the nation’s chain restaurants.read more
  • California Prisoners on Hunger Strike to Prote ...
    The Los Angeles Times reports today: “More than 400 inmates at four California prisons are in the third week of a hunger strike to protest long, punitive stays in isolation cells. … “Inmate advocates say thousands of inmates have joined the strike, which began July 1. Many are beginning to show ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Neoliberalism, Austerity, and the Global Crisi ...
    Chris Maisano The world is not simply in the midst of a deep economic slump. This is but one aspect of the crisis of legitimacy that confronts almost all of the political and economic institutions that comprise the capitalist world system ...
  • Yes We Camp: A Global Fight for Radical Democracy
    Willie Osterweil Millenials all over the world have received a brutal political education. The lucky few of us paid far more and will get far less for our college degrees than any generation before, we have watched with dismay as our paren ...
  • How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule
    David Korten The dominant story of the current political debate is that the government is broke. We can’t afford to pay for public services, put people to work, or service the public debt. Yet as a nation, we are awash in money. A defectiv ...
  • Catfood Commission II: A Cowardly Attempt to D ...
    Jon Walker It currently appears that the most likely resolution to the debt ceiling situation will be the use of the Mitch McConnell-Harry Reid back up plan. This plan will probably include some form of the Catfood Commission II. A biparti ...
  • Soaring Food Prices, Wild Weather, Upheaval, a ...
    Christian Parenti What can a humble loaf of bread tell us about the world? The answer is: far more than you might imagine.  For one thing, that loaf can be “read” as if it were a core sample extracted from the heart of a grim global econom ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Israel's war on nonviolent protest
    Jonathan CookThe Electronic IntifadaNazareth The newly-passed boycott law is the latest in a series of ever-more draconian laws being introduced by Israel’s far right. The legislation’s goal is to intimidate those Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, who have yet to bow down before the major ...
  • Film review: seeking psychological peace in "F ...
    Naira AntounThe Electronic Intifada Filmmaker Raed Andoni has a severe and agonizing headache, a debilitating headache that will not go away. Turning the camera on himself, he decided to make a film exploring his headache and his efforts to rid himself of�it.
  • Medicine shortages drive Gazans to alternative ...
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City While complementary medicine practitioners in Gaza see a niche for their work, they say it is imperative that the essential medicines and supplies at zero stock levels be brought into�Gaza.
  • UK court releases Raed Salah as government cas ...
    Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic IntifadaLondon After nearly three weeks in British jails, influential Palestinian activist and religious leader Sheikh Raed Salah was conditionally released�today.
  • "EU must do more than pay lip-service": Narima ...
    Linah AlsaafinThe Electronic IntifadaNabi Saleh Nariman Tamimi must not be characterized as just the jailed grassroots activist Bassem’s wife. Linah Alsaafin interviews for The Electronic Intifada.

The Wonk Room

  • NSIDC: Early Sea Ice Melt Onset, Soaring Nort ...
    Daily Arctic sea ice extent as of July 17, 2011, along with daily ice extents for previous low-ice-extent years. Light blue indicates 2011, dashed green shows 2007, dark blue shows 2010, and dark gray shows the 1979 to 2000 average. As the country swelters, ice and snow melt in the North.   The ...
  • 130 Republicans Who Are In Congress Today Vote ...
    White House and congressional negotiators are currently in the process of striking a deficit reduction deal, as most Republicans in Congress are refusing to raise the federal debt ceiling without deep cuts to public investments and social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare. By ...
  • Breaking The Bat, Or, Disability And The Limit ...
    I may be overreading the language of finality in the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, but it sure does look like Chris Nolan is leading up to having Bane break Batman’s back and leave him a paraplegic, doesn’t it? If Nolan does go there, I don’t think he deserves infinite credit â he would, [...]
  • Israeli Embassy Spokesperson Issues Non-Apolog ...
    When the Israeli Knesset passed a law that would impose penalties on calls to boycott Israel proper or the illegal West Bank settlements, the outcry from much of the American Jewish community came swiftly. The liberal American Jewish group J Street came down hard in a statement: J Street condemn ...
  • More Americans have Green Jobs Than Oil or Gas ...
    Climate Progress previously reported on a Brookings Institution study, âSizing the Clean Economy.” It demonstrated the âClean Economyâ has started delivering on its promise of high-wage jobs. The Christian Science Monitor just did a nice article on the study, “Report: More Americans have green j ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Come on Lefties!
    So, ... Rob Ford campaigned that there wouldn't be any cuts to services because there was so much easily discernible waste at City Hall that cleaning it up would uncover hundreds of millions of dollars in annual savings. Turns out that was complete bullshit. So, ... decades of assaults on the ...
  • A Great Summary of the Hollow Core of Rupert M ...
    Jeff Sparrow: "The Phony Populism of Rupert Murdoch": Consider the United States, where, after decades of the neoliberalism that Murdoch has unceasingly championed, an extraordinary ten per cent of the total personal income goes to the top 0.1 per cent of the populace, a disparity only rivall ...
  • Politics Costs Money
    And we don't have it. In the 1970s, the government started to fund groups to provide alternative analysis. They don't do that anymore. Because alternative analysis is dangerous. From the 1950s to today, the trade unions are a huge source of funding for lefty initiatives. However, under decades ...
  • Did they find those WMDs yet?
    Seriously? Oh, ... and when did Rob Ford decide that some of Toronto's library branches were part of the "gravy train" of "waste" he's been screeching about? Everything our opponents believe seems to turn out to be a big pile of garbage. Given their demonstrated contempt for democracy, when c ...
  • Would Any Canadian Government Recognize Palest ...
    So, the stupid, lying, pathetic closet-case who pretends to be Canada's Foreign Minister says that Canada won't recognize Palestine's right to exist. Having just torn apart Rosie DiMoron's incoherent, rambling gibberish that was her attempt to defend Canada's involvement in Afghanistan, I reali ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Highlights from Toronto City Council July meetings
    The latest round of Toronto City Hall meetings have come to a close. The highlights from the July meetings focus on bike lanes, an underground tunnel to Billy Bishop Airport, graffiti and other issues important to residents in Toronto.
  • European tourist dies after being swept over E ...
    On Monday, a European tourist visiting Elk Falls Provincial Park was killed after being swept over the waterfall and into the Campbell River.
  • Craigslist poster tells the truth about animal ...
    A posting from Toronto in Craigslist last week shows the views of a animal shelter director when it comes animals that they tend for. The posting titled: Can't Keep Your Pet! Reality Check deals with the very real problem of 'disposable' pets.
  • Cash Cab production vehicle hits, kills 61-yea ...
    Vancouver Police Department officials have confirmed that a production vehicle used in the filming of the Canadian version of the Cash Cab series was involved in a one-car accident that claimed the life of a pedestrian.
  • Beating the summer heat in Toronto
    The summer's heat often calls for a break. Swimming, going out for ice cream, or waiting until the sun has gone down to take a leisurely stroll are just a few options to stay cool. And the soaring temperatures are staying for a while.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canada makes the wrong move at Conference on D ...
    Cesar Jaramillo, program officer at Project Ploughshares, argues against the recent decision to boycott the UN Conference on Disarmament (Cesar Jaramillo, “Canadaâs disarmament conference boycott is ill-advised,” Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 14 July 2011): Canadaâs newly elected Conservative major ...
  • Barbara Yaffe, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: ...
    Citing a newly published paper by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Vancouver Sun columnist Barbara Yaffe is calling on the Canadian public to “familiarize itself with the ongoing debate over the purchase of the F-35s” (Barbara Yaffe, “The F-35 is the wrong plane for the job in Canada, Washing ...
  • Wounded Soldier, ex-Ombudsman challenging CF ‘ ...
    Cpl. Ryan Elrick, a Canadian soldier who lost his legs in Afghanistan, is taking the federal government to court, saying the policy known as Universality of Service is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Elrick spent three years training as an intelligence officer following his wounding but has ...
  • “Crown jewel” of Canadian peacekeeping closing ...
    The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has announced that it is shutting down its operations in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped peacekeeping centre closing Nova Scotia office,” Ottawa Citizen, 10 June 2011). The organization is attempting to cut costs after having been adv ...
  • Layton, Harris criticize timing of document dump
    Opposition leader Jack Layton has accused the Harper government of taking a “very cynical” approach in its release of documents on the Afghan detainee file. The release of 4000 pages worth of documents came just as MPs are gearing down for summer recess. â[The Government] chose a date that will ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-17-11
    Find out why the mainstream media news anchors are nothing more than actors and puppets! PLUS, Dr. Marc Sorenson joins the show and explains where you can get your Vitamin D3 and why it is so essential to your health and your body! Health: Chocolate Better Than Aspirin For Heart Attacks Orange J ...
  • Vaccines Lower Immunity
    May 23rd, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Paul Fassa Vaccinations are even worse than what most have thought. Vaccine injuries that can happen to anyone randomly amongst the vaccinated are not the only issues. Some experts claim vaccines lower immunity for everyone who receives them. The increased dise ...
  • Does Drinking Lots of Coffee Really Help to Pr ...
    May 23rd, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Coffee addiction may not be the detriment to health many people think it is, according to a new study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research. Postmenopausal women over 50 who drink five or more cups of coffee every day may be as much as 5 ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-23-11
    Suzanne Somers exposes the truth about how to improve your health to avoid and cure cancer without the use of chemotherapy! Click here to purchase her new book, Knockout. PLUS, Dr. Cal Streeter tells you how to lose 100 pound in 5 months and what it was like to go to prison for standing up [...]
  • Natural Cure For A Sunburn
    ‘Tis the season for sunburns! Here are some natural remedies that may help alleviate your pain! Aromatherapy: Spray the affected area with lavender and chamomile. To prevent blistering, also massage two to three drops of lavender oil directly into the affected area. Herbs: Apply cool aloe vera ...

Pambazuka News

  • USA: Uhuru movement endorses McKinney/Clemente ...
    The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) has endorsed the McKinney/Clemente ticket in the U.S. presidential race. The endorsement was based on the support that Green Party V.P. candidate Rosa Clemente’s expressed for InPDUM’s “Re...
  • Global: Conference will establish African Soci ...
    On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of tru ...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Quote of the Week – rubbishing peer review
    Here I am, minding my own business, looking at my local newspaper, and just reading what is happening locally. Then, out pops this profound quote of the week that is just gobsmacking. The first line of the story starts out … Continue reading →
  • Your tax dollars at work – EPA offers &# ...
    I hadn’t planned on blogging today during my own work hours, but I’ll take a few minutes from my lunch to shine some much needed sunlight on this. Maybe I need to shut off my email to get anything done. … Continue reading →
  • Bering sea water temperature, headed down
    Apparently, not all the Arctic is warming to script. This is an interesting graph from PICES, titled The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events. It is accompanied by this text: Normally, a moderate El Niño (as in winter 2010) … Continue reading →
  • Quantifying the moo
    From the USDA, via Eurekalert. The goal was quantifying the moo. Next step, regulation. Hello $10/gallon milk.  In the first detailed study on emissions from large-scale dairies, ARS researchers found that a commercial dairy with 10,000 milk cows generated an … Continue reading →
  • Clinton’s solution for the jobs crisis & ...
    Yep, that’s the big plan. Paint your roofs white. From the Atlantic: I have no problem with saving energy, especially in the summer when power drain is excessive due to A/C load. California now requires most flat-roofed buildings to be … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • America’s Disappeared by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 18, 2011 Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly was kept alive at a military base until she gave birth to her son and then, ...
  • A Response to David Brooks’ NT Times Column “D ...
    by Michael Lyon Guest Writer Dandelion Salad July 17, 2011 A Response to David Brooks’ NT Times Column “Death and Budgets” It’s clear now that business and government want healthcare “reform” to control costs, not provide everyone with comprehensive, affordable healthcare. Yet business and gover ...
  • Gore Vidal on Noam Chomsky + Full Interview: I ...
    Dandelion Salad MetrazolElectricity on Jul 17, 2011 Gore speaks of his old ally Professor Chomsky and how he and Noam have perennially been persecuted by the establishment. Gore Vidal on Noam Chomsky *** Full interview (3 hours): In Depth with Gore Vidal C-SPAN Video Library Oct. 1, 2000 Mr. Vid ...
  • Dandelion Salad is Going Weekly
    Dandelion Salad July 17, 2011 I’ve decided to publish once a week instead of daily.  I’ll save the submissions received during the week and choose from those the best ones to publish probably on Monday every week. Most of the readers don’t come here for “breaking news” but for commentary and an ...
  • Canadian Citizen Tortured in Bahrain… But Harp ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 17, 2011 Belfast, Ireland A young Canadian man suffering from a serious heart condition has been abducted and tortured by the Bahraini regime – yet the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has maintained a steadfast silence over hi ...

