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Scoop - NZ

  • Key's MediaWorks Influence Queried
    Key talking down prospects of recovering MediaWorks' $22 million tax debt puts focus on Nats media relationship .. the impression has lingered that MediaWorks was treated as a special case and that like SkyCity and Sky TV it has a good rapport with the Nats and their opposition to regulation. ...
  • The Real Crisis in Australia
    “Australia is a leveraged time bomb waiting to blow,” says Albert Edwards, Societe Generale's London-based global strategist. “It is not just a CDO, but a CDO squared. All we have in Australia is, at its simplest, a credit bubble built upon a commodity boom dependent for its sustenance on an eve ...
  • Council votes to increase oversight of NYPD
    Amid a growing debate over security and privacy ignited by the National Security Agency whistle blower Edward Snowden and revelation that the NYPD embedded four CIA officials since 9/11, the New York City Council this morning approved by veto-proof majorities a pair of bills aimed at increasing ...
  • Al-Nusra Slaughters Christian Priest in Homs
    A decision seems to have been taken to target Christian areas and symbols in order to arouse sentiment for inervention by culturally Christian powers. In short, a provocation. Image: 415 x 312 pixels, 45,3 Kb,
  • Alep: Rift between Rebels and Civilians
    The schism between civil activists and armed revolutionaries is at its widest since the Syrian uprising began, and it’s only getting worse. There are a multitude of reasons for this, but the most important one is expectations — what each side hoped the uprising would achieve. For the civil activ ...

Independent - London

  • Mohira Ortikova's letter to Prime Minister Dav ...
    To the Honorable David Cameron, Prime Minister of Great BritainRelated StoriesA truly electrifying performanceTaliban talks 'were needed a decade ago' says senior British commanderDavid Cameron flies into Afghanistan as army warns British troops will stay to support Afghan forces for up to five ...
  • Co-founder of Napster, Sean Parker, defends $4 ...
    As the co-founder of Napster, former president of Facebook and a member of Spotify’s board of directors, Sean Parker is more responsible than most for making the web what it is today. But now the 33-year-old billionaire tech entrepreneur has grown troubled by his creation, following a widesprea ...
  • Taliban could soon be coming in from the cold
    Families of British troops killed in Afghanistan will have to accept that the Taliban will take a role in the Afghan national government and even its army, as international leaders make the final push for a "political solution", senior military officials said yesterday.Related StoriesA truly el ...
  • David Cameron to ask Pakistan's PM for help on ...
    David Cameron will today ask Pakistan's re-elected leader to help shore up security in the region – and to stay out of Afghanistan as it takes it first faltering steps as an independent democracy. Mr Cameron will become the first major leader to meet Nawaz Sharif, as he starts an unprecedented t ...
  • El Dorado 'found' on Google Earth: Now expedit ...
    In 1929, Harold Bell Lasseter transfixed Australia with a tale of a quartz outcrop in the heart of the continent containing gold nuggets "as thick as plums in a pudding". He had stumbled across the reef, buried beneath sand hills in Western Australia's remote Gibson Desert, he claimed, while pr ...

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.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • 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

  • University of Virginia student jailed for poss ...
    A University of Virginia student spent a night and good part of the next day in jail after seven plain-clothes agents from the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control division ambushed her. The student, 20-year-old Elizabeth Daly, made the mistake of walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dou ...
  • Australian man gets 40 years jail for abusing ...
    An Australian man who bought a baby boy for $US8000 ($A8659) with his partner, sexually abused the child and handed him off to other pedophiles to molest, has been sentenced to 40 years' prison in the US. Judge Sarah Evans Barker, while sentencing the 42-year-old in the US District Court in Ind ...
  • Archaeologists seek to unearth mysteries at Az ...
    Aztalan State Park is deceptively bucolic. On a sunny day, it's a field of green grass on sculpted mounds of earth. The sweltering silence carries whispers of wind and the nearby Crawfish River. Occasionally, a cry of a peacock from a nearby farm pierces the air. But 1,000 years ago, Aztalan wa ...
  • Missing 411: Unexplained disappearances of peo ...
    Missing 411 is a book by David Paulides that need not be over looked or ever forgotten. The book is about missing people in North America and Canada that have been unsolved and unexplained. The book goes into each individual case and describes the scenario and facts of what happened. Some people ...
  • Hollywood helped Adolf Hitler with Nazi propag ...
    Hollywood is not widely thought of as providing much support to Hitler's regime, instead producing a wealth of anti-Nazi films during the Second World War, ranging from Casablanca to The Great Dictator. But now a young historian says that in the years before the war, Tinseltown was marching to ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • We are a nation of immigrants
    The Pier 21 Immigration museum in Halifax commissioned a Toronto production firm to collect about 100 immigrant stories. This is my son's.
  • Ping Pong Balls . . .
    PING PONG BALLS are incredibly flammable. Something irrelevant to ponder on this Canada Day.
  • Another RCMP success story . . .
    Eyewitnesses note this woman was punched in the mouth by RCMP. PUNCHING A WOMAN seems to be RCMP best-practice, when they don't have a Taser handy. Halifax Media Co-op has a report by Miles Howe, "12 more opposed to shale gas arrested as RCMP turn violent on National Aboriginal Day". Appa ...
  • The Standing Man . . .
    Erdem Gunduz (center) stands in Instanbul's Taksim Square early Tuesday. — Petr David Josek/AP THAT PROTEST SHALL NOT PERISH, from the creativity of the human spirit embodied in a chap name of Erdem Gunduz, who went to Taksim Square, and just stood there, passively, staring at the Ministr ...
  • Oops . . .
    — Hybrid Sons of Tifton 85 — THE INQUISITR has an article you should check out: “Genetically Modified Grass Begins Releasing Cyanide, Kills Texas Cattle”. Really.  That bears repeating, “Genetically Modified Grass    Begins Releasing Cyanide,    Kills Texas Cattle”

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News, Home Of Benghazi Myths, To Air One-H ...
    Fox News will air a one-hour special titled Benghazi: The Truth Behind The Smokescreen which purports to provide "a comprehensive look at all of the new developments in the story." But Fox is not a credible source on Benghazi, having littered its coverage of the incident with ...
  • Right-Wing Media Miss The Facts On Disability ...
    Right-wing media misleadingly hyped a congressional hearing to falsely claim that disability fraud is leading to increased claims and depleting the Social Security Disability Trust Fund. However, testimony from a Social Security Administration official at the hearing revealed that fraud is ...
  • WSJ Contradicts Experts On Social Cost Of Carbon
    The Wall Street Journal is suggesting that there should be no benefit assigned to reducing the carbon dioxide emissions that drive climate change, seeking to criticize the Obama administration for raising the figure used to estimate those benefits -- the "social cost of carbon." However, experts ...
  • "Supreme Court Overrules God" And Other Right- ...
    In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denied married same-sex couples the benefits and protections afforded to married couples under federal law. Many right-wing media voices expressed displeasure with the result. This item w ...
  • Right-Wing Media Get Immigration Reform's Impa ...
    Right-wing media are rejecting the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the Senate immigration reform proposal, claiming that the CBO's conclusion that the proposal reduces the deficit is "false" because immigrants' reliance on Social Security as citizens would eventually outweigh their ...

Global Research.ca

  • US Misrepresents its Role in the Korean War. U ...
    In 1994, the UN Secretary General in a letter to the North Korean Foreign Minister distanced the UN from the UNC by writing “the Security Council did not establish the unified command as a subsidiary organ under its control, but…
  • Genetically Engineered “Terminator Seeds ...
    This article was first published by Global Research in January 2013 The widely held belief is that genetically modified ‘terminator seeds’ are not available on the commercial market anywhere. Since 2001, there has been a de facto worldwide moratorium on…
  • Towards a World War III Scenario? The Role of ...
    The Iran operation is slated to use the most advanced weapons systems. In all likelihood, new weapons systems will be tested.
  • Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulat ...
    At an international symposium held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-30, 2010, scientists asserted that “manipulation of climate through modification of Cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory.” It is “fully operational” with a solid sixty-year history. Though…
  • The Government’s Mass Spying Is An Affront To ...
    Top Terrorism Experts Say that Mass Spying Doesn’t Work to Prevent Terrorism Never mind the fact that – if the government’s spying was really only aimed at protecting us from terrorism – the NSA probably wouldn’t put so many resources…

TPM Cafe

  • 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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Water - AlterNet

  • Mass Protest, Not a Speech, Is Needed to Addre ...
    The biosphere of which humans are a part cannot afford half measures or rely on dubious “friends” in high places. Before we get teary eyed with joy or scoff with derision, we should take a closer look at President Obama’s June 25 speech on climate change, and set it within t ...
  • Can Frackers Be Paid Off? How One Community Is ...
    The Thompson Divide has some of the best recreational opportunities in the country. It's also an important headwaters, but that may not be enough to save it. Craig Amichaux considers saving the Thompson Divide a last stand. “That’s all we’ve got left,” said Amich ...
  • Northern Over-Exposure: Record Heat Wave Envel ...
    The news is of particular note since the Alaska is one of the fastest warming states. How hot is it up north?It was so hot that Talkeetna, Alaska hit 96°F on Monday — warmer than Miami — blowing past the previous record of 91°F set in June of 1969 (and matched on Sunday ...
  • Fracking Is Already Straining U.S. Water Supplies
    Some of America's most intensive oil and gas development is occurring in drought-prone regions where water is scarce. As the level of hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in the United States has intensified in recent years, much of the mounting public concern has centered on fears t ...
  • Why the U.S. Is Becoming Ground Zero For the ...
    The practice that has devastated parts of Canada is already underway in the U.S. and things could get a lot worse. Editor’s Note: Tara Lohan is traveling across North America documenting communities impacted by energy development for a new AlterNet project, Hitting Home. Follow her ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • TCEQ Launches Take Care of Texas Campaign
    The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality along with Texas Parks and Wildlife has launched a new campaign to encourage everyone to Take Care of Texas’ environment.  A new website contains materials that range from general information about environmental programs to specific, step-by-st ...
  • Warming climate makes good habitat for new agg ...
    There’s a new pest invading many American towns, the Asian tiger mosquito. According to NBC Science, this mosquito is as menacing as it sounds since it is effective at transmitting more than 20 diseases, and its success at spreading throughout the world is due to a warming climate, with eg ...
  • A Day Late and A Dollar Short: Public Citizen’ ...
    There’s a lot to like in the president’s plan that he announced today, but there is a lot that falls short, too. Certainly on the most important measure, reducing coal-burning plant emissions, the president is a day late and a dollar short. The lack of specificity on the standard eventually to b ...
  • Is Houston Cleaner Than Your Town?
    Probably not overall, but the City of Houston has made a historic commitment – to buy half its power from renewable sources. Houston was built around the oil and gas industries and has long suffered the consequences of being home to many of the nation’s most polluting refining and ch ...
  • Public Citizen’s Legislative Wrap-Up: Where We ...
    With the regular session behind us and energy and environmental issues not likely to find a place in the special session, it’s a good time to look at what we accomplished. Our wins came in two forms – bills that passed that will actually improve policy in Texas and bills that didn&#8 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • How many ancient Mayans were there ?
    Archaeologists have been studying the ruins at Tikal to determine how many Mayans used to live there. The Mayan civilization was advanced and prospero...
  • Woman in Chile cries tears of blood
    Doctors have been baffled by the case of a young Chilean woman who appears to cry tears of blood. 20-year-old Olivia not only weeps tears of blood but...
  • Woman glues her own mouth shut
    In a bizarre accident a woman in New Zealand accidentally managed to glue her lips together. The peculiar incident occurred when the 64-year-old reach...
  • 'Psychic attack' reported at Japanese school
    The strange series of events saw 18 schoolgirls end up in hospital after experiencing trouble breathing. In a classic case of mass hysteria, troubles ...
  • Untouched royal tomb found in Peru
    The graves of three ancient Wari queens have been unearthed in a rare undisturbed Peruvian tomb. The remains were found alongside a treasure trove of ...

