Monday, February 18, 2013

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Nuclear program of Iran
Nuclear program of Iran (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: IR40 Heavy Water reactor facility, ne...
English: IR40 Heavy Water reactor facility, near Arak, Iran. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Advertisement from the 1970s by American nucle...
Advertisement from the 1970s by American nuclear-energy companies, using Iran's nuclear program as a marketing ploy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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ayatullah khamenei (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the current S...
English: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran. فارسی: تصویری از آیت الله العظمی سید علی خامنه‌ای (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • India Tightens Child Labour Laws
    After one of the six males under trial for the rape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old woman was deemed an adolescent and therefore entitled to leniency, juvenile rights activists have found themselves pitted against irate members of the public demanding death sentences for all the perpetrato ...
  • Switzerland Checks Mercenaries, Partially
    The Swiss government has presented a draft law regulating the private military industry but critics argue the law is toothless. On Mar. 24 2010, a newly founded holding company was registered in Basel’s commercial register. Its name was Aegis Group Holdings AG. A few months later, on Aug. ...
  • Gangnam Style Finds a Tragic Touch in Gaza
    “We wanted to do something to bring focus to the plight of Palestinian political prisoners, of which there are around 5,000 in Israeli jails, including hunger strikers, children, women,” says Mohannad Barakat, 30, one of seven Palestinians who have made a Palestinian version of the Gangnam style ...
  • Bulgarian Revelations Explode Hezbollah Bombin ...
    When European Union foreign ministers discuss a proposal to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov will present his government’s case for linking two suspects in the Jul. 18, 2012 bombing of an Israeli tourist bus to Hezbollah. But European ...
  • Empty Promises Behind Haitian Govt’s &#8 ...
    Ever since his election in 2011, Haitian President Michel Martelly has touted his “free school” program as one of the government’s major accomplishments. “A victory for students!” banners and posters boast. The Program for Universal Free and Obligatory Education (Pr ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • UN chief violates principle of impartiality on ...
    Summary: The UN secretary general, in an interview with the US daily Washington Post, released on February 15, said “The United Nations must be swift in judging whether diplomacy can resolve world concerns about Iran’s nuclear program, or invite the risk that Iran will use talks as a cover to ...
  • Risky equilibrium in Iran nuclear crisis
    Summary: NEW YORK - The Iran nuclear crisis has now reached a new and potentially dangerous equilibrium between stiff Western sanctions on the one hand and the rapid progress of Iran's nuclear program on the other. source: Asia Timesread more
  • HARD talk - Hossein Mousavian - Iranian Nuclea ...
    Summary: Can there be a negotiated way out of the high-stakes stand-off between Iran and the West over the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions? A new round of talks is planned for later this month but the basic facts have not changed: Iran's enrichment programme gets ever more sophisticated, ...
  • In State of the Union, Obama Misleads on Forei ...
    Summary: Obama demanded that “the leaders of Iran must recognize that now is the time for a diplomatic solution,” as he warned “we will do what is necessary to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon.” But most of Obama’s so-called diplomacy with Iran has been “predicated on intimidation, ...
  • Embrace the Fatwa
    Summary: As the Western media reported it, the future of U.S.-Iranian nuclear negotiations suffered a major setback on Feb. 7 when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seemed to reject Vice President Joseph Biden's offer of direct talks. "Some naive people like the idea of negotiating with A ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Search for the Missing "Dark Galaxies" of ...
                       The new serach for "dark galaxies" could help answer a paradox in astronomy: why today's galaxies haven't yet run out of gas. According to observations, most galaxies have just enough fuel left to make stars for another billion years or so. Yet galaxies have endu ...
  • NASA on Russian Meteor Explosion: "We Can Expe ...
                     "We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average," said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you have a fireball of this size we would expect a large numbe ...
  • The Most Violent Objects in the Universe --Cra ...
                Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky, nding new types of gamma-ray-emitting objects including active galaxies, supernova remnants, globular star clusters, pulsars, and blazars. Each year, the Fermi team releases its second cata ...
  • "Guardian Jupiter" --Is the Gas Giant Earth's ...
                      On 1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the planet Jupiter. The comet, discovered the previous year by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy, was observed by astronomers at hundreds of observator ...
  • 10-Ton Meteor Explodes Over Russia this A.M. - ...
                            A 10-ton meteor exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, creating a shockwave that blew out windows and injured some 1000 people. NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based teles ...

Natural News

  • General Mills pulls Cheerios 'app' following g ...
    A social media marketing experiment recently launched by food giant General Mills went down in flames less than one day after it was created following a groundswell of opposition to the company's hidden use of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). According to Activist...
  • Parenting 101: Favoring one child gives them a ...
    When parents play favorites among their children, it's not just the less-favored child who develops mental health problems, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Toronto, McMaster University, the University of Rochester and published in...
  • Preventive natural medicine can curb spiraling ...
    The prevailing healthcare model in America today, although slowly evolving, is still focused primarily on treating people after they become ill rather than on preventing them from becoming ill in the first place through nutrition and lifestyle. And a major consequence...
  • Fourth Amendment protester may win wrongful de ...
    A man who used a marker to write an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his chest and abdomen, then stripped to his skivvies at an airport security screening area, won't be jailed for the incident. In fact, he may even receive hundreds of thousands of dollars...
  • Obese moms-to-be show abnormal brain activity ...
    A recent study, presented on February 15, involving 16 pregnant women, divided evenly between obese and lean subjects, conducted at the Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI) at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, "found that fetuses of obese women had differences in gene...

Threat Level

  • Feds Say Megaupload Entrapment Claim Is ‘Sensa ...
    Calling it "sensationalist rhetoric," federal authorities took the offensive late Thursday for the second time in as many months to blast Megaupload for its contention that the authorities entrapped the now-shuttered file-sharing service.
  • California County Inching Toward Drone Deployment?
    Will Alameda County become California's first local government to deploy a drone? If the decision were up to dozens of angry residents and several civil rights groups, the answer would be a resounding "No." They urged the Bay Area county's ...
  • Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Sharing of ...
    President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to make it easier to disseminate classified information on threats against critical infrastructure systems and to lay the groundwork for obtaining information from the private sector that would help the ...
  • White House Must Respond to Petition Seeking S ...
    A whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove the Aaron Swartz prosecutor in the aftermath of the internet activist's suicide has surpassed 25,000 signatures. That means the Obama administration is obliged to enter the debate over whether authorities ...
  • Feds Urge Supreme Court to Let Stand $222K Lan ...
    The Obama administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to let stand a $222,000 jury verdict levied against infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota woman who downloaded and shared two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Let's Make a Sequester Deal!
    Barring a last minute miracle compromise, on March 1 the first year of the $1.2 trillion, decade-long budget sequester will begin. With few exceptions, that's a development neither party wants to come to pass. For Democrats, the sequester doesn't just mean the potential loss of 750,000 jobs in ...
  • Income Inequality Data Show Reverse Robin Hood ...
    Back in 2009, the American media offered a series of stories on the recession's impact on the tragically rich. The New York Times, CBS News, AP and even PBS toured yachts, vineyards and beach resorts (even profiling soon-to-be fugitive millionaire John McAfee) to warn that the super-rich "are ...
  • Cornyn Declares Obama, Not Bush, Nominees Requ ...
    As things now stand, Senate Republicans will carry through on their threat to filibuster Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense. As the GOP's number two man John Cornyn declared Wednesday, "There is a 60-vote threshold for every nomination." Two votes short of the need ...
  • PBS Misleads with Frontline "Cliffhanger" Docu ...
    While most eyes were trained on the State of the Union address (or a burning cabin in California), PBS on Tuesday aired a documentary on the ongoing fiscal deadlock in Washington titled, "Cliffhanger." In it, the House Speaker John Boehner is portrayed as hopelessly trapped between an equivocat ...
  • Media Forget Bush's "Aggressive" and "Partisan ...
    With Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address just hours away, the media conventional wisdom machine is already busy warning about an "aggressive" and "partisan" speech from the reelected President. Despite four years of unprecedented Republican obstructionism, Politico alerted readers to ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Stanford Scientists Aim To Remove CO2 From Atm ...
    Turn the clock back a decade and we had all sorts of grand plans for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions levels, hoping that by 2020 we would be on the path to saving our planet. Welcome to 2013 and … not so much. Unsurprisingly, scientists at Stanford University have recently come out a ...
  • Preparing For A World Of Climate Change-Induce ...
    Deadly storms strike the coast, snow blankets the interior, drought cripples rural communities, and flooding inundates the poor. Scientists expect natural disasters such as these — and worse — to grow in magnitude and increase in regularity as global warming takes its toll on the pla ...
  • Fish Behavior Influenced By Dissolved Prescrip ...
    Trace amounts of commonly prescribed prescription medications are present in nearly all of the freshwater supplies now used for drinking water by humans. Even after being treated in wastewater treatment plants these pharmaceuticals remain in the water, indeed much of what is released into the na ...
  • Nuclear Disaster In France Would Cost 20% Of F ...
    Quite frankly, nuclear reactors already costs too much even if they don’t run into any problems. The financial risk of nuclear power plants means that they are never funded by the private sector. If a new nuclear power plant is to get funded, is must do so through considerable governmental ...
  • Chaos from the Sky – Russian Meteor Impact Sti ...
    File this under ‘strange coincidence of cosmic phenomena’… The near-Earth Fly-by of asteroid 2012 DA14 co-occurred with a bus-sized meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere over the Russian Ural mountain city of Chelyabinsk, producing blinding flashes and numerous sonic booms & ...

Water Quality - WordPress

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Answer Is Obvious_Congress Simply Sucks
    By @TomBales1 Actually, once you've seen the title you've pretty much seen the whole post.  Congress has sucked for flipping decades and the fact that they still suck isn't all that surprising or newsworthy except in regard to the ever increasing depths of suckosity at which the motley con ...
  • The Kochs_Hopefully Not The Face Of Even The 1%
    By @TomBales1 Yeah, I know.  Wishful thinking, right? "We've got to save the middle class!", shouts the middle class.".  Yeah, sure. So what are you gonna do about the situation today?  "Today?  Oh uh... well the college football games are on today, lots of big games going o ...
  • Lindsey Graham Got His Answer
    By @TedFrier Senator Lindsey Graham asked Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hegal to name one Senator who was "intimidated by the Jewish Lobby," name one "stupid thing" the Senate had done "as a result of pressure from the Israeli Lobby." Well now we know: The Senate has just filibustered a Pre ...
  • Only Liberals Now Stand Up For Standards
    By @TedFrier Andrew Sullivan said something today that helps to explain why many former conservatives like me now call ourselves liberal. Regarding the potential that the Senate for the first time in its history may filibuster a cabinet nominee, Sullivan said liberals, far more than conservative ...
  • Rubio, GOP Exhibit "Active Inertia" of a Dying ...
    By @TedFrier Take pity on poor Mark Rubio. You'd be reaching for a bottle of Poland Springs, too, if you had to spit out the dry-as-dust bromides and the well past their sell-by date Reagan-era platitudes that Rubio was forced to expectorate as the Republican Party's designated responder to Pres ...

Care 2

  • Rare Wolverines Closer to Getting Long-Awaited ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today its proposal to list the wolverine in the lower-48 states as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). If finalized. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • How Industrial Pot Growers Ravage the Land: A ...
    No place in America is better known for marijuana growing than Northern California's Humboldt County. The same forgiving climate and rugged terrain that gave rise to ancient redwoods (and decades of frenzied clear cutting) has brought about a "green rush" Submitted by Dee C. to Environment &nbs ...
  • Fewer bees in US a threat to world's almond supply
    In an almond orchard in California's Central Valley, bee inspector Neil Trent pried open a buzzing hive and pulled out a frame to see if it was at least two-thirds covered with bees. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Take Action: Congress needs to hear this messa ...
    I know youre thinking Valentines Day is just another made up corporate holiday meant to sell candy, chocolates, and those little stuffed bears. But, its important to remember what Valentines Day should really be about showing loved ones that you rea Submitted by J.L. A. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • Why Social Movements Should Ignore Social Media
    Future Perfect:
 The Case for Progress in a Networked Age 
 By Steven Johnson There are two ways to be wrong about the Internet. One is to embrace cyber-utopianism and treat the Internet as inherently democratizing Submitted by J.L. A. to Science & Tech  |  &nb ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Update on the Benghazi Talking Points
    Man, Susan Rice does not know when to be quiet. She appeared Thursday night on the Daily Show: Appearing on The Daily Show with host Jon Stewart last night, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice addressed the ongoing criticism of the administration of President Barack Obama and its handling of the attack o ...
  • President Obama’s Benghazi Dereliction
    The events of 11 September 2012 are damning for the Presidential legacy of Barack Obama because of his failure to do basic crisis management. Thanks to testimony from SecDef Leon Panetta, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dempsey and CIA nominee John Brennan, the record of Obama’s failure to exercise ...
  • State of the Union–Open Thread
    Okay ladies and gents. Here you go. I can’t bear to watch the arrogant ass. My tolerance for listening to a litany of lies was surpassed months ago. The yawning gulf between the myth of Obama pushed by the fawning media and the actual reality of a disengaged egotist puts the Grand Canyon t ...
  • Crocodile Tears for a Foolish SEAL?
    Esquire is out today with a article that is garnering mountains of attention. The subject? The story of the SEAL who shot Bin Laden and his miserable personal life after leaving the SEALs. The story (read it here) paints a picture of a traumatized warrior trying to find his way in the civilian w ...
  • Brandon Webb and Jack Murphy–The Gullible
    Two retired military enlisted guys–Brandon Webb, Navy SEAL, and JackMurphy, Green B erst–may have been quality guys in the service, but they are proving themselves clueless when it comes to buying a bullshit story about the downfall of General David Petraeus. Now, it is possible that ...

Futurismic

  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Environmentalists' spring break set for Va., W ...
    Environmentalists' spring break set for Va., W.Va. San Francisco Chronicle The first event is March 1-10 in the historic mining town of Appalachia, Va., in a region heavily affected by mountaintop removal coal mining. The West Virginia spring break follows March 10-17 near West Union in Dodd ...
  • Q&A with environmental policy professor Pete A ...
    Q&A with environmental policy professor Pete Andrews The Daily Tar Heel It was discovered in the process of that task force's work that a great deal of the coal that UNC was using was in fact from strip mine sources — mountaintop removal mining as it's called — despite claims to the ...
  • Author to teach writing workshop - Bowling Gre ...
    Author to teach writing workshop Bowling Green Daily News ... Daily News bgdailynews.com | 0 comments. Jason Howard will teach a nonfiction writing workshop from 9 a.m. to noon March 9 at the Warren County Public Library. Howard co-authored “Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountain ...
  • Pretty pictures of ugly realities - Philadelph ...
    Philadelphia Inquirer Pretty pictures of ugly realities Philadelphia Inquirer ... refineries, coal ash dumps, gurgling paper mill effluent, and deserts created by fertilizer waste. He has produced strikingly beautiful images from BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and mountaintop-removal c ...
  • Tom Eblen: Capitol Education Center is evidenc ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Tom Eblen: Capitol Education Center is evidence that progress can penetrate ... Lexington Herald Leader Daniel Mullins, 10, of Berea carried a sign Thursday at the annual "I Love Mountains" march and rally in Frankfort against mountaintop-removal coal mining. Hu ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama's Plan Sees 8-Year Wait for Illegal Immi ...
    New York Times: Obama's Plan Sees 8-Year Wait for Illegal Immigrants  —  WASHINGTON — A plan by President Obama for an overhaul of the immigration system would put illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship that could begin after about eight years and would require them t ...
  • 'PM livid at Lapid-Bennett anti-haredi conspir ...
    Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post: ‘PM livid at Lapid-Bennett anti-haredi conspiracy’  —  Netanyahu tells ministers Lapid and Bennett are advancing themselves at the country's expense, according to Likud sources.  —  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is fu ...
  • Congressional staffers often travel on tabs of ...
    T.W. Farnam / Washington Post: Congressional staffers often travel on tabs of foreign governments  —  About a dozen congressional staffers flew business class on a trip to China last summer and stayed at luxury hotels while touring the Great Wall and the Forbidden City and recei ...
  • Muslim Villagers in Egypt Attack Church (Our M ...
    Our Middle East / Morningstar News: Muslim Villagers in Egypt Attack Church  —  Fayoum, Egypt.  —  CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) - Muslim villagers in Egypt's Fayoum Province attacked a church this weekend - pelting four Christians with rocks, setting parts of ...
  • Police: Woman undressed in front of elementary ...
    WCDC-TV: Police: Woman undressed in front of elementary school assembly  —  ALBANY, N.Y. - Albany police arrested an elementary school parent Friday morning for allegedly exposing herself during a school assembly.  —  Police say officers responded to the North Al ...