Your New Reality

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    9/11? What's That? Murdoch Media Is The Real Victim Of This Hacking Scandal Two utterly mind-blowing, brain-boggling moments from Rupert Murdoch's American propaganda channel, in the same week. What happened on September 11, 2001? People don't realise that Rupert Murdoch is the real victim ...
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    Starring Steve Coogan As Steve Coogan A trailer for the first movie based on the Rupert Murdoch HackGate scandal has been released, and it's got an all star cast : I really would love to see UK Labour leader Ed Miliband played by Rowan Atkinson. Amazing, isn't it? The biggest story of media ...
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    The new show from the creators and actors of Trailer Park Boys looks utterly demented. As we hoped :
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    Rupert Murdoch's Massive Spying Operations Finally Exposed Police Paid By Murdoch Execs To Spy On Celebrities, Politicians And Terror Victims Murdoch Faces Spying And Hacking Probe In US Rupert Murdoch cries for himself, not his victims By Darryl Mason It's been a long time coming, but the ...
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    'Fox News' Announces President Obama Has Been Shot And Killed By Darryl Mason Ten hours, that's 10 fucking hours, after a series of fake tweets announcing President Barack Obama had been shot twice in a restaurant and subsequently died from the wounds, this shocking (but fake) news remains the ...

Wired - Science

  • Milky Way’s Core Hides Big Twisted Ribbon
    A space telescope peering into the Milky Way galaxyâs dusty core has spied a colossal twisted ribbon of super-cooled material. Until now astronomers had only seen bits and pieces of the ribbonâs 600-light-year-wide superstructure, which resembles the Latin symbol for infinity (â). “We have a ...
  • Why Brains Get Creeped Out by Androids
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK We’ve all found ourselves in the uncanny valley before. It’s that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or CGI person that’s so close to looking human that it seems almost spooky. The actual “valley” refers to a precipitous drop in “likeability” as o ...
  • Experimental Archaeologists Test Past by Makin ...
    See Also: Neanderthals Not Dumb, but Made Dull Gadgets Scientists Find Contents of Prehistoric Messenger Bag Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts The First Aid: Iceman May Have Dressed His Own Wounds Uncovering the "Chimpanzee Stone Age" Evidence of Modern Smarts in Stone Age Superglue
  • Neanderthals Mated With Humans Outside of Africa
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK It has been a long held belief that our human ancestors came into contact with Neanderthals, and recent findings not only confirm this, but also suggest exactly how “close” this contact was. Damian Labuda of the University of Montreal’s Department of Pediatrics and the ...
  • Solar-Charged Nanotube Fuel May Replace Batteries
    By Yun Xie, Ars Technica Since the 1970s, chemists have worked on storing solar energy in molecules that change state in response to light. These photoactive molecules could be the ideal solar fuel, as the right material should be transportable, affordable, and rechargeable. Unfortunately, s ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel suspends MP for opposing Gaza blockade
    Ms Zoabi, a vociferous critic of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians, was a passenger on the Mavi Marmara, attracting fury in Israel. She was branded a traitor by colleagues and stripped of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israeli MK – “anti-Boycott La ...
    On July 11th the Israeli parliament passed the controversial anti-boycott law. The law was written in response to the mounting global movement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The method in Netanyahu’s madness
    Israeli MP Ahmed Tibi: “What is a peace activist or Palestinian allowed to do to oppose the occupation? Is there anything you agree to?” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much mo ...
  • Noam Sheizaf: Everything you (never) wanted to ...
    Basically, the anti-boycott law allows all those who feel they have been harmed by a boycott, whether against Israel or an Israeli institution or territory (i.e. the settlements in the West Bank) to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Amnesty International: Israel anti-boycott law ...
    Amnesty International's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Philip Luther: "Despite proponents’ claims to the contrary, this law is a blatant attempt to stifle peaceful dissent and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Standard Three-Drug H. pylori Therapy Beats Ne ...
    Clinical trials in Europe and Asia were thought to have pinpointed the best treatment regimen to eradicate the H. pylori bug, an important cause of peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. New results from a large SWOG study in Latin America turn those findings on their head, suggesting different popu ...
  • Boston University Names Avrum Spira its Innova ...
    Boston University School of Medicine Associate Prof. Avrum Spira has won the university's 2011 Innovator of the Year award which recognizes a BU faculty member whose cutting-edge research and ideas lead to the formation of companies that benefit society at large.
  • "Friends with Benefits" Lets Couples Get Close ...
    An expert on sexuality among young people says a "friends with benefits" situation can provide some healthy outlets for sexual needs and desires, but can also be a very difficult relationship to navigate.
  • Oak Ridge Establishes Carbon Fiber Composites ...
    Fourteen companies have agreed to join with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to establish the Oak Ridge Carbon Fiber Composites Consortium, which will work to accelerate the development, demonstration and commercial application of new low-cost carbon fiber and composites materials in many different ...
  • Prepared Patient: When Pain Doesn't End
    For people with severe chronic pain, coping with agony is a fact of life. What patients need to know: finding a doctor, treatment options and facing pain while moving forward.

Natural Health News

  • Hypoallergenic Baby Formula is a Myth
    A Nestlé-sponsored study intended to assess the effects of hypoallergenic baby formula has cast doubt on the ability of such formulas to prevent allergies later in life. This contradicts the widely-held belief among the medical establishment that hypoallergenic formula can prevent allergies. I ...
  • 10 Flat-Belly Tricks
    Yahoo Health has assembled 10 expert tips to keep your stomach flat and lean.� Here are a few of them: Eat at the magic hour:� Have a snack that contains protein between 3 PM and 4 PM. It will boost your metabolism and balance your blood sugar. Beef up on a belly-zapping hormone:� �Eat as clos ...
  • 6 Easy Steps To Ensuring That A Key Hormone Ke ...
    Building muscle, losing fat, and improving overall health are a dependent on one important hormone -- insulin. People with high insulin sensitivity have better blood sugar regulation. The website Bodybuilding.com offers 6 tips to get your insulin sensitivity high and keep it there.� Here are so ...
  • Why Does Expectation Affect Your Food Likes an ...
    �Expectation assimilation� is the theory that your taste perceptions are biased by your imagination. �If you expect a food to taste good it will, and if you expect a food to taste unpleasant it will. For example, in a recent experiment, 175 people were given a free brownie, served either on a c ...
  • 5 Diet Mistakes That Prevent Workout Results
    Sports nutritionist Cynthia Sass, writing for Shape, lists five diet mistakes that could interfere with getting the most out of your training time:� Drinking a Protein Shake Before a Workout: �Protein is digested slowly than carbs, so too much pre-workout can give you stomach cramps.� Have them ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • UNCLOS and the Seven Percent “Solution&# ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation passes along this useful review of the effect of UNCLOS ratification on U.S. development of its extended continental shelf.  It argues that if the U.S. joins UNCLOS, it could be obligated to turn over as much as 7 percent of ro ...
  • Poland Gets Ready to Test the International La ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Or so it would seem, based on this analysis from the European Center for Law and Justice, a right-leaning public interest law firm.  A proposed new law in Poland appears to ban abortion under any circumstance, thus replacing the current law, which allows exemptions f ...
  • The Space Bar and the Drone
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Though I am generally upbeat about the use of drones in military applications, one must recognize design flaws: The Navy’s latest multi-million pound drone has the unfortunate feature of starting to self-destruct if the pilot accidentally presses the spa ...
  • The Space Bar and the Drone
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Though I am generally upbeat about the use of drones in military applications, one must recognize design flaws: The Navy’s latest multi-million pound drone has the unfortunate feature of starting to self-destruct if the pilot accidentally presses the spa ...
  • More for your reading list
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein A quick note to suggest that those interested in intelligence and surveillance topics check out the latest issue of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, which features a host of interesting articles on U.S. and international law and intelli ...

Public News Service

  • Congress Threatens to Slash Funding for Succes ...
    Congress Threatens to Slash Funding for Successful Farm Programs Phoenix, AZ – One of the largest sources of funding for land conservation in Arizona and across the country would be slashed under the proposed agriculture appropriations bill. Four programs that offer land owners financial incent ...
  • AARP Arizona: "Fuera manos" de Social Security ...
    AARP Arizona: "Fuera manos" de Social Security y Medicare Phoenix, AZ – El director y presidente estatal de la AARP Arizona se reunió con representantes de AARP de todo el país en Washington, D.C. esta semana, en un encuentro con las delegaciones de los congresos estatales. Su mensaje: mantenga ...
  • AARP Arizona: “Hands Off” Social S ...
    AARP Arizona: “Hands Off” Social Security and Medicare Phoenix, AZ – The director and state president of AARP Arizona joined AARP representatives from around the country in Washington, D.C. this week, meeting with state congressional delegations. Their message: keep discussions about Social Secu ...
  • In Search of More "Elbow Room" for Arizona Chi ...
    In Search of More "Elbow Room" for Arizona Chickens Washington, DC – Two national groups have formed an unlikely partnership to push Congress for new standards for egg producers. If they get their way, all hens will get bigger and better living quarters, and consumers will have more information ...
  • Tucson Forum Set on Alleged Abuse of Detained ...
    Tucson Forum Set on Alleged Abuse of Detained Immigrants Tucson, AZ – Allegations of human and civil rights abuses against immigrants detained in Arizona will be the focus of a Tucson community forum tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. A new two-year study from ACLU-Arizona finds that thousands of immig ...

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. Congress Turns Up The Heat On Genetically ...
    23 Members of Congress say “GE fish would not be in the public interest” NEWLY PUBLISHED STUDIES HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ESCAPED GE FISH Members of Congress turned up the heat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, sending strongly worded, bipartisan letters calling ...
  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Reading the Maps: New Zealand's slaving history
    Reading the Maps: New Zealand's slaving history: "Murray Deaker’s recent use of the phrase ‘working like a nigger’ on Sky Television won him many detractors and a few defenders. The Race Relations Conciliator and a slew of media commentators have damned Deaker for using the phrase; Michael Laws ...
  • Imprisonment of Leonard Peltier a “stain on US ...
    Imprisonment of Leonard Peltier a “stain on US human rights record” « Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle 05 November 2010 Today, the United States submitted to a review by the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), an assessment of a government’s c ...
  • 4 Republican congresspeople ‘pledge’ to hold W ...
    4 Republican congresspeople ‘pledge’ to hold West Bank: [mondoweiss.net] "According to a rightwing Israeli news site, settler lobbyist David Ha'Ivri met with four Republican congresspeople and got them to 'pledge' to support settlements in the West Bank (language is vague). The congresspeople in ...
  • Murdoch scandal: hypocritical warmongers expos ...
    Murdoch scandal: hypocritical warmongers exposed | Green Left Weekly: "By Tony Iltis Murdoch-owned tabloid gloating over the sinking of Argentine ship ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War in 1982. More than 300 lives were lost in the attack. The scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch and his ...
  • Dr. Fidel Castro: Lo que debe demandarse a Est ...
    Lo que debe demandarse a Estados Unidos | Cubadebate: "Costa Rica's meeting did not lead or could lead to peace. The people of Honduras are not at war, only use weapons coup against him. They should demand an end to its war against the people. Such a meeting between Zelaya and the coup would onl ...

