Wednesday, March 20, 2013

20 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

NATO Summit in Riga, November 2006
NATO Summit in Riga, November 2006 (Photo credit: www.guigo.eu)

PR News

  • Survey: CEOs long-term thinkers, poor communic ...
    NEW YORK: More than six in ten (61%) international consumers believe business leaders take into account long-term goals when making decisions, according to the second annual Ketchum Leadership Communications Monitor survey.
  • Trulia names Shuman VP of comms
    SAN FRANCISCO: Real estate website Trulia has promoted Ken Shuman to VP of communications.
  • MBS Value Partners opens Brazil office
    SAO PAULO: IR and financial communications firm MBS Value Partners has opened an office in São Paulo, Brazil.
  • SportAccord teams up with Burson
    LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: SportAccord, the international organization that represents Olympic and non-Olympic sports federations, has formed a strategic partnership with Burson-Marsteller.
  • British Virgin Islands review North American PR
    TORTOLA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board is reviewing submissions for PR representation in North America to promote the territory as a travel destination.

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Job Opportunity: Stakeholder Communications Co ...
    Position:  Stakeholder Communications Coordinator Organization:  Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area ...
  • Summer Job Opportunity: Environmental Technici ...
    Position:  Environmental Technician Organization:  Eagle Point – Blue Rapids Parks Council ...
  • Edmonton Water Week
    Edmonton Water Week 18 Mar 2013 (All day) - 22 Mar 2013 (All day) From the Edmonton Water Week website: Edmonton Water Week is a full week of events to mark World Water Da ...
  • Seedy Sunday
    Edmonton Seedy Sunday 17 Mar 2013 - 11:00 - 16:00 seed swap • ​community organizations • seed vendors • crafts for kids •&n ...
  • Government updates "Guide to Preparing Environ ...
    Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Attention EIA wonks, and anyone interested in the environmental assessment and approvals process in Alberta: Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development has updated ...

Stop NATO

  • 80-Member NATO Delegation Attends Armed Forces ...
    The Peninsula March 20, 2013 Nato gets information about region from Qatar: Official By Azmat Haroon NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomes Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani at NATO Headquarters in March 2012 Doha: Nato receives importan ...
  • Georgia: U.S. Marines Launch Month-Long Milita ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia March 19, 2013 The Georgian-U.S. Military Exercise Agile spirit 2013 Started An official ceremony to mark the opening of the joint exercise Agile Spirit 2013 of Ministry by the Ministry of Defence of Georgia and United States Department of Defence has been organize ...
  • NATO Approves Georgia’s Latest Annual National ...
    Trend News Agency March 19, 2013 NATO approves Georgia’s Annual National Programme N. Kirtskhalia Meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission in Tbilisi in November 2011 Tbilisi: NATO has approved the Annual National Program (ANP) of Georgia for 2013. According to the Office of the State Minister on ...
  • Mark Twain: Man is the only animal that deals ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Mark Twain: Selections on war ==== Mark Twain From Man’s Place in the Animal World (1896) The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the onl ...
  • Top Military Commander: NATO Ready For Libya-S ...
    Stars and Stripes March 19, 2013 Stavridis: More direct engagement by US could turn tide in Syria By John Vandiver STUTTGART, Germany: Adm. James Stavridis, NATO’s top military commander and head of U.S. European Command, told lawmakers Monday that a more aggressive posture by the U.S. and its a ...

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Intel Hub

  • New Zealand Government Now Planning a Cyprus-S ...
    JG Vibes | The National Government are 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, the Green Party said today.
  • NATO Cyberwar Directive Declares Hackers Milit ...
    RT | As the United States and its adversaries move from using missiles to malware on its targets, a group of specialists have drafted preliminary guidelines for the world’s ramped-up cyberwars.
  • Tennessee Bill Would Abolish Civil Forfeiture
    Human Action Network | A new bill would eliminate civil forfeiture in Tennessee. Unlike criminal forfeiture, under civil forfeiture police do not need to convict or even charge a property owner before seizing his property.
  • U.S. Government to Fight for Warrantless GPS T ...
    Don Reisinger | The Obama Administration is headed to court today to argue that warrantless GPS tracking is just fine.
  • Cops: U.S. Law Should Require Logs of Your Tex ...
    Cnet | AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to capture and store Americans' confidential text messages, according to a proposal that will be presented to a congressional panel today.

FRS

  • Over 200 arrested in annual Montreal police br ...
    Nelson Wyatt, Canadian Press | March 15, 2013 [THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz - At an anti-police brutality demonstration in Montreal on Friday March 15, 2013. Police used horses, pepper-spray and kettling tactics to clamp down Friday on an annual protest that has a history of "getting row ...
  • New Release “Let Your Motto Be Resistanc ...
    [We have received the following message from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, announcing and detailing the release of a new organizing manual for community self-defense.  When many reform activists continue to appeal to oppressive institutions to solve the problems of repression and oppression ...
  • Indian state attacking villages, homes, school ...
    [Note:  The "Janatana Sarkars" are collective forms of political and economic organization of the adivasis (India's indigenous peoples) who have organized themselves under the leadership of the Maoists. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————&#82 ...
  • India: Brutal state’s war on the people ...
    We will defeat Maoists design through development: Jairam Ramesh PTI Mar 3, 2013 (“In the name of forest dwellers,…) BHAWANIPATNA (ODISHA): The Centre would “fight” Naxals through welfare and empowerment schemes and protect tribals from being used as shields by the ultras, unio ...
  • India: Brutal state’s war on the people ...
    We will defeat Maoists design through development: Jairam Ramesh PTI Mar 3, 2013 (“In the name of forest dwellers,…) BHAWANIPATNA (ODISHA): The Centre would “fight” Naxals through welfare and empowerment schemes and protect tribals from being used as shields by the ultras, unio ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • No Cheers for Rob Portman's Same-Sex Marriage ...
    Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio came out in favor of same-sex marriage. So why aren't I applauding him?Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Mar 15, 2013
  • Rand Paul Stands Tall in 13-Hour Fillibuster
    It was like something out of a movie when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky took to the floor of the Senate and conducted a 13 hour filibuster, holding up the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director, demanding the answer to one question.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 07, 2013
  • Death of Chavez Provides Opportunities for Ven ...
    Now that Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan tyrant, has shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving Hollywood, Cuba, and Iran in severe mourning, the people of the country his misruled have a chance to begin to take their destiny into their own hands.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 06, 2013
  • How Opponents Failed to Beat Chuck Hagel
    A week ago, Hagel’s nomination was effectively stalled. This week, Hagel cleared the filibuster easily, and the GOP declared victory. How did that happen? It came when they unwisely questioned Hagel’s military service.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Feb 27, 2013
  • Hacking an Act of War? China Hacking Report Ra ...
    A new reports blames China for extensive hacking into U.S. companies and organizations, claiming that People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 is a government/military corps of hackers dangerously proficient in gaining access to American servers.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Feb 19, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Watch Comet Pan-STARRS Race Around The Sun
    Have you seen it at sunset yet? Comet Pan-STARRS is visible in many parts of the U.S. around sunset, and it was at its peak brightness a few days ago when it made its closest pass to the sun. As they approach our star and warm up, dirty cosmic snowballs like Pan-STARRS grow bright tails, or com ...
  • Scientists Capture All The Neurons Firing Acro ...
    It's like brain fireworks. A month ago, a team of Japanese scientists managed to capture a zebrafish's thoughts on video. Now, you can now watch the entire brain of a larval zebrafish light up as its individual neurons fire. This work, featured in Nature Methods this week, provides the most co ...
  • How To Save America's Rarest Turtle: Lower Our ...
    How do we decide how rare an animal is? How do we figure out how long before it goes extinct? And how do we stop that from happening? There's a conservation-biology rule of thumb that, for a species to survive for another century, it must have a stable population of about 5,000. Want to settle ...
  • FYI: Why Are Celebrities Injecting Their Faces ...
    The science of the "vampire facial" Kim Kardashian has gotten one. So, apparently, have other ladies in Miami. A "blood facial" or "vampire facial" is a cosmetic procedure during which a doctor draws a couple vials of blood from your arm, centrifuges the blood to separate out the plasma and pl ...
  • Text Messages Could Include Your Animated Face ...
    Researchers are solving the biggest problem in 21st century communication: What kind of emotion is that text supposed to express? The scourge of 21st century socializing is that text messages have approximately the same emotional capacity as a brick wall, and emoticons make you look like an ov ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Enter Big Government, S Korean Welfare State?
    One of the unspoken things many Asians feel has contributed to Western malaise is the ubiquity of extensive welfare states. With the so-called baby boom of those born in the immediate post-WWII era reaching retirement age, these countries are beginning to feel the massive fiscal pressure of prov ...
  • Baseball's Team USA: Symbol of American Decline
    Puerto Rico celebrates annihilating the US in the USYou kind of expected this result but it's worth mentioning anyway as a fine metaphor for American decline: For the third straight World Baseball Classic (WBC)--held in the United States for the third consecutive time, no less--Team USA has been ...
  • Pope Francis & Liberation Theology's Latin Shadow
    Well, well, I suppose this is a halfway decent result: Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is someone from the third world even if he is a child of (white) Italian immigrants. As I suggested, it's partly a concession to the still-strong Italian contingent. Supposedly the runner-up from l ...
  • USA v the World: Political Economy of Accounting
    One of the more arcane debates in international political economy I am aware of from taking lots of accounting courses over the years is that which concerns adoption of accounting standards. Basel III capital adequacy standards notwithstanding, this subject matter is admittedly dull but quite im ...
  • A Bit Less Lame Than US-EU FTA: Japan in TPP
    After the "who cares" of the US-EU FTA, here's something marginally more significant. There is no doubt that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is seeking American favour in a very big way. The postwar US-Japan relationship has been characterized by lopsided deals to the former's advantage. Think of limitin ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN human rights chief welcomes trial for Guate ...
    The top United Nations human rights official has applauded the beginning of the "historic" trial of Guatemala's former head of State and former head of intelligence who are both accused of crimes committed in the Central American nation over 30 years ago, and urged local authorities to ensure th ...
  • UN tourism agency welcomes Jamaica's relaxatio ...
    The United Nations tourism agency today welcomed the decision by the Government of Jamaica to relax visa regulations for tourists originating in a number of Eastern European countries, while also extending its current visa waiver system for some Latin American nationals.
  • US recreational cannabis use would violate int ...
    Implementing the decisions of popular votes held in the United States in Colorado and Washington to allow for the recreational use of cannabis would be a violation of international laws, the United Nations body tasked with monitoring the production and consumption of narcotics worldwide said today.
  • UN expert warns against abuse of solitary conf ...
    The United Nations expert on torture has called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the practise of solitary confinement and its harmful effects in the Americas, particularly in Latin America, and urged stronger regulation of its use.
  • At General Assembly, UN officials laud Hugo Ch ...
    United Nations officials today lauded the commitment of Hugo Chávez to the cause of social justice, as the General Assembly paid tribute to the memory of the late President of Venezuela.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • “You are my sacrifice” an Aspiring ...
    “You are my sacrifice,” Johnson quoted El-Amin as saying before he allegedly fired a shot toward his friend’s head inside a Henrico home that was to become a music studio.
  • Carnegie Mellon University and the NSA are Loo ...
    PITTSBURGH (AP) – Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government’s top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking. Their goal with “Toaster Wars” is to cultivate the nation’s next generation of cyber wa ...
  • Homeowner Raises Organic Chickens in Backyard, ...
    (NaturalNews) An ongoing debate over the rights of homeowners to raise and keep their own chickens may soon gain an audience in the Virgina Supreme Court. Attorneys at the Rutherford Institute have filed a Petition for Appeal on behalf of Virginia Beach resident Tracy Gugal-Okroy, who faces crim ...
  • Sandy Hook Conspiracy – Full Length Docu ...
    "...various tweets, fundraisers, tributes, and videos that were posted before the shooting. Multiple suspects and obvious evidence of a group of people involved, the lack of information on Adam and Nancy Lanza, and the conflicting statements and strange behavior of some of the parties involved i ...
  • Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
    The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.

