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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

15 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Renewable Fuels Association takes on waiver proposal
Delta Farm Press
A cushion of reserve ethanol stocks and “banked credits” amassed by the ethanol industry will allow the industry to cut back on ethanol production to the equivalent of 1.3 billion bushels of corn and still meet the Renewable Fuel Standard in 2012-13 ...
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Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy Announces Results of Third Quarter
Sacramento Bee
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Aug. 14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- On August 14, 2012, Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC ("SIRE") announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012 ("Fiscal 2012") which ended June 30, 2012.
Michigan Renewable Energy Ballot Initiative Would Double State's Green Jobs ...
ThinkProgress
Increasing Michigan's renewable energy standard (RES) to 25 percent by 2025 would be a “job-creating machine” that doubles the number of green jobs in the state, according to a new Michigan State University (MSU) study. The 25 by 25 RES proposal, just ...
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Regulators approve showing renewable energy costs on electric bills
RenewablesBiz
Public Service Company of New Mexico customers can expect to see between $1.38 and $1.47 tacked onto their monthly electric bills soon to cover the costs of adding renewable energy to the company's portfolio. The New Mexico Public Regulation ...
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The Ecology of Innovation
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The recently announced seminar of the Urban Land Institute, in partnership with the prestigious Aspen Institute, champions the idea there is a new "innovation ecology," a term first coined by computer science guru William A. Wulf, shaping our landscape ...
Ecology requires better protection after series of small oil spills from ...
Access Washington
BELLINGHAM – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is requiring improved protection for Bellingham Bay during work on the oil-containment barge Arctic Challenger. Superior Energy Services is building an oil-containment system on a barge at ...
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Ecology seeking public comment on proposed oil spill readiness and ...
Access Washington
Ecology's proposed update to the state spill contingency plan rule will require oil companies operating in Puget Sound and on the Columbia River to invest more in response equipment and training personnel to enhance on-water oil cleanup activities and ...
Ecology adopts changes to improve underground storage tank safety
Access Washington
The Legislature directed Ecology to revise the rule to implement changes to the state's compliance program required by state and federal laws. The program addresses the serious threat that leaking systems pose to human health and the environment.
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Montco official: get rid of standing water
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
The Montgomery County commissioners are urging citizens to get rid of standing water that may become a breeding ground for the mosquitoes that can carry West Nile disease. Josh Shapiro, chair of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, urged ...
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California Department of Health Sued for Failing to Assess Contaminated Water
Opposing Views
“Millions of Californians are drinking toxic water today due to government neglect,” said Nicholas Morales, attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The State has not protected our drinking water supply from this carcinogen, so we're going ...
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Urban Water and Sanitation Solutions
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Having just returned to New York from Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, I'm reminded how lucky we are in this city to have reliable water and sanitation services. Thanks to investment in water pipes and sewers in the 19th century, diarrheal diseases ...
Spongeplant added to state's water weed treatment list
San Jose Mercury News
Funding will soon be on the way to help curb a rapidly growing water weed that threatens to clog water delivery pumps and canals, plug local marinas and alter water quality in the Delta. Legislation to help control the South American spongeplant is ...
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    Syria Captures Turkish, Saudi Officers
  • Nader: US Democrats abandon FDR
    What would President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who signed the first minimum wage law in 1938, say about today’s pathetic Democrats (with few exceptions like the more than twenty Representatives who signed on to Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s H.R. 5901 bill to raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour)? ...
  • The Deep Backstory of Liborgate
    Right now there are hundreds of accountants, researchers, and lawyers picking through paperwork and audio tapes to advance both government investigations as well as civil lawsuits against the banks that screwed with Libor. It’s going to take many long hours auditing swap payments over previous y ...
  • A Tory leader Called .. Boris ?
    There is an opportunity for Boris Johnson to become Tory leader before the next election if David Cameron cannot find an election-winning plan in the next 12 to 18 months. That is the big precondition. Boris will always be a big roll of the dice; a gamble. But a party facing defeat will be prepa ...
  • Liborgate: Central Bankers Modus Operandi
    Last month, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke gave testimony before Congress in which he said that he had become aware of evidence that banks in England were rigging the Libor in the fall of 2008. According to Bernanke, he called this to the attention of Mervyn King, the head of the Ba ...

Independent - London

  • Anni Dewani trial: Man accused of firing fatal ...
    The man alleged to have fired the fatal shot that killed Anni Dewani today denied murdering her at the start of the trial in Cape Town.Related StoriesMystery of Ethiopia's missing prime ministerEgyptian President Mohamed Morsi proves his might by 'retiring' military chief 'for the benefit of the ...
  • Australian court backs world's toughest law on ...
    Australia's highest court upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion today, prohibiting tobacco company logos on cigarette packs that will instead show cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children.Related StoriesGillard revives plans to deport Australia's boat refugee ...
  • Blast strikes near Damascus hotel used by UN
    A bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a Damascus hotel where UN observers are staying in the Syrian capital, wounding at least three people, Syria's state TV reported.Related StoriesDamascus denies jet was shot downAbandon Assad urges ex-Syrian PM Riad HijabIran appeals for foreign a ...
  • Scrabble player thrown out of US national cham ...
    A Scrabble player has been thrown out of the US national championship tournament after being caught hiding blank letter tiles.Related StoriesSpecial report: 'This is not a trial. It is an attempt to legitimise a death threat'Home of Steve Jobs is burgledMeet the King and Queen of VersaillesMach ...
  • Australian court backs cigarette pack logo ban
    Australia's highest court upheld the world's toughest law on tobacco promotion today, despite protests from tobacco companies fearing for the value of their trademarks under new rules that will strip all logos from cigarette packs.Related StoriesGillard revives plans to deport Australia's boat ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Need an Expert? Try the Crowd
    In 1714, the British government held a contest. They offered a large cash prize to anyone who could solve the vexing "longitude problem" - how to determine a ship's east/west position on the open ocean - since none of their naval experts had been able to do so. Lots of people gave it a try. ...
  • Codeine Linked to 3 Children's Deaths
    Some children who are given the pain reliever codeine after surgery may be at risk of life-threatening breathing problems, the Food and Drug Administration warned today (Aug. 15) as it investigated three deaths. The FDA announced it is reviewing the cases of three children who died and one who ...
  • Duluth, Minnesota tornado might not have been ...
    After initially reporting that last week's waterspout was also Duluth's first tornado, the National Weather Service says it has found record of another Duluth tornado more than 50 years ago. The waterspout on Thursday, Aug. 9, churned across Sky Harbor Airport in Duluth and Barker's Island in S ...
  • Stantonsburg, North Carolina hit hard by tornado
    Stantonsburg took a hard strike from an apparent tornado late Saturday afternoon. About seven houses along R.B. Avenue and Moyton Drive received major damage and some are beyond repair. The Stantonsburg Police Department, Wilson County Emergency Management, firefighters, the Wilson County Sher ...
  • Sulphur smell across lower North Island, New Z ...
    The smell of sulphur from Mt Tongariro has crept back to the lower North Island, with some residents complaining about irritation to their skin and eyes. The smell has become common since the volcano erupted at 11.50pm on August 6 with residents as far as Blenheim noticing it. The Horizon Regi ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Airshow's says something or the other..
    Doesn't matter what he says. We don't believe him or his air force anymore.
  • On the shooting down of MiGs
    OK, CBC, control yourself. What you show is footage of a Syrian fast jet likely be downed by Free Syrian groundfire. Downing a fast moving fighter aircraft with light weapons or a heavy machine gun is a tricky business but it can be done either by skill or luck. There is absolutely nothing in th ...
  • Big Brother IS watching . . .
    ACCORDING TO WIKILEAKS, the organs of state security have started wiring all the CCTV surveillance cameras in areas of interest. So says David Seaman at BUSINESS INSIDER, in his article, "WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network". "Former ...
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    GENERATIONAL THINKING: making plans that will involve the participation of four or five or more generations. It's a headspace that's completely foreign to the Harper smash-and-grab mutilation of our landscape and society. To Stevie, sustainability means how long can he get away with it. A ...
  • Stevie's drones . . .
    THINGS ARE HEATING UP, and the Arctic is turning, well, slushy — and Vladimir Putin is getting all excited about creating more vodka outlets. Actually, they're going to be bases for "combined arms": army navy airforce. According to an article in WIRED by Robert Beckhusen, "Russia and Canada Gear ...

Media Matters for America

  • STUDY: TV Media Ignore Climate Change In Cover ...
    Scientists say that human-induced climate change made this year's record heat more likely, and project that extreme heat will become more common in the United States. But a Media Matters analysis of media coverage of record-breaking heat in July finds that major television outlets rarely made th ...
  • The Five Goes All-Out In Their Defense Of Ryan ...
    Fox News' The Five went to bat for Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan by defending his controversial and harmful proposed changes to Medicare while reviving the myth that Obama's health care law will create a review board to ration health care.The Five's Hosts Claim Ryan's Med ...
  • Despite Fox's History Of Anti-Immigrant Rhetor ...
    Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of Fox News' parent company News Corp., plans to join New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg today for a forum on immigration policy. Despite Fox News' history of demonizing immigrants and their constant use of anti-immigrant rhetoric, Murdoch plans to highlight the role o ...
  • Fox Hides Impact Of Ryan Medicare Plan With Ac ...
    Fox News is obscuring the negative impact of Congressman Paul Ryan's Medicare plan on seniors by accusing President Obama and the Democrats of "stoking fears" about the plan. In fact, Ryan's plan would adversely affect current and future seniors, forcing them, among other things, to pay more for ...
  • "Mr. Budget": Right-Wing Media Praise Paul Rya ...
    Right-wing media figures are heaping praise on Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget plan, with one Fox host calling Ryan "Mr. Budget." In fact, Ryan's budget plan would harm many Americans: It increases taxes on the poor while cutting them for the wealthy, drastically cuts Medicaid and other needed sa ...

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  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • A New Gov't Scheme for 'Water Quality Trading' ...
     The goal of the Clean Water Act is straightforward: the U.S. has a national goal of zero discharge into our public waterways. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put a variety of measures in place in order to implement that goal yet, most of the time, we forgo the fundamental princi ...
  • U.S. Opens Alaska Reserve to Onshore, Offshore ...
     ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 13, 2012 (ENS) – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today proposed to allow additional oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, NPR-A. After two days of meetings with North Slope leaders, Salazar said the plan would protect t ...
  • Why Ratepayers and Taxpayers Could Be Stuck Ho ...
     A LA Times editorial, "Give the Bay Delta Conservation Plan a chance," inexplicably accuses “critics of the proposed tunnel” for claiming that “wasteful Southern Californians intend to suck every last drop of the Sacramento River to water their luxuriant lawns.&#x201 ...
  • Fracking, Coal and Nukes Wreak Havoc on Fresh ...
     For the last few months EcoWatch has been covering what’s become the worst drought in the U.S. in more than half a century. More than 3,200 daily high temperature records were set or tied in June, and July is in the books as the warmest month ever recorded in t ...
  • How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming ...
    Farmer George Naylor sounds a little too much like the fictional character Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh when I ask about his corn crop. June is usually a wet month, but not this year. One time it “rained” so little it just barely wet the bottom of his rain gauge. Add that to sever ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Refuting Assumptions About Nuclear Waste
    The agency responsible for approving the construction of nuclear reactors may no longer be able to rely on its old “build reactors now and worry about radioactive waste later” approach. Learn more about new challenges to nuclear waste policy. For decades, nuclear reactors have been built under t ...
  • A Tale of Two Nuclear Disasters
    As Japan commemorates the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials are developing new energy policies that will guard the safety and the livelihood of the Japanese public in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident. Sixty seven years ago today, on Aug. 6, ...
  • ERCOT prepares for first summer heat wave of 2012
    With the passing of the Summer solstice and temperatures expected to hit triple digits several days next week in the Lone Star State, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the electric grid operator for most of the state, is looking closely at anticipated electric use and available ...
  • NOAA Report – Global warming has made 2011 Tex ...
    According to a story on MSNBC, scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they now believe they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening,   Click here to read the AP story, Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes.  Clic ...
  • We are now in energy emergency season as a hea ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), system operator for the state’s bulk transmission grid, is asking consumers and businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak electricity hours from 3 to 7 p.m. today. Consumers can help by shutting off unnecessary lights and elec ...

