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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.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

19 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Del. chemical site eyed for renewable energy
Boston.com
The Metachem site is one of 26 the EPA and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory plan to assess. Other sites include an open-pit copper mine in southwestern New Mexico, a former lead smelter in Montana, and landfills in Arizona, Louisiana and New ...
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Queensland Maps A Renewable Future
EarthTechling
Pursuit of that ambition is moving forward now with the release of a new Renewable Energy Industry Development Plan, in which the Labor government of Anna Bligh sets goals of enticing $3.5 billion in renewable energy investment and creating 2020 jobs ...
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Renewable energy in Constellation deal questioned
BusinessWeek
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ Promises to build more renewable energy sites in Maryland as part of the proposed sale of Constellation Energy Group Inc. to Chicago's Exelon Corp. are drawing opposition in western Maryland. The chairman of the Garrett County Board ...
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Renewable Energy Industry in the UK Market Research Report Now Available from ...
PR Web (press release)
The Renewable Energy industry in the UK is poised for strong growth over the next five years, according to IBISWorld, the United Kingdom's largest publisher of industry research. The success of the industry over the past decade and continued support ...
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Human Habitat

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Land preservation effort melds ecology, economy
The Tennessean
“We need to maximize this time we have for good — for the ecological and economic future of the whole area,” said Jeanie Nelson, executive director of The Land Trust for Tennessee in Nashville. The report, called “Cumberland Voices: A Conservation ...
Country Ecology: American elm
Conway Daily Sun
Dave Eastman also broadcasts “Country Ecology” four times weekly over WMWV 93.5 fm. As Vice President of the Lakes Region Chapter/ASNH, he welcomes you to monthly programs at the Loon Center in Moultonborough. Contact him at: cebirdman@Hotmail.com.
Ecology, US Coast Guard, EPA, Tulalip Tribe monitoring leaking ammonia tank on ...
Access Washington
TULALIP RESERVATION – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), US Coast Guard and Tulalip Tribe are monitoring a tank leaking ammonia on Tulare Beach on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. ...
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Ecology is Transforming Truck Technology and Economy
ForConstructionPros.com
by Curt Bennink This illustrates the major components of a parallel hybrid system from BAE Systems. Note the motor/generator between the engine and transmission. Technology in Class-6 to Class-8 vocational trucks tends to evolve at a moderate pace. ...
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Water Power

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DHS, FBI investigate report of water pump failure in Illinois, say no threat ...
Washington Post
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Federal authorities say they're investigating the report of a water pump failure in Illinois' capital city. Department of Homeland Security spokesman Peter Boogaard wouldn't comment on media reports that the failure was the result ...
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Water Warfare? Springfield Cyber Attack Could Trigger Chicago Security Concerns
Chicagoist
The James Jardine Water Filtration Plant, the world's largest, extends into Lake Michigan [Josh S. Jackson When you think of ripe targets for terrorists, the soybean and cornfields of central Illinois don't exactly leap to mind, but it seems that an ...
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Natalie Wood Had Eerie, Lifelong Connection to Water
Fox News
Long before the mysterious drowning death of actress Natalie Wood in 1981, the star and her husband Robert Wagner had a history of memorable moments involving water. In his 2008 memoir, “Pieces of My Heart,” Wagner recalled how he had fallen in love ...
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City celebrates new modern and sustainable water plant
Seacoastonline.com
Portsmouth's new Madbury Water Treatment Plant celebrated its opening Saturday morning. From left, leading the tour, Deputy Director of PUblic Works, David Allen, and city council members, Nancy Novelline Clayburgh, Bob Lister, and mayor-elect Eric ...
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Scoop - NZ

  • UK youth unemployment passes 1 million
    Business leaders are meeting David Cameron today to urge him to introduce tax incentives for firms hiring young people - or risk the country's youth unemployment problem spiralling even further out of control. Grim unemployment figures this morning are expected to reveal more than 1m young pe ...
  • Permanent underclass emerging in UK businesses ...
    Britain risks creating an underclass of people who are permanently excluded from the prospect of employment, a report published on Thursday warns. The survey of 1,000 UK employees and 500 employers, conducted between July and September, shows that 73% of businesses and 84% of workers believe ...
  • Why 'Tea Cup Gate' is not trivial
    For many New Zealanders, the Act Party symbolises the radically right-wing policies which were introduced to New Zealand by the Lange-Douglas Labour government in 1984 and continued by the Bolger-Richardson government which took power in 1990. During the late '80s and early '90s unemployment in ...
  • Is there any real prospect of the Greens suppo ...
    The big winner so far this election campaign have been the Greens, who have consistently been polling around 10%. We'll have to wait and see whether they actually do that well on the day (historically, the Greens have always underperformed their polling), but in the meantime, its led to some spe ...
  • We cannot win the Afghanistan war
    If Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Defence Minister Stephen Smith believe that trust and confidence can be re-established by Australian soldiers toward Afghan troops they are meant to live alongside and train they are sadly deluded. That's the problem in having politicians of limited life ex ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
  • Australian kids are living in climate of fear
    On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
  • Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
    Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Innovation Canada

  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
  • Gait crasher
    For most people, walking is as natural as breathing. But for those with mobility issues, it can be extremely challenging, even impossible. That’s where University of New Brunswick (UNB) kinesiologist Vicky Chester comes in. Specializing in clinical gait analysis — the study of the mechanics of a ...
  • Better wine, one yeast cell at a time
    Hennie J. J. van Vuuren is among the 30 percent of adults around the world who exhibit allergic reactions to young red wines — something that has inspired the University of British Columbia (UBC) wine biotechnologist to create a new yeast strain capable of eliminating the allergens altogether. “ ...
  • Micro view; macro applications
    It’s been used for everything from examining bacteria and how rare earth minerals have developed over millions of years to creating vibrant visual images for improvisational musical performances. The versatile environmental scanning electron microscope (SEM), a $1.2 million piece of machinery fu ...

Signs of the times

  • French government encourages doctors to report ...
    The war declared against 'cults' in France has today evolved into war against non-conventional medical therapies (so-called 'soft', 'parallel' or alternative therapies and practices). MIVILUDES ["an acronym for the French-language phrase Mission interministérielle de vigilance et de lutte c ...
  • Colorado, US: Fort Collins middle school stude ...
    More than a dozen students were sent to the hospital after a mysterious odor swept through part of Blevins Middle School in Fort Collins. The incident was first reported at about 12:30 p.m., initially from a laboratory classroom. Poudre Fire Authority investigated for nearly six hours and didn ...
  • Wheeling, West Virginia, US: Mysterious Odor R ...
    No source inside St. John Central High School is causing the foul air that has plagued the Guernsey Street building on more than one occasion this month, most recently Friday. Principal Sheila Blackmore said Bellaire Code Enforcer James Chase has assured her the cause of the noxious odors in th ...
  • The Mysterious Death of Ahmad Rezaee: Whodunit?
    Ahmad Rezaee (31) an Iranian national was found dead on November 12, on the floor of room 23 on the 18th floor of Gloria Hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai. When discovered, he had already been dead for three days, with a copy of the Holy Koran laid out next to his body. Unconfirmed reports i ...
  • Mysterious, Triangle-Shaped Alien Skull Found ...
    Peruvian anthropologist Renato Davila Riquelme has discovered the remains of an unidentified creature with a "triangle shaped" skull nearly as large as its 20-inch-tall body. Has the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull --the setting for the underwhelming 2008 Indiana Jones vehicle--finally been disco ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Pascal's perspective . . .
    AISLIN AND PASCAL are such a treasure, compared to our Toronto editorial cartoonists. Harper Fudd, indeed.
  • Armed cowards in masks
    Reading Harebell's excellent take on my post about Blake's Balaclava law, I thought I might juxtapose a few images. The top is a riot cop at the G20 last year in Toronto. The second one is an Ulster Defence Force gunman, and the last is his opposite number in the Irish Republican Army. What ...
  • #jackbootshit: Five years for wearing a mask?
    "Trouble...mob...riot?" Judging by his language, Alberta MP Blake Richards seems to see any protest gathering as something that should be illegal, because it is clearly "trouble" starting. “When trouble starts, people intent on criminal activity depend on being able to 'mask up' to conceal th ...
  • "Talkin' about a revolution"
    Chris Hedges. Even NattyPo. H/t Bob.
  • Fetch the smelling salts, someone said "Fuck" ...
    As I write this, the number one story under Canada on Google news is the report by the privacy commissioner about the government collecting too much information about us, especially at airports. The number two story is about a carpenter from Winnipeg saying "fuck you" someone (who was definitely ...

Media Matters for America

  • Throw It All Out: Schweizer's DOE Claims Rest ...
    In his new book Throw Them All Out, conservative author and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer accuses the Department of Energy (DOE) of directing funds "to friends, cronies, and supporters" of President Obama. However, the claim relies on faulty math, and many of the individuals that Schweizer i ...
  • Right-Wing Media Lay Groundwork To Blame Obama ...
    The right wing media have claimed that President Obama is deliberately sabotaging the super committee's negotiations to reach a deal to decrease the deficit in an attempt to strengthen his re-election prospects. But Obama has repeatedly urged the super committee to come to a compromise, while t ...
  • George Will Disappears Years Of Economic Growth
    In a November 17 Washington Post column, George Will suggested "economic growth decreased" following a 1990 budget deal that included a tax increase. In fact, the United States experienced sustained economic growth soon after the debt deal, which continued for a decade.Will: 1990 Budget Deal Wi ...
  • Fox Falsely Dubs Alleged White House Attacker ...
    Fox & Friends claimed that alleged White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez had been "tied to [the] Occupy" movement, even calling him the " 'Occupy' shooter." In fact, investigators have reportedly "found no connection between him and the Occupy protesters."Fox & Friends ...
  • Fox Gins Up Outrage Over Obama's Observation T ...
    Fox News, looking to manufacture a new controversy, is reporting that President Obama warned that the United States has "fallen behind" in math and science education and claiming that Obama "bad-mouthed" the U.S. with those comments. But President Bush also warned that the U.S. was falling behi ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Republican Foreign Policy Debate, Ugh
    If nothing else, devoting an entire GOP campaign forum to national security and foreign policy -- the CBS News / National Journal organizers called it the "Commander in Chief Debate -- helps accentuate the preparation and seriousness the candidates have devoted to international affairs. Or the l ...
  • Did Portland Make History on Saturay Night?
    Faced with an order from Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams to disperse as of 12:01 am Sunday, Occupy Portland's Jim Oliver told the PBS News Hour Friday evening that "We have called for an Occupation Fest 2011 that is starting on Saturday evening. Every citizen of Portland is invited to come down ...
  • A Grand 'Narrative' for Obama -- in 58 Words
    Ron Suskind's Confidence Men recounts a moment when Obama pounds the walls of the White House crying, "What's happened to my narrative?" He should have called me. I'd have told him to drop his bipartisan, "last reasonable man in Washington" posture right after the debt-ceiling fiasco and ...
  • Neocons: Lying Us Into Another War
    Christmas did not arrive early for the "Bomb Iran" crowd. Over the past several weeks, neoconservative hawks were gleefully predicting that the International Atomic Energy Agency's new report on Iran's nuclear program would provide the spark needed to ignite and justify a U.S. or Israeli att ...
  • As Obama Mishandled the Economy, His Chronicle ...
    The least bad assessment of Obama's failure to reform our political economy that has come thus far from the Washington Beltway worldview (or Beltanschauung, as I immortalized it here in an essay that launched a thousand links) comes from Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein's "Obama's Flunking Eco ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Federal Regulatory Accountability Act Puts the ...
    In a state where regulatory issues are driven by ”crony capitalism” a  has proposed federal bill could give industry a blank check here in Texas. The Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) (S. 1606/H.R. 3010) is a radical measure that would severely weaken laws that protect our health, ...
  • Does climate change influence extreme weather ...
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released a special report on the influence of climate change on extreme weather events. In the United States, Americans have endured a record-setting series of extreme weather events in 2011, including the Mississippi floods, record high ...
  • Political favors – how to stop it from ruining ...
    According to the Texas Energy Report, state environmental regulators appointed by Gov. Rick Perry issued a permit in January for a Houston-area industrial waste injection well to a company whose top investors include some of Perry’s close friends and campaign contributors. The Texas Commis ...
  • What is the state of your air? Check out the A ...
    The American Lung Association State of the Air 2011 report ranks the metropolitan areas based on ozone and particle pollution during 2007, 2008 and 2009. For particle pollution, they rank the areas separately with high year-round (annual average) levels and high short-term levels (24-hour) found ...
  • The Story of Broke and the supercommittee
    The deficit reduction supercommittee has a November 23 deadline to finish its work. One of the first places lawmakers should look for cuts is the dirty energy sector. From 2008 through 2010, Big Energy industries were among the top recipients of government handouts, second only to the financial ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Mysterious skull discovered in Peru
    An elongated skull found in the city of Andahuaylillas has managed to baffle anthropologists. The skull possesses a number of unusual features includi...
  • Faster-than-light neutrinos test repeated
    Scientists have confirmed earlier results demonstrating neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light. CERN physicists were left perlexed when an ex...
  • 'Get ready for extreme weather' experts warn
    The flooding in Thailand and the drought in Texas could be a sign of things to come, warn climatologists. A panel of climate scientists have warned th...
  • Ghost mountains mystery solved
    Scientists believe they are now able to explain the vast mountain range beneath the Antarctic ice. Discovered in the 1950s, the Gamburtsevs are a huge...
  • Fossil nest of baby dinosaurs discovered
    A 70-million-year-old fossilised nest containing 15 jeuvenile dinosaurs has been found in Mongolia. It is thought that the baby Protoceratops were bur...