Rewilding Institute

  • John Davis featured in video about TrekWest
     TrekWest’s John Davis hikes solo through Arizona’s longest single mountain range His 35-mile trek through Chiricahua Mountains includes big peaks, lots of snow, and a premier wildlife corridor  Portal, AZ — TrekWest conservationist and adventurer, John Davis, says he’s “looking forward to exper ...
  • Mexican Wolves 15th Anniversary Celebration!
    Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Return of Mexican Gray Wolves to the Southwest Friday, April 5th 6 – 10 p.m. O’Niell’s 4310 Central SE in Albuquerque Almost 15 years after they were first reintroduced to the wild, there are only 75 Mexican wolves in the wild. Please join us to celebrate th ...
  • Dave Foreman Speaking in Michigan March 21st
      Dave will give a lecture, open to the public, titled “Rewilding North America,” from 2 – 3:30 PM in Room 1030, the CB (CASL) Auditorium. Q&A time is included. For more information, please contact David Skrbina, skrbina@umd.umich.edu The CB Auditorium is located at 49 ...
  • Dave Foreman Speaking in Michigan March 21st
      Dave will give a lecture, open to the public, titled “Rewilding North America,” from 2 – 3:30 PM in Room 1030, the CB (CASL) Auditorium. Q&A time is included. For more information, please contact David Skrbina, skrbina@umd.umich.edu The CB Auditorium is located at 49 ...
  • Lucky Bobcat!
    This situation doesn’t always work out this way for the wildlife caught in illegal traps.  Great story as told by one of the rescuers.

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Here's What Can Happen If the US Government Si ...
    The last act before a nation collapses is to loot the people. Where so many people go wrong with the impending collapse of the EU is... Yes, it may be by design the central bankers are doing. Also with a collapse comes an opportunity to snatch away the chance for the bankers to come in on a ...
  • Notice to Sheriffs... It's Time To Deputize Yo ...
    In this recent episode of the Josh Tolley show he discusses a sheriff in Michigan who is arming and swearing in civilians in order to 'fight' the Feds. Is this where America is heading? Let's all hope not. ~ Audio read more
  • Who Will Protect Us From Our Own Government?
    It used to be that foreign threats were advertised as the main reason to send our young men off to war to defend our country. Amazing though it seems, we used to believe those stories. Many of our fathers and grandfathers died defending that principle. ~ John Kaminski read more
  • 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 beca ...
  • DHS Insider Says... “It Has Begun”
    Much like my high-level source within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security outlined in a series of interviews beginning last year, the orchestrated collapse of the U.S. dollar and the entire world’s economic system has begun. ~ Douglas Hagmann read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Run On The Banks
    Cyprus, an island Republic of nearly 1 million people, only represents a very small fraction of the Eurozone financials; but look at the shockwaves that have been sent through the system while the recent 10% Confiscation of private bank account money unfolds… The bankster elite have gotten ...
  • Survival Garden Seed Germination
    Growing your own Survival Garden, similar to the World War II era ‘Victory Garden’, is not only a rewarding experience that builds a key survival skill, but it enables you to be less dependent upon today’s modern food systems, is healthier, and will save you money. The first st ...
  • Skills For An Uncertain Future
    The skill set that you posses for your current job might not be transferable to a post-modern lifestyle, post-collapse society, or post-SHTF world that will require skills more aligned with down-to-earth survival, practicality and self-sufficiency. Learning a broad range of practical skills and ...
  • Hiding In Plain Sight
    For whatever the reason, you may need to hide in plain sight while moving through an area. You don’t want to be seen or noticed by someone (or in general). The situation may be such that you cannot stop and hide because you need to get out of there or pass through the area without [...]
  • New DOW Highs, A BULL($#!T) Market
    The stock market DOW has been hitting high after high, day after day during this past week… so the economy must be fixed, right? Happy days are here again? WRONG. Watching the main stream media day after day on the new highs of the stock market, and there’s no mention of the ENORMOUS ...

Fast Company

  • Jawbone Launches Up For Android, Plans Interna ...
    In a sign of its growing competition with Nike, Jawbone today unveiled its Android app, and announced plans to expand to Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. That didn't take long. Just a month after it was revealed that Nike had dropped its plans to expand to Android with a FuelB ...
  • Can Micro-Donations For Content Creators And N ...
    CentUp, a new organization that is attempting to monetize making interesting art and culture on the Internet thinks it has a hook: enticing you to give pennies to artists by helping you give pennies to charity at the same time. Since the beginning of the Internet, content creators have str ...
  • A Century-Old Cinema Gets A Modern Makeover
    A theater becomes a physical ode to the art of movies. Weltspiegel, a theater in Cottbus, Germany, seems like a million miles away from the bright neon marquees of most modern multiplexes. After over a century of showing movies, it’s the second-oldest of its kind in the country--stil ...
  • BuzzFeed Launches An Ad Network To Bring Spons ...
    Your Cat Goes Here. BuzzFeed has created an ad network to bring its advertiser-sponsored content to the homepages of other sites, AdAge reported on Tuesday. The roster of partner sites currently includes smaller, niche publishers such as The Hairpin, Thought Catalog, and Dealbreaker, but B ...
  • How The Impact Of Collaboration Led One Man Fr ...
    Jeff Walker was a successful investment banker who focused on giving back while in finance, but then left the industry to give even more of his time, hoping that his collaboration with younger social entrepreneurs would send ripples of giving back throughout the world. Editor’s Note ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt and Beyond: Interviews with Journalist, ...
    On the latest edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Cairo-based journalist, Ahmad Shokr comments on the serious unrest in the major Egyptian harbor city of Port Said over the past two weeks. The root cause is said to be from the recent court verdict condemning 21 civilians to de ...
  • حوار معقود بحرب
    التاريخ اليمني الحديث مليء بالحوارات والحكومات الائتلافية ومجالس الرئاسة والحروب أيضاً. واللافت إن هذه الحروب تعقب كل حوار وعملية تسوية عادة. آخر هذه النماذج هي حرب 1994 التي جاءت بعد حكومة ائتلافية موسعة وتوقيع وثيقة العهد والاتفاق في فبراير 1994، التي أقرت الكثير من المطالب المقترحة حالياً لحل ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (Mar 11-17)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. The Empire of Sexuality: An Interv ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 19)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (March 18)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...

mediagazer

  • Here's When People Actually "Read Later" (John ...
    John Herrman / BuzzFeed: Here's When People Actually “Read Later”  —  Eighty percent of reads happen in the first 35 days.  Outside of read-later apps, that only takes six days.  —  “Read later” service Pocket ran the numbers on this ...
  • Journalism Professor Sues Columbia, Claiming M ...
    Christine Haughney / New York Times: Journalism Professor Sues Columbia, Claiming Misuse of Endowment Funds  —  A tenured professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and co-director of that school's business program filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the university of ...
  • Washington Examiner cuts 87 jobs, drops local ...
    Jeff Clabaugh / Washington Business Journal: Washington Examiner cuts 87 jobs, drops local news  —  The Washington Examiner is dropping local news coverage, cutting 87 jobs and changing into a weekly magazine and daily website focused on political news.  —  Denve ...
  • Google Embeds March Madness Bracket In Search, ...
    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Google Embeds March Madness Bracket In Search, Because Screw Sports Sites  —  Who wins basketball games is an immutable fact.  No one owns that information, so why should some random sports sites get the windfall of traffic as millions of sports ...
  • Amazon launches "Send to Kindle" button for we ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Amazon launches “Send to Kindle” button for web publishers and WordPress blogs  —  Amazon is now allowing publishers to add “Send to Kindle” buttons to their websites and WordPress blogs, the company announced on the Kindl ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Farm On Wheels (VIDEO)
    Many a school bus has been re-purposed, giving it a life well beyond that of carrying children back and forth from school each day. However, few have as surprising a new life as the 'Farm on Wheels' bus driving around Starkville, Mississippi. The 'Farm on Wheels' is just that - a farm on whe ...
  • Syria accuses rebels of 'chemical weapon ...
    Syrian state media accused rebels of firing a chemical weapon for the first time today in the north of the country, killing 15 people. Rebels quickly denied the report and accused regime forces of firing the weapon. Neither of the accusations could immediately be verified. The Syrian state n ...
  • Drs. Oz and Roizen: Learn how to identify ...
    DNA testing on 1,200 seafood samples in 21 states revealed that 87 percent of fish sold as “snapper” and 59 percent of fish labeled “tuna” just aren’t. Mislabeling fish isn’t just a scam, it’s a health hazard. Tilefish is served in place of re ...
  • Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Ind ...
    Say you've decided to be spontaneous and embark on a new culinary adventure, sampling a brand new cuisine for the very first time. Good for you! You deserve a virtual high five. But what do you order? This is a common concern among people who've either decided to try something new or are out ...
  • Anti-allergy genetically modified apples
    Peanut, egg and soy are more common food known to trigger an allergic reaction, a problem affecting around 8% of children in the EU. Intuitively, you might not list apples as causing allergic reactions. But in fact 75% of people allergic to birch pollen are also allergic to apples. This happ ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 3/14/13 - State with Highest Obesity Rate Pass ...
    obesity.procon.org - State with Highest Obesity Rate Passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' Bill
  • 3/13/13 - Does the death penalty deter crime?
    deathpenalty.procon.org - Does the death penalty deter crime? - Read pro and con arguments from former New York Governor George E. Pataki (pro), former US District Court and US Court of Appeals Judge H. Lee Sarokin (con), Emory University Professor of Economics Paul H. Rubin (pro), Stanford ...
  • 3/7/13 - 11 States with Pending Legislation to ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org  - UPDATED: 11 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - New bills to legalize medical marijuana were introduced in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, and West Virginia. Bills in Oklahoma and South Dakota have died.
  • 3/5/13 - Critical Thinking Video Series #3: El ...
    votingmachines.procon.org – Critical Thinking Video Series #3: Electronic Voting Machines – Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process by using modern technology to our advantage, reducing lost votes, and expanding access for blind voters and non-English speakers? Or do they increa ...
  • 2/21/13 - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medi ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana Defeated - The House Rules Committee gave HB84 an "unfavorable report," which killed the bill on Feb. 20, 2013. Eight states currently have pending legislation that would legalize medical marijuana if passed.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Round table discussion with studio guests Damo ...
    In today's show we take a look at some of the challenges to unconstutional laws which have been rolled out in Australia, with a close look at speeding fines. I am joined in studio for the discussion by Damon Crowe and Chris Tolland. In part 2 of the show we play you some highlights from a re ...
  • Malcolm Roberts exposes deceptions of the IPCC ...
    Malcolm Roberts is an indefatigable warrior for truth, reason and science, rationally opposing the evolving feudal super state which is now being formed around the world from the broken remnants of western (former) democracies. In today's show Malcolm shares some of his new research into the C ...
  • Child abuse in foster care and orphanages is a ...
    Forgotten Australians National Day of Action - 6 Feb 2013 With all the news we have heard over the years about the abuse of children in various Church organisations you may have drawn the conclusion that everything is now out in the open and, the worst is behind us and the wheels of justice ar ...
  • Fracked to death: how gas companies and their ...
    Explaining coal seam gas and its extraction (Source) Today's show reveals the shocking truth about the toxic, and one might say, genocidal effects of Coal Seam Gas, which is now spreading like a cancer throughout the country in both rural and urban environments. My guest in the second hour i ...
  • Count me out of the Sandy Hook truther movement!
    You know what worries me even more than the predatory agenda of the ruling elites? It's the tendency of truthers to fall into line like lemmings on any given conspiracy, to engage in mass group think and, even worse, the readiness to leap to defammatory accusations about people whom they know ...

