Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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Scoop - NZ

  • Sex scandals: The greatest Papal challenge
    “Paedophilia, homosexuality and violations of celibacy... will be an immense challenge for the new pope,” Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski declared in an interview with business news source money.pl. The priest argued that such scandals represent “not just one of the problems, but the main and ...
  • Latin Leaders face Cancer Epidemic
    .. cancers that have struck other Latin American leaders, including Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, afflicted with thyroid cancer, and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, struck with lymphoma. After beginning peace talks with the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colomb ...
  • Chomsky: US Still Fighting Liberation Theology
    Professor Chomsky wrote to me: “Very few are aware of the war the US waged against the Church after the heresy of Vatican II, seeking to return the Church to the Gospels for the first time since Emperor Constantine. You probably know that I’ve been writing about it for a long time. To closed ...
  • Exodus from Phoenix
    In the coming century, how habitable will parts of the bustling desert Southwest turn out to be? Already, in the face of heat and drought, small numbers of people from small towns in the region are leaving. And this, too, has happened before. There are sobering previous examples of what it me ...
  • Who is Francis I ?
    From the outset of the military regime in 1976, I was Visiting Professor at the Social Policy Institute of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. My major research focus at the time was to investigate the social impacts of the macroeconomic reforms adopted by the military Junta. I w ...

Independent - London

  • Kosovo schools told to ignore 'rock is crimina ...
    Kosovo authorities are telling teachers and students to ignore a paragraph in a high school textbook that labels rock music as criminal. Related StoriesNuptials: Sir Ian McKellen to conduct wedding ceremony of old chum Patrick Stewart in Massachusetts
  • Hidden cameras capture drunken revellers repea ...
    Hidden cameras have caught drunken revellers in San Diego “beating up” mother seals and their newborn pups, forcing the local mayor to close the city's beaches at night.Related StoriesHSBC accused of aiding tax evasion in ArgentinaDeath toll rises after torrential rains cause mudslides in Brazi ...
  • Malala Yousafzai goes back to school in Birmin ...
    Malala Yousafzai, the girl who was shot in the head by extremists in Pakistan after campaigning for education for girls, has returned to school after being treated for her injuries in the UK.Related StoriesBritish charities launch first joint Syria appeal
  • British woman who 'jumped from India hotel to ...
    Key DMK party quits India's ruling coalitionMilitant arrested over 2002 murder of reporterKiller of Irish woman in Japan gets light sentenceChinese fraudster finds there is such a thing as a free lunchNorth Korea hackers suspected after major computer crash in the South
  • Cyprus government discusses 'plan B' after bai ...
    Cyprus stands on the brink of bankruptcy this morning after its parliamentarians voted down a bailout deal that would have taxed ordinary savers yesterday. The decision sets up a showdown with its European creditors who are insisting that the island contribute to its rescue package or risk goin ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Vet who was a saviour in Iraq finally overwhel ...
    He had a knack for soothing soldiers who'd just seen their buddies killed by bombs. He knew how to comfort medics sickened by the smell of blood and troops haunted by the screams of horribly burned Iraqi children. Capt. Peter Linnerooth was an Army psychologist. He counseled soldiers during som ...
  • Dog brings home dead baby In Oklahoma City
    A dog in Oklahoma City came home on Saturday carrying a dead newborn in its mouth. A house sitter, whose name has not been released, was at the home at the time, KOCO reported. The house sitter told KFOR that the dog, a 6-month-old mixed-breed named Luke, showed up at the door with the body of ...
  • Financial dictator of Detroit will institute s ...
    With the appointment of an emergency manager on Thursday, Detroit became the largest city in US history to be taken over by the state government. The new manager, bankruptcy lawyer Kevin Orr, will have vast powers and one essential task: to carry out a brutal assault on the jobs and living condi ...
  • Iraq: War's legacy of cancer
    Contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions and other military-related pollution is suspected of causing a sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases, and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq. Many prominent doctors and scientists contend that DU contamination is also conne ...
  • Cyprus banks 'may never reopen' threatens Germ ...
    Germany's finance minister has warned that it is unclear whether the banks in Cyprus will ever be able to open again. Banks in Cyprus have been shut since Saturday to avoid a run while the tiny Mediterranean country tries to negotiate a rescue for its economy. Wolfgang Schaeuble said two of Cy ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • “Our military is an armed military.”
    That's DefMin Airhow's Spokesspeaker on the rebrand/naming/emphasizing of the Canadian Forces to Canadian Armed Forces, accent on the armed, just in case the Glorious Canadian People forget the military is armed and also because Jean Chretien. OK. I've long been mildly annoyed at the Canad ...
  • PMsh chat with The Spaceship Commander
    Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like throwing-up a little at the very concept?Plus I also want very badly to make a joke about the PM asking the Spaceman about what the underside of the Earth looks like.
  • Airshow...
    ...never ceases to live up to his callsign. "Not my fault" he says over his department's inability to find a replacement for DHC Buffalo SAR aeroplanes. As department head, it is his fault, and the faults of any other ministers of public works and industry involved. It really is embarrassin ...
  • Future perspectives . . .
    THE CRASH AND BURN of the GOP in the US election can be seen as the consequence of the neo-con Dubya regime, which leads me to wonder if future historians will see Dubya as the Mr. Bean of the GOP: the Man Who Made It All Fall Apart. Seriously, post-WW2 American conservatives had ...
  • It's only money . . .
    GAZILLIONS OF BUCKS of world debt, graphically created out of US Benjies for your edification by the folks at DEMONOCRACY. Click on the link for the whole compendium. Ya gotta wonder about the sustainability. Reminds me of Kipling: Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their sm ...

Media Matters for America

  • Where Are The Media's Iraq War Boosters 10 Yea ...
    On the tenth anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, Media Matters looks back at the work of some of the media's most prominent pro-war voices. Instead of facing consequences for backing the invasion based on information that turned out to be false and criticizing war op ...
  • Myths And Facts About Labor Nominee Tom Perez
    President Obama has nominated Tom Perez as Secretary of Labor. Right-wing media used this announcement to push false attacks about Perez based on his service in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and other civil rights work and advocacy.President Chooses DOJ's Tom Perez As Labor Secr ...
  • What The Media Need To Know About CPAC 2013
    The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bills itself as an event convened to "crystallize the best of the conservative thought in America" that will showcase "all of the leading conservative organizations and speakers." Media covering CPAC 2013 should know that the conference's ...
  • The Nine Worst Claims About Guns From John Lot ...
    Gun researcher John Lott's chapter on firearms in his new book titled, At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over The Edge?, is filled with inaccurate claims about guns and firearm policy. Lott makes a range of misleading or blatantly false statements, including that the wors ...
  • Fox Regurgitates False Talking Points To Defen ...
    Fox News host Bill Hemmer advanced a number of false and dubious claims about Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) new budget plan, including that the plan would lower tax rates for all individuals.Ryan Released GOP Budget Plan NY Times: Ryan Releases Budget Plan. The New ...

Global Research.ca

  • False Flags, Fake Media Reporting, Deceiving t ...
    On March 9, 1995 Edward Bernays died at the age of 103. His professional endeavors involved seeking to change popular attitudes and behavior by fundamentally altering social reality.[1] Since he laid the modern groundwork for deceiving the public we are…
  • Self-Determination for Falklands but Nowhere E ...
    Britain is loudly proclaiming that the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands, the South Atlantic island group that is hotly contested between Britain and Argentina, voted 99.8 percent to remain an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister David…
  • Jorge Mario Bergoglio: ¿El Papa de Washington? ...
    El cónclave del Vaticano ha elegido el Cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio como Papa Francisco I ¿Quién es Jorge Mario Bergoglio? En 1973, había sido nombrado “Provincial” de la Argentina por la Compañía de Jesús.Por este cargo, Bergoglio era el jesuita…
  • Crimes Against Humanity: No Amnesty for Guatem ...
    On March 13th the Center of Legal Action in Human Rights, revealed the Court of Constitutionality (Guatemala’s highest court) ruled in its favour, refusing amnesty to Efraín Ríos Montt. The country’s Supreme Court previously denied Montt amnesty. The trial of…
  • Iraq: A War of Aggression. No WMDs, No Connect ...
    From “Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law,”  By Marjorie Cohn, 2007 According to sources inside the administration, George W. Bush was planning to invade Iraq and remove its government well before the terrorist attacks of…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Federal Judge finds TCEQ violated the Endanger ...
    A federal judge has ruled that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was responsible for the deaths of 23 rare whooping cranes in the winter of 2008-2009. Senior U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack in Corpus Christi found that TCEQ’s management of rivers feeding San Antonio and A ...
  • Join us for ACT Lobby day at the Texas Capital ...
    Whether you’re concerned about eminent domain and oil & gas regulations, climate change and the effects of drought on our water supplies, or you’re ready to see Texas move toward a 21st century clean energy economy, the 83rd legislative session presents a critical opportunity to speak up for ...
  • Biofuels: A Natural Energy Alternative
    Chlorella sp. is a species of algae that has a significant proportion of fatty acids to its body mass. For humans, this can be a problem. But, in a world needing more clean energy, fatty biomass is considered a promising option by many scientists and engineers. Why algae? Algae can grow in a bod ...
  • Message to Austin City Council: Make Fact-Base ...
    Would you decide who manages your retirement account by closing your eyes and pointing?  Probably not. Yet, Austin City Council is moving forward with a rash plan to hand over the bulk of its power to govern and oversee Austin Energy to an appointed board.  A well thought-out Austin American-Sta ...
  • Environment Texas launches a Save Texas Rivers ...
    San Antonio Kick-Off is scheduled for Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Whole Foods Market Meeting Room, 255 E. Basse Rd. #130, San Antonio, TX, 78209 RSVP here! This past year, Texas experienced one of its worst droughts: Reservoirs dipped to record lows, and as many as 500 million trees across ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • World's oldest cat turns 27
    A particularly long-lived feline in the UK called Wadsworth has just celebrated his 27th birthday. Wadsworth was adopted by owner Ann Munday in 1986 a...
  • Student invents miracle wound-closing gel
    A New York University student has invented a medical gel that could make conventional bandages obselete. 20-year-old Joe Landolina maintains that his ...
  • Do earthquakes turn water to gold ?
    Earthquakes could play a significant role in the formation of gold deposits, say researchers. Gold is deposited when rock fractures filled with water ...
  • Buzz Aldrin's Apollo notes go on sale
    Notes that Aldrin used during Apollo 11's descent on to the lunar surface in 1969 are to be sold off. The notes include technical instructions as well...
  • Hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils unearthed
    Researchers have discovered large numbers of fossil dinosaur eggs in northeastern Spain. The eggs were found at Coll de Nargo in the Spanish province ...