Grassroots

  • Gaza’s Human Rights Guru
    The first time I shared a meal with Raji Sourani was at a seaside restaurant in Gaza City. A lawyer and longtime director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Grassroots International partner, Sourani is well known throughout Palestine for his quick and sound judgment—which showe ...
  • Defending the Commons and the Right to Land, W ...
    lran2_cover2.jpg Effective agrarian reform, according to the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform (GCAR) includes “ a bundle of policies that ensure that agricultural land is distributed to landless peasants and smallholders swiftly and equi ...
  • A Prize for Solidarity and Justice
    lmulher_limpando_arroz.jpg read more
  • Janaina Stronzake, from MST, to visit East Coast
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  • Insights - Fall 2011
    A movement is healthy and dynamic when young people are involved and take charge. The energy and imagination of this next  generation of resource rights defenders hold the key to their own survival – and perhaps the planet's as well.  Read on for four stories of inspiring young leaders ...

Climate

  • Energy Department Threatened by Cyber Attacks, ...
    Source:  The Hill The Energy Department is "routinely threatened with sophisticated cyber attacks" and has not taken the necessary steps to protect itself, according to a report made public Monday.
  • NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite
    Source:  AP After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.
  • Global Warming: 'Melting Glaciers Can Cause Ma ...
    Source:  The Express Tribune Experts in Pakistan believe that the fast melting of glaciers combined with the heavy monsoon rains caused last year's massive floods that affected around 20 million people and destroyed 1.6 mil ...
  • Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
    Source:  Wired News A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something tha's been difficult to do with empirical precision.
  • 'Disasters' Strain FEMA's Resources
    Source:  USA Today The federal government is turning hundreds of relatively low-cost storms into federal disasters — draining billions of dollars in scarce FEMA aid and tying up millions more for years.

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

Booman Tribune

  • GOP Weakness Helps Ron Paul
    One thing we know about Ron Paul is that his supporters will continue to give him money regardless of whether he has much chance of winning the nomination. In the third quarter, he raised $8.3 million, which dwarfed Herman Cain's $2.8 million total. Rep. Paul spent almost all of that money, an ...
  • Things Heat Up at UC-Davis
    Reading about what happened at UC-Davis yesterday doesn't have the same impact as watching what happened. It's an eight-minute video. I don't expect you to watch the whole thing. It begins with a Davis police officer pepper-spraying a bunch of sitting students. Then the crowd begins ...
  • Someone's Taking a Piss in the Alley
    Here's a sample of the anti-Occupy "news" stories that are circulating on the border between the right-wing blogosphere and the mainstream news. Lonely Conservative: Florida Occupier Stole Homeowners Furniture Said He Planned to Give it Back New York Post: The hippie Florida mother of fou ...
  • Frivolous Friday Night Jamming
    No, this isn't James Brown. It's better than James Brown. Pump up the volume: I once made a serious offer to trade my several hundred strong record collection for a single triple vinyl (bootleg) album recording of The Screaming Abdabs' joint Wish You Were Here/Animals Tour. I w ...
  • Collusion in the Defense of the 1% is No Vice
    Well, perhaps it is. But it's certainly no surprise. Interesting report this evening in the San Francisco Bay Guardian suggesting that big city mayors have not been the only ones making conference calls in an effort to coordinate crackdowns on Occupy Movement encampments: ...a little-know ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 15 Most Incredible Plunge Waterfalls on Earth
    These incredible torrents water are all plunge waterfalls, dropping away spectacularly from the rock faces behind them! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Most Incredible Cases of Death By Spontaneou ...
    The amazing tales of people who went in flames with no apparent explanation as to what sparked their fiery demise. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Hottest Links of the Week
    Strange events and wonderful places from around the world, with a wee bit of design ingenuity and a glimpse into the past – and future – for good measure! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Cool art and design, wonders of space and science, monuments rethought in strange ways, and…cuddly sheep? It could only be EG's coolest links of the week! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Heterochromia in People: The Beauty of Multi-C ...
    The uniqueness of different colored eyes in the same person explained. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Believing the Worst About Iran Without Attacking
    We need to acknowledge the genuine security concerns of Israel and Iran, as well as point out the objective hazards of nuclear-weapons possession.
  • The Modern Gold Rush
    Multinational mining interests are using trade and investment treaties to turn profits and undermine democracy.
  • Occupy and the Climate Negotiations
    The problem here is "governance failure." Or maybe we should just call it "decadence." The United States may at this point be so weakened by rot and ideology that it is unable even to act in its own interests, let alone the interests of its people, let alone the interests of humanity as a whole.
  • Occupy APEC with Aloha
    APEC's leaders are pushing more of the same in the Pacific -- but civil society is pushing back.
  • On Seeds
    Funding for agricultural development - some US$7.7 billion worth - would be directed in large part to genetically modified crop research. In other words, food aid policy for the first time mandates the use of genetic modification technologies.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Sierra Club Leader Will Step Down
    The departure of Carl Pope, who has led the Sierra Club for much of the last two decades, reflects a broader debate over how environmental groups can raise money, motivate activists and build public support for core concerns in an economic downturn.
  • New York as Venice, Minus the Romance
    A report on climate change paints an evocative picture of the effects of future sea-level rise in New York City and on Long Island.
  • On Our Radar: A Polluted River as Art Experiment
    Despite a court ruling ordering the cleanup of a river that supplies 70 percent of New Delhi's water, the Yamuna remains filthy.
  • Solyndra Has a Cousin in the Poorhouse
    Steven Chu, the energy secretary, compared the market misfortunes of Beacon Power, a manufacturer of mechanical batteries, with the price decline that undid Solyndra.
  • On Our Radar: Arguments Fly at Hearing on Dril ...
    Environmental groups and other opponents of hydraulic fracturing protest outside the session in Dansville, N.Y., singing anti-drilling songs and waving signs.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
    Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
  • #occupywallstreet makes total lol
    Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
  • 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
    Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...
  • Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
    Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's ...

Daily Censored

  • Occupy victory brings peace, economic security ...
    source: Carl Herman Victory will come to Occupy and 100% of humanity in a relative instant of state-change. All we have to do is keep responding to our heart and mind’s honor. Occupy exposes and ends the US Orwellian criminal wars, all begun with lies known to be lies as they were told and obvio ...
  • A Retro-Rocketship to the Future: Corporate Ed ...
    Rocketship is blasting off in Silicon Valley, with great fanfare – and no, it’s not a new tech start up, propelled by the genius of another 22-year old wunderkind who has invented the latest, most innovative way to virally spread videos of silly cats playing pianos.   Yet, looking at the applaud ...
  • Occupy endgame: arrest 1% “emperor has no clot ...
    source: Carl Herman Occupy’s victory means peace from criminal wars based on obvious lies, economic security and sufficiency for 100% of humanity, and unleashing suppressed technologies that transforms what it means to be human into unimaginable status. Occupy’s endgame, in retrospect, will be o ...
  • LIBYA
    By Saul Landau In the early Spring 1982, I accompanied former US Senator Jim Abourezk (D-SD) to Libya. National Geographic had asked him to get Libyan permission to film several sites of Roman ruins. He met with officials I walked Tripoli’s streets. At a coffee shop near the hotel, a group of yo ...
  • Why the Occpy Movement is Winning!
      Listen to Fox News and the screaming right-wing, and you might think the screaming left-wing were a bunch of lazy, unemployed drumbeating freeloaders that are pitching tents in public spaces and defecating on the streets. However, you don’t need to go to Fox News for such ridiculous notio ...

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  • News you may have missed #631
    Some spy files on Canadian prominent politician released. Aussie diplomats urged to welcome defectors in 1980s. Iran arrests two Kuwaitis on suspicion of espionage.
  • Turf war between Mossad and Israel’s Foreign M ...
    Israel’s foreign affairs minister has ordered his department’s employees to stop cooperating with the Mossad, according to media reports. Minister Avigdor Lieberman, one of Israel's most hardline nationalist politicians, accuses the country’s covert operations agency of meddling in the tasks of ...
  • News you may have missed #630
    Senior Syrian military defector in Turkey denies training troops. Iran says missile base blast was not caused by Mossad. British official says MI6 foiled Libyan assassination plan.
  • Revealed: Afghan government at war with &#8216 ...
    Very little has been written about the Kandahar Strike Force, a controversial CIA-funded vigilante group operating in Afghanistan’s Kandahar, Zabul and Uruzgan provinces. In 2009, The New York Times reported that the late Ahmed Wali Karzai, notorious drug lord and younger brother of Afghan Presi ...
  • News you may have missed #629
    CIA urged to be more open about climate change. Three Czechs to be tried for spying in Zambia. First-ever speech on MI6 by a UK Foreign Secretary.

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Grist - News

  • Live your tiny house fantasies by renting one ...
    by Christopher Mims. The highest-rated listing on AirBnB, the site that allows you to rent homes, apartments and other temporary quarters as an alternative to staying in a hotel, is a tiny house. The Mushroom Dome Cabin in Aptos, California, sports a loft bed under its geodesic dome roo ...
  • Making federal buildings green cuts costs by a ...
    by Christopher Mims. Paging Ron Paul: Once you're done transforming the U.S. into a neo-feudal patriarchy whose fiefs are ruled by their respective John Galts, you could make a huge dent in whatever government spending is left by simply making the feds' buildings "green." ...
  • Americans are smarter than they look about ext ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has officially stated that climate change will lead to more extreme weather events -- we all sorta knew that, but it's nice to have confirmation. It turns out, though, that we weren't the only ones who knew. A surv ...
  • Whistleblower exposes cruel tuna fishing practices
    by Jess Zimmerman. Warning: this video is kind of intense, and may put you off sushi forever. Greenpeace has been trying to draw attention to cruel tuna fishing practices for a while, and now this anonymous helicopter pilot has footage of whales, rays, sharks, and dolphins being caught ...
  • Public school’s rooftop greenhouse teach ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. At New York's P.S. 333, the Manhattan School for Children, science class takes place on the roof. A rooftop greenhouse, built in partnership with Science Barge creators New York Sun Works, houses a year-round farm where kids can learn about plant life cycles, gree ...

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  • National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 [The Bi ...
    There's still time! The deadline for entries for this year's National Geographic Photo Contest is November 30. Photographers of all skill levels (last year more than 16,000 images submitted by photographers from 130 countries) enter photographs in three categories: Nature, People and Places. The ...
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    Where does the world get its electricity? See how much power is generated, and from what fuels, today and in the future.
  • How to Use Solar Power to Purify Water
    Drinking water is normally sanitized at treatment plants before it enters the home, but if you're camping or drinking water from a rural well, for example, you're not drawing water from the typical water purification infrastructure.
  • For More Solar Energy, Occupy Rooftops
    "Anyone, anywhere can start a community solar project to create jobs and clean energy in their community."
  • Earth's Biggest Doomsday Event: Death By CO2
    The Permian mass extinction event came fast and furious.

Invisible Opportunity

  • UN, Bill Gates Foundation Push Deadly HPV Shot ...
    Anthony Gucciardi A new campaign has been launched by an organization known as the GAVI Alliance to vaccinate up to 2 million women and girls with either GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix or Merck’s Gardasil by the year 2015. Of course these two HPV shots have been shown to be very dangerous, with Gard ...
  • Dorli Rainey: Who is the 84-year-old woman pep ...
    The Occupy Movement finally has a face. But who is the woman behind it? Metro – Dorli Rainey: Who is the 84-year-old wo…, posted with vodpod
  • The Highway of The Thresher with the Rotating ...
    By Les Visiblde Many of the people at Occupy Wall Street are there because of an internal urging that they may not fully understand, including what planetary combination of forces is behind it. Some are being compelled out of their former existence because of a basic personal honesty, like that ...
  • Ray Lewis: Retired Philadelphia police captain ...
    REBECCA SEIDMAN Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis was arrested early this morning in New York City after taking part in an Occupy Wall Street demonstration. Lewis, who retired from the Philadelphia Police Department in 2004, joined the Occupy Wall Street protesters on Tuesday, holdin ...
  • Obama: first American President to name his ow ...
    New Law By Obama To Jail 500,000 American Citizens Or More For The Crime Of Opposing Their Government. Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:20 Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