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China Dialogue

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    非政府组织全球见证在报告中强调腐败问题的存在，呼吁中国海外公司增加透明度中 ...
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    英国科学家斯蒂文·考利在接受中外对话采访时说，中国有可能找到一条清洁且无穷 ...
  • 怒江水电开&#2145 ...
    怒江水电开发箭在弦上。1月23日，国务院办公厅公布《能源发展“十二五”规划》称&#65292 ...
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AlterNet Top Stories

  • The American Housing Market is Set to Screw Pe ...
     Our political vocabulary is changing all the time. Words that loom large in one generation’s national public discourse can almost totally disappear in the next.Take the word “segregation.” A half-century ago, newspapers headlined “segregation” on almost a ...
  • How CNN’s Wall-to-Wall ‘Poop Ship’ Coverage Fa ...
     CNN and other news networks missed an ideal opportunity this week to highlight the actual public health risk that poor sanitation conditions pose to millions of people around the world.The insane amount of time CNN spent over the last several days capturing footage and breathlessly repo ...
  • The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State
    Last week,  a few hundred activists crowded into the courtroom of the Second Circuit, the spillover room with its faulty audio feed and dearth of chairs, and Foley Square outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan where many huddled in the cold. The fate of the nation, we ...
  • The "Labia Pride" Movement Is on the March
     Underneath a self-portrait snapped of the ruffly pink flesh in-between her legs, a woman writes, “I am 23 and so embarrassed of my labia that I still have never shown it to anyone — to a guy or even a doctor!” It’s a post submitted by an anonymous reader on the ...
  • Will We Ever Learn to Think in Moderation?
     The media seems to have three modes of action when it comes to psychoactive drugs: intense promotion of advances and benefits; general disregard; and full-on panic about negative effects, including potential for misuse and addiction. During both the benefits and the risks periods, many ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Say Megaupload Entrapment Claim Is ‘Sensa ...
    Calling it "sensationalist rhetoric," federal authorities took the offensive late Thursday for the second time in as many months to blast Megaupload for its contention that the authorities entrapped the now-shuttered file-sharing service.
  • California County Inching Toward Drone Deployment?
    Will Alameda County become California's first local government to deploy a drone? If the decision were up to dozens of angry residents and several civil rights groups, the answer would be a resounding "No." They urged the Bay Area county's ...
  • Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Sharing of ...
    President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to make it easier to disseminate classified information on threats against critical infrastructure systems and to lay the groundwork for obtaining information from the private sector that would help the ...
  • White House Must Respond to Petition Seeking S ...
    A whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove the Aaron Swartz prosecutor in the aftermath of the internet activist's suicide has surpassed 25,000 signatures. That means the Obama administration is obliged to enter the debate over whether authorities ...
  • Feds Urge Supreme Court to Let Stand $222K Lan ...
    The Obama administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to let stand a $222,000 jury verdict levied against infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota woman who downloaded and shared two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa.

Equality Trust

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

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

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AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing de ...
    Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Take the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell, stretch it and take off the wheels then make it float and you've basically got the just-unveiled Cigarette AMG Electric Drive Concept. Powered by an all-electric powertrain that offers 2,2 ...
  • Report: Coda Automotive undergoes "massive lay ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Electric Plug In Cars is reporting that there have been "massive layoffs" at California electric vehicle startup Coda Automotive. Apparently, more than 50 employees, "including a substantial part of its sales and marketing staf ...
  • Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
  • Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost
    Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...
  • Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...

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  • 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

  • Public employee unions – an anvil chaine ...
    Summary:  The Democratic Party has received one of the greatest boons possible in the madness of its major opponent. But they have a burden that offsets much of this advantage in their core supporters — attorneys and public employee unions. The former exract their benefits from society lik ...
  • Portraits of a nation in decline. An unnecessa ...
    Summary:  Many important stories can be told simply, sometimes even in pictures. So it is with one aspect of America’s decline. Our decisions and the results are easily shown in this post. Fortunately we hold elections every two years, should we wish to organize and change the direction of ...
  • Another way to look at the national debt. More ...
    Summary:   Today we have one example from the flow of comforting words about the government’s deficits. While pleasant reading, written by a knowledgeable expert, it does not withstand close scrutiny. One of the great oddities of history is why nations adopt policies that were so obviously ...
  • Two views on the nature of America’s pol ...
    Summary: What’s wrong with America’s politics? Here we look at two perspectives.  First, the consensus view — it explains the facts AND is emotionally satisfying. Second, a view far outside the consensus, disturbing instead of satisfying, but more operationally useful.  Which v ...
  • The difference between Christianity & Libertar ...
    Summary:  Recently the FM website has focused on the evolution of the America-that-Once-Was into the New America, and the propaganda that drives it. One of the great oddities of this is that we radically change, yet remain unaware of the change. Today we look at one example: Libertarianism, the ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • New Whale Species Unearthed in California High ...
    Chalk yet another fossil find up to roadcut science. Thanks to a highway-widening project in California’s Laguna Canyon, scientists have identified several new species of early toothed baleen whales.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Mystic M ...
    Hubble's 20th anniversary image shows a mountain of dust and gas rising in the Carina Nebula. The top of a three-light-year tall pillar of cool hydrogen is being worn away by the radiation of nearby stars, while stars within the ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Ancient ...
    High-Resolution Stereo Camera nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013 by ESA’s Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-colour view of the region southeast of Amenthes Planum and north of Hesperia Planum. ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dark Gec ...
    This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbour, the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86. This cosmic pair is ...
  • Watch Live: Record-Setting Asteroid Flies by Earth
    The day has come for our planet to get a cosmically close visit from asteroid 2012 DA14. The 50-km-diameter space rock will make its closest approach to Earth at 11:24 a.m. PST/ 2:24 p.m. EST, at which point it will ...

PakAlert

  • Video – Russian Meteor: Conspiracy Theorists C ...
    The tale of the meteorite which smashed into an Eastern Russian town on Friday seems strange enough - but now the internet is aflame with conspiracy theories that it was actually shot down by a Russian missile
  • Facebook blocks Jon Rappoport’s articles
    I became aware of the block and censorship a few days ago, soon after I wrote and published the article: “Ruthless State of the Union: current crime boss speaks.”
  • Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains ...
    If the economy is improving, then why are many of the largest retail chains in America closing hundreds of stores? When I was growing up, Sears, J.C. Penney, Best Buy and RadioShack were all considered to be unstoppable retail powerhouses. But now it is being projected that all of them will cl ...
  • A sensational breakthrough: the first bionic h ...
    The first bionic hand that allows an amputee to feel what they are touching will be transplanted later this year in a pioneering operation that could introduce a new generation of artificial limbs with sensory perception. The patient is an unnamed man in his 20s living in Rome who lost the lo ...
  • Gun Makers Boycott Governments Hostile To Seco ...
    In a turning of the tables, liberty minded gun makers and companies that supply firearms, accessories and ammunition have determined that they have had it with anti-gun governments at the city, state and Federal levels, even if it means lost revenue. Several companies have announced that they wi ...

Andy Worthington

  • In the Belly of the Beast: Photos of a Walk th ...
    In the Belly of the Beast: A Walk through Lower Manhattan, a set on Flickr. Regular readers will recall that, last month, I visited the US to campaign for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay on the 11th anniversary of its opening, taking part in events in Washington D.C. and McLean, Virg ...
  • Photos: Save Lewisham Hospital Rally, February ...
    Save Lewisham Hospital Rally, February 15, 2013, a set on Flickr. In Lewisham, in south east London, Save Lewisham Hospital campaigners, trade union representatives and concerned residents of the London Borough of Lewisham attended a rally at the war memorial opposite Lewisham Hospital, on Lewis ...
  • Photos of the Protest Calling for Shaker Aamer ...
    Stand Up for Shaker Aamer: The Protest at Parliament Calling for His Return to the UK from Guantánamo, a set on Flickr. Today, February 14,  2013, is the 11th anniversary of the day that Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, who has a British wife and four British children, arri ...
  • The Relentless Importance of Closing Guantánamo
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Consumer Overkill: Photos of Piccadilly Circus ...
    Consumer Overkill: Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, a set on Flickr. On September 10, 2012, the BBC World Service gave me an excuse to photograph the West End of London, in all its garish consumer glory, after I had taken part in a news programme, discussing the potential handover of the ...

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Sciencebase

  • Sciencebase to be grilled by Cambridge student ...
    UPDATE: 2012-02-13 It’s on again and this year I can offer a little advice on how to get a popular science book published if any students are interested in hearing my thoughts on that. Also, I’ve dropped the price for students on the PDF version of Deceived Wisdom for the next couple ...
  • Supersonic ping pong ball
    What happens when a ping pong ball moving at supersonic speed hits a bat? This video, which is dripping college degrees, explains the physics and shows a few test shots. NO amount of wrist action can defeat supersonic… Do not try this at home. I’m talking to you “King Julian&#8 ...
  • Evernote Penultimate now free
    Evernote has made its hand-writing app for iPad free as of now. Always keen to grab any worthwhile freebies, I took a look and was quite surprised and pleased to see what they are using as a demonstration screenshot: Evernote Penultimate now free is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogEvernote ...
  • End-of-January Kindle Sale
    UPDATE: 2013-01-31 Amazon UK has the Kindle version of my book – Deceived Wisdom – at a knock-down price of just 99p today. Remember there are Kindle apps for most mobile devices and computers, so you don’t need an actual Kindle to take advantage of the offer. You don’t n ...
  • DCD, dicyandiamide, 2-cyanoguanidine
    2-Cyanoguanidine, also known as DCD (dicyandiamide) is a nitrile derived from guanidine used as a curative agent for epoxy resins in packaging. Since 2004, it has been used in New Zealand by farmers hoping to lower the environmental impact of livestock by reducing the rate at which soil microbes ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Guantánamo Trials Plunged into Deeper Discord ...
    The battered credibility of the Guantánamo trials has been further dented by revelations of hidden microphones, intelligence service interference with court proceedings and protests from lawyers who say the US military is preventing a proper defence of the alleged organisers of the 9/11 a ...
  • Spanish Doctors, Nurses March Against 'Pillage ...
  • After 15 Years in Solitary Confinement, Prison ...
    After more than fifteen years held in solitary confinement in one of the nation's most high security prisons, Ramzi Yousef, convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, says that even as a convicted terrorist his treatment is inhumane and unconstitutional. In documen ...
  • Thousands Converge: Demand Action from Obama t ...
    Update: Following a rally on the National Mall, the gathered crowd— estimated between 35,000 to more than 50,000 people—began a march towards the White House just before 2:00 PM ET. Though President Obama is away for the weekend at a private golf resort in Florida—playing a rou ...
  • Nuclear Dump in Washington Leaking Radioactive ...
    Reports that a storage tank for nuclear waste at the Hanford Nuclear facility in Washington state--one of the most contaminated nuclear waste sites in the country--is leaking radioactive waste were confirmed that state's governor Friday. As the Associated Press reports: ...

Lifehacker

  • How I Went From 1,000 Emails to Inbox Zero (an ...
    Inbox zero: it's the impossible dream that gets further and further away as you let your emails pile up, but you don't have to get stuck with the clutter. Thanks to an awesome webapp called Mailstrom, I finally got my thousand-email inbox under control in an hour. Here's how. More &# ...
  • FollowShows Keeps You Up-to-Date on Your Favor ...
    So you've got a bunch of TV shows you watch, but maybe you don't know exactly what day they air, or where you can watch them online. FollowShows lets you see a schedule with just your favorite shows on it, get notifications, and watch it from one place no matter where it's available online ...
  • Nine Practices to Help You Say No Without Feel ...
    Irene is a great colleague. A senior manager in a large consulting firm, she pitches in when the workload gets heavy, covers for people when they're sick, and stays late when needed, which is often. She's also a leader, serving on boards and raising money at charity auctions. She tries to ...
  • AirFloat Turns an iOS Device Into an AirPlay R ...
    iOS (Jailbroken): AirFloat is a jailbreak app that turns your iOS device into an AirPlay receiver so you can wirelessly stream music to it from anywhere. More »
  • Why Structured Procrastination Makes Your Drea ...
    Structured procrastination is the idea that you shift around you to-do list to tackle easier projects instead of the one important one. It's an interesting approach to getting things done, and 99U has taken a look at why it often works. More »

Water Privatization

  • Privatization of water in Europe controversial
    German local authorities and citizen initiatives are protesting against an EU directive that would lead to the privatization of public water supply systems. It could lead to forced privatization, critics fear.
  • NY Public Housing Threatened by Privatization
    Not even New York City public housing is safe from private developers.
  • NY Public Housing Threatened by Privatization
    Not even New York City public housing is safe from private developers.
  • Bulgaria Chief Prosecutor: Inspection Will Inc ...
    Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov has informed that his colleagues from the Supreme Administrative Prosecutor's Office had entered the premises of the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) and requested documents on electricity prices. Speaking Thursday before a session of ...
  • Bulgaria Chief Prosecutor: Inspection Will Inc ...
    Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov has informed that his colleagues from the Supreme Administrative Prosecutor's Office had entered the premises of the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) and requested documents on electricity prices. Speaking Thursday before a session of ...

Guardian

  • UN official: 'time has come' to refer Syrian w ...
    • UN report identifies Syrians in 'leadership positions' • War crimes 'perpetrated by both sides' • Fighting continues in Damascus • Egypt: protests in Port SaidPaul Owen
  • Eurozone crisis live: MEPs blast EU budget
    Pro-bailout candidate Nicos Anastasiades won the most votes in yesterday's Cypriot presidential election, but failed to win the 50% needed to avoid a runoffGraeme Wearden
  • Marc Dutroux must remain in jail, Belgian cour ...
    Court rejects child killer's appeal for conditional release after his mother, Jeanine Dutroux, 78, warns her son will murder againBelgium's most notorious child killer, Marc Dutroux, will not be released from prison early, after a court rejected his request to be placed under house arrest.The co ...
  • Jennifer Mills-Westley's family face beheading ...
    Daughters of Jennifer Mills-Westley, who was attacked while shopping on Spanish island, attend Deyan Deyanov trialThe family of a woman who was decapitated in Tenerife have come face to face with her alleged killer in a Spanish court.Jennifer Mills-Westley, 60, was repeatedly stabbed while shopp ...
  • The Good Life's Richard Briers dies at 79
    He played Tom in the BBC comedy and also starred in shows such as Ever Decreasing Circles and Monarch of the GlenThe actor Richard Briers, best known for starring in the popular BBC comedy The Good Life, has died at the age of 79.Briers, who played the self-effacing Tom in the series, had been i ...

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

  • Karzai bans Afghan forces from seeking airstrikes
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai addesses military officers in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he plans to issue a decree banning Afghan security ...
  • ISAF Afghan insider killer died in raid
    An Afghan soldier who was celebrated by the Taliban as an insurgent for killing a U.S. soldier last year was killed in a raid, coalition forces said Monday. The International Security Assistance ...
  • Buzkashi Boys is a debut success for Afghan Fi ...
    . The 29-minute film's title refers to the game of buzkashi, which might not have yet troubled ESPN's scheduling, but is considered the Afghan national sport. Likened to polo, in that it is ...
  • Momentum Grows For Pakistan-Taliban Peace Talks
    Both sides say they're ready to talk, but the Taliban is putting stiff conditions on any negotiations. All previous attempts at a peace deal have failed. Analysts say the Pakistani government ...
  • TA uses live footage from Afghanistan in TV re ...
    Live footage from Afghanistan was broadcast as part of new TV recruitment ads from the Territorial Army which began airing over the weekend.In what ...

Futurismic

  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • IRS Whistleblowers Received Record Payouts in ...
    The Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Office announced that it paid a record $125.4 million in 2012 to whistleblowers that provided evidence of tax cheating, but new rule changes place future recoveries at risk.  The IRS report, which was made public on Wednesday, stated that more than ...
  • OSHA announces interim final rules on Seaman's ...
    Last week OSHA published interim final rules on the Seaman’s Protection Act procedures governing whistleblower complaints under the Act. The Seaman’s Protection Act protects seamen from retaliation for engaging in protected activity under the Act, including providing information to t ...
  • D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh introduces whistl ...
    Yesterday, District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced the "False Claims Act of 2013," which will amend the D.C. False Claims Act to permit whistleblowers to bring tax-related fraud claims. If enacted into law, the bill would permit whistleblowers to seek a qui tam or ...
  • DOJ Considers Long Overdue FBI Whistleblower R ...
    Yesterday, the Department of Justice held a listening session with representatives of the National Whistleblowers Center, American Civil Liberties Union, Government Accountability Project and Project on Government Oversight to discuss needed improvements in the DOJ regulations that implement the ...
  • Whistleblower Scores Victory Over Justice Depa ...
    On January 15, 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland issued a key ruling in support of Justice Department whistleblower Richard G. Convertino in his longstanding Privacy Act lawsuit against the DOJ. The Court ordered the Detroit Free Press to produce all documents related to how ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • How To Resolve A Trademark Issue Politely & Wi ...
    Another trademark dispute, another horrible and negative story where the mark owner acts like a jackass, right? I mean, the trend is clear, from 60's rock legends suing over penis-apps, to game producers suing over terms nearly a century old, you get the idea that everyone with a trademark i ...
  • Here's A Use Of Drones (Nearly) Everyone Will Like
    It seems like every other headline is about drones these days -- drones being used in battle, drones being used by the police, drones as a threat to privacy. As we've noted before, it's easy to get the impression that drones are inherently evil, and should be made illegal or something (good luc ...
  • Dateline 1901: In Response To Presidential Ass ...
    [If there's a new form of communication out there, you can be damn sure that the Department of Justice wants a piece of it. And if it doesn't, your local law enforcement, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and any number of other government agencies do. The DOJ's justification seems to be that any new fo ...
  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    This week, it should come as no surprise that Tim Cushing's epic post about the OnPress attribution trolling saga yielded our runaway winning comment of the week, taking first place in both the Insightful and Funny categories by a wide margin. It comes courtesy of an anonymous commenter who high ...
  • Derek Khanna's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    It's a pleasure to write about my favorite Techdirt posts of the week. I have been a longtime fan of Techdirt and can attest that the small tech literate crowd (yes it exists) on Capitol Hill are also avid readers. I was the Capitol Hill staffer who worked for House Republicans and authored th ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
  • Trans Issues are Core Issues
    A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
  • Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
    According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...
  • Schools Teach Shame and Bullying
    I came across this news story yesterday. Some school official told a girl’s mother that, if her daughter wanted to end the harassment she was subjected to, she should get a breast reduction. Because, you know, how dare you have a body that might make people think of sex. And then there is ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Equal opportunity, America’s national myth
    Joseph Stiglitz writes: President Obama’s second Inaugural Address used soaring language to reaffirm America’s commitment to the dream of equality of opportunity: “We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody ...
  • Gangster bankers: too big to jail
    Matt Taibbi writes: The deal was announced quietly, just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians, lawyers and investigators all over the world, the U.S. Justice Department granted a total w ...
  • The right to remain invisible and assume ficti ...
    When online communication first took shape, it often involved exchanges between individuals who had professional reasons to want to conceal their identities. Software engineers, who tend to be libertarian by nature, wanted to be able to engage in free-wheeling discussions with like-minded cyber- ...
  • Music: Maria Kalaniemi — ‘Namas’
  • Love of musical harmony is not nature but nurture
    University of Melbourne: Our love of music and appreciation of musical harmony is learnt and not based on natural ability – a new study by University of Melbourne researchers has found. Associate Professor Neil McLachlan from the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences said previous theories ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    The Week That Was: 2013-02-16 (February 16, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “As long ago as 1994, cosmologist Carl Sagan expressed concern about the trend toward an &#8 ...
  • Carbon tax hallucinations
    Carbon taxes will do nothing for revenues or climate, but will hurt job and economic growth Guest post by Paul Driessen Average planetary temperatures haven’t budged in 16 years. Hurricanes and strong tornadoes are at or near their lowest ebb … Continue reading →
  • Blackmailing the Japanese Ambassador
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to talking and laughing with my lovely lady today about old Billy Bennett. Billy was a rascal and a rogue and an erstwhile killer of men and a gentleman, another of those odd … Continue reading →
  • Global Warming Consensus Looking More Like A Myth
    Image Credit – Wood For Trees and Werner Brozek From the Investor’s Business Daily: The global warming alarmists repeat the line endlessly. They claim that there is a consensus among scientists that man is causing climate change. Fact is, they’re … Continue reading →
  • The Sanders-Boxer carbon tax will be 15 times ...
    Inter-temporal investment appraisal of the Sanders/Boxer carbon tax bill by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Standard climatological and economic techniques, combined in an investment appraisal of the proposed Sanders/Boxer carbon dioxide tax (U.S. Senate, 2013), show that even at a zero &#8230 ...

