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Friday, July 29, 2011

29 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Mo. renewable energy backers mull ballot measure
Forbes
Supporters of a renewable energy law that has faced stumbling blocks since being approved by Missouri voters in 2008 said Thursday they are examining whether to propose another initiative petition for next year's election. PJ Wilson, the director of ...
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RI gets first federal approval for ocean zoning plan for renewable energy
The Republic
By ALEX KUFFNER - The Providence Journal NARRAGANSETT, RI - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has approved a Rhode Island ocean zoning plan that designates waters off the state's coast for renewable energy development. ...
Canada Won't Commit New Funding for Renewable-Energy Program, Oliver Says
Bloomberg
By Andrew Mayeda - Thu Jul 28 21:25:15 GMT 2011 Canada won't commit new funding to a C$1.4-billion ($1.47 billion) program used by companies such as Suncor Energy Inc. (SU) and TransAlta Corp. to fund renewable-energy projects, Natural Resources ...
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Renewable energy offers path for SC growth
Charleston Regional Business
By Chuck Crumbo From the Upstate to the Pee Dee to the Lowcountry and points in between, South Carolina's foray into creating green, renewable energy jobs is on a roll. “Clean energy is not something we talk about in South Carolina, but it's something ...
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StormwateRx Achieves CULD Approval from Washington Department of Ecology
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
StormwateRx LLC, a provider of industrial stormwater treatment and filtration systems, today announced that the Aquip® Enhanced Stormwater Filtration System has been approved by the Washington Department of Ecology with a Conditional Use Level ...
DNR makes haste to save lake ecology
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The DNR said the higher fee would generate long-term money it needed to control, especially, zebra mussels -- which can dramatically change a lake's ecology. Republican legislators balked at the fee idea, instead allocating about $7 million this fiscal ...
Ecology Coatings Nominated for the Michigan Green Chemistry Award Program
PR Newswire (press release)
Ecology Coatings was nominated, based on its GRAS (generally regarded as safe) coatings, which can be applied to food or used in food packaging. Ecology's GRAS coatings not only protect food from outside elements, but are safe for human consumption, ...
Environment: The case against protection
BBC News
Simply protecting land and sea won't be enough to stem the loss of nature, according to a study just out in the Marine Ecology Progress series. Read it one way, and it's one of the most depressing things you'll have seen, if you're concerned about the ...
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California sets goal for limiting drinking water pollutant
Los Angeles Times
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times At that time, the average hexavalent chromium level in Hinkley's water was 1.19 parts per billion (ppb). The new state goal was set Wednesday at 0.02 ppb, the level of the element that does not pose a ...
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Insight: NY water at risk from lack of natgas inspectors?
Reuters
By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state may have enough natural gas to spark an energy boom, but it could lack the inspectors needed to ensure drilling won't foul its other prized resource -- water. Home to a portion of the Marcellus ...
Corps Considers Future Plans for Water Releases
KFYR-TV
The Corps still needs to release a lot more water before winter. And today, engineers announced their plan to deal with it. State and local leaders say the Corps was considering eight plans, and none of them would`ve been good for residents, ...
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13 Investigates: Why so many water main breaks in Indianapolis?
WTHR
Entertainment News from AP The extremely high demand for water is putting a lot of stress on the city's aging water mains. INDIANAPOLIS - The water company is asking US to wait at least another week before we water our lawns. The extremely high demand ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.S. SANCTIONS AND CHINA’S IRAN POLICY
    Summary: The Financial Times reports that Iran and China are “in talks about using a barter system to exchange Iranian oil for Chinese goods and services, as U.S. financial sanctions have blocked China from paying at least $20 billion for oil imports”. According to the story, Tehran and Bei ...
  • US Accuses Iran of ‘Secret Deal’ With al-Qaeda
    Summary: Fresh off of weeks of accusing the Iranian government of secretly backing Iraqi Shi’ite militias against the US occupation force there (without any evidence) the Obama Administration is now accusing the Iranian government of having entered into a “secret deal” with al-Qaeda. sourc ...
  • Iran to discuss Russia N-bid in Moscow
    Summary: Ali Akbar Salehi Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says he will discuss a proposal by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regarding Tehran's nuclear program in a future visit to the Russian capital, Moscow. source: Press TVread more
  • Murdering Iranian Scientists
    Summary: U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies have basked in their apparent success using a computer virus to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. But a darker side of this disruptive operation may be the assassinations of the scientists themselves, reports Lawrence Davidson. source: Consort ...
  • Official Asks UN to Launch Probe into Assassin ...
    Summary: Mourning for Rezaeinejad"The UN Security Council issues a resolution and makes a list of our scientists, then some terrorists who receive money from the CIA and Mossad, kill them," said Larijani, "this is a very clear game and strong action should be taken about it." source: Fars ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: The Unbearable Beauty of the ...
    Astronomers Bania and Loren Anderson of the Astrophysical Laboratory of Marseille in France have discovered about 450 hidden stellar nurseries in the Milky Way where rare colossal stars many times bigger than the sun are being born. The discovery doubles...
  • News Flash: NASA Climate Data Challenges Globa ...
    NASA satellite data show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. Data from NASA’s Terra satellite...
  • Milky Way Apolocalypse! Did a Small Black Hole ...
    New reserach shows that the Milky Way's supermassive black hole fueled a massive firery pagent of activity including the sustained emission of some of the highest energy radiation in the universe when a smaller black hole from another galaxy smashed...
  • Are Invisible, Primordial Black Holes Harborin ...
    Despite a decade spent searching for dark matter with experiments costing tens of millions of dollars from experiments at the bottom of iron mines in Minnesota to the Ice Cube project in Antarctica, nobody has laid eyes on the stuff....
  • Found! Voracious Black Hole 2 Billion Times Si ...
    Using the Chandra data, the flow of hot gas toward the supermassive black hole at the center of a large galaxy known as NGC 3115, which is located about 32 million light-years from Earth. A large amount of previous data...

Natural News

  • Playing chicken with the nation: The U.S. debt ...
    (NaturalNews) For the last few decades, it all seemed so simple for the USA: We'll spend other people's money, and when we run out, we'll just borrow from yet more people. It worked for a while... until all those "other people" (foreign central banks) got sick of buying U.S. debt. So lately, Ben ...
  • NPR poll: Majority of Americans prefer organic ...
    (NaturalNews) When it comes down to pure consumer preference, the majority of Americans prefer organic food over conventional food, according to the results of a new poll released by NPR. Most Americans also prefer to obtain produce from either a farmers market or from a home garden rather than ...
  • UK government to save DNA profiles of innocent ...
    (NaturalNews) If you are arrested in the UK on suspicion that you may have committed a crime but are later proven innocent, your DNA profile will still remain within government databases, according to a new report in The Daily Telegraph. After previously promising that it would destroy all DNA p ...
  • Scientists clone genetically-modified dog that ...
    (NaturalNews) Mad science continues with the recent announcement that South Korean scientists at Seoul National University (SNU) have successfully cloned a genetically-engineered (GE) dog that they say glows "fluorescent green" under ultraviolet light when fed an antibiotic known as doxycycline. ...
  • What's really in the food? The A to Z of the f ...
    (NaturalNews) Ever wonder what's really in the food sold at grocery stores around the world? People keep asking me, "What ingredients should I avoid?" So I put together a short list that covers all the most toxic and disease-promoting ingredients in the food supply. These are the substances caus ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Defend Seizure of WikiLeaks Supporter’s L ...
    The Justice Department on Thursday fired back against a lawsuit filed by a WikiLeaks supporter and friend of accused leaker Bradley Manning over the warrantless seizure of his laptop, arguing that they held onto the machine for a lengthy 49 days only because he refused to provide the password, ...
  • Document: FBI Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love Ne ...
    Can’t wait for 4G to become the ubiquitous standard for mobile communication? On the edge of your seat for the unveiling of Microsoft’s secret Menlo Project and Greenfield application? You’re not the only one watching the growth of these and other new technologies with rapt attention. According ...
  • Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam ...
    Hacker and activist Aaron Swartz faces federal hacking prosecution for allegedly downloading millions of academic documents via MIT’s guest network, using a laptop hidden in a networking closet. Swartz, 24, faces 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine under the indictment, announced last week ...
  • Scotland Yard Busts Suspected LulzSec Spokesman
    The London Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested a 19-year-old Shetland Islands man who they say is "Topiary," the most visible figure in LulzSec.
  • In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of T ...
    It turns out there's a method behind the FBI's raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Threatens Economic 9/11 over Debt Ceiling
    "The people who are threatening not to pass the debt ceiling are our version of al Qaeda terrorists.," former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neilldeclared in April, adding, "They're really putting our whole society at risk by threatening to round up 50 percent of the members of the Congress, who ...
  • Why They Fight
    On Thursday, House Republicans will vote on John Boehner's debt plan. But whether they follow his order to "get your ass in line" or not (and 23 have already gone on record saying they won't), Republican hostage takers on Capitol Hill will continue to threaten the United States with default - a ...
  • This Tea Party Sides with the British
    From the beginning, the Tea Party has had it wrong on virtually every matter of fact - and history. Far from being Taxed Enough Already, over 95% of working Americans received relief from President Obama even as the total federal tax burden as a percentage of the U.S. economy plummeted to its l ...
  • Welcome to Jonestown on the Potomac
    The cult members have gathered. They've drunk the Kool-Aid. The poison already flowing through their veins, they are hallucinating and lashing out against the unbelievers. But this time, the death spasms aren't their own, but their nation's. Unless they get what want, Congressional Republica ...
  • Republicans Broke It. Will Democrats Own It?
    Appearing on Face the Nation Sunday, Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin warned House Speaker John Boehner about his paternity for the economic catastrophe resulting from a Republican failure to increase the U.S. debt ceiling. "If you break it," Durbin told Boehner, "you own it." But as the ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • U.S. Government Allowing Genetically Engineere ...
    A recent exposing of government emails between White House, USDA officials and Agribusiness industry executives, reveals the on-going planting of GE crops in over 50 wild life refuges throughout the U.S. The rationale for this effort -- as described in the emails - is "habitat restoration" wher ...
  • GOP Debt Ceiling Proposal Bad for the Environm ...
    The clock is ticking as the entire world is watching with uncertainty. While the fate of the United States lays in the grasp of a few elected politicians. These are trying times for everyone, as a debt ceiling solution cannot be agreed upon.
  • NO. Global Warming, Climate Scientists NOT in ...
    I saw news of a ridiculous sort this morning when scanning the headlines. The whole mountain of science concluding that climate change was happening and was a great concern for humanity got a hole blown through it due to findings from a new study. Of course, this is far, far, far, far from the c ...
  • Floods in Seoul Displace over 11,000 & Kill Do ...
    Floods, one of the hallmark natural disasters resulting in greater occurrence and strength from climate change, are tearing about homes, cities, and people in Bangladesh and Seoul, South Korea this week. Seoul has seen the heaviest rains in July since 1907 now. At least 59 people are dead and 10 ...
  • Heat Wave Cartoons
    OK, I'm stealing these from Climate Progress, but they're really good. Enjoy! & drop more in the comments below if you can.he

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Wafting poison makes fertile ground for suit i ...
    Court rules pesticide drifting onto organic farm constitutes trespass. Oluf Johnson's 1,500-acre farm in Stearns County is an organic ...
  • More than 5 million households had their wealt ...
    28 July 2011 The typical US household lost 28 percent of its wealth during the economic crisis, with one third of these being totally wiped out, according to a recent analysis of Census Bureau data carried out by the Pew Research Center, “Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites,...
  • Special report: Goldman's new money machine: w ...
    (Reuters) - In a rundown patch of Detroit, enclosed by a cyclone fence and barbed wire, stands an unremarkable warehouse that investment bank Goldman Sachs has transformed into a money-making machine. The derelict neighborhood off Michigan Avenue is a sharp contrast to Goldman's bustling skys ...
  • Arctic scientist under investigation - World News
    Just five years ago, Charles Monnett was one of the scientists whose observation that several polar bears had drowned in the Arctic Ocean helped galvanize the global warming movement. Now, the wildlife biologist is on administrative leave and facing accusations of scientific misconduct. Th ...
  • Plans take shape for industrial park (sweat sh ...
    July 19, 2011--Plans for a large industrial park/free trade/sweat shop zone are proceeding for the northeast of Haiti, adjacent to the border with the Dominican Republic. Below are three articles on the subject, one in English and two in French. Apparently, there is considerable controversy abou ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Lying right wing says debt crisis all Obama's ...
    I know this sounds na?ve given what's become of American politics in the past 20 years, but at some point the editors of the Washington Post really must ask themselves if they are committed to providing fair-minded readers with an Opinion Page those readers can trust for factual accuracy and int ...
  • Norway Victims Not Socialists You Can Demonize
    No surprise that the true nature of "socialist" flew right past a greedy, self-centered, anti-American repug like whasisname. John Nichols at The Nation: The young people who gathered at the camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya were the opposite of Hitler Youth. In fact, they were the direct de ...
  • GOP wants to use debt ceiling crisis to make B ...
    Once we get past the current debt ceiling crisis, as I'm confident we will, pundits are missing the obvious reason Republicans are insisting that Congress revisit the debt-ceiling nightmare six months or so from now and take another vote to raise the nation's borrowing limit before the 2012 elec ...
  • When the Kabuki screen comes down and the ligh ...
    The last month has been painful and embarrassing, but ultimately necessary, because it boiled the tea kettle dry. Something tells me that we may hear the high-pitched shriek of the idiot caucus from time to time, but their ridiculous antics have horrified and put off the American people to such ...
  • El Puerco Goes Totally Bug F**k, Takes FOX New ...
    I keep reminding myself that Rush Limbaugh has �never met an example of bad science he didn't like as long as he could spin it into some kind of expose of some dark cabalistic liberal conspiracy. �Otherwise, I'd be sitting here shaking my head at the lengths this pathetic drug addled Viagra popp ...

Care 2

  • Showdown at Angola: Gods Warden vs. Veteran M ...
    Mother Jones writer James Ridgeway has written a new article about his recent visit to Angola Prison and his many failed attempts to interview Warden Burl Cain. He was granted a visit to Angola after the ACLU threatened to sue, but Cain won't talk to him.Submitted by Angola Three to US Politics ...
  • Ban Horrifying Animal Abuse Videos in the Phil ...
    For the last year, PETA Asia has been working to expose and stop those behind a series of horrifying pornographic videos originating in the Philippines in which scantily clad girls as young as 12 are videotaped torturing animals. Submitted by Cher Away C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
  • Kenya: Notorious Laikipia Poacher Killed
    The KWS officer in charge of the Mt Kenya Region Robert Njue described the death of John Gitonga as a breakthrough in dismantling cartels that have been targeting endangered rhinos in the past two months.Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hina Rabbani Khar - Beauty with Diplomacy
    The 34-year-old Hina is the youngest and first woman foreign minister of Pakistan. Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had justified her appointment, saying it would "send positive signals about the soft image of Pakistan" through Hina.Submitted by Katie Miller to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Firefighters Rescue 1,000-Year-Old Tree From D ...
    Just outside of Rockport, Texas, stands an ancient Live Oak affectionately known as 'the Big Tree'. For well over 1,000 years, that towering tree has offered its long, cool shadow for weary locals to wade in -- and now they're returning the favor.Submitted by Katie Miller to Environment �|� �No ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Enough of the Capitalism Delusion
    One of the sad consequences of the visual media society is that it becomes easier to manipulate masses of people into believing fantasies because they are able to see images and hear, repeatedly, certain catch phrases. There was a time when Capitalism and Communism were polar opposites. Capitali ...
  • Do You Agree?
    I have come across some interesting writings and wonder what you think. Do you agree or disagree? There is a common misconception regarding Islam and Christianity. A lot of people believe today that Christianity still is and was as evil as Islam?! I can attest to the fact that this is absolutely ...
  • Breaking: Obama to Speak Momentarily
    I was just listening to the taped “Morning Joe,” and the consensus was that, because the Boehner bill failed last night in the House, the stubborn “no” Tea Party House members have empowered Obama “exponentially” and weakened Boehner’s position as Speaker of the House. That is a report of what I ...
  • Onward Christian Terrorist
    I am just fascinated by the hypocrisy and hysteria in response to news that the guy who shot up Norway was, somehow, not really a Christian. O’Reilly spent two nights venting a spleen on the issue. The Daily Show did a public service last night in skewering those trying to pretend that Anders Be ...
  • The Funny Truth About Debt And Money
    One of my favorite sayings by humorist Will Rogers is so simple and profound that most people shrug it off.  But it is the literal, if uncomfortable truth. A man can make a million and he is on every page in the morning. But it never tells you who gave up that million he got. You can’t [...]

