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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, August 18, 2011

18 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Military has incentive to move away from oil
CNN
This statistic, derived from an Army study looking at fuel convoys in Iraq from 2003 to 2007, is a powerful incentive for the military to move away from oil and toward renewable energy, and that's exactly what it's doing. Among the many incentives ...
Consumers Energy expands program to buy back solar power
The Detroit News
Consumers Energy is rolling out another round of its popular program to buy renewable energy generated by solar systems owned by its customers, the Jackson-based company said Tuesday. The utility's Experimental Advanced Renewable Program has added 2 ...
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Landfill installs renewable energy
Appleton Post Crescent
A plant installed on site will produce renewable energy from the waste, Veolia Energy North America announced Tuesday. The facility, known as the gas-to-energy project, had been under construction since December 2010. It will remove all waste and ...
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Vilsack hears from farmers
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
PEOSTA, Iowa -- Sixteen people took part in the session called "Promoting Agricultural Innovation and Renewable Energy Jobs in Rural Communities," led by Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who kicked it off by saying he wanted to ...
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Human Habitat

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Zebra Finch Bro-mance Trumps Mating
Discovery News
But a study published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology found that male birds raised together form bonds with each other that are just as strong. Sixteen male finches were raised to adulthood together. Upon reaching maturity, the males ...
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Time for new strategy to save mammals, say biologists
DAWN.com
The Handout photo released on August 16, 2011 by the Wildlife Conversation Society and taken as part of the first Global Camera Trap Mammal study done by The Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM), shows Gorilla Beringei Beringei ...
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Business Ecology Webinar: Formal Business Architecture
Sacramento Bee
By Business Ecology Initiative NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug. 15, 2011 -- Presented by Theodore Kahn, Independent Systems and Business Architect, formally a Systems Engineer working on NASA's Constellation Program NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug. ...
GEC Announces $1.5 Million Funding for Company Projects
MarketWatch (press release)
MONTCLAIR, NJ, Aug 16, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Global Ecology Corporation (GEC), (otcqb:GLEC) announced today that it has received an initial draw as part of a $1500000 funding from an investment partnership that will enable the company to ...
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Chlorine Surge at California Water Park Leaves 20 People Sick
Fox News
An investigation was underway Tuesday after 20 people at a water park in Sacramento, Calif., needed hospital treatment for overexposure to chlorine. The incident occurred at the Raging Waters park Monday afternoon when the water in the wave pool ...
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Philadelphia Airport Warned of Water Violations
Wall Street Journal
By PETER LOFTUS PHILADELPHIA—The US Food and Drug Administration has said Philadelphia International Airport violated regulations aimed at ensuring clean water is used on aircraft. In an Aug. 9 warning letter, the FDA said the airport wasn't doing ...
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Stakes high as water levels fall in the Houston area
Your Houston News
With little rain, the water level of Lake Houston is more than 7 feet less than it was this time last year. Duck decoys sit on the dried and cracked bottom of a pond adjacent to the the 18th green at Pasadena Municipal Golf Course. ...
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GreenHunter Water Announces Second Water Service Property Acquisition
MarketWatch (press release)
/quotes/zigman/495610/quotes/nls/grh GRH +3.20% , a diversified renewable energy company predominately focused on water resource management in the unconventional resource plays, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GreenHunter Water, ...
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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • IRAN AND THE BOMB
    Summary: NatanzIs Iran actively trying to develop nuclear weapons? Members of the Obama Administration often talk as if this were a foregone conclusion, as did their predecessors under George W. Bush. There is a large body of evidence, however, including some of America’s most highly classif ...
  • Tell the U.S. Government to Say NO to Mujahedin
    Summary: Rajavi and SaddamSometime in August, Secretary Clinton will decide whether to keep the Mujahedin-e Khalq on the US’s terrorist list. This is a decision that will have significant implications for the Iranian-American community, the United States and the people of Iran. source: NIA ...
  • An Iranian Cult and Its American Friends
    Summary: Recent history has shown that the United States often ends up misguidedly supporting not only the wrong exile groups in the Middle East, but the least relevant ones. We cannot afford to be so naïve or misguided again. source: New York Timesread more
  • CAN REP. RON PAUL INFLUENCE AMERICA’S IRAN DEBATE?
    Summary: Ron PaulDr. Paul does not miss a beat, pointing out that “the Senator is wrong on his history. We’ve been at war in Iran for a lot longer than ’79. We started it in 1953 when we sent in a coup, installed the Shah, and the reaction—the blowback—came in 1979. It’s been going on and ...
  • Former CIA officer slams US policy on MEK
    Summary: GiraldiFormer CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the MEK’s rightful place on the State Department’s (admittedly flawed and politicized) terrorism list; why a lack of determined opposition (unlike to, say, Jonathan Pollard’s pardon) will probably get the MEK what it wants; why Amer ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Mystery Monster Blobs of the Universe --Powere ...
    Observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope have shed light on the power source of a rare vast cloud of glowing gas in the early Universe. The observations show for the first time that this giant "Lyman-alpha blob" -- one of...
  • NASA Global Science Team to Replicate Saltwate ...
    Three years after beads of liquid brine were first photographed on one of the Mars Phoenix lander's legs, NASA has launched a global research team led by the University of Michigan to answer questions such as how common are droplets...
  • The Billion-Year-Old Paleo-Lakes of Mars (What ...
    Early reports of Red planet irrigation canals might have been greatly overstated, created by optical illusions and an intense desire for neighbors, but we're working with much better equipment and we can now absolutely say that Mars had water. Loads...
  • Image of the Day: Emerging Supernova --A Red G ...
    The Hubble Space Telescope's image of the Crescent Nebula revealed that the shell of matter surrounding the aging star HD 192163, is a network of filaments and dense knots, all enshrouded in a thin "skin" of gas [seen above in...
  • Is CERN Close to the "Page One" Story of the C ...
    “It is truly amazing to be looking, albeit on a microscopic scale, at the conditions and state of matter that existed at the dawn of time.” Guido Tonelli -CERN's CMS Experiment Could new data from CERN's LHC hint at the...

