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Brave New Climate

  • Log, slash, truck and burn – welcome to ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. Back in 2011, the federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency commissioned the Australian Energy Marke ...
  • Advanced fission and fusion technologies for s ...
    Last week, the Australian Academy of Science held their annual meeting in Canberra, and the final day’s event was focused on energy technology. The symposium was called “Power to the people: the science behind the debate“. I was invited as one of the speakers, to discuss next-g ...
  • Green Junk – In praise of waste
    This post has two purposes. First, for those who don’t follow my Twitter feed (hey, why don’t you?), I’d like to highlight some terrific work from Geoff Russell and Ben Heard that has hit the ‘net over the past few weeks. These are all ‘must reads’ – wit ...
  • 100 Per Cent Renewables Study Needs a Makeover
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • Can household solar photovoltaics provide a pr ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and peak demand? Click the above image to download the PDF (full version is free – Open Access) With decli ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Mortgage Repayment Calculator and Extra Mortga ...
    On the average, the typical mortgage can last from 15 to 30 years. Most of the repayments made for these mortgages go to the interest of the loan. It will only be after a couple of years before the payments actually affect the principal amount of the loan. If you’re looking for a quicker way to ...
  • Thinking About a Loan? Try a Reverse Mortgage ...
    Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) remain popular with seniors interested in making the most of their home equity during retirement. While many of the requirements necessary to qualify for an HECM are clear, others are somewhat hazy. Seniors who are interested in these loans often wonder i ...
  • Advantages of Tankless Water Heaters
    How typically did you are taking a shower and also the water began to run cold before you were finished? do not you hate that? With a standard warmer this is often invariably a haul. And if another person needs to use predicament when you, simply forget it! shopping for a warmer with a humble pl ...
  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Female? Republican?
    Are you f-ing insane?
  • Niall Ferguson Is An Idiot
    On “Morning Joe” Niall Ferguson claimed that jobs were not being created because “Small businesses are deeply discouraged from hiring people by a massive regulation. I know this because I should try to setting up a business.” He then goes on to blather more nonsense. Look ...
  • Glenn Beck You And Your Friends Are The Diseas ...
    ““But it makes total sense if people understand progressivism is a disease in the Republican Party as well,” Beck responded.” Yeah, that’s right Beck. Making sure all American have a chance to get ahead, that’s a disease right? All Americans have a right to see a doctor w ...
  • The Rich Get Richer
    And the poor get poorer. Who do you blame? Republicans or Democrats? Both? If you think the “rich” earned their money think again. They have all the advantages. Tax loopholes written especially for them, and the companies they own. The ability to move their money offshore, or put it ...
  • Pay More Taxes So Apple Doesn’t Pay Any
    Man, the testimony today about Apple’s offshoring of their entities to not pay taxes makes me want to puke. They take their income through an Irish corporation, with a part ownership from an entity in the British Virgin Islands so they don’t even have to pay taxes there. Billions upo ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Residents Bring Dirty Water from Mountaintop R ...
    Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to … Continue reading →
  • We’re Bringing Toxic Water to the EPA &# ...
    Folks have begun arriving in Washington DC for a week of meetings with the Obama Administration and lawmakers asking for protections for Appalachian water.  We have brought over 100 gallons of toxic water from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky with … Continue reading →
  • Video: EPA Action May 8th!
    Join us in DC on May 8th, 2013 Join Appalachia Rising in D.C on May 8, 2013! from Zein Nakhoda on Vimeo. Please share this powerful video made by Zein Nakhoda for our EPA ACtion on Wednesday, May 8th at … Continue reading →
  • May 8th: Day of Action
    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
  • More Actions in Atlanta!
    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

