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English: Courtyard of Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosq...English: Courtyard of Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque - Hims, Syria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Some frescoes inside the Church of Saint Elian...Some frescoes inside the Church of Saint Elian date back to the 6th century (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: View from Homs, Syria.English: View from Homs, Syria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Khaled bin Walid Stadium in Hims, Syr...English: Khaled bin Walid Stadium in Hims, Syria. 02/2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Road sign in Syria indicating directi...English: Road sign in Syria indicating directions for Homs, Palmyra and Iraq Français : Panneau routier en Syrie indiquant la direction de Homs, de Palmyre et de l'Irak (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • Syria: Why fewer ground reports are emerging
    Among the journalists I know covering Syria, almost everyone is swearing off crossing the border and going inside the country. It’s not the threat of violence that’s stopping people, but the risk of kidnapping. Working in Syria during the war has always been dangerous. Since March 2011, the c ...
  • Pero's Hitlerian Property Parody Implications
    John Waymouth, an Auckland barrister specialising in real estate law and practice, said he had at least one real estate agency client of Jewish heritage who was not laughing. "It's serious. It likens other real estate agents to Hitler," Waymouth said. Complaints were lodged with authorities b ...
  • Homs aerial images show scale of destruction
    In the northern city of Aleppo, several rebel factions including the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, or Nusra Front, attacked army posts in two neighborhoods in a an offensive titled 'amputating infidels' the Observatory said. It said rebels captured several buildings in the neighborhoods of ...
  • Syria: Armed looters with bulldozers seek treasure
    When the uprising against Syria’s President Bashar Assad began two years ago, satellite images showed the ruins of the ancient Hellenic city of Apamea surrounded by green farmland. A year later, photos reveal a moonscape blighted by hundreds upon hundreds of holes. Looters in bulldozers armed wi ...
  • Rudd of Afghanistan: Come home, boys ..
    Standing in the Afghan heat of Tarin Kowt, Kevin Rudd had only one thing to say to the assembled ranks of soldiers facing him: "It's about time we brought you home." Kind words, but not ones he seems willing to apply to himself. During a four-week blitz in which he visited every state ...

Independent - London

  • Spain's PM Mariano Rajoy denounces former ally ...
    Spain's prime minister has made an unexpected confession that he was wrong to trust his former party financial chief for so many years but denies the ex-treasurer's allegations that the party ran a slush fund. Related StoriesVideo: Helicopter crash in Romania kills five peopleShamed IMF boss St ...
  • 'Unfortunate and regrettable': Japanese Financ ...
    Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has retracted a comment he made this week suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country's constitution, following complaints from neighboring countries and human rights activists.Related StoriesChina issues nationwide warning as ...
  • 'Unfortunate and regrettable': Japanese financ ...
    Japanese finance minister Taro Aso has retracted a comment he made this week suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country's constitution, following complaints from neighboring countries and human rights activists.Related StoriesChina issues nationwide warning as ...
  • Sherlock Holmes mystery: Sir Arthur Conan Doyl ...
    Sherlock Holmes would have unravelled the case in a heartbeat. Yet so far there is no explanation as to why the estate of the fictional detective’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has failed to fight a lawsuit in the US that could leave it out of pocket.Related StoriesBatman v Superman: Zach Sny ...
  • Uruguay comes one step closer to legalising ma ...
    Uruguay's proposal to create a government controlled legal marijuana industry has made it halfway through congress, giving President Jose Mujica a long-sought victory in his effort to explore alternatives to the global war on drugs. Related StoriesTrayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman stopped ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • SOTT FOCUS: Bradley Manning - Theft or War Crimes?
    The Bradley Manning case is such a transparent attempt at intimidation to prevent others from exposing war crimes perpetrated by the US government that it could make even a lethargic baboon scream bloody murder. There is no moral validity to the US military's claim or the courts judgment that M ...
  • Femcare license suspended
    An Asheville clinic that performs abortions had its license suspended Tuesday by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. DHHS says inspectors found nearly two-dozen health and safety violations at FEMCARE during a routine survey conducted July 18th and 19th
  • Worst crop circles ever! What happened to the ...
    Just 15 poor attempts at crop circles have appeared in Wiltshire this year Last year, seasoned crop artists had already produced more than 50 Tourists and those hoping for an alien encounter used to flock to the county But this year's attempts have been met with derision by enthusiasts A cra ...
  • 12.5-million Americans think lizard people rul ...
    "Do you believe that shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies, or not?" Uh... This was one of the 20 questions in a survey conducted by the American firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) and released yesterday ...
  • Meteorite hits village in NW China
    A meteorite hit a village in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Thursday, CCTV.com reports. The meteorite crashed at a dump site in a village of Xinjing's Akto County around 2:00 a.m. Thursday and punched a 3-meter wide, 2-meter deep hole in the ground. Local authorities say ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Time to go, Billy . . .
    THE TORONTO POLICE ARE MORALLY CORRUPT — and Chief Bill Blair is responsible. On his watch, the police have committed the most egregious of acts: conspiracy to violate the Police Act. Starting with the G20 debacle, where officers conspired to remove any identification to link them to t ...
  • Playtime . . .
    Outdoor Wildlife Cam Captures a Veritable Bear Hoedown. Really. Click on the link to check out Glenn Naylor's video, and enjoy.
  • Life gets complicated . . .
    REMEMBER WHEN the DA in Perry Mason just had to worry about who cut the brake lines? Well, according to AutoWeek's article, “Hackers compromise Prius, seize control of wheel, brakes and more” hackers can really do a number on a Prius — at highway speeds, that could ruin your day. Drive-b ...
  • Fear for the future . . .
    WIRED has a frightening report by John Bohannon, “Why Are Some People So Smart? The Answer Could Spawn a Generation of Superbabies”. Really, just sooner than I was expecting. After sixty years of DNA research and computer development, serious effort is being made by non-dogmatic people tak ...
  • The poison spreads . . .
    THE TORONTO STAR has a frightening report by Emma Pullman and Martin Lukacs: ‘Nobody understands’ spills at Alberta oil sands operation. There's been a bitumen blow-out — and they don't know how to stop it. This apparently originated from a government scientist. The question is, how long ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Respond To Obama's Corporate ...
    Right-wing media reacted to President Obama's proposal to lower the corporate tax rate by pushing the repeatedly debunked claim that a majority of small businesses pay the top individual income tax rate. In fact, only a small fraction of small businesses pay this rate, and Obama's plan includes ...
  • Fox Turns To 20-Year-Old Debunked Conspiracy T ...
    Fox News is using a planned Hillary Clinton miniseries and documentary to revive decades-old lies about the former Senator and secretary of state, reanimating phony 1990s "scandals" including Whitewater, Travelgate, and Filegate. Every so-called scandal Fox is pushing has been thoroughly discred ...
  • U-T San Diego Ignores Growing Evidence Of Prev ...
    A U-T San Diego editorial attacked a recent proposal to expand the city's prevailing wage law to all city projects that are "public works," claiming it would increase the cost of projects and thereby increase the cost to taxpayers. However, the editorial failed to note that a growing body of res ...
  • Meet The Fringe Right-Wing Commentators Who Me ...
    Republican House Speaker John Boehner and House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa reportedly met with conservative commentators Frank Gaffney and William Boykin to discuss the controversy over Benghazi. Both have a history of extreme remarks, especially against ...
  • How Fox News Turned Benghazi Into A "Phony Sca ...
    Fox News attacked President Obama's July 25 suggestion that "phony scandals" are a distraction in Washington, claiming that he was referencing attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya and calling the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi "phony." Yet Obama made no mention of Bengh ...

Global Research.ca

  • Bradley Manning Verdict: Impacts on Freedom of ...
    The verdict in the Bradley Manning trial has already begun to create reverberations as people start to understand its impact, beyond the impact on Manning.   While the greatest threat to Manning, Aiding the Enemy, was defeated, another threat, The Espionage…
  • Egyptian Revolution Derailed, Contained
    A fourth wave of the Egyptian revolution seems inevitable, until the revolution changes the regime or the regime emerges victorious, pending another revolution. The January 25 revolution in Egypt, which removed the former president Hosni Mubarak from power in 2011…
  • An Egyptian ‘Solution’ for Tunisia?
    General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi — the Pentagon’s man in Egypt who President Mohammad Morsi appointed chief of staff and defense minister a year ago — gave the order to open fire on the Muslim Brotherhood members who are protesting Morsi’s…
  • America’s War on the People of Korea
    In this speech, delivered at the International Symposium on Concluding a Peace Treaty on the Korean Peninsula in Seoul, South Korea on July 26, 2013, Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on Globalization outlines the truth about the threat to peace and stability on the Korean ...
  • NSA Spying Directly Harms Internet Companies, ...
    Mass surveillance by the NSA may directly harm the bottom of line of Internet companies, Silicon Valley, California … and the entire national economy. Money News points out: The company whose shares you own may be lying to you —…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • A peace process that protects Israel (Ben Whi ...
    With peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials beginning again, many analysts have given their reasons for being either cautiously hopeful or sceptical. Yet what is incredib ...
  • Young Palestinian violinists to play at London ...
    The Palestine Strings, a group of young musicians formed in 2009 and based at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM) in Jerusalem, will be playing alongside top violinis ...
  • Settlers attack workers, cars in Nablus (Ma'a ...
    A group of settlers attacked Palestinian workers in a Nablus village on Wednesday, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activity in the northern ...
  • When racism isn't a cause for shame (David Sh ...
    The anti-Arab and anti-African racism of Israel's top political and religious leaders is not reserved for the realm of words alone. The government continues apace with its dual human re ...
  • HRW: PA must investigate police brutality (Ma ...
    The Palestinian Authority must order an investigation into allegations of police brutality and the arbitrary arrest of demonstrators at a Ramallah protest on Sunday, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. "The police beat protesters and then arrested injured people, some even from the hospital," said ...

Water - AlterNet

  • Fossil Fuels’ Deadly Summer and the Growing Re ...
    Disaster after disaster has plagued the fossil fuel industry, just as pressure is mounting to end its dominance. Editor’s Note: Tara Lohan is traveling across North America documenting communities impacted by energy development for a new AlterNet project, Hitting Home. Follow the trip on Faceb ...
  • US Sues Exxon Fracker in Pennsylvania Over Pol ...
    A federal lawsuit claims hydraulic fracking has polluted public drinking waters in Pennsylvania with toxic wastes. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (CN) - The United States sued Exxon subsidiary XTO Energy, claiming its hydraulic fracking has polluted public drinking waters in Pennsylvania with toxic wastes. ...
  • Is Climate Change Driving the Southwest Toward ...
    A severe drought in the Southwest is devastating crops and farm communities—and sending a warning about climate change. The following article first appeared inthe Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for theiremail newsletters here.Ed Moore’s ranch sits on the flatlands of t ...
  • Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Cancellation ...
    Unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurs near homes of some of fractivism's most effective mobilizers. Certain powerful images really stick with you when you watch Gasland or Gasland 2. First is the shot of the tap water on fire. Equally powerful are the images of the film’s di ...
  • Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate as Gas Compa ...
    The unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurred in a region that is home both to Josh Fox, fractivism’s heroic Pied Piper, and to the first fractivist organization Damascus Citizens for Sustainability. Certain powerful images really stick with you when you watch Gasland or Gasland 2 ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Ask Kerry to restart the Keystone environmenta ...
    This morning 29 environmental, religious and public interest groups released a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to restart the Keystone environmental review process, take action against the contractor ERM for lying on its conflict of interest disclosure form, and request a new ...
  • 2013 Texas Water Legislation Wrap-up
    In the midst of Texas’ worst drought since the 1950s “drought of record,” we face serious issues regarding water consumption and waste, water rights, and how conservation efforts can be integrated into public policy. Texas’ population is projected to double by 2060. So how can we sustainably pla ...
  • Purpose of San Antonio Spy Center Becomes More ...
    At the intersection of Loop 410 and Military Drive on Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas lies the Texas Cryptology Center. It’s a huge and intimidatingly bland building, covered in massive A/C units and shrouded in secrecy. Operated by the NSA, the general function of this spy center ...
  • Gina McCarthy confirmed as new head of EPA
      The Senate approved Gina McCarthy to be the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency on a 59-40 vote Thursday, ending a lengthy battle over the post. President Obama nominated Ms. McCarthy, a longtime top official of the EPA, to replace Lisa Jackson, who served in the post in the p ...
  • FOODOPOLY – Meet the author on August 7th in A ...
      Wenonah Hauter grew up on a family farm that her husband runs today as a Community Supported Agriculture Project (CSA), which is part of the growing local food movement. Yet, as one of the nation’s leading healthy-food advocates, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Tomb raiders exploiting chaos in Egypt
    Some of Egypt's most important archaeological treasures are at risk of being stolen by grave robbers. The country's recent political chaos has left ma...
  • Dolly scientist supports mammoth cloning
    The discovery of 10,000-year-old mammoth blood has opened up the possibility of creating a clone. Discovered in the ice on a remote Russian island, th...
  • Chinese police use geese as guard dogs
    Some authorities in China have come up with an unexpected alternative to the traditional guard dog. The use of geese in place of dogs to guard police ...
  • Is teleportation really possible ?
    Physics students have calculated the time it would take to teleport someone between two points. A staple of science fiction series 'Star Trek', the ab...
  • Cigar-shaped UFO filmed over UK
    A tall cylindrical object was spotted rotating and hovering in the skies over Denton, Manchester. The video is particularly unusual in that the object...