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  • Bill Gates' Foundation Puts Money on Solar-Pow ...
    (Reuters) Bill Gates is betting the toilet of the future for the developing world will be solar powered. The world's leading private philanthropist handed a $100,000 prize to the California Institute of Technology on Tuesday for its w ...
  • Growing Cities Cause Urban Warming, Study Warns
    (Press Association) Urban expansion could have as big an impact on local climate as greenhouse gas emissions, a study suggests. Scientists carried out simulations based on the projected growth of Arizona's Sun Corridor, the fastest sp ...
  • Merkel’s Visit to Climate Scientists Heightens ...
    (The Globe and Mail) Angela Merkel will make a special visit to Halifax this week to highlight the work of climate scientists, a stop that underscores the German Chancellor's focus on science and the environment in a summer when those ...
  • Agency Calls for Rate Cut Over San Onofre Nucl ...
    (Los Angeles Times) Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric ratepayers should have their bills immediately reduced because the San Onofre nuclear power plant remains shuttered, a state ratepayer advocate said Monday ...
  • Arkansas, N. Carolina Ask EPA to Waive Ethanol ...
    (Reuters) The governors of North Carolina and Arkansas joined two of their Northeast peers on Tuesday in asking the federal government to temporarily suspend the ethanol quota, piling pressure on President Barack Obama to make a tough ...

GreenBiz

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  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
  • NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
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Booman Tribune

  • Insolent B.S.
    Our aspiring Galtian Overlord made Sheldon Adelson's casino one of his first trips since being placed on the plutocrats' ticket. In keeping with Mr. Adelsons penchant for staying below the radar, Romney aides refused to say who attended the meeting with Mr. Ryan, though the location (a priva ...
  • Stealing the Election
    A Republican judge in Pennsylvania just refused to grant a preliminary injunction against the state's Voter ID black/brown disenfranchisement bill, despite the fact that the government stipulated that no fraud has occurred in the state, that they know of no fraud that has occurred in other state ...
  • Having Klout
    Under the new Klout rating system, I just went from a 49 to a 63. Apparently, this means that I should expect better customer service than other people because I am very fearsome and influential. Also, too, I can expect other perks. A marketing executive with 15 years of experience in the ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Ross Douthat
    Chunky BoBo has got to be kidding me. Not since the retirement of William Safire has the New York Times allowed such nonsense to be printed on their opinion page. For this alone, Douthat should be struck down by Zeus' thunderbolt. But moderates and maybe, just maybe, the occasional libera ...
  • The 716 Billion Dollar Lie
    As the Washington Post helpfully points out, the origin of the $716 billion number the Republicans are throwing around is from a letter the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office sent to John Boehner explaining how expensive it would be to repeal Obama's health care law. Among the costs of rep ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Staging Death: Behind the Scenes at a Funeral Home
    They organize every aspect of a funeral – from picking up the body at the morgue to the final burial or cremation – but what do we really know about undertakers’ work? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Memorable Nurses In Cinema
    From Nurse Ratched to “Hot Lips” Houlihan, there have been some remarkable portrayals of nurses in movies over the years. Here are the 10 Most Memorable Nurses In Cinema. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Inside the Secret Smugglers' Tunnels of the Ga ...
    Beneath the no man's land that separates Egypt and Gaza, lies a network of smugglers' tunnels that were a hive of illicit commerce – until they were recently sealed up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Could Your Cell Phone Become a Pocket Taxonomist?
    Today's hikers can take pictures of organisms with their mobile phones. Tomorrow's hikers may be able to do much, much more. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Incredible Seahorse Pics
    With the beautiful colors and strangely equine shapes of their subjects, these pics of seahorses will enchant you almost as much as the creatures themselves. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...
    UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...
  • BREAKING: Feds / IIR.COM apparently SCRUBBING ...
    BREAKING NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE, if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the file ...
  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    ///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committee, with two representatives from their group, had decided to restrict open access to most (but not all) of the sessions of that national gathering, scheduled around August 7 ...

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  • Interview with editors of H-INTEL, a new intel ...
    In late June of this year, Dr. Mark Stout, of Johns Hopkins University and the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, announced the creation of H-INTEL, a new scholarly discussion list on intelligence. In an effort to spread the world about this noble effort, intelNews spoke with two indivi ...
  • Interview with editors of H-INTEL, a new intel ...
    In late June of this year, Dr. Mark Stout, of Johns Hopkins University and the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, announced the creation of H-INTEL, a new scholarly discussion list on intelligence. In an effort to spread the world about this noble effort, intelNews spoke with two indivi ...
  • News you may have missed #778 (analysis edition)
    Some rules restrain Mossad's work in Iran. Are US and Pakistani spy agencies starting to get along? Why the US isn’t arming Syria’s opposition –yet.
  • Comment: Why did US Government Take Blackwater ...
    If Blackwater/Academi resorted to breaking the law in order to assist the US government’s military or intelligence objectives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, why was it taken to court by that very government?
  • Situation Report: Intel-on-Demand in a Web 2.0 ...
    The increasingly connected and always-on civilian world, makes US defense and intelligence community members appear increasingly outdated and falling behind the curve as mobile adoption continues to skyrocket. To bridge the gap, defense and intelligence agencies are now strongly pushing for adop ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Talk Nation Radio: How Drones Appear from the ...
    Rafia Zakaria, a Pakistani-American writer, reports on how drones look from thousands of miles away from the desks at which they are "piloted."  Zakaria is a columnist for the English-language Pakistani newspaper Dawn, a blogger for Ms. Magazine and for Human Rights Now, and a director for ...
  • TSA: Meh, security schmecurity!
    Not only do we already know that while the TSA is busy sticking its hands down your pants, people are wandering up to the airport on jet skies, breaching airport security by climbing over fences, and  read more
  • Colonizing Nations 101
      Colonizing Nations 101   by Stephen Lendman   Last December, Truth 11.com offered a model for destroying and colonizing nations. In Orwellian newspeak, it said:   (1) Global "Mafia" scoundrels target nations "ripe for 'Regime Change.' " Calling them rogue states enlists sup ...
  • What Next in Syria?
      What Next in Syria?   by Stephen Lendman   A war of words accompanies conflict on the ground. On August 14, Reuters headlined "Assad's rule disintegrating, ex PM says after defecting," saying:   Former prime minister Riad Hijab claims Assad "controls less than a third of Sy ...
  • Jody Williams Takes on "Stars Earn Stripes"

Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

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  • Rockefeller Council Subjects Chicago Black Com ...
    Jurriaan Maessen ExplosiveReports.Com June 30, 2012 Until recently unsuspected and undetected, a publication surfaces straight from the Rockefeller Archives which speaks of eugenic mind-operations on the black community of Chicago in the early 1960s. In an outright chilling speech the two men in ...
  • Libyan Terrorists Are Invading Syria
    by Tony Cartalucci August 14, 2012 – Reuters today provides us with a spectacularly contradictory headline in their report, “Libyan fighters join Syrian revolt.” Obviously foreign fighters from Libya, raiding cities, attacking government and civilian targets, and attempting to ...
  • Al-Qaeda flags fly over rebel-held Syria
    John Rosenthal Asia Times There has recently been a small stir in the American media, as media organizations from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal to the Associated Press have finally gotten around to acknowledging a “presence” of al-Qaeda and like-minded jihadist groups among the S ...
  • Tunnel full of weapons discovered in Syrian ca ...
    Syrian security forces have discovered a tunnel under a house in the capital, Damascus, with a large amount of weapons and ammunition stored inside. Israeli-made bombs, night vision goggles, sophisticated telecommunication equipment and a satellite sender were among things confiscated. Syrian tr ...
  • Could chocolate stave off dementia? Daily dose ...
    A daily dose of chocolate could help keep dementia and Alzheimer’s at bay, a study suggests. Researchers found that consuming cocoa every day helped improve mild cognitive impairment – a condition involving memory loss which can progress to dementia or Alzheimer’s – in elderly patien ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Brilliant Device Turns Waste Paper Into Pencils
    If you often find yourself searching for a pencil, then this clever little device will keep well stocked by quickly producing them from simple office waste paper. The device gobbles up your paper waste basket contents and spits fully formed pencils out at the press of a button. Learn more after ...
  • Boeing’s Hypersonic Mach 6 WaveRider Jet Lost ...
    The US is currently conducting test flights of a new X-51A WaveRider jet that is capable of hitting a top speed of Mach 6 (4,300mph / 6,900km/h) – which would allow it to travel from London to New York in just an hour! Unfortunately, a flight test of the hypersonic vehicle went awry today ...
  • 10 Eco-Friendly Back to School Essentials
    Read the rest of 10 Eco-Friendly Back to School Essentials Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Aladdin lunch box, Aladdin lunch set, Asha Handcrafts Association, backpacks, bobble, book bags, BPA Free, Canon, canon calculator, cardboard binder, composition notebook, eco-fr ...
  • Ronen Tinman Converts Old Car Parts into Fabul ...
    Read the rest of Ronen Tinman Converts Old Car Parts into Fabulous Furniture Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: art from car parts, car part furniture, dented cart parts, functional art from car parts, junkyard art, junkyard furniture, recycling, repurposing car parts, re ...
  • 6 Fantastic Furnishings That are Perfect for S ...
    Read the rest of 6 Fantastic Furnishings That are Perfect for Small Dorm Room Spaces Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bbq grill, biodegradable furniture, blum black, blum black hot pot bbq, bonbon beds, bonbon convertible, bunk beds, by Jose de la O, cardboard beed, cer ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Storyboard: The Strange Science and Shocking H ...
    You’ve heard the tales: A bite from a vicious monster transforms you into something less than human, leaving you just enough consciousness to contemplate your terrible fate as you slowly and agonizingly die. This scene is at the root of many of our most popular horror tropes — think ...
  • Scientists Discover How Brains Keep Clean
    Every organ produces waste, and the brain is no exception. But unlike the rest of our body, it doesn't have a lymphatic system, a network of vessels that filter out junk. Now, a new study of mouse brains suggests how ours handle waste: by rapidly pumping fluid along the outside of blood vessels, ...
  • Extreme Galaxy Cluster Birthing Stars at Exces ...
    The newly discovered Phoenix cluster may be one of the most extreme objects ever observed, being among the most massive, luminous, and productive clusters in the universe.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Birth an ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • Physicists Challenge Man-Made Heat Record
    Physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider have been a bit of a loose end since discovering the Higgs particle, so they've broken the man-made temperature record for fun. And science.