Natural News

  • Calendar of upcoming events: Heirloom seed exp ...
    (NaturalNews) Here's a short list of some upcoming events that you may find quite fascinating. Some are local events (USA) and others are available streamed online (anywhere in the world).Thank you to our Facebook fans who helped us assemble this list! (www.Facebook.com/HealthRanger)Upcoming eve ...
  • Obama tells farmer no need to worry about gove ...
    (NaturalNews) During a town hall meeting yesterday, when an Illinois farmer told President Obama he was concerned about upcoming regulations regarding the Food Safety Modernization Act and would rather be farming than "filling out forms and permits," Obama had choice words to offer in reply: "Do ...
  • FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg pushing to e ...
    (NaturalNews) At a time when drug industry corruption is reaching a pinnacle of public exposure, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is actually proposing eliminating one of the few pseudo-effective measures in place that restricts the agency from becoming a full-blown Big Pharma "rubber s ...
  • Things the government approves that are more d ...
    (NaturalNews) Among all the raw milk madness happening right now, NaturalNews recently covered the biased information coming from government sources and how it makes dispelling the myths and regulations surrounding raw milk difficult.The government's continual condemnation of raw milk's safety a ...
  • Amazing Food Facts: Red grapes produce resvera ...
    (NaturalNews) You may have heard of resveratrol, a miracle antioxidant found in grape skins (and many other foods) that's linked to a lower risk of heart disease and enhanced longevity. Unlike other antioxidants such as anthocyanins, which give blueberries their color and are an integral part of ...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Expose San Francisco Subway Police Data
    No one is claiming immediate responsibility for Wednesday's hacking of the BART Police Officers Association's website and publicizing personal information of union members who patrol the San Francisco region's subway.
  • IT Administrator’s Hacking Spree Foiled by $5 ...
    An information-technology administrator has pleaded guilty to crippling his former employer’s network after FBI agents traced the attack to the Wi-Fi network at a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia. The administrator was caught after he used his credit card to make a $5 purchase at the restaurant ...
  • San Francisco Subway Spokesman Says Cellphone ...
    The San Franciso subway’s chief spokesman was the brainchild behind Thursday “gut wrenching” decision to shutter mobile-internet and phone service to quell a planned protest, the spokesman, Linton Johnson, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. His idea, which was approved by the agency’s lawye ...
  • Book Excerpt: Ghost in the Wires — My Adventur ...
    In his newly published autobiography, America’s most famous ex-hacker, Kevin Mitnick, tells his own story for the first time. In this excerpt, Mitnick describes his 1992 investigation into the mystery hacker “Eric,” who’d begun pumping him for information. Mitnick’s spy-versus-spy duel with the ...
  • Cellphone Service Stays On During San Francisc ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a 72-hour Twitter and e-mail campaign by members of the online hacker collective Anonymous, a demonstration at a San Francisco subway station drew what appeared to be under a few dozen protesters Monday. Instead, the Civic Center station platform here was riddled mostly ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Conservatives Insist Bush, Not Obama, is Like ...
    At an event in Iowa Monday, President Obama explained that venomous political rhetoric is nothing new in American history, noting "Lincoln -- they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me." Judging by the immediate and furious reaction from the conservative commentariat, right ...
  • For Obama, the Center Doesn't Hold
    With his approval rating at a new low over concerns about the still-ailing economy, President Obama hit the road this week to launch what the AP deemed a "counteroffensive." The only question, to continue the stale military analogy, is whether Obama intends to shore up his center or bolster his ...
  • The Five Jobs Bills Obama Should Send Congress ...
    As the New York Times reported Sunday, within the Obama White House a fierce debate is raging about what to do next about jobs and the economy. But on the same day Americans learned advisers David Plouffe and Bill Daley are pushing President Obama to put forward only proposals which can pass Co ...
  • S&P: Republicans' Toxic Tea Poisoned U.S. Cred ...
    During the just concluded debt ceiling crisis, only one American political party was willing to see the United States default and its economy crippled rather than raise the nation's borrowing limit. That culprit was the Party of Lincoln, whose namesake once explained the Confederacy's threat to ...
  • Iowa Debate Confirms GOP Won't Pay Down the Debt