Grassroots

  • Celebration and song from our Brazilian partners
    Members of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) showed off their creativity, singing voices and solidarity in a special 30th anniversary message to Grassroots International. In it they recognize what the partnership has meant for them in their struggles in the Amazonian region and throu ...
  • The Story of Manal Abu Shalouf
    Subheadline:  One Palestinian girl's experience since Operation Cast Lead radish_girl.jpg Here in the office of Grassroots International hang many pictures of our part ...
  • Communities to President Obama: US Government ...
    leonardo_mab_with_cindy_ggj_and_sara_at_scottsdale_action.jpg President Obama announced his new Climate Action Plan before an audience of college students at Georgetown University on June 25,  Countless young people, environmental acti ...
  • General Strike in Brazil: Social Movements Lea ...
    1039557_495414877203336_21934416_o.jpg Millions of Brazilians are marching today (July 11) in another demonstration of the vitality of national social movements. The demonstrations taking place in different major cities across the country f ...
  • Grassroots International to honor the World Ma ...
    Subheadline:  30th Anniversary Event celebrates extradinary partnership for social change Image:  invitation_cover_image.jpg Grassroots International is honoring ...

Climate

  • Milestone Claimed in Creating Fuel From Waste
    (New York Times) After months of frustrating delays, a chemical company announced Wednesday that it had produced commercial quantities of ethanol from wood waste and other nonfood vegetative matter, a long-sought goal that, if it can b ...
  • Washington State To Undertake Sweeping Review ...
    (Seattle Times) The state Department of Ecology on Wednesday announced it was launching an environmental review, unprecedented in scope, of a proposed coal-export terminal near Bellingham. The scope of the review will range from other ...
  • UK: Frack Off Protesters Use New Tactic at Bal ...
    (Guardian) Protests at a planned drilling site of a fracking company took an innovative turn on Thursday after activists stopped work by parking an antique fire engine outside the gates of the facility and locked themselves to the vehi ...
  • Slim Majority in California Found to Oppose Fr ...
    (SF Chronicle, sub. req.'d) A slim majority of Californians surveyed in a new poll oppose the increased use of fracking in the state, and even those who favor the controversial oil production technique want stricter regulations on ...
  • China Fracking Quake-Prone Province Shows Zeal ...
    (Bloomberg) China won't let earthquakes hinder its quest for energy. Companies such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and China National Petroleum Corp. are starting to drill for gas and oil in shale rock in Sichuan, the ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • Not The Onion Headline of the Day
    Clarence Thomas wife sparks effort to impose tougher Supreme Court ethics Last week it was revealed that Thomas wife, Virginia Ginni Thomas, was part of a secret group that hoped to advance the conservative agenda. She had previously founded Liberty Central, a conservative nonprofit advocacy ...
  • No Cause For Optimism
    If you've been following along, you already know about the three nominees to serve on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals who the Republicans plan on filibustering because, they claim, the DC Circuit doesn't need any more judges. Reading Sahil Kapur's piece for Talking Points Memo, you might get th ...
  • Rand Paul is a Troll
    Senator Rand Paul submitted an amendment to the Transportation and HUD appropriation bill that has nothing to do with transportation or housing (sorry, no permanent link is available). It was just tabled. It won the support of a mere 13 senators, including Sen. Paul. See if you can figure out ...
  • Sen. Cruz Driving the Crazy Train
    Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is like Jim DeMint on steroids, and that probably means that he doesn't have much of a future in the U.S. Senate. DeMint burned so many bridges with his colleagues that a position at the Heritage Foundation became more attractive to him than going to work each da ...
  • NSA's Weak Safeguards
    I will be interested to see how NSA apologists like Sen. Diane Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers respond to this. It appears to confirm that the safeguards we are supposed to enjoy against invasions of our privacy are limited to the voluntary compliance of NSA workers and contractors. I'll have m ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Abandoned Soviet Nuclear Arsenal Gouged In ...
    When Cold War USSR stockpiled nuclear weapons they needed places to assemble and store them. This abandoned underground facility was one such place. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Check out our pick of this week's coolest links: we've got cat cafes, funky libraries, crazy animals, Harry Potter, and toilets! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Almighty Blast: The Massive Explosion of a Kaz ...
    We are so accustomed to using gas that we often forget what a dangerously flammable liquid it is; the explosion of this tanker truck was a sobering reminder of its power. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Take a seat and peruse our pick of this week's coolest links This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Getting Trashed: Garbage Bin Spotted Exploring ...
    Follow the adventures of a friendly bin, as it spreads joy around the streets of London. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • SkyTruth, the environment and the satellite re ...
    Washington Post SkyTruth, the environment and the satellite revolution Washington Post Then it's over to Appalachia for a 40-year history of what mountaintop-removal mining has wrought, all through aerial and satellite imagery, 59 counties covering four states. “You can track anything in the ...
  • Is Your Portfolio Melting the Polar Caps? - Tr ...
    Triple Pundit Is Your Portfolio Melting the Polar Caps? Triple Pundit Can you believe that some banks are still lending to companies involved in mountaintop removal coal mining? One report, the Annual Coal Finance Report Card, provides bank customers with a list of the banks involved in such len ...
  • US bank sued over pollution from coal exports ...
    US bank sued over pollution from coal exports U-T San Diego PNC Bank announced in 2010 it would no longer fund mountaintop removal projects, which the industry considers cost-effective but which critics say destroys the environment. PNC's decision followed similar actions by other big lender ...
  • US bank sued over pollution from coal exports ...
    US bank sued over pollution from coal exports Richmond Times Dispatch For several years they've held protests aimed at pressuring big banks into cutting off funding for a particularly destructive form of surface mining unique to Applachia - mountaintop removal mining. PNC Bank announced in 2 ...
  • Some states leery of chemicals bill backed by ...
    Some states leery of chemicals bill backed by Manchin Charleston Gazette The debate over which level of government should take the lead on chemical safety comes after Manchin's repeated complaints that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency oversteps its authority on mountaintop removal an ...

Memeorandum

  • The Next Civil Rights Frontier (New York Times)
    New York Times: The Next Civil Rights Frontier  —  Federal civil rights officials reached an important settlement late last month with a California school district accused of discriminating against a transgender student by denying him equal access to educational programs and act ...
  • A New Poll Suggests Trouble for Mitch McConnel ...
    David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online: A New Poll Suggests Trouble for Mitch McConnell  —  The Senate minority leader is tied up with a Democratic challenger and his favorable ratings are underwater with Kentucky voters, a survey finds.  —  With Congress gearing ...
  • Sen. Rand Paul loses effort to cut off aid to ...
    Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times: Sen. Rand Paul loses effort to cut off aid to Egypt  —  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul speaks with reporters in Louisville, Ky. (Timothy D. Easley / Associated Press / July 22, 2013)  —  WASHINGTON — An effort by Sen. Rand Paul (R ...
  • No beer summit for Christie, Paul (Daniel Stra ...
    Daniel Strauss / The Hill: No beer summit for Christie, Paul  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) turned down an offer by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to get a beer and end a nearly week-long feud.  —  “I'm running for re-election in New Jersey.  I don't r ...
  • Some Syria Missiles Eluded Israeli Strike, Off ...
    Michael R. Gordon / New York Times: Some Syria Missiles Eluded Israeli Strike, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence analysts have concluded that a recent Israeli airstrike on a warehouse in Syria did not succeed in destroying all of the Russian-made antishi ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
    Wednesday, July 31, 2013 19:44:33 UTC Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:44:33 AM at epicenterDepth: 26.30 km (16.34 mi)
  • M 5.2, Easter Island region
    Wednesday, July 31, 2013 14:01:10 UTC Wednesday, July 31, 2013 07:01:10 AM at epicenterDepth: 13.70 km (8.51 mi)
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  • M 5.0, Molucca Sea
    Wednesday, July 31, 2013 00:36:51 UTC Wednesday, July 31, 2013 08:36:51 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.40 km (5.84 mi)
  • M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Wednesday, July 31, 2013 00:14:15 UTC Wednesday, July 31, 2013 09:14:15 AM at epicenterDepth: 14.30 km (8.89 mi)

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • US invites Pakistan PM for Obama talks: Kerry
    Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (left) shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry after talks in Islamabad, on August 1, 2013. Kerry has invited Sharif for talks with President Barack Obama during a visit to Islamabad.US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday invited Pakistan's Pr ...
  • Australia's PNG asylum-seeker solution takes e ...
    Australian officials escort one of the first group of 40 asylum-seekers arriving on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG), August 1, 2013. The first asylum-seekers to be sent to PNG under Australia's new hardline refugee policy arrived in the impoverished The first asylum-seekers to be sent to ...
  • Isner wins in Washington Open, rain hits Nishikori
    John Isner returns a shot to Alex Kuznetsov during the Washington Open on July 31, 2013. Isner fired 19 aces to beat qualifier Kuznetsov 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4) at the ATP and WTA Washington Open.John Isner, fresh off a seventh ATP title, fired 19 aces to beat Alex Kuznetsov 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4) ...
  • Roma beat Major League Soccer All-Stars 3-1
    Omar González (L) of the MLS All-Stars and Roma's Junior Tallo during the MLS All Star Game on July 31, 2013. Roma, taking part in the US league's All-Star festivities for the first time, beat the team 3-1.Kevin Strootman scored one goal and helped create another as Serie A heavyweights A ...
  • Japan deputy PM retracts Nazi remarks
    Japanese Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso talks to the media in Tokyo, June 28, 2013. The gaffe-prone Aso has retracted controversial remarks that suggested Tokyo could learn from Nazi Germany when it comes to constitutional reform.Japan's gaffe-prone deputy prime minister on Thursda ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • NAFTA Pushes Many Mexicans to Migrate
    Mexicans have little to celebrate as NAFTA turns 20 years old in 2014 - the destruction caused by the agreement continues to push many Mexicans to migrate to try to make a living.
  • 11 Reasons to Divest from the Fossil Fuel Industry
    Our current economy, based on insatiable extraction and consumption, is simply unsustainable - for the planet as well as for us.
  • The Wars, Coups, Crises and Occasional Good Ne ...
    The pace of events exploding across the Middle East continues to quicken - and while it appears the Obama administration has no clear strategy for some of it, the fall-back position of the U.S. continues to make those developments even more dangerous.
  • Winning the Fight Against Coal Financing
    Hopefully, this is the dawn of a new day, when public financing of coal mines and power plants around the world is no longer acceptable. After 16 years of persistent pressure from IPS and other groups, our government seems to finally be listening.
  • This Week in OtherWords: July 17, 2013
    Marc Morial, Donald Kaul, and Terrance Heath weigh in on the acquittal of George Zimmerman -- the man who killed Trayvon Martin.