PakAlert

  • Prepping for Civil Unrest with Massive Ammo Order?
    Fears that federal authorities are preparing for mass civil unrest have increased after it was revealed that the Department of Homeland Security is planning to buy a further 750 million rounds of ammo in addition to the 450 million rounds of hollow point bullets already purchased earlier this ye ...
  • Mainstream Doctors Say Supporting the 2nd Amen ...
    The medical industry in conjunction with Big Pharma want to classify the right to keep and bear arms as a mental disorder in another power grab to circumvent and eventually destroy our Constitutional 2nd Amendment. More and more doctors are forcing the idea that we need a national healthcare ...
  • A Brief History of False Flag Attacks: Or Why ...
    False flag attacks occur when government engages in covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations seem as if they are being carried out by other entities. False flag terrorism is a favorite political tactic used by governments worldwide. They influence ele ...
  • China Is Running Out Of Money
    Last week’s release of disappointing economic and trade data for July has, predictably, renewed calls for additional stimulus. In May, Beijing ramped up its support for the economy, and observers had expected activity to pick up by last month. Why has the economy so far failed to respond? T ...
  • Two previously unknown sets of heavily worn do ...
    An American scientist has discovered two new possible pyramid sites in Egypt, after spending 10 years studying Google Earth. Archeology researcher Angela Micol has pinpointed two areas along the Nile basin, 90 miles apart, both containing unusual shaped mounds

Andy Worthington

  • A Place to Call Home: Photos of Brockley from ...
    A Place to Call Home: Brockley from Winter to Summer, a set on Flickr. I have lived in London for 27 years, and for the last 12 years (13 in November) I have made my home — with my wife, and with the son who, prematurely, joined us shortly after moving here — in Brockley, [...]
  • The holiday starts here …
    OK, so I’m away for two weeks, on my annual family holiday — this year to Italy, and, specifically, to Rome for a week, and then Abruzzo for a second week. It will be good to get away. I’ve been finding Guantánamo weighing heavily on me, and the state of Britain under the Torie ...
  • Photos of London At Night: From the Olympics a ...
    London At Night: From the Olympics at Greenwich to Deptford and Surrey Quays, a set on Flickr. On August 8, 2012, as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike — and also to fully understand, both physically and mentally, the scale of the city and how its various ...
  • Real London: Photos of New Cross, Bermondsey a ...
    Real London: New Cross, Bermondsey and the Old Kent Road, a set on Flickr. “Real London” is a short-hand, of course, for a London that is not the shiny one of glass and steel built and sold by property developers, and bought by those in the top few percent of earners — as well ...
  • Photos of a Journey Across the Thames on the O ...
    A Journey Across the Thames on the Olympics Cable Car, a set on Flickr. On August 6, as I explained in a previous article, Jamaican Independence and a Giant Tent: Photos of a Visit to the Olympic Site at the O2, featuring photos and commentary, I cycled along the river from Deptford to Greenwich ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Wisconsin Temple Attack: Authorities Chose to ...
    Editor’s Note: This essay by Hatewatch Editor Mark Potok was originally posted Sunday night in The New York Times online opinion section as part of a “Room for Debate” feature that also included articles from four other contributors. The essays were meant to address the questio ...
  • How Do We Know FAIR is a Hate Group? Let Us Co ...
    John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the immigrant-bashing Los Angeles radio personalities who were suspended earlier this year when they referred to Whitney Houston as a “crack ho” and marveled that the late pop singer “took this long” to die, are back on the air and up to their old tricks. In the Aug ...
  • A Little History Tutorial, from Hatewatch to B ...
    Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association (AFA) spokesman whose ultraconservative worldview is so extreme that he makes Pat Buchanan look like Rachel Maddow, seems never to have met a fact that he couldn’t improve upon. He has declared that gays were responsible for the Holocaust and opined ...
  • Neo-Nazi Killer Wade Page was Member of Hammer ...
    Wade Michael Page, the racist skinhead who killed six people last weekend at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before turning the gun on himself, was a “patched” member of the Northern Hammerskins, a regional chapter of the larger Hammerskin Nation, the Southern Poverty Law Center has learned. Page bec ...
  • Judge Orders Neo-Nazi Bill White to Undergo Ps ...
    A Virginia judge has ordered Bill White, the Virginia neo-Nazi and convicted felon who faces federal charges for violating the terms of his supervised release, to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, The Roanoke Times reports. White, 35, is a notorious Internet gossip who was released in April 2011 ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • After Years of Grassroots Pressure, Johnson & ...
    Following years of pressure by consumer groups, cosmetics giant Johnson & Johnson has announced it will be phasing out dangerous chemicals and cancer-causing ingredients from its baby and adult products by 2015. (photo: aldinegirl87 via Flickr) ...
  • Leaked Israel Memo: Propaganda or Iran War Plan?
    Richard Silverstein - the American blogger who says he has been given the text of a memo outlining Israel's plans for a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities - is clear about what he thinks it is. read more
  • Another Oil Spill Off the Coast of Nigeria
    In a reminder of the cost of oil, an oil spill has hit the already ravaged Niger Delta region of Nigeria near operations by Mobil Producing Nigeria, a local subsidiary of U.S. oil behemoth ExxonMobil. In a statement, the company "confirms that oil from an unknown source has been sighted alo ...
  • Penn. Judge Refuses to Block Controversial Vot ...
    A Pennsylvania judge has ruled not to block a controversial voter ID law on Wednesday, which critics have said could disenfranchise as many as 750,000 registered voters.  read more
  • Families of Slain Iranian Nuclear Scientists S ...
    Several Iranian families have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the US and Britain, accusing them of involvement in the assassination of their relatives, including the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010. read more

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Lehigh Valley Sierra Club opposes Allentown pl ...
    The club says the plan risks giving control of Allentown's resources to a company that 'could exploit that watershed without concern for environmental damage that could result.'
  • Meridian Energy FY12 Net Profit Dented By Reco ...
    A sharp drop in Meridian Energy Ltd.'s profit in the year to June 30 is unlikely to dent the company's valuation as it prepares to hit the market, as it was down to a fall in electricity production caused by water inflows hitting a 79-year low, analysts said Monday.
  • Anti-privatization suit dismissed
    DETROIT A freakish car crash Friday evening on Belle Isle -- in which a vehicle flipped, caught fire and pinned the driver inside -- tied up traffic on the island park while firefighters extricated a 67-year-old man from his burning vehicle, Detroit police said.
  • American States Water Company Announces Notice ...
    American States Water Company today announced that its Golden State Water Company subsidiary has issued a notice of redemption of its $8,000,000, 7.55% Medium-
  • City to submit position paper on privatization
    ZAMBOANGA City Mayor Celso Lobregat has expressed reservations on some provisions of the bill that seeks to privatize water districts in the country, as he said that the City Government is currently preparing its position for submission to the bill’s sponsor. Lobregat said on Thursday that the C ...

Guardian

  • Duke of Edinburgh taken to hospital 'as precau ...
    Prince Philip admitted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while staying at BalmoralThe Duke of Edinburgh has been admitted to hospital "as a precautionary measure".Prince Philip, 91, was admitted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while staying at Balmoral with the Queen, a spokeswoman said. No details were g ...
  • Pussy Riot supporters detained during protest
    Three activists protesting in support of jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot detained ahead of trial verdictThree activists protesting in support of jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot were detained on Wednesday as tensions in the Russian capital heat up ahead of a verdict in a trial that is b ...
  • China demands Japan release activists arrested ...
    Tension over islands reaches new high, while row with Seoul reveals Tokyo's unresolved wartime tensions with neighbours China has urged Japan to immediately and unconditionally release 14 activists who planted the Chinese flag on a disputed island that has long been a source of tension between t ...
  • Heavy metal band Baroness injured in coach crash
    Band members were among nine people injured when a coach plunged down an embankment near Bath in torrential rainMembers of an American heavy metal band were among nine people injured when a coach plunged down an embankment near Bath in torrential rain.The group Baroness was travelling from Brist ...
  • Spanish 'Robin Hood' mayor sets off on three-w ...
    Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo plans to march across Andalusia and persuade local leaders to skip debt paymentsA Spanish mayor who became a cult hero for staging robberies at supermarkets and giving stolen groceries to the poor sets off this week on a three-week march that could embarrass the gove ...

McClatchey

  • Jury sees video of former Texas teacher having ...
    The first text message that "Aaron" received from his English teacher seemed innocent enough. "Hey ... It's Coach Colleps. Do you know what time the baseball game starts?" Before 24…Click to Continue »
  • 'Highly incriminating' evidence: Judge unseals ...
    Prosecutors in the Jerry Sandusky case had a "great deal" of "highly incriminating" evidence they didn't use at his trial. That's according to what a prosecutor told the judges overseeing…Click to Continue »
  • New immigration policy keeps American dream al ...
    High school senior Adrian Morales and his friends have been hearing the same message ever since their parents brought them illegally to the United States and to Kansas City as…Click to Continue »
  • Small change? Lawmakers push dollar coins over ...
    If certain lawmakers have their way, soon there will be fewer dollar bills in your wallet and more coins in your pocket. After years of talk, dollar-coin supporters and some…Click to Continue »
  • Paul Ryan’s plan for Medicare sets stag ...
    In selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken the unusual step of embracing a man whose deficit-reduction plan is far more detailed than…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan day of violence leaves many injured
    Nearly two dozen Afghan civilians have been wounded when two grenades exploded inside a mosque compound and a bicycle bomb blew up in a city market, officials say.The violence came a day after bomb ...
  • Market bomb wounds 14 in Afghanistan officials
    HERAT, Afghanistan--A bicycle bomb Wednesday wounded at least 14 people at a busy market in western Afghanistan as Muslims prepared to celebrate the end of fasting month, officials ...
  • Bicycle bomb grenades injures 23 in Afghanistan
    (AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - Nearly two dozen Afghan civilians were wounded on Wednesday when two grenades exploded inside a mosque compound and a bicycle bomb blew up in a city market, officials said. ...
  • Two foreign soldiers killed in E. Afghanistan
    KABUL, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two foreign soldiers were killed in restive eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the coalition confirmed in two separate statements. "A U.S. Forces-Afghanistan service ...
  • At least 20 Afghan civilians wounded as attack ...
    Afghans inspect the site of an explosion in Herat where a bomb rigged as a bicycle detonated in a market, injuring at least 14. Photograph: Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty ...