Grassroots

  • Mayan and Garifuna Indigenous in Belize Demand ...
    cs_org_belize_action_photo.jpg Roughly the size of New Jersey, Belize is one of the smallest countries in Central America. The country is also in the epicenter of the Mayan territory. More than half of Belize’s population of 300,000 are May ...
  • Holding Their Ground
    Subheadline:  Mexican Farmers Fight Back Against Biotech Giants Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Claire Gilbert is a Grassroots International volunteer. ...
  • Honduran Peasants Resist Land Grabbing, Occupy ...
    ofranehwomen-small.jpg Last month, Honduras passed legislation to allow the construction of charter cities in the ancestral land of Afro-descendant Garifunas and peasant communities. read more
  • Insights - Winter 2013: Evaluating our Impact ...
    As people interested in making long term and lasting change, we all need to know if we are on the right path. Do our donations, grants and hours of activism make a difference? And could they be doing even more? These core questions drive the evaluation we do at Grassroots International with each ...
  • Stop the Wall youth coordinator arrested as re ...
    Israeli government repression of Palestinian human rights groups continues with arrest of Stop the Wall Youth Coordinator, Hassan Karajah. At 2:30 in the morning of January 23, 2013, the Israeli military raided the home of Hassan Karajah, Youth Coordinator of Grassroots International partner, S ...

Climate

  • Approving the Keystone Pipeline Won't Bring Ob ...
    (National Journal) If President Obama wants to approve the Keystone XL pipeline as a way of extending an olive branch to congressional Republicans, they are likely to see it as one riddled with thorns. read more
  • In Pictures: Keystone XL Protest at TransCanad ...
    (The Houston Chronicle) Scores of Keystone XL Pipeline protesters, led by the Tar Sands Blockade, protested oustide one of TransCanada's Houston offices.
  • U.S. Northern Plains Sees Corn Boom, Aided by ...
    (Reuters) A combination of a long-term warming trends, improved seeds and soaring profits has sparked a "corn boom" in the Northern Plains that might one day turn North and South Dakota into the new Iowa, analysts say. "All you need t ...
  • European Car-Efficiency Rule Would Cut Fuel Bi ...
    (Bloomberg) A European Union plan to tighten emissions standards on cars would cut auto-fuel costs by almost a quarter in 2030, according to a report e-mailed by a group promoting policies to reduce carbon emissions in the region. Fue ...
  • UK: Move to Drop Debate on Climate Change in S ...
    (Guardian) Educationists and student groups have joined environmental organisations to condemn government plans to drop debate about climate change from the national curriculum for under-14-year-olds in English schools. read more

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Blaming Both Sides
    Here's Charlie Cook, writing a column about the woes of the Republican Party. Driving over to the Gaylords National Harbor Hotel and Convention Center to meet with a campaign manager Saturday afternoon, I passed a group on a street corner advocating the impeachment of President Obama. It was ...
  • Pessimists Get Me Down
    I also noticed that Stu Rothenberg and Larry Sabato wrote bearish articles today about the Democrats' chances of retaking the House of Representatives. I suppose we will read different iterations of those arguments for the next 18 months. Rothenberg's approach is more useful because he looks m ...
  • Ten Years Gone
    Now that we've arrived at the ten-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it's natural for people to look back and analyze how things were and how things have changed. I've noticed quite a bit of self-flagellation from people in the corporate media who were there ten years ago and either did ...
  • 70% of Food Stamp Spending Wasted-Not!
    Bachmann has lied - again. I know, you're shocked. Michelle Bachman recently claimed at the CPAC convention that 70% of all the money allocated to the food stamp program goes to government bureaucrats and only 30% to food stamp recipients. Too bad she forgot to check with the the people who ...
  • Casual Observation
    Donald Rumsfeld should keep his mouth shut and his head down. And he probably ought to avoid foreign travel unless he wants to be aggravated by shenanigans. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Whether it's odd-looking bank notes or dumbass bank robbers, money, money, money is the theme for this week’s compilation of linkage. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Influential Scientists of 2012
    In areas ranging from microbiology and genetics to physics and even filmmaking, these 10 individuals helped push the frontiers of human knowledge in 2012 – and beyond. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Walls Have Eyes: Abandoned Spaces Given Gr ...
    Russian graffiti artist Nikita Nomerz transforms drab and ordinary city structures into wacky works of art... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Breathtaking Snapshots of Supercell Storms ...
    Supercell storms offer some of the most striking and dramatic cloud formations on Earth. Check out these mind-blowing photos by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead for proof. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Another mix of the badass, scandalous and downright bizarre, with topics ranging from deadly prison gangs and healthcare disasters to strange forms of parapsychology. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • LOL wow for the House of Cards: Cyprus bank co ...
    Admittedly this is a little bit speculative but it looks pretty big. lol wow I can't believe they are triggering a huge EU bank run in Cyprus by confiscating big slabs of bank accounts to satiate the European Central Bankers - it's blamed on rich Russians who 'deserve' to have their savings jack ...
  • Stay Fly: Holy Smokes
    Oh I dearly hope this is an authentic photo - isn't it easily the greatest news photograph ever? Floating around, see : Something Out of The Godfather... | E L V O M I T A R . C O M etc. Good luck to the Catholics, they need help like all of us. Regardless, there's no swag like Vatican swag. Th ...
  • City Pages Poll: A time for quixotic votes?
    This is a bit of a joke, but after some really bad turns lately, a friend trying to raise my spirits a bit suggested that it would be a good idea to get people to vote for HongPong.com on Best Local Blog on CityPages. Is this high profile? Not really. Trendy? No. In with the cool cats? Dubious. ...
  • Disgusting new FDA rule change would let toxic ...
    Blah this is just worth posting quickly. There is only one public comment on there right now. I have to say the Federal Register website is markedly better than it used to be, good for them. Saw this via: Activist Post: Aspartame in Milk Without a Label? Big Dairy Petitions FDA For Approval. Als ...
  • Immortal Technique joins Alex Jones
    This makes for some amusing Saturday afternoon viewing -- notable independent hiphop artist Immortal Technique joins Alex Jones for about 1hr20min. Getting right at the issues of Latin America, politics, immigration & moar. Format note: I would say that Jones interviews with a pretty wide cr ...

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IntelNews

  • Saudi Arabia arrests 18 on espionage charges
    Authorities in Saudi Arabia announced the arrest yesterday of 18 people accused of conducting “espionage activities for the benefit of a foreign country”.
  • News you may have missed #827
    Analysis: The spies who fooled the world about Iraq. Syrian officer to auction spy files as general defects. Half a million wiretapped in Turkey in last decade.
  • Israel to push U.S. for Pollard’s release as O ...
    As United States President Barack Obama is preparing to visit Israel this week, several public figures are joining the Israeli government in lobbying for the release of a convicted spy, who betrayed American secrets to Israel in the 1980s. The pressure campaign reportedly includes a symbolic hun ...
  • Alleged coup attempt against North Korean lead ...
    A prolonged exchange of gunfire that took place in the North Korean capital last November was part of a failed military coup against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to intelligence sources.
  • News you may have missed #826 (suspicious deat ...
    Key suspect in Russian spy murder refuses to cooperate. Exhumation of Neruda's remains set for April. Venezuela to investigate Chavez murder allegations.

War is a Crime.org

  • America's Genocidal Iraq War
      America's Genocidal Iraq War   by Stephen Lendman   March 19 marks its 10th anniversary. Permanent occupation is policy. Killing, destruction, toxic pollution, and human misery remain unabated. Pre-2003 Iraq no longer exists.   America's Iraq war is one of history's greates ...
  • Grand Theft Cyprus
      Grand Theft Cyprus   by Stephen Lendman   Cyprus is tiny. Its population numbers about a million. Its GDP is miniscule by Western standards. It's 0.2% of Europe's economy. It's entrapped under Eurozone straightjacket rules.    They impose financial tyranny. Dissimilar ...
  • Syria News - Mar 20
        At least 25 dead in Syrian 'chemical' attack as govt and rebels trade blame (PHOTOS) — RT News U.S. evaluating Syria chemical weapons charges - Reuters Russia says Syrian rebels used chemical arms near Aleppo - Reuters Aleppo medic: Victims - including Syrian regime soldiers and pr ...
  • Escalating Syria's War
      Escalating Syria's War   by Stephen Lendman   Syria is Washington's war. It was planned years ago. At issue is regime change. America tolerates no independent governments. It wants pro-Western puppet ones replacing them.   Death squad terror is policy. Washington upped the ...
  • Peace Groups Declare Opposition to Missile Bas ...
    The Obama administration’s announcement that a “missile defense” base on the east coast of the U.S. will now be studied is the perfect example of a corporate-driven “solution” searching for a problem. The studies have been justified by the supposed “nuclear threats posed by North Korea and Iran” ...

Grist - News

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part 2: Rashid Khalidi Details How the U.S. Ha ...
    As we continue our conversation with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, he explains the thesis of his latest book, Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East . Click here to see part one of this interview. AM ...
  • Transcript: 2003 Charlie Rose Interview with A ...
    Amy Goodman Interviewed by Charlie Rose Wednesday, March 12, 2003 HOST : CHARLIE ROSE GUESTS : AMY GOODMAN CHARLIE ROSE : Amy Goodman is here. She is a journalist; she is the host of "Democracy Now!" — a radio program broadcasting on the Pacifica Radio net ...
  • VIDEO: 2003 Charlie Rose Interview with Amy Go ...
    See Charlie Rose interview Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman about growing opposition in the United States and abroad to a possible war in Iraq. The show originally aired on March 12, 2003. Goodman wrote about the interview in the chapter, "Educating Charlie Rose," in her book, Ex ...
  • Iraq War Timeline: From "Shock and Awe" to Civ ...
    Use this interactive timeline to see highlights from a decade of Democracy Now! coverage of the Iraq War. It was 10 years ago on March 19, 2003, that the United States invaded Iraq on the false pretext that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. Six weeks later, President Bush ...
  • Part 2: Arundhati Roy & Sanjay Kak on Context ...
    In Part 2 of our conversation with acclaimed author Arundhati Roy and New Dehli-based journalist Sanjay Kak they discuss the case of Afzal Guru who hanged last month for his alleged attack on the Indian Parliament, and the push by the United States and Europe to sell weapons to Pakistan and Ind ...