  • VIDEO: How To Make Yummy Vegan Pumpkin Chocola ...
    Pumpkin pie might be tried and true, but if you want to make a unique fall treat that will have your friends and family begging for the recipe, check out our scrumptious vegan pumpkin chocolate chip muffin cupcakes! Our resident pâtissier, the incredibly adorable Petey Rojas, takes you through t ...
  • Pants to Poverty Crams 60 People Into a Pair o ...
    How can an underwear company raise awareness about world poverty? Cramming a bunch of half-dressed people into an oversize pair of purple underpants in the streets of London seems like a pretty good way to draw attention to just about any cause. To celebrate Guinness World Records Day, 60 partic ...
  • GIVEAWAY: Win a Free Download of the NEW Oddba ...
    Looking for new ways to keep your child occupied when you’re cooking dinner or trying to navigate the subway?  There’s an app for that.  The new Oddballz Circus App is a creative and fun way for your toddler to stay entertained and happy when you need to be focused on other things.  ...
  • Japanese Artist Creates Edible Headpieces Out ...
    They say you are what you eat, but should you also wear what you eat too – on your head? That’s what Japanese artist Takaya thinks we should do. The former chef creates his mouthwatering millinery out of edibles like raw veggies and fresh cut flowers, resulting in a vibrant array of ...
  • The Bilbao Arena’s Green Lizard-Like Facade De ...
    Read the rest of The Bilbao Arena’s Green Lizard-Like Facade Defends Against the Spanish Sun Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable development", bilbao, bilbao arena, Daylighting, eco design, energy regulating facade, green design, natural light, natural v ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Nook's Specs Are Exaggerated, Again
    Barnes & Noble says that the new Nook Color Tablet plays high-definition video. It is stretching the truth.
  • Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use ...
    Somebody at Apple took the challenges of the disabled seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the physical barriers to using an app phone.
  • Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books
    Amazon is giving away books, including New York Times bestsellers, for the Kindle if you're an Amazon Prime member. It is a delightful surprise to people who signed up for Prime.
  • An Android App's Answer to Siri
    SpeakToIt for Android phones works as an alternative to Siri. Sort of. She's slow and a little bit mentally challenged. She's less convenient than Siri, less capable, less comprehending, less accurate, less useful, less polished, less classy, less human.
  • Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life
    Dropbox keeps your important files everywhere at once. It is also an automatic, silent, encrypted backup of your essentials. And you can get at your computer's files from your phone.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Ei ...
    Results from a second experiment uphold the observation that neutrinos are moving faster than the speed of light. The OPERA collaboration, which reported superluminal neutrinos back in September, have rerun their experiment and detected 20 new neutrinos breaking Einstein's limit.
  • Message to Obama: Save the Bats!
    Do you want to help save America's insect-eating bats from extinction? Then tell President Obama.
  • Volcanoes Blamed for Greatest Land and Sea Ext ...
    The biggest volcanic eruptions of the past half eon had seemed a likely culprit in the greatest mass extinction Earth has seen -- both biotic cataclysm in the sea and on land.
  • Colossal Storm Rages Over Saturn’s Surface
    One of the biggest storms ever seen on the planet Saturn has now been raging for 200 days.
  • Martian Sand Dunes Caught in Motion
    NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has caught sand dunes on the surface of Mars in the act of shifting. Images from the spacecraft show dunes and ripples that have been pushed by wind as much as 3 meters over the course of several years.

PakAlert

  • Weather Control: Steering Hurricanes, Artifici ...
    Perhaps the first efforts to control the weather involved prayer or rain dances, but in the modern era it has become the focus of varying technologies that are being attempted by Europeans, Asians and Americans. Even the King of Thailand has created a method of creating and steering rain clouds ...
  • Pentagon chief calls India, China ‘threats’
    US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta referred to India and China as "threats" on Thursday, but his spokesman quickly sought to clarify his remarks. The Pentagon chief, speaking to workers at a Connecticut shipyard that builds attack submarines, described an array of threats facing the United Sta ...
  • Top Russian general: NATO expansion raises dan ...
    Russia sees NATO's expansion to include former Soviet bloc countries in eastern and central Europe as a key threat to its security. Russia is facing a heightened risk of being drawn into conflicts at its borders that have the potential of turning nuclear, the nation's top military officer sai ...
  • Venezuela: Nuclear Conflict Looms ahead if Ira ...
    After a long break caused by serious health problems, Venezuela's H. Chavez resumed on November 15 the practice of televised addresses on key policy issues. As a key message prompted by the recent developments, the Venezuelan leader sent to his nation and to the international community a strong ...
  • 2011 Poll: Only 6% of the EU would support Mil ...
    According to a 2011 poll by Transatlantic Trends very few people in the EU, US, and Turkey would support military action against Iran. The report starts with preamble by saying: "In a year of tumult and upheaval, with political revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, natural catastro ...

Andy Worthington

  • It Costs $72 Million A Year to Hold Cleared Pr ...
    Last week, the exorbitant expense of maintaining the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo was revealed in the Miami Herald, where Carol Rosenberg explained that Congress provided $139 million to operate the prison last year, which, with 171 prisoners still ...
  • Celebrating Occupy Wall Street, and the Novemb ...
    Last night, defiantly responding to Tuesday’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park by New York’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets of New York and filled Brooklyn Bridge, chanting, “Bloomberg, bew ...
  • Don’t Forget the Guantánamo Prisoners Cl ...
    Last week, Guantánamo briefly resurfaced in the news when one of the remaining 171 prisoners, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was arraigned for his planned trial by Military Commission, for his alleged role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Al-Nashiri’s trial will not begin for a least a ye ...
  • Where now for Occupy Wall Street and the Occup ...
    When Occupy Wall Street began in September, its great innovative strength — and what enabled it to be picked up on and repeated across America, and around the world — was that it broke with the tired old model of one-day protests, with their limited opportunities for creating bonds a ...
  • Expressing Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, ...
    So the billionaire bully and coward Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, waited until the middle of the night to spring a surprise eviction on the occupants of Zuccotti Park, the home, for the last two months, of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread across the US and around the w ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Oklahoma Pastor: Gay People Behind Half of Urb ...
    Pastor Tom Vineyard of Windsor Hills Baptist Church in Oklahoma must be bummed. Though onlookers reportedly gave him standing ovation for his impassioned speech against adding sexual orientation to the protected classes named in Oklahoma City’s employment nondiscrimination policy, City Council m ...
  • Israeli Prime Minister To Address Liberty Coun ...
    The Liberty Counsel has announced the lineup of speakers for next year’s national conference, and it’s a marquee of far-right luminaries. Prominent figures of the anti-Muslim movement will rub shoulders with the anti-gay religious right. Christian dominionists will hang out with hard-line consti ...
  • Corrupt Lobbyist’s Tell-All Published by Consp ...
    Given his reputation as a corrupt master of manipulation, disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been given a surprisingly credulous welcome by the media following the Nov. 1 release of his book Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lob ...
  • New Intelligence Report Released Today
    The Southern Poverty Law Center today released the latest issue of its quarterly investigative magazine on the radical right, Intelligence Report. Overall, the issue covers the extreme right’s increasingly heated rhetoric, laced with talk of war and weaponry, as it faces the possibility of four ...
  • FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate ...
    Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by an astounding 50% last year, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York City. Although the national statistics compiled by the ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Video Spreads of UC Davis Cops Pepper Spraying ...
    DAVIS, California -- A video of police in riot gear pepper spraying demonstrators is spreading after 10 Occupy protesters were arrested on the University of California, Davis campus Friday, Sacramento NBC station KCRA reported. The demonstrators were protesting the dismantling of the "Occup ...
  • U.S. Leads Challenge to Ban on Cluster Munitions
    UNITED NATIONS - Deliberations are underway for a United States-backed proposal to allow the continued use, production, trade and stockpiling of cluster munitions at the Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva. ...
  • Occupy Oakland: Footage Shows Police Beating ' ...
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  • Amphibians Facing 'Terrifying' Rate of Extinction
    If the current rapid extermination of animals, plants and other species really is the "sixth mass extinction", then it is the amphibian branch of the tree of life that is undergoing the most drastic pruning. read more
  • Amphibians Facing 'Terrifying' Rate of Extinction
    If the current rapid extermination of animals, plants and other species really is the "sixth mass extinction", then it is the amphibian branch of the tree of life that is undergoing the most drastic pruning. read more

Lifehacker

  • Freeze Cooked Pasta to Have Quick Meals on Han ...
    Bento blog Lunch in a Box shares this tip on how to easily freeze pasta for future meals—after draining the pasta, toss it with butter, olive oil, or vegetable oil to keep it from sticking and quickly freeze it in a plastic wrap or a f ...
  • Make the Best of Your Travel Plans This Weeken ...
    The holidays are upon us, and if you're going to spend them with faraway family and friends, you're probably going to be dealing with the stress that is traveling. Here are some of our best tips for making travel as pain-free as possible. ...
  • Remains of the Day: Ice Cream Sandwich Running ...
    Developers are close to a full-featured ROM for the Samsung phone, WolframAlpha tells you if it is a bird or a plane in the sky above, and the Android ereader tablets don't handle HTML5 very well. More »
  • This Week's Most Popular Posts: November 12-No ...
    This week we stocked our bags with must-have gear for getting things done on the go, calibrated our HDTVs for a much-improved picture, shared our favorite, time-saving Thanksgiving turkey recipe, and more. Here's a look back. More  ...
  • Our Favorite Single-Purpose Web Sites That Do ...
    Kids these days have the most convoluted web site names. Facebook? Twitter? eBay? I'm sorry, but I like my coffee black and my web sites self-explanatory. Here's a handful of actually useful web sites that do exactly what they sound like. ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • City to detail privatization of wastewater plant
    The union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.
  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • Water Watch Mission-Abbotsford no union puppet ...
    Lynn Perrin says Water Watch is not a mouthpiece for CUPE. Water Watch Mission-Abbotsford is a true grassroots organization and not an organ for big unions, said Lynn Perrin, one of its founders and a council candidate in Abbotsford.
  • Nassau Sewage System Privatization Could Flush ...
    Phil Franco won’t quit. Wearing a light blue jacket, a...

Guardian

  • Football: Norwich City v Arsenal - as it happe ...
    Another two goals for Robin van Persie, another win for ArsenalIt's November. It's a game between Norwich City and the Arsenal. Ah, memories, memories. So as a special treat, here's the legendary David Lacey's commentary of that memorable day at Highbury in November 1989...The King of Norway is ...
  • Saif al-Islam Gaddafi captured in Libya
    Interim Tripoli government says son of Muammar Gaddafi was arrested while attempting to flee to neighbouring NigerSaif al-Islam Gaddafi, the fugitive son of Libya's deceased former dictator, has been arrested in southern Libya, according to officials from the country's new government.Libyan stat ...
  • Council tenants to get right-to-buy at half price
    Government to double the discount for purchase of own home as part of new housing strategy paper to revive marketMillions of council tenants would be allowed to buy their homes at half price under government plans to extend the right-to-buy.The discount, double that currently available, is part ...
  • Police officers stabbed in London disturbance
    Four officers taken to hospital, three with stab wounds, after attack by man during incident in Kingsbury, north LondonFour police officers have been injured, including three thought to have suffered stab wounds, after being attacked by a man in a disturbance in London.The four officers were tak ...
  • Sick leave should be agreed by independent ass ...
    Review to recommend taking agreements over long-term illness benefits out of hands of doctorsPeople should be signed off for long-term sick leave by an independent assessor rather than their GP, a government review will recommend.The independent review, due to be published next week, is also exp ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of Vi ...
      Bad is Good and Good is Bad The problem with video game writing is that it tends to be written by fans of video games. The corruption and stupidity of games journalism are not isolated quirks of the system but symptoms of a flawed approach to the medium. Fans, by their nature, approach th ...
  • The Grand Lie
    Most of my day-to-day life is good to great. A little too much stress, a few challenges with weight and sleeplessness, but I’m living my dreams about writing and I’ve got a job that pays the bills and leaves a bit extra behind for electronics. I’m usually optimistic. At the core, I suppose I sti ...
  • The Shameful Joys of Deus Ex: Human Revolutions
      Context, Dear Boy… Context Here is a common complaint: ‘One of the problems facing video game writing is a systemic failure to place games in their correct historical context’ What this generally means is that writers fail to open their reviews with a lengthy diatribe on the history ...
  • When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
    I’ve been writing here at Futurismic for well over five years, now. It feels like longer, somehow, but it also feels like I only just started. I’ve learned a lot of things, not least of which is the fact that, the more you learn, the more you realise remains to be learned. One of the ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley
    Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley Edge SF&F (Canada), 2011; ~280pp; C$14.95 RRP – ISBN13: 978-1894063548 Budgie is a Vidicon, a member of one of the countless drug-fuelled gangs who fight to the death for territory and prestige in the red levels of the T-Dot ultramall. He sends the last ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Washington Times Covers Department of no-Justice
    This week The Washington Times published a lament of Attorney General Eric Holder’s treatment of FBI whistleblowers based on a public complaint from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The article is aptly titled, “Grassley: Whistleblower Cases Stuck ‘in limbo’ Under Holder. ...
  • Grand Jury Report Sheds Light on McQueary's Wh ...
    There has been much debate about whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. While the NWC takes no position on the outcome of the investigation, there are two facts that are important to note. First, McQueary’s initial report as a graduate assistant to his supervisor, Joe Paterno, wa ...
  • Jane Turner discusses McQueary's whistleblower ...
    NWC's Jane Turner was interviewed today on MSNBC about the Penn State child abuse scandal and whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. Tune in to Honesty Without Fear tomorrow to hear Jane and Steve Kohn discuss this question in more detail.  Visit msnbc.com for breaking ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Steve Kohn discusses the breaking story at Penn State and whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. Steve interviews Jane Turner who blew the whistle on the FBI’s failure to ...
  • Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on November 29th in Phi ...
    Calling all Philadelphians, this month is your chance to hear an in-person talk with Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center. He will be in town to teach a CLE seminar called, "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions.” Join Ste ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • Swedish Study Shows File Sharing And Music Buy ...
    It's an argument often made here at Techdirt: file sharers aren't always just leeches on the underside of content creators. Very often, they are true music fans constantly patrolling the cutting edge of music. A study released by Sweden's Internet Infrastructure Foundation shows that, among othe ...
  • Finns And Norwegians Argue Over Who Owns The N ...
    Perhaps it's because I live in the US, but I always associated the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis with Alaska. Apparently, over in Europe, they associate it with some Scandanavian countries... but apparently there's a bit of a fight over which one. Matthew A. Sawtell alerts us to what he refer ...
  • E-Publishing The Chinese Way: Very Fast And Ve ...
    Increasingly, publishers are joining the music and film industries in bemoaning the effects of piracy on the sales of digital products – and some are even starting to sue people for alleged copyright infringement (because that has worked so well elsewhere.) Perhaps they should take a look ...
  • DailyDirt: Making Foods Yucky...
    The modern food industry has developed a lot of techniques to help distribute food efficiently and safely, but sometimes there are a few "bad apples" out there that make it look like the entire food industry is filled with unsavory practices. Here are just a few examples of some food issues that ...
  • The Real 'Scandal' Over Zynga Stock Options Is ...
    There were a bunch of reports last week about a so-called "scandal" at social gaming company Zynga, concerning reports that it demanded stock options back from employees or they would be fired. Zynga certainly has done some questionable things over the years, and hasn't always had the greatest ...

