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Monday, September 5, 2011

5 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Time to place your bets on fossil fuels versus renewable energy
The Guardian (blog)
If you think that gas, oil and coal prices - including future international carbon taxes - are likely to rise moderately, then investing in renewable energy would be more costly. If you think prices will rise - and they already are - then green energy ...
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Grants for educational institutions to use renewable energy
The Hindu
The Central Government is now offering grants to educational institutions that adopt renewable energy to meet their power requirements. The grants would meet nearly half of the project cost. Several institutions in southern districts of Tamil Nadu have ...
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McPhy's Solid Hydrogen Solution Chosen for Wind/Solar Energy Storage in ...
PR Newswire (press release)
McPhy Energy, a leader in solid hydrogen storage technology, has announced that Nottingham University has chosen the company's solution for mid-term storage of renewable energy in a residential micro-grid under its "Creative Energy Homes" (CEH) project ...
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RWE To Increase Renewable Energy Production In State Of NRW
Fox Business
XE) said Monday it plans to expand its renewable energy division Innogy's production capacity in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia by 200 megawatts to around 300 megawatts by 2014. -RWE said it wants to focus on development in the wind and ...
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Country Ecology Sept. 3, 2011
Conway Daily Sun
Dave Eastman also broadcasts “Country Ecology” four times weekly over WMWV 93.5 fm. As Vice President of the Lakes Region Chapter/ASNH, he welcomes you to monthly programs at the Loon Center in Moultonborough. He is available at: www.countryecology.com ...
Guided tour of river ecology
Wiltshire Gazette and Herald
He spoke about the ecology of the water meadow while Action for the River Kennet volunteer Harry Forbes spoke about the bumblebees that can be found in the field. More than 30 people attended on saturday and enjoyed the walk around the meadow and along ...
Scouts can earn merit badges with Weis Ecology Center programs
Township Journal
For more information or to register, contact the Weis Ecology Center office at 973-835-2160 between 9 am and 4 pm, Wednesday through Sunday. Visit online at www.njaudubon.org/centers/weis. The Weis Ecology Center is one of nine staffed centers operated ...
Mystery of disappearing bird digit solved
Zee News
... even though the first bird digit develops where the index finger on a five-finger vertebrae should be. The authors of the study are Zhe Wang, Rebecca L. Young, Huiling Xue, and Gunter P. Wagner from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
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Libyan official: Water back on in parts of Tripoli
The Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Water started flowing again in several areas of Tripoli on Monday, putting an end to an outage of more than a week that rebels blamed on sabotage by retreating Moammar Gadhafi loyalists. Tripoli's nearly 2 million residents had ...
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Water gun fight in a park? Iran sees dark designs
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is trying to put down a new wave of civil disobedience — flash mobs of young people who break into boisterous fights with water guns in public parks. A group of water fighters was arrested over the weekend, and a top ...
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Louisiana coastal towns struggle with storm flooding
Reuters
Jerry Sneed, deputy mayor of public safety for New Orleans, reported no significant problems on Monday morning, with standing water remaining in only a few areas outside the levee protection system. No deaths were reported from the storm. ...
Water recycling: A primer on gray water systems
MiamiHerald.com
By PHILIP SCHMIDT Residential gray water is all the wastewater from showers, bathtubs, bathroom sinks and clothes washers. It adds up to nearly 50 percent of the average household's water use. And while black water - wastewater from toilets and the ...
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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran fully cooperating, IAEA report says
    Summary: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano's latest report on Iran's nuclear activities shows that Tehran has taken great steps to cooperate with the agency, Press TV reports. source: PressTVread more
  • Chomsky: 'As long they get the backing of dict ...
    Summary: The 19th century ... 2001 ... today. Noam Chomsky sees hegemonic powers showing extreme contempt for democracy – and acting in ways they know will increase terrorism source: The Guardianread more
  • IRAN AND SYRIA: AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST PUNDITS ...
    Summary: For over 30 years, America’s Iran “experts” and Middle East pundits have characterized virtually every significant regional and internal Iranian development as a sure-to-be-fatal blow to the Islamic Republic. Their predictions have always been wrong. Now, unrest in Syria has brough ...
  • Iran dismisses Sarkozy's remarks
    Summary: SalehiIranian foreign ministry's director general for Western Europe affairs says unrealistic remarks on Iran's nuclear program will destabilize region and should be avoided. source: PressTVread more
  • Tunisia: a postmodern revolution
    Summary: The Arab revolts cannot be reduced to ‘bread and butter’ issues. They are also ideational, perhaps utopian in imagining an ideal order that society must strive for. Tunisia has been very successful so far. Egypt is on its way. Saudi Arabia prevented similar movements in the Gulf cou ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Beast" --Does an Undiscovered Quantum Fie ...
    Gravity can induce a runaway effect in quantum fluctuations in apparently empty space, resulting in a increasing concentration of energy that may explode stars or create black holes according to Daniel Vanzella and William Lima at the University of São...
  • "Humans are Designing their Evolution" --Steph ...
    In the past decade, we’ve examined our Solar System’s orbit through the Milky Way to ask whether there may be clues to periodic mass extinctions on our planet. We've launched missions seeking out habitable Alien Earths and the existence of...
  • MIT's Hunt for Extra-Terrestrial Mars' Genomes
    According to many planetary scientists, it's conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If that's the case, an instrument being developed by researchers at MIT and Harvard...
  • Sun's "Great Conveyor Belt" --Does this 40-Yea ...
    A NASA solar physicist is studying the Great Conveyor Belt on the Sun, a 40-year-cycle current of hot plasma, which may control the maximums and minimums of sunspots as part of the solar cycle. Physicist David Hathaway (of the NASA...
  • Journey to Jupiter & Beyond --NASA's New Web App
    The "Eyes on the Solar System" interface combines video game technology and NASA data to create an environment for users to ride along with agency spacecraft and explore the cosmos. Screen graphics and information such as planet locations and spacecraft...

Natural News

  • SerratioPeptidase is a potent anti-inflammator ...
    (NaturalNews) Proteolytic enzymes are specific enzymes that metabolize protein. These enzymes are naturally produced by the human body and other living organisms and help carry out essential functions. Supplementing with these enzymes has shown to have a favorable anti-inflammatory effect on the ...
  • New green compliant 60-watt LED bulb to cost $15
    (NaturalNews) When the US federal government begins to unlawfully rip away Americans' freedom to purchase the light bulbs of their choice beginning on January 1, 2012, the only available choices will be poisonous compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs, which are loaded with toxic mercury, or expensive ...
  • How bad is the drought in Texas, really?
    (NaturalNews) As I've been living in Austin, Texas, for a while, I thought I would report on the Texas drought situation first hand. How bad is the drought situation here? It's critically bad, actually. Even the wildlife are facing starvation and dying of thirst. I saw some wild pigs the other n ...
  • Former TSA agent pleads guilty to assisting cr ...
    (NaturalNews) A 43-year-old former US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent who was arrested back in March on charges of aiding a drug smuggling ring has pleaded guilty, according to reports. Minetta Walker says she knowingly assisted criminals in evading airport security, and helpe ...
  • Philadelphia exurb ends water fluoridation
    (NaturalNews) We can only hope that the recent surge in American communities voting to end water fluoridation is an omen to the eventual end of this abominable and toxic practice across the entire country. A recent report in the The Mercury explains that officials in Pottstown, Penn., a northwes ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.
  • Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spy ...
    An Ohio woman and her boyfriend can sue a laptop-tracking company that recorded their sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer the woman was using. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled last week against Absolute Software, which provides software a ...
  • This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet ...
    Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Job One for Debt Panel? Pay for America's 9/1 ...
    Three stories will dominate American politics over the next week. As it turns out, they are very much related. On Thursday, President Obama will unveil his jobs plan which will invariably be opposed by Republicans claiming "America is broke." That same day, Congress' debt "super committee" wi ...
  • GOP Debt Ceiling "Uncertainty" Fueled Grim Job ...
    On Friday, Republicans deployed two talking points - one new, one old - in response to the grim news that the U.S. economy added no new jobs in August. The same GOP leaders who in January gave credit to the "newly elected House Republican Majority" for the economy's strong performance in the fo ...
  • Unprecedented
    "Congressional historians said Mr. Boehner's move was unprecedented." While the New York Times was referring to Speaker John Boehner's refusal to grant the President's request for a September 7 address to joint session of Congress, "unprecedented" is apt description for the stone wall of Republ ...
  • Cheney Was For Auto Bailout Before He Was Agai ...
    In December 2008, Vice President Dick Cheney delivered a stern warning to Senate Republicans opposed to President Bush's proposed bailout of the U.S. auto industry then teetering on collapse. "If we don't do this," Cheney cautioned his GOP colleagues behind closed doors, "we will be known as th ...
  • Divine Intervention Becomes the Republican Pla ...
    Americans can be forgiven for assuming Michele Bachmann was deadly serious when she repeatedly joked this weekend that God was using an earthquake and hurricane to send a divine message to restrain federal spending. After all, Bachmann has not only proclaimed time and again that the Almighty ca ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • All empires eventually eat away at their own a ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page August 31, 2011 The commemorative ceremonies that are planned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 massacre are those of pathos for the victims and their families, of praise for both the pursuit of the supporters of the attackers and the performance ...
  • Looming Tragedy: As NATO Members Eat, Libyans ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 2 September 2011 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.) As Eid, the great post Ramadan celebration of that month of abstinence, self sacrifice and reflection, dawned on Libya, marked there this year ...
  • A Reflection on Dick Cheney, U.S. Terrorist by ...
    by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer August 31, 2011 Dick Cheney, now touting his very warped version of reality in his book, is nothing less than a war criminal and a torturer, of course, and, as Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin suggests, his book should rightly be placed in the crime sectio ...
  • Rick Rozoff: Libya: NATO Acquires Military Out ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism August 31, 2011 Voice of Russia August 31, 2011 Libya: Another country for NATO to take root in John Robles Interview conducted on August 27 with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website a ...
  • Voterism: A Government for The New Millennium ...
    by William John Cox Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.thevoters.org August 31, 2011 Are you tired of trying to figure out if there’s any real difference between Republican and Democratic politicians, and whether there’s a difference between liberals and progressives, libertarians and anarchist ...

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

  • Tar Sands Action Deemed Largest Collective Civ ...
    On September 3rd, hundreds of people gathered in Lafayette Park for the final day of the rally against the Tar Sands at the end of the two week sit down protest at the White House. An estimated 1252 people were arrested during this two week continuous peaceful protest, making it the largest coll ...
  • Top Green Living Stories
    Some top green living stories of the last few days: Related posts:Solar PV to Double in US in 2011 (+ Top Green Living Stories) Top Green Living Stories {Weekly Round-Up} Top Green Living Stories
  • Over 1,000 Sit-in at White House (+ Top Activi ...
    Check out these top tar sands activism stories, followed by the most recent email from 350.org on this topic and more activism news: Related posts:Daryl Hannah, Greenpeace USA Executive Director, & More Arrested at White House; Tim DeChristopher Sends Letter from Prison (+ Top Activism Stories ...
  • Don Cheadle as Crazy Captain Planet (Funny or ...
    This is a pretty funny video by the folks over at Funny or Die. Check it out (if you don't mind some 'harsh language'): Related posts:Funny, Funny Video of Australian Senator Stop The Environment! (Funny or Die Video) Gisele Bündchen “vs” Don Cheadle (WED Challenge)
  • Yes, Climategate was Science Denier B.S.
    For what I think is the 7th time, independent review has found that Dr. Michael Mann's work is completely scientifically sound and that climate gate was only a crime in that someone broke in and stole over a decade's worth of emails (and then someone else used them to try to frame climate scient ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • French diplomat Ladsous to head U.N. peacekeep ...
    Editor's Question UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Veteran French diplomat Herve Ladsous was appointed Friday as the new head of United Nations peacekeeping, preserving France's leadership of a key department at the world body. Ladsous, currently chief of staff to Frenc ...
  • Cable: UN peacekeepers traded food for sex - W ...
    ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast—United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast enticed underage girls in a poor part of the West African nation to exchange sex for food, according to a United States Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks. The cable written in January 2010 focuses on the behavior of Beninese p ...
  • Dude! Free weed lying on San Jose street snatc ...
    It was a pot head's dream: Free marijuana lying on the street for the taking, without a cop in sight. San Jose police say a truck illegally carrying marijuana crashed and ended up on its side near Oakridge Mall early Wednesday, sending large bags of pot throughout the intersection as...
  • Scientists Behaving Badly. Guatemala, the Unit ...
    Original Version in Spanish at El Mundo “The U.S. was looking for a place were they could find people already infected with these diseases and in that time in Guatemala it was legal to bring a prostitute into the prisons for sexual services, which made the study easier. The U.S....
  • CIA lawyer: Obama ‘endorsed’ nearly all Bush-e ...
    In a preview of a forthcoming PBS Frontline documentary, John Rizzo, one of the top attorneys for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), claims that President Barack Obama has “endorsed” nearly all of the controversial Bush administration secret warfare programs. “I was part of the transition ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • By Crushing Labor, Capitalism Destroys Itself
    By @KYYellowDog Because all wealth comes from labor Capitalism's fundamental error is rejecting this fact: without labor, there is no capital. The only time capitalism has truly thrived n this country is when working people earned good pay with good benefits: the four decades between World Wa ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD Missouri Repugnant-Ones find a tax increase they can embrace with enthusiasm because it screws poor people. "The Associated Press is reporting that Missouri legislators are about to repeal a $750 state tax credit that has helped over 100,000 disabled and elderly residents who live in ...
  • 88% To Profits, 1% To Wages_WTF???
    The Republicans claim their lords and masters want to create jobs and that the Republicans are truly the party of the working class? �Then explain this. Sean Savett guest blogging @ TP: Since 2009, 88 Percent Of Income Growth Went To Corporate Profits, Just One Percent Went To Wages After the lo ...
  • There Is No Such Thing As Domestic Oil
    By @KYYellowDog So anybody and everybody who talks about lowering gas prices or improving security or increasing energy independence by drilling for more oil is a motherfucking liar. Digby: Some man on TV keeps telling me that building the tar sands pipeline will create cheap energy for American ...
  • Another Unforced Error
    By @KYYellowDog Guess this news came too late to give President Obama a winning argument against the repugs: � Zandar: We keep hearing from Republicans that "Obama regulations and high taxes are destroying America's small businesses and jobs!" and repeat it as a mantra, which largely goes unchal ...