Solari

  • Cyprus’ Savers Bear Brunt of Unprecedent ...
    Photo Credit: Reuters/Yiannis Nisiotis By Annika Breidthardt and Robin Emmott and Michele Kambas The euro zone agreed on Saturday to hand Cyprus a bailout worth 10 billion euros ($13 billion), but demanded depositors in its banks forfeit some money to stave off bankruptcy despite the risk of a ...
  • Quote du Jour
    Insider: “You know what they’re hiding at Area 51?” Richard Doland: “What” Insider: “Trillions and trillions of dollars.”
  • New Laws Take Guesswork Out of Investment Tax ...
    Image Credit: Robert Neubecker By Tara Siegel Bernard Until recently, the tax man rarely held you accountable for how much you profited — or lost — when you sold stocks or mutual funds. Instead, reporting those numbers on your tax return was generally based on the honor system: You reported how ...
  • Coming Clean in 2013
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
    As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari Special Rep ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Collapsible Leaves: Azuma Makoto Fills Japanes ...
    Read the rest of Collapsible Leaves: Azuma Makoto Fills Japanese Department Store With Lush Living Plant Sculptures! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "living wall", Azuma Makoto, botanical art, Collapsible Leaves, eco design, green design, Isetan Shinuku, leaf art, sust ...
  • MVRDV Converts Twin Silos into Gemini Residenc ...
    Read the rest of MVRDV Converts Twin Silos into Gemini Residences on Copenhagen’s Waterfront Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptive reuse, conversion, copenhagen, eco design, gemini residences, green architecture, Green Building, gre ...
  • Joshua Harris’ 3D Clothing Printer Recycles Ol ...
    Excited about that stylish top from J.Crew but wish you could have it for the party tonight? Why not just 3D print it right at home? That’s the vision embodied in a Clothing Printer conceived by industrial designer Joshua Harris. Harris developed the Clothing Printer with a group of collea ...
  • Soundscraper Transforms Vibrations from City N ...
    Read the rest of Soundscraper Transforms Vibrations from City Noise Pollution into Green Energy Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable energy", Cedric Dounval, Design, eco design, evolo skyscraper competition, green energy, Julien Bourgeois, kinetic energy, Olivi ...
  • The Solecan Combination Waste Bin Makes Recycl ...
    Can a simple redesign of the trash can make recycling so easy that everyone will do it? That is what husband and wife team Jeff and Liz Helfrich, asked when they invented the Solecan, a trash/recycling bin made from recycled plastic. The Solecan is a small dual compartment trash/recycle can that ...

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • How We Thought, and Think, About Iraq
    I'll try to work through a number of items on this topic today. Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the start of the ruinous invasion of Iraq. 1. The ongoing effect. A reader in the upper Midwest writes: I still believe that many people, perhaps especially in Washington, don't understand what ...
  • Why Now, Mr. President?
    AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi Some free advice for anyone who lives in Jerusalem and hasn't been invited to meet with Barack Obama: stay out of the city center from Wednesday to Friday. One major artery, King David Street, will be shut throughout the president's visit this week, and parking will b ...
  • US Public Opinion on Drone Strikes
    Although the United States has been killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes in nonbattlefield settings for over ten years, public opinion polling of the controversial tactic began only a year and a half ago. Averaged together, the polls demonstrate that 65 percent of Americans support th ...
  • Top of the Morning: UN Arms Trade Treaty Talks ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest UN Arms Trade Treaty Talks Resume Today The first round of talks fizzled in July, mostly because the US wanted to delay the talks until after the elections. Now, ten days of talks will start again to find a treaty on the conventional arms trade.“Whether the treaty’s ...
  • 10 Years After Iraq
    Fallows has some reflections. All are worth reading, but two particularly good ones: read more

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Don't Give Up on Gun Control Yet
    In the wake of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in December, it seemed that the time had finally come for some real restrictions on the kinds of firearms people can buy. After years of not even bothering to propose new laws, Democrats found their courage and put forward a number o ...
  • War of Cluelessness
    I have a piece at CNN.com today about what the press did and didn't learn from its performance leading up to the war that I wanted to expand on a little. You might remember Donald Rumsfeld's philosophical musings on "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns," which I think offers a good way to loo ...
  • Arizona versus the Right to Vote
    As part of a broader anti-immigration initiative in 2004, Arizona passed Proposition 200, a law requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship before registering to vote. One person affected by this law was Jesus Gonzalez, a custodian and naturalized American citizen who twice had his registr ...
  • U.S. Out of Vermont!
    Flickr/Gwen Roolf Last September, about 60 Vermonters met in the chambers of the house of representatives in Montpelier to celebrate the state’s “independence spirit” and to discuss the goals of “environmental sustainability, economic justice, and Vermont self--determination.” The spea ...
  • Ringside Seat: I'm Not a Wonk. I'm You.
    After Democrats lost the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, many on the left argued that part of their problem was that they approached politics through an often bloodless perspective centered on issues, while Republicans knew it was all about character. As one of us used to say when talk ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Obama ...
    A black Birmingham, Ala., man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to threatening the life of President Obama in a series of tweets, which were intermingled among hundreds of unrelated musings about women, weed and wanting to die. Jarvis Britton, 25, wrote the Twitter threats last year and now ...
  • White Supremacist Brings Racist Filmmaker to T ...
    In recent years, globetrotting white supremacist financier and organizer Preston Wiginton has appeared at racist skinhead gatherings (he won a “strongest skinhead” contest at Hammerfest in 2005); co-sponsored lectures with hate groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens and the Michigan St ...
  • Man with Militia Ties Accused of Obama Assassi ...
    Federal prosecutors are attempting to block the pre-trial release of a Pennsylvania man with militia ties who faces a charge in Texas that he threatened to kill President Obama before or during the president’s inauguration. William Mose Tucker, 20, was arrested in Oklahoma on Jan. 20, a day befo ...
  • Florida ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Killed After Alleg ...
    An armed “sovereign citizen,” accused of printing his own currency and defying government authority, was shot and killed in Florida last weekend after a four-hour standoff with a police SWAT team. Like so many law enforcement encounters with sovereign citizens, the case involving Jeffrey Allen W ...
  • Racist Skinhead Sentenced to Life for Oregon H ...
    A member of a racist skinhead gang has been sentenced to life in prison after confessing to his involvement in a 2012 murder carried out during a home-invasion robbery in Oregon. Robert Paul Smith, 35, pleaded guilty Friday in Eugene, Ore., to aggravated murder, robbery, burglary and being a fel ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Rights Group Condemns Dismissal of Animal Righ ...
    Last night, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), without addressing the central First Amendment question in the case. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) brought the case on behalf of five long-tim ...
  • U.S. Veterans, Iraqi Organizations Demand Just ...
    Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a group of U.S. veterans of the Iraq war and two Iraqi organizations launched the “Right to Heal” campaign, seeking concrete action by the U.S. government to address the human rights and health impacts of the U.S.-led invasio ...
  • North Dakota Doctors Call on Governor to Veto ...
    At a press conference held today, thirteen physicians and other medical professionals in North Dakota called on the governor to veto a law that would ban most abortions in the state and urged the legislature not to pass proposed laws that would ban all abortions, prohibit IVF activities and forc ...
  • Winners of ACTA and SOPA Battles Call for Excl ...
    Planned trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union should exclude any provisions related to patents, copyright, trademarks, data protection, geographical indications or other forms of so-called “intellectual property” (IP), a transatlantic coalition of 45 con ...
  • How the Iraq Invasion Spawned Sectarian War
    Reuters reports: “A dozen car bombs and suicide blasts tore into Shi’ite districts in Baghdad and south of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing more than 50 people on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.”read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Corporate Media STILL Refuse To Cover Progress ...
    Dave Johnson The House Progressive Caucus’ “Back To Work Budget” was announced almost a week ago, and the “mainstream media” still refuse to cover it. So the public doesn’t have the information it needs t ...
  • Corporate Media STILL Refuse To Cover Progress ...
    Dave Johnson The House Progressive Caucus’ “Back To Work Budget” was announced almost a week ago, and the “mainstream media” still refuse to cover it. So the public doesn’t have the information it needs t ...
  • The US Invasion of Iraq Was a Crime and Its Pe ...
    Paul Savoy Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, it is astonishing in a nation dedicated to the rule of law that every aspect of the war has been debated except the relevant law.read more
  • The US Invasion of Iraq Was a Crime and Its Pe ...
    Paul Savoy Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, it is astonishing in a nation dedicated to the rule of law that every aspect of the war has been debated except the relevant law.read more
  • Obama's Israel Trip and the "Middle East Peace ...
    César Chelala As he laid out his agenda for his new term, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government was ready to make a “historic compromise” with the Palestinians, if they were willing to re ...

Water Privatization

  • A chat with a 9-year-old water liberation activist
    I recently caught a video of Sekera-Flanders at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, where he was testifying against the proposed contract between Fryeburg Water Company and Nestle for corporate large-scale water extraction from the aquifer.
  • Groups gear for March 20 protest vs price hike ...
    On March 20, various sectoral organizations will once again take to the streets as they protest the continuing price hikes, privatization of public hospitals and the government’s handling of the Sabah issue. “We are calling on the public to vent out their anger at rising prices, privatization , ...
  • Liquor privatization bill clears Pa. House com ...
    By Brad Bumsted, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review HARRISBURG — A House panel’s vote to get state government out of the liquor business is “a momentous first step to bring Pennsylvania into the ...
  • March 18th is Bottled Water Free Day; thousand ...
    People across Canada and around the world are marking today as the fourth Bottled Water Free Day. Over 25 events are being held across the country highlighting the negative impacts of bottled water , and ...
  • Groups gear for March 20 protest vs price hike ...
    Leaders of different sectoral organizations will once again take the streets as they protest the continuing increase of utilities, oil prices, as well as privatization and the government’s handling of the Sabah issue. In a press conference on March 13, the groups vowed to mobilize the most numbe ...

Guardian

  • Budget 2013: George Osborne's speech - live
    Andrew Sparrow and Graeme Wearden's rolling coverage of George Osborne delivering the 2013 budget and all the reaction to itAndrew SparrowGraeme Wearden
  • Sun deputy editor charged over alleged payment ...
    Geoff Webster due to appear in court on 26 March after information from Operation Elveden investigation led to chargesGeoff Webster, the deputy editor of the Sun, has been charged over alleged criminal offences relating to payments of £8,000 to two public officials, the crown prosecution service ...
  • Irish police officers picket parliament
    Garda union stages demonstration outside Dail for first time in protest at perceived unfairness of public sector pay cutsRank and file Irish police officers have taken the unprecedented step of picketing their own parliament, accusing the coalition government in Dublin of excluding them from a p ...
  • Barack Obama arrives in Israel for first visit ...
    Can Barack Obama do anything to repair his strained relations with Binyamin Netanyahu on his first official visit to Israel? Follow live updatesMatthew Weaver
  • Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Iraq annive ...
    Statement posted on jihadist website says attacks were 'first phase' as Iraqi wing of al-Qaida regains strengthAl-Qaida has claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings and suicide attacks that killed about 60 people on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.Isla ...