Pensieve

  • Impeachment: an Overdue Constitutional Amendment
    Photo by codepinkhq After skimming over the Truth Commission’s report, I found that one of their recommendations is to introduce an impeachment mechanism to the Honduran Constitution. An impeachment mechanism would have been sufficient to achieve the goal the Congress and Supreme Court wanted in ...
  • Official Truth Comission Report now Available
    Photo by OEA – OAS The Honduran Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, (CVR in Spanish), created in the wake of the 2009 removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Presidency, has made its report available on its website. Apparently this is the full version, complete and underacted. As soon as I read ...
  • Protection or Truth?
    Photo by OEA – OAS An argument in favor of secrecy is that secrecy protects people. In places like Afghanistan, or Honduras, the government is powerless to protect those implicated in international intrigues or scandals. Informants and victims may be targeted for retaliation if they lead to nega ...
  • For Everyone Else…there’s Wikileaks
    What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo. The ingenious ad above highlights the plight of Wikileaks after the US Government either directly, or indirectly, pressured businesses like PayPal and MasterCard to block all their donations. The US and other secretive nations despi ...
  • Mountains of Santa Catarina
    I am working at a factory well outside of Monterrey, which is backed by some of the most amazing mountains I have ever seen. Devoid of trees because of lack of moisture, they show the tortured formations of the earth that thrust them up. Lit by a setting sun after a summer shower, they were [... ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News 04/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Priority to nature
    A road divided for a tree in New Zealand, what a funny and beautiful gesture to support environmental preservation (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html)! In a world where human activity and needs are becoming a priority, natural environment (glossary/categories/lifestyle/natural-envi ...
  • Take a breath
      Taking a breath in a green environment is so pleasant after a busy week! And look how beautiful this green Kiwi landscape is! But, what is the future of this natural beauty if we don't take care of it? So, environmental preservation (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html) and pro ...
  • Environmental News 01/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 30/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • More from the Salem Music Center: Q&A with the ...
    The Villages Group continues to work closely with Salem’s Music Center, leading to ever-expanding relationships between the Center and the music-education community in Israel. Below (in reverse chronological order) are descriptions of two visits from Tel Aviv to Salem that took place over the p ...
  • Israeli democracy makes form of protest illegal
    There’s a ton of resources on the Israeli anti-boycott law, thanks to the groups in American and Israel who have condemned it across the political spectrum. But I will post groups we have featured on website before. First, Boycott from Within, the Israeli group most targeted by the law issued a ...
  • Meanwhile in gender: Israel hosts men only eco ...
    While our attention is rightly on the new anti-boycott law , this development reminds us of the other inequalities in Israeli society. While not the keystone oppression like that of Palestinians, conditions for women seem to be worsening, as they often do in both situations of conquest and relig ...
  • Julia Chaitin: First They Came for the Boycotters
    Instead of blogiating myself about the wonderful new “Boycott the Boycott” Law the democratic geniuses in the Knesset have just cooked up, I am crossposting what Dr. Julia Chaitin just wrote on her blog. Julia (bio) is a lecturer in psychology at the Sapir College in Sderot. She specializes in ...
  • Greece does U.S. and Israel’s bidding, d ...
    By now you have probably heard that the U.S.Boat to Gaza, the “Audacity of Hope” made an attempt to set sail and was turned back by the Greek Coast Guard. Read Jewish Voice for Peace’s alert as it was happening here. Here is a roundup of Democracy Now! breaking coverage of the U.S. boat’s attemp ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Five states are worse off than California, app ...
    Maryland, South Carolina, New Mexico, Tennessee and Virginia may be downgraded by Moody’s due to their dependence on federal money, should the federal debt ceiling not be raised.
  • Steve Wynn has epic anti-Obama rant on confere ...
    Wynn, one of the biggest casino owners in Las Vegas, describes himself as a Democrat, a supporter of Harry Reid, and also rants about TSA making it hard for foreign visitors and immigrants to come to Vegas as well as about how Obama is stifling business. Transcript You watch television and see w ...
  • Murdoch gobsmacked that such horrid things went on
    Rupert Murdoch just told Parliament that he is not ultimately responsible for “this fiasco” and instead projected blame to the people he “trusted and the people they trusted”. They promise a speedy internal investigation to get to the bottom of this (but wait, aren’t they already at the bottom, ...
  • I just got one of the first Spotify accounts in US
    And have NO IDEA why. (They sent it to me!) Spotify is a music sharing service with social networking. Millions of songs available and it’s free. Go to Spotify and see if you qualify
  • Latest on phone hacking and Murdoch
    Rumors are that Rupert Murdock may be replaced at News Corp CEO. Maybe. But will he go gently? And if he’s still Chairman of the Baord and his CEO replacement is a long-time aide, then what has changed? Not much that I can see. Interestingly, Rupert Murdoch has been doing rather badly during tes ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

  • President Pill Popper? Stress-related conditio ...
    “Sometimes it is said that a men cannot be trusted with the government of himself (or herself). Can he then be trusted with the Government of Others?” - Thomas Jefferson Daily Caller In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmannâs then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planne ...
  • 5 Health BENEFITS of Smoking
    Live Science Who says smoking cigarettes is so bad … well, aside from the World Health Organization, Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and every medical board and association on the face of the Earth? But should smokers be fortunate enough to dodge all ...
  • ATF chief: Response to gun-tracking inquiry a ...
    � CAPTION By Alex Brandon, AP By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Updated at 6:05 p.m. ET The acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the Justice Department has been withholding key information from congressional officials and that the department sought to protect ...
  • Stop It! – An Open Letter to Speaker Joh ...
    Posted on July 19, 2011 by Lew Rockwell Dear Mr. Speaker, When the Founders at the Constitution Conventional in 1787 created the House of Representatives, it was fashioned to act as the voice of the people within the institutional checks and balances of the Federal Government. That’s why the ent ...
  • Dangerous Levels Of Radiation Recorded In Cana ...
    � � � The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas July 19, 2011 Multiple videos have been released showing high levels of radiation in Canada as the corporate media continues to cover up the real dangers posed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The tests were taken in multiple places in Canada including Lake L ...

The Air Vent

  • Introduction to RghcnV3 – Steve Mosher
    Steve has put together a high quality series of algorithms for combining surface station data in R.  He has combined methods from a wide variety of sources with the following example incorporating ideas from my favorite blog by Tamino.  This is the kind of science I like, open source, nothing hi ...
  • Subsampled Confidence Intervals – Zeke
    Sub-sampling is hard to argue with.  Zeke has done a post on global temperatures at the Blackboard taking 500 stations at a time and looking at the extremes of averages.   It presented a set of very tight error bars based on weather variance, sampling errors, and any other random events which af ...
  • Chugging Along
    Steve Mosher has continued his work on GHCN station global temperature reconstruction package in R.  The most recent version is documented in his blog here.  He has developed an elegant set of commands for computing global temperatures in R and is working on release of an R library package for t ...
  • Decisions we don’t need your help with
    One of the several ignorant things that president Bush did was sign a law banning incandescent lights. Yes it came from a liberal House and Senate but he did sign it. It looks like the House will send a repeal of it up for vote shortly but it won’t likely get past our anti-economic growth presi ...
  • Uncertainty in Air Temperatures
    Pat Frank has a new article recently published in E&E on the statistical uncertainty of surface temperatures.  He has requested an open venue for discussion of his work here.  This is an opportunity for readers to critically asses the methods and understand whether the argument/conclusion is s ...

Focal Point

  • Jose Antonio Vargas wins Sidney Award for Acco ...
    One of the best parts of my job at the Sidney Hillman Foundation is working on the monthly Sidney Awards for excellence in journalism. I was very excited to learn that our judges had selected Jose Antonio Vargas for his New York Times Magazine piece, "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," in ...
  • Frank Bruni Comes Out as Poseur, Explains Enti ...
    When Frank Bruni was hired as an op/ed columnist for the New York Times, I doubted that he was qualified. His latest column puts those doubts to rest. Bruni is totally unqualified. The piece reads like a livejournal rant. In a nutshell: Bruni's glad there won't be any more Harry Potter movies ...
  • Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Wo ...
    In a recent vlog, Skepchick Rebecca Watson had some friendly advice for male skeptics seeking to make women feel comfortable and welcome at skeptical gatherings. She mentioned, offhandedly, that during a recent conference in Dublin, a guy followed her into the elevator at 4:00am and invited her ...
  • Lindsay Beyerstein Joins Sidney Hillman Founda ...
    This week, I joined the Sidney Hillman Foundation as the lead blogger for the Hillman Blog. The Hillman Foundation was founded to honor Sidney Hillman the late founder and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. The foundation's mission is to promote excellence in journalism. The ...
  • DSCC Hits Up Koch Industries for Cash, As Usua ...
    An official with the arch conservative Koch Industries delivered a stinging rebuke to Sen. Patty Murray of the DSCC for attempting to solicit a contribution: For many months now, your colleagues in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leadership have engaged in a series of disparag ...

Inside Facebook

  • Bringing Video Ads to Games: Supersonic Raises ...
    Israeli social game monetization platform and Facebook approved offer partner SupersonicAds today announced that is has raised a $4.2 million first institutional round of funding led by Greylock Israel. The money will go towards building a sales team so it can solicit more European and Middle Ea ...
  • Vitrue Acquires GamesThatGive So Clients Can E ...
    Page management company Vitrue has acquired GamesThatGive, a developer that allows brands to offer games to their fans in which engagement triggers donations to charity by the hosting brand. The acquisition will allow Vitrue to provide its clients with GamesThatGive games, helping them generate ...
  • Report: Facebook Advertising by Brands For The ...
    Facebook Ads API tool and managed-spend service provider TBG Digital has released its Global Facebook Advertising Report for 2011 Q2 (.PDF). The report indicates that the number of Facebook ad impressions brands bought to gain fans for their Facebook Pages increased 104% in Q2, and 1900% year ov ...
  • New Zynga S-1 Docs: Traffic Guarantees From Fa ...
    A recent set of updates to Zynga’s S-1 document sheds new light about the company’s business position, as it prepares for an initial public offering. For starters, Google has indeed invested, although the terms were not disclosed. More interesting is the special relationship that Facebook and Z ...
  • New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Vitrue, ...
    A few non-gaming companies active on the Facebook platform  brought on engineers and sales staff this week, but there seems to be a lull in summer hiring in general among them. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Murdoch is not the only maggot in the rotten apple
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the rot in the British body politic goes much deeper than those whose reputations have been tarnished through complicity with Rupert Murdoch's empire, and that the British people must mobilize to reclaim their institutions that have been hijacked by Israel's stooges ...
  • Method in Netanyahu's madness: Israel rules ou ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that by outlawing non-violent protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the siege of Gaza and leaving only violence as a mode of resistance, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his supporters believe that they can "safeguard the legitima ...
  • Americans: facing the world and facing ourselves
    Lawrence Davidson explains why most Americans "neither see themselves as others see them nor look honestly into their own faces", and in consequence, "are led to collectively act in self-destructive ways".
  • Herem law in the context of Jewish past and pr ...
    Gilad Atzmon looks into the traditional Jewish herem culture underlying the law recently passed by the Israeli parliament criminalizing calls for the boycott of Israel or the illegal Jewish settlements.
  • US Congress loves being lied to about the Isra ...
    Stuart Littlewood reminds Israel's stooges and other ignoramuses in the US Congress of a few basic facts about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - the sheer injustice suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of Israel and its US supporter - and concludes: "There is only one thing worse than bein ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    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.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    How Israel Offered to Sell South Africa Nuclear Weapons, DOJ Lawyers Contradict FBI Findings in Anthrax Case, USS Cole Bombing Case “Too Tainted” for Death-Penalty Trial, Predator Drones & the International Mafia, Austerity for Everyone, Except the DOD & More! Newsworthy US Rebuffs Russians Inge ...
  • Part IV. POGO: Mastering the Art of Lap-Dancin ...
    Follow the Money …Even when it comes to NGO Mini Lap-Dogs  We began our series with a snapshot of Mega Corporate Foundations extending their tentacles to organizations and entities involved in government watchdog practices and grassroots activism. We summarized the classic story of the transform ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Israel-Made Weapons in Karachi, The Criminalization of the British Media, Former Senator: 9/11 âMajor Cover Upâ, Has America Become a Nation of Psychotics?, Do Banksters Run American Foreign Policy? & More Newsworthy Arrest of Ex-CIA Lawyer Sought Over Drone Use Crackdown, Intimidation & Torture ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Freedom of Speech in the age of Wikileaks, Pepe Escobar: Why US Wonât Leave Afghanistan, The Story Behind Permanent War, CIA Lies: TWA, Shadow Government in Yemen, Expansion of Drone Wars, Bipolar Federal Courts & More! Newsworthy Democracy in Steep Decline around the World Pepe Escobar: Why US ...
  • Happy Birthday to My Girl; My Sunshine
    Wishing you a long happy life with love & liberty

Afro Spear

  • Niggazz are Wannaa-bee Gangstazz
    Football is a violent sport. No doubt it plays into the gladiator blood sport mythos of days gone by. It’s also BIG business. I’ve heard that the current labour dispute between the owners and players is at the root, really about how to divvy up $9 billion is yearly revenue… basically the owner ...
  • “Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for Pre ...
    Click on image for article
  • the Lupe Fiasco fiasco
    “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policie ...
  • A Sunday Sermon
  • sat’day riddymz
    WOW!! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 2 years ago today already that MJ died. I for one have come to appreciate his music more and more.