Blackspot News Feed

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    This EP by Antique Shade is also a free download, if you click through. Good night. homeward sounds EP by antique shade
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    Sean Bonner Officer at roadblock at 20km line, Fukushima
  • The Kaibils
    I had heard the stories about how the Kaibils were made to not only raise a pet dog and then kill it, but also to eat it raw. Really interesting little bit on Al-Jazeera about the Kaibils, Guatemala�s special forces, and the Kaibil Academy that trains them and others.� A place that turns out inc ...
  • flickrgeist 16aug11
    A snapshot of my network: 1. @miranda_july That cat was mega-creepy and hilarious. #ihaveseenthefuture, 2. Ape, Man, Machine, 3. 14:31, 4. A secret location in Japan that will be featured in @milesobrien @NewsHour story I worked with him on, from Japan. Bet you can’t identify…, 5. Shard on shard ...
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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

  • Planet Earth Gets S&P Downgrade due to Unbalan ...
    This is a wonderful spoof post by Chris Mooney that is too good not to share. Hilarious but also too ridiculous how U.S. politicians (ahem, Republicans) are threatening the livability of the world out of greed or pure ignorance. Related posts:Cartoonist Tom Toles Slams Republican Global Warmi ...
  • Can You be an Environmentalist without Eating ...
    Food is something we don't write about a lot here on Planetsave, leaving that more to our sister site Eat Drink Better. But it's a critical part of a green life. Think about how much food you eat and compare that to how many clothes you buy or how many other products you buy.... There's no compa ...
  • #1 Tea Party Citizen Mistake… (+ Top Activism ...
    The Tea Party's got a number of mistakes to its name. And the #1 mistake really depends on who you're talking about when you're talking about the Tea Party -- the citizens or the political leaders. In this case, I'm referring to Tea Party citizens. Related posts:Are Republican Leaders Evil or ...
  • 30 Cute, Awe-Inspiring, Interesting, & Disturb ...
    We've several cute and awe-inspiring animal videos for you this week, as always, but we've also got a handful of interesting and disturbing videos about animal cruelty and endangered species that I think everyone should watch. Check these videos out and the stories underneath them all. Related ...
  • Southern Africa from Space (Photo of the Day)
    This beautiful image shows southern Namibia and northern South Africa on Africa’s lower-west coast thanks to the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite. Related posts:Southern Italian Peninsula by Night from Space {Photo of the Day} Southern American Snow Capped Mountains {Photo of the Day ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • WikiLeaks Reveal: U.S. and UN Supervised Integ ...
    Throughout 2004 and 2005, Haiti’s unelected de facto authorities, working alongside foreign officials, integrated at least 400 ex-army paramilitaries into the country’s police force, secret U.S. Embassy cables reveal.   For a year and a half following the ouster of Haiti’s elect ...
  • Monsanto accused of “biopiracy” by India - Env ...
    New Delhi, Letter – The Indian Biodiversity Authority announced on August 11 it would take legal action against Monsanto for American seeds which have developed a genetically modified eggplant (brinjal) from local variations and without permission. It is the very first time in In ...
  • Britain’s Riots: Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessnes ...
    After a conflagration of arson attacks, riots and looting in several British cities, including the capital, London, there is a sense of order having been restored from a massive mobilisation of police forces. There now follows the tracking down and prosecution of individuals involv ...
  • Chilean Student Movement Leads Uprising For Tr ...
    New America Media By August 13, 2011 Chile is becoming a part of the global movement of youth that is transforming the world bit by bit—the Arab Spring, the sit-ins and demonstrations in the Spanish plazas, and the rebellion of youth in London. Weeks of demonstrations and strikes by Chi ...
  • Clinton’s CIRH Commission Declared a Fraud By ...
    Introduction: Mr. Michel Martelly’s presidency has stalled. The Haitian Senate disqualified first Prime-Minister pick Daniel-Gerard Rouzier because he failed to prove that he is a Haitian citizen.  Second pick Bernard Gousse was rejected even faster because of his horrible human-rights record. M ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Two Nobel Peace Prizes...
    ...versus answering to a possible future indictment at The Hague. Former Missouri State Treasurer (and 2012 republican U.S. Senate candidate) Sarah Steelman, via Twitter: @sarah_steelman Sarah Steelman Heard Obama on bus tour preaching the gospel of big government. Most disconnected President s ...
  • "The Robber Barons are stealing the post offic ...
    The plan by the independent agency that runs the U.S. Postal Service to kill 120,000 jobs and eliminate universal mail service for thousands of rural communities is not a simple cut-costs equation; it's a massive attack on benefits and union rights for millions of public workers. Zandar: ... the ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    @GovernorPerry forgot to mention that part. That Texas Miracle that Rick Perry pretends is all his doin'? Yeah, turns out that most of the jobs are government jobs that are fueled by war spending. Yes. George W. Bush started two wars and wrecked the economy of the nation as a whole, but by golly ...
  • Liberal Victory in New Hampshire
    If the national political landscape looks bleak for liberals, the picture at the local level is far more promising. In conservative New Hampshire, Bob Perry showed how it's done. Carol Shea-Porter at Down with Tyranny: Bob Perry is a well informed activist who always attends political events, re ...
  • GOP Offers Up Another "Made in Texas" Reactionary
    A society ruled by wealthy barons who tower over a pauperized peasant population. What could be better than that? No wonder our Dixie-fied, neo-Confederate Republican Party is now flocking to the presidential standard of Texas Governor Rick Perry. Like most governors who pine to make the big jum ...