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  • Paving the road for true multiculturalism on I ...
    The ‘Eyal Golan is Calling You’ finale night was a brimming, pronounced and accented Mizrahi broadcast, paving the road for a true multiculturalism and change of viewing habits. Merav Alush Levron on the struggle she partook in to have the finale aired on Channel 2 (and fair play to ...
  • Children in the crosshairs: Lessons from the a ...
    The continued discussion of the almost 13-year-old Al-Dura affair reflects the current Israeli government’s inability to conduct serious and impartial investigations into violations of Palestinian rights. By Brad Parker On Wednesday, Philippe Karsenty, a French media analyst, was convicted ...
  • The worst rebuttal to the Apartheid analogy (p ...
    A blogger for Times of Israel has published a post titled “Israel is an Apartheid State.” As always, it got many people upset. Another blogger, Varda Epstein, posted a response which deserves “the worst argument on Israel/Palestine” of the month award (and strong candidat ...
  • Artists, activists and theater lovers gather t ...
    At East Jerusalem demonstration against the banning on an annual children’s festival, friends of el-Hakawati Theater share past memories and present disappointment. Festival programs and posters were laid out on a table outside the theater. More were stacked in an office on the floor, stil ...
  • From price tag attacks to global gay pride: A ...
    This week: A hunger striker bakes bread, African immigrants celebrate refugee rights, LGBT activists take to the streets around the world, price tag attacks hit Palestinian East Jerusalem, weekly West Bank demonstrations continue, an eviction is avoided, and privatization protests spread to Jeru ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • New eye on our Weather and Environment
    Environment Minister Tony Burke, today unveiled a new state-of-the-art, interactive weather resource to help people access real-time, user-friendly weather information.
  • Tasmania's precious forests protected forever
    Some of the Tasmania's most spectacular and precious areas of old growth native forest have been given the highest level of environmental protection following a decision by the World Heritage Committee.
  • Another milestone in the Tasmanian Forests Agr ...
    Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today announced another milestone in delivering the historic Tasmanian Forests Agreement - the retirement of peeler billet supply from veneer maker Ta Ann. This restructure will help protect jobs and native forests in Tasmania.
  • Science and the sea capture 2013 Antarctic medals
    Seabird ecologist, Dr Barbara Wienecke and master mariner, Captain Scott McLaughlin are the recipients of Australian Antarctic Medals for 2013.
  • Study to help identify cultural values in Tasm ...
    Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced funding for a study to help identify cultural values in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

Matt Weidner Blog

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

  • The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
    [originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Obesity, Oceans, Meat, and More
    Once we understood the harmful effects of tobacco, policymakers kicked in with higher tobacco taxes, smoking restrictions in public places, limitations on advertising, and so forth. Substitute sweetened beverages, calorically dense fast food, sugar- and fat-laden processed foods and snacks for t ...
  • A Faith that Produces Food
    The City of Baltimore provided the land, Big City Farms provided the farming expertise, and Newborn Ministries provided the personnel, community connection, overarching project focus, and the farm name.
  • Meat Consumption and Climate Change: Which NGO ...
    The study, published in this week’s issue of Climatic Change, examined the meat consumption reduction efforts of three types of NGOs—environmental, food-focused, and animal-protection—in the U.S., Canada, and Sweden.
  • Harvard researchers raise another red flag ove ...
    While this study is observational and does not prove causation, it does provide stronger evidence that red meat consumption raises the risk of diabetes, a disease that affects almost 26 million adults and children in the U.S.
  • Gutless decisions can’t halt Meatless Monday’s ...
    History seemed to have repeated itself this week as another government entity folded to industry complaints over Meatless Monday promotions in its cafeterias. Last July the Department of Agriculture retracted its promotion of Meatless Monday in a sustainability newsletter to employees after faci ...

k2p blog

  • Global warming “hockey stick” is t ...
    Steve McIntyre's objections to the Yamal tree ("the most important tree in the world") in the global warming hockey stick are being vindicated as the new version of the data series resembles a baseball bat much more than a hockey stick.
  • Closure for Stapel perhaps but social psycholo ...
    Another Chapter in the Diedrik Stapel saga comes to an end as he reaches a deal with prosecutors but the exposure of his behaviour has revealed much that is not so uncommon in the field of social psychology.
  • Closure for Stapel perhaps but social psycholo ...
    Another Chapter in the Diedrik Stapel saga comes to an end as he reaches a deal with prosecutors but the exposure of his behaviour has revealed much that is not so uncommon in the field of social psychology.
  • Snowden and religious teachings
    For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed on the housetops.
  • Snowden and religious teachings
    For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

Left Foot Forward

  • Bring on the oranges – what is there to ...
    After the photo opportunities, early morning swims and talk of famous blues musicians last week in Lough Erne, the temptation is to think it’s all over for the UK’s Presidency of the G8.
  • This week’s most read: Rape apologism, b ...
    The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
  • Obama moves to suspend trade privileges with B ...
    President Obama has announced the suspension of ‘trade privileges’ for Bangladesh following the recent tragedies in the garment industry, notably at Rana Plaza and Tarzeen Fashions, where over 1,300 workers have died in building collapses and fires.
  • The UK has among the best renewables resources ...
    Judging by yesterday's announcements, the government believes the hype about shale gas. Like a love-struck teenager it seems blind to any downsides and is lavishing its beloved with gifts such as tax breaks and streamlined regulation.
  • What does the Spending Review mean for growth ...
    Everyone knew there would be very little money to spare in Wednesday’s Spending Review and Thursday’s ‘Growth Statement’. The slow recovery of the national economy has put paid to any attempts to move away from ‘austerity’, so departmental cuts of up to 10 per cent came as no surprise.