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend! Enjoy this week’s top news :-) Trend May Help Explain Decline in Marriage Rate, Particularly Among Young Adults Amy Winehouse Loses Battle with Drug Addiction How the Brain Keeps Track of What We’re Doing Words May Predict Treat ...
  • How to Move Beyond Anxiety to Make Major Decisions
    Imagine you have just been offered a promotion at work. This is great news, right? You’ll be making more money, have more status and prestige within your industry and have a whole team of people working under you. Of course, you’ll have to relocate to a new state, pulling your partner and chi ...
  • Trust in Yourself
    If hope is the thing with feathers, as Emily Dickenson said, then trust floats on gossamer wings. Most people lose that child-like trust with the end of a first love, but not all. I have known a handful of souls who maintained it until death, or appeared to, but it’s certainly not the norm. Life ...
  • Link between Sexual Assault and Binge Drinking ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A recent study has discovered that although there is a link between binge drinking and sexual assault in adolescent girls, the drinking does not increase as a result of the assault. Additionally, researchers discovered that most girls who were victims of sexual as ...
  • Specific Factors Identified that Increase Vete ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research suggests that some veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) had risk factors for post-traumatic stress symptomatology (PTSS) that were similar to those risk factors found in veterans of Vietnam. The researchers from ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • For Judy Bonds: Historic Tree-Sit on Coal Rive ...
    For Judy Bonds: Historic Tree-Sit on Coal River Mountain Enters 10th Day AlterNet (blog) Since the passing of the the 2003 Goldman Prize-winning hero from Coal River Valley in West Virginia in January, devastating mountaintop removal operations have continued to destroy her beloved Coal River M ...
  • Movies Can Save Mountains: Act Now! - Natural ...
    Movies Can Save Mountains: Act Now! Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) We're betting that a movie can change the world and help end mountaintop removal. Will you join us? And tell your friends? NRDC and other groups fighting mountaintop removal are teaming up with the makers of The Last M ...
  • Cancer Rates Higher Near Mountaintop Removal S ...
    Inhabitat Cancer Rates Higher Near Mountaintop Removal Sites Care2.com (blog) The new study links an additional 60000 cases of cancer to mountaintop removal, showing, once again, that these mining practices aren't just environmentally dangerous. They are actively harming human health. �The odds ...
  • Music to End Mountaintop Removal July 28 - Boo ...
    Music to End Mountaintop Removal July 28 Boone Mountain Times by Staff Reports Appalachian Voices will host its second "Boone Loves Mountains" concert of 2011 on Thursday, July 28, at the Boone Saloon. The concert will feature Asheville based rock/folk group Uncle Mountain, along with Matrimony ...
  • Sens. Rockefeller, Manchin won't talk about mo ...
    Sens. Rockefeller, Manchin won't talk about mountaintop removal's impacts on ... Charleston Gazette (blog) Nick Rahall was willing to take questions about the growing pile of studies that raise serious questions about mountaintop removal coal mining's impacts on the health of coalfield resident ...

Memeorandum

  • Boehner's Last Word as Debate Crosses Capitol ...
    Michael D. Shear / The Caucus: Boehner's Last Word as Debate Crosses Capitol  —  Just moments after House Speaker John A. Boehner secured passage of his modified debt ceiling legislation, an op-ed he penned appeared on the website of the conservative National Review Online.  —  Titled “End This ...
  • Huntsman makes his pitch to college students (CNN)
    CNN: Huntsman makes his pitch to college students  —  Washington (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman made a generational appeal to nearly 300 college Republicans Friday, pledging to create jobs for recent graduates struggling to find work in the slumping economy.
  • Over to You, Harry - Thankfully, the House pas ...
    John Hinderaker / Power Line: Over to You, Harry  —  Thankfully, the House passed Boehner 3 tonight, 218-210.  Now it is the Senate's turn.  The House has passed a budget; cut, cap and balance; and now the Speaker's plan to raise the debt ceiling while simultaneously making modest cuts in curre ...
  • Boehner: 'I stuck my neck out a mile' for debt ...
    Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill: Boehner: ‘I stuck my neck out a mile’ for debt-ceiling deal with White House  —  A defiant House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) late Friday defended his debt-ceiling plan by saying it is the only viable plan on paper so far.  —  The Speaker said he'd risked political ...
  • Senate quickly tables Boehner debt plan (The Hill)
    The Hill: Senate quickly tables Boehner debt plan  —  The Senate on Friday evening rejected House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) plan to raise the debt limit, upping the ante in the game of chicken between House and Senate.  —  The 59 to 41 vote, on a motion to table the resolution passed by t ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Hard slog to greener banks
    China’s financial behemoths are still providing key support to major polluters, writes Yuan Ying. They have a long way to go to meet global green standards. At the end of April, Chinese environmentalist Yu Xiaogan ...
  • Losses at sea
    Coastal pollution is back in the public eye thanks to the latest oil spill in the Bohai Gulf. Xia Jun looks at three maritime lawsuits, and what they tell us about environmental litigation in China.Editor’s note: this summer’s oil spill in the Bohai Sea has once again brought the issue of marine ...
  • Back in the flow
    China’s polluted, drought-ridden Yellow River once struggled to reach the sea. Now the “mother river” is being restored to health, writes Jonathan Watts, but for many the benefits remain to be seen.On one wall of the control centre, a mosaic of TV screens flickers back and forth between the late ...
  • Eight cases that mattered
    From a successful challenge to Beijing’s planning authorities to damages for mass tadpole deaths, the 2000s were full of turning points for green law in China. Here, chinadialogue presents its picks of the decade.Chinese people are coming to an ever-graver understanding of the dual changes of ec ...
  • Shaping China’s green laws
    Beijing may have drawn on global knowledge to write its pollution legislation, but the product is uniquely Chinese, writes Charles McElwee in a summary of the story so far.American, European and Japanese environmental experts will find familiar elements in China’s environmental laws. China has b ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • A Vision for Economic Renewal – An Amer ...
    Written with Leo Hindery Jr., chair of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation America is facing a catastrophic jobs crisis. Not since the Great Depression has official unemployment hovered above nine percent – where it is today – for more than 20 months. Millions of Ame ...
  • Economic Armageddon: Gretchen Morgensen on How ...
    NYT business reporter Gretchen Morgensen discusses her new book and the corruption of the mortgage lending industry.
  • So Old School: Michael Dawson Takes Heads as T ...
    These economic trends bear potentially dire political consequences. Public opinion data collected by my colleagues and me over the past 20 years demonstrated that black disillusionment with the prospects for racial equality had grown from the early 1990s to the point that by 2005, four out o ...
  • Red Wine, Dark Chocolate, Blueberries: Is Ther ...
    As a rule of thumb, any food that supposedly solves a large list of health problems — from Alzheimer’s to zits — should immediately be regarded with suspicion.
  • Acknowledging difference, not defeat
    A racial justice perspective on the Medicaid debate By Nisha Agarwal, Director of the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, The federal Medicaid program has become something of a policy piñata in the national discourse. Over the course of the past year conservativ ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Defend Seizure of WikiLeaks Supporter’s L ...
    The Justice Department on Thursday fired back against a lawsuit filed by a WikiLeaks supporter and friend of accused leaker Bradley Manning over the warrantless seizure of his laptop, arguing that they held onto the machine for a lengthy 49 days only because he refused to provide the password, ...
  • Document: FBI Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love Ne ...
    Can’t wait for 4G to become the ubiquitous standard for mobile communication? On the edge of your seat for the unveiling of Microsoft’s secret Menlo Project and Greenfield application? You’re not the only one watching the growth of these and other new technologies with rapt attention. According ...
  • Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam ...
    Hacker and activist Aaron Swartz faces federal hacking prosecution for allegedly downloading millions of academic documents via MIT’s guest network, using a laptop hidden in a networking closet. Swartz, 24, faces 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine under the indictment, announced last week ...
  • Scotland Yard Busts Suspected LulzSec Spokesman
    The London Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested a 19-year-old Shetland Islands man who they say is "Topiary," the most visible figure in LulzSec.
  • In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of T ...
    It turns out there's a method behind the FBI's raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.

Equality Trust

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Has Salmonella Agona on Papayas Sickened over ...
    The CDC has reported that a total of 99 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona have been reported from 23 states between January 1 and July 22, 2011. The number of ill persons identified in each state with the outbreak strain is as follows: Arkansas (1), Arizona (3), C ...
  • Fresh Cut Papaya added to Salmonella Recall List
    A Houston company is recalling products made with fresh cut papaya in connection with the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Agona. GHSW of Houston said it was notified that papayas used in its products were associated with the Agromod Produce recall. On July 23, Agromod announced a recall of ...
  • Tri State Beef Recalls 228,596 Pounds of Poten ...
    Tri State Beef, a Cincinnati, Ohio, establishment, is recalling approximately 228,596 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following product is subject to recall ...
  • Pilgrim's Pride and FSIS Issue CLASS I RECALL ...
    A CLASS I Recall is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death. This recall release is being reissued to expand the July 20 recall to include an undetermined amount of additional ready-to ...
  • The Raw Milk Wars - Kojo Nnamdi Radio Show
    So, what are you doing Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 12:06 p.m. Eastern Time? Me, I get to square off with Sally Fallon, who believes raw milk is “magic food.” Me, I think any food that is marketed to kids and has sickened them needs to be reasonably regulated. Here is the teaser to Kojo’s sho ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: 2025 CAFE target set at 54.5 mpg; ev ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal Following the official announcement this morning that the new 2025 Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard would be set at 54.5 miles per gallon, our email box overflowed with something we rarely see: near-unanimous support. Everyone from the automakers to the Un ...
  • Report: White House lowers 2025 CAFE target to ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal What's the difference between 56.2 and 54.5 miles per gallon? Way more than 1.7 mpg, that's for sure. The Detroit News is reporting that the Obama White House is dialing down the proposed 2025 fuel economy requirement to 54.5 mpg. Earlier, we had heard that 62 ...
  • Official: NYC fleet adds 70 plug-in vehicles, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric NYC Chevy Volt Police Car - Click above for high-res image gallery As much as the average driver doesn't really have to worry about "range anxiety" during a normal driving day, we will gran ...
  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...
  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • "A Victory In The War Against Profiteering." B ...
    "War is a racket," wrote retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short book on war profiteering, rings true today. One courageous civil servant just won a battle to hold war profiteers accountable. Her name is Bunnatine "Bu ...
  • New York Set to Close School for Troubled Teen ...
    As Congress considers spending cuts to reduce the deficit, critics warn that reduced education, healthcare and other social services will disproportionally impact low-income communities of color. This is the case in New York City, where a high school that provides drug treatment to former gang ...
  • The British Watergate: A Backgrounder on the M ...
    The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program "The Listening Post," chronicles how the Murdoch phone hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in t ...
  • VIDEO: Rebekah Brooks Testimony Raises More Qu ...
    Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks testified before the British Parliament July 19 as the phone hacking scandal engulfing the Murdoch media empire continues to grow. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch also testified at the same hearing. Click here to watch the ...
  • "Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie." By Am ...
    “People say that Australia has given two people to the world,” Julian Assange told me in London recently, “Rupert Murdoch and me.” Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, was humbly dismissing my introduction of him, to a crowd of 1,800 at East London’s Troxy theater, in ...

Suzie-Q

  • Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms (LATEST UPDATES)
    AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 7/27/11 09:52 PM ET Updated: 7/29/11 10:19 AM ET Neither the House nor the Senate has a clear path forward for must-pass legislation to allow the government to continue to borrow to pay its bills, putting lawmakers and financial markets alike on edge less tha ...
  • Another House Committee To Consider Global Gag ...
    � � � Earlier this month, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed an amendment that would restore and expand the so-called global gag rule, a provision prohibiting foreign organizations receiving U.S. development assistance from using their own funds to perform abortions or provide women with ...
  • With Default Seven Days Away, House GOP Fixate ...
    � � While the rest of the country focuses on the looming deadline to raise the nation�s debt ceiling, House Republicans are taking advantage of their distraction to repeal environmental regulations and pass the most severe environmental budget cuts in 35 years. Republicans are pushing a bill tha ...
  • Alan Grayson explains… “Why Boener ...
    This went out in an email to previous supporters of Alan Grayson this morning.� Dear Linus, I know why House Speaker John Boehner walked out of debt ceiling talks with President Obama on Friday. It�s because Boehner can�t deliver. It doesn�t matter what terms the President offers. It�s that simp ...
  • How Murdoch’s Times of London and Fox News Coo ...
    By David Fiderer, a lawyer who covers the energy industry for several global banks in New York.  This is an OpEdNews.com repost. If you wondered whether Murdoch’s various news outlets operate in sync when they misrepresent the facts about climate change, consider the deceitful reporting done by ...

Solari

  • Catherine Austin Fitts on How to Really Find a ...
    In the second installment of our 2-part interview with investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts, we hear her advice for both the young and young at heart in navigating today’s job market. Catherine remembers how she had to reinvent herself during a professional crisis of her own several years ...
  • The Cost of US University
    [click on the image for a larger version] By Michael Feldstein Continue reading the article . . .
  • Quote du Jour
    “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” ~ Sun Tzu Related reading: Sun Tzu Wikipedia Solari Report Blog Commentaries: The Art of War (19 Aug 10)
  • Fed President Hints at Broad Money-market Fix
    By Ross Kerber A senior Federal Reserve official is prescribing sweeping medicine to stabilize the $2.5 trillion money market mutual fund industry, which would be rattled by potential downgrades of the government securities that are among its key holdings. Boston Federal Reserve President Eric R ...
  • ‘Super Congress’: Debt Ceiling Neg ...
    By Ryan Grim Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public’s unwillingness to let go of benefits such as Medicare and Social Security that have been earned over a lifetime of work: Create a new Congress. This “Super Cong ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Rao Responds
    On the blog he created to discuss ideas from the book: http://www.tempobook.com/2011/07/24/chet-richards-review-of-tempo-on-fabius-maximus/ You may also be interested in following him at his personal blog: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ �
  • Book Review: Tempo
    Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making by Venkatesh Rao (Ribbonfarm, 2011; 154 pages) Reviewed by Chet Richards July 24, 2011 A good book is read more than once while accumulating copious notes in its margins and on the blank pages that the publisher has thoughtf ...
  • Book review: The Next Wave: On the Hunt for A ...
    Summary:   A review of The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits by Catherine Herridge.  Reviewed by “GI” Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired). When reading Catherine Herridge’s smashing investigative work on terrorism, The Next Wave, the lyrics from Jimmy Buffet’s “Trouble on ...
  • Attritionist Letter #2 — our military se ...
    Summary:   With US forces engaged around the world in six conflicts (and many small ones), each the day our media paint a picture of the armed services.  News, articles, books, movies — seldom have we been so well informed about our mechanized high-tech defense professionals — the very model ...
  • Today’s tea party propaganda
    Summary: The Tea Party movement provides a picture of the increasingly dysfunctional OODA-loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) of American society, where outlandish statements are accepted unquestioningly by true believers. In this environment we can work 24-7 correcting these misrepresentaions (and ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • The End of the Republican Foreign Policy Conse ...
    Eli Lake writes that the Republican foreign policy consensus has collapsed, but I'm actually not so sure it has. As the last paragraph of his piece suggests, it's merely shifted from the ideological clarity of neoconservatism to a far more...flexible principle: And so, it’s hard to know for s ...
  • Turkey’s Military Chiefs Quit in Apparent Prot ...
    The chiefs of staff of Turkey’s powerful military reportedly resigned today in apparent protest of Prime Minsiter Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan’s government arresting dozens of officers, including top brass, for an alleged plot to overthrow the government. The news came as a surprise after meetings this ...
  • Anders Breivik: Isolated Mad Man or Tip of the ...
    Co-authored with Alison Howell, author of Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Security and the Global Governance of Mental Health The recent events in Norway have revealed the pitfalls of speculation within a 24-hour new cycle/instant social media environment. Almost immediately afte ...
  • House GOP’s Dangerous Cuts to International Aid
    The Republican-controlled House Foreign Aid Subcommittee slashed the budget for foreign aid and contributions to international organizations including the United Nations yesterday, failing to meet the Obama administration’s requests on most line items. The exact effects of the cuts are impossibl ...
  • Is Al-Qaeda on the Ropes?
    I meant to respond to this earlier this week, but I think the notion that al-Qaeda is on the verge of defeat would best be taken with more than a grain of salt. As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross points out, we've heard this before -- government officials have been periodically writing al-Qaeda's obitua ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • For Whom the Pell Tolls
    The Hill reports�that Pell Grants have become a sticking point between the freshman GOP and John Boehner for the passage of his debt-ceiling compromise plan. Representative Denny Rehberg described the right's grievances with the program on a talk show in April: "So you can go to college on Pell ...
  • Will the Kids Be Alright?
    Throughout the debt-ceiling negotiations, funding for the Federal Pell Grant Program, which gives low-income students access to higher education through need-based grants that don�t have to be repaid, has been tossed around as a bargaining chip. Though the bulk of Pell spending is discretionary, ...
  • Obama's Approval Continues Its Downward Trend
    These new results from Gallup’s survey of presidential approval make me a lot less bullish about President Obama’s chances for re-election: Last week, I noted the extent to which the public still holds President Bush and the Republican Party responsible for the current state of the economy. A ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    Jamelle Bouie explains how even if Boehner gets the votes for his debt-ceiling plan, the fight won't end. Jennifer Mascia laments that Amy Winehouse's life (and death) romanticized mental illness. Gershom Gorenberg writes of Israelis protesting a dearth of affordable housing.
  • An Indefensible Defense
    Educators and activists opposed to the high-stakes testing that has come to dominate education reform have reason to be concerned, but they may have picked a losing strategy to make their point. More than 450 teachers and activists are gathering in Washington for the Save Our Schools March and ...