Care 2

  • How to make bottle fresh Sweet and Sour Veggies
    this idea came because I don't like only sour pickle...yes, some have sweet pickles for sale but moslty cucumbers instead of other types of veggies and it does not taste fresh. Don't know if the veggies are even cleaned before they process them.Submitted by Agnes N. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note ...
  • Tomato Myths Still Sow Many Seeds Of Confusion
    There's the whole identity crisis thing - is it a fruit or a vegetable? And don't get us started on the tuh-MAY-to, tuh-MAH-to thing. It's enough to drive enyone ba-NAY-nas.Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Ban Bear Bile Farming... TAKE ACTION...
    The bears are drugged, restrained with ropes and (if the operator is unskilled) have their abdomens repeatedly jabbed with four-inch needles until the gall bladder is found Submitted by James Howie to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • INTERNATIONAL PROTEST FOR WILD HORSE MASSACRE ...
    These horses are born in the wild, in the Letea oak forest of the Danube Delta, have no owner and are protected by European Union and international law. Yet, local Tulcea officials have grossly and illegally overstepped their authority in waging a blood Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �No ...
  • Click Daily and Save Dogs from Death Row!!
    Click the banner daily to save dogs from death row. Please bookmark, click, and share for the dogs that will be euthanized without your quick click!!Submitted by Offline N. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama’s Middle East Disaster
    Feckless. Futile. Foolish. Three descriptors that capture the abysmal state of Barack Obama’s misguided, rudderless Middle East policy. While the White House will try to blame Hillary for this mess, the reality is that she is carrying out the policy laid down by the White House. Boy, what a turd ...
  • SEC Attorney Darcy Flynn Blows Whistle on Wall ...
    BOMBSHELL!!! Since early 2009 I have written at length about the regulatory capture that has dominated the financial industry. I have defined this concept in layman’s terms as the Wall Street-Washington incest. Today a close friend and regular reader of Sense on Cents shares a story which blows ...
  • Chicago politics has its mob … so does Texas, ...
    Henry Hill: If you’re part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they’re going to kill you, doesn’t happen that way. There weren’t any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who’ve cared for you all of your life. And th ...
  • Obama’s Economic Nightmare
    Barack Obama’s Mad Max Death Bus tour through the midwest is, as I noted in an earlier piece, a brain dead photo op that highlights his cluelessness about markets and economy. When you are tooling around in three massive fuel consuming buses and a legion of black SUVs you should not begin your s ...
  • Ann Barnhardt’s Crazy SEAL Team Six Conspiracy ...
    Normally I would ignore the rantings of a know nothing like Ann Barnhadt, but her rantings are making the rounds on the internet and a response is warranted. Barnhardt, who writes at http://barnhardt.biz/index.cfm, pushing the fantasy that Bin Laden was already dead and that the May 1, 2011 hit ...