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • Eleven lessons from Nelson Mandela
    By: DavidCrane Yesterday we celebrated living legend Nelson Mandela’s birthday. Looking back on his 93 years, there are 11 lessons (from many) that I would like to share from his legacy which would help us make a small but positive mark in our society. Here the ...
  • LifeLines: A global community for good
    By: opheliar You know how there is that little something in the back of your mind that keeps gnawing away at you? That "little something" can be negative, positive, or neutral, but it is always there. Years ago a small thought germinated in my mind. At first it ...
  • The peace of radiant health
    By: PeaceCorso How do you explain a miracle? The short answer is: you don’t. As you know, if you read these pages, I went to São Paulo, Brazil a month ago to have metabolic surgery to cure Type 2 Diabetes. It worked. I no longer have it. A bona fide m ...
  • Trekking to bring literacy to women in the Nep ...
    By: BrigitteMuir After you've climbed the world's highest mountains, including the mother of them all - Mount Everest - what on Earth is there left to do? If you’re Brigitte Muir, OAM, the first Australian to climb the highest peak on every continent - an ...
  • Turn conflict into connection and collaboration
    By: JohnKinyon In my last post I described the language and skills that give us power to return to presence and centeredness when we are in conflict; we can turn conflict into understanding and connection within ourselves and with others. From a place connectio ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Smog Lawsuit Spurs Self Reflection for the LA ...
    Adrian Martinez, Project Attorney, Southern California Air Team, Santa Monica Today, the LA Times reported on a lawsuit filed by health, environmental and environmental justice groups filed yesterday in the Los Angeles region.  Later in the day, L ...
  • Weirdness on the Web: Odd Little Online Piece ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. As NRDC’s federal transportation director, I spend my days urging lawmakers and others in Washington to help move us away from Big Oil and all the problems (spills, tax breaks, ...
  • NRDC in the News 7/19: Whitebark pine, smog, c ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Louisa Willcox spoke with the Associated Press about the federal government’s decision to forego endangered species protections for the ailing whitebark pine due to a lack of funding; Louisa was al ...
  • Most Anti-Environment House of Representatives ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Tea Party leaders in the House have dramatically stepped up their assault on America’s environmental and public health safeguards. Last week alone they used about 50 floor votes and more than 30 p ...
  • Record Bay-Delta Water Exports = 80% of Maximu ...
    Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco 2011 has been an amazing year for California’s water supply.  California’s upstream reservoirs are still nearly full in mid-July, and the San Luis Reservoir south of the Delta is sto ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Random blogginess
    (1) With the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in coming up, I’m struck by how durable the practice of making a portmanteau word out of any scandal and “gate” has been. I guess it makes sense in that it makes it easy to come up with a shorthand term, instead of figuring out whether we’re [...]
  • Lenny Dykstra, Financial Genius
    Like most of you, I am absolutely shocked that Lenny Dykstra would prove to be a complete fraud. Not fresh news here I know, but it actually is amazing that so many athletes would turn to Dykstra for investment advice. I mean, what could possibly have gone wrong. Of course, this fluff piece by B ...
  • Gay Rights: The Single Thing in this Country G ...
    Obama endorses repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. Good for him. Let’s see if it happens. It will soon, if not in 2011. Also, it’d be nice if Democrats realized that the strategies behind the gay rights movement–pushing for a program with refusal to compromise long-term goals, grassroots orga ...
  • THE DEADLINE PASSES
    Who could have known that Michael Oren wasn’t an entirely reliable source regarding Israel’s military plans?  After all, he totally predicted that Israel would strike Iran within eighteen months of January 2007.  That must mean that he’s really, really well connected. The only other explanati ...
  • The Impact of Hackgate on the Viability of the ...
    The headline that ran yesterday for this article implied that the writing was on the wall for the Cameron government.  I thought then that this was overstated, and indeed this morning the headline has changed to the more muted “Opponents Seize on Cameronâs Ties to Suspects”. Fresh polling evi ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
    There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.
  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.
  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • LAW FIRM BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: Eyes on the bo ...
    Middle-market law firms can take advantage of several low-priced business-intelligence resources.
  • The art of the impasse
    As our political leaders fall short in resolving the disputes relating to raising the debt ceiling, changing the negotiating process to one favored by mediators might be the best next step.
  • Washington in St. Louis Law teams up with Aust ...
    Washington University in St. Louis School of Law is partnering with the University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law in Brisbane, Australia, to launch a new, four-year joint juris doctor and master of laws program.
  • Microsoft's Brad Smith meets with 50 law stude ...
    Brad Smith, chairman of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity's Pipeline Committee, speaks to NLJ about the many challenges to diversity in the legal profession and the council's plans to improve diversity.
  • In a first, Senate confirms judge who is openl ...
    The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Monday to confirm J. Paul Oetken as a district court judge, making him the first openly gay man appointed to the federal bench.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • A Substitute for Tears…
    Two fellows that have had profound effects on the music in my life have each written songs about the gas drilling and want to preserve the beauty and purity of places they have come to know and love in Pennsylvania. Check out Van Wagner’s tune here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trxrh_FmPeI&fea ...
  • Marcellus Shale on This American Life
    If you missed this program, it is well worth listening to. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/440/game-changer
  • Drilling Strains 911 Resposes at Tioga Court House
    Being that I now live in south central PA, I listen to the WITF radio station on my way to work and back. They have been doing bits and pieces here and there about the Marcellus drilling and this month they have introduced a program called “State Impact Pennsylvania”.  So far this program seems ...
  • Water Dog Training in July
    I wanted to let everyone know they are planning another basic waterdog training on July 14th from 7-9 at the Tokishi Building in Wellsboro.  Please pass this on to others that may be interested.  There is also going to be another Advanced Training in August. (I will pass on more information as I ...
  • Forced Pooling: When Landowners Can’t Say No t ...
    by Marie C. Baca, Special to ProPublica May 19, 2011 As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, without the landowners’ permission. Forced poo ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • The World at 7 Billion: Can We Stop Growing Now?
    With global population expected to surpass 7 billion people this year, the staggering impact on an overtaxed planet is becoming more and more evident. A two-pronged response is imperative: empower women to make their own decisions on childbearing and rein in our excessive consumption of resource ...
  • Forests Absorb One-Third of Fossil Fuel Emissi ...
    Forests play an even greater role in Earth’s climate system than previously known, according to the most comprehensive assessment yet of the carbon storage potential of the world’s wooded areas. Between 1990 Wikimedia Commons and 2007, the planet’s tropical, temperate, and boreal forests absor ...
  • Loss of Large Predators Has Sweeping Impact on ...
    The loss of top predators in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments has had a major impact on ecosystems worldwide, leading to changes in vegetation, more wildfires, a decline in water quality, and an increase in infectious diseases and invasive species, according to a study publish ...
  • Population of Snow Leopards Discovered in Afgh ...
    Researchers say they have discovered a population of endangered snow leopards in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, a promising development for View photos WCSSnow leopard photographed by a camera trap a species whose numbers have plummeted in recent decades. Using camera traps ...
  • Key CO2 Capture Project Is Suspended by Major ...
    The U.S.’s most ambitious project to capture and sequester carbon from a coal-fired power plant has been shelved by a large utility company, which says that the lack of climate legislation and support from state governments has rendered the $668 million project financially untenable. American El ...

Red Ice Creations

  • "Gender-Neutral" Pre-School in Sweden Accused ...
    Staff at Swedish kindergarten told not to refer to children as 'him' or 'her' to avoid stereotyping. At the Egalia pre-school, staff avoid using words such as "him" or "her" and address the 33 youngsters as "friends" rather than girls and boys. From the colour and placement of toys to the choice ...
  • David Halpin - Israel Call the Shots, Aided by ...
    British anti-war activist Dr. David Halpin says he hopes that British, American and Israeli politicians responsible for war crimes will be held accountable in his lifetime. “For the destruction of Iraq and half a million people and maiming of more than two million people, Blair and Straw and Hoo ...
  • Germany comes to NATO party in Libya
    Germany has agreed to supply munitions for the NATO air-strikes in Libya. The move comes despite Berlin not originally backing the operation, and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in its position. After just over 100 days of air strikes and with just over 2,000 bombs dropped by NAT ...
  • From the Classroom with Bush on the Morning of ...
    This is George W Bush on the morning of 9/11 just SECONDS before getting "the news". Why the f**k! are the kids reading these words? Who wrote this? Who told the teacher what words to use? Did the kids pick 'em? Did the White House staff? As the kids in the classroom read: Kite hit steel plane m ...
  • Sell, sell, sell: everything must go in great ...
    Europe's most indebted countries – and Britain – have put prized assets up for grabs to bolster their creditworthiness. So what exactly is on offer? Britain's decommissioned HMS Ark Royal, Madrid's Barajas airport, Ireland's National Stud and the air traffic control services of several countries ...

Russia Today

Not My Tribe

  • Rupert Murdoch mistaken for Mr. Burns and pied ...
    “It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat“     –tweeted by activist/comedian Johnnie Marbles, immediately before pieing News Corp godfather Rupert Murdoch at UK Parliamentary hearing. Murdoch’s wife Wendi Deng reached over bodyguard to strike Mr. Marbles, and cu ...
  • Obama discards consumer advocate Elizabeth War ...
    Who can be surprised really that President Obama will take no measure against the rule of the bankers, not even the appointment of public favorite Elizabeth Warren to head the consumer agency for whose creation she lobbied to address increasingly usurious creditors?
  • Dignite Al Karama nears Gaza waters, reconnoit ...
    Sole remaining vessel of the “Say Human” Freedom Flotilla II, Dignite Al Karama, is expected to approach Gazan waters Monday July 18. The French leisure craft left yesterday without unanimous approval of flotilla steering committee, but carries passengers from multiple international delegations. ...
  • Destitute Detra Farries tried to prevent her v ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS– Uh oh, news at six. I chanced upon District 17, room S380 today where Detra Farries is accused of dragging a tow-truck driver to his death earlier this year. The mother of eight was trying to prevent her vehicle, filled with all the family’s belongings, from being towed from an ...
  • Crimes of News of the World belong to Rupert M ...
    The issue of Rupert Murdoch’s lawless news empire isn’t about phone hacking to break news, it’s about surveillance used for the same purposes as intelligence agencies, to control political climates, to effect outcomes based on what you have on the players. Does the FBI have to find evidence of m ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Politicians Really Are Puppets
    Here British Labour leader Ed Miliband gives pretty much exactly the same scripted response to five successive questions with the same vocal inflections and everything. It's as if he's some kind of robot! Presenting Ed Milibot: The interviewer's thoughts: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bfensm
  • Unnecessary Freefall Revisit #2038046179007145309
    Thanks to 'Charlie Gate', many truthers, particularly in the UK, have been brushing up on their 9/11 knowledge, and there has been fierce debate on YouTube about things like the freefall of WTC7. The apologists for NIST have been claiming that WTC7's 2.25 seconds of free fall can be explained ...
  • Chris Mohr's "respectful rebuttal" smells like ...
    Chris Mohr is uploading 'respectful rebuttal' videos of Gage's presentations. I've just quickly looked at this one ... I may watch the others later. Some thoughts... One minute in Mohr states that Gage does not acknowledge the differences in construction between the twin towers and the other ...
  • Charlie Veitch Parroting Outdated Official Cla ...
    In recent interviews justifying his sudden U-Turn on 9/11, Charlie Veitch has made some incorrect claims about WTC7. He says he spoke to an expert who told him that 25% of WTC7 was scooped out. This is an old claim that even NIST have abandoned. The claim was made in Appendix L to their 2004 pr ...
  • Another Balzac Vitry Verinage
    This is another Verinage demolition of an apartment building in the same area (Balzac Vitry-Sur-Seine) as the other one. This demolition was in June of last year. And here's a speed time plot... Can't get much clearer than that really!