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Biosingularity

  • 3D printing breakthrough with human embryonic ...
    A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for the very first time. It is hoped that this breakthrough, which has been published today, 5 February, in the journal Biofabrication, will allow three-dimensional tissues an ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Raise Mens Death Risk ...
    Men taking calcium supplements may be running a nearly 20 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests.Both men and women take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss. In this study of calcium intake, the risk of dying from heart disease was higher for men b ...
  • Researchers unveil first artificial enzyme cre ...
    There’s a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig’s lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like billions of years ago, when life on earth began to evolve – long before they became ingredients for new and improved products, from detergents to foods a ...
  • HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus)

  • Alya Red: A Computational heart
    Alya Red is a project of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for simulating a human heart. In this video we explain the scientific background of the project, and show scientific visualizations of simulations using the computational electromechanical model applied to a rabbit heart.

CFACT

  • EPA, Greens play a hazy “sue and settle& ...
    One of the most successful Sue and Settle strategies cited in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study “… has been on an issue few in Washington or around the nation are paying attention to: regional haze requirements under the Clean Air Act.” The Chamber study's author, William Yeatman, concluded th ...
  • Forward the Light Brigade! Speak truth to Gre ...
    Would you or a friend like to join us to enlighten the mall, support our energy future and speak truth to Green power?
  • Obama: Cap and tax and kill the economy!
    Instead of more Solyndras and Chevy Volts, we would prefer the 800,000 barrels of oil a day and the estimated 343,000 new U.S. jobs by 2015 if Keystone XL is allowed to proceed.
  • Bringing back the King of the Jungle
    What can be done to save the King of the Jungle? Well lion populations have declined by 75% over 50 years, and now number only about 30,000. But expert Terry Anderson of the group PERC says protecting lions privately rather than through ineffective endangered species policies is a far better w ...
  • Release: ‘Light Brigade’ to debunk ...
    Join the Light Brigade! CFACT to team up with Center for Industrial Progress to 'enlighten' Sunday's climate rally on the Washington Mall.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Dagestan Policeman Detained Over Triple Murder
    A police officer in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan who had claimed he shot three people dead in self-defense was detained on Monday as part of a murder probe, an Interior Ministry official said.
  • Back in the USSR with a Snoring Lenin
    The Museum of the USSR in Moscow is a great place to get a feeling of Soviet Union life. The collections span from toys and instruments, to motorcycles, cars and even a “snoring Lenin lying in state,” scarily similar to the real Lenin in the mausoleum on Red Square.
  • Police Seize 90 Kg of Marijuana in S. Russia
    Police seized more than 90 kilograms (198 lbs) of marijuana from a man in south Russia’s Rostov region, the Federal Drug Control Service said on Monday.
  • Injured Olympic Wrestler Shot Himself - Source
    A wounded Olympic wrestling medalist shot himself by accident with his own pistol, a source in the regional wrestling federation of Dagestan told RIA Novosti on Monday.
  • Russian Police Probe Online Offers of Meteorit ...
    Police in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region said Monday they are verifying all online offers regarding the sale of meteorite fragments, which struck the area Friday, hurting more than a thousand people and damaging thousands of buildings.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Deputy Prime Minister Backs New Space Defense ...
    Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Saturday backed calls to establish a new system to identify and neutralize threats in space.
  • Asteroid 2012 DA14 Passes Earth
    The massive 2012 DA14 asteroid came closest to the Earth late on Friday and is how heading away from the planet, Russian astronomers said on Friday.
  • Meteorite Tweets: Tough Guys, Panic, Self-Medi ...
    People in Chelyabinsk, the region hardest hit by the meteorite that slammed Russia on Friday morning, have a tough-guy reputation, pumped up in recent years by a popular TV skit show.
  • LIVE: NASA Follows Asteroid Flyby
    An asteroid about the size of a 15-story building will “narrowly” streak by the planet Earth on Friday, February 15.
  • ‘Bionic Eye’ Offers Limited Vision for Blind
    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a “bionic retina” knows as the Argus II, the nation’s first implanted device for blind patients which allows some patients to see well enough to read large letters and detect large images and movement.

Pruning Shears

  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...
  • Nook & Cranny - 'The Bird With the Broken Wing ...
    Nook & Cranny took the top spot on my best music of 2012 post, so it’s safe to say I’m a fan. They’ve got a new album coming out soon, and here’s a live take of one of the tracks - The Bird With the Broken Wing.Pretty sweet, eh?
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2013 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2013 selections:Systemic DisorderThe Titanic sails at dawnMario Piperni dot ComAlternate BrainThe Mills River Progressivep ...
  • Away from energy independence, and towards ene ...
    Two of the more loaded words in contemporary politics are independence and freedom. Despite their similarities in meaning they get used in very different ways. Independence is used in a more national sense, which might be natural because of its prominence in what is arguably our founding docum ...
  • Utopian colonies and the deep roots of Occupy
    Last year I worked on a series of posts1 with a loose collection of bloggers, mostly from Corrente. The general theme was arguing against the “diversity of tactics” approach being introduced at numerous Occupy encampments, Occupy Oakland in particular. During this process one of ou ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Growing Our Local Food Infrastructure: Urban F ...
    Though it sometimes seems like our evil frankenfood corporate overlords, such as Monsanto and Dow, have completely hi-jacked our food system, many people around the nation are actually creating more sustainable and viable alternatives. Click here to read this article
  • Mark Lynas: GMO Convert? Or Hired Gun?
    On January 3, Mark Lynas, British author of several books on global warming including Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, told a sold-out audience at the Oxford Farming Conference in Oxford, England, that he was sorry. Sorry that he'd maligned genetically modified (GM) crops. Sorry that ...
  • Demand Honest Fair Trade Labels!
    Click here to read this article
  • Why Most Medical Research Cannot be Trusted
    It's old news that drug companies essentially "bribe" doctors into prescribing their drugs by lavishing them with gifts - branded pens and coffee mugs, free lunches, golf outings, "educational" trips to the Caribbean all have been regarded as fair game in the past, although now such free good ...
  • How the Latin American Drug War Will End
    When change comes, it will be brought about by grassroots civil society organizing in the U.S. and in Mexico. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: SOTU, GE Salmon, Russia ...
    Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack wants Russia to back down, and we say “nyet” to Secretary Vilsack. The ecologically sound and sustainable solution is to raise animals for human food without relying on growth promoters like ractopamine or antibiotics.
  • FDA Feeling the Heat on Genetically Engineered ...
    Opposition is building rapidly to a pending approval of the first genetically engineered animal in the U.S. food supply—AquaBounty’s GE version of the Atlantic salmon. The opposition is so strong, in fact, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration just extended its public comment period by anot ...
  • Finally, USDA Issues New Rules on Competitive ...
    You know those vending machines in public schools? Finally, the USDA will insist on healthy options.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Land Grabs, Nanoparticl ...
    Most of America’s hyper-industrialized farmland looks nothing like the Super Bowl ad’s nostalgic vision. I counted a big majority of white people in the commercial—interesting art direction, considering that, according to the USDA, nearly half of all hired farmworkers are Latino.
  • Is Genetically Engineered Salmon Setting a Dis ...
    The fish, called AquAdvantage salmon and produced by AquaBounty Technologies, is genetically engineered to grow faster than farm-raised Atlantic salmon. And the FDA is trying to approve the fish with a review process that is both inadequate and inappropriate.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • WatchingFrogsBoil Photostream - Flickr
    Rothschild Follies Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Empire : Syria and the US: The complicity of s ...
    How will a post Assad Syria be a game-changer for the U.S. and regional players? ( the curiously unmentioned question : is this in fact another NATO Colour Revolution ? ) Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • In Defense of Christopher Dorner
    Christopher Dorner has managed to live his entire life avoiding problems with the authorities.After leaving the navy full time he joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he claimed to have witnessed corruption and the abuse of police power on nume Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat &n ...
  • Harry Targ : Celebrate the 'Historical Revisio ...
    William Appleman Williams text, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, broke new ground in the early 1960s : modern organized opposition to U.S. global expansion began with the war on the Philippines in 1898. The Anti-Imperialist League decried.. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov& ...
  • Report: Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers.
    one week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS) launched our new report, Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers. Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • BBC journalists stage 24-hour strike
    ShareThisBBC journalists stage 24-hour strike 17 Feb 2013 BBC journalists are staging a 24-hour strike in a row over jobs, threatening disruption to radio and TV news programmes. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) walked out at midnight as part of a campaign against compulsory re ...
  • 1 dead in shooting near Portland hospital, pol ...
    ShareThis1 dead in shooting near Portland hospital, police say 18 Feb 2013 (OR) One person is dead after a shooting on the grounds of a southeast Portland hospital but none of the hospital's patients or staff were injured, Fox12 reports. Police said the shooting occurred near Portland Adventis ...
  • Thousands march in D.C. to protest Keystone pi ...
    ShareThisThousands march in D.C. to protest Keystone pipeline 17 Feb 2013 Thousands of environmental activists marched in Washington Sunday to protest plans for the Keystone XL pipeline. Organizers of "Forward on Climate," who planned the event, told Reuters about 35,000 people from 30 states ...
  • Thousands rally in S.F. against pipeline
    ShareThisThousands rally in S.F. against pipeline 17 Feb 2013 Thousands of people rallied in downtown San Francisco on Sunday to urge President Obama to reject construction of the [deadly] Keystone XL oil pipeline, an action they said would prove he is committed to fighting global warmin ...
  • Anonymous activists hack into 600,000 Israeli ...
    ShareThisAnonymous activists hack into 600,000 Israeli email accounts 17 Feb 2013 Activists associated with the group "Anonymous" claimed on Friday to have hacked some 600,000 email accounts from the Israeli server Walla!, stealing user details and information. A report in Australia's SC Ma ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL Murdered: Some Thoughts
    04 February 2013 News of Chris Kyle’s shooting has reached around the world.  Many people are asking for my thoughts, and so this morning I write these words in response. Chris was credited with killing about 160 enemy combatants in Iraq. He is called the most deadly sniper in US history. ...
  • FBR: Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State
    Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State Kachin State 29 January 2013 From Free Burma Rangers Despite the Government of Burma declaring a ceasefire, Burma Army troops still continue to launch attacks in Kachin State. In this Report: • Burma Army troops take Hkaya Bum after repeated attack ...
  • Air Force Crashing
    25 January 2013 Team AFMC, The budgetary uncertainties currently facing the Department of Defense combined with a projected $1.8 billion shortfall in Air Force funding for overseas contingency operations, require us to take prudent steps to mitigate budget execution risks. Based on guidance r ...
  • SAR Overnighter
    24 January 2013
  • US Military Preparing to take Gut Shot
    24 January 2013  

The Killing Train

  • Canada and the Palestine Question, by Dan Free ...
    Dan Freeman-Maloy, whose blog is notesonhypocrisy.com, has collected several significant pieces of research on Canada and the Palestine Question and published them as a single PDF (Aaron Swartz would be proud). He has also done a major talk on the same issue, that elucidates some of the main poi ...
  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...
  • Questioning Natural & Community Capital
    A Conference at York University about Capitalizing Power, organized by Jonathan Nitzan. In my talk, I try to relate Nitzan's "Capital as Power" framework to environmentalist thinking.
  • Two Uprisings
    A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. read more
  • Joe Emersberger's review of Haiti's New Dictat ...
    Joe Emersberger's got a sharp eye for discerning when media information is misleading or false. When the 2004 coup happened in Haiti, Joe published his correspondence with the Globe and Mail reporter in Haiti at the time, and very ably showed me how someone with a keen eye and decent principles ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Govt rejects report alleging use of ‘white pho ...
    The Burmese government has questioned the findings of a new report, which alleged that riot police used white phosphorous in a brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters last year, and accused its authors of attempting to “influence” the official investigation
  • Burma to observe Cobra Gold exercise
    United States and Thai soldiers conducted an amphibious assault as part of the annual Cobra Gold, the biggest joint military exercise in Asia on Thursday in the Chonburi province of Thailand.
  • Burma to help Karen girl ‘enslaved’ and ...
    The Burmese embassy has pledged to provide medical and legal assistance to a 12-year-old Karen girl, who was allegedly kidnapped, tortured and kept as a household slave for over five years by a Thai couple
  • Protests against controversial Chinese copper ...
    Local villagers and activists resumed their demonstrations against a Chinese-backed copper mine in central Burma on Wednesday, as anger continues to grow over the government’s failure to address community grievances over the project
  • Kachin rebels refuse to invite Suu Kyi to medi ...
    The Kachin Independence Army, who is currently negotiating a precarious ceasefire deal with the government, has rejected a plea by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be formally invited to mediate talks between the groups

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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

Switchboard

  • Coercion by contract: how homeowners associati ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   In the 1980s, I lived in a small DC condominium complex in the highly walkable Adams-Morgan neighborhood.  I was one of 14 unit owners.  Another was a fairly well-kn ...
  • President Obama, Did You Hear Us?: Let's Move ...
    Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. Today, I joined a crowd of more than 35,000 people including thousands of NRDC members and activists at the #ForwardOnClimate rally calling on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, ...
  • More than 35,000 Rally to Protect Our Climate
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. On February 17, more than 35,000 braved the icy temperatures to take a message of hope for our climate to the President’s doorstep. Marching in a human pipeline around t ...
  • Protecting Mother Earth: Forward on Climate Rally
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Despite the cold windy day today, more than 35,000 people came out for the Forward on Climate rally on the national mall to support action being taken on climate change. Groups represe ...
  • Kansas's Renewable Portfolio Standard Is Under ...
    Kimi Narita, MAP Energy Fellow , Chicago In Kansas, the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is under attack.  Two bills, Senate Bill 82, and House Bill 2241 would weaken or repeal the RPS. As background, in 2009, Kansas legislators approved H ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • People Skills
    Yale has a very exciting new deal with the Department of Defense: As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus. The center’s primary goal would be to coach U.S. Special Forces on interviewing tactics designed to detect lies. Charles Morgan III, ...
  • Republican Responses to the Minimum Wage
    As always, Roy Edroso ventures deep into crazyland to get the latest writings from rightbloggers. And they were very happy about Obama’s proposed minimum wage hike, as you can imagine: One real hair-raiser for rightbloggers was Obama’s proposed raising of the federal minimum wage to ...
  • The Really Important News
    Maker’s Mark will not be watered down. I find it hard to believe that UK getting their doors blown off by Tennessee and this heartening development are coincidental.
  • Sunday Linkage
    For your reading pleasure… Marijuana and hemp legalization would undoubtedly be good for Kentucky, but the politics are going to be insane. If you don’t like hipsters, just don’t write about them; they feed on this kind of thing. I am utterly uninterested in most aspects of thi ...
  • Today In Failed Pretension
    Uh, what? Indeed, the sturdy, retro, all-American character of the river towns fits well with the whole Filson/Woolrich heritage-brand aesthetic. People who set their cultural compass to the Brooklyn Flea appreciate the authenticity. [Christ. --ed.] “Hastings-on-Hudson is a village, in a Wittgen ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Antarctic ice core extracted by DRI scientists ...
    A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Dr. Kendrick Taylor, a research professor with the Division of Hydrologic Sciences at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute, have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past clim ...
  • DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized ...
    Amelia Gulling, DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized at the annual Women To Watch ceremony for the Las Vegas business magazine, Vegas Inc at the Vdara in City Center on Tuesday Jan. 29th.
  • Kathryn Bywaters, Jan. 2013 Featured DRI Gradu ...
    Meet Kathryn Bywaters, an Environmental Science student working on her Ph.D. Her current work focuses on utilizing microalgae and cyanobacteria consortia as a potential source for biofuel production.
  • Gary Trubl, Dec. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate St ...
    Meet Gary Trubl, a student working towards his masters in Environmental Science and currently studying the biogeochemistry related to denitrification of Lake Vida, Antarctica.
  • Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...
    This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Meteor Strike in Siberia Rains Down Debris and ...
    A 10-ton meteor broke apart 20 to 30 miles above the ground in western Siberia, raining chunks of debris over a large area, causing a powerful boom that damaged buildings across a vast territory, and injuring more than 1,000 people, mostly from shattering glass. The Russian Academy of Sciences s ...
  • Why I Came to Washington to Protest the Keysto ...
    By Rick Bass It’s not exactly as if hell has frozen over, for me, an oil and gas geologist to be protesting – maybe even beyond the extent allowable by law – the folly of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. I’ve hugged a tree or two before, written some letters opposing this or that dam, mine, c ...
  • Two New Polls Show Strong Support for Obama Ac ...
    Roughly two-thirds of the American people support President Obama taking significant action on climate change, according to two polls released the day after Obama’s State of the Union address. A poll for the League of Conservation voters showed that 65 percent of Americans want Obama to ta ...
  • Interview: A Conservative Who Believes Climate ...
    Republican Congressman Bob Inglis lost his 2010 re-election bid after telling a campaign audience he believed in human-caused climate change. Bob Inglis Since then, he has served as executive director of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, which seeks to convince conservatives that cli ...
  • Middle East Water Loss Is Starkly Documented b ...
    A pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites has documented a precipitous drop in freshwater supplies in the arid Middle East over the past decade. NASA said that since 2003 parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran had lost 144 cubic kilometers of total stored freshwater, an amount roughly equivale ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Meteorite hits central Russia, more than 500 p ...
    More than 500 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to Earth, shattering windows and damaging buildings. A fireball blazed across the horizon, leaving a long white trail in its wake which could be seen as f ...
  • Pope Benedict to seek immunity and protection ...
    International Tribunal calls on Napolitano to "not collude in criminality", and announces global campaign to occupy Vatican property and launch human rights inquiry in Italy. Rome (9 am local time): Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, has scheduled a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitan ...
  • UK police will be allowed to confiscate materi ...
    Police are set to be given new powers to seize confidential material from journalists. In a worrying blow to Press freedom, the changes may also mean journalists will be forced to identify whistleblowers to the police. Critics said the Home Office proposals, which follow recommendations made by ...
  • Sorcery crackdown: Chechnya leader orders hard ...
    Sorcerers, psychics, and faith healers may be on the way out in Chechnya, where the leader of the mountainous, overwhelmingly Muslim region in Russia’s Caucasus has ordered a crackdown on the practices. Kremlin-backed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov called on Chechens to steer clear of "charlatans" cla ...
  • Lab rats ’acquire sixth sense’
    US researchers have effectively given laboratory rats a "sixth sense" using an implant in their brains. An experimental device allowed the rats to "touch" infrared light - which is normally invisible to them. The team at Duke University fitted the rats with an infrared detector wired up to micro ...