Beacon

  • New Seafloor Discoveries off Oregon
    Offshore Oregonian ready for its close-up ©Oceana Today we release our new science report, Important Ecological Areas: Seafloor Habitat Expedition off the Southern Oregon Coast. The report completes our June 2011 expedition aboard the R/V Miss Linda, which set out on the cold Pacific Ocean wa ...
  • Infographic: Seafood Fraud Made Simple
    Earlier this year Oceana made a splash with its National Seafood Fraud Report, a landmark investigation which found that a third of the seafood it tested nationwide had been mislabeled. While we encourage you to read the report in full, for those of you on the go this infographic (click to enl ...
  • Goverment Admits Shell Wasn't Ready for Arctic ...
    Wind, waves, fog and unpredictable ice floes pose dangers to drillers in the Arctic. Photo: NOAA After a 60-day review of what could charitably be described as a disastrous Arctic drilling season, the Department of the Interior has released a critical assessment of Shell's offshore activities ...
  • The Mystery of the Mangled Mola
    Somehow this video escaped our notice a few months back, but it's never too late to share with you the Mystery of the Mangled Mola, which comes to us courtesy of the precocious students of Mrs. Osorio's second grade class at Carmel River school in Carmel, California. In the video above, thes ...
  • Great Shark News from Delaware and Abroad
    Oceanic whitetip stands to benefit from new regulations. Photo: Wikimedia Commons This week brought great news for shark populations that are dwindling both in U.S. waters and worldwide. Today, the Delaware House of Representatives introduced a bill prohibiting the possession, trade, sale and ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • New York Magazine’s Stepford Feminism Reworks ...
    IT’S A set up from the start. It’s the story of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique dumbed down for the gullible. That we’ve been here before Friedan would appreciate, especially since the latest tripe comes complete with Freudian “biology is destiny” built in. ...
  • You are Free to do as We Tell You
    Hot on the heals of the latest phone hacking revelations the three main political parties in Britain have finally agreed to a new press regulator. Talk about opening a can of worms. Now the press will be regulated independently of itself by a body backed by government legislation. Many are conce ...
  • Assault Weapons Ban Unlikely to be Included in ...
    There hasn’t been a news-worthy “mass shooting” in a while now, but even if there had been, and even after the next one we all know will occur, getting anything close to strong regulations passed related to guns and ammunition clips is a big challenge. At Politico: Assault weapons ban loses stea ...
  • Bipartisan Responsibility for the Iraq War
    If you or someone you know were, or are, a part of deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq or other regional nations – or if you’re one of those whose attention to and advocacy regarding the perpetual “war on terror” is maintained – then most likely the real life consequences of military conflict remai ...
  • History Channel Fail, Obama as Satan in “The B ...
    THE PHOTO above has gone viral, with the tweet from Glenn Beck asking a simple question: Anyone else think the Devil in #TheBible Sunday on HIstory Channel looks exactly like That Guy? Buzzfeed has more, including an original screen shot, with the History channel and everyone involved with the p ...

Hudson New York

  • Confronting Sharia Law in Belgium
    After members of the newly established Islam Party vowed to implement Islamic Sharia law in Belgium, Members of Parliament introduced a bill that would limit the power of Muslim extremists who win elected office at the local or national levels and
  • Hamas: We are Not Terrorists; We Just Want to ...
    Hamas leaders are working hard these days to have their movement removed from the U.S. State Department list for Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The Hamas leaders are hoping to persuade a number of European Union countries to support their bid. Hamas
  • The Power of the Islamists in Bangladesh
    Bangladesh has been suffering a deadly conflict between the progressive forces led by iconless youngsters, and the fundamentalists led by Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest religious political party. There is currently an uprising of progressive youths of
  • Lord Ahmed: Disgrace to Britain
    Lord Nazir Ahmed was always a classic case of "positive discrimination" gone horribly wrong. The erstwhile Labour peer – elevated to the House of Lords in 1998 – is now in trouble yet again. This time it is for claiming that the Jews were behind his
  • Germany vs. Radical Islamists
    Germany has banned three ultra-conservative Salafist Muslim groups which the Interior Ministry says want to overturn democracy and install a system based on Islamic Sharia law. The ban, which took effect in the western German states of Hessen and North

Urban Survival

  • Idiot Banker Watch
    Yes, they really are out of control and coming to the USA.  After word came out this weekend that small savers in Cyprus were going to have government seizing part of their wealth, the stock market declined, but only modestly.  … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Grow Food Or Die
    Bear with me while I present a minute’s worth of shameless self-promotion.  As you may remember my buddy JB Slear and I did a book a couple of years ago called “MyGroPonics” and that explained a “stacked” system of multiple … Continue reading →
  • Reader Note
    You know that fancy power system I put in?  Well this morning – more than half way through today’s column it failed.  So just a very short note this morning…will have it back up today (no worries on that) but … Continue reading →
  • New MyGroPonics Book
    If you hav e ever wondered about getting into hydroponic gardening, you will want to click over to www.mygroponics.com and pick up the newly revised – and expanded – MyGroPonics book by Ure’s truly and JB Slear.  Actually, JB did … Continue reading →
  • EU Stealing Bank Accounts
    Did you feel it?  The first tremors of global financial collapse were felt this weekend as the financial world gasped as the greedy banksters of the IMF/bankster cabal pushed through an “emergency” cash-grab of saver’s deposits in Cyprus banks?   … Continue read ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
  • PRISONER OF SUCCESS
    It had four walls like every other room I was used to. Except that one of the walls was made of iron bars. There wasn’t much in the room. Just me, my pride and a mattress that was there before I came. I hadn’t always been there. I was told that it was the place [...]
  • PRISONER OF SUCCESS
    It had four walls like every other room I was used to. Except that one of the walls was made of iron bars. There wasn’t much in the room. Just me, my pride and a mattress that was there before I came. I hadn’t always been there. I was told that it was the place [...]
  • YOUR FLY IS DOWN
    “What! Not again….im late; my boss is going to kill me!” I frantically grabbed my stuff from the dresser and raced to the kitchen door. No time to have a shower. What’s the point in getting there even more late? I made it to the office in record time. Record time considering I was late [...]

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Secretary Kerry: Secure a Global Agreement to ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC Aviation is a major contributor to global warming with its pollution projected to grow significantly if left uncontrolled. With devastating droughts, floods, fires, and storms devas ...
  • Kansas Legislators Continue to Stand Up for th ...
    Kimi Narita, MAP Energy Fellow , Chicago Yesterday was another good day for Kansas and the Renewable Portfolio Standard.  The Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) ensures that Kansans receive a certain percentage of renewable energy like wind a ...
  • 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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Cyprus on brink of financial meltdown as key b ...
    Tax on bank deposits rejected by lawmakers on island tonight Grab would have charged 6.75% on deposits under £86k and 9.9% over that In exchange Cyprus to receive £8.6bn in rescue money from EU, IMF, ECB Defeat brings Mediterranean island to brink of financial meltdown RAF jet carrying 1million ...
  • US B-52s imitate nuclear bombing of North Korea
    To intimidate North Korea and draw attention to the US military’s capabilities, the US is flying B-52 bombers over South Korea, which are capable of carrying out nuclear strikes. The move is in response to rising tensions after North Korea conducted its third successful nuclear test last month. ...
  • North Korea Threatens Japan with Attack
    North Korea has lashed out at Japan for calling for “independent additional sanctions” against Pyongyang. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency carried a statement from the Foreign Ministry Sunday saying that it would be a fatal mistake for Japan if it thinks it will ...
  • Russian Navy to send permanent fleet to Medite ...
    Russia will dispatch a permanent group of five to six combat ships to the Mediterranean Sea, Russian Navy chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov said. Frigates and cruisers will make up the core of the fleet. “Up to five or six ships must be on a permanent basis in the Mediterranean Sea. They should ...
  • Cyprus Parliament To Delay “Rescue” Vote Due T ...
    The painfully shortsighted Cyprus bail-out, pardon bail-in (also known as wealth tax to those who are actually doing the in-bailing), plan is going from bad to worse. Because in addition to all the previously discussed macro-implications, all of which are adverse and have the full potential of d ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Presenter training course in April
    Have you been eagerly awaiting an opportunity to get more involved with the BZE team? Do you want to spread the message of an affordable, achievable zero emissions future but haven't known where to begin? Or do you simply want an opportunity to study BZE's research in more depth?  Well ...
  • NSW should call CSG industry bluff, go to zero gas
    Threats that the NSW government's restrictions on the coal-seam gas industry will cause a price rise are a bluff that NSW residents should call, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “The gas industry has no real commitment to domestic gas supply, and certainly not to ...
  • High speed rail cheaper than Albanese thinks
    Transport minister Anthony Albanese is trying to derail the promising High Speed Rail option before it even leaves the platform, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “Mr Albanese appears to have decided to write off this nation building project before even releasing t ...
  • Don't waste solar energy on coal
    Matthew Wright Port Augusta is the ideal location in South Australia for a solar thermal power plant, due to its very good direct annual solar radiation and its proximity to a strong piece of grid infrastructure that services the old lignite burning power plants that are located there, owned ...
  • Greens push 100pct renewables plan for W.A.
    By Giles Parkinson The Greens Party has unveiled an ambitious new document that outlines possible pathways to turn Western Australia – one of the most energy-intensive states in the world – into one where its stationary energy needs are powered 100 per cent by renewable energy sources in les ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Fish use adoption strategy to ensure survival ...
    Fish in southern Africa's Lake Tanganyika engage in adoption as a risk mitigation strategy for keeping some of their offspring from being eaten, finds a new study published in the journal Behavioral Ecology.
  • Disney buys $3.5M in REDD credits from rainfor ...
    The Walt Disney Company has purchased $3.5 million dollars' worth of carbon credits generated via rainforest conservation in Peru, reports Point Carbon.
  • Planet organic: achieving sustainable food sec ...
    The global farmland area certified organic has expanded more than threefold to 37 million hectares since 1999, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute. The Institute argues that organic farming has the potential to contribute to sustainable food security by improving nutr ...
  • The beautiful amphibian from Hell: scientists ...
    Researchers have discovered a new species of Vietnamese salamander that looks like it was birthed from an abyssal volcano. Found tucked away in Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science, the scientists described the species in the new edition of Current Herpetology. Coal-black with orange-ti ...
  • Poachers slaughter 89 elephants in Chad, inclu ...
    In what is being called the worst elephant massacre in Africa this year, poachers have recently killed as many as 89 elephants in Chad. Stephanie Vergniault, the Chairman of SOS Elephants in Chad, says the elephants were slaughtered in a two-day period late last week near Tikem, on the southwest ...

