Friday, July 05, 2013

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JoNova

  • Witchcraft on Catalyst — Scary weather ...
    There they go again. Last night the ABC again used taxpayer dollars to post up a slick advertisement for their favourite religion. Because Catalyst won’t read skeptical blogs, interview skeptics, or ask difficult questions, they give a false impression to any poor viewers who haven’ ...
  • Peter Gleick thinks (or pretends) CO2 can melt ...
    Peter Gleick — infamous for using deception to steal documents “for The Cause” (see fakegate) tweeted that it was getting hotter every year with a pic of melting traffic lights. How good is this man’s physics? This is a wider picture of events near to the traffic lights ...
  • One landmark old study shows 75% of people giv ...
    Which line matches the line on the left? On any given test one third of people will say A or B if the crowd around them does. In the 1950′s a psychologist called Solomon Asch wanted to find out how strongly people would conform to the group around them. He gave about 100 men a card (suppos ...
  • That’s a 0.3% consensus, not 97%
    We’ve already found enough flaws, but Christopher Monckton analyzes John Cook’s 97% consensus paper and sharpens the scyth. He finds: It should never have been done, it’s an unscientific method — “consensus” The “consensus” was defined in three dif ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    I’m looking for a facebook expert to advise me too… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
    Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...
  • New Chambers at Teotihuacan
    What I love about archaeology is that new things are being unearthed all the time. And when you are someone like me who makes crazy declarations that “pyramids are bunkers”, then each time  a new subterranean chamber is opened, it could contain evidence that supports my position. A ...
  • Tunguska was a Meteorite
    For a long time Tunguska has been a mystery – was in a comet or a meteorite or something else (Tesla anyone?). To my knowledge, this is the first time the mystery has been solved using facts rather than speculation: An icy comet would evaporate on impact, which could explain the lack of a ...
  • Gourmet Spam in Space
    In Hawaii six people are living in a geodesic dome, experimenting with they types of food that astronauts can eat when they journey to Mars. NASA have five meat products that have a long shelf life, and it is not surprising that one of them is Spam. One of the the problems with long-distance spa ...
  • Mayan Pyramids Discovered in Chactun
    Incredibly, ancient cities are still being discovered, with large & intact buildings. Some jungles really are extremely impenetrable! Two weeks ago one was found in Cambodia, and now a Mayan city has been located in Mexico: The city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been sn ...

Facing South

  • What now for North Carolina's Racial Justice Act?
    North Carolina has repealed its groundbreaking law targeting racial discrimination in administration of the death penalty, but Republican lawmakers looking for a speedy return of executions are likely to have their hopes dashed in the courts. read more
  • Water pollution a problem for Southern beaches
    The NRDC's annual report on bacterial contamination at U.S. beaches finds serious problems at popular swimming spots across the South. The group is calling on the federal government to take action to better protect beachgoers from serious health risks. read more
  • Essential reading for July 4th
    This Independence Day, we revisit one of our favorite holiday-themed readings: the brilliant speech by abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass reminding us of the unfinished work of guaranteeing liberty and justice for all. So what's your favorite reading for the 4th? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Attack on women's reproductiv ...
    Following recent efforts by Texas and Ohio, North Carolina becomes the latest state to embrace Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers or TRAP laws, which aim to make it difficult for women to obtain legal abortions -- and for clinics to provide them. read more
  • Job actions have Wal-Mart running scared
    Wal-Mart is disciplining and firing employees who are demanding improved working conditions -- a sign the Arkansas-based retail giant is worried about historic job actions spreading through its U.S. operations. read more

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Egypt’s Turning Point
    As predicted, the Egyptian army was unable to stay away from the fierce confrontation between the supporters of president Morsi and the opposition, demanding him to leave. The military presented Morsi with an ultimatum to leave the Office within 48 hours to execute the will of millions of people ...
  • Episode 12. Why did Britain and the United Sta ...
    Part I Part II Part III In order to turn his nation into a powerful aggressor, Hitler had to first reclaim everything that had been so recently taken away from his country.  He was assisted in this by the very British, French, and American nations that had raked Germany over the coals at Versail ...
  • Snowden: Herald of New Age or a Pawn In Inform ...
    Much to the chagrin of American intelligence, Edward Snowden melted away from Hong Kong hotel to flow into the – ‘no extradition’ – transit zone of a Moscow airport. Looking at the US government, pleading in front of President Putin for Snowden’s extradition – one is reminded o ...
  • The Libyan Lesson and Jihad in the Middle East
    In 2011, under the auspices of NATO, the West committed aggression against Libya, which led to the removal of Muammar Gadhafi, the abolishment of statehood as such, and the spread of jihad in Northern Africa. Despite the murder of the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi, a number of politicians in the E ...
  • Myth of the Eastern Front in American Popular ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an intriguing interview with Professors Edward Davis and Ronald Smelser, the American military historians, authors of the book “The Myth of the Eastern Front: the Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture” (Cambridge University Press, 2007). They thoroughl ...

BlogHer

  • 4 Tools I'd Like To Add to My Parenting Tool Box
    Editor's Note: What are the "tools" of parenting? Not just things like patience and the ability to function on no sleep. No, I mean physical things. Like the binky in your purse for emergencies and your cell phone. Or, maybe... maybe this list of tools from Delilah at Confessions of a Semi-Domes ...
  • What Do You Mean, You've Never Seen (That Movi ...
    Yeah, so, there was a time in my life when if you named a movie, I’d probably seen it. A cheesy romantic comedy? Saw it. The sci-fi action flick? Saw it twice. That Oscar-bait drama? Yep. The foreign movie with the guy who stars in the thing you watch on PBS? I saw that one, too. When I was gr ...
  • I Don't Want To Get Married... Deal With It!
    “Who doesn’t want to get married?”Here we go, I thought with a hard eye roll as the query popped up in my phone’s GroupMe app. Being one of few girls in a male-dominated chat group, and the only girl who has little to no desire to say “I do,” I try to avoid discourse on marriage. I prefer to jum ...
  • I'm a PWM (Proud Working Mom)!
    I am a PWM. (That's a Proud Working Mother for all of you out there.) Period. End of sentence. It may come as shock for some but there is no, "...but if I could afford it, I'd stay home." That's it. A PWM. Let that sink in. And you know what else? Even if I could afford it I wouldn't stay home w ...
  • Do You Unplug on Vacation?
    Editor's Note: To unplug or deal with your email inbox while on vacation -- that is the question. Dr. Stephanie debates whether or not to turn off your cell phone in a recent blog post. I've done it both ways: shut out the outside world for a few days or spent a little time each day triaging em ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Mixed Results for Acupuncture to Improve in Vi ...
    Acupuncture, when used as a complementary or adjuvant therapy for in vitro fertilization (IVF), may be beneficial depending on the baseline pregnancy rates of a fertility clinic, according to research from the University of Maryland ... Related posts:Probiotics Improve Symptom ...
  • Brain Differences Seen in Depressed Preschoolers
    A key brain structure that regulates emotions works differently in preschoolers with depression compared with their healthy peers, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The differences, measured using functional ... Related posts:P ...
  • The Fluoride Myth
    As parents, we teach our children the importance of brushing their teeth. Unfortunately, when most kids do brush, they’re using toothpaste made from a slew of dangerous compounds including artificial colorings and flavorings, aspartame, DEA, propylene glycol, ... Related posts ...
  • Liver Cleanse Diet: 11 Ways to Support the Bod ...
    The liver is essential for so many things, but most importantly, it is one of the most vital internal organ to support weight loss and help us to detox from the millions of poisons in our air, water, and ... Related posts:A Liver Cleanse May Help Reduce These Symptoms Proper ...
  • Eight foods that help fight allergies
    Allergies are indeed bothersome. But instead of reaching out to the usual medications, individuals can now seek relief from various foods. Among the known foods that help fight off spring allergies are citrus fruits, red ... Related posts:10 Best Foods To Boost Your Immune Sys ...

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • ‘Shaking one’s fist at the storm d ...
    Today’s Gazette editorial puts it all pretty simply: Right on cue, as soon as President Obama announced plans to combat air pollution that causes climate change, his opponents parroted criticisms, including the industry slogan “war on coal.” In states like West Virginia, that k ...
  • Black lung update: Key MSHA rule delayed again
    While most Americans were gearing up to enjoy their July 4 holiday, the Obama administration was on Wednesday finally posting the spring edition of its semi-annual regulatory agenda. It’s available here and has some interesting changes regarding the Department of Labor‘s Mine Safety ...
  • Here we go again: Will the mining industry&#82 ...
    Smokestacks at the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, are seen  Monday July 1, 2013, inm Colstrip, Mont. The plant emits an estimated 17 million tons of carbon dioxide annually _ emissions that President Barack Obama is looking to curb to combat climate change. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) It’s ...
  • Illinois miner is nation’s 10th coal dea ...
    SNL Financial has the sad news: A 35-year-old coal miner was killed July 2 at Peabody Energy Corp.‘s Wildcat Hills underground mine in southern Illinois, according to a company spokeswoman. The name of the victim was not released. The spokeswoman said the fatality was the “result of ...
  • Friday roundup June 28, 2013
    President Barack Obama wipes sweat from his face during a speech on climate change at Georgetown University on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, in Washington. Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federa ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Freedom to Suffer
    I think a lot about human suffering and how best to reduce it. I particularly enjoy mixing this effort with various political philosophies, such as progressivism, or “libertarianism”, or “communitarianism”. More on those later. For now I want to simply ask a few questions ...
  • Looking for a Personal Intern/Assistant
    If anyone knows someone, or a good service, I’m looking for a personal intern/assistant to help me with a number of technical tasks. Examples include: Mass edits / adjustments to my website code (removing deprecated PHP includes, etc.) Twitter account maintenance, i.e. unfollowing everyone ...
  • How Exercise Calms Anxiety
    So they gathered adult mice, injected them with a substance that marks newborn cells in the brain, and for six weeks, allowed half of them to run at will on little wheels, while the others sat quietly in their cages.Afterward, the scientists determined each group’s baseline nervousness. Given ac ...
  • iPhone vs. Android: A Picture’s Worth a Thousa ...
    We hear a lot about how Android is trouncing Apple in marketshare. I’m not doubting the numbers, but I’ve long wondered what these people are doing with their phones. One of the most telling metrics for actual usage is photography. Flickr remains the standard for this measurement, an ...
  • Splunk on Linux
    Moving my Splunk box to Linux. If I have to type another backslash for a directory delimiter I’m going to vomit. Oh, plus openssl is borked in Windows, i.e. it’s not easy to create a private key, create a CSR, and get your cert signed by a CA so you can use valid internal certificate ...