Russia Today

  • EU watchdogs promise 'repressive action' again ...
    European data protection agencies intend to crack down on the US Internet giant Google before summer after it allegedly failed to follow their orders to comply with EU privacy laws, France’s data watchdog said. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'No constitution, no normal laws': Wife fights ...
    A desperate Ukrainian wife of a Palestinian engineer, abducted by Israel and jailed without trial two years ago, has been forced to conduct her own investigation. Her husband has been detained in awful conditions, and... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Australian Senate seat a possible path to free ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange believes winning a seat in the Australian Senate would force the US and others pursuing him to back down, securing his safe passage out of the UK following his 8-month confinement at the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Hundreds of protesters clash with police in Tu ...
    Police used water cannons and pepper spray to disperse a crowd of demonstrators outside a prison complex near Istanbul, as a mass trial of almost 300 people accused of plotting to topple Turkey’s elected government drew... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 3-year-old Russian boy killed by American adop ...
    After being brutally beaten by his American adoptive mother, who gave him psychotropic medication for an extended period of time, a 3-year-old Russian boy named Maksim has died in Texas, Russian diplomats have said. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Manitou Indian Center yet Idle No More
    MANITOU SPRINGS- Idle No More organizers from Denver and Pueblo woke the sleepy local Native American community with a spirited gathering on Saturday, smack in the middle of Manitou, neath the town clock, only blocks from the CS Indian Center.
  • Rogue vigilante Chris Dorner burned at the sta ...
    Tuning in to developments with fugitive cop-killer Chris Dorner in Big Bear on Tuesday, I half expected a Fahrenheit 451 denouement, where an impatient television audience is given a contrived final scene, fitting the short arc of the average attention span for corporate media fodder. I remember ...
  • Nazi Pope misjudged, resigns instead of ending ...
    Pope Ratzinger is stepping down, it’s not an admission of guilt, more like a plea of no contest to the avaricious, woman-phobic, pedophilic neo-religious order’s continued depravity. He’s leaving office to spend more time with his health, an honorable act to be applauded actual ...
  • Super Bowl 2013 commemorates American warrior ...
    TV NATION- Can Americans no longer embarrass themselves? This year’s pregame holiday extended to Super Bowl Eve with an un-ironic commemoration ceremony, an all-star gala tribute to football, acclaiming it a venerated touchstone of the American character, the public mob like drunken monks ...
  • Punxsutawney Phil fails to see eclipse of mank ...
    You know it’s GROUNDHOG DAY when newspaper weather forecasts read like articles in the Onion. The unseasonably warm winter that followed a record breaking hot summer has been declared by Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania’s mascot meteorologist to be an “Early Spring”. FOR NATURE ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • CANCER IS CURABLE NOW! - FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
    Related: Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk Ways to help from Fire Fighters for 9/11 Truth
  • Michael Isikoff To Rachel Maddow: Obama Has 'M ...
    Published on Feb 5, 2013 YouTube - ThePrincessHira Rachel Maddow spoke to NBC News' Michael Isikoff Monday night about his acquisition of a Justice Department white paper that lays out some of the Obama administration's thinking behind its practice of killing American citizens with drone str ...
  • Operation Gladio Revisited
    As one of the most thoroughly-documented examples of a decades-long program of officially-sanctioned false flag terror, Operation Gladio remains a woefully under-reported piece of the War on Terror puzzle. Today we go behind the trite summarizations of this program to look at it in-depth, examin ...
  • New Conspiracy Funhouse: Parody Interview with ...
    Stew's Conspiracy Funhouse Audio podcast,(conspiracy based sketch comedy,) Kicking off our 3rd year with our best episode yet! Doomsday Preppers gets blasted, a game show parody exposes the Bush family, and an interview with Skeptic Michael Shermer. Plus new parody commercials and music from Sla ...
  • The WTC Dust: Science and Replication
     Bilbo's Blog A few years ago a team of scientists studied the red/gray chips in dust samples of the World Trade Center buildings and came to the conclusion that they were the remains of an active thermitic material, which could have been used as explosives. Since then their claim ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...
  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...
  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...
  • Colombian Indian exhibition showcases most end ...
    ONIC's campaign aims to stop the imminent extinction of Colombia's tribal peoples © Juan Pablo Gutierrez/ONICColombian Indian organization ONIC has launched an international photography exhibition to highlight the desperate plight of Colombia’s indigenous peoples. The exhibition, enti ...
  • Brazil to investigate uncontacted Awá
    It is thought there could be up to 100 Awá who live without any contact with outsiders.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s indigenous affairs department (FUNAI) has announced that it will send a team of specialists to investigate the situation of uncontacted Awá, the world’s most threatened tribe&qu ...

Greg Palast

  • "I want my fair share–and that's ALL OF IT." T ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Activists alert: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his son Connor Kennedy were arrested Wednesday in Washington while protesting against approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. A rally in Washington, DC, protesting the Pipeline, has been called by Forward on Climate for Su ...
  • Billionaire Burglar Breaks into Obama's Cabin ...
    By Greg Palast for Truth-out A parade of media reports this week name Penny Pritzker as Obama's prime choice for Secretary of Commerce. No longer will criminal bankers have to lobby the administration - because now they'll have one of their own in the Cabinet. We never heard of this guy Barack O ...
  • The Koch Brothers, Hugo Chavez and the XL Pipeline
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine and The Other 98% I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path. The XL Keystone Pipeline. As Nagini, the murderous snake i ...
  • Aaron Swartz Died for Piers Morgan's Sins
    By Greg Palast for Vice.com This is the tale of two geniuses. In 2000, Aaron Swartz, aged 14, had just released his astonishing invention, RSS, to ease the flow of information and news around the Internet. Around the same time, one of Piers Morgan’s stringers hacked into the phone of Sir Paul Mc ...
  • Piers Morgan And My Pee Pee
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Now, if this were a movie, you would hear the audience scream, "DON’T TAKE THE KEY! DON’T GO UP THOSE STAIRS!" The reporter part of my brain was screaming, too: 'THIS SMELLS BAD.' But I couldn’t  hear a thing because, while I was out for the story, the memory of  ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Tea for Two
    By Cathy Jameson One of my favorite t-shirt I had when I was younger was light pink with a Precious Moments character. It had this saying on it: Tea for Two, Two for Tea. One for you, One for Me....
  • Old Timers and ARI
    By Kim Stagliano If you aren't subscribed to the ARI newsletter, we have a preview for you below. For many of us old timers, ARI was our first and best course of hope for our kids. We whispered in Yahoo...
  • New Movie The United States of Autism Coming Soon
    By Anne Dachel I've used the phrase, the United States of Autism, a number of times, usually because I'm frustrated over all the passive acceptance of autism. The stories in the news are endless. Autism is talked about as if...
  • Dachel Media Update: Prenatal Vitamins, ABA "U ...
    Feb 14, 2013, Salt Lake City Tribune: New Utah state senator brings medical expertise Feb 12, 2013, Forbes: More Prenatal Vitamins Could Mean Less Autism, Study Says Feb 12, 2013, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Minnesota urged to cover unproven autism care...
  • Win a Heart of An Angel Necklace from The Puzz ...
    Today is the day for love. Lord knows, everything we do is about our love for our kids and our committment to helping them. Are you eating some special candy today? Making a favoritedinner or dessert? Got a date with...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Core euro zone banks relying less on crisis fu ...
    Reuters – German banks’ use of European Central Bank crisis funding dropped by a third in January from the previous month, a further sign that banks in the heart of the euro zone are returning to money markets after last year’s credit squeeze. Banks in countries on the peripher ...
  • Thousands of Spanish medical workers protest h ...
    RT – Thousands of health care workers, many dressed in white lab coats, took to the streets in 16 cities across Spain to protest government budget cuts and plans to partially privatize the country’s public healthcare system. Several thousand protesters, many chanting, banging drums, and bl ...
  • Britain: Obesity crisis: doctors demand soft d ...
    Guardian – Britain’s 220,000 doctors are demanding a 20% increase in the cost of sugary drinks, fewer fast food outlets near schools and a ban on unhealthy food in hospitals to prevent the country’s spiralling obesity crisis becoming unresolvable. The Academy of Medical Royal C ...
  • Brazil’s Marina Silva launches ‘su ...
    BBC – In Brazil, a former presidential candidate and environment minister has launched a new political party, Sustainability Network, ahead of next year’s presidential elections. In a speech to hundreds of supporters in the capital, Brasilia, Marina Silva stressed the party’s g ...
  • Nearly 450 British military drones lost in Ira ...
    Guardian – Almost 450 drones operated by the British military have crashed, broken down or been lost in action during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last five years, figures reveal. The Ministry of Defence has disclosed for the first time the five Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • Strike With Me to Raise Awareness
    At a press conference in Los Angeles, Water.org co-founder Matt Damon announces his strike to raise awareness for the water crisis.
  • Learning Through Plays
    Children and adults learn about good hygiene practices through a series of street plays, including hand washing and the importance of using a toilet instead of practicing open defecation. They also learn about the connection between water-related illnesses and prevention.
  • A Loan Leads to More
    Mrs. Lalitha Patil lives in Gojaga Village. She took a loan for Rs.10,000/- from Water.org's partner, Grameen Koota (GK), and constructed a toilet in her home. Afterwards, she became highly motivated and decided to work with her village to become completely clean and hygienic.
  • From Kutcha Well to Water Point
    In Assam, access to safe drinking water and sanitation in rural communities and small towns is often unavailable. Community residents are dependent on rain, streams, and rivers for drinking and agricultural water. Additionally, unhygienic practices have contributed to the pollution of available ...
  • Live from Davos
    April Rinne, Director of WaterCredit, speaks with The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore live from The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Watch the full interview here.

Cryptogon

  • Zombie Cells Made Out of Silica
    I understand that they’re making a sort of model of the cell and its organelles out of the silica, but I don’t understand how they plan on re-animating them. Via: U.S. Department of Energy: “Zombie” mammalian cells that may function better after they die have been created by research ...
  • Server Maintenance on Cryptogon.net
    The status on the cryptogon.net server says: “Converting MySQL partition fully over to ext4. ETA 2 hours. During this time, there may be intermittent downtime for MySQL” That’s why it’s down.
  • The Fed’s Continuing Bailouts of Bank of ...
    Via: New York Times: MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the back door. The existence of one such secret deal, struck in July between the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
  • Microsoft Office 2013 Ties Install to Single PC
    I’ve been fed up with MS Office for a long time. So much so, that I’ve struggled with slow performance, bugs and crashes with OpenOffice since the early 2000s, and more recently with LibreOffice. If your experience with these free packages has been crap, I understand. The last couple ...
  • Israeli Banks Said to Be Implicated in U.S. Ta ...
    Via: Bloomberg: A California man born in Israel agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with people at Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd. and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd. to hide offshore accounts and income from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, according to court filings and people familiar with the matter. ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains ...
    If the economy is improving, then why are many of the largest retail chains in America closing hundreds of stores?  When I was growing up, Sears, J.C. Penney, Best Buy and RadioShack were all considered to be unstoppable retail powerhouses.  But now it is being projected that all of them will cl ...
  • Who Tells Us What To Think? Does The Mainstrea ...
    Do you believe that you really think for yourself?  Did you come up with your attitudes, opinions and beliefs on your own, or are they continually being shaped and molded by someone else?  Could it be possible that you and everyone around you is actually hooked into a real life version of "the m ...
  • Is It Fair For People On Food Stamps To Buy Pr ...
    Should we all quit working and jump on board the Obama gravy train?  Of course I am being facetious, but when you are barely surviving does there come a point when it just becomes easier to give up and totally rely on the government?  Today, the federal government runs nearly 80 different means- ...
  • Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold ...
    Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old?  What would a "gold for oil" system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy?  Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar?  Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been th ...
  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...

Desertification

  • Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Reduce Korean ...
    Read at : http://inhabitat.com/future-forest-plants-trees-in-the-mongolian-desert-to-reduce-korean-dust-storms/ Future Forest Plants Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Reduce Korean Dust Storms by Charley Cameron, As severe desertification hits the Gobi Desert and temperatures there rise at a rate ...
  • Food security and nutrition (UN NEWS CENTRE)
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44133&Cr=food+security&Cr1=#.UR6VOce9vK0 Food security and nutrition should top development agenda after 2015 – UN officials Nutrition and food security should be the top development goal as the international community sets its prior ...
  • Building a future free of hunger (UN NEWS CENTRE)
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44142&Cr=food+security&Cr1=#.UR6Uase9vK0 Joint UN meeting on food security focuses on ‘building a future free of hunger’ Scaling up the global response to food security and nutrition topped the agenda today at a special joint meeting ...
  • Invasive whitefly threatens Africa’s cas ...
    Read at : http://www.scidev.net/en/sub-suharan-africa/news/invasive-whitefly-threatens-africa-s-cassava-crops-2.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_news George Achia SPEED READ A non-native silverleaf whitefly is spreading cassava mosaic virus more efficiently than other ...
  • A dry spell in Zimbabwe (IRINNews)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97485/Thousands-of-cattle-die-after-a-dry-spell-in-Zimbabwe Thousands of cattle die after a dry spell in Zimbabwe Cattle farmers have been advised to plant grass to feed their animals, at the expense of maize, which struggles to reach maturity in the drou ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • John Baird at the Crossroads
    By Montreal Simon It was an extraordinary sight. John Baird sitting next to Julian Fantino at a committee meeting this morning, blasting the hideous anti-gay statements of a Canadian religious organization. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird took aim Tuesday at “offensive” and &#822 ...
  • Steven Tyler’s anti-nip slips bill
    By Mark Leiren-Young Forget what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — if Steven Tyler has his way, what happens in the Aloha State will stay safely under the grass skirt. Yes, Hawaii could become a safe haven for the species known as “tabloid fodder.” Liv Tyler’s dad, who used to sing with a ...
  • A Modest Opinion – We see your Obama and ...
    By Nathaniel Moher We’ve done it Canada! Sure, America has just entered the second term of their first black President, but we Canadians just elected our first female Premier! The future is now and the future is equality! I can’t believe it’s taken this long! For ages now people have been saying ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Over the past few years I have offered up numerous solid ideas to fix the world, and more specifically the United States of America (which, if we’re being honest, probably couldn’t point out the world on a globe). Most of my ideas haven’t been implemented, although they should ...
  • Canada’s latest export: Hate
    By Montreal Simon He has always been an enemy of gay people. A man who would murder their rights tomorrow, if he thought he could get away with it. He has voted against every bill that would make them equal, or protect them from hate crimes. He discriminates openly against gay organizations. He ...

libcom

  • Factory in Greece starts production under work ...
    viome.jpg Striking workers at the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece who have not been paid since May 2011 have decided to restart production under workers' control on 12 February 2013. ...
  • FKMA's 2nd Autonomous Peasant Congress
    FKMA.jpg Short reportage from Indonesian Autonomous Peasant Congress Dozens of peasants from various organizations in several cities in Indonesia, joined in Forum Komunikasi Mas ...
  • Current prisoner list of Anarchist Black Cross ...
    Currently we have addresses of 15 anarchist, anti-authoritarian or anti-fascist political prisoners, or their supporters in Russia and Belarus. Of these, 14 are interested to receive letters of support. Situation with prisoners is ...
  • IWW help in victory against Bad Boss in the ca ...
    "As I swilled the last traces of toothpaste from my mouth this morning, a Wobbly's head flew past the window, shouting the word "victory". From Bristol IWW General Branch: http://www.bristoliww.org.uk/iww-help-in- ...
  • Against privatisation: statement from Sussex U ...
    149479_413329808750425_1265083893_n[1].jpg Following a demonstration of over 300 staff and students in opposition to the privatisation of services at Sussex University; a large group of people have oc ...

