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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, July 25, 2011

25 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Gingrich invested in renewable energy and tech
Politico
- Jul 25, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Newt Gingrich doesn't just talk about technology and renewable energy on the presidential campaign trail — that's where he invests his money too. Of the former House speaker's personal portfolio, as much as $400000, spread over 36 companies, ...
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Gov. Brown pushes renewable energy goal at UCLA conference
Los Angeles Times
- Jul 25, 2011
- 3 hours ago
Jerry Brown wants a major chunk of California's renewable energy to come from urban rooftops and backyards, rather than just the massive solar and wind installations scattered around the outskirts of the state. How that'll come to pass, though, ...
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Hudak promise dims business, says solar developer
Toronto Star
- Jul 25, 2011
- 5 hours ago
Renewable energy projects are being shelved as a result of the pledge by Ontario's Conservative leader Tim Hudak to chop green energy programs, says a solar energy developer. Leonard Allen, president of Sclera Sustainable Energies, says projects ...
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RWE in deal to increase German railway's use of renewable energy
Washington Post
- Jul 25, 2011
- 13 hours ago
By AP, BERLIN — Germany's national railway operator has announced a deal to buy hydroelectric power from generator RWE AG, part of a plan to increase its use of renewable energy. Deutsche Bahn AG said the deal, worth more than €1 billion ($1.4 billion ...
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Human Habitat

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General Electric Company and US Ecology, Inc. Extend Contract for Hudson River ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jul 25, 2011
- 16 hours ago
The sediment contains polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and will be disposed of at the US Ecology Idaho, Inc. facility located near Grand View, Idaho. The facility is an EPA and State of Idaho permitted facility located approximately 60 miles ...
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Award goes to Grand Coulee for perfect wastewater treatment record
Access Washington
- Jul 25, 2011
- 3 hours ago
The Washington Department of Ecology's (Ecology's) “Outstanding Wastewater Treatment Plant” award will be presented to Mayor Tammara Byers at 6:30 pm, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, at the Grand Coulee City Council meeting in City Hall, 306 Midway Ave. ...
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MoMA to Honor Dieter Kosslick with Culinary Cinema Series
Indie Wire (blog)
- Jul 25, 2011
- 10 hours ago
According to MoMA, Kosslick “has long been engaged in issues related to food, pleasure and ecology, as well as their cultural significance and cinematic presentation.” The museum allowed Kosslick to choose eleven films from their collection, ...
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Budgets slashed for litter cleanup, public awareness
HeraldNet
- Jul 25, 2011
- 8 hours ago
"Litter attracts more litter," said Peter Christiansen, section manager for the state Department of Ecology. The Department of Ecology and the state Department of Transportation are both charged with keeping highways clean around Washington. ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Vast Amount of Water Discovered Circling Distant Quasar
Voice of America
- Jul 25, 2011
- 2 hours ago
July 25, 2011 Vast Amount of Water Discovered Circling Distant Quasar VOA News An international team of astronomers has discovered the largest and oldest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe, swirling around a massive black hole at the ...
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Court says states may set stricter ballast rules
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Jul 25, 2011
- 11 minutes ago
By Dan Egan of the Journal Sentinel A push by the shipping industry to roll back state protections against contaminated ballast water discharges has been denied in federal court. The industry opposed a decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency ...
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Wagoner's Water Woes
KTUL
- Jul 25, 2011
- 2 hours ago
This scorching heat and the need for water is putting way too much pressure on water treatment plants. In Wagoner , A broken filter means no water for thousands of customer today and its tough on everyone. Wagoner water customers and those of rural ...
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Houston may seek water from Lake Conroe
Your Houston News
- Jul 25, 2011
- 41 minutes ago
Water levels on Lake Conroe are already three feet below their normal level, and the city of Houston plans to start withdrawing 150 million gallons a day out of the lake within the next two weeks, which would drop the lake level another foot in less ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran accuses U.S., Israel of being involved in ...
    Summary: Ali LarijaniTEHRAN, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Iranian officials on Sunday accused the United States and Israel of being involved in the assassination of an Iranian academic who was shot dead on Saturday in front of his house. source: China Viewread more
  • AP Iran Scare Piece Proves Itself Wrong
    Summary: Tehran ReactorGeorge Jahn’s new Iran piece in the Associated Press, despite its emotional headline and anonymous scare quotes, actually makes a strong case that neither Iran’s president, nor its head-Ayatollah are interested in obtaining nuclear weapons. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Iranian Exile Group Poses Vexing Issue for U.S ...
    Summary: Rajavi and SaddamMr. Butler is keen to puncture what he believes is the false narrative that has sprouted around the group since the American invasion, which has helped it secure such prominent support. Contrary to widespread belief, he says, the group never provided any valuable in ...
  • UK should reconsider ties with Iran: Salehi
    Summary: Salehi Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that UK should reconsider its behavior towards Islamic Republic of Iran while noting that Tehran-London relations are not satisfactory. source: IRNAread more
  • War With Iran? US Neocons Aim to Repeat Chalab ...
    Summary: Instead of legitimizing the MEK, we call on the law-enforcement agencies to investigate the illegal activities of this group, their funding and their allies. After all, they are still on the US State Department terrorist list. So, why are they allowed to lobby our lawmakers in the S ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • China's 1st Space Station Tiangong-1 Prepares ...
    While China's first astronaut is publicly discussing the prospect of China's future engagement with the International Space Station, Tiangong-1 is loaded with payloads and is undergoing final tests before its launch at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's Gansu...
  • Monday News Flash: New Evidence at CERN's LHC ...
    The ATLAS detector at the LHC, located near Geneva, Switzerland, has found an unexpected abundance of pairs of W bosons, which carry the weak nuclear force, with energies between about 120 to 140 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). The new excesses, reported on...
  • Giant Galaxy at the Edge of the Observable Uni ...
    In 2009, Scientists located a giant 13-billion year old galaxy at the edge of the observable universe. Detecting this huge galaxy was a challenge because of the massive quantities of light coming from the black hole, and if you think...
  • Binary Supermassive Black Holes Common --Light ...
    To date, astronomers have discovered 33 binary black holes in distant galaxies located at distances 4 to 7 billion light-years away from Earth. This result is particularly important because it shows that supermassive black hole pairs are more common than...
  • Image of the Day: Cosmic Bullet of a Supersoni ...
    Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have discovered giant, ring-like structures around a cluster of galaxies. The discovery provides tantalizing new information about how such galaxy clusters are assembled, about magnetic fields in the...

Natural News

  • Gardening activities reduce lung cancer risk b ...
    (NaturalNews) Not only is having a green thumb a great way to stay healthier and happier, but new research shows it can actually protect you from cancer.Noted cancer treatment and research center M.D. Anderson, at the University of Texas, found in a study that time spent gardening once or twice ...
  • Dangerous levels of lead found in many garden ...
    (NaturalNews) Allowing your kids to play with the garden hose, filling the inflatable kiddie pool, nourishing your garden with hose water -- these all seem like harmless activities. However, research is now proving otherwise.Many commercially bought water hoses contain dangerously high levels of ...
  • Amazing food facts: The seed of a peach contai ...
    (NaturalNews) Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and almonds are all closely related fruit trees with very similar pits. In all these fruits, the pit must be broken open to reveal the almond-shaped kernel within. In fact, this is what almonds actually are: the kernel within the pit of the fru ...
  • Study: Drinking diet soda actually causes weig ...
    (NaturalNews) Contrary to popular belief, diet soda and other foods and beverages made with artificial sweeteners like aspartame are not healthy, and they do not bring about weight loss.A landmark new study out of Texas confirms this, having found that not only do diet sodas not help with weight ...
  • Book review: Doctors Are More Harmful Than Ger ...
    (NaturalNews) If you are like the average American, you have led a life filled with Western medical policies, procedures, drugs and quick-fixes. As one of the biggest businesses in the United States, modern medicine may be costing you more than just a high insurance premium each month.According ...

Threat Level

  • Judge Slashes ‘Appalling’ $1.5 Million File Sh ...
    A federal judge has lowered a file sharing verdict to $54,000 from $1.5 million, ruling Friday that the jury’s award “for stealing 24 songs for personal use is appalling.” The decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Davis follows the third trial in the Recording Industry Association of America’s ...
  • Huge Trove of Academic Docs Posted Online in R ...
    Just two days after activist hacker Aaron Swartz was charged with hacking for downloading too many academic articles, a giant collection of articles from the same service has been posted to the notorious file sharing search engine, The Pirate Bay. The documents are allegedly 18,952 scientific ar ...
  • TSA Announces Privacy Overhaul of Nude Airport ...
    The Transportation Security Administration announced Wednesday that one type of body scanner deployed in as many as 78 airports nationwide will be revamped to no longer display an image of travelers’ naked bodies, bowing to months of criticism over the privacy implications of the technology. Th ...
  • 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.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republicans Broke It. Will Democrats Own It?
    Appearing on Face the Nation Sunday, Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin warned House Speaker John Boehner about his paternity for the economic catastrophe resulting from a Republican failure to increase the U.S. debt ceiling. "If you break it," Durbin told Boehner, "you own it." But as the ...
  • Fiscal Train Wreck Pawlenty Calls Obama a "Chi ...
    It's tough to be taken seriously as a presidential contender when you call yourself "T-Paw" and repeatedly trumpet your "smoking hot wife" as a qualification for the White House. But just two days after having to deny he was preparing to pull the plug on his flat-lining campaign, Tim Pawlenty m ...
  • Boehner's Double-Dealing on the Debt Ceiling
    If it appears that John Boehner is suffering from multiple personality disorder over the debt ceiling stand-off, that's because he is. Torn between his duty to the national interest as Speaker of the House and to the Tea Party caucus that put him there, for months Boehner has ping-ponged betwee ...
  • The Republican God Pledge
    For weeks, Republican presidential candidates have been a running a gauntlet of ever-more draconian pledges put forth by party purists. Grover Norquist's anti-tax oath, the Susan B. Anthony List anti-abortion manifesto , the "Marriage Vow" and the "Cut, Cap and Balance" pledge are just some of ...
  • The Economy's Willing Executioners
    "If we get to the point where you've damaged the full faith and credit of the United States," Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee exclaimed in January, "that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity." But if that economic catastrophe comes to pass, its cause will not h ...

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

  • New Guinea: ‘Closest Thing to Garden of Eden o ...
    A decade-long biodiversity survey of the tropical island of New Guinea cites no less than 1, 060 new species of plants and animals discovered between 1998 and 2008. New Guinea’s rain forest is the third largest in the world and its extraordinary, biological riches face continuous threats from hu ...
  • Devastating African Droughts Seen from Space
    The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has shone the spotlight on just how dire the drought in countries like Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti really is, with tens of thousands of people now looking for succour and refuge in neighbouring countries.
  • NASA Captures Three Storms in One Image {Photo ...
    NASA's GOES013 satellite captured this image July 22 at 0845 UTC (4:45 a.m. EDT) of three separate tropical cyclones; Bret and Cindy trundling through the North Atlantic in the right of the image, and Hurricane Dora over in the eastern Pacific.
  • Carbon Sequestration an Unintended Benefit of ...
    Enacted in 1993, the Northwest Forest Plan consists of a series of federal policies and guidelines which govern the use of federal lands in the Pacific Northwest. Researchers have just concluded, however, that as a result of these same guidelines - which were initially introduced in an effort to ...
  • Top Green Living Stories {Weekly Round-Up}
    Here's some top green living stories from the past week or so (other than our own). Enjoy!