Fitwatch

  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Negligible impact of dark matter on the Solar ...
    Mike has asked me about the following preprint: Constraints on Dark Matter in the Solar System by N.P. Pitjev and E.V. Pitjeva (Leningrad, Russia) This article was celebrated by an impressive title and a "more than just uncritical" article at the Physics arXiv Blog: The Incredible Dark Mat ...
  • Summer School of Philosophy
    I returned from a few days long trip at the Summer School of Philosophy 2013 in Dub nad Moravou (Oak Upon Morava, and it is Morava, not Morave, for all the Californian nitpickers!). It's a small township (2,000 inhabitants) beneath a pretty presbytery 10 miles South of Olomouc, the histori ...
  • Death Valley: highest temperature on Earth wil ...
    Tons of journalists were recently hyping the warm weather that came to California and other places. Fox News and many others talk about "tied records" and "baked West". But the real story which is almost totally overlooked is the comparison of the absolute temperature record on Earth ...
  • CMS: \(2.93\sigma\) hint of a second Higgs bos ...
    Today's sensation is tomorrow's calibration. Or: Today's discovery is tomorrow's background. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's my pleasure to tell you that we are finally living in the tomorrow in the sense of these proverbs. CMS has finally published a paper that incorporates the \(125\)-\(126\GeV\) H ...
  • America spying on Germany, EU
    An ugly image of a double-faced, hypocritical America emerges Off-topic, philosopher's birthday: One of the greatest polymaths of the history, Gottfried von Leibniz, was born on July 1st, 1646. See this biography written in 2008. His father, a professor of moral philosophy in Leipzig, East of ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Grandmother charged in death of Milton boy ins ...
    The maternal grandmother of a Milton, Ont., toddler who died after being left inside an overheated car last week has been criminally charged with her grandson’s death. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Boy, 2, dies after bein ...
  • Approaching the End Game: “A Domestic Hyperinf ...
    That the US economy is in turmoil and the dollar’s world reserve status is under unprecedented threat is a given. What’s not clear is where the machinations of government and global banking cartels will lead, and when. But we know the breaking point is coming. According to Shadow Sta ...
  • Heartburn in Washington: India Calls Iran “Cri ...
    by John Daly, Oil Price: It is no secret that the South and East Asian economies have chafed under the multi-layered sanctions adopted by the United States, European Union and United Nations Security council against Iran for its civilian nuclear activities. Many in the West see Iran’s nuclear ef ...
  • Ultrafast internet service launched by Vancouv ...
    A new Vancouver-based internet provider says it will be offering fibre internet at a speed of one gigabit per second — 60 times faster than the Canadian average — for a comparable price to that lumbering average connection. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they f ...
  • What’s Next in Egypt?
    by Stephen Lendman, SJLendman.Blogspot.com: Morsi’s out. Junta power rules. Generals have final say. Democracy’s verboten. Popular interests don’t matter. They never did. They don’t now. What’s next? Headlines said Egyptians celebrated Morsi’s ouster. Firework ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Minister ‘arrogant,’ farmers &#821 ...
    Norway’s Agriculture Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum is “unbelievably arrogant” and Norwegian farmers are “spoiled,” according to elected representatives from member countries of the European Union (EU). They’re now threatening retaliation for higher import ta ...
  • EU blasts Norway’s protectionism
    The EU Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a measure calling for the Norwegian government to cut its new, high import tariffs on cheese, meat and hortensia plants. EU parliamentarians, who are elected representatives from all countries in the European Union, claim Norway’s tariffs amoun ...
  • AUF campers rally around Labour
    Record numbers of young Labour Party supporters defied rain and chill along the Tyrifjord on Thursday in a massive pep rally before the September national election. They cheered and applauded their leader Eskil Pedersen, as he attacked the two women leading Labour’s biggest opposition part ...
  • Sun may finally shine in the south
    After many days of heavy leaden skies, pouring rain and downright chilly temperatures, residents of southern Norway may finally get a hint of summer weather. State meteorologists predict sunshine and much warmer days for the next week. “It looks very promising for Sørlandet (the southern c ...
  • Foreign entrepreneurs can get some help
    The City of Oslo’s agency that deals with business matters (Næringsetaten) is now launching assistance to entrepreneurs with a foreign background who want to start new businesses in Norway or already are running one. The agency has been offering occasional courses in English in how to star ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Climate Change Adaptation Technologies – Perma ...
    Climate Change Adaptation technology: Stone Lines (The Sahel)(More videos below) It’s uber exciting to see simple design solutions bringing yields, low-carbon prosperity and health, to people who would otherwise suffer needlessly. Watch the excellent videos below to see how permaculture ...
  • Seven Health Uses for Honey
    Photos © Craig Mackintosh Honey, sweet gift of our buzzing sisters the bees, is one of Nature’s exceptional health offerings. Bees make it for themselves and their brood, to live on through the winter – as such, it’s packed with everything they need, including vitamins, ...
  • The Permaculture Solution – an Interview with ...
    Interview by Leslee Goodman of the Moon Magazine Warren Brush [see author profile] describes himself as a certified permaculture designer and teacher, a mentor and storyteller. He is co-founder of Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm, a former cattle ranch located in California&# ...
  • Functional Ecosystems as the Engine of the Gre ...
    by John D. Liu This is not how it works… “If the world is a table with four legs (US, Eurozone, China/India, and the Arab world), right now, all four legs are shaky”, said Thomas Freidman, New York Times columnist after listening to discussions at the Davos World Eco ...
  • Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate ...
    This is the late Autumn post for the ongoing research project about perennial plants and self-perpetuating annual plants providing food in temperate climate Australia. The original article introducing this project, stating its aims, and providing participant instructions, can be found here. Grow ...

Pointman's

  • The pause.
    There’s a book called Puckoon by the wildly erratic comedy writer Spike Milligan. It concerns the travails suffered by a fictional village of the same name, as the boundary commission draws the border between Northern Ireland and the new Republic of Eire in the aftermath of the War of Inde ...
  • Know your enemy : the alarmist scientist.
    I’d like to preface this piece by saying there are a number of scientists doing significant work in the field of climate science whom I deeply respect. They have all along raised the balanced doubts about the supposedly “settled” science and I’ve no doubt taken some easil ...
  • Know your enemy : the climate activist.
    In the context of this series of articles about getting to know the opposition, I think it’s important at an early stage to get a realistic view of what we’re actually dealing with when it comes down to this particular category, because so many of the people who fall into the other c ...
  • An interesting thing happened on the way to th ...
    An interesting thing happened on the way to the theatre blog tonight. That’s the sort of prologue or connective phrase a stand-up comedian will use to move his set onto a bit of topical comedy about something, which if accurate and well observed, is always the best kind. It was Saturday an ...
  • Know your enemy : the foot soldiers.
    We wretched dissenters from the climate orthodoxy have been placed under the psychological microscope several times in the last year or so. Since the studies, and I use that word advisedly, were conducted by featherweight academics with warmista rap sheets as long as your arm, the results as you ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Open Letter From Curtis Muhammad on Upcoming C ...
    Below we are reposting an open letter from civil rights movement veteran Curtis Muhammad, a founder of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the International School for Bottom-Up Organizing, among many other projects and initiatives. Dear friends and comrades, We are fast approaching the time fo ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Issues LGBTQ Pol ...
    From a press release from BreakOUT! After organizing for over two years, BreakOUT! members enjoyed a victory today in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with the issuing of Policy 402, dealing with the treatment of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questio ...
  • Victory! Sex Workers Removed From Louisiana Se ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Louisiana to Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on Sex Offender Registry Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a ...
  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Verbs, nouns, grammar
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • The psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks
    As the psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks steps up I want to offer my perspective on some aspects of the situation. Firstly, we have to recognise that in situations where the powers that be are powerless to directly control outcomes, they often resort to indirect means, specifically: ...
  • Brian Monk on the lies, injustices and public ...
    My 2nd hour guest in today's show is Brian Monk, a farmer from Queensland who has become a vocal and passionate critic of the Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry in Australia. Brian is a member of the Lock the Gate Alliance, whose mission statement we present below: The mission of the Lock the G ...
  • Defending your personal health choices
    Jabbed is a documentary produced by SBS televison In today's show we zero in on some of the outright fraud which is being perpetrated on behalf of large companies who make their money from selling vaccines. We go through some facts and figures on the the incidence of pertussis (whooping coug ...
  • The Lucifer Effect: Philip Zimbardo on the psy ...
    In today's show we take a look at the work of Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist whose experiments have demonstrated that there is the potential within all ordinary law-abiding folk to become evil. Zimbardo's "prison experiment" involved recruiting a group of normal young people and arbitrarily a ...
  • No jab, no play - the vaccine crackdown and yo ...
    In today's show we look at the controversy over vaccines from the perspective of basic human freedom. We propose that, whether or not vaccines are safe and effective, there is a moral imperative to protect the freedom of the individual which is being eroded by medical fascists who seek to make ...

Beacon

  • The Race to Protect Northern Chilean Oceans
    © OCEANA | Alex Muñoz The coastline of La Higuera and Isla Chañaral in Northern Chile is different from any other coastline I have ever experienced.  I grew up in New York, next to the East River, with the Atlantic Ocean right around the corner.  I have travelled along many differen ...
  • California's Shark Fin Ban Officially in Effec ...
    California has banned shark fins within the state...for now Let's start with the good news: As of yesterday, July 1, California's shark fin ban (passed in 2011) officially came into effect! California grocers that stocked shark fins and restaurants that offered shark fin soup on the ...
  • Reckless Bill Passes House of Representatives
    HR 2231 could nearly double U.S. offshore drilling, threatening tens of thousands of marine animals like this common bottlenose dolphin. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act, a reckless bill that would nearly double U.S. offshore drill ...
  • Oceana EU's 2013 Baltic Expedition Underway!
    A rock gunnel, one of the many beautiful creatures our Baltic team has encountered on their 2013 expedition! "Dead silence on the boat. All you hear is the waves hitting the sides. We are rolling up and down, up and down, on the waves. Concentrated faces staring at the sea. Up and down, up an ...
  • "Snuffy the Seal": Offensive or Effective?
    Whether this was your first or fiftieth time watching the Discovery Channel’s viral Shark Week ad, “Snuffy the Seal,” the video is sure to have caught your attention. The ad has been called “polarizing,” “controversial,” and even “horrifying.” Loved or hated, there’s no doubt that the video is e ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Hillary’s F-bomb in Dishy New Book “This Town”
    “[Expletive] the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.” – Secretary Hillary Clinton, from This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America’s Gilded Capital, by Mark Leibovich INSIDER GOSSIP book “This Town,” by Mark Leibovich, has been ta ...
  • U.S. Drones Double Tap, Targeting Rescuers
    The U.S. use of drones in the “war on terror” includes what is called a “double tap,” meaning sending a second drone to the same area, in what amounts to targeting rescuers who are responding to the first attack. This isn’t new, not the action nor the reporting. What does it tell us, that “doubl ...
  • Go 4th: Woody Guthrie, Frederick Douglass, Sus ...
    On this Independence Day, my go 4th actions include listening to Woody Guthrie, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, among others. And to us, to We the People-dom. My July 4, 2013 thoughts are very much like they’ve been on each Independence Day for a long time now. We’re a nation of a lot o ...
  • Obama and Snowden Cast Shadow on Independence Day
    WE DIDN’T know it, but this time last year on Independence Day, the NSA, as well as the PRISM program, were whirring along, gobbling up the metadata of ordinary American citizens, all on the excuse it was for our own good, to keep us safe. What a difference a whistleblower, a leaker, can m ...
  • Egypt Revolution Brings Epic Sexual Assaults
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is reporting an “epidemic” of sexual violence against women. The numbers have reached horrifying proportions, with the government doing little to stop the human rights atrocities. Egyptian officials and political leaders across the spectrum should condemn and take ...