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • New Documents Reveal Ongoing Surveillance: Dai ...
    The Guardian: NSA collected US Email Records in Build For More than Two Years Under Obama More secret documents obtained by The Guardian reveal a detailed timeline of events from inside the federal government leading up to the implementation of the data–mining PRISM program and this month’s ot ...
  • Despite Government Denials, Documents Show NSA ...
    The latest in a series of revolutionary reporting from The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald reveals that under Obama, the NSA continued the Bush-era domestic datamining program Stellar Wind until 2011, and continues todayto collect Americans' online data. A review of top-secret NSA documents sugg ...
  • MSPB Backs WPEA Expansion: 
First Ruling Appli ...
    Yesterday, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) backed an expansive application of last year’s Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) in the law’s first significant test case. In Day v. Department of Homeland Security, a 2-1 Board decision applied WPEA anti-retaliation rights ...
  • NSA Pulls Inaccurate PRISM Fact Sheet from Web ...
    Washington Post: NSA Fact Sheet on Surveillance Program Pulled from Web After Senators’ CriticismGeneral Keith Alexander Amid controversy, the NSA has removed information detailing the legal restrictions of the PRISM program, which was initially posted to reassure the public that they are not ...
  • Former OSC Head Bloch Sentenced: Daily Whistle ...
    Washington Post: Former Federal Official Sentenced to Probation with a Day in JailFormer OSC Head Scott Bloch Scott J. Bloch, former head of the Office of Special Counsel (the federal whistleblower protection agency) under George W. Bush, has been sentenced to two years probation with one day ...

UK Progressive

  • The Boston Marathon Bombers and the Theory of ...
    by Tina Dupuy My working theory—you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works—is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or planning when laziness could explain it. Call it Occam’s Armc ...
  • Six Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica Among the news that ended up being buried in the events last week: A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s treatment, and torture, of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The investigation began in 2009 ...
  • Illegal Abortion and ‘The Way of the World’
    by Tina Dupuy The Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell was one of the few places in the state to provide late-term abortions. From witness accounts the clinic smelled of cat urine. There was a free-roaming, flea-infested feline that reportedly def ...
  • The Dis-Uniting of America (2): Social Issues ...
    by Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported by 90 percent of Americans, was to be furious at the spinelessness of t ...
  • Boston Strong!
    by Janet Landry-Borden On March 5, 1770 three men were killed on the streets of Boston in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. Two more died later from their injuries, and several more were wounded. It took five years for the British to begin to feel the tremors of the outrage of that [...]

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  • After Leaks, Obama Leads Damage Control Effort
    The New York Times reports: Standing in the grand presidential palace in Senegal this week, President Obama detoured from his diplomatic mission to Africa to offer a message to his own constituents back home. “The American people don’t have a Big Brother who is snooping into their business,” he ...
  • Farrakhan: ‘We are not perfect,’ support Jacks ...
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JoNova

  • Australia’s Angry Hot Summer was hot ang ...
    Lewis and Karoly 2013:  climate change is “likely” to blame for the hottest angry summer. Did your air-conditioner make Australia the hottest angry summer ever? Could be. If we apply mystery-black-box-techniques to data from a few sparse thermometers averaged over thousands of square ...
  • The old new Rudd: tinkering with useless schem ...
    Rudd has a chance to dump a dumb policy, but won’t Australia’s overpriced, unneccessary carbon tax will become even more overpriced next Monday (from $23 to $24.15 per ton). A spokesman tells The Australian that the all-new Labor cabinet will reconsider it all next week and may bring ...
  • Flat Earthers believe in climate change
    Flat circle, wall of ice around the edge. Hmm Let it be known, the next time you are called a “Flat Earther” you can point out that the Flat Earth society (or at least their President) is on the same side as Al Gore and James Hansen. It’s a piece of useless trivia that’s ...
  • Watch the spectacle that is Australian Politic ...
    UPDATE: Rudd wins 57:45. Who will lead the nation? A diabolical choice. Gillard has lost all goodwill and credibility. If she’ll lie once…  there is nothing she can say that will be believed. Polls are at record lows for the Labor Party here, but the dilemma is that the most popular ...
  • JCU caves in to badgering and groupthink &#821 ...
    So much for “higher” education. James Cook University (JCU) has blackballed Professor Bob Carter, not because of any flaw in his scientific reasoning, but because he speaks outside the permitted doctrine. His views on climate science do not fit with the dominant meme (or the grant a ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