Care 2

  • The Yellowstone spill: One more reason to get ...
    Our dependence on oil has eaten away at our paychecks, polluted our skies, destroyed our beaches and spewed more global warming pollution than any other energy source. The latest victim is the Yellowstone River, where an ExxonMobil pipelineSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Open Thread - 9/4/2011
    Personal news, blog news, a Jig Zone Puzzle, 2 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown).Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Justice for Mya the German Shepherd ! PLEASE S ...
    Mya was found less than 24 hours after she was shot thru her heart in a pile of dogs. She was on top of a decomposing pitbull and some other skeletons. A man came out (we couldn't see him as it was dark) and yelled 'What are you doing down there?Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Urge the Government to Protect Captive Chimpan ...
    The Humane Society of the United States, along with other conservation and animal protection organizations, filed a legal petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asking the agency to list all chimpanzees as "endangered," which would help protectSubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note ...
  • Rescind Approval for the Environmentally Devas ...
    On August 26th, the US Department of State approved TransCanada�s 1,711-mile scar across America�s environmentally vulnerable Great Plains and Gulf Coast. The Keystone XL Pipeline will transport crude oil from Alberta to TexasSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Tea Party Eclipse (+ Larry On Radio)
    Editor’s Note: Tonight, Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). Batchelor’s radio show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
  • Stunner! Maureen Dowd’s “One and Done?” (& Ope ...
    I’m struggling to complete a post on the dramatic, shocking shifts against Obama within the Democratic party and progressive movements. In the meantime, here’s a JOLT from the New York Times’s Maureen Dowd, in snippets: [...] And why is the White House so cocky about Obama as a TV draw against q ...
  • Not So Special Secret Military Ops
    The Washington Post’s Dana Priest and Bill Arkin are back at it with a new piece purporting to pull back the curtain on previously classified military activities. Their latest target is revealed in their title, âTop Secret Americaâ: A look at the militaryâs Joint Special Operations Command. The ...
  • Perry Spring Narrative
    I have spoken to the Texas Tribune routinely since the origins of Rick Perry’s presidential campaign, and the facts support the Perry narrative that in his ten years as governor, inheriting the role from GW Bush in 01, Perry has supported a “business climate” that creates private sector jobs whi ...
  • Obama is SO Over * Open Thread
    If you want withering criticisms of Barack Obama, you do NOT need to tune in to Fox News anymore. You’ll hear enough on CNN and MSNBC to severely singe the ears of Obama. First, from MSNBC’s “The Last Word” tonight: Below the fold, the NYT’s Frank Rich with CNN’s Piers Morgan: The job message an ...

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

  • Joyful Solutions to Relationship Difficulties
    Note: This article is for couples who have experienced love and compatibility but our having current challenges. This article is not for people who are in a relationship with someone who is abusive or unable to be present due to addiction. Abuse and addiction situations require other kinds of co ...
  • Trauma Systems Therapy Has Psychological Benef ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Trauma systems therapy (TST) is a therapeutic technique that helps children manage post-traumatic stress. TST examines all of the social factors and other external influences that contribute to the PTSD symptoms relative to the emotional maturity and capability of ...
  • New Study Suggests Anxiety Inhibits Emotional ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers from the University at Albany, SUNY, conducted a study to determine if anxiety causes a decrease in one’s ability to perceive rapid emotion in visual presentations or if this effect is a result of mood problems in general. Research has shown that depre ...
  • Identifying Suicidal Behaviors in Teens Who Se ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Adolescence is a time of emotional turmoil and many young people use self-injurious behaviors as a way to cope with psychological distress. However, self-harm can lead to suicide, thus increasing the importance of treating this issue in these children. “Self-harm ...
  • Why Do Women in Committed Relationships Lose S ...
    How often do you want sex? And is that enough? Not wanting enough sex is the big problem for most women who consult me as a clinical sexologist. And most sex therapists will agree that having a low level of sexual desire is a problem.  But the majority of these women are heterosexual with male [...]

Mountaintop Removal

  • STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to ...
    RH Reality Check (blog) STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to Birth Defects, Respiratory ... RH Reality Check (blog) As mountaintop removal [MTR] has horned-in on underground mining, the health maladies of residents of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and southw ...
  • Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can ...
    Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can be stopped River Falls Journal Coal mining is a dirty, dangerous business, but mountaintop removal takes the devastation to new lows. After blowing up more than 500 mountains in Appalachia to uncover coal seams, mining companies have dumped million ...
  • Mountaineer football, coal and symbols - Charl ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Mountaineer football, coal and symbols Charleston Gazette (blog) When last we left my beloved West Virginia Mountaineers, the football program was forced to alter some special Nike uniform graphics to get rid of what apparently was meant to be images of mountaintop rem ...
  • Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil prote ...
    USA Today Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil protest 6abc.com Va., attend a mountaintop removal mining protest Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Naoma, W.Va. They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside Marsh Fork Elementary school that sits about 300 feet away from a Masse ...
  • Checking North Anna - The Free Lance-Star
    Checking North Anna The Free Lance-Star Coal, also dirty, is dangerous to mine using traditional methods and devastating to the land when mountaintop removal is the methodology. Windmills kill birds, including eagles in California, and solar awaits a better battery. ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Romney Speaks at Tea Party Event, Drawing Spar ...
    The Caucus: Romney Speaks at Tea Party Event, Drawing Sparse Protest  —  Mitt Romney's keynote speech Sunday night at a Tea Party Express rally in Concord, N.H., was perhaps more notable for what did not happen — there were no fiery clashes with Tea Party protesters, or angry hecklers — than fo ...
  • Sarah Palin, in Iowa, attacks Obama and 'crony ...
    Dan Balz / Washington Post: Sarah Palin, in Iowa, attacks Obama and ‘crony capitalism’  —  INDIANOLA, Iowa — Sarah Palin delivered a populist broadside here Saturday against President Obama, the entire political establishment and what she called the “crony capitalism” that she said is destroyin ...
  • Sarah Palin runs unannounced in Iowa half-mara ...
    Josh Hafner / Iowa Caucuses: Sarah Palin runs unannounced in Iowa half-marathon  —  Sarah Palin's short-lived and unannounced run began and ended today in Storm Lake, Iowa.  —  The morning after Palin's speech at a tea party rally in Indianola, Greta Van Susteren of Fox News posted a photo she ...
  • STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY (CNN)
    CNN: STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY  —  Interview With Jim DeMint; Interview With Jim Hoffa; Interview With Sen. Lieberman, Rep. Rogers  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: A jobless Labor …
  • What the Left Doesn't Understand About Obama ( ...
    Jonathan Chait / New York Times: What the Left Doesn't Understand About Obama  —  This has been the summer that liberal discontent with Obama has finally crystallized.  The frustration has been simmering for a while — through centrist appointments, bank bailouts and the defeat of the public op ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, south of Africa
    Monday, September 5, 2011 06:01:20 UTCMonday, September 5, 2011 08:01:20 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)
  • M 6.1, Vanuatu
    Sunday, September 4, 2011 21:44:21 UTCMonday, September 5, 2011 08:44:21 AM at epicenterDepth: 59.40 km (36.91 mi)
  • M 5.2, Kuril Islands
    Sunday, September 4, 2011 05:02:05 UTCSunday, September 4, 2011 05:02:05 PM at epicenterDepth: 42.10 km (26.16 mi)
  • M 7.0, Vanuatu
    Saturday, September 3, 2011 22:55:36 UTCSunday, September 4, 2011 09:55:36 AM at epicenterDepth: 132.40 km (82.27 mi)
  • M 5.8, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Saturday, September 3, 2011 16:20:52 UTCSaturday, September 3, 2011 12:20:52 PM at epicenterDepth: 13.70 km (8.51 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Changes ahead in US corn belt
    As the American congress reviews 30 years of corn-ethanol subsidies, rising worldwide food costs and famine in east Africa are casting biofuel production in a negative light. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.There were times when Arlyn Schipper could almost feel heroic on his family farm in the heart ...
  • Hopes for a more humble Apple
    Campaigners fighting for cleaner IT in China would do well to study Apple’s own techniques – only when they get consumers on side, will they strike an effective blow, writes Guo Peiyuan.A coalition of Chinese environmental groups, including Friends of Nature and the Institute of Public and Envir ...
  • Apple: back under the spotlight
    In an investigative report, Chinese green NGOs claim that the consumer electronics giant has not addressed problems in its supply chain and ignored an expanding environmental footprint in China – with grave consequences. Meng Si reports. As Apple’s supply chain has expanded, so its pollution h ...
  • “Apple has made no progress at all”
    Today’s revelations about supply-chain violations in China are no bolt from the blue. Ma Jun – one of the report’s chief authors – tells Liu Jianqiang about the long-running investigation into the world’s most valuable brand.On August 31, five Chinese environmental groups published a report that ...
  • Can IT clean up its act?
    Renewed pressure on Apple over pollution shows that green activists in the developing world could transform attitudes to supply chain management in the IT industry, writes Erica Gies. Ideas like corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the “triple bottom line” (people, planet, profit) have been ...

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Threat Level

  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.
  • Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spy ...
    An Ohio woman and her boyfriend can sue a laptop-tracking company that recorded their sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer the woman was using. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled last week against Absolute Software, which provides software a ...
  • This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet ...
    Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. ...

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

  • Consumers - Increase Cook Temperature and Ther ...
    A new poll commissioned by the American Meat Institute (AMI) and conducted by Harris Interactive found that while almost nine out of 10 U.S. adults (88 percent) cook hamburgers or poultry (chicken or turkey) burgers, only 19 percent of those who do use an instant read thermometer to determine th ...
  • California Walnuts Recalled in Canada Due to E ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Johnvince Foods announced a recall on Thursday of some President's Choice and Reddi Snack walnuts because the products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The raw, shelled walnuts products were imported from the U.S. and packaged in Canada, the CFIA ...
  • Colorado continues to have a Listeria problem ...
    Officials at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced today that the state health department has identified a sharp increase in the number of Listeria monocytogenes infections reported to public health agencies. Nine cases were reported during August, with seven of the ...
  • A bit(e) of history - It is now time for the U ...
    According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses and 50 deaths every year in the United States. Another six E. coli strains - O26, O45, O111, O121, O145, and O103 - are considered less pervasive, sickening “only” an estimated 37,000 people a year and killing nearly 30. E. coli O157: ...
  • Del Monte Fresh's suit against Oregon is a fri ...
    I have a knack for being subtle. As reported by the AP, Del Monte Fresh (you will love the background music) has threatened to sue Oregon Public Health and its senior epidemiologist, William Keene, for playing a part in gathering evidence against the company’s cantaloupes that ten state health ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Elon Musk bets Dan Neil $1 million he ...
    Can a million dollars hold Elon Musks' feet to the fire? That's the value of a bet that Wall Street Journal auto journalist and all-around interesting guy Dan Neil and the Tesla Motors CEO reportedly have going over the release of the upcoming Model S. According to Green Car Reports, the ...
  • Report: Libyan rebels claim Ghaddafi's all-ele ...
    Libyan leader (ex-leader?) Muammar Qaddafi apparently had some unusual items in his personal collection. Rebel forces stormed his compound this week, and we now know he had a scrapbook dedicated to former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, lots of weapons and, oddly, a doorless, all-electri ...
  • Official: Audi spills the beans on production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Audi Diesel-lovin' Audi is slowly, slowly coming to grips with this whole hybrid thing. Earlier this year, the "We're not against hybrids" automaker finally gave out some real information about its hybrid Q5 (after years of teases and killing the program once,) and we ...
  • Breaking: Ford, Toyota will partner on RWD hyb ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Truck, Ford, Toyota Is the Prius V not big enough for you? Then you'll probably be interested to learn that Ford and Toyota announced a partnership today to develop a new hybrid system for SUVs and light trucks. The "equal partners" deal should result in a gasoline-electr ...
  • Video: Presidential candidate Bachmann promise ...
    Filed under: Etc. How's this for bold? Congresswoman Michell Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who won the Ames Straw Poll last weekend, has just stated that one thing we'd get with a Bachmann Administration is - ready? - cheap gasoline. According to Politico sh ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria
    Democracy Now! correspondent, Sharif Abdel Kouddous profiles renowned Syrian human rights lawyer, Haitham al-Maleh, for The Nation magazine. Below is an excerpt from A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria. Haitham al-Maleh, an 81-year-old Syrian human rights lawyer, has spent most of his lif ...
  • Army Widow Calls for Recognition of Husband's ...
    On Tuesday, Democracy Now! spoke with Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, the widow of a U.S. Army Ranger who confronted former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about her husbandâs suicide on Saturday ahead of his eighth deployment overseas. In part two of our interview, Joppa-Hagemann calls for a ...
  • "Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propagan ...
    By Amy Goodman Cheney remains staunch in his convictions on issues from the invasion of Iraq to the use of torture. Telling NBC News in an interview that “there are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington” as a result of the revelations in the book, Cheney’s memoir follows one by his ...
  • D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake
    The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gates. More than 2,100 people say they’ll risk arrest there during the next two weeks. They oppose the Keystone XL pipeline project, designed to carry heavy crude oil from the ta ...
  • Egyptians Defend Viral Video Activist Charged ...
    Asmaa Mahfouz is one of Egyptâs most prominent activists. The 26-year-old helped co-found the influential April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 that helped pave the way for the revolution through years of grassroots organizing and street protests. A few days before January 25, she posted two videos on ...