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

  • The Definitive Sandy Hoax Video Investigation
    SANDY HOOK – The Documentary (2013) OFFICIAL VIDEO – Parts 1 & 2 Mark Howitt takes an investigative look into the events and controversy surrounding the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting which happened on December 14th 2012. This documentary explores several aspects of the ev ...
  • The Definitive Sandy Hoax Video Investigation
    SANDY HOOK – The Documentary (2013) OFFICIAL VIDEO – Parts 1 & 2 Mark Howitt takes an investigative look into the events and controversy surrounding the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting which happened on December 14th 2012. This documentary explores several aspects of the ev ...
  • Breaking News On the Rat Boiling in the Vat
    Not only is Pope Rat-Zinger in deep Kimchee, but so is the entire Vatican Mafia Mob, it would appear. Breaking News: February 14, 2013 Pope Benedict to seek immunity and protection from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on February 23 - International Tribunal calls on Napolitano to not collud ...
  • Breaking News On the Rat Boiling in the Vat
    Not only is Pope Rat-Zinger in deep Kimchee, but so is the entire Vatican Mafia Mob, it would appear. Breaking News: February 14, 2013 Pope Benedict to seek immunity and protection from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on February 23 - International Tribunal calls on Napolitano to not collud ...
  • The Number of Jesus, The Christ
    “You will be with child and give birth to a son, and YOU ARE TO GIVE HIM THE NAME OF JESUS.” So commanded the Angel Gabriel, to the virgin maiden named Mary, as recorded in the Gospel of Luke, 1:31  WHY JESUS?  What’s in a name, in other words? JESUS, the literal name above all ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Local SEO for the St Louis Region
    The Proof is in the Stats-[Changes to 3 Simple Key Words that I had mistakenly left out and from Linking my Service Page to the Green Blogs]. As a true DIY person I believe in handling all the projects I can do In-House. Luckily when it comes to Local SEO techniques I accepted the free offer for ...
  • Attn: StLouis Election Day is Just Around the ...
    Dear Scott, Thank you so much for your kind offer to help spread Mayor Slay’s message on your blog! HERE IS A LINK TO THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS SUSTAINABILITY PLAN HTTP://STLOUIS-MO.GOV/GOVERNMENT/DEPARTMENTS/PLANNING/DOCUMENTS/UPLOAD/130123%20STL%20PLAN%20FINAL%20LORES5.PDF It is lengthy and ...
  • Attn: StLouis Election Day is Just Around the ...
    Dear Scott, Thank you so much for your kind offer to help spread Mayor Slay’s message on your blog! HERE IS A LINK TO THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS SUSTAINABILITY PLAN HTTP://STLOUIS-MO.GOV/GOVERNMENT/DEPARTMENTS/PLANNING/DOCUMENTS/UPLOAD/130123%20STL%20PLAN%20FINAL%20LORES5.PDF It is lengthy and ...
  • Hello Slay for Mayor Volunteers!
    Many thanks to each of you and welcome to our new volunteers! It is hard to believe, but we are just over 2 weeks away from the March 5th Primary!!!  This election is critical to the future of our city, andit is up to us keep St. Louis moving forward by helping to re-elect Mayor Slay! [...]
  • Hello Slay for Mayor Volunteers!
    Many thanks to each of you and welcome to our new volunteers! It is hard to believe, but we are just over 2 weeks away from the March 5th Primary!!!  This election is critical to the future of our city, andit is up to us keep St. Louis moving forward by helping to re-elect Mayor Slay! [...]

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Taking Back Our Schools
    This is the first of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil, a public interest attorney, prolific writer and staunch advocate for public education. He has given me permission to reprint an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) h ...
  • Seattle Scraps Drones Program
    In response to a major outcry from Seattle residents, last week Mayor Mike McGinn ordered the police department to scrap its use of drones for surveillance. According to the Associated Press, the two small drones the city obtained through a federal grant will be returned to the vendor. Lawma ...
  • Bill Maher Interviews Julian Assange on HBO
      Last Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher interviewed Wiileaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. They discuss the illegal investigation of Wikileaks the FBI tried to carry out in London, the federal grand jury in V ...
  • Update on Indefinite Detention Lawsuit and Appeal
    People may recall that lower court judge Katherine Forrest ruled against the Obama administration in the lawsuit Hedges vs Barrack Obama, which claimed that the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) violates important protections guaranteed in the ...
  • Will the US Economy Collapse in May
    John Williams, founder of Shadowstats.com, predicts the US dollar will collapse by May 2013 from a massive self-off (i.e. the value of the dollar will crash because other countries will dump dollars in favor of other currencies) by May 2013. ShadowStats.com is dedicated to correcting the d ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 'Irrefutable' -- the Washington Post on Colin ...
    The Washington Post's below unsigned editorial published the day after Colin Powell's Iraq presentation to the UN Security Council is no longer available on the Post's website Irrefutable February 6, 2003 Editorial, Pg. A36 AFTER SECRETARY OF STATE Colin L. Powell's presentation to the Unite ...
  • Top Wall Street Banker: "It's a Shame We Can't ...
    In his new book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President, Ron Suskind describes the perspective of a top Wall Street banker on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the Obama administration in September, 2009, soon after Obama delivered a speech about financial refo ...
  • Milhous, in Three Acts
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore ACT I: Nixon’s the One Every good Catholic blamed Lyndon Johnson for Kennedy’s death. Not that he had anything to do with the actual assassination (though there were those who believed he did). But we all kne ...
  • Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Supporting ...
    From The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Almost from the beginning, Kissinger had secretly had all his telephone calls, including those with the President, monitored and transcribed... Nixon was often on the phone with Kissinger for fifteen minutes or longer. The President was r ...
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

  • Chinese Solar Power Innovation Producing Cheap ...
    The cost of producing a conventional crystalline silicon (c-si) solar panel continues to drop. Between 2009 and 2012, leading “best-in-class” Chinese c-Si solar manufacturers reduced module costs by more than 50 percent.
  • Transitioning to Renewable Power: What It Migh ...
    The State of Vermont has hitched its wagon to the star of 90 percent renewable power by 2050, and is pulling mighty hard to build more wind turbines, solar farms, and other renewable power generators.
  • Tesla-NY Times Dispute Reveals Different Truth
    The fact is drivers of all-electric cars quickly become accustomed to their vehicle’s limitations and strengths, and are amongst the most satisfied owners on the road.
  • Canada and the US: Sea-Level Rise vs. Keystone XL
    Recently glaciologist Jason Box of Ohio State University explained how humans have set in motion 69 feet of sea level rise; one of the most damaging consequences of climate change.
  • The Case for Grid-Connected Energy Storage
    If the highest objective of new energy technology is to provide greater flexibility to manage the electricity grid in ways that society deems most beneficial, then no technology—not wind, not solar, not biomass, not new transmission technology—is more important to develop than energy storage tec ...

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • FM v. Google: Means-plus-Function Indefinitene ...
    Function Media sued Google for infringement of three related patents: 6,446,045; 7,240,025; and 7,249,059. The patents involve a system for facilitating advertising on multiple advertising outlets (such as different websites) with different formatting requirements. The district court granted s ...
  • Samsung Rex series poised to take on Nokia
    Samsung is bringing in a brand new line of budget-friendly phones known as Rex. The affordable lineup will include four different devices, with three of those -- Rex 70, Rex 80 and Rex 90 -- featuring capacitive touchscreens. The Rex 60 will be the cheapest version and will sport a resistive dis ...
  • Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in ...
    Abstract: We conduct a comprehensive study of all patent trials over the past eleven years. We find that juries are more favorable to patentees than judges, that (to our surprise) the length of a trial has no effect on its outcome, and that there are surprisingly modest differences between ...
  • I Am Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently orbit ...
    Hello Reddit! My name is Chris Hadfield. I am an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency who has been living aboard the International Space Station since December, orbiting the Earth 16 times per day. You can view a pre-flight AMA I did here. If I don't get to your question now, please check ...
  • Top 10 Linux Networked Storage Systems Under ...
    Cloud storage may be on the move, but local network-attached storage (NAS) systems continue to be in hot demand, especially as they integrate cloud backup and mobile access. In the enterprise NAS, unified storage, and SAN (storage area network) world, Linux shares the pie with Unix and Windows. ...

WideShut

  • The Story of CHRIS: A Critique of Naming and S ...
    This is the story of C.H.R.I.S. (Children Have Rights In Society) – a website run by a convicted football hooligan who couldn’t be a worse poster child for the name-and-shame concept.
  • Who Are The English Defence League?
    The EDL may claim to be a grass-roots anti-Islamic extremist movement out to protect Britain, but their creation and leadership are fundamentally tied to the war-mongering Zionist ideology of Israel and NEOCON agenda of the US.
  • What Zero Dark Thirty isn’t Telling You about ...
    Critically acclaimed film Zero Dark Thirty might win awards and make money, but that doesn't mean it presents the truth about the CIA and their history with Bin Laden. Why would it? The CIA helped with the film's development.
  • Police Further Contradicted Over Mark Duggan S ...
    Mark Duggan didn't shoot at police, appears to have been unarmed and the pathologist's injury analysis does not match police testimony.
  • Satanic Panic Reemerges In Jimmy Savile Scandal
    Notorious "satanic ritual abuse" psychoanalyst Valerie Sinason, uses the Jimmy Savile scandal to give new coverage of her baseless theories, and the press who once mocked her are eating it up.

Politics in the Zeros

  • Reversal of Fortune: Why the power elite will ...
    When thugs and criminals become the power elite in a country, the populace eventually finds ways of ousting them or they destroy themselves through their own greed and stupidity, says the Gary North at the Tea Party Economist. What’s that you say, you thought all Tea Party people were dro ...
  • Dorner burned, belongings weren’t. Why?
    Why was Dorner’s body burned to a crisp while his driver’s license, jacket, and guns weren’t even singed, asked the No Agenda podcast on last Thursday’s show.
  • Oberlin Ohio now gets 55% of its power from la ...
    Two nearby landfills are now produce 55% of energy for city of Oberlin Ohio. When garbage decomposes, it produces methane, which can be captured and used to create electricity. This is a double win because methane is a potent greenhouse gas. So, instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, it w ...
  • Bipartisan ineptitude on sequester and budget ...
    The Keystone Cops of Washington DC AKA Congress and Obama spring to action to stop sequester crisis. Not only are most politicians in DC hopelessly beholden to campaign contributions they are also hopelessly incompetent and uninterested in serving those who elected them. Congress and Obama have ...
  • Mark Abernathy / Sabre Rattlers Kickstarter ca ...
    Mark Abernathy plays music perhaps best described as Gospel meets Americana; heartfelt, powerful, raw, and on the edge. I’ve seen Mark perform and listened to his CDs. He has a unique talent that more might want to know about. Now you can. Abernathy just launched a Kickstarter campaign to ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Aggressive lotto marketing harms gamblers
    The numbers of people presenting to problem gambling services who cite Lotto as the gambling method that causes harm is no surprise given the changes the Lotteries Commission has brought in over the last few years. Marketing for Lotto has become more aggressive – it’s everywhere – the jackpots a ...
  • General debate, February 17, 2013
  • Workers moving back to 19th Century
    “There are twenty-four hours per day given us; eight of these should be for work, eight for sleep, and the remaining eight for recreation and in which for men to do what little things they want for themselves” So said Samuel Duncan Parnell when he emigrated to New Zealand in 1840 and established ...
  • National’s approach to local government is all ...
    As successive Ministers of Local Government,  Nick Smith and David Carter loudly criticised councils for their debt level and  said councils needed to focus on “core services “ without defining what these were. Last year National made major changes to the Local Government Act so that the purpose ...
  • You can’t live on a precarious wage.
    At the symposium on Precarious Work and the Living Wage in our Communities at AUT today Guy Standing – the author of the 2011 book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class – talked about the way our labour markets have changed over the last few decades and the impact on workers. The Precariat refe ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Does Your Diet Influence How Well You Sleep?
    By Dr. Mercola Too little sleep is known to impact your eating habits, appetite, weight gain and other metabolic functions, but little is known about whether different diets play a role in how well you sleep. A new study evaluated the diets and sleep patterns of more than 4,500 people and fou ...
  • Aspartame Pathway
    By Dr. Mercola The Coca-Cola Company Beverage Institute for Health & Wellness (an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one), has released an “aspartame safety” page that is described as a “resource for professionals.”1 The only problem is that it claims aspartame is ...
  • Biotech Industry Ups Propaganda Efforts with U ...
    By Dr. Mercola For years now I’ve warned of the many potential dangers of genetically engineered (GE) foods, pointing out that such crops might have wholly unforeseen consequences. In recent years, such suspicions have increasingly proven correct, forcing the biotech industry to up ...
  • DOE Submits Plan to Recycle Radioactive Waste ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you had a choice to purchase eyeglasses or a stainless steel water bottle that was either radioactive, albeit only slightly, or not, which would you choose? You would almost certainly choose the non-radioactive product, as it is well- known that no amount of radiation expos ...
  • Fluoridegate—Why is Poisoning of Children Cons ...
    By Dr. Mercola The debate over the dangers of fluoride has been ongoing for more than six decades. Study after study confirms that fluoride is a dangerous, toxic poison that bioaccumulates in your body while being ineffective at preventing dental decay. Dr. David Kennedy’s documenta ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...
  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...
  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...
  • Colombian Indian exhibition showcases most end ...
    ONIC's campaign aims to stop the imminent extinction of Colombia's tribal peoples © Juan Pablo Gutierrez/ONICColombian Indian organization ONIC has launched an international photography exhibition to highlight the desperate plight of Colombia’s indigenous peoples. The exhibition, enti ...
  • Brazil to investigate uncontacted Awá
    It is thought there could be up to 100 Awá who live without any contact with outsiders.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s indigenous affairs department (FUNAI) has announced that it will send a team of specialists to investigate the situation of uncontacted Awá, the world’s most threatened tribe&qu ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • HPV, tetanus vaccines causes deadly new autoim ...
    from naturalnews.com: One of the latest technologies being employed in the production of new vaccines involves the use of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), a type of pathogenic bacteria that mimics the phospholipids naturally found in the human body, as customizable vaccine adjuvants. But vaccin ...
  • The Benefits of Minimally Invasive Dentistry
    from mercola.com: It’s very difficult to achieve high-level physical health if your dental health isn’t effectively addressed. I’ve been involved with alternatives to regular dentistry for quite some time. I think many people fail to appreciate how important dentistry is to our total health. ...
  • Phony patients selling pricey drugs—Part 1
    from intrepidreport.com: It’s happened to anyone who’s attended an open-mic session at an FDA advisory committee hearing. A queue of “patients” materializes out of nowhere to testify, often in tears, about the crucial need for approval of a drug the public has often not even heard of. Sometime ...
  • Windsor votes to remove fluoride from drinking ...
    from windsorstar.com: Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has changed in the last 60 years … fluoride is not the be-all and end-all to ...
  • Morningland Dairy destroyed by feds, $250,000 ...
    from naturalnews.com: There is a reason why America's founding fathers were willing to shed their own blood to gain independence from the crushing authoritarianism of the Crown of England. Nearly three years after first becoming a target for destruction by state and federal government agencies ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains ...
    If the economy is improving, then why are many of the largest retail chains in America closing hundreds of stores?  When I was growing up, Sears, J.C. Penney, Best Buy and RadioShack were all considered to be unstoppable retail powerhouses.  But now it is being projected that all of them will cl ...
  • Who Tells Us What To Think? Does The Mainstrea ...
    Do you believe that you really think for yourself?  Did you come up with your attitudes, opinions and beliefs on your own, or are they continually being shaped and molded by someone else?  Could it be possible that you and everyone around you is actually hooked into a real life version of "the m ...
  • Is It Fair For People On Food Stamps To Buy Pr ...
    Should we all quit working and jump on board the Obama gravy train?  Of course I am being facetious, but when you are barely surviving does there come a point when it just becomes easier to give up and totally rely on the government?  Today, the federal government runs nearly 80 different means- ...
  • Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold ...
    Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old?  What would a "gold for oil" system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy?  Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar?  Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been th ...
  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

  • Big corporations put up seed funding for Repub ...
    A nonprofit that paid for Republican consultants to draw new congressional district maps for North Carolina -- a gerrymander that helped flip the state's delegation to the GOP -- got most of its original funding from big corporations including Exxon, Pfizer and Time Warner. read more
  • Climate change is drowning out 'jobs vs. envir ...
    With the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline intensifying, the old argument that unions must choose between jobs and the environment is losing its grip as climate change becomes more evident and more urgent. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The case for raising the mini ...
    A by-the-numbers look at President Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage. read more
  • The Southern exception
    With North Carolina flipping back into the Republican column, you could say that the new Solid South begins in Henderson, N.C. and ends in Valdosta, Ga., bracketed by Virginia and Florida. read more
  • Watchdog asks Gov. McCrory to disclose value o ...
    The North Carolina governor may soon get to appoint all members of the N.C. Utilities Commission -- even though he's heavily invested in the state's largest regulated utility. Now a watchdog group is calling on him to come clean about just how big those holdings are. read more

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • KDE Plasma Active Running on Nexus 7
    KDE's Spark Tablet running Plasma Active user interface was quite a phenomenon during CES 2012, though there was no trace of it during the just concluded CES 2013. Only recently, we showcased a video of Ubuntu 13.04 running on a multi-touch device, now here comes a new one featuring KDE Plasma ...
  • Steam Linux Client Arrives on Ubuntu Software ...
    This has to be the biggest headline for the month. Gaming on Linux will never be the same again. It all started with rumors, which hinted at Valve's sudden change of mind and its new found love for Linux. This culminated with the eventual release of Steam for Linux client. And now, the Steam C ...
  • Clean Master: One of the Most Useful Free Andr ...
    Freeing up disk space in Ubuntu might be easy. I haven't thought much about doing the same in Android yet though. Clean Master not only has one of the cleanest of designs, it works really well and the app itself is completely free too. Clean Master: Freeing up Disk Space in An ...
  • Ubuntu 13.04 on a Multi-touch Screen
    Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail is still in its alpha state, while its multi-touch capabilities are probably in a very early pre-alpha state. So you can't expect much from a video featuring Ubuntu on a multi-touch screen. Still, worth a watch.  Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail o ...
  • Brand New Unity Mockups Show Some Really Neat ...
    Ever since Canonical introduced Unity desktop, there was no dearth for user-contributed ideas. Some of them were really good too. But over-time, things have changed so much about Unity that most of those mockups became irrelevant. Now, here's a new one that recently came to our notice. Some ve ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • AUSTRIANS VOTE BY TWO THIRDS FOR DRAFT ARMY IN ...
    *Austrians vote overwhelmingly to keep conscription in historic referendum and triumph for direct democracy *Mainstream media propaganda machine suffers death blow as new style of political campaign emerges *Politicians use internet to connect with grass roots, bypass corporate media *Austria&#8 ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...