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

  • Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai shot in head b ...
    Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin walk to school in Birmingham, central England, on March 19, 2013 as the former returns to school for the first time since she was shot in the head by the Taliban in October ...
  • China urges intl community to increase assista ...
    A senior Chinese diplomat to the UN on Tuesday expressed the hopes for Afghanistan to pursue dialogue and consultations as the way to address the differences, calling on the international community to increase assistance to the Central Asian country.Li Baodong, China's permanent representat ...
  • UNSC renews mandate of mission in Afghanistan
    The UN Security Council (UNSC) Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution to renew the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for another year. "The security council decides to extend until 19 March, 2014 the mandate of UNAMA," reported Xinhua citing the 15-nation council's re ...
  • Mission not accomplished in Afghanistan India ...
    WASHINGTON: India has told the UN Security Council that even after the concerted efforts of the international community from over a decade in Afghanistan, the war-torn nation continues to face an existential threat from terrorism. "We are yet to isolate and root out the syndicate of terrori ...
  • US Lawmakers Experts Discuss Withdrawal of Tro ...
    CAPITOL HILL -- The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has held a hearing on the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan after the planned withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan in 2014. Some lawmakers expressed concern about the impact of U.S. forces leaving, while ot ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Major Victory for SOX Whistleblowers
    Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a major precedential decision in the case of Wiest v. Tyco Electronics Corp., establishing the standards for protecting corporate whistleblowers under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In a 2-1 split ruling, the Court held that corporat ...
  • IRS Tries to Duck Whistleblowers
    Late Friday, the Department of Treasury posted a notice in the Federal Register regarding the IRS's proposed rules for its whistleblower office (26 CFR Part 301 [Reg-141066-09]. The notice announces a public hearing on the proposed rules for the IRS Whistleblower Program. I previously ...
  • MSPB Urged to Retroactively Apply WEPA
    Today the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. At issue is whether the new definition of a protected disclosure set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act w ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final Rules, indiv ...
  • January 2013 Decisions of the Administrative R ...
    The USDOL/OALJ Reporter has published case summaries and case links for cases decided in January 2013 by the Administrative Review Board.  The decisions are found at http://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/ARB/REFERENCES/Caselists/01_2013.HTM

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

  • Flattr Makes It Easier Than Ever To Support Co ...
    We've written about Flattr a bunch of times over the past few years, as we find it to be a really interesting experiment in both micropayments and in supporting content creators. If you're unfamiliar with the concept (which was created, in part, by Peter Sunde from The Pirate Bay), each user of ...
  • DailyDirt: Basic Science Deserves Some Respect
    The National Science Foundation, which funds a lot of basic research at American colleges and universities, is facing a budget cut of $283 million this year, eliminating (up to) ~1,000 research grants. It's a shame because over the years many NSF-funded projects have resulted in discoveries that ...
  • Patrick Leahy Introduces Legislation (Yet Agai ...
    It's been quite a day in terms of news out of DC. We've been talking about copyright/first sale, cybersecurity bills, the CFAA... and now Senator Patrick Leahy, for what feels like the 2,394th time, has introduced a plan to reform ECPA. Like the CFAA, ECPA is an extremely troubling and outdate ...
  • Time To Speak Up About CISPA: We Shouldn't Be ...
    A bunch of groups are teaming up this week to call for a week of action against CISPA just as Congress is gearing up, yet again, to push through this cybersecurity bill based on a lot of FUD, with little to back it up. To be clear, there are a lot of challenges around online (can we dump the st ...
  • The Fight Isn't About Unlocking Mobile Phones, ...
    One of the reasons that we're so concerned about the weak proposals introduced in Congress concerning mobile phone unlocking is that they all seek to add yet another layer of duct tape to outdated copyright law. As we've pointed out for years, every time technology bumps up against copyright, r ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • In the war on the poor, Pope Francis is on the ...
    George Monbiot writes: ‘When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” So said the Brazilian archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara. His adage exposes one of the great fissures in the Catholic church, and the emptiness of the new po ...
  • Beer, mushrooms, and civilization
    The psychiatrist, Jeffrey P. Kahn, suggests that the flowering of civilization may have been fueled by the creation of beer, a practice that could have evolved as early as 10,000 years ago providing occasional relief from the constraints of social conformity. Once the effects of these early brew ...
  • This site needs your support
    “If you are seriously interested in international politics, especially the Middle East, War in Context is one of the best sites on the web. Not only does it say smart things about war on a daily basis, but it also deals extensively with the broader political context in which war takes plac ...
  • Jaron Lanier asks whether we have given up too ...
    The Guardian: Jaron Lanier, groundbreaking computer scientist and infectious optimist, is concerned that we are not making the most of ourselves. In Who Owns the Future? he tellingly questions the trajectory of economic value in the information age, and argues that there has been a fundamental m ...
  • Music: Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate — ‘Ai ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Uh oh, there be grafting in Marcott et al
    Skiphil writes in comments: “…there are some interesting developments in the “Marcott curve” which puts more of the circus in jeopardy. In addition to a new post on CA detailing changes in the core top record, there is this very … Continue reading →
  • Bad Karma? Obama promotes electric cars, but t ...
    Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times Last Friday, President Obama once again pitched electric cars during his presentation at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. At one point, he called for an end to gasoline-powered vehicles, … Continue reading →
  • Don’t let Cook and Lewandowsky see this& ...
    …because you might be accused of participating in conspiracy ideation. Here’s the premise from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: The occasion for their update is a recent report by the Australian Climate Commission, a government body put established to advocate for … Continue reading →
  • A really bad case of ‘stickophrenia’
    Joe Romm is sooo entertaining these days. Yesterday, when I pointed out to him McIntyre’s takedown of Marcott et al, he came to the immediate conclusion that I was an “instrumental record denier”, apparently sent that assertion to Mike Mann, … Continue reading →
  • Why Do El Niño and La Niña Events Peak in Bore ...
    In December 2012, I had begun a series of posts about El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). This post starts the return to them. El Niño and La Niña events typically peak in strength in December and January. Refer to Figure Intro-1. … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Brain Researchers Can Detect Who We Are Thinki ...
    Scientists scanning the human brain can now tell whom a person is thinking of, the first time researchers have been able to identify what people are imagining from imaging technologies. Work to visualize thought is starting to pile up successes. Recently, scientists have used brain scans to deco ...
  • Eating Too Much Salt May Trigger MS Or Another ...
    High salt intake isn’t just a concern for those with high blood pressure or heart disease anymore. Three new studies, published together in the journal Nature, are raising the alarm that eating too much salt may put you at risk for a host of autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis and ...
  • 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 ...

CFACT

  • Fitting the science to the theory on climate c ...
    Although “climate” is generally associated with periods of at least three decades, less than one and one-half decades following mid-1970s “scientific” predictions that the next Ice Age was rapidly approaching, the media trumpeted a new and opposite alarm…a man-made global warming crisis.
  • Wind turbines kill up to 39 million birds a year!
    Not only has the wind industry never solved its environmental problem, it has been hiding at least 90% of this slaughter for decades. In fact, the universal problem of hiding bird (and bat) mortality goes from bad to intolerable beyond the Altamont Pass boundaries, because studies in other areas ...
  • The polar bear invasion
    While many people believe that polar bears are in danger because of global warming, it might surprise them to learn that polar bear numbers have actually quadrupled in recent decades... [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/255/5086.mp3]
  • Who Released The Climategate Emails And Why
    Unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by “Climategate”, I’m referring here to the thousands of leaked email communications between prominent international researchers within the U.K.’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit ...
  • Polluted sludge is solar energy’s &#8220 ...
    By purchasing solar panels for their homes, a growing number of folks are opting for what they think is the Green-friendly option. But according to the Associated Press, there is a dirty side to solar... [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/255/5085.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...
  • Making sense of the news in a new media world
    Years ago there was a criminal case where a crooked cop planted evidence against the suspect even though prosecutors already had a pretty tight case against him. One observer described the police officer’s actions as “framing a guilty man,” and I’ve found that to be a us ...
  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Antibiotic Use On Organic Apples and Pears Pro ...
    When we relish a delicious organic apple or pear, we usually don't suspect we are also ingesting a mouthful of antibiotics. As shocking as this may seem, it's yet another dirty little secret of the certified organic industry in the U.S. Used to control a tree born bacterial infection, antibiotic ...
  • Whole Foods Vows to Label GMOs by 2018: Dr.Mercola
    Whole Foods recently announced the health food giant will make labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients mandatory in its American and Canadian stores by 2018.Click here to read this article
  • The Folly of Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
    Ask any policy wonk, politician or pundit - Republican, Independent or Democrat - about the sine qua non of economic policy, and the chances are pretty good their answer will boil down to one word: growth.Click here to read this article
  • The True Cost of Food: Immigration and Agricul ...
    When Modesto Hernandez, 35, walks these days, he grips the curved handle of a brown metal cane to steady himself. Click here to read this article
  • Iraq: War's Legacy of Cancer
    Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic wastes. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: Rotting Pigs, Airport F ...
    Do ads cause obesity? Here’s a well-written critique of cross-sectional studies of factors associated with obesity that are interpreted to imply causation. To quote, “For every 10 percent increase in food advertisements, the odds of being obese increased by 5 percent.” The author correctly warns ...
  • Immigration Reform, Agriculture and Public Health
    A group of industrial food animal production and processing companies have formed “The Food Manufacturers Immigration Coalition” to encourage comprehensive immigration reform.
  • Links: Rice, Farmers, Drought, and the Fiscal ...
    Women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms. But pervasive discrimination, gender stereotypes and women’s low social standing have frustrated these women’s rise out of poverty and hunger.
  • The Art and Science of Grocery Shopping on a B ...
    Not surprisingly, people were most concerned about being able to provide sufficient quantity of food for their families and still stay within their budget. In other words, keeping hunger at bay was the Number One concern.
  • Mislabeled Seafood: More than Overpaying for F ...
    Many people are interested in the study because consumers are being duped by fraudulent fish, but other impacts of mislabeled seafood are far more worrisome. Certain fish carry advisories, especially for pregnant women and young children, to limit or avoid due to contamination of heavy metals or ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Deadly Bacteria Found in Gulf Coast Tar Balls
    new study, conducted by scientists at Auburn University, confirmed the presence of a bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus. in concentrations 100x that in surrounding waters ( see comments ) blogged oldephartte.blogspot.com/2013/03/15-march-igoogle.html Submitted by John Farnham to Environment &nbs ...
  • NORML: Looking Back at 40-Year Crusade to End ...
    As long as any government can arbitrarily decide which drugs are legal and which aren't, then anyone behind bars for a nonviolent drug offense is a political prisoner. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • CIA evidence exposes greatest climate change error
    Climate modeling changes its basics Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cholesterol : Friend, not Enemy
    how fake science pushes drugs to treat a non-existent problem and perverts healthcare Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Genes from GMO Food Do Wind Up in People
    He may have been disappointed with vegan response to his lifestyle at Care2, but CowBoss still has valuable intel Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   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

  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...
  • Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game
    Whole Foods said out loud what just about every grocery store, supermarket, and big box health food store is really doing – selling GMOs disguised as “healthy” food. You can do it, just don’t talk about it.
  • Food Should Be Made With Love – That’s Real Su ...
    It’s time for a revolution of the personal kind. There is nothing more effective than changing one’s own life by rejecting the artificial and digging in to create a real, honest, down to earth, local living lifestyle. It’s time to put love back on the dinner plate.
  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...
  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Tepco Says Outage Cause at Fukushima Nuclear P ...
    ShareThisTepco Says Outage Cause at Fukushima Nuclear Plant Unknown --Outage was longest affecting multiple units at plant since 2011 disaster triggered three meltdowns 19 Mar 2013 Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it still doesn't know what caused a power outage at four pools used to cool spent nuc ...
  • Anti-whalers return to Australia claiming win ...
    ShareThisAnti-whalers return to Australia claiming win over Japan 20 Mar 2013 The Sea Shepherd anti-whaling fleet docked in Australia on Wednesday claiming victory over Japan, as the activist group urged Canberra to grant fugitive founder Paul Watson free passage into the country. The ships St ...
  • US B-52s imitate nuclear bombing of North Korea
    ShareThisUS B-52s imitate nuclear bombing of North Korea 19 Mar 2013 In a bid to intimidate North Korea and draw attention to the US military’s capabilities, American B-52 bombers - which are capable of carrying out nuclear strikes - are practicing over South Korea. The move is in response to ...
  • Postmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Cris ...
    ShareThisPostmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Crisis of Capitalism By Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. 11 Mar 2013 Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory--an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanal ...
  • US to deploy controversial missile system in R ...
    ShareThisUS to deploy controversial missile system in Romania 19 March 2013 Bucharest says the United States is going ahead with deploying controversial anti-missile interceptors in Romania despite opposition from Russia. Romanian Defense Minister Mircea Dusa says the missile system will most ...