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

  • New Study Examines Risk Factors for PTSD and A ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline People who suffer from PTSD often choose a strategy of avoidance coping (AVC) in order to manage their symptoms. This technique is also found in people who struggle with alcohol use disorders (AUD). “Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use (SUDs) c ...
  • New Study Examines Predictors for Bipolar Prog ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Current research has revealed that approximately 20 percent of children and 6 percent of adults with bipolar II will develop bipolar I in their lifetime. Researchers from Temple University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and North ...
  • Is Therapy More Effective When Your Therapist ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Clients can be resistant to therapy for a number of different reasons. In cognitive behavioral therapy, clients are encouraged to develop a secure and collaborative bond with their therapists. But how much does the therapist’s attitude influence client compliance ...
  • Part II: Should You Attend a Friend’s We ...
    If you remember from last month, Ellen had to decide about attending her friend Robin’s wedding, to be held in a far away resort- it would be a lot of fun, but Ellen didn’t have enough money to go and couldn’t take time off from her new job, either- she was scared she might be [...]
  • Can Entitled Patrons Cause Psychological Damag ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Customers who believe they are entitled to more than they deserve can have a negative physical and psychological impact on the employees who serve them, according to a new study. Glenda M. Fisk and Lukas B. Neville of Queen’s University in Australia, sought to det ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • What is an Eco-Chaplain and Environmentalist? ...
    Your Olive Branch What is an Eco-Chaplain and Environmentalist? Your Olive Branch She is also very involved in saving the mountains of West Virginia from mountaintop removal coal mining. We West Virginia citizens would like to thank Sarah for all she has done and is doing to protect our state. ...
  • Coal-mining documentary set for special Loft s ...
    CleanTechnica Coal-mining documentary set for special Loft screening Arizona Daily Star BRAD DAVIS / AP The coal-mining industry's use of mountaintop removal in Appalachia has sparked a number of protests, including the one above in June near Blair, W.Va. The documentary is about the Coal River ...
  • The Bloomfield Public Square: Dialogue for the ...
    The Bloomfield Public Square: Dialogue for the 21st Century NorthJersey.com There is a very destructive coal mining practice called mountain top removal (MTR). In their greedy search for profits, coal companies in southern states have blown up over 500 mountains during the last 20 years, leavin ...
  • Opinion: Fighting Ecological Injustice From th ...
    Jewish Exponent Opinion: Fighting Ecological Injustice From the Perch of a Tree Jewish Exponent So when I learned that much of Appalachia was paying the true cost of the rest of the country's need for cheap electricity through something called mountaintop removal, I took a break from college an ...
  • Big Coal: Making Mountains Even Better - Clean ...
    CleanTechnica Big Coal: Making Mountains Even Better CleanTechnica Mountaintop removal is destructive to the environment � it ruins the land, the watersheds, pollutes the streams, and kills flora and fauna. It is profitable but incredibly wasteful and harmful way to get a few BTUs. Rather than ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama to issue new proposals on job creation, ...
    Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post: Obama to issue new proposals on job creation, debt reduction  —  ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — President Obama plans to make a major speech in early September laying out new proposals for job creation and taming the federal debt, according to a senior administratio ...