Buzzflash

  • "Heil Hitler" Buchanan Defends Norway Mass Mur ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Why go out on a limb & bother To take the time to co-opt him? He doesn't like his dad, Pat --- Why don't you just adopt him?read more
  • GOP in DC Kills Jobs and Helps Squash Small B ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTJohn Boehner's alleged American/global corporation "job creators" are actually job killers in the United States. It's another example of how the GOP uses Frank Luntz's focus group-molded message points that transform the opposite of the truth into "per ...
  • The White, Christian Blue-Eyed Terrorist Attac ...
    DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Move over Osama bin Laden. I know you already have in the physical sense - but you now have an emulator who borrows your tactics and inverts your ideology. Anders Behring Breivik, is Norway's candidate for the new world's top living evil-doer and terror ...
  • Legislation to Phase Out Private Military Cont ...
    NEWS ALERT FROM SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) today introduced legislation that would phase out private security contractors in war zones. The legislation recognizes that the United States increasingly has relied on private contracto ...
  • Cut Nuclear Power Subsidies Instead of Making ...
    with major national implications HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped. Yet, Congress and the White House may still want t ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Headless zombie squid and dead frogs dancing
    It is possible to re-animate dead appendages with a little salt, either table salt or in solution form as soy sauce. Be warned, this may put you off your breakfast. In the first video (which seems to have first appeared on the web a couple of years ago but a variant of which went viral [...]Head ...
  • Wear sunscreen
    Remember that speech that led to that Baz Luhrmann hit, “Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen“? It was good advice and still is. Here, my friend Kat Arney, blogger, broadcaster, cancer expert and harpist, explains the ins and outs of sun protection. It perhaps should also be mentioned that you can ...
  • Higgs glimpse?
    Higgs glimpse? – Lots of hype going on around the possibility of having spotted a glimpse of the Higgs boson that, in theory, endows matter with mass. Of course, despite the press conferences and hype, the physicists are still stressing that it is far too early to know whether the signals they h ...
  • Rosalind Franklin Google Doodle
    Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British X-ray crystallographer who made pioneering contributions to the understanding of the detailed molecular structures of the genetic code with her data from DNA and RNA as well as viruses, coal and graphite. She died prematurely a ...
  • Periodic table of rock and metal
    What if the whole of the Periodic Table were all rocks and metal? And what if it were created in 1987 by Jesus, he of the Roadside as a tribute to Guns ‘n Roses? It is obviously a concept whose time has come, because there are several others around that attempt to knock out the [...]Periodic tab ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • “Medicare Is the Answer, Not the Problem”
    MARGARET FLOWERS, M.D.,� mdpnhp at gmail.comread more
  • “The American People Do Not Want Us to Burn Do ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the following speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. See video here. “Here’s how we can take a couple steps back from the brink of default: “First, raise the debt ceiling until December 31, 2012, without it being contingent on cuts ...
  • Divided Appeals Court Rules That Companies May ...
    In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court today partially reversed a lower court’s ruling in a case challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast cancer and ovarian cancer. The court ruled that companies can obtain patents on the genes but cannot patent methods to com ...
  • One Year after Arrest and Detention, CCR Legal ...
    Last night, a year after Sunita Patel, a civil rights attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, was arrested while documenting law enforcement activity during protests against Arizona’s racist SB1070 immigration law, CCR and Patel jointly filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona again ...
  • Across the Country Americans Demand Debt Ceili ...
    Like a broken record Republicans in the House and Senate are willing to wreck our economy by refusing to compromise and insisting on their radical plan to balance the budget on the backs of seniors and the middle class by slashing Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while giving tax breaks to ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Neoliberalism, Not Multiculturalism Is Biggest ...
    Tarak Barkawi The paranoid style in politics often imagines unlikely alliances that coalesce into an overwhelming threat that must be countered by all necessary means.Political scientist Samuel Huntington's thought revolved around the idea ...
  • Recovery for Wall Street and Wealthy, Austerit ...
    Richard Wolff The so-called economic "recovery" since mid-2009 was chiefly hype, a veneer of good news to disguise and minimise the awful underlying economic realities. The few (large corporations and the rich) who bear much of the respon ...
  • Is Standard and Poor’s Manipulating US Debt Ra ...
    Jane Hamsher The Politico headline says it all: U.S. credit downgrade worries Obama, Congress more than default It’s not the default that strikes the most fear in the White House and Congress these days. It’s the downgraderead more
  • For Judy Bonds: Historic Tree-Sit on Coal Rive ...
    Jeff Biggers Appalachian leader Judy Bonds would have turned 59-years-old on August 27th.read more
  • With Media, Americans Focused on Debt Drama, C ...
    Bob Keefe It’s tough getting any news out of Washington these days that doesn’t involve the debt ceiling. Understandably, the political firestorm that has led our country to the brink of financial default has dominated headlines.While you ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US an ...
    Kristin SrzemskiThe Electronic Intifada A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and�Canada.
  • Palestinian Christians protest Anglican chief' ...
    Sarah IrvingThe Electronic Intifada Comments by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Anglican and Episcopalian churches worldwide, have aroused anger among Palestinian�Christians.
  • Israel's prison walls cannot keep us apart
    Fidaa ElaydiThe Electronic IntifadaDallas Fidaa Elaydi’s uncle has been imprisoned in Israel for more than twenty years, and his family in Gaza have not been able to visit him for the past six.
  • The sham solidarity of Israel’s Zionist left
    Budour Youssef HassanThe Electronic Intifada Recent marches in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv raise urgent questions about the true meaning of joint�struggle.
  • Trauma of Palestinian children increasing, say ...
    The Electronic IntifadaRamallah The number of Palestinian children with post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders including depression has increased, according to Médecins Sans Frontières and Palestinian organizations specializing in mental�health.

The Wonk Room

  • Three Democrats Now Support Repealing ACA&#821 ...
    A bill to repeal the tax on insurance companies in the Affordable Care Act “has picked up another Democratic co-sponsor â Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR),” Sam Baker reports. Ross is the third Democrats — along with Reps. Heath Shuler (NC) and Mike McIntryre (NC) — to sponsor the legislation.
  • Debt Ceiling Platinum Coins and Heist Flicks
    In the midst of the delightfully distracting debate over whether the Treasury Department could solve the debt ceiling crisis by minting a couple of trillion-dollar coins, Jon Chait suggests that such a scenario lends itself to a whole bunch of wacky movie ideas: I actually feel like this plan co ...
  • Criminal Charges, Cheering, And The Female Spo ...
    In addition to the misery of the debt ceiling showdown, this week brought the unfortunate news that I, as a Patriots fan, am apparently supposed to root for Chad Ochocinco and Albert Haynesworth. Ochocinco’s really mostly a harmless diva, and I can live with him, especially if the team lets Aaro ...
  • In Response To Anti-Gay Bullying Controversy, ...
    In a response to the increased media coverage of the anti-gay environment in its schools, Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin district now hosts a specific GLBT page on its website where it has posted information on its controversial Sexual Orientation Curriculum policy (also known as the neutrality poli ...
  • GOP Senator Concedes It Wouldn’t Be &#82 ...
    Even as the GOP leadership is caving to the outrageous demands of Tea Party members, some Republicans are also becoming more amenable to Democrats’ insistence that there be a long-term debt ceiling increase that goes through the 2012 election. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reiterated ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • More Disgusting Bullshit From Rob "Lying Sack ...
    So, it turns out that the lying, cowardly prick is unimpressed with the lack of suggestions coming from the citizenry: During the interview, which was recorded in the morning or early afternoon, he [Ford] was asked by Cybulski to identify the best suggestion he had heard during the meeting. H ...
  • Un-Fuck You Rob Ford
    So, the liar, the coward, ... during his insulting marathon communication strategy has decided to lie about his father's legacy, and the legacy of his father's chief, the murderously incompetent Mike Harris, and to obscure their role in impoverishing Toronto and smashing together the discordant ...
  • Rob Ford's "Core Service Review" Consultations
    They're today and I hope the lying, shameless doofus gets an ear full for his bullshit. Him and his stupid asshole brother, and all the other lying dorks who cluster around them hoping to score some post-politics swag and to beat-up on the poor and the weak. Ford lied. For LIED. Ford LIED when ...
  • harper: "Majority government allows me to embr ...
    So, now the prick (inspired by the tutelage of his senile mentor Tom Flanagan) has decided that the need for pretense is over. They were never conquered. They signed treaties with us. We broke them. We stole their land. In the 1970s, they began to rise up and challenge the illegal status-quo. T ...
  • No Unions, No Welfare State, No Justice
    Used to be that unions (or the threat of unions) could compel employers to pay decently. Government efforts to achieve something approaching full employment, combined with welfare payments (or unemployment insurance) to the unemployed or marginalized, mitigated poverty somewhat. These governmen ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • NASA finds first Trojan asteroid circling sun ...
    NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has discovered the first Trojan asteroid circling the sun in Earth's orbit. Scientists long believed Earth would have Trojans, but they were difficult to detect.
  • Sherbourne Common now open in Toronto
    On July 26, Waterfront Toronto celebrated the official opening of the completed Sherbourne Common, a unique waterfront park that seamlessly blends art and innovation.
  • Newfoundland's Gros Morne National Park
    I've travelled extensively around the world, yet I must admit I enjoy discovering my own country, as everyone should. One of the most beautiful places in Canada is Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the far eastern reaches of the nation.
  • Miss Teen Canada-World Gives Voice to Somali H ...
    The UN has declared the humanitarian crisis in Somalia “the worst disaster” in the world as the war-torn nation faces the worst drought in 60 years.
  • Toronto Budget Chief, Mayor address Core Servi ...
    During the Toronto Executive Committee meeting one-hour intermission, Mayor Rob Ford and Budget Chief Mike Del Grande addressed reporters' questions regarding the KPMG report, Thursday's committee hearing and security.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Pat Stogran calls $2 billion promised to veter ...
    Last September, amidst outrage by soldiers and reports in the media critical of the government’s treatment of veterans, the Harper government promised $2 billion in increased benefits. It was announced at the time that the money would go to “increased financial support for seriously injured Vet ...
  • Talks collapse in Bahrain
    Bahrain, a Persian Gulf nation that has been the site of pro-democracy protests over recent months, is entering a new, uncertain phase after the collapse of talks between the main Shiite opposition party and the ruling Sunni elite (Associated Press, “Shiite Party in Bahrain Leaves Talks With Rul ...
  • How much would you give to stop Harper’s steal ...
    Would you give $7 each month to stop Harper's stealth fighters? Go to https://www.ceasefire.ca/donate/donate.php
  • Ceasefire.ca volunteers send letters to 2500 s ...
    A photo of our team of volunteers sending letters to 2500 Ceasefire.ca supporters.
  • Canada makes the wrong move at Conference on D ...
    Cesar Jaramillo, program officer at Project Ploughshares, argues against the recent decision to boycott the UN Conference on Disarmament (Cesar Jaramillo, “Canadaâs disarmament conference boycott is ill-advised,” Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 14 July 2011): Canadaâs newly elected Conservative major ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • How Cursive Writing Affects Brain Development
    May 13th, 2011 Helium.com By: Matthew J. Geiger Outside of the United States, cursive writing is taught before children learn how to print. Although many of us neglect our cursive writing skills, except to sign a document now and again, due to the advent of computer technology; however, cursive ...
  • New Research Shows Liposuction Is A Big Fat Lie
    May 13th, 2011 Natural News By: Sherry Baker Liposuction, a minimally invasive surgical procedure that uses small cannulas to literally suck fat out of the body and reshape problem areas like “spare tires” and large thighs, has become one of the most popular plastic surgeries in the country. In ...
  • “Top 7 Diets” According to Consumer Reports
    May 13th, 2011 EverydayHealth.com By: Susan Amoruso People looking to shed pounds are bombarded with new and old diet strategies. Some promise quick and easy weight loss, while others require a long-term commitment and lifestyle changes. Consumer Reports recently tackled the age-old question — w ...
  • Herpes Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
    June 29th, 2011 ScienceDaily.com Laboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute (HEI) have developed a new technique to observe herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) infections growing inside cells. HSV1, the cause of the common cold sore, persists in ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-29-11
    Today, Kevin reveals the gruesome details behind the government’s secret plan to wipe out the elderly population! Plus, find out why wheat bread isn’t as good for you as you once thought and why doing a mineral detox is so vital to your long-term health. Self Help: Add Yourself Into The ‘Kevin W ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Conference will establish African Soci ...
    On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of tru ...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...

War in Context

  • The News International scandal is just the tip ...
    David Beetham writes: The News International scandal has rightly caused public outrage and led to a sea-change in relations between UK politicians and media moguls. Yet Murdoch’s empire has been only part of a much wider structure of unaccountable power which has exercised a dominant influence ...
  • Why the US military is the greatest threat to ...
    Lawrence Korb writes: In Congressional testimony over the past week, several high ranking military officers, led by Army General Martin Dempsey, the nominee to become the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have warned about the dire national security consequences that could occur if th ...
  • Israeli army attacks Dutch street band with te ...
    Palestine News Network reports: The Dutch street orchestra ‘Fanfare van de Eerste Liefdesnacht’ (the First Night of Love Brass Band) from Amsterdam was attacked with tear gas today by the Israeli army during their performance in the Palestinian village Kufr Qadum near Nablus, northern West Bank ...
  • Iran, innuendo, and secret deals with al Qaeda
    “U.S. accuses Iran of aiding al-Qaeda,” screams the headline in the Washington Post. The editors of the Wall Street Journal clearly take satisfaction with the Treasury Department’s announcement that it has exposed a “secret deal” between Iran and al Qaeda: The Obama Administration has come a l ...
  • Libyan rebels fear rift after death of Abdel F ...
    The Guardian reports: The death of the Libyan rebels’ chief of army staff, Abdel Fatah Younis, has raised fears of a rift within opposition forces amid speculation that he may have been killed by gunmen on his own side. The president of the National Transition Council (NTC), Abdul Mustafa Jali ...

Watts Up With That?

  • New Berkeley study on grass and global warming ...
    Caveat, no, it isn’t about “grass use” in UC Berkeley, and note the press release with the key word, “could” in the title. From the University of California – Berkeley Warming climate could give exotic grasses edge over natives Invasive … Continue reading →
  • Federal Official: Monnett suspension unrelated ...
    As some WUWT readers theorized yesterday, something, perhaps even more egregious is the root of the suspension. The AP obtained an internal memo from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, sent via email circulated to staff. From the Sacramento … Continue reading →
  • Inspector general’s transcript of drowne ...
    This fellow, Charles Monnett has been suspended pending an investigation into his polar bear research. You may recall that he single-handedly inspired Al Gore (not that it takes much) into producing this piece of science fiction for his even larger … Continue reading →
  • Rationalizing Trenberth’s missing heat
    By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Additional Information On The âOceanâs Missing Heatâ By Katsman and van Oldenborgh 2011 I discussed the papers C. A. Katsman and G. J. van Oldenborgh, 2011: Tracing the upper oceanâs âmissing heatâ. Geophysical Research Letters (in … Continue reading →
  • Spencer and Braswell on Slashdot
    This is how Slashdot breaks the news from Forbes article: “New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism”. When it hits Slashdot, you know it has gone viral. New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models Posted … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Fundamentalism Kills by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 26, 2011 The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the big ...
  • Michael Hudson: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Jul 22, 2011 President Obama and Republican House speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both Congres ...
  • Wisdom From Ephesus: The Gospel of John
    Dandelion Salad [Each part is 26 minutes long.] Day of Discovery On the western coast of Turkey is one of the most stunning archeological sites in the modern world, Ephesus.  Journey with author and musician Michael Card through this ancient site to discover more about the life and times of the ...
  • Saudi and Emirati Forces Open Fire on Unarmed ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 24, 2011 A shocking new video shows Saudi and Emirati forces firing indiscriminately at a crowd of unarmed youth protesting against the autocratic US-backed Bahraini government [See video below]. The attack took place after Friday prayers ...
  • Semantic Propaganda Feeds Stupidity by Joel S. ...
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org July 23, 2011 We would already have had a much needed American revolution in response to the tyranny of the money-fed two-party plutocracy that is destroying the middle class except for one big problem: so much of the American p ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    The Rupert Murdoch Hacking And Spying Scandal has given competing media companies, independent news agencies, bloggers and tweeters enormous opportunities to feast on, mock and profit from Murdoch's legal problems. Now it's time for advertising agencies to get their share of the cash-in from the ...
  • No title
    One of the reasons I love Twitter is it forces people to say what they want to say in as few a words as possible. Sure they can tease with a line and then link to a 1000 word essay, but it's much better when the truth of the matter is nailed then and there in one or two tweets. Like this double ...
  • No title
    Ex-Murdoch Editor Claims Phone Of Dead Girl Hacked Only To Help Police One of the most bizarre explanations for journalists spying on victims of crime and why Rupert Murdoch journalists at the News Of The World paid investigators to hack into the phone of a missing 13 year girl, of course it co ...
  • No title
    The worst famine the world has seen in decades is killing tens of thousands of people in Somalia. So Rupert Murdoch's The London Times decides this human tragedy is as good a means as any to try and steer attention away the ongoing hacking and spying scandal that continues to engulf the Times pa ...
  • No title
    The Many Sticky Threads That Make Up The Tangled Web Of Rupert Murdoch's Spying And Corruption Blech : The Murdoch Hacking, Spying And Corruption Scandal is complicated, and unless you have spent hours churning through the dozen or more articles posted everyday by the Guardian and the New Yo ...