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leonean Adrian Vincent makes it big in ...
    Adrian Vincent is the eldest child of Ayo Vincent who resides in Vincent Drive, Sierra Leone.  Adrian moved to London 8 years ago and over the past 8 months has been heavily involved within the modelling industry.  Proving what can happen when you work hard to achieve your goals, he has two very ...
  • Football Rebels, Didier Drogba and the Ivorian ...
    Aljazeera’s ‘Football Rebels‘ series, presented and narrated by former Manchester United star Eric Cantona, is a five-part documentary on five football heroes whose social consciences led them to use their fame and influence to challenge unjust regimes, join opposition movement ...
  • Deputy Information Minister leads Sierra Leone ...
    Hon. Theo Nicol, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications led Sierra Leone’s delegation to the Innovation Africa Digital (IDA) Summit 2013 which commenced today (19th March, 2013) at the Sheraton Hotel in Addis Ababa.  (Photo: From (L to R) Mr. Senesie Kallon, Hon. Theo Nicol and Mr. Sh ...
  • World vision supported children explains MDG c ...
    Five school going children drawn from Bonthe District supported by World Vision Sierra Leone through their Pikin Tok PROJECT  have expressed doubts over Sierra Leone’s achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) by 2015, during a Regional Youth Development Summit held at the Nationa ...
  • Education in Crisis? BBC Media Action Presents ...
    Within the last several years, the decline in our standard of education has been blamed, exclusively, on the Ministry of Education because this is the government entity that handles our educational affairs and therefore it is always the first entity that people cast the blame on whenever anythin ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • World dairy prices surge 14.8pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products surged to the highest in two years in Fonterra's latest online global dairy auction as drought curtails production in the North Island.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 14.8 per cent compared to the last...
  • Liam Dann: Kiwi dollar balances on price of cheese
    Got the fondue set out yet? There's never been a better time to go cheese crazy, it seems.A combination of global commodity trends and some intense retail competition has seen the prices plummet as low as $6.99 a kilogram for the...
  • Small Business: Peter Cullinane - Lewis Road C ...
    Peter Cullinane, co-founder of the premium butter manufacturer Lewis Road Creamery, has a dream that one day his artisan butter will be flown to top restaurants worldwide as happens with the Buerre Bordier of French artisan Jean-Yves...
  • Drought takes deadly toll on farms
    Slaughterman Kent Sambells' workload was "hectic" last week as Waikato farmers called him in to destroy ailing cattle and take them away for processing into pet food.He said twice as many farmers as usual were calling."I had about...
  • Brazil could support NZ's Security Council bid
    Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has taken the surprising step of indicating Brazil could support New Zealand's bid for a Security Council seat in 2015 after meeting with Prime Minister John Key today.The pair met for the first...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Obama Finally Brings Growth — To the Shadow Ec ...
    If as many Spaniards were out of work as official figures suggest, pointed out Victor Mallet and Guy Dinmore in a 2011 article in the Financial Times, "Spain would not be as peaceful as, barring a few demonstrations, it has so far been." Spain's unemployment rate has gone up since ...
  • Jacob Sullum on Obama's Cloak of Invisibility
    Back in 2007, when he was running for president, Barack Obama criticized George W. Bush's expansive vision of executive power, saying, "I reject the view that the president may do whatever he deems necessary to protect national security." The day after taking office in 2009, Obama de ...
  • Brickbat: And You're Ugly, Too
    British police investigated Tim Loughton, a Conservative member of parliament, for six months after he described a constituent as "unkempt." Kieran Francis had written Loughton about some problems he was having with his local council. Loughton wrote him back, siding with the counci ...
  • And You're Ugly, Too
    British police investigated Tim Loughton, a Conservative member of parliament, for six months after he described a constituent as "unkempt." Kieran Francis had written Loughton about some problems he was having with his local council. Loughton wrote him back, siding with the cou ...
  • Reason's Brian Doherty Interviews Artist Chris ...
    Reason's Brian Doherty sat down with internationally renowned underground artist Chris "Coop" Cooper at Reason's LA studios to discuss everything from intellectual property and censorship to the inspiration for Coop's radical art project. Coop, who provided the cover illust ...

Mercury Rising

  • Papal news, 3/18/13
    In my previous post, I posed the following as one of the key questions raised by the elevation of Jorge Bergoglio to Pope. 4. Since past money-laundering by the Church has involved CIA operations to overthrow left-wing governments, is Communion and Liberation part of such an effort to overthrow ...
  • Watch out below, Cyprus edition
    Asian markets look to be headed down 2% (as Hong Kong and Japan are as of ca. midnight Eastern), while S&P futures are down 1.4%. A correction by 8% would get the S&P to the 200 day moving average, while a correction of 12% would bring it to a Fibonacci level. The immediate cause of [...]
  • White House Tapes: LBJ Knew Of Nixon’s T ...
    Of course, Consortium readers knew about this well over a year ago, and Anna Chan Chennault ‘fessed up to it. (See here and here for example.) But now the tapes are out, and it’s no longer deniable, even though the Atlantic writer Connor Simpson tries to soft-pedal it: Richard M. Nix ...
  • Papal roundup, 3/16/13
    In a previous thread, there has been fascinating discussion on Pope Francis, with our commenters bringing in terrific links. As I see it, there are five strands to the thread: 1. Did Father Bergoglio collaborate with the Argentine Junta during the Dirty War? * Journalist Horacio Verbitzky has a ...
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Reality Sandwich

Desertification

  • Water and Sanitation Seek Rightful Place in Po ...
    When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext – never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation. Now, as the United Nations begins the process of formulating a new set ...
  • Food Policies Failing the World’s Hungry
    The world’s food security remains “vulnerable”, new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington think tank, says such numbers are “unacc ...
  • Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
    Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are vital to building policies a ...
  • Q&A: Water Disputes Get Resolved While Other C ...
    IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen Interviews UNESCO Director General IRINA BOKOVA
  • Drought Hits Policies
    Drought has dramatically increased as a consequence of climate change. Most countries react to it only after it has occurred, but don’t have national policies to prevent it. The high-level meeting on national drought policies in Geneva this week is trying to match scientific knowledge with polit ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Calling Out Brad Wall's Phony Contrived Outrag ...
    Pipelines have already carried share of hot airBy Bruce Johnstone - Regina Leader-Post Aside from oil and gas, pipelines seem to be useful conduits for transporting another commodity we seem to have a surplus of - hot air.No sooner had Premier Brad Wall returned from his trip to Washingt ...
  • The Rehabilitation of Paul Rose
    It's always tempting, especially with the passage of time to rehabilitate those who acted barbarously in a cause that we otherwise support. And so on the pages of vigile.net and  l'Autrejournal the memory of Paul Rose is being raised to that of a romantic patriotic warrior, whose involveme ...
  • NRG Research Group Inc. and Former NRG Researc ...
    The following email has been edited in terms of its original formatting. From: Vic Populi < vicpopuli1@gmail.com > Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:10 PM Subject: Re: 3 postings on your site To: Dave Converse < dconverse@nrgresearchgroup.com > Mr. Converse, There is no negative ...
  • "'The United States of America'" and "a State"
    The opposite of America by Kent McManigal As originally posted on: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog October 17, 2012 First off, I will say that no State is legitimate. Not one. To create one that is can't be done. The very nature of being a State is filled with illegitimacy from the v ...
  • "The Player"
    The Hydra Bay by "Winona Bay" As originally posted on: The Pirate Bay February 25, 2013 A typical Whac-A-Mole machine consists of a large, waist-level cabinet with five holes in its top and a large, soft, black mallet. Each hole contains a single plastic mole and the machinery necessary t ...

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Alums Present: The Birds and The Bees&#823 ...
    Maggie Keenan-Bolger (SPS ’10) and Rachel Sullivan (SPS ’10) are co-creators of The Birds and the Bees Unabridged, an original devised theater piece about female sexuality accompanied by a pre/post show art exhibit. Bringing together a diverse ensemble of 25 people, and over 15 visual artists, T ...
  • Distance Learning and Online Relationships
    This article by Wendy Williams originally appeared on the blog Getting Smart on February 21, 2013.  I never get to meet most of my students in person, because I teach asynchronous online courses via Blackboard, for the City University of New York (CUNY). I was part of a cohort of Ph.D. students ...
  • Spring 2013 Welcome Letter From Dean Mogulescu
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your winter holidays, and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming semester. Whether you are a new or returning student, I am happy to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the Spring 2013 term, and to thank you ...
  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
    In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...

Dissident Voice

  • Under a New Volcano — A Hologram for the ...
    David Eggers’ book brings us something more than Mailer, Hemingway — a New World of Literature About US(A) I’m watching this thing about how a gigantic new bridge in Oakland, California, is being made in China. Can you imagine? Now they’re making our goddamned bridges, Alan. I got to ...
  • Labor Nominee Faces the Music
    We’ll all need to buckle up in preparation for some dramatic and historical confrontations in the coming weeks.  No, we’re not talking about college basketball’s “March Madness.” We’re talking about the confirmation hearings of Thomas Perez, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Labor.  By ...
  • Feminist Monkey Wrenches in Egypt’s Revolution
    The process of shaping post-revolutionary Egypt to conform to the postmodern imperial world is proceeding apace. Egypt’s long history of invasion and occupation by first France (under Napoleon) and then Britain, and less formally from 1970 on under first Sadat and Mubarak, means there is a stron ...
  • The Iraq War Was Not A Media Failure
    Ten years ago today, on March 18, 2003, Tony Blair delivered a speech to parliament prior to a vote that resulted in MPs authorising war on Iraq. The war began two days later. Last month, a Guardian leader recalled Blair’s role: A decade ago, Tony Blair was lifting his sparkling rhetoric t ...
  • Obama to Mark Iraq War Anniversary with War Su ...
    A decade after the American-led invasion of Iraq, the U.S. is once again preparing to set the Middle East ablaze.  In fact, President Obama will touch down in Tel Aviv ten years to the day “shock and awe” was first unleashed for what appears to be little more than a war summit with Israeli Prime ...