Suzie-Q

  • Anonymous To Occupy Wall Street On September 17th
  • Bachmann Doubles Down On Drilling In Everglade ...
    GOP presidential front runner Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (MN) new notion to drill for oil in the Florida Everglades is compelling the public, scientists, and even a few in her own party to raise their eyebrows at her “incredible faux pas.” Ever resilient against the onslaught of facts, Bachmann dou ...
  • Scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost ...
    The Australian is the country’s biggest-selling national newspaper.  It is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which “also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.” Michael Ashley investigates the national ...
  • NASA Scientist, Religious Leaders Arrested in ...
    Environment News WASHINGTON, DC, August 29, 2011 (ENS) – NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen was arrested today in front of the White House where he was demonstrating in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring thick crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Oklah ...
  • Defeating the Corporatocracy
    Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy Truthout Friday 26 August 2011 by: Bruce E. Levine, Alternet | Op-Ed Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don’t have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people’s move ...

Solari

  • Jon Rappoport with Catherine Austin Fitts
    A free-ranging conversation between Jon Rappoport and Catherine Austin August 25,2011
  • WikiLeaks Posts all US Cables Unredacted
    Continue reading . . . . . Related reading: Wikileaks Releases Entire 65 Gigabyte Uncensored Cablegate Archive (With Or Without Bank Of America Disclosure) Zero Hedge (1 Sept 11)
  • Money & Markets – Week of 9.04.11
    Weather Derivatives Evolve as Risk Mitigation Device Business Insurance (4 Sept 11) Game Over? Senior IMF Official – “I Expect A Hard Greek Default This Year” Zero Hedge (3 Sept 11) Game Theory in Practice The Economist (3 Sept 11) Is It Time For [...]
  • Geopolitical – Week of 9.04.11
    9/11 Was A Fantastically Profitable Covert Lars Schall (3 Sept 11) CIA Moves Further Away From Espionage to Focus on Killing People AntiWar.com (1 Sept 11) CIA Shifts Focus to Killing Targets The Washington Post (1 Sept 11) YouTube [...]
  • Food & Health – Week of 9.04.11
    Transforming Shipping Containers Into Local Farms – PodPonics Brings Produce to the City Singularity Hub (30 Aug 11) YouTube (24 March 11)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Attritionist Letter #3: Do as you are told ( ...
    Summary:   Here we see the USMC version of The Empire Strikes Back.  After becoming one of the most modern land forces in the world, in a tactical sense, elements of the USMC’s senior leadership attempt a counter-revolution, dragging the Corps back to its WWI (second generation warfare) roots ...
  • Question time on the FM website
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We’ll attempt to answer it. Free answers, so you cannot overpay. Update: The first question is excellent, timely and important.
  • Important information in today’s jobs re ...
    Summary: Today’s jobs report has important lessons about the economic cycle that America remains locked in.  These are blindingly obvious lessons, which we refuse to see, which is why we remain locked in this cycle. Today’s jobs report astonishes Wall Street because they refuse to see the natu ...
  • Cyberwar: a Whole New Quagmire. Part 1: The P ...
    Summary:  In this article by guest author Marcus J. Ranum, he describes what might become one of the primary forms of conflict in the 21st century.  How real is the threat?  Is the Department of Defense approaching this in a logical way. “Mr. President, if that’s what you want there is only one ...
  • The hidden story about Libya, hidden behind th ...
    Summary:  Since the beginning it’s been clear to those paying attention that we’ve been fed lies about the Libyan War, concerning both events there and American goals and actions.  Most journalists ignored the facts, preferring to transcribe the stories fed them by government officials.  We ...

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

  • Sept. 2011 IAEA Iran Report: Initial Analysis
    The Institute for Science and International Security has posted the latest IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program. The report provides some additional information about recent developments reported in the media regarding Iran’s installation of centrifuges at the Fordow plant near Qom and plans to ...
  • Leon Panetta Hypes al Qaeda to Ward Off More D ...
    Speaking at Offutt Air Base, Nebraska -- Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has disconcertingly started his tenure fear-mongering about al Qaeda as a justification not to go beyond the President's proposed $400 billion cuts to the Defense Department over ten years.� From a report in the Omaha Wo ...
  • Where is the "Tehran Spring"?
    Where is the "Tehran Spring"?: Here is a peek behind the veil in Iran. This is what citizens of Iran, who are frustrated and disappointed at the initial failure of their own “awakening” think about their present condition. They admire what is happening to Arab dictators and wonder why they can’t ...
  • Responsibility to Protect...Ya Neck
    There’s been a fair amount of push-back over the arguments about sovereignty that Joshua Foust and I have put out, which is to be expected. Zack Beauchamp has a thorough and thoughtful response: We only endorse the idea that states have rights because accepting the idea that they do is good for ...
  • Peddling Fear: Frank Gaffney's World

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Local News Is Awesome
    Even in the age of the Internet, local television news remains the top source of information for Americans. And it's almost undoubtedly the worst, a festering stew of fearmongering and triviality, with the occasional waterskiing squirrel thrown in. So for your Friday amusement, via The Hairpin, ...
  • Some Context on the Coming GOP Immigration Debate
    Could immigration be Rick Perry's Achilles' heel? Folks are beginning to ask. Republican primary voters, The Washington Post tells us, are pestering Republican presidential candidates about it. Ed Kilgore suggests it could be a problem for Perry in South Carolina. So we might be headed for a rep ...
  • What a Bad Politician Looks Like
    Hapless presidential candidate Rick Santorum is not a happy man. Watch how he talks about same sex marriage, even before being challenged, in this video taken at an event at Penn State (via Andrew Sullivan): "Does anybody go out there and make the argument as to why this a good thing, because ...
  • Seriously, Jon Huntsman Is Not a Moderate
    If there’s anything impressive about Jon Huntsman’s presidential campaign, it’s the extent to which he’s convinced the world of his moderation. For example, here’s the first sentence of The New York Times’ write-up on his recently released economic plan: “Jon M. Huntsman Jr. again showed h ...
  • The Party of Ideas
    Washington is full of people who try to get politicians to adopt their ideas. That's one of the reasons the Prospect was founded, in fact -- to create a forum for progressives to have serious discussions about government and politics, in the hopes that the ideas generated might eventually be tra ...

Buzzflash

  • On Labor Day, Republicans Are Committed to Hel ...
    GREGORY MYSKO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Once again with the upcoming election season, Americans are asked to become the Corporate Crocodile's friend.  Democrats and Republicans with ties to these crocodiles are luring voters with promises of a vague concept called "jobs." And in the end, it ...
  • America's Intellectual Deficit Is More Dangero ...
    Body   It's beginning to seem there's no way to set the record straight in the face of systemic right-wing attacks. With a six-day power outage here after Irene I relied on a small radio instead of the usual array of news sources available on cable channels and the internet, tu ...
  • The Levers of Power and Wealth Are No Longer C ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Pay no attention to man behind the curtain." That was the famous line from Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy caught a glimpse of the fake wizard desperately pulling switches and punching buttons in a vain attempt to impress his visitors of his power. I th ...
  • Time to up the Ante: Restrict Individual Asset ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If progressives -- who for the most part pretty much advocate for democracy and a level playing field for the economy -- are going to be accused of being radical socialists, why not have at it and restrict individual acquisition of wealth in the US ...
  • Someone Should Tell Eric Cantor That He's Not ...
    Body   Someone should tell Eric Cantor he's not in charge of us, not charged with making policy for the country and not some wise guru who keeps the secrets of the universe tucked away in an envelope he keeps in his breast pocket. Every time he tries to make his ideological ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Not slippery when wet
    Not slippery when wet – Can our pruney bath fingers help us make safer tyres? Car tyres have rain treads. Shoes have rain treads. So, why don’t animals have rain treads? Here evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi – and author of the new book having nothing whatever to do with rain treads, Ha ...
  • Catching up with The Alchemist
    Catching up with The Alchemist – Ancient oxygen levels were higher than The Alchemist thought, but they existed in submarine oxygen oases rather than in the atmosphere. We also learn this week that a sweet solution to modulating pharmaceutical activity is possible, that micro-onions could serve ...
  • Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record
    Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record – My son just returned with his GCSE results to a very proud Mum and Dad, and sister, with a clutch of excellent passes in his exams. Very pleased he got an excellent grade in chemistry, although he claims to hate "my" subject. One thing I will say, [...]Ris ...
  • More chemical wonders
    More chemical wonders – Yet more chemical wonders fall under the gaze of The Alchemist this week. First up, spray on radiators coming to a home near you to help cut heating bills by a third while ethanol-imbibing bacteria offer an important clue to preventing biofuel pipeline cracks. In the anal ...
  • Dissonant teaching changes environmental minds
    There are many educational and ethical issues regarding the environment and environmentalism that are generally not addressed, especially when it comes to teaching non-science students. Independent environmental services professional and college professor Chyrisse P. Tabone, who is based in Tamp ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Obama Hits New Low by Abandoning Smog-reductio ...
    After intense lobbying from polluting industries, President Barack Obama today abandoned badly needed plans to reduce smog and improve public health around the country. In a statement this morning, the president told the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its draft Ozone National Ambien ...
  • Obama Hits New Low by Abandoning Smog-reductio ...
    After intense lobbying from polluting industries, President Barack Obama today abandoned badly needed plans to reduce smog and improve public health around the country. In a statement this morning, the president told the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its draft Ozone National Ambien ...
  • CCR Denounces UN Report on Gaza Flotilla
    In anticipation of the expected release today of the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident, which was leaked yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement:read more
  • CCR Denounces UN Report on Gaza Flotilla
    In anticipation of the expected release today of the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident, which was leaked yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement:read more
  • President Obama Undercuts Science with Smog St ...
    President Obama today asked the Environmental Protection Agency to ignore its obligation under the Clean Air Act to update ground-level ozone pollution standards for the United States based on the best available science. Because of President Obama’s decision, the ground-level ozone standards wil ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Limping Middle Class
    Robert Reich The 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest research from Moody’s Analytics. That should come as no surprise. Our society has become more an ...
  • Iraq Still in a Terrible Mess
    Amitabh Pal Just because U.S. soldiers aren’t dying in Iraq doesn’t mean all is well there.read more
  • The DOJ's Escalating Criminalization of Speech
    Glenn Greenwald Over the past several years, the�Justice Department has increasingly attempted to criminalize what is clearly protected political speech by prosecuting numerous individuals (Muslims, needless to say) for disseminating poli ...
  • If Rick Perry is an Economic Miracle Worker, W ...
    John Turner One of the questions I'm constantly asked here at the food bank in Austin, Texas is: "I don't understand why there are so many people who are hungry: why is that?" They say things like, "I heard that thanks to Governor Rick Pe ...
  • The CIA's Selective Secrecy
    Hannah Gurman From the coups that ousted Mohammed Mossadeq, Jacobo Arbenz, and Salvador Allende in the Cold War to the waterboarding of suspected terrorists in the Global War on Terror, the CIA has built a solid reputation as an extralegal ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Farm storage-pond bill heads to governor's office
    A move to speed up the approval process for small farm irrigation ponds has earned the support of rival factions in the region's water wars.
  • Can Water Treaties Be Climate-Proofed?
    International agreements on how to manage rivers used by more than one country are too inflexible, making them poor tools to deal with changes in freshwater availability caused by climate change.
  • Lawmakers attend meeting about water
    Forsyth County was well represented at the recent meeting of the Joint Study Committee on Water Supply.District 23 state Rep. Mark Hamilton and District 27 state Sen. Jack Murphy, both Republicans from Cumming, attended the session, which focused on the tri-state water wars and on Gov.Nathan Dea ...
  • Isakson: States should be motivated for water ...
    jstone: August 25, 2011 9:30 p.m. Well, Isaakson just lost my vote. I didn't realize he wrote the AYP bill. My sister just retired from teaching and another family member is struggling to keep a job.
  • Film festival focuses on water wars and more
    Mark Twain once said, "Whiskey is for drinkin'. Water is for fightin' over."

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • How US "charities" break tax laws to fund Isra ...
    Mike Coogan The Electronic Intifada In spite of US government statements about its displeasure with the expansion of Israeli settlements, US based organizations are abusing the 501(C)3 section of US tax codes to provide billions in subsidies to do exactly�that.
  • Israeli harassment campaign masquerades as mur ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israeli soldiers and security forces have conducted a string of arrests and violent raids at Jenin’s renowned Freedom Theater over recent weeks, in their investigation into the murder of actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis.
  • Israel deports children to preserve "Jewish ch ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israel is deporting the children of migrant workers out of “Zionist considerations” to ensure “the Jewish character of the state of Israel,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.
  • Palestinians in Jordan refugee camp long to return
    John Ridley The Electronic Intifada Behind every door in Baqaa refugee camp, one finds tragedy as well as�perseverance.
  • Israeli court rejects al-Walaja's appeal again ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Residents of the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja are undaunted by a setback in their fight against home demolitions, the confiscation of land, the expansion of the nearby Jewish-only settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo and construction of a ...