Futurismic

  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Blood Medicine tells the story of Mark Duxbury ...
    Kathleen Sharp's book about pharmaceutical whistleblower Mark Duxbury will be released in paperback on September 1, 2012. It is Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever. I had the pleasure of interviewing journalist Kathleen Sharp on November 15, 2011.& ...
  • Evans wins remand from ARB
    My client, Doug Evans, just won a remand from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). In a rare en banc decision, all five ARB judges joined in holding that Iqbal and Twombly do not apply to OSHA whistleblower complaints. Thus, the ARB's 2010 decision in Evans' case is final ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Richard Renner interviews Professor Richard Moberly of the University of Nebraska College of Law about his recent law review article, "Sarbanes-Oxley's Whistleblower Provisions - Ten Years Later." Pro ...
  • Tax Court calls for an answer from IRS whistle ...
    The United States Tax Court issued an order Tuesday that requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to respond by September 24, 2012, to an amicus brief filed by the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC). We reported here on July 11, 2012, about the NWC "friend of the court" brief in I ...
  • FRSA ALERT! Railroads Lose Power To Interfere ...
    We are pleased to repost, with permission, this blog entry by Charlie Goetsch from trainlawblog.com, announcing a favorable and precedent-setting decision by the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Congratulations to Charlie Goetsch for obtaining the outstanding result for h ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • Court: If Violating Your Privacy Helps The Pol ...
    In a horrifyingly bad ruling, the 6th Circuit appeals court has said that the owner of a prepaid phone has no 4th Amendment rights in protecting his location info from law enforcement. There have been a number of cases touching on this subject, with a few different rulings back and forth, inclu ...
  • Politician All For Transparency Until It Might ...
    Apparently, California broadcasts many key state legislature hearings, just like many legislative bodies these days. However, right before a hearing on some key ballot initiatives, apparently California Senate President pro tem Darrell Steinberg ordered that the feed be turned off for the meeti ...
  • Is Being Rich And Arrogant Against The Law? T ...
    I'm planning to do some more thorough coverage of many of the comments that were submitted to the IP Enforcement Coordinator for next year's "Joint Strategic Plan." I just need to find an open block of time to go through a bunch of them. However, the folks over at TorrentFreak have highlighted ...
  • Universal Music Uses Bogus DMCA Claim To Take ...
    We keep talking about how the DMCA takedown process, all too frequently, is used to stifle speech, and defenders of the system claim that it's ridiculous to bring up the First Amendment in a discussion on copyright. But here's yet another (in a very long list) of examples. Henry Adaso wrote a ...
  • Now NBC Execs Are Just Trolling: Claim They Re ...
    By far, the biggest complaint heard about Olympics coverage by NBC in the US was about just how stupidly annoying the tape delay was. The excuses they gave didn't make any sense, but NBC still insists that it was the right thing to do. Hell, they're now arguing that perhaps they should have do ...

VacTruth

  • Your Child Does NOT Have To Be Vaccinated To A ...
    As you’re going over your child’s back-to-school list, there’s one thing you can cross off: vaccines.
  • Fact: Vaccinations are Killing Our Kids
    Every day we are told that vaccinations are the best defense against the killer diseases while governments, media and pharmaceutical industries dish out billions of dollars advertising the benefits in an effort to convince us.
  • Breaking News – Gardasil Vaccine rDNA In ...
    According to testimony presented before a coroner’s inquest, “residual HPV DNA fragments from the viral gene or plasmid injected with Gardasil®” have been found six months after that vaccination (series) was given to a teenager who died in her sleep of unknown and unexplained causes.
  • The Games Grown Men Play
    Why is government protecting Big Pharma and vaccine makers instead of innocent children?
  • To Hide in the Pig Sty
    The first thing that one has to ask is: Who, in the consuming community, complained about pig stink when cooking? There had to be a market pressure for industry to respond before a huge industry would respond with a costly intervention. That is where the illusion breaks down.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    A nice, short piece on why War is Not Inevitable.  (See also why Pinker, with his claims about violence decreasing, is a jackass.) And as long as we are on the subject of violence. Lakey makes some excellent points in his post about a diversity of tactics. Check out the stats on suspensions of c ...
  • Small Acts of Resistance
    I’m reading this book called Freedom’s Children right now. I only just started it, but it relates to all the thinking I have been doing about motivation and participation in activism. The author interviewed thirty people who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s. Maybe on ...
  • Die Chivalry Die
    You know that whole “women and children first” thing, where ship captains are supposed to stoically go down with the boat? Someone actually did a study of shipwrecks. Turns out – not so much. In examining 18 shipping disasters dating to the 1850s, the economists found little evidence that ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I can’t believe they are still kicking girls out of school for being pregnant. Do they think it is contagious? Do we need some sex ed for school administration? A map tracking unarmed people of color killed by authority figures. Interesting that the Western states have no killings. I reali ...
  • Is the Media Liberal?
    A friend of mine just posted this nifty graphic showing how much more often the media quotes the GOP. But I’m not sure that it says much. If conservative is defined as wanting to live by religious doctrine or being anti-abortion, then the media is not particularly conservative. If conserva ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Damascus ‘UN bombing’ narrative falls apart
    This is how state propaganda works. A bomb goes off in central Damascus, apparently targeting a meeting of top security officials, and the location of the attack is close to the Dama Rose Hotel which has been housing UN observers. Another major breach of security threatens the Assad regime and s ...
  • Some in Syrian opposition fear rebels miscalcu ...
    The Los Angeles Times reports: In million-dollar apartments in a neighborhood of the city as yet unscathed, the battle for Aleppo plays out daily on flat-screen TVs. Amid imported sofas and abstract art, the revolution doesn’t seem so close. But as the call for night prayers rang out from ...
  • Video: Democracy Now! — Sharif Abdel Kouddous ...
  • Israelis will all pay on doomsday
    Nehemia Shtrasler writes: The Second Lebanon War taught us something new about the Israeli economy. In 2006, we were sure that the economy would get caught up in a crisis and deep recession following the barrage of rockets on the north, which we feared would hit Tel Aviv. But it turned out we we ...
  • Israel appoints new home security minister ami ...
    The Guardian reports: A former intelligence chief has been appointed as Israel’s new minister for homeland security, as speculation about a military strike targeting Iran’s nuclear programme intensifies. Avi Dichter, 59, who headed Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, f ...

Watts Up With That?

  • More hype on Greenland’s summer melt
    You may recall the bogus claim of “97% of Greenland Ice melted”, that was dialed back (REP’s last story on WUWT). Now there’s more of the same sort of stuff. See this PR, and note my bold for the money … Continue reading →
  • Warming alarmism spreads faster, like a virus
    “West Nile virus spreads faster,” reads the USA Today headline on a story that doesn’t actually say anything about rate of spread, just that the virus is spreading, as one would expect for a pathogen that was first seen in … Continue reading →
  • Newly declassified document from Inspector Gen ...
    … more concerned with spending money than in monitoring its effectiveness.” From Fox News, which has the exclusive story: Inadequate oversight, lax bookkeeping, sloppy paperwork, haphazard performance agreements and missing financial documentation have plagued U.S. State Department spendin ...
  • NASA seeing sprites
    From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center High above the clouds during thunderstorms, some 50 miles above Earth a different kind of lightning dances. Bursts of red and blue light, known as “sprites,” flash for a scant one thousandth of a … Continue reading →
  • The GWPF and Jo Nova web sites down
    Many people have emailed me to ask what is going on, here’ s what I’ve found out. Bishop Hill reports: A couple of readers have emailed to say that GWPF’s website is down. I emailed Benny Peiser and he says … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Is there a ‘healthy’ obesity gene?
    Why is it that some obese people are healthier than others? This was one of the main questions Dr. Chaodong Wu of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences — Texas A&M University System — and a group of researchers tried to answer in a recent study. The study, which will appea ...
  • How the zebra fish heals itself
    Scientists have unlocked the secrets of the zebra fish’s ability to heal its spinal cord after injury, in research that could deliver therapy for paraplegics and quadriplegics in the future. A team from Monash University’s Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), led by Dr Yona Goldshm ...
  • Study shows how immune cells change wiring of ...
    Researchers have shown in mice how immune cells in the brain target and remove unused connections between brain cells during normal development. This research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, sheds light on how brain activity influences brain development, and highlights the newly ...
  • Researchers uncover new ways sleep-wake patter ...
    Researchers at New York University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered new ways neurons work together to ease the transition between sleep and wakefulness. Their findings, which appear in the journal Neuron, provide additional insights into sleep-wake pa ...
  • Scientists Turn Human Skin Cells Into Healthy ...
    In a medical first, scientists in Haifa, Israel, took skin cells from two heart failure patients and reprogrammed them into stem cells that generated healthy, beating heart muscle cells in the lab. Though human testing is likely a decade off, the hope is that such cells can be used to help peopl ...

CFACT

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Hiram residents attempt to ask questions about ...
    Thursday’s post on Hiram’s public fracking meeting mainly covered residents’ interaction with local officials. The bigger part of the meeting, though, featured two speakers with ties to the oil and gas industry. A representative from the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK) made ...
  • Hiram residents seek local control on fracking
    On Tuesday the town of Hiram held a public meeting with representatives of the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK). MK, a subsidiary of First Reserve Corporation, is set to begin fracking operations in Hiram next month. The company is a bit of an enigma; for one, it does not appear to have a web ...
  • Quantifying the impact of the Republican agenda
    I attended a local government meeting earlier this month in order to keep up with the latest on fracking in our town. Something else interesting happened as well. The meeting began with a budget review. Budget reviews are long and drawn out affairs even when they’re not, if you know wha ...
  • The view of fracking from San Pablo Bay
    Marvin Patten is an environmental health science student at Kent State University. The following letter was presented to the Kent city council earlier this year. The recent struggle over the disposal of fracking fluid sent to Warren’s Patriot Water System treatment plant gives renewed im ...
  • 'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
    On June 17th the Catholic social justice lobbying group NETWORK launched a 15 day Nuns on the Bus tour. (As befits their budding rock star status, they are selling a tour shirt as well.) They are speaking out against the House Republican budget because, as they write: “When the federal g ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Decade-Long Feeding Study Shows Significant He ...
    Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies carried out over a 10-year period, and the verdict is in: If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered (GE) corn, corn-based products, and animals that are fed a diet of GE grain.Click here to ...
  • Agent Orange Soy: Just Another Day at USDA
    The poison can drift up to 100 miles, and may be in your water! Action Alert!Click here to read this article
  • Pro-GMO Propaganda in California Dismantled by ...
    Opponents of GMO labeling say it will raise food costs by hundreds of dollars per family when in fact it will likely cause NO cost increase at allClick here to read this article
  • Joel Salatin Shares His View on Sustainable Ag ...
    Joel Salatin has pioneered processes that allow small farmers to grow food in an efficient, sustainable manner, and helped devise effective marketing strategies to connect small farmers and consumers using modern technologies Click here to read this article
  • Triggering Permafrost Meltdown is Closer than ...
    Current levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are probably sufficient to trigger large-scale permafrost carbon feedbacks and global warming that human effort would be unable to contain.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • “Project Corner Store:” Youth Make Muscle Broccoli
    Just another day in the office? We wish!
  • The 2012 Farm Bill: Evolution or Devolution?
    With no agreement between the two branches of Congress, farmers suffering from the severe drought will not receive the aid they desperately need any time soon. And, with Congress officially away on summer recess, no further forward momentum will occur until they return in September. And so, we c ...
  • An Interesting Eggs-perience
    I thought it was particularly intriguing that the discussion in the hearing, while under the guise of improving animal welfare standards, focused primarily on the complex economics of egg production.
  • Why Must the USDA Flip-Flop on Meatless Monday?
    The really sobering piece is the hypocrisy. Within the last two years, USDA issued a very clear set of recommendations for a healthy diet. These dietary guidelines suggest increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables in a weekly diet, and the guidelines are designed to improve public health an ...
  • Disappointment with USDA’s Decision on Meatles ...
    From a statement issued today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. On Friday, Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote to Secretary Vilsack of USDA to express his disappointment with his agency’s recent retraction of a Meatle ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Money corrupts politics even more than you thought
    In the current presidential election fewer than 200 of the countrys residents have contributed 80 percent of all super-PAC donations. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Widespread antibacterial agent Triclosan shown ...
    Triclosan -- found in most antibacterial soaps, deodorants and mouthwashes -- restricts muscle contractions in mice and fish, leading researchers to investigate what the dangers are for humans. Logged by Sunstroke author David Kagan in Doomwatch Legacy. Submitted by Dan M. to Environment &nbsp ...
  • Romney's Big Lie About Military Voting In Resp ...
    Mainstream media fall for yet another Breitbart hoax... No, the Obama Campaign is not attempting to keep military voters from voting Here's what's actually going on, since the MSM seems incapable of explaining to you. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |  &n ...
  • 800 Page Lockerbie Report That Exonerates Libya
    The Sunday Herald publishes the full 800-page report detailing why the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing could have walked free. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NYPD and Microsoft Launch Surveillance System
    "New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a new 'crime-fighting' system developed with Mega$hit, ooopspardon me: micro-$oftware - and revealed that the city will take a cut of the profits if it is sold to other administrations." Submitted by wolf a. to US Politics & Gov't  |& ...