Nick Turse

  • killanythingthatmoves:Troops in the field re ...
    killanythingthatmoves: Troops in the field regularly carved their unit’s initials or numbers into corpses, adorned bodies with their unit’s patch, or left a “death card”— generally either an ace of spades or a custom- printed business card claiming credit for the kill. Company A, 1st Battalion ...
  • "Kill Anything That Moves is a paradigm-shifti ...
    “Kill Anything That Moves is a paradigm-shifting, connect-the-dots history of American...
  • A mosaic of Saddam Hussein lies in ruins on th ...
    A mosaic of Saddam Hussein lies in ruins on the road to Basra, southern Iraq, March 28, 2003. Antonin Kratochvil/VII
  • "Turse shows My Lai was no exception. He shows ...
    “Turse shows My Lai was no exception. He shows that American military conduct in Vietnam...
  • "Nothing succeeds in Washington like being tou ...
    “Nothing succeeds in Washington like being tougher than the next guy. And woe to those who...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Hawks Defend War on Low-Key 10th Anniversary o ...
    Ten years after President George W. Bush launched his “shock and awe” campaign to overwhelm Iraq – and the rest of the world – with the futility of resisting Washington’s military might, the public and much of the foreign policy elite appear remarkably uninterested in marking the anniversary, le ...
  • Filipino Workers Urge Overhaul of U.S. Guest W ...
    A spate of legal battles in the southern state of Louisiana has shed new light on the unfair recruitment and employment practices of Filipino guest workers at several companies in the United States. On Monday, a federal judge awarded nearly 4.5 million dollars to 347 Filipinos after finding that ...
  • Iraq Once More on the Brink of War
    Driving into the city of Kirkuk, one is greeted by the view of a huge sea of grey concrete houses from which laundry has been hung out to dry in the wind and be blackened by smoke rising from the surrounding oil wells. Only the turquoise flags fluttering from lampposts and balconies break the mo ...
  • Latin American Integration, Post-Chávez
    Roberto Savio is founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and editor of Other News.
  • Water and Sanitation Seek Rightful Place in Po ...
    When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext – never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation. Now, as the United Nations begins the process of formulating a new set ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Thinking of Halabja Today – 25 Years Later
    Summary: Iran’s own Halabja is called Sardasht, a municipality without much military significance across the border north of Sulaymaniyah. Saddam’s air force hit the town on 28 June 1987, almost nine months before Halabja. Although initial reports of CW victims were low, it soon emerged that ...
  • No Progress in Latest Round of Iran Talks: P5 ...
    Summary: Iranian officials say that little progress was made in yesterday’s P5+1 talks in Istanbul, Turkey, a sort of secondary set of talks in between the big talks in Kazakhstan, the next round of which will be held next month. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Tenth Anniversary of Iraq Invasion: Lessons & ...
    Summary: March 19 is the tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq by the United States, Britain and their allies. George W. Bush declared that the goals of the invasion were "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi peopl ...
  • IAEA chief Amano is US's puppet over Iran: Ger ...
    Summary: A German lawmaker has described Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano as a “US puppet” in his handling of Iran’s nuclear energy dossier. source: PressTVread more
  • Twisting the Intel to Fit the Politics: The Ne ...
    Summary: Though the recent nuclear talks with Iran ended with an apparent whiff of progress, and though the two sides have agreed to meet for further technical negotiations this month and then for political level talks next month, the U.S. continues to approach Iran with a hostility that can ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Signals from Before the Big Bang" --Were Tell ...
                In 2010, University of Oxford theoretical physicist Roger Penrose made the sensational claim that he had glimpsed a signal originating from before the Big Bang working with Vahe Gurzadyn of the Yerevan Physics Institute in Armenia. Penrose came to this conclusion after ...
  • Astronomers Capture First Glimpse of Protostars
                     The Herschel Space Telescope has revealed the largest ensemble of young stars in a single star-forming region, according to Amelia Stutz, lead author of a paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for ...
  • Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting Andromeda Baffle Scien ...
                  A fascinating discovery about dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy suggests that conventional ideas regarding the formation of galaxies like our own Milky Way are missing something fundamental. A string of 13 dwarf galaxies in orbit around the massive galaxy Andro ...
  • "The Big Bang" Star --One of the Very First in ...
                   A primordial star at the outer edges of our Milky Way galaxy upsets current theories of star formation in the universe. The star simply shouldn't exist since it lacks the materials astronomers have long thought necessary for low-mass stars to form, scientists say. Whe ...
  • Mars' Curiosity Infrared Probe Shows More Evid ...
                      NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock. Last week, the rover's science team announced that analysis of powder from a drilled mudstone rock on Mars indicates ...

Natural News

  • Obama 'ethics panel' gives thumbs up to testin ...
    I feel obliged to warn you in advance that unless you're an evil demon who enjoys the suffering of others, you're going to have a VERY hard time reading this article. What you are about to confront here is extremely disturbing, racist, murderous and downright evil. Proceed...
  • Could micro-algae free America from foreign wa ...
    Next time you notice green slime growing in a pool or pond, take a second look. Incredibly, that bit of algae could be the secret to solving our war related financial difficulties and environmental troubles. As an incredible source of alternative energy, algae is used...
  • Who will be the first killer wearing Google Glass?
    One thing is certain. He'll say, "I thought I was in a movie." Either the judge will dismiss that excuse with a snort and huff, or he'll create yet a new class of victims: the people who are brainwashed into believing the Real is merely a consequence-free artifact...
  • Manicures increase skin cancer risk
    Millions of women enjoy a nice manicure and pedicure, as the proliferation of nail salons around the country indicate, but a new study shows that women who get gel manicures could be increasing their risk of skin cancer. CBS New York reports that gel manicures are...
  • Never again! The real history of psychiatry
    There have been recent calls for a national Mental Health Registry, and then additional calls to link such a registry to gun licensing. In the dreadful wake of Newtown, both the left and the right and the current US federal administration are demanding that we tighten...

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court Boosts Right to Resell Copyright ...
    The Supreme Court rules that buyers of foreign copyrighted works may resell them in the United States without the copyright holder's permission, a 6-3 decision Tuesday affirming the so-called "first sale" doctrine of federal copyright law. The decision by ...
  • See No Evil: The Case of Alfred Anaya
    Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing traps — secret compartments in cars that can hide everything from weed to jewelry to guns. And if they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured, that wasn't his problem. ...
  • Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move.
  • Supreme Court OKs $222K Verdict for Sharing 24 ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a jury's conclusion that infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay the recording industry $222,000 for downloading and sharing two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa.
  • AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in P ...
    A hacker charged with federal crimes for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's publicly accessible website was sentenced on Monday to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The U.S. Government? Catholic Bishops Want to ...
    As Pope Francis starts his papacy, polls show that American Catholics overwhelmingly believe the issue of clergy sex abuse must be his number one priority. As a Pew Research survey two weeks ago showed, while that crisis tops the list for 34 percent, neither abortion (3 percent) or contraceptio ...
  • Nothing Succeeds Like Failure for Iraq War Arc ...
    Ten years later, there is little question that the Iraq war was a disaster for the United States and its people. Over 4,400 Americans died and another 30,000 were wounded in the conflict. While U.S. forces were left to "muddle through" in Afghanistan, America's Mesopotamia misadventure signifi ...
  • How the GOP Gets It All Wrong on Medicare in 5 ...
    On Sunday, GOP House Speaker John Boehner and Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan agreed with President Obama "we do not an immediate debt crisis." But, as both sides similarly acknowledge, the longer term is a different story. In future decades, it is health care spending in general and Medic ...
  • 10 Signs Paul Ryan is Dropping Acid
    Back in the 1990s, the CEO of my former company had a simple way of questioning the wisdom of some of our more dubious business strategies. "Are we," he would ask, "smoking the drapes?" By that standard, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan must be dropping acid. Because as a quick glance a ...
  • 10 Reasons Why Ronald Reagan Would Be Persona ...
    As most of the leading lights of the fractured Republican Party gather in Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), organizer Al Cardenas is looking backwards for guidance in taking the GOP forward. Reflecting on Ronald Reagan's 1975 post-Watergate address to th ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • OzoneMap Delivers Real-Time Air Quality Inform ...
    Monitoring our health is becoming easier and easier as the days go by and the smart-phone apps multiply. Some are probably to our detriment, convincing us we’ve all of a sudden contracted lupus, but there are those that are genuinely beneficial. One such might be ‘OzoneMap‘ whi ...
  • Largest German Research Center Cuts Ties to Al ...
    Germany’s largest research institution – one of the world’s most prestigious – has withdrawn from a multi-million dollar Canadian-funded “tar sands” research project, citing the tar sands’ significant environmental concerns as posing a ”risk to our ...
  • A Quantum ‘Teleportation’ Scheme For Sending E ...
    The practical possibility of quantum cryptography (QC) — of sending a secure message using “entangled” quantum particles (like photons) — made a big splash back a few years ago, but experiments since then were hampered by a limit to the distance such particles can travel ...
  • Manatees Dying In Large Numbers On Both Coasts ...
    A significant number of manatees have died this year as a result of red tide blooms off the southwest coast of Florida, more than 180 so far. These red tide blooms are largely caused, and made more severe, by agricultural and urban runoff that the alga Karenia brevis then uses for food. And now ...
  • Tourist-Fed Stingrays Change Their Behavior Dr ...
    Stingray populations that have substantial interaction with tourists, such as those in some regions of the Cayman Islands, show vast changes in their behavior, new research has found. The stingrays completely change: inverting their sleep cycle from a nocturnal one to a diurnal one, changing fro ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • History Repeats: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
    By @TedFrier History, as Karl Marx famously remarked, repeats itself:  "First as tragedy, then as farce." Nowhere has that been more true than with the troubled history of the American South. Here, the tragic conceit of a Southern planter-class that dragged the nation to war in 1861 to prot ...
  • American Exceptionalism or Why We're Hated Thr ...
    Way back at the beginning of  President Obama's first year in office The Spoof, a parody news site and cheap knockoff of The Onion,ran a story in which he supposedly apologized to Mexico for supposed criminal acts by Mexican drug gangs against American citizens.  Yeah, I know, it does ...
  • Thoughts On Democrats Trying To Cut Social Sec ...
    By @TomBales1 The Republicans used to have a saying during the Bush years when their boy was coming under copious amounts of criticism for being an ignorant dick that was killing our kids for the financial benefit of his daddy's Wall Street cronies. After they made sure we understood what lowlif ...
  • What's That Smell?
  • White House Petition: entitlement
    At the White House petition site: We petition the Obama Administration to: We the white People of European descent seek our own month of race-specific recognition for the historical contributions We the white People of European descent seek our own month of race-specific recognition for the hist ...