IntelNews

  • New documents reveal massive NSA surveillance ...
    Documents provided by American former intelligence technician Edward Snowden show that the United States National Security Agency has unprecedented surveillance capabilities, which allow it to monitor nearly every online activity of targeted Internet users.
  • Is mismanagement driving away some of the CIA’ ...
    Poor management practices and a culture that tolerates blunders by senior officials are generating cynicism and disillusionment among employees at the CIA, according to an internal study.
  • Scotland sees Nordic spy agencies as post-inde ...
    Government administrators in Scotland, which may soon become independent from the United Kingdom, are looking to possibly model their intelligence agencies after those of Scandinavian countries, according to sources.
  • S. Korea parliament probes spy agency’s ...
    A parliamentary probe began last week into whether South Korea’s main intelligence agency tried to steer voters away from the liberal candidate during the 2012 presidential election.
  • Ex-MI6 head ‘might air memoirs’ to ...
    The former director of Britain’s external spy service has hinted he might publish his personal account of the decisions that led to Britain’s entry in the Iraq War, if he is criticized in a public inquiry on the subject.

War is a Crime.org

  • Russia Grants Snowden One-Year Asylum
      Russia Grants Snowden One-Year Asylum   by Stephen Lendman   On June 23, he arrived in Moscow. He applied for asylum. He's been stuck in Sheremetyevo Airport transit zone limbo.   Putin was clear and unequivocal. He won't extradite him. No treaty obligation exists. Official ...
  • War and Whistleblowers - Why Bradley Manning S ...
    Stop the War bulletin | stopwar.org.uk Public Meeting Friday 9 August War and Whistleblowers - Why Bradley Manning Should be Free Bradley Manning faces a prison sentence of up to 136 years after being found guilty of 20 charges for revealing the war crimes carried out in our name. This public ...
  • Army Teaches Wrong Lesson in Nation's High Schools
                       Historical evidence, statements by military leaders of the era                            &n ...
  • Obama's Grand Bargain 2.0
      Obama's Grand Bargain 2.0   by Stephen Lendman   Obama's job creation plan targets social justice. It's old wine in new bottles. It prioritizes corporate tax cuts.    It scorns fairness. It ducks reality. It's same old, same old. It doesn't work. It never did. It's not ...
  • Manning, Snowden and Swarz: America’s Police S ...
    By Dave Lindorff The New York Times, in an editorial published the day after a military judge found Pvt. Bradley Manning “not guilty” of “aiding the enemy” -- a charge that would have locked him up for life without possibility of parole and could have carried the death penalty -- but also ...

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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Invisible Opportunity

  • Gitmo costs US taxpayers $5 billion
    A new report says the Pentagon will have spent a whopping $5.242 billion on its notorious detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba by the end of 2014. The report by the Defense Department™s Office of the Comptroller puts the cost of operating the Guantanamo prison camp at $454.1 million for the cu ...
  • Vaccines Cause Severe Cardiorespiratory Harm t ...
    GAIA Health – by Heidi Stevenson Premature infants are vaccinated as aggressively as full term babies. This is done in spite of research clearly documenting a high rate of cardiorespiratory harm to these neonates. Known as the Pourcyrous study, it also revealed that a full 85% of these inf ...
  • Congress Confronted About 9/11 by Wave of CSPA ...
    By Eli Rika Sunday, July 28, 2013 CSPAN’s Washington Journal news show makes it easy for anyone to talk to members of the U.S. House and Senate, Washington bureaucrats, and media pundits live on TV. Recently, callers have used the opportunity to bring attention to the explosive World Trade Cente ...
  • WARNING: Using a different computer could chan ...
    How bad are these global forecast models? When the same model code with the same data is run in a different computing environment (hardware, operating system, compiler, libraries, optimizer), the results can differ significantly. So even if reviewers or critics obtained a climate model, they cou ...
  • MSNBC host says newborn infants don’t count as ...
    By Mike Adams Today Natural News denounces Melissa Harris-Perry, the latest talking head “death worshipper” to publicly imply that she supports the murder of living, breathing newborn children. According to Harris-Perry, life begins when the parents feel like life begins. And together with some ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Obama + assassination + drones = a dark future ...
    Summary: Today we have a review of Mark Mazzetti’s new book about the CIA’s drone war, discussing America’s adoption of assassination as one its major modes of warfare. It’s a momentous step which, like the other large mad policies begun by America during the past decade, ...
  • Tell noble lies for America’s salvation!
    Summary: How do we gain approval of the American people for necessary social and political changes? Especially important but expensive and painful measures? There is the easy and popular method: lie. In a good cause. Today we consider the effects on America and on ourselves. My conclusion: stick ...
  • Better news coverage of climate change. Our in ...
    Summary: Whatever problems we have, let’s not overlook America’s institutional strengths. The mills of journalism and science still run, too slowly but surely. Here we see them working in the vital area of climate change. . Contents Hot news about a coming catastrophe Better news cov ...
  • Why the 1% is winning, and we are not
    Summary: A cold clear look at the tactics and order of battle of us vs the 1%, plus some thoughts on the requirements to win. What distinguishes the 1% from the rest of us? Many things (eg, they have more money). But perhaps the most important differences are that they have a clearer view of [&# ...
  • Gallup sounds an alarm, again, about our lack ...
    Summary: The sands on the hourglass slowly run out for America’s Second Republic. Anyone who cares to look can see this in a thousand ways, large and small. Today we review one especially obvious indicator: Gallup’s annual Confidence in Institutions Poll and the dark trends it record ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Zimbabwe Elections: The Three Most Likely Scen ...
    Whether they are ready or not, today Zimbabweans are going to the polls in what may be the most important election since the country’s transition to majority rule in 1980. Not only will the election mark the final step laid out in the Global Political Agreement that created Zimbabwe’s current Go ...
  • Drone Strikes and Civilian Casualties in Afgha ...
    The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released its bi-annual protection of civilians in armed conflict report. The mission determined that civilian fatalities and casualties increased by 23 percent over the first six months of 2013, compared to the same time period in 2012 ...
  • Déjà Vu in Zimbabwe
    Polling stations are opening in Zimbabwe, and, if one’s Facebook feed is to be believed, some enthusiastic voters have already spent a few hours queueing (and winter mornings in Zimbabwe are *cold*). Today’s elections are notable for a few reasons: they’re the first elections s ...
  • Chemical Weapons or Not, More Arms in Syria Fa ...
    Russia and the U.S. need to take first conflict resolution steps—then Syria can read more
  • Top of the Morning: Zimbabwe Votes
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest The Most Likely Outcome of Today’s Zimbabwe Election Zimbabweans go to the polls today. “The opposing sides, as usual, are represented by President Robert Mugabe of the ZANU-PF party in one corner, with Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister in the coalition government a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • It's Hard Out There for a Minority Leader
    To many people, a poll released today by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling probably came as a surprise. Mitch McConnell, the Minority Leader in the Senate, is shown trailing his challenger, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, by a point. But he's a Republican in a conservative s ...
  • Will North Carolina's Abortion Restrictions Ba ...
    Jenny Warburg In the days since North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a restrictive new abortion bill into law, directing state officials to regulate abortion clinics like surgical centers, the first-term Republican has gotten a sharp taste of abortion-rights advocates’ wrath. Onl ...
  • The Least We Could Pay
    AP Photo/John Minchillo In his campaign to drum up public support for a post-recess budget deal with Congress, President Barack Obama has repeated a call he first made in his 2013 State of the Union speech: an increase in the federal minimum wage. This past January, he called for a $9 ...
  • Should Rape Porn Be Banned?
    Press Association via AP Images Last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to make it a criminal offense to own or view pornography that simulates rape. It’s already illegal to produce such “extreme” pornography in the United Kingdom; the proposed law will make it ...
  • Big Pharma's Private War on Drugs
    AP Images/Graeme Roy On a Wednesday afternoon this spring, with overcast skies and gas-slicked puddles on Utopia Parkway, some two hundred pharmacists gathered on the fourth floor of St. John’s University in Jamaica, Queens, for the Fifty-Fourth Annual Dr. Andrew J. Bartilucci Pharmacy ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Sovereign ‘President’ Sentenced to 18 Years in ...
    James Timothy Turner, the president of the largest antigovernment “sovereign citizen” group in the country, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on Wednesday for tax crimes. Turner was convicted in March of every count he faced, including conspiracy to defraud the United States; six count ...
  • Canadian Court Extends Ban on Bequest Going to ...
    A Canadian judge today extended an interim injunction prohibiting a bequest worth some $160,000 from being transferred to the National Alliance (NA), a U.S. neo-Nazi group. The estate was left to the group by a Canadian chemist and NA member who died in 2004, and included a collection of ancient ...
  • Members of New Skinhead Gang Accused in Two States
    Die Auserwählten, a little-known racist skinhead gang in Nebraska and several other states, is less than a year old. But in the last few days, the crew has been making a name for itself – in mayhem and murder separated by more than a thousand miles. In a small college city in south-central Nebra ...
  • Longtime Neo-Nazi Activist Steven Speece Penne ...
    One of the more popular novels in racist circles is Jack’s War: Through the Gates of Hell, published last year. A crazy racial revenge story, the novel was put out under the pseudonym C.C. Conrad. Turns out C.C. Conrad is the Mobile, Ala.-based Steven Speece, a longtime neo-Nazi activist. Speece ...
  • Killing Sex Offenders: The Apparent Hypocrisy ...
    Jonathan Schmidt and friends Jeremy Moody, a member of a small but violent racist skinhead gang called Crew 41, shocked South Carolina authorities last week when he told them that he and his wife shot and stabbed to death a middle-aged couple July 21 because the man was a registered sex offender ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Yemeni Drone Victim Appeals to Obama as Strike ...
    A Yemeni civilian who lost his nephew and his brother-in-law – who was also an anti-Al Qa’ida imam – in a drone strike a year ago has appealed to President Obama to take heed of anti-drone sentiment in Yemen. Faisal bin Ali Jaber, an engineer from Hadramout, has written to t ...
  • ACLU and Lambda Legal File Lawsuit Challenging ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Virginia, Lambda Legal, and the law firm Jenner and Block will file a federal class action lawsuit today seeking the freedom to marry for all same-sex couples in Virginia as well as an end to Virginia's refusal to recognize marriages same-sex c ...
  • Chicago Fast-Food and Retail Workers Walk Off ...
    Chicago fast-food and retail workers walked off their jobs today as part of an unprecedented week of strikes in seven cities across the country including New York City, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Flint.read more
  • Chicago Fast-Food and Retail Workers Walk Off ...
    Chicago fast-food and retail workers walked off their jobs today as part of an unprecedented week of strikes in seven cities across the country including New York City, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Flint.read more
  • New Report Confirms NSA's Ability to Access Am ...
    The government can easily see the content of Americans' Internet communication and web browsing activities, according to a report published today in The Guardian.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Climate Change and Our Children
    Dr. Frederica Perera (Photo: ni0S/ Flickr)President Obama announced recently that, given Congress's refusal to act, he will use his administrative power to reduce CO2 emissions from power plants and encourage renewable energy.read more
  • NSA Secrets Kill Our Trust
    Bruce Schneier In July 2012, responding to allegations that the video-chat service Skype -- owned by Microsoft -- was changing its protocols to make it possible for the government to eavesdrop on users, Corporate Vice President Mark Gillett ...
  • Backyard Shock Doctrine: Wall Street's Destruc ...
    Laura Gottesdiener We cautiously ascend the staircase, the pitch black of the boarded-up house pierced only by my companion’s tiny circle of light. At the top of the landing, the flashlight beam dances in a corner as Quafin, who offer ...
  • Southern Revival: The Righteous Progressivism ...
    Terrance Heath (Photo: AP via JournalNow)For 13 weeks, the North Carolina state house in Raleigh was the focus of “Moral Mondays”  — a progressive movement organized by the state’s NAACP president, Rev.read more
  • It's Time for 'Poverty in the Trenches' Hearings
    Greg Kaufmann

Water Privatization

  • Price, profit, and water tariffs: Ne’er the tw ...
    PRICE AND PROFIT. Or, price vs. profit? These are the two sides of the water equation that is at the heart of ongoing “rate rebasing” talks between the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage System (MWSS) and the two private water concessionaires serving the capital region and surrounding areas. A fort ...
  • MWSS, water firms clash over 'guaranteed r ...
    AFTER A NOISY CLASH over the possible disallowance of claims for income tax payments, the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage System (MWSS) and its two private concessionaires are in the midst of another row.
  • MWSS, water firms clash over ‘guaranteed returns’
    AFTER A NOISY CLASH over the possible disallowance of claims for income tax payments, the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage System (MWSS) and its two private concessionaires are in the midst of another row. This time, it is over the level of guaranteed returns that the water companies are entitled ...
  • Maynilad service connections up 62 pct since 2007
    Maynilad Water Services Inc said its service connections have grown by more than half after it was re-privatized six years ago.
  • Port privatization
    For a country with more than 7,100 islands, one would expect a developed interisland shipping sector. Yet that is not the case with the Philippines. Aside from the lack of political will on the part of previous administrations, the unusual role played by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) as r ...