Hudson New York

  • Pakistan Bankrolls Terrorist Group
    Pakistan has just allocated over $4,000,000 for a Center, a "Knowledge Park" and other initiatives for the Islamist parent body of the banned terrorist group that attacked Mumbai, India, in 2008. The Pakistani provincial government of Punjab included in
  • Al-Qaeda's Jihad on Anti-Morsi Egyptians
    Now that the Egyptian military appears to have granted the nation's wish—to be rid of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, as millions have been chanting, "Irhal" ["Leave office"] -- al-Qaeda appears to have stepped in. Hours before Egyptian President
  • Political Persuasion, Palestinian Style
    Earlier this week, Hussam Khader, a prominent Fatah activist, woke up to the sounds of gunfire outside his home in the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank. Khader, a staunch critic of the Palestinian Authority leadership and government
  • Palestinians: Abbas Honors Terror Leader
    Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has awarded the "highest order of the Star of Honor" to arch-terrorist Nayef Hawatmeh. This is a continuation of the policy followed by Abbas and the PA to glorify terrorists responsible for murdering
  • Financing Terror: Islamic Relief Worldwide
    Islamic Relief Worldwide [IRW] is the poster-child of an exemplary Islamic charity. Headquartered in the UK, and given tens of millions of dollars by Western governments, the United Nations and the European Union, IRW consists of a "family of fifteen aid

Urban Survival

  • How to Write Your Own Jobs Report
    (Newburgh NY)  Since we will be in the sky somewhere over the Poconos by the time you read this, I’m left with no alternative to teaching you how to do a jobs reports for yourself, since that’s the main economic … Continue reading →
  • Coping: HAARP: Hiding from Natli?
    Well, well, what have we here?  Reader Natli (with the unpronounceable last name) did an FOI request to find out what was going on with HAARP and what do you think she got back?  (drum roll…)   “HAARP is undergoing … Continue reading →
  • The Fourth!
    (Newburgh, NY)  Enjoy it while you can….there’s a lot of tough [economic ground] between now and the end of the year to deal with.  Although, Ure’s truly points out, our Holiday Rally came along right on schedule.  Why, if the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Lobster in Newburgh, Bugged in Texas
    (Newburgh, NY)  I am crushed, but sometimes being a pilot means making sound decisions even when they are unpleasant, so if you are reading this special holiday edition of UrbanSurvival, here’s how we got to Newburgh:   As planned, we … Continue reading →
  • Ure Jq
    (Still stuck in Hartford, CT) It’s axiomatic in economics that when you want to stimulate an economy, all you do is print up more money, or lower rates, and people will begin spending like crazy.  As this happens, rates will … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
  • MURDER BY MEDICINE 5: Short Term Advantages vs ...
    Most of us never really stop to consider the long term effects of some of the drugs we take. We are eager to attain short term relief without taking into account the many effects these drugs may have further down the line. Aspirin is one of the most popular drugs in the world, with over [...]
  • WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
    Men are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men really don&#821 ...
  • MURDER BY MEDIA 13: Addiction To Recognition
    It’s always good advice to be told to question every desire, because its easy to forget that deceiving ones self is the easiest form of deception. The media has helped to create a world where recognition has become a not so subtle addiction that we feed on and hunger for everytime we are s ...
  • IS A MARRIAGE FOR LOVE TOO UNREALISTIC?
    Love has come to be the proud and somewhat reluctant owner of many definitions; one of which likens it to a ‘fairytale’. In today’s world the reality is that there are quite a number of other things to think about before love is even considered. After all, love doesn’t pu ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Gulrez Shah Azhar Guest Post: On the Launch of ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Guest Post: Dr Gulrez Shah Azhar is a Physician and Senior Lecturer at the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar. With temperatures already spiking this summer in India, Ahmedabad is mov ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • Western Energy News Round-Up: Wind, Feed-in Ta ...
    Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco Western Energy News Round-Up is a selection of news highlighting recent energy and environmental iss ...
  • Want Great Beer? You Need Clean Water.
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Some archeologists think humans learned how to make beer before bread—beer is that fundamental to human civilization. We know they were making beer at least 7,000 years ago, in what is now Iran. ...
  • As the Climate Warms, Toxic Blue-Green Algae F ...
    Rob Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago The past two weeks did not bring good news to Lake Erie and Ohio’s shores. Our Testing the Waters report last week showed the beaches along Lake Erie were the most contaminated in the nation last year. ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, March 7, 2013: Mcallen, Texas: A federal grand jury indicted three more law enforcement officers on drug conspiracy charges. The indictment charges them with conspiring to possess with intent … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job
    More here.CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • ACLU Looks into Militarization Trend in Police ...
    From Huffington Post: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local … Continue reading &#85 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, March 5, 2013: Update: Denver, Colorado: A police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping. He was in uniform when he came … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
  • Worst of the Month – February 2013
    This month it is the story from California where totally innocent people were shot by police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner.   There is no greater responsibility for a police officer than his/her use of deadly force.  If they get … Continue reading →Worst of ...

Total Collapse

  • Russia denies closure of embassy, naval base i ...
    Moscow: Moscow has denied the reports suggesting closure of Russian embassy in the Syria’s capital city and evacuation of a naval base in its second largest port city of Tartus. “These rumors are speculations and provocations aimed at preparing public opinion for the attempts to chan ...
  • Social networks steal billions of dollars from ...
    Social networking has been accused of all mortal sins. It deprives people of live communication, makes citizens dependent on the internet, and causes a number of other psychological issues. But these are not the only troubles caused by social networks. It turns out that this technology has an ex ...
  • Russia evacuates Tartus, also military, diplom ...
    Shortly after the DEBKA aired a special video on the Syrian war’s widening circle, Moscow announced Wednesday June 26, that the evacuation which had begun Friday of all military and diplomatic personnel from Syria was now complete, including the Russian naval base at Tartus. “Russia decided to w ...
  • 80% of Pre-Packaged Foods in America Are Banne ...
    If you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods commonly found in grocery stores across the U.S. such as Froot Loops, Swanson dinners, Mountain Dew, and frozen potato and bread products, you may think twice before purchasing them after hearing what they contain: dangerous chemicals that ...
  • World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption ...
    A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, sh ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook design tests, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Facebook design tests in New Zealand, porn blocking in China and Google Books for India. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Calendar, Insta ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, a new Google search test, Instacart keeps up the yuppie pressure, and North Korea gets tinted. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, Angry ...
    In today’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, The Flixies, music making money and Rovio’s Angry Birds Toons. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mobile World Congress ...
    Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona. Listen to today’s Daily Dose for a roundup of news from the first 24 hours of the event. Check our full... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Glass details, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose: Google Glass pricing and availability, North Korea’s 3G plans and tech words in the dictionary and more. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Govt underestimates high-speed rail profits by ...
    The government has underestimated by $190 billion the profits of its Melbourne-Brisbane high-speed rail (HSR) plan, enough to repay the capital cost of the network, according to  Researchers at independent think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Beyond ...
  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Film: Generation Green
    Generation Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about his companies contribution towards adverse climate change. Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental stewardship, his pe ...
  • National Food Plan blind to biggest threat: cl ...
    This week’s National Food Plan ignores the serious threat to agriculture posed by climate change. Yet research shows that an expanded Carbon Farming Initiative could have major benefits in combating climate change. Andrew Longmire, research fellow with Beyond Zero Emissions, said, “The Feder ...
  • Announcing the 5x4 Hayes Lane project
    Beyond Zero Emissions is proud to be an official Project Supporter of the 5x4 Hayes Lane Project. The goal of the development is to be a super energy efficient and zero carbon dwelling in the heart of the City of Melbourne. The team are looking to transform an under-used laneway into a demon ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Palm oil companies linked to haze see share pr ...
    Three firms linked to fires in Sumatra saw their share prices decline since the haze crisis worsened a week ago.
  • Smoke over Sumatra: Why Indonesia's fires are ...
    During the smoky season, or 'musim kabut' as it is called in Indonesia, skeletons of leaves fall from the sky and disintegrate like melting snowflakes in children’s hands.
  • New bird species discovered in Cambodia's larg ...
    A previously unknown species of bird has been found hiding in plain sight after scientists photographed what was thought to be more abundant species at a construction site on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capitol and largest city. Subsequent analysis revealed the species to be distinct.
  • Greenpeace launches series of case studies cri ...
    Activist group Greenpeace says it will publish a series of case studies highlighting examples of good and bad practice among operations certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an eco-standard for forest products. Greenpeace, an FSC member since the body was found in 1993, says that ...
  • Indonesian NGOs demand inquiry into natural re ...
    A coalition of anti-corruption and environmental NGOs has urged Indonesia’s anti-graft body to investigate cases of corruption in the natural resources sector. Corruption linked to the forestry, mining and plantation industries leads to billions of dollars in state losses each year, the co ...