Wired - Science

  • Your Genome Structure, Not Genetic Mutations, ...
    A new look at the human genome suggests that unappreciated variations in its fundamental architecture, rather than point-by-point mutations, may be responsible for most genetic difference among people. Point-by-point mutations, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, involve simple changes to D ...
  • Spaceflight Psychology And The New “Right Stuff”
    With arguably the coolest job on or off the planet, astronauts need nobody’s pity of no one. Nonetheless, theirs is a life of extraordinary psychological demands: leadership, technical proficiency, split-second decision making and ironclad focus. And beyond fulfilling the “hero” requirements, a ...
  • Sheer Numbers Gave Early Humans Edge Over Nean ...
    By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica Between 35,000 and 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals in Europe and Asia were replaced by the first modern humans. Why and how this transition occurred remains somewhat controversial. New research from the journal Science suggests that sheer numbers may have played a larg ...
  • The Big Crunch: Physicists Make Time End
    This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a higher harmonic generation. The same researchers who used exotic substances called metamaterials to make a benchtop Big Bang have mimicked the end of time, also known as the Big Crunch. Light traveling through metamaterials is described math ...
  • Children Play Like Scientists Work
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK Young children play like scientists work, according to a new research project at MIT and Stanford University. The findings, which were published in the journal Cognition, reveal how four- and five-year-olds approached games methodically. They were given a specially des ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Ahmed Tibi: A strike against free speech
    Because I believe in ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, equal rights for Palestinians and Jews, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees forced from their homes and lands... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Gideon Levy: The tent protesters must graduate ...
    The time has come to stick their hand in the fire and fight for all the issues they have steered clear of so far - the security budget, the settlements, the occupation, the breaches of democracy and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Israel to bill Bedouins for razing their homes
    Israeli authorities are suing residents of a makeshift Bedouin village for the cost of repeatedly evicting them and razing "illegal structures" where they live, an official said on Wednesday... An... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Michal Shamir: More political than politics
    For Israel's housing protest to succeed, it must be defined as political - and it must be translated into political acts. The issues it raises must be placed at the center of Israel's democratic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Dror Etkes: If only Rothschild were a settlement
    Six governments preferred to encourage Israelis to go and live on settlements rather than in the periphery of the country. This had a critical effect on the level of supply in various regions, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Caving for Climate
    Scientists are descending into caves on a small island in the middle of the South Pacific to try and gain a better understanding of weather patterns occurring as far back as 10,000 years ago.
  • ACR and SBI Statement on BMJ Article Regarding ...
    A recent report in the British Medical Journal claims there is no evidence that mammography served a direct role in reducing breast cancer deaths in European countries where screening has been implemented. The American College of Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging say these conclusions ...
  • LVAD: A Second Lease on Life for Levindale Patient
    While waiting for a new heart, a 52 year old Baltimore man can enjoy the little things in life thanks to a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD). An LVAD is a mechanical heart, which is surgically attached to a patient's own weak heart to help blood pump at a normal rate or take over the pumping ...
  • Former American Sociological Association Presi ...
    J. Milton Yinger, a former President of the American Sociological Association (ASA), died on July 28, at the age of 95. A prolific author and a distinguished professor of sociology at Oberlin College, Yinger was honored by his profession by being elected to serve as ASA President in 1977.
  • $12 Million NIH Grant to Study Acute Lung Injury
    Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have been awarded more than $11.7 million to study the pathology of severe lung injury.

Natural Health News

  • Is Eating More Fat One of the Keys To Overcomi ...
    During times of stress, many people start eating fatty or sugary foods.� But little is understood about how those foods affect your emotions. ��According to a new study, hormones in your stomach may communicate directly with your brain. While most research on food and emotion has looked at the ...
  • Are GMO Crops Used for Bio Fuel Ruining Enviro ...
    A new study assessed the environmental impacts of large scale bioenergy crops. The researchers looked at daily pesticide concentration data for a study area consisting of four large watersheds located in Michigan. The results were used to predict the possible long-term implications that large-s ...
  • GMO's Are Not the Only Way that Monsanto is Ra ...
    The residents of the town of Anniston, Alabama, live close to a Monsanto plant that manufactured polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from 1929 to 1971. The people who live there are all relatively heavily exposed to the chemicals. A recent study sought to determine the relationship between blood p ...
  • Why Are Prescriptions Up 70 Percent in the UK?
    In Britain, more prescription drugs than ever are being given out; the number being dispensed has increased almost 70 percent over the past ten years. According to figures from the NHS Information Centre, the highest number of drugs dispensed last year was for heart conditions, followed by pain ...
  • New Ways Drug Companies are Manipulating Your ...
    Free smartphone apps from Epocrates are used by nearly half of the U.S. doctors to look up information on drug dosing, interactions and insurance coverage.� But calling them �free� may be a bit misleading -- �to use the apps, doctors must first see marketing messages for prescription drugs. The ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Guilfoyle on the Mavi Marmara
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to Douglas Guilfoyle’s article “The Mavi Marmara Incident and Blockade in Armed Conflict,” which is forthcoming in the British Year Book of International Law.  (Subscription required.)  It’s absolutely superb — compreh ...
  • Punishment for Terrorism in Norway
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Professor Cecilia Marcela Bailliet of the University of Oslo has a very useful post over at IntLawGrrls on possible criminal punishment for right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik. Contrary to what has been reported elsewhere, according to Bailliet it is pos ...
  • Consular Convention Implementing Legislation: ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Though it produced hardly a ripple in the news (given all the other drama on Capitol Hill this week), Senator Leahy held a hearing yesterday on the legislation he has introduced to enforce the notification provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular ...
  • Col. Morris Davis on the Political Prosecution ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller David Hicks is back in the news here in Australia, because the DPP has announced that it intends to seize any royalties he receives from the sale of his book, Guantanamo: My Journey.  The DPP’s decision has received a great deal of criticism, for a vari ...
  • Col. Morris Davis on the Political Prosecution ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller David Hicks is back in the news here in Australia, because the DPP has announced that it intends to seize any royalties he receives from the sale of his book, Guantanamo: My Journey.  The DPP’s decision has received a great deal of criticism, for a vari ...

Public News Service

  • New Promises to Children: Campaign Kicks Off i ...
    New Promises to Children: Campaign Kicks Off in Arizona Phoenix, AZ – A promise to children: An opportunity for healthy brain development, school preparation, and nurturing environments. That’s the basis of the “National Movement for America’s Children” to encourage everyone to get involved to i ...
  • Number of Children with Food Allergies on the Rise
    Number of Children with Food Allergies on the Rise Phoenix, AZ - About eight-percent of children in the United States may have a food allergy, according to a new study (from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine). Comments from allergist Dr. Allan Stillerman with Minnesota-based ...
  • Ending Wilderness Protection for AZ Forests?
    Ending Wilderness Protection for AZ Forests? Phoenix, AZ - More than a million acres of potential wilderness in Arizona’s national forests would lose protection under a bill being heard today in a U.S. House committee. The Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act would open up so-called roadless ...
  • Help With Energy Bills Still Available for Low ...
    Help With Energy Bills Still Available for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – High summer energy bills can be especially painful for low-income Arizonans, sometimes threatening their ability to remain in their homes. But help is available from several sources. Comments from Arizona Community Act ...
  • Consumer Groups Hail New Federal Protection Bureau
    Consumer Groups Hail New Federal Protection Bureau Phoenix, AZ – Today (Thursday), is the first day of operations for the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Consumer advocates say while Wall Street banks oppose the new bureau, it’s an idea that the public is solidly behind. Commen ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • 2 Spirits: Native Lesbians and Gay Men : Osa H ...
    2-Spirited people (Native lesbians and Gay men) from the Bay Area share their experience of overlapping gender, ethnic and cultural identities as they explore and define their visions of utopia. Coordinating Producer: Osa Hidalgo de la Riva for Royal Eagle-Bear Productions (Oakland, CA )
  • Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - A ...
    Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - Anarkismo Not a week goes in Colombia without reports of assassinations and persecution of labor and political activists. Ana Fabricia Cordoba, gender activist and leader of displaced peasants, was shot dead on June 7th inside a street bus, after she ...
  • Jews sans frontieres: Why write about Jews?
    Jews sans frontieres: Why write about Jews? Beware – a publicity blurb about a book follows. The book is mine – Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights – and it analyses diaspora Jewish opposition to Israel. There'll be a description of what the book is about over at Mondoweiss. There’s another d ...
  • Mathaba: Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
    Mathaba: Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans Black Star News Editorial The "rebels" in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud." The "rebels" now e ...
  • Jim Crow in Palestine | SocialistWorker.org
    Jim Crow in Palestine | SocialistWorker.org: "'As a people who survived the Middle Passage and Jim Crow segregation--and organized successful struggles against those forms of oppression--we have a responsibility to speak out about the occupation of Palestine and share with Palestinians the lesso ...

Pensieve

  • What is Google+?
    I’ve been testing out Google+ for the past few weeks, and although I’m not leaving Facebook anytime soon, I like the selectiveness of being able to share to different circles or everyone. Let me know in the comments if you’d like a Google+ invite. Related posts:Why Google Buzz? Your Web Alphabet ...
  • Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure
    This fascinating TED conference reveals research into the psychology of pleasure and pain. Pleasure and pain are increased or decreased by what we believe about them. Sometimes I wish I could hypnotize myself and change what I believe about my life. I’m conscious that much of my misery comes fr ...
  • Pensieve Gets a New Look
    I decided to give the blog a much-needed face lift. I decided on this theme because it needed the least amount of tweaking (so I thought). I ended up having to code myself through the installation, sadly, in order to keep my old posts and be able to show the thumbnails you can see if [...] Re ...
  • Impeachment: an Overdue Constitutional Amendment
    Photo by codepinkhq After skimming over the Truth Commission’s report, I found that one of their recommendations is to introduce an impeachment mechanism to the Honduran Constitution. An impeachment mechanism would have been sufficient to achieve the goal the Congress and Supreme Court wanted in ...
  • Official Truth Comission Report now Available
    Photo by OEA – OAS The Honduran Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, (CVR in Spanish), created in the wake of the 2009 removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Presidency, has made its report available on its website. Apparently this is the full version, complete and underacted. As soon as I read ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Army ambushes Freedom Theater
    Soldiers have stormed the Freedom Theatre of Jenin, whose co-founder Juliano Mer-Khamis was slain earlier this year. URGENT PRESS RELEASE From The Freedom Theater Foundation, Jenin, Palestine 04.46 (gmt+2), July 27, 2011 Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Re ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Video of the Jully 22nd protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Part 1 of an account of that day’s protest from our source A. is here. Her story continues… After a while, my paramedic friend and a young man from the village led me once again through back-roads and fields back to Leila’ ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Here is the  video of the Nabi Saleh protest from Friday. We received this account from the same protest our anonymous  source A., an international activist living in Palestine.  She explains: This account is edited from a chat conversation describing events that took place on July 21st dur ...
  • For Lieberman, human rights = terrorism
    Well, this sums it up well. Though Israel declined to follow up the anti-Boycott bill by passing a law calling for the investigation of human rights organizations, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was not “blasted ministers for refusing to probe” From Ha’aretz, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberm ...
  • More from the Salem Music Center: Q&A with the ...
    The Villages Group continues to work closely with Salem’s Music Center, leading to ever-expanding relationships between the Center and the music-education community in Israel. Below (in reverse chronological order) are descriptions of two visits from Tel Aviv to Salem that took place over the p ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Due for release as conscientious objector, wan ...
    The accused Fort Hood plotter had a bomb making recipe from Al Qaeda magazine and yelled “Nidal Hasan” in court. (Hasan is accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.) He was arrested for possession of child porn before being released as a CO and then went AWOL. He was caught with ample ...
  • Obama called for Social Security cuts, not Rep ...
    “The Republicans, Speaker Boehner or Majority Leader Cantor did not call for Social Security cuts in the budget deal. The President of the United States called for that,â says Democratic Rep. Conyers, who is calling for a protest at White House.
  • Some fool here will probably call this jihad t ...
    800 person squirt gun fight in Tehran. Tehran Live has lots more photos. And a fun, soggy time was had by all!
  • U.S. may be entering years of political deadlock
    Reuters President Barack Obama’s ability to get any significant legislation passed before next November’s election is all but gone and whoever sits in the White House in 2013 will likely face a Congress unable to tackle major issues. Business Insider That raises questions about what would happ ...
  • Polizeros Radio. Peasants with pitchforks, Oba ...
    We had a wide-ranging show last night, with Keith Boyea joining Steve Hynd and myself. Listen to the show on BlogTalkRadio or on iTunes. Topics: Both parties are quite willing to fund-raise off the debt ceiling kabuki, oblivious and uncaring of the consequences, which could include a government ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Judge orders Nixon’s secret Watergate testimon ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 36 years later, the secret grand jury testimony of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal was ordered released on Friday by a federal judge because of its significance in American history. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted a request by histo ...
  • Larry Flynt on the American Justice System, an ...
  • Anders Behring Breivik, Mystery Man – Fo ...
    � by Justin Raimondo, July 29, 2011 Antiwar.com What do we really know about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway mass murderer who killed in the name of his anti-Muslim ideology, nearly a week after his horrific rampage? We know what he did, and why he did it: he left behind not only a 1,500 page ...
  • Bill Would Force Intel Chief to Renounce ‘Secr ...
    Wired Spenser Ackerman For months, two Senators have screamed bloody murder that the government holds a secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Actso broad that it amounts to a whole different law giving the feds massive domestic surveillance powers. Now, a measure by Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark ...
  • 4 Recent Scientific Blows to the Global Warmin ...
    Wikimedia Commons Image Activist Post The science behind the anthropogenic global warming theory appears to be falling apart with each new scientific study. Global warming, now often referred to as “climate change,” is still reported as fact in every establishment publication despite increasing ...

The Air Vent

  • Polarbear Science Mysteries Exposed?
    Don’t kid yourself, they want the bears to drown. Check this out at WUWT, AKA the center of the internet. Inspector generalâs transcript of drowned polar bear researcher being grilled
  • A repy to Dr. Jim Bouldin
    I’ve been gone for a while working on other things.  MikeN called my attention to a criticism by  Jim Bouldin, of my ‘probing’ of the hockey stick CPS methods. Since the Air Vent wouldn’t even be a climate blog, if it weren’t for Mann 08, it does seem important to address the criticisms by Jim ...
  • Roman M’s anomaly combination incorporat ...
    As long time readers know, I’m a fan of Roman’s temperature combination method which doesn’t require a base period window to offset individual station anomalies in global temperature averaging.   Steve Mosher has incorporated Roman’s work into his own code for R. Roman’s Method – Steve Mosher
  • Introduction to RghcnV3 – Steve Mosher
    Steve has put together a high quality series of algorithms for combining surface station data in R.  He has combined methods from a wide variety of sources with the following example incorporating ideas from my favorite blog by Tamino.  This is the kind of science I like, open source, nothing hi ...
  • Subsampled Confidence Intervals – Zeke
    Sub-sampling is hard to argue with.  Zeke has done a post on global temperatures at the Blackboard taking 500 stations at a time and looking at the extremes of averages.   It presented a set of very tight error bars based on weather variance, sampling errors, and any other random events which af ...