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Veterans Today

  • Dialogue with a Modern Trypho on Jewish Histor ...
      “There will be no other God, o Trypho, nor was there from eternity any other existing, but He who made and disposed all this universe. Nor do we think that there is one God for us, another for you, but that He alone is God who led your fathers out from Egypt with a [...]
  • Defense Cuts and the Global Empire
    The fundamental distinction between a legitimate national defense and an aggressive global garrison imperium, escapes the political elites. The War Party’s entrenched power and control of their egocentric internationalist foreign policy, endangers the country. Military expenditures have increase ...
  • Robocops ?
      Are police Being Robotized by “Beyond black” High tech Microwave Shoulder Held Communication Systems ? Is there a secret plan deploying sophisticated “Beyond Black”   high-tech pulsed beam microwaves to “robotize” the police in large urban areas, making ...
  • Afghan History Suppressed: Part II: The Saudis ...
    (Part two of a three-part series excerpted from Chapter 8: Project Frankenstein: Afghanistan: Big Oil & Their Bankers… ) by Dean Henderson   In the mid-1980’s the UN tried to broker a peace deal in Afghanistan involving a complete Soviet withdrawal in return for an end to US and Gulf Co ...
  • Afghanistan: Sayed Noorullah Sadat warns Dust ...
    Mazar-e-Sharif The still working chairman of Afghanistan Islamic National Organization blamed the northern alliance backed Gen. Abdul Rasheed Dostum of illegally replacement the party’s leadership and warned him of reveling what had he had done against human rights and other illegal activities.

electric politics

  • A Hermeneutic and an Erotic Philology (of Brig ...
    It's not that Brigitte Bardot brings life to the meaning of the word pulchritude, although of course she does, it's that somehow she forces us to cherish our ignorance of her. A truly rare (and great) gift. And if in the superposition of a spacetime vortex she fundamentally altered the history o ...
  • Wrangling the Facts
    From the earliest times diplomacy has been a balance between honest interlocution and soothing ephemera. The art, some say, of allowing another person to have things your way. And always — always — with an iron requirement for accurate factual appraisal. Ambassador Dan Simpson is one ...
  • Congo Nocturne
    The Europeans required over a thousand years to come up with the European Union (and the EU still doesn't work right). The Congo, approximately the same size as Europe, has never had any history of legitimate, national self-governance. When Europeans started exploring the region in the late 1800 ...
  • On Magical War
    Secure in the ignorance of our traditions we treat war as if it were a game, as if we should try to win when we play. Oorah! But if we think like a human being war assumes a great deal more complexity, indeed, a necessary ambiguity. Dr. David Keen challenges conventional wisdom in a great book, ...
  • Wampum Wranglers
    So Mr. O won't mint the magic coin. He says. Well, good luck to him, then, getting the Southern secessionists to grovel. More's the pity, though, that neither side have a clue what they're talking about. Essentially, they're disputing the finer points of a primitive theory of value: call it wamp ...

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Stop NATO

  • NATO Headquarters: Afghan Defense Chief To Add ...
    Xinhua News Agency February 18, 2013 NATO defense ministers to meet on Afghanistan on Friday KABUL: The defense ministers of the NATO and other troop contributing nations will later this week discuss the situation in Afghanistan, said a NATO spokesman here on Monday. “On Thursday and Frida ...
  • John Dos Passos on Randolph Bourne: War is the ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war John Dos Passos: Three Soldiers Randolph Bourne: Selections on war ==== John Dos Passos From 1919 (1932) Randolph Bourne  came as an inhabitant of this earth  without the pleasure ...
  • Turkey: All Six NATO Interceptor Missile Batte ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization February 16, 2013 All NATO Patriot batteries in Turkey operational The final of six Patriot missile batteries deployed to Turkey was declared operational under NATO command and control on Friday, 15 February 2013. The battery, provided by the United States, is ...
  • U.S. Air Force Delivers 2 Million Pounds Of Ca ...
    U.S. Air Forces in Europe February 15, 2013 2 million pounds of cargo delivered By 1st Lt. Sara Harper 52nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs ISTRES, France: The U.S. Air Force reached a major milestone Feb. 12 when the service hit the 2 million pounds of cargo transported mark during airlift operatio ...
  • Randolph Bourne: Twilight of Idols
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Randolph Bourne: Selections on war ==== Randolph Bourne Twilight of Idols (1917) ==== If you have willed the situation, however, or accepted it as inevitable, it is fatuous to protest against the gay debauch of hatred and fear and ...

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Intel Hub

  • Nat Rothschild May be Suspect in Data Theft of ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com February 18, 2013 For the past year Nat Rothschild has been in the news on a weekly basis, because of the ongoing battle for one of his main mineral resources in Indonesia.  He has already lost a significant amount of money, investors and control, but now Indonesian p ...
  • Pope Allegedly Learned of Arrest Warrant For A ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com February 18, 2013 Since the pope announced his resignation last week there has been a lot of speculation about his motives, and now it is being reported that he may be running from something. According to AddictingInfo.com: “It seems that with his resignation an ...
  • Researchers Claim to Sequence Sasquatch Genome ...
    theintelhub.com February 18, 2013 In strange and interesting news, a team of scientists are claiming to have found proof of an extant human relative by sequencing the alleged Sasquatch genome.  The legitimacy of these findings are up for you to decide…. According to PR Web: “A team o ...
  • Dr. Bob Warrick’s Research of 9/11 Cover ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com February 18, 2013 Tonight on the Bob Tuskin Radio Show we will be covering some of the days top headlines from around the world. Also be sure to catch tonight’s guest, Dr. Bob Warrick. Click here to listen live at 10PM-11PM eastern standard time on February 18, 2013 B ...
  • New Fireball Sightings in Saudi Arabia and Flo ...
    theintelhub.com February 18, 2013 The video at the bottom of the page began to go viral sometime in the past few hours, apparently showing another meteor falling from the sky, this time in Saudi Arabia. There were also similar reports from Miami, According to CBS News: “A strange sight in ...

FRS

  • Strategizing To Defeat Control Unit Prisons An ...
    By Angola 3 News, 15 February, 2013 –An interview with author/activist Nancy Kurshan Author and longtime activist Nancy Kurshan’s new book, entitled Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons , has just been released by the Freedom Archives . Kurshan’s b ...
  • Arundhati Roy on Indian-Pakistani war clouds a ...
    Does Your Bomb-Proof Basement Have An Attached Toilet? An execution carried out to thundering war clouds by Arundhati Roy What are the political consequences of the secret and sudden hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 Parliament attack, going to be? Does anybody know? The ...
  • Tumultuous 60′s: an announcement of a fo ...
    [While many other books on the movements of the 60's and 70's in the US have either ignored or dismissed/denounced the role of Maoism in the United States, this announcement of a forthcoming book, "The Heavy Radicals: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980"  by Aaron Leo ...
  • Tumultuous 60′s: an announcement of a fo ...
    [While many other books on the movements of the 60's and 70's in the US have either ignored or dismissed/denounced the role of Maoism in the United States, this announcement of a forthcoming book, "The Heavy Radicals: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980"  by Aaron Leo ...
  • Indian reactionaries have high hopes for Nepal ...
    [Nepal's UCPN(M), led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Baburam Bhattarai, has now consolidated their abandonment and renunciation of the Nepali revolution and People's War, in a Convention which declared their adoption of capitalism.  Recently, revolutionary activists have broken with the UCPN(M) and i ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...
  • Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
    Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
  • Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
    I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • SOTU: Obama was Right to Call for Nuclear Arms ...
    The U.S. has more than enough nuclear weapons to defend itself, and it has no moral high ground to call on countries like North Korea and Iran to not create any while we hoard and/or build more nuclear weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Feb 13, 2013
  • Dorner Case Tests the LAPD
    It seems an inappropriate time to review the firing of fugitive Christopher Dorner--yet that's what LAPD chief Charlie Beck ordered.Contributor: Anthony Ventre Published: Feb 11, 2013
  • Giffords’ Plea for More Gun Control Legislatio ...
    Gun control legislation won’t solve all of the country’s gun violence problems, but at least laws would put the authorities in the position to enforce tighter measures and make it harder for criminals to get access to certain weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 31, 2013
  • Georgia Storm Warnings Get an “A,” Preparation ...
    Tornadoes struck West Georgia again. The only lesson that seems to have been learned from prior disasters is to provide a ton of warnings. But we had those back then. What we need are protective shelters, not hallways.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Jan 30, 2013
  • Benghazi: Yes, Secretary Clinton, it Does Matt ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to know "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Either the administration had faulty intelligence reporting which needs to be exposed or President Obama lied about Benghazi.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 23, 2013

Popsci - Science

Veterans Today

  • Dialogue with a Modern Trypho on Jewish Histor ...
      “There will be no other God, o Trypho, nor was there from eternity any other existing, but He who made and disposed all this universe. Nor do we think that there is one God for us, another for you, but that He alone is God who led your fathers out from Egypt with a [...]
  • Defense Cuts and the Global Empire
    The fundamental distinction between a legitimate national defense and an aggressive global garrison imperium, escapes the political elites. The War Party’s entrenched power and control of their egocentric internationalist foreign policy, endangers the country. Military expenditures have increase ...
  • Robocops ?
      Are police Being Robotized by “Beyond black” High tech Microwave Shoulder Held Communication Systems ? Is there a secret plan deploying sophisticated “Beyond Black”   high-tech pulsed beam microwaves to “robotize” the police in large urban areas, making ...
  • Afghan History Suppressed: Part II: The Saudis ...
    (Part two of a three-part series excerpted from Chapter 8: Project Frankenstein: Afghanistan: Big Oil & Their Bankers… ) by Dean Henderson   In the mid-1980’s the UN tried to broker a peace deal in Afghanistan involving a complete Soviet withdrawal in return for an end to US and Gulf Co ...
  • Afghanistan: Sayed Noorullah Sadat warns Dust ...
    Mazar-e-Sharif The still working chairman of Afghanistan Islamic National Organization blamed the northern alliance backed Gen. Abdul Rasheed Dostum of illegally replacement the party’s leadership and warned him of reveling what had he had done against human rights and other illegal activities.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • England's Comeuppance to EU Exit: Scots Exit UK
    British politics are weird. No sooner did British Prime Minister David Cameron appease Eurosceptics within his party by promising a referendum on the UK remaining in the EU by 2017 that he warned the independence-minded Scottish National Party (SNP) about breaking away from the United Kingdom th ...
  • Of Quota Reform and American IMF Hegemony
    Two things strike me as notable with the recent news that the US plans to finalize changes in the shares of quotas at the IMF and thus the voting rights there: 1. Given that the US has effective veto power at the IMF by virtue of having more than 15% of quota shares when a quorum of 85% is nece ...
  • Sharia Chameleon: Egypt's Clerics Decide on IMF?
    People who are not distracted by business or trade from commemorating God - Sura 24:37 There's an interesting new complication in Egypt's never-ending quest to obtain IMF loans (which we aren't even sure the IMF wants to give anyway). Islamist lawmakers from the Salafist party want to add even ...
  • More Than WTO, Vatican Needs Third World Head
    Aside from China's arranged leadership succession, there are two more noteworthy ones this year at global institutions. The one we had long expected is that of WTO director-general. Since the WTO's formation in 1995, there has only been one from a developing country, Supachai Panichpakdi of Thai ...
  • Growing Export Markets by Immigration in Canada
    Pro-migration voices like myself usually argue that the exchange of people is mutually beneficial for destination and source countries alike. Destination countries--usually wealthier Western nations experiencing declining birth rates--benefit from having newer workers joining the labour force wh ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains ...
    If the economy is improving, then why are many of the largest retail chains in America closing hundreds of stores?  When I was growing up, Sears, J.C. Penney, Best Buy and RadioShack were all considered to be unstoppable retail powerhouses.  But now it is being projected that all of them will cl ...
  • Who Tells Us What To Think? Does The Mainstrea ...
    Do you believe that you really think for yourself?  Did you come up with your attitudes, opinions and beliefs on your own, or are they continually being shaped and molded by someone else?  Could it be possible that you and everyone around you is actually hooked into a real life version of "the m ...
  • Is It Fair For People On Food Stamps To Buy Pr ...
    Should we all quit working and jump on board the Obama gravy train?  Of course I am being facetious, but when you are barely surviving does there come a point when it just becomes easier to give up and totally rely on the government?  Today, the federal government runs nearly 80 different means- ...
  • Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold ...
    Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old?  What would a "gold for oil" system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy?  Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar?  Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been th ...
  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    It was encouraging to learn today that German researchers working with catholic officials to produce the latest, supposedly independent, supposedly research based support for Vatican lies about endemic child rape by catholic religious have had enough and pulled the plug on the project. Read the ...

WL Central

  • 2013-02-04 Julian Assange receives Yoko Ono Le ...
    On 3 February 2013 at a private dinner at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, attended by more than 150 guests, Julian Assange will receive the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts 2013 for his WikiLeaks work including, amongst other releases, Collateral Murder. This award is ...
  • 2013-02-02 Exclusive: CIA Drug Money Plot to O ...
    WikiLeaks Central presents an exclusive interview with Chilean journalist Patricio Mery, who claims the CIA has been actively plotting to destabilise or even assassinate Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, after US anger over decisions such as the granting of political asylum to Julian Assange an ...
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 14 January 2013 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of statements made by members of the Swedish Executive and government officials on the Assange case. read more
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 28 November 2012 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of links to evidence relating to the existence of a criminal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks. read more
  • 2013-01-02 Inside the Hourglass, A World Risin ...
    With economic and military force, in the last decades the United States has attained sole superpower status in the world. The legacy of the US empire carries a dark history: genocide of natives, slavery of blacks and criminalizing immigrants from the South. None can deny that much of US hegemon ...

U N News

  • Haiti: UN envoy suggests steps to end politica ...
    The United Nations envoy in Haiti today voiced concern at the ongoing impasse in Haiti over the long-delayed elections and outlined several priorities to move the process forward.
  • Global hotspots top agenda as UN chief meets w ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Secretary of State John Kerry held talks in Washington D.C. today on a range of issues, including Syria, Mali and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the United Nations chief stressing the importance of United States leadership in tackling global challenges.
  • Venezuela must release judge who suffered sexu ...
    A group of United Nations experts today urged Venezuela to immediately release Judge María Lourdes Afiuni, who has been in detention for the past three years and was the victim of sexual violence and aggression during the time she was incarcerated.
  • Ban calls for stronger ties between UN and Org ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for increased cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS), stressing that the Americas have much experience and knowledge to contribute to the world.
  • Elections, jobs critical for Haiti's current a ...
    The outgoing head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti says that during his 20-months tenure, security had greatly improved in the Caribbean country, but delayed elections and unemployment still threatened stability.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
    The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
  • CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
    He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Homeschoolers Beware... Eric Holder Says, 'Ban ...
    I read an article written by Michael Farris, the founder and chair of HSLDA – the Home School Legal Defense Association. In it he discussed the case made by government lawyers representing Attorney General Eric Holder during the court hearing for the Romeike family. You may remember the Rome ...
  • Your Hard Earned Money at Work... Taxpayers Fo ...
    Taxpayers will be sending President Obama on his second vacation of the year when he departs Friday aboard Air Force One for a Presidents’ Day Weekend excursion to West Palm Beach, Florida. ~ Related articles read more
  • Gulf of Mexico... Louisiana... Extermination.. ...
    Since the 50's geologists from the USGS, DOI and NOAA have warned about drilling in the GOM due in part to the fragility of the sea floor and sub-sea floor geological composition including volcanos, fault lines -- including the New Madrid...  ~ An execellent explanation and timeline of ...
  • A National Imperative... Impeach Obama Now Bef ...
    Straightaway as president, Obama violated his sacred trust. He betrayed his constituents. He’s a serial liar. He broke every major promise made. He serves illegitimately. He institutionalized tyranny. He’s a war criminal multiple times over. He’s guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. ~ Ste ...
  • Obama's IMPEACHMENT Proceedings Starts Here
    U.S. Federal Court hits President Barack Hussein Obama with three charges of abuse of office. The charges presented are detailed and damning. The indictments assert that President Obama “acted as a dictator” to exceed his powers of office to appoint officials behind the back of Congress duri ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • 15 Reasons Why You Need Food Storage
    Do You Need Food Storage? Listed below are a few things that can and have happened around the world. 1: Severe weather events: A major flood, tornado outbreak, or hurricane will leave people isolated until rescue or repair efforts are successful. This can take days, weeks or longer. Power and ut ...
  • World Health Organization Urges Vigilance Over ...
    Breathe in. Feel the air pass through your nostrils and move into your nose. Your diaphragm contracts, pulling the air deep into your chest. Oxygen floods into tiny cavities in your lungs and travels into your capillaries, ready to fuel every cell in your body. You’re alive. So is that bre ...
  • Heirloom Seeds
    Heirloom Seeds versus Hybrid Seeds Heirloom seeds will produce plants that are the same, year after year. They have the same genetic make up as the parent plant they came from. All generations will produce the same fruit or vegetable and have the same taste that you remember from your grandparen ...
  • Survival Water Storage
    Emergency water storage should be a survival preparedness priority BEFORE you think about storing food. We cannot survive without water for more than a few days, and rarely as long as one week. The human body is approximately 60 percent water by weight. Not only do we get our water from what we ...
  • Survival Tips If Terror Strikes
    EXPLOSION You’re near an explosion. You should cover your nose and mouth with a cotton T-shirt or dust mask right away. Covering your nose and mouth can help avoid exposure to toxic particles or radioactive dust. DIRTY BOMB A dirty bomb is an explosive device that spread radioactive materi ...