VacTruth

  • Federal Health Agency Not Good at Vaccine Stat ...
    In a recent article, influenza statistics are taken to task for glaring misinterpretation by none other than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC. So what else is new?
  • 5 Ways Doctors Seduce Mothers Into Getting The ...
    Parents are being lied to and emotionally blackmailed by our governments, pharmaceutical industries, media and the medical profession. From the day children are born parents are seduced into having their children vaccinated with multiple vaccines full of toxins, poisons and chemicals.
  • This Test Standard Proves Vaccine Research Is ...
    Vaccines can cause neurological injury. It seems rather incredulous to believe that research scientists ignore death—even in a research study animal—after an animal is injected with a biological agent. But that is exactly the gold standard for testing live virus vaccines.
  • Does Vaccinology’s Right Hand Know What the Le ...
    This ingredient is used by scientists in fertility impairing vaccines.
  • 27 Dirty Little Vaccine Secrets Every Parent N ...
    Judging by the huge amount of publicity around vaccine promotion many are under the impression that the manufacturers know all about their products in detail. It may be shocking to discover that this is far from the truth.

BroadSnark

  • Remember When All the Dudes Were Hot
    Some economist named Glen Whitman wrote a post called Pan Am and the Economics of Hot Flight Attendants. In it he claims that deregulation lowered air fares and made paying for hotness in your employees prohibitively expensive. Since I have read that piece, I have been racking my brain to think ...
  • Occupation and Motivation
    I hate this picture. I get the point that they are trying to make. The “99%” at the occupy protests are privileged, white, college kids who just want loan forgiveness. They aren’t really the people most suffering in the world. It is true that many of the people who are particip ...
  • The Fam Circa 1895
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I expect that I am going to be posting quite a bit on drug war issues in the near future, especially since I am at a drug war conference today. There has been some good reporting in the news lately, specifically: Mexico city’s mayor calling the drug war schizophrenic This New Yorker piece ...
  • Book Review – The President and the Assassin
    The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller My rating: 3 of 5 stars Miller is a good writer and it is a smooth read. The turn of the last century is a fascinating time in American history. He does a pretty good job [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Police pepper spray peaceful UC Davis students
  • Rep. Deutch introduces OCCUPIED constitutional ...
    Zaid Jilani reports: In one of the greatest signs yet that the 99 Percenters are having an impact, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today introduced an amendment that would ban corporate money in politics and end corporate personhood once and for all. Deutch’s ...
  • Kissinger in ’72: Jews ‘self-serving bastards’
    Ynet reports: Confidential files released for publication in the United States on Friday reveal a new side to the Jewish-American politician Henry Kissinger, which might anger the Jewish community. Kissinger, who served as the United States National Security Advisor and later as Secretary of St ...
  • More than 20% U.S. children live in poverty, C ...
    Reuters reports: The number of children in the United States considered poor rose by 1 million in 2010, the U.S. Census said Thursday, with more than one in five of the youngest Americans now living in poverty. “Children who live in poverty, especially young children, are more likely than ...
  • Egypt Islamists demand the end of military rule
    The New York Times reports: Tens of thousands of Islamists jammed Tahrir Square on Friday, demanding the swift exit of Egypt’s interim military rulers in the most significant challenge to their authority since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak nine months ago. The huge turnout was the first ...

Watts Up With That?

  • On the anniversary of Climategate, RealClimate ...
    I’ve previously highlighted the accordion talents of RealClimate co-founder Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert. Now he’s formed a band with two guys named Abbot and Archer, singing the CO2 blues in a music video. How appropriate though, given the politics employed by … Continue reading →
  • Dr. James Hansen’s growing financial sca ...
    It seems esteemed NASA astronomer turned climatologist turned paid activist Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has not been reporting some income that he is required by law to do. How long will NASA continue … Continue reading →
  • Make 29% On Your Money, Guaranteed!
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Sounds like a scam, huh? But it’s real. Let me explain how people (no, not you or me, don’t be foolish) can make a guaranteed 29% return on their investment. However, to make it clear, … Continue reading →
  • Finally, a population crash NOT blamed on glob ...
    From Stanford University , a realization that El Niño an La Niña play far greater roles than any global warming does in ocean populations. Squid mystery in Mexican waters unraveled by Stanford biologist and a class of students While shorter … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny: Zombie head exploders and the ne ...
    Maybe Joe’s head can be a new source of renewable energy. Just like a zombie, his head keeps coming back from the dead and exploding anew, seemingly every day. All we need to power this is to write more annoying … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • New technique boosts efficiency of blood cell ...
    Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed an improved technique for generating large numbers of blood cells from a patient’s own cells. The new technique will be immediately useful in further stem cell studies, and when perfected, could be used in stem cell the ...
  • Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yo ...
    Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Add ...
  • Omega-3s Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
    A diet rich in certain omega-3 fatty acids may lower the risk of developing dementia, researchers report. In a study of more than 2,000 older women and men followed for nearly five years, the more omega-3-rich oily fish they ate, the lower their risk of developing dementia. The researchers looke ...
  • Obesity ‘leading driver’ of breast ...
    Obesity is the biggest driving force behind the most common form of breast cancer in older women, say researchers. Alcohol and then cigarettes are the next largest culprits, according to Cancer Research UK. One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer in their lifetime, data shows, and the ...
  • Caltech researchers create the first artificia ...
    Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence—not in a robot or ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Bleh
    Sick and on antibiotics. Back next week.
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Cody R. Norris, 20, of Houston, TX.Marine Lance Cpl. Nickolas A. Daniels, 25, of Elmwood Par ...
  • 'No On Issue 2': A big win, and a big opportunity
    Ohio’s overwhelming rejection of the union-busting Senate Bill 5 still has people buzzing, for good reason. As We Are Ohio pointed out, it was first election in the country on collective bargaining rights, and it wasn’t even close. Ohio has 88 counties and exactly six - count &#821 ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Torturing too (outsourcing torture doesn’t give you plausible deniability, sorry.)We killed hundreds of people in Somalia this week ...
  • Silicon Valley's halo gets a little tarnished
    The tech industry has long enjoyed an enviable reputation in the business world. Most sectors, particularly those dominated by large multinational corporations, usually struggle with some kind of bad reputation. They might be perceived as corrupt (Wall Street) archaic (cars, especially gas pow ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Simple Tips for a Green Thanksgiving
    Thanksgiving is a time for gathering and giving thanks for all of life's bounties. Unfortunately, it's also a time when a lot of throwing away and wasting happens. In fact, it's estimated that between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, Americans throw away a million tons of waste a week. The good ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Regroups, as Union Allies M ...
    After an early-morning, military-style police eviction, hundreds of protesters gathered Tuesday at closely guarded metal barricades separating them from the downtown Manhattan plaza they've occupied for almost two months.Click here to read this article
  • Organic, Urban, Backyard Farmers Can Turn 'Big ...
    Why I support organic backyard gardening, urban farming and community-supported agriculture: There's a huge knowledge gap in farm country today.Click here to read this article
  • Common Infections Will Be 'Untreatable' if Ant ...
    The world is being pushed towards the unthinkable scenario of untreatable infections, warns a new paper published in the medical journal Lancet, blaming a decline in new drug discoveries and the rising numbers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.Click here to read this article
  • At Senate Hearing, Industry Split over Efforts ...
    The split surfaced at a Senate hearing about the latest version of a bill, introduced by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), that would update a 35-year-old law regulating chemicals found in everything from water bottles to crib mattresses. For the first time, the measure would require chemical c ...

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Welcome to a Hung Democracy
    so it came to pass that a small band of the selfish or deluded came to steal the blood, sweat and toil of the many.They lied, broke solemn promises, failed to provide evidence,hid the models the public were forced to pay for, gave patrons highly paid jobs Submitted by John Farnham to Business & ...
  • Could Congress Be Crippling the Internet ?
    Two pieces of legislation making their way through Congress could change the Internet completely, for site owners and users...set to be passed before Christmas, against the objections of tech advocacy groups and major tech companies Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |&nbs ...
  • One Veteran's Rough Path from Killing and Tort ...
    Not yet 30, Evan Knappenberger has already lived several lives. His story destroys the U.S. government's case against whistleblower Bradley Manning, exposes the toxic mix of fraud and incompetence that creates U.S. war policies, and highlights the damage Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...
  • War Is a Force That Pays the 1 Percent: Occupy ...
    War profiteers benefit from the same corrupt system that bolsters the wealth of stock traders: this country provides more democracy, freedom and protection to the very wealthy than to the average citizen. Submitted by Michael Dewey to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it! &nb ...
  • Kidnapping and Ransom Rampant in the US
    kidnappers are becoming more predatory and beginning to demand higher ransoms as the economic environment in the US continues to decline. The US has 5% of the population of the world but does 22% of the kidnapping. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Not ...

Angry Indian News

  • Police shut down Jewish-Palestinian radio station
    Police shut down Jewish-Palestinian radio station: [972mag.com] A small radio station, “Kol Hashalom,” unique in that it was directed jointly by a Palestinian and a Jew, was abruptly shut down by the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Masked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader i ...
    Masked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader in shock execution - Survival International: Survival has developing news from Brazil, where masked gunmen have today executed an Indian religious leader... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pambazuka - Gaddafi’s assassination: Bombing A ...
    Pambazuka - Gaddafi’s assassination: Bombing Africa into ‘civilisation’: Mr Kwesi Pratt, Jnr, a leading member of the Socialist Forum and managing editor of the Insight newspaper, was certainly not... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Excuses, Excuses: Surveillance Technology and ...
    Excuses, Excuses: Surveillance Technology and Oppressive Regimes | Human Rights First “This is a commerce of death for the companies that place this technology in the hands of dictatorships.” – Saeid... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Maan News Agency: Palestinian human rights gro ...
    Maan News Agency: Palestinian human rights group 'fact-finding' in Libya: BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian human rights group opened a fact-finding mission in Libya on Thursday, tasked with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Goldman Sachs Goodfellas
    The corporate whores on Wall Street commercialized and stole the spirit of Christmas. How about taking back Christmas and not buying one corporate made gift?
  • ‘Tis the Season: Grinch THIS, Corporate America!
    How can we, as a nation, wrestle our economy from the grip of greedy corporations when we play into their hands every year? Why do we buy their lies this time of year while rejecting them the rest of the year? How can we stop the cycle of debt? How about this: a nationwide boycott of Christmas p ...
  • TS Radio… vertical farming, forestry, farming, ...
     Join us Tuesday evenings at 8:00CST! 6:00PST.. 8:00CST 9:00EST Listen live here! At 8:00 CST Callin #: 917-388-4520 Skype Join us this evening as Debbie Bacigalupi, a leader in the land rights fight in Siskiyou County California, returns to update us on the destruction of the Klamath Dams and t ...
  • Major data gaps in risk assessment of genetica ...
    “Significant changes in the composition of the plants were not assessed sufficiently. Possible impacts on the human immune system or the reproductive system were not investigated by empirical data. What is missing is an assessment of the interactions between the different plants, which are mixed ...
  • Guerrilla Warfare Gardening 2: Toil’s no Trouble
    A goat and a garden will keep you alive and healthy through any food crisis. This is our fourth year gardening in the high desert, and I've got to admit, we messed around and got it right this time. We have enough in the freezer for the year, and the garden fed us and the critters with fresh pro ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 16 Detroit police officers leave shift in appa ...
    ShareThis16 Detroit police officers leave shift in apparent protest 18 Nov 2011 Sixteen Detroit police officers assigned to the afternoon shift at the Northeastern District didn't complete their shift Friday as a part of an apparent protest over Mayor Dave Bing's proposed 10 percent pay cuts. Ch ...
  • Herman Cain Suggests Taliban is Running Libya
    ShareThisLOL! Herman Cain Suggests Taliban is Running Libya 18 Nov 2011 Herman Cain suggested Friday that the Taliban were playing a role in Libya's new government. The comment initially was seen as another foreign policy misstep from the Republican presidential candidate, but aides later pointe ...
  • US to sanction Iran's petrochemical industry
    ShareThisUS to sanction Iran's petrochemical industry 19 Nov 2011 The United States plans to sanction Iran's petrochemical industry, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, seeking to raise pressure on Tehran after fresh [false] allegations it may be pursuing nuclear weapons. The source ...
  • Sources: U.S. to slap new sanctions on Iran
    ShareThisSources: U.S. to slap new sanctions on Iran 19 Nov 2011 The Obama administration plans to impose fresh sanctions against Iran's petrochemical industry, diplomatic sources familiar with the plans said Friday. U.S. sanctions already prohibit American companies from doing business with Ira ...
  • Iran conducts 4-day air defense drill
    ShareThisIran conducts 4-day air defense drill --Exercise in east Iran aimed at 'heightening level of preparedness amid possible threats to airspace, nuclear centers' 18 Nov 2011 The Iranian army was set to launch an air defense drill Friday evening simulating an attack on the country's nuclear ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respirator ...
  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of o ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Pocket Spies
    Image created with iPhone4s 17 November 2011 We know the Internet has dangers.  Everything we put onto the information superhighway should be considered chiseled into marble.  Meanwhile, those smartphones that so many of us carry are tantamount to carrying hostile spies in our pocket ...
  • What is Your Vote?
    17 November 2011 The United States faces greater threats at home than we face in Afghanistan.  The Mexican border, for instance, is being described as a war zone.  People have been warning about it years.  Over time, I have seriously considered changing focus to the more proximat ...
  • Marked for Destruction
    14 November 2011 Camouflage is a combat imperative.  Instruction in the use of camouflage begins in basic training.  The Red Cross on the bright white background is meant to break up camouflage and to be seen. While there might seem little chance in hiding a roaring helicopter, the c ...
  • That 1%
    11 November 2011 It has been an honor these seven years to cover American and British troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippines and elsewhere.  It is said that only about 1% of Americans serve in the armed forces.  Many of our troops are not even American citizens.  I see them in ...
  • Question for Congressman Pompeo: What is your ...
    08 November 2011 Forward Operating Base Pasab is in the upper left corner of this image.  It’s the little rectangle looking area bristling with machine guns.  Well, you can’t see the machine guns in this picture, but they are there.  One time I walked by a guard post and didn’t s ...