The Wonk Room

  • Intraparty Conflict
    I think Neil Sinhababu is right to think that the media’s disproportionate interest in obviously doomed presidential candidates like Jon Huntsman 2012 or Joe Lieberman 2004 has to do with the general fact “that major media outlets tend to take great interest in people who loudly criticize their ...
  • Cheney Won’t Take Anything Back, Laughs ...
    Former Vice President Dick Cheney, continuing his “heads exploding” book tour, pushed back against criticisms of his book by former Secretary of State Colin Powell that the book contained, “cheap shots that heâs taking at me and other members of the Administration who served to the best of our a ...
  • Levels And Rates
    Erik Loomis runs down the environmental records of the presidents with the strongest records and finds that LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and even long-ago Teddy Roosevelt have accomplishments that stack up favorably besides President Obama’s. This is, I think, an excellent encapsulation of the “levels ver ...
  • Bachmann ‘Open To’ Elimination Of ...
    Yesterday, former half-term governor Sarah Palin continued her will-she, won’t-she flirtation with running for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. During a speech in Iowa, Palin called for the complete elimination of the federal corporate income tax. âThis is how we break the back of crony cap ...
  • Conservative Media Inanely Declare Solar Power ...
    Ah, right wing media.  Can’t live with them.  Can’t stop conservatives from being misled by them. So President Bush had massive tax cuts for the wealthy and destroyed the economy while ballooning the deficit.  But do conservative media declare the tax cuts for the wealthy obviously don’t work ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Wrong About Everything: Toronto Sun on Jack Layton
    "No cuts. GUARANTEED!" Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Because I'm going to be writing about the Toronto Sun's attempt to set the record straight about the economics of Jack Layton's politics, and the first thing we should remember is that this is the same piece-of-shit newspaper th ...
  • Thank-you Jack Layton
    Jack, I was worried that your cancer battle would prevent you from forcing the election this past spring. Even though the outcome was horrible (a harpercon majority, which is an abomination no matter the silver lining of the NDP's becoming the official opposition) I am so glad that both you a ...
  • A Visit to Queen's Park
    Last fall, for reasons hazy and uncertain, I packed up the little fella into the bike-buggy and rode down to Queen's Park. The event that I had a vague recollection was supposed to be there wasn't there. So, on a lark, I decided to get a visitor's pass and go watch the events in the legislature. ...
  • Thoughts About Jack Layton
    While I preferred the Jack Layton who held Paul Martin directly responsible for homeless deaths, to the "serious" statesman who wouldn't let his MPs heckle the war-criminal criminal moron psychopath bush II when that piece of shit slithered across our border and was making noises about addressin ...
  • Oppressed People Complain Too Much
    Except for the REAL oppressed people that is: WHITE MALES Yeah, because EXCUSE ME, but First Nations peoples get to occupy buildings and land all the time, and they DON'T ALWAYS GET SHOT AND KILLED FOR IT!!! And Black People? Get a ticket on the "Clue Train": Racism was defeated in the Ame ...

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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

  • Granatstein: Don’t kill DND grants to academia
    Well-known Canadian military historian, commentator, and fan of the Rideau Institute (OK, we made that last bit up) Jack Granatstein is taking issue with the Harper government’s plan to cut Department of National Defence funding for the Security and Defence Forum (SDF), a program that supports a ...
  • Hundreds leave tributes to Jack Layton on Ceas ...
    I'm certain he will be remembered as second only to Tommy Douglas himself, one of Canada's greatest Canadians.
  • Jack Layton: Peace Activist
    Jack was a friend of the peace movement, and could be counted upon to find an alternative to war and to stand up for Canadian values of co-operation and diplomacy.
  • Australia’s F-35 order ‘up in the air’
    Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has warned Parliament that repeated cost increases and delays in the F-35 programme were falling out of line with limits set by the government and military planners (Australia to decide on F-35 fighter purchase in 2012: Govt, Reuters, 17 August 2011). Sm ...
  • Peacekeeping contribution remains dismal
    Canada was once the largest single contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. Today, according to Canadians for Peacekeeping‘s third annual factsheet on Canada and UN peacekeeping, we rank 53rd among contributing countries. The ranking represents a slight drop in Canada’s position compared to la ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Was Bin Laden’s Killing Legal?
    May 3, 2011 Spiegel Online By Thomas Darnstädt US President Barack Obama gets precious few opportunities to announce a victory. So it’s no wonder he chose grand words on Sunday night as the TV crews’ spotlights shone upon him and he informed the nation about the deadly strike against Osama bin ...
  • Salmonella Fears Spark Grape Tomato Recall
    May 3, 2011 Reuters By Wendell Marsh A supplier of grape tomatoes for Taylor Farms Pacific, Inc. has recalled the product for possible salmonella contamination, the government said late on Monday. Products using the recalled tomatoes were sold in Albertsons, Raley’s, Safeway, Savemart, Sam’s Clu ...
  • Young Adults Dangerously Naive About Their Health
    May 3, 2011 WebMD By Bill Hendrick According to the American Heart Association, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds in the U.S.  Yet most Americans between 18 and 24 are dangerously naive about their health and assume they are healthy even though they eat too much fast food, drink too many ...
  • Improper Use Of Popular Painkillers On The Rise
    May 3, 2011 CBS News Only 41 percent of the people questioned in a new study said they read the labels of medications they take. That lack of knowledge about popular pain relievers — and ignorance, in particular, of acetaminophen being in more than 600 over-the-counter and prescription medicines ...
  • The Collapse Of Our Modern World Has Already Begun
    May 3, 2011 Natural News By Mike Adams A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn’t mean the end [...]

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

War in Context

  • Wikileaks: Israeli army thinks violence is the ...
    Joseph Dana writes: In a new wikileaks cable, Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs at the Israel Ministry of Defense, Maj. General (reserves) Amos Gilad, told American government officials, ‘we don’t do Gandhi very well’ in reference to unarmed demonstrations taking place througho ...
  • Google wants to own you
    Mathew Ingram writes: Ever since Google launched its new Google+ social network, we and others have pointed out that the search giant clearly has more in mind than just providing a nice place for people to share photos of their pets. For one thing, Google needs to tap into the “social signals” ...
  • Enslaved by economics — the story we live by
    Maria Popova reviews Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything: “The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are how we make sense of the world and our place in it. Some stories become so sticky, so ...
  • Plight of sub-Saharan Africans in Libya
    The BBC reports: “Justice” does not know where the young men came from nor whose side they were on. All he knows is that they were aggressive and demanding money. When he tried to tell them he had nothing to give them, not a penny, they stabbed him in the stomach and then they sped away. Just ...
  • Crime and punishment in Libya: inside Gaddafi’ ...
    Abigail Hauslohner reports: In the initial days after Libyan rebels overran Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in eastern Libya last February, one of the most prevalent emotions on the street was shock. “We thought 90% of the people were with Gaddafi,” Camilla Esbak remarked in the rebel stronghold ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The science is scuttled: Abraham, Gleick, and ...
    I was hoping to have a quiet holiday weekend away from WUWT doing some household chores. Apparently that isn’t in the cards. Below, I have reposted an essay from Dr. Roger Pielke Senior regarding an opinion piece published in The … Continue reading →
  • Red-shifting the oceans
    Unisys Is Changing Their Color Scaling On Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Maps by Bob Tisdale A couple of weeks ago, Unisys announced they are changing the color scaling on their daily Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomaly maps. The new Unisys SST … Continue reading →
  • The Spencer and Braswell story goes viral
    Earlier today I checked in to the WUWT dashboard and was surprised to see that WUWT had the # story on all of WordPress.com this morning: Tonight, checking in again, I discover not only is WUWT still near the top … Continue reading →
  • Weather amnesia
    Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue Dr. Judith Curry is quoted in a classic Seth Borenstein AP screed connecting disparate extreme weather events into a tidy AGW-narrative:  “Sometimes it seems as if we have weather amnesia.” The AP article states:  … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale on debunking AGW intensification claim ...
    Previously on WUWT we saw this: Now Bob Tisdale does a numeric analysis along the track, finding some interesting results. Bill McKibben’s wacky claim seen here Climate activist McKibben bizarrely blames Hurricane Irene on global warming is now dead and buried. … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • "This is the Biggest Civil Disobedience Action ...
    Two weeks of sustained protest concluded outside the White House yesterday. Over that time, over 1,250 people were arrested in order to send a single, simple message to the Obama administration: Do not approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, currently pending approval, would carry th ...
  • Track Happy Feet's Progress as He Swims Back Home
    Screengrab via OurFarSouth.org The world's most beloved wayward penguin, Happy Feet, was released today back into the Southern Ocean -- two months after waddling ashore in New Zealand, hundreds of miles from home. It was a bittersweet send-off for the the bird's tireless rescuers, though eve ...
  • Radioactive Waste Is Piling Up in Japanese Sew ...
    Image via screengrab. The disaster at Fukushima may have faded from the news cycle, but the radioactive waste it left behind isn't going anywhere. At the Saitama sewage treatment plant, 169 miles from Fukushima, workers are dealing with tons of radioactive sewage, Al Jazeera reported. Witho ...
  • "Oyster Gardeners" Rebuild a Once Thriving Pop ...
    Photo: Sam Beebe / Ecotrust Scientists say that the Chesapeake Bay's oyster population has dramatically declined to 5 percent of what it was when European settlers first inhabited the area, according to an article in Reuters. Unsustainable fishing practices,
  • Check out NYC's Hottest Pool Party in a Vacant ...
    The Pools at The Palms photo by Bonnie Hulkower Several arts groups came together to create the 15,000 square-foot pool party space, cheekily named "The Palms." The idea is to look like a 1940s Florida resort hotel lobby, complete with fancy cocktails. But this is not your grandmother's Boc ...

Biosingularity

  • Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yo ...
    Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Add ...
  • Omega-3s Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
    A diet rich in certain omega-3 fatty acids may lower the risk of developing dementia, researchers report. In a study of more than 2,000 older women and men followed for nearly five years, the more omega-3-rich oily fish they ate, the lower their risk of developing dementia. The researchers looke ...
  • Obesity ‘leading driver’ of breast ...
    Obesity is the biggest driving force behind the most common form of breast cancer in older women, say researchers. Alcohol and then cigarettes are the next largest culprits, according to Cancer Research UK. One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer in their lifetime, data shows, and the ...
  • Caltech researchers create the first artificia ...
    Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence—not in a robot or ...
  • Researchers discover gene required to maintain ...
    University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Biological Sciences researchers have made a key discovery showing that male sex must be maintained throughout life. The research team, led by Drs. David Zarkower and Vivian Bardwell of the U of M Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Devel ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.On the same topic:Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a communication t ...
  • Paul Ryan Soup Kitchen and Speak-Out
    National Nurses United (@NationalNurses) held a Paul Ryan Soup Kitchen and Speak-Out in front of Rep. Ryan’s Janesville office. The purpose was to draw attention to the connection between Wall Street and Washington and point out the huge and growing income disparity in the US. NNU is demanding ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Jesse W. Dietrich, 20, of Venus, TX.Army Sgt. Andrew R. Tobin, 24, of Jacksonville, IL.Army ...
  • 'No on HB 194': Activism, fatigue, and the GOP ...
    Since the Wisconsin recalls there has been quite a bit of commentary about how folks want a break from politics, and maybe a campaign to oust Scott Walker early next year should be postponed. Some of it is just garden variety concern trolling by conservatives who understand just how devastating ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Nelson, 19, of Pace, FL.Army Spc. Joshua M. Seals, 21, of Porter, OK.Army ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Taking On Big Ag: Is Monsanto Useful?
    Ira Wallace and other small organic farmers have banded together to challenge an mighty agricultural giant, arguing that Monsanto's patented transgenic seeds do not benefit society.Click here to read this article
  • Healthy Eating Does Not Always Come Naturally
    If there's one thing Americans are used to hearing nowadays, from others as well as ourselves, it's that we're overweight, unhealthy and destroyers of the environment. The food discussion in this country has taken on considerable steam, with childhood obesity rates dwarfing those of most other c ...
  • Monsanto Seeks OK for Low-Fat Soybean
    DES MOINES, Iowa -- The soybean industry is seeking government approval of a genetically modified soybean that it says will produce oil lower in saturated fat, offering consumers a healthier alternative and increasing demand for growers' crops. Click here to read this article
  • Profits Before Environment
    I wasn't surprised when the administration of George W. Bush sacrificed the environment for corporate profits. But when the same thing happens under a Democratic administration, it's depressing. With little or no public input, policies that benefit corporations regardless of the consequences con ...
  • Dust Flying in Countryside Over USDA Animal ID ...
    Austin, TX: Forty-nine advocacy groups representing the interests of family farmers, ranchers, and consumers have formally requested that USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack extend the public comment period for a controversial new proposal that would require livestock producers in the U.S. to incur sign ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Genesis of Corn-Fed Cars
    This friction between the auto industry and the corn lobby will be one of the many fascinating developments to watch as corn ethanol continues to find its footing in our economy.
  • Do Genetically Engineered Foods Really Need to ...
    Nina Federoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and professor at Penn State University penned an opinion piece in the New York Times recently, asking for less regulation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Professor Federoff would like to see more gra ...
  • Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...
    Many public health hazards are too small to see.  This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs.  As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter.  (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...
  • Dam Water in China: Water Losers
    Along the Keriya River, one of twelve waterways in western China where dam construction began last year, the mood is weary and palpably tense. For those on the bank, what the dams will bring remains uncertain; what they have taken away is already great. New York Times journalist Jim Yardley writ ...
  • Dam Water in China: Is It Worth It?
    In western China, massive dams are being built along 12 waterways. The dams are supposed to aid economic development—but experts are saying it’s likely that the dams will do more harm than good. When China pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 percent of the 2005 levels at the Cop ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
    REVIEWS OF BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE BY IAN WISHART Firstly, we are very glad to have read it and thankful that Wishart (and King) have written it. Wishart has done the entire body politic a great deal of good....
  • Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
    A central premise of my book Air Con, from 2009, appears to have been validated by new peer reviewed research. My argument, which Climate Change minister Nick Smith and self-proclaimed climate expert - truffle grower Gareth Renowden, tried to challenge...
  • BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
    FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
  • BREAKING SILENCE news release
    BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
  • News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...