Focal Point

  • How Many Swastikas Does a Guy Have to Tattoo o ...
    Here's a strange story: Erica Herrera plans to marry Curtis Allgier, even though he's an incarcerated alleged murderer with white supremacist tattoos all over his face and she's not white. (Full-sized image) Herrera attempts to explain her decision to the Associated Press in terms of kind of . ...
  • New York Owl Felled By Herpes
    City investigators have determined that a great horned own found dead in Inwood Hill Park last month succumbed to avian herpes. The virus is not transmissible to humans. [Photo credit: Great horned owl by Vicki's Nature, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Cat Food Central: Boehner's Budget Proposal Wo ...
    John Boehner's budget proposal would cause the greatest increase in poverty in U.S. history, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security ...
  • Trypophobia
    Does this picture of a harmless lotus pod give you the howling fantods? I'll admit, it squicks me a little. Jennifer Abbasi reports on the Popular Science blog that there's something of a grassroots movement afoot to recognize "trypophobia," an irrational aversion to the sight of clustered hol ...
  • Born to Run: Poll Shows NJ Voters Evenly Split ...
    I've been trying to draft the Boss for years. Finally, a survey by Policy Policy Polling shows that New Jerseyans are as likely to support Bruce Springsteen for governor (42%) as they are to back incumbent Republican governor Chris Christie (42%), with 16% undecided. Springsteen isn't even run ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Prineville, Ceglia, Seattle, ...
    Facebook Set for Another Oregon Datacenter – Facebook announced this week that it would build another data center on its Prineville, Oregon campus. Construction is set to begin in October. Facebook to Expand in Seattle – Facebook is currently looking for more office space in Seattle, according t ...
  • Facebook White Hat Program Now Offers Bounty f ...
    Facebook has added a bounty system to its white hat program today that rewards security researchers for privately and responsibly informing the company of site vulnerabilities. Researchers can make $500 or more for disclosing bugs that could endanger users, such as cross-site scripting (XSS), or ...
  • Facebook Test Lets Users Tag Family Members by ...
    Facebook users can now tag a family member in a post by typing in how they are related, rather than their name. For example, typing in “Cousin” will open the typeahead and display any friend the user has confirmed as their cousin through the Family & Friends tab in the profile editor. The new wa ...
  • Webtrends Expands From Apps and Analytics to F ...
    Webtrends this week released a end-to-end Facebook Page management and tab application suite called Webtrends Social, which can manage Pages, build apps, and track ad conversions. Originally a web analytics company, Webtrends acquired custom social app developer and do-it-yourself app building p ...
  • Hulu, Profile Banners, BeKnown, Friends and Tw ...
    There were three profile banner applications on our list of the top emerging apps by monthly active users this week. Then there was a professional app BeKnown, Hulu’s app, a few friend apps and a photo app. The apps on our list grew from between 104,600 and 350,900 MAU, based on AppData, our dat ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Death and contradiction: the case of Iran’s nu ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers two contradictions underlying US policy towards Iran: on the one hand an anti-Iranian, anti-Muslim and pro-Israel worldview manifested in, among other things, the murder of Iranian nuclear scientists on the pretext that Iran represents a nuclear threat, and on the oth ...
  • Norway's monster and the poison of Zionist pro ...
    How much was the mind of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik conditioned and warped by Zionist propaganda as peddled with the assistance of Christian fundamentalism by much of the Western mainstream media and many websites?
  • Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik's fello ...
    Gilad Atzmon views an article by Zionist writer and former Trotskyite David Horowitz, written on the eve of the Utoeye Island massacre in Norway, "which could well have provided mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik with all the motivation he needed to commit his crime".
  • Was Norway massacre a reaction to boycott Isra ...
    Gilad Atzmon highlights Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's enthusiastic support for Israel and the sympathy he has received from Israelis and, in the light of this, asks whether Breivik might have been a "Sabbath Goy" responding to the Norwegian Workers Youth League's - to which al ...
  • Rupert Murdoch's intellectual terrorism
    Paul J. Balles views the corrupting influence of Rupert Murdoch and his media empire on the politics, culture and media of the English-speaking world.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    The Moral Bankruptcy of American Spooks, US Missile Shield May Be Precursor for Attack on Iran, Al-Qaeda Leader Hails Syrian Protestors, Ford Takes US Taxpayers Bailout & Deserts Sinking Ship, Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security, Hidden Hegemony: Canadian Mining in Latin America, What is a D ...
  • BFP Food for Thought: What’s so “Alternative” ...
    All Quasi Roads Lead to the Same Establishment I simply don’t get it! Actually, I haven’t been ‘getting it’ for a while. Maybe you can help me get it; will you? Here is the quandary: There are several major websites out there with quite a following. These websites advertise themselves as the ‘al ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Halliburton Whistleblower Wins in Court: $970K, Obama: Bin Laden Death Ups Terror Risk for Americans, The Most Dangerous Word in the World, US in ââDenialâ Over Chinaâs Pacific Plans, The Political Theater & the Debt Ceiling Crisis & More! International Newsworthy US in ‘Denial’ Over China’s Pac ...
  • Follow the Money with Bergman: Eyeing Green Ey ...
    Why Did the GAO Just Audit the Fed? Some of the shriller Fed critics offer simple but misleading slogans like “The Federal Reserve is a private entity” and “The Fed isn’t audited.”  The truth is more complicated, and the historical background matters for citizens trying to understand why, how, a ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • Three creative ways people are bringing hope a ...
    By: Anne Thomas Even though the initial intensity of the March 11 disaster has subsided, many people still feel a deep tugging to help Japanese disaster victims. Since that subtle pull is strong and persistent, people are finding very creative ways to bring hop ...
  • Saying goodbye to David Servan-Schreiber
    By: Ode Ode columnist David Servan-Schreiber died on the evening of Sunday, July 24. He was 50. A professor of psychiatry in the US and France, Servan-Schreiber wrote the bestselling Anticancer: A New Way of Life and The Instinct to Heal, both read around the w ...
  • Meditating on Pema Chödrön's 'Dusk on the River'
    By: Anne Thomas Although my main job is in a university, I also teach privately. My favorite of those lessons is an advanced English class for adults. I have been teaching them for many years, so we have become good friends. Since they are well educated and tal ...
  • Women broadcasting peace in Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso So of course you know how once something enters your conscious awareness, you see it everywhere. You will not be surprised that Brazil is showing up all over my reality. Here’s a wonderful story about women in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro broad ...
  • Imai Sensei’s vivid picture of Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas My friend Imai Sensei is a Baptist preacher who runs a homeless center here in Sendai. He has been helping victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami. He is my hero through and through. Recently he asked me to edit an article he was sending ou ...

OpEd News

  • The Fingerprints of US Right-Wing Christian Te ...
    More details are emerging now about why Anders Behring-Breivik set off a car bomb next to a government building in downtown Oslo last Friday. It turns out Breivik was taking his orders from the very same right-wingers who are spewing hate here in America.
  • Bob Fitrakis on New Evidence of 2004 Stolen El ...
    The contracts signed by Connell's company and SmarTech can be read in the filing for the first time. This isn't ancient history. It is state of the art vote theft. It is tied directly to Karl Rove and partisan Republican IT operatives. It could happen in Ohio again, it could happen anywhere in t ...
  • Washington vs. America
    he people of our nation view the bastions of power, from Washington to Wall Street, with contempt because they believe, correctly, that those bastions are contemptuous of them, and that those bastions are citadels of selfishness and corruption.
  • Israeli Home Demolition Terrorism
    Israel's longstanding policy
  • Washington's Response to a Failed Ecomomy: Mor ...
    In 2011 the deficit in the federal government's annual expenditures was 43 percent of the budget. In other words, the US government had to borrow, or the Fed had to monetize, 43 percent of federal expenditures during fiscal year 2011. Despite this unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, the ...

Switchboard

  • Twisted Sisters: of Whitebark Pine and Macbeth
    Louisa Willcox, Senior Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana Upon reading last week’s finding by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that whitebark pine is so threatened it warrants endangered species protections, somehow I found myself re ...
  • Price Matters - Water Conservation and the Cal ...
    Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco In today’s San Jose Mercury News, Paul Wenger, of the California Farm Bureau Federation issues a caution about the limits to agricultural water conservation, citing rising prices in ...
  • Gas Mileage Gains Move the Country Forward
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Today my colleague Luke Tonachel and I represented NRDC at the Washington ceremony where President Obama announced a triumph of American leadership, the single largest step we can take to break our c ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Regional The Inter-American Bank (IDB) will lend  US$128 million to Brazil for the hydroelectric sector.  The funds will be used to increase energy production, lower maintenance costs and add ...
  • Polar bears don't drown when there's ice all o ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC When I was working at a research station years ago there were mammalogists at the station who were doing some ‘collecting’ for museum specimens.  They mostly tried to take advantage of any usable roa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • CNN gives its readers a wide range of views on ...
    Ranging from a former GOP senator, to another former GOP senator, to another former GOP senator, to another former GOP senator, to a former GOP congressman, to Ronald Reagan’s budget director. All balanced out by this guy . . . sorry, this guy.
  • Favorite album covers
    As we slouch toward the Eve of Destruction, it fills me with a certain melancholy to contemplate the passing away of many features of a once-great civilization. One in particular, first severely wounded by the scale of the digital compact disc, and then slain altogether by the mp3 player, is the ...
  • Klinsmann
    It took less than a day, but LGM called for his hiring, and the US FA took note and duly responded.  Correlation, or causality?  You be the judge.  And for our next trick, we’ll solve the manufactured debt ceiling crisis. Considering how swift the appointment was made, especially in light of ...
  • QOTD
    The heart of the matter: Some of us have long complained about the cult of “balance,” the insistence on portraying both parties as equally wrong and equally at fault on any issue, never mind the facts. I joked long ago that if one party declared that the earth was flat, the headlines would read ...
  • More From the Murdoch Crime Family
    I’m sure Brooks didn’t know anything about this either.

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI and UNR Scientists Help Agencies Preserve ...
    DRI and The University of Nevada have highly cooperative, productive and ongoing research programs across a variety of topics in the Lake Tahoe Basin that are doing their best to provide quality science to inform basin managers and policymakers.
  • Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
    There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.
  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Dean ousted in row over University of Baltimor ...
    Phillip Closius, dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law, resigned abruptly on July 29 at the request of university President Robert Bogomolny, according to a letter Closius e-mailed to the law school community.
  • Federal Circuit rules that isolated human gene ...
    Isolated human genes are patentable subject matter, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in a closely watched controversial case.
  • Stetson will be site of white-collar 'boot camp'
    The program, which will be the first of its kind, according to Stetson, will focus on advocacy and other skills during multi-day sessions at the Gulfport, Fla., campus.
  • Judicial nominee stalls after Kansas senator's ...
    President Barack Obama's choice for a spot on a federal appeals court is getting bottled up in committee, after one of the nominee's home-state senators apparently reversed his initial support.
  • At 1st Circuit, a death penalty showdown
    Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee's battle to prevent the U.S. government from gaining custody of a state inmate facing charges that could call for the death penalty made its way to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit on Thursday.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Waterdog Training August 11th
    Below is note from Erica about the upcoming Waterdog training at Ives Run. Hello Everyone I just wanted to remind everyone that we are hosting another Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11th at Ives Run from 5-9 pm.  Please let me know if you can make it and also please feel free to share it [...]
  • PennFuture files federal lawsuit against Marce ...
    Harrisburg, PA (July 21, 2011) – Citizens for Pennsylvania‟s Future (PennFuture) filed a lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against Ultra Resources, Inc., for air pollution at its Marcellus Shale drilling sites, which violates the federal Cl ...
  • Advanced Waterdog Training in August
    An advanced Waterdog training will take place on August 11th. Details from the flyer are below. Hello Waterdogs, I wanted to invite all of you to our Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11 from 5:00—9:00. This training will only be for people who have already attended the initial training. We w ...
  • A Substitute for Tears…
    Two fellows that have had profound effects on the music in my life have each written songs about the gas drilling and want to preserve the beauty and purity of places they have come to know and love in Pennsylvania. Check out Van Wagner’s tune here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trxrh_FmPeI&fea ...
  • Marcellus Shale on This American Life
    If you missed this program, it is well worth listening to. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/440/game-changer

News Blaze

  • UN Continues Effort to Help People of Pakistan ...
    The lives of millions of people were changed in a matter of days and there were numerous challenges for those who survived the disaster, including loss of shelter, crops and livelihoods. UN agencies and their partners provided emergency aid in the a
  • Florida Grass-Roots Coalition Holds Rally Urgi ...
    According to organizers, the objective of the rally is not to protest, but rather to encourage sheriffs to uphold the Fourth Amendment, as well as Florida statutes on molestation, as they apply to TSA employees. The rally will be held on Sunday, Jul
  • US and Russia Exchange 1,000 Notifications in ...
    She highlighted that two years ago in President Obama's speech in Prague, he affirmed the commitment of the United States 'to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons' and laid out a plan of action for near term practical st
  • American Art Museums Offer 'Yoga With The Masters'
    Welcoming the America's museums' move to offer yoga classes, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed said although introduced and nourished by Hinduism, yoga is a world heritage and liberation powerhouse to be utilized by all. Zed urged other museums around the
  • Church World Service Steps Up Response to East ...
    This year marks the driest period in the Eastern Horn of Africa region since 1995, with the lowest level of rainfall in more than 50 years and more than 10 million people in some way affected by the growing crisis.

environment 360

  • New Fuel Economy Standard Agreed to by White H ...
    The Obama administration and U.S. automakers have agreed on a new fuel economy standard that would require cars and light trucks to achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, a target that officials say will reduce U.S. fuel consumption 40 percent below today’s levels and cut greenhous ...
  • ‘Land Grab’ in Africa Threatens Continent’s Fo ...
    China, India, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other countries are buying up vast amounts of farmland in Africa, threatening the food security of millions of impoverished people on the continent, according to a new study. The Worldwatch Institute reports that to ensure the food security of their own peo ...
  • UK Offshore Wind Sector is Fastest-Growing in ...
    The vast majority of new offshore wind turbines built in European waters this year have been installed in the UK, according to the European Wind Energy EWEA Association. Of 108 new turbines installed off the European coast during the first half of 2011, 101 were built in the UK. But so far only ...
  • Warming Arctic Temperatures Cause Release of L ...
    Warming temperatures in the Arctic are causing the release of toxic pollutants long trapped in the region’s ice, snow, and ocean waters, a new study says. In an analysis of air-monitoring data collected at sites in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago and the Canadian province of Nunavut, researchers s ...
  • Arctic Blog: A Place for Wildlife In the Natio ...
    In the third in a series of blogs from the Arctic, biologist Steve Zack, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, explains how he and other scientists are assessing key Steve Zack blogs from the Arctic for Yale e360. The third in a series. wildlife habitats within the 23-million-acre National ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik recruited ...
    Remember that the hearings was closed to the public and the media. Classic Scandinavian style - an "open society" right. The judge ordered that 32-year-old Andres Behring Breivik is to be detained without access to letters or visitors, apart from his lawyer. He’s getting four weeks in isolation. ...
  • 2,000-year-old bell found in Jerusalem rings again
    2,000-year-old bell in Jerusalem: a 2,000-year-old bell has been discovered by Israeli archaeologists and rang for the first time in as many years. 2,000-year-old bell found by Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem, Monday. The bell, dating back to the Second Jewish Temple period, was discovered i ...
  • Norway police lower youth camp death toll to 68
    Norwegian police said Monday that the double-counting of bodies in the chaotic aftermath of a shooting spree may have contributed to a dramatic overestimate of the number of people slain, but they offered few other details about the error. The sharp reduction in the death toll, from 86 to 68, ad ...
  • Norway massacre: Anders Breivik "Surprised" He ...
    Geir Lippestad Mr Lippestad said it was "too early" to say if his client was mad, but added: "The whole case has indicated that he is insane." He said his client had taken drugs before going on the rampage "to be strong, efficient and awake" and was "sorry that he had to do this but it was neces ...
  • Media Now Links Breivik to British "Extremists ...
    The Norwegian fanatic has been in close contact with hundreds of British right-wing extremists for two years, it emerged last night. He chatted about "tactics" on social networking sites with hundreds of members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP) and attende ...

Russia Today

  • US House passes Republican debt plan
    The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has passed a vote to raise America's debt ceiling and to cut spending. But the Democratic-controlled Senate is likely to put a block on the bill. Meanwhile the clock...
  • Politics is playing a vital role in investigat ...
    Poland’s final report on last year’s plane crash suggests both the Polish flight crew and the Russian air traffic controllers were at fault.Mark Weiss believes politics is playing a vital role in the dissemination of...
  • Poor organization to blame for Polish tragedy ...
    With some controversy remaining following the Polish report on the causes of the late President Kaczynski’s plane crash in 2010, experts and politicians wonder whether the report will now be used as a means of justice...
  • “US politicians as delusional as Hitler was in ...
    American politicians are acting like Hitler in his bunker in refusing to accept the US debt realities, which China is rightfully worried about, economist William Anderson told RT.
  • Israelis want social and economic “revolution”
    “Mubarak. Assad. Netanyahu” – this is just one of the slogans Israeli protesters took to the streets to protest their government’s policies. But analyst Gidi Grinstein argues that social, not political trouble is the...