Water Quality - WordPress

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Axis of Logic

  • Juice it up! SKA-P "El Libertador" - Music a ...
    ...
  • Is the Debt Crisis Just Another Trumped Up Sca ...
    We’ve all heard the hysteria, “If America doesn’t raise the debt ceiling she’ll default on her loans for the first time in our nations history.”  Everyone in Washington is in a panic. All the Chicken Little’s are running around proclaiming, “The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!”  The ...
  • SKA-P - INTIFADA - Palestine
    ...
  • Norway Attacks Put Spotlight on Rise of Right- ...
    BERLIN — The attacks in Oslo on Friday have riveted new attention on right-wing extremists not just in Norway but across Europe, where opposition to Muslim immigrants, globalization, the power of the European Union and the drive toward multiculturalism has proven a potent political force and, in ...
  • How We Helped Pave Haiti's Road to Cholera Hel ...
    Editor's Note: Below the following Crawford Killian analysis, see articles by Haitian Dady Chery, Axis of Logic Columnist in which she identified the source of the cholera epidemic in Haiti on October 22, 2010, just 4 days after the presence of cholera was confirmed by the Cubans and weeks befor ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Email From Alan Grayson
    Offered without Comment since it speaks for itself. E-mail from Alan Grayson Dear Sane Democrat, I know why House Speaker John Boehner walked out of debt ceiling talks with President Obama on Friday. It's because Boehner can't deliver. It doesn't matter what terms the President offers. It' ...
  • Spin so intense it ought to generate it's own ...
    I long ago abandoned any hope of understanding just where the hell House republicans are coming from or what passes for thought processes in their defective braincases. I mean, what the hell kind of negotiator refuses to take "yes" for an answer? I have no idea, but that is the course of (in)act ...
  • Opposite sides of the same cursed coin
    How apropos that the accused Norwegian terrorist who killed nearly 100 of his countrymen in a politically motivated attack became that thing which he hated most -- a terrorist bent on murder and mayhem. He adopted the rhetoric and methods of the Islamic terrorists he so feared in order to make h ...
  • Liberals Can Win
    The Great Liberal Prosperity is at death's door. People are furious and desperate. Liberalism's enemies are rabid and at each other's throats. This is the best environment for liberal change in 80 years. All the pieces are there; all we have to do is pick them up and use them. Erik Loomis sees a ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    #FuckYouWashington -- Say what you will about the limitations of 140 characters, sometimes 18 is plenty. "Most suddenly-popular Twitter hashtags refer to events or celebrities that currently are in the news. But every once in a while, one erupts out of nowhere to capture the mood of the Twitterv ...

Care 2

  • Tortoise's artificial limb came from hardware ...
    The artificial limb put on an African tortoise at Washington State University didn't come from a high-tech prosthetics lab. Look how well Gamera is doing.Submitted by Dandelion G. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tortoise gets artificial wheel at vet hospital
    A 12-year-old African tortoise that recently had its front left leg amputated due to injury is now moving just fine, thanks to a swiveling wheel attached to his shell by doctors at Washington State University's veterinary hospitalSubmitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • Dear God, Please End Your Presidential Endorse ...
    Now that Rick Perry is positioning himself as the next Great American Messiah, it�s hard not to find one�s nerves wearing thin at the number of candidates that God apparently sees fit to endorse...Submitted by Carrie ILL B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • BRAZIL: Uncontacted Indians forest sprayed ...
    A large stretch of Amazon forest in a region where uncontacted Indians are thought to be living, has reportedly been destroyed illegally with chemical defoliant sprayed from an airplane.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Islamophobia-Who's behind the fear-mongering
    After the horrible terror attack in Oslo, Norway perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik, a 32 year old terrorist responsible for the massacre of 92 people, the media wasted no time to once again….BLAME IT ON THE MUSLIMS.Submitted by Sandra T. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

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No Quarter

  • A Mating Dance, But Not For Us
    The invitation said eight o’clock, but the doors don’t open until well after ten.  Music and laughter is in full swing.  It wafts out to us as we wait in the rain.  We enter the ballroom, cold and wet, but with our heads held high.  Our designated seats are in a corner far removed from the ...
  • Anders Behring Breivik–God’s Prophet of Doom?
    The man arrested in Norway yesterday, who is the alleged culprit for the terrorist massacres in Oslo and at a Labor Party youth camp, is no nut. He’s quite sane. He is a committed Christian extremist. And he is highly intelligent. I have posted below the video and the fold a link to his “jihadis ...
  • Cowboys & Congress * Larry on Radio * Open Thread
    Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). The show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
  • MSNBC Needs To Make It Official
    Their name change to MSNB(arack)O(bama). Seriously. As many of you know, Keith Olbermann left his 6:00pm slot there for any number of reasons many of us would be willing to suggest were the true reasons. Regardless, he has been gone for a number of months now (though not off the tv – he found an ...
  • Christian Terrorism
    In light of yesterday’s attacks in Oslo, Norway is it time to add fundamentalist Christians to the list of terrorist threats? If we apply the same standard to Christians that folks like Herman Cain use on Muslims then the answer is yes. In case you have been living in a cave, here is what happen ...

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

  • Could Therapy Improve Debt Ceiling Debate?
    I don’t know about you, but the last thing I need to worry about right now is if my credit card interest rates are going to skyrocket, the banks are going to stop lending, or what the precarious future of my investment portfolio will be like if those folks in Washington don’t figure out how [...]
  • Avoiding Battles with Your Teen: How to Work T ...
    Teens often tell me their parents don’t understand, don’t listen or don’t care about what they think. Parents wonder why their lectures fall on deaf ears. How do we bridge this communication gap? Parents often want to lecture instead of listen. Teens have heard it before and already know what t ...
  • Exploring Alternative Lifestyles in Your Relat ...
    It’s a pretty well known fact that ‘happily ever after’ is a concept that is often easier said than done. People still cling to and admire the ideals of a long-term commitment and marriage and with a little effort and cooperation many find that it is actually doable when they have both feet in t ...
  • The Downside of Feeling Up for People with Bipolar
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Positive emotions can offer great benefits to people and even improve both physical and mental health. But in a recent article, June Gruber of Yale University explains how an extremely positive attitude can be harmful for people with bipolar. Episodes of mania are ...
  • Jung & Poetry: Full, Embodied Living
    Everything that irritates [or intrigues] us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. -C.G. Jung As we mature finding ways to relate to and communicate with the hidden, non-integrated personality traits that are “in the shadow” is imperative if we want to enjoy a life rich ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA finalizes mountaintop removal guidance - U ...
    EPA finalizes mountaintop removal guidance UC Berkeley (blog) After a three-and-a-half month delay for White House review, EPA has finalized its guidance for review of mountaintop removal mining permits in Appalachia. I needn't have worried that the White House would roll EPA Administrator Lisa ...
  • Kentucky Coal Industry Calls New EPA Guidance ...
    Kentucky Coal Industry Calls New EPA Guidance 'Overreaching' WFPL In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would increase scrutiny on a number of mountaintop removal permits in Appalachia and would release guidelines for future permits. Those guidelines were released last week. ...
  • Attack on birth defects study baseless - Lexin ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Attack on birth defects study baseless Lexington Herald Leader Hubert Collins, D-Wittensville, attempted a broadside attack against a new study that found increased incidents of birth defects in places where mountaintop-removal mining is taking place. Unfortunately, he b ...
  • WVU study finds poverty, early mortality conce ...
    WVU study finds poverty, early mortality concentrated around mountaintop ... The Republic Poverty in Appalachia is concentrated in the communities around mountaintop removal mines, and people living in those areas suffer greater risk of early deaths, according to West Virginia University study. ...
  • Appalachian poverty concentrated around mine s ...
    Appalachian poverty concentrated around mine sites, WVU study says Charleston Gazette Poverty in Appalachia is concentrated in the communities around mountaintop removal mines, and people living in those areas suffer greater risk of early deaths, according to a new scientific paper by a West Vi ...

Memeorandum

  • Mike Ross, a Leading Blue Dog Democrat, to Lea ...
    Washington Wire: Mike Ross, a Leading Blue Dog Democrat, to Leave the House  —  Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas, a leader of the Blue Dog coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats, said Monday that he would not seek re-election, which could be good news for Republicans as they aim to pick up ano ...
  • Steve King on default: Obama could be impeache ...
    Reid J. Epstein / The Politico: Steve King on default: Obama could be impeached  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Monday that President Barack Obama “would be impeached” if the nation falls into default.  —  “STOP talking about default,” he wrote on Twitter.  “The 1st dime of each $1 of revenu ...
  • How we got into this fine mess (Felix Salmon)
    Felix Salmon: How we got into this fine mess  —  For a clear, powerful, and erudite short take on the current debt debacle, there's no better place to go than Jim Surowiecki.  His main thesis is pretty much impossible to argue with: that the debt ceiling should be abolished.
  • What Were They Thinking? - Finding a solution ...
    Elizabeth Drew / New York Review of Books: What Were They Thinking?  —  Finding a solution to reducing the deficit that was agreeable to Boehner, to Cantor, to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and to the President was no small task.  The men, who had rude ...
  • Debt Debate: What are the Odds Congress Can Ra ...
    The Note: Debt Debate: What are the Odds Congress Can Raise Debt Ceiling by Aug. 2?  —  ABC News' Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) reports:  —  Democrats and Republicans are on a collision course this week over raising the debt ceiling.  At some point, somebody will need to back down, but right …

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Shaping China’s green laws
    Beijing may have drawn on global knowledge to write its pollution legislation, but the product is uniquely Chinese, writes Charles McElwee in a summary of the story so far.American, European and Japanese environmental experts will find familiar elements in China’s environmental laws. China has b ...
  • Legal lessons from America
    Does US case-law have anything to teach China’s green warriors? Alex Levinson and Kristen McDonald run through key lawsuits that have shaped the way citizens and campaign groups can use their courts.America’s environmental laws have influenced the development of green legislation abroad: China’s ...
  • Seeking damages
    With no law governing pollution compensation in China, victims can become double losers. Former eco-official Zhang Kunmin tells Meng Si why legislation is needed – but will still take 10 years to emerge.Compensation paid to victims of major environmental incidents in China in recent years has fa ...
  • Averting climate conflict
    This week, the UN Security Council met to debate the risks of climate change. Now is the time to shift our focus from direct environmental impacts to broader threats at a local level, writes Janani Vivekananda.In March 2007, the United Kingdom took the landmark step of putting the issue of clima ...
  • Transparency test in the Bohai Sea
    The attempt to cover up an oil spill – and its failure at the hands of citizens and journalists – brings the dynamics of China’s fight over public information into focus, writes Ma Jun.Public concern has erupted in China over the handling of an oil slick in the Bohai Gulf, which has polluted an ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Tom Minnery’s lies are commonplace in re ...
    The big news today is about the DOMA hearing and how Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) called out Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery for his distortion of a study. Minnery cited a Department of Health and Human Services study to make the case that children do better in a heterosexual household as opposed ...
  • How Rupert Murdoch Could Get His Hands On Your ...
    Rupert Murdoch hired former NYC schools chancellor Joel Klein to help him profit off of "school reform"--but progressive groups are raising the alarm.
  • The Murdochs must stop spinning and resign ove ...
    In 2004, I created Outfoxed to expose Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism. Focusing on Fox News, we examined how NewsCorp has long blurred the line between corporate interests and journalistic integrity. The film presented an in-depth look at the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking cont ...
  • Arizona Launches $50 Million Border Wall Campa ...
    Arizona’s cash-strapped Tea Party-led legislature is not launching a campaign for the state’s failing schools today, despite cutting $450 million in the education budget. Nor is Arizona’s Tea Party-led legislature launching a campaign for the state’s failing health care system, despite devastati ...
  • Why Are Americans Still Giant Hypocrites About ...
    So many Americans object to other people doing it that opposition to sex drives American politics.

Threat Level

  • Judge Slashes ‘Appalling’ $1.5 Million File Sh ...
    A federal judge has lowered a file sharing verdict to $54,000 from $1.5 million, ruling Friday that the jury’s award “for stealing 24 songs for personal use is appalling.” The decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Davis follows the third trial in the Recording Industry Association of America’s ...
  • Huge Trove of Academic Docs Posted Online in R ...
    Just two days after activist hacker Aaron Swartz was charged with hacking for downloading too many academic articles, a giant collection of articles from the same service has been posted to the notorious file sharing search engine, The Pirate Bay. The documents are allegedly 18,952 scientific ar ...
  • TSA Announces Privacy Overhaul of Nude Airport ...
    The Transportation Security Administration announced Wednesday that one type of body scanner deployed in as many as 78 airports nationwide will be revamped to no longer display an image of travelers’ naked bodies, bowing to months of criticism over the privacy implications of the technology. Th ...
  • 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.