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

  • Seven Myths About “Women in Combat"
    17 March 2013 Published here with permission from the author. Written By: G.S. Newbold, Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret.) Marine photo / Cpl. Jennifer Pirante Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michelle Berglin trains for an upcoming deployment at Camp Pendleton in January. Myth #1 – “It’s about women in ...
  • Under Attack
    13 March 2013 Our website sustains repeated attacks and is frequently offline. We must upgrade the website which requires direct reader support. Please see this, and dig deep! We need it. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-michaelyon-online-com-alive
  • Senate Investigation - Pat Tillman
    12 March 2013
  • FBR: Kachin Update
    FBR Report: Kachin Update – Photo set two; Attacks Against the Kachin are Sporadic but Displacement is Constant Kachin State, Burma 8 March, 2013 One of five camps for displaced Kachin that was visited on this trip Kachin girl in high mountain hiding place Kachin pastor points to Bur ...
  • White Letter 1-13
    05 March 2013

The Killing Train

  • Hugo Chavez, Presente
    I only started paying attention to Hugo Chavez and Venezuela at the time of the 2002 coup. At the time, I was deeply engaged with the Canada Colombia Solidarity Campaign. Friends I was making were on the run, living underground, trying to work in a context of disappearances and massacres, assass ...
  • My lecture at Jamia on Aid Politics and Foreig ...
    The Jamia Journal did a nice little report and audio recording of my lecture on Feb 25/13 in the Poli Sci Department of Jamia Millia Islamia, here in Delhi. You can see it here.
  • Can 1.7 Billion Dollars Imagine Wrong?
    21 February, 2013 Countercurrents.org A review of Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (Penguin Books 2009) If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? It's a daunting task to critique a book by a billionaire. JK Galbraith once wrote that conventional wisdom has it that wea ...
  • 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 ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

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

  • Ten Things to Remember About the Iraq War
    The tenth anniversary of one the nation's longest and most controversial wars has been a very subdued affair which may be highly appropriate considering that the war only ended on December 31, 2011. We may wish to forget that moment ten years ago when President Bush unleashed "Shock and Awe" on ...
  • Not Just Hillary Clinton: Why So Many Republic ...
    Cheney's daughter is an out lesbian, and Mehlman's son is an out gay man. But Americans of all partisan and ideological backgrounds have come to support LGBT rights because of personal connections and experiences. That does not detract from the significance of their commitment to marriage equali ...
  • Dumb Wars, Now and Forever
    It is a staple of our widely trumpeted Judeo-Christian heritage that the acknowledgment of sin is a prelude to redemption. So how is it that there is no palpable sense of soul searching associated with the 10th anniversary of a war based on officially concocted lies and a policy of torture?
  • Ten Years After Shock and Awful
    Another terrible anniversary of the Bush Crime Family's blasting away at Baghdad. An illegal invasion based on phony evidence that attempted to tie Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda and bin Laden (who hated Saddam almost as much as the US) in an opportunistic effort to destroy Iraq in a way Bush the Fi ...
  • A History of Shock and Awe
    On this 10th anniversary, our politicians and pundit-crats are asking us, "Was the Iraq War worth it?" Do these sub-humans want us to file away the Iraq War in our memory banks as if an eight-year-long crime against humanity was some kind of bad investment!? What sort of morally degenerate creti ...

Switchboard

  • Los Angeles will be off coal by 2025 at the latest
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Today the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) Board unanimously approved its plan to get off of coal by 2025 and replace it with cleaner energy. This ...
  • Week of 3/15: Game Changer Awards, fish stocks ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke was quoted in MLB.com’s coverage of NRDC’s Game Changer Awards, commending Bob Nutting and the Pittsburgh Pirates for “leading a cultural shift toward environmental ...
  • New study strongly supports connection between ...
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC A new study from economists at University of North Carolina found very strong evidence to support the idea that a homeowner with lower energy expenses will be a better mortgag ...
  • Hiding the Impacts of Climate Change in South ...
    Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. As a near native of the Palmetto State, I often find myself reminiscing about the many years I lived there.  From my childhood in Mauldin (near Greenville), to high school in Hartsville (near Flo ...
  • How Will the Senate Health Committee's Three-A ...
    Mae Wu, Program Attorney, Washington, DC We’ve got front row tickets to a three act play being put on by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and so far it would be comical if it weren’t so sad. Act One: ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Well, that Didn’t Work Out
    Losing to Robert Morris as the #1 seed on the opening night of the NIT… not what the good people of the Commonwealth had been hoping for. … remember to fill out an LGM Tourney Challenge bracket. Password “zevon”.
  • You Gotta Own That
    I’ve never actually read How Would a Patriot Act, or assessed the claims that Glenn was pro-Iraq War, until today: During the lead-up to the invasion, I was concerned that the hell-bent focus on invading Iraq was being driven by agendas and strategic objectives that had nothing to do with ...
  • The Real Story Behind Abigail Fisher
    This is a good expose of the real story behind Abigail Fisher, the lead plaintiff in the case attempting to destroy the remnants of affirmative action in higher education admissions. In short, Fisher was a respectable but hardly exceptional student who simply did not have the grades or SAT score ...
  • Wise Words
    I thought it useful to reprint part of Senator Gaylord Nelson’s speech from the first Earth Day, in 1970: I congratulate you, who by your presence here today demonstrate your concern and commitment to an issue that is more than just a matter of survival. How we survive is the critical ques ...
  • How to remove a ring from your finger without ...
    [An astute reader brought the sad tale of Alfredo Malspini III to my attention, and lest any of you shoot off a finger to spite a ring, I thought I'd share some practical advice about ring-removal that I wrote up a few years back.] There you are on a Saturday night, futzing with your wedding [...]

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI tasked as technical lead to implement Reno ...
    This morning a team of IBM experts from around the world, who have been leading Reno’s Smarter Cities Challenge for the last three weeks, presented their recommendations to the region’s political, educational and business leadership.
  • Noah Fraser, Mar. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate S ...
    Meet Noah Fraser, a Ph.D student in hydrologic sciences. His current area of study involves utilizing high resolution datasets of ephemeral streams to analyze flooding in non-instrumented river basins across the Southwestern U.S.
  • Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Majority Leader highli ...
    Senator Reid discusses the success of DRI's GreenPower Program and its K-12 teacher training workshops specifically.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • SEC nominee flies through Senate committee, wi ...
    A Senate committee today voted 21 to 1 in favor of Mary Jo White to serve as the new head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with one lone holdout -- Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, who objected to White's Wall Street ties.
  • BP asks judge to block 'absurd windfalls' to o ...
    Lawyers for BP's U.S. subsidiaries have asked the trial judge to halt payout of Deepwater Horizon oil spill claims under its $7.8 billion settlement, citing potentially billions of dollars in "absurd windfalls" to businesses with fictitious losses.
  • Supreme Court to make audio recordings of same ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday announced it will make audio recordings of next week's same-sex marriage arguments available for same-day access from its website. The court said it will post the audio recordings and the unofficial transcripts as soon as the digital files are available for uplo ...
  • Judge brushes aside fears over animal-terroris ...
    A Boston federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by animal rights activists who challenged the constitutionality of a federal law criminalizing violence and property damage against animal-related organizations and the people who work for them.
  • Court douses class action plaintiffs in Standa ...
    Plaintiffs' lawyers in proposed class actions cannot avoid federal courts by promising to seek less than $5 million in damages, according to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New Carbon Storage Method Reduces Earthquake R ...
    A team of researchers says it has demonstrated a method of underground carbon storage that reduces the risk of triggering earthquakes, a safety concern cited by some scientists about the emerging field of carbon capture and sequestration. While often cited as a potentially key option in reducing ...
  • New Chinese Premier Vows to Tackle Pollution W ...
    China’s new premier, Li Keqiang, has vowed aggressive government action to curb the rampant pollution that has provoked growing public outrage, saying the country would phase out “backward production Getty Images facilities” that have contributed to dangerous health conditions in numerous regio ...
  • Can a Divestment Campaign Move the Fossil Fuel ...
    U.S. climate activists have launched a movement to persuade universities, cities, and other groups to sell off their investments in fossil fuel companies. But while the financial impact of such divestment may be limited, the campaign could harm the companies in a critical sphere — public opinion ...
  • Obama Unveils New Actions To Combat Climate Ch ...
    Making good on his promise to fight climate change more aggressively in his second term, President Obama is unveiling two major initiatives to reduce the U.S.’s reliance on fossil fuels, including a new $2 billion Energy Security Trust to fund the next generation of green vehicles, as well as n ...
  • U.S. Grants Will Promote Small-Scale, Modular ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week announced a new series of cost-sharing grants to promote the development of small-scale, factory-made nuclear reactors, an emerging energy source that Obama administration officials say could help replace the coal-fired plants expected to cease opera ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Bee venom may kill HIV
    A paper published in the current issue of Antiviral Therapy suggests that bee venom may be the next line of defense against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. While research is in its preliminary stages, there may be reasons to be optimistic. According to specialists at Washington University Schoo ...
  • Human chromosome much older than previously th ...
    A newly discovered chromosome places the most recent common ancestor for the Y chromosome lineage more 100,000 years before the oldest known anatomically modern human fossils. UA geneticists have discovered the oldest known genetic branch of the human Y chromosome – the hereditary factor determi ...
  • Stonehenge started as huge graveyard, say rese ...
    British researchers have proposed a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge: It may have started as a giant burial ground for elite families around 3,000 B.C. New studies of cremated human remains excavated from the site suggest that about 500 years before the Stonehenge we know today was built ...
  • Whole Foods Vows to Label GMOs by 2018
    Whole Foods recently announced the health food giant will make labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients mandatory in its American and Canadian stores by 2018. (Whole Foods stores in Great Britain already require GE foods to be labeled.) Many expect other retailers to follow suit. Desp ...
  • France Proposes New Rules for Internet Equal A ...
    The French government on Tuesday called for a law requiring Internet service providers to give all the traffic on their networks equal priority, saying existing rules were insufficient for protecting free speech online and ensuring fair competition among Web publishers. The proposal would mark a ...