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International to honor the World Ma ...
    Subheadline:  30th Anniversary Event celebrates extradinary partnership for social change Image:  invitation_cover_image.jpg Grassroots International is honoring ...
  • Agroecology Grows Food and Self-Sufficiency
    Subheadline:  Settlement in Maranhao thrives despite drought brazil-mst_farmer.jpg The embattled northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão is experiencing its worst drought ...
  • Why Movements Matter
    via_campesina-6th_international_conference.jpg Earlier this month, hundreds of small farmers from dozens of countries gathered in Jakarta, Indonesia for the 6th International Congress of the Via Campesina. read more
  • The World Food Prize Misses the Mark
    Subheadline:  Award given to Monsanto rewards GMOs not farmers Image:  no_farmers_no_food.jpg  read more
  • Haitian-led Response to Earthquake Featured in ...
    faultlinescover.jpg The catastrophic earthquake that shook Haiti in 2010 revealed two parallel stories, although only one has made it into the mainstream. The story most people are familiar with is how the international community swept into ...

Climate

  • Tensions Swelling as Beach Erodes
    (New York Times) Perched at the edge of the Atlantic with cliff neighbors including Paul Simon and Dick Cavett, Montauk Shores shares a distinction with Bohemia Cove in Malibu — it is one of the most desirable trailer parks in the Unit ...
  • Global Warming Behind Australia’s ‘Angry Summe ...
    (Climate Central) Manmade global warming was likely a significant contributing factor in Australia's "Angry Summer" of 2012-2013, according to a new study. It was the country's hottest on record and featured devastating wildfires ...
  • Chinese Wind-Turbine Firm Charged with Stealin ...
    (Guardian) China's largest wind-turbine company has been charged with stealing trade secrets from its American former software supplier, the US justice department has announced.
  • Future of Farm Bill Energy Programs Remains Un ...
    (Midwest Energy News) While the talk in D.C. turns to President Obama's climate proposals, it's back to the drawing board for several federal renewable energy programs, following the House rejection of the Farm Bill last week. Unless ...
  • Environmentalists Demand New Climate Analysis ...
    (Washington Post) Just a day before President Obama announced he would only approve the Keystone XL pipeline if it "does not significantly exacerbate the climate problem," six environmental groups quietly lodged a protest wit ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • 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.

Booman Tribune

  • Could Peace Talks Be Revived?
    It sounds like something is afoot in the Middle East and Secretary of State John Kerry might be succeeding in getting some talks going between Israel and the Palestinians. Mr. Kerrys decision to rip up his itinerary and stay in Israel has heightened expectations of a potential breakthrough. ...
  • Bad Reporting on Paula Deen
    I find the coverage of Paula Deen troubling. Take this CBS News piece as an example. It reports that Ms. Deen's new cookbook has been dropped by her publisher despite being ranked number one on Amazon due to pre-orders. The article also mentions that Ms. Deen's contract isn't being renewed wit ...
  • It's All About Greenwald
    There certainly is plenty to read about Glenn Greenwald today. Learning more about his life is kind of interesting but most of it feels voyeuristic to me. I think the most important revelation is that he has admitted that he approaches journalism the same way he pursued lawsuits. His style is ...
  • Leave Bert and Ernie Alone
    It's probably my lack of imagination, but I never even considered that Bert and Ernie were in a gay relationship until I read some references to that possibility a few years ago. I can see why gay men might want to think that and also how the two muppets fit certain stereotypes about gay couple ...
  • Pass the Popcorn
    I don't think there is any doubt that there is a majority in the House of Representatives that supports the Senate's version of the comprehensive immigration reform bill. That is probably the most important fact that you need to know. Speaker Boehner is in a vice that is going to tighten. Sup ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Lots of lovely links this week. Whether you love Indiana Jones, comic books or sports, we’ve got something for you. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • From Legend to Reality: Uncovering the Sunken ...
    Little was known about the legendary city of Heracleion. But then a marine archaeologist and his team stumbled on its ancient submerged ruins... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    This week, we've got natural wonders and incredible manmade structures for you to check out. Plus: some seriously smart people, amazing dads from nature, and tasty books. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Hitler and Homicides: The Gruesome History Beh ...
    The abandoned Beelitz-Heilstätten hospital housed thousands of TB victims plus a young Adolph Hitler, and more recently it set the scene of a series of grisly murders. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Ice Diving in the Otherworldly Glow of Russia’ ...
    Beneath the waves of the White Sea, the only natural light is the ghostly green glow shining through the ice above, which makes for amazingly beautiful if unusual photos. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Interview on the Rundown Live re NSA, covert o ...
    On Monday June 24: Caught up on matters re deep politics & weirdness with the guys on TheRunDownLive - got to cover some good topics including domestic military operations under USNORTHCOM CONPLAN 3502 aka "Civil Disturbance Operations", the DRE drug scandal in Minneapolis, arcana of the cov ...
  • A polite notification about toxic/lethal food ...
    I am on a bit of a riff against a common food additive azodicarbonamide. I sent this to a local sandwich maker/distributor that has a pretty good hold on the Minneapolis independent coffee shop sandwich market. I won't name the sandwich company for now. I think I will assume that azodicarbonamid ...
  • World Bank whistleblower flags laundering mone ...
    Another interesting whistleblower item. Very quick post. Karen Hudes from World Bank notes major crises including something related to the major disruption of gold markets. I suspect this is the COMEX paper gold situation.... This is a pretty big deal. Starts around 6 minutes. Also covers Brazil ...
  • Sprawling interview w wtfrly.com on activist n ...
    Alright here's a link if you want to check out. Super long like 2.3hr interview with WTFRLY.com editor Baran Hines covering lots of stuff on police state materials, local goings on including DRE. Had a mention of the shady MnSCU shutdown of organic agriculture training, Turkey, Brazil, activist ...
  • BREAKING: NSA whistleblower Russ Tice says Oba ...
    Been waiting to hear more material from Russ Tice, one of the earlier NSA whistleblowers. Fortunately one of our ol' underdogs BoilingFrogsPost.com & Sibel Edmonds got Tice to lay out a lot of new stuff. Tice was a major source for NSA revelations including the 2005 NY Times warrantless ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • You Don't Have to Be a Sexist Pig to Pick Up Women
    With pickup artist misogyny in the news once again, here's some advice on attracting women -- without the sexism. Is all pickup advice sexist? That’s what I found myself wondering after “pickup artist” Ken Hoinsky made headlines last week by raising more than $16, ...
  • This Week's Killer Heat Wave Threatens To Caus ...
    The Southwest may experience the hottest weather in recorded history. Still don't believe in global warming? If you’re spending this week in California, Nevada, Arizona, or even parts of Wyoming and Idaho, prepare to burn. A potentially historic heat wave is headed your way from Th ...
  • Is 'Dabbing' the Crack of Pot?
    Butane hash oil, a potent marijuana concentrate, is gaining popularity. So why does it split the pro-pot community? This article first appeared on The Fix. Butane hash oil (BHO)—also known as dabs, honey oil, wax, oil, shatter, or budder—is a potent marijuana concentrate tha ...
  • Exposing the Dark Forces Behind the Snowden Smears
    Who is planting anti-Snowden attacks with Buzzfeed, and why is the website playing along? Since journalist Glenn Greenwald revealed the existence of the National Security Agency’s PRISM domestic surveillance program, he and his source, the whistleblower Edward Snowden, have come in for ...
  • Popular Resistance Is Building Up, from Hunger ...
    The paradox of power is that the real power is with us, if we have the courage to use it.  This week, there were many lessons in courage from people who overcame fears and created winning situations by turning power on its head and building the movement. On Wednesday morning, attorn ...

Threat Level

  • Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps for First Time ...
    Encryption for the first time is thwarting government surveillance efforts through court-approved wiretaps, U.S. officials said today. The disclosure, buried in a report by the U.S. agency that oversees federal courts, also showed that authorities armed with wiretap orders are ...  &nb ...
  • NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower
    Today's revelations that the National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans provides startling evidence for the first time to support a whistleblower's longstanding claims that AT&T was forwarding global internet traffic to the ...  &nbs ...
  • Under Obama, NSA Collected Bulk Email, Interne ...
    The National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans under the Obama administration, according to new documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.    
  • WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for t ...
    Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange for $5,000.    
  • Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Law that Ma ...
    Ruling 5-4, the Supreme Court today struck down a federal law that recognized lawful marriages as only between between a man and a woman.    

Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Mike Taylor Cracks Down on Hepatitis A Pomegra ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will detain shipments of pomegranate seeds from Goknur Gida Maddeleri Ithalat Ihracat Tic [Goknur Foodstuffs Import Export Trading] of Turkey when they are offered... Continue Reading
  • Jamie Oliver’s Food Centre Shut for the “welfa ...
    Ouch! According to London press, Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food centre has been temporarily shut down for the “welfare of staff and the public”. The TV chef opened the flagship... Continue Reading
  • 127 Sickened by Pomegranate Seeds from Turkey
    Perhaps they are occupied by too much political unrest in Turkey? The CDC reported as of June 27, 2013, 127 people have been confirmed to have become ill from Hepatitis... Continue Reading
  • All you never really wanted to know about Hepa ...
    An Introduction to Hepatitis A. Exposure to the hepatitis A virus can cause an acute infection of the liver that is typically mild and resolves on its own. [11, 17]... Continue Reading
  • Iguana Joe’s Sickens Dozens with Salmonella in ...
    Tiffany Craig of KHOU reports that the Harris County Texas Health Department has temporarily closed Humble’s Iguana Joe’s after multiple patrons reported being sickened over Father’s Day weekend. The health... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Activist Post: A Pox on the CDC’s Vaccination ...
    Sayer Ji Activist Post A new systematic review published in PLoS titled, “Herpes Zoster Risk Reduction through Exposure to Chickenpox Patients: A Systematic Multidiscplinary Review,” confirms that the widespread adoption of chickenpox vaccine over the past 30 years, which has resulte ...
  • Activist Post: A Pox on the CDC’s Vaccination ...
    Sayer Ji Activist Post A new systematic review published in PLoS titled, “Herpes Zoster Risk Reduction through Exposure to Chickenpox Patients: A Systematic Multidiscplinary Review,” confirms that the widespread adoption of chickenpox vaccine over the past 30 years, which has resulte ...
  • Revealed: Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat was st ...
    Carey Gillam Reuters June 28, 2013 Monsanto Co’s unapproved, experimental genetically engineered wheat, which is feared to have potentially contaminated U.S. wheat supplies after it was found growing in an Oregon field this spring, was kept in a U.S. government storage facility until at least la ...
  • Revealed: Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat was st ...
    Carey Gillam Reuters June 28, 2013 Monsanto Co’s unapproved, experimental genetically engineered wheat, which is feared to have potentially contaminated U.S. wheat supplies after it was found growing in an Oregon field this spring, was kept in a U.S. government storage facility until at least la ...
  • Snowden asked to brief Russian parliament on U ...
    by Kryptographic on June 28, 2013 at 3:50pm Press TV June 28, 2013 Russia’s parliament has invited former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden to assist Moscow in investigation whether US Internet firms gave information about Russian citizens to Washington. “We invite Edwa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fabius Maximus

  • The overturns two laws passed by Congress. Eve ...
    Summary:  This was a bad week for the Republic. No matter what your opinions about Same Sex Marriage and the Voting Rights Act, these decisions weaken us. As we become more accustomed to undemocratic solutions, our ruling elites become stronger. We become weaker. It {is} an axiom of eternal trut ...
  • Lessons about America to be learned from the C ...
    Summary: Climate change is one of our greatest challenges, but also it shows our inability to to see and understand the world against the efforts of those who seek to manipulate us. Highlighting that weakness is one of the major threads of of the FM website, linking posts about COIN, Saddam&#821 ...
  • The bad news about reforming America: time is ...
    Summary: America has many people interested in reforming its politics and government. But not enough. And ever fewer as the Republic weakens, and the cost of opposing the government increases — and the risk taking the extreme measures necessary becomes severe. Every day these trends dig de ...
  • Warning from a whistleblower about the results ...
    Summary: Today we have an analysis of the results of the Snowden affair by one who knows about such things. Franz Gayl (Major, USMC, retired) was a whistleblower, received the usual retaliation, and successfully fought back to recover his security clearance and job. He gives us grim tidings of o ...
  • Status report on the US economy. Recession? Co ...
    Summary: Today we have a brief status report on the US economy, touching on some items of concern. The big question: after four years of slow growth, has the air leaked out of our party balloon? Contents Status report about the US A quick look at the world Recession watch What about another bust ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Colorful Star Fo ...
    NGC 281 is a bustling hub of star formation about 10,000 light years away. This composite image of optical and X-ray emission includes regions where new stars are forming and older regions containing stars about 3 million years old.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hockey Stick Galaxy
    This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. NGC 4656, also known informally as the "hockey stick galaxy," is a distorted edge-on spiral galaxy. Its distinctive ...    
  • Tiny Sea Otter Siblings Fight the Odds
    For several days this week, these two tiny sea otter siblings were floating around on their mom's belly in Morro Bay, in central California. Alternately nursing and being groomed, or occasionally floating beside her, the little furballs are a rare ...    
  • Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and Baffling Regio ...
    Not content with simply being the man-made object to travel farthest from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft recently entered a bizarre new region at the solar system’s edge that has physicists baffled.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Sun in Different ...
    The images of this Sun (Dec. 7, 2011) taken at almost the same time are shown in various wavelengths in various temperatures and layers of the Sun. In addition, we superimposed an illustration of the Sun's magnetic field lines to ...    