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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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

  • 23 States Named in Salmonella Papaya Recall wi ...
    The CDC and FDA is warning consumers not to eat papayas from Agromod Produce, Inc., a distributor in McAllen,Texas. A total of 97 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona have been reported from 23 states between January 1 and July 18, 2011. The number of ill persons ...
  • Guillian-Barré Syndrome and Campylobacter on A ...
    JoNel Aleccia, Health Writer for MSNBC, wrote about a cluster of cases of a rare illness that can lead to nerve damage and paralysis has been identified along a small stretch of the United States-Mexico border. At least two dozen people in Yuma County, Ariz., and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, ...
  • Agromod Produce Papayas Linked to 97 Salmonell ...
    Agromod Produce, Inc. of McAllen, Texas is recalling all Papayas, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Fresh, Whole Papayas were distributed nationwide and to Canada through retail stores and wholesalers. Agromod is recalling all Blondie, Yaya, Ma�anita, and Tast ...
  • Food Safety Lawyer Shares Lesson With Food Ind ...
    A press release that is going out next week: In the last 20 years, food safety attorney Bill Marler has sued hundreds of large food companies on behalf of thousands of victims of foodborne illness.  He has recovered hundreds of millions in settlements and judgments for clients and has helped pr ...
  • '30 days of hell' for US victim of German E. c ...
    Mike Stobbe of AP Atlanta wrote a great story today about John and Loreen Meyer and John’s struggle with E. coli O104:H4 in the story “’30 days of hell’ for US victim of German E. coli” that hit the wire a few moments ago. ... Though it all happened less than two months ago, Meyer's memory is f ...

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!

  • New York Set to Close School for Troubled Teen ...
    As Congress considers spending cuts to reduce the deficit, critics warn that reduced education, healthcare and other social services will disproportionally impact low-income communities of color. This is the case in New York City, where a high school that provides drug treatment to former gang ...
  • The British Watergate: A Backgrounder on the M ...
    The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program "The Listening Post," chronicles how the Murdoch phone hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in t ...
  • VIDEO: Rebekah Brooks Testimony Raises More Qu ...
    Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks testified before the British Parliament July 19 as the phone hacking scandal engulfing the Murdoch media empire continues to grow. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch also testified at the same hearing. Click here to watch the ...
  • "Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie." By Am ...
    “People say that Australia has given two people to the world,” Julian Assange told me in London recently, “Rupert Murdoch and me.” Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, was humbly dismissing my introduction of him, to a crowd of 1,800 at East London’s Troxy theater, in ...
  • 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.

Suzie-Q

  • Alan Grayson explains… “Why Boener ...
    This went out in an email to previous supporters of Alan Grayson this morning.� Dear Linus, I know why House Speaker John Boehner walked out of debt ceiling talks with President Obama on Friday. It�s because Boehner can�t deliver. It doesn�t matter what terms the President offers. It�s that simp ...
  • How Murdoch’s Times of London and Fox News Coo ...
    By David Fiderer, a lawyer who covers the energy industry for several global banks in New York.  This is an OpEdNews.com repost. If you wondered whether Murdoch’s various news outlets operate in sync when they misrepresent the facts about climate change, consider the deceitful reporting done by ...
  • SocialSecurity & The Deficit: Keeping the Promise
    Pushing Crisis: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda DEMOCRACY NOW� July 22. 2011 President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling befo ...
  • Norway youth camp attack kills 84
    He first shot people on the island – afterward he started shooting people in the waterâ BBC, 23 July 2011 At least 84 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a deadly bombing in the capital, Oslo, police say. Police have charged a 32-year-old Norwegia ...
  • Republican House Speaker John Boehner quits de ...
    BBC, 23 July 2011 Obama: It’s hard to understand Watch Boehner: White House like Jell-O Watch Republican House Speaker John Boehner has walked away from crunch debt ceiling talks at the White House with US President Barack Obama. Mr Obama said Mr Boehner had rejected an “extraordinarily fair dea ...

Solari

  • ‘Super Congress’: Debt Ceiling Neg ...
    By Ryan Grim Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public’s unwillingness to let go of benefits such as Medicare and Social Security that have been earned over a lifetime of work: Create a new Congress. This “Super Cong ...
  • The Fed Audit: $16 Trillion in Secret Loans
    By Senator Bernie Sanders The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. ...
  • Debasing Ourselves
    By Sam Smith Percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider: •    Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent) •    Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1 percent) •    Taiwan: $153.4 billion (1.1 percent) •    Brazil: $211.4 billion (1.5 percent) •    Oil exporting countries: $229.8 ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The ...
  • Money & Markets – Week of 7.24.11
    Krugman: Europe’s Greek Debt Deal Will Kill Recovery AdvisorOne (22 July 11) The Euro Crisis Will Give Germany The Empire It’s Always Dreamed Of The Telegraph (20 July 11)

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��

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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

  • Rao Responds
    On the blog he created to discuss ideas from the book: http://www.tempobook.com/2011/07/24/chet-richards-review-of-tempo-on-fabius-maximus/ You may also be interested in following him at his personal blog: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ �
  • Book Review: Tempo
    Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making by Venkatesh Rao (Ribbonfarm, 2011; 154 pages) Reviewed by Chet Richards July 24, 2011 A good book is read more than once while accumulating copious notes in its margins and on the blank pages that the publisher has thoughtf ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Should We Include Global Insecurity as a Hidde ...
    Last week, the UN Security Council adopted a meek statement (watered down at the insistence of Russia, China, and India) linking climate change to global security risks. The Pacific Small Island Developing States chairman and Nauru president, Marcus Stephen urged the Security Council to look i ...
  • Cyber Attacks and Pentagon Responses
    2Lt William Liggett works at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010. U.S. national security planners are proposing that the 21st century's critical infrastructure -- power grids, communications, wa ...
  • Captain America and Total War
    Something I rather enjoyed about watching Captain America on Sunday afternoon was that for a war movie (which is what it is, more than a comic book movie), it offered an unusually comprehensive view of mobilization for total war. You get the soldiers, of course, whose willingness to risk their ...
  • If Only Defense Spending Had a Domestic Consti ...
    The tragic indifference of American political leaders, commentators, business executives, and senior military officers to the plight of the shrinking U.S. defense budget continues unabated today. Well, unless you read the op-ed pages of major American newspapers, watch cable news, use the intern ...
  • Gen. John Shalikashivili: 1936-2011
    Over the weekend, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993-97, John M. Shalikashvili passed away. As the obituaries in The Washington Post and The New York Times note, he had an amazing personal story and illustrious career. President Barack Obama said, in part, â… the United States h ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Harry Reid’s Debt Limit Offer is Doomed to Fai ...
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s offer for raising the debt limit is straightforward, if somewhat painful for liberals. In exchange for raising the debt limit by $2.7 trillion, Reid promises to cut spending by $2.7 trillion over the next year, a substantial portion of which comes from defense ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    Yannis Palaiologos asks whether the latest EU plan will save the Eurozone debt crisis. David Dayen explains how the Gang of Six has made the debt ceiling negotiations even more complicated. David Callahan argues that Obama should be talking more about defense spending cuts.
  • Cornel West Is Not Helping Himself
    The standard criticism of Cornel West is that while he started his career as an excellent philosopher, he gave that up in favor of just being a celebrity (West left Harvard in a dispute with then-president Larry Summers over whether he was pulling his scholarly weight, and while he still teaches ...
  • Keeping the Faith, If Not the Promise
    When Barack Obama took office, I wrote a column speculating on whether he would dial back the rather sectarian approach the Bush administration took to dealing with government funding of religious organizations. I got mixed views from the representatives of secular organizations I spoke to; some ...
  • Doubling Down on Twitter?
    Down below, my very smart colleague Paul Waldman entertains the idea of increasing Twitter's character limit, riffing off a recent piece on the same by Slate's Farhad Manjoo. Sidestepping the linguistic specifics of the tweet capacity question, I have to ask, if there was enough demand for that ...

Buzzflash

  • The Damage Done to America by Global Warming W ...
    PETER G. COHEN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There is another way to look at it! Whether we are talking about national military, industrial, trade, business or other issues, it is important to remember that we are in the early stages of extreme weather change. We cannot make decisions based on 20th ...
  • FOX is Second Only to North Korea in Peddling ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Oh it's been one sweet ride. The GOP found itself to be the sugar daddy of all sugar daddies, who not only had money, and plenty of it, but controlled a growing media empire. He personified everything the GOP had come to believe about the supremacy of capi ...
  • Michele Bachmann: Bubblehead In A Bubble
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Why didn't a top aide pull Michele aside And say, "Please listen to me, Missy: I love Marcus just as much as you do but His voice does sound a little bit sissy.   And as far as your incapacitating migraines go, You shouldn't now be reeling with it Being r ...
  • Eisenhower Today Would be Considered a Sociali ...
    BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Yes, Dwight Eisenhower would be so far outside of the radical beliefs of the modern Republican party that he would be somewhere between the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and President Obama.   This quotation is from a personal letter to his brother, Edgar Newton ...
  • Can a Fundamentalist Congresswoman from Minnes ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   More fun than Harry Potter Playing quidditch Is hearing Michele Bachmann Mangle Yiddish.read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Wear sunscreen
    Remember that speech that led to that Baz Luhrmann hit, “Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen“? It was good advice and still is. Here, my friend Kat Arney, blogger, broadcaster, cancer expert and harpist, explains the ins and outs of sun protection. It perhaps should also be mentioned that you can ...
  • Higgs glimpse?
    Higgs glimpse? – Lots of hype going on around the possibility of having spotted a glimpse of the Higgs boson that, in theory, endows matter with mass. Of course, despite the press conferences and hype, the physicists are still stressing that it is far too early to know whether the signals they h ...
  • Rosalind Franklin Google Doodle
    Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British X-ray crystallographer who made pioneering contributions to the understanding of the detailed molecular structures of the genetic code with her data from DNA and RNA as well as viruses, coal and graphite. She died prematurely a ...
  • Periodic table of rock and metal
    What if the whole of the Periodic Table were all rocks and metal? And what if it were created in 1987 by Jesus, he of the Roadside as a tribute to Guns ‘n Roses? It is obviously a concept whose time has come, because there are several others around that attempt to knock out the [...]Periodic tab ...
  • It’s not what you know…
    It’s not what you know, but who you know. It is something of a cliché, but in a world where the social context of knowledge is becoming increasingly important. Think Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Mendeley etc. The data, the information, seems only relevant if we have some kind of peer review, the ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Kucinich Asks Tough Questions About FBI Invest ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder asking tough questions about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s large commitment of resources to investigate small, local groups of individuals whose primary concern is peace. Congressman Kucinich also asked for an ...
  • Amnesty Condemns Vedanta Resources and Affilia ...
    Ongoing attempts by U.K. based mining company Vedanta Resources to overturn an Indian government decision blocking a proposed bauxite mine and expansion of an aluminum refinery in Orissa should not be allowed to succeed, says a new report by Amnesty International. The report, Generalizations, Om ...
  • House Continues Assault on Key Health & Enviro ...
    The U.S. House of Representatives will begin debate today on important legislation that sets spending requirements for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service and other federal agencies. The bill currently contains dozens of “riders” tha ...
  • Kucinich: “Chained C.P.I Chains Seniors to Pov ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the House floor again today to defend seniors from unfair attempts to cut Social Security benefits.� Kucinich has previously pointed out that Social Security is financially sound and should not be connected to the federal deficit debate.read more
  • Study: Barely Half of Attorney Fees in Forest ...
    A new study in the Journal of Forestry finds that barely half of attorney fee payments from cases involving the U.S. Forest Service went to environmental groups over a seven-year study period. The finding contradicts recent right-wing claims that environmental groups are getting rich under the E ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • A Future Without Coal
    Mariel Nanasi It’s time we secure a future without coal in New Mexico, across America, and around the world. It won’t be easy. Along the way, we will need a lot of help, creativity and inspiration. read more
  • America Doesn't Need a Tax-Dodging Industry
    Chuck Collins Like a pack of men in suits mud wrestling, Washington's budget battle would be entertaining to watch if we the people weren't about to get hurt.read more
  • The Greater Threat: Christian Extremism From T ...
    Pierre Tristam Timothy McVeigh, meet Anders Behring Breivik.Christian jihadists: Timothy McVeigh and Anders Behring Breivik.read more
  • Messing with Medicare
    Paul Krugman At the time of writing, President Obama’s hoped-for “Grand Bargain” with Republicans is apparently dead. And I say good riddance. I’m no more eager than other rational people (a category that fails to include many Congressiona ...
  • CEOs to Workers: More for Me, Less for You
    Holly Sklar Big company CEOs got a 23 percent raise last year and corporate profits are at record highs. But the minimum wage has less buying power now than in 1956 – the year Elvis Presley first topped the charts, videotape was breakthrou ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Gaza families demand right to visit prisoners
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City On 11 July, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Palestine Red Crescent Society helped facilitate a demonstration to protest the ban on Palestinians from Gaza visiting their imprisoned loved�ones.
  • Israeli left's awakening too little, too late
    Raja ShehadehThe Electronic Intifada The strong reaction by left-wing Israelis to the recently passed “boycott law” must have astounded many in the country’s right-wing government and made them wonder why such a strong reaction now.
  • Who is the real oppressor of Gaza women's rights?
    Yasmeen El KhoudaryThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip Why won’t the international media ask women in Gaza what really matters to them? Yasmeen El-Khoudary comments for The Electronic Intifada.
  • Women prisoners tell their stories in "Suspend ...
    Charlotte SilverThe Electronic IntifadaRamallah Suspended Lives, a photography exhibition that profiles ten women and their incarceration in Israeli prisons, is part of the UN Women’s project “Palestinian Female Prisoners in Israeli Prison,” which aims to uphold and advocate for the rights of Pa ...
  • The grumpy diplomats of the rogue state
    Ilan PappeThe Electronic Intifada The effort to gain recognition for a “State of Palestine” as a West Bank enclave inhabited by a fraction of the Palestinian people may intimidate Israel, but does not constitute a defining moment in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine, argues Ilan Pappe ...