Russia Today

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Not My Tribe

  • Robert Bales still not tried due to continued ...
    — Remember, after all this delay, the US war criminal Sgt. Robert Bales? Only with the most twisted thinking can anybody call this swift and real justice for the multiple Afghan civilians Bales murdered in cold blood, and most probably with the help of multiple fellow US soldiers who have ...
  • American press hides away (for Obama) news abo ...
    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ The US propaganda system sure aids out in assisting the US government and US military in their continued torture of people who have been convicted of no crime, as is the case with many of the POWs (‘detainees’) held by the Pentagon on Cuban territory in its concentr ...
  • US government can’t get it’s puppe ...
    The US government and allies, despite pumping big money to its puppet candidate named Capriles, cannot seem to gather much more than the support of only about 1/3 of the Venezuelan electorate. The only campaign platform of D.C.’s man Capriles is anti-communism and red baiting, and that is ...
  • Do you call yourself a ‘Progressive&#821 ...
    — Just what in the world does that nonsensical term ‘progressive’ mean in America these days? This headliner Counterpunch commentary spells the answer to that question out quite clearly… The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats
  • Tofu, Anybody?
    Soy, soy, soy. Unless I grew upon land planted with soy… Argentina’s Bad Seeds The country’s soya industry is booming, but what is the impact on Argentinians and their land?

Debunking the Debunkers

  • http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2013/03/debunking-debunkers-i-have-created-this.html
    DEBUNKING THE DEBUNKERS I have created this note as a way to quickly look back at debunker claims and how they don't hold water. This is one of the best sites that debunks the debunkers..... DEBUNKING THE DEBUNKERShttp://911debunkers.blogspot.nl/ DAVID RAY GRIFFIN Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An A ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers Poll ...
    Did the attacks of 911 receive inside help? Click at the top of the right side column. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 
  • Remo Conscious - Welcome to the Aftermath - Do ...
    Here is the video made for the track by http://911debunkers.blogspot contributor Adam Taylor. A video of truth and justice. Plain and simple. Clips from Fabled Enemies, Terrorstorm, and Loose Change. Song: Welcome to the Aftermath by Remo Conscious
  • The Energetic Red Layer: The FTIR
    Harrit et al. announced in 2009 that the dust from the WTC buildings contains remnants of active thermitic material that must have been used to demolish them in 2001. They state that the red layer of their chips is actually composed of grains of nanothermite embedded within an energetic organic ...
  • The most honest three and a half minutes of te ...
    Published on Jun 26, 2012 Beginning scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America's Not the Greatest Country Any Longer... But It Can Be.

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

  • Grupo San José investors lobbied over 'hiding ...
    Guiejna, an Ayoreo woman forced to flee her house as bulldozers started clearing her forest home.© Survival InternationalShareholders in Spanish construction giant Grupo San José have been urged to withdraw from the company after satellite images revealed the involvement of its subsidiary in the ...
  • Guarani anger over teenager's death
    Guarani Indians have traveled to Brasília to warn of the violence they are forced to endure. © MPFGuarani Indians have traveled to Brazil’s capital, Brasília, to warn of the ‘complete disrespect’ and ‘permanent human rights violations’ they are suffering as a wave of death and violence has swept ...
  • Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
    The abundant resources of their forest home provide the Matsés with a rich and varied diet.© James Vybiral/SurvivalAmazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés In ...
  • Sri Lanka: Survival calls on UN to stand up fo ...
    Many Wanniyala-Aetto have been fined for hunting in their forest. Some have even been shot dead.© SurvivalOn March 15, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will discuss the human rights record of Sri Lanka, during which the country is likely to come under severe criticism for serious hu ...
  • Venezuela: Yukpa Indian leader murdered
    Yukpa leader Sabino Romero was murdered following his campaign for his people's land rights© Homo et NaturaSabino Romero, a prominent Yukpa leader and activist was murdered on 3 March in the Sierra de Perijá, the mountainous region of west Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Venezuela’s ...

Greg Palast

  • Hugo Chavez vs "The Network"
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine London, February 2002. A tiny, dark and intense woman waited at the end of a lecture until I was alone, brought her face strangely close to mine and whispered, “President Chavez needs you. Right now. To Caracas. Right now. You must come to see him.” President Who ...
  • Fukushima: They Knew
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" Two years later, the Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN An excerpt from Vultures' Picnic by Greg Palast I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the n ...
  • Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi Amigo
    By Greg Palast For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today. As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, is offering the film, The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, as a FREE download. Based on m ...
  • How Do You Steal a Dream?Supreme Court hears s ...
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, “Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps” Sign the petition to Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act - here. Jim Crow is alive and well — and he [...]
  • Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act: Protect ...
     Sign this petition RIGHT NOW at Care2. Dr. King's Dream Act is under attack. On Wednesday February 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the law's requirement that states with a history of Jim Crow voting rules let the Justice Department review new voting procedures. This is the o ...

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

  • Dachel Media Update: Big Job in MI, FL Support ...
    By Anne Dachel Mar 18, 2013, MLive.com: Lt. Gov. Brian Calley: Helping those with autism is a 'big, big job' for Michigan Mar 18, 2013, TV8 Grand Rapids: MI Autism Spectrum Disorders State Plan Mar 17, 2013, Florida Times-Union: Group...
  • Tennessee Action Alert: HB288 Jacob Nunley Ac ...
    From Autism Action Network (find them on FB at Autism Action Network.) The Tennessee legislature is considering a bill HB288, the "Jacob Nunley Act", that would require mandatory bacterial meningitis shots for students at public universities and colleges (but not...
  • Dachel Media Update: Awareness, Caged Child, L ...
    By Anne Dachel Mar 17, 2013, Lafayette LA Advertiser: Autism events to raise awareness, funds this weekend Mar 17, 2013, The (Oshkosh WI) Northwestern: Family reaches beyond autism Mar 16, 2013, ABC6 Columbus OH: Autism Lawsuit Mar 15, 2013 Fox8...
  • Dr. Tom Insel on Autism: "If There Is a True I ...
    By Anne Dachel For several years now I've been following Dr. Thomas Insel's work as head of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. I've also looked at his lectures on autism. In 2009, Insel spoke at MIT. He talked about the...
  • Update on The Greater Good Movie
    By Anne Dachel I had a chance to speak with writer/producer Leslie Manookian of the phenomenal movie, The Greater Good, and she was thrilled to share that they have begun collaborations with thousands of chiropractors across the nation who will...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...
  • Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game
    Whole Foods said out loud what just about every grocery store, supermarket, and big box health food store is really doing – selling GMOs disguised as “healthy” food. You can do it, just don’t talk about it.
  • Food Should Be Made With Love – That’s Real Su ...
    It’s time for a revolution of the personal kind. There is nothing more effective than changing one’s own life by rejecting the artificial and digging in to create a real, honest, down to earth, local living lifestyle. It’s time to put love back on the dinner plate.
  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...
  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Blood test tracks cancer
    Nature – A blood test for DNA shed by dying tumour cells might one day be used to track a patient’s response to therapy, results from a pilot study in breast cancer suggest. The technique would provide an alternative to invasive biopsies that retrieve tumour tissue for analysis. The ...
  • US, NZ call for giant Antarctic Marine Park
    SMH - US Secretary of State John Kerry called for establishing the world’s largest protected marine area in Antarctica and urged stronger global safeguards for oceans.  Kerry and New Zealand’s ambassador to the US, Michael Moore, announced yesterday a joint New Zealand-US proposal to establish a ...
  • Obama Nowruz message: Iran must ‘reduce ...
    BBC – He said increased trade and better ties with other nations would benefit the Iranian people, but warned proceeding on the current path would result in deeper isolation. Read article
  • MoD admits campaign in Afghanistan is ‘a ...
    Independent – British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan are part of a campaign that attempted to “impose an ideology foreign to the Afghan people” and was “unwinnable in military terms”, according to a damning report by the Ministry of Defence. The internal study says that Nato forces have ...
  • Dozens killed in Nigeria bus park explosions
    Aljazeera – Five explosions at a bus park in northern Nigeria’s main city of Kano have killed at least 25 people in an area where the rebel group Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against the government, a Reuters report said. The blasts on Monday destroyed several buses filled with ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • Happiness in Selvi’s House
    Selvi is 37 years old and lives in Karattai Village in Vannur block, in Tamil Nadu. She and her husband work as agricultural laborers and have two daughters in school.
  • Support builds for the Strike
    More and more celebrities are supporting Matt Damon in his toilet strike protesting the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for billions.
  • Spring Catchment in Haiti
    A spring is water that reaches the surface from an underground supply, appearing as small water holes or wet spots on hillsides or along river banks. In order to "catch" the water for use, the spring must be capped, allowing the water to pool up into the cement block. In this photo you can see t ...
  • A WaterCredit Pilot
    Christine Mbati has three children and was recently widowed. She is a member of the K’Obonyo self-help group and lives at Ulanda village.
  • 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.

Cryptogon

  • MoD Flies Emergency Cash to Cyprus for British ...
    Via: BBC: An RAF plane carrying 1m euros is flying to Cyprus from Britain as a “contingency measure” to provide military personnel with emergency loans, the Ministry of Defence said. The money is to be used for British personnel and their families if cash machines and debit cards sto ...
  • Test of Anthrax Vaccine in Children Gets Tenta ...
    Oh sure. Via: Reuters: A presidential ethics panel has opened the door to testing an anthrax vaccine on children as young as infants, bringing an angry response from critics who say the children would be guinea pigs in a study that would never help them and might harm them. … Under a 2005 ...
  • Feds Investigating Microsoft, Partners Over Fo ...
    Via: ZDnet: US federal authorities are reportedly investigating an alleged bribery scheme involving Microsoft and its partners in China, Romania and Italy, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. According to the paper, the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission ...
  • National Planning Cyprus-Style Solution for Ne ...
    We have always assumed that a total loss of deposits was possible with New Zealand banks. So, *meh* Via: Green Party: The National Government is pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts, th ...
  • New Zealand: Possible GM Outbreak at Lincoln U ...
    Via: New Zealand Herald: The Government is investigating a potential outbreak of genetically modified fungus at Lincoln University. Two secured laboratories and a greenhouse have been locked down as the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) checks the biological scare. Lincoln University researc ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Will The Banking Meltdown In Cyprus Be A &#822 ...
    Cyprus lawmakers may have rejected the bank account tax, but the truth is that the financial crisis in Cyprus is just getting started.  Right now, the two largest banks in Cyprus are dangerously close to a meltdown.  If they fail, depositors could end up losing virtually all of their money.  You ...
  • The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery Shows That No Ba ...
    The global elite have now proven that when the chips are down they are going to go after any big pile of money that they think they can get their hands on.  That means that no bank account, no retirement fund and no stock portfolio on earth is safe.  Up until now, most people assumed [...]
  • After The Banksters Steal Money From Bank Acco ...
    Cyprus is a beta test.  The banksters are trying to commit bank robbery in broad daylight, and they are eager to see if the rest of the world will let them get away with it.  Cyprus was probably chosen because it is very small (therefore nobody will care too much about it) and because there [...]
  • 17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression ...
    When you get into too much debt, eventually really bad things start to happen.  This is a very painful lesson that southern Europe is learning right now, and it is a lesson that the United States will soon learn as well.  It simply is not possible to live way beyond your means forever.  You can ...
  • Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt: 10 Hilari ...
    They didn't see it coming last time either.  Back in 2007, President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and just about every prominent voice in the financial world were all predicting that we would experience tremendous economic prosperity well into the future.  In fact, as late as Janu ...

