UPDATED with a fourth site, EPA’s RadNet Lab Open Data system.

EPA map of U.S. radiation monitoring stations

Millions of Americans have been ingesting them for years—perchlorate, hexavalent chromium, volatile organic compounds—not because they’re safe, but because they are among 6,000 toxins the EPA has not gotten around to regulating in municipal drinking water systems.

But after a change in administrations and a scathing review by the General Accounting Office, the EPA has…

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said the government is considering blocking social networks and messaging services amid the worst riots since the 1980s, prompting condemnation from lawyers and free speech advocates.

The government is working with police, the intelligence services and companies to look at “whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting…

(Beyond Pesticides, March 15, 2011) Following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) January 10th announcement that it plans to cancel all allowable pesticide residue levels (tolerances) of the toxic fumigant sulfuryl fluoride–effectively banning its use, the chemical’s manufacturer, Dow AgroSciences, is petitioning…

(Reuters) - Britain is considering disrupting online social networking such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, a move…

When aerosol particles from ship exhaust enter…

Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) wants the CIA and Pentagon to investigate whether the White House gave filmmakers access to confidential information regarding the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal's film project on slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is stirring up…

The Wisconsin recall election was the first major test of the new era in American politics.



That new era began in January of 2010 when the US Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that the political voice of We The People was no longer as important as the voices of billionaires and transnational corporations.



Now we know the result, and it bodes ill for both 2012 and for the tattered future of small-d democracy in our republic.…

UK police have now promised to come down hard on rioters after their soft policy failed to control the mayhem. But political analyst Sukant Chandan believes that authorities should rethink their approach, as it might provoke more violence.

­“It is very disturbing if the police are going to introduce water cannons and rubber bullets,” he said. “Guns have been infesting our communities increasingly in the last two decades under the watch of the…

Amazon Disarms Brits By Banning Self-Defense Items

Media, police and politicians disparage communities protecting themselves as “vigilantism”

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

Thursday,…

Obama Readies Citizen Spies For Action

alt-market

PM says sites such as Twitter and Facebook 'can be used for ill' and that broadcasters should hand footage of riots to police

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 August 2011

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

England Falls