The Wonk Room

  • Murderous Racists Are Bad Pop Culture Analysts
    From the manifesto of Anders Breivik, the right-winger who murdered 76 people in Norway on Friday: It is obvious that Nordic entertainment super-stars like Scarlett Johansson (60-70% Nordic purity), Gwyneth Paltrow (70-80%)Pamela Anderson (90-95%), Paris Hilton (70-80%), Taylor Swift (80- 90%) w ...
  • Breivik Was Influenced By American Islamophobe ...
    As the world struggles to make sense of the tragic attacks in Norway last week, it has become apparent that Anders Behring Breivik, the main suspect held by police, left a long trail of online comments, a YouTube video, and a manifesto outlining his political beliefs. The New York Times reports ...
  • New Security Body Scanners Still Threaten Tran ...
    The Transport Security Administration (TSA) has announced that the software associated with its full-body scanners will no longer show explicit images of the person being scanned. Advocates are hopeful that the change will help protect transgender individuals from being unfairly outed, but conce ...
  • NFIB: Health Law Isn’t Forcing Small Bus ...
    You’d expect the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) — a lobby that has practically aligned itself with the Republican party and is a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act — to release a survey that substantiates the GOP’s most po ...
  • Obama’s Worst Campaign Promise
    Jamelle Bouie has a smart piece about the tactical and budgetary problems with Barack Obama’s pledge against any tax increases on people earning less than $250,000. Something about this that I think often goes overlooked is that the “middle class” tax cuts Obama is defending are sharply regressi ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Proper Way to Respond to International Tra ...
    OH! Somebody did something horrible and killed a bunch of people! I hate that person! OH! A different group of people did something horrible to another different group of people! What's wrong with the people who did the horrible thing?? OH NO! The group of people who were attacked did somethi ...
  • Helping the Neighbours ...
    My neighbours were trying to build a tree-house for their kids, where they and their friends could play. But they didn't know what they were doing. A few broken bones later, I decided to help. But then it occurred to me that I was really busy and I didn't want to spend any of my time or money ...
  • A Steady Diet of Garbage
    Radio alarm clock wakes 'em up to some spewing hate-fest. Turn on the television and there's FOXNews telling them that Obama the fascist-socialist is spending them into penury and the only option is to cut taxes for billionaires and slash social security and medicare. Read a Charles Adler colu ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Papayas recalled following salmonella outbreak
    A food distributor has announced a papaya recall after 97 cases of salmonella were reported in the US and the bacteria was found in samples of the fruit.
  • Toronto Police to launch social media program
    On Wednesday the Toronto Police Service will break new ground by launching its social media program. The TPS has been a world leader when it comes to the use of social media in the field of policing.
  • NDP leader Jack Layton temporarily steps down ...
    Jack Layton, leader of Canada's federal NDP Party, has stepped down temporarily due to a new cancer that was diagnosed last week. Layton was hospitalized last week at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto.
  • Captain America defeats Harry Potter, takes to ...
    "Captain America: The First Avenger" has taken over first place at the box office by defeating "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2." The Marvel film garnered $65.8 million domestically on a $140 million budget.
  • RIM slashes 11% of global workforce, COO retires
    BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced Monday it was cutting 2,000 jobs around the globe, or 11 percent of its workforce. It also announced that Don Morrison, Chief Operating Officer, is retiring.

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

  • Pat Stogran calls $2 billion promised to veter ...
    Last September, amidst outrage by soldiers and reports in the media critical of the government’s treatment of veterans, the Harper government promised $2 billion in increased benefits. It was announced at the time that the money would go to “increased financial support for seriously injured Vet ...
  • Talks collapse in Bahrain
    Bahrain, a Persian Gulf nation that has been the site of pro-democracy protests over recent months, is entering a new, uncertain phase after the collapse of talks between the main Shiite opposition party and the ruling Sunni elite (Associated Press, “Shiite Party in Bahrain Leaves Talks With Rul ...
  • How much would you give to stop Harper’s steal ...
    Would you give $7 each month to stop Harper's stealth fighters? Go to https://www.ceasefire.ca/donate/donate.php
  • Ceasefire.ca volunteers send letters to 2500 s ...
    A photo of our team of volunteers sending letters to 2500 Ceasefire.ca supporters.
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • One Lot of Coumadin Recalled Over Potency Fears
    May 12th, 2011 WalletPop.com By: Linda Doell Bristol-Myers Squibb recalled one lot of its blood thinner medicine Coumadin after tests showed the tablets could be more potent than the dosage, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Coumadin — also known as warfarin sodium — is prescribe ...
  • Olive Oil Reduces Risk of Stroke
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By:  J.D. Heyes Another new study has confirmed what we’ve known for quite some time – that olive oil contributes to better health. According to researchers who followed about 7,000 people aged 65 and older in three French cities for five years, olive oil can hel ...
  • Bill Gates, Monsanto Hijack ‘Humanitarian Aid’ ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Those still in denial about the connection between the so-called “humanitarian” efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the bigger agenda to thrust genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) on the populations of the world (among other thi ...
  • J&J Recalls 40,000 Bottles of Schizophrenia Dr ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Jonathan Benson The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Co.’s pharmaceutical division just cannot seem to get its act together. A recent recall involving 16,000 bottles of its schizophrenia drug Risperdal, and 24,000 bottles of a generic version of the same drug, mark yet ...
  • What’s Wrong With Our Food System?
    Click here for the video!

Pambazuka News

  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descen ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestr ...
    In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...

War in Context

  • Some Israelis think Norway got what it deserved
    At The Forward, J J Goldberg reports: The Norway massacre has touched off a nasty war of words on the Israeli Internet over the meaning of the event and its implications for Israel. And I do mean nasty: Judging by the comments sections on the main Hebrew websites, the main questions under debat ...
  • Did Anders Behring Breivik act alone? — Updated
    (Update below.) In his manifesto, 2083 A European Declaration of Independence, Anders Behring Breivik — who will soon go on trial for murdering at least 93 fellow Norwegians — writes: Solo-cell systems in combination with martyrdom is the most efficient and deadly form of modern warfare. This ...
  • Norway killings put U.S. extremists in spotlight
    The New York Times reports: The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passag ...
  • From Pamela Geller to Anders Behring Breivik — ...
    When terrorism has a white face it invariably gets marginalized in the popular narrative. The lone wolf, the outsider, the sociopath — in many cases these portraits of misanthropic, isolated individuals who turn to violence are quite accurate. The Oslo killings, however, should be seen in a dif ...
  • The ‘For Neville’ email: two words that could ...
    The Guardian reports: Many angry victims of the News of the World’s journalism used to try their hand at suing, and the paper’s battle-hardened lawyers were good at seeing them off. Still they regularly paid out £1.2m a year on a variety of libel claims. But in May 2008, Tom Crone, the paper’ ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Loehle and Scafetta calculate 0.66°C/century f ...
    Guest post by Craig Loehle and Nicolas Scafetta Human Effect on Climate Clearly Detected (but is 0.66 deg C/100yr since ~1950!) Loehle, C. and N. Scafetta. 2011. Climate Change Attribution Using Empirical Decomposition of Historical Time Series. Open Atmospheric Science … Continue reading →
  • Prey and predator model of clouds
    From the Weizmann Institute of Science – Eat, Prey, Rain Photo: Tamar Deutsch What do a herd of gazelles and a fluffy mass of clouds have in common? A mathematical formula that describes the population dynamics of such prey animals … Continue reading →
  • Curiosity – coming to Mars – maybe
    When I was in Washington a couple of weeks ago for ICCC6, I took the family to the National Air and Space Museum on the mall. While everyone was gazing at rockets and other bus-sized hardware of glory days past, … Continue reading →
  • Law of unintended carbon consequences
    From Oregon State University Northwest Forest Plan has unintended benefit â carbon sequestration CORVALLIS, Ore. â The Northwest Forest Plan enacted in 1993 was designed to conserve old-growth forests and protect species such as the northern spotted owl, but researchers … Continue reading →
  • David Appell denies he has any class
    Normally, I ignore David Appell who runs a blog called Quark Soup where he spends a good portion of his time hyperbloviating about things that make him upset. A lot of the time, that’s me and the readers of WUWT. … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael Hudson: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Jul 22, 2011 President Obama and Republican House speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both Congres ...
  • Wisdom From Ephesus: The Gospel of John
    Dandelion Salad [Each part is 26 minutes long.] Day of Discovery On the western coast of Turkey is one of the most stunning archeological sites in the modern world, Ephesus.  Journey with author and musician Michael Card through this ancient site to discover more about the life and times of the ...
  • Saudi and Emirati Forces Open Fire on Unarmed ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 24, 2011 A shocking new video shows Saudi and Emirati forces firing indiscriminately at a crowd of unarmed youth protesting against the autocratic US-backed Bahraini government [See video below]. The attack took place after Friday prayers ...
  • Semantic Propaganda Feeds Stupidity by Joel S. ...
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org July 23, 2011 We would already have had a much needed American revolution in response to the tyranny of the money-fed two-party plutocracy that is destroying the middle class except for one big problem: so much of the American p ...
  • Rick Rozoff: U.S. Afghan Strategy: Senseless A ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism July 22, 2011 Voice of Russia July 22, 2011 US Afghan strategy: senseless and merciless John Robles Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contribut ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    The worst famine the world has seen in decades is killing tens of thousands of people in Somalia. So Rupert Murdoch's The London Times decides this human tragedy is as good a means as any to try and steer attention away the ongoing hacking and spying scandal that continues to engulf the Times pa ...
  • No title
    The Many Sticky Threads That Make Up The Tangled Web Of Rupert Murdoch's Spying And Corruption Blech : The Murdoch Hacking, Spying And Corruption Scandal is complicated, and unless you have spent hours churning through the dozen or more articles posted everyday by the Guardian and the New Yo ...
  • No title
    Rupert Murdoch spent a small fortune on a PR company to make him come across as helpless, humble and innocent as possible, during his time before British MPs to answer questions on illegal spying and outrageous invasions of personal privacy. Or not answer them. Barbra Walters buys the fantasy, ...
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Cross-Species Gadget Tests Reveal Reason for D ...
    The dolphins of Australia’s Shark Bay, famed as Earth’s first marine tool-users, likely turned to gadgetry because echolocation couldn’t find the best fish, especially for hurried moms without time to hunt. It was in 1984 that researchers first observed the dolphins fitting basket sponges over ...
  • Black Hole Holds Universe’s Biggest Water Supply
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever found in the universe. It’s 12 billion light years away, and holds at least 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth’s oceans combined. It manifests itself as a colo ...
  • Photographers Capture Mysterious, Beautiful Pa ...
    A single sand grain is a simple thing. But en mass, grains of sand build, slide and settle into beautiful and mysterious patterns we admire, but cannot always understand. We've gathered some of the strangest and most impressive pictures we could find of sand patterns.
  • The Hazy Science of Hot Weather and Violence
    The link between violence and hot weather is so intuitive that it’s embedded in our language: Hotheads lose tempers that flare, anger simmers and comes to a boil, and eventually we cool down. So what does science have to say? Do tempers truly soar with temperature? The answer, appropriately en ...
  • Giant Crater Is Next Mars Rover Landing Site
    The next fantastic voyage across the red planet will begin in just over a year when NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover lands in a crater 96 miles wide and three miles deep that contains a geological record of the planet’s epic history. On July 22, NASA officially announced that Curiosity will land at ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Irene Gendzier: September 2011 and May 1948 – ...
    What will the Palestinians do at the UN in September? The question appears to haunt Washington and Tel Aviv as they prepare to block Palestinian attempts to obtain UN recognition, as though the very... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • IDF Civil Administration pushing for land take ...
    Inclusion of Jordan Valley, northern Dead Sea and area surrounding Ariel in 'settlement blocs' whose takeover the IDF Civil Administration is advancing, would prevent establishment of Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Video shows IDF officer pointing loaded gun at ...
    A video uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday by the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem shows an IDF officer pointing a loaded gun at an unarmed Palestinian in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • The anti-Boycott Law: questions and answers
    On 11 July 2011, the Knesset plenum passed the Anti-Boycott Law, which enables the filing of civil lawsuits against those who call for a boycott of the State of Israel or any of its territories (e.g.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • No freedom of sailing, mourning, flying, bicyc ...
    The Other Israel and Occupation Magazine's joint summary of current events and activities. 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 more...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Po ...
    Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) ...
  • Returning Veterans' Alcohol Abuse Addressed in ...
    The spoils of war for returning veterans may include addictions, injury and the constant images of horrific events they witnessed. Now a UH joint study funded by the Veterans Health Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development service looks to address these issues through the use of v ...
  • Nova Southeastern University Opens High-Tech N ...
    The lab will house four high-tech robotic simulators placed in hospital beds that simulate a full functioning hospital, including a baby and birthing mother.
  • New Avenues Open Up for Mesothelioma Targeted ...
    Researchers from the lab of Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph.D., the Founder and Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, have identified new potential anti-tumor agents that might be effective in treating mesothelioma, one of the deadliest cancer tumors.
  • Physicians, Dentists Team Up to Improve Childr ...
    Leaders in medicine and dentistry will meet in Seattle July 28-29 to discuss a new approach in the fight against childhood dental disease: enlisting family physicians and pediatricians.