The Killing Train

  • The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
    [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
  • An interview for occupy Toronto
    Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
  • Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
  • The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
    The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...
  • The Housing Crisis in Haiti
    There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which proposes to resettle residents of 6 large camps in 16 neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince. In total, if the program succeeds, it will touch 5000 families, or 4% of the ...

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN rights expert urges WTO to make right to f ...
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter [official website] said Friday that the World Trade Organization (WTO) [official website] must make food security a top priority [UN News Centre report; report, PDF] at its global trade talks next month. De Schutter stressed ...
  • Prosecutors appeal decision to release Khmer R ...
    [JURIST] Prosecutors in the UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive] filed an immediate appeal [text, PDF] on Friday of the court's decision to release [JURIST report] Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Thirith [ECCC profile, PDF] after findi ...
  • Sri Lanka ex-army chief sentenced to 3 more ye ...
    [JURIST] A jailed former Sri Lanka army chief was sentenced on Friday to an additional three years in prison for reportedly implicating his country's defense secretary in war crimes at the end of the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war [CFR backgrounder]. In the High Court [official website] ruling, tw ...
  • Ninth Circuit refuses to block release of name ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday denied a request [opinion, PDF] to block the release of names on Washington state petitions for Referendum 71 (R-71) opposing domestic partnerships. Last month, the Washington secretary of state began to relea ...
  • Philippines ex-president arrested on fraud, co ...
    [JURIST] Philippine authorities arrested former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Friday in response to a warrant [text] issued that same day on charges of corruption and election fraud occurring during her time as president. Arroyo was arrested in her hospi ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Why Did Perry Get Into the Race, Really?
    Republican consultants at loose ends and looking for work sold the Texas governor a bill of goods about his prospects So I have this theory about why Gov. Rick Perry decided to run for president, despite what appeared to be his instincts telling him that the job just wasn't for him. There ca ...
  • Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...
    The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb Iran's Head of Atomic Energy Organization Abbasi-Davani speaks at the 55th IAEA General Conference in Vienna / Reuters The Obama administration insists that a major new U.N. report on Iran's nuclear prog ...
  • Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
    After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information and guarding secrets By executive order, President Obama will instruct federal agencies today to better safeguard their classified secrets, to set up inter ...
  • Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
    American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter So here was the main protocol problem the United States faced on Sept. 23, 2009: President Barack Obama was set to give his inaugural speech before the United Nations General Assembly, ...
  • Obama's Lonely Middle Ground
    The president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again. For two and a half years, President Obama has walked a narrow lane, like one of the bike strips that Mike Bloomberg (more technocratic, but of a like mind) p ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Police Silence Peace Radio Station
    Israeli police have just succeeding in murdering peace (Hebrew)–or at least the voice of peace that Israelis and Palestinians can hear on the radio.   Police summoned the Radio Kol HaShalom (“All for Peace” Radio, which is a play on Kol HaShalom, Abie Natan’s radio statio ...
  • Declining Israeli Press Freedom: If Reporter H ...
    While there are myriad stories recounting the assault against democracy in Israel, none is more important evident than the emasculation of the Israeli press.  While it has always been subject to censorship on matters related to national security, the pressure against honest, courageous reporting ...
  • Target of Sabotage Attack Against Iran Were Sa ...
    Alex Fishman, reporting in today’s Yediot, writes that according to U.S. intelligence, the target of attack at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard missile base was the nation’s most advanced missile prototypes the Sajjil and Ghadr F.  I’d been reporting that the missile test involv ...
  • Alex Fishman: U.S. Sees in Ahmadinejad Possibl ...
    Today, there are two interesting reports with divergent points of view about U.S. strategy toward Iran. But each is worth noting. First, readers will know the respect in which I hold Alex Fishman, the military correspondent of Yediot. He was the only mainstream journalist willing to take on the ...
  • Lieberman Severs Ties With Mossad
    I’ve been reporting here lately on reports that the Shin Bet refused to provide Avigdor Lieberman security clearances that would’ve enabled him to see top secret documents about his then portfolio as minister of strategic affairs, Iran.  An authoritative Israeli source also reported ...

If Americans Knew

  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Cli ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...

David J. Gregory

  • Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
    This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
  • EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
    (661) 449-9342 The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to ar ...
  • " Flip Flopped"
      Dear Editor,   The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number".   How can flying ...
  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]

Unsuitable Blog

  • Ready the Fire Extinguishers: The Coca-Cola Ol ...
    The Olympic torch relay does not have an auspicious history. The modern torch relay, as a symbol of local pride enmeshed in the Olympic ideal, was introduced in 1936 to herald the opening of the Berlin Olympics. It was nothing less than a propaganda exercise to show the world the superiority of ...
  • Greenloons: Ecotourism is the New Blindfold
    Now that the Unsuitablog is taking a more occasional view of ethical hypocrisy (short for, “I really don’t have the time for all this!”) it takes a very special email or advert to make it to the blog. Most of them end up in my junk folder, but some of them sneak into my inbox, ...
  • Moving Planet Just Moved!
    Symbolic action sucks! Have a look at the other side of Moving Planet and the environmental mainstream at www.moving-planet.com
  • An Open Letter to Mike Gonzalez, and Everyone ...
    To: Professor Mike Gonzalez, Glasgow University Hi Mike I’ve just read your article “Eva Morales Defence of Mother Earth Rings Hollow in Bolivia” (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/03/evo-morales-indigenous-people-protest) and am a little concerned. I assume (hope) you ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: The Futility and the Oppor ...
    There are a couple of quotations which I would like to share with you. Read them carefully; they will possibly make you angry, or perhaps you will be nodding furiously in agreement with one if not both of them. They are important quotations. This is the first: One will find hundreds, sometimes t ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • DocumentCloud Shows Off Popcorn.js Plug-in at ...
    DocumentCloud visited London at the beginning of November for the Mozilla Festival. This year's festival focused on media, freedom and the web. DocumentCloud, a catalog of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web, fit comfortably alongside a v ...
  • Feeding OpenBlock: A New Newsroom Pet That Eat ...
    A few months ago, my kids hit an inevitable, but still terrifying, milestone -- they began asking for a pet. Being a complete Scrooge, I quickly set to work explaining that pets are hard work and expensive. Showing a strong knack for journalism, they demanded proof of my assertions, so we set of ...
  • Public Lab's 'Barnraising' Focuses on DIY Infr ...
    Stephen Debique, a student from Trinidad, carefully removed the screws from the digital camera, trying not to destroy it in the process. His hands shook a little as he hesitated just before popping the hot-filter off the heart of the machine with exactly the correct amount of pressure. After a f ...
  • Journalism in the Open: Are Our Systems for Le ...
    This week on MediaShift, we're exploring the moving target that is teaching journalism. Stay tuned as we offer tips, tools and insights on educating tomorrow's journalists. "Beyond J-School 2011" is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting ed ...
  • Open Source Meets Mobile in Ashoka's Citizen M ...
    As world events like Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and the Japanese tsunami disaster have shown, YouTube and social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook have the capacity to turn just about anyone into a journalist. It's a trend that leaves some traditional media outlets skeptical ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Poisoned Places - Few Criminal Cases Target Bi ...
    For a decade, hazardous emissions from a refinery regularly swept into a mostly poor, minority neighborhood in Corpus Christi known as Hillcrest, where residents complained of odors, dizziness, vomiting and a range of conditions from asthma to cancer.In June 2007, jurors found the refinery’s own ...
  • Edge on Environment - Zimbabwe Needs Water for ...
    According to official reports in Zimbabwe, up to one hundred elephants have died of thirst since October of this year in the Hwange Natural Park in the west of the country. Watering holes and other sources of water that depend on pumping have dried up and have “caused an alarming rate of mortali ...
  • China and Africa - The Incomplete Promise of C ...
    For centuries, wave after wave of colonists and foreign investors have swept through Africa, looking for profits from the continent’s abundant reserves of oil and prized minerals.Many instead left records of corruption and broken promises of shared wealth with Africans.It is against this backdro ...
  • Poisoned Places - Many Americans Left Behind i ...
    For all of her 62 years, Lois Dorsey has lived five blocks from a mass of petrochemical plants in Baton Rouge. She worries about the health of people in her life: A 15-year-old granddaughter, recovering from bone cancer. A 59-year-old sister, a nonsmoker, felled by lung cancer. Neighbors with as ...
  • The Way We Are - Stories On The Skin: The Life ...
    Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.– Charles DarwinOn a spectacularly sunny, end of March Sunday I attended a "tattoofest" in a Tampa hotel. Outside a group of bikers and other atte ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William Hicks Continuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry Grey US payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it.   Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber   Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The ma ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rheto ...

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Major Hiring Boom in Chi ...
    According to to Newsbusted anchor Jodi Miller, the Windy City is about to experience a Major Hiring boom and it is all tied to former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich's rise in the GOP polls. If you are looking for work in Chicago, make sure to watch this report. From what I hear, no experien ...
  • Syria's Not a Revolution-It is A Civil War, A ...
    Barry Rubin's Book about Syria is Available at Amazon-Its a Must Read, Today More Than Ever By Barry Rubin The only honest answer to the question of what will happen in Syria is: No one knows. After an eight-month-long battle in which more than 3500 people have been killed, there’s no ...
  • Forget President, Bigots Like Ron Paul Shouldn ...
    The other day I criticized a tweet by Judge Napalitano who reiterated his support of Congressman Ron Paul's candidacy for President. Whenever I write something negative about Ron Paul (which is  just about every time I write about him), I get the nastiest comments, tweets and emails a ...
  • Publisher of The Jewish Week Warns Jews "PLEAS ...
    Sometimes it astounds me the extent to which a progressive "journalist" will go to spin stories in their direction, thus putting politics before serving the readers. Sometimes it astounds me the extent to which a progressive Jew will go to promote their favorite politicians thus putting pol ...
  • Maxine Waters On Occupy Rapes And Murders-Sh*t ...
    In Maxine Waters' warped mind there is nothing wrong with this country except for the fact that there are people in this country who dare to disagree with her. The Congresswoman from California believes everybody has the right to HER opinion. After recent comments saying the Tea Party should ...

The Real Agenda

  • Fake terror plots and paid informants: Welcome ...
    FBI targeting vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots. by Paul Harris Guardian.co.uk November 18, 2011 David Williams did not have an easy life. He moved to Newburgh, a gritty, impoverished town on the banks of the Hudson an hour or so north of New York, at just 10 years old. For ...
  • Ron Paul: Obamacare is more Fascism than Socialism
    by Page Winfield Washington Post November 18, 2011 It’s doubtful whether anyone opposes President Obama’s health care law more than Ron Paul, but the Texas congressman said Wednesday that the sweeping legislation is not socialized medicine — contrary to claims made by his fellow pres ...
  • Water is not Healthy say European Union Techno ...
    This claim is leading the way towards incrementally tyrannical policies that will state people do not have the right enjoy drinkable water, because the liquid, they say, is not healthy and therefore is not a basic necessity. by Giles Sheldrick Express.co.uk November 18, 2011 In a scarcely believ ...
  • Resistant Infections Spread in Europe
    Use and overuse of antibiotics are see as the cause. by Jeremy Laurance The Independent November 18, 2011 The world is being driven towards the “unthinkable scenario of untreatable infections”, experts are warning, because of the growth of superbugs resistant to all antibiotics and t ...
  • PepsiCo Financia Uso de Células Embrionárias p ...
    Como relatado anteriormente, outras empresas como a Kraft e Nestlé também usam células fetais na criação de sabores artificiais. As três empresas estão trabalhando com a Senomyx empresa de biotecnologia. Tradução Luis R. Miranda LifeSiteNews 16 de novembro de 2011 Dezenas de grupos pró-vida estã ...