PakAlert

  • Washington Is Driving The World To The Final War
    Washington Is Driving The World To The Final War Paul Craig Roberts “V For Vendetta,” a film that portrays evil in a futuristic England as a proxy for the evil that exists today in America, ends with the defeat of evil. But this is a movie in which the hero has super powers. If you have no ...
  • The Government’s Mass Spying Is An Affront To ...
    Never mind the fact that – if the government’s spying was really only aimed at protecting us from terrorism – the NSA probably wouldn’t put so many resources into spying on our allies at the G20 summit, the European Parliament or Chinese universities (or perhaps even our own government official ...
  • US Army restricts access to Guardian website o ...
    The US Army confirmed on Thursday that access to The Guardian newspaper’s website has been filtered and restricted for its personnel. The policy is due to classified documents described in detail in the stories. Gordon Van Vleet, spokesman for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, o ...
  • Scientists Discover Bt Toxins Found In Monsant ...
    Studies are showing that Bt toxins found in Monsanto crops are harmful to mammalian blood by damaging red blood cells and more. RBC’s are responsible for delivering oxygen to the body tissues through blood flow. Bacillus thuringensis (Bt) is a bacterium commonly used as a biological pesticide ...
  • Whistleblower Reveals World Bank Corruption in ...
    Whistleblowers continue to endure an increasing level of targeting and prosecution by an administration that touts its commitment to transparency. Despite this, many brave insiders continue to come forward to reveal the extent of corruption at the highest levels

Andy Worthington

  • Judge Calls for An End to Unjust Provisions Go ...
    In preventing the release of prisoners from Guantánamo, all three branches of the US government are responsible. President Obama promised to close the prison within a year of taking office, but he lacked a concrete plan, and soon caved in to criticism, blocking a plan by White House counsel Greg ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses Edward Snowd ...
    On Thursday, I took part in a fascinating conversation on Voice of Russia about Edward Snowden, the role of whistleblowers and the surveillance state. The discussion was entitled, “How far can politicians go to protect our security?” and I was with Brendan Cole in London, while, in M ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantána ...
    A few days ago, I was delighted to talk to Scott Horton, who I’ve been talking to, on a regular basis, for nearly six years, about the ongoing horrors of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which, in a few weeks’ time, will have been open for its appalling busin ...
  • The Guantánamo Review Task Force’s Decis ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our ac ...
  • Video: Culture of Impunity – New Online ...
    As today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, initiated by the United Nations in 1997, on the 10th anniversary of the the day that the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force, I’d like to take this op ...

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
    Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...
  • Science books for summer
    Brian Clegg – Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we di ...
  • Guiding pledge 2.0 dismisses God and the Queen
    Apparently, the Guiding Movement is to upgrade its pledge that all members must make when they join. Currently they vow to: "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country" That obviously only applies to people of faith and those with a female monarch…and indeed compromises the i ...
  • Life on the rocks
    Life on the rocks, unlike love on the rocks, is a surprise… In the beginning… …there was a barren spinning ball of rock, with a hot, molten core, hurtling through space around a distant, but warming fusion reactor. But the spinning ball was not alone on its journey – there were ...
  • What do you do if you’ve got osteoarthritis of ...
    Film director Baz Luhrmann made a spoof graduation speech famous with his hit “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” back in 1999. At the time, I wasn’t particularly worried about the line in that track: “Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.&#8 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Western US Swelters Under Blistering, Record-B ...
    Sweltering heat is baking areas of the western and southwestern United States this weekend. read more
  • Snowden's Father: 'Ironclad Assurances' Son's ...
    Lonnie Snowden, the father of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, has said he believes his son would return to the U.S. if there were "ironclad assurances" that his son's constitutional rights would be respected. Mr. Snowden sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder outlining con ...
  • The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corpo ...
    Staffing Network in Hanover Park, Ill. (Photo: Chicago Workers Collaborative/flickr)It's 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to a closed-down video store, an employment agency is already filling up. Rosa Ramirez walks in, as she has done nearly every morning fo ...
  • Senators Blast NSA for 'Secret' Interpretation ...
    Lawmakers blasted the Obama administration for their "secret reinterpretation" of known laws, which they say has effectively "mislead" both the public and their representatives, granting the federal government broad powers to monitor and mine the world's communications. ...
  • EPA Ups Allowable Residue of Monsanto's Toxic ...
    In a little reported development, the Environmental Protection Agency last week issued a new rule raising the allowable concentration of Monsanto’s herbicide glyphosate, otherwise known as Roundup, on food crops, animal feed and edible oils Despite the proven risk, this ruling is clearly a ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads
    Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.Read more...    
  • Turn Soda into a Slushie With No Special Equipment
    Few things are better on a hot summer day than a frozen drink, and you can beat the heat with your own soda slushes at home with absolutely no special equipment.Read more...    
  • Mr. Reader is a Power User's RSS App, Now with ...
    iPad: The looming shutdown of Google Reader is a great opportunity to look at new RSS apps to go along with your new syncing service of choice. If you like to keep up with news on your iPad, nothing matches the powerful options available in Mr. Reader. Read more...    
  • Keep Ants Out of Your Pets' Food with a Tray o ...
    Just a few stray particles of pet food are enough to lead a parade of ants through your house. Before resorting to chemicals to get rid of them though, try using a pan of water as a moat to keep them away from the bowl.Read more...    
  • Turn That Last Bit of Honey into Delicious Lem ...
    When you start running low on honey, the last few drops are usually too hard to extract from the jar to make them worthwhile. Instead of throwing the jar away though, use it to make a refreshing pitcher of lemonade.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Naked through NSA eyepiece | Business Recorder
    Star wars, cyber wars and water wars - the so-called wars of future are already upon us. Pakistan is fighting all three but reports from the battlefronts are not very encouraging. The CIA-operated drones give us the foretaste of a star war.
  • Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water(R) Radio Sho ...
    VoiceAmerica Radio Show Host Sharon Kleyne Explores Water from Dehydration to Water Wars to Humidity to Lawns (PRWeb June 28, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10881740.htm
  • Fitch Rates Cobb County, GA's Water & Sewer Re ...
    Fitch Ratings assigns the following rating to Cobb County, Georgia's bonds:
  • Capitol Report, Wayne Greene: Rural areas 1, c ...
    On the final day of the legislative session, a bill passed that will fundamentally shift control over one of the state's most precious and limited resources - water.
  • Readers write
    IMMIGRATIONColumnist demolishesmyths of foreign laborThomas Sowell’s recent column (“There’s really no ‘need’ for immigrant farm labor,” Opinion, June 18) eloquently, comprehensively and completely destroys three immigration myths: that the farm industry (and others) “need” low-priced labor; tha ...

WordPress | Economics

  • A Bit of a Rant
    After the debacle which culminated in the leadership of Julia Gillard ending it would have been reas
  • The Eagle and The Condor
    I recently finished reading the book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins. In it Per
  • China's outbound tourists surpass 37 million
    China Daily: “The number of outbound tourists leaving China reached 37.92 million in the first
  • misleading words
    Words are probably the most important tools that politicians can use. Indeed, rhetoric is far more i
  • Meet the new bankers
    An interesting rundown of China’s new economic team: Wang Qishan, 64, former financial supremo

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • House Republicans Want To Cut Nearly $1 Billio ...
    This past Tuesday, President Obama unveiled his second-term plan for cutting carbon emissions, and delivered a bracing call for the American economy to advance into a clean energy future. This past Wednesday, House Republicans responded by moving a bill out of the Appropriations Committee that w ...
  • Open Thread Plus Cartoon Of The Week
    Opine away!    
  • Gay And Lesbian Couples Allowed To Begin Marry ...
    On Friday afternoon, the ninth circuit court lifted its stay on same-sex marriages in the state of California, acknowledging the Supreme Court’s opinion in Hollingsworth v Perry that supporters of anti-gay Proposition 8 did not have standing to appeal a lower court judge’s ruling tha ...
  • TD Bank Press Release Hoax Raises Question Of ...
    Not the Onion. But close. A press release purporting to be from TD Bank spread around the world this morning that appeared to say the company was divesting its holdings in “Keystone XL and other oil sands related ventures.” It appeared on yourtdbank.com, which is similar enough to th ...
  • As U.S. Drug Prices Soar, Americans Resort To ...
    On Thursday, the FDA announced that it had shuttered over 1,600 online pharmacies for selling illegal or counterfeit medication. On the same day, a new Maine law went into effect allowing residents to purchase drugs imported from Canada. Buying drugs online or buying them from other countries is ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
    I'm seriously just too busy to post anything else.
  • Nauseating Spectacles
    Dalton McGuinty testifying about his scuzzery. "This is a partisan circus." Listen fuck-face; YES! The Hudak-PC's are a bunch of hypocrites. You STILL wasted almost a billion dollars cancelling gas plant contracts that the ONDP told you not to start in the first place. You then illegally delete ...
  • Youth Unemployment Statistics
    The CBC asks the question: "Why are so many of Canada's young people out of work?" The article gravitates between the stupid premise that today's young people have a greater sense of entitlement than previous generations ... As a recent cover of Time magazine suggests, this has been interpreted ...
  • A New Direction?
    There's a question mark there not because I'm asking anyone's opinion, but only whether I'm too distracted and lazy and sloppy to stick to it. But, anyway, ... I think instead of having this blog serve as a source of criticism of the system and an occasional call to arms for the left, what with ...
  • Book I Read ...
    Just thought I'd should mention a little gem of a book i recently read. War At Sea: A Canadian Seaman On The North Atlantic, by Frank Curry. In many respects, it's unremarkable. It's a little repetitive and there's not much in the way of broader insights about the effect of the war on Canadian ...