Natural Health News

  • Going Into Hospital Far Riskier Than Flying: WHO
    According to the World Health Organization, going in to the hospital is far more hazardous than flying.� Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to hospital visits. Your chances of being subjected to a hospital error are currently about 1 in 10, and your chanc ...
  • Why Are We Wasting Billions of Dollars on Prev ...
    The NPR podcast linked below discusses, among other matters, the fact that: �Cost is shaping the debate about vaccines ... While getting shots for some deadly diseases can lower disease rates among the whole population, others may not be as essential. And as some vaccines become quite expensive ...
  • Why Were 150 Human Animal Hybrids Secretively ...
    In the UK, scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos.� The hybrids have been produced secretively by researchers looking into cures for various diseases. A campaigner against the excesses of medical research said he was disgusted that scientists were �dabbling in the gro ...
  • Why Does Successful Drug Treatment of GERD Inc ...
    A recent study found that medically treated patients with mild or absent GERD symptoms have significantly higher odds of a form of cancer, esophageal adenocarcinoma, than medically treated patients who still suffer from severe GERD symptoms. Testing of more than 750 patients with GERD revealed ...
  • Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
    In March, Hungary introduced a new regulation�which states that seeds must to be checked for GMO before�they are introduced to the market. �However, some GMO seeds made it to the farmers without their being aware of it. As a result, almost 1000 acres�of maize found to have been grown with genet ...

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

  • International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court
    by Ingrid Wuerth by Ingrid Wuerth Thank you for the opportunity to comment on International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court, edited by Bill Dodge, Mike Ramsey and David Sloss. Mike has already described the book’s purpose and organizational structure in a post from this morning. My post focuses ...
  • International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: R ...
    by Harlan Cohen by Harlan Cohen First, let me start by thanking Duncan and the entire OJ crew, as well as David Sloss, Mike Ramsey, and Bill Dodge, for the opportunity to engage this amazing project. The book is an extraordinary accomplishment, magisterial in scope yet elegant in execution. Pu ...
  • International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: I ...
    by Michael Ramsey by Michael Ramsey On behalf of myself and my co-editors David Sloss and William Dodge, thanks to Opinio Juris for hosting this book discussion.  As readers of this blog know, the twenty-first century’s first decade was an extraordinarily active one for international law in th ...
  • Interesting WikiLeaks Tidbits
    by Kevin Jon Heller Three stories to mention.  First, Moreno-Ocampo plans to introduce WikiLeaks cables in the trial of the six Kenyan defendants: This emerged as he prepares to hand over the last batch of the evidence he will rely on in the September hearing against three of Kenya’s six ...
  • Interesting WikiLeaks Tidbits
    by Kevin Jon Heller Three stories to mention.  First, Moreno-Ocampo plans to introduce WikiLeaks cables in the trial of the six Kenyan defendants: This emerged as he prepares to hand over the last batch of the evidence he will rely on in the September hearing against three of Kenya’s six ...

Public News Service

  • Help With Energy Bills Still Available for Low ...
    Help With Energy Bills Still Available for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – High summer energy bills can be especially painful for low-income Arizonans, sometimes threatening their ability to remain in their homes. But help is available from several sources. Comments from Arizona Community Act ...
  • Consumer Groups Hail New Federal Protection Bureau
    Consumer Groups Hail New Federal Protection Bureau Phoenix, AZ – Today (Thursday), is the first day of operations for the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Consumer advocates say while Wall Street banks oppose the new bureau, it’s an idea that the public is solidly behind. Commen ...
  • Arizona Supporters "Plug In" at NC Clean Energ ...
    Arizona Supporters "Plug In" at NC Clean Energy Conference Phoenix, AZ - This week, Arizona clean energy advocates are participating in "Plug-In 2011," a yearly conference of clean energy technology professionals, in Raleigh, North Carolina. It's the first time the event has been held outside of ...
  • Hug It Out Today
    Hug It Out Today Phoenix, AZ – Today (Monday) is Global Hug Your Kids Day, an event started several years ago by Michelle Nichols on the anniversary of the death of her 8-year-old son - who passed away just eleven days after he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Comments from Nichols, and Sarah Wa ...
  • Summer Vacation Travel Safety Tips with Kids i ...
    Summer Vacation Travel Safety Tips with Kids in Mind Phoenix, AZ – Summer family vacations are in full swing, and whether you're traveling by car, train or plane, parents need to be mindful of several tips to keep everyone safe. Comments from Dr. Kenneth Wible (WHY-bul), medical director of the ...

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

  • Jim Crow in Palestine | SocialistWorker.org
    Jim Crow in Palestine | SocialistWorker.org: "'As a people who survived the Middle Passage and Jim Crow segregation--and organized successful struggles against those forms of oppression--we have a responsibility to speak out about the occupation of Palestine and share with Palestinians the lesso ...
  • Political prisoners start fasting until Aquino ...
    Political prisoners start fasting until Aquino’s Sona - Bulatlat By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Hundreds of political prisoners in various detention cells nationwide have started fasting today up to President Benigno S. Aquino III’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday. Drama ...
  • Anger erupts over fatal shooting of youth by S ...
    Anger erupts over fatal shooting of youth by SF police: (FinalCall.com) - A coalition of San Francisco activists, youth and religious leaders held a “No More Stolen Lies” press conference at the intersection of Third Street and Oakdale Avenue in the Bay View Hunters Point neighborhood to demand ...
  • Policing the borders means policing Canadian j ...
    Policing the borders means policing Canadian journalism? | rabble.ca: "While awaiting an important, far-reaching speech by Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenney on Tuesday, I was chatting to a fellow reporter when organizers kicked me out moments before it began -- despite having a press in ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Carbon tax?
    For quite a while now Australia has been talking about adopting a carbon tax; but will it be a good option to decrease our carbon emissions (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html)? Although this measure can have impact about the country's economy, it should allow Australians - ...
  • Carbon Tax - Say Yes
    Why a carbon tax in Australia? Soon the big polluters will be paying a carbon tax but there are so many questions - like where is all the money going go? But by stopping to talk about money, this carbon tax can be a first step to move to a green Australia (glossary/categories/lifestyle/gree ...
  • Need some energy?
      We all know that eating fruits and vegetables is healthy and a great way to prevent illness. The principal element for the nutrition of vegans (glossary/categories/lifestyle/vegan.html), fruits and vegetables are one of gifts from nature. Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and more. They are a ...
  • Nature will thank you - and so will we
      It's the last day to support your online green magazine and directory in the 2011 Sydney Business Awards!   We need your support, Vote now for Green Times! here (http://sydneybusinessawards.com.au/sba/vote/%28id%29/917) here (http://sydneybusinessawards.com.au/sba/vote/%28id%29/917) h ...
  • One by One
    Nowadays we don't measure the power of one gesture, of one smile, of a hand extended, they have all the power to change a life. Biodiversity (glossary/categories/wildlife/biodiversity.html), fauna, flora (wildlife/flora.html), all that we need to protect, to sustain our world, can be preserved ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Here is the  video of the Nabi Saleh protest from Friday. We received this account from the same protest our anonymous  source A., an international activist living in Palestine.  She explains: This account is edited from a chat conversation describing events that took place on July 21st dur ...
  • For Lieberman, human rights = terrorism
    Well, this sums it up well. Though Israel declined to follow up the anti-Boycott bill by passing a law calling for the investigation of human rights organizations, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was not “blasted ministers for refusing to probe” From Ha’aretz, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberm ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Norway memorial
    “Norway chooses LOVE and ROSES.” Music and lyrics by Warfare Legacy, written after the killings.
  • Tragedy strikes. Obama, Biden forced to cancel ...
    Poor babies, and surely many members of Congress are also being forced to cancel fundraisers because they must stay in DC to deal with some foolish emergency affecting the entire country. Oh, the indignity of it all. It is deeply tragic that the reality of the debt crisis is interfering with the ...
  • Norway must somehow still be the fault of Musl ...
    Lenin’s Tomb is spot on. However, if you want to understand the attitude of the punditocracy to fascist terrorism, consider the query put by BBC News to the former Norwegian Prime Minister yesterday: “Do you think not enough attention was paid to those unhappy re immigration?” Or, consider this ...
  • Google+ as a primary news source, and more
    I first learned about the Norway bombing and murders on Google+. So did Scoble. So did lots of people. Images and videos appear as part of the feed, unlike Twitter, and there’s no 140 character limit. On Facebook, what you see is filtered, so you may not see all of someone’s posts. This doesn’t ...
  • Hawaii has problems of abundance with solar power
    More people want solar on their roofs yet the grid can barely handle that much fluctuating power yet. High levels of customer-generated solar power on the grid can be problematic for utilities because the generation systems are outside their control, and the source of the energy — the sun — fluc ...

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

  • Norway and Violent Lessons of the State
    A terrible, terrible tragedy struck Norway on July 22nd, 2011. My heartfelt condolences go out to all that lost someone in those terrorist attacks. It is a horrible thing to lose a loved one in such a violent manner. I cannot express enough my dismay when I heard the news. Norway is perhaps one ...
  • Banned Commercial about the US National Debt
    A new television ad about the U.S. national debt produced by Citizens Against Government Waste has been deemed “too controversial” by major networks including ABC, A&E and The History Channel and will not be shown on those channels. The commercial is a homage to a 1986 ad that was entitled “The ...
  • 666 – CERN Officials May Have Witnessed ...
    Saturday, 23 July 2011, 05:40 CDT RedOrbit.com Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) may have gotten their first look at the so-called “God particle” — the fabled massive elementary particle known as the Higgs boson — accor ...
  • 6 Ways Food is Being Used as a Weapon
    � Dees Illustration Activist Post Monday, July 25, 2011 Hungry people will do anything for food, which means that those who have control over food can use it as leverage. In 1974, Henry Kissinger suggested using food as a weapon to induce targeted population reduction in a previously classified ...
  • Fed’s $16 Trillion Dollar Secret Slush Fund Pr ...
    � By Silver Shield,on July 25th,2011 �It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system,for if they did,I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.� -Henry Ford � While the world waits with baited breath on the Contrived Drama of the ...