Wind Watch

  • Shelburne wind farm plan withdrawn; Landowner ...
    SHELBURNE FALLS — The $40 million, eight-turbine Mount Massaemet wind farm proposal has been taken off the table … for now. Frederick D. Field quietly withdrew his Zoning Board of Appeals special permit application at the end of a long meeting Thursday night that brought out 250 residents from s ...
  • Petitions reject wind power development
    AUGUSTA — A majority of residents in Concord and Lexington townships, as well as Highland Plantation, have signed petitions opposing wind power development in their area of Somerset County. A group of those residents traveled to Augusta on Thursday to present the petitions to the office of ...
  • Developers drop plans for two wind farms on St ...
    BURNS — Developers on Thursday dropped plans for two wind energy projects on the north slopes of Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon. Columbia Energy Partners LLC and its affiliate, CEP Funding of Vancouver, Wash., canceled the East Ridge and West Ridge projects on private property for ...
  • Renewable energy in Constellation deal questioned
    Promises to build more renewable energy sites in Maryland as part of the proposed sale of Constellation Energy to Chicago’s Exelon Corp. are drawing opposition in western Maryland. The chairman of the Garrett County Board of Commissioners wrote Exelon President and CEO Christopher Crane th ...
  • Wind project in Pacific County killed; Partici ...
    Four public utility districts in Southwest Washington have pulled the plug on a proposal to build Washington’s first coastal wind farm in the heart of the state’s most valuable nesting habitat for the threatened marbled murrelet. The Radar Ridge Wind Project was first proposed in 2007 by Energy ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...

The Freeman

  • Putting Bureaucracy First: Rachel Maddow&#8217 ...
    Bureaucratic dominance does not merely lower material living standards or reduce profit opportunities. It crushes lives and dreams.
  • Pressure Mounts on European Central Bank
    “The financial stability of Europe has come down to one institution, the European Central Bank, which is now under heavy new pressure to rescue the euro — or possibly see it collapse.” (New York Times) Central banks will be central banks. FEE Timely Classic “Free Banking Beats ...
  • Congress Passes Spending Bill
    “On Thursday, the House and Senate passed a bill that provided a detailed vision of the federal government on a diet.” (Washington Post) Some diet. FEE Timely Classic “Most Outrageous Government Waste” by Thomas A. Schatz
  • GOP Faces Internal Battle over Tax Increase
    “Growing Republican support for raising taxes to help reduce the deficit has prompted a GOP identity crisis, sparking a clash within the party over whether to abandon its bedrock anti-tax doctrine.” (New York Times) Unsurprising. FEE Timely Classic “Are High Taxes the Basis of ...
  • Government Debt Hits $15 Trillion
    “The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the federal debt has climbed to a record $15 trillion — a staggering figure that caps a precipitous decade-long rise.” (Washington Times) A truly historic day. FEE Timely Classic “The Debt Sky” by Sheldon Richman

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Classroom helpers for j-school
    In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • Land Grabs and the World Bank
    Farmers in developing countries are seeing their land taken from them and sold off to investors, and the World Bank is playing a hand in the deals.
  • Childbirth in Developing Countries
    Maternal deaths occur at a rate 300 times higher in developing countries than in the developed world. International health initiatives are working to address the problem.
  • Tunisia First to Govern in Era of Transition
    Tunisian's election of its Constituent Assembly represents the first step in the Arab Spring's transitioning from revolution to democratization.
  • U.S. Forces in Uganda
    President Obama's decision to deploy U.S. special forces to Central Africa to help end the LRA insurgency led by Joseph Kony raises a number of questions about the mission.
  • The Case for U.S. Humanitarian Interventionism
    There is a difference between interventions driven by a U.S. agenda and interventions carried out in order to save innocent lives.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • What’s happening in Europe is what matters: ru ...
    The oligarchs have taken down two governments in the past two weeks – Italy and Greece.  The idea that the Mario Monti, the new PM of Italy, is something wonderful, is deranged.  Note that once again, neither an election nor a referendum was allowed. If you want to save the Euro and some f ...
  • What’s happening in Europe is what matte ...
    The oligarchs have taken down two governments in the past two weeks – Italy and Greece.  The idea that the Mario Monti, the new PM of Italy, is something wonderful, is deranged.  Note that once again, neither an election nor a referendum was allowed. If you want to save the Euro and some f ...
  • The Occupy Education Continues
    A huge coordinated attack in multiple cities occurred last night, in which even journalists were thrown in jail.  Many protestors are being denied access to lawyers. Bloomberg and the police are in direct violation of a court order to allow protestors back into the park. In other words, the law ...
  • The Occupy Education Continues
    A huge coordinated attack in multiple cities occurred last night, in which even journalists were thrown in jail.  Many protestors are being denied access to lawyers. Bloomberg and the police are in direct violation of a court order to allow protestors back into the park. In other words, the law ...
  • In Flanders Fields
    by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Ruth's Reviews: And the winner is….
    Last night, at a ceremony in London, Gavin Pretor-Pinney was named as this year’s Royal Society Winton Book Prize winner. His winning book, The Wavewatcher’s Companion, is his second, and followed naturally in the footsteps of The Cloudspotter’s Guide. He told me “many waves are revealed by cl ...
  • Chilean desert yields trove of whale fossils
    Posted on behalf of Patricio Segura. In Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest in the world, a team of researchers from institutions in Chile, Brazil and the United States has found more than 80 exquisitely preserved whale fossils. The finds, made near the northern city of Caldera, are just ...
  • Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light ...
    18 November 2011: An updated version of this story is now available (see 'Neutrino experiment replicates faster-than-light finding'). It is a remarkable confirmation of a stunning result; but most physicists remain skeptical. That seems the most probable outcome of a release of new data exp ...
  • Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light ...
    It is a remarkable confirmation of a stunning result; but most physicists remain skeptical. That seems the most probable outcome of a release of new data expected on 17 November from researchers with the Italian OPERA collaboration, who say they have confirmed their controversial finding that fl ...
  • Amid political storm, Chu defends Solyndra dec ...
    When it rains it pours on the US Department of Energy. First Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he wants to dismantle it (though he couldn’t quite remember that at the crucial moment in a recent Republican debate). Then the department’s own inspector general releases a report rec ...

new geography

  • The Best Cities For Technology Jobs
    During tough economic times, technology is often seen as the one bright spot. In the U.S. this past year technology jobs outpaced the overall rate of new employment nearly four times. But if you’re looking for a tech job, you may want to consider searching outside of Silicon Valley. Though the ...
  • Toyota: How Mississippi Engineered the Blue Sp ...
    A big crowd gathered earlier today to welcome the first Corolla that rolled off the assembly line at Toyota’s tenth U.S. plant in the tiny hamlet of Blue Springs, Mississippi. Situated in Union County, just 17 miles from Elvis’ hometown of Tupelo, the new plant is the latest new automobile manuf ...
  • The New World Order: A Report on the World's E ...
    This is the introduction to a new report, "The New World Order" authored by Joel Kotkin in partnership with the Legatum Institute. Read the full report and view the maps at the project website. The fall of the Soviet Union nearly a quarter of a century ago forced geographers and polic ...
  • Do Standardized Tests Raise Dropout Rates?
    The No Child Left Behind Act became law in 2002. Among other things, it required standardized testing of students, beginning in 2003. The scores are used to evaluate the quality of the schools. It sounds reasonable. Congress certainly thought so. It was co-authored in the Senate by Edward K ...
  • The Secret of Where Good Energy Comes From
    In the wake of Solyndra's failure, pundits have latched on to a simple, compelling narrative: government can't do energy right. From synfuels to solar panels to "clean coal" (written, inevitably, with knowing quotation marks), demonstration projects funded by the Department of En ...

GM Watch

  • Wave of suicides among Indian farmers
    NOTE: It's the largest wave of suicides in recorded history. EXTRACT: Vandana Moohorle is now bringing up her children alone after her husband killed himself by drinking pesticide. Like many farmers, he had been persuaded to use genetically modified seeds by the possibility of a better harvest ...
  • GM Crops - Contamination without Representation
    Genetically Modified Crops - Contamination without Representation April Scott  Salem-News.com, Nov 17 2011  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php If Oregon allows GM sugar beets to be deregulated, we may not stand a chance against full federal deregulation of all GM ...
  • GM Crops - Contamination without Representation
    Genetically Modified Crops - Contamination without Representation April Scott  Salem-News.com, Nov 17 2011  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php If Oregon allows GM sugar beets to be deregulated, we may not stand a chance against full federal deregulation of all GM ...
  • WA's non-GM sector could vanish within 10 years
    NOTE: Very few farmers are choosing to grow GM canola in Western Australia but it's spreading fast by contamination. --- --- WA's non-GM sector could vanish within 10 years Rebecca Le May AAP, November 17 2011  http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/was-non-gm-sector-could-vanish-with ...
  • WA's non-GM sector could vanish within 10 years
    NOTE: Very few farmers are choosing to grow GM canola in Western Australia but it's spreading fast by contamination. --- --- WA's non-GM sector could vanish within 10 years Rebecca Le May AAP, November 17 2011  http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/was-non-gm-sector-could-vanish-with ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
    Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
  • Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
  • Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
    Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles ...
  • Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
    The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no app ...
  • Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
    I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Coming European Superstate That Germany Pl ...
    A lot of people were puzzled about what German Chancellor Angela Merkel meant when she recently stated that the ultimate solution to the financial crisis in the EU would "mean more Europe, not less Europe".  Well, now we are finding out.  A leaked internal German government memo ...
  • 35 Facts About The Gutting Of America’s ...
    Did you know that an average of 23 manufacturing facilities were shut down every single day in the United States last year?  As World War II ended, the United States emerged as the greatest industrial power that the world has ever seen.  But now America's industrial might is bein ...
  • The Police State Vs. Occupy Wall Street: This ...
    Right now, we are watching the early rounds of a heavyweight fight between two extremely determined opponents.  Occupy Wall Street has no plans of losing this fight and neither do law enforcement authorities.  Perhaps those running the show actually believed that raiding Zuccotti ...
  • 22 Signs That The Thin Veneer Of Civilization ...
    In order for a society to function, there has to be a certain level of trust.  Each day when we leave our homes, we take for granted that most people are not going to attack us for no reason, that there will only be isolated incidents of theft in our community and that rioting an ...
  • Bernanke Says That Any Criticism Of The Federa ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is taking his show on the road in at attempt to help Americans feel better about the Federal Reserve.  During a visit to the Fort Bliss headquarters of the Army’s 1st Armored Division this week, Bernanke held a town hall meeting during which ...

Desertification

  • Brazil : the School Feeding Programme or Zero ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/home-grown-food-in-schools-for-a-green-economy/ In Brazil, outstanding localized school feeding practices are recognized annually by the government-backed programme known as Zero Hunger Action (Ação Fome Zero). Over 30 municipalities are nominated each year, ...
  • Home-grown food in schools : We all have the r ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/home-grown-food-in-schools-for-a-green-economy/ Home-grown food in schools for a green economy by Kei Otsuki As next June’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development approaches, discussions about how to effectively establish a green economy are surging. But as ...
  • Growing fruit, vegetables at home to cut depen ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/11/18/urban-farmers-in-india-growing-fruit-vegetables-at-home-to-cut-dependence-on-market/ ‘Urban farmers’ in India growing fruit, vegetables at home to cut dependence on market Linked by Michael Levenston “The importance and requirement for urban agricu ...
  • Urban Agriculture in the Bronx, New York City ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/11/18/community-gardens-an-exploration-of-urban-agriculture-in-the-bronx-new-york-city/ Community Gardens: An Exploration of Urban Agriculture in the Bronx, New York City Linked by Michael Levenston The Bronx currently has about 175 community gardens adm ...
  • Malnutrition levels and mortality remain extre ...
    Read at : http://www.acted.org/fr/node/3854 Somalia: Three regions out of famine but humanitarian emergency still acute Pasture and browse availability has improved since September in southern Somalia The southern Somalia regions of Bay, Bakool and Lower Shabelle are no longer experiencing &#823 ...