Not My Tribe

  • Ikea factory workers organized by AIM, who wil ...
    Ikea factory workers in Danville, Virginia, voted to unionize. Did they do it alone? No, they joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. If Ikea retail employees follow suit, maybe there’s hope for organizing the poverty-wage employees of America’s largest private ...
  • Border wars of the drug cartels, ours
    So, on Telemundo the “Border War” rhetoric took some serious hits which I cheerlessly predict the Minutemen, Tea Party and other klan groups are going to spend a lot of time, corporate money and hot air trying to patch. La Migra admitted that they are losing the border, contrary to what the Repu ...
  • Cedar Point Consolidated Wagon Trail along Big ...
    Halfway point between Cheyenne Wells and Denver City.
  • Tetra Farries and her family feel blunt trauma ...
    For all the haters who condemn Ms. Farries, who so far is convicted of NOTHING, you should feel a deep sense of shame, but I know you don’t, for building a corrupt social order, using words like “God” and “Liberty” and “Equality” and “Justice” with absolutely no intent of living up to such might ...
  • English, language of self-enslavement
    One of the best outcomes of having grown up in a Hispanic dominated culture, El Paso, Texas, having Hispanic and Mexican (from Mexico) friends and family, and speaking the language… is that I can spot and counter all the pure BULLSHIT that racist organizations like the “TeaBags” and their sponso ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking Jonathan Kay, his book Among the Tru ...
    Updated 6-16-11 Thanks to James Hufferd of 911grassroots.org for assisting me with some research for this article. James recently responded to Kay's book, to which Kay retorted, and this is my end-all be-all response to Kay. In Frank Moher's review of National Post writer Jonathan Kay's new ...
  • Van The BSer Romero: We Called It!
    Awhile back, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted an entry entitled "Jesse The BSer Ventura: I Called It!" criticising Ventura for deceptive editing on the first 9/11 episode of his show Conspiracy Theory when it was revealed that he cut off the end of an experiment by explosives exp ...
  • Kevin Ryan: The NIST WTC 7 Report is False
    This presentation describes some of the ways in which the 2008 WTC 7 report from the National Institute of Standard and Technology is false and unscientific. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because of the 911 lie we have all been plunged into an en ...
  • A Journey With Jonathan
    A JOURNEY WITH JONATHAN A Review of the Book, “Among the Truthers,” Written by Jonathan Kay By: Jonathan H. Cole, P.E. (PDF Link) Source URL: http://911blogger.com/news/2011-07-22/journey-jonathan I should have known from the cartoons on the cover what Jonathan Kay's book, "Among the Trut ...
  • 9/11/2011 - Ten Years, No Justice
    9/11 "debunker" Ryan Owens has declared that the 9/11 truth movement is dead. Please join blog contributor Adam Taylor and myself in New York City this upcoming September 11th and help prove that he is dead wrong. http://groundzero2011.com/index.html The goal of this website is to hopefully ...

Fooducate

  • 5 Ways the Nutrition Field Hinders Its Own Pro ...
    This is a guest blog post by Andy Bellatti, MS, RD. It originally appeared on his blog Small Bites I often write about the external factors that pose a threat to the nutrition field, including (but not limited to) Big Food’s egregious advertising budgets, deceptive claims seen on food packaging, ...
  • 8 Things to Know About Corn Syrup
    Corn syrup is used abundantly in our food industry. You’ve probably seen it as an ingredient on many products at the grocery store. You can actually buy corn syrup as a product for your recipes. But what exactly is it? 1. Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener derived from corn starch (or maize). 2. C ...
  • McDonald’s Happy Meal Makeover: A (Small) Step ...
    McDonald’s announced yesterday that the Happy Meal is changing: 1. The amount of french fries will more than halve from 2.4 oz to 1.1. 2. 5 Apple slices will be added to each Happy Meal. 3. Low fat chocolate milk will be listed as an option instead of soda. The change is being rolled out [...]
  • Could Food Diversity be Causing Obesity?
    Here’s an interesting theory on the cause for rising obesity rates. Researchers have conducted experiments to assess the validity of their theory that the abundance of food choices promotes, in some people, excess consumption: In the study out of the State University of New York at Buffalo, scie ...
  • All Natural Fruit Snack?
    Take a look at Mott’s Medley’s Fruit Snack. The package looks promising: All natural fruit snack Good source of vitamin C Gluten Free & Fat Free No Artificial Flavors, Colors, Sweeteners, or Preservatives made with real fruit and vegetable juice. But what’s really inside? What you need to know: ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Griff Rhys Jones models for Survival
    Griff Rhys Jones modelling Jimmy Pike T-shirt for Survival © Survival Comedian, actor, presenter and author Griff Rhys Jones models Survival’s new T-shirt by internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike, saying, ‘I am delighted to support Survival and their urgent work for threat ...
  • Malaysia’s King at eco awards as Sarawak’s for ...
    Deforestation caused by loggers in a Penan region in Borneo, Malaysia. © Andy and Nick Rain/Survival The King of Malaysia and HRH the Prince of Wales attended a reception in London yesterday on behalf of The Earth Awards. The event was hosted in partnership with START, an initiative of the ...
  • Progress Can Kill – Peru’s new government warned
    Survival's 'Progress Can Kill' highlights the dangers of forcing 'development' on tribal peoples. © Survival Peruâs new government will take office today having received a stark warning of the imminent dangers faced by its countryâs indigenous population. Survival has sent copies of two ...
  • Brazil to ‘do to Indians what Australia did to ...
    A Kayapó indigenous man. The Kayapó tribe is one of many whose livelihoods will be devastated by the Belo Monte dam. © Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch A Brazilian government official has suggested that Brazil will treat its indigenous peoples like Australia treated the Aboriginals. Curt Tren ...
  • Vedanta: time to give up on Niyamgiri mine
    Vedanta's AGMs have seen numerous protests against the planned bauxite mine. © Survival FTSE100 company Vedanta Resources will face vocal protests tomorrow from Survival and other groups telling the company to give up on their notorious Niyamgiri mine in Orissa, India. Vedanta was denied ...

Greg Palast

  • It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...
  • Harry Potter: Jo’s Other Ending
    By Jo (J.K.) Rowling as told to Greg Palast and the Palast twins [18 July 2011] Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins ...
  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...
  • ZD Roberts Has Something to Say
    I just wanted to send a thanks to all those who have donated to the Gil Palast Memorial fund over the past couple of months. I know Gil would have been happy to see that so many people still believe in the power of journalism. Back in 2008 I got to meet Greg's Dad — he [...]
  • Ce soir ! Achtung! BP en eaux troubles + Die B ...
    Tonight! 28 June. On ARTE, in French and German — in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and (check listing for French Canada) … BP: In Deep Water — The first of Greg Palast’s investigative reports on BP, the Bribery & Pollution company masquerading as an oil company. La M ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a bird bath?
    Annetta has emailed with two great questions. Here’s the first: Any ideas on making a bird bath out of recycled [things from] around the house? I think it depends on whether you want something pretty, quirky or just something practical for the birds to use, looks be damned. I’d love to hear idea ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle precious photo albums?
    Joan left a question on the “suggest an item” stage: A deceased good friend’s photo albums need to be disposed of. Mainly of family, friends and her cats, loathed to just chuck them in a bin, other than that, what do I do? Helpâ¦.. I’m sorry to hear about your friend, Joan. The Photos I’m [...]
  • How can I reuse LOTS of florists’ ribbon?
    Nicky has emailed to ask how she can recycle: Almost 100 kilometres of 2″ wide yellow florists ribbon. Unravelled and of varying lengths â very long to short pieces. Currently in 5 large industrial bags. Wow, that’s a fair bit of ribbon! My first thought would be to offer it to a local scrap sto ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle Leylandii/conifer b ...
    We’ve had an email from Jennifer (sorry it’s taken a few weeks to feature it, Jennifer!): We hacked down a couple of huge nasty Leylandii conifer trees from our garden this weekend and don’t know what to do with the wood and branches. It’s far too much for our own compost bin, fear for the [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle Stax potato chip cans?
    Tammy Gary has asked: Would love ideas to reuse the Stax potato chip cans. We don’t have Stax over here in the UK but my friend Google tells me they’re like Pringles, but packed in a plastic tube instead of waxed cardboard. Some of the Pringles ideas will still apply: they’re great for storing k ...

Age of Autism

  • An Elaborate Fraud, Part 4: News Analysis -- T ...
    By Mark Blaxill If you go to the web-site of the British Medical Association you will find the BMA’s tag line prominently displayed: “Standing up for doctors.” It’s a position most notable for what they do not stand up for:...
  • Dr. Amy Yasko To Host Autism Treatment Confere ...
    Holistic Health International is proud to host Dr. Amy Yasko’s conference in Los Angeles, CA- October 7-9, 2011. Our conference in Boston last summer was a resounding success for both newcomers and veterans of the protocol. This year we look...
  • Age of Autism Contest from OurKidsASD and Lee ...
    Dog days of summer got you down? How about a very cool contest? Our sponsor Lee Silsby is giving away two bottles of 150 mg 150 capsule ENHANSA Enhanced Absorption Curcumin Supplement plus two containers of ASD Vitamin Mineral SCD...
  • Late Onset Autism and Anti-NMDA Receptor Encep ...
    By Teresa Conrick In Part 1 of our examination of Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, I presented a late-onset case of autism. Similar cases have been shown to be caused by antibodies against NR1–NR2 heteromers of the NMDA receptor. There was really...
  • Farewell to an Honest Scientist and a Good Friend
    Managing Editor's Note: Last week, I spoke at a conference in Cleveland. To my great pleasure, Dr. Derrick Lonsdale of Preventive Medicine Group, who was our first Defeat Autism Now! doctor, was also speaking. Dr. Lonsdale is 87 years old,...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • Genetically engineered maize with synthetic to ...
    This maize was approved for usage in food and feed by the EU Commission on 17th of June. It produces a combination of three different insecticidal toxins, one of which is synthesised artificially. Further, the plants are made tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate (known as Roundup).
  • Smart Meters – You don’t have to get one!
    VIDEO explaining what Smart (Spy) Meters actually do, and how to make sure that you do not get one of these.
  • Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security
    H.R. 1505: Another Federal land grab, with exemptions from environmental regulations, and a few more just for good measure. And just who has the authority over these lands? Why Homeland Security, of course.
  • USDA Attacks Rural America with Smart Meters
    On June 9, 2011, the Obama Administration Established the “White House Rural Council to Strengthen Rural Communities” via Executive Order. “Strengthening Rural Communities” is the spin. The real issue is control. Rural communities are where food is grown, and control of food is a main priority f ...
  • Garden Goose
    We have a goose that lives in our garden. Not just any goose, but a very special goose. His name is Dee Dee Dee, and this is his story.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Cataracts, hips, knees and tonsils: UK’s Natio ...
    The Independent – Two-thirds of health trusts in England are rationing treatments for “non-urgent” conditions as part of the drive to reduce costs in the NHS by £20bn over the next four years. One in three primary-care trusts (PCTs) has expanded the list of procedures it will restrict funding t ...
  • Clashes in Chile
    Reuters – hilean students clash with police in latest in a series of protests over education budgets. Read article
  • Iraq against US presence beyond 2011
    PressTV – Many observers believe that Washington has no intention to leave Iraq as American troops have built several bases in the country. “The US administration has started to seek other places for its troops but they will find no other place safer than Iraq. Therefore they are putting pressur ...
  • Human rights groups warn of a severe water cri ...
    FSRN – 95 percent of drinking water fails to meet international standards and water and sanitation plants have yet to rebuilt following the 2009 Israeli war
  • South Korean scientists create glowing dog: report
    Reuters – South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, Yonhap news agency reported. A research team from Seoul National University (SNU) said the genetically ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • California acts to limit pollutant targeted by ...
    The California Environmental Protection Agency has issued the nation’s first public health goal for hexavalent chromium, the cancer-causing heavy metal made infamous after activist Erin Brockovich sued in 1993 to prove it had contaminated groundwater in the Southern California town...
  • Green energy: California poll finds overwhelmi ...
    A new statewide survey of environment issues conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California found more residents favor climate change policy, want to cut greenhouse gas emissions and believe they are already experiencing the effects of global warming. “This...
  • Urban power like rooftop solar dominates Brown ...
    It may not be quite the renewable energy powerhouse that Germany and China are, but California will be well on its way once it speeds up installations of smaller, urban projects, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday. At a UCLA conference...
  • More big Yellowstone fires predicted with clim ...
    Rising temperatures associated with climate change are expected to dramatically increase wildfire in and near Yellowstone National Park, transforming the landscape by 2050.
  • EPA Chief Lisa Jackson speaks at NAACP convent ...
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson spoke to the NAACP National Convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday about the impact of pollution on minority communities, an issue that will be also be explored during a Monday...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • State Representative Responds to Marg Mayers ...
    Arizona State Representative John Kavanagh calls Margaret Mayer irresponsible for comments made on the Fred and Jed Radio Show. Please review her story and his comments and see if you think he was justified. See first comment.Submitted by Jed Lemon to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Israeli Army storms Freedom Theater in Jenin
    Ahmad Nasser Matahen, a night guard and technician student at the theater work up by heavy blocks of stone hurled at the entrance of the theater. As he opened the door he found masked and heavily armed Israeli Special Forces around the theater.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Strenger than Fiction-Israel News - Haaretz Is ...
    The slew of anti-democratic laws introduced by the current Knesset constitutes one of the darkest chapters in Israeli history.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel sues 34 Bedouin for costs of repeated d ...
    Unprecedented law suit seeks NIS 1.8 million in damages from Negev Bedouin; Israel Lands Administration says defendants built homes on land belonging to the state. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • New York mayor officiates Jewish gay marriage ...
    Michael Bloomberg weds Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz and Criminal Justice Coordinator John Feinblatt after New York legalizes same sex marriage.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • UN Continues Effort to Help People of Pakistan ...
    The lives of millions of people were changed in a matter of days and there were numerous challenges for those who survived the disaster, including loss of shelter, crops and livelihoods. UN agencies and their partners provided emergency aid in the a
  • Florida Grass-Roots Coalition Holds Rally Urgi ...
    According to organizers, the objective of the rally is not to protest, but rather to encourage sheriffs to uphold the Fourth Amendment, as well as Florida statutes on molestation, as they apply to TSA employees. The rally will be held on Sunday, Jul
  • US and Russia Exchange 1,000 Notifications in ...
    She highlighted that two years ago in President Obama's speech in Prague, he affirmed the commitment of the United States 'to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons' and laid out a plan of action for near term practical st
  • American Art Museums Offer 'Yoga With The Masters'
    Welcoming the America's museums' move to offer yoga classes, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed said although introduced and nourished by Hinduism, yoga is a world heritage and liberation powerhouse to be utilized by all. Zed urged other museums around the
  • Church World Service Steps Up Response to East ...
    This year marks the driest period in the Eastern Horn of Africa region since 1995, with the lowest level of rainfall in more than 50 years and more than 10 million people in some way affected by the growing crisis.