The Air Vent

  • Roman M’s anomaly combination incorporat ...
    As long time readers know, I’m a fan of Roman’s temperature combination method which doesn’t require a base period window to offset individual station anomalies in global temperature averaging.   Steve Mosher has incorporated Roman’s work into his own code for R. Roman’s Method – Steve Mosher
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Trypophobia
    Does this picture of a harmless lotus pod give you the howling fantods? I'll admit, it squicks me a little. Jennifer Abbasi reports on the Popular Science blog that there's something of a grassroots movement afoot to recognize "trypophobia," an irrational aversion to the sight of clustered hol ...
  • Born to Run: Poll Shows NJ Voters Evenly Split ...
    I've been trying to draft the Boss for years. Finally, a survey by Policy Policy Polling shows that New Jerseyans are as likely to support Bruce Springsteen for governor (42%) as they are to back incumbent Republican governor Chris Christie (42%), with 16% undecided. Springsteen isn't even run ...
  • Letter to "Dear Prudence" Underscores Importan ...
    Slate's resident advice columnist recently printed a letter from an adult child with a very unusual problem: Dear Prudence, My mother died a decade ago; neither she nor my father had burial plans, so we scrambled and Dad bought a double plot. A few years later, Dad met a nice woman. They ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Featured Facebook Campaigns: Craftsman, Unilev ...
    Charity, branded gaming, purchase selection and free food were part of the ways brands engaged customers on Facebook this week. We’ve excerpted two of the campaigns below. You can see the full week’s coverage in the Facebook Marketing Bible, which also includes detailed breakdowns of dozens of o ...
  • 60 Photos, Quizzes, Pages, Mobile, Bandsintown ...
    60 Photos continued to dominate on our list of applications growing by monthly active users this week, although a handful of other friend apps and quizzes made the list, too. There were some Page tab apps, a few mobile apps, then Yahoo and Bandsintown. The titles on our list gained the most MAU ...
  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, July 18th, 2011 Emerging Paid iOS Apps: iPad Charts Prove More Active Than iPhone Monday Mobile Roundup: Fiscal Re ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at LeadBolt, Metamoki, Inc., Context Optional, Kabam, Glu Mobil ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Lobbying, Mobile, Google+, W ...
    Facebook Spent 320K on Lobbying in 2Q – TechCrunch reported this week that Facebook spent $320,000 on lobbying in the second quarter; the company has already surpassed its 2010 total lobbying spend in the first two quarters of this year. Judge Dismisses Second Winklevoss Lawsuit –  Reuters toda ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik's fello ...
    Gilad Atzmon views an article by Zionist writer and former Trotskyite David Horowitz, written on the eve of the Utoeye Island massacre in Norway, "which could well have provided mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik with all the motivation he needed to commit his crime".
  • Was Norway massacre a reaction to boycott Isra ...
    Gilad Atzmon highlights Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's enthusiastic support for Israel and the sympathy he has received from Israelis and, in the light of this, asks whether Breivik might have been a "Sabbath Goy" responding to the Norwegian Workers Youth League's - to which al ...
  • Rupert Murdoch's intellectual terrorism
    Paul J. Balles views the corrupting influence of Rupert Murdoch and his media empire on the politics, culture and media of the English-speaking world.
  • 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 ...

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 Food for Thought: Trying to See the Forest ...
    …and Finding Some Ones Can we just step back for a few minutes, put aside all the little meddling points showcased by the propaganda machine media and political showmen, take a look at the following facts, and try to see the forest despite the trees? An ‘alleged’ Mastermind executes a terror att ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    DARPA’s Secret Afghan Spy Machine, Hell-Bent on War, John Brennan’s False Drone Claims, U.S. Blocks Oversight of its Mercenary Army in Iraq, Central Asia-Caucasus Cyber Censors Tactics, Financial Sectors Score Big Money for Obama, Which Side of American Torture Are You On? & More! Newsworthy U.S ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Dubai Murder-Accused Had Kiwi Link?, How to Lobby for a Foreign Government & Not Get Arrested, Yemen Conflict: Generating More Child Soldiers, Obama Top Recipient of Murdoch’s News Corp Donations?!, Religious Wars in the Balkans was Orchestrated by USA & NATO, Idle Kingdom: Saudi Arabia & More! ...
  • A “Moment” of reflection for Hamid & Ahmed Wal ...
    “The Diem Moment” for Karzai Brothers? And so the notorious Ahmed Wali Karzai (A.W.K) is dead, killed by a (formerly) trusted bodyguard who had worked closely with U.S. Special forces and the C.I.A.  The assassination of a C.I.A. strategic asset, alleged Kandahar drug boss and tribal “fixer” for ...

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

  • Honoring the spirit that clings
    By: Anne Thomas The other day my friend Junko came rushing into my apartment. She was all excited and said, “Listen to what happened to me. I just went to get a massage. You know how much trouble I have been having ever since I started washing all those jars an ...
  • Shifting out of survival mode in Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas I am very fortunate in that work had not yet begun whilst I was involved in the significant task of moving, so I could give myself over fully to that enjoyable, but demanding task of evolving this place into a home. Actually, I realized I had ne ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Deficit Reduction Down to the Wire
    At a time of growing hunger in America there will be massive cuts to nutrition programs. We have a crisis in homelessness, and there will be cuts to affordable housing. While we need more funds for research and development in disease prevention and other areas, fewer funds will be available. And ...
  • Vicious Cycles: Why Washington is About to Mak ...
    As more and more Americans lose faith that their government can do anything to bring back jobs and wages, they are becoming more susceptible to the Republican's oft-repeated lie that the problem is government -- that if we shrink government, jobs will return, wages will rise, and it will be morn ...
  • 8 days to avoid disaster: Here's a plan for action
    Last Friday night, House Repubs walked out of debt ceiling talks after making it 100% clear that they would rather see America default and the economy ruined than make millionaires or corporations pay one penny more in taxes.But there's still ONE chance to avoid calamity: Congress must vote NOW ...
  • Stop Disastrous Debt Deal. Save the American Dream
    Americans have learned in the past few days that conservative Republicans in Congress are willing to risk default on America's financial obligations, to protect the tax breaks for the rich and force cuts to our retirement security. Republicans would rather break our government's Social Securi ...
  • The Unintended Consequences of Debt Ceiling In ...
    If Republicans become obsessed with their agenda and refuse a reasonable deal, and the Democrats do not cave, the executive branch will be faced with an inability to continue its operations. A Congress willing to destroy its remaining power over a debt ceiling increase that is less than a Federa ...

Switchboard

  • NRDC in the News 7/25: Keystone XL pipeline, A ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In the Wall Street Journal, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz discussed the effects of the Yellowstone River oil spill on the federal government’s consideration of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline; Susan was ...
  • Federal Appeals Court Rejects Attack on Great ...
    Thom Cmar, Attorney, Chicago On Friday, we won another legal battle in the fight to bring protective ballast water standards to the Great Lakes!  The federal appeals court in Washington, DC denied a legal challenge by ports and shipping interests ...
  • Lessons from Carmageddon
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. The dreaded closure of the 405 freeway in Los Angeles the weekend before last, which local officials had dubbed “Carmageddon,” turned out to be a non-event. Thousands of driver ...
  • Brazil and Latin America gear up for Earth Sum ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Photo Credit: Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs It wouldn’t be Rio if there wasn’t a party.  The Municipality of Rio de Janeiro announced that this year the city’s famous New Year’s cele ...
  • Lethal Legislation: How Far Will Some in Congr ...
    Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. This week the House is taking up a big spending bill to which a laundry list of riders have been attached that would remove essential protections for the air we breathe and the water we drin ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • On the Exploitation of Mass Murder
    Jennifer Rubin didn’t have such a good weekend. As a general rule, it’s pretty easy not to use the murder of ninety-three Norwegians to shill for the defense industry.  For example, instead of leaping to the conclusion that Islamic terrorists were responsible for the attacks, then denouncing ad ...
  • No, no, no, no, no
    Bill James once noted that the reason for doing research is to avoid paying the price for believing things that aren’t true. The apparently sincere belief of Obama and his political advisers that sending “messages” to the kind of voters Mark Penn makes up cute names to describe is more political ...
  • The Kind of Terrorism You Should Try to Understand
    Shorter Jerusalem Post: Just because the killer in Norway wasn’t a Muslim shouldn’t distract us from the important project of hating Muslims. There is no way that a sentence that starts with “While there is absolutely no justification for the sort of heinous act perpetrated this weekend in Norwa ...
  • Unity ’12!
    Maybe he could call it the Hot Soup party. And I’m pretty sure I’d rather be governed by Lady Gaga than Thomas Freidman (not to mention Rick Perry, who apparently would be perfectly moderate as long as he ran with Zell Miller.)
  • 27
    Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) Good age for baseball players, bad age for music icons.

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.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Advanced Waterdog Training in August
    An advanced Waterdog training will take place on August 11th. Details from the flyer are below. Hello Waterdogs, I wanted to invite all of you to our Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11 from 5:00—9:00. This training will only be for people who have already attended the initial training. We w ...
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

  • Bangladesh Hindu Temple Holds Grand Opening in ...
    According to reports, the Sunday grand opening included special prayers, community lunch and chanting. Hari Dutta is the President of the Temple whose congregation is mostly Bengali.
  • FinCEN SAR Invites Subscribers in Activity Rev ...
    The invitation has been sent to the subscribers in follow up to FinCEN's e-mail notice of July 18, 2011.
  • Valerie Amos Sounds Alarmed Over Dwindling Aid ...
    Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes and an unknown number of others killed since fighting erupted in early June between Sudanese Government forces and those of the northern wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM-N
  • Apple Makes it Big in China
    Apple's outlets two outlets in Beijing and another two in Shanghai are now the four most visited Applei? Stores worldwide. Its revenue in terms of sales is much higher more than what its Manhattan store in Fifth Avenue is earning.
  • Fashion Designer Calls Kamasutra as Most Celeb ...
    Hindu statesman Rajan Zed said Varma appeared to be bypassing the highly revered and powerful Hinduism texts of Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata (including Bhagavad-Gita) and Ramayana.

environment 360

  • U.S. Land in Flood Plains Could Increase 45 Pe ...
    The amount of U.S. land located within flood plain zones is expected to increase by 40 to 45 percent by the end of this century, according to a study of the impacts of climate change on the federal flood insurance program. The study, which will be released later this summer, projects that a wide ...
  • Forum: Assessing Obama’s Record on the Enviro ...
    When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, environmentalists were optimistic that their issues would finally become a priority at the White House. So how is Obama doing? Yale Environment 360 asked a group of environmentalists and energy experts for their verdicts on the president's performance.
  • Stratospheric Pollution Is Slowing Global Warm ...
    Sulfur dioxide being spewed into the stratosphere by coal-fired power plants and volcanic eruptions has blunted the impact of global warming over the past decade, offsetting roughly one third of the increased heat caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. Researchers at the U ...
  • Hilary Clinton Advocates For Clean Cookstoves ...
    Secretary of State Hilary Clinton urged India to rapidly adopt inexpensive, clean-burning cookstoves and said that two major Indian trade federations had agreed to help disseminate the technology throughout the country. Clinton, who last year launched a $50 million U.S. program to expand clean c ...
  • Bloomberg Gives $50 Million To Sierra Club’s A ...
    New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that his main charitable organization will give $50 million over the next four years to the Sierra Club to expand the group’s campaign to retire coal-burning power plants and replace them with renewable energy. Appearing with Sierra Club Preside ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Norway’s Mass Killer Copied the Unabomber Word ...
    Anders Behring Breivik was thought to have worked nine years of his so-called manifesto. Now it turns out that large parts of the script is plagiarism - copied verbatim from a known American terrorist. The site Document.no as Sunday reveals that some of Anders Behring Breivik’s book, called "208 ...
  • Norway’s Hiddens History - "Aryan" Children Su ...
    Paul Hansen, Bjørn Lengfelder & Gerd Fleischer - Victims of government racism Norway’s powerful Justice Committee has ordered the government to compensate thousands of people, many of whom were locked up in lunatic asylums because they were the children of Norwegian mothers and German soldiers. ...
  • Something Rotten in the State of Norway
    Authorities say he posted on Christian fundamentalist websites and reportedly held right-wing, anti-Muslim views. He was also once a member of the youth wing of a rightist party." It seems that, as the McVeigh bombing essentially destroyed the America militia movement, the European "rightwing" a ...
  • Amy Winehouse joins 27 Club
    One of the greatest mysteries of modern rock’n’roll history seems to have manifested itself again in the death of 27-year-old soul singer Amy Winehouse. 27 Club forever27.co.uk The multiple-Grammy winning artiste, who shot to fame for hits like "Rehab", "Stronger Than Me" and "Love Is A Losing G ...
  • Anders Behring Breivik’s "Manifesto Video": Kn ...
    TV2 Norway have reported that a video has been uploaded to YouTube on July 22, containing a "manifesto" by the Norwegian suspect Anders Behring Breivik who is accused of being behind the explosion in Oslo who killed 7 people, and the shootings in Utøya that killed about 90 youth. The video is ca ...