Angry Indian News

  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Higher Education Opportunities for Everyone
    Higher education is something that many people would like to achieve, but that not all people believe is in their reach. You may think of higher education as limited to universities and colleges with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Distance Learning Online Degree - A Great Way ...
    For those individuals who are working, it would be a reasonable assumption that going back to school is the last thing on your mind. Most people that have full time jobs work because they have to,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • International Programs For University Students
    One of the most popular actions of the European Union (EU) is the setting up of university exchange programs. University exchange programs are programs organized by specific universities and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • They Kill with Smiles on their Faces
    An open letter to GMO pushers, whoever you are… Can you hear the night screams of those independent farmers that have been pushed over by the corporate machine? Do the cries of children writhing in pain from your toxic garbage keep you awake at night, or do you just roll over and snore, obliviou ...
  • America – Just Label GMOs Already!!!
    The "it's too expensive to label GMOs" argument is FALSE! American companies already label them for export to other countries. So, why not here?
  • The Battle over Genetically Modified Organisms
    Depending on which poll, and how the question is asked, between 75% and 95% of Americans believe that foods containing GMOs ought to be labeled or identified, so they have a choice about consuming them or feeding them to their children. They are opposed by giant agribusiness corporations in leag ...
  • Monsanto Capitalizes on Drought and Enslaves F ...
    Monsanto is by far one of the greatest disaster capitalists around. Not only does this paraiah of a company manufacture and sell genetically engineered crops (GMOs) that actually increase drought conditions, but it is now poised to capitalize on the very same conditions that it helps to cause.
  • WHY in the World Are They Spraying? Lifts Veil ...
    Recently I had the opportunity to review a screener copy of the soon to be released film “WHY in the World Are They Spraying?.” In my opinion, this film is by far the most in-depth analysis of the chemtrail/geo-engineering issue that I have seen to date, clearly outlining the motives behind this ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israel sees monthlong war after Iran strike
    ShareThisIsrael sees monthlong war after Iran strike 15 Aug 2012 An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program could trigger a bloody monthlong war on multiple fronts, killing hundreds of Israelis or more, the Israeli Cabinet's civil defense chief warned in an interview published Wednesday. It was ...
  • Taliban attack US base in Afghanistan's Khost
    ShareThisTaliban attack US base in Afghanistan's Khost 15 Aug 2012 Afghan Taliban say they have attacked a US military base in Afghanistan's eastern city of Khost as foreign forces are suffering more casualties in the war-torn country. The high number of military casualties in Afghanistan has in ...
  • Paul Ryan sold shares on same day as private b ...
    ShareThisPaul Ryan sold shares on same day as private briefing of banking crisis 13 Aug 2012 Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate, sold stock in US banks on the same day he attended a confidential meeting where top level officials disclosed the sector was heading for a deep cr ...
  • Ecuador to decide about Assange asylum this week
    ShareThisEcuador to decide about Assange asylum this week  14 Aug 2012  Ecuador is likely to announce a decision on whether to grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before the end of the week in a case with diplomatic implications around the world, President Rafa ...
  • Afghan suicide bombers kill 28 people, wound m ...
    ShareThisAfghan suicide bombers kill 28 people, wound more than 70  14 Aug 2012  Three suicide bombers killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 70 when they blew themselves up in a busy market in southwestern Afghanistan in one of the worst such attacks this year, provincial off ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
  • VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
    We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
  • VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
    The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

The Killing Train

  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
  • Curuguaty and the Paraguay Coup
    When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme, they would have known that they were risking their lives. Using the same successful methods as elsewhere in Latin America, perhaps most famously by the Lan ...
  • Help that hurts: An interview with Tim Schwart ...
    First published on ZNet, March 18, 2012 Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opera ...
  • Professionals and Torturers
    The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Freed Rangoon bomber appeals guilty verdict
    Phyo Wei Aung, who was controversially convicted of masterminding a bomb attack in Rangoon in 2010 but recently released from jail, has today appealed to Burma's Supreme Court to have his guilty verdict overturned
  • Ministry delays interim press council’s ...
    Information Minister Kyaw Hsan has been forced to postpone the formation of Burma's new interim press council after being deluged with criticism from media organisations and journalists
  • Karen leaders warn of renewed conflict
    Karen leaders have warned of renewed war in Burma’s border regions unless the government begins to pursue politically meaningful negotiations with ethnic groups
  • Karen leaders warn of renewed conflict
    Karen leaders have warned of renewed war in Burma’s border regions unless the government begins to pursue politically meaningful negotiations with ethnic groups
  • Suu Kyi, Thein Sein hold talks in capital
    Aung San Suu Kyi met with Burma's president in Naypyidaw yesterday for the first time since being elected a member of parliament, according to a NLD spokesperson

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • AI: Hungary must do more to protect Roma commu ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Wednesday urged [press release] the government of Hungary to protect the nation's Roma communities [AI backgrounder] from attacks. On August 5, violence erupted in the Hungarian village of Devecser when more than a thousand people gathere ...
  • Brazil judge suspends construction of dam in A ...
    [JURIST] A judge in Brazil ruled on Tuesday that construction on the Belo Monte Dam must stop until local indigenous communities are allowed to voice their opinions on the environmental impact of the dam. The Brazilian government declared [BBC report] that the dam would help make Brazil more sel ...
  • Appeals court blocks order to remove Ten Comma ...
    [JURIST] A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ordered [decision, PDF] a lower court to reconsider its decision ordering Florida's Dixie County Courthouse to remove a Ten Commandments monument [JPG] from its front steps. A federa ...
  • Former Argentina president faces bribery charges
    [JURIST] Former president of Argentina Fernando de la Rua [BBC profile] faced trial on Tuesday on bribery charges associated with his term as president from 1999-2001. De la Rua is accused of bribing Senators for votes [JURIST report], including the payment of $5 million to senators in order to ...
  • HRW urges Ethiopia to release imprisoned Musli ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] urged [press release] the government of Ethiopia on Wednesday to release 17 prominent Muslim leaders who were arrested last month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. HRW asserted that the Ethiopian government has used its anti-terrorism law ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...
    By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
  • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
    Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
  • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
    Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
  • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
    Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
  • Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
    For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Bibi’s Secret War Plan
    UPDATE: Here’s the link for my portion of the BBC Newshour segment in which I was interviewed about the Israeli government document. In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level ...
  • Israel to Demand Guarantee Obama Will Attack Iran
    Israel in recent days has become a Hall of Mirrors in which wherever members of the war camp look in the media, they see an infinite regress of leaks and self-serving articles which promote the war narrative. There are about eight main talking points for war and Haaretz features two or three art ...
  • Feeding Israel’s Military Maw: Defense Ministr ...
    Tomorrow, the Israeli cabinet will discuss the Defense Ministry’s 2013 budget request (Hebrew).  There’s a major dispute with the Treasury about how to calculate what the allocation should be, with a difference between the two ministries of $3-billion.  The meeting will determine who ...
  • Yossi Melman: Barak-Haaretz Claims About New I ...
    Yossi Melman reports (Hebrew) at Walla that western and Israeli sources confirm that there are no major advances in the Iranian nuclear program, as was reported widely a few days  ago by Barak Ravid in Haaretz thanks to leaks by Ehud Barak and Bibi Netanyahu.  Melman says his sources claim that ...
  • Maariv Quotes U.S. Sources “Close to President ...
    The drums of war have been sounding especially loudly of late in Israel.  As Stephen Walt wrote in Foreign Policy, the media have been playing a dutiful role in regurgitating the talking points of Israel’s war party, chief among them Ehud Barak and Bibi Netanyahu.  That’s almost to b ...

If Americans Knew

  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • What's Next for Ushahidi and Its Platform?
    This is part 2 in a series. In part 1, I talked about how we think of ourselves at Ushahidi and how we think of success in our world. It set up the context for this post, which is about where we're going next as an organization and with our platform. We realize that it's hard to understand j ...
  • How User-Centered Design Powers FrontlineSMS, ...
    I'm going to be honest: When I first joined FrontlineSMS, I had no idea how much goes into the design of software. Every screen, every button and every function has principled thought behind it. In 2011, we worked alongside Gabriel White, a user experience designer from Small Surfaces, ...
  • How the Knight Lab's Babl App Helped Lollapalo ...
    This post was written by Jordan Young of the Knight News Innovation Lab. This past weekend marked the annual music carnival known as Lollapalooza" held in Chicago's Grant Park. As you'd expect, close to 100,000 people attending a large event can generate a lot of hot conversations on soci ...
  • From Japan to Burning Man, LocalWiki Heats Up ...
    We want to let you know about some really fantastic stuff that's happened in the LocalWiki world over the past month. Tallahassee, Fla. The folks spearheading the TallahasseeWiki project held their first two in-person CampWiki workshops. The idea behind the workshops is to introduce commu ...
  • Stable at Last, PANDA Reaches 1.0!
    Eleven months ago, we began prototyping PANDA. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. I hacked for a month on an experimental version, verified that our technology choices worked, and then threw it out and started o ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Broken Government - Is the Budget Coast Clear ...
    States and localities are often cast as the unsung heroes of American government: They spend more than the federal government on direct public goods and services, employ twice as many workers as the manufacturing sector, and generate about $1.8 trillion (12 percent) of GDP. But most people only ...
  • The Edge of Weather - Weather Forcasting's Hig ...
    In an age of increasingly uncertain weather, a new Israeli meteorological innovation may become the most powerful way of predicting the weather yet. Shipping companies, aviation specialists, sailors, farmers, wind turbine owners – — even the Boy Scouts – know that better weather prediction ...
  • Broken Banking - Geithner Giving U.S. Taxpayer ...
    In reaction to the worldwide economic turmoil with governments squeezing every penny possible out of taxpayers, Swiss bankers find themselves in the position of actually enticing clients from emerging markets or face a "slow death" as the pursuit of so-called tax evaders increases by U.S. and Eu ...
  • Faster and More Furious - In Wake of Fast and ...
    Fast and Furious is the scandal in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms encouraged the illegal sale of thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels.  The guns disappeared into Mexico. Two federal agents (here & here) were slain by these weapons. According to Mexican off ...
  • The Edge of Health - Fatal Fungus is Spread by ...
    The global trade in bullfrogs, which are farmed as a food source in South America and elsewhere, is spreading a deadly fungus that is contributing to the decline of amphibians worldwide, according to a University of Michigan biologist and his colleagues. Amphibian populations are declining world ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