Desertification

  • Threat of Water Scarcity (Worldwatch Institute)
    Read at : http://www.worldwatch.org/looming-threat-water-scarcity?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+worldwatch%2Fall+%28Worldwatch+Institute%29 The Looming Threat of Water Scarcity Some 1.2 billion people—almost a fifth of the world—live in areas of physical wate ...
  • The MonQI Toolbox for monitoring small-scale a ...
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List The MonQI Toolbox for monitoring small-scale agricultural enterprises: Basic Course Are you involved in natural resource management or farming system research? We would like to draw your attention to an upcoming course & ...
  • ‘Nano-tablet’ purifies water (SciD ...
    Read at : http://www.scidev.net/en/sub-suharan-africa/news/cheap-nano-tablet-purifies-water-for-up-to-six-months.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_news Cheap ‘nano-tablet’ purifies water for up to six months by Munyaradzi Makoni Researchers have developed a ...
  • Three-quarters of Asia-Pacific nations ‘ ...
    Read at : http://www.scidev.net/en/south-east-asia/news/three-quarters-of-asia-pacific-nations-lack-water-security-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_news Three-quarters of Asia-Pacific nations ‘lack water security’ Prime Sarmiento and Shaira Panela [MANILA] ...
  • Biofortification of cereals to overcome hidden ...
    Read at : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pbr.12040/abstract;jsessionid=527E14D3839AA147E24363832A40D8F3.d04t03 Biofortification of cereals to overcome hidden hunger Abstract More than 60% of the world population suffers from iron deficiency, and over 30% of the global population has ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – The House of Commons ...
    By Nathaniel Moher As most of you know, I’m still waiting for my appointment to the Canadian Senate (ever since giving up any hope that I’ll be appointed Governor General). That’s mainly because I want a job that lasts forever (even after I misuse tens of thousands of dollars in housing subsidie ...
  • Steve’s soldierly pantomime
    By Montreal Simon Ever since he came to power Stephen Harper has tried to use the military for crass political purposes. First he wanted to use it to change his image from nerdy policy wonk to Great Warrior Leader. And when that failed miserably, for obvious reasons, he set out to change the mil ...
  • Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and G ...
  • Flanagan, Porter, Brazeau, et al.: The company ...
    By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, ”His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and ...
  • Is Google making us less lituritt?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Today is Family Literacy Day in Canada, an initiative organized by ABC Life Literacy Canada, which encourages families to incorporate reading and other literacy-related activities into their daily routines. There’s no question that developing literacy in children i ...

libcom

  • On rape, cages, and the Steubenville verdict - ...
    CNN.jpg Mia McKenzie from Black Girl Dangerous on the Steubenville rape verdict, and CNN news lamenting the "ruined lives" of the rapists, with no mention of the survivor at all. Trigger war ...
  • Hodgson, Keith, 1962-2013
    An obituary for Liverpool-based anarchist and antifascist Keith Hodgson, who sadly died on 23 February 2013. Keith Hodgson, long time activist in the Liverpool anarchist scene, died on Saturday 23rd February 2013, aged 50. Keith, like ...
  • The rebellion contained: the empire strikes back
    eastflatbush5.jpg Will from the east coast revolutionary collective, the Fire Next Time, analyzes the ongoing events in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Last night the Empire struck bac ...
  • La démolition du logement social ? - Radical I ...
    Pruitt-igoe1.jpg The Radical Islington pamphlet "The demolition of social housing? The state attack on tenants & tenancies" has been translated into French! Here it is.
  • A disabled person’s open letter to PCS general ...
    Mark.jpg An open letter to the general secretary of the UK civil servants' union from a disabled activist who was reported to police by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). ...

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

  • CBS in Arizona is Not Ignoring the “Big ...
    Its amazing how the media shapes and molds public opinion.   They are skilled at spin doctoring truth and hard facts away from public scrutiny. The FACTS about Obama are: 1. He literally came out of nowhere to the garner the international celebrity status of the POTUS. 2.  His meteoric rise can ...
  • A Complete Outrage – We Give Israel Enri ...
    Check out this story. Nuclear waste from Israel is most likely being stored here in Utah at Energy Solutions. So let me get this straight. The US gives Israel roughly $30 billion per year, which includes enriched uranium and plutonium as well as the “Iron Dome” missile system, and in ...
  • The Jesuit Pope From Argentina – His Sec ...
      TIME Magazine’s declaration is 100% accurate – the NEW WORLD [Order] Pope indeed. Notice the Jesuit logo featuring the pagan SUN GOD and the three nails.  The Hebrew symbol for NAIL is also the number SIX.  Three nails in Hebrew literally means SIX, SIX, SIX. Keep in mind that ...
  • Bizarre Disney Film Pulled Quickly From Public ...
    Watch as Disney CEO Edomite Eisner announces the Alien Agenda with a knowing gleam in his eye. Watch as Robert Urich narrates the show and tells many truthful secrets – specifically that UFO activity began in earnest following the Nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Watch as Disney “Im ...
  • The Sum of All Fears: CPS – Is That Chil ...
    “And Jesus called a LITTLE CHILD unto Him, and set him in the midst of them [His Disciples] and said:……… ‘whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • CAD Design- Shady Jacks Saloon New Bar Design ...
    Project Notes / Must Haves Additional Room for the Newly Added Alcoholic Beverage Dispensers Create a User Friendly area for the Bartenders with the addition of additional beer coolers under the lower shelf Decor Must Match Existing Finishes Materials Used 2″x20″x14′ White Oak ...
  • Karmic Korner-Grand Opening Invitation
    Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy will be at Karmic Korners Grand Opening today at 3131 Morgan Ford, St Louis MO from 11:00 AM-8:00 PM. Everyone is invited to see the: Solar Cells, Green Building, Natural Products, Home Made Wares, Up-cycled Items, Natural Beauty Supplies, Art and mo ...
  • All American Pledge
    Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy took the All American Pledge have you?   Find Professionals Who Have Taken The 5% Pledge Take The 5% Pledge American-Made Products Directory Manufacturers List Your Products Financial Aid Programs Learn More About Our InitiativeBlog Social Donat ...
  • Breaking News: Groups say Ameren Missouri prof ...
    "…utility’s own financial data show that it earned millions of dollars more than authorized in 2012. And that was before the Public Service Commission approved a $263 million increase that took effect in January…" On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Fair Energy Rate Action Fund ...
  • FREE EBook-Clean Energy-Wind,Solar,GEO Thermal
    If you have ever wanted to learn about Solar, Wind, GEO Thermal, and other clean energy producing systems now is your chance with this free EBOOK offering Green Power Homes – Quick And Easy Guide to Wind, Solar and Geothermal Energy-Kindle Edition- By: William Dollinger Get the Free EBOOK ...

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

  • Blatant Censorship at OpEd News
    Guest post by Joan Mootry Below is a comment Joan Mootry had censored when she attempted to post it at the “alternative” news site OpEdNews.  As she notes below, only Part 1 was printed. Part 2 was deleted. Be sure to check out the articles and links at the end. ...
  • Farrakan's Political Evolution
    Below is a fascinating excerpt from Part 8 of Louis Farrakhan’s lecture series The Time and What Must Be Done. Farrahkan is the present leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), best known for its most famous member Malcolm X. It’s been more than ten years since I heard Farrakhan speak ...
  • Why Bitcoins Have Doubled in Value
    At $43 US, the Bitcoin has more than doubled in the last twelve months.  According to Zero Hedge, this mainly relates to a 55 page report the European Central Bank published in October, expressing concern that the bitcoin’s popularity represents a potential threat to the reputati ...
  • Bitcoins: Good as Gold?
    Bitcoins are a safe decentralized currency that’s  ideal for businesses and consumers alike because it’s controlled by the people who use it, rather than banks. Hate banks? Fed up with Wall Street incompetence and criminality? Concerned the impending economic col ...
  • The Woman Who Tried to Stop the War on Iran
      Below is a mind boggling half hour Press TV documentary about former White House adviser Gwynneth Todd. In it she briefly describes the battle she, and others in the Pentagon establishment, waged to fight efforts by AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) to provoke a U ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Hold Your Own 10th Anniversary 'Bowling for Co ...
    Please check this page frequently for updates all week This coming Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine' winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary. To mark the date, Michael is hosting a screening of the film in New York City &nda ...
  • Jeffrey Toobin on Sandra Day O'Connor's 'Regre ...
    From NPR's Fresh Air With Terry Gross, March 6th, 2013: TERRY GROSS: So finally, since I did just talk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday, I want to ask you about something that I asked her, which related to something that you had said. And in one of our previous interviews when you and ...
  • Left on the Cutting Room Floor of 'The Gatekee ...
    On February 28th, 2013, Dror Moreh, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Gatekeepers,' spoke with Dave Davies of NPR's Fresh Air about what he wasn't able to include in the film due to time constraints: DAVE DAVIES: I know that you talked to these gentlemen a long time, and there m ...
  • Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Ta ...
    [View the story "Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Talks About American Consumerism on Twitter" on Storify]
  • Statement of Emad Burnat, Co-Director of '5 Br ...
    Emad Burnat released the following statement in response to a second Buzzfeed story about his detention with his family at Los Angeles International Airport while en route to the 2013 Oscars. When I arrived at LAX with my 8 year old child and wife, excited to attend the Academy Awards, the las ...