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leone Police deplorable conditions of s ...
    Many apparently aggrieved police officers have been telling me that they are working under very unpalatable conditions of service and some have been bold enough to tell me that it is only through corruption that they can keep their pots boiling. They have been expressing their dissatisfaction ov ...
  • Sierra Leone Observes Global Vote Day
    On Monday, 1st July, 2013, Sierra Leone joined other countries in the world to observe  Global Vote Day set aside to fight the abuse of child rights worldwide.  The occasion was marked by a series of activities, especially in the schools. To mark the day, the Lotta Elf Primary School at no.6 Wha ...
  • Fire Fighters Cry for Rice
    Officers of the National Fire Force (NFF) have called on government to include them in the monthly rice supplies to the military, police and prison officers who they describe as their sister forces. In an interview with Sierra Express Media, the fire fighters expressed dissatisfaction over the f ...
  • In Sierra Leone, illicit miners defy government
    Although the Government of Sierra Leone has put a moratorium on the mining and selling of Zircon, reports from Shenge in the Moyamba District state the illicit miners there have defied the ban as they are still busy mining the Zircon sand clandestinely at night. Our sources say the illicit miner ...
  • Red Carpet Welcome for Balogun in Sierra Leone
    Residents of Kono in Eastern Sierra Leone are reported to be putting modalities in place to give a red carpet welcome to the new Minister of  Transport and Aviation, Leonard Balogun Koroma (in photo) who is to visit Kono today. It is reported that all the APC Executives in Kono District are now ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Auditor's eye on aid for big business
    The Auditor-General is to investigate a flagship Government project which involves millions in subsidies being paid to some of New Zealand's biggest primary sector businesses.Plans by the public-spending watchdog to take a close...
  • Westland milk processing up despite drought
    Westland Milk Products said it processed 5.3 per cent more milk in the season just ended, compared with the previous season, in spite of the area being hit by drought early in the year.This compares with a 2 per cent drop in the...
  • From P-lab suspect to high tech whiz
    Entrepreneurs face many challenges along the road to success, but being accused of running a methamphetamine lab usually isn't one of them.Engineer Daryl Briggs has created a membrane that, he says, has the potential to revolutionise...
  • World dairy prices lift overnight (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products rose for the second time in a row at Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction and the volume sold jumped to a six-month high.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 0.7 per cent compared to the last sale...
  • Milk shakeup push coming from Fonterra
    Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings wants the Government to buy into a national plan the dairy giant is developing to grow the New Zealand milk pool.A formal approach to Government will not be made until August. But Spierings...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Hangovers Cost the Economy $224 Billion Says CDC
    Should have gotten to this before the Fourth of July bingeing began. In any case, the folks over at The Atlantic are reporting a 2011 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which found that the day after "excessive" alcohol consumption worker productivity is ...
  • Snowden's Situation is Looking Increasingly Grim
    While Snowden may have taken refuge in the transit zone at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after fleeing Hong Kong it now appears that Russian officials are keen to have the NSA whistleblower off Russian territory. According to Wikileaks, Snowden has applied for asylum in 21 countr ...
  • Ronald Bailey on the Top 5 Lies About Fracking
    Gasland Part II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox's earlier anti-fracking docudrama Gasland, will run on HBO next Monday. It appears to have rounded up the usual corporate villains and appealing victims of profit-hungry capitalist skullduggery. Does fracking cause houses to e ...
  • Private Surveillance Company Denies Bugging Ec ...
    Earlier this week, Reason reported on a scandalous discovery made by the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Staff at the embassy found microphones planted in one of the offices. Ecuador said it would announce on Tuesday who was responsible for the bugging. “We have reason to believe tha ...
  • 6 Ways Washington's Marijuana Rules Are Looser ...
    On Wednesday the Washington State Liquor Control Board (WSLCB) unveiled its proposed rules for the state-licensed pot stores authorized by I-502, the marijuana legalization initiative approved by voters last November. The regulations, which were to a large extent dictated by I-502, ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Murdochwatch 2013
    I don’t I have no idea why Watson thinks that Jay Rockefeller is somehow incorruptible. Lisa O’Carroll and Josh Halliday, The Guardian: A prominent Labour MP has said US authorities should press corporate corruption charges against Rupert Murdoch’s global empire after he admitt ...
  • Welcome to the loser’s circle, France!
    Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian: France runs a vast electronic surveillance operation, intercepting and stocking data from citizens’ phone and internet activity, using similar methods to the US National Security Agency’s Prism programme exposed by Edward Snowden, Le Monde has repor ...
  • Three NSA whistleblowers speak out
    Peter Eisler and Susan Page, USAT 6/13/13 Q: Did Edward Snowden do the right thing in going public? William Binney: We tried to stay for the better part of seven years inside the government trying to get the government to recognize the unconstitutional, illegal activity that they were doing and ...
  • Humans, Bonobos, And Egalitarianism
    Alternet recently published an interview with Christopher Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn, a book exploring the evolution of human sexuality and human society. During the interview, the following passages struck me as interesting: McNally: And immediate-return-hunter-gatherer societies were the norm ...

Reality Sandwich

  • The First Red Pill
      The following is excerpted from Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story, recently published by Sounds True. read more
  • Why Not Ecstatic Culture?
    The following is adapted  from Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture, published by John Hunt Publishing I hold the most archaic values on earth; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth; the lo ...
  • Ancient Tomb Unearthed
    El Castillo de Huarmay is about a four hour drive north of Lima, which has attracted the attention of looters and archeologists for years. Nothing showed up until recently, when archeologists Milosz Giersz and Roberto Pimentel Nita led a team to dig deeper. They suspected that there may indeed ...
  • Get in the Zone
    I recently launched the "Levity Zone" podcast, and Conversations with the Madre. read more
  • Meditation Stimulates Long-Lasting Brain Changes
    The effects gained from meditation continue to affect brain function for a long time after meditation is over, according to new research. read more

Desertification

  • Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
    The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...
  • Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia a ...
    Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, the World Bank is warning. “Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts ...
  • FAO Highlights Inseparable Links Between Food ...
    Since food and water are so closely interlinked, there is a lingering fear based on the assumption, if there is no water, there will be no food. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) underlines the strong links between the two when it declares that agriculture accounts for over 70 percent ...
  • Small Farmers Buffeted by Climate Change
    The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has long warned that a quarter of the world’s farmland is “highly degraded”. The main culprits are natural disasters, including droughts, floods and desertification. These pressures have now reached critical levels, with climate change expec ...
  • Zimbabwean Farmers Adrift Amid Power Struggles
    For the past five years, farmer Melusi Mhlanga has spent nearly 200 dollars each season for inputs, but the maize yields have not matched his investment.  “With good rains I have been able to get more than 20 bags from my two hectare field but now I barely manage 10 bags,” says Mhlan ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Jason Kenney Saves Life Of Little Girl With Do ...
    Last March an Islamic mob burned down two hundred Christian homes in Pakistan. It isn't easy being a Christian in a Muslim country. It's even worse if you're a little Christian girl with Down syndrome.  Rimsha Masih was accused of destroying pages of the Koran. People who are believed to be ...
  • EuroMillions
    There is a certain science to win any lottery, nor does the EuroMillions draw. Only voucher be lucky to hit the winning combination in a raffle, and particularly in Euromillions, much more since the probability of hit in much smaller that in other drawings as the bonoloto. Can we do something ab ...
  • Russia's Foreign Minister responds to propagan ...
    Those following the Syrian conflict must have noticed that last week the USA's alphabet media outlets  were reporting that the Russians are withdrawing personnel and naval support which had been planted in the Syrian waters. From ABC and AP: Russia has withdrawn all military personnel ...
  • The Westminster System of Parliamentary Government
    I frequently refer to the “Westminster system of parliamentary government” in posts, and thought it might be a good idea to fully explain how the Westminster system of government works. (…) Read more
  • Believe It or Not! FBI does not want to off ...
    UK has pimped herself  to the Caliphate. She's done for. Next in line is the USA.  Start weeping for your kids and grandkids if not for yourself. Is anyone keeping an eye on the number of  Muslim refugees in the USA from Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen and ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Bomb attacks kill eight in Iraq
    At least eight people have been killed and many others wounded in two bomb attacks in Iraq.
  • Bahrain jails 29 anti-regime protesters
    A court in Bahrain has sentenced 29 people to one month in prison for trying to enter a heavily guarded area that was once the center of the Persian Gulf nation's anti-government protests.
  • UN asked to probe Libya arms in Syria
    Russia has called on the United Nation Security Council (UNSC) to probe reports that massive arms stockpiled by former Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi are making their way to foreign-sponsored militants in Syria.
  • UN alarmed over Syria food situation
    The United Nation food agencies say Syria's food situation will worsen next year if the ongoing crisis in the Arab nation is not contained.
  • ‘Iran ready to equip Lebanese army’
    Iran Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi has repeated the Islamic Republic’s readiness to equip the Lebanese army with necessary materiel.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Paula’s Pound of Flesh
    Paula Deen is in the news again and, no, it’s not because people discovered that frying food in massive amounts of butter is not healthy. This time she was fired her contract was not renewed by Food Network because she did not perjure herself. Ok, so it wasn’t exactly for not perjuring her ...
  • Lynx Love
    More lynx photos, videos, and fun facts on the CUNY SPS Pinterest account.
  • Your Diploma is Ready for Pick Up!
    Class of 2013 degree students, your diploma is ready for pick up! Visit the SPS Office on the 9th floor in room 905 at 101 West 31st with a photo ID. We will be open from 9:00am through 7:30pm Monday through Thursday. During the summer, we will be closed on the following days: July 4, […]
  • Applied Mothering
    Carrie has been a teaching artist in NYC for 10 years and a mom for 6 months. She received her MA in Applied Theatre from CUNY School of Professional Studies in 2011. Carrie is currently working for organizations such as TDF, The Roundabout Theatre Company, and The Museum of the City of New York ...
  • Claire Davis, SPS Spring 2013 Graduate
    Claire Davis, SPS ’13 shares her thoughts on why she selected the Adult Learning Graduate Certificate Program at SPS: I am currently working as a genetic counselor and as the assistant director of the Master of Genetic Counseling Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. One ...

Dissident Voice

  • Caught on Tape: Irish Bankers Laugh about Neve ...
    Bill Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri Kansas City: Tapes reveal Anglo Irish Bank executives laughed as they manipulated Irish Government into 16 billion dollar bailout the knew they would never repay. Listen to the ...
  • UN Accuses Israel of Torturing Palestinian Chi ...
    Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak stated in 2009: "... I also have no doubt in my heart that the IDF is the most moral army in the world." How do Israeli military actions adduce Barak's claim? According to Shir Hever, Israeli forces are proven to be using Palestinian children as human shields ...
  • Could This Be Labor’s “Southern Strategy”?
    Not counting all the other bad things that have happened (e.g., Wisconsin public workers being denied collective bargaining, Michigan becoming a right-to-work state, Obama’s NLRB appointees hanging in limbo, the Democrats’ betrayal of EFCA legislation, etc.), two fairly recent AFL-CIO endeavors ...
  • Stop and Frisk: What Mayor Bloomberg Really Th ...
    New York City Mayor Bloomberg, speaking before last Sunday’s gay rights parade, tried to defend his position supporting the NYPD’s massive stop and frisk program directed against minority (mostly Black and Hispanic) youth. His remarks were so out of line that the New York Times wrote ...
  • On Hamas, Fatah and the Squandered Years
    When Hamas and Fatah representatives met in Gaza on June 04, there was little media fanfare. In fact, neither party expected much attention to their ‘unity talks’ aside from the occasional references to ‘national reconciliation’, ‘building bridges’ and the ‘obstacles’ along the way. And since th ...