Guardian

  • The Ashes: England v Australia – live! | Andy Bull
    Over-by-over report: England can clinch the Ashes with victory over Australia at Old Trafford. Follow the opening day with Andy BullAndy Bull
  • Neil Kinnock interviewed by Peter Hennessy: Po ...
    • Nick Clegg's LBC phone-in - SummaryAndrew Sparrow
  • Fracking uproar peer causes further derision w ...
    Lord Howell says he meant north-west not north-east when referring to 'desolate' part of UK where fracking can take placeA Tory peer who provoked uproar for saying that fracking should be carried out in the "desolate" north-east of England has prompted further derision after he corrected himself ...
  • Drink-driving death rate 25% higher than 2011
    Department for Transport estimates 290 people were killed in drink-drive accidents in Britain in 2012The number of deaths in drink-drive accidents soared last year, according to provisional government figures.An estimated 290 people were killed in such accidents in Britain in 2012 – around 25% m ...
  • UK manufacturing confidence highest since 2011
    Survey for June found a sharp increase in both orders and production, providing fresh evidence of a pick-up in the economyBusiness conditions in Britain's manufacturing sector rose to their highest level in almost two-and-a-half years last month, providing fresh evidence of a pick-up in the econ ...

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

  • Afghanistan Vet Wins First AFI Winick Scholarship
    Everyone's a Winner at AFI Awards, But Some Have More to Look Forward to Than Others (Analysis) The honor is presented in memory of AFI directing alumnus Winick, the Cassavetes Award winner who died in 2011 at 49 after battling brain ...
  • Karzai backers push to postpone election
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- With a major election just eight months away, power brokers across southern Afghanistan are pressing President Hamid Karzai to not leave office on schedule in 2014, a move that could complicate the U.S. ...
  • Flight errors caused deadly chopper crash in A ...
    Australia A Defence inquiry has found flight errors and environmental conditions were the cause of a helicopter crash that killed two Australian soldiers in Afghanistan last year.Lance Corporal Mervyn McDonald, 30, from Carnarvon in Western Australia, and Private Nathanael Galagher, 30, from W ...
  • No deaths due to Afghan leaks witness
    A FORMER US Army intelligence expert who investigated the fallout from the handover of classified files to WikiLeaks by Bradley Manning says no one named in the Afghan war logs has been ...
  • Despite Wests Efforts Afghan Youths Cling to T ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan ...

Futurismic

  • Improving Reality
    Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Senate Establishes "National Whistleblower App ...
    Yesterday, by an unanimous resolution the U.S. Senate declared July 30, 2013 as "National Whistleblower Appreciation Day." The National Whistleblowers Center strongly supports the Senate's historic action and calls on every American reflect upon the tremendous contributions whistlebl ...
  • Washington Journal: Stephen Kohn on the Mannin ...
    Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Center discusses the military court's decision to refuse to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy" for information given to WikiLeaks. He also discusses federal laws that cover whistleblowers. Bradley Manning Verdict and Trea ...
  • National Whistleblowers Center Issues Statemen ...
    National Whistleblowers Center's Statement on Manning Verdict Washington, D.C. July 30, 2013. The National Whistleblowers Center issued a statement expressing relief that the military court today refused to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy."  The char ...
  • Action Alert: Tell President Obama to Stop Pro ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center issued the following Action Alert today: Today, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a resolution establishing July 30, 2013 as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. This resolution marks an historic achievement in trying to change the workplace culture ...
  • Senator Introduces Resolution Establishing Nat ...
    Resolution Celebrates the Continental Congress’ Historic Enactment of America’s First Whistleblower Law on July 30, 1778 Washington, D.C. July 29, 2013. Today United States Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a resolution into the U.S. Senate calling for Jul ...

TechDirt

  • Cameron's Anti-Porn Program Tells ISPs To Do T ...
    The Great Internet Porn Firewall of Britain is now in full effect and, contrary to earlier reports, the no-porn filter will be mandatory even for smaller, "boutique" ISPs. How this will play with Andrews & Arnold, the ISP inviting customers seeking internet filtering to check with North Ko ...
  • Trade Agreements With Mexico And South Korea T ...
    Two massive trade agreements currently being negotiated -- TPP and TAFTA/TTIP -- could potentially affect most people on this planet, either directly or indirectly through the knock-on effects. Like all such agreements, they have been justified on the grounds that everyone wins: trade is booste ...
  • The Bradley Manning Verdict Will Create Massiv ...
    Following the Bradley Manning verdict, a number of individuals and organizations have weighed in to highlight just how big the chilling effects of the guilty verdict will be. While being found not guilty of "aiding the enemy" meant that it wasn't the "worst case" scenario, it's still bad. Dan Gi ...
  • Saudi Arabian Court Sentences Blogger To 7 Yea ...
    It is no secret that Saudi Arabia, still a chief American ally in the Middle East, has a horrible reputation on human rights, speech, and its policies regarding internet use. Most recently, they have attempted to put a stranglehold on internet communications via VoIP services. Don't forget as w ...
  • DailyDirt: Scientists, You Too Can Be Rich And ...
    Science isn't glamorous. It says a lot when kids these days are more familiar with Mark Zuckerberg than they are with Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison, or Isaac Newton. So, what better way to inspire and encourage scientists than to recognize and reward them for thei ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Russia grants Snowden one year asylum
    The New York Times reports: After a month holed up in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor wanted by the United States for leaking details of surveillance programs, has received temporary refugee status in Russia and left the ai ...
  • How secret is X-Keyscore?
    Here’s a telling insight into the operation of American intelligence. How does the NSA spot a foreigner? It’s easy. Those are the people who use “foreign” languages. The name X-Keyscore hadn’t appeared in the mainstream English-language media until today, but for Br ...
  • White House unable to confirm whether Congress ...
    The Guardian: The White House declined to say on Wednesday whether the administration ever briefed the US Congress about a top-secret NSA spy program that, according to documents, allows analysts to to search through huge databases of emails, online chats and the browsing histories without prior ...
  • XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everythin ...
    Glenn Greenwald reports: A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowd ...
  • Video: Lon Snowden tells Obama: Your job is to ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Bizarre claim: Mann on mathematics, alcohol, a ...
    ‘Proof? We don’t need no steenkin proof’* *With apologies to Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Rich Trzupek writes: In a post over at Peter Guest’s blog, Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann is quoted making one of the most remarkable statements that … Continue reading →
  • Michigan State claim: Extreme wildfires likely ...
    Climate change is likely fueling the larger and more destructive wildfires that are scorching vast areas of the American West, according to new research led by Michigan State University scientists. These erratic fires are harder to contain and often result … Continue reading →
  • UW issues statement on the ‘North Pole L ...
    From the University of Washington: Santa’s workshop not flooded – but lots of melting in the Arctic By Hannah Hickey Santa’s workshop at the North Pole is not under water, despite recent reports. A dramatic image captured by a University … Continue reading →
  • The WUWT Hot Sheet for Wednesday July 31st, 2013
    Shocker: Global Warming Kneejerker Admits It Posted on July 30, 2013 2:20 pm by Bill Quick You can go wading in the lake at the North Pole – Boing Boing At Climate Central, Andrew Freedman provides some really fascinating context … Continue reading →
  • Dueling desktops: Anthony Watts versus Al Gore
    Tom Nelson highlighted a tweet from an attendee at Gore’s training lecture in Chicago for junior climateers. I thought a comparison would be apt. Al Gore’s desktop: Anthony’s desktop: And in answer to those wondering, no I didn’t clean mine … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Stunningly beautiful 3D medical animations!
    The Nucleus team of graduate-degreed medical animators, writers, and designers specializes in creating accurate, cinematic 3D medical animations for patient and professional education. via Nucleus Demo Reel 2013 – YouTube.
  • Researchers turn off Down’s syndrome genes
    The insertion of one gene can muzzle the extra copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down’s syndrome, according to a study published today in Nature1. The method could help researchers to identify the cellular pathways behind the disorder’s symptoms, and to design targeted treatments. “It’s a ...
  • Most Mutations in the Human Genome are Recent ...
    We really are a mutant race. Our genomes are strewn with millions of rare gene variations, the result of the very fast, very recent population growth of the human species. From an estimated 5 million individuals just 10,000 years ago, we ballooned to more than 7 billion. On average, every duplic ...
  • Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation
    Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation – YouTube.
  • Nailing Regeneration
    Stem cells at the base of finger and toenails act as coordinating centers to orchestrate communication between the nail, bone, and nerve tissues necessary to promote mouse fingertip regeneration after amputation, according to new research published today (June 13) in Nature. Researchers found th ...

CFACT

  • Heidi Ho!
    Dr. Cullen knows about longer climate cycling. She is an expert on the long, natural 1,500-year climate cycle that gave us the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warming, and more than 600 previous warming/cooling cycles over the past 1 million years. In fact, Dr. Cullen studied the sediments that a ...
  • CFACT’s new billboard exposes global war ...
    In a moment of refreshing candor, the co-chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group III told the truth about the global warming scare. The real point, according to Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, is to "redistribute the world's wealth."
  • Fracking yields trillions in benefits!
    According to the U.S. Department of Energy, fracking requires just 0.6 to 5.8 gallons of water per million Btu of energy produced. By comparison, “renewable” and “sustainable” corn-based ethanol requires 2,510 to 29,100 gallons per million Btu of usable energy – and biodiesel from soybeans consu ...
  • Sea-coasting to bankruptcy
    Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, the former chair of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden, acknowledges that “sea level was indeed rising from, let us say, 1850 to 1930-40. And that rise had a rate in the order of 1 millimeter per year (mm/y).... A recent paper ...
  • From Freud to ecotherapy
    From finances to raising children, there are a lot of pressures on couples these days. But according to certain psychologists, another emerging problem could be differing views on environmental lifestyle. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/259/5178.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • DNA Deciphered of Horse Used by Extinct Humans
    Russian scientists have deciphered the mitochondrial genome of a 50,000-year-old horse found in a Siberian cave that also hosted the remains of a now-extinct subspecies of humans who coexisted with the Neanderthals.    
  • NASA Turns 55: Iconic Moments in America’s Spa ...
    Spurred to action by the Soviet Union’s successful space program that sent the world’s first satellite into orbit, US President Dwight Eisenhower knew that America needed a more organized and focused effort that could compete with the country’s Cold War adversary. That realization led to the cre ...
  • US Lawmaker Seeks to Partner with Russia to Cl ...
    A prominent US lawmaker and advocate of the United States’ role in space told a conference on the commercialization of space that the US and Russia should team up for extraterrestrial projects -- and suggested they start by cleaning up the hundreds of thousands of pieces of manmade space litter ...
  • US Opens Top Secret Cold War Nuclear Site for Tour
        
  • US Opens Top Secret Cold War Nuclear Site for Tour
    The legendary secretive US research laboratory that is the cradle of America’s nuclear weapons program has opened up a Cold War-era nuclear arms storage facility to give the public a glimpse at the top secret site.    