Fast Company

  • How One Genius Grant Winner Brought Creativity ...
    How poet Heather McHugh used her MacArthur genius grant to help the unseen armies of people who devote their lives to caring for others. Most creative people would use a $500,000, no-strings attached grant to do something practical for themselves: maybe pay off a mortgage, or fund a resear ...
  • 4 Lessons From The Web’s Most Ruthlessly Addic ...
    With its four-foot-long homepages and hundreds of sidebar images, the Mail Online breaks every rule of web design. It’s also winning the web (and design awards). During the average workday, I allow myself to take a couple “Internet breaks,” little bursts of Twitter and Ga ...
  • LOL+WTF=$: An App That Shows Why Videos Go Viral
    TubeRank promises to show content creators exactly why videos found an audience online. It is, to say the least, an imprecise science. But a new tool promises to bring just that--science--to the art of making a video go viral. TubeRank is a viral-video-making app launched recently by Rubbe ...
  • Get An Up-Close Look At Penguin Life With Shot ...
    A BBC documentary crew tricks a colony of penguins into letting their guard down, with undercover cameras disguised as penguins and their eggs. As any spy or FBI thriller tells us, if you want to infiltrate just about any group, first you have to become one of them. That’s what a gro ...
  • Robots Cut Hospital Infections By 50%
    The Xenex devices use high blasts of UV light to cut back on infections. A robot first introduced in late 2010 has proven effective at helping hospitals cut costs and save lives by blasting ultraviolet light to clean rooms and help prevent life-threatening infections. The UV Disinfection S ...

Jadaliyya

  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (Feb 11- 17)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Mohamed Morsi Mubarak: The Myth of ...
  • Remembering Bloody Thursday
    Today marks the two-year anniversary of “Bloody Thursday,” as 17 February 2011 is now known in Bahrain. The previous day, two days after the uprising began, and two martyrs later, the King allowed protesters to assemble at the Pearl Roundabout. People felt safe and were eager to embrace thi ...
  • Ahram Online Editor Says Brotherhood Drove Him ...
    Prominent journalist Hani Shukrallah said the current Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated administration of the country’s flagship paper Al-Ahram has driven him out of the institution. In a note published on his Facebook page, Shukrallah — the former editor-in-chief of English-language webs ...
  • Exposing Sexual Violence in Morocco: An Interv ...
    [This article features an interview with Moroccan filmmaker and activist Nadir Bouhmouch. See Bouhmouch’s first film My Makzhen and Me here: My Makhzen and Me and a clip for his upcoming film, 475, here: 475]   “The state-backed raping of poor women undermined the class solidarity that ha ...
  • Media On Media Roundup (February 17)
    [The "Media On Media Roundup" is an initiative to survey published material in the news and broadcast media that deals with journalism, coverage, or mass communication practices about the region. The items collected here do not reflect the views of the Media Page Editors or of Jadaliyy ...

mediagazer

  • BBC strike hits flagship TV and radio news pro ...
    Richard Alleyne / Telegraph: BBC strike hits flagship TV and radio news programmes  —  A strike by BBC journalists over jobs disrupted programmes including the flagship Today on Radio 4.  —  John Humphrys and James Naughtie presenting the Today rogramme on Radio ...
  • Finding tools vs. making tools: Discovering co ...
    Nick Diakopoulos / Nieman Journalism Lab: Finding tools vs. making tools: Discovering common ground between computer science and journalism  —  The second Computation + Journalism Symposium convened recently at the Georgia Tech College of Computing to ask the broad question: Wha ...
  • Reader's Digest Files Bankruptcy to Cut $465 M ...
    Dawn McCarty / Bloomberg: Reader's Digest Files Bankruptcy to Cut $465 Mln Debt  —  RDA Holding Co., publisher of the 91-year-old Reader's Digest magazine, filed for bankruptcy to cut $465 million in debt and focus on North American operations as consumers shift from print to el ...
  • *READER'S DIGEST FILES BANKRUPTCY TO CUT $465 ...
    Michael McDonough / @m_mcdonough: *READER'S DIGEST FILES BANKRUPTCY TO CUT $465 MILLION IN DEBT -Bloomberg
  • The Hollywood Reporter Dusts Off Its Party Clo ...
    Brooks Barnes / New York Times: The Hollywood Reporter Dusts Off Its Party Clothes  —  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Janice Min, the editor of The Hollywood Reporter, looked a little dazed as she stood outside Spago the other night.  And so what if she was?  Facing a f ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Mukherjee presents Indira Gandhi prize for pea ...
    Tweet New Delhi, Feb 18 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2011 to Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. Congratulating Bhatt, the President said her life and ...
  • West beats East in NBA All-Star Game
    HOUSTON - The dueling dynamics of nostalgia and novelty permeated this entire All-Star weekend. On the one hand, there were tributes to Michael Jordan, who turned 50 on Sunday. There was appreciation for David Stern, who presided over his 30th and final All-Star Game as commissioner. Fifteen-tim ...
  • Amid nostalgia and tributes, West wins All-Sta ...
    HOUSTON — The dueling dynamics of nostalgia and novelty permeated this entire All-Star weekend. On the one hand, there were tributes to Michael Jordan, who turned 50 on Sunday. There was appreciation for David Stern, who presided over his 30th and final All-Star Game as commissioner. Fifte ...
  • Paul, Bryant spark West
    Limo driver for O.J. Simpson the night of the killings had a quieter life in Paso after the trial UPDATE: 17-year-old Encino girl dies in crash off Highway 1 at Cuesta College Teach school decision might get changed Signs go up warning against overnight parking on SLO streets Spotlight shi ...
  • Wilshere calls on Arsenal to emulate Chelsea a ...
    The England midfielder has urged the club to unite ahead of the visit of Bayern Munich for the first leg of the last 16 tie at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday Jack Wilshere has called on Arsenal to take Chelsea as inspiration and salvage their season in the Champions League as they prepare to fa ...

no frakking consensus

  • The Drama Queen Files – Exhibit #1
    As a writer, I think it’s important to pay attention to the language and the imagery being used in the climate debate. Today I'm launching a new, regular feature on this blog - The Drama Queen Files.
  • Stealing Valentine Candy from Babies
    Conditioning kids to make meaningless sacrifices for Mother Earth isn't the purpose of public education.
  • 500 Blog Posts and Counting
    This blog came into existence because the greens have done their job too well. Their message saturates everyday life to the point where people like me feel compelled to push back.
  • The Workshop Presentation that Never Was
    The BBC African temperature exaggeration is worse that we thought. It also has an IPCC connection.
  • Good News About Polar Bears
    Why don't polar bear activists recognize a success story when they see one?

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/15/13 - Do religious displays on public prop ...
    aclu.procon.org - Do religious displays on public property violate the Constitution? - Read pro and con arguments from the ACLU (pro), Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (con), retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (pro), and the Republican National Committee (con).
  • 2/11/13 - Deaths in the Conflict, 1987-2012
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Deaths in the Conflict, 1987-2012 - View updated charts that show the number of deaths in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 1987-2012, broken down between the First and Second Intifadas and the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed by region.
  • 2/11/13 - Obama Expected to Discuss Israeli-Pa ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Obama Expected to Discuss Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks in First Visit to Israel Since Elected
  • 2/8/13 - Do electronic voting machines improve ...
    votingmachines.procon.org  - Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process? - Find new pro arguments from voting machine manufacturers ES&S, Hart Intercivic, and Scytl; and new con arguments from David Dill of Verified Voting, Dr. Nathaniel Polish from Daedalus Technology Gro ...
  • 2/7/13 - Population Estimates of Undocumented ...
    immigration.procon.org  - Population Estimates of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States, 1969-2011 - View charts and graphs that show the steady rise in the undocumented immigrant population in the United States from an estimated 540,000 people (or 0.3% of the US population) in 196 ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Ashes to Ashes
    “Ashes to ashes” is how Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) John Beddington’s term in office has been coined, as he started with the crisis around the volcanic eruption of ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano and is coming to a close with the issues around Ash die-back disease affe ...
  • Memorable metaphors and the Two-Row Wampum
    There are a few big ideas – or metaphors for them – that tend to resurface time and time again in my mind. Admittedly, these are usually provided by the likes of Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett or Bob Dylan. But more frequently than you might think, the world of science policy offers up ...
  • Cymrodyr Cymru: Carlton House Terrace hits Cardiff
    The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences. This national remit can sometimes be overlooked given how much of our activity takes place at Carlton House Terrace in London. This week I have been reminding myself that the rest of the UK exists by visiting Manchester and Cardif ...
  • Time to get smarter on justifying science spend?
    What are the prospects for UK science? We know that the research budget fared comparatively better than other areas of public spend in 2010 (up to 2014/15) but these are difficult times, and what might happen after 2014/15, and following the next election? In Barack Obama’s State of the Union ad ...
  • Never say no
    On Thursday 7 February 2013, the Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Professor Martyn Poliakoff, and I were privileged to watch the birth of a new tradition at the Tanzania Academy of Sciences. It was the first ever induction of new Fellows since the Academy was set up in 2005, and has quadr ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Fracked to death: how gas companies and their ...
    Explaining coal seam gas and its extraction (Source) Today's show reveals the shocking truth about the toxic, and one might say, genocidal effects of Coal Seam Gas, which is now spreading like a cancer throughout the country in both rural and urban environments. My guest in the second hour i ...
  • Count me out of the Sandy Hook truther movement!
    You know what worries me even more than the predatory agenda of the ruling elites? It's the tendency of truthers to fall into line like lemmings on any given conspiracy, to engage in mass group think and, even worse, the readiness to leap to defammatory accusations about people whom they know ...
  • 3 way discussion on guns, your rights and the ...
    President Obama's attempt to "get tough" on gun control has provoked a massive backlash from the patriot community in the US who are sworn to uphold the 2nd amendment at all costs, even if that means civil war. On today's show we take a long hard look at some of the key questions in the debate ...
  • Lies and cover-ups by the Australian national ...
    Today, in the second hour, we welcome journalist Chris Graham to the show. Chris is the founding editor of the National Indigenous Times and the recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs reporting. In the course of our interview Chris documents a range of ...
  • The pharmacracy exposed, with Thomas Szasz - P ...
    In the second hour of today's show we bring you some audio clips from the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, pyschiatrist, philosopher and intellectual giant of the modern era. Szasz was well known for his critique of biochemical reductionism in psychiatry, but it is interesting to note that he was also a ...

Beacon

  • An Intense Start
    On February 8, Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to explore the waters off of the remote Desventuradas Islands more than 500 miles off the coast of Chile. By documenting marine life and habitat the team hopes to persuade the Chilean government to protect more than 60,000 mi ...
  • Cod's Comeback
    The stately Gadus Morhua. Photo: Wikimedia Commons While things look bleak for cod populations in the United States, particularly on Georges Bank and in the Gulf of Maine where late last month regulators slashed quotas for these beleaguered stocks, cod off of Norway and Russia are providing a ...
  • Protecting Habitat in the Dry Tortugas a Boon ...
    Three hours west of Key West by boat is lonely Fort Jefferson, a Civil War-era fort marooned in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and encrusted in coral reefs. Here the color of the water ranges from cerulean to toothpaste-aquamarine as magnificent frigatebirds, masked boobies, and sooty tern ...
  • Diving into the Unknown
    On Friday Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to explore the waters off of the remote Desventuradas Islands more than 500 miles off the coast of Chile. Already the team is sending back fascinating footage. Below is an expedition journal entry from Enric Sala, National Geographi ...
  • Oceana Visits Dr. Oz
    Oceana campaign director Beth Lowell dropped by the set of Dr. Oz yesterday to talk seafood fraud with the doc in a segment about mislabeled foods. In December Oceana released its seafood fraud report for New York City which found that 39 percent of seafood tested in the area ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • The Long Slide of Another American Media Jugge ...
    THE STORY of print magazines revolves around the rise of digital new media. Michael Wolff explains the other side of the reality, beyond the inevitable, which is the people who helped orchestrate Time, Inc.’s demise. Let it be recorded before the company enters oblivion: Time Inc launched ...
  • Forward On Climate Change Today in DC
    Reading tweets and such, the organizers of today’s Forward On Climate Change actions in DC, and others reporting, are estimating between 35,000 to 50,000 participants. And that’s in some cold conditions. The livestream, or video of earlier livestreaming, can be found here and here. At The Larges ...
  • CNN’s Non-Stop Poop Cruise Coverage Wasn’t All ...
    The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook IN CASE you missed it, though I’m pretty sure you didn’t, a cruise ship from Carnival Triumph claimed non-stop coverage on CNN this past week. It was center ...
  • House Democrats Call On President Obama To Rej ...
    HOUSE PROGRESSIVES and Democrats sent a letter to President Obama opposing entitlement benefit cuts, demanding he reject these cuts at a time when the 1% are the only ones benefiting from the recovery. The press release and letter are below. WASHINGTON—107 House Democrats, a majority of Democrat ...
  • Queer Talk: LGBT Population Estimates By State
    A new Williams Institute study and Gallup poll provides estimates of the LGBT population in each state. Over 206,000 adults were surveyed, with 41 of the 50 states having samples exceeding 1,000. See the list by state at the end of the post. Via the Williams Institute: The percentage of adults i ...

Hudson New York

  • Blaming the Victim
    So much about the rottenness of a culture and a brand of politics can be told from the matter of whom people blame. Strong cultures which know themselves do not find it hard to discern the difference between a firefighter and a fire. Weak, confused and
  • Russian Deployment of Missile Defenses
    Despite its incessant propaganda against U.S. ballistic missile defense efforts, Russia is building a unified "aerospace defense" system aimed at intercepting U.S. ballistic missiles. Russia is now pressing for a legally binding commitment by the U.S.
  • UK Charity Commission Whitewashes Questionable ...
    International Islamic Link is a British charity based in London, and is part of the Babul Murad Centre, an institution strongly supportive of the Iranian regime. Until recently, International Islamic Link described itself as the "office of his eminence
  • Ban Remains on Muslim Prayer in Spanish Cathedral
    A court in southern Spain has acquitted eight Muslims who were accused of resorting to violence to break a ban on Muslim prayers in a cathedral in the city of Córdoba. The church was once the world's second-biggest mosque and remains the single most
  • Freedom of Expression? Not for Palestinians
    In another story the Western media apparently refuses to cover, any Palestinian who dares to criticize Hamas or the Palestinian Authority risks being arrested or summoned for interrogation. Palestinian journalists are now hoping to bring this to the

Urban Survival

  • Tempest in a Tortilla: Immigration
    (East  Ellijay, GA.) Once again, the White House seems to be taking something of a jab at Congress where a bi-partisan bill on immigration has been in the works.  Seems instead of waiting for congressional processes, the WH is about … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Holiday Travels
    (Ellijay, GA.)  I don’t usually don’t wax on about travels, but this being a holiday and all, thought you might enjoy a recap of how our Sunday went as we brought our old Beechcrate east to Georgia for its annual … Continue reading →
  • DA14 & Other Space Goat Farts
    One of my friend Clif’s oddly-named entities in his future-forecasting modelspace has been “space goat farts” which includes odd energy – and things – dropping by from space unexpectedly.  Near as I can figure it, the crash of a huge … Continue reading &# ...
  • Coping: With Life on the Waterfront
    Sometimes Universe presents a wry, often massive contrast, so that plebes can see just how unfairly money is distributed in the world.  This morning’s instructable consists of first reading about the passengers who got off that powerless cruise ship which … Continue reading →
  • Urge to Merge Day
    What could possibly top this in terms of size of merging or co-joining, which there usually seems to be a lot of on Valentines Day as we look at the US Airways/ American Airliners merger?   The main thing which … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • President Obama, Did You Hear Us?: Let's Move ...
    Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. Today, I joined a crowd of more than 35,000 people including thousands of NRDC members and activists at the #ForwardOnClimate rally calling on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, ...
  • More than 35,000 Rally to Protect Our Climate
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. On February 17, more than 35,000 braved the icy temperatures to take a message of hope for our climate to the President’s doorstep. Marching in a human pipeline around t ...
  • Protecting Mother Earth: Forward on Climate Rally
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Despite the cold windy day today, more than 35,000 people came out for the Forward on Climate rally on the national mall to support action being taken on climate change. Groups represe ...
  • Kansas's Renewable Portfolio Standard Is Under ...
    Kimi Narita, MAP Energy Fellow , Chicago In Kansas, the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is under attack.  Two bills, Senate Bill 82, and House Bill 2241 would weaken or repeal the RPS. As background, in 2009, Kansas legislators approved H ...
  • Tesla/NY Times Factual Dispute Reveals Differe ...
    Max Baumhefner, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco Over the past few days, a debate has unfolded between the start-up electric vehicle company, Telsa, and the New York Times on the subject of a test drive that ended with the car running out of ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Holding Bad Cops Accountable
    From the Washington Post: [W]hen I interviewed community members who had filed complaints against officers, I was disappointed to learn that, despite my reassurances and best efforts to conduct impartial inquiries, many complainants believed that a fair investigation was simply … Continue ...
  • New Orleans Cops Caught on Tape
    The police commander says he saw no wrongdoing in the video. Hmm. A few questions: 1. What would have happened if the young man’s mother had not arrived so quickly? 2. What would have happened if she had not been … Continue reading →New Orleans Cops Caught on Tape is a post fro ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, February 14, 2013: Cottage Grove, Oregon: The mother of an elementary school student who says local police coerced her 10-year-old son into confessing to alleged sex offenses is suing … Continue reading →National Poli ...
  • Police Officer Shoots a Trainee
    From the Baltimore Sun: According to sources familiar with the investigation, Kern was at the Rosewood Center for a training exercise when recruits peered through a window from another room. He playfully pointed a weapon in their direction, the sources … Continue reading →Police Offi ...
  • DC Moves to Reduce Wrongful Convictions
    From the Washington Post: Courts and police in the nation’s capital will change how they conduct lineups of suspects, when they notify defendants about informants and how long they retain criminal trial records, all in response to errors that have … Continue reading →DC Moves t ...