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2012 Blog

  • Tunguska was a Meteorite
    For a long time Tunguska has been a mystery – was in a comet or a meteorite or something else (Tesla anyone?). To my knowledge, this is the first time the mystery has been solved using facts rather than speculation: An icy comet would evaporate on impact, which could explain the lack of a ...
  • Gourmet Spam in Space
    In Hawaii six people are living in a geodesic dome, experimenting with they types of food that astronauts can eat when they journey to Mars. NASA have five meat products that have a long shelf life, and it is not surprising that one of them is Spam. One of the the problems with long-distance spa ...
  • Mayan Pyramids Discovered in Chactun
    Incredibly, ancient cities are still being discovered, with large & intact buildings. Some jungles really are extremely impenetrable! Two weeks ago one was found in Cambodia, and now a Mayan city has been located in Mexico: The city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been sn ...
  • I Happily Admit I Was Wrong (ish), But Zero Re ...
    For years now I have been saying that it is unlikely that an ancient culture could have predicted a natural event (I highlighted the return of a long period comet or a massive solar storm) accurate to a day or even a week. My (unique) take on the 2012 meme was that Dec 21 was chosen by the ancie ...
  • Vivos Still Trying – New Site in Kansas
    Robert Vicino, CEO of The Vivos Group, received a lot of media attention leading up to 2012 – promoting the idea of buying a berth in a bunker. His plans were grand, and relied on hundreds of people providing up-front money. Although many reasons were cited, my guess is that the Barstow mi ...

Facing South

  • NC protester database now disclosing public em ...
    A website publicizing details about people arrested in nonviolent protests at the N.C. legislature expanded this week to include salaries of arrestees who are public workers -- and suffered a setback when local officials said they’d no longer take arrestees' mugshots. Meanwhile, private data-gat ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A Texas-sized fight over repr ...
    The nation turned to Texas this week to watch state Sen. Wendy Davis's 11-hour filibuster against legislation restricting abortion in the state. The bill failed to pass before the special session ended at midnight -- and now Democrats say there will be a probe into Republicans' efforts to alter ...
  • The Voting Rights Act and the future of Southe ...
    The Supreme Court's decision to strike down key sections of the Voting Rights Act paves the way for conservatives to pass a host of voting and election changes. But pushing too hard could backfire in the long run. read more
  • What does the Supreme Court's marriage equalit ...
    Though no Southern states currently recognize same-sex marriage, organizing is underway to change that as public opinion shifts. read more
  • Southern coal plants top list of worst carbon ...
    Bypassing a Congress that's failed to take action to address a worsening problem, President Obama unveiled a plan to curb climate-disrupting pollution from coal-fired power plants -- with big implications for the coal-dependent South. read more

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

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Oriental Review

  • Myth of the Eastern Front in American Popular ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an intriguing interview with Professors Edward Davis and Ronald Smelser, the American military historians, authors of the book “The Myth of the Eastern Front: the Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture” (Cambridge University Press, 2007). They thoroughl ...
  • Syria crisis and America’s funeral
    America, at least publicly, seems destined to put its military might against Syria, notwithstanding the fact that America will have to arm and train terrorists it has been fighting for a decade, notwithstanding America will be risking a world war and notwithstanding the simple fact that every au ...
  • Episode 12. Why did Britain and the United Sta ...
    Part I Part II So Adolf Hitler managed to resolve the first problem.  However, even after becoming chancellor in January 1933, he still found himself unable to unleash a military conflict for the most prosaic of reasons – he literally had no army.  With his 100,000-strong Reichswehr (lacki ...
  • We are all Qataris now
    Western corporate media is head over heels with the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 61, as he magnanimously chose to depose himself to the benefit of his son, the former heir apparent Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, 33. In a positively Kennedy-esque speech on national television, the outgoi ...
  • Syria: the Art of Standing on the Right Side o ...
    The ongoing Syrian crisis will be certainly viewed by future generations as a classic example of how a completely false reality, as presented by the dominant Western political class and corporate media, has inscrutably resulted in the moral and political reinforcement of the opposing party, whic ...