Worldnews

  • Michel Bastos focussed on Lyon but leaves ...
    Brazilian winger is trying to keep an open mind over his next move after being strongly linked with Juventus this summer By Salvatore Landolina Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Juventus, O. Lyon, Michel Fernandes Bastos Getty Images Lyon's Michel...
  • Javier Pastore set for Paris Saint-Germai ...
    The Argentine's transfer is just minutes away from happening, according the Sicilian club's director, with PSG now almost certainly the player's next destination By Salvatore Landolina Tweet 6 Comments More On�:�Chelsea, Palermo, Paris Saint-Germain, Javier Pastore Getty Images Palermo...
  • New Manchester City signing Sergio Aguero ...
    Twenty-three-year-old Argentine forward set to take part in Roberto Mancini's pre-season preparations in the Republic of Ireland By Chris Davie Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Man City, Kun Agüero Getty Images Manchester City's latest signing Sergio Aguero will be officially unveiled on Friday e ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Cesc Fabregas omitted from ...
    Arsene Wenger has not selected his captain for the weekend's friendly tournament, citing the midfielder's injury and current "situation", which the Frenchman wants resolved Tweet 6 Comments More On�:�Arsenal, Barcelona...
  • 'Unsettled' Fabregas out of Emirates Cup
    Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas will take no part in the Emirates Cup this weekend, manager Arsene Wenger confirmed this afternoon. Barcelona are looking to bring the World Cup winner back to the Nou Camp, but Arsenal remain determined to hold out for a £40million fee. Fabregas has not featur ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • [Series] The future of immunisation policy, im ...
    SummaryVaccines have already saved many lives and they have the potential to save many more as increasingly elaborate technologies deliver new and effective vaccines against both infectious diseases—for which there are currently no effective licensed vaccines—such as malaria, tuberculosis, and H ...
  • [Articles] Co-stimulation modulation with abat ...
    SummaryBackgroundThe immunopathogenesis of type 1 diabetes mellitus is associated with T-cell autoimmunity. To be fully active, immune T cells need a co-stimulatory signal in addition to the main antigen-driven signal. Abatacept modulates co-stimulation and prevents full T-cell activation. We ev ...
  • [Comment] New hope for immune intervention the ...
    In the wake of disappointing results from the first phase 3 immune intervention trials in type 1 diabetes mellitus, a report by Tihamer Orban and colleagues in The Lancet could provide a much desired glimmer of hope that the course of disease progression can be altered by immunotherapy after all ...
  • [Comment] Salt reduction lowers cardiovascular ...
    A recent Cochrane Review by Rod Taylor and colleagues, published simultaneously in The Cochrane Library and the American Journal of Hypertension, stated in the plain language summary that “Cutting down on the amount of salt has no clear benefits in terms of likelihood of dying or experiencing ca ...
  • Olympics first on drug passports
    The 2012 Olympics will be the first summer games to use "biological passports" to try to stop drug cheats

Common Dreams

  • EPA Proposes New Rules on Emissions Released b ...
    Prohibited from regulating hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act, yesterday the EPA took to the air, proposing federal regulations to reduce smog-forming pollutants released by the fast-spreading approach to gas drilling. ...
  • Norway Prime Minister Urges Nation to 'Embrace ...
    The Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has told a remembrance service for the 76 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik that his country had been "struck by evil", but urged his countrymen to respond by embracing democracy and freedom. Speaking as the first funerals were held for victi ...
  • Safety of Tar Sands Pipelines Has Not Been Stu ...
    The agency that would be responsible for oversight of the Keystone XL pipeline has not studied the safety measures necessary for a pipeline that carries tar sands crude. The U.S. State Dept. is in charge of deciding whether to issue a permit for the proposed TransCanada pipeline because it would ...
  • Tens of Thousands Rally for 'Unity' in Egypt
    Tens of thousands of people have packed Cairo's Tahrir Square on a day that representatives from Egypt's political parties have dubbed "The Friday of Unity and the People's Will". The rally comes as part of efforts by political parties to show a united front and the country's political forces re ...
  • Tens of Thousands Rally for 'Unity' in Egypt
    Tens of thousands of people have packed Cairo's Tahrir Square on a day that representatives from Egypt's political parties have dubbed "The Friday of Unity and the People's Will". The rally comes as part of efforts by political parties to show a united front and the country's political forces re ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

  • Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
    President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.
  • Solar panel options expand, help cool buildings
    As solar energy continues to expand, and companies such as SunPower announce new leasing options, there's other positive news: rooftop panels can not only help power a home or building, they can also cool it.
  • Eco-friendly cigarette ads make tobacco foes fume
    A green cigarette? Is that possible? A tobacco company that uses renewable energy and hybrid vehicles has a new magazine ad for an additive-free, organic cigarette that uses the term "eco friendly." Tobacco foes are fuming.
  • Gingrich regrets climate change ad with Pelosi
    How times change! In 2006, former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich jointly urged action to address climate change with then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a liberal Democrat from San Francisco. Now, as he launches a 2012 presidential bid, he says he regrets the commercial, paid for by an environment ...
  • Green House takes brief hiatus
    This Green House community will take a hiatus until August, because its moderator, Wendy Koch, is on medical leave. Please check back in a few weeks for environmental news and updates on her journey in green living.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Israeli Home Demolition Terrorism
    by Stephen Lendman Co-founded (with Meir Marglit) and directed by Jeff Halper, the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) "is a non-violent, direct-action organization established in 1998 to resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories." ICAHD also he ...
  • Ahmad Karzai: From Dishwasher to Drug Kingpin
    Eric Walberg Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house, according to Kandahar’s Canadian Governor Tooryali Wesa. He was shot in the head and chest with a AK-47 fired by Sardar Mohammad, a former bod ...
  • Murdoch is Not the Only Maggot in the Rotten Apple
    Stuart Littlewood Having disposed of the Murdoch menace - for the moment anyway - it's time for the British public to turn the spotlight on the other villains our craven politicians pay homage to. Public enemy Number One is the pro-Israel lobby. An organization called the Conservative Friends ...
  • America: Heading for Tyranny and Impoverishment
    by Stephen Lendman It's present, hardening, and threatening to subvert all constitutional and social rights. Among others, three previous articles discussed the danger, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2007/12/police-state-america-look-back-and.html ...
  • Too Good (Sex, Lies and Audiotape Part III)
    by Edgar J. Steele They say that something is too good to be true if it looks much better than one normally would expect in a given situation; if it is not what it appears to be. Too Good There are many things about my recent trial that simply were “too good,” albeit with different twists on ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • A Portrait of Two Activist Women
    WWH – Listen up hippies! You canât glance over an Alice Neel portrait. They scream out to be chewed over. Many exposed to her drawings and paintings think of her hip humanist portraits. The characters found at Warholâsâ factory or the social activists within her world. A stark black and white in ...
  • San Francisco Hippies Lose Grip on Penis Prote ...
    gawker.com – The peen protecting crusaders who brought you the anti-Semitic Aryan comic book hero “Foreskin Man” are on the verge of losing their hard-fought campaign to get an anti-circumcision bill on the city’s November ballot, after San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi yesterday ...
  • No evidence of cancer-9/11 exposure in NY &#82 ...
    WWH. Unless you count the dead and dying! By CRISTIAN SALAZAR – Associated Press Ground zero residents and first responders sick with cancer will continue to be excluded from receiving help from the federal government program created to aid victims of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center terror attac ...
  • Special report: Is Israel Inc. too powerful? & ...
    By Tova Cohen and Ari Rabinovitch | Reuters – It took a two week-long cottage cheese rebellion to get Israelis to question the power of the country’s tycoons. Angry about high prices, consumers boycotted the beloved dairy product last month. As containers of cheese piled up on supermarket shelve ...
  • Heads Up Hippies: Marie Hanson – Last s ...
    Find Marie Hanson – Sadly it has been three weeks since Marie Hanson was last seen, after disapearing from a Rainbow Gathering near Stevenson Washington sometime around the evening of July 6th. Marie never came back to the tent that she shared with her neighbors, leaving her purse, medicine and ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Return of the American Diesel Car
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay is by Paul Nash, a regular reader here at R-Squared. Paul is an Australian who now lives near Vancouver, Canada. He is an environmental engineer who specializes in doing municipal water and energy efficiency projects, and has ha ...
  • PEMEX and the Long Road to Privatization
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ——————————– Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is the state-owned oil company (and natural gas) of México, which since the 90’s has been discussed for privatization like many other state-owned companies in Méx ...
  • The SPR as a National Piggy Bank
    Join the forum discussion on this post I was strongly opposed to the recent decision to release oil from U.S. and international strategic petroleum reserves. I have covered the reasons for my opposition many times, but the single biggest reason I oppose these sorts of releases is that the funda ...
  • Book Review: Energy, Convenient Solutions
    Join the forum discussion on this post I read two books on my recent trip to Europe. The first was Cracking the Carbon Code by Terry Tamminen. l reviewed that book here, and indicated that while I disagree with the notion that we will come up with a viable solution to rising carbon emissions, s ...
  • Renewables 2011 Global Status Report Released
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century has just released their annual Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. I was one of the reviewers of the draft report, and therefore got to read and comment on it prior to publication. The report provi ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Organic Farmers Win Another One: Court Calls P ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled in favor of organic farmers, marking another case where pesticide drift read more
  • Even Tobacco Sellers Want to Be Organic
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—More and more people are coming to understand the importance of choosing organic. read more
  • Americans Ditch Sugary Sodas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A recent survey put out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a decrease in the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in the U.S. read more

big think

  • How Many Swastikas Does a Guy Have to Tattoo o ...
    Here's a strange story: Erica Herrera plans to marry Curtis Allgier, even though he's an incarcerated alleged murderer with white supremacist tattoos all over his face and she's not white. (Full-sized image) Herrera attempts to explain her decision to the Associated Press in terms of kind of . ...
  • Who's Your Octogenarian Role Model?
    80 is the new 40:�With life expectancy and the�retirement age creeping inexorably upward, how are you planning to spend your eighth decade? Starting a new company? Writing your memoirs? Or sitting in a lawn chair, finally reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past?� T. Boone Pickens: More ...
  • Borders, Revisited: Was Their Death Really Ama ...
    My post attributing the death of Borders to Amazon’s sales tax advantage raised some hackles among commenters and fellow bloggers alike. Matthew Nisbet over at Age of Engagement countered that the reasons for Borders’ downfall “go much deeper and broader than simply blaming Amazon.” Book Think . ...
  • Sorry Dr. Phil, We Are Having Sex--And Lots of It!
    There is a new radio ad for the Oprah Winfrey Network’s new show Ask Oprah’s All Stars in which Dr. Phil proclaims “60% of you are not having sex!” Well, that is alarming. Who wants to live in a society where no one is getting laid? But, is this statistic true? And who, in the economic sen ...
  • Will Rupert Murdoch Star as King Lear?
    What's the Latest Development? Rupert Murdoch and his son remain at the center of a journalistic cum political scandal in the U.K. after it was revealed that the British tabloid News of the World, owned by Murdoch's News Corporation, allegedly tapped phones of murder victims and 9/11 families. ...

Information Liberation

  • Former Governor Jesse Ventura: 'We're a fascis ...
    Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura lambasted Friday at a federal court hearing "un-American" security procedures implemented at airports across the nation in 2010. He filed a lawsuit with the Transportation Security Administration in January,...
  • If You Were King: A Parable For How Government ...
    Wouldn't it be great if YOU were in charge of everything? You could fix the world! Maybe. Maybe not....
  • Costumed Assailants Are Never to Blame
    Marco Sauceda of Lufkin, Texas, did nothing wrong to any living soul. Yet the mentally handicapped 30-year-old was pepper-sprayed, shot with a pepper-ball gun, and severely beaten by nine police officers in his own home after they mistook him for a r...
  • SHOCK VIDEO: Police officer threatens conceale ...
    On June 8, 2011 the following unfortunate arrest took place in Canton, OH. Notifying the police when you have a firearm is required by Ohio Law, but when this individual with a thirty-day old license tries to do that he is repeatedly ordered to loo...
  • Caught On Tape: Good Samaritan viciously beate ...
    DENVER -- 34-year-old Mark Ashford never thought being a Good Samaritan could hurt so much. *I just kept yelling and screaming, *Stop, Stop, Stop,* Ashford told FOX31 Denver. *And it never stopped.* The former Denver resident was walking his do...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Is There Really Such A Thing As National Chara ...
    I found myself asking this question after reading GE’s thought-provoking essay in Notting Hill Editions. In it, James contrasts what he sees as different national traits of America with those of his homeland. He finds himself concluding that the positives … Continue reading →
  • Right-Wing Nut Cases Are Every Bit As Reprehen ...
    I’ve said before many times on this blog, the left-right divide is a fiction. The real differentiation in politics is between Libertarianism and Totalitarianism. Left-wingers and right-wingers merely squabble over what freedoms they choose to repress first: economic or personal. … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge
    A few thoughts while I’m still working on my next main article. You’ve heard me mentioning in the last thread the tenuous situation currently existing on the Australian parliament’s Lower House, the House of Representatives. Of the 150 seats, Labor … Continue reading →
  • MSM – A Monoculture
    Just a quick post today, as we’re all still recuperating from the ‘flu down here. I guess we can’t ignore the goings on in the British media; James is on the case, so I thought I’d give you all a … Continue reading →
  • Style Versus Substance
    In May this year, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Corporation created space travel history by achieving the first “feathered” re-entry of its experimental craft, SpaceShipTwo. Oversize stabilizers mounted on the wingtips rotated upwards by 65°, giving the craft the geometry … Continue rea ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Headless zombie squid and dead frogs dancing
    It is possible to re-animate dead appendages with a little salt, either table salt or in solution form as soy sauce. Be warned, this may put you off your breakfast. In the first video (which seems to have first appeared on the web a couple of years ago but a variant of which went viral [...]Head ...
  • Wear sunscreen
    Remember that speech that led to that Baz Luhrmann hit, “Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen“? It was good advice and still is. Here, my friend Kat Arney, blogger, broadcaster, cancer expert and harpist, explains the ins and outs of sun protection. It perhaps should also be mentioned that you can ...
  • Higgs glimpse?
    Higgs glimpse? – Lots of hype going on around the possibility of having spotted a glimpse of the Higgs boson that, in theory, endows matter with mass. Of course, despite the press conferences and hype, the physicists are still stressing that it is far too early to know whether the signals they h ...
  • Rosalind Franklin Google Doodle
    Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British X-ray crystallographer who made pioneering contributions to the understanding of the detailed molecular structures of the genetic code with her data from DNA and RNA as well as viruses, coal and graphite. She died prematurely a ...
  • Periodic table of rock and metal
    What if the whole of the Periodic Table were all rocks and metal? And what if it were created in 1987 by Jesus, he of the Roadside as a tribute to Guns ‘n Roses? It is obviously a concept whose time has come, because there are several others around that attempt to knock out the [...]Periodic tab ...

RFF Library

  • Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Fu ...
    US DOE, Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/brc_draft_report_29jul2011_0.pdf [Global Security Newswire]  The United States should designate one or more long-term atomic waste storage locations to replace canceled plans for an underground repos ...
  • EPA Proposes Air Pollution Standards for Oil a ...
    US EPA http://epa.gov/airquality/oilandgas/ [From Press Release]  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed standards to reduce harmful air pollution from oil and gas drilling operations. These proposed updated standards – which are being issued in response to a court order ...
  • Self-Reported Cancer Rates in Two Rural Areas ...
    Journal of Community Health via Mother Jones (Published online July 24, 2011; doi 10.1007/s10900-011-9448-5) / by Michael Hendryx, Leah Wolfe, Juhua Luo and Bo Webb https://motherjones.com/files/final_jch_cancer_2011.pdf [Abstract] Mountaintop coal mining in the Appalachian region in the United ...
  • Summary and Critique of the Benefits Estimates ...
    National Economic Research Associates for the American Petroleum Institute / by Anne E. Smith http://www.nera.com/67_7390.htm [Abstract] In this report prepared for the American Petroleum Institute, NERA Senior Vice President Dr. Anne E. Smith argues that statements made by the the US Environmen ...
  • Great Lakes National Parks in Peril: The Threa ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council | Rocky Mountain Climate Organization www.rockymountainclimate.org/images/GreatLakesParksInPeril.pdf [From an NRDC Switchboard posting by Theo Spencer] Our report, Great Lakes National Parks in Peril: The Threats of Climate Disruption, features new information o ...