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Newswise

  • UT Dallas Healthcare Management Professor Avai ...
  • SAMHSA Awards Up to $750,000 in Grants to Impr ...
    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is awarding up to $750,000 to help enable opioid treatment programs to develop electronic health record systems. These systems will allow the opioid treatment programs to fulfill their regulatory requirements, achieve certif ...
  • Lessons From Across the Pond: Should Radiologi ...
    In a New England Journal of Medicine "Perspective" article, Saurabh Jha, MB, BS, of the department of Radiology at in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses an important role for radiologists as changes in the US health care system come about: gatekeepers o ...
  • Legal Performance Enhancer Discovered in the N ...
    According to a study supervised by Ithaca College's Exercise and Sport Sciences Chair Thomas Swensen, betaine--a nutrient found in shellfish and beets--boosts athletic performance by nearly six percent when added to a sports drink.
  • First Charlottesville TEDx Event to Feature Da ...
    On Friday, 15 November 2013, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor R. Edward Freeman will speak at Charlottesville's first TEDx event -- "TEDxCharlottesville - The Difference That Makes a Difference." The talk will take place at the Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Egypt Between a Public Movement and a Military ...
    In less than three days, Egypt moved from being under Islamists to being in civilian hands. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, was overthrown by the army on Wednesday after massive nationwide protests calling for his removal on the first anniversary of his elect ...
  • Activists Preserve a Part of Syria’s Rev ...
    For the small town of Kafranbel in Syria, the old saying “a pen is mightier than a sword” still rings true. Every week in Kafranbel, protesters draw posters, write banners and demonstrate against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In a twist, however, hundreds of such po ...
  • Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
    The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...
  • Top Judge Sworn in as Egypt Interim President
    Top judge Mansour has been sworn in as Egypt’s interim president, hours after Mohamed Morsi was overthrown in a military coup following huge protests against his one-year rule. Adly Mansour took the oath of interim president on Thursday, as his democratically elected predecessor, Morsi, was held ...
  • U.S. States Tighten Voter Restrictions
    Advocacy groups here are reacting with frustration as several southern U.S. states have moved to enact stricter voting requirements in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision that rolled back key legislation that had safeguarded minority voters for decades. Following last week’s five-to-four ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ban on Iranian media violates human rights: Pr ...
    Summary: Press TV News Director Hamid Reza Emadi says a wave of attacks launched by international satellite companies against Iranian channels violates human rights and freedom of speech. source: PressTVread more
  • Why the United States Can’t Have an Effective ...
    Summary: Earlier this month, Real News Network broadcast a two-part interview that Gareth Porter, the wonderful journalist and historian, did with us. The interview focuses on our book, Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, but also del ...
  • Former US general James Cartwright named in St ...
    Summary: A retired US general, James Cartwright, is the target of a Justice Department investigation into the leaking of secret information about the Stuxnet virus attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing unidentified legal sources. source: The Gu ...
  • Syria: Ten Reasons Why We Oppose Intervention
    Summary: An attack on Iran remains the ultimate goal for the US. Intervention in Syria is a stepping stone toward that goal. source: Stop The War Coalitionread more
  • Smearing President-elect Rowhani with AMIA
    Summary: A few days ago, it was widely reported that an Argentinian prosecutor had claimed that Iran's president-elect Rowhani was involved in the secret plans to bomb the AMIA Jewish cultural center in Argentina in 1994. There are now more recent reports that say the opposite: that the prose ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Interstellar Space is a Quantum-Ruled Organic ...
                  There may be a suite of organic chemical reactions occurring in interstellar space that astronomers haven't considered. In 2012, astronomers discovered methoxy molecules containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in the Perseus molecular cloud, around 600 light years from Ear ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 270,000!
                   Join the 274,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations ...
  • "An Unknown Force of the Universe is Acting on ...
                   Today, on the 4th of July, a European team of astronomers led by Hongsheng Zhao of the SUPA Centre of Gravity at the University of St Andrews are prsenting a radical new theory at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in St Andrews. Their theory suggests that the Milky Way a ...
  • Vast Crater Found Under Antarctica Ice Cap
                    ESA’s CryoSat satellite has found a vast crater in Antarctica’s icy surface. Scientists believe the crater was left behind when a lake lying under about 3 km of ice suddenly drained. Far below the thick ice sheet that covers Antarctica, there are lakes of fresh water wi ...
  • Image of the Day: "Star Trek Lands on Pluto's ...
            Some craters and other surface features spotted on Pluto by NASA's New Horizons probe in 2015 may end up bearing the name of "Star Trek" characters, as this screenshot from a Google+ Hangout demonstrates. "We might have craters called Sulu and Spock and Kirk and McCoy and so on, ...

Natural News

  • Excessive soda drinking may be to blame for wo ...
    A woman, Natasha Harris, only 30 years old, died of heart attach in New Zealand. She left behind eight children as a result of having consumed upwards to 10 liters of soda, namely Coca-Cola, each day. The overdose of soda, similar to overdosing on crack cocaine, resulted...
  • TSA now maintaining secret 'watch list' of Ame ...
    It's being described as an enhancement to security, but what it amounts to is just another way the federal government is becoming more invasive and less tolerant of your privacy. The Transportation Security Administration has announced recently (and very quietly)...
  • Beyond affirmations - the key to turning dream ...
    Many personal development experts suggest that using affirmations like, "I am rich" or "I am healthy" will help you manifest the life of your dreams. The idea being that repeating these statements - often enough - will help create a desired outcome. But, do you know...
  • Study finds that home births are safer than ho ...
    A century ago, home births were the norm in the United States. Women would give birth to their babies in a comforting, familiar setting under the personal care of midwives. Fast forward to 1969, however, and 99 percent of all US mothers - having been exposed to propaganda...
  • U.S. Park Police 'loses' huge cache of weapons ...
    It's not a very big federal agency - 600 agents - but it does have a very big problem. A new inspector general report has found that the United States Park Police has lost track of a huge cache of weapons including handguns, rifles and even machine guns, in what the...

Threat Level

  • Courts Can’t Agree on Whether Cops Can Track Y ...
    Prosecutors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of criminal suspects in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling 18 months ago that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles to ...    
  • Hacker Holes in Server Management System Allow ...
    Major vulnerabilities in a protocol for remotely monitoring and managing servers would allow attackers to hijack the computers to gain control of them, access or erase data, or lock others out. The vulnerabilities exist in more than 100,000 servers connected ...    
  • How Weev’s Appeal Affects All of Us
    Weev’s case is just another example of a dangerous prosecution that covers all sorts of innocuous, common internet behavior. Perhaps more dangerously, it’s an example of a prosecution that tries to regulate a person, not just his or her crime.    
  • New Argument in Forced-Decryption Case: Defend ...
    Federal prosecutors are urging a federal judge to demand a Wisconsin man promptly decrypt several hard drives they believe contain child pornography. The authorities have been litigating the constitutionality of the decryption issue for months, and want the suspect, Jeffrey ...    ...
  • 9 Years After Shadowcrew, Feds Get Their Hands ...
    Nine years after the Shadowcrew carding forum was shuttered in a Secret Service sting operation, a Bulgarian charged with carding activities has been brought to the U.S. to face charges after nearly a decade on the lam.    

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 150 Years Ago, the Greatest July 4th of Them All
    Every July 4th, Americans gather at picnics, watch parades and shoot off fireworks to celebrate the birth of the United States. But some years are more notable than others. In 1826, Founding Fathers and former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson marked the nation's 50th anniversary by d ...
  • Texans Perry, Cruz Vie for Stupidest Tax Plan
    In a campaign email to supporters Tuesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he would reveal "exciting future plans" next Monday in San Antonio. But if Governor Perry is planning to pass up a fourth term in order to wage a second campaign for President, he will find he already has plenty of c ...
  • Romney Still Pretending He Never Wanted to Run ...
    Next month, veteran Washington Post reporter Dan Balz will release Collision 2012, his book on last year's presidential campaign. But in an account supposedly jam-packed with never-before heard details, Balz apparently reproduces one of the tallest tales manufactured by Team Romney. Despite th ...
  • Tulsa Olympics Organizers Claim Their City is ...
    Memo to the good people of Tulsa, Oklahoma: If you hope to have any chance of becoming the smallest city ever to host the summer Olympics, don't start your campaign by insulting the rest of the country. Sadly, that's precisely what the committee organizing Tulsa's incredibly long-shot bid to ca ...
  • Mike Huckabee Gets Slapped by the Hand of God
    God, it is often said, works in mysterious ways. Just ask Mike Huckabee. After all, the Baptist minister turned Arkansas governor turned Fox News host responded to the Supreme Court's marriage equality decisions this week by lamenting, "Jesus wept." But back in 2008, Huckabee had a different ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David Halvorson
    Eric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
  • “Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...
    An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
  • Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...
    With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
  • Headlines for November 28, 2012
    Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
  • Palestine Activism in the UK
    Across Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Carcinogen In Pepsi?
    The Center for Environmental Health conducted a study in June of Pepsi products and found that ten out of ten of them contained high levels of a chemical called 4-MEI. This chemical has been identified as a carcinogen by the state of California. On a CA state website, an explanation of the chemi ...
  • Neonicotinoid Insecticides Cause Changes To Ho ...
    Neonicotinoid insecticides cause significant changes to the genes of the honeybee, new research from the University of Nottingham has found. The research has found that after honeybees were exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides — even at very low levels — that notable changes occurre ...
  • Coastal Ocean Temperatures Changed Dramaticall ...
    Local changes in coastal ocean temperatures have been much more dramatic over the past 30 years than than global averages imply, new research has found. The research suggests that there are very distinct regional differences — differences which have significant ecological implications. The ...
  • 800-Ton Steel Roof Raised By Electric Fans Blo ...
    A massive new liquified natural gas (LNG) construction project in Australia — one of the first “coal-conversion” projects of its kind — took a major step towards completion last week when, on June 25, a dome-shaped steel roof, weighing more than 850 tons (more than four 7 ...
  • Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher Appears On ...
    Last week, climate activist Tim DeChristopher received a warm welcome on the David Letterman Show. The 12-minute interview with Dave was productive and seemed to give the host a little insight into climate activism. DeChristopher had a chance to discuss climate activism, the upcoming documentary ...

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Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Gettysburg 150 Years Later
    By @TedFrier George F. Will fancies himself an amateur historian (what conservative doesn't?) and so he was not about to let an occasion like the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (fought July 1-3, 1863) pass by without plumbing the archives for its deeper "lesson." He finds it in th ...
  • The 4th of July - 2013
    At Powell Gardens in Kingsville, Missouri last night: Thomas Jefferson - July 4, 1826 May (July 4) be to the world, what I believe it will be -- to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all -- the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and supersti ...
  • Now Obama gives up on Obamacare
    From the Atlantic Monthly blog:With less than six months to go before the Affordable Care Act takes effect, the administration has decided not to implement a crucial element of the law for one year. The requirement that businesses provide insurance to their workers is being pushed back to 2015,. ...
  • Am I the only one?
    Am I the only Black person in America who was tired of the Zimmerman trial six months ago? I don't need to be reminded that racism exists - I notice it everyday my white husband and I walk out of the house and my neighbors give us dirty looks. I really don't think that white people need to be re ...
  • Firefighter Reaction Shows This Country Has Lo ...
    After coming home from my job very late in the evening after 19 elite firefighters were burned to death in Arizona -- the worst loss of life in a wildfire since the Great Depression -- I was channel-surfing the TV to find out the latest on this horrible development. I was quite nonplussed to see ...