Fooducate

  • Organic Water. Really?
    Marketers never cease to amaze us. It’s really hard to stand out and invent new foods or beverages. So a lot of creativity falls on the shoulders of young MBA brand managers and entrepreneurs. Many times, the marketing story is simply an innovative spin on existing ingredients, repackaged with a ...
  • Cheesy Poofs: From Southpark to Wal-Mart
    We talk a lot about fake food being sold to consumers. But today’s post is about a fake fake food that has been brought to life as a real fake food. It’s hard to believe, but Southpark is celebrating its 15th season. While our favorite character (guess who) has been gone for many seasons, the [...]
  • Fooducate for Android (v 1.0) is Available
    A month after our beta release of the Fooducate Android App and we are happy to announce version 1.0 is live on the Market. New in this version: Textual Search – Many of you have asked for this feature . You can now search for products by name or keyword. Just type in a name [...]
  • Well Done Massachusetts! New Regulations for H ...
    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the first to enact nutrition guidelines for “competitive foods” in schools on a statewide level. Kudos! “Competitive foods” are NOT the federally subsidized foods served during  breakfast or lunch. Rather they are items sold in vending machines, a la carte i ...
  • How Much Water do We Really Need to Drink Each ...
    Interesting piece from ABC news debunking the so called 8 glasses of water a day myth. According to recent research – there is no medical proof our bodies need that much water. Our take, as long as plain water is your hydration choice for the 5,8, or 15 glasses a day, you’re doing good. Get [...]

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • Further blows to Vedanta's notorious Niyamgiri ...
    Vedanta's aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh, Odisha, seen from the Niyamgiri Hills © Survival In rapid succession, Vedanta has had the Environment Clearance for its Niyamgiri mine cancelled and lost an appeal to expand the neighbouring alumina refinery. In virtually his last act in office, ...
  • Peru’s ‘final attempt’ to stamp out uncontacte ...
    Raya, a Nahua elder. More than half his people were wiped out after their land was opened up for oil exploration. © Johan Wildhagen/Survival Peru’s Indian Affairs Department has revealed plans to open up uncontacted tribes’ reserves to oil companies – just days before the country’s new gove ...
  • Brazilian Indians receive death threats
    Almir Surui, Surui indigenous spokesman © Marc Cowan/Survival Indians of the Surui tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, who are campaigning for their land to be protected, have received death threats from loggers. Almir Surui is one of the Surui affected. He has been told, ‘We know who is agains ...
  • Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath
    A Penan man in the Borneo rainforest. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest. Survival revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and ...
  • Santander Bank admits dam funding to continue
    The Santo Antonio dam threatens to devastate the forest home of numerous tribal peoples © João Zinclar Europe’s largest bank, Santander, has admitted that its controversial financing of the notorious Santo Antonio dam in the Brazilian Amazon is set to continue, despite earlier saying that i ...

Greg Palast

  • Harry Potter: Jo’s Other Ending
    By Jo (J.K.) Rowling as told to Greg Palast and the Palast twins [18 July 2011] Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins ...
  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...
  • ZD Roberts Has Something to Say
    I just wanted to send a thanks to all those who have donated to the Gil Palast Memorial fund over the past couple of months. I know Gil would have been happy to see that so many people still believe in the power of journalism. Back in 2008 I got to meet Greg's Dad — he [...]
  • Ce soir ! Achtung! BP en eaux troubles + Die B ...
    Tonight! 28 June. On ARTE, in French and German — in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and (check listing for French Canada) … BP: In Deep Water — The first of Greg Palast’s investigative reports on BP, the Bribery & Pollution company masquerading as an oil company. La M ...
  • Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
    by Greg Palast for The Guardian Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years. On Wednesday, the New York Times r ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle Leylandii/conifer b ...
    We’ve had an email from Jennifer (sorry it’s taken a few weeks to feature it, Jennifer!): We hacked down a couple of huge nasty Leylandii conifer trees from our garden this weekend and don’t know what to do with the wood and branches. It’s far too much for our own compost bin, fear for the [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle Stax potato chip cans?
    Tammy Gary has asked: Would love ideas to reuse the Stax potato chip cans. We don’t have Stax over here in the UK but my friend Google tells me they’re like Pringles, but packed in a plastic tube instead of waxed cardboard. Some of the Pringles ideas will still apply: they’re great for storing k ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a LOT of pinback bu ...
    (Ooops, sorry for the absence – I was busy then ill because I’d been busy and also ill because I ate some tasted-fine-but-actually-bad out of date sausages. Yes.) Right then, Nicole has been in touch asking about “pinback buttons”: I have thousands of pinback buttons from a failed work campaign. ...
  • How can I make sure a spray bottle is really c ...
    We’ve had lots of suggestions over the years on how to reuse spray bottles from commercial cleaning products and the like but Nancy has just emailed a related question: First I want to comment that this is a fantastic website! Everyone in the world should be accessing it. My question is this: I’ ...
  • How can I reuse/recycle foil bag linings to ma ...
    We’ve had an email from long-time commenter Melinda: I’ve recently been struck with the foil linings of snack bags, and even dog food bags. Has anyone used these to create something solar, such as a cooker? What items have been put to solar use and how? Making a solar cooker is on my to-do list ...

Age of Autism

  • SmartVax: Creating an Individualized Vaccine S ...
    By Scott Laster, SafeMinds SafeMinds has launched a new website, SmartVax, to change the discourse on vaccines in a manner that will create a positive environment where consumers are empowered and scientists are encouraged to pursue the necessary research on...
  • Kerry, Brown, Lynch Announce Fire Grant for Ma ...
    KERRY, BROWN, LYNCH ANNOUNCE FIRE GRANT FOR SOUTH NORFOLK COUNTY ARC Senators John F. Kerry and Scott Brown and Representative Stephen F. Lynch announced that the South Norfolk County Arc (SNCARC) has been awarded a Fire Prevention and Safety Grant...
  • IACC Autism Meeting Tuesday 7/19
    Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Full Committee Meeting Reminder: Please join us for an IACC Full Committee meeting that will take place on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET in Bethesda, MD. Onsite registration will...
  • Autism, Acceptance and Accountability for An E ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Most of us are not willing to gamble that complete accommodation and acceptance are realistically possible, let alone enough for our kids, which is why we work so hard for them. By Anne Dachel July 12, 2011,...
  • Researcher Asks: Are 36 Doses of Vaccine by 2 ...
    Managing Editor's note: This is fromThe Baltimore Sun, We don't know enough about childhood vaccines Researcher asks: Are 36 doses of vaccine by age 2 too much, too little, or just right? Feel free to click into the article and...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

  • GM Crops Farmer to Farmer – The Truth about GM ...
  • The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust Pt 3
    there is good evidence that the holocaust in the Gulf is just beginning and is now moving up the food chain and has already made its way into your local supermarket. And if you think you can dodge the obvious danger by merely avoiding the Gulf seafood, think again, as this catastrophe is permeat ...
  • GMO Deregulation: An Act of War
    The fiction of GMO oversight created by the USDA to deceive the public was designed to disintegrate over time so that GMOs could be completely deregulated.
  • Alternative Markets, Barter Systems, and Local ...
    We can sit around on our asses and complain about the terrible state of the world, or we can take it upon ourselves to clean up the mess. That’s all there is. If you are afraid to take action, then I suggest you consider what will happen if you don’t. I see far more danger in complacency and fea ...
  • Truth Squad Radio: GMO Deregulation and Agenda 21
    Scotts' GE Kentucky Bluegrass will not be regulated as either a plant pest or noxious weed, and these are the ONLY two ways that GMOs can be regulated by the USDA. Join us as we discuss this issue of the year!

Open Your Eyes News

  • Murdochs Say Top Executives Didn’t Know of Pho ...
    The New York Times – In a grueling afternoon of testimony before lawmakers, Rupert Murdoch and some of the most senior figures in his familyâs media empire apologized profusely on Tuesday for the phone hacking scandal that has convulsed British public life, even as they insisted they had not ord ...
  • FBI raids Anonymous hacking group
    The Telegraph – Several addresses in New York were searched for computers and computer-related accessories suspected of being used by members of the grass-roots organisation. At least one laptop was removed from one home, but no arrests were made. FBI spokesman Jim Margolin says agents searched ...
  • Taming inflation needs audacity
    LiveMint (India)- The economy is slowing on many fronts. Industrial production, car sales, Purchasing Managers’ Index—all point to activity moderating. On cue, there has been a lot of hand wringing over this. But a slowing economy is not necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, the real risk is the econ ...
  • Scientists sequence potato DNA
    Deutsche Welle – The potato is the world’s second largest staple crop, behind rice. Researchers from around the globe are working on sequencing various food products so that they can be bred or engineered to be more nutritious in the future, or can grow better in suboptimal climates. Deutsche We ...
  • Thousands on secret UK council blacklists: Per ...
    DailyMail – Thousands of people involved in disagreements with council staff have had their personal details stored on secret blacklists. Bureaucrats have listed the details of members of the public who have been involved in rows with teachers or dustmen over seemingly trivial matters. Scores of ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • 3,500 marijuana plants found in Santa Monica M ...
    Workers are cleaning up nearly 10 acres of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area after 3,500 marijuana plants were found last month, according to park officals. The pot patch, the 14th discovered on National Park Service land in the...
  • Fracking: Monterey shale exploration draws protest
    Environmental groups filed a formal protest this week with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management calling for a halt to the leasing of 2,600-acres in California's Fresno and Monterey counties for oil and gas shale exploration. They said future drilling...
  • Triclosan: Is Bath & Body Works' new soap harm ...
    Health and environmental groups have mounted a campaign against Bath & Body Works, urging the retailer to stop selling its line of “Summertime Scent” soaps that contain triclosan, a chemical categorized as a pesticide. Scientific studies have linked triclosan to...
  • Whitebark pine in peril
    Whitebark pine can live for hundreds of years in the West's harsh alpine environments, but it may not survive disease, bugs and climate change. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that the tree was in such widespread decline...
  • L.A. smog: Public health groups file suit agai ...
    Environmental and public health groups filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday in an effort to spur a crackdown on smog in the Los Angeles region. Under the federal Clean Air Act, Congress established a one-hour standard...