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.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Amazing Response
    A very generous Ceasefire.ca supporter has offered to match every donation made by other supporters, dollar for dollar, until we reach our goal. That's incredible!
  • The most unreported story in Canada…
    When you put all the pieces together, it’s clear that Harper wants to do a lot more than be able to send commandos, stealth fighters, and drones to fight wars around the world. Now he wants to sell billions in arms internationally, making Canada a global weapons dealer.
  • Spy allies seek to Master the Internet
    Britain's electronic spy agency, Government Communications Headquarters, and its American counterpart, the National Security Agency, are working together to "Master the Internet". Is the Communications Security Establishment Canada involved too?
  • We’ve reached 25,000 supporters!
    I wanted to let you know about the progress we are making on our campaign to stop Stephen Harper’s armed drones plan.
  • Celebrities to Obama: Zero nukes!
    Celebrities supporting the Global Zero campaign call on U.S. President Barack Obama to seek further cuts in US-Russian nuclear weapon stockpiles and work towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-25-13
    Today, Kevin explains how the media, internet, television, movies, magazines and newspapers are ALL misleading you. Plus, find out why, in life, it’s not about the mistakes you’ve made, but the lessons you’ve learned. Self Help: You Become What You Think About Most Of The Time Success Is A Decis ...
  • Evidence suggests that up to 90 percent of can ...
    The vast majority of the published scientific literature on cancer and cancer research is inherently flawed and non-reproducible, reveals a new review published online in the journal Nature. Researchers C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis found that a mere 11 percent of 53 papers on cancer published i ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-15-13
    Today, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your pet’s health around and even double its lifespan! Plus, Kevin gives you his predictions about the economy! Self Help: Improve Your Pet’s Health Wealth: Oil Prices On The Rise Home Prices Take Big ...
  • Tea-riffic news for chamomile fans!
    Love a cup of tea to wind down in the evening? Good news! Choose chamomile, as researchers have recently revealed it can help ward off cancer. Containing a chemical – apigenin, which can halt the spread of cancer cells - chamomile tea, parsley and celery could help ward prevent the onset of the ...
  • Could your smart phone be the cause of your in ...
    If you’re struggling to sleep at night, the answer could be closer than your think (hint, your bedside table). What are we talking about? A leading expert has revealed that electric lights – including on smartphones and tables – often play a key role in causing people’s bad sleeping patterns. Di ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • A Conversation with Dr. Paul Tillich
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comA Conversation with Dr. Paul Tillich disquietreservations.blogspot.co.ukBy Saman Mohammadi Wikipedia: “Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 ” October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist ...
  • The Pentagon Attack – 9.11
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Pentagon Attack – 9.11 By Dark Politricks If you know my thoughts on 9.11 then you know I have gone back and forth on the events many times. Initially when the 9.11 attacks happened, like many people I started ...
  • Hong Kong filmmakers unveil first movie adapta ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHong Kong filmmakers unveil first movie adaptation of Snowden saga Raw StoryBy Agence France-Presse   Four amateur filmmakers in Hong Kong have beaten Hollywood to the draw by producing the first film on Edward Snow ...
  • World’s Most Evil and Lawless Institution
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.org By Fred Branfman Americas Secret Shame America has a secret. It is not discussed in polite company or at the dinner tables of the powerful, rich and famous. Parents do not teach ...
  • Revealed: secret European deals to hand over p ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRevealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America have existed for ages i.e – ECHELON Germany ‘among countries offering intelligence’ according to new claims by former US defence anal ...

Dandelion Salad

  • If It’s All Kosher, NSA, Why Lie? by Wil ...
    by William Boardman Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published on readersupportednews.org, June 22, 2013 June 29, 2013 Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Director of National ...
  • Jacob Dean Gets Tortured at Gitmo Solidarity P ...
    Dandelion Salad Filter Free Radio on Jun 27, 2013 Portland, OR activists have been holding daily protests and vigils at City Hall in solidarity with the Guantanamo Bay detainee hunger strikers 4-6p since May 12th. Today, June 26th is the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of ...
  • The Crime of Alleviating Poverty by Ellen Brown
    by Ellen Brown Writer, Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com June 28, 2013 Former Peace Corps volunteer Will Ruddick and several residents of Bangladesh, Kenya, face a potential seven years in prison after developing a cost-effective way to alleviate poverty in Africa’s poorest slums. Their solution: a ...
  • Socialism 2013–Glenn Greenwald: Courage ...
    Dandelion Salad WeAreManyMedia on Jun 28, 2013 Glenn Greenwald speaks via Skype to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago regarding Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance program. Introductions by Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater and the filmmaker behind ...
  • Christophobia is as Bad as Homophobia by Rocke ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Writer, Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Originally published June 14, 2010 In the last 20 years there has been much headway made in regards to dispelling Homophobia in American society. Even those who disagree with the gay lifesyle, and ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • No title
    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Colorful Star Fo ...
    NGC 281 is a bustling hub of star formation about 10,000 light years away. This composite image of optical and X-ray emission includes regions where new stars are forming and older regions containing stars about 3 million years old.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hockey Stick Galaxy
    This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. NGC 4656, also known informally as the "hockey stick galaxy," is a distorted edge-on spiral galaxy. Its distinctive ...    
  • Tiny Sea Otter Siblings Fight the Odds
    For several days this week, these two tiny sea otter siblings were floating around on their mom's belly in Morro Bay, in central California. Alternately nursing and being groomed, or occasionally floating beside her, the little furballs are a rare ...    
  • Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and Baffling Regio ...
    Not content with simply being the man-made object to travel farthest from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft recently entered a bizarre new region at the solar system’s edge that has physicists baffled.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Sun in Different ...
    The images of this Sun (Dec. 7, 2011) taken at almost the same time are shown in various wavelengths in various temperatures and layers of the Sun. In addition, we superimposed an illustration of the Sun's magnetic field lines to ...    

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Aisha Mershani: Palestine photo project – 10 y ...
    Ten years ago, Aisha Mershani began a project to document the lives of everyday Palestinians non-violently resisting Israeli occupation. Since 2003, she have photographed and gathered testimonies... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Aisha Mershani: Palestine photo project – 10 y ...
    Ten years ago, Aisha Mershani began a project to document the lives of everyday Palestinians non-violently resisting Israeli occupation. Since 2003, she have photographed and gathered testimonies... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Noam Chomsky: American University of Beirut co ...
    If Palestine ever does gain independence in something like the terms of the overwhelming international consensus, it is likely that its borders with Israel will erode through normal processes of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jonathan Cook: How Israeli apartheid is coming ...
    While Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies on the far right were castigating an amusement park called Superland for separating Jewish and Arab children, they were busy backing a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Noam Chomsky on secret trade deals, killing po ...
    Noam Chomsky on the Turkish protests around Taksim Square: The very brave people in Taksim Square are trying to protect the very last remnants of the commons from the wrecking block... That's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

Pruning Shears

  • Adventures in cord cutting
    A few weeks ago the reception on my satellite TV service mysteriously went kaput. I put in a service request and the company said the earliest anyone could get out was in a week. This gave us some time to live without any traditional broadcast television, and after a few days we were getting a ...
  • Yes, Congress and the president are responsibl ...
    There is an emerging theme on the left that the true blame for our metastasized domestic spying programs lies with the American people. John Cole put it bluntly (via): “No, you want to see the villain, look in the mirror.” Charles Pierce was a little more diplomatic:You can argue & ...
  • Transcripts and audio from ODNR information se ...
    INTERVIEW Dan: One of my big concerns is the failure of these wells. I’ve got just a page printed out, this is about a 125 page report from MIT. This page just mentions the problems with some of the causes of failures in wells. And then this is a more intensive study from Pro Publica, a ...
  • ODNR meets with public on Nelson wells
    Last summer the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) announced plans to approve seven toxic fracking waste injection wells for a single site in our county. Many citizens were alarmed by this, and at the time I posted on some of our fruitless attempts to get ODNR (in the person of geologi ...
  • DRM for e-books: Repeating history, not learni ...
    The music business was probably the first big segment of the entertainment industry to need to figure out the Internet. Napster forced the industry to think about it because Napster’s original version used peer-to-peer technology, which allowed users share their own music files and copy o ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Frances Moore Lappe, Vandana Shiva Blast Award ...
    Frances Moore Lappé and Vandana Shiva, noted figures in the food sovereignty movement, added their voices to the chorus blasting the 2013 World Food Prize going to GMO scientists with the biotechnology giants Monsanto and Syngenta.Click here to read this article
  • Mayors Vote Unanimously to End Federal Marijua ...
    While the U.S. Supreme Court was handing down its string of blockbuster rulings this week on the scope of federal laws, the nation’s mayors were developing their own guidance for the feds. Click here to read this article
  • Total Surveillance
    Although Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about the breadth and scope of the surveillance-industrial complex didn’t add many facts to the public record of the ongoing post-9/11 security state saga, it certainly brought the issue to the forefront, forcing everyone to confront the stark realiti ...
  • The Future of Big Chicken
    Click here to read this article
  • Consumer Alert: Secret Trade Agreements Threat ...
    If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food an ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Obesity, Oceans, Meat, and More
    Once we understood the harmful effects of tobacco, policymakers kicked in with higher tobacco taxes, smoking restrictions in public places, limitations on advertising, and so forth. Substitute sweetened beverages, calorically dense fast food, sugar- and fat-laden processed foods and snacks for t ...
  • A Faith that Produces Food
    The City of Baltimore provided the land, Big City Farms provided the farming expertise, and Newborn Ministries provided the personnel, community connection, overarching project focus, and the farm name.
  • Meat Consumption and Climate Change: Which NGO ...
    The study, published in this week’s issue of Climatic Change, examined the meat consumption reduction efforts of three types of NGOs—environmental, food-focused, and animal-protection—in the U.S., Canada, and Sweden.
  • Harvard researchers raise another red flag ove ...
    While this study is observational and does not prove causation, it does provide stronger evidence that red meat consumption raises the risk of diabetes, a disease that affects almost 26 million adults and children in the U.S.
  • Gutless decisions can’t halt Meatless Monday’s ...
    History seemed to have repeated itself this week as another government entity folded to industry complaints over Meatless Monday promotions in its cafeterias. Last July the Department of Agriculture retracted its promotion of Meatless Monday in a sustainability newsletter to employees after faci ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Is GE Food Making Pigs Sick?
    An article published in the most recent issue of Journal of Organic Systems sheds light on the effects of GE food on animals. The study examined pigs during their entire lifespan of 22.7 weeks and also had a large sample size Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   N ...
  • MILITARIZING SPACE BLOCKS DISARMAMENT TALKS
    Downlink stations in Sweden and Norway are tied into US military operations. Obama is expanding "missile defense" systems to surround Russia. Russians note the creation of non-nuclear precision weapons and the possibility of deploying weapons in space Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Disabled workers paid just pennies an hour an ...
    Critics cry exploitation as a federal loophole allows companies to pay thousands of disabled workers across the country far less than the minimum wage. Harry Smith's full report airs Friday, June 21 at 10pm/9CDT on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams. Submitted by Theodore Shayne to Business ...
  • The War on Whistleblowers: On the Sin of Being ...
    Did you know that in 2006 after the Coast Guard budgeted $24 billion to upgrade its fleet in the largest acquisition in its history the new boats turned out not to be waterproof? Or that the hulls buckled in high seas? And that, when the project manager f Submitted by Wild Thang to US Politics & ...
  • 80 percent of US packaged foods may contain da ...
    Roughly 80 percent of all the packaged foods sold within the United States contain chemicals outlawed in other parts of the world, Britains Daily Mail reports. Submitted by Ray C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • False Advertising? You Tell Me…
    I have kept my eye on the Green Polkadot Box, a company promoted by Natural News, the Organic Consumers Association, and the Institute of Responsible Technology, hoping that this company would live up to the hype and start ridding itself of products such as Hain Celestials and Tom’s of Maine, wh ...
  • Next Generation Bioweapons: The Technology Of ...
    Scientific think tank founded by scientists who built the first atomic bombs warns about bioterrorism via genetic engineering.
  • Glyphosate Rising – Cancer Projected to Increase
    It appears that an increased use of glyphosate that goes along with genetically engineered crops in developing countries coincides with an elevated risk of cancer. So, what is the EPA’s response? Why, increase “acceptable” levels of glyphosate, of course.
  • Monsanto’s GMO Wheat Conspiracy Theory
    The tables have turned. The shoe is on the other foot, and Monsanto has absolutely no problem painting itself as the victim and inventing a little conspiracy theory of its own by pointing the finger at some unknown perpetrator looking to discredit Monsanto. No facts, just theory, and a pretty la ...
  • Genetically Engineered Bacteria can Transfer D ...
    Peer reviewed study confirms - Horizontal or lateral gene transfer from genetically engineered bacteria into human cells may cause cancer.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Weekend calling for near 130 degree temperatur ...
    ShareThisWeekend calling for near 130 degree temperatures: Phoenix, Las Vegas bake in scorching heat 29 Jun 2013 The forecast called for Death Valley to reach 128 degrees Saturday as part of a heat wave that has caused large parts of the western U.S. to suffer. Death Valley's record high of 13 ...
  • Temps could reach 130 degrees in western US; w ...
    ShareThisTemps could reach 130 degrees in western US; would be 2nd hottest day on Earth 28 Jun 2013 Today could be one of the hottest days ever recorded on Earth, as the western U.S. falls into the grips of a dangerous heat wave. A strong high-pressure system settling over the region on Frida ...
  • Dept. of Defense takes preventative 'network h ...
    ShareThisDept. of Defense takes preventative 'network hygiene' measures, blocks access to The Guardian --Security concerns cited in blocking Guardian news 28 Jun 2013 The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported i ...
  • WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for t ...
    ShareThisWikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI 27 Jun 2013 On an August workday in 2011, an 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur "Siggi" Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled phot ...
  • Inside Guantanamo Bay: Horrifying pictures sho ...
    ShareThisInside Guantanamo Bay: Horrifying pictures show the restraint chairs, feeding tubes and operating theatre used on inmates in terror prison --Dubbed the most expensive prison on Earth [which is why the GOP won't close it], the facility has 166 inmates currently in custody --Around 104 pr ...