Natural Health News

  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
  • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
    A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
  • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
    A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
  • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
    A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
    If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Emerging Voices: Taking Forced Marriage out of ...
    by Frances Nguyen by Frances Nguyen [Frances Nguyen is a recent J.D. graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School.] Forced marriage is a complicated subject. The multilayered acts of brutality frequently overlap with sexual slavery, enslavement, rape, and arranged marriage. This can create confusi ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, July 31, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have agreed to meet again within the next two weeks, aiming to seal a final deal in nine months. A military judge has acquitted former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning of the most serious charge against him, aiding ...
  • Correcting a Common Misperception of the Espio ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As a progressive, I’m delighted that Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy but horrified that he was convicted of espionage. Ethically, Manning is a hero, not a spy. As a law professor, though, I think it’s critically important to ...
  • Libya Thumbs Its Nose at the ICC — Again…
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As I recently noted, the Appeals Chamber has rejected Libya’s request to suspend its obligation to surrender Saif Gaddafi to the ICC pending resolution of its admissibility appeal. Libya, of course, has no intention of complying with that obligatio ...
  • Peter Margulies’ Sur-Reply
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Peter has responded at Lawfare to my most recent post. I think we’ve taken the argument about as far as we can, so I’ll give Peter the last word. Suffice it to say that, according to Peter’s new post, there is nothing wrong with an appe ...

Public News Service

  • Doctors Urge Arizonans to Keep Kids Away from ...
    Doctors Urge Arizonans to Keep Kids Away from Others’ Pills PHOENIX - As prescriptions increase for adult aches, pains and chronic illnesses, accidental poisonings in children increase, too, according to a new study. The research, published in the July issue of "Pediatrics" magazine, says ...
  • Feds Launch "Pool Safely Week" Campaign
    Feds Launch "Pool Safely Week" Campaign PHOENIX - The government's top consumer watchdog is warning about the risks of late-summer drowning deaths. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has designated this week as "Pool Safely Week," a reminder that there are still a lot of hot summer days lef ...
  • Chemicals Linked to Increased Risk of Childhoo ...
    Chemicals Linked to Increased Risk of Childhood Obesity PHOENIX - It's common knowledge that eating healthy food and exercising can help people maintain a healthy weight, but there's another factor in play of which many people are unaware: chemicals in the products we buy and use. According to ...
  • Documentary Raises Questions About Killer Whal ...
    Documentary Raises Questions About Killer Whales in Captivity PHOENIX - Should killer whales be kept in captivity and made to perform tricks for humans? That's a question raised in the documentary called "Blackfish." The film opens with the tragic death of a Sea World trainer killed in 2010 by T ...
  • Southwestern States Celebrate Colorado River Day
    Southwestern States Celebrate Colorado River Day PHOENIX – Five southwestern cities celebrated this year's Colorado River Day, marking the 92nd anniversary of renaming the Grand River as the Colorado River. Events Thursday emphasized the benefits of the river system and the current and g ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food

Pensieve

  • Medicine for Bleak Mornings
    Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
  • At my work desk remembering the good times at ...
    aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:
  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...

Green Times

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • NSA says: We store all your data but don’t loo ...
    The NSA saying they store data but don’t look at it is is akin to Bill Clinton saying he smoked dope but didn’t inhale. Q: How do you tell when NSA is lying? A: Their lips are moving. Of course, the very act of them seizing so much data without authorization is illegal.
  • How dry I am. Synopsis of water scarcity in th ...
    Be grateful if you live in an area where water is not scarce. Seven states in the American West depend heavily on water from the Colorado River. It’s the most litigated river on the planet. And the water scarcity will unquestionably get worse. Colorado River water is parcelled out based on ...
  • NSA program collects ‘nearly everything a user ...
    Glenn Greenwald has a bombshell article on the ravenous beast that is NSA, which is hoovering up every piece of personal data it can find while ignoring laws and continually lying to Congress. Even worse, Greenwald documents how any NSA analyst can look at any data without authorization. NSA is ...
  • Navajo Generating Station coal plant proposes ...
    The behemoth Navajo Generating Station near Page, AZ generates 2.25 GW of coal power for Arizona, Nevada, Southern California (including Los Angeles.) It also provides electricity to pump water for the crucial Central Arizona Project. New EPA rules mandating cleaner power could shut NGS down. Ho ...
  • That North Pole “lake”, as it turns out, is qu ...
    “Every summer when the sun melts the surface the water has to go someplace, so it accumulates in these ponds,” said Jamie Morison, a polar scientist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and principal investigator since 2000 of the North Pole Environmental Observatory. “This doesn’t look particul ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • Edward Snowden’s father says FBI asked h ...
    The father of the whistleblower Edward Snowden has said the FBI tried to persuade him to fly to Moscow so that he could encourage his son to return to the United States. “I said: ‘I want to be able to speak with my son … Can you set up communications?’ and it was ‘Well, w ...
  • Sandy Hook Officer ignores Black Out: ‘T ...
       27 Jul 2013 Courant While law enforcement officials have released few details of the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre to Connecticut residents, state police and Newtown officers have increased their trips across the country, in some cases sharing graphic details of what they ...
  • Breaking: Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding ...
    He could be sentenced to up to 20 years behind bars on some of the other charges. Manning already has spent three years in custody. Not Guilty of Aiding Enemy... Guilty in slew of lesser charges... Largest leak in US history... FORT MEADE, Md. — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been acquitted ...
  • Democratic establishment unmasked: prime defen ...
    NYT: “The Obama administration made common cause with the House Republican leadership” Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Thursday 25 July 2013 05.09 EDT One of the most vocal supporters of the Obama White House’s position on yesterday’s NSA debate: GOP Congresswoman Michel ...
  • Outgoing DHS head Janet Napolitano (Big Sis&#8 ...
    Do Not let Ray Kelly nor any other fiend get the job at DHS. Call, write, post…. (for the sake of continuity, and to save money on the change over after Janet leaves the post) JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO FOR NEW DHS HEAD! End the DHS! WND Democrats and Republicans largely heaped praise upon Ho ...

The Air Vent

  • Time Travel
    Well, I’m not really interested in replacing coal plants as our eco-nazi climate science community would have us do, but there are a bunch of forms of nuclear power which are viable replacements and this one is fairly interesting to me.   A smaller modular plant produced in a factory using ...
  • Fools and Their Right to be Fools
    Socialist Liberalism is completely out of control in this world, and now it has infected every aspect of American governance.   Nearly every news article is biased with complete left-wing nonsense and any prospect of fair representative governance is in ruins.   There is no media check for the r ...
  • NSA – Balancing the Risk
    The NSA has been tracking details of every pone call and email by every American for years.   I have no doubt that this is the case.  Yes, this is in violation of the fourth amendment which states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreas ...
  • My Apologies to Readers
    I have really let this blog go to pieces. I will post useful stuff in the future but allowing Mr Cotton to take it over again was a mistake. It seemed reasonable to allow him to write, because the topic was PSI.   It won’t happen again, even though I am starting to think a […]
  • PSI – Theory Destroyed
    So PSI completely surrendered discussion of a highly emotional topic like…. thermodynamics after only a few days.   It turns out that photons emitted from a cold body which then strike a warmer one, are the Kryptonite of the organization.   A group so cocksure of itself that it would throw ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook hits IPO price, then falls back
    Looking at charts of Facebook stock value can look more like the diagram of a rollercoaster. For the first time since its initial public offering value of $38, Facebook hit a high of $38.24 Wednesday morning,...
  • Facebook sets secure browsing (HTTPS) as default
    In November, Facebook started to convert its default browsing from unsecured HTTP to secured HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). The company announced in a blog post that it has now finished the job of using HTTPS...
  • Study: Facebook ads undervalued by as much as ...
    Facebook advertising can be a great value for brands — provided they’re utilized correctly. A recent study by Kenshoo, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer in ads, shows that Facebook ads can be undervalued by as much...
  • Facebook platform industry hires: Offerpop
    Offerpop, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, recently announced several new hires from top companies such as Google, Wildfire and Groupon. Here’s the full list of new hires by Offerpop: Jonas Espvall, Director of Sales, UK: former Sales...
  • Facebook can now be shared with the web throug ...
    Facebook wants to help pages get more exposure by allowing them to embed posts outside of the social network. Facebook announced Wednesday that select pages can embed posts elsewhere on the Web. This way, pages and...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • Montana Experiment Brings NHS-Style Health Car ...
    Daily Kos: Montana Experiment Brings NHS-Style Health Care to USA; Saves State Millions, Patients Delighted
  • America's Police State Marches On, While Russi ...
    The nation's main media got the Manning story wrong. He's no traitor, but the kangaroo military court is making him one, with the media's help, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
  • Statement by Julian Assange on Verdict in Brad ...
    This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent and an example of national security extremism. It is a short-sighted judgment that cannot be tolerated and must be reversed. It can never be that conveying true information to the public is "espionage."
  • Manning guilty; war criminals on the loose
    So who's helping the enemy? The US government destroyed Iraq and enabled al-Qaeda. The US government is enabling al-Qaeda in Syria. Manning may die behind bars. Meanwhile Dubya, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie -- certifiable war criminals -- remain at large. If karma applies, the Angel of History may gran ...
  • The American Surveillance State Is Here. Can I ...
    On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on, and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears.

Switchboard

  • Western Energy News Round-Up: Action on Climat ...
    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 weekly selection of news highlighting recent energy and environmen ...
  • Preparing for Climate Extremes: Lessons from I ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Over 5,748 people are still missing in the epic floods that devastated mountain states in Northern India over a month ago as the country continues to writhe from this terrible tragedy.  The monsoon ...
  • Young Chilean kayakers come to the U.S. to see ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC I wrote almost two years ago about a remarkable short film about young kayakers in the Chilean Patagonia town of Cochrane, whose experiences riding on the Baker River would be forever changed if ...
  • Add Your Voice to Save Sharks
    Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco There’s been amazing progress lately in the global movement to end the shark fin trade  --I've posted frequently on the good work being done by states to&nb ...
  • Climate Change is Already Costing New Hampshir ...
    Pat Remick, Senior Energy Communications Strategist, Washington, D.C. I may not be a skier, snowboarder, or frequent consumer of New Hampshire's delicious maple syrup, but I do know how important they all are to th ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Developers, Knight Fellows Mingle at Matter Event
    About 20 Knight Alumni and Fellows recently converged on a big-windowed workspace in San Francisco's South of Market district. Sure, there was pizza and beer, but what really drew them was the chance to crunch ideas with developers working to "change media for good." The dozen or so ...
  • Join the Zeega Makers Challenge for 'The Makin ...
    In 24 hours, Zeegas -- a new form of interactive media -- will be installed on four projection screens at San Francisco's renowned Museum of Modern Art. This showcase is part of "The Making Of..." -- a collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR's Localore, ...
  • OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
    Hundreds of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's largest o ...
  • The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
    Recent events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices. While the tsun ...
  • Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair. Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Broken Government - Appropriations Chief Lashe ...
    Long-running Republican tensions over the Ryan budget’s deep spending cuts boiled over Wednesday as the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee accused his party of being unable to support them.In a blistering statement, Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said he was “extremely disappointedâ ...
  • Broken Economy - We Don't Need More Humanities ...
    This piece is in answer to the question: Do we need more humanities majors? You can read the "yes" answer to this questions here.It’s no secret that innovation grows America’s economy. But that growth is constrained in two ways. It is constrained by the amount of properly trained talent, whi ...
  • Broken Economy - Obama Offers Corporate Tax Cu ...
    U.S. President Barack Obama is proposing a compromise to help break a deadlock with opposition Republicans over his economic plans. On Tuesday the president went to a giant product distribution center for retailer Amazon.com in the southern city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to announce his latest ...
  • Ecology on Edge - Mozambique Poaching Has Regi ...
    Mozambique says it is committed to fighting wildlife crime, especially elephant and rhino poaching. Thousands of elephants were killed in the country between 2009 and 2012. Poachers also use Mozambique as a base for regional criminal activities.Mozambique has been under growing pressure to take ...
  • Paraguay on Edge - The Reasons Why Paraguay Sh ...
    On May 23, 2013, Paraguay was accepted as an observing member of the newly formed Pacific Alliance at a summit of regional leaders in Cali, Colombia. Paraguayan officials have expressed confidence that entrance into the regional bloc will strengthen economic ties to global partners in Asia and L ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Speech Obama Should Give On Keystone XL B ...
    Bill Henderson writes a speech for Obama
  • The Downwinders : Fracking Ourselves To Deat ...
    Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty b ...
  • Boston, Brazil And Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, ...
    The official purpose of Hagel’s recent visit to Israel was to finalize US arms sales to Israel and other countries which total about $10 billion. Knowing how such weapons have been used in the past, one can hardly appreciate the ‘sarcasm’ in Eric Rush’s tweet of wanting to ‘kill them all.’ Per t ...
  • From Lidice To Deir Yassin: The Unbearable Sha ...
    The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons o ...
  • Postcard From The End Of America : San Jose B ...
    Each of my visit to San Jose is a kind of homecoming, for my father, brother and, uh, absolutely composed, considerate and non-screaming stepmother are still here, and have lived here for decades. Though I have no sentimental attachment to this place, I also don't hate it. Personal crap can be t ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • We Have The "B" Word ,“F” Word, And The "N" ...
    When I was a kid, the only time I was allowed to say "bad words" was when I was tattling on someone else (usually my older brother or sister), such as "Mommy Paul said F**K." These days it has become easier to tattle, the bad curse word simply became a letter, the "F" word. Right after the ...
  • Monica Lewinsky To Bubba Clinton: “I could tak ...
    Some sex scandals never die, like former President Bubba Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.  According to the National Enquirer. A sex tape that Monica Lewinsky recorded for Bill Clinton at the height of their  affair has leaked, where Monica is heard planning a secret sexual rendezvous ...
  • Why Were 104 Palestinian Terrorists Released? ...
    By Barry Rubin What is truly puzzling about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposing to release more than 100 of the worst Palestinian terrorists to have ever murdered Israelis is that it is so impossible to figure out any reason to do so. It is not just that one might oppose this pla ...
  • "Emperor" Bloomberg's Soda Ban Foiled By The C ...
    In a few minutes, when my wife and I disembark the ship to enter Skagway, Alaska we will each have a giant glass of soda to celebrate (btw--Skagway is a Native American word meaning tourist trap). Today an appeals court told the Mommy Mayor that his ban on drinking large sodas w ...
  • Chattanooga Free Press To Obama: TAKE YOUR JOB ...
    Not everyone is happy with President Obama's 13th pivot toward jobs. Obviously his plan to take money from the job creating private sector to create jobs is just plain nonsense. He claims he wants to break through congressional gridlock and has come up with a plan that he says will satisfy both ...