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

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • New European Commission Report Finds That Pira ...
    The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, part of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, just published a new working paper [Scribd] entitled "Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data." This report demonstrates that online 'piracy' does not ...
  • Woman who lost downloading case says she can't ...
    Thomas-Rasset's attorney, Kiwi Camara, of Houston, expressed disappointment in the outcome but hinted in an email that the legal options may not have run out. He noted that Tenenbaum's case remains live before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Tenenbaum is still challenging the size of the ...
  • Plans for releasing Swartz evidence
    In a letter this morning, MIT's president announced plans to make requested Swartz-related evidence public, with names redacted to "protect the privacy and safety of those members of our community." However, much of this information is already publicly known and has been published by The Tech an ...
  • DoJ, SEC investigating Microsoft over bribery ...
    The US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating Microsoft after a former company representative made allegations that the company paid kickbacks to government officials in China, Romania, and Italy to secure software contracts, the Wall Street Journal re ...
  • Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, pass ...
    "In my eyes, for such an important company, this is a big fail," Jens Steube, the creator of ocl-Hashcat-plus said of the discovery he and beta tester Philipp Schmidt made last week. "Nowadays everyone in the security/crypto/hash scene knows that password hashes should be salted, at least. By no ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Did anyone believe Democrats would fight for a ...
    Silly you, if you did.
  • Reverse Grafitti – Removing grime to create art
    Welcome to the world of reverse graffiti, where the artist’s weapons are cleaning materials and where the enemy is the elements: wind, rain, pollution and decay. It’s an art form that removes dust or dirt rather than adding paint. Some find it intriguing, beguiling, beautiful and imaginative, w ...
  • Mommy’s Little Monsters. Steubenville girls ar ...
    Is Steubenville so bereft of anything positive that the football team and their convicted felon rapists must be defended against everything? The girl threatened to kill the victim on Twitter, telling her “you ripped my family apart,” the attorney general’s office said. Actuall ...
  • Cyprus to reject bankster imposed tax, the pea ...
    Eurozone finance ministers AKA banksters are so distant from the real world they were supposedly “stunned” by the backlash over their arrogant, greedy attempt to tax Cyprus bank accounts in order to siphon money to them and the big banks. The “bank holiday” was supposed ...
  • Scoble dumps Apple for Android and Google Glas ...
    Uber-geek Robert Scoble is switching to Android and leaving Apple behind. The primary reason is Google Glass. He’ll be getting one shortly and it simply works better on Android. He says that while his new Motorola Android phone looks clunkier than an iPhone, it doesn’t matter. With ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Māori Electoral Option starts next week
    The Māori Electoral Option is the opportunity for those of Māori descent to choose which type of electoral roll to be on for voting in the next two General Elections – the Māori roll or the General roll. This chance doesn’t come around very often – the Option is only held after a Cen ...
  • Miners Oppose My Rivers Clean Up Bill
    Last week the Local Government and Environment Select Committee started hearings on my Resource Management (Restricted Duration of Certain Discharge and Coastal Permits) Amendment Bill. Most of the submissions support the Bill because it will clean up rivers and provide certainty, however not th ...
  • It’s been a good week for sharks.
    Over the past couple of weeks, the parties of the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species or better known as CITES have been meeting in Bangkok to discuss the worlds endangered species. On the agenda were a number of proposals relating to elevation of the endangered status fo ...
  • Urban Trees Please
    The fate of trees in urban areas will be before select committee this week when hearings start on National’s Resource Management Act Reform Bill 2012. (The Bill is the second stage of Government’s efforts to weaken the RMA. The third phase changes are set out in the RMA discussion document out f ...
  • General debate, March 17, 2013

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • 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.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Are Nightmare Bacteria Coming to a Hospital Ne ...
    By Dr. Mercola Infections associated with antibiotic resistant “super germs” are increasing in hospitals across the United States. First it was MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), once rare but now far too commonplace in medical settings. Although mortality r ...
  • TV Ads for Statins Drive Overdiagnosis and Ove ...
    By Dr. Mercola The United States is one of only two countries, the other being New Zealand, that allows drugs to be advertised on TV, and it’s not difficult to understand why nearly every other country has given such ads the boot. As with all commercials, the ads are intended to infl ...
  • Whole Foods Vows to Label GMO’s by 2018
    By Dr. Mercola Whole Foods recently announced the health food giant will make labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients mandatory in its American and Canadian stores by 2018. (Whole Foods stores in Great Britain already require GE foods to be labeled.) Many expect other retailer ...
  • Exposing Yourself to Light at Night Shuts Down ...
    By Dr. Mercola Can reading yourself to sleep or texting into the wee hours of the morning raise your risk of cancer? You bet it can. Exposing yourself to artificial light at night shuts down your body’s production of an important hormone called melatonin. Melatonin has roles in c ...
  • Nutritional Adjuncts to the Fat-Soluble Vitami ...
    By Christopher Masterjohn The “K” in “vitamin K” stands for “koagulation,” the German word for blood clotting. From its discovery in the 1930s through the late 1970s, we knew of no other roles for the vitamin. The 1990s had come and nearly gone by the ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Grupo San José investors lobbied over 'hiding ...
    Guiejna, an Ayoreo woman forced to flee her house as bulldozers started clearing her forest home.© Survival InternationalShareholders in Spanish construction giant Grupo San José have been urged to withdraw from the company after satellite images revealed the involvement of its subsidiary in the ...
  • Guarani anger over teenager's death
    Guarani Indians have traveled to Brasília to warn of the violence they are forced to endure. © MPFGuarani Indians have traveled to Brazil’s capital, Brasília, to warn of the ‘complete disrespect’ and ‘permanent human rights violations’ they are suffering as a wave of death and violence has swept ...
  • Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
    The abundant resources of their forest home provide the Matsés with a rich and varied diet.© James Vybiral/SurvivalAmazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés In ...
  • Sri Lanka: Survival calls on UN to stand up fo ...
    Many Wanniyala-Aetto have been fined for hunting in their forest. Some have even been shot dead.© SurvivalOn March 15, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will discuss the human rights record of Sri Lanka, during which the country is likely to come under severe criticism for serious hu ...
  • Venezuela: Yukpa Indian leader murdered
    Yukpa leader Sabino Romero was murdered following his campaign for his people's land rights© Homo et NaturaSabino Romero, a prominent Yukpa leader and activist was murdered on 3 March in the Sierra de Perijá, the mountainous region of west Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Venezuela’s ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • It’s Time to Change American Disease-Managemen ...
    from mercola.com: I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes of Americans at large. Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from their health care, compared to other ...
  • Robobees
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Harvard: Overview of the Micro Air Vehicles Project INSPIRED by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior … we aim to push advances in miniature robotics and the design of compact high-energy power sources; spur innovations in ultra-low-power computi ...
  • Why Is the CEO of the Global Anti-Poverty Grou ...
    from civileats.com: In its continuing frenzy to silence potential critics, Coca-Cola issued a press release recently that announced the following: "Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., has been nominated to stand for election to the Company’s Board of Directors at its Annual Meeting of share owners ...
  • Homeless Houston Veteran Ticketed for Dumpster ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: News92FM: A homeless Navy veteran faces up to a $500 fine for dumpster diving in downtown Houston. Veteran James Kelly was cited for “disturbing the contents of a garbage can” on Thursday morning of last week in front of the Hobby Center. Matt Sampsell repo ...
  • 15-Year-Old Invents New Test for Early, Reliab ...
    from mercola.com: Pancreatic cancer is a devastatingly fatal form of cancer, and is typically regarded as the most deadly and universally rapid-killing form of cancer. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute,1 an estimated 45,220 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this ...

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

  • Will The Banking Meltdown In Cyprus Be A &#822 ...
    Cyprus lawmakers may have rejected the bank account tax, but the truth is that the financial crisis in Cyprus is just getting started.  Right now, the two largest banks in Cyprus are dangerously close to a meltdown.  If they fail, depositors could end up losing virtually all of their money.  You ...
  • The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery Shows That No Ba ...
    The global elite have now proven that when the chips are down they are going to go after any big pile of money that they think they can get their hands on.  That means that no bank account, no retirement fund and no stock portfolio on earth is safe.  Up until now, most people assumed [...]
  • After The Banksters Steal Money From Bank Acco ...
    Cyprus is a beta test.  The banksters are trying to commit bank robbery in broad daylight, and they are eager to see if the rest of the world will let them get away with it.  Cyprus was probably chosen because it is very small (therefore nobody will care too much about it) and because there [...]
  • 17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression ...
    When you get into too much debt, eventually really bad things start to happen.  This is a very painful lesson that southern Europe is learning right now, and it is a lesson that the United States will soon learn as well.  It simply is not possible to live way beyond your means forever.  You can ...
  • Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt: 10 Hilari ...
    They didn't see it coming last time either.  Back in 2007, President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and just about every prominent voice in the financial world were all predicting that we would experience tremendous economic prosperity well into the future.  In fact, as late as Janu ...

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

  • FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: Women and ...
    A story in a 1977 issue of Southern Exposure reported on how in the midst of the Great Depression Jessie Daniel Ames organized a mass "revolt against chivalry" that linked the anti-lynching campaign with the struggle for sexual emancipation. We share it today in honor of International Women's Da ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Follow the drone money
    In the wake of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) filibuster this week raising concerns about the Obama administration's policy on the domestic use of drones against U.S. civilians, we take a by-the-numbers look at U.S. drone use and drone makers' political clout. read more
  • VOICES: Scarlet Letter licenses? Give me one, too.
    North Carolina will soon begin issuing driver's licenses to undocumented youth with a pink banner and bright red letters that say "NO LAWFUL STATUS" and "LIMITED TERM." Jeff Shaw with N.C. Policy Watch tells state transportation chief Tony Tata why he wants one, too. read more
  • Lawsuit seeks withheld information about leaki ...
    Clean water advocates have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard over its refusal to release public records about a chronic leak from Taylor Energy oil wells off the Louisiana coast. Caused by an underwater mudslide during Hurricane Ivan, the spill has been foul ...
  • New battle over voter ID in the South
    Once again, Southern states are pushing to enact new voting restrictions including voter ID laws. But has the public debate changed? 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

  • Ubuntu 13.04 Default Wallpapers Released [Down ...
    We have a winner or should I say winners? During every release cycle, Canonical conducts a wallpaper contest on Flickr through which they select the final set of default wallpapers for Ubuntu. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail was no different and user submissions crossed 300 mark even though there ...
  • Minuum Keyboard Project: Taking Conventional O ...
    An interesting project recently popped up in indiegogo.com, one of the many KickStarter-like crow-funding alternatives out there. It's called The Minuum Keyboard Project and the promoters are hopeful of reinventing on-screen keyboards of the kind currently available in smartphones. Minuum Keyb ...
  • Open Source Ubuntu Speech Recognition App is S ...
    Ubuntu Speech Recognition app is shaping up nicely. During the first video preview of the Ubuntu Speech Recognition software, author did promise open sourcing of the app. He has kept his promise. Ubuntu Speech Recognition is now open source and is licensed under GNU General Public License Vers ...
  • 9 Highest Grossing Smartphone Apps of All Time
    Third-party smartphone apps have been there from the early Symbian days. But the revolution really took off with the arrival of iOS and Android. Android and iOS with their centralized app store concept managed to attract tons of users as well as developers. Apps can be clubbed into 3 differe ...
  • Looks like Lightworks for Linux Beta is Almost ...
    Video editing software are not a rarity in Linux. OpenShot and Kdenlive are two good examples. But when it comes to professional grade video editing software, Linux lacks good alternatives. But according to redshark news, that is all going to end now. Lightworks for Linux is not a distant drea ...

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 ...
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    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 ...

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