Care 2

  • Little boy, 3, to have 2ft-long hair cut off f ...
    Little boy, 3, to have 2ft-long hair cut off for charity because he keeps being mistaken for a girl Submitted by Agnes N. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Ban Devocalization of Dogs and Cats - ForceChange
    Please sign and share Submitted by Susan H. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Take Action: Stand with Pat Summitt
    earned the distinction as the winningest college basketball coach in history. And then she stunned the world in 2011 when she revealed she has early onset Alzheimer's Submitted by JL A. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Elizabeth Warren Debunks GOP Talking Points on ...
    Sen. Elizabeth Warren continues her crusade against big financial institutions and businesses. Warren dismantles the popular right-wing talking point on why the minimum wage should not be increased. Submitted by Judy C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Two picture perfect puppies to be destroyed in ...
    The Facebook page, Houston, Save Lives is our Mission, posts lists of dogs who are on the dreaded "to be destroyed" list, in an effort to find adopters or rescue organizations, before the unthinkable happens. Submitted by Sophia P. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...

Smirking Chimp

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No Quarter

  • Don’t Buy Apple, Stay Away from ICLOUD
    Until today, I considered myself a satisfied, content user of Apple computers, I-Phones and I-Pads. No more. If you have a choice, DO NOT BUY ANYTHING APPLE. The death of Steve Jobs has produced a stupidity level in the company that is breathtaking. APPLE is trying to carve out a new niche with ...
  • Russian Mob Key Player in Cyprus
    Boy, this is a movie “popcorn” moment in Cyprus. Will the Cypriot Government move to seize hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts held in Cyprus? If they do, a lot of the decision makers will probably be killed. The Russian mafia is not keen on letting people live who ste ...
  • What Did Sid Tell Hillary?
    Odd piece of news overnight–longtime friend and advisor of Hillary Clinton, Sid Blumenthal, had his email hacked and messages he sent Hillary about Benghazi are somewhere out in the ether. Why should I care? I may be a mentioned in those emails. See, Sid also is a friend of mine. We do not ...
  • Barack Obama Declares Barack Obama “Unpatriotic”
    I eschew the claims of the birthers, who still believe that Obama is a Kenyan and not a citizen of the United States. Nope. He was born in Hawaii and is an American by birth. But Barack Obama is “UnAmerican.” He is not a patriot. A patriot is defined as one who loves his or [...]
  • CPAC Wrap Up
    Special Operations Speaks enjoyed a fine time at CPAC 2013. We had the chance to meet and chat with hundreds of people concerned about the failure of the Obama Administration to respond effectively to pleas for help from American spies and diplomats attacked on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Li ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Conservatives Outraged About Mountaintop Remov ...
    Mother Jones Conservatives Outraged About Mountaintop Removal in Tennessee... By ... Mother Jones On Tuesday, the Tennessee Conservative Union, which bills itself as the state's "largest and oldest conservative group," started running anti-mountaintop removal coal mining ads on tel ...
  • Research finds more health problems near mount ...
    Research finds more health problems near mountaintop-removal mining The Courier-Journal “Mountaintop-removal mining should stop,” said Hendryx, a psychologist and expert in health disparities. “We should develop other ways to grow the economy in these areas.” Mountain-top removal involves blasti ...
  • Asthma, Heart Disease, Cancer and General Illn ...
    MarketWatch (press release) Asthma, Heart Disease, Cancer and General Illness Found in Kentucky ... MarketWatch (press release) Asthma, Heart Disease, Cancer and General Illness Found in Kentucky Mountain Top Removal Community. BEREA, Ky., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A study publis ...
  • Tribune Readers' Views — Monday, March 18, 201 ...
    Tribune Readers' Views — Monday, March 18, 2013 The Fayette Tribune As a concerned citizen and mother, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before i ...
  • Terry Steele: The UMA, mountaintop removal and ...
    Terry Steele: The UMA, mountaintop removal and bad politics Charleston Gazette In the deep valleys and steep hills of Southern West Virginia, two tragedies have taken place over the last 20 years: The mountaintop removal that annihilates the mountains and health of coal communities and the decli ...

Memeorandum

  • Conservatives' Arkansas poll: Tom Cotton stron ...
    James Hohmann / Politico: Conservatives' Arkansas poll: Tom Cotton strong  —  A poll released Tuesday by two conservative groups suggests that Democratic Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor is vulnerable to a challenge from freshman Rep. Tom Cotton.  —  The Club for Growth ...
  • Bill to legalize, tax marijuana scheduled for ...
    Yuxing Zheng / Oregonian: Bill to legalize, tax marijuana scheduled for legislative hearing  —  SALEM — Marijuana would become legal, and the state would regulate and tax it under a bill under consideration in the Oregon Legislature.  —  House Bill 3371 wou ...
  • Family's Home Raided over Facebook Photo of Ch ...
    Toddstarnes / Fox News: Family's Home Raided over Facebook Photo of Child's Rifle  —  New Jersey police and Dept. of Children and Families officials raided the home of a firearms instructor and demanded to see his guns after he posted a Facebook photo of his 11-year-old son hold ...
  • Breaking: Colbert Busch wins Democratic primar ...
    CNN: Breaking: Colbert Busch wins Democratic primary in S.C. special election, CNN projects  —  (CNN) - CNN projects Elizabeth Colbert Busch, sister of comedian Stephen Colbert, will win Tuesday's Democratic primary for the the South Carolina special election to represent the st ...
  • Does Obama have a plan for Syria? (Richard Coh ...
    Richard Cohen / Washington Post: Does Obama have a plan for Syria?  —  The Obama administration's fear of blowback in Syria — weapons falling into the hands of jihadists and other bad guys — can be avoided in only one sure way: Throw America's support behind Bashar a ...

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AlterNet Top Stories

  • Very Little Changes As Gun Lobby Once Again Th ...
     Everyone knew that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban was going to be the toughest gun-control reform to achieve in the wake of the Newtown massacre. Although it passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week on a party line vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Rei ...
  • 1 Million Hours on Pot Arrests? How Quotas and ...
    In the past 11 years, the NYPD spent more than one million hoursmaking more than 400,000 arrests for low-level marijuana possession, a new reporthas found. The report raises questions about the use of police resources, which could likely be better spent addressing serious crimes in the high-c ...
  • No Forgiveness for Bush’s 'Useful Idiots,' the ...
    Ten years ago, between January and April 2003, it is estimated that an unprecedented 36 million people around the world took to the streets in protest against the Iraq War. They believed the war unjust, the evidence of a threat flimsy, and the costs, in terms of lives and otherwise, potential ...
  • The Sad Reality of How Warmongers and Elite Me ...
    The Iraq War raises many questions still, 10 years after those first bombs sought out Saddam Hussein. Most of the coverage of this tenth anniversary will focus on the decisions leading to the war, the blend of lies and arrogance in the Bush administration, which never really learned a lesson ...
  • The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Jamie Dimon, ...
    They called him a hero. The most esteemed banker of his time. The captain who could steer the ship while others foundered. The handsome, charismatic CEO of JP Morgan Chase, he of the silver hair and golden tongue, beloved by presidents and praised by pundits.Now the truth is out, and Wall Str ...

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court Boosts Right to Resell Copyright ...
    The Supreme Court rules that buyers of foreign copyrighted works may resell them in the United States without the copyright holder's permission, a 6-3 decision Tuesday affirming the so-called "first sale" doctrine of federal copyright law. The decision by ...
  • See No Evil: The Case of Alfred Anaya
    Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing traps — secret compartments in cars that can hide everything from weed to jewelry to guns. And if they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured, that wasn't his problem. ...
  • Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move.
  • Supreme Court OKs $222K Verdict for Sharing 24 ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a jury's conclusion that infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay the recording industry $222,000 for downloading and sharing two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa.
  • AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in P ...
    A hacker charged with federal crimes for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's publicly accessible website was sentenced on Monday to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • 300 with Cryptosporidium Linked to “Ready to E ...
    According to a Health Protection Agency (HPA) press release, the HPA announced findings of an investigation into an outbreak of Cryptosporidium infection that affected around 300 people in England and... Continue Reading
  • Airplane Food – With a Little too much Shigella
    I travel a lot.  Honestly (knock on wood), I have never been sickened by the food I have eaten on a plane.  But the following case reminds me how easily... Continue Reading
  • Another Likely Employee Based Shigella Outbreak
    The first Shigella illness involving a guest of the Doubletree Hotel was reported to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) on September 9, 2003. Interviews with other... Continue Reading
  • I got called out on Twitter at #AHCJ13 – and r ...
    I had just finished my part of the panel presentation entitled, “Why is food still making us sick in the 21st century,” when I was checking my Twitter feed and this... Continue Reading
  • Do the Food Safety News Reader’s Survey
    The hardworking reporters at Food Safety News would love your feedback.  It is easy – Here is the link: www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013-Food-Safety-News-Visitor-Survey  

AutoblogGreen

  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...
  • Geneva: Mitsubishi debuts Concept CA-MiEV, a n ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Electric Mitsubishi is stretching the electric jellybean. For years, the i-MiEV was regular presence at Mitsubishi's auto show booths around the world, and the car rightfully earned its nickname because of its rounded shape. ...
  • Video: Toyota sizzle reel gives better look at ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Toyota, Design/Style, Electric Toyota is taking the tiny tandem Tango to Tron town. In a teaser video for the new i-Road, debuting at the Geneva Motor Show next week, we catch a light-bike-like glimpse of Toyota's quirky tandem-seat concept. We still don't know much ...
  • Official: Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing de ...
    Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Take the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell, stretch it and take off the wheels then make it float and you've basically got the just-unveiled Cigarette AMG Electric Drive Concept. Powered by an all-electric powertrain that offers 2,2 ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | Talking ’b ...
    By Visible As a result of the novels I write, I have made a serious study of sexual psychopaths and their connections to governments, established religions, law enforcement, mass media and the entertainment world. The connections are there and can be found by anyone taking the trouble to look in ...
  • Witness to Rachel Corrie’s Death Respond ...
    By ROBERT MACKEY On March 16, 2003, after Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, fellow activists from the International Solidarity Movement tried in vain to save her life.International Solidarity Movement/Associated PressOn March 16 ...
  • “Jews” Are Not Descendants of Abraham
    By Texe Marrs “I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan.” — (Revelation 2:9) “And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land…” — (Genesis 12:7) Who should possess the land of Israel? Christian evangel ...
  • New ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Gives Monsanto P ...
    Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Waking Times There truly is no rest for the wicked, and Monsanto is at war once again against health conscious consumers with the latest ‘Monsanto Protection Act‘, managing to sneak wording into the latest Senate legislation that would give them blanket immunit ...
  • Study: Iraq War Cost 190K Lives, $2.2 Trillion
    The U.S.-led war in Iraq claimed 190,000 lives and will cost the U.S. government at least $2.2 trillion, according to the findings of a project at Brown University released Thursday. The Costs of War report, released ahead of the 10th anniversary of the war on March 20, said that the financial c ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Journalists reporting the end of journalism as ...
    Summary: Journalists often have been unsympathetic when reporting past waves of unemployment from automation. Now they have the opportunity to do first person reporting, as computers replace professionals. Like journalists.  This is another chapter in a series about the the robot revolution, soo ...
  • Hype about 3D printing & dreams of American re ...
    Summary:  Judging from the hype, 3-D printing is the next big thing in the ongoing industrial revolution (especially since the biotech revolution has stalled) — and the US has a great lead.  We’re #1! No need for difficult structural reforms! Too bad the story is probably exaggerated ...
  • About China’s real estate bubble
    Summary: Facing a new powerful rival presents a hegemon with choices. We can improve our game, reform, revitalize to meet the challenge. Or take refuge in fantasy, ignoring our weaknesses and exaggerating those of our rival. America has chosen door #2. Here we peer through the propaganda fog, se ...
  • Can we see China through our veil of propaganda?
    Summary: Our newspapers coverage of the world consists to a large extent of propaganda. Nations appear as either allies, enemies, and wilderness. And rivals are often portrayed as enemies, no matter ow much spin or outright fabrication required. Here we look at China, attempting to see through t ...
  • The military takes us back to the future. To V ...
    Summary: Now that our most recent wars are ending, we have an opportunity to learn. Will we? Making clear insights more difficult, our war machines has already started preparing us for new wars: threat inflation plus cheap/easy solutions. After 9-11 we bought such stories about Iraq and Afghanis ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Sweeping View of ...
    This image shows a giant star-forming region in the southern sky known as the Carina Nebula (NGC3372), combining the light from 3 different filters tracing emission from oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). The color is also representative of ...
  • New Lizard Species Look Like Evil Dinosaur Hybrids
    With spiky spines and gleaming red eyes, two newly described species of wood lizard look a bit like stegosaur-evil velociraptor hybrids.
  • Cliff Swallows Evolve to Avoid Traffic
    Cliff swallows that build nests that dangle precariously from highway overpasses have a lower chance of becoming roadkill than in years past thanks to a shorter wingspan that lets them dodge oncoming traffic.
  • The Mathematics of Averting the Next Big Netwo ...
    In an increasingly interconnected world, scientists are seeking safeguards against catastrophic cascades of failure like stock market crashes and widespread blackouts.
  • The Power of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer, ...
    The first thing to hit Iain Couzin when he walked into the Oxford lab where he kept his locusts was the smell, like a stale barn full of old hay. The second, third, and fourth things to hit him were ...