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
  • 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 ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • AP: This is the Feeblest Economic Recovery Sin ...
    This morning Gallup released a survey pointing to the fact that only twenty-three percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country and 75% are dissatisfied. The current level of satisfaction is now similar to what it was in earl ...
  • New Black Panthers Vow To Keep Foot On ‘Mother ...
    Eric Holder's buddies-- the New Black Panthers are not to happy with the Republican convention in Tampa. Michelle Williams,  Tampa Resident and New Black Panther Party Chief of Staff made that abundantly clear during a radio rant earlier this week. Williams who is also one of the peopl ...
  • Newsbusted: New Obama Commercial Blames Whitne ...
    One would think that Mitt Romney's call for the President's to "Take Your Campaign Of Division And Anger And Hate Back To Chicago," would get the election campaign to moderate just a bit but no dice.  In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, we learn that an Obama SuperP ...
  • Romney Tells Obama To Take His Gutter Politics ...
    Today was the straw that broke the camel's back. Joe Biden appearing at a rally in Danville, Virginia, a city where almost 50% if the population is African-American and suggests that Romney was symbolically bring back slavery. “They’ve said it, every Republican voted for it. Look at what the ...
  • NO-WIMP! Romney Commercial Takes Medicare Figh ...
    Well I guess Newsweek got its answer.  Mitt Romney is no wimp.  While the president and his talking heads continue to make up stories about what Romney would do with Medicare, the GOP candidate took the fight to Obama by telling the truth about what the incumbent has done to the progra ...

The Real Agenda

  • As the Euro zone Drowns, Countries prepare for ...
    Even the best banker forecasts warn about an imminent economic Depression By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 15, 2012 The latest outlook issued by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provide a clear picture that shows how the euro area will ...
  • West Nile Virus Spreads Rapidly in the United ...
    By ELIZABETH WEISE | USATODAY | AUGUST 15, 2012 West Nile virus is spreading faster than it has in years, and the pace of the mosquito-borne disease is getting worse, health officials report. States are reporting more cases than usual, says Marc Fischer, a specialist in mosquito-borne ...
  • Chinese companies get out of US Stock Market
    Chinese don’t want to be overseen by US auditors ASSOCIATED PRESS | AUGUST 14, 2012 Just a few years after Chinese companies lined up to sell shares on Wall Street, a growing number are reversing course and pulling out of U.S. exchanges. This week, Focus Media Holding Ltd., announced ...
  • We are all Jason Bourne now
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 14, 2012 Have you felt as if someone was watching you? But then you look around and everyone is minding their own business. Who is it, you ask. Well, the question you should be asking is what is it? And the answer is Trapwire. That’s rig ...
  • Brussels Warns Rescued Nations will Suffer Pai ...
    The vice president of the European Commission forecasts complete economic union by end of 2012. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | AUGUST 14, 2012 The financial vice-president of the European Commission (EC), Olli Rehn, warned today that countries in the euro area that are in distress ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farms are a towering rural issue in Michigan
    Ludington— It’s a conversation Randy Saxton tries to avoid at all costs because, frankly, it never leads anywhere good. It’s hard to do that, however, because the subject — the massive wind turbines now towering over the area — is impossible to miss. And everyone here has an opinion. ...
  • Lyme council passes law restricting wind farms
    Three Mile Bay — After a heated public debate over setbacks and noise limits, Lyme’s Town Council adopted a set of zoning rules Saturday that are so strict industrial wind farms will not be feasible in the town. The council voted 4-1 with Deputy Supervisor Donald R. Bourquin casting the sole “no ...
  • Dozens head out to protest wind farm project i ...
    OCOTILLO — Protesters that marched and chanted in front of construction equipment Saturday said they felt like they won the day, stalling work on a wind farm in the area for a time. However, more days and more people will be needed to make an impact on Pattern Energy’s Ocotillo Expressway under ...
  • Group suing Antrim board; Claims meetings were ...
    ANTRIM — A month after a group of Antrim residents alleged the Board of Selectmen held illegal meetings, five residents have filed a lawsuit against the board claiming it violated the state’s Right to Know law. In a lawsuit dated July 30, the plaintiffs allege that selectmen decided on the terms ...
  • Turbines at Kessingland are labelled a noise n ...
    The battle over two controversial wind turbines south of Lowestoft has taken a new twist after council officials branded one a “noise nuisance”. An investigation by Waveney District Council’s Environmental Health Team concluded that noise levels at one home in Whites Lane, Kessingland, two month ...

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
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off whos on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are f Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • All Quiet on Inflation Front
    “Consumer prices were flat in July for a second straight month and the year-over-year increase was the smallest since November 2010, giving the Federal Reserve room for further monetary easing to tackle stubbornly high unemployment.” (Reuters) The Fed has other things in mind. FEE Ti ...
  • Consumers Upped Spending Last Month
    “Retail sales rose in July for the first time in four months as demand increased for goods including cars and electronics, a sign that consumers could drive faster economic growth in the third quarter.” (New York Times) Consumption doesn’t bring recovery, however. FEE Timely Classic ...
  • Government Spending Cuts Are Bad for the Economy?
    Are people doing the best they possibly can with their limited time, talents, and resources to serve the limitless wants of their fellow human beings?
  • FEE’s Take: Government Farm Relief
    The Obama administration is planning to buy $170 million in pork, lamb, chicken, and catfish in a bid to help farmers and ranchers during the drought. “Farmers, ranchers depend on a good crop season to pay the bills and put a roof over their heads. And I know things are tough right now,” Obama s ...
  • Government to Aid Farmers with Food Purchases
    “President Obama turned up the pressure on Congress to pass a new farm bill during a campaign stop in Iowa on Monday as he announced a new aid package to help farmers and ranchers struggling through the worst drought to hit the country in more than 50 years. The latest drought package from ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...
  • Most viewed posts
    Here’s a lazy update: To find any post in the image below, just type the title (or keywords) into the search box at left. I like running these stats from time to time to see which posts here are most popular.
  • Plagiarism and journalism students
    When students plagiarize, they take a risk. I guess they tell themselves nothing very bad will happen to them. When journalism students plagiarize, the risk is pretty damned big. For example, you lose your chance to work as a journalist. Ever. I’m going to omit the name of the former stu ...
  • Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)
    As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wrote a long blog post about this. There’s useful information there for students, journalism ed ...
  • Programming and journalism students: A convers ...
    I think it’s pretty cool to use Storify to sort out the threads of a bunch of simultaneous conversations on Twitter: [View the story "Programming and journalism students: A conversation" on Storify] Please join in — on Twitter, on Facebook, or here.

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs has paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have always ...
  • Police
    Some scattered thoughts on cops, particularly cops in the US. Police exist primarily to protect property arrangements.  The war on drugs have paramilitarized police, with a heavy emphasis on overwhelming force.  While police have always considered themselves above the common herd, and have alway ...
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • The best news this year is the Court of Justic ...
    Software, once sold, can be resold.  The person selling it cannot keep using it, but the original publisher has no right to stop the sale. This is a big deal.  A really big deal, and really good news.  It allows brokers, it allows you to sell your software once done.  It allows you to treat [...]
  • I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets pai ...
    Beautiful: Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. Claimed?  It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.  How much it cost Wikileaks might be a claim, but that’s not what Ms. Fantz wrote. This is one reason why we can’t ha ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
    An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
  • US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
    Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
  • NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
    A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
  • Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
    More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
  • Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
    Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

new geography

  • Sex (Or Not) And the Japanese Single
    Back in June 2011, British prime minister David Cameron backed proposals tackling the sexualisation of British children, in a bid to dilute the culture of sex that has swept western nations. The rhetoric goes that the ‘oversexualisation’ of society, as represented in everything from ‘lads mags’ ...
  • Vermont's 'New Agriculture': Mini-Farms and t ...
    The “new agriculture” is typically small-acreage, intensively-managed, organic (in contemporary terms) in that it avoids both chemical use and genetic modification, and uniquely adaptable to such practices as niche-market services, consumer associations (community-sharing) and pick-your-own. On ...
  • The Screwed Election: Wall Street Can’t Lose, ...
    About two in three Americans do not think what’s good for Wall Street is good for America, according to the 2012 Harris poll, but do think people who work there are less “honest and moral than other people,” and don’t “deserve to make the kind of money they earn ...
  • The U.S. Cities Getting Smarter The Fastest
    It’s a commonplace among pundits and economic developers that smart people flock to “smart” places like sparrows to Capistrano. Reflecting the conventional wisdom, The New York Times recently opined that “college graduates gravitate to places with many other college gradu ...
  • Why I Don’t Live In Indianapolis
    It’s no secret that Indianapolis has been a huge focus of my blog over the years. One of the biggest criticisms I get here, especially when I ding some other city, is that I’m nothing more than a mindless booster for Indy. While I like to think I’ve given the city a lot of tough love over the ye ...