Total Collapse

  • Russia Puts Nuclear Bombers On High Alert Over ...
    A truly unsettling Space Forces Command (VKS) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin had ordered a fleet of Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers equipped with Kh-55 nuclear armed cruise missiles to “prepare for strikes” against US targets in the Pacific should Russia be a ...
  • Russia Goes On High Alert After UFO Shoot-Down ...
    A grim report prepared by the Space Forces Command (VKS) circulating in the Kremlin today says that one of its air defense units operating in “high alert”status, and located at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk, fired at and destroyed an “unidentified cosmic object” at an altitude of 20 k ...
  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky denies meteorite, claims ...
    Russian nationalist lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, long known for his flamboyance and outrageous remarks, said Friday that meteorite fragments had not rained down on Russia in the morning, but that the light flashes and tremors in several of the country’s regions resulted from US weapons tests, ...
  • Russian Navy to Get over 50 Warships by 2016
    The Russian navy will receive more than 50 new warships by 2016, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. In the coming three years, 18 surface warships, 30 special-purpose and counter-subversion vessels as well as six multi-purpose strategic submarines will be put into service, the ministry said in ...
  • Obama Warned To Prepare For Hillary Clinton Death
    A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s return to the United States that her health prognosis was “grim” as her likelihood o ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW Daily Dose: Kickstarter goes mobile, Tesla ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, eBay expands in Ireland, Moo and Kickstarter take their business mobile and Tesla spat continues with journalist. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: AOL snags gdgt, Apple loses ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Apple lowers its prices and loses a trademark battle as AOL snags both the GDGT property and several of its former employees. You can catch The... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Tiny modems, original online c ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Broadcom reveals the world’s smallest LTE modem, Spotify expands across Europe and Netflix teams up with DreamWorks Animation to release original content for kids. You can... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook tests ‘ ...
    Facebook tests ‘Buy Tickets’ buttons for events, Kim Dotcom’s Mega pays out for vulnerabilities discovered in its code, and Google’s Solve for X program gets a website refresh. It’s all... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Twitter Search goes ba ...
    Apple may accelerate its dole-out of surplus cash to investors, Twitter Search results finally start to go back further than a week, and Spotify finally lands on Windows Phone 8.... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Don't waste solar energy on coal
    Matthew Wright Port Augusta is the ideal location in South Australia for a solar thermal power plant, due to its very good direct annual solar radiation and its proximity to a strong piece of grid infrastructure that services the old lignite burning power plants that are located there, owned ...
  • Greens push 100pct renewables plan for W.A.
    By Giles Parkinson The Greens Party has unveiled an ambitious new document that outlines possible pathways to turn Western Australia – one of the most energy-intensive states in the world – into one where its stationary energy needs are powered 100 per cent by renewable energy sources in les ...
  • Go LED and kill Hazelwood?
    By Trent Hawkins According to analysis conducted by Beyond Zero Emissions, lighting in homes is responsible for about seven per cent of household electricity use, and around 30 per cent of electricity for commercial and retail buildings. That's quite a large amount of energy use, but it could ...
  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...
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    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Madagascar and Malaysian Borneo nature picture ...
    Yesterday I posted over 10,000 new photos I took during late 2012 in Madagascar and Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. The pictures are available in the picture section of mongabay.com: travel.mongabay.com.
  • Is APP deal a sign of a changing forestry sector?
    Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world’s largest paper companies, announced earlier this month that it will no longer cut down natural forests in Indonesia and will demand similar commitments from its suppliers. The announcement was received with guarded optimism by Greenpeace, Rainfore ...
  • Pictures: 20% of the world's reptiles endangered
    Nearly a fifth the planet's reptiles are threatened with extinction, warns a new assessment published in the journal Biological Conservation.
  • Indigenous knowledge reveals widespread mammal ...
    Over the course of four years, a team of elite Australian researchers journeyed through the remote landscapes of Northern Australia to tap a vanishing resource: the wealth of knowledge carried by the indigenous inhabitants. Their study, published this year in Biological Conservation concludes th ...
  • Will Amazon species lose the climate change race?
    Deforestation could increase the risk of biodiversity loss in the Amazon by forcing species to migrate further in order to remain at equilibrium with changing climates, says new research. "As migration models are made more realistic through the inclusion of multiple climatic, biotic, abiotic and ...

Sierra Express

  • Transforming ‘Aid to Africa’ into ‘Made in Africa’
    As a Sierra Leonean living in the country during and after the decade-long civil war, I know the positive impact of humanitarian aid on the economic growth of a country. In fact, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has launched a challenge to encourage people to tell the world that aid is work ...
  • Sierra Leone Opts to join the Equal Futures Pa ...
    Sierra Leone has opted to join the United States of America, Netherlands and Bangladesh, along with ten other founding members of the Equal Futures Partnership – a United States Government initiative geared towards expanding women’s political and economic participation. The initiativ ...
  • Mobile data revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa will ...
    14 February 2013 – Telecoms markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will be increasingly driven by mobile data during the next five years, because growth in the number of mobile subscribers will slow and voice revenue growth will decline as markets mature and the impact of regulatory and compe ...
  • Sierra Leone’s first northern region female ma ...
    Women in governance have been a major pillar in the running of state affairs in post war Sierra Leone, especially in the last half decade of the Ernest Koroma administration.  In the last five years, Sierra Leone has implemented modifications that seek to trim down gender variation. For instance ...
  • Microsoft engages youth to drive sustainable A ...
    JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, February 14, 2013/ – Unemployment remains rife on the African continent. With almost 200 million people aged between 15 and 24 in Africa today, the youth community represents more than 60 per cent of the continent’s total population and accounts for 45 per cent ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Herd investments lift LIC profit 7.3pc
    Livestock Improvement Corporation, which compensated some farmers for selling bull semen that caused 'hairy calf' mutations, increased first-half profit 7.3 per cent as dairy farmers raised their herd investment, even as farmgate...
  • Theo Spierings: Fund float boosts Fonterra footing
    When the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund made its debut on the NZX last December, the co-operative was finally able to put its capital structure on a firm footing.The fund was launched as part of Trading Among Farmers - a unique structure...
  • Dairy prices up 2.4pc in first GDT auction sin ...
    Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, the first since news emerged last month that small traces of a nitrate inhibitor had been found in some of the company's milk powder. The GDT-TWI Price...
  • Chinese dairy giant enters NZ market with $210 ...
    The establishment of a new player in New Zealand dairy product manufacturing took a step closer today when China's Yashili entered into a conditional agreement to buy industrial land for a proposed infant milk formula plant at Pokeno,...
  • Chinese dairy giant buys land for $210m factory
    China's Yashili New Zealand Dairy Co has entered into a conditional agreement to buy industrial land for a proposed infant milk formula plant at Pokeno, in the Waikato.The company is waiting on Overseas Investment Office (OIO) approval...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Brickbat: In the Back of the Bus
    Police have charged a 10-year-old student from Virginia's Douglas MacArthur Elementary School with brandishing a weapon. The boy showed an orange-tipped toy gun to another student while riding the bus home. The next day offiicals searched the boy's bag, found the toy and called pol ...
  • Steve Chapman on Making Sense of North Korea
    For decades, the United States has employed all manner of strategies to dissuade North Korea from acquiring a nuclear arsenal. All of them have failed. Why? Steve Chapman explains. View this article.
  • Ideology Favored Over Politics by Students at ...
    This weekend Students for Liberty hosted their sixth annual International Students for Liberty Conferencein Washington D.C. The conference brought together liberty-minded students from around the world for training sessions, seminars, lectures, and panel discussions o ...
  • 3 Reasons to Build the Keystone XL Pipeline
    Few energy projects have inspired the level of vitriol surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, that would run 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada through the United States to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The oil sands of Alberta are estimated to hold 170 million barrels of ...
  • Rand Paul: Not Running for President Except to ...
    Senator Rand Paul talked about his potential presidential aspirations on Fox News Sunday today, saying he won’t make an actual decision until next year. Via Politico: "I would absolutely not run unless it were to win," the Kentucky Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "Points h ...

Mercury Rising

  • Christopher Dorner And The LAPD’s Collat ...
    From an excellent Salon piece by David Cay Johnston, in his discussion of the innocent civilians who the LAPD shot up in their quest to take out Christopher Dorner: Tom Bradley raised this problem of police putting their safety ahead of those they are sworn to protect shortly after he was electe ...
  • Unfortunately, probably not
    When one runs across items such as the following, one realizes that there are far worse papal candidates than Cardinal Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI. Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, 62, Honduras. Rodríguez Maradiaga, archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is widely seen as a rising sta ...
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  • Attacking Penny-Ante Cleantech Waste While Ign ...
    This article bashes a battery company that got stimulus money: A company that received $150 million in government stimulus funds to build a facility to manufacture battery cells for electric cars has yet to begin mass-market production and misused some of the funds in questionable labor costs, a ...
  • Murdochgate expands again
    Lisa O’Carroll and Josh Halliday, The Guardian: Six former News of the World journalists, two of whom now work for the Sun, have been arrested by Scotland Yard officers investigating a new line of inquiry in relation to phone hacking. In a dramatic new twist to the phone-hacking scandal on ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Scientists Create Near-Living Crystal
    Physicists at NYC University have this month published the results of their experiment on the lifelike behaviours of a newly-synthesized chemical compound. The scientists' aim was to investigate self-organizing collective behaviours such as those seen in flocks of birds and schools of fis ...
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  • Psi in the News
    Sign up has started for the 56th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, the inventor of Xerox got some inspiration from a seance experience, a new horror movie based on the Ganzfeld experiments hits post-production, and baby chicks get involved with psi experiments at the Instit ...
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  • Methoxetamine
    My friend and I hadn't slept much the night before, and we were pushing the boundaries of good sense when we decided to drive into town from our campsite and ingest what we thought was a modest amount of the unknown white powdered substance, methoxetamine. read more

Desertification

  • Sahel Region Learning to Reap the Benefits of ...
    In Africa’s Sahel region, agroforestry techniques using traditional plantings known as “fertiliser trees” to increase soil fertility, as well as harvesting and grazing regulations, are offering new solutions to both food and human security. Such approaches were nearly lost in r ...
  • Thawing Permafrost May Be “Huge Factor&# ...
    Thawing permafrost is emitting more climate-heating carbon faster than previously realised. Scientists have now learned that when the ancient carbon locked in the ice thaws and is exposed to sunlight, it turns into carbon dioxide 40 percent faster. “This really changes the trajectory of th ...
  • New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civi ...
    The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new oil. Land is the ...
  • World Bank Unmoved on Auditor’s Criticism of F ...
    Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution’s decade-long forest policy, expressing their “strong disagreement” with some assertions in the report. The assessment, written by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the ...
  • OP-ED: Weird, and Getting Weirder
    Weird is the only way to describe January temperatures whipsawing between record warm and arctic cold over a span of a few days. Experts say that is what climate change looks like: weird, record-shattering weather. Here’s a fact that goes beyond weird to astonishing. Anyone who is 27 years ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Ottawa Press Gallery finally catching up on Tr ...
    The disgraceful and obscene amounts of money Liberal leader wannabe Justin Trudeau makes booking himself as a speaker is not newly known as for example, I blogged about it back in July 2010 (see here) Nice to finally see the Press Gallery catch up with us lowly bloggers but now will they also lo ...
  • Far too late for Brits trying to brush off cob ...
    The damage has been done and nothing, absolutely nothing can turn back the clock now. In a way, I am glad that we in North America have Britain and the rest of the EU as examples of what can happen to us  too if  we don't employ and deploy drastic measures with the utmost haste wit ...
  • Musical Performer / Pop Celebrity Beyoncé Know ...
  • "Us as a Couple"
    The following email has been slightly edited in terms of content (in all cases, simply to shield the identity of a person), and has been edited from its original formatting. From: [. . . .] To: dbmoore1972@gmail.com Subject: What we talked about last time Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:20:48 -05 ...
  • "Intellectual Protectionism"
    Anticopyright. by Charles Johnson As originally posted on: Rad Geek People’s Daily February 6, 2013 All of the original work on this website is free content. It’s free content because I am against copyright, and indeed all forms of so-called intellectual property. Copying is not theft, and ...

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CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Spring 2013 Welcome Letter From Dean Mogulescu
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your winter holidays, and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming semester. Whether you are a new or returning student, I am happy to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the Spring 2013 term, and to thank you ...
  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
    In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
  • Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
  • I am a marathoner.
    Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...

Dissident Voice

  • Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
  • The Dawn of Medicare
    A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
  • Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
    In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.”  Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
  • Inflation of the University Degree
    Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
  • After The Fireworks Have Faded
    On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERN&#82 ...

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Vote yes on the fee for renewable energy
The Daily Tar Heel
Since 2003, every UNC student has paid $4 per semester to fund renewable energy and sustainability initiatives at our University. With this fee, students have funded numerous projects on almost every part of campus. Some you can't even see: biodiesel ...
PE investors shift focus to renewable energy sector
Livemint
“While there is muted interest in the conventional utility space, most of the transactions are being done in the renewable space,” said Shubhranshu Patnaik, senior director, consulting (energy and resources) at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd ...
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Tri-State seeks renewable energy bids
Pueblo Chieftain
"Given the recently extended Federal Production Tax Credit and sustained competitive pricing in the renewable energy sector, we felt this was a good time to explore adding an additional project or projects to Tri-State's renewable resource proposal," ...
Ekonom: ČD to pay CZK 682m for renewable energy this year
Prague Daily Monitor
Prague, Feb 15 (CTK) - National rail operator Ceske drahy (CD) will pay Kc682m in support to renewable energy resources this year and it is the highest sum among 20 largest power consumers which will spend over Kc5bn in total for the purpose, the ...
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NRC to discuss possible US Ecology rule changes Thursday in Richland
Bellingham Herald
A meeting to discuss possible changes to rules governing US Ecology, a commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal facility, will be discussed in Richland by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. US Ecology is on land leased by Washington in central ...
at University of Western Sydney
The Conversation
The Institute is seeking to appoint a high quality, energetic researcher with expertise in terrestrial animal biology that reinforces or complements our existing strengths in evolutionary ecology and animal/plant interactions. Applicants with expertise ...
Bay foundation offering ecology course
The Daily Progress
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation offer an adult education course, Volunteers as Chesapeake Stewards, or VoiCeS, from March 5 to April 23. The foundation is now accepting applications for the course, which will be similar to courses offered in Richmond ...
Illegally operating motorboats threaten ecology, human health
Times of India
VARANASI: According to Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) records, there are no motorboats operational in river Ganga. The records of the license department, VMC also say that there are only 438 hand-rowed boats sailing in the river. On the other ...
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Rubio PAC banks $119K from water bottle sales
CBS News
Reclaim America PAC, Rubio's political action committee, has now sold over 4,000 water bottles with the Republican senator's name emblazoned on it, according to Terry Sullivan, a spokesman for the PAC. Sullivan says that comes out to $119,200 worth of ...
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Colombian wife pours boiling water on cheating husbands' genitals
New York Daily News
An angry Colombian wife dumped boiling water onto her husband's genitals as he slept after finding out he had been unfaithful, it has been claimed. Yolivel Lopez allegedly tipped the scorching liquid on top of Nefer Netan's private parts after ...
Conn. nuke plant to seek higher hot water limit
San Francisco Chronicle
Regulators were cool to at least two other suggestions by Millstone Power Station in Waterford to operate with rising water temperatures, according to emails among Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials obtained by The Associated Press through an open ...
Twiggy, the World Famous Water Skiing Squirrel
USA TODAY
Twiggy, the world famous water skiing squirrel, warmed up for her fans with a couple laps around her pool at the Indianapolis Boat, Sport and Travel Show at the Indiana State Fair Grounds. (Matt Kryger / The Star) ...
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