Care 2

  • Save the Woodland Caribou from Extinction ! PL ...
    Woodland caribou may be extinct before the year 2100 if the rate of range loss continues. Once found throughout much of Canada's boreal forest, widespread range collapse and landscape disruption caused by humans are the chief causes of migrating caribou Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&n ...
  • Save the Alaskan Sea Otter from Slaughter ! PL ...
    Alaska Representative Donald Young has introduced a bill to restart the fur trade of northern sea otters. Bill (H.R. 2714), seeks To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the transport, purchase, and sale of pelts of, and handicrafts, Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
  • Next Stop: Belgium
    Belgium fires one's imagination. Tourists from all over the world are attracted to Belgium and its cosmopolitan capital, Brussels. Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Brazil: Protestors call on President to uphold ...
    As demonstrators continue to flood Brazils streets, Brazilian Indians have joined protestors in calling for an end to the onslaught on indigenous rights by the government. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • To Be We the People Once Again -- William Rive ...
    "We the People," as a functioning entity, has been weaker than water for years, a claim without purchase, a boast without meaning, an empty promise of spoils long spoiled. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Egypt Into the Abyss Part Deux
    Morsi needed to go and good riddance. But this ain’t a Hollywood movie with three acts and a happy ending. The goal of Morsi and the Muslim Brothers to subject Egypt to Sharia law is stalled for now. But the battle is not over. It is important to remember that even the Muslim Brothers are ...
  • Playing Politics With Health Care?
    I used the question mark simply out of irony. Of course Obama is playing politics with health care, and a political coward he is. News today that the Obama Administration is going to delay by one year the implementation of part of the “beauty” of Obama care that applies to business: ...
  • Barack Obama, This Blood is On Your Head
    I do not post this to appeal to purient interest. What follows is abject horror. It is the murder of Metropolitan “François Murad”, who was patron of Sumaan al-Amoudi Monastery (WARNING–This shows the beheadings of three Christians): As the Holocaust unfolded in World War II, President Roo ...
  • Egypt Into the Abyss?
    The folly of the Arab Spring, and Obama’s embrace of this madness, is now quite clear. Thanks to either the naiveté or inattention of Barack Obama, Islamic extremism has spread throughout the Middle East and raised the specter of a regional war. The turmoil gripping Egypt is particularly d ...
  • General Cartwright, Scapegoat?
    Some very interesting chatter circulating in military–especially Marine Corps–circles regarding Friday’s reports that Four Star General, James “Hoss” Cartwright, is suspected of leaking intelligence about the Stuxnet virus, which the United States deployed to great ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Jerryanne Bier's activism, dedication set her ...
    Jerryanne Bier's activism, dedication set her apart Roanoke Times ... and work with the Lakota. Sloan said she opposed mountaintop removal mining and was deeply concerned about the prospect of uranium mining near Chatham. Bier worked to protect the region's beauty and rural character fro ...
  • Letter: Take action to halt proposed coal ship ...
    Letter: Take action to halt proposed coal shipments to Oregon Corvallis Gazette Times Exporting coal means more mountaintop removal in Montana and Wyoming and destruction of biodiversity, rangeland, farmland, and clean water. Trains carrying coal to ports in Oregon, Washington and British Columb ...
  • Pulse of the Peninsula: Obama right on urgency ...
    ABC News Pulse of the Peninsula: Obama right on urgency of climate change The Island Now Nevertheless, the President's plan gives us hope that he will cement his climate legacy and protect future generations by ending destructive oil drilling in the Arctic, rejecting dangerous nukes, halting ...
  • James Cameron Buys Walnut Farm In New Zealand, ...
    James Cameron Buys Walnut Farm In New Zealand, With Plans To Keep The ... Huffington Post
    In 2009, she travelled to West Virginia and was arrested while protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. James Cameron Buys Walnut Farm In New Zealand, ...
    James Cameron Buys Walnut Farm In New Zealand, With Plans To Keep The ... Huffington Post
    In 2009, she travelled to West Virginia and was arrested while protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. Memeorandum
  • Iceland parliament declines Snowden's citizens ...
    Robert Robertsson / Reuters: Iceland parliament declines Snowden's citizenship bid  —  (Reuters) - A bid by Edward Snowden for Icelandic citizenship failed when the country's parliament voted not to debate it before the summer recess, lawmakers said on Friday, with options for t ...
  • Ahead Of Independence Day, Secretary Jacob J. ...
    U.S. Department of the Treasury: Ahead Of Independence Day, Secretary Jacob J. Lew Delivers Remarks At Naturalization Ceremony  —  Thank you, Director Mayorkas, for conducting the oath of allegiance, and let me welcome all of our guests to the Treasury Department.  To those ...
  • David Brooks' bigoted rant (David Sirota/Salon)
    David Sirota / Salon: David Brooks' bigoted rant  —  In today's New York Times, the self-satisfied columnist isn't too sure about the Egyptian people's mental capacity  —  Since when did the New York Times get into the business of publishing old-school bigoted ra ...
  • Denial of European airspace for Bolivian presi ...
    Matthew Schofield / McClatchy Washington Bureau: Denial of European airspace for Bolivian president's flight causes turbulence  —  BERLIN — The assertion by Bolivia's president that his plane was denied rights to fly across four European nations because of suspicions that ...
  • A Coup? Or Something Else? $1.5 Billion in U.S ...
    Peter Baker / New York Times: A Coup?  Or Something Else?  $1.5 Billion in U.S. Aid Is on the Line  —  WASHINGTON — By all accounts, the generals removed the democratically elected president, put him in detention, arrested his allies and suspended the Constitutio ...

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  • South Africa denies Mandela is 'vegetative'
    Former South African President Nelson Mandela gives a press conference in Johannesburg on June 14, 2005. Mandela's doctors advised his family to turn off the ailing icon's life-support machines last week, a court document has shown, prompting South AfricaNelson Mandela's doctors advised his fa ...
  • Three shot dead as Morsi backers march on Egyp ...
    An Egyptian supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted president Mohamed Morsi shouts slogans during a protest near Cairo University in the Egyptian capital on July 5, 2013. A deadly gunfight erupted in Cairo as thousands of supporters of deposed EgypDeadly gunfire rang out in Cairo on Fri ...
  • US jobs growth picks up, stirring talk of Fed ...
    Job seeker David Sokolowsky (C) fills up job applications during Los Angeles Mission's 12th annual Skid Row Career Fair on June 6, 2013. The United States added a robust 195,000 jobs in June, and job growth in prior months was revised higher, the Labor DeThe United States added a stronger-than ...
  • Enraged Sarkozy re-emerges after party expense ...
    France’s then-president Nicolas Sarkozy waits to take part in a TV show in Paris on April 10, 2012. Sarkozy made a dramatic return to the French political scene on Friday, slamming a decision to deny his right-wing UMP party millions of euros in campaign Nicolas Sarkozy made a dramatic ...
  • Why do we look at images of death?
    Images carry a visceral power that words can never match. But the same image can elicit a wide spectrum of responses. When you see a photograph of flags draped over body bags, do you see something that's illuminating – or exploitative?On Thursday, that's the image that appeared on an uno ...

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  • Controlling the Message: Targeting Press TV
      Controlling the Message: Targeting Press TV   by Stephen Lendman   Washington and Israeli Lobby pressure bear full responsibility. At issue is blatant censorship. It's suppressing truth and full disclosure.    It's controlling the message. It's preventing viewers from ...
  • In Obamaland, ‘Rule of Law’ is for the Other S ...
    By Dave Lindorff It is clear that the entrapment and forced landing in Austria of the official airplane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was the work of the US, which was obviously behind the decision by France and Portugal to deny air rights to the flight, and which also was obviously ...
  • What's Next in Egypt?
      What's Next in Egypt?   by Stephen Lendman   Morsi's out. Junta power rules. Generals have final say. Democracy's verboten. Popular interests don't matter. They never did. They don't now. What's next?   Headlines said Egyptians celebrated Morsi's ouster. Fireworks lit up Ca ...
  • London's Guardian: Out in Front Exposing Lawle ...
      London's Guardian: Out in Front Exposing Lawless NSA Spying   by Stephen Lendman   Give credit when deserved. It happens all too seldom. The Guardian's an establishment publication. It's been around since 1821. It's credentials are well-known.    It published other not ...
  • Syria News July 5
      Egypt orders arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leaders as interim president takes office - The Washington Post ElBaradei tops list to head Egypt government-sources - Reuters In interview ElBaradei Seeks to Justify Ouster of Egypt’s President - NYTimes.com Profiles: Adly Mansour and Moha ...

Grist - News

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • This Independence Day, Thank a Protester
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan More than 160 years ago, the greatest abolitionist in U.S. history, the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, addressed the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass asked those gathered, “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” His words ...
  • AUDIO: Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports From Cair ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports on the crisis in Egypt as the Army detains ousted president Mohamed Morsi and shuts down TV stations supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood: Click here to listen to Sharif's audio report. SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS : Today, July ...
  • Live Updates: Egypt in a State of Crisis
    Egypt is in a state of political crisis. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has rejected an ultimatum from his country's armed forces to respond to massive protests or face removal from office. For minute-by-minute coverage of the situation, we have created a Twitter list of journalists and or ...
  • "An Attack on Journalism": WikiLeaks on Bradle ...
    Watch Part One of Interview In this web-only interview WikiLeaks spokesperson and Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson discusses the significance of the Bradley Manning trial. The U.S. government is seeking to strengthen its case against Manning by presenting evidence that Osama bin Lad ...
  • WATCH: Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris- ...
    Watch clips from Amy Goodman's appearance Sunday on MSNBC talking about President Obama's trip to Africa, climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline. Visit MSNBC's site at the links below if you have trouble watching the video clips on this page. Obama is in Africa but his focus is ...