Russia Today

  • Syria allows political parties
    Syria's government has approved a law that allows for the formation of political parties other than President's Bashar Assad's ruling Baath party. Opposition movements were banned when the Baathists came to power in...
  • US playing a political game of chicken – journ ...
    US politicians are still tussling over how to raise the country's debt ceiling. While Republicans and Democrats argue, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has been trying to calm nervous Asian investors that Washington...
  • Over 100,000 mourners attend vigil for massacr ...
    More than 100,000 people gathered in the Norwegian capital to express their sorrow and support for the victims of the twin attacks that claimed 76 lives on Friday.
  • One shouldn’t expect decrease in Afghan civili ...
    Five children injured in an attack by a UK Apache military helicopter will not be the last in the list of civilian casualties of the Afghan war, says Lindsey German from the Stop the War Coalition.
  • Unprepared Norwegian police under storm of cri ...
    The hapless actions of the Norwegian police, who were unprepared for a terrorist attack, allowing the deaths of 86 people at Utoya Island, have come in for severe criticism.

Not My Tribe

  • Are you there God? it’s me Anders. The i ...
    No sooner has a Mexican vigilante drug ring declared itself a law-keeping fraternity of the Knights Templar, when the Oslo gunman/bomber claims secret membership too. The “2083″ manifesto Anders Behring Breivik released through a carefully harvested email list includes a curious diary/progress l ...
  • Mr Smith goes to #FuckYouWashington
    The netizens are revolting. On the eve of US “austerity measures” the Twitterverse is crowdsourcing its ire against the de facto seat of world government. The unprintable hashtag won’t trend on social networks — it’s alleged, even as momentum builds like a movie title mashup. Typical sentiment: ...
  • CSU Drake coal plant situated in heart of Colo ...
    Europe is closing the last of its coal-fired power plants, while America rebrands coal as clean. And Colorado Springs literally embraces its pollution-spewing Martin Drake Coal Plant. You can burn fossil fuels to warm the globe from anywhere, but for a coal plant’s particulate contaminants to di ...
  • Obama must leave power so that a new political ...
    How would Americans feel to hear a foreign state department proclaim that the USA needs a regime change, that Obama must step down, or it will be up to the American people to rise against their rogue warmongering empire and reclaim their democracy? Can we do it before nations begin bombing us fo ...
  • Daily Gaza fishing flotilla blockaded by Israe ...
    The fishermen of Gaza are harassed daily by IDF gunships which shoot them outright when there are no Western witnesses present. The late Vittorio Arrigoni was one of the International Solidarity Movement who regularly accompanied fishing boats, forcing the Israelis to set aside their machine gun ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Kevin Ryan: The NIST WTC 7 Report is False
    This presentation describes some of the ways in which the 2008 WTC 7 report from the National Institute of Standard and Technology is false and unscientific. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because of the 911 lie we have all been plunged into an en ...
  • A Journey With Jonathan
    A JOURNEY WITH JONATHAN A Review of the Book, “Among the Truthers,” Written by Jonathan Kay By: Jonathan H. Cole, P.E. (PDF Link) Source URL: http://911blogger.com/news/2011-07-22/journey-jonathan I should have known from the cartoons on the cover what Jonathan Kay's book, "Among the Trut ...
  • 9/11/2011 - Ten Years, No Justice
    9/11 "debunker" Ryan Owens has declared that the 9/11 truth movement is dead. Please join blog contributor Adam Taylor and myself in New York City this upcoming September 11th and help prove that he is dead wrong. http://groundzero2011.com/index.html The goal of this website is to hopefully ...
  • Silenced: TWA 800 and the Subversion of Justice
    This documentary proves that the U.S. government-including the FBI and DOJ-are totally corrupt and involved in serious felony crime and the outrageous cover-up of truth concerning the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996. As you will see, Flight 800 was actually destroyed by a su ...
  • RT's Short History of UK Police Corruption - R ...
    The whistleblower who exposed the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal has been found dead. Police are treating it as unexplained, but say at this stage there's no evidence of anything suspicious. The scandal has shaken the press, politicians and the police, having already taken down Britain' ...

Fooducate

  • All Natural Fruit Snack?
    Take a look at Mott’s Medley’s Fruit Snack. The package looks promising: All natural fruit snack Good source of vitamin C Gluten Free & Fat Free No Artificial Flavors, Colors, Sweeteners, or Preservatives made with real fruit and vegetable juice. But what’s really inside? What you need to know: ...
  • Please Vote for Fooducate’s Nutriton Label Red ...
    Rethink the Food Label is a project by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s News21 program and Good Magazine. They asked the public, food thinkers, nutritionists, and designers to redesign the Nutrition Facts Label to make it easier to read and more useful to people who want to consum ...
  • Fruity Cheerios – “Naturally” Flavored, Artifi ...
    Fruity Cheerios is a relatively new extension of the venerable Cheerios line of cereals. The marketing pitch is directed at moms: Kids love the fruity fun, Moms love the Calcium and Vitamin D! Here’s more copyedit: Here’s why they are so good: Made with whole grain 12 essential vitamins & minera ...
  • Michelle Obama’s War on Food Deserts
    Earlier this week, the first lady was joined by a band of grocery retailers and the Partnership for a Healthier America in announcing a bold new move to reduce food deserts in America. Details: 1. The program will be bringing supermarkets within reach of 10 million Americans. 2. 1,500 new grocer ...
  • Are You Buying Meat But Paying for Salt Water?
    There’s a dirty little secret that not many grocery shoppers are aware of. Many times, cuts of poultry, pork and meat are “enhanced” with a liquid solution that is essentially water and salt. And we’re paying for this added weight without even knowing it. This practice has been going on since th ...

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

  • Exposed: Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners ...
    The Omo River is home to eight separate tribes. © Joey L / joeyl.com A Survival investigation has uncovered alarming evidence that some of Ethiopiaâs most productive farmland is being stolen from local tribes and leased to foreign companies to grow and export food â while thousands of it ...
  • Survival chosen as Art London charity
    Aladdin Sane by Duffy © Duffy Survival has been chosen as one of the charities for Art London (6-10 October 2011). To coincide Ghislain Pascal, Director of The Little Black Gallery and long time supporter of Survival, has curated an exhibition of photographs which will all be sold in ai ...
  • Uncontacted Indians’ forest ‘sprayed with chem ...
    Thousands of Indians are threatened by the rise in deforestation near the Madeira dams © Clive W. Dennis A large stretch of Amazon forest in a region where uncontacted Indians are thought to be living, has reportedly been destroyed illegally with chemical defoliant sprayed from an airplane ...
  • Machu Picchu celebrations just 100km from unco ...
    Machu Picchu, Peru © Martin St-Amant – Wikipedia – CC-BY-SA-3.0 July 24 marks the 100th anniversary of the âdiscoveryâ of Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel high in the Peruvian Andes, by U.S. explorer and academic Hiram Bingham. But while Peru celebrates the legacy of the indigenous Inca ...
  • 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, ...

Greg Palast

  • It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...
  • 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 ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle precious photo albums?
    Joan left a question on the “suggest an item” stage: A deceased good friend’s photo albums need to be disposed of. Mainly of family, friends and her cats, loathed to just chuck them in a bin, other than that, what do I do? Helpâ¦.. I’m sorry to hear about your friend, Joan. The Photos I’m [...]
  • How can I reuse LOTS of florists’ ribbon?
    Nicky has emailed to ask how she can recycle: Almost 100 kilometres of 2″ wide yellow florists ribbon. Unravelled and of varying lengths â very long to short pieces. Currently in 5 large industrial bags. Wow, that’s a fair bit of ribbon! My first thought would be to offer it to a local scrap sto ...
  • 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. ...

Age of Autism

  • IACC Examines Dr. Tom Insel's Fine Autism Cloth
    By Anne Dachel On Monday, Jul 11, 2011, Dr. Thomas Insel, chairman of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health in support of the reauthorization of the Combating Autism...
  • An Elaborate Fraud, Part 3: In Which the Mothe ...
    Read An Elaborate Fraud Part 1: In Which a Murdoch Reporter Deceives the Mother of a Severely Autistic Child and An Elaborate Fraud, Part 2: In Which a Murdoch Newspaper’s Deceptive Tactics Infect the British Medical Journal. By Dan Olmsted...
  • I Am The Warrior
    By Cathy Jameson One of my all-time favorite singles is called “The Warrior.” It’s from my favorite decade, the 1980s. I even have the 45, bought too many years ago to remember. I know exactly where to find that old...
  • Hate the Autism, Not the Kid, Please.
    By L.J. Goes “Do they hurt?” A frustrated mom of four snaps at her tween boy. He looks thoughtfully down at the shoes on his feet and takes a bit too long to respond. “Do they hurt?” She hisses as...
  • When Does a “Conspiracy Theory” Become a “Cons ...
    By J.B. Handley As many AoA readers know, publicly challenging conventional wisdom and stating that you believe vaccines cause autism is a great way to be attacked. One of the more common and surprisingly effective techniques of the other side...

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

  • Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security
    H.R. 1505: Another Federal land grab, with exemptions from environmental regulations, and a few more just for good measure. And just who has the authority over these lands? Why Homeland Security, of course.
  • USDA Attacks Rural America with Smart Meters
    On June 9, 2011, the Obama Administration Established the “White House Rural Council to Strengthen Rural Communities” via Executive Order. “Strengthening Rural Communities” is the spin. The real issue is control. Rural communities are where food is grown, and control of food is a main priority f ...
  • Garden Goose
    We have a goose that lives in our garden. Not just any goose, but a very special goose. His name is Dee Dee Dee, and this is his story.
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Circumcision, vitamin D help prevent HIV infection
    Foodconsumer – Should HIV prevention be a reason to circumcise? Researchers, looking at ways to stop the spread of HIV, are taking a closer look at the role of circumcision as a potential disease preventative. A new report released by the International AIDS Society suggests circumcision may redu ...
  • Israel paper sketches West Bank expansion
    UPI – Israeli authorities allegedly are planning to declare more of the West Bank as state land to expand settlements, a military document indicates. The paper, written by Lt.Col. Zvi Cohen of the occupation’s infrastructure department in January, was obtained by Rabbis for Human Rights under th ...
  • Japan’s Food-Chain Threat Multiplies as Fukush ...
    Bloomberg – Radiation fallout from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant poses a growing threat to Japanâs food chain as unsafe levels of cesium found in beef on supermarket shelves were also detected in more vegetables and the ocean. Read article
  • Moody’s cuts Greek debt by three notches
    Financial Times – The second bail-out of Greece will weaken the credit ratings of Europeâs strongest countries as well as resulting in a default for Athens, Moodyâs said on Monday. The US rating agency downgraded Greece by three notches to Ca, Athensâ lowest rating and one that implies the count ...
  • 19,000 papers leaked to protest ‘war aga ...
    Register – A critic of academic publishers has uploaded 19,000 scientific papers to the internet to protest the prosecution of a prominent programmer and activist accused of hacking into a college computer system and downloading almost 5 million scholarly documents from an archive service. The 1 ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • More big Yellowstone fires predicted with clim ...
    Rising temperatures associated with climate change are expected to dramatically increase wildfire in and near Yellowstone National Park, transforming the landscape by 2050.
  • EPA Chief Lisa Jackson speaks at NAACP convent ...
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson spoke to the NAACP National Convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday about the impact of pollution on minority communities, an issue that will be also be explored during a Monday...
  • Study ranks air pollution from coal and oil-fi ...
    The most toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants can be found in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to a new study released Wednesday by the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council and Physicians for Social Responsibility. The study,...
  • Deadly rivers: Park rangers warn swimmers
    Scorching temperatures and icy-cold rivers make Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite national parks popular summer retreats. But rangers are warning visitors that they need to be especially careful this year. The Kaweah, Merced, Kern, Lemoore, and Tuolomne rivers in Central...
  • L. A. water bills set to rise--but how much? D ...
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is hosting a webinar to help L.A. residents better understand future rate increases under two scenarios for the city's water infrastructure. The webinar for residential customers, set for 6:00 to 7:30 p.m....