Wind Watch

  • DEP staff recommends rejecting Carroll Plantat ...
    CARROLL PLANTATION, Maine — An industrial wind site proposed for Bowers Mountain will be the second denied by the state’s top environmental agency if the department’s commissioner accepts a draft order, officials said Wednesday. In a 48-page draft decision that closely mirrors the rejection advi ...
  • Wind power falls short of targets
    New Brunswick’s commercial wind farms came up woefully short of their electrical production targets last year, new documents reveal. It is the fifth year in a row wind has failed to produce as much power as expected in the province. In filings with the Energy and Utilities Board earlier th ...
  • Planning Commission denies wind farm permits
    Baker County Planning Commissioners on Tuesday denied conditional-use permits for construction of a pair of wind farms near Huntington and Lime. Commissioners began deliberating about the projects last week. The large number of public comments at that time resulted in a meeting lasting more than ...
  • Wind farm owner sued for $1.8M
    Sheldon Township is suing the owners of the Settlers Trail Wind Farm in Iroquois County, claiming the company failed to properly restore township roads used to build the 94-turbine wind farm in 2011. The suit, which was filed last week in Iroquois County Circuit Court, seeks more than $1.8 milli ...
  • RAF warns turbines threaten pilots’ lives
    RAF chiefs fear pilots’ lives are being put at risk by the number of windfarms being built in the Moray area. Papers lodged with the Scottish Government show military top brass are worried that turbines are jeopardising the safety of fast jets returning to the key Lossiemouth base at speeds of u ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...
  • Teaching Web video: Everything you need to kno ...
    In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end ...
  • Code for journalism students: Presentations
    In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Intro ...
  • Top 10 posts this month
    These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. ...

Facing South

  • Southern elected officials take stands against ...
    From Arkansas to North Carolina, Mississippi to Florida, elected leaders are speaking out and taking action against laws that would restrict citizens' access to the ballot. read more
  • After a pause, Walmart strikes back
    The Arkansas-based retail giant is disciplining and firing workers who participated in a strike in June. While the firings are almost certainly illegal, congressional Republicans have declawed the national labor board, leaving it without a quorum to conduct business. read more
  • NAACP appealing North Carolina redistricting r ...
    The NAACP is asking the state supreme court to throw out political district lines that it says were improperly shaped by race -- and it's willing to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. read more
  • NC legislature slows fracking rush, renews pus ...
    A bill that would have allowed North Carolina to issue fracking permits before all of the regulations were in place failed to pass, but lawmakers approved a measure that requires the state to join with Virginia and South Carolina to promote offshore energy development. read more
  • DOJ to sue Texas under Voting Rights Act 'bail ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court may have struck down one provision of the Voting Rights Act, but the Department of Justice is turning to another to sue Texas over its discriminatory redistricting law. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • People can believe pretty much anything
    This is something I may be posting on at length later, but Gary Olson has written a post that says much of what I’d say, albeit in a different way: It can’t be emphasized too strongly that all brains are basically alike, with the same equipment,but differing cultural experiences contribute ...
  • Start from common humanity
    The basic political principle is that we all share our humanity.  Compassion starts from imaging ourselves in other people’s skin, in feeling that pain and indignities to them, are injuries to our common humanity.  An injury, an injustice, to one of us, is an injury and injustice to all of ...
  • On Islam, Religion and Love
    As with many things, I’m no expert on Islam.  Nonetheless, within the limitations of my language skills, I’ve done the reading. One of the things which seems clear from the life of the Prophet, is that he made things better for women and slaves. Zakat is meant to be used, among other ...
  • The comment thread you should read
    Is this one.  It’s one of the reasons why I have no time for Iraq war pushers.  It’s one of the reasons why one of my friends used to say that the person who will wipe a major US city off the face of the planet has probably been born. Read it.  Feel the hatred. [...]
  • Michael Hastings
    died in a car accident.  He was most famous for reporting on General McChrystal’s attitude towards civilian authority, and ending his career. Buzzfeed has a good reminiscence. There is only one rule of writing which matters: tell your readers the truth as you know it.  Michael understood t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Addictive gaming more common with autism and ADHD
    Reuters – Children with an autism spectrum disorder spend about twice as much time playing video games as kids who don’t have a developmental disability, according to a new study. Researchers also found that children with an autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit/hyperactivity ...
  • Japan prepares for possible big earthquake
    News Asia – Earthquakes frequently rock Japan and sometimes trigger fearful tsunamis. The Japanese government has warned that the country may be hit by an earthquake more damaging than the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which killed 19,000 people and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nucl ...
  • China orders audit of government debt
    BBC – China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may impact the financial sector.   Local governments in China borrowed heavily after the global financial crisis to try to sustain growth rates.  The last audit, pub ...
  • Eurozone jobless down for first time in 2 years
    RT – There is more evidence the eurozone economy is on the road to recovery. The EU statistics office said on Wednesday that the number of unemployed across the 17 eurozone countries fell in June by 24,000 to 19.27mn. That’s the first fall since April 2011.  The number of people out ...
  • New Snowden leaks: XKeyscore program used to t ...
    ABC – New revelations from former security contractor Edward Snowden that US intelligence agencies have access to a vast online tracking tool have come to light, as lawmakers put secret surveillance programs under greater scrutiny. The Guardian, citing documents from Snowden, published Nat ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

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Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • NSA Atrocities – Part III – Brain ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, my friends. There is a reason why the massive NSA “Data Collection Center” is located in Utah.   Make no mistake – the NSA is not about keeping America safe.   The truth is, it is without a doubt TARGETING AMERICA for totally tyranny and mass min ...
  • NSA Attrocities Part II
    Keep in mind this is OLD (at least 15 years) technology.   Add to this eavesdropping technology, then Voice 2 Skull satellite microwave capabilities,  —- well you should be able to get the picture (no pun intended) what domestic drones are now capable of doing. Can you see why I, A. True O ...
  • Please – Call me a Christian Patriot!
    Please call me a Christian Patriot.   I did no work to earn that – but Jesus did it all for me.  
  • NSA Attrocities – THE FULL STORY BEHIND ...
    Ok, friends.  I haven’t wanted to tread on this ground simply because it has been my experience that it is well beyond the scope of most people to comprehend, even though it is all completely true.   Furthermore, nothing will label you a “crackpot conspiracy nut” by the “ ...
  • Glen Beck’s Latest Lying Insanity
    Beck is flat out Crazy as Bat Guana piled in a dark cave!   Typical Zionist Mormon propagandist – spewing false rhetoric while promoting a clear RELIGIOUS FRAUD that is deceitful in every conceivable way.    That FRAUD is modern-day “Jews” falsely laying claim to being the lite ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Eliminating Tree-Tree Roots from a Brick Building
    Getting to the Root of the Problem Do You Need Help with a Tree Growing in your Brick Wall? Scotts Contracting will get to the Root of the Problem! Photo collection of Removing a Tree from a Masonry Brick Wall in StLouis and repairing the damage the Tree Roots had caused  to the Brick Building. ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Questions Arise as to Coroner's Cover up in Su ...
    by Janet Phelan Six months after Charles Castle suddenly and inexplicably died, the San Bernardino County Coroner has still not come up with a stated cause of death. And according to a Deputy in that office, a critical report is “missing” from Charlie Castle's file. I had spoken wi ...
  • Profile of a Rigged Peace Process
    by Stephen Lendman Count the ways. Tzipi Livni is Israel's chief negotiator. She's hardline. She supports occupation harshness. She deplores Palestinian sovereignty. She's a wolf in sheep's clothing. She's an unindicted war criminal. She favors Pax Israeliana. She does so in the worst sense. ...
  • Bradley Manning: Victimized by Police State In ...
    by Stephen Lendman Manning's conviction is chilling. It reflects police state viciousness. Imagine being criminalized for doing the right thing. Imagine being called a traitor for acting responsibly. Manning's no spy. He's no criminal. He deserves praise, not prosecution. America honors its w ...
  • Egypt Under Empire, Part 3: From Nasser to Mubarak
    By: Andrew Gavin Marshall Egyptians Prepare In Tahrir Square For The First Anniverary Of The RevolutionBetween 1952 and 2011, Egypt was ruled by three military dictators: Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak. Nasser placated labour unrest and imposed many social programs that benefited the population. ...
  • Egyptian Revolution Derailed, Contained
    By Nicola Nasser* A fourth wave of the Egyptian revolution seems inevitable, until the revolution changes the regime or the regime emerges victorious, pending another revolution. The January 25 revolution in Egypt, which removed the former president Hosni Mubarak from power in 2011 and, in it ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Open for Business Closed for Workers
    This report from the Broadbent Institute looks at employment standards, the enforcement deficit, and vulnerable workers in Canada. It was written by Daniel Tucker-Simmons, a law student from University of Ottawa.
  • Open for Business Closed for Workers
    This report comes out of the Broadbent Institute. It looks at the role of employment standards enforcement and the role unions can play. Written by U of Ottawa law student Daniel Tucker-Simmons, the report was sponsored by Ravenlaw. 
  • Canada Sinking Fast on Global List of Job Creators
    Jim Standord has posted a blog on the Progressive Economic Forum about Canada's dismal performance regarding job creation.  This blog complements the OECD's recently released Employment Outlook report. 
  • Applications Now Open for Next Up Saskatchewan!
    Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA co-hosts for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32, in Saskatoon, Vancouve ...
  • Applications open for the Next Up youth leader ...
    Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA co-hosts for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32, in Vancouver, Edmonto ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
    The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...
  • Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
    In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...
  • Statement from Jafar Panahi on His Invitation ...
    "I would like to sincerely thank the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inviting me to join their organization. I am especially grateful to Michael Moore and the documentary branch for nominating me. "It’s an honor for me to join such a prestigious organizatio ...
  • Excerpt from 'Pietà' in 'Here Comes Trouble' b ...
    When we went back a few days later to sit in the House gallery, a new bill was up for discussion: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From watching the evening news and being taught to read the daily newspaper, I knew that “colored people” were being unfairly treated, even killed. A f ...
  • Republic Windows Workers Seen in 'Capitalism: ...
    Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative   Press Contact:  Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com  Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The State of Oil According to BP
    This is the 3rd installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts - Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 and Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on renewables. This post delves into ...
  • Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013
    This is the 2nd installment in a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous post – Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on wind and solar power. This post delves into hydropower and geothermal power. Some of the ...
  • Renewable Energy Status Update 2013
    Today I begin a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because the past two posts have dealt with the Keystone XL pipeline project, I thought it would be a good change of pace to kick off this series by looking at the current global picture of rene ...
  • Protecting a Drowning Man from Sunburn
    There is lots of extrapolating, and emphasis on the potential for burning all of Alberta's oil sands. Yet all of the extrapolating in the world, writes Robert Rapier, doesn't take away from the fact that oil -- over the course of the next century or more -- will make a relatively insignificant c ...
  • The Increasing Irrelevance of the Keystone XL ...
    Last week President Obama unveiled a new plan to combat climate change in a speech at Georgetown University. While there is generally broad consensus that his comments further threaten the already battered US coal industry, his comments on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline project had pundits g ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • FDA Tackles Imported Food Safety
    by Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in the department of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and author of Eat Drink Vote The FDA has finally released safety rules for imported foods, two years after Congress passed the food safety law. OK. We ...
  • How Dirty Is Your Farmer's Market Chicken?
    Know your farmer, know your food, right? Particularly with meat, having direct contact with the people who raised the animals you're eating means you can get a whole host of information you'd never find on a package of grocery store meat. But based on the results of a new study published in th ...
  • Common Kitchen Chemical Fuels Fat Cell Growth
    Very low, commonly experienced doses of bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical likely hiding out in nearly every kitchen cabinet in America, leads to heavier body weight, larger fat cells, altered insulin and glucose levels, and fat buildup in certain areas of the body, according to the latest study. ...
  • Is Your Diet Breeding MRSA?
    Here's a shocker: Your shopping habits could be destroying modern medicine. Certainly, that's not your intention, but every time we drop a standard meat product into our shopping carts, we're supporting the dark side of the food industry, one that uses millions of pounds of antibiotics to raise ...
  • 6 Recipes for a Gluten-Free Summer
    Recipes adapted from Flat Belly Diet! Gluten-Free Cookbook The second half of your summer doesn't have to be loaded with all of the refined carbs typically found at summer cookouts. All of those store-bought hamburger and hotdog buns could be leading to unnecessary weight gain, actually trigger ...