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 Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...

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

  • 3rd CAB weathers hail storm
    27 June 2013
  • Decline of Dustoff: A Symptom
    27 June 2013 http://vimeo.com/31609732 More people are waking up to smell the bitter tea.  Our Army helicopter medical evacuation system, called “Dustoff,” is broken. People are dying because of it.  I have written about this many times. And now retired Dustoff pilot Brigadier Gen ...
  • NOT FREE OR SAFE: TALKS BRING REDUCED FIGHTING ...
    18 June 2013 Kachin State, Burma Thousands of villagers in Kachin State and northern Shan State have been displaced from their homes for nearly two years by Burma Army advances and see little hope of an imminent return. This is in spite of ongoing talks between the Burma Army and Kachin Indepen ...
  • Sunset Over Denver
    22 June 2013 Ginger Robinson made this image and sent it to me, saying: “You would think Krakatoa was erupting: Sunset over Denver last night. Smoke from Lime Gulch Fire.”
  • Quick Notes and Updates
    19 June 2013 Due to time constraints, I must write this as an unedited stream of consciousness.  My apologies for the roughness. Michael Hastings was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles.  The single car accident happened at about 0425.  He crashed into a tree and was burned bey ...

The Killing Train

  • Waiting for 2014 in Afghanistan
    An 11-minute mini-documentary about Afghanistan's perils and prospects. Filmed in Kabul, Afghanistan in March 2013. Features Members of Parliament Ramazon Bashardost and Shukria Barackzai.
  • India: Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy
    A mini-documentary based on a March 9/13 interview with Adivasi Mahasabha General Secretary Manish Kunjam. Conducted in Dantewada in the middle of a march for tribal autonomy.
  • My Red Wedding Story
    SPOILER ALERT: This article, like many of my conversations, contains massive spoilers about George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books and the HBO Game of Thrones series. I was handed George R R Martin's Game of Thrones in 1997, by a friend who has recommended many of the books I've read o ...
  • Eleven things India must change in Kashmir
    http://kafila.org/2013/05/28/eleven-things-india-must-do-in-kashmir-justin-podur/ read more
  • Evicting the Gandhians: An Interview with Hima ...
    [First published at http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/evicting-the-gandhians-justin-podur-interviews-himanshu-kumar/] read more

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
    Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
  • What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
    Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
  • Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
  • Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    “Loreena McKennitt – “All Souls Night” We have a request from a BFPer for this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music pick. The request comes from Pick and it’s Loreena McKennitt performing All Souls Night. McKennitt is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and piani ...
  • Washington Is Driving the World to the Final War
    “Whether the desire for liberty exists in America remains to be seen.” “V For Vendetta,” a film that portrays evil in a futuristic England as a proxy for the evil that exists today in America, ends with the defeat of evil. But this is a movie in which the hero has super powers. If you [...]
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 28, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Global Power Project- Part 3: The Influence of ...
    “Dynastic power was and remains largely wielded in the corporate and financial sectors.” Dynastic power, embedded in the institution of “family,” has been with humanity for as long as empire: ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, the European empires and beyond. With the rise of capitalism, financ ...
  • Jamiol Presents

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Tikun Olam

  • Syria: Nation and Region in Crisis
    Tonight, Rita Zawaideh and I spoke to about 60 people tonight about the Syria crisis.  Rita returned yesterday from one of her many trips to Jordan helping Syrian refugees.  She reported on her humanitarian efforts and the extent of the suffering experienced by the 1.5-million Syrians who’ ...
  • Holocaust Song Depicts Destruction of Eastern ...
    You read that right.  Thanks to a new Facebook Friend, Sophie Champagnon, I heard this poignant rendition of the Mordechai Gebirtig lament for the destruction of Eastern European Jewry, Unzer Shtetel Brent (“Our Shtetl is Burning“–1938).  It is poignant not because of the power ...
  • Mossad Kidnaps Gazan in Sinai
    In an event reminiscent of Israel’s kidnapping of Dirar Abu Sisi in the Ukraine two years ago, the Mossad kidnapped a Gazan, Wael Abu Rida, age 27, in Sinai several days ago and returned him to Israel, where he is in prison.  The event has been confirmed by a confidential Israeli source.  ...
  • Syria: Nation and Region in Crisis
    Friday, June 28th at 7PM University Temple United Methodist Church, Fireplace Room (downstairs) 1415 NE 43rd Street, University District, Seattle Speakers: Rita Zawaideh, Arab-American humanitarian relief activist Richard Silverstein, author, Tikun Olam blog The Syrian crisis nears the end of it ...
  • Chabad Rabbi Enables Alleged Serial Pedophile
    I wrote a post yesterday about the astonishing revelation in the Sydney Morning Herald that a former Sydney Chabad rabbi, Baruch Lesches, had absolved himself of responsibility for a sex abuse scandal at his yeshiva. He operated under the theory that the abused boys had consented to the abuse. A ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Another Victim
    Jim Hudson, who played a key role in the 1969 Super Bowl, has died of Parkinson’s related-trauma, likely, as he believed, another victim of the NFL’s casual and dismissive response to head injuries.
  • Bangladeshi Trade Privileges Suspended
    In a move pleasing to the AFL-CIO, the Obama Administration has taken what I think is an unprecedented step in suspending trade privileges for Bangladesh after the building collapse that killed 1100 garment workers this spring. The labor federation had pushed for such an action all the way since ...
  • The Worst People in the World
    The North Carolina legislature for another in a string of extremist laws that tear the state’s once fairly robust safety net apart in order to appease plutocrat Art Pope: Starting next week, North Carolina—which has the fifth highest jobless rate in the country—will become the only state i ...
  • So Long, It’s Been Bad to Know You
    I don’t think we can bury the coal industry yet, but this article really suggests an industry on its last legs. Or dying from black lung perhaps. …In case you want some more evidence on the sheer awfulness of the coal industry from the 19th century to the present, reading Alan Derick ...
  • Marshall on Snowden
    Josh Marshall’s reply to John Cassidy yesterday reminds me of his earlier piece on Snowden, which I meant to write about at the time. Both of Marshall’s posts are quite odd; they read, to me, as though they’re incomplete, with the paragraph that contains the central argument excised for some rea ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Desert Research Institute contributes to ongoi ...
    Using a dust detection device patented by Desert Research Institute scientists, Dr. Vic Etyemezian and George Nikolich have the ability to identify how “Valley Fever,” a devastating fungus called Coccidioides, spreads.
  • Nyssa Perryman, June 2013 Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Nyssa Perryman, a Ph.D. student working in Atmospheric Sciences as a part of the Climate Modeling Team. Her research focus is understanding how global climate models, when transformed and applied to the complex terrain of the Western U.S., characterize atmospheric rivers and their cons ...
  • DRI Annual Convocation – Honoring our research ...
    Today the Desert Research Institute took time to celebrate the success of its faculty and students during its Annual Convocation event. Eleven awards were presented to scientific researchers and graduate students on behalf of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, DRI’s donors a ...
  • In memory of Carl Young
    The DRI family was saddened to learn over the weekend of the passing of Carl Young, a former graduate assistant at DRI and graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Microbiologist at the Desert Research Institut ...
    Dr. Duane Moser, Environmental Microbiologist explores the habitat of the rare Devils Hole Pupfish, a species believed to be somewhere between 10,000 to 20,000 years old.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Chicago's Rising Stars
    Don't fear for the future of the legal profession in Chicago; judging by our survey of the city's rising stars, it's in very good hands. We asked our readers to nominate up-and-comers and snooped around on our own to compile this list of achievers in Chicago's law firms, corporate law department ...
  • SEC Has Begun Paying Whistleblower Bounties
    Its rulings so far suggest the pace and scope of awards may be more limited than the business community feared.
  • OPINION: Justice Kennedy's World
    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Windsor reflected themes that have been present in Justice Kennedy's jurisprudence for years: a concern about federalism and a desire to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination.
  • In-House Counsel: Beechcraft GC Flying High
    Profile of Beechcraft general counsel Alexander Snyder.
  • OPINION: Closing Guantánamo
    The Obama administration needs to go from words to action.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

News Blaze

  • El Cortez's Flame Keeps The Flavor of 'Old Las ...
    Our side dishes were also prepared well. According to Chef Kelly, everything is prepared fresh, including the corn, which is taken from the husk of the Cobb and blended in the chefs sauce. 'During my 20 years of creating sumptuous cuisine I've alw
  • Major West US Heat Wave in the Making
    Building heat, drought and the risk of wildfires could result in a fireworks ban in some communities as Independence Day activities increase.
  • UN Commends Somalia for Using Sports as Peace ...
    Somali Olympic committee Secretary General Duran Ahmed Farah told the media in Mogadishu that the high profile meeting with the top UNSOM official was very fruitful for Somalia as under Secretary-General for Somalia Nicholas Kay
  • US Supreme Court Advances Gay Rights By Striki ...
    Secretary Kerry explains that to fully implement the requirements and implications of the Court's decision, they will work with the Department of Justice and other agencies to review all relevant federal statutes
  • Notorious Islamist Leader Who Killed World Cup ...
    The whereabouts of the terrorist leader has been unknown since he escaped from the southern port town of Barawe last week as tension has been worsening amongst the leaders of the Al-Qaeda-proxy militants of Al-shabaab.

environment 360

  • Global Biodiversity Maps Show Species Health D ...
    U.S. researchers have published a series of data-rich maps that identify the world’s conservation priority View gallery Saving Species/GlobaïaDensity of biodiversity, South America hotspots with a level of detail they say is 100 times finer than previous assessments. Using the latest data on mor ...
  • New Bird Species Identified in Crowded Outskir ...
    A team of scientists in Cambodia has identified a new species of lowland tailorbird recently captured in the densely populated outskirts of Phnom Penh. Originally J.A. Eaton/WCSAn adult male Cambodia tailorbird caught and photographed in 2009 during a routine sampling for avian influenza, the sm ...
  • Marines Push to Front Lines in Renewable Energ ...
    A backpack that generates electricity? A vest that cools you in a hot tent? As the U.S. military looks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, the Marine Corps is leading the way with cutting-edge technology and innovative devices. BY JUSTIN GERDES
  • Lead Exposure Costs Developing Nations $1 Tril ...
    The exposure of children to toxic lead, and the subsequent declines in IQ and earning potential, costs the developing world nearly $1 trillion annually, according to a new report. Based on the average lead levels in children under the age of 5, researchers from New York University found that Afr ...
  • Obama Unveils a Sweeping U.S. Plan to Tackle C ...
    President Obama today unveiled a long-awaited national strategy to tackle climate change, a sweeping plan that will include cutting carbon emissions at power plants, protecting the coastline from rising seas, and a greater U.S. role in global climate talks. Calling the need to address climate ch ...

Red Ice Creations

  • EMP Attack and Solar Storms, Part II: Cascadin ...
    "If the electromagnetic disturbance impacted a large swath of the United States, it could take years before workers are able to respond to every remote terminal, let alone handle the logistics of commanding a small army of technicians having little to no communication, hampered fuel delivery sys ...
  • GeoEngineering, Global Climate Disruptions, Ch ...
    In this video, Dane Wigington gives a presentation in Northern California on the harmful effects of Geoengineering, declaring that this is among the most important issues affecting humanity. The very essentials needed to sustain life on earth are being recklessly destroyed by these programs. Thi ...
  • NASA baffled as Voyager 1 enters unknown regio ...
    Reports last summer than NASA’s long-lived Voyager 1 space probe had finally left the solar system turned out to be a bit premature, scientists said on Thursday. Rather, the spacecraft, which was launched in 1977 for a five-year mission to study Jupiter and Saturn, has found itself in a previous ...
  • FBI Document—“[DELETED]” Plots to Kill Occupy ...
    Would you be shocked to learn that the FBI apparently knew that some organization, perhaps even a law enforcement agency or private security outfit, had contingency plans to assassinate peaceful protestors in a major American city — and did nothing to intervene? Would you be surprised to learn t ...
  • UK Gov Backs IVF Technique That Uses DNA From ...
    The government is to push ahead with plans that would allow doctors to prevent major childhood diseases by creating IVF babies that have genetic material from three people. The controversial procedure, called mitochondrial transfer, uses a snippet of DNA from a healthy female donor to prevent mo ...