water.org

  • Gary White talks water on MSNBC
    World faces a water crisis (MSNBC) – Gary White interviewed by Martin Bashir June 30, 2011 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Leadership wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company)
    Leadership Wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company) 30 second MBA video series: Part 1 – Gary White – Executive Director and Cofounder, Water.org Part 2 – Matt Damon – Cofounder, Water.org
  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Spencer Critchley: Behind Michele Bachmann's T ...
    And they highlight what I think is one of the main forces driving Bachmann and the right wing on their flight into irrationality: the fear of complexity.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Murdochs PR Efforts Sunk
    Rupert Murdoch�s belated efforts to contain the ballooning scandal with housecleaning, apologies, and new advisers are being drowned out by fresh crises, from the arrest of protégée Rebekah Brooks to the resignation of Britain�s top cop. Submitted by Kit B. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Greenpeace Report Reveals Congress Members Who ...
    Greenpeace has released a new report naming the 15 members of Congress who the organization believes have undermined their voters' health by supporting pollutants that come predominantly from coal-fired power plants. Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Can US Hold Corporations Accountable Anymore?
    In the UK the News-Of-The-World/News Corp/Murdoch scandal seems to be reawakening democracy. A big, powerful corporation has been found to be engaged in criminal activity, manipulating news, paying off police and politicians, and generally getting its-->Submitted by Kit B. to Business �|� �Note ...
  • Moodys Wants End to Debt Ceiling
    Moody�s Investor Service suggested on Monday that the U.S. does away completely with the debt ceiling. Submitted by Kit B. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Ex-Im Bank to Provide $25 Million to Support U ...
    The Export-Import Bank of the United States announced that it will provide loans to support the export of thin-film solar photovoltaic modules from both First Solar read more
  • U.S. BLM Approves Four Projects Use of Public ...
    The United States Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management approved four new projects to run transmission lines through public land to transport electricity from large-scale renewable energy projects to the power grid. re ...
  • Solar Gen 2 to Supply California with Green Energy
    Solar Gen 2 LLC, a Greenwich, Conn.-based privately-held solar development firm focused on North American projects, on Monday announced the signing of a 25-year, 150-megawatt power purchase agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric Co ...
  • United States: Companies Making Solar Power Ac ...
    For years one of the biggest deterrents for consumers and power companies to implement solar generating systems has been cost. Coupled with lack of information or streamlined infrastructure, for many, the hassle and money have outwe ...
  • San Diego Gas and Electric Adds More Renewable ...
    San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a Sempra�Energy (NYSE:�SRE) subsidiary, recently announced that it has signed two power read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Zoo's elephant reserve gains three female ...
    FAIRHOPE, Pa. -- Three female African elephants are the newest additions to the Pittsburgh Zoo's elephant program, making it one of the largest in the nation. Thandi, Seeni and Sukiri are all 18 to 20 years old, and they traveled from Botswana to their...
  • Guinea president survives rocket attack
    GUINEA'S newly installed president has survived a rocket attack on his residence that left one dead and led to the arrest of the coup-prone country's former army chief. A group of rogue soldiers opened fire on Alpha Conde's residence overnight, sparking a two-hour gun battle that rattled th ...
  • US housing data helps crude oil prices hi ...
    Crude oil prices were higher Tuesday on new data showing US housing starts up in June, raising hopes that the economy is on the way to recovery, which could help oil demand. August contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude were up...
  • More Chrysler Workers Suspended For Drink ...
    For the second time in less than a year, workers on Chrysler manufacturing lines have been caught on camera — and subsequently suspended for — drinking (and possibly smoking a controlled substance) during...
  • Teacher necessities for a prepared classr ...
    For many new teachers, stocking a classroom with necessary materials can be a daunting task.� For some veteran teachers, remembering what needs to be restocked or purchased for the next year can also be a frustrating chain of events.� Below is a suggested list of items that teachers should ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • In Pakistan 'U.S. Military Aid Came With Spies ...
    KARACHI - Defense analysts in Pakistan believe that foregoing 800 million US dollars worth of aid may be a fair bargain for ridding this country of over a hundred ‘military trainers’ who were suspected of being spies. Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that his military can ...
  • Anonymous Members Raided by FBI; Hacker Group ...
    A day after the online sect LulzSecurity pulled their own hack on Rupert Murdoch, members of the most the widely-known hacking collective Anonymous, from which LulzSec spun off, have been raided by the FBI. read more
  • Former News Int'l Chief Exec Rebekah Brooks Ge ...
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  • Minn. Special Session Called to Help End Shutdown
    ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton called a special legislative session on Tuesday for a vote on a budget deal that would end the state's nearly three-week government shutdown. The governor scheduled the session to start at 3 p.m., reflecting the urgency felt to end an impasse that dis ...
  • Banks Still Robo-Signing, Filing Doubtful Fore ...
    NEW YORK/IMMOKALEE, Florida - America's leading mortgage lenders vowed in March to end the dubious foreclosure practices that caused a bruising scandal last year. But a Reuters investigation finds that many are still taking the same shortcuts they promised to shun, from sketchy paperwork to the ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Energy Implications of a Federal Debt Default
    Much of the attention concerning a possible failure to increase the US debt ceiling by month-end has focused on the government's ability to borrow, and on how individuals might be affected, whether as recipients of social security, pay or pensions from various branches of the federal government, ...
  • Meat: Bad For You, Bad For The Climate
    �Of all the things that an individual can do to help slow the process of climate change�change lightbulbs, turn down the AC, ride a bike�few if any have as much impact as eating less meat.
  • I Just Got Taken for a (Quiet) Ride!
    If someone says, “electric car” to you, what image pops into your head? For most folks I have spoken to, images like the tiny Smart Car or a two-door roadster usually come to mind first. But yesterday at the first day of Plug In 2011 that image changed in my mind when I saw first-hand that the e ...
  • Is an "Oil Shockwave" America's Biggest Energy ...
    War games have long been used to prepare the military for battle, but what about the national threat of a global energy crisis? According to an advocacy group called Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE), Middle East turmoil, a shaky national economy, and heavy dependence on foreign oil have c ...
  • Heat, Public Health, And Air Conditioning
    In the face of spreading heat waves, more and more people will need air conditioning, not as a matter of comfort, but for health related reasons. Efficiency will not supply the electricity for an air conditioned world.

Green House - USA Today

  • Green House takes brief hiatus
    This Green House community will take a hiatus until August, because its moderator, Wendy Koch, is on medical leave. Please check back in a few weeks for environmental news and updates on her journey in green living.
  • My green house is finally, almost, done
    "It's surreal," my husband Alex said about living in our new home a few days after moving in last month. Indeed, it is. We've nurtured the project so long on paper that actually being inside it felt odd or dream-like.
  • U.S. national parks suffer from climate change ...
    America's national parks are suffering as wildlife such as gray wolves disappears, air quality deteriorates and many waterways are polluted, an upcoming report will reveal.
  • Fastest sea-level rise in 2,100 years linked t ...
    The sea-level is now rising faster along the U.S. Atlantic coast than at any time in the past 2,100 years, and this surge is linked to increasing global temperatures, an international research team reports.
  • Supreme Court backs EPA over states on climate ...
    The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Monday a lawsuit by six states that were suing five major power companies for emitting greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Massachusetts considers allowing unvaccinated ...
    By Rady Ananda In January, Representative John D. Keenan of Salem, Massachusetts introduced a bill to allow students not immunized to be admitted to schools upon the written request of a parent. On June 28, a public hearing was held where proponents of the measure argued about the health ris ...
  • "The Arts Of Life They Changed Into The Arts O ...
    by Phil Rockstroh As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind's imminent reckoning with wrathful divinity, while liberals have been sharing scary bedtime stories by the ghostly light of computer screens…telling sleep-banishing tales of Michele ("Crazy Eyes") Bachmann ...
  • Israel Terrorizing Palestinians Lawlessly
    by Stephen Lendman Palestinians bear witness daily to Israeli state terror. Complicit Western and regional nations, in fact, condone it through silence or failure to condemn what never is tolerable and must end. For nearly a week, Israeli aircraft struck Gaza preemptively. As a result, fe ...
  • Rahm Emanuel: Chicago's War Criminal/Anti-Labo ...
    by Stephen Lendman Except for Harold Washington's 1983 - 1987 tenure until his untimely death, Chicago never had populist mayors, notably under father Richard J. (April 20, 1955 - December 20, 1976) and son Richard M. Daley (April 24, 1989 - May 16, 2011). However, after two months in o ...
  • Washington's Ongoing Libya Terror Bombing
    by Stephen Lendman On July 14, Mossad-connected DEBKAfile headlined, "The Libyan War ends. Obama makes Moscow peace broker. NATO halts strikes," saying: "Bar the shouting, the war in Libya ended Thursday morning, July 14, when (Obama) called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to hand Mosc ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • BC's unfair tax system means wealthy pay lower ...
    Today the CCPA-BC released a new report that reveals how ten years of tax cuts and changes have created an unfair system in which the wealthy pay lower taxes and the public treasury is starved for funds. Not only are BC's wealthiest 20% of households paying the lowest tax rate, tax cuts have led ...
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Linda McQuaig in Regina and Saskatoon!
    � Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig will speak in both�Regina and Saskatoon on Wednesday October 19th and�Thursday October 20th. Linda will discuss her new book, The Trouble with Billionaires, �which critically examines how extremes of wealth undermine both our qua ...
  • Cashing in: Canada’s CEO salary surge
    Maclean's magazine focuses on Canada's highest paid 50 CEOs and finds their take-home pay increases to be "astronomical". Macleans writes: "In the past 12 years, there’s been a 444 per cent salary increase for Canada’s top CEOs." Read more here.
  • Where the millionaires live
    The Globe and Mail created an interesting infographic that breaks down millionaires by where they live in the world. It shows Canada as home to 282,000 millionaires. See it here.

World Wide Hippies

  • Dr. Woody: How The Cookie Crumbles ~~ Aporias
    WWH – This is a very good, very compelling Jeremiad on the perils of the Western/USer way of life. Co-authored the estimable Derrick Jensen, and entitled You Can’t Kill A Planet And Live On It, Too, its purpose is to “expose the structure of violence that keeps the world economy running.” The Ne ...
  • NASA Dawn Spacecraft Returns Close-Up Image of ...
    PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. On Friday, July 15, Dawn became the first probe to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The image taken for navig ...
  • America’s Disappeared
    By Chris Hedges,TruthDig – Dr. Silvia Quintela was âdisappearedâ by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly was kept alive at a military base until she gave birth to her son and then, like other victims of the military junta, m ...
  • Worldwide Hippies: A New Voice in the Wilderness
    WWH- We would like to introduce to all our readers; our newest writer Edward Croft. Ed is a wonderful addition to our unique and talented staff of writers. Look for Ed each Sunday at 8:00 pm eastern. And welcome him with your comments and warm wishes. With no further ado. Here is Edward Croft. F ...
  • Assessing a famine: the food crisis in the Hor ...
    CBC News – What is a famine? The United Nations has not yet declared the food crisis in the Horn of Africa a famine, but parts of the region have been classified as being in a “humanitarian emergency” phase, which is only one step away from a “famine” designation on the UN’s scale of food [...]