Solari

  • 18th Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Negoti ...
    Photo Credit: Gobierno de Chile The 18th round of TPP negotiations will take place in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia July 15-24, 2013. Stakeholder events will take place on Saturday, July 20th at the Sutera Harbour Hotel. The Government of Malaysia will provide the opportunity for registered stakehold ...
  • Via Campesina and the Fight for Seeds
    Photo Credit: Tineke D’haese for Via Campesina Published on June 15, 2013 By Salena Tramel The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Monsanto and its patented seeds last Monday by throwing out a case tirelessly petitioned for by organic farmers. That decision dealt yet another blow to t ...
  • A 4th of July Message from a Senior German Banker
    By Folker Hellmeyer, Translation Lars Schall Since 1997 – 2004, the U.S. was changed from an income-driven economy into an economy, whose economic performance is determined by political control of asset prices. The purpose of the principle of the free market is in substantial parts connected to ...
  • BofA Reportedly Sending Property Reviews to India
    By Appraisal Institute Bank of America reportedly opened a unit in India to review valuation reports in an effort to boost its share of the U.S. mortgage market at a lower cost, Bloomberg reported June 28. Workers in the new Bangalore office use checklists to decide if appraisals are complete, ...
  • Independence Day: Happy 4th of July!
    Wishing everyone in the United States and those of you celebrating with us, a happy July 4th weekend! – Catherine and the Solari Team Related Reading: Independence Day on Wikipedia

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • China’s Largest Algae Bloom Covers the Coast o ...
    The coast of Qingdao, China is usually known for its beaches - but recently the nation's largest algae bloom blanketed the shores with thousands of tons of sea lettuce. A bloom the size of Connecticut has invaded the Yellow Sea surrounding the coastal    
  • Stella is the World’s First Solar-Powered Fami ...
    The Netherlands' Solar Team Eindhoven just unveiled Stella, the world's first solar-powered family car! The team comprises a group of 22 students who want to show the world that a family car that runs on solar energy is a real possibility today. The four-passenger    
  • DIY: Learn How to Make a Cool Cube Lamp Using ...
    Linda Rose's Cube Lamp shade is made completely out of recycled cardboard. Linda designed the lighting fixture thinking about the unique texture of materials and the subsequent effect it would have when filtering light. The lamp is composed simply of two    
  • The Top 5 Environmental Issues Humanity Should ...
    Image via Shutterstock Like too many fruit flies in a bottle, there are now so many humans on this finite planet that are activities are changing our environment to be less favorable for a comfortable and enduring future. And, although we try not to alarm    
  • World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens in Th ...
    As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Great Britain was once completely reliant on fossil fuels, but that is rapidly changing. On Thursday, the world's largest wind farm was opened in the Thames Estuary. The London Array, which is owned by Denmark's    

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The Progressive Realist

  • Egypt: Will American Officials Call this a ‘Coup?’
    This is obviously a fast moving situation, but the latest reports suggest that the army is effectively staging a coup and ousting President Morsi.  So what to think of this? On the one hand, Morsi was democratically elected. On the other hand, he’s used is power in ways that tended to subv ...
  • Yes, That’s a Coup in Egypt
    Apparently, some of the protesters who support what the Egyptian army is doing right now claim it isn’t a coup because they believe it expresses the popular will, and the U.S. government so far refuses to stick a label on it. Well, I hate to break it to those people, but in any conventiona ...
  • “The Five Myths of Global Terrorism” – Video I ...
    The reactions of U.S. officials to the leaks from former National Security Administration (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden point to the political resonance that terrorism holds for the American public. The repeated justification for all NSA surveillance programs is their alleged role in gathering ...
  • Power Africa. Power the World
    Ban Ki Moon likes to call sustainable energy the “golden thread” that weaves through the entire international development agenda. You can’t have sustainable development with out sustainable energy.  And you can’t have sustainable energy without new investments in technolo ...
  • Friday’s Missile Defense Test: What Will It Mean?
    Missile interceptor test lights up the night sky In its own multi-million dollar display of fireworks, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will conduct an intercept test of the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) system on Friday, July 5. This will be the first test of the system’s ability to hit ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Celebration and Confusion in the Cairo Streets
    AP Photo/Khalil Hamra CAIRO, EGYPT—People started filing into Tahrir Square in the early afternoon on July 4, the first full day after President Mohamed Morsi was deposed by the Egyptian military. Though it was a tumultuous day—which saw new interim President Adli Mansour sworn in, the ...
  • Congress Is Squandering the Opportunity of a L ...
    Dan McKay / Flickr It’s the first Friday of the month, which means a jobs report. And this one isn’t bad. The economy added a net 195,000 jobs in June, with upwards revisions of 70,000 in April and May. Which means that, so far this year, the economy has added more than 1 million jobs. ...
  • When It Comes to Kindles, Do You "Like" or Unlink?
    flickr/thekellyscope At night, I find incredible pleasure in my Kindle. I pick up all 7.8 ounces of it, palm it, turn out the lights. Then, the only physical act required is a small swipe of my finger across an index-card-size piece of glass. I can choose to go almost anywhere, as long ...
  • The Real Robert E. Lee
    Today is the 150th anniversary of the final day of the Battle of ‎Gettysburg, and with that in mind, it’s worth remembering the particular actions of Confederate soldiers a week earlier, as they marched north into Pennsylvania. In the movement that culminated in Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee’s men ...
  • The Part-Timer Problem
    The Obama Administration’s decision to delay for a year the penalty that employers (in firms of 50 or more employees) must pay if they don’t provide health insurance to their workers shines a light on a problem that may be even more profound than getting health coverage for every American: that ...

Environment _ National Geographic

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

SPL Center

  • White Rabbit Radio, Font of Racist Genocide Cl ...
    For the past three years, a mysterious figure calling himself Horus the Avenger has operated White Rabbit Radio, an online community of racists dedicated to spreading a message called the “Mantra” far and wide. Written by a curmudgeonly segregationist with a history of drug abuse named Robert Wh ...
  • Canadian Gold Coins, Other Assets Going to U.S ...
    The National Alliance, the group that long dominated the American neo-Nazi scene but has shriveled since the 2002 death of its founder, is close to receiving a Canadian bequest that may be worth as much as $1 million, reliable sources say. The money comes from the estate of Robert Harry McCorkel ...
  • Long Adored by Anti-Semites, California Prof N ...
    Kevin MacDonald with racist skinheads Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Or perhaps descended is a better word. Psychology professor Kevin MacDonald, a once-respectable instructor at California State University, Long Beach, who once may have inspired students to pursue the honorable path of examini ...
  • Alleged Leader of Soldiers’ Terror Gang Faces ...
    HINESVILLE, Ga. – FEAR goes on trial today. Court-martial proceedings against Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, the accused ringleader of FEAR, an antigovernment gang of active-duty American soldiers, are scheduled to begin here this morning on the Fort Stewart Army base where, military prosecutors charge, th ...
  • Religious Right Apoplectic Over Decision on Ma ...
    Pedophilia. Incest. Bestiality. Oh my! What in heaven have the Supremes wrought with their decision that it’s unconstitutional for the federal government to discriminate against legally married same-sex couples? It’s a slippery slope, my friend. So says the rabidly homophobic Bryan Fischer of th ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Guantanamo Lawyers Warn of “Force-Feeding Fact ...
    Lawyers for four Guantanamo detainees have criticised the Obama administration’s “equivocal” response over whether daytime force-feeding will take place during Ramadan, and warned that the prison may become “a veritable force-feeding factory” during the religious pe ...
  • Federal Court Hears Conservationists Challenge ...
    A coalition of conservation groups represented by Earthjustice and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) appeared in federal court yesterday, seeking to overturn a lands use plan issued in 2008 by the Bureau of Land Management’s Richfield field office.read more
  • Federal Court Hears Conservationists Challenge ...
    A coalition of conservation groups represented by Earthjustice and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) appeared in federal court yesterday, seeking to overturn a lands use plan issued in 2008 by the Bureau of Land Management’s Richfield field office.read more
  • Communities Across the Country Bombarded By Po ...
    On Friday, June 28, 2013, Earthjustice and 28 other local and national environmental health and justice advocacy organizations filed comments to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to update the science the agency uses to address the cumulative impact of toxic pollution on communitie ...
  • Communities Across the Country Bombarded By Po ...
    On Friday, June 28, 2013, Earthjustice and 28 other local and national environmental health and justice advocacy organizations filed comments to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to update the science the agency uses to address the cumulative impact of toxic pollution on communitie ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • All You Need To Do Is Ask — Finding Childcare ...
    Frida Berrigan “I need help.” Those are three of the hardest words in the English language — for me anyway. I don’t need any help. I can do it myself. That was (marginally) true for a long time.(Flickr / Brenda Gotts ...
  • Jobs Report: ‘New Normal’ Is Neither New, Norm ...
    Robert Borosage This month’s lackluster jobs report – 195,000 net jobs created in the month of June with the unemployment rate unchanged at 7.6 percent – leaves Americans adrift.read more
  • Celebrations and Dangers for Egypt's Revolutions
    Phyllis Bennis The democracy of the street - which 16 months ago led to the overthrow of the longstanding President Hosni Mubarak - is claiming the same kind of people’s victory in the overthrow of Morsi.The fireworks may be premature ...
  • Climate Change Deniers Have No Place in Busine ...
    Joe Strupp Climate change deniers should not be given a place in business coverage at a time when industries from agriculture to insurance are making real financial decisions dealing with its impact, according to some of the nation's to ...
  • NSA Revelations Refute Obama's 'Feeble' Script
    Renee Parsons (Screenshot via CBS)While much of the country’s media was tracking whistleblower Edward Snowden’s whereabouts or questioning Glenn Greenwald’s journalistic credentials, President Obama took the opportunity to ...

Water Privatization

  • Veolia produces savings, cultural shift at Pit ...
    An outside company has turned around Pittsburgh's Water and Sewer Authority; its future role with the agency is up for a decision soon.
  • ‘Loaves, fishes, and dirty dishes’: Water woes ...
    IN THE BEGINNING, there was water, a public service. In 1997, water service came under private control. S1xteen years hence, are we better off, with good and ample water supply, and service priced at reasonable rates? Or, with regulators and water firms now fighting over taxes and disallowed exp ...
  • MWSS, water firms clash over taxes, disallowed ...
    SUBMITTING DOCUMENTS to government regulators is usually a routine matter assigned to messengers who hand over the parcels, and get a receipt in return. But when Manila Water Corp. sent almost 30 boxes of financial records and documents to the Regulatory Office of the Metropolitan Waterworks and ...
  • How Pa. legislators blew liquor privatization
    Gov. Corbett, surrounded by Pa. House Republicans, after signing the 2013-14 state budget Saturday in Harrisburg, with Rep. William Adolph (R., Delaware County) (left) and Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley.
  • High court puts off granting TRO against propo ...
    Government lawyers have been tasked by the Supreme Court (SC) to comment on suits challenging the privatization of Manila’s water supply utilities 16 years ago and the latest proposed increase in water rates. At a press...

Guardian

  • Egypt's 'day of rejection' - live updates
    Follow live updates as the Muslim Brotherhood holds 'day of rejection' against the military coup which ousted President Mohamed MorsiMatthew WeaverGuardian readersAmanda Holpuch     
  • Police admit bugging Stephen Lawrence murder w ...
    Senior officer gave authorisation to record at least one meeting with Duwayne BrooksPolice chiefs have admitted they bugged Duwayne Brooks, the main witness to the murder of Stephen Lawrence, it has emerged.A senior Scotland Yard officer gave the authorisation to covertly record at least one mee ...
  • Michael Gove abandons plans to drop climate ch ...
    Climate change will stay on geography syllabus after lobbying from energy secretary Ed DaveyMichael Gove, the education secretary, has abandoned plans to drop climate change from the geography national curriculum.The decision represents a victory for Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secre ...
  • Guantánamo authorities 'planning Ramadan force ...
    New legal filing says plan to continue feeds at night during holy month will be dangerous for health of detaineesLawyers acting for four detainees on hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay have accused the US government of preparing to operate a "force-feeding factory" in the camp during the holy month ...
  • BBC shelves 3D after 'disappointing' takeup by ...
    Corporation follows US sports network ESPN in dropping format as public turn away from it for cinema and TV watchingIf you like watching Wimbledon in 3D, make the most of the BBC's broadcasts this weekend – the corporation will stop making programmes in the new format at the end of this year at ...