My Care2 Picks

  • Extending Grace: A Lesson from Parenting
    I enjoy watching my preschooler play with her toys.She cares more about what a toy can do than what it was made to do.Those toys, even though they are being used incorrectly, are teaching her about the world around her.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • Question Authority: Always and Forever Hereafter
    I was asked at the Freedom Summit in 2010 after my speech during questions what was the most important tool or consideration for surviving the coming bad times. Critical thinking is the most important and vital ...Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • An enemy of democracy?
    He was the first journalist in Hiroshima after the bomb, describing the nuclear fallout under the headline: �Warning to the world: The atomic plague.� He reported on the wars in Korea and Indochina from a non-Western perspective, and was sympathetic Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Reviewing the Narrative
    'Narrative' has a special meaning when dealing with media control and approved editorial content. I employ 'reasonable doubt' with enthusiasm in data collecting. Here's my attempt at Alternative Media.Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Dead Sirte: Another Murderous Twist in NATO's ...
    in order "protect civilians" from the now non-existent regime of Moamar Gadafy, the humanitarian lords of the West are now killing civilians at the behest of the new, non-elected regime of the murky and murderous "Transitional National Council."Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! � ...

Angry Indian News

  • Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues ...
    Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues Hostility Toward NATO Invasion of Libya: by Amiel Ungar - WikipediaIt was only with difficulty that the Western countries managed to extract permission... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • inteldaily.com: African Union Refuses Appeals ...
    African Union Refuses Appeals to Recognize Libya’s Rebels: VOA News - The African Union [AU] has rejected calls for recognition of Libya’s rebel Transitional National Council. The decision highlights... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time ...
    Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time and resources [uhurunews.com] The Obama administration has rejected a call for a posthumous presidential pardon for Marcus Garvey, calling it a waste of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | ...
    Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | World War 4 Report: On Aug. 23, Peru's Congress unanimously approved a new law that guarantees indigenous peoples' right to free, prior and informed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to ...
    Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to Save ‘White America’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: While much of the political rhetoric on the right these days is laden with violent... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone: ‘Unspeakable ...
    Exposing the "unspeakable" realities of the Japanese catastrophe in this 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is appa ...
  • The Great Culling (Fluoride) by Paul Wittenber ...
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  • Top Organics and Non-GMO Guys Back Monsanto an ...
    The Green PolkaDot Box, selling products with ties to Monsanto and Halliburton, is supported by Natural News, OCA, and Institute for Responsible Technology.
  • Dead Men Walking – Update on Fukushima
    As I sit here thinking about Fukushima, I wonder what the people who caused this calamity to escalate into what, in essence, could very well be the final end game, are thinking. It seems clear that there is no running, and no hiding. Only a delay in the inevitability of an end to life as we know ...
  • TS Radio: Glenn Morton on Obamacare
    Join us Tuesday evening at 8 CST! Date / Time: 08-23-11 6:00 pm PST 8:00 pm CST 9:00 pm EST “My name is Glenn Morton, and I am President of Taylor, Levi, and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm in Maryland. I have been in the health care/health insurance business for almost 20 years, working ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • FBI, DHS Warn of Small Plane Terror Threats Ah ...
    ShareThisFBI, DHS Warn of Small Plane Terror Threats Ahead of 9/11 Anniversary 03 Sep 2011 The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] threats to small airplanes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Authorities say there i ...
  • Fukushima Blows Lid Off Exploited Labour
    ShareThisFukushima Blows Lid Off Exploited Labour By Suvendrini Kakuchi 03 Sep 2011 The Fukushima disaster has thrown up the first opportunity in decades to bring justice to thousands of unskilled workers who risk radioactive contamination to keep Japan's nuclear power plants running. "Fukushima ...
  • CIA worked with Libya in terror suspect rendit ...
    ShareThisCIA worked with Libya in terror suspect renditions, documents show 03 Sep 2011 The CIA worked closely with Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terrorist suspects including Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, the 'rebel' commander in Tripoli, according to documents found in Tripo ...
  • Coalition warned on rendition flights after US ...
    ShareThisCoalition warned on rendition flights after US papers reveal Shannon link --Documents used as evidence in�court case involving dispute between two private firms 03 Sep 2011 The state's human rights watchdog has called on the Government to ensure Ireland is not being used for "extraordin ...
  • NORAD fighters intercept plane near Camp David
    ShareThisNORAD fighters intercept plane near Camp David; aircraft lands in West Virginia 02 Sep 2011 NORAD says its fighters intercepted a Piper general aviation aircraft in the area of Camp David. It happened about 4:45 p.m. Friday. NORAD says the civilian aircraft was out of radio communicatio ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Censoring Afghanistan
    Censorship 04 September 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan A message came today that a certain General has told me to unpublish "Battlefield Forensics."� �Battlefield Forensics� was first published on 18 August 2011. This dispatch violates no policies.� It has cleared all OPSEC hurdles.� Aga ...
  • Mosquitoes
    Afghan Soldier caught by infrared flash with specially modified camera. 31 August 2011 Afghanistan A Soldier sleeps in a body bag to keep off the bugs. American and Afghan Soldiers share an Afghan family compound overnight in the heart of Taliban country. During the dark nights, the ...
  • We Need Better Pants
    30 August 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan Rip, rend and slash are all in a day�s work here.� Yet I have never seen so many troops with so many pairs of pants that are ready to fall off. Last week this mortar crew was firing at some people who were trying to kill us ...
  • The Art, Science, and Carpentry of Explosives
    Blocks of M112 C-4 prepared for mission beside roll of M456 detonation cord and accessories. 29 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav There is much to know about explosives.� A wealth of art, science, and carpentry has developed around uncountabl ...
  • Edvard Munch in the Marijuana Patch
    My heavily armed tent mates hours before the mission. 24 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav We live in tents.� Nice tents with air conditioning.� But not now; the electricity and air conditioning are out again and I�m sweating in a boiling ten ...

The Killing Train

  • Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...
    Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
  • Ultraviolent conflicts
    Between economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
  • Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.
    I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
  • The politics of economic self-destruction
    Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.

treehugger

  • "This is the Biggest Civil Disobedience Action ...
    Two weeks of sustained protest concluded outside the White House yesterday. Over that time, over 1,250 people were arrested in order to send a single, simple message to the Obama administration: Do not approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, currently pending approval, would carry th ...
  • Track Happy Feet's Progress as He Swims Back Home
    Screengrab via OurFarSouth.org The world's most beloved wayward penguin, Happy Feet, was released today back into the Southern Ocean -- two months after waddling ashore in New Zealand, hundreds of miles from home. It was a bittersweet send-off for the the bird's tireless rescuers, though eve ...
  • Radioactive Waste Is Piling Up in Japanese Sew ...
    Image via screengrab. The disaster at Fukushima may have faded from the news cycle, but the radioactive waste it left behind isn't going anywhere. At the Saitama sewage treatment plant, 169 miles from Fukushima, workers are dealing with tons of radioactive sewage, Al Jazeera reported. Witho ...
  • "Oyster Gardeners" Rebuild a Once Thriving Pop ...
    Photo: Sam Beebe / Ecotrust Scientists say that the Chesapeake Bay's oyster population has dramatically declined to 5 percent of what it was when European settlers first inhabited the area, according to an article in Reuters. Unsustainable fishing practices,
  • Check out NYC's Hottest Pool Party in a Vacant ...
    The Pools at The Palms photo by Bonnie Hulkower Several arts groups came together to create the 15,000 square-foot pool party space, cheekily named "The Palms." The idea is to look like a 1940s Florida resort hotel lobby, complete with fancy cocktails. But this is not your grandmother's Boc ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Bahrain detainees join hunger strike: rights group
    [JURIST] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) [advocacy website] reported on Saturday that more detainees have joined a hunger strike [press release] in protest of ongoing trials related to recent pro-democracy protests. The nearly 20 jailed doctors face charges in relation to protests and ...
  • Panama lawmakers approve election runoff bill
    [JURIST] Panamanian lawmakers approved a bill Saturday that requires runoffs in close presidential elections. The bill mandates that if no candidate amasses 50 percent of the vote after the election, a second round of voting would take place [Reuters report]. A presidential election is currently ...
  • Chirac too ill to attend corruption trial: lawyers
    [JURIST] Former French president Jacques Chirac [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], 78, and his legal team filed documents with the 11th Criminal Court of Paris on Friday claiming Chirac is too ill to face his corruption trial [press release in Le Monde, in French], just three days before the tr ...
  • Turkey seeks ICJ intervention in Gaza blockade
    [JURIST] Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu [official profile] said Saturday that Turkey will take Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] over the legality of Israel's Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder] blockade. Davutoglu delivered a press statement [ ...
  • Accused Hungary Nazi dies while awaiting appeal
    [JURIST] Alleged Nazi Sandor Kepiro died on Saturday at the age of 97, weeks after both the prosecution and the defense in his trial announced they would be be appealing his acquittal on war crimes charges [JURIST reports]. Kepiro was acquitted of participating in the 1942 Novi Sad massacre in S ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
    With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
  • Boehner: Tough to Revive Bipartisan 'Humpty Du ...
    The House Speaker said Republicans would press ahead with their own proposal should Obama continue to reject a two-tier plan With Asian markets set to deliver a verdict within hours on the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ...
  • Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
    With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...
  • Let Them Eat Cake Alive & Well in Beverly Hills
    I love Los Angeles (I know -- few seem to want to admit it), but I love Washington, DC more.  I love DC's intrigue and policy banter -- the passionate debates about Israel and Palestine, about nuclear vs. renewables, about Grover Norquist vs. big government Republicans (& MoveOn), about whethe ...
  • How to Be a Right-Leaning Journalist
    A libertarian guide for young reporters tells us how media, ideological or otherwise, should work in the digital age With the rise of ideological journalism over the past decade, a period when opinionated bloggers, Web journalists, and muckraking activists have changed the face of the profess ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Netanyahu Gags Shabak Director, Subverts Kness ...
    For those of you who harbor quaint notions about Israeli democracy, tonight’s post should further disabuse you of your illusions.  In most western democracies, the legislative branch of government exercises some oversight of military and intelligence functions.  In the U.S., this includes Hous ...
  • As UN Vote on Palestinian Statehood Approaches ...
    I wasn’t going to write a blog post on this story, but I read one statement from a clueless U.S. official that was so galling I just had to, if only to express my outrage as a U.S. citizen at the increasing outrageousness and irrelevance of U.S. policy concerning Palestine.  The NY Times report ...
  • Still, Small Voice of Reason: While Israeli Me ...
    Israeli media is filled with headlines claiming the Palmer Report vindicated its attack on the Mavi Marmara and tut-tutting about Turkey’s threats against it.  You read headlines saying Erdogan is a dangerous megalomaniac, that Turkey aims to start a war, etc.  But you don’t hear hard-headed r ...
  • Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador, Ends Militar ...
    Turkey today expelled Israel’s ambassador and announced it would downgrade relations between the two countries to the lowest level possible, while still maintaining them.  This development, which was expected, is part of a round of measures Turkish officials have promised in response to Israel’ ...
  • Palmer Report, Though Critical of Israel’s Mav ...
    The UN will release the Palmer Report about the Mavi Marmara massacre tomorrow.  One of my readers has offered me an advanced copy  (thanks LL).  Though the report is written in extremely guarded, cautious language not meant overly to inflame passions on either side, it is clear that it is hi ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
    (661) 449-9342 The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to arms in anger, ...
  • " Flip Flopped"
    � Dear Editor, � The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number". � How can flying "an unlimited number"of U.S fl ...
  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
  • USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
    The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
    by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]