big think

  • 130 Years of Earth Surface Temperatures
    The weather has been all over the place this year, with record highs and lows recorded in hundreds of different locations around the globe. So how exactly are temperatures changing globally? To provide perspective, scientists combined temperature records from over 1000 weather stations s ...
  • As It Turns Out, CEOS Are REALLY Lonely at the Top
    According to a new survey, nearly two-thirds of CEOs do not receive coaching or leadership advice from the outside, and the same is true of almost half of senior executives.  “Given how vitally important it is for the CEO to be getting the best possible counsel, independent of th ...
  • Two Ways to Spot a Taker
    How do you spot a taker?  I think there are a couple of signals that you can look for.  One is there’s a lot of research showing that takers tend to use "I" and "me" as opposed to "us" and "we" when talking about accomplishments and successes.  They claim as much credit as they can.  A s ...
  • Can We Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth?
    The stem cell scientist Sir Ian Wilmut who cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996 has outlined how to resurrect a woolly mammoth by using cells from frozen carcasses.  Technical and ethical issues obviously abound. In the video below, Dr. Michio Kaku addresses the question of whe ...
  • On Micromanaging the Military
    During my time in the Department of Defense we had to and did in fact give military commanders enormous freedom and flexibility.  There was nothing like you're seeing now with the White House where a President of the United States and the Oval Office is picking targets.  We simply didn't do thin ...

Information Liberation

  • DA Says Deputy Told Women Have Sex With Him Or ...
    When we say cops are "predators in uniform," we're not merely saying it as a euphemism. From the LA Times: Two days after a Los Angeles County sheriff*s deputy allegedly kidnapped and raped a female motorist, he solicited sex from a second fema...
  • Committing War Crimes is a Duty; Reporting The ...
    Bradley Manning is the only combat veteran of the Iraq war whose service is worth honoring. Like hundreds of thousands of servicemen, Manning carried out unlawful orders to participate in an illegal war. Unlike any of the rest, he took necessary acti...
  • The Real Criminals Under Our National-Security ...
    Let's recap the situation regarding criminal conduct within the U.S. national-security state, just to see how the national-security state has succeeded in corrupting the morals and values of our nation. People Who Are Considered Heroes by the Nati...
  • Manning Faces Lifetime In Jail, While The Wron ...
    With Bradley Manning found guilty on numerous counts, some are pointing out that it seems odd that he exposed so much law breaking by representatives of the US... and none of those people are facing any jail time, whereas Manning is facing life in pr...
  • Bradley Manning Faced Harsher Prosecution Mere ...
    We wrote yesterday about the dangerous "hacker madness" strategy used by the prosecution in the Bradley Manning trial, a tried-and-true tactic that attempts to scare judges into sustaining convictions based on a defendant's knowledge of computers. H...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Prai Minista Em Bin Brukim Promis Austrelia
    Is anyone really surprised? Last Friday’s announcement by Prime Minister Redux Rudd, that as of now, all illegal boat arrivals would be sent to Papua New Guinea and, if assessed as genuine refugees, would be permanently resettled there, is an … Continue reading →
  • No Big Deal
    Much has been made over the last day or so about the fact that the Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, was today sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband. Husic, 43, born and raised … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VIII – P ...
    This has now gone so far beyond a joke that I hardly know where to start. So much ink has been spilled by hoary press gallery veterans covering Labor’s leadership soap opera, that there is very little new that LibertyGibbert … Continue reading →
  • Libel, Reputation and Thin Air
    This isn’t something I had planned to discuss any time soon, but recent headlines in Australia have pushed it to the head of the queue. If you don’t follow Australian politics closely, you may have missed the recent news that … Continue reading →
  • The Lemmings And The Cliff
    Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. We’re now down to just 99 days until the Federal election. And for 99% of the Australian community, it just can’t come quickly enough. For those planning to vote for the coalition, it’s a … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Pale Blue Dot 2.1
    In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. I think we can call this Pale Blue Dot 2.1. Version 1 was the original snapped from Voyager 1 on Carl Sagan&# ...
  • Why your personal CAM story is not evidence
    Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands, who knows what you specifically need for your specific condition. You swallowed their talk of s ...
  • Satisfying your curiosity
    Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic reson ...
  • Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
    Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...
  • Science books for summer
    Brian Clegg – Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we di ...

RFF Library

  • Growth in Energy Efficiency, Not Shale Gas Use ...
    Demand Reduction Slashes US CO2 Emissions in 2012 / by Shakeb Afsah and Kendyl Salcito [dated May 1, 2013] CO2 Scorecard Group http://co2scorecard.org/home/researchitem/27 Energy related CO2 emissions in the US fell by 205 million metric tons in 2012. CO2 Scorecard breaks it down and shows that ...
  • Rapid Accumulation of Committed Sea-level Rise ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences via Climate Change Central (Published online before print July 29, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1312464110 ) / by Benjamin H. Strauss http://assets.climatecentral.org/pdfs/Strauss-PNAS-2013-v2.pdf [Use this link to see map of locked-in cities: http://bi ...
  • Federal Crop Insurance Encourages Plowing of M ...
    Going, Going, Gone! Millions of Acres of Wetlands and Fragile Land Go Under the Plow Environmental Working Group http://static.ewg.org/pdf/going_gone_cropland_hotspots_final.pdf [Press Release] …the county-by-county mapping analysis shows: In the 71 counties that lost more than 5,000 acres ...
  • Study: Methane Migration in Groundwater Influe ...
    Evaluation of Methane Sources in Groundwater in Northeastern Pennsylvania (Groundwater May/June 2013 v51 n3 p333–349; DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12056) / by Lisa J. Molofsky, John A. Connor, Albert S. Wylie, Tom Wagner and Shahla K. Farhat http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gwat.12056/abstract (o ...
  • BC’s Carbon Tax Shift After Five Years: An Env ...
    Sustainable Prosperity (forthcoming in Canadian Public Policy) / by Stewart Elgie and Jessica McClay http://www.sustainableprosperity.ca/article3685 British Columbia’s (BC) introduction of a revenue-neutral carbon tax shift in 2008 was controversial. This analysis compares changes in fuel consum ...

Scientific American - News

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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Five myths about barista work and unionization
    The unionization drive of baristas in Halifax has earned mainstream news coverage, including on CBC Radio’s “World at Six,” and well-researched articles in the press addressing wider issues of low wages and lack of j ...
  • Gone for the summer - SWN Resources Canada fol ...
    Shale gas company allowed to detonate 11 more un-exploded shot holes - charges against 25 of 35 will be dropped. ELSIPOGTOG, NEW BRUNSWICK - Minutes ago, afternoon negotiations between the RCMP, Elsipogtog Chief Arren Sock, Elsipogtog War C ...
  • Another Climate Threshold Ignored
    Full steam ahead for Canada's tar sands as CO2 levels rise OTTAWA—For climate scientists, May 10, 2013, marked a historic moment: atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) reached ...
  • The making of a Maliseet warrior
    The Sacred Fire encampment has helped Thomas Nash stay sober and find meaning in resistance His birth date, 17 March, 1989, is tattooed ac ...
  • Return Of the Banned Fracking Wastes
    Windsor Looks at Taking What Colchester County Refused The County of Colchester in May overturned its earlier approval for Atlantic Industrial Services to release processed hydraulic ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Support the fast food workers strike!
    David Seaton's News LinksHundreds of fast food workers in seven cities across the U.S. walked out on their jobs Monday demanding a “living wage,” or double what many are making now. More strikes are expected this week in what’s become one of the biggest pushes to organize the industry’s histori ...
  • Whither Weiner's Weeny?
    David Seaton's News LinksAsked how he would explain the incidents to his son, Weiner said "First of all, the kid's going to grow up in Gracie Mansion. So I'm going to say, 'Kid, don't complain.'" Huffington PostThe saga of Anthony Weiner is beyond caricature. What redeeming feature does this poo ...
  • The "North Korean Propaganda" film: a discussion
    David Seaton's News LinksA YouTube video purported to be a leaked North Korean propaganda film has been making the Internet rounds. The film, which has been called scarily accurate, criticizes Western capitalism, consumerism and celebrity culture. Update: The clip is actually from a 2012 documen ...
  • Snowden... what if?
    David Seaton's News LinksDisclaimer: I would start off by saying that whoever or whatever Edward Snowden is, I believe that he has performed an important and useful service to America and to the world by revealing the extent of the National Security Agency's spying programs.  This universal ...
  • The death of Trayvon Martin
    David Seaton's News LinksTaking the whole thing into account, taking as given America's history of racial tension, thus taking as given the practical inevitability of "racial profiling" I think the root cause of Trayvon Martin's death was that George Zimmerman was allowed to carry a pistol.Racia ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Economy is Better, Except that No One Has ...
    The LA Times reports on the economy today: Improving economic data is making the prospects more likely that the Federal Reserve will start tapering its massive bond buying next month, a move that suggests the recovery is on solid ground....Economic growth unexpectedly picked up in the se ...
  • Price Wars for Books Are Probably Bad News for ...
    Is heavy book discounting bad for authors? Matt Yglesias is puzzled: Buzzfeed has a baffling article up about how Amazon and Overstock are waging a price war on physical books featuring deep discounting and huge wins for consumers. According to Andy Meeks this leaves authors "authors cau ...
  • Government Action is the Only Way to Raise Fas ...
    The goal of strikers at the nation's fast food restaurants is higher wages. But what's the strategy for getting there? The strategists know they want to achieve a $15 wage, but they seem to be ad-libbing on ways to get there. Perhaps they will seek to unionize workers at dozens of restau ...
  • The NSA's Massive Call Record Surveillance Pro ...
    So how effective is the NSA's massive program to collect call records for every phone call made in the United States? Today they told us: John C. Inglis, the deputy director of the N.S.A., said there had been 13 investigations in which the domestic call tracking program made a “con ...
  • House Republicans Talk Big But Can't Deliver A ...
    Brian Beutler has a entertaining little story today about the failure of House Republicans to pass an appropriations bill for the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Yes, I said entertaining. You have to be a lefty political junkie to see the entertainment value, b ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 403: ‘Give A Hoot, Don’t Pollute’ & Other ...
    The Wolverine & Fox trying to do comic book movies The Venture Brothers Gina Carano as Wonder Woman Harry Belafonte & Jay Z Social activism and black celebrities Stop blaming black people for issues affecting the black community Don Lemon and his 5 stupid tips Share with your friends:
  • IC 402: Nolan’s Back
    Kriss is really excited about SDCC news Kriss goes off on nerds Kev tries to steal a man’s girlfriend…then embarrasses the dude in front of her A man that is really bad at parallel parking The horrible Gladiator 2 script Share with your friends:
  • IC 401: Distraction
    Most people are aware of how rough this week has been so this show is Kriss, Kev & Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips trying to have a show focused on the more fun things in life. Random topics and reading back some listener emails. Also Kriss recorded his thoughts earlier in the day [...]
  • IC 400: Dear White People
    400 shows Kev retells some stories about his Europe trip Race relations break down when The Insanity Check takes a break What people don’t understand about the Paula Deen situation White people trolling The Zimmerman Trial Dear White People Jon Jones is the Lebron James of the UFC The misu ...
  • IC 399: Man of Feel
    Kriss wasn’t impressed by E3 Games aren’t the next generation of consoles Fanboys complaining about Microsoft giving them what they’ve been asking for Sony’s smart PR war The Next-Gen is a marathon not a sprint Man of Steel & Nerds Why nerds get defensive about block ...