McClatchey

  • 100th Tibetan self-immolation reported in a pr ...
    An account released on Wednesday of an ethnic Tibetan man in western China lighting himself on fire earlier this month, calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama before…Click to Continue »
  • Agencies warn Congress not to use humanitarian ...
    Humanitarian groups are lobbying hard against a proposal by several U.S. senators that would turn over the delivery of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to a Syrian opposition council…Click to Continue »
  • Democrats offer long-shot bill to meet Obama&# ...
    Democrats in Congress wasted no time in taking up President Barack Obama?s challenge Tuesday night that lawmakers take a "market-based" approach to addressing climate change, even if their effort has…Click to Continue »
  • Panetta: Congress hurting itself and U.S. imag ...
    The world is nervously watching a dysfunctional Congress and wondering ?whether or not we can rise to the challenges? that face the United States, outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta…Click to Continue »
  • GOP’s complaints about looming spending ...
    Republicans forced the budget crisis that helped create the pending across-the-board cuts in the first place. And Republicans provided crucial votes for the 2011 deal that ended that impasse, an…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Suicide Bombings Kill 14 in Afghanistan
    Afghan officials say a suicide bomber sneaked into a crowded police dining hall at lunchtime Friday and detonated his explosives, killing 12 people. The attack took place in southern Uruzgan province. Provincial officials say the police station is used as a base to patrol the main road into ne ...
  • Bomber kills 12 police in Afghanistan
    Another suicide strike on Friday killed two people at a border crossing with Pakistan, and the Islamist militants rejected reports they would hold a ceasefire during the Muslim month of fasting that starts on Tuesday or Wednesday.The 12 officers were killed when the bomber targeted a police stat ...
  • Suicide Bomber Targets Afghan Police Base
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide bombing attack on a police office has killed at least 12 people in central Afghanistan. Officials said a suicide bomber snuck into a dining hall at lunchtime inside a police base in Tari Kot, the capital of the central Afghan province of Oruzgan, in the July ...
  • Face of Defense Soldiers Re-enlist in Afghanistan
    By Army Sgt. 1st Class Mary Rose Mittlesteadt101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, July 5, 2013 Twenty-two soldiers agreed to continue their Army service during an Independence Day re-enlistment ceremony held ...
  • Afghan Taliban vow Ramadaan attacks
    Muhammad Naeem (R), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha. The Afghan Taliban opened the office in Qatar to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war. REUTERS/Mohammed ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Federal Employee Whistleblowers Win Rare Victory
    The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) issued a ruling today in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. The MSPB held that the new definition of a" protected disclosure" set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WEPA) applied to cases pending and/or whic ...
  • The Whistleblower's Handbook Featured in Bosto ...
    This past Sunday Katharine Whittemore of the Boston Globe published an article entitled “A look at books on whistle-blowing.” Whittemore writes that it is currently “kind of a strange, explosive golden age” for whistleblowers. The “tipping point” in a cultura ...
  • Whistleblower Group Requests Attorney General ...
    Request Based on Credible Evidence of Illegal  Conduct Raised by Whistleblower Edward Snowden Washington, D.C. June 13, 2013. Attorneys at the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund (“NWLDEF”) sent a letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder r ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Case Highlights Lack of Prot ...
    There is a lot of discussion as to whether Edward Snowden, the NSA Whistleblower is a hero or a villain. If the government had established procedures under which intelligence employees could report wrongdoing and be protected from retaliation, Snowden would not have had to risk his freedom ...
  • The National Whistleblower Center Issues State ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement of Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center “Edward Snowden should not be prosecuted. Instead, the White House must keep the promise made by President Obama, during his 2008 election campaign, when he pledged to support ...

TechDirt

  • Awesome Stuff: Maybe Awesome, But More Info Needed
    Given July 4th yesterday, we're taking an extended holiday today as well. We normally post our weekly awesome stuff post about cool crowdfunding campaigns on Saturday, but with the extra off-day, we figured we'd post this one on Friday. Enjoy. Last week's awesome stuff post was about ambitiou ...
  • Today Is July 4th; And It's Time To Restore Th ...
    Today is July 4th, and as mentioned, people are gathering around the country -- both offline and online -- to tell the government that it's time to finally start obeying the 4th Amendment again. If you click the image above, it takes you to CallForFreedom.org, a new campaign from Fight for th ...
  • If Only Ed Snowden Worked On Wall St. He'd Be ...
    Here's a post on Google+ from Rick Falkvinge that says it all in a single picture: Yeah, this one belongs in the sad-but-true category. Hell, if he were on Wall St., perhaps he could ask for a bailout too. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story     
  • To Honor Doug Engelbart, Who Passed Away Last ...
    On the the 40th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's famous 1968 demo of a personal computer system, we urged everyone to find some time to watch the video of his demo. Now, with the news that Engelbart passed away last night in his sleep, at age 88, we'll once again suggest you find the 100 minutes ...
  • Visa And Mastercard Ban Anonymizing VPNs... Ju ...
    This is random. Just as Mastercard and Visa are allowing payments to Wikileaks again after a two year hiatus, those same two companies have started banning VPN providers. If you don't recall, the credit card companies refused to process payments for Wikileaks, following significant pressure from ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...
  • The Power of Denial
    My relationship with my parents started a downhill slide when I reached my teen years and never recovered. My father was the type of person who never wanted to talk about anything. He would blow up once in a while. But mostly he handled the hurt – the hurt that he felt or that he [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure none of you have missed the NSA spying scandal, which will probably blow over in about 10 minutes. Or maybe people will finally freak out when they find out all their phone sex and dick pics are being filed somewhere. How intricate do you think their filing system is? A homeland s ...
  • Stuff Dudes Do
    Mild rant warning. I’m an anarchist. I used to be in a punk collective. I worked on criminal injustice issues. Sadly, all of these things mean that I end up in spaces that are largely dudes. Maybe those things attract more men than women. Or maybe a whole lot of us women have been chased [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • David Brooks: Islamists ‘lack the mental equip ...
    David Brooks is the kind of mild-mannered conservative who was able to move from the Weekly Standard to the New York Times as easily as a hand sliding into a glove. To describe the largest political class in the Middle East as lacking the equipment to govern, would, from anyone else’s mout ...
  • Demoting democracy in Egypt
    Shadi Hamid writes: When Mohamed Morsi became Egypt’s first democratically elected president last year, it was an especially sweet victory for the Muslim Brotherhood, the region’s oldest and most influential Islamist movement. After a long history of repression, the Brotherhood had finally taste ...
  • NSA looking for recruits — finding would-be wh ...
    The NSA came to recruit at a language program at the University of Wisconsin: Madiha R. Tahir: This is not just a word game [defining who counts as an "adversary" of the United States] and you understand that as well as I do. So, it’s very strange that you’re selling yourself here in one particu ...
  • Der Shitstorm
    The Economist says that following revelations about the NSA spying on America’s so-called allies, the “noun ‘Der Shitstorm’ made a timely entrance to the official German lexicon this week.” As the Shitstorm mounts, Germany is sending a delegation to Washington (some ...
  • Ignore the NSA — France, too, is sweeping up data
    The New York Times reports: Days after President François Hollande sternly told the United States to stop spying on its allies, the newspaper Le Monde disclosed on Thursday that France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including tele ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Further to a 1740-type event
    Guest essay by David Archibald This post drew attention to the similarity between the recent warm decades and the period leading up to the extremely cold year of 1740. Now let’s investigate how a 1740-type event might play out. This … Continue reading →
  • Dutch meteorological institute KNMI critical o ...
    Dutch advice to IPCC: limiting the scope to human induced climate change is undesirable by Marcel Crok op 5 juli 2013% Governments around the world have been asked by IPCC to think about the future of the IPCC. The Netherlands … Continue reading →
  • Watch Michael Mann’s self aggrandizing A ...
    He’s still pushing the same old stuff; Mannian certified hockey sticks, evil skeptics, and a persecution complex to make up for his own lack of transparency. This is from the AGU Chapman conference, where most all of the leading alarmists … Continue reading →
  • Questions for NOAA and NPS Death Valley that h ...
    http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/vef/deathvalley/ I sent this last Tuesday, I have not seen a response from either individual listed here as press contacts at the press release for the 100th anniversary of the hottest temperature ever. Perhaps the questions are just too difficult. … Continue readin ...
  • WMO Repeats “Hottest Decade Ever” Mantra
    By Paul Homewood I’m not sure why it has taken them two years, but the World Meteorological Organisation have just got round to telling us that 2001-10 was hotter than the previous decade. According to the Age: The planet has … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • Wimoto wireless sensor system now offers motio ...
    With the addition of two new sensors, and a tripling of the battery life, Wimoto is making it easier than ever to monitor your environment.
  • The first decade of 21st century was warmest s ...
    The World Meteorological Organization just released its Global Climate Report , which reports that “The first decade of the 21st century was the warmest decade recorded since modern measurements began around 1850.”
  • World's biggest offshore wind farm officially ...
    That's it. After years and years, it's finally officially done. Phase I of the London Array, the world's biggest offshore wind farm with its 175 Siemens 3.6MW turbines rated at a combined capacity of 630MW, is officially open.
  • Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 4. Food or ...
    The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low-income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.
  • Turtles stop turbines!
    People in rural Ontario don't like wind turbines much, but they sure like the Blandings Turtle for stopping a big wind project.

Biosingularity

  • One million people who have non-body odour gen ...
    Researchers have found that two per cent of the population have a genetic variant that means they do not suffer from under arm body odour yet more three quarters of them continue to use scents. The ‘cultural norm’ in Britain is to use deodorant every day whether body odour is a probl ...
  • Gut Bugs Could Explain Obesity-Cancer Link
    Why does obesity raise the risk of developing cancer? A new study suggests that the wrong mix of gut bacteria could be to blame. Researchers report that obese mice carry altered communities of intestinal bugs, which produce DNA-damaging acid that leave the mice more susceptible to liver cancer. ...
  • Mechanics of Throwing
    The ability to throw an object with great speed and accuracy is a uniquely human adaptation, one that Harvard researchers say played a key role in our evolution. In a paper published June 26 in Nature, a research team led by Neil Roach, who recently received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and Daniel Li ...
  • Oral Cancer Caused by HPV Soars in Developed C ...
    Oral Cancer Caused by HPV Soars in Developed Countries – YouTube.
  • Migraine study opens door to research into a cure
    A major study into the causes of migraine could offer hope for sufferers, experts believe.Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute say they have identified five regions of DNA containing genes linked to the onset of migraine.Studying these could “open new doors” to understan ...

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