Not My Tribe

  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is no loser, ...
    Apparently Edward Snowden is a good for nothing high school dropout, but he’s a better man than you. Petty technocrats are splitting hairs to pretend that the NSA whistleblower broke the law while corporate mouthpieces are obfuscating that the public doesn’t care about its privacy. B ...
  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...
  • My impatience with not so anti frackers
    I’d tell you I’ve had it up to here with moderate turncoats, but of late I’ve resolved to keep them well underfoot. Take the local fight against FRACKING.   We’ve built a pretty determined group of fractivists in Colorado Springs, with healthy allies statewide, and i ...
  • Israel attacks Syria! Surely Syria will be acc ...
    It’s the pretext Israel uses whenever it strikes Gaza or Lebanon or European cafes or US ships: the right to defend itself. In fact the right to do it preemptively is how Israel justifies bombing Iran or assassinating Iranian scientists. So where do the rights of others begin? Has not Syri ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • New Nano-Thermite Study Fund Raiser at MarkBas ...
    The purpose of Mark Basile's new study is to conduct a formal blind study that can be seen as true independent confirmation of the thermitic materials (explosive and steel melting) he and other scientists have documented in the World Trade Centre dust. Basile's own work, that confirmed ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall 6/20/13: John-Michael Talboo on ...
    John-Michael Talboo has been a 9/11 activist since 2004, was a member of the steering committee at 911truth.org, creator of the Debunking the Debunkers blog, and a contributing writer for AE911 Truth and visibility911.org where he will be taking over hosting their podcast in the near future. On ...
  • Why You Should Make a Donation at MarkBasile.org
    9/11: Explosive Material in the WTC Dust Please Donate Dust or Money for an Independent Study to Conclusively Confirm or Refute the 2009 Paper By Harrit et al. Version 1.2 By John-Michael Talboo and Ziggi Zugam Abstract. In April 2009, an international team of scientists published the peer-r ...
  • My Call to C-SPAN on the Free Fall Collapse of ...
    Nothing like starting off your morning by spreading 9/11 truth through the mainstream media! So I was asked by a friend to call in to C-Span this morning to ask a question about the free fall collapse of WTC7, and luckily I made it through! Granted they did cut me off before I finished the whole ...
  • British MPs need to look up the word conspirac ...
    The subject of Bilderberg was discussed in the British House of Commons yesterday, where two members dismissed concerns about it while just about everyone else was laughing non stop. So basically... The Bilderberg conference isn't a "conspiracy" ... It's just a place where public officials me ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • 'Jaguar people's' urgent appeal to oil company ...
    The Matsés have urged shareholders of Pacific Rubiales to disinvest from the company to protect Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalAn Amazonian tribe has sent an urgent appeal to shareholders of Canadian-Colombian oil giant Pacific Rubiales to protect the lives of uncontacted Indians in Pe ...
  • Indigenous rights highlighted at central Londo ...
    Protestors in London demanded respect for indigenous people’s rights. © SurvivalThe rights of Brazilian Indians were highlighted at a protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London yesterday. Over 1,000 protestors attended to show their support for the demonstrations that have taken place i ...
  • Success: Soliga tribe's forest rights upheld i ...
    Tribal peoples like the Soliga have been living with and protecting the wildlife in their forests for countless generations.© Kalyan Varma/SurvivalA village belonging to the Soliga tribe in southern India has won an important court victory after its entire stock of honey – its key source of live ...
  • Court reprieve for Bushmen threatened with evi ...
    Relocation trucks arrive at Ranyane.© FPKDozens of Botswana Bushmen threatened with eviction, reportedly because they live in an area proposed as a ‘wildlife corridor’, have won a significant court victory in their struggle to stay on their land. Since the wildlife corridor between the Central ...
  • Guarani man killed in ambush by gunmen
    The Guarani frequently suffer violent attacks by gunmen after returning to their ancestral lands.© SurvivalA Guarani Indian man was killed yesterday in southern Brazil, reportedly by gunmen working for the cattle ranchers who have occupied his community’s land. According to the leader of ...

Greg Palast

  • Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law Replaces ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King's grave.  The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping away Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I'm so angry, so distraught b ...
  • Arizona Law
    by Greg Palast On Tuesday, the Supreme Court finally busted the Arizona election law that was supposed to keep "alien" (i.e. Democratic) voters off the voter rolls.  Two years ago, we flew to Arizona to bust this bogus game.  Here's the original report  ... Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GO ...
  • The Drone Ranger: Obama’s Dirty Wars
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine About the time Barack Obama ordered the drone strike that killed Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old American kid Facebooked his second-rate choice of hip-hop favorites. I say "second-rate," because Abdul was my son's age almost exactly, so I know the kind of ...
  • The Idiot's Guide to the Voting Rights Act
    Will the Supreme Court pull the teeth out of the law? by Greg Palast for TheMudflats.net This month –as early as tomorrow— the US Supreme Court will tell us whether Black and Brown citizens have the right to vote. Now, if you saw the film Lincoln, you probably thought that issue was settled abou ...
  • Will the Supreme Court Kill the Voting Rights Act?
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court to decide on Voting Rights Act this month. For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Jim Crow is alive and well — and he has mounted a new attack on the law Martin Luther King dreamed of: the Voting Rights Act. This month, as ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • Tim Bolen Shoots Himself in the Foot From His Hip
    Yesterday Ginger Taylor posted this to her Facebook page. Reposting it here with her permission: Dear Everyone, Over the last several months, Tim Bolen, whom most of you never heard of until all this drama started early in the year,...
  • Dachel Media Update: NJ Research, First Respon ...
    By Anne Dachel June 28, 2013, NorthJersey.com: State health officials announce $4.5 million in grants for autism research June 27, 2013, KSTP TV Minneapolis: Minn. Parents Speak Out Against Adding Vaccine Requirements June 27, 2013, YNN Albany, NY: First responders...
  • Weekly Wrap: On Jounalism's Future, It's AOA v ...
    By Dan Olmsted The revolution now occurring in how journalism is done, and who is doing it, gives hope that the wall of denial about vaccine injury will crumble sooner rather than later. Here's why: The top-down journalism hierarchy has...
  • Sam Wessels "Uses Charm to Sway Lawmakers" Fea ...
    You've met Sam Wessels here at AofA and elsewhere. He and his Mom Lin advocate for families facing the challenges of autism. Check out this great article and video from Sioux City, Iowa. ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa (KTIV) - Sam Wessels...
  • Winners: Enhansa Taste-Free Curcumin Supplemen ...
    Congrats to our winners: Arwyn Holmes, Bonnie Jensen and Elizabeth Dyer! Look for an email from Kim Stagliano requesting your mailing addresses. The same original Enhansa in a water-dispersible powder form that is nearly taste-free. Enhansa Taste-Free also has less...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • False Advertising? You Tell Me…
    I have kept my eye on the Green Polkadot Box, a company promoted by Natural News, the Organic Consumers Association, and the Institute of Responsible Technology, hoping that this company would live up to the hype and start ridding itself of products such as Hain Celestials and Tom’s of Maine, wh ...
  • Next Generation Bioweapons: The Technology Of ...
    Scientific think tank founded by scientists who built the first atomic bombs warns about bioterrorism via genetic engineering.
  • Glyphosate Rising – Cancer Projected to Increase
    It appears that an increased use of glyphosate that goes along with genetically engineered crops in developing countries coincides with an elevated risk of cancer. So, what is the EPA’s response? Why, increase “acceptable” levels of glyphosate, of course.
  • Monsanto’s GMO Wheat Conspiracy Theory
    The tables have turned. The shoe is on the other foot, and Monsanto has absolutely no problem painting itself as the victim and inventing a little conspiracy theory of its own by pointing the finger at some unknown perpetrator looking to discredit Monsanto. No facts, just theory, and a pretty la ...
  • Genetically Engineered Bacteria can Transfer D ...
    Peer reviewed study confirms - Horizontal or lateral gene transfer from genetically engineered bacteria into human cells may cause cancer.

new geography

  • Angry Young Men
    “'Angry young men' lack optimism.” This was the title of a BBC News story earlier this year, exploring the deeply pessimistic views that some young working class British hold about their own future. Two-thirds of the young men from families of skilled or semi-skilled workers, for ...
  • How the Left Came to Reject Cheap Energy for t ...
    Eighty years ago, the Tennessee Valley region was like many poor rural communities in tropical regions today. The best forests had been cut down to use as fuel for wood stoves. Soils were being rapidly depleted of nutrients, resulting in falling yields and a desperate search for new crop ...
  • The Associate’s Degree Payoff: Community Colle ...
    For some students, the decision to enroll at a community college is simple. A two-year school offers the credential they need at a much lower cost than a university, and the earnings post-degree are on par with — or better than — what they would make after going to a four-year school. L ...
  • The Culture War That Social Conservatives Coul ...
    For the better part of a half century, social conservatives have been waging a desperate war to defend “family values.” However well-intentioned, this effort has to be written off as something of a failure. To continue it would cause even more damage to many of the things tha ...
  • Kid-Friendly Neighborhoods: Takin' It To The ...
    Planners and parents have been concerned about two widely reported, and most likely related, trends: the increasing percentage of overweight children, and the growing number of hours that kids spend looking at a screen, be it a television or a laptop. These two activities take up most of the fr ...

water.org

  • Chandramaya's Story
    Chandramaya Chettri is 65 years old and, until now, has only had access to water from unclean sources. She says, “We [used to] collect water from the nearby pond and sometimes from our neighbor’s well. Borrowing water from our neighbors was not easy. We were subjected to ill-treatment.”
  • Young Woman Rolling Incense
    Easy access to clean water has afforded this young woman the ability to earn some extra income for her family. Watch as she uses her newfound spare time to roll traditional Indian incense in today's Clip of the Day!
  • The Joy of Learning
    “After we adopted awareness-building measures, children have started practicing healthy habits in school. They fill the water filters themselves and encourage fellow students to drink only the filtered water. I have also noticed a reduction in the rate of absenteeism.”- Mrs. Zarina Begum, Princi ...
  • The intersection of passion and need
    Co-founder Gary White discusses how he and Matt Damon found the intersection of philanthropic passion and world need in this month's SUCCESS magazine cover story.
  • The intersection of passon and need
    Co-founder Gary White discusses how he and Matt Damon found the intersection of philanthropic passion and world need in this month's SUCCESS magazine cover story.