BlogHer

  • Women on the Right Unite to Elect More Women
    Today the Republican National Committee, alongside the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican Governors Association, the Republican State Leadership Committee, the College Republican National Committee, and female leaders from th ...
  • Women on the Right Unite to Elect More Women
    Today the Republican National Committee, alongside the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican Governors Association, the Republican State Leadership Committee, the College Republican National Committee, and female leaders from th ...
  • Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Now What?
    Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted 68-32 in favor of the bipartisan immigration reform bill. Fourteen Republican Senators joined the 52 Democrats and two Independents who supported this bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Image Credit: C-SPAN While there were chants of “Yes W ...
  • Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Now What?
    Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted 68-32 in favor of the bipartisan immigration reform bill. Fourteen Republican Senators joined the 52 Democrats and two Independents who supported this bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Image Credit: C-SPAN While there were chants of “Yes W ...
  • 10 Reasons I Don't Want to Be Pregnant
    I was really good at being pregnant. I adored that belly and I loved my babies. And I loved my plan. And my plan was working. Three. Done by thirty. Concise. Succinct. Beautiful. But what if my plan wasn't the "divine plan" and heaven thought I should add to my horde? I have spent the last three ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Tired and Edgy? Sleep Deprivation Boosts Antic ...
    UC Berkeley researchers have found that a lack of sleep, which is common in anxiety disorders, may play a key role in ramping up the brain regions that contribute to excessive worrying. Neuroscientists have found that ... Related posts:Probiotics Help The Brain Cope With Anxi ...
  • The Top 10 Things Successful People Do To Reac ...
    Our bookshelves are lined with habits that successful people do on a daily basis. We read about them and implement them into our routines and practices. Quite often these practices improve our productivity and make our lives better ... Related posts:15 Powerful Things Happy Pe ...
  • Aerobic Exercise Burns Fat All on Its Own
    CHICAGO — In obese teenage girls, both aerobic exercise and resistance training were effective at reducing total fat — even if the girls didn’t cut calories or lose weight, researchers found. Aerobic exercise was also associated ... Related posts:6 Evidence-B ...
  • Could a Diet High in Fish and Flax Help Preven ...
    Higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood may reduce the risk for hip fractures in postmenopausal women, recent research suggests. Scientists analyzed red blood cell samples from women with and without a history of ... Related posts:A High-Fat Diet Undermines Sleep Th ...
  • 10 Best Foods To Boost Your Immune System
    Boosting your immune system is a topic that often comes up as winter sets in. Adults and children start to get the sniffles. The yearly discussion about flu shots starts up again with all the ... Related posts:Top 10 Brain Food That Will Boost Your Intelligence The brain is w ...

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup June 28, 2013
    President Barack Obama wipes sweat from his face during a speech on climate change at Georgetown University on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, in Washington. Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federa ...
  • Will W.Va. give Obama’s climate plan a c ...
    Earlier this week, President Obama had barely finished his landmark speech outlining his new climate change action plan when the predictable press releases starting coming in from West Virginia’s political leadership. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., blasted the president’s plan as &#82 ...
  • Correction
    In a blog post a few weeks ago (Politics and the future of the coalfields: ‘What happens here in the hills once the coal runs dry?’), we discussed the potential U.S. Senate run of Charleston lawyer Nick Preservati. In doing so, I incorrectly reported on his involvement in a lawsuit brought by th ...
  • EPA: King Coal Highway permit ignores alternatives
    We’ve got a story posted over on the Gazette website with the latest on the King Coal Highway: Federal regulators have concluded that promoters of the proposed King Coal Highway and an associated mountaintop removal mine have failed to examine construction and mining options that could gre ...
  • Breaking news: Citizen groups seek OSMRE takeo ...
    Citizens, activists and representatives of various coalfield environmental groups are gathering right now, just down the street, outside the Charleston field office of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. They plan to rally there, and then march down to the state Capito ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Random Clip From A Four-year Free Will Debate
    My latest volley in a very long discussion about free will… – Explain to me the flaw in the following deductive argument: Outcomes are determined by the laws of physics (randomness included) We don’t control the laws of physics Therefore we don’t control outcomes As a res ...
  • The Deterministic Nature of Real-world Randomness
    “Quantum physics makes predictions to 14 decimal places,” Doyle says. “It’s the most accurate of all mathematical physical theories.” Randomness and even free will, it appears, are fully compatible with some highly precise determinations.via Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new mo ...
  • Hang Gliding For Brad
    While I was rowing at lake Merced yesterday my instructor mentioned that just over the way (towards the west), there’s a hang gliding club. It struck me that this was my friend Brad’s last project. It’s something he never did. He nearly had his rig ready to go, and last year, r ...
  • My First Rowing Lesson
    Image from imagebreezerowing.com I did my first rowing lesson at the SF Rowing Club yesterday, and it was extraordinarily enjoyable. We went out in a tandem boat at around 7am and the weather was pristine. Things I need to watch I have an issue with not releasing with my arms first during the re ...
  • Losing a Belief in Free Will is Like Losing Re ...
    Image from scientificamerican.com There’s much talk about recent evidence showing that people losing their belief in free will adversely affects their behavior. Basically, the experiment told two groups of people differing things about reality: the first group learned that their choices we ...