  • APNewsBreak: 2012 dropout Pawlenty a no for Se ...
    Brian Bakst / Associated Press: APNewsBreak: 2012 dropout Pawlenty a no for Senate  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Wednesday definitively ruled out a 2012 campaign for the U.S. Senate after ending his Republican bid for the White House a few days ago.  —  Some R ...
  • Supercommittee runs risk of turf war (The Poli ...
    The Politico: Supercommittee runs risk of turf war  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week called the supercommittee “about as a dumb an idea as Washington has come up with in my lifetime.”  —  “The idea that 523 senators and congressmen are going to sit around for four months while 1 ...
  • Hispanic Democrats Set Sights on New Texas Sea ...
    Ana Campoy / Wall Street Journal: Hispanic Democrats Set Sights on New Texas Seat  —  DALLAS—A newly drawn Central Texas congressional district is creating tensions about who best can serve its mostly Hispanic residents—one of their own, or a long-time congressman who happens to be white.  —  ...
  • Phone hacking: James Murdoch admits 'hush mone ...
    Holly Watt / Telegraph: Phone hacking: James Murdoch admits ‘hush money’ payout  —  James Murdoch has admitted that News International paid “hush money” to a phone hacking victim, despite telling MPs that they didn't try to buy his silence.  —  James Murdoch, the chairman of News International

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • China probes its Africa model (2)
    China can improve its policies on aid and investment in Africa, writes Yi Yimin in the second section of a two-part article. But doing so will require a more open conversation.As outlined in the previous section of this article, Chinese investments in fields such as energy, mining, dam construct ...
  • China probes its Africa model (1)
    As the public turns its attention to Chinese investments in Africa's fossil fuels, mining and dams, some have noticed parallels with environmental and social problems at home, writes Yi Yimin.Chinese investments in Africa are starting to attract more media coverage and public attention in China. ...
  • China in Africa: deepening the debate
    Sam Geall introduces a series of articles that seek to enhance our understanding of environment and development in Africa – and China’s increasingly controversial role on the continent.In late March this year, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a deal with China Development Bank, de ...
  • “Keep it in the ground”
    Environmentalists are urging Barack Obama to refuse permission for a tar-sands-oil pipeline from western Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. North America must not become the new middle east, argues Bill McKibben.The climate problem has moved from the abstract to the very real in the last 18 months. ...
  • Germany’s great gamble
    If politicians in Berlin were as sensitive to economic risks as the dangers of nuclear power, they would abandon their radical energy experiment now, writes industry insider Walter Hohlefelder.In no industrial nation in the world has the peaceful use of nuclear energy been so controversial for s ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • On Arizona’s Frontlines: Mexican America ...
    As Tucson Unified School District students returned to the classroom yesterday, the towering role of one education innovator is being championed by a broad spectrum of local students, parents, teachers, community members and national scholars. Over the past decade, Sean Arce, the esteemed direc ...
  • How 3 Joints and an Ounce of Coke Got an Oklah ...
    Yarbrough's story is exhibit A for the case to rethink life-without-parole laws across the country.
  • How the Political Right Bullied the Department ...
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