Cryptogon

  • Student Loan Rates Set To Double On July 1
    Via: NPR: The interest rate on government-backed student loans is going to jump from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent Monday. Republicans, Democrats and the Obama administration could not agree on a plan to keep it from happening. Lawmakers say a deal is still possible after the July 4 recess. But if ...
  • Booz Allen Hamilton to Hire Quantum Informatio ...
    See: Well, it has been the $64,000 question for a couple of decades: Can NSA break something like PGP? Via: Clearance Jobs: Minimum Security Clearance Clearance Location Arlington, Virginia 22201 (map) Workplace: Not Specified Travel: Not Specified Quantum Information Physicist-01127026 Descript ...
  • Senators Accuse Government of Using ‘Sec ...
    Ya think? I was surprised to see them mention the mobile phone location data. I mean, come on, that’s the stuff of lunatic conspiracy theorists! *chortle* Via: Guardian: The senators said they were seeking public answers to the following questions in order to give the American people the i ...
  • Foreign Central Banks Selling U.S. Treasuries
    Bernanke better get ready to use that magic Bid button. Via: Reuters: Foreign central banks’ overall holdings of U.S. marketable securities at the Federal Reserve fell in the latest week, data from the U.S. central bank showed on Thursday. The Fed said its holdings of U.S. securities kept ...
  • Monsignor Scarano Says He Can ‘Explain E ...
    Via: BBC: A senior Italian cleric has been arrested in connection with an inquiry into the Vatican bank scandal over allegations of corruption and fraud. Monsignor Nunzio Scarano works in the Vatican’s financial administration. A secret service agent and a financial broker have also been a ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Multiple Government Agencies Are Keeping Recor ...
    Were you under the impression that your credit card transactions are private?  If so, I am sorry to burst your bubble.  As you will see below, there are actually multiple government agencies that are gathering and storing records of your credit card transactions.  And in turn, those government a ...
  • New EU Plan Will Make Every Bank Account In Eu ...
    Did you actually believe that they were not going to use the precedent that they set in Cyprus?  On Thursday, EU finance ministers agreed to a shocking new plan that will make every bank account in Europe vulnerable to Cyprus-style bail-ins.  In other words, the wealth confiscation that we just ...
  • Soaring Mortgage Rates Are Going To Make It Fa ...
    Did you actually think that mortgage rates were going to stay at all-time lows forever?  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was able to grossly distort the market for a while by buying up massive amounts of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities, but there was no way in the world tha ...
  • Silver At Less Than 19 Dollars An Ounce? Are Y ...
    The day that silver traders have been waiting for has arrived.  On Wednesday, the price of silver dropped another 5 percent.  As I write this, it is sitting at $18.55 an ounce.  On Wednesday it hit a low that had not been seen in three years.  Overall, the price of silver has declined by 34 [...]
  • The Trigger Has Been Pulled And The Slaughter ...
    What does it look like when a 30 year bull market ends abruptly?  What happens when bond yields start doing things that they haven't done in 50 years?  If your answer to those questions involves the word "slaughter", you are probably on the right track.  Right now, bonds are being absolutely sla ...

Desertification

  • Transformation of smallholder farming : an imp ...
    Read at : http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/now-is-the-time-for-smallholder-farmers/ NOW is the time for Smallholder farmers Chris Henderson I am really pleased to see the UK Government and G8 focus on food and agriculture and to be invited by DFID to consult on the initiative. … Contin ...
  • Moisture stress is a key limitation for conife ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130628103145.htm Climate Change Threatens Forest Survival On Drier, Low-Elevation Sites June 28, 2013 — Predicted increases in temperature and drought in the coming century may make it more difficult for conifers such as ponderosa pine to re ...
  • Human influences through global warming (Scien ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130627102623.htm Humans Play Role in Australia’s ‘Angry’ Hot Summer June 27, 2013 — Human influences through global warming are likely to have played a role in Australia’s recent “angry” hot summer, the ho ...
  • Temperature determines where key soil microbes ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130627141722.htm Global Warming May Affect Soil Microbe Survival, With Unknown Consequences On Soil Fertility and Erosion June 27, 2013 — Arizona State University researchers have discovered for the first time that temperature determines whe ...
  • Kenya could be sinking into a deeper crisis (G ...
    VIDEO : http://youtu.be/DmncbAcBteY World Desertification Day Between the year 2008 and 2011 Kenya lost 970 billion shillings in famine situations in the country. This loss is attributed to lack of preparedness and efficient drought early warning systems. And even as … Continue reading →

News Blaze

  • El Cortez's Flame Keeps The Flavor of 'Old Las ...
    Our side dishes were also prepared well. According to Chef Kelly, everything is prepared fresh, including the corn, which is taken from the husk of the Cobb and blended in the chefs sauce. 'During my 20 years of creating sumptuous cuisine I've alw
  • Major West US Heat Wave in the Making
    Building heat, drought and the risk of wildfires could result in a fireworks ban in some communities as Independence Day activities increase.
  • UN Commends Somalia for Using Sports as Peace ...
    Somali Olympic committee Secretary General Duran Ahmed Farah told the media in Mogadishu that the high profile meeting with the top UNSOM official was very fruitful for Somalia as under Secretary-General for Somalia Nicholas Kay
  • US Supreme Court Advances Gay Rights By Striki ...
    Secretary Kerry explains that to fully implement the requirements and implications of the Court's decision, they will work with the Department of Justice and other agencies to review all relevant federal statutes
  • Notorious Islamist Leader Who Killed World Cup ...
    The whereabouts of the terrorist leader has been unknown since he escaped from the southern port town of Barawe last week as tension has been worsening amongst the leaders of the Al-Qaeda-proxy militants of Al-shabaab.

Worldnews

  • The Politics of Fashion
    Dressing appropriately can be a minefield, whether it be for business or leisure, and in particular for politicians. Having made the journey from MP to being a CEO in the fashion industry, I know that I prefer the choice and freedom that comes with my new life in business. Pity the politicia ...
  • Business Highlights
    ___ Tiny Allegiant Air thrives on low costs, high fees LAS VEGAS (AP) — There are no sure things in this city — with one exception: Allegiant Air. While other U.S. airlines have struggled over the past decade from the ups and downs of the economy and the price of jet fuel, Allegiant has been ...
  • Brazil protests have not harmed Fifa - Se ...
    Fifa president Sepp Blatter believes the governing body's reputation has been enhanced by the Confederations Cup, despite the demonstrations that have swept across Brazil. Speaking for the first time since the protests began, Blatter said he had sympathy with people who took to the stre ...
  • Colombia coca crops 'drop by 25% to histo ...
    Colombia, one of the world's largest producers of cocaine, has seen the proportion of land planted with coca drop to a "historic low", sources in the Colombian security forces say. Counter-narcotics experts say that soon-to-be-published United Nations figures will suggest that ...
  • Gay marriages resume in California as app ...
    As the rather exciting cap to a monumental week in equal rights, a federal appeals court allowed the state of California to immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Avandia (Rosiglitazone) Does Not Raise Heart A ...
    There is not a higher risk of heart attack and cardiovascular events in patients who take controversial type 2 drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) reported after carrying out a re-analysis of data from a pivotal study. The DCRI researchers re- ...
  • Promising Results In Early Trial of Novel MS T ...
    Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine researchers say a new method for essentially resetting the immune systems of patients with multiple sclerosis appears to be safe. Study co-author Stephen D. Miller of Northwestern University, describes the novel approach tested in this smal ...
  • Summer Deadliest Time of Year for Teen Drivers
    Crashes often linked to distracted driving Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Impaired Driving, Motor Vehicle Safety, Teen Health
  • Fewer Families Struggling to Pay Medical Bills ...
    But some may be skipping needed care altogether, expert says Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Health Insurance, Health Statistics
  • Smokers Cost Employers Thousands More Than Non ...
    About $6000 in extra annual costs stem from more time off, smoking breaks, health care, study shows Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Smoking

Common Dreams

  • Western US Swelters Under Blistering, Record-B ...
    Sweltering heat is baking areas of the western and southwestern United States this weekend. read more
  • Snowden's Father: 'Ironclad Assurances' Son's ...
    Lonnie Snowden, the father of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, has said he believes his son would return to the U.S. if there were "ironclad assurances" that his son's constitutional rights would be respected. Mr. Snowden sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder outlining con ...
  • The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corpo ...
    Staffing Network in Hanover Park, Ill. (Photo: Chicago Workers Collaborative/flickr)It's 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to a closed-down video store, an employment agency is already filling up. Rosa Ramirez walks in, as she has done nearly every morning fo ...
  • Senators Blast NSA for 'Secret' Interpretation ...
    Lawmakers blasted the Obama administration for their "secret reinterpretation" of known laws, which they say has effectively "mislead" both the public and their representatives, granting the federal government broad powers to monitor and mine the world's communications. ...
  • EPA Ups Allowable Residue of Monsanto's Toxic ...
    In a little reported development, the Environmental Protection Agency last week issued a new rule raising the allowable concentration of Monsanto’s herbicide glyphosate, otherwise known as Roundup, on food crops, animal feed and edible oils Despite the proven risk, this ruling is clearly a ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • How to Cook Up a Community Solar Energy Project
    What does it take to cook up a community solar project? A dash of crowdfunding, a pinch of grassroots outreach, and a generous helping of persistence. That’s the word from San Francisco nonprofits RE-volv and Everybody Solar.
  • 5 Ways to Engage Low-Income Customers in Energ ...
    Many utilities have a hard enough time improving relations with the general customer base. It can be even more difficult to successfully engage low-income customers, but there are strategies that work.
  • Mixed Reactions to Obama's Climate Change Speech
    President Obama’s speech on Tuesday had its fair share of twists and turns, and arguably presented the most extensive groundwork on carbon emission restrictions in the nation’s history.
  • Energy Choice: WindMade Wants Consumers To 'Sh ...
    For many, being able to choose what product to buy based on a variety of criteria is important. WindMade have latched on to this desire, creating the first global consumer label identifying products and companies made with wind energy.
  • Energy: The Oxygen of Africa's Growth and Deve ...
    Historically people associate the sound of Africa as the roar of the lion; but in reality, it’s been the roar of the diesel generator. Herds of these archaic beasts are on the prowl in cities, towns, factories, mines, businesses and big farms.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Surveillance and the Corporate State
    Guest Post by Steven Miller (This is the first of four guest posts by Steven Miller about the rise of the surveillance state.) NSA’s PRISM Edward Snowden’s courageous exposure of how NSA routinely intercepts the communications of private American citizens threatens to ...
  • Obama's Climate Initiative: the New Obamacare
      Who Does He Think He’s Fooling? As with his sweeping health care legislation, the President’s long awaited climate initiative has winners and losers. With Obamacare, the big winners were the insurance/finance sector and the drug companies – the losers are doctors, n ...
  • Palestinian Wins Arab Idol
      Al Jazeera English reports reports that a wedding singer from the impoverished and overcrowded Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip has become the first Palestinian to win Arab Idol. In his victory speech 23-year-old Mohammed Assaf saluted the people of Palestine, "who have be ...
  • Blowing the Whistle on Homeland Security
    Another Whistleblower Fights Back In spite of all the publicity and public support the Edward Snowden case has generated, the majority of whistleblowers suffer in silence. Below is an amazing interview with former US Customs inspector Julia Davis, who was declared a domestic terr ...
  • What if Marx Got It Wrong?
      Progress and Poverty By Henry George (1879), edited and abridged by Bob Drake, Robert Shalkenbach Foundation (2006) Book Review Progress and Poverty is an economic classic which has been suppressed in the US owing to its subject matter: the elimination of poverty and economic inequa ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Excerpt from 'Pietà' in 'Here Comes Trouble' b ...
    When we went back a few days later to sit in the House gallery, a new bill was up for discussion: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From watching the evening news and being taught to read the daily newspaper, I knew that “colored people” were being unfairly treated, even killed. A f ...
  • Republic Windows Workers Seen in 'Capitalism: ...
    Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative   Press Contact:  Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com  Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, ...
  • Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun La ...
    CONTACT:   Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISO ...
  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...