PakAlert

  • Obama’s Advisors: Disarm America Through Taxation
    They are advising him to tax guns, ammunition, magazines, and licenses and then attach draconian remedies for failure to register and pay the taxes. Set the taxes low the first year, then increase them gradually to the point where a person owning an AR 15, three magazines and a box of ammo would ...
  • 10 Giant Media & Government Hoaxes
    “You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a ...
  • DHS insider update: “It has begun”
    Much like my high-level source within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security outlined in a series of interviews beginning last year, the orchestrated collapse of the U.S. dollar and the entire world’s economic system has begun. The first shots in a global economic take-over were fired in Cypru ...
  • Exposing Chemtrail Spraying in Los Angeles for ...
    What do you call it when an individual gets into a cockpit of a plane and obeys orders to spray toxic chemicals high in the sky on a daily basis? I call it the greatest crime of all time. One need only to believe ones own eyes, see the huge lines in the sky and do your own research to acknowledg ...
  • Why does the devil in ‘The Bible’ look exactly ...
    Sunday evening's episode of the History Channel's hit series 'The Bible' threw up an awkward coincidence when viewers noticed that Satan bore a remarkable resemblance to President Obama. Twitter exploded into life during the airing of the latest edition of the Mark Burnett-produced series wit ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, the Hun ...
    Please sign the e-petition calling for the British government to secure the return to the UK from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, who has been cleared for release since 2007. 100,000 signatures are needed by April 20. With a huge hunger strike taking place at ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: Last Call for Donations ...
    Please support my work! Last week was my quarterly fundraiser, in which, as I do every three months, I ask you, my friends and supporters, to donate if you can to support my work, primarily as an independent journalist, researcher and activist on Guantánamo and related issues, but also as a jour ...
  • More Photos from “Born in Lewisham,&#822 ...
    More Photos from “Born in Lewisham,” the Protest to Save Lewisham Hospital, March 16, 2013, a set on Flickr. On Saturday, another high-profile event took place in the campaign to “Save Lewisham Hospital” from destruction by senior NHS managers and the government, with an ...
  • How Long Can the Government Pretend that the M ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Born in Lewisham: Photos of the Protest to Sav ...
    Born in Lewisham: The Protest to Save Lewisham Hospital, March 16, 2013, a set on Flickr. On March 16, 2013, the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign organised a protest and publicity event, entitled, “Born in Lewisham,” outside the endangered hospital — serving a population of 270, ...

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Sciencebase

  • Can drinking green tea or coffee cut stroke risk?
    Probably not. A recent study from Japan was much hyped in the media earlier this week but as NHS Choices points out, the researchers themselves offered a number of limitations to their study: The information on illness, green tea and coffee consumption was all self-reported, which introduces the ...
  • Whatever happened to acid rain?
    There’s a cute video montage currently doing the rounds in which a re-working of the Billy Joel song “We didn’t start the fire” reminisces about growing up in the 1970s and the 1980s and cites the countless games, toys, TV shows and other cultural references we had during ...
  • Ante-papal smoke signals
    Philip Ball, writing on the BBC Future site discusses the carcinogens and poisons pumped into the Roman air every time the cardinals vote on a new Pope… But, he also reckons the The Vatican is missing a trick by being unimaginatively monochrome. “Why stop at a mere two-colour signall ...
  • Animated rock art
    Some of the world’s oldest engravings of the human form – prehistoric rock art from the Italian Alps – have been brought to life. PITOTI is an innovative research project that applies insights from the new technologies of computer graphics to prehistoric pictures, specifically ...
  • World Book Day Confusion
    It hadn’t occurred to me that there might be more than one World Book Day. Apparently (thanks Bob O’Hara) we Brits celebrate and promote literacy on 7th March to get around school holidays, which is why yesterday all the kids trotting up to school were dressed as characters from thei ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 'We Have a Right to Heal': Group Demands Justi ...
    A group of U.S. veterans of the Iraq war and two Iraqi organizations are "demanding the right to heal" from the war that has not ended, demanding reparations for trauma and health effects from the war, and demanding the U.S. be held "accountable for its violations of the rights to ...
  • Ignoring First Amendment Attack, Judge Dismiss ...
    On Tuesday a federal judge threw out a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), without addressing the central Freedom of Speech question in the case. read more
  • NYPD Spent One Million Hours, 440,000 Arrests ...
    According to a shocking new report released Tuesday by the Drug Policy Alliance, in just over a decade the NYPD has used approximately 1,000,000 hours of police officer time to make 440,000 arrests for low-level misdemeanor marijuana possession, in what critics are calling "a frontline civi ...
  • Cyprus Votes 'No' Against Austerity and 'the P ...
    As protesters cheered outside, Cyprus's parliament rejected a bailout proposal from the European financial 'troika' that would have levied individual savings accounts held in the state's banks. Though a small island country with relatively low impact on the wider European economy ...
  • US-Backed, School of the Americas-Trained Form ...
    An historic trial begins in Guatemala on Tuesday for a former U.S.-backed, School of the Americas-trained dictator accused of acts genocide committed during his brutal regime. 86-year-old Efrain Rios Montt stands accused of killing over 1,700 Ixil Mayas during his 1982-1983 regime, which took pl ...

Lifehacker

  • The Winter Berries Desktop
    Reader exogenesis's desktop isn't specifically designed for work, but it does look great, serves as a quick launcher for his most commonly used applications, and gives him access to system monitors at a glance. More »
  • Check with Your Credit Union or Insurance Comp ...
    Trying to get the best price on a new or used car is an uphill battle, but odds are you have some friends in your corner you didn't know about: Your credit union and your auto insurance provider. More »
  • Circle Lifehacker at Google+ For Our Top Stori ...
    Every day, we share some of our top posts on Google+ so you can stay up to date and share with friends. But don't worry! We only post a selection of our top stories and we space out those posts so that we don't overwhelm your stream. If you haven't circled us on Google+ yet, there's never ...
  • Adblock Plus Re-Launches After Being Pulled fr ...
    The team behind Adblock Plus isn't taking Google's decision to pull ad-blocking apps from Google Play lying down. Today they've unveiled a new version that bypasses Google Play for updates, offers more ad-blocking features, and can be downloaded and installed directly. More »
  • Want to Be Happier? Stop Doing These 10 Things ...
    Happiness—in your business life and your personal life—is often a matter of subtraction, not addition. Consider, for example, what happens when you stop doing the following things. More »

Water Wars

  • Blue Peace: New Solution for Averting Water Wa ...
    MUMBAI, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --With the spectre of war looming over Egypt and Ethiopia due to discord on the Nile River Comprehensive Framework Agreement, a new report, Blue Peace for the Nile, ...
  • WATER WARS : Los Angeles Times Op-Ed vs. Arizo ...
    In case you missed it, there was a recent dust-up between opinionators at the Los Angeles Times and the Arizona Republic over which city has the worst reputation for importing water and which has the poorest outlook in terms of drought and climate change.
  • Water wars resume with Delta tunnels, bond revamp
    New details are expected this week on the controversial Delta tunnels project, as legislators also grapple with downsizing a state water bond.
  • Don't panic, drought relief plans in place: Ma ...
    Days after the Maharashtra Police issued a circular asking the force in drought-hit districts to be on alert as water wars could break out and create a law and order situation, Maharashtra Chief Minis...
  • Don't panic, drought relief plans in place: Ma ...
    Days after the Maharashtra Police issued a circular asking the force in drought-hit districts to be on alert as water wars could break out and create a law and order situation, Maharashtra Chief Minis... Related Stories Lawyers in Gujarat to boycott work on Monday Rajasthan Police team to reach ...