Simple Climate

  • How a beer bottle helped reveal rapid past cli ...
    University of Copenhagen’s Willi Dansgaard's method for linking rainfall to temperature grew from a simple back garden experiment to a way to decipher Earth’s climate history from kilometre-long cylinders of ice.
  • Speeding poor countries’ progress could halve ...
    Reducing the ‘yield gap’ between rich and poor countries could almost halve the increase in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from farming between 2010 and 2050, say Hugo Valin from the IIASA in Austria and his teammates.
  • Scientists spotlight rock’s role in carbon cap ...
    Comparing three carbon capture and storage sites shows how the makeup of the rocks that CO2 is pumped into influences the risk of leakage, find University of Bristol’s James Verdon and colleagues.
  • Extra climate targets urge faster CO2 cuts
    Avoiding damage from climate change needs multiple goals that would mean even lower carbon emissions than for temperature limits alone, Marco Steinacher and his team from the University of Bern, Switzerland, have found.
  • Extra climate targets urge faster CO2 cuts
    Avoiding damage from climate change needs multiple goals that would mean even lower carbon emissions than for temperature limits alone, Marco Steinacher and his team from the University of Bern, Switzerland, have found.

e!Science News

  • Chanel, UCSB's corpse flower, blooms and cause ...
    Chanel, UC Santa Barbara's corpse flower, has finally spread her odiferous wings, broadcasting a stench that smells like a cross between rotting flesh and Limburger cheese. "It's disgusting," said UCSB junior Connor Way, who visited Wednesday morning. "It's pretty nasty." re ...
  • Progress in using ethanol to make key raw mate ...
    Ethanol from corn and other plants could become the sustainable, raw material for a huge variety of products, from plastic packaging to detergents to synthetic rubber, that are currently petroleum-based. This was the conclusion of an article published in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineer ...
  • Tiny, brightly shining silicon crystals could ...
    Tiny silicon crystals caused no health problems in monkeys three months after large doses were injected, marking a step forward in the quest to bring such materials into clinics as biomedical imaging agents, according to a new study. read more
  • Sediment trapped behind dams makes them 'hot s ...
    With the "green" reputation of large hydroelectric dams already in question, scientists are reporting that millions of smaller dams on rivers around the world make an important contribution to the greenhouse gases linked to global climate change. Their study, showing that more methane ...
  • Oregon lab changes game for synthesizing new m ...
    University of Oregon chemist David C. Johnson likens his lab's newly published accomplishments to combining two flavors of ice cream -- vanilla and chocolate -- and churning out thousands of flavors to appeal to any taste bud. read more

unEarthed

  • It Takes a Good Lawyer To Be a Good Steward
    Or why environmental law depends on anthropocentrism The idea that humans should come first when it comes to our relationship with the natural world traces back ...
  • Absolutely NO on HR 2218
    McKinley's shameless coal ash bill is worse than ever Residents of Asheville, NC have seen their waterways polluted by coal ash. (Watch video ») ...
  • Senate Stops Antics, Approves New EPA Chief
    Gina McCarthy chosen to protect our air, land, water Gina McCarthy is our nation's new EPA Administrator. (EPA) The partisan antics of a few in the Senate fin ...
  • Obama Needs to Step Up Climate Change Plan
    Only a great leap forward can succeed against this critical issue Last year was the warmest year on record for the continental United States. (Boris Ryaposov / Shutterstock) ...
  • Floating Through Time and Splendor in The Gran ...
    The song and sights of nature wring evoke pride for the work of Earthjustice Paddling down the Colorado River. (Richard Kirst) This is my first day back in th ...

Brave New Climate

  • Nuclear Waste Part 4: The choice … waste ...
    This is the final in a four part series on nuclear waste which has run on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I conclude the series by discussing why nuclear waste is such a valuable resource and also cleans up a few relat ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 3: Case studies
    This is the third in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1 and Part 2. Case studies in waste disposal Finland’s nuclear waste repository For many, I suspect the most compelling evide ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 2: The nuts and bolts of waste
    This is the second in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Click here for Part 1. What’s special about nuclear waste? In Part I, we found that radioactive decay in the earth’s crust is continuou ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 1: The elephant (shrew) in ...
    This is the first in a four part series on nuclear waste which will run on BraveNewClimate.com over the next four days. Geoff Russell, August 2013 (Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts ...
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    Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). For other critiques of the “100 Per Cent Renewables Study – Draft Modelling Outcomes” report on BNC, see here and here. Summary: The AEMO report concludes that 100% of Australian electricity demand c ...

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UMaine to share fed renewable energy grant
Boston.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Maine, Maine Maritime Academy and two partner organizations are sharing a federal grant to develop a system that could help capture renewable energy from the motion of ocean waves and offshore winds. U.S. Sens.
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High Usage of Renewable Energy Will Mitigate Global Climate Change Effects ...
AllAfrica.com
The African Union (AU) Commission Technical Adviser on climate change, Dr. Victor Fodeke has stated that increased usage of renewable energy and efficiency improvements will provide a lasting solution to various climatic problems caused by global ...
My Turn: Quest for 90 percent renewable energy like three-legged race
BurlingtonFreePress.com
In December 2011, the Vermont Department of Public Service adopted an ambitious Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP): By 2050, 90 percent of all energy used in-state would be derived from renewable power. Vermont is in a three-legged race toward a ...
Renewable Fuel Policy Instability Is a Jobs and Investment Killer
Yahoo! Finance (blog)
Most pundits don't realize it but the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, has led a renaissance in U.S. technology innovation. Following the establishment of the policy in 2005, companies across the United States made substantial investments to accelerate ...
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State ecology dept. to study coal terminal's impact on environment
KING5.com
SEATTLE -- The state Department of Ecology will undertake a 2-year statewide environmental study of exporting coal through a terminal north of Seattle, officials announced Wednesday. Meanwhile, as previously announced, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
Ecology will study impact of coal trains when considering Gateway Pacific Terminal
Bellingham Herald
Whatcom County and its regulatory state and federal partners have announced they will conduct a sweeping review of Gateway Pacific Terminal's environmental impacts — an apparent victory for the coal terminal's opponents. In a joint press release ...
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Marin Voice: Doing what's right for the ecology
Marin Independent Journal
I COMMEND the level of public engagement in the debate over whether to protect Drakes Estero marine wilderness or continue commercial oyster operations in our local national park. While the decision did not rest on scientific matters, fundamental ...
Antarctic ice loss alters ocean ecology, study shows
The Guardian
Climate change could literally throw new light on the dark submarine world. In the 20 years since the tempestuous break-up of the Larsen A ice shelf, off the Antarctic peninsula, the sea floor beneath has been colonised by a new set of citizens: glass ...
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World's 12 best water parks
CNN International
(CNN) -- Some of us are lucky enough to live within a rogue inflatable ball's reach of the world's best beaches. Some of us can paddle out for a ride on the greatest waves on a whim. For those of us who live further inland, or prefer something less ...
School children fall ill in India from drinking water
Fox News
PATNA, India (AFP) – About a dozen children in eastern India fell ill and were taken to hospital on Thursday after drinking suspected contaminated water at their school, a hospital official said. The children became sick after drinking water from a ...
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Judge affirms deal to bring Imperial Valley water to San Diego County
Los Angeles Times
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lloyd Connelly on Wednesday affirmed his tentative ruling from June, which upheld the 2003 deal between the Imperial Irrigation District and the San Diego County Water Authority. The deal has never stopped being ...
Water tank tumbles 8 stories, injures 3
Chicago Tribune
A water tank that toppled from the top of a landmark eight-story building near Diversey Harbor on Wednesday morning injured three people, one critically, and rattled a city that has worked to preserve the wooden rooftop structures. It wasn't clear what ...
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Zimbabwe Elections: The Three Most Likely Scenarios
Whether they are ready or not, today Zimbabweans are going to the polls in what may be the most important election since the country’s transition to majority rule in 1980. Not only will the election mark the final step laid out in the Global Political Agreement that created Zimbabwe’s current Government of National Unity (GNU) following post-election violence in 2008, but it will also determine t
(title unknown) / by Eric Martin of TP... / 11h
Drone Strikes and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released its bi-annual protection of civilians in armed conflict report. The mission determined that civilian fatalities and casualties increased by 23 percent over the first six months of 2013, compared to the same time period in 2012. Moreover, consistent with all previous reports, the vast majority (74 percent) of all civilian casualt
(title unknown) / by Eric Martin of TP... / 11h
Déjà Vu in Zimbabwe
Polling stations are opening in Zimbabwe, and, if one’s Facebook feed is to be believed, some enthusiastic voters have already spent a few hours queueing (and winter mornings in Zimbabwe are *cold*). Today’s elections are notable for a few reasons: they’re the first elections since extensive state-sponsored violence in 2008; they mark the formal end of the coalition government inaugurated in the a
(title unknown) / by Eric Martin of TP... / 11h
Chemical Weapons or Not, More Arms in Syria Fan the Flames
Russia and the U.S. need to take first conflict resolution steps—then Syria can read more
(title unknown) / by Eric Martin of TP... / 13h
Top of the Morning: Zimbabwe Votes
Top stories from DAWNS Digest The Most Likely Outcome of Today’s Zimbabwe Election Zimbabweans go to the polls today. “The opposing sides, as usual, are represented by President Robert Mugabe of the ZANU-PF party in one corner, with Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister in the coalition government and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T), in the other. Captivating to some,
(title unknown) / by Eric Auner of TPR / 13h
Toobin vs. Greenwald on Manning, Snowden, Whistleblowing and Excuses by Elitist Media
This debate between Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald and New York's Jeffrey Toobin, both legal experts, is very enlightening and much worth watching. As those who know me may guess, I tend to side with Greenwald here... By the way, since Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg is invoked in the above, please see what he had to say about Bradley Manning when I interviewed him in 2010, as
The BRAD BLOG / by Brad Friedman / 14h
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