Scientific American - News

  • Presidential Commission Seeks Volunteers to St ...
    Nestled more than half a kilometer deep in a salt mine, the plutonium slowly decays, taking some 250,000 years to become uranium. As the U.S. debates what to do with the nuclear waste produced by its fleet of 104 reactors, the radioactive legacy of decades of nuclear bomb-making sits entombed ...
  • Space Station Puts Out Welcome Mat for Private ...
    MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Despite the grounding of NASA's storied space shuttle fleet, American spaceships are expected to make three trips to the International Space Station in the coming months. [More]
  • Gout on the Rise as Americans Gain Weight
    The "disease of kings" has now reached the masses. In the past half century the prevalence of gout in the general U.S. population has more than doubled. Once thought of only for the privileged few who had the means to overindulge in food and drink, gout now afflicts more than eight million Ame ...
  • Sound Tracking: Harmonics Enable Bat to Focus ...
    After an echolocating bat locks on to an insect with its sonar beam, it can keep track of its prey despite receiving a slew of echoes from other objects--leaves, vines and so on. How does it separate echoes bouncing off its target from echoes bouncing off the surrounding clutter, especially when ...
  • First Asteroid Companion of Earth Discovered a ...
    The first in a long-sought type of asteroid companion to Earth has now been discovered, a space rock that always dances in front of the planet along its orbital path, just beyond its reach.The asteroid, called 2010 TK7, is nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters) across and currently leading the Earth by ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Victories over Ontario and BC Highways
    Fights Continue in Montreal and Vancouver This week the government of Ontario cancelled the controversial $6 billion Niagara to Toronto freeway. A broad coalition of groups vigorously opposed the highway across the Niagara escarpment, and ...
  • Tree-Sit Halting Blasting on Coal River Mounta ...
    Sitters Call for End of Strip Mining in Coal River Watershed Marfork, W.Va. – Catherine-Ann MacDougal and Becks Kolins, two protesters associated with the RAMPS Campaign, continue to occupy trees on the Bee Tree surface mine, where they ha ...
  • Why not write for The Dominion this month?
    Hello to all our members, As we do every month, in August we will pay two contributors for news features to be published in *The Dominion*. We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, including photo essays and video pitches. Pitches are welcome from anyone; priority for ...
  • Off the Hour: California Hunger Strike Solidarity
    July 16th Solidarity Demonstration in Montreal Coverage of the July 16th Solidarity Demonstration with California Prisoner's on Indefinite Hunger Strike. As of July 1st, Prisoner's in the Pelican Bay Supermaximum prison have been on hunger ...
  • Toronto Pig Save releases graphic footage of " ...
    Toronto Pig Save is releasing footage of activists taking temperatures with a digital thermometer inside pig transport trucks stopping at the long lights at Lakeshore and ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • From Utoya Island to Capitol Hill
    David Seaton's News LinksDefinition of DECLASSTransitive verb: to remove from a class; especially to assign to a lower social status It is ridiculed by poets and libertines; idolized by moralists; the target of speeches by politicians, popes and all others who climb into the pulpit to recruit vo ...
  • Norway: a taste of the magma
    David Seaton's News LinksMagma (from Greek μάγμα "paste") is a mixture of molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and may also exist on other terrestrial planets. Wikipedia The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 7 ...
  • A tribute to Amy Winehouse
    This is a reprint of something I wrote in July of 2008: I admit that I had thought that Amy Winehouse was just another one of the media grotesques, a sort of Paris Hilton with a beat. I thought that her big hit "Rehab" was a catchy update of the Stax/Atlantic sound, sung in blackface. I sa ...
  • Somalia Famine
    David Seaton's News Links According to the UN, more than six out of every 10,000 people are dying of hunger every day in some parts of the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, with more than half the children there suffering from acute malnutrition. This is far above the normal fami ...
  • The Murdoch Turkey Shoot
    David Seaton's News Links (Britain's politicians) had been pushed into taking a stand by the overwhelming public revulsion that greeted the discovery that the mobile telephone of Milly Dowler, the murdered Surrey schoolgirl, had been hacked. Even so, it was a dramatic show of political will. �T ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Can Vitamin D3 in Combination with This Spice ...
    Patients with Alzheimer's disease tend to suffer from brain amyloidosis, a condition related to defective clearance of amyloid-beta in their brains by their innate immune system. In order to improve the innate immune system of Alzheimer's patients, researchers looked at the immune stimulation e ...
  • To Shed Pounds, You MUST Eliminate This from W ...
    To be thin, you need to make smart food choices, watch your portion sizes and stay active. Yahoo Shine has made a list of nutritious, wholesome foods that can help keep you slender. Here are some of them: Apples: Apples are a good source of dietary fiber, which contributes to a healthy digestiv ...
  • Worries About New Gonorrhea Superbug
    U.S. government health officials have warned that the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to the last type of antibiotics left to treat it. Strains of the disease that are resistant to the class of antibiotic drugs called cephalosporins have appeared in sev ...
  • Michigan Woman Faced 93 Days in Jail for Plant ...
    Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan�was faced with a possible�93 days in jail after being charged with a misdemeanor -- planting a vegetable garden in her own front yard. The garden consists of 5 raised beds, where she grows squash, corn, tomatoes, flowers, and other vegetables. Bass received a wa ...
  • The Soap You Should Never Use - But 75% of Hou ...
    The main compounds in antibiotic wipes, creams and soaps -- triclosan and triclocarban -- have been added to chopping boards, refrigerators, plastic lunchboxes, and mattresses in an attempt to halt the spread of microbes. But studies show that these antibiotic chemicals are no more likely than ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Griff Rhys Jones models for Survival
    Griff Rhys Jones modelling Jimmy Pike T-shirt for Survival © Survival Comedian, actor, presenter and author Griff Rhys Jones models Survival’s new T-shirt by internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike, saying, ‘I am delighted to support Survival and their urgent work for threat ...
  • Malaysia’s King at eco awards as Sarawak’s for ...
    Deforestation caused by loggers in a Penan region in Borneo, Malaysia. © Andy and Nick Rain/Survival The King of Malaysia and HRH the Prince of Wales attended a reception in London yesterday on behalf of The Earth Awards. The event was hosted in partnership with START, an initiative of the ...
  • Progress Can Kill – Peru’s new government warned
    Survival's 'Progress Can Kill' highlights the dangers of forcing 'development' on tribal peoples. © Survival Peruâs new government will take office today having received a stark warning of the imminent dangers faced by its countryâs indigenous population. Survival has sent copies of two ...
  • Brazil to ‘do to Indians what Australia did to ...
    A Kayapó indigenous man. The Kayapó tribe is one of many whose livelihoods will be devastated by the Belo Monte dam. © Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch A Brazilian government official has suggested that Brazil will treat its indigenous peoples like Australia treated the Aboriginals. Curt Tren ...
  • Vedanta: time to give up on Niyamgiri mine
    Vedanta's AGMs have seen numerous protests against the planned bauxite mine. © Survival FTSE100 company Vedanta Resources will face vocal protests tomorrow from Survival and other groups telling the company to give up on their notorious Niyamgiri mine in Orissa, India. Vedanta was denied ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • 7/28 binge & purge: land grab, evil ingredient ...
    japan asks: where's the nuclear beef?* japan's food-chain threat multiplies as radiation spreads* feds to grab land for homeland security forces* who put mcdonald's in charge of kids' health?* ranks of hungry children swell, worrying doctors* what's really in the food? the a to ...
  • bad food? tax it, and subsidize vegetables
    from nytimes: What will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits? The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the Standard American Diet. (Yes, it’s SAD.) Though experts increasingly recommend a diet high in plants and low i ...
  • 7/21 binge & purge: famine, drought & censored ...
    Coming in 2012: Genetically modified front lawns and the mass spraying of neighborhoods and playgrounds with RoundUp* Drought of 2011: Southern US Desperate For Rain As Middle America Continues To Get Scorched* UN declares two areas of Somalia to be in famine, ugres action* Why is Miche ...
  • 'my dog eats better than i do': pets join in o ...
    from latimes: When Gabriel, a 10-year-old rescue cat from Chinatown, tucks into his morning meal, you won't see any Friskies or Meow Mix in his bowl. Ahi tuna and duck are more the ticket. "I think there's more than enough pesticides and chemicals and that kind of stuff in human food," says Gabr ...
  • 7/14 binge & purge: gardens, floodgates & play ...
    record 1 in 6 now on food stamps as depression escalates* 12 signs that the world is running out of food* police state in action: woman faces 93 days in jail for planting vegetables in her front yard* bureaucrats in michigan threaten woman with jail time for vegetable garden* food fi ...

CrusadeWatch

  • 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 bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
    Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
  • Broke! 10 Facts About The Financial Condition ...
    The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families.  For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition.  Today, over half of all American families live paycheck to paycheck.  Unemployment is rampant and those th ...
  • Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
    The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse.  A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America.  During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs ...
  • Madness: 39 Things That Are Driving Ordinary A ...
    Have you noticed that almost everyone seems really angry these days?  Frustration with the government and with most of the other major institutions in our society seems to grow by the day.  According to a brand new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 80 percent of Americans say that ...
  • Drought Of 2011: The Southern United States Is ...
    2011 sure has been a wild year for America so far.  First we had unprecedented tornado outbreaks, then we had horrific flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, then we had record setting wildfires and now we are facing a crippling drought all over the southern United ...

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The Talking Clock

  • Slovakian People: We're not keen on this EU sh ...
    No need for us to comment, is there? None of us want you, European Empire. Not we the people, anyway. RT can be found on Sky Channel 512. Note that the EU-collaborative BBC won't tell you any of this. From the UK? Oppose the great EU? Racist! Xenophobe! (according to the BBC/Guardian set ...
  • Ron Paul 2012... if the USA has any sense.
    What the world needs now is... Ron Paul. Don't you wish we had someone like that in Downing Street..? Or even in the House of Commons..? Indeed, back at home, the awful bank that is Lloyds TSB - the one with vast billions of our taxpayer money - has been busy writing to all its customers a ...
  • Reboot Warning: The Burning Times (2011 Edition)
    Preface: This British history prelude does have a current political relevance - do stick with it and read the prelude. - On the Summer Solstice every year, hundreds of people - including one or two bona fide druids - descend on Stonehenge in Wiltshire to see the solstice sunrise. The hi ...
  • Anyone remember, we did actually have a Genera ...
    Cast your mind back, if you will to Thursday 6th May 2010. It was not so very long ago. On that day, the British people went with hope to their Polling Stations with hope of a new direction for the country after thirteen years of bad management of UK plc by the Labour Party - an odious, total ...
  • Dear Brussels, we want our country back. Love ...
    The people of Spain - who have, alongside the Greeks, provided a masterclass in political demonstrations (though with far less tear gas and violence than the Greeks have had to suffer) - are not giving up. Not content with the occupation of Puerta del Sol in Madrid and city squares throughout ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Hope in Mississippi
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A hardened, intransigent right-wing has taken over the Republican Party and proved its willingness to take the nation to the economic brink to protect its well-heeled financial backers. Legislators have targeted government workers and immigrants as the source of th ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The apartheid of wealth
    Percent by which the net worth of white U.S. households fell from 2005 to 2009: 16 Of black households: 53 Of Hispanic households: 66 Number of times by which the median wealth of white households now surpasses that of Hispanic households: 18 Of black households: 20 Amount of weal ...
  • Lessons of Tennessee coal ash disaster lost in ...
    An Inspector General's review done in response to the 2008 coal ash disaster at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee has turned up widespread groundwater contamination from coal ash disposal sites at the company's power plants around the South, with some of the po ...
  • VOICES: 'This is what hope looks like'
    As a West Virginia native whose family battled coal companies, Tim DeChristopher understands the perils of life in a resource extraction colony. His experience led him to become an environmental activist who was arrested in 2008 for disrupting a federal government auction of oil and gas leases b ...
  • Is Rick Perry getting cold feet over The Response?
    By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer You've gotta wonder if Rick Perry may come to regret "initiating" The Response, his Christians-only prayer rally. As I documented in a cover story for the Observer, Perry has thrown in with a strange band of fundamentalists from the bleeding edge of American C ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group 93 Dead in Twin Attacks in Norway; Suspect to Appear in Court The suspect accused of killing 93 people in twin terror attacks in Norway on Friday is due in an Oslo courtroom Monday, … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Humble Indie Bundle 3 is Here, Pay What You Wa ...
    Humble Indie Bundle 3 is here folks! Grab your copy of 5 really good, cross platform, DRM free, Indie games at the price you decide! If initial statistics are any indication,�Humble Indie Bundle 3 is going to be an even bigger success.� Humble Indie Bundle 3 Video Intro Buy Humble I ...
  • Chromium Browser Causing Significant Increase ...
    I recently noticed a strange bug while using Chromium web browser in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal powered laptops and netbooks(Intel platform). There is an immediate spike in power usage whenever Chromium is running. Chromium Browser Causing Increase in Laptop Power Usage The way I found th ...
  • Most Interesting Video on Google+ I Have Seen ...
    Google+ is Google's latest venture into social networking space. You all know that already. But what does it really do differently when compared to Facebook? Well, the video below is probably the simplest answer to that. Watch and enjoy. What is Google Plus? Sounds very�interesting� ...
  • Joli OS Review: Is it the Best OS Available fo ...
    Joli OS 1.2 is a very interesting project. It is basically an Ubuntu based Linux distro optimized to work in netbooks and other older computer hardware. When you think about it, there is not much choice for netbook users as far as Linux distros are concerned. Joli OS is among the rare few. But i ...
  • Firefox 8 is 20% Faster than Firefox 5, Instal ...
    Firefox 8 recently found its way into the nightly build channel. According to a recent study by extremetech.com, Firefox 8 is already 20% faster than Firefox 5 in almost every metric and has got a drastically reduced memory footprint as well. Key Points of the Study Firefox 8 is 20% faste ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Alex Jones: ‘Anders Behring was Masons’ Patsy’
    Check out the interview with Alex Jones on Anders Behring Breivik as a Masons’ patsy on RT. http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-anders-behring-was-masons-patsy/ Breivik was a freemason belonging to the St Johannes lodge according to some media sources and  he also mentioned terror cells in Aus ...
  • The Federal Reserve Made $16 Trillion In Secre ...
    The American Dream July 25, 2011 A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it.  It turns out that the ...
  • Police Knew Gunman’s Name Before Arrest
    � British news anchor questions how authorities were aware of Breivik�s identity in advance Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, July 25, 2011 Despite being portrayed by the media as inept due to the length of time it took them to reach the island of Utoeya, it has now emerged that police kne ...
  • Evidence Shows Norway Terror Attack a False Flag
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 23, 2011 Prior to the events in Norway, the Department of Homeland Security released a propaganda video characterizing white middle class Americans as terrorists and members of white al-Qaeda, a term designed to conflate the image of the CIA-created Islamic terror gr ...
  • Murdoch’s Vaccine World – James Murdoch ...
    By Catherine J. Frompovich | July 22nd, 2011 | Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Microsoft lays out plans to unleash ‘altered p ...
    You could not make this up.  This is not the business that humanity wants Bill Gates in… by POPEYE Filed under Eugenics (SLASHDOT) In its just-published patent application for Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease, Microsoft lays out plans to unleash âaltered parasitic organismsâ on humans, incl ...
  • One More Lone Gunman who wasn’t Alone
    By Les Visible You would think they would have the numbers straight by now. I keep seeing the number 76 and then I see where it is over a hundred or in the high 90’s. There’s so much being written about it at the moment that you can’t keep up with it and, as the [...]
  • GLADIO 2.0 : WHY THE WEST CAN’T RESIST THE NOR ...
    By Stone Pinkerton Gonzo Town How do you define bizarre in today’s every increasingly wacky world of terrorism? Ever since the Cold War was won and history ended, we have been inundated with a seemingly never ending succession of spectacularly staged terror attacks and carefully crafted psy-ops. ...
  • Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Po ...
    Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) ...
  • Israeli Art Students Lived in World Trade Cent ...
    Four of the so-called “Art Students”- (Mossad Agents) – did an “art installation” IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER in 2001,before the attacks. In a radio interview,Jonathon Brown of “Core of Corruption” fame outlines his evidence and explains how his phone has been tapped since discovering this informa ...

Veterans Today

  • Madsen Cites Mossad in Norway Terror
    Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-plagued News International, The Sun, went to press with the following false headline: “Norway’s 911: ‘Al Qaeda’ Massacre.” On March 29, 2011, Harvard Law School’s extremist Zionist Professor Alan Dershowitz penned a piece in the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, a newsp ...
  • Israeli Commandos Raid “Freedom Theater& ...
    “The coming third Palestinian intifada will take the form of cultural resistance to the Israeli occupation” Juliano Mer Khamis
  • De-Zionification Now
    f we want to save our society from being dragged into a violence with no end, we must de-Zionise every possible aspect of our culture, media and political institutions.
  • Veterans Benefits VS. Entitlements Others Feel Due
    What is the difference between an earned contractual benefit and an "entitlement". We seemed to have lost track.
  • The Military Solution
    As a Rhodesian anti-terrorist in the early ‘70s, I figured that the combination of normal African cruelty with Jewish Communism was the ultimate in political sadism. The atrocities I witnessed were shocking and revolting.

electric politics

  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
  • The Wild Dollar
    Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
  • Göbekli Tepe
    At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
  • The Athenian Zephyr
    Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
  • Forgetting Vietnam
    America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...

PR News

  • Waggener Edstrom to part ways with BMC Software
    HOUSTON: Waggener Edstrom will not re-pitch the BMC Software account when its five-year global AOR contract comes to an end in October.
  • Old Spice says Fabio campaign hit high marks
    CINCINNATI: Despite skepticism from various media sources, Procter & Gamble's Old Spice insists the "Mano a Mano in El Baño" campaign is a success, and it has the numbers to back it up.
  • Fiat-Chrysler's restructure leaves comms unaff ...
    AUBURN HILLS, MI: Fiat has developed a group executive council as part of the company's merger with Chrysler, and while management will be reorganized, communications will be left unchanged.
  • PepsiCo ramps up digital efforts at BlogHer
    PURCHASE, NY: PepsiCo will be attending the BlogHer conference in San Diego for the third time in August, and this year, the company will offer more digital and traditional initiatives than ever before.
  • Tourism PR heats up this summer
    International tourism boards are hiring PR agencies at a rapid pace this summer to better appeal to US travelers, particularly in countries facing perception problems.

The Story Behind the Story

  • Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
    Who’s Who in the Zoo?   By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?  It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]
  • QUOTE OF THE DECADE!!
    The Quote of the Decade âThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to [...]
  • TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
    This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic.  It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.   It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
  • AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
      House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon.  GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!!  Never forget the ...
  • Edgar Steele Story PART II
    Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...

k2p blog

  • Another plagiarist politician is now appointed ...
    In Turkey a plagiarist - Ömer Dinçer - has been appointed Minister of Education !!
  • Seeking notoriety Paul Ray would now like to h ...
    Probably seeking all the notoriety he can get Paul Ray of the EDL has now admitted that he was in contact with the killer and concedes to The Telegraph that he may may have been the inspiration for Breivik. His incoherent ramblings would indicate that he is little more than a two-bit, publicity- ...
  • The victims of Oslo and Utøya: RIP
    The torrent of words about Anders Behring Brevik is as nothing compared to the reality of the lives he snuffed out.I found this montage of some of his victims unbelievably moving and more telling then many million words.
  • Rebekah Brooks and NoW – another new low
    Rebekah Brooks gave Sara Payne, the mother of murdered 8-year-old Sarah, a phone and then hacked it.
  • Al Gore’s polar bear scientist suspended ...
    A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct,
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