GM Watch

  • Controversial Dutch trial opens to public
    1.Dutch GM potato field trial will open to public 2.GM potato courtcase and citizen inspection  NOTE: Looks like the opening to the public of this trial is a PR response to the situation exposed by ASEED in item 2, where there has been a shying away from open 'dialogue' and 'discussion' with ci ...
  • Controversial Dutch trial opens to public
    1.Dutch GM potato field trial will open to public 2.GM potato courtcase and citizen inspection  NOTE: Looks like the opening to the public of this trial is a PR response to the situation exposed by ASEED in item 2, where there has been a shying away from open 'dialogue' and 'discussion' with ci ...
  • GM corn backfiring
    EXTRACT: Potter told them the genetically modified corn is basically backfiring. "Instead of making things easier, we've just made corn rootworm management harder and a heck of a lot more expensive," Potter said. --- --- Corn farmers struggle to cope with rootworm resistance Mark Steil Minnesot ...
  • GM corn backfiring
    EXTRACT: Potter told them the genetically modified corn is basically backfiring. "Instead of making things easier, we've just made corn rootworm management harder and a heck of a lot more expensive," Potter said. --- --- Corn farmers struggle to cope with rootworm resistance Mark Steil Minnesot ...
  • Labeling GM foods: Whose side are you on?
    EXTRACT: The question before voters could not be more stark: Do you side with anti-worker, pro-polluter forces epitomized by the GMA and deceptive corporate front groups, or do you side with 90% of California voters, the California Labor Federation, family farmers, the Consumer Federation of Ame ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Greece: Official Projection of Result: New Dem ...
    Via: BBC Liveblog: That is from the Greek interior ministry, quoted by Reuters.
  • Living Large in a Tiny House
    Via: Yahoo Finance: Imagine living in a space that measures a mere 168 square feet, more than 14 times smaller than the average American home. That’s the reality for one family of four who, for the past year, has been living in their “Tiny House” tucked away in the rural mountains of Virginia. I ...
  • Ottawa Airport Wired with Microphones to Recor ...
    Via: Ottawa Citizen: Sections of the Ottawa airport are now wired with microphones that can eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is nearing completion of a $500,000 upgrade of old video cameras used to monitor its new “customs controlled areas,” includ ...
  • China Launches Its First Female Astronaut Into ...
    Via: PC Magazine: China on Saturday launched its Shenzhou-9 spacecraft carrying three astronauts, including Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman to travel to space. The Long March-2F rocket lifted off successfully from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 6:37 p.m local time an ...
  • Financial Firms Ready ‘Special Teams’
    Via: New York Times: The banks are on high alert. Hundreds of employees at big firms, some part of special teams, will be on standby this Sunday, awaiting the results of Greece’s pivotal election. They are preparing for the worst case. The fear is that the vote will heighten the chances of Greec ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Mississippi River Is Drying Up
    The worst drought in more than 50 years is having a devastating impact on the Mississippi River.  The Mississippi has become very thin and very narrow, and if it keeps on dropping there is a very real possibility that all river traffic could get shut down.  And considering the fa ...
  • You Will Not Believe What Some People Are Will ...
    It is absolutely amazing what some people will do to make a living in this economy.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we have not seen this kind of desperation for jobs in America since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  What some people are willing to put up wit ...
  • Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly P ...
    Something really strange appears to be happening.  All over the globe, governments and big banks are acting as if they are anticipating an imminent financial collapse.  Unfortunately, we are not privy to the quiet conversations that are taking place in corporate boardrooms and in ...
  • 11 Things That Can Happen When You Allow Your ...
    Why are Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and so many other countries experiencing depression-like conditions right now?  It is because they have too much debt.  Why do they have too much debt?  It is because they allowed themselves to become enslaved to the bankers.  Borrowing mone ...
  • The Sobering Reality Of What Life Is Like In R ...
    What do you do when the city where you live is dying?  All over the United States formerly great cities are crumbling, but some are definitely in worse shape than others.  One reader recently wrote to me about what she sees happening all around her in Reno, Nevada.  The unemploym ...

Desertification

  • The fresh produce industry (essential nutrient ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96105/SRI-LANKA-Why-so-few-vegetables-in-Sri-Lanka SRI LANKA: Why so few vegetables in Sri Lanka? BANGKOK, 15 August 2012 (IRIN) – While the government focuses on boosting rice production in Sri Lanka, the fresh produce industry, with its contributi ...
  • Korea Forest Service seeks to expand forest co ...
    Read at : http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120806001026&cpv=0 Korea works green growth with Asia to improve forests The Asian Forest Cooperation Organization, or AFoCO will be established after three years of preparation through an agreement between the governments of the member ...
  • WFP needs additional funding (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96098/BURKINA-FASO-Food-for-refugees-will-run-out-in-September BURKINA FASO: Food for refugees will run out in September OUAGADOUGOU, 14 August 2012 (IRIN) – Agencies cannot cope with the scale of refugee needs in camps across Mali, as their funding ...
  • UNCCD’s 2nd Scientific Conference: Econo ...
    Read at : http://www.disasterriskreduction.net/east-central-africa/library/detail/en/?dyna_fef[uid]=2213 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification 2nd Scientific Conference – Call for Abstracts AADP Newsletter – August 2012 There is a widespread consensus that the pressing issues ...
  • Turkmenistan : to combat desertification and t ...
    Read at : http://en.ria.ru/world/20120803/174953525.html Turkmenistan Plans to Revive Aral Sea Coast Turkmenistan has developed a plan to combat desertification and revive the Aral Sea coastal areas, according to Turkmenistan.ru, a website used by the country’s government to disseminate in ...

The Paper Trail

  • Dissent among Republicans over defense spending
    Grover Norquist, an influential Republican lobbyist in Washington, is advising his party's lawmakers to cut the defense budget deeply, to avoid a major federal tax hike. His remarks on Monday were another sign of splintering views in Republican ranks about spending on national defense that ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Republicans say Americans bu ...
    After an onslaught of overtly negative attack ads, conservative independent spending groups have taken a new tone in their criticism of President Barack Obama — disappointment.The Republican National Committee and the nonprofit Americans for Prosperity released ads Tuesday that highlight voters ...
  • Student ID cards far from sure ticket to the v ...
    Morehouse College students can use their ID cards to buy food and school supplies, use computer labs and get books from the library, but they can’t use ID from the historic Atlanta school to vote. A few miles away, Georgia State University students use their ID in the same way, but their cards a ...
  • Voting turns into frustrating ordeal for colle ...
    ELON, N.C. — With just a couple of weeks to go until the North Carolina primary, I was fired up and eager to vote. Amendment One was on the ballot. If passed, it would amend the state constitution to define marriage as one man and one woman. The issue polarized the state, and many students, myse ...
  • Former governor wins GOP Senate nod in Wisconsin
    Despite a torrent of negative attacks, former four-term Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson has won the state’s Republican U.S. Senate primary for the open seat of retiring incumbent Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl.  The Associated Press called the race for Thompson a little after 11:30 p.m. Easte ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Plan, Part Deux
    By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I’d hoped it might when I was a young journalist lost in the conservative wilderness in the 1 ...
  • The Plan
    By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweek ...
  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]

libcom

Free Range International

  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...
  • King for a Day
    Note from Baba T – It is important to start the Dalton Thomas series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) or it will not make much sense.   For those of you who are enjoying the series and have the means hitting the donation button would be much appreciated.  All proceeds from the ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • From the W.A.R. (Witness Actual Reality) Room
    Just like the false-flag bombings of OKC and NYC, there is so much the media is NOT reporting. Here is an eyewitness coming forward to tell the truth about the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin. Clearly, it was not the work of a single, lone, NUT gunman.  Far from it.  (Let’s see how long ...
  • From the W.A.R. (Witness Actual Reality) Room
    Just like the false-flag bombings of OKC and NYC, there is so much the media is NOT reporting. Here is an eyewitness coming forward to tell the truth about the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin. Clearly, it was not the work of a single, lone, NUT gunman.  Far from it.  (Let’s see how long ...
  • Mass Media Mind Control – the Strongest ...
    “——  God shall send them STRONG DELUSION, that they should BELIEVE A LIE.”   —-  2 Thessalonians 2:11 – The Holy Bible. “In the Big Lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted ...
  • Mass Media Mind Control – the Strongest ...
    “——  God shall send them STRONG DELUSION, that they should BELIEVE A LIE.”   —-  2 Thessalonians 2:11 – The Holy Bible. “In the Big Lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted ...
  • The “Star of David” – Learn ...
    It is the symbol of modern day Zionism – and the Luciferian signature of the Khazars masquerading as “God’s Chosen People” – the terrorist nation of “Israel”. It is the HEX-agram, the 6 pointed triangles forming the number 666. It is the ancient logo of ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
  • Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
    Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
  • Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
    Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.

Scotts Contracting

  • Moving to a New Location
    Scotts Contracting is Moving For the Past week or so I have been moving into a new Work Shop, Office, and Warehouse.  Stay tuned for further Details. Build Green, Scotty
  • Join me to oppose:Res 37 Toxic Air Bill by Sen ...
    I am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy Blunt are at the bo ...
  • Little Green Thumb Recycling Adventure
    GRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
  • Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChange
    Climate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Israel Plans for Iran Strike, Citizens Fear Worst
    Dozens of Israelis crowded in front of a storefront at a Jerusalem shopping mall yesterday to pick up new gas masks, part of civil defense preparations in case the military strikes Iran and the Islamic Republic or its allies retaliate. “Our leaders seem to have gotten very hawkish in their speec ...
  • U.S. Vows to Speed Aid to Iran Earthquake Victims
    The Obama administration said Tuesday that it would expedite applications to help Iran’s earthquake victims. Prospective donors have expressed worry and confusion over whether such charitable aid runs afoul of the extensive American sanctions imposed on the country because of its disputed nucle ...
  • بازداشت محمدرضا عالی‌پیام، شاعر و طنزپرداز
    بامدادخبر – محمدرضا عالی‌پیام متخلص به «هالو»، شاعر و طنزپرداز برجسته‌ی ایران، عصر روز سه‌شنبه (۲۴ مرداد) توسط نیروهای امنیتی بازداشت شد. به گزارش بامدادخبر، نیروهای امنیتی با حکم قضایی وارد منزل این طنزپرداز منتقد شدند و پس از تفتیش منزل و ضبط نوشته‌ها و کامپیوتر شخصی وی، او را با خود بردند.rea ...
  • تلاش برای اولویت بخشیدن به روز قدس و حمایت از ...
    مقام‌های جمهوری اسلامی تلاش‌ها برای جایگزین کردن موضوع راهپیمایی روز «قدس» و حمایت از بشار اسد به جای زمین‌ لرزه آذربایجان شرقی و قربانیان آن را در دستور کار خود و رسانه‌ها قرار داده‌اند. read more
  • امضای تفاهمنامه با حوزه علمیه برای کاهش بلایای ...
    معاون وزیر کشور و رئیس سازمان مدیریت بحران کشور، از امضای تفاهمنامه با حوزه علمیه برای کاهش بلایای طبیعی خبر داد و خاطرنشان کرد: در مرحله اول با حوزه‌های علمیه قم، مشهد، اصفهان و شیراز تفاهمنامه همکاری امضا کردیم تا از حوزه‌های علمیه برای به کارگیری نقش معنویت در کاهش بلایای طبیعی استفاده شو ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Obama Refuses to Comply with Court Injunction
    Tangerine Bolen In May Federal Judge Katherine Forrest issued an injunction against the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This provision allows the President, at his discretion, to detain any American indefinitely without filing legal charges ...
  • Microchip-Laden Drugs Given FDA Approval
    What the digital pill monitors According to Sayer Ji, who writes at GreenMedInfo.com, Proteus Digital Health recently gained FDA approval for its 1 square millimeter device (the size of a grain of sand), which it believes will “shift the care paradigm” into an era of digit ...
  • Batman Massacre: WHY and HOW and WHO
    A friend has sent me a really disturbing article by Grace Powers that explains many of the bizarre coincidences and unanswered questions in the Batman theater massacre. Most importantly it explains why Robert Holmes seemed drugged when he appeared in court and why he has no recollection whats ...
  • States Save Billions by Downsizing Prisons
    Carton credit California Political Review   Owing to candidates tripping over each other to be tough on immigrants and crime, the crisis of massive prison overcrowding is an issue that receives scant attention in an election year. Although federal candidates, including Obama and Romn ...
  • Suckering Liberals into Supporting Foreign Wars
    Scene from "The Humanitarian War in Libya" by Julien Teil George Washington has written a great post – Why Do Progressive Liberals Fall for Humanitarian War? – on Zero Hedge. It’s quite an an interesting site dedicated to “widening the scope of information available ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • FLASHBACK: Ann Coulter Says Rage Against the M ...
    New York Times, April 29, 2012: WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. Daily Beast, August 11, 2012: Ryan seems to have a taste for hard-rock bands like Rage Against ...
  • WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: WikiLeaks opens path ...
    After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by US financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has announced it is back open for donations. After WikiLeaks' publications revealing US war crimes and statecraft in 2010, US financial institutions erected a banking blockade a ...
  • 'No Going Back': Michael Moore on the Last Wor ...
  • Letter From Prominent Americans, Delivered to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2012 Media Contacts: (London) Robert Naiman, US 217-979-2857 (US) Megan Iorio, US 908-400-9480 Letter signed by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Daniel Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Patch Adams, MD, Mark Weisbrot and other promine ...
  • 'The Man Who Killed Vincent Chin' by Michael M ...
    The below article appeared in the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine on August 30, 1987. Click each page to view larger versions.