Unsuitable Blog

  • English School Embraces iPads, Apple and Techn ...
    There is a rule in civilized society that goes something like this: Whenever something is compulsory then it must have something wrong with it. We see it all the time, in the school system and it’s one-size-fits-all approach to child indoctrination; in the application of statutory rules that are ...
  • The Consumer Culture Will Never Be Convicted
    November 28, 2008: As the recession really started to bite in the Western world, something was stirring in the minds of people across the USA. Black Friday, that time of year when, traditionally, retail businesses move from being in the “red” to being in the “black”, had taken on a Pavlovian sig ...
  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: âWhen a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.â I wasnât commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to describe the s ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Sourcemap Crowdsources Product Supply Chains, ...
    This post was authored by Matthew Hockenberry, who co-created Sourcemap as a visiting scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media. Knowing where things come from is a fundamental part of humanity. Things are very different when they come from different places. The provenance of a work t ...
  • Journalists Should Join Google+ to Understand ...
    This month's Carnival of Journalism, a site that I've organized where bloggers can convene to all write about the same topic, was hosted by Kathy Gill, a social media consultant and senior lecturer at the University of Washington, who seized on the new social network that is Google+. Still in i ...
  • ATTN-SPAN Personalizes C-SPAN Footage of Your Reps
    Last month, I had the privilege of participating in the Mozilla-Knight Learning Lab. This four-week online lecture series pulled together 60 individuals interested in journalism and technology and got them to sit together watching an array of guest lecturers. The end product from each participan ...
  • Using Maps to Make Sense of the Unimaginable i ...
    Development Seed recently launched horn.wfp.org, a mapping tool that visualizes one of the worst famines in recent history that's unfolding in the Horn of Africa. We did this project in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, to leverage data from ...
  • PANDA Aims to Make Data Analysis Easier for Jo ...
    What's got rows and columns and sucks at data? Excel. Though to be fair, we misuse it. Excel was built for spreadsheets, but it's become most folks' go-to kit for poking at data. It's installed on your computer. It opens CSV files. It's what you know. Of course, databases are great at data, b ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Financial Jihad - Australian Newspaper Likens ...
    A leading Aussie newspaper, The Australian, has editorialized about the Nazi-style tactics of the anti-Israel boycott movement, patterned after and evolved from the one begun by the Hitler regime. During the 1930's, Hitler's Brownshirts, disrupted concerts featuring Jewish performers, and picket ...
  • Pakistan on Edge - Pakistani Non-Muslims Seek ...
    Members of minority religions in Pakistan, which is predominately Muslim, are prepared to “take to the streets for the salvation of the Muslim Shahbaz Tasser", kidnapped a week ago. Tasser is the son of a prominent Muslim businessman and politician who was murdered earlier this year after he had ...
  • Medcial Edge - New Laser Technology will Zap A ...
    A laser developed at the University of Michigan is designed to melt fat without burning surrounding tissue. It could potentially be used to treat acne, researchers say. Its 1,708-nanometer, infrared beam takes advantage of a unique wavelength that fat can absorb more efficiently than water , whi ...
  • The Weapon's Edge - Laser Technology to Deflec ...
    Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company."Battlefield terrain in places like Afghanistan and Iraq can be so rough that our troops have often had t ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Opinion Survey shows Wide Marg ...
    In a wide-ranging opinion survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, Muslims living in the U.S. show little apprehension as the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches. Completed this year, the comprehensive public opinion survey found no indication of increased alienation or anger amo ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • An Early Review of Obama's Jobs Speech on Thur ...
    Four nights from now, President Obama will be giving his much anticipated jobs speech.� The speech that is supposed to be so good that we had to wait a month for it to happen. Under pressure from the country's dismal employment picture, last month the White House announced it would be announci ...
  • If The Palestinians Want Peace Why Do They Hon ...
    Those "peace-loving, moderate" terrorists of Fatah, run by Palestinian Authority's (PA) President Abbas, claim to the world they are looking to make peace with their Israeli neighbors. They are even trying to get the United Nations to declare them a state, to allow them into the community ...
  • Turkey to Israel and White House to Real Middl ...
    By Barry Rubin The �Godfather� film coined a famous phrase: To make someone an offer they can�t refuse. But in diplomacy there�s the opposite phenomen: To send someone an ultimatum you know they can�t accept. An example of the latter is recent Turkish government diplomacy toward (or should ...
  • Democratic Party Strategists Trying to Destabi ...
    For about a month there have been protests in Israel demanding progressive-type social justice and a more equitable economy, but according to reports their exact demands were not clear, but their language certainly sounded familiar, kind of like what comes out of the Democratic�Party camp in the ...
  • An Islamist Terrorist Takes Command of Libyan ...
    Finally, we have evidence that Islamists and even al-Qaeda supporters will play a central role in Libya�s new regime. Up to now there has been reasonable speculation that the U.S. government and NATO might be installing an anti-Western, Islamist government in Libya. Now there�s proof that thi ...

The Real Agenda

  • Obama Orders Sanctions, Regime Change in Syria
    The United States “corporate creation” used powers given to him through several “Emergency Acts” to mandate confiscation of property and end of business with Syria. Activist Post September 5, 2011 Once again President Obama has used the authority vested in him in the International Emergency Econ ...
  • NATO Shocking Terror against civilians
    Pravda.ru September 1, 2011 A massacre, a genocide, a razing of a town to the ground. Their crime? None. The only way NATO terrorists can take the town is if they kill everyone. The city of Sirte, hometown of Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi, is under siege from NATO barbarians. So far in the 4 ...
  • Death by Plastic: BPA is changing Sexual Orien ...
    Infowars Nightly News September 5, 2011 Bisphenol A, the dangerous estrogen compound in plastic drinking bottles and food containers is a known toxic substance outlawed in Canada and Europe, but still used in the United States, even though the FDA raised concerns regarding exposure of fetuses, i ...
  • Cartel de Sinaloa es protegido por EE.UU.
    Por Bill Conroy The Narcosphere 03 de septiembre 2011 Originalmente publicado 31 de julio 2011 Traducido al Español por Luis R. Miranda La presunta inmunidad de los jefes de Sinaloa fue dada a cambio de proporcionar información sobre las organizaciones de narcotraficantes rivales. El hijo de un ...
  • Sinaloa Cartel Becomes King of Mexico Meth Pro ...
    With the decline of Mexico‘s Familia Michoacana drug gang, it appears that the Sinaloa Cartel has stepped up as the largest distributor of methamphetamine to the U.S., illustrating an inherent contradiction in any “war on drugs.” by  Geoffrey Ramsey In Sight Crime September 3, 2011 Over the pa ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm no-go zones to be established
    The State Government is set to introduce new planning rules that will restrict where wind farms can be constructed. Sweeping changes to the rules governing the construction of wind farms in Victoria will be gazetted today. The Planning Minister, Matthew Guy, has amended local government planning ...
  • Wind farms under fire for bird kills
    Six birds found dead recently in Southern California�s Tehachapi Mountains were majestic golden eagles. But some bird watchers say that in an area where dozens of wind turbines slice the air they were also sitting ducks. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating to determine what kille ...
  • Blade gets splintered during ferocious storm
    CONNEAUT � Lightning damaged one of the blades on the gigantic wind turbine on Conneaut�s lakefront early Thursday morning, knocking the big generator out of commission, officials said. Composite material that coats the wooden blades was splintered by the bolt. Pieces of the material were jarred ...
  • Huge swathes of Welsh woodland could be razed ...
    The scale of the area of Welsh woodland that could be razed to build new wind farms has emerged in a tender put out by the Forestry Commission. Some 386 hectares � each equivalent to the size of a rugby pitch � could be cleared of trees in a plan opponents fear would dramatically change the land ...
  • Court won’t enforce turbine noise rules
    The Morrow County Court stunned a crowd Wednesday when it refused to enforce an Oregon law that limits the noise a wind project can make at nearby homes. The court voted 2-1 that, although noise from the Willow Creek wind project exceeds state standards at a few homes, the violations did not war ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • U.S. Is Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mort ...
    “In the years before 2007, “the market was so frothy then it was hard to find good quality loans to securitize and hold in your portfolio,” said David Felt, a lawyer who served as deputy general counsel of the finance agency until January 2010. . . . Fannie and Freddie had other reasons to buy [...]
  • White House Projects Lower Deficit
    “But the report says that the national debt, which stands at $14.6 trillion, would still continue to climb if a budget proposed by President Obama in February were enacted. The debt would rise to $24 trillion by 2021 — or 99 percent of the nation’s entire annual economic output. White House budg ...
  • Natural Disasters and Disastrous Economics
    The inability to imagine the unseen is the source of a great deal of bad economics.
  • $60 Billion Squandered in War Zones
    “The U.S. has squandered as much as $60 billion in less than a decade on contract waste and fraud during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a special commission launched by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) War is a government program. FEE Timely Classic “Efficiency i ...
  • Government Challenges AT&T Bid for T-Mobile
    “President Obama vowed before he was elected to beef up the countryâs antitrust enforcement. By suing to block AT&Tâs $39 billion merger with T-Mobile, the Justice Department is making its highest-profile effort yet to keep that promise.” (Washington Post) The Competition Czar is displeased. FEE ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there that ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a litt ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my o ...
  • Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
    This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
  • Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
    For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...

Facing South

  • Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
  • Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
    On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...
  • VOICES: Remembering the lessons of the Hamlet fire
    By Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch Twenty years ago this Saturday, 25 workers died in a fire at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. They were trapped in the blaze, their footprints left on the locked door they couldn't force open before they died. The ow ...
  • Mississippi Gov. Barbour's relative committed ...
    A federal civil court ruled last week that a relative of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) committed massive fraud against FEMA -- part of a larger pattern of the governor's associates profiting from the Katrina recovery. The case involved Rosemary Barbour (in photo), the wife of Charles Barbo ...
  • Nurses rally to heal America with Wall Street tax
    Nurses will gather across the U.S. on Thursday, Sept. 1 to urge Congress to tax financial transactions and use the revenue to fund social programs desperately needed amid the ongoing economic crisis. The nationwide event organized by the National Nurses United will include visits to some 60 con ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Security and Islam in the New Libya
    Libya's new government will likely face threats from Gaddafi loyalists from outside it as well as a vying for power form Islamic forces inside it.
  • Viewpoints: Rebels Face a Post-Gaddafi Libya
    Muammar Gaddafi has been overthrown by rebel forces, and Libya's National Transitional Council now must confront the challenges of rebuilding a battered, liberated country.
  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
  • Living with Disabilities in Uganda
    The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The basics
    To paraphrase many of the greatest religious and moral leaders, there is only one law: imagine you are in someone else’s shoes, then treat them as you would wish to be treated. Or, put another way, act towards everyone as if you loved them. The vast majority of political and economic commentary ...
  • Again, the absolute inability to consider obvi ...
    The NYTimes on solutions to the scarcity of important drugs which are generic and thus of little interest to big pharma: Beyond limited responses, like using the F.D.A.’s discretionary powers to expedite temporary imports of drugs that are sold overseas but not here, there are very few ways to e ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • RIP, Jack Layton, Federal New Democratic Party ...
    If you haven’t heard, Jack died of cancer.  I only saw him in person once, at a Toronto council meeting back when he was a city councilor, but he impressed me at the time as one of only three councilors who showed decent respect to the citizens giving testimony.  I didn’t know then, and don’t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Cool climate paper sinks journal editor
    The editor of the journal Remote Sensing resigned today, saying in an editorial that his journal never should have published a controversial paper in July that challenged the reliability of climate models used to forecast global warming. The paper, by Roy Spencer and William Braswell of the U ...
  • Agency to consider endangered listing for US r ...
    Posted on behalf of Meredith Wadman. In a small but significant first step published in the Federal Register today the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is opening the door to listing captive chimpanzees in the US as 'endangered.' The agency’s move comes in response to a March, 2010 petit ...
  • King’s brings back chemistry
    Posted on behalf of Katharine Sanderson. Eight years after its shock exit, chemistry at King’s College London has made a surprise return. The university closed its chemistry department in 2003, a move that angered the UK’s chemistry community, and was a continuing trend of the times, with ...
  • Report: NASA orbital debris office is struggli ...
    The threat of space junk has reached a tipping point, and NASA’s programmes to evaluate those risks are underfunded and understaffed, says a National Academies report released today. The panel, tasked with evaluating NASA’s orbital debris programme at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, ...
  • Tobacco company seeks access to secret data on ...
    The world's largest tobacco company is trying to force academics at the University of Stirling, UK, to hand over confidential research data about British teenagers' smoking habits (Independent, Telegraph, BBC). Philip Morris International is using Freedom of Information (FOI) laws to try to g ...

new geography

  • The Golden State Is Crumbling
    The recent announcement that California's unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada—should have come as a surprise but frankly did not. From the beginning of the recession, the Golden State has been stuck bringing up a humbled nation's rea ...
  • Whatever Happened to 'The Vision Thing'? Part II
    More than two years ago (March 2009, to be precise), New Geography published an article I wrote, entitled Whatever Happened to ‘The Vision Thing'?. It began: When I was in elementary school, I remember reading about the remarkable transformations that the future would bring: Flying cars, manned ...
  • Millennials Have the Answer to the Country’s F ...
    America is about to enter a presidential campaign that promises to be filled with divisive rhetoric and sharp differences over which direction the nominees want to take the country. This will be the fourth time in American history that the country has been sharply divided over the question o ...
  • Supply of Tech Workers Greater Than Estimated ...
    CNBC reports the information technology (IT) sector is “where the jobs are.” And the Los Angeles Times writes that tech jobs in San Francisco are a “rare bright spot in the nation’s troubled economy.” EMSI’s most current data, however, paints a slightly less rosy picture. It’s clear that IT an ...
  • High-density Housing Reflects Dense Government ...
    Citizens in Australia�s major cities are becoming increasingly unhappy about what they perceive as the escalating deterioration in their quality of life - traffic congestion, overloaded public transport, unaffordable housing for young people, increases in the costs of basic services and over ...