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

  • Islamophobia-Who's behind the fear-mongering
    After the horrible terror attack in Oslo, Norway perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik, a 32 year old terrorist responsible for the massacre of 92 people, the media wasted no time to once again….BLAME IT ON THE MUSLIMS.Submitted by Sandra T. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israeli students shine at international math c ...
    This year, 564 students from around the world attended the international math competition. The event ended with 54 gold medalists, 90 silver medalists and 137 bronze medalists. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • UWO Asks Israel Some Questions
    Students at UWO believe it is there right to not only question and criticize Israel but also demand answers from any nation that violates international law. Way to go University of Western Ontario!Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • At least 85 dead in Norway youth camp attack - ...
    Premier says 'my youth paradise' has turned into 'hell'; police say suspects website indicates he was a right-wing, Christian fundamentalist Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Full integration of women into IDF would be go ...
    Zamir called for stemming the army's rising tide of religious extremism, which is expressed to a large extent in excluding or otherwise discriminating against women. This trend was confirmed by a recent report by the chief of staff's advisor on women's afSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • SunPeak Solar Receives $77.4 Million Loan to D ...
    The North American Development Bank (NADB) has granted solar developer SunPeak Solar, LLC a US$77.4 million loan to construct a solar farm in California. read more
  • Solar Panels Offer Passive Energy Bonuses
    According to a report soon to be published in Solar Energy, the official journal of the International Solar Energy Society, solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on roofs are also doing a surprisingly good, if unexpected, job of keeping ho ...
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

  • Bangladesh Hindu Temple Holds Grand Opening in ...
    According to reports, the Sunday grand opening included special prayers, community lunch and chanting. Hari Dutta is the President of the Temple whose congregation is mostly Bengali.
  • FinCEN SAR Invites Subscribers in Activity Rev ...
    The invitation has been sent to the subscribers in follow up to FinCEN's e-mail notice of July 18, 2011.
  • Valerie Amos Sounds Alarmed Over Dwindling Aid ...
    Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes and an unknown number of others killed since fighting erupted in early June between Sudanese Government forces and those of the northern wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM-N
  • Apple Makes it Big in China
    Apple's outlets two outlets in Beijing and another two in Shanghai are now the four most visited Applei? Stores worldwide. Its revenue in terms of sales is much higher more than what its Manhattan store in Fifth Avenue is earning.
  • Fashion Designer Calls Kamasutra as Most Celeb ...
    Hindu statesman Rajan Zed said Varma appeared to be bypassing the highly revered and powerful Hinduism texts of Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata (including Bhagavad-Gita) and Ramayana.

Worldnews

  • India, South Korea sign nuclear cooperati ...
    SEOUL: South Korea and India signed an agreement on Monday to cooperate in nuclear power, providing a legal basis for the South's future participation in atomic...
  • SAS has the highest customer satisfaction ...
    Following last autumn's decision to expand, SAS has started 13 new routes this year and an additional four new routes will be introduced this coming autumn. SAS will also launch its second long haul route within a year next March with Copenhagen-Shanghai. At the same time, the customer sati ...
  • Hundreds of ill cats recovering in Fla. w ...
    GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Hundreds of cats rescued from a north Florida cat sanctuary in June are recovering in a Gainesville warehouse. Alachua County Animal Services Director David Flagler tells The Gainesville Sun that 50 of the 697 ill and emaciated cats seized at the Haven Acres Cat Sanctuar ...
  • Thousands rally amid Filipino leader's ke ...
    MANILA, Philippines - Thousands of mostly left-wing protesters have marched in the Philippine capital to demand higher wages, farmland and the prosecution of President Benigno Aquino III's predecessor for alleged graft ahead of the president's annual state of the nation address. Officials s ...
  • Spanish media sure that Fabregas will joi ...
    Madrid - The Spanish media seemed more convinced than ever on Monday that Cesc Fabregas was about to depart Premier League club Arsenal for European champions Barcelona. Fabregas left the Barca youth program in 2003, aged just 16, and gradually became the fans' favourite and the...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Good Form: Back arches
    Slouching tends to shorten the muscles in the front of your body and can overstretch the muscles in the back. These moves reverse that action and help improve your posture.
  • Avoiding ticks, mosquitoes and other summer he ...
    Summer means more time outdoors and increased exposure to ticks, mosquitoes and some infectious diseases. Here's how to protect yourself. (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
  • Rule Changes Proposed for Research on Humans
    Officials say that proposed changes would strengthen protections while reducing red tape that impedes studies.
  • Breast-feeding baby doll too graphic, some cri ...
    The $69.99 toy has whipped up debate about the appropriateness of young children pretending to be nursing the baby.
  • In with potassium, out with sodium
    People whose diets have roughly equal amounts of sodium and potassium are at the lowest risk of dying from heart attack and stroke, new study finds. People whose diets have the lowest ratio of sodium to potassium are at the lowest risk of dying from heart attack and stroke, new study finds. ...

Common Dreams

  • Free Trade Deals: Lobbying Fever Foreshadows W ...
    WASHINGTON -- The three major free trade agreements Congress will soon consider are being promoted as a big win for American workers. But take a good look at who's lobbying for them most enthusiastically, and it becomes evident that the biggest winners will be giant multinational corporations -- ...
  • Mass. Gay Couples to N.Y.: DOMA Still Denies Y ...
    BOSTON -- As same-sex couples in New York prepare this weekend to tie the knot, their brethren in Massachusetts -- the first state to legalize gay marriage -- have some advice. read more
  • US Squandered £21 Billion on Private Contracto ...
    Waste, mismanagement and poorly conceived projects mean the United States could have lost more than 15 per cent of the total given out in contracts and grants. More could yet be lost as US troops pull out of Afghanistan, with the withdrawal risking "massive new wastes of money" because the Afgha ...
  • Melting Arctic Ice Releasing Banned Toxins, Wa ...
    The warming of the Arctic is releasing toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered. The researchers warn that the amount of the poisons in the polar region is unknown and their release could "undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and hum ...
  • France to Buy Israeli-Made Drones, Ending 42-Y ...
    The French Defense Ministry decided last week to purchase unmanned aerial vehicles from Israel, thereby bringing an end to a 42-year-old embargo on weapon purchases imposed by President Charles de Gaulle. The approved sale of Heron TP, or Eitan, will be the first time the drone is sold to a fore ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • It’s All Connected – How the EV Will Integrate ...
    In the words of Mike Rowand, Duke Energy, “The electric vehicle (EV) is not just a question of connecting a car to a power grid. It is about connecting it to the customer; connecting it to the continuous development of the technology surrounding EVs; and, finally, connecting it to our society’s ...
  • The Way Back to 280 ppm
    Two feebates can separately, yet complimentary, get emissions cut 80% by 2020 and carbon dioxide on the way back to 280 ppm.
  • A Golden Opportunity to Please Conservatives a ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a golden opportunity to opt for a smart, low-cost approach to fulfilling its mandate under a Supreme Court decision to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked with global climate change.
  • Wind Energy is Expensive
    Balancing plants accommodate wind energy to the grid and thereby help maintain voltage and frequency at target values, i.e., they ramp down corresponding to an incoming wind energy surge and ramp up� corresponding to a wind energy ebbing.� �
  • The Energy Storage Hand Gets More Interesting
    The cards dealt to the energy storage industry are looking better now than in the past. Here are three of them, all played because of the growing presence of Smart Grid technologies that enable solutions and policies that encourage energy storage markets. One wild card is also listed here, and i ...

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

  • Puppets in Revolt: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan ...
    James Petras Introduction Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position onl ...
  • Student Questions From Tripoli
    By FRANKLIN LAMB Al Nasser University, Tripoli "When I grow up, I want to be just like you guys,” this increasingly flaccid middle-aged American visitor joked to his teenage to early 30’s Libyan interlocutors, as we parted last night and promised to meet again soon to continue our dialogue ...
  • New Jerusalem
    By John Waters July 13-15 2011, New Jerusalem performed live at the Skirball Cultural Center David Ives’ New Jerusalem stars Tony Award winner Richard Easton and Emmy winner Ed Asner. The play follows young philosopher Baruch de Spinoza as he faces excommunication from the Jewish community for ...
  • The True Cost of America's Wars
    By Jack A. Smith During his speech on Afghanistan June 22, President Obama revealed that "Over the last decade, we have spent a trillion dollars on war." He knew this was a deceptive understatement, as did everyone who keeps close watch on the Bush-Obama wars all these years. Few Americans , h ...
  • July 4th -- From WHAT Did We Declare Our Indep ...
    By Jeff Gates Dear Friends & Colleagues -- See below for links to a current 4-part series in Arab News continuing a theme touched on earlier in�Mindset Warfare,�The Enemy Within�and in a 4-part video:�The Hate Mongers Among Us. It's difficult to imagine our nation and our national security be ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • The cost of poverty in BC is way too high
    Iglika Ivanova did the math: it costs less to reduce poverty than to allow it to continue and pay for the consequences: poor health, lower literacy, poor school performance for children, more crime, and greater stress. Reducing poverty and easing human suffering is the right thing to do, and it ...
  • Conference Board Weighs in on the Growing Gap
    The Conference Board of Canada has released a report tracking 33 years of worsening income inequality in Canada. In this Toronto Star story, board President Anne Golden says: "While the poor are minimally better off in an absolute sense, they are significantly worse off in a relative sense. And ...
  • Video Debate Series: Role of Manufacturing in ...
    In this four-part short video series at the Globe and Mail, CCPA's own senior economist Armine Yalnizyan faces off with Mike Moffatt, an economist, consultant and lecturer in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at the Richard Ivey School of Business on the future of manufacturing in ...
  • CCPA-Manitoba launches POLICY FIX
    We now have a BLOG aptly named POLICY FIX.�� Check it out at www.policyfix.ca!
  • Hennessy's Index: Canada vs. the OECD
    Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This July, Hennessy's Index looks at the Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) and how Canada fairs compares to other members on a number o ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Hippie TV News and Stuff, with Joe McEvoy (Win ...
    This Week: A Montage of Ass#$%$s of the week. Please share with your favorite Ass^#$$ WWH- Worldwide Hippies brings you news and commentary, to inform you and move you to action. Worldwide Hippies News and Stuff is a weekly video, produced by WWH. Connect with us on Utube. The Worldwide Hippies ...
  • You can’t get there from here
    by tim waters – Ya Canât get there from Here Itâs almost been two years that Iâve been participating in discussions on line. Iâve made lots of friends and Iâve lost plenty along the way. Opinions! Yeah we all have them. Rich, poor, learned and not so much. Itâs the one thing we all have [...]
  • Norway to protect the best of what it is — a t ...
    By: Shawn Pogatchnik, AP – OSLO – Confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik hoped to trigger a nationalist revolution in Norway. But his double act of mass murder and destruction seems to have stirred only dignified defiance in this wealthy, idealistic nation renowned for its commitment to peac ...
  • The First Lady … Monsanto-Washington Vs ...
    By Lenore Daniels, OpEdNews - The First Lady and the Monsanto-Washington Unification Process Vs. Our Human Rights The effect is again a magical and hypnotic one–the projection of images which convey irresistible unity, harmony of contradictions. Thus the loved and fear Father, the spender of lif ...
  • NYC Uncut Returns to Brooklyn for a Sleep-in a ...
    WWH – On Saturday, July 23, 2011, NYC Uncut brought their pillows, sleeping bags, and pjs to a Chase branch at 101 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The sleep-in/teach-in was built on several similar actions held earlier this summer targeting Bank of America branches in Brooklyn and Queens, and ...

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 ...
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