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 ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Avoiding Energy’s Big Buts
    It is true that wind and solar power are intermittent, writes Robert Rapier. However, we do not have a single energy source that doesn't have a downside associated with it.
  • Did Global Oil Consumption Slow in 2012?
    The failure of the mainstream media to note that it is the growth in oil consumption that fell, and not actual oil consumption -- leaves many with a false impression that perhaps the world is beginning to wean itself off of oil, notes Robert Rapier.
  • Oil Industry Declares War on E15
    I just finished reading a story that made my blood boil. It was about how the oil industry is using dirty tricks to keep the ethanol industry in check. I need to sit down, take a deep breath, and make sure everyone knows of the atrocity that has happened in Kansas. The problem started when the e ...
  • About Those Plunging Oil Prices
    Based on recent headlines, one might suspect that we were right in the middle of a major bear market for oil, yet it's only fallen to $92 a barrel. Robert Rapier examines the situation and fundamentals behind the near and long term trends.
  • Who Loses from Rising Natural Gas Prices?
    Natural gas is an important feedstock for the chemicals and fertilizer industries, so higher prices could pressure those sectors. Oil companies with significant chemical operations could also see this business segment take a hit, but based on ExxonMobil’s (NYSE: XOM) advocacy of liquified natura ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Cleanest, and Filthiest, Beaches in America
    "I don't swim in your toilet, so please don't pee in my pool." If you know anyone with a backyard swimming pool, you've probably seen that kitschy sign once or twice. But if you've ever been to a beach after a heavy rainstorm, or swum near a heavily populated urban area, chances are, ...
  • Are Your Organic Eggs Legit?
    When you're frying up those organic, free-range eggs on a Saturday morning, visions of hens running around outside, pecking at bugs and happily clucking about under the sun may come to mind. The reality is, though, most industrial organic-egg producers aren't creating anything close to those li ...
  • Obamacare for the Planet
    Here are a few facts about climate change: 97 percent of climate scientists agree that humans are causing it, and 12 of the hottest years on record have taken place in the past 15 years. Also, since 2000, six climate-related weather disasters have cost the U.S. healthcare system $14 billion. In ...
  • What Moms Do When Chemical Companies Give Thei ...
    “When you’re dealt lemons make lemonade!” Thirty-four years ago when my youngest son Michael was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 3½ months, this phrase became my family’s mantra. I had never smoked, drank or used drugs. How does a baby get cancer? The environment! I cofounded Ocean of Love ...
  • Chipotle: What You Need to Know about Natural ...
    Since the company's founding, Chipotle has championed humanely raised meats and sourced as much organic and local produce and beans as it could for its roughly 1,450 restaurants. The chain even produced the best Grammy ad ever exposing the damage that factory farms do, not just to animals, but ...

big think

  • Infection Rates of Lyme Disease Erupt, Along W ...
    What's the Latest Development? Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi inside the black-legged tick native to the Northeastern United States, is on the rise. That scientists do not understand how the disease can effectively be treated is causing an uproar among the inf ...
  • Why Sugar Should Be Regulated Like Alcohol
    What's the Latest Development? In order for a substance to be regulated like alcohol, it must fit four specific criteria: ubiquity, toxicity, addictiveness, and be bad for society as a whole. Sugar fits these categories easily, argues Robert Lustig at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Sugar is o ...
  • Japan Creates a Pig that Grows Human Organs
    What's the Latest Development? Animals called chimeras, which grow human organs ranging from the liver to the brain, are under development in Japan as a way of harvesting organs for transplant. Bioethicists have already voiced concerns over animals that share uniquely human characteristi ...
  • How Carbs Trigger Cravings for More Processed ...
    What's the Latest Development? Sugary foods and other processed carbohydrates, such as bagels, white rice, juice and soda, stimulate areas of the brain that control for hunger to a greater degree than whole foods, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nut ...
  • Orwellian Phrase of the Week: "Orwellian"
    Welcome back to The Proverbial Skeptic's Orwellian Phrase of the Week. This week, it's time to take aim at ourselves. Anyone who has read The Proverbial Skeptic before will have noticed that Orwell is one of my great heroes (actually, my regard for Orwell is secondary and comes via Chris ...

Information Liberation

  • Will They Assassinate Snowden?
    One of the most fascinating parts of the Snowden controversy involves the possibility that the CIA or the military or perhaps even some super-secret NSA death squad will assassinate Snowden and thereby avoid the hassle of apprehending him and returni...
  • Richard Clarke: Hastings Accident "Consistent ...
    Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarketold The Huffington Post on Monday that the fatal crash of journalist Michael Hastings* Mercedes C250 coupe last week is *consistent with a ...
  • The State Doesn't Define What is True or Right
    Two days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Voting Rights Act requiring federal supervision of local elections in some southern states. Because it was seen as outdated and unnecessary, that provision was considered an unwarran...
  • The Trick is to Suspend the Constitution Witho ...
    Since late 2001, the federal government has behaved as if the U.S. Constitution doesn*t exist with respect to matters of national security. Rather than acting under the limited and revocable grants of authority provided by the Constitution, the ex...
  • Concord Cop Shoots Small Cocker Spaniel Mix
    CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) -- A Concord man is livid because a police officer shot his elderly dog. The police say it was justified, but the dog owner tells ABC7 News that it was completely unnecessary. "This bottom part is where a fragment of the bull...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VIII – P ...
    This has now gone so far beyond a joke that I hardly know where to start. So much ink has been spilled by hoary press gallery veterans covering Labor’s leadership soap opera, that there is very little new that LibertyGibbert … Continue reading →
  • Libel, Reputation and Thin Air
    This isn’t something I had planned to discuss any time soon, but recent headlines in Australia have pushed it to the head of the queue. If you don’t follow Australian politics closely, you may have missed the recent news that … Continue reading →
  • The Lemmings And The Cliff
    Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. We’re now down to just 99 days until the Federal election. And for 99% of the Australian community, it just can’t come quickly enough. For those planning to vote for the coalition, it’s a … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Gun Law
    This post will be briefer than I had originally intended, and for a couple of reasons. First, I haven’t put up any threads for a while, and I feel as though I need a break from work today, so here … Continue reading →
  • Of Human Dregs And Piano Legs
    Everyone else seems to be talking about sex this week, so I’ll devote a dedicated post to a topic raised by Luton Ian on the last thread. I’m going to try to avoid sniggering here about New Zealand and the … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
    Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...
  • Science books for summer
    Brian Clegg – Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we di ...
  • Guiding pledge 2.0 dismisses God and the Queen
    Apparently, the Guiding Movement is to upgrade its pledge that all members must make when they join. Currently they vow to: "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country" That obviously only applies to people of faith and those with a female monarch…and indeed compromises the i ...
  • Life on the rocks
    Life on the rocks, unlike love on the rocks, is a surprise… In the beginning… …there was a barren spinning ball of rock, with a hot, molten core, hurtling through space around a distant, but warming fusion reactor. But the spinning ball was not alone on its journey – there were ...
  • What do you do if you’ve got osteoarthritis of ...
    Film director Baz Luhrmann made a spoof graduation speech famous with his hit “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” back in 1999. At the time, I wasn’t particularly worried about the line in that track: “Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.&#8 ...

RFF Library

  • Childhood Lead Exposure Costs Developing Count ...
    Economic Costs of Childhood Lead Exposure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Environmental Health Perspectives (doi:10.1289/ehp.1206424) / by Teresa M. Attina and Leonardo Trasande http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/pdf-links/ehp.1206424%20final.pdf [Yale Environment 360] The ...
  • Sustainability for the Nation: Resource Connec ...
    National Research Council www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13471 …in order for the nation to be successful in sustaining its resources, “linkages” will need to be built among federal, state, and local governments; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); and the private sector. T ...
  • Shifting the Debate: In Defense of the Equal A ...
    Environmental Law Institute / by Brian Korpics, Jay Austin, and Bruce Myers http://www.elistore.org/reports_detail.asp?ID=11453 (free download with registration) [From Greenwire article by Jeremy P. jacobs, sub. req'd] Republican efforts to reform the law allowing environmental groups to recoup ...
  • The Shale Oil Boom: a U.S. Phenomenon
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Leonardo Maugeri http://hvrd.me/123UWsQ (study) http://hvrd.me/16zTQsn (policy brief) The dramatic surge in U.S. shale oil production could more than triple the current American output of shale oil to five million barrels a day by 2017, which wou ...
  • National Assessment of Geologic Carbon Dioxide ...
    USGS http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1386/ [From Press Release]   The United States has the potential to store a mean of 3,000 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in geologic basins throughout the country, according to the first-ever detailed national geologic carbon sequestration assessment relea ...

Scientific American - News

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First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • 'No Frackin' Way' The sacred fire theme song!
    SWN is keeping quiet, so may as well enjoy this anthem ELSIPOGTOG, NEW BRUNSWICK - With scouts across Kent County searching for signs of seismic testing, SWN Resources Canada appears to be running scared. The company, perhaps reeling after ...
  • HRM gets earful at St. Pat’s-Alexandra consult ...
    City meeting reveals lack of trust, gentrification woes Last night’s city-run St. Pat’s-Alexandra consultation yielded more th ...
  • Manifestation à Montréal en solidarité avec no ...
      Manifestation à Montréal en solidarité avec nos camarades occupant la station de pompage North Westover à Hamilton et contre la Ligne 9 Hier, le 26 juin 2013, la police d'Hamilton a envahi et mis fin à une occupation et blocage des opérations de renversement de la Ligne 9 d'Enbrid ...
  • À propos de l'arrestation de 20 camarades à l' ...
    En ce matin du 26 juin à Hamilton, 20 camarades ont été arrêtéEs alors qu'ils/elles bloquaient les opérations de la compagnie Enbridge qui veut renverser sa Ligne 9 pour transporter le pétrole des sables bitumineux.   Avis aux médias (traduit de l'original provenant de #SwampLine9 ...
  • EYEWITNESS REPORT: Swamp Line 9 raided by Police
    Injunction against Enbridge protest camp enforced ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Looking at the world through a PRISM
    David Seaton's News LinksThere is no reverse gear on the machine of governmental power. If power exists, it will be seized and exploited. To do what? That will be revealed in the course of this power’s employment. Its potential uses will automatically be discovered by those who have it or seize ...
  • Edward Snowdon, China's American dissident
    David Seaton's News LinksSnowdon's Hong Kong JudgesThe real risk to our democracy is what this situation does to potential dissenters, whistle-blowers, investigative journalists, and anyone else who thinks that some aspect of government policy might be boneheaded, unethical, or maybe even illega ...
  • NSA scandal... I got algorithm
    David Seaton's News LinksWhen separate streams of data are integrated into large databases — matching, for example, time and location data from cellphones with credit card purchases or E-ZPass use — intelligence analysts are given a mosaic of a person’s life that would never be available from si ...
  • A new angle on fracking
    David Seaton's News Links I had an interesting conversation about fracking today with a very knowledgeable Spanish executive in the energy sector.We weren't asking ourselves about the ecological questions that arise with fracking, but more about the geopolitical-strategic factors of this techno ...
  • Israel: the fiddler fiddles while the roof burns
    David Seaton's News Links Samson pulls down the temple (in Gaza, no less) Henry Kissinger famously wished that the Bible had been written in Uganda...Israel has never been richer, safer, more culturally productive or more dynamic. Terrorism is on the wane. Yet the occupation grinds on next d ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Snowden Update: Father Trying to Broker Deal ...
    The latest on Edward Snowden: He is a hero on Russian television programs, "which were almost certainly produced under Kremlin orders and have a powerful effect on public opinion." Ecuador is in a tizzy. They don't want to be seen as knuckling under to the United States, but they also do ...
  • The No-Fly List: Orwellian or Kafkaesque?
    A few weeks ago, Rehan Motiwala tried to board a flight home to Los Angeles. Here's what happened when he changed planes in Bangkok: Airline staff in Bangkok refused to issue him a boarding pass for his connecting flight. U.S. and Thai officials told him that he could not travel but offe ...
  • Murder Rate Down Significantly In New York City
    Here's the latest crime news from New York: The number of homicides on record in New York City has dropped significantly during the first half of the year — to 154 from 202 in the same period last year — surprising even police officials who have long been accustomed to trumpe ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 28 June 2013
    Nothing special this week. It's just Domino rolling around on the carpet and wondering what's going on in the kitchen. Note the shoes in the background for scale. Domino is bigger than a pair of shoes.
  • The Supreme Court's Ruling on Prop. 8 Is a Pro ...
    The LA Times writes today that a lot of people share my concern about the Supreme Court ruling that allowed California's Proposition 8 to be overturned. The problem is that the court didn't rule on the merits of the case. They simply decided that after the governor declined to defend Prop. 8, ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 399: Man of Feel
    Kriss wasn’t impressed by E3 Games aren’t the next generation of consoles Fanboys complaining about Microsoft giving them what they’ve been asking for Sony’s smart PR war The Next-Gen is a marathon not a sprint Man of Steel & Nerds Why nerds get defensive about block ...
  • IC 398: Tentacle Porn
    NSA whitleblower goes to China Osama Bin Laden died horribly as a former rich guy Why no one fucks with Japan Man breaks into houses and sucks unsuspecting men’s dicks The Rock is having a good year Marvel Studio’s has some great casting Women have bad online dating profiles too Kris ...
  • IC 397: This is Retarded
    The Bible is a Great Read Roy Hibbert & No Homo Cause Bullies Owning up to being offensive People exaggerating about sex Dating as you get older How no one talks about rejection Dating success rates are worse than baseball batting averages Why online dating isn’t really different from ...
  • Insanity Check: The OkCupid Special
    Kriss & Kev put together a special podcast/rant about the stressful nature of trying to use an online dating site like OkCupid.com Share with your friends:
  • IC 396: Comic Book Nerds
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