GM Watch

  • Are GM crops a dangerous diversion?
    1.Will Genetic Engineering Divert Us from Essential Food Production Science? 2.Engineered Pest Problems NOTE: The Union of Concerned Scientists has started a new blog covering all of the issues they work on. Several scientists and analysts that work on food and agriculture issues are part of t ...
  • US pushing GMOs worldwide
    1.US plan for biotech outreach (via Wikileaks) 2.List of US target countries for GM development 3.New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Promote GM Crops Worldwide 4.Wikileaks: US Pushing GMOs Around the World NOTE: See also this useful wiki resource on U.S. State Department Promotion of Agricu ...
  • Monsanto's BT corn reported failing in several ...
    1.Monsanto Corn Falls to Illinois Bugs as Investigation Widens 2.Corn pest worries region's farmers; rootworm adapts to resistant plant 3.Monsanto biotech corn not killing pests, research finds EXTRACTS: Scientists sounded the alarm years ago, but now their predictions appear to be an encroachi ...
  • It's official: Glyphosate used on GM crops fou ...
    It's official: Glyphosate used on GM crops found in US rivers, rainfall GM Freeze, 31 August 2011 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/165/  Monitoring by the US Geological Survey (USGS) has revealed that glyphosate and its breakdown product Aminomethylphosphonic acid (known as AMPA) are frequ ...
  • It's official: Glyphosate used on GM crops fou ...
    It's official: Glyphosate used on GM crops found in US rivers, rainfall GM Freeze, 31 August 2011 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/165/  Monitoring by the US Geological Survey (USGS) has revealed that glyphosate and its breakdown product Aminomethylphosphonic acid (known as AMPA) are frequ ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
    Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
  • Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
  • Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
    Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles (1,631.5 km). The trip lasted 36 hou ...
  • Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
    The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent ...
  • Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
    I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Labor Day 2011: What Are We Celebrating? The L ...
    If you still have a good job, you certainly have something to celebrate on Labor Day 2011.  So far you have survived the decline of the U.S. economy.  But your day may be coming soon.  This weekend, there will be millions of Americans that will not be doing any celebrating.  The ...
  • Even Goldman Sachs Secretly Believes That An E ...
    Goldman Sachs is doing it again.  Goldman is telling the public that everything is going to be just fine, but meanwhile they are advising their top clients to bet on a huge financial collapse.  On August 16th, a 54 page report authored by Goldman strategist Alan Brazil was distr ...
  • 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
    Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall.  Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008.  Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.  Wave after wav ...
  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...

Desertification

  • Human nitrogen additions to terrestrial ecosys ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110801094301.htm Climatic Benefits from Carbon Sequestration Are Largely Offset by Increased Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Study Finds ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2011) â Recent studies have shown that human nitrogen additions to terrestrial ecosystems ...
  • Food production : plants that can grow in diff ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901134643.htm Manipulating Plants’ Circadian Clock May Make All-Season Crops Possible ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2011) â Yale University researchers have identified a key genetic gear that keeps the circadian clock of plants ticking, a finding ...
  • Saudi spends billions to win the food war (Gre ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/saudi-food-war/ How Saudi Arabia Plans To Win The Food War Tafline Laylin | May 8th, 2011 Without its oil wealth, Saudi Arabiaâs 27 million inhabitants would eventually starve. At a recent social event, the countryâs Minister of … Continue reading →
  • Desert Sand Storm in Saudi Arabia (Facebook / ...
    Read at Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Desert-greening-in-Saudi-Arabia/206955872682729 Desert Sand Storm in Saudi Arabia Friday, March 25 2011 http://youtu.be/8nYcoErIP0E
  • Drought coupled with some absolutely shameful ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8612.0.138.0 Brace⨠Yourself⨠for Food⨠Scarcity Have you noticed rising grocery bills? That is just one sign among many that the worldâs intricate system of food production is in … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • The weekly watchdog: Aug. 29 - Sept. 2
    iWatch in the News This week's top investigations from iWatch News From left (clockwise): President Obama tours Solyndra headquarters, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a malnourished child living in a Somalian refugee camp, an ATF agent and damage at the Pentagon in the days following the 9/1 ...
  • Did Perry double Texas budget?
    FactWatch Super PAC singles out Perry for 'doubling' Texas' budget, but doesn't have all the facts Screen shot from Keep Conservatives United ad titled 'Budget.' YouTube A pro-Bachmann PAC misleads viewers when it says Rick Perry doubled the size of Texas' budget from 20 ...
  • Windfalls of War: A decade of keeping governme ...
    Windfalls of War United Flight 175 collides with south tower of the World Trade Center. Chao Soi Cheong/AP As night fell on Sept. 11, 2001, angry flames still leapt high from a massive gash in the Pentagon and ash fell from the sky onto the rubble of the collapsed World ...
  • Obama halts controversial EPA regulation
    The Politics of Energy President Obama kills costly environmental proposals ahead of next week's Congressional session President Barack Obama waves from the East Room of the White House. � Carolyn Kaster/AP file President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administra ...
  • Weinberger discusses no-bid contracts on Democ ...
    iWatch in the News Reporter Sharon Weinberger discusses a decade of no-bid military contracting on DemocracyNow with Amy Goodman. Watch the segment here.

backofthebook.ca

  • Jack Layton’s bequest to the West
    By Frank Moher As God's cruel jokes go, this one's a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, ...
  • Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
    By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
  • Designer Worms
    by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
  • Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...
    By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...
  • The Star and The Mark: open for shilling
    By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website -- although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid "commu ...

libcom

  • The Prince and the Pauper
    “The general lesson learnt by political England from its experience of pauperism is none other than that, in the course of history and despite all administrative measures, pauperism has developed into a national institution which has inevitably become the object of a highly ramified and extensi ...
  • The rebellion in Chile
    Chile_anarquista.jpg A number of groups in the San Francisco Bay Area will hold a vigil and protest in front of the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco on September 9 at 4 p.m.. This flier explains o ...
  • Don't Riot Just Buy It
    Music Video inspired by the LONDON RIOTS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGZz3MdGBiY
  • Unions Call for House Committee Investigation ...
    Communications Workers of America (CWA) International President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement today regarding their request to a member of the House Select Intelligence Commit ...
  • Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, summer 2011 (ful ...
    punkway_zine_6_eng.jpg We do not need sympathizers. We do not need someone who like our magazine. We do not need people who carry it in a backpack. We need those people who are walking with us nip an ...

Free Range International

  • Magical Thinking in the Land Down Under
    Like most humans, I’m a creature of routine.  Every morning when I get into the office I take the first 20 minutes or so of the workday and dedicate them to browsing the top news headlines.  Obviously, I read a lot about Afghanistan.  I’ve been reading at least one snort-worthy article per day f ...
  • Masters of the Obvious
    The day after E2 posted the droid post a new report by Afghan “experts” was released.  It is a complete crock of BS, which couples blindingly obvious facts to a set of recommendations that are so wrong they can easily be dismissed by reasonably intelligent eight year old children (but not our b ...
  • These Aren’t the Droids You’re Loo ...
    Over on the excellent Afghanistan blog, Ghosts of Alexander, Christian Bleuer has re-posted a piece written by an anonymous friend of his entitled, How to be an Afghan Expert. It’s a 12-point tutorial on how to portray yourself as an Afghanistan expert in order to land yourself a $1,000/day sala ...
  • Attention To Detail
    My good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share.  I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…Inshallah from the [...]
  • Who’s the Enemy Here?
    Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country.  This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus.  I was insp ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...
  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
    CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
  • Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
    Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
  • Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
    Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

  • Bay Window Detail Drawing
    Custom Bay Window Detail by Scotty Scotts Contracting Dual Pane with Blinds in the Glass Energy Star Rated Windows for St Louis Area Advanced Framing Techniques All Exterior Joints Sealed with Caulk and Dow Window and Door Sealer 2×4 and 2×6 Framing Members 1/2 ” plywood sheeting Prefinished Oak ...
  • Dryer Net-Energy Saving Product-
    Two Senior citizens from Washington, MO have developed a new filter for an electric dryer. Jim and Sandy Atkinson were driving around and saw steam coming out of the side of homes. They thought, "What a waste of heat!" So, they started experimenting with different products and were not satisfied ...
  • Seeking NFL Fantasy Football Players-join leag ...
    Click here to join NFL Fantasy Football League Warriors Only When Prompted enter: League ID: 352267 League Password: football Warriors Only will use the following Scoring Options for the 2011-12 Season. Newly Added Defensive Point Scoring and Defensive Player Positions. Note: The Scoring Options ...
  • Attic Insulation
    - Proper Insulation Levels in your Attic coupled with Ventilation will save you Money on your Energy Bills. Certified Insulation Installer for: Batt Type, Spray Foam, Loose Fill- Green and Eco Friendly options are always available. US Department of Energy and the Green Building Initiative quote ...
  • Missouri Flunks! — Save EPA & Coal Ash R ...
    Subject: Missouri Flunks! — Save EPA & Coal Ash Rule — Landfill Update Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:05:26 +0000 Click to view this email in a browser Some news and information from Labadie Environmental Organization August 25, 2011

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Revolutionary Change: an Expatriate Perspective
    Book Reviewers Needed – Free Download I have just finished my third book Revolutionary Change: an Expatriate Perspective. It’s my first non-fiction work, a collection of essays on change making. Right now it’s only available as an ebook. However it should be out in soft cover by the end of the ...
  • The Bush EPA and Fluoride
    The following is a second excerpt from my submission to New Plymouth District Council on fluoridation. It describes a study the Bush EPA commissioned from the National Research Council that has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Dental fluorosis - present in 41% of US teenagers The ...
  • Ending Water Fluoridation: One We Can Win
    At present the residents of New Plymouth (population 55,000) are embroiled in a battle to end water fluoridation. A group of about 90 of us have been organizing since April. You can visit our Facebook page Fluoride-free Taranaki at http://www.facebook.com/groups/207748655919333/ - you can even j ...
  • Sticking It to Ron Paul
    It’s open season on Ron Paul in the so-called “alternative” media, thanks to the Congressman’s strong showing in the Iowa straw polls. The venomous tone and absence of policy analysis is remarkably similar to the hatchet job the “alternative” media performed on Ralph Nader in 2004 and 2008. Cou ...
  • The Tyranny of Opinion Polls
    In many western democracies, government by the people has been replaced by government by public opinion polls. Opinion polls are meant to represent scientifically validated studies of the views of voters. However I believe their true purpose is to discredit (via low ratings) Democratic and prog ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...
  • Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011   Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org   Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning   Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiL ...
  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...

Salon

  • Rick Perry goes it alone
    Although born and raised in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, I'm the hybrid child of an upstate New York father and a mother from Texas -- they met at Fort Hood (then Camp Hood) during World War II. And you thought different species couldn't mate.
  • Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medi ...
    Oliver Willis brings word of yet another panel of scientists announcing that there is no link whatsoever between the M.M.R. vaccine and autism. “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” said Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, who knows what she's talk ...
  • Will "Joe the Plumber" run for Congress?
    "Joe the Plumber," a man named Sam who is not a plumber, may run for Congress. Joe, a briefly famous desperate attempt by the John McCain campaign to paint Barack Obama as an enemy of the working man, is mulling a run against Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who's been in the House since 1983. Joe ...
  • This Labor Day, we need protests
    Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade.
  • The saddest Republican candidacy of them all
    There's a reason why George Pataki seems to be moving toward a presidential campaign, but "because Republicans want him to" is not it.

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • A Storm of Anxiety Over Fresh Oil Batters the Gulf
    In the Gulf, another maelstrom has hit.�But the tropical storm Mother Nature has�brewed� is not the top concern on some resident�s minds. Instead they are worried about the threat of�fresh oil sighted in the�in the general vicinity of BP�s Macondo well.��
  • Will Solar Bankruptcies Be Different From Etha ...
    The solar equipment business appears to be undergoing a shakeout, as three US solar firms have declared bankruptcy in the last few weeks. The most prominent of these was Solyndra, which was notable for its receipt of a $535 million federal loan guarantee.
  • Rick Perry, Lyin’ and Denyin’
    �How can Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry talk so irresponsibly about global warming�and get away with it?
  • How Small Is That Revised Marcellus Estimate?
    I see in The Hill that some critics of shale gas drilling are pointing to a revised estimate of the shale gas resources in the Marcellus formation as evidence that there's not enough gas to justify any risk from hydraulic fracturing.
  • Insurers and Climate Risk
    Climate Risk Disclosure by Insurers: Evaluating Insurer Responses to the NAIC Climate Disclosure Survey:

EU Times

  • UK: Children could be removed from their Famil ...
    Although it sounds like a story from the Twilight Zone, it looks like in England it’s illegal to be fat. Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed from their family by social workers after their parents failed to bring their weight under control. In the first case of its ...
  • Typhoon Talas kills 15 in Japan
    Heavy rains and mudslides from Typhoon Talas have left at least 15 people dead and more than 43 others missing in Japan, local media reports. Evacuation orders and advisories have been issued to 460,000 people in western and central Japan, Kyodo News agency reported. The Japan Meteorological Age ...
  • Libya: Gaddafi’s army of mercenaries face backlash
    Many have been arrested and accused of fighting for dictator, but claim they were press-ganged. Earlier this year, as revolution and siege ground Tripoli to a halt, Mehdi Hassan knew where to look for work. He would drive his taxi to a roundabout in the south-west of the capital and wait for for ...
  • England football players insulted by Bulgarian ...
    Football Association chiefs have made an official complaint after black England footballers were subjected to vile racist abuse from Bulgarian fans. Manchester United’s Ashley Young and Arsenal’s Theo Walcott were taunted with monkey noises and Nazi salutes during England’s victory in Sofia last ...
  • Sarkozy wants to attack Iran
    It seems that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warmed to the role of Napoleon. The events in Libya have infatuated him. Gaddafi has not been toppled yet, but Sarkozy already threatens Iran. “Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventiv ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Libya Rebel Leader Underscores Our Deep Hypocricy
    When it first became clear that NATO actions in Libya were going to far exceed the UN mandate of a no-fly zone to protect civilians and would instead be a massive and sustained bombing campaign on all kinds of military targets in support of the rebels who would - in all likelihood given the ass ...
  • Egyptian ambassador admits terrorists coming f ...
    Palestine Today reports on statements made by the Egyptian ambassador to the PA, Yasser Osman, in Ramallah. Osman confirms that Egypt is closing tunnels in Rafah, but not any of the tunnels that are used to smuggle goods into Gaza; rather only the tunnels that "harm the national security of Egy ...
  • Darling's most damaging claim
    His claim that Labour had no "credible economic policy" is a gift to George Osborne. Of all the claims from Alistair Darling's memoir (£), it is his assertion that Labour went into the last election without a "credible economic policy" that is most damaging for the party. Darling all but accus ...
  • iPhone 5 Details Revealed
    With iOS 5 you won’t need a PC or Mac to use your iThing; you can activate it wirelessly and download updates over the air. Wi-Fi syncing means that if you do want to pair it with a computer, it does so wirelessly every time you plug it into a power source. As well as the iPhone 5, iOS5 will wo ...
  • Apple Manufacturers Begin iPhone 5 Production ...
    A report from Japanese site  Macotakara claims that Apple OEM manufacturers have begun iPhone 5 production for an October launch. Foxconn will allegedly assemble 85% of the units, with Petragon accounting for 15% of production volume. While iPhone 5 units are being assembled, Apple has yet to i ...