FourWinds10

  • SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
  • Military Debris Threaten Oceans
    BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ashor ...
  • Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
    No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...
  • Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
    HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Every ti ...
  • Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)

Crisis Maven

  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
  • Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
    Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Book Review: Energy, Convenient Solutions
    Join the forum discussion on this post I read two books on my recent trip to Europe. The first was Cracking the Carbon Code by Terry Tamminen. l reviewed that book here, and indicated that while I disagree with the notion that we will come up with a viable solution to rising carbon emissions, s ...
  • Renewables 2011 Global Status Report Released
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century has just released their annual Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. I was one of the reviewers of the draft report, and therefore got to read and comment on it prior to publication. The report provi ...
  • Barack Obama: A Mediocre President
    Join the forum discussion on this post In 2008, I believed all year long that Barack Obama would win the presidency. Even when Hillary Clinton was still the favorite to win the nomination, I thought Obama’s charisma would ultimately win him the Democratic nomination, and then the presidency. Th ...
  • What Happened at Choren?
    Join the forum discussion on this post If you have not heard by now, Choren Industries has begun bankruptcy proceedings. For those who don’t know, since 2009 I have worked as the technology advisor for the major investor and primary funding source for Choren’s day-to-day operations. I have just ...
  • Chinese Energy Policies Harming Neighbors
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. âââââââââââ China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its growing industrial base. Nowher ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Gov't Wants You to Stop Drinking Pool Water
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Summer swimming season is in full swing, which means it's also a good time to talk about staying healthy in the swimming pool. So the U.S. read more
  • What to Do If DuPont's New Pesticide Is Killin ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Homeowners and golf course owners around the country are reporting "catastrophic" tree losses in areas treated with DuPont's read more
  • Your Cable Box Is Costlier Than You Think
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It's been a hot summer, and yet another heat wave is gripping parts of the U.S. But if you think your energy bills have been skyrocketing because of all the cold air your air conditioner has been pumping out, you might want to analyze your family's TV-watching habits. Di ...

big think

  • Favela Futurism, Very Chic
    The future of global innovation is the Brazilian favela, the Mumbai slum and the Nairobi shanty-town. At a time when countries across the world, from Latin America to Africa to Asia, are producing new mega-slums on an epic scale, when emerging mega-cities in China are pushing the limits of urban ...
  • Could Art Vandalism Become the New Terrorism?
    The vandalizing of Nicolas Poussin’s paintings The Adoration of the Golden Calf and Adoration of the Shepherds at the National Gallery of Art in London just this past weekend sent shockwaves through the art world and while setting heads spinning, sent minds thinking. Reactions to the ...
  • Age, Well-Being & Dreaming of the American Dream
    The American Dream is alive in America. It just may depend on who you ask, when and how they feel. So reports American Family Insurance who is conducting an online survey that is tallying a convenience sample of respondents. While the ability to generalize these data to the national population w ...
  • Thanks to Amazon, a World Without Borders
    So Borders is gone for good, its last four hundred stores scheduled to vanish within weeks. As mourners rush to the liquidation sales, it’s worth pausing to ask: what the hell happened here? For a handy explanation of the primary answer, I recommend this article. Essentially, thanks to a molde ...
  • Amazon Set to Challenge iPad
    What's the Latest Development? Amazon is developing a tablet computer scheduled to be released later this year, despite the clear control Apple has over the market. Amazon hopes two of its new ideas in education and video will give its tablet an edge over the iPad. In education, Amazon is plan ...

Information Liberation

  • Vegas Baby! Jeffrey Tucker on Freedomain Radio
    Jeffrey Tucker of Mises.org takes a short break from gambling and showgirls for a chat with Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio about his new book "It's a Jetson's World," and how the peace and freedom of the future will come to be....
  • Teen makes joke after cop steps in dog doo, co ...
    "It smells like doo-doo," he remembers saying and then immediately regretting when he saw a uniformed cop scraping his shoe clean. "I was like, 'Oh, man - why did I say that?'"Davis said. At that point, he said other officers in an unmarked van...
  • It Ain't Money If I Can't Print It!
    I have been forecasting with near certainty that QE2 would not be the end of the Fed's money-printing program. My suspicions were confirmed in both the Fed minutes on Tuesday and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's semi-annual testimony to Congress yeste...
  • Report: Denver police officers getting away wi ...
    DENVER -- Denver's Independent Police Monitor will release a report Thursday, criticizing Denver Police for giving "preferential treatment" to off-duty officers pulled over for driving drunk. In the report, Richard Rosenthal notes that since monit...
  • Speeding police officer kills two teenagers in ...
    WICHITA FALLS * An initial report from the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals a Wichita Falls police officer involved in a fatal accident June 30 was driving his police cruiser in "at a very high rate of speed" above the posted 45 mph speed li...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • MSM – A Monoculture
    Just a quick post today, as we’re all still recuperating from the ‘flu down here. I guess we can’t ignore the goings on in the British media; James is on the case, so I thought I’d give you all a … Continue reading →
  • Style Versus Substance
    In May this year, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Corporation created space travel history by achieving the first “feathered” re-entry of its experimental craft, SpaceShipTwo. Oversize stabilizers mounted on the wingtips rotated upwards by 65°, giving the craft the geometry … Continue rea ...
  • The Australian Labor Party – A Dying Brand
    The Australian Labor Party does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party. V.I. Lenin, 1913 Democracy in Australia in 2011 stands at a crossroads. The Australian Labor Party, Australia’s oldest political party and traditional … Continue reading →
  • Beware Of Greeks Demanding Gifts
    I’ve just been reading what I regard as the most comprehensible article (to a non-economist) I’ve read covering the causes of the current PIIGS financial crisis in Europe. Have a look and let me know what you think. One paragraph … Continue reading →
  • Give ‘Em Hell, James
    It would be remiss of me not to wish our God-Emperor all the best on his current American promotional tour of his new book, Watermelons. I just heard him being interviewed here (H/T FergalR) on Ron Smith’s WBAL Radio show. I’m … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Daylight video of the ISS and Atlantis from th ...
    According to Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy you can see details when the ISS flies overhead with a decent pair of binoculars, but with an 8-inch reflector telescope and a decent video camera set up for astrophotography you can grab yourself a Youtube clip…in broad daylight: I’ve seen the ISS fly ov ...
  • Latest Alchemist from ChemWeb
    Latest Alchemist from ChemWeb – Some unusual chemical news this week, beginning with the discovery of hydrogen peroxide in interstellar space by European astronomers, while British chemists hint that organic life might have had a start in an inorganic shell. German analysts are hoping to track d ...
  • UK cancer trends
    UK cancer trends – The media has been all over the Cancer Research UK announcements on cancer rates. Specifically, the focus was on middle-aged people and the increases seen between 1979 and 2008. NHS Choices, as ever, provides some rational words following the media frenzy and cites a few of th ...
  • Caricatures and face recognition
    Caricatures and face recognition – The “Ugly, pretty girls” post and video I blogged the other day got lots of interest. It seems face recognition and perception of faces is a fascinating subject for many people. Not surprising, really. Even in this digital age, face to face still beats any elec ...
  • Edible cat litter for drug delivery
    Edible cat litter for drug delivery – Having published a bog about bulldogs and cats, seems quite apt that I was also writing recently about kitty litter the main component of which is the absorbant mineral sepiolite. Sepiolite has been known since Roman times when it was used to filter and puri ...

RFF Library

  • Assessment of Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy T ...
    National Research Council (download with free registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13202 [Summary]  Power in ocean waves originate as wind energy that is transferred to the sea surface when wind blows over large areas of the ocean. The resulting wave field consists of a collect ...
  • Predicting Maximum Tree Heights and Other Trai ...
    PLoS ONE / by Christopher P. Kempes, Geoffrey B. West, Kelly Crowell and Michelle Girvan http://bit.ly/nTzbx0 [Abstract]  Terrestrial vegetation plays a central role in regulating the carbon and water cycles, and adjusting planetary albedo. As such, a clear understanding and accurate characteriz ...
  • Drinking Water: Unreliable State Data Limit EP ...
    Government Accountability Office http://bit.ly/p0jfuq [From a Greenwire story by Paul Quinlan, sub. req'd]  States often fail to report incidents of drinking water contamination, limiting U.S. EPA’s ability to safeguard public health, according to a Government Accountability Office… The report, ...
  • EPA Health Risk Assessments: Sustained Managem ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-824T This testimony discusses our prior work on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program and database…We are currently undertaking a review of EPA’s revised 2009 IRIS assessme ...
  • Abandoned Mines: Information on the Number of ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-834T The General Mining Act of 1872 helped foster the development of the West by giving individuals exclusive rights to mine gold, silver, copper, and other hardrock minerals on federal land. However, miners often abandoned mine ...

Scientific American - News

  • Mars Landing Site Chosen for Next Rover
    NASA has picked the final landing site for its next Red Planet rover after years of debate and will unveil its choice on Friday (July 22) -- nearly 35 years to the day after the space agency's storied Viking 1 probe touched down on Mars, agency officials said.The landing site will be the stompin ...
  • Last Shuttle Astronauts Bid Historic Farewell ...
    HOUSTON -- NASA's last space shuttle ever to visit the International Space Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to Earth.Atlantis launched July 8 on the 135th and last voyage of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program . The orbiter delivered f ...
  • Hot and Cold: Long-Suspected Antarctic Underse ...
    Iceland is known as the "land of ice and fire," but new findings suggest that the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean could easily take over that title. In addition to the seven volcanic islands that make up this Antarctic archipelago, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) recen ...
  • NASA Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid V ...
    An unmanned NASA probe made history 117 million miles from Earth on Saturday (July 16) when it arrived at the huge asteroid Vesta, making it the first spacecraft ever to orbit an object in the solar system's asteroid belt.The Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around Vesta after a four-year chase a ...
  • Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our A ...
    Has the Internet dumbed down society or simply become an external storage unit that enhances the human brain's memory capacity? With Google , Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to ...

First Truths

  • F.Y.I.
    Some among those reading this may already have heard the sad news that, at the end of this month, I'll be leaving C4SS, a decision required by strains on my schedule that no longer permit the volume of writing I've taken on for the past year or so. It's been an indescribable honor to be a part o ...
  • L. Susan Brown on Power
    I found this passage in Reinventing Anarchy, Again�(edited by Howard J. Ehrlich): To speak of power as a thing or phenomenon that can exist independent of human consciousness is to profoundly misunderstand the whole problem of power itself. Power exists as a relationship between individual human ...
  • Weir's "Anarchy & Culture"
    From David Weir's Anarchy & Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism: Of the principal anarchists Proudhon seems most typical of the transfer of the romantic-Enlightenment mixture of ideas from social to aesthetic theory. Proudhon's aesthetic ideas are especially contradictory, although such ...
  • Miscellaneous Thoughts on Law School
    The meaning of the word �logical� that laypeople use when they�re debating politics with family members in the living room�the word�s colloquial use�is nothing at all like the �logical� that law school expects you to be. The logic that law school will test, the sort that�s set out in Gordian for ...
  • New Left Revisionism and the Crisis Tendencies ...
    The following excerpt from International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology�(eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski)�will be of interest for left libertarians: Rothbard's view of the relationship between big business and government in the rise of American 'statism' draws additionally from the wo ...