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Russia Issues Apocalyptic Warning For US Gulf ...
    A shocking report from Russian Northern Fleet scientists aboard the Gepard Akula II, which just completed its maiden voyage off the United States coastline in the Gulf of Mexico, warns the aftereffects from the 20 April 2010 BP Oil Spill Disaster are “beyond catastrophic” and borders on the “tru ...
  • Computer games to be indistinguishable from re ...
    A leading visual effects artist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) says computer graphics will be indistinguishable from reality in 10 years time. “It’s an interesting time because with modern computer graphics hardware, the way it’s going, it’s gonna be pretty hard to tell ...
  • Women-only city planned for Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia is to build a new city exclusively for women. The Gulf kingdom is working on the narrow junction between strict Sharia law and the aspirations of active females who wish to pursue their own careers. ­The new plan is to combine women’s desire to work in the modern age and provide a j ...
  • Cat parasite can cause schizophrenia in humans
    Parasites passed from cats could be causing schizophrenia in their owners, a scientist has claimed. Studies have also shown behavioral changes in humans, including lower reaction times and a sixfold increased risk of traffic accidents among infected, RhD-negative males, as well as links to schiz ...
  • French police smash camps and round up gypsies ...
    France declares war on illegal migrants. Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded up for deportation as Socialists take on gipsies. French police were yesterday breaking up gipsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them. Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement n ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Google TV Webpage Updated â Site Redesign, App ...
    Google TV is about to blow up this year (or at least get an extra big boost from Google) and while we wait around to see what Google has planned for the TV OS at Google I/O this week, there’s been a silent update of sorts to their webpage, adding new content and a fresh new design. Google is gi ...
  • Microsoft and Yammer: Collaboration and Enterp ...
    via microsoft.comMicrosoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. have announced Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks is to be acquired for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to cu ...
  • Brewer: Obama admin launched 'assault' on Arizona
    (CNN) – Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona had some biting words for the Obama administration Monday after it announced it was rescinding agreements that allow some local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. "They arbitrarily singled out Arizona and sent a bomb, if y ...
  • Google Alert - Barack Obama
    News 7 new results for Barack Obama   President Barack Obama's response to ruling on the Arizona ... Washington Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama's statement reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Arizona immigration law: See all stories on this topic » President Obama blasts ...
  • Miami Heat Parade: Team Goes All Out To Celebr ...
    The Miami Heat celebrated in grand fashion with an enormous parade through the streets of Miami on Monday morning, allowing the fans to join in on the celebration and commemorate their 2012 NBA Championship. Hundred’s of thousands of people filled the streets as players rolled by in double-deck ...

Groklaw

  • How to Dual Boot Linux on Your Mac and Take Ba ...
    When Mountain Lion launched, we were abuzz. It's a great OS, but it's also proof of one creeping fact: Apple is intent on bringing OS X and iOS together. Whether it's by hamstringing system-tweaking apps like CandyBar, making relatively young Macs ineligable for upgrades, or iOS-ifying the ope ...
  • Why the Man Who Invented the Web Isn't Rich
    I hadn't realized that the World Wide Web turned 21 this week until I saw the nice birthday card that Megan Garber sent it yesterday. And it's a good thing I did--because otherwise I would have missed a fabulous recycling opportunity! In the summer of 2001, shortly before the 10th birthday of t ...
  • Facebook Groups Let You See Exactly Who Has Vi ...
    As you can see in the screenshot below, the "seen by" feature in photos works just like the "seen by" feature for other group posts: someone who posts a photo to a group can see how many people in that group have viewed it, who those people are, and what time it was that they viewed the photo. A ...
  • UN body opens debate on Internet future to pub ...
    The U.N. telecoms agency has invited the world's more than 2 billion Internet users to join a debate about the future of the Internet. The Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union's announcement Wednesday follows criticism from civil society groups who say preparations for an upcomin ...
  • Germany Reopens Facebook Privacy Inquiry
    Data protection officials in Germany reopened an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition technology Wednesday, saying that the social networking giant was illegally compiling a huge database of members' photos without their consent. - Kevin J. O'Brien, New York Times

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Family Research Council guard shot by intruder
    Folks, can we just put down the freaking guns, ok? A guard at the Family Research Council shot an intruder who pulled a gun on him. Yes, FRC is vilely anti-gay but they deserve to be able to work without fear of yet another lone gunman shooting up the place just like the rest of [...]
  • Substandard American education threatens natio ...
    The continued failure of the United States to provide decent education to its citizens threatens national security, says a recent report by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR.) The study was co-chaired by Joel I. Klein, former head of New York City public schools and Condoleezza Rice, former ...
  • Ray Wylie Hubbard – Wanna Rock and Roll
  • Warm seawater forces shutdown of Connecticut n ...
    A Connecticut nuclear power unit at the Millstone plant has been shut down because water from Long Sound Sound was too warm to provide proper cooling, something which has never happened before. [...]
  • Assange to be granted asylum in Ecuador
    But they have to figure out how to get him out of the Ecuador Embassy in London without being arrested by the Brits.Would diplomatic immunity take care of that?

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...
    I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
  • Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
    1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...

frogblog

  • Wellington Rape Crisis and the failure of Gove ...
    Due to financial constraints Wellington Rape Crisis has been forced to close one day a week, despite client contacts doubling over the last year. As an ex member of the board and a current member I know they had no choice. They run as tight a ship as they can and they have really improved [...]
  • Should it be a cyber-bullying offence to be of ...
    I welcome the Law Commissions cyber-bullying report which contains recommendations for reducing harm. As anyone who has been through it knows, bullying is a horrible experience and in New Zealand we have had some tragic examples leading to suicides. It’s important that we discuss the problem and ...
  • Marriage Equality – idea whose time has come
    Marriage equality is about basic fairness. It is a pretty basic principle of law that discrimination that disadvantages a particular group based on irrelevant criteria is unacceptable, particularly when it is practised by the State. Louisa Wall’s bill to redefine marriage to exclude discri ...
  • General debate, August 12, 2012
  • Tangata Tiriti – What Does It Mean?
    A couple of bloggers who comment on the performance of Maori MPs have recently included me in their analysis because of the Te Tiriti focus in my political work. One of them commented that I am a “born again Maori” whose heart is in the right place. It is flattering to be included bu ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
  • Vendor ArithmeticUnderhanded Capitalism
    Why does the nation exist? The truth is revealed when one realizes that merchant theft is protected by the legal system whose justices have enshrined an economic bias into law, having subverted the Constitution from the goals the founding fathers wrote into it to the almost exclusive promoti ...
  • Treacherous Treaties
    Is American imperialism a Bilderberger plot? Are the American bankers, diplomats, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations all traitors, having turned America into merely an instrument to carry out their Bilderberger maniacal aims? Does America as a sovereign nation even exist anymore ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Microscopic Zoo within Us
    By Dr. Mercola Believe it or not, there's a microbial zoo living inside you, literally trillions of microscopic organisms―more than 10,000 different kinds of them―all co-existing with each other and you. In fact they outnumber you ten to one and ninety percent of the genetic material, (DNA ...
  • In Mammogram Debate, Politics Trounces Science
    By Dr. Mercola The featured three-part article in Bloomberg News1, 2, 3 delves into the questionable practices supporting conventional breast cancer screening and takes a swipe at the politics connected with mammography, exposing much of what the mainstream media has avoided thus far. The art ...
  • Is NYU Dental School Going ‘Amalgam-Free’?
    By Dr. Mercola Research from universities and even the World Health Organization (WHO) have made it very clear that mercury-based amalgam fillings are far more toxic, to people and to the environment, than alternatives like resin composites. As such, you would think that all dental schools w ...
  • Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Childr ...
    By Dr. Mercola A recently published Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have "significantly lower" IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas. In a 32-page rep ...
  • Hunter Gatherer Clue to Obesity
    By Dr. Mercola Could it be that the number of calories you burn in a day is more dependent on your biological roots than the number of minutes you spend being physically active? Intriguing new research has indeed shown that it's possible human metabolic rates are more evolutionary in origin ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Exposed: Spanish tycoon’s role in destruction ...
    Jacinto Rey González is one of Spain's richest men – and President of a ranching firm implicated in the illegal destruction of the Ayoreo's land.© AnonOne of Spain’s richest men has been implicated in the illegal bulldozing of a South American forest where the last uncontacted Indians ...
  • Full-scale gun attack on Brazilian Indians end ...
    The violent attack has left the Guarani afraid and angry, but determined to remain on their land.© Aty Guasu/SurvivalMore than 50 gunmen have launched a full-scale attack on an Indian community in southwest Brazil, shooting, threatening and then reportedly kidnapping one of their leaders. The v ...
  • New audio slideshow of ‘Tribes from the air’ m ...
    Aerial photographs of uncontacted Indians in Brazil caught the world’s imagination.© Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/SurvivalSurvival has published an aerial photographic gallery of tribes and their lands to mark the 18th UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. In a unique collaboration o ...
  • Guarani Indians to take demands to Inter-Ameri ...
    Brazil's Guarani are demanding that the government protects their land © Survival Brazil’s Guarani Indians have announced that they will take their government to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, over its failure to protect their land. The Guarani said in a statement that they ...
  • Victory for Indians as court blocks oil project
    Sarayaku President José Gualinga speaks before the Inter-American Court © Inter-American Court of Human Rights The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Ecuador’s Kichwa Indians in a case against a controversial oil project that has destroyed parts of their land. Sara ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Letter of the Day: You want change? Start with ...
    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
  • Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
    Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...

Food World Order

  • The Ultimate Freedom - Food Security: Easier t ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Agri-business and the criminal government officials who work for them in Congress and the White House would like you to think that growing food is a difficult and hazardous process and too complicated for normal people to do safely. Common sense initiatives like the ...
  • Fluoride in Portland Water: The Propaganda Pus ...
    from opb.org: A coalition supporting fluorinated drinking water has been working on getting a fluoridation proposal before the Portland City Council. Fluoride proponents say it's a substance that's been shown to reduce tooth decay and improve health. Opponents contend that the benefits are un ...
  • Court forces chemo on eight-year-old Minnesota ...
    from naturalnews.com: Where once it was rare for courts of law to invade the privacy and purview of parents when it came to raising their children, in today's America the wall between parental rights and the state's Leviathan is increasingly being dismantled by activists disguised as public serv ...
  • Man begins 30 day jail sentence for collecting ...
    from brasschecktv.com: Gary Harrington, the Oregon man convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his rural property turned himself in on Wednesday morning to begin serving his 30-day, jail sentence in Medford, Ore. “I’m sacrificing my liberty so we can stand up as a country and stand ...
  • Fat, Not Glucose, is the Preferred Fuel for Yo ...
    from mercola.com: While we may consider ourselves to be at the pinnacle of human development, our modern food manufacturing processes have utterly failed at improving health and increasing longevity. During the Paleolithic period, many thousands of years ago, our ancestors ate primarily vegetab ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
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