Groklaw

  • Facebook Lawyers Disclosed E-Mail Passwords in ...
    Facebook's lawyers, from the 1,000-lawyer firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, included passwords to Ceglia's Web-based e-mail accounts in a court document filed Sept. 1 in federal court in Buffalo, New York, according to a filing by Ceglia. The papers were removed from the public file the next day ...
  • We won and we didn't notice - a conversation w ...
    "This was the famous event in 97 or 98 when Oracle announced that they were going to be porting to Linux. So I turned up for the talk, and arrived at the same time as Linus. They were queuing around the block to get in, and I thought 'Wow'. Linus wasn't well known in the Valley at the time. His ...
  • Austin Judge Cancels Kindergarten Party
    In his order, the judge wrote: "Greetings and Salutations! You are invited to a kindergarten party on Thursday, September 1. . . The party will feature many exciting and informative lessons, including: How to telephone and communicate with a lawyer; How to enter into reasonable agreements a ...
  • Prosser tempered ruling on bargaining
    At one stage, Gableman, Roggensack and Ziegler wanted the four justices in the majority to order court clerks to issue their decision without the consent of the chief justice, Prosser told investigators. Prosser did not support that idea and told them he would not join them, according to his in ...
  • Gableman: Bradley struck him - only a year lat ...
    State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is sticking by his story that Justice Ann Walsh Bradley hit him on the back of the head, but said Thursday it happened a year later than he originally claimed. Bradley said in a strongly worded denial Thursday that she never struck Gableman. Three ot ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Wind lens could triple wind turbine output, sa ...
    The lens focuses the wind and makes the blades turn faster. Treehugger has more.
  • FDA to charge fees to re-examine imported food
    The fee is for re-examining food where there was a violation during the first examination. Yet FDA may not actually examine the food the first time. It get murkier. The new regulations may be so broadly worded that the $224 an hour fees (ouch) get leveled on many importers. FDAimports think thi ...
  • CIA and Gaddafi government were buddies, appar ...
    Documents seized at the Libyan intelligence headquarters have revealed a surprisingly close relationship between the CIA and their counterparts in the Gadhafi regime. Why they even sent Christmas presents to each other. Isn’t that sweet? One report, in The New York Times, said documents suggeste ...
  • Whatever happened to ‘The Vision Thing’?
    New Geography As of August 2011, fourteen months away from what promises to be perhaps the most polarizing Presidential election in our Nation’s history, we are farther away than we have ever been from having a shared national vision for the future of our country. Not only do we not have a sha ...
  • How a smart grid can minimize blackouts
    ComEd of Chicago explains. If Smart Grid technology had been in place, here’s how it would have minimized the impact of the storm: ComEd would have known customers were out of power without them having to call us. Technology would have pinpointed outages allowing us to dispatch crews more quickl ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Libya: The longer view
    The NATO-assisted uprising in Libya is now in the last phases of taking the whole country. These phases may well be marked by some major rights abuses-- conducted in the name of "mopping up" operations and motivated by some combination of vengeance and triumphalism. I hope that such excesses a ...
  • I've been on vacation...
    ... with the whole family. It proved ways harder to pay attention to the news than I'd expected. Something to do with having three grandchildren to pay attention to, and very limited web access. Anyway, lots to blog about. Watch this space.
  • Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...
    As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
  • Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
    I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
  • Remembering Qana, five years on
    On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...

frogblog

  • Open letter to Judge Philippa Cunningham
    Jan Logie is ranked 9th on the Green Party list.  On current polling, she is a certainty to be an MP after the next election.  Jan has her own blog site, and today she posted an open letter there to Judge Philippa Cunningham, who last week discharged without conviction a man who admitted sexuall ...
  • Book reinforces Green criticism of NZ deployme ...
    Nicky Hager’s Other People’s Wars, shows that New Zealand was more involved in the Iraq war than most people think. The book’s reinforces the points I was making at the time, that our Orion and frigate in the Gulf, and our army engineers in Basra, were actually assisting the US/UK war effort. Ou ...
  • General debate, September 4, 2011
  • The nose that knows
    Frogblog readers may have read that Green MP Gareth Hughes broke his nose playing for the Parliamentary Rugby XV last week. The good news for Gareth is that he has now had surgery to straighten his nose, and it is on the mend. The bad news is that he has to wear a rather annoying [...]
  • Making Jaws look civilised
    On Sunday, baffled visitors found between one and two hundred juvenile rig sharks missing their backs washed up on Waiheke Island, in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. What happened?

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Banned for Pets and Farm Animals, but Okay for ...
    Story at-a-glance There's a conspiracy of silence seeking to keep Americans ignorant of the fact that dental amalgams contain mercury The term "silver filling" is purposely misuse ...
  • The Paleo Diet: Should You Eat Like a "Caveman"?
    "Body by science" by Doug McGuff, MD from Ancestry on Vimeo. Story at-a-glance Going "paleo" -- similar to the way our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate -- can help you optimize your health and live a l ...
  • Dogs Can Smell Cancer on Your Breath
    Lung cancer is really hard to detect early. But a new study done in Germany, reported by Gizmodo.com, has found that dogs can be taught to sniff out 71 out of 100 cancer patients. They also were able to pick out 372 out of 400 who did NOT have the disease. "Not only that, but they cou ...
  • Still Carrying Around This Potent Neurotoxin N ...
    By Dr. Mercola Story at-a-glance Dental amalgam, a.k.a "silver fillings" contain anywhere from 49 to 54 percent mercury Toxic mercury vapors from "silver fillings" are released ...
  • The Widely Prescribed Drug that's No Better th ...
    Researchers have found that antipsychotic drugs which are widely prescribed to treat severe post-traumatic stress symptoms for veterans are no more effective than placebos.� In addition, the drugs come with serious side effects. The finding is such a serious blow to current treatment standards ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Savannah Miller designs t-shirt for Survival
    Savannah Miller modeling her t-shirt designed for Survival. © James Betts / Survival Fashion designer Savannah Miller has designed an exclusive limited edition T-shirt for Survival International – inspired by the Bushmen of the Kalahari in Botswana and their struggle to defend their lands ...
  • New signs indicate uncontacted Amazon Indians ...
    The uncontacted Indians of this region made worldwide headlines in February 2011. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival A recent expedition in the western Brazilian Amazon has found new signs of uncontacted Indians, indicating that they are moving to different parts of the forest. It is likely ...
  • Anti-extinction campaign launched to protect 3 ...
    Nukak mother and child. © David Hill/Survival The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin. The campaign responds to a barrage ...
  • Living the longest – indigenous Brazilian cele ...
    Maria Lucimar Pereira of the Kaxinawá tribe is thought to be the oldest person in the world © INSS/Survival Survival has located a Brazilian Indian, believed to be the oldest living person in the world, as she prepares to celebrate her 121st birthday. Maria Lucimar Pereira is one of the Ka ...
  • UN more worried about its logo than human righ ...
    A Totobiegosode woman after she was forced out of the forest, Paraguayan Chaco. © Ruedi Suter/Survival Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay have been left amazed by the UN’s reaction to a formal complaint they issued against cattle ranching company Yaguarete Pora. In May, Ayoreo leaders issued a for ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Montreal and its place in the world
    We came in 16th this time in the widely touted Livability Survey conducted annually by Britain's the Economist magazine. We rated even lower, 24th, in this year's Monocle magazine Quality of Life Survey. In this one we came second-last among the 25 towns surveyed. Well, big deal.
  • Some political mergers have more appeal than o ...
    The gush of talk this week about a merger between the federal Liberal and New Democratic parties was for the most part mediagenerated hot air in late-summer days when nothing much was stirring in the nation's capital, save a gathering of Liberal caucus survivors still in collective shock from th ...
  • It's in everyone's interests to keep kids in s ...
    There are high hopes for a new program, to which the provincial government is contributing $1.5 million, aimed at encouraging young Quebecers to complete their high school education.
  • Inspection reports: the stonewalling must stop
    After holding out for months for patently spurious reasons, Quebec's transport ministry recently said that inspection reports for the Mercier Bridge and other provincial infrastructure would be made public after all. That was at the beginning of last month, but with a new month upon us we're sti ...
  • Montreal needs your input
    After many failed attempts over the past two decades, the Communaut� m�tropolitaine de Montr�al and the 82 municipalities it serves are now legally bound to adopt a Metropolitan Land Use and Development Plan by the end of the year.

Food World Order

  • monsanto's pesticide problems & corporate envi ...
    from forbes: Monsanto, the world’s largest agriculture seed producer, is under fire after scientists in the U.S. recently discovered what they believe to be a case of crop-eating bugs developing a resistance to the company’s genetically modified corn plants. Some researchers believe that the dis ...
  • 9/1 binge & purge: sugar, slave, blast
    Antifreeze-tainted vinegar kills 11 in China, 120 poisoned* Foreign students protest slave labor at Hershey's* One injured in ADM blast near Clinton, Iowa* video: Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food Investigations*
  • usda signs with rockefeller's council of found ...
    from food freedom: On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA has signed an agreement with the Council on Foundations “to provide new sources of capital, new job opportunities, workforce investment strategies,” and, last on the list but the heart of it: “identification of a ...
  • ban on using food stamps to buy soda rejected ...
    from nytimes: Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with them. The decision derailed one of the mayor’s big ideas to fight obesity and poor nutrition in the city. Mr. Bloomberg a ...
  • blue plastic chips found in ground beef
    from food safety news: A North Carolina-based company has issued a recall of its ground beef product after a consumer found an unexpected ingredient in the product - blue plastic chips. Vantage Foods of Lenoir, North Carolina is recalling 1,642 pounds of ground beef that may contain the foreig ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit ou ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from M ...
  • 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 �

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

  • Labor Day 2011: What Are We Celebrating? The L ...
    If you still have a good job, you certainly have something to celebrate on Labor Day 2011.  So far you have survived the decline of the U.S. economy.  But your day may be coming soon.  This weekend, there will be millions of Americans that will not be doing any celebrating.  The ...
  • Even Goldman Sachs Secretly Believes That An E ...
    Goldman Sachs is doing it again.  Goldman is telling the public that everything is going to be just fine, but meanwhile they are advising their top clients to bet on a huge financial collapse.  On August 16th, a 54 page report authored by Goldman strategist Alan Brazil was distr ...
  • 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
    Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall.  Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008.  Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.  Wave after wav ...
  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 3rd September 2011
    "In terms of the position with EDL, the original stance stands, they are not extreme right wing as a group, indeed if you look at their published material on their web-site, they are actively moving away from the right and violence with their mission statement etc." - Adrian Tudway, Metropoli ...
  • Whatever you do, don't mention multiculturalis ...
    Iconic comedian John Cleese has stepped into the political spotlight today after telling of his concerns about the nature of London. Speaking on Australian TV where he is currently performing, the star of the iconic TV sitcom Fawlty Towers told his ABC interviewer: "I’m not sure what’s going ...
  • THE CROWN (not Queen Elizabeth of the House of ...
    Either there are a growing number of people talking utter rot, else the awakening of the corporate slaves is escalating. Which is it? You decide: UPDATE: I wonder... when you've looked at this, ask yourself if it all makes sense when you realise that England has a constitution and common l ...
  • 14th Anniversary Tributes at Kensington Palace ...
    By request, we - as primarily a political blog while maintaining a role as one of the loyal Diana supporting places online - are happy to share more of our photographs of the tributes at Kensington Palace. It was beautiful to be asked. Just to add some context, we were only there for a brief ...
  • Quote of the Day: Totalitarian Theresa Gets Ow ...
    "The ban on marches is so broad and excessive that it violates both international and UK law on freedom of expression and assembly and should be reversed immediately." - Barbora Bukovská of Article 19, quoted in the Evening Standard We did say the English Defence League should take Theresa ...

Facing South

  • Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
  • Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
    On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...
  • VOICES: Remembering the lessons of the Hamlet fire
    By Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch Twenty years ago this Saturday, 25 workers died in a fire at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. They were trapped in the blaze, their footprints left on the locked door they couldn't force open before they died. The ow ...
  • Mississippi Gov. Barbour's relative committed ...
    A federal civil court ruled last week that a relative of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) committed massive fraud against FEMA -- part of a larger pattern of the governor's associates profiting from the Katrina recovery. The case involved Rosemary Barbour (in photo), the wife of Charles Barbo ...
  • Nurses rally to heal America with Wall Street tax
    Nurses will gather across the U.S. on Thursday, Sept. 1 to urge Congress to tax financial transactions and use the revenue to fund social programs desperately needed amid the ongoing economic crisis. The nationwide event organized by the National Nurses United will include visits to some 60 con ...

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Lawâs Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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