Media Co-Op

  • Protestors Bring Taste of Senegal's People-Pow ...
    Senegalese-Canadians rally at embassy to denounce President Wade and demand fair elections OTTAWA--“Nadem, nadem, nadem!” Chants of “He must go!” in Wolof – the indigenous Senegalese language – resounded through the usually quiet residenti ...
  • Why Kai Nagata quit his job, and why I don't care.
    I usually complain about things over at http://demarchy.tumblr.com --- About a week ago, one headline proclaimed that the Canadian media was shaking in its boots. Why? Because Kai Nagata was on the job. Or, rather, he wasn’t. The 24 year old former journalist based out of Quebec City for CTV wa ...
  • Glenrose Cannery After 1 Week of Vandalism by ...
    These photos taken on Sunday July 17 show the historic Glenrose Cannery, on the Fraser River in North Delta, after one week of demolishion by the Provincial Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. This vandalism is part of preparations for building the controversial South Fraser Perimeter ...
  • Play Ball! Dykes Beat Divas, 13-10, In Halifax ...
    In a hard-fought battle under cloudless skies, the no-nonsense Dykes were too much for the flashy Divas, and defeated them 13-10 in Halifax's Pride Classic. The game took place in front of an over-capacity crowd, which spilled joyously into the outfield.� The event was unlike any slow-pitch soft ...
  • Torontonian's Smash Ford's Anti-Tax Agenda
    Consultation Shows Public Wants Services Before Tax Cuts The results of a public consultation with Torontonians released last week has dealt a blow to Mayor Rob Ford's agenda. The Core Service Review - Public Consultation released by the C ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Murdoch Turkey Shoot
    David Seaton's News Links (Britain's politicians) had been pushed into taking a stand by the overwhelming public revulsion that greeted the discovery that the mobile telephone of Milly Dowler, the murdered Surrey schoolgirl, had been hacked. Even so, it was a dramatic show of political will. �T ...
  • Is the world run by Psychopaths?
    Charming, materialistic, aggressive, self-centred, Machiavellian, thrill-seeking alpha males with little respect for rules who eat stress for breakfast � sound like a banker you know? If so, think again: it is a summary of the traits of psychopaths. Financial Times There is a class of individua ...
  • Murdoch... Beyond Parody
    This misreading of the political mood has been the thread through News International’s bungled response to the phone-hacking affair. Odd really when one recalls that Rupert Murdoch was once the most politically-attuned and ruthless media proprietor in living memory. Phillip Stephens - Financial ...
  • Marine Le Pen is no Sarah Palin
    Marine Le Pen David Seaton's News LinksMarine Le Pen is the leader of� France's National Front. Right now polls show her probably eliminating Nicholas Sarkozy in the first round of France's next presidential elections and facing a lackluster, Socialist, Martine Aubry, running as a hurried replac ...
  • Sign of the Times: Glenn Beck to address the K ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWe do live in a society in which things have become almost inscrutably complex. (...) I think the rise in autism diagnosis has a lot to do with children coming into a society that no longer makes much sense socially and contains within all the incentives for behavioral m ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • If You Can Never Seem to Get Truly Well, This ...
    Dr. Doris Rapp, author of half a dozen books, including Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call, and 32 Tips that Could Save Your Life, is board certified in environmental medicine, pediatrics and allergy, and is a true pioneer in the treatment of allergies in general. In this interview, she discus ...
  • One of the Biggest Food Frauds Perpetrated on ...
    The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a summary order concluding a long-standing lawsuit over genetically engineered "Roundup Ready" sugar beets.�The court decided that previous court rulings in favor of farmers and conservation advocates will remain, including an order requiring the ...
  • Should You Ever Take Tylenol?
    A recent recall of over-the-counter Tylenol has left many consumers wondering whether it's safe to buy a replacement bottle or whether it's time to turn to other options. The recall is just the latest in a series of Johnson & Johnson product recalls over the past few years, including other formu ...
  • If You had a Ten-Year Safe Would You Put in On ...
    Gold has retained value throughout history. It is still an attractive alternative to cash today -- investors, central banks and the astute are buying gold. � Ron Paul asked Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on July 13, 2011 whether or not he watches the price of gold and if he thinks gold is money. ...
  • Is Your Shampoo Making You Fat?
    Paula Baillie-Hamilton, an expert on metabolism and environmental toxins, was one of the first to make a link between the obesity epidemic and the increase in environmental chemicals. Baillie-Hamilton argued that exposure to chemicals can damage your body's natural weight-control mechanisms. She ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Further blows to Vedanta's notorious Niyamgiri ...
    Vedanta's aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh, Odisha, seen from the Niyamgiri Hills © Survival In rapid succession, Vedanta has had the Environment Clearance for its Niyamgiri mine cancelled and lost an appeal to expand the neighbouring alumina refinery. In virtually his last act in office, ...
  • Peru’s ‘final attempt’ to stamp out uncontacte ...
    Raya, a Nahua elder. More than half his people were wiped out after their land was opened up for oil exploration. © Johan Wildhagen/Survival Peru’s Indian Affairs Department has revealed plans to open up uncontacted tribes’ reserves to oil companies – just days before the country’s new gove ...
  • Brazilian Indians receive death threats
    Almir Surui, Surui indigenous spokesman © Marc Cowan/Survival Indians of the Surui tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, who are campaigning for their land to be protected, have received death threats from loggers. Almir Surui is one of the Surui affected. He has been told, ‘We know who is agains ...
  • Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath
    A Penan man in the Borneo rainforest. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest. Survival revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and ...
  • Santander Bank admits dam funding to continue
    The Santo Antonio dam threatens to devastate the forest home of numerous tribal peoples © João Zinclar Europe’s largest bank, Santander, has admitted that its controversial financing of the notorious Santo Antonio dam in the Brazilian Amazon is set to continue, despite earlier saying that i ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Municipal-contracts probe: good news for taxpayers
    News that the Canada Revenue Agency has won permission from the Federal Court of Canada to look for irregularities in contracts awarded by 62 towns and cities across Quebec came like a gift out of the blue.
  • The Gazette's view, in short
    So very sad to see the passing of the landmark Madrid resto-bar-motel - and uniquely sideways experience - on Highway 20 between Quebec City and Montreal. It's been reassuringly there for decades at the halfway point on that otherwise tiresome stretch of Le Vingt.
  • ATV safety is only a matter of common sense
    Tootling around on an all-terrain vehicle can be lots of fun. The attraction of ATVs is attested to by their steadily growing popularity. Over the last decade their number in this province has nearly doubled; there are now going on 400,000 in circulation.
  • Cold beer, sunscreen, Bixis ... and parkas
    Ah, finally, summer in Montreal! Long lazy days by the pool. Hot days, cool nights. The festivals downtown. Lunch on the terrasse. Hamburgers on the barbecue. Sunscreen. Bixis. Cold beer. Parkas.
  • Great neighbourhoods revive Montreal's spirit
    The transformation of a long stretch of de Maisonneuve Blvd. from an "ugly, gloomy concrete canyon," as The Gazette's Peggy Curran called it this week, to a pedestrian-and bike-friendly street lined with outdoor terrasses, high-end stores and public art, should convince Montrealers that even the ...

Food World Order

  • 'my dog eats better than i do': pets join in o ...
    from latimes: When Gabriel, a 10-year-old rescue cat from Chinatown, tucks into his morning meal, you won't see any Friskies or Meow Mix in his bowl. Ahi tuna and duck are more the ticket. "I think there's more than enough pesticides and chemicals and that kind of stuff in human food," says Gabr ...
  • 7/14 binge & purge: gardens, floodgates & play ...
    record 1 in 6 now on food stamps as depression escalates* 12 signs that the world is running out of food* police state in action: woman faces 93 days in jail for planting vegetables in her front yard* bureaucrats in michigan threaten woman with jail time for vegetable garden* food fi ...
  • genetically modified food labels don't sit wel ...
    agreement on labeling probably won't have much effect in US from latimes: Activists rejoiced last week when a hard-fought battle over international standards for labeling genetically modified food came to an end — finally — after decades of debate. But the agreement, which many say opens the ...
  • major grocer albertsons getting rid of self-ch ...
    chain to replace computers, wants more human contact from msnbc: One of the nation's major grocery store chains is eliminating self-checkout lanes in an effort to encourage more human contact with its customers. Albertsons LLC, which operates 217 stores in seven Western and Southern states, w ...
  • 7/7 binge & purge: fatty needs a fix
    wonder why americans are so fat?: 777-pound burger in california takes guinness record on july 4th* as commodity prices soar, so does demand for wood pulp - cellulose use increases as a 'food extender'* don't tell your kid, but there's cauliflower in his mac & cheese* it's not all ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

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    2011 sure has been a wild year for America so far.  First we had unprecedented tornado outbreaks, then we had horrific flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, then we had record setting wildfires and now we are facing a crippling drought all over the southern United ...
  • 10 Signs That The American People Are Starting ...
    All over America, restlessness and frustration are growing. It has now been almost three years since the great financial crash of 2008, and yet the U.S. economy is still a complete and total mess.  In fact, there are all sorts of signs that things are about to get even worse, an ...
  • If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...
    For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating.  On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get.  Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...
  • 15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Beco ...
    More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it.  The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation.  When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaki ...
  • Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerl ...
    Economic despair is beginning to spread rapidly in America.  As you read this, there are millions of American families that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails.  For a growing number of Americans, it has become an all-out battle just to be able to afford to sleep und ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sean Hoare: After Diana, Dr. David Kelly, Toml ...
    While the eyes of the world were concentrated on the Tiswas happenings in the House of Commons - a moronic attack on an 80-year-old bloke by a typically violent leftist now suspended from the Labour Party - something connected to 'Hackgate' was happening elsewhere. It was the police announcem ...
  • And while the Hackgate fire rages, the UK bank ...
    Well, yesterday was fascinating. The two most senior cops in Britain said 'Hullo, hullo, hullo' for the final time and one of them was immediately replaced by a woman on whose watch Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was gunned down by a lawless armed mob at Stockwell tube station. ...
  • Apologies, Recriminations, Investigations, Res ...
    Perhaps like most British people, this blogger has watched the varying developments in the phone hacking mediastorm with varying responses from bemusement to repulsion. We've seen a 168 year old newspaper close down, editors arrested, top cops resigning... followed by the unsavoury sight of E ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 17th July 2011
    It was with some trepidation that we started with this week's Sunday newspaper review. How many 'Hackgate' stories can one possibly cope with? Would it not be simpler just to conclude that the entire top tiers of British society and influence are corrupt to the core? The media owners, the pol ...
  • Campaign To Make the EU Flag History
    Sometimes, we're a little bit slow on the uptake, we Brits. For years, our own sense of justice and fair play, our consideration for other people's feelings have been - to our cost - exploited and played. Such sensitivity on our part and exploitation by those with unfathomable agendas led, ...

Facing South

  • Spillionaires revisited: Gov't official's asso ...
    By Kim Barker, ProPublica Last month, Craig Taffaro Jr., the president of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish, lambasted a ProPublica story while testifying before a congressional committee. The story, published in April, described how some local powerbrokers and ...
  • Feds' own data raise questions about effort to ...
    There was an outpouring of anger from fishermen at a public meeting held in Mississippi last week to discuss federal plans for addressing a dramatic increase in deaths of endangered sea turtles. The government is considering requiring all shrimpers with skimmer boats to use turtle-excluder devic ...
  • VOICES: Using a Civil War-era law to hold BP a ...
    By Lindsey Williams, Bridge the Gulf As President Obama said during his campaign, "Workers are the eyes and ears of enforcement." They are the ones who see companies dump toxic chemicals into the water, misuse oil rigs in ways that ruin the blow-out preventer or ignore fire hazards. Employees ...
  • Could Rep. Cantor's debt default brinksmanship ...
    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) raised eyebrows in Washington last week when he scuttled House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) efforts to reach a compromise with President Obama to raise the U.S. debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline. Early in the week, Cantor rejected a budge ...
  • Texas oil giant behind spill off China's coast
    An oil spill covering over 1,600 square miles has occurred off the northeast coast of China, with the contamination coming from a joint operation of Texas-based oil giant ConocoPhillips and China National Offshore Oil Corp. The disaster began unfolding in early June but was first reve ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
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  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Man Dies After Questioning in Mumbai Attacks A man brought in for questioning in connection with last weekâs Mumbai attacks died in an Indian hospital Sunday after complaining of feeling ill, according to reports. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group U.S. Asks for Return of Classified Detention Document Given to ACLU The U.S. government accidentally gave the ACLU a classified document describing criteria it uses to hold detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Three Bombs Strike Mumbai; 18 Are Killed Three coordinated bombings struck Mumbai, India, at rush hour on Wednesday evening, killing 18 people and wounding 131 in the worst terror attacks there since the 2008 … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Head of ISI Heads to U.S. for Talks Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of the ISI, Pakistanâs spy agency, is headed to the United States Wednesday for talks with his U.S. counterparts on intelligence … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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    As part of our effort in giving Linux games category its due share, here is our second post featuring some really good games for�Linux. If it was about top RTS games for Linux before, now its time for some fast paced first-person shooter(FPS) games for Linux. Quick collection of 10 FPS games for ...
  • We are still in the very early stages of what ...
    Google CEO Larry Page has just dropped a bombshell. Along with the quarterly earnings report, co-founder and the new CEO of Google, Larry Page, presented a huge cache of statistics and data that are literally mind blowing. And he have even published the whole report as a status update in his�Goo ...
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    Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 is released already and the changes we expected to see in Ubuntu 11.10 is slowly starting to show up. Among other things, the most important change is the arrival of GNOME 3.0 stack. Ubuntu is not based on GNOME 2.x anymore. Most of the default Ubuntu themes h ...
  • Netbook Optimized Ping-Eee OS Review
    Most of you must have heard about PinguyOS already, one of my favourite among Ubuntu derivatives. Now, they have released another version of PinguyOS called Ping-Eee OS which is supposedly optimized for small screen netbooks. Interestingly, the release coincided with my purchase of Linux pre ins ...
  • DAISHO Productivity Software for Linux
    DAISHO is a good productivity software for Windows, Mac and Linux. There is a free version called Daisho Basic for Windows and Mac, but many advanced features requires you to buy DAISHO Professional edition. But Daisho for Linux is completely free of charge. DAISHO Productivity Software for ...
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