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  • NYPD Spent 1 Million Hours In Ten Years On Mar ...
    New York Police Department officers have spent 1 million hours making 440,000 marijuana arrests between 2002 and 2012, according to a new report from the Drug Policy Alliance. DPA put together the data in response to a request from New York City and New York State, as they consider measures to d ...
  • John Kerry Says ‘The Science Is Screaming At U ...
    Secretary of State John Kerry delivered another set of powerful remarks on climate change last night. But all his poignant words will come to nought — indeed, they’ll come back to haunt him — if he makes the wrong decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. How precisely co ...
  • Atlanta Council Approves Public Tax Money To R ...
    Atlanta’s city council overwhelmingly approved a plan that would, on its face, spend $200 million in public tax dollars to replace the Georgia Dome, the 20-year-old home of the National Football League’s Atlanta Falcons. The dome, despite its seemingly young age, is among the older s ...
  • OOPS: Rand Paul Makes Case Against The Pro-Lif ...
    Last week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced “The Life at Conception Act,” a personhood measure that would outlaw abortions by declaring that “human life begins at the moment of conception, and therefore is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.” “The right ...
  • Assassination ‘Joke’ Sheriff Doubles Down, Com ...
    A day after ThinkProgress and others reported that Joseph D. McDonald, Jr. (R), Sheriff of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, told a “joke” at a Republican St. Patrick’s Day breakfast suggesting the nation would be better off if President Obama were assassinated, McDonald stood by ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • March 15th Reading n' Shit
    So, today I'm reading a book recommended by a friend. (He's fucking weird in that he's able to go buy these awesome second-hand books and then, when he's done reading them, gets rid of them when there's no more room on his shelf for new ones.) Anyhow, it's by Alex Butterworth and it's called Th ...
  • As Good a Survey of Iraq's Historical Sufferin ...
    "Unmitigated Disaster" by Sami Ramadani. You know, years ago on this blog, I wrote an observation about Mark Steyn's book I forget the stupid title. I hadn't read the book then and I never will. Because Steyn is a cretin. But a really smart "conservative" (or "right-winger" or whatever) took me ...
  • For Real?
     I scrolled past this story at Crooks and Liars the first time. I glanced at it a little longer going past it today. I'd thought that the image in the video still was some sort of joke on bush II. I thought they were making fun of him. That really is the mass-murdering war criminal bush II ...
  • Dark Legacy: Systemic Discrimination Against C ...
    It's a new book I'm reading. Got it from the Parliament branch of the Toronto Public Library. Dark Legacy: Systemic Discrimination Against Canada's First Peoples by L.J. O'Connor and Morgan O'Neal, with Lloyd Dolha and Jim Ada. I'm about half-way through it. So far it's talked about the betray ...
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End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canada should reject armed drones
    Is Mali the next opportunity to pitch an armed drone program as a contribution to both the French campaign there and the US-led war against al Qaeda in Western Africa?
  • Canada and the Iraq War: 10 years on
    Ten years ago the United States and its “Coalition of the Willing” invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, eliminate Iraq’s (non-existent) weapons of mass destruction, and remake the Middle East in the U.S. image. Canada declined to formally join the Coalition, but the Chrétien government's de ...
  • “Arming” the Canadian Forces
    The Harper government has decided to refer to Canada's military as the "Canadian Armed Forces" instead of the "Canadian Forces".
  • Canada and a nuclear weapons ban
    The disastrous consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, discussed at two recent conferences in Oslo, underline the need for a Nuclear Weapons Convention banning the weapons. Cesar Jaramillo argues that Canada should lead the call for such a ban.
  • Contract signed for Arctic patrol ships
    On March 7th, the government signed a $288-million contract with Irving Shipbuilding of Halifax for design work on the long-promised Arctic offshore patrol ships. But construction of the ships is not expected to begin until 2015.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
  • The Flu Season Is Upon Us
    Here are a few of my personal recommendations for avoiding the flu this holiday season. These recommendations are also the best way to slow, or potentially reverse, the aging process, making you look and feel younger than you have in years. In general terms the way to eradicate any and all illne ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
    Today, Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling We ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-22-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the truth behind Subway’s false and misleading advertising, body scanner radiation vs. airplane radiation, and even Your Wish Is Your Command! Self Help: Protect You & Your Family Grass Fed Beef & Dairy Change The Way You Think Health: Your PC, TV or Cell Phone May B ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • No, wait — could Rand Paul really win?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJAMES HOHMANN Politico March 20, 2013 A few weeks ago, Rand Paul was far down the list of 2016 GOP presidential prospects ” a freshman senator with a devoted but mostly marginal following of young libertarians. Now ...
  • DEBKAfile: Rocket fired in Aleppo contained Ag ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDEBKAfile March 20, 2013 Western military sources have told DEBKA file that three chemicals were believed present in the Scud B rocket which exploded in the Aleppo neighborhood of Khan al-Assal Tuesday March 19: phosphor ...
  • Obama turning to executive power to get what h ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAnita Kumar McClatchy Newspapers March 20, 2013 President Barack Obama came into office four years ago skeptical of pushing the power of the White House to the limit, especially if it appeared to be circumventing Congres ...
  • Royal Air Force plane takes one million Euros ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The government sent a Royal Air Force plane to crisis-hit Cyprus on Tuesday carrying one million euros in emergency loans for British military personnel, the defence ministry said. The cash cargo flight ...
  • CIA and FBI Counter-Terrorism Officials: Chene ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCIA and FBI Counter-Terrorism Officials: Cheney Lied About 9/11 Hijacker By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Cheney Caught In Another Major Lie Everyone knew that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (updat ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Tariq Ali: US, UK Never Faced Justice for Iraq ...
    Dandelion Salad RussiaToday·Mar 19, 2013 At least 56 people have been killed in a series of attacks across Baghdad. The deadly assaults come as Iraq marks ten years since the coalition, led by the US and Britain, invaded the country with their ‘freedom and democracy’ mission. Histori ...
  • Every Building in Baghdad that Falls, Crushed ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Writer, Dandelion Salad London, England March 17, 2013 I wrote this article as the bombs fell on Baghdad on the 20th of March 2003, with tears streaming down my face. I had come back from Iraq just days before. In another sparkling pink and azure dawn on the day I left Bagh ...
  • The Shame of America’s Gulag by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig March 18, 2013 If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” then we are a nation of barbarians. Our vast network of federal and state prisons, with some 2.3 million inmates, rivals ...
  • Spinning Out Of Control by Lesley Docksey
    by Lesley Docksey Writer, Dandelion Salad March 12, 2013 Being born ‘with a silver spoon in your mouth’ means that you start with an advantage that others don’t have: parents with money, property, influence, business connections and so on, connections that can last for generations.  A silver spo ...
  • Michael Parenti: The Empire Feeds Off The Republic
    with Michael Parenti Writer, Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org March 16, 2013 Radio Akasha www.blogtalkradio.com February 25, 2013 Brian Stetten and Ruthan Amarteifio, still hopeful—— Somehow, somewhere, we’ll make a democracy!! Michael Parenti, http:/ ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Sweeping View of ...
    This image shows a giant star-forming region in the southern sky known as the Carina Nebula (NGC3372), combining the light from 3 different filters tracing emission from oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). The color is also representative of ...
  • New Lizard Species Look Like Evil Dinosaur Hybrids
    With spiky spines and gleaming red eyes, two newly described species of wood lizard look a bit like stegosaur-evil velociraptor hybrids.
  • Cliff Swallows Evolve to Avoid Traffic
    Cliff swallows that build nests that dangle precariously from highway overpasses have a lower chance of becoming roadkill than in years past thanks to a shorter wingspan that lets them dodge oncoming traffic.
  • The Mathematics of Averting the Next Big Netwo ...
    In an increasingly interconnected world, scientists are seeking safeguards against catastrophic cascades of failure like stock market crashes and widespread blackouts.
  • The Power of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer, ...
    The first thing to hit Iain Couzin when he walked into the Oxford lab where he kept his locusts was the smell, like a stale barn full of old hay. The second, third, and fourth things to hit him were ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Mustafa Barghouti: Palestinians are unenthusia ...
    Mustafa Barghouthi: "The main goal of Obama’s visit ... is to listen... We Palestinians have been listening for too long. This passivity on Obama’s part is unacceptable and dangerous at a time when... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Ya’alon – forever tainted by cancer
    Ya’alon spent a year working for the AIPAC-created Washington Institute for Near East Policy and also spent time at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies of the infamous Shalem Center. If you... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Nadia Hijab: Israel, Obama, and other people’s oil
    Of course, Israel thinks it can get away with [drilling for oil on the occupied Golan Heights]. It has violated international law with impunity since it prevented the Palestinian refugees' return,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Noam Sheizaf: NY Times Magazine article shows ...
    Of all the Hebrew-language media outlets, it was the liberal Haaretz that labeled Ben Ehrenreich’s excellent feature on the protest in Nabi Saleh as a “pro-Palestinian manifesto.” The piece,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Researcher uncovers hidden facts of Israeli-Pa ...
    The Israeli government has been forcing the Palestinian Authority into approving water infrastructure for illegal West Bank settlements for the past 15 years, according to research by a University of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Cyberwar Games . . . In High School
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I got my first taste of international law some 25 years ago when I joined my high school’s model UN team.  So, what does it says that today’s high school students have model cyberwar teams?  The link’s a bit short on details, but, I wonder wh ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Bosco Ntaganda, the leader of the M23 rebel group in the DRC, turned himself into the US Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda yesterday. Ntaganda is wanted by the ICC for charges including recruiting and using child soldiers, murder, rape and sexual slavery, and persec ...
  • Expanding the “Jaws” of CITES
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon States parties to the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to list five new commercially valuable shark species under Appendix II last week, notwithstanding an attempt to reopen the discussion in the final plenary by some dissenters. The i ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, March 18, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Burma’s President is visiting Australia where the government has pledged aid as well as increased defense co-operation. Lawyers for Kenya’s President-Elect Uhuru Kenyatta will argue later today at the ICC that charges against their client should ...
  • Is the CIA in the Drone Kill Chain? (Answer: L ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Wells Bennett calls my attention to this statement by Marc Ambinder in a recent article in The Week entitled “Five Truths About the Drone War”: The CIA does not “fly” drones. It “owns” drones, but the Air Force flies t ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Lawmakers Take First Look at Medicaid Expansion
    AZ Lawmakers Take First Look at Medicaid Expansion PHOENIX - State lawmakers will hear the first testimony this afternoon on Gov. Jan Brewer's plan to expand Arizona's version of Medicaid by around 300,000 people. The state's share of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS or " ...
  • National Symposium on Child Abuse: New Researc ...
    National Symposium on Child Abuse: New Research, More Teamwork PHOENIX - Professionals in child abuse investigation and treatment, including some from Arizona, are meeting this week in Huntsville, Alabama. At the National Symposium on Child Abuse, they are getting the latest research on topics s ...
  • Defining Immigration Reform
    Defining Immigration Reform PHOENIX, Ariz. - The so-called "Gang of Eight" senators, including Arizona's John McCain and Jeff Flake, are planning to unveil a bipartisan immigration reform bill in the next few weeks. However, one national activist said, the bill's success will depend on how vario ...
  • Internet Medical Info Can be Sketchy for Expec ...
    Internet Medical Info Can be Sketchy for Expectant Moms PHOENIX – These days, medical information is as close as a click away for Arizonans wanting to do online research about symptoms of illnesses and medications. But a word of caution from Dr. Erik Bedia, an obstetrician-gynecologist i ...
  • Buckling Up Best for Moms-To-Be
    Buckling Up Best for Moms-To-Be PHOENIX - Expectant mothers worry that having a seat belt buckled could damage their unborn child in a crash, but a new study finds that not wearing a seat belt actually increases a woman's chances of losing a pregnancy from those if she is restrained. The best ...

Center for Food Safety

  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • As Challenge over Seed Rights Approaches Supre ...
    Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds Investigate Role of Seed Patents in Consolidating Corporate Control of Global Food Supply Today, one week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS) – two legal and policy ...
  • Center for Food Safety Calls on EPA to Follow ...
    New European Pesticide Agency study reports “unacceptable” dangers to bees; supports suspension of use in U.S. Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the cue of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and immediately suspend t ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

Pensieve

  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...
  • Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
    I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...
  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...
  • Aaron Swartz on SOPA
    The late Aaron Swartz explains SOPA. His recent suicide has been in the news so much that I feel it isn’t worth discussing. His opinions, though, are. Related posts: Aaron Ortiz, Rest in Peace I’m very sorry to say that one of my namesakes... Aaron Ortiz, Flickr Pro These are some o ...

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