The Paper Trail

  • The weekly watchdog: Nov. 14 - Nov. 18
    In case you missed them, catch up on this week's top investigations from iWatch News.
  • 15 Tea Party Caucus freshmen rake in $3.5 mill ...
    A joint analysis by iWatch News and the Center for Responsive Politics has found that the 15 freshmen members of the Tea Party Caucus have embraced many of the same special interests that have supported Republicans for years. The fifteen combined have received over $3,450,000 during the first th ...
  • ‘Pirate’ fleet owner convicted of fish fraud
    A Spanish ship-owner with a voluminous record of skirting international laws – and who swears he has never fished illegally – has been sentenced in Spain to one year and eight months in prison for trying to unload fish caught by one of his vessels.An Australian patrol boat spotted the Hammer, ow ...
  • ‘Pirate’ fleet owner faces prison for fish fraud
    A Spanish ship-owner with a voluminous record of skirting international laws – and who swears he has never fished illegally – has been sentenced in Spain to one year and eight months in prison for trying to unload fish caught by one of his vessels.An Australian patrol boat spotted the Hammer, ow ...
  • Worst may be yet to come in foreclosure crisis ...
    Four years after the housing market collapse triggered a wave of defaults, the worst may be yet to come for homeowners, according to a new study.Among mortgages made between 2004 and 2008, 2.7 million households ended up in foreclosure while 3.6 million more are at “immediate, serious risk” of d ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Death in Vancouver, bluster on Twitter
    By Frank Moher A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year. She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died. Or perhaps it wasn ...
  • Three simple words that can save a life
    By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body ...
  • Minister Oliver goes oil drumming
    By Alison@Creekside While in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators on tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States Energy Association (USEA) Energy Supply Forum. Here is the qu ...
  • Letter to Steve Jobs
    by Eric Pettifor Dear Mr. Jobs: I write to you on the occasion of your death to congratulate you on making a difference. As more of a technology visionary and businessman than a true geek (that was your erstwhile partner Steve Wozniak, or "Woz"), you may not recall that this was ...
  • Should the CBC boot Cherry and O’Leary?
    By Frank Moher It's not at all a bad thing that CBC loudmouths Don Cherry and Kevin O'Leary have agitated some viewers lately, Cherry with his rant against former NHL enforcers who have come out against violence in hockey, and O'Leary with his interview of American journalist Chris Hedges, in ...

libcom

  • St. Louis, MO, USA: N17 March Against Austerit ...
    6356083443_1721b97494_o.jpg It should be clear that before the Occupy movement, there has always been a struggle against the rich, against the 1%, against capitalism, against whatever you want to call ...
  • Marginality and Universality: The Indigenous W ...
    A critique written in the days following the 17th General Assembly. I apologise for the poor formatting, but I've been working on this all week and am thoroughly sick of it. I welcome your comments here or on my blog. The 17th ...
  • All-City Student Occupation @ 90 5th Avenue – ...
    acsobanner1.jpg A joint statement authored by the All-NYC Student General Assembly. Two days ago the NYPD, under the orders of a billionaire mayor who does not represent us, rai ...
  • Italy: Occupy Everywhere, Occupy Everything! N ...
    torino.jpg …And here we go again! Italy’s streets were put under occupation once again today, as part of the “International Student’s Day”, originally created to commemorate the students deported by t ...
  • The Assault on Autonomous Education in Southea ...
    zapatista_autonomous_schools.jpg This article is being published to coincide with the issuing of the Worldwide Declaration in Support of the Zapatista Support Bases of San Marcos Avilés, Chiapas, Mexico by The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas H ...

Free Range International

  • Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
    Much has transpired since my visit to Zaranj last month.  I learned just this morning that the Surge apparently did not work and we are now, according to our esteemed Secretary of State, switching tactics too.  The new counterinsurgency tactic will be “Fight, Talk, Build” and if you ...
  • Sanctuary Denied?
    Last week I received and heads up from Mullah John that General Allen and Ambassador Crocker were on 60 Minutes and was able to watch the show on AFN.  The one thing I noticed when watching General Allen was the emotion clearly evident as he discussed the truck bomb has had asked the Pakistani m ...
  • Free Ranging Balochistan
    I’m back in my compound after attending a bunch of ceremonies in Zaranj marking the end of our efforts in Nimroz Province.  When we flew in last week the skies were dark and it rained that night.  The next morning was clear as a bell making for excellent photography and perfect weather for ...
  • Diplomacy 101
    I am in the middle of an interesting few days as we finish up our projects, some of the larger ones with official ceremonies.  Those of you who follow Michael Yon on facebook know where I am and what we have been up to.  What is interesting to watch is Michael, myself and our friend [...]
  • High Noon in the Forgotten Province
    Yesterday morning there was a running gunfight spanning 100 kilometers on the Nimroz Province side of the Dasht-e Margo (Desert of Death.) It started just outside the little hamlet of Qala Fath, which is home to the only reliable source of drinking water near Zaranj and also houses this spectacu ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Dr. Sowell Comments on OWS — SHORT AND S ...
    Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public ...
  • Pedophilia a Doctrine of the Kaballah and the ...
    Thanks to studying a number of obscure books on the Kaballah and the Talmud, I can say with 100% assurance that pedophilia and child sexual abuse is most definitely a mainstay of certain Khazarian Rabbis and Talmudists in America and Israel.  This, along with RITUAL MURDER is their deep, dark se ...
  • Hayden Fox Weighs In — Additional Confir ...
    Sandusky Part of Illuminati Pedophile Network November 13, 2011 By Hayden Fox (henrymakow.com) The Penn State-Jerry Sandusky scandal may just be getting started.   Undisclosed allegations implicate Sandusky in a massive homosexual pedophile ring.  There is a report Sandusky “pimped out&#82 ...
  • Reprint of 1999 Article by John Torell
    Sometimes you come across the writings of another author that mirrors your own research and study completely.   So it is with this 1999 evangelical warning to all Americans. In light of the CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE  – PENN STATE SAGA – this becomes especially relevant. Enjoy!   Eur ...
  • Conspiracy of Silence – Penn State Chapt ...
    There is an epic “Story Behind the Story” concerning Penn State University and the firing of PSU President Graham Spanier and of course “legendary” football coach Joe Paterno last week. Let’s review what has been ALLOWED to be released by the heavily censored, Jewis ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Recycling is not just for Cans
    Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...
  • Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety-
    Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety Guest Post by: Ms Sally Davison  When it comes to sustainable home construction and renovation, fire safety should also be a concern. Preventing fires is a green practice in itself, because fires present a serious threat to the environment in terms of e ...
  • CSP-design with Heat Recovery Unit for added E ...
    UPDATE:  Concentrated Solar Power Design with Added Heat Recovery Unit Seeking Assistance to bring this design to market.   Please use Contact Form Below and Scotty, Scotts Contracting will reply to your message ASAP. Updated Concentrated Solar Power Photovoltaic Design with Added Automatic Heat ...
  • Repair It-Don’t Replace It-Concrete Steps
    Repairing Concrete Steps instead of Replacing-Job Notes, Suggestions, and Hints. Whether it is downturn of economy or people choosing to save money, many of my clients are choosing to “Repair rather than Replace” the materials used in the construction of their home or business. If yo ...
  • Poll-How can I help you Save Money on your Win ...
    POll-How can I help you Save Money on your Winter-Time Heating Bills? [contact-form] [/contact-form] Related articles Reduce your heating bill this winter (moneysaversdirect.com) CAD Detail Heat and Cold Loss-2×4 Wall (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Fall Weatherization Services Offer (scottsco ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Is the OWS Movement Working Class?
    There is heated debate across the political spectrum whether OWS represents a genuine working class movement. The issue is vitally important, both to social change activists and the political elite. It will determine whether OWS succeeds in engaging the 80% of the population who spend their enti ...
  • Ending Corporate Rule: the Citizens’ Ri ...
    There is lots of media speculation about the fate of #OccupyWallStreet (OWS) over winter. Wall Street and Washington politicians are hoping OWS will simply vanish with colder weather. At this point, I think this is highly unlikely. I suspect the size of public occupations on the East Coast wil ...
  • Don’t Eat the Fish
        *** How the EPA Violated Their Own Guidelines (This is the second of two blogs about the human health hazards of oil spills.) In what most likely amounts to criminal conspiracy, the Obama administration pressured the EPA to violate their own guidelines and reopen the Gulf fisher ...
  • Oil Spills Can Kill You
    Dr Riki Ott Marine Toxicologist The Conspiracy of Silence around PAHs Recently volunteers from all over New Zealand flocked to one of our most pristine beach and wildlife areas to help clean up a massive fuel oil spill from a freighter that ran aground off Tauranga. The g ...
  • The Corporatization of Breast Cancer
    The Think Before You Pink Campaign (www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org) In case people didn’t notice, October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We were all expected to wear pink ribbons all month to help find a cure for breast cancer, an often fatal illness affecting one out of eight women. Besid ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • From 'The Revolutionary,' by Walter Russell Me ...
    Link to original article in full ... The [Bush senior administration] official pointed out fatwas from Osama that cited the effects of sanctions on Iraqi children and the presence of U. S. troops as a sacrilege that justified his jihad. In a real sense, September 11 was part of the cost of ...
  • #OccupyAmerica
    Anchorage, AK (VIDEO) | Birmingham, AL (VIDEO) | Phoenix, AZ | Prescott, AZ (VIDEO) | Tucson, AZ | Berkeley, CA; Protesters target Bank of America | Camarillo, CA | Fresno, CA; 100 rally downtown (VIDEO) | Long Beach, CA | Los Angeles, CA; 10 arrested trying to cash over-sized check made out to ...
  • Top Wall Street Banker: 'Obama Mostly Wanted t ...
    On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfe ...
  • Obama to Top Bankers: 'I'm Protecting You ... ...
    On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfein, ...
  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...

Salon

  • Why my coach got away with sexual abuse
    Disgust flows freely after reading each new story about Penn State. Why, we wonder, would someone willingly ignore reports of heinous sexual abuse of a child? Why would someone as “good” as Joe Paterno brush aside the alleged despicable and predatory actions of a coach on his staff, a coach repr ...
  • Don’t believe the education “refor ...
    Three mildly heretical thoughts about American education: First, given the impossible assignment we’ve given them—an egalitarian mission in a nation rapidly growing more stratified by income and class—American public schools are probably doing a better job than they ought to be. One big reason i ...
  • What the 99 percent can give American soldiers
    There's something that I want to say about the Occupy Wall Street movement going on right now. I will say from the outset that I am a member of the Army, deployed right now, but that I do not speak for anyone but myself, and certainly not for the Army as a whole or as an institution.I am deeply ...
  • The new age of consumer activism
    As we all know, America is angry. Really angry. To put it in pop culture terms, we've moved from the vaguely inspiring agita of Peter Finch in "Network" to the wild-eyed, primal-scream rage of Sam Kinison in "Back to School."When we pay attention to politics, we get peeved at Congress and the pr ...
  • Scandal-prone GOPer resurfaces in Gadhafi scheme
    The New York Times has a must-read story today about a motley group of American political operatives who tried to get a $10 million consulting contract with Moammar Gadhafi earlier this year. Depending on who you ask, the plan was to either help Gadhafi cling to power, or to find him refuge in a ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Hello? 311? Anyone there?
    As far as public service and business efficiency are concerned, Toronto 311 should call 911. It's in dire need of help.
  • Help Crown wards beat the odds
    Ontario can do more to help young people from troubled homes beat the odds.
  • He cherished the kids
    Dr. Fraser Mustard cherished the children, and taught us how to care.
  • Shed light on abuse cases
    When things go wrong in Ontario’s nursing homes, the public should know.
  • Kicking up a fuss
    Earl Beatty Public School students are not allowed to use tennis balls, soccer balls and footballs outside. That strikes us as foul ball.

Energy Collective

  • From the Oil Disaster Frontlines: Victory Up N ...
    As Keystone XL protesters savor their victory to postpone the pipeline project, another recent oil policy decision did not turn out so well; a plan to expand drilling operations in the oil-damaged Gulf and pristine arctic.
  • Government Energy Innovation: Well Worth It
    The Washington Post ran a piece in its Outlook section this weekend on government investments in energy that is rightly getting significant push back. The question it poses is: “What does Washington have to show for these investments?” The answer, by all accounts, is Plenty. And plenty more woul ...
  • Iran Oil Price Risk Returns
    Between the Libyan revolution and the shaky US and European economies, oil markets hadn't been paying much attention to Iran's nuclear program until last week's release of a new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA.) For the first time, the IAEA presented a detailed picture o ...
  • Wind Doesn't Need Tax Credits To Be Competitive
    Like many of you, I saw this headline
  • Success Slipping Away?
    Very recently the US Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) released new estimates for global and national emissions for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 – i.e. the key years in terms of the drop in emissions and first signs of recovery. The US figure is a real good news / bad news stor ...

EU Times

  • Qualcomm announces Quad Core CPUs for Mobile P ...
    Qualcomm is expanding its Snapdragon lineup – adding chipsets to both the entry-level S1 line and the Krait lineup. Krait is a brand new design that will scale to up to 2.5GHz with one, two or four cores. It promises better power efficiency than current architectures. The S4 badge will be ...
  • Closer US-Australia defence ties irk China
    Communist Party paper attacks Obama’s plan to deploy up to 2,500 troops and boost air force co-operation with Canberra. China has reacted angrily to remarks by Barack Obama signalling a significant shift in US policy vis-a-vis Asia. The US president has pledged not to let his country&#8217 ...
  • Eurasian Union: Greater than EU, but not new USSR
    Three former Soviet republics have launched a new regional integration project, with at least two others on track to join in. Critics accuse Moscow of rebuilding the USSR, but architects of project say the aim is to become a better version of the EU. The idea of the Eurasian Union – initially be ...
  • Russian Warships Enter Syrian Waters To Preven ...
    Moscow in aggressive move to stop another American “humanitarian intervention”. Russian warships have entered Syrian territorial waters in an aggressive move designed to prevent any NATO-led attack on the country under the guise of a “humanitarian intervention”. “Russian warships are due to arri ...
  • Bloomberg’s office admits to arresting journal ...
    Arrests in the Occupy movement nationally have surpassed 1,000, with 177 being charged by the NYPD this Thursday in only the first few hours. Now New York is admitting that journalists that they credentialed are among those that were cuffed by cops. In a statement to the press released from Mayo ...

Stonecipher News

  • Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
    Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Unlike #OWS, these protesters in Egypt's Tahri ...
    The "Arab Spring" in Egypt... another one bites the dust! Watching the Obama administration version of US foreign policy and national security has been like watching the thugs in the movie " Home Alone " attempting to take out a 10-year old
  • Sandusky's charity releases a statement
    Former football coach at Penn State University Jerry Sandusky is facing dozens of child rape and molestation charges.  Sandusky founded The Second Mile a charitable organization that helps underprivileged children. That charity is now being accused of providing Sandusky with a pipeline of chi ...
  • Arsenal Consider Signing Thierry Henry In January
    Gunners hero to make Emirates Stadium comeback? Watch the Premier League Live Online Re-sign Thierry? I wouldn’t rule it out, says Wenger Arsene Wenger left the door open for Thierry Henry to make a shock return to Arsenal on Friday, as it emerged the Gunners are planning to hold talks about th ...
  • Factors To Consider When Choosing A Bali Hotel
    Bali in Indonesia is famous for its interesting blend of adherence to the old ways, welcoming barrage of modernity, and multitude of natural wonders. Due to this perfect blend, it has become a major tourist hotspot in Indonesia for many decades. Each year, thousands of tourists go to Bali to pe ...
  • Natalie Wood -- Forget Her Not
    Filed under: Natalie Wood With news the investigation into her death had been re-opened, a few fresh flowers and pennies were left yesterday at Natalie Wood 's gravestone at Westwood Village Cemetery in Los Angeles. The inscription reads, "Beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother & friend." B ...

Groklaw

  • IHS: $199 Kindle Fire costs only $201.70 to make
    Amazon.com's new Kindle Fire only costs $201.70 to make, according to new data from research firm IHS -- just $2.70 more than the tablet's retail price. The Kindle Fire, which hit shelves this week, sells for $199. The new analysis is the result of a physical dissection of the devic ...
  • Apple [says it] Faces $2.7 Billion in Lost Sal ...
    Apple lawyers argued at a hearing in Mannheim that if Motorola Mobility won the case and received an order that forced Apple to halt sales of some products, Motorola Mobility should post the amount in a bond to cover any damages caused while the case is on appeal. Apple denies infringing the Mot ...
  • Apples Indirectly Supporting A Bill That Could ...
    Now, it's important to point out that Apple is only indirectly supporting SOPA, and the usefulness of the BSA as an organization goes much farther than just their tacky support of a terrible bill. However, what's bizarre about Apple's even indirect support of SOPA is that if the bill was enacte ...
  • Googles Brin answers Wikipedias Wales, gives $ ...
    Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has been passing the hat via a banner on the Web site for months, asking for small donations to keep the free Web encyclopedia humming along. Answering the call, Google founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of personal genetics comp ...
  • Patent Misuse - Exploring the Basics
    The term "patent misuse" refers to specific types of prohibited behavior engaged in by the owner of the patent rights. Patent misuse is an affirmative defense that recognizes that it is possible for a patent owner to abuse the exclusive right enjoyed as a result of the issuance of a patent. As a ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Russell Pearce recall. How it happened
    (crossposted from AZIVN, but the article vanished when they converted to the new site! Of special interest here is The Utah Compact, a moderate, thoughtful platform on immigration endorsed by LDS which played at least a supporting role in the recall of the rabidly anti-immigration Pearce in Ariz ...
  • Fred Eaglesmith. Thirty Years of Farming
    There’s a little white note on the gate by the road that a man put up yesterday And when we saw it, we all ran out just to see what it had to say. And when we read it, our eyes filled with tears, and they fell to the cold, hard clay Something about [...]
  • Bridging the clean energy valleys of death
    “Helping American entrepreneurs meet the nation’s energy innovation imperative,” in a new report from the Breakthrough Institute. This is all good, but more and more it’s clear to me that this country will never have a sane and comprehensive energy plan until the corrupt ...
  • Report from Occupy Wall Street. Podcast
    Listen to the podcast on BlogTalkRadio. Talking with David Buccola, who was there all day yesterday for the massive Shutdown Wall Street protests. Police craziness. Shutting down Zuccotti one day then kettling people in the next. But then tens of thousands came. This was far too manyy for them ...
  • 99% signs projected on Verizon building in Man ...
    Verizon Building in Lower Manhattan. The beam rolled through a series of words: “99% / mic check! / Look around / you are a part / of a global uprising / we are a cry / from the heart / of the world / we are unstoppable / another world is possible / happy [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Palestine 1948 at the University of Virginia
    On Saturday, I was delighted to attend the first two sessions of a half-day conference held at the University of Virginia on the topic '1948 in Palestine.' The main speakers at those sessions were Susan Akram of Boston University Law School and Rochelle Davis of Georgetown University. Both tho ...
  • Making sense of Syria
    I have so many questions swirling around my head about what's been happening in Syria. One is why the AK government in Turkey didn't take my great advice and play a leadership role in trying to broker a serious, negotiated transition to democracy in Syria, but instead has been giving ever strong ...
  • World history at warp speed
    So the Arab world is not the only place where history has been speeding up a lot in recent months and years... (Whatever happened to Mr. Frank 'End of History' Fukuyama? We don't hear a lot from him these days, do we?) This week, the Mediterranean Basin has seen three very significant gathering ...
  • The Arab Spring at Nine Months
    What a whirlwind nine months it's been for the Arab world. As I wrote at a much earlier point in this phenomenon called the 'Arab Spring', it is as if some tremor in the long-frozen tectonic plates of the region's political geography had suddenly burst through all those plates, freeing up waves ...
  • Getting back to the blogosphere
    So much has been happening in the world... The horrible killing of Qadhafi; an earthquake in Turkey (preceded by an upsurge in PKK-Turkish violence); some great-looking elections in Tunisia; continued strife in Syria; the Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange, etc etc... But for the past few weeks, I' ...

frogblog

  • General debate, November 19, 2011
  • Coromandel Watch Frog: Protecting our endanger ...
    In between a candidate meeting and a cottage meeting, door knocking and radio interviews, I managed to squeeze in a fantastic event organised by Whangamata Earthwatch and Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki. The groups invited Phil Bishop, Chief Scientist for IUCN Amphibian Survival Alliance to come ...
  • Dairy compliance message is failing
    Bay of Plenty Regional Council recently expressed their concern that some dairy operators are still not getting the message that it’s not okay to pollute NZ’s waterways with effluent. There have been eight prosecutions in the past year in the Bay of Plenty regarding breaches of dairy effluent di ...
  • General debate, November 12, 2011
  • Dams will damn our rivers
    Fed Farmers have welcomed National’s $400 million water storage and irrigation investment announced yesterday. Of course Fed Farmers would. Damming rivers to store water for irrigation means farmers can convert more land to dairying, which is highly profitable at the moment. But Fed Farmers pret ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
  • The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
    The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
  • America's Descent to Depravity
    The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...
  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • This State Concealed Dangerous Radiation in Dr ...
    By Dr. Mercola An investigation by KHOU-TV, a Houston-ba ...
  • Beware of These Organic Brands
    By Dr. Mercola Mark Kastel, co-founder of the Cornucopia Institute, has a long history as a marketing- and political consultant, and as a lobbyist (working for family farmers). While he didn't grow up on a farm, he ended up taking a summer job during his youth with the International Harvest ...
  • Are You a Victim of This Nearly One Trillion D ...
    By Dr. Mercola Last spring in a scathing criticism of the U.S. healthcare system, bNet.com columnist Ken Terry predicted that "waste and cruddy medical care" will continue to drive up health care costs until policymakers address the prevalence of deadly medical errors and needless treatments. ...
  • Experts Warn: This Popular Vitamin can Trigger ...
    By Dr. Mercola Over the past several of weeks, the media have gone wild over studies allegedly showing that vitamins have lethal consequences. Again and again, journalists who are clueless about health have misled readers while catering to the interests of Big Pharma and their hired la ...
  • The Simple Test Which May Help Prevent Autism
    By Dr. Mercola A review of genetic and biochemical abnormalities has revealed a possible link between autism and type 2 diabetes.  It's still only a hypothesis, but according to Rice University biochemist Michael Stern, author of the opinion paper, these two conditions may have a common ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Masked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader i ...
    Nísio Gomes, a Guarani shaman shot dead by gunmen, in a photo taken just two days ago. © Survival Survival has developing news from Brazil, where masked gunmen have today executed an Indian religious leader in front of his community. Gunmen surrounded Nísio Gomes, ordering his community to ...
  • Indigenous spokesman dismissed from Brazilian ...
    Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © Terence Turner Megaron Txucarramãe, an indigenous spokesman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been dismissed from his post in the government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI. Megaron, of the Kayapó tribe, has stated that his dis ...
  • Shocking video confirms Indonesia’s brutal sup ...
    The shocking footage shows Indonesian soldiers beating West Papuans © SBS TV/West Papua Media Alarming video of Indonesian forces shooting, beating and kicking civilians at a peaceful rally in West Papua has emerged ahead of a US visit to the region. Ten people are believed to have died w ...
  • It’s official – the key to conservation lies w ...
    India's Soliga tribe recently secured unprecedented rights to a tiger reserve © Kalyan Varma/Survival Indigenous peoples are key to preserving the world’s forests, and conservation reserves that exclude them suffer as a result, according to a new study from the World Bank. Its analys ...
  • Tanzania: Hadza tribe celebrates first land titles
    The Hazda tribe's land titles being formally handed over at a special ceremony © Dorobo Fund for Tanzania / UCRT One of the very few hunter-gatherer tribes in east Africa has been celebrating the recognition of its land rights. The land titles were formally handed over at a special c ...

Montreal Gazette

  • New rules for Quebec journalists are a bad idea
    The proposal to create a new status of "professional journalist" in Quebec, a bad idea in principle, has fallen apart in recent weeks as infighting over how to implement such an proposal has helped demonstrate why it was never a good idea in the first place.
  • The Gazette's view, in short
    The NDP's Pat Martin made a great show during this spring's election campaign of appealing for greater civility in parliamentary exchanges.
  • Hallmark of a democratic society is unregulate ...
    The Gazette was founded on June 3, 1778, by Fleury Mesplet. A division of Postmedia Network Inc., The Gazette is Quebec's largest English-language daily newspaper.
  • RCMP needs real reform - and it needs it now
    Newly appointed RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson has a reputation as a tough cop, a plain speaker and one of the few senior officers untouched by the scandals that have rocked the $4-billion, 26,000-member federal police force in recent years.
  • It's time to end the supply-management system
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will defend Canada's agricultural-supply-management system at the bargaining table for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks.

Food World Order

  • 11/17 binge & purge: standards & success
    is pizza a vegetable? corporate congress says yes!* video: corps pushed congress to relax school lunch standards* video update: congress votes against healthy lunches for kids* sharp increase in food stamps program* uk food firms welcome waste reduction success* dippin' dots, ice ...
  • #satire celebrity chef cooks his favorite pret ...
    from onion news network: Jim and Tracy welcome Celebrity Chef Ted Allen on Today Now! to show them how to make the most obnoxious, contrived meals for your dickhead foodie friends. related video satire: US turns to makers of foul-tasting but successful zico coconut water to turn economy around
  • usda says 'locally grown' food a $4.8b business
    from ap: A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report says sales of "local foods," whether sold direct to consumers at farmers markets or through intermediaries such as grocers or restaurants, amounted to $4.8 billion in 2008. That’s a number several times greater than earlier estimates, and the ...
  • 11/3 binge & purge: stamps, pantries & the car ...
    $15t in debt, 45m on food stamps & zero solutions* US seeks china aid on food safety* cupboard is bare at staten island's food pantries* people eat more fast-food as income rises* video: michigan rethinks food stamp-car connection*
  • fda tests pet food amid reports of owner illnesses
    from newscore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun a nationwide effort to test pet food for salmonella contamination amid evidence it is sickening pet owners. FDA investigators in October started taking samples of dry pet food, pet treats and diet supplements from distributors, w ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Coming European Superstate That Germany Pl ...
    A lot of people were puzzled about what German Chancellor Angela Merkel meant when she recently stated that the ultimate solution to the financial crisis in the EU would "mean more Europe, not less Europe".  Well, now we are finding out.  A leaked internal German government memo ...
  • 35 Facts About The Gutting Of America’s ...
    Did you know that an average of 23 manufacturing facilities were shut down every single day in the United States last year?  As World War II ended, the United States emerged as the greatest industrial power that the world has ever seen.  But now America's industrial might is bein ...
  • The Police State Vs. Occupy Wall Street: This ...
    Right now, we are watching the early rounds of a heavyweight fight between two extremely determined opponents.  Occupy Wall Street has no plans of losing this fight and neither do law enforcement authorities.  Perhaps those running the show actually believed that raiding Zuccotti ...
  • 22 Signs That The Thin Veneer Of Civilization ...
    In order for a society to function, there has to be a certain level of trust.  Each day when we leave our homes, we take for granted that most people are not going to attack us for no reason, that there will only be isolated incidents of theft in our community and that rioting an ...
  • Bernanke Says That Any Criticism Of The Federa ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is taking his show on the road in at attempt to help Americans feel better about the Federal Reserve.  During a visit to the Fort Bliss headquarters of the Army’s 1st Armored Division this week, Bernanke held a town hall meeting during which ...

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