Fitwatch

  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...

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  • Bob Carter's academic job "not renewed"
    Climate alarmists' dirty hands were very likely behind the scenes I met Bob Carter (and his wife) 2.5 years ago during a seminar he was delivering in Prague's Auto Moto Club, an event organized by the think tank (CEP) led by Václav Klaus, then the Czech president. This Australian schol ...
  • Dobrodošli u EU, Hrvatska
    It means Welcome to the EU, Croatia, just to be sure In two days, Croatia will become the 28th member state of the European Union. I think it is positive news for Europe and Croatia's parameters justify its membership because they don't differ too much from those of Slovenia, so far the onl ...
  • Jacques Distler on his lost new physics bet
    Jacques Distler of Austin lost a $750 bet to Tommaso Dorigo and wrote an article about it: Guest Post: Jacques Distler, Why I Lost $750 On New Physics At The LHC (original text) They ultimately agreed that Distler wins if a new-particle-like 5-sigma discrepancy from the Standard Model is ann ...
  • Strings 2013
    Seoul, Korea is the place where the music for Newton's Pendulum Gangnam Style was born. Xmphysics released the video above just 3 weeks ago. The most successful rendition of this song-plus-dance has attracted over 1.6 billion views on YouTube. Seoul is also the place where the string ...
  • The IPCC and the Flat Earth Society may merge now
    Anthony Watts has highlighted an article in Salon.com, Actually, even the Flat Earth Society believes in climate change. The president of the International Flat Earth Society, Daniel Shenton, has endorsed the climate hysteria. Even Shenton realizes that it makes sense for others ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • UK government bans GMOs from its own Parliamen ...
    by Jonathan Benson, Natural News: Since the mid-to-late 1990s when genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) were first being thrust onto the market by governments working in lockstep with the biotechnology industry, the U.K. Parliament has effectively barred their use in all food items served to go ...
  • US Funds Honduras Death Squads
    from breakingtheset: Abby Martin remarks on the 4th anniversary of the Honduras Coup, Abby is joined by BTS producer Manuel Rapalo for closer look at the deterioration of the country over the last 4 years. SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, ...
  • Budget watchdog data shows bureaucracy grew un ...
    New data published by the Parliamentary Budget Office reveals the number of individuals on the federal payroll rose 14 per cent since Harper’s Conservatives came into office. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Military supply ...
  • Clearance Level Shapes Week 4 of Bradley Manni ...
    from Activist Post: As week four began after the court has been in recess while 17 “stipulations” were being discussed, some new information has come to light which could shape the trial as it moves forward. We have spoken to Nathan Fuller at Bradleymanning.org who has give ...
  • U.S. gay marriage opponents ask court to halt ...
    Less than 24 hours after California started issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples, lawyers for the sponsors of the state’s gay marriage ban filed an emergency motion Saturday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and stop the weddings. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

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Views & News from Norway

  • Music dies hard at Vestfold festival
    For more than 20 years, the large Vestfoldfestspillene music festival has been a much-loved tradition for residents of Vestfold County and their many summer visitors. But as this year’s festival winds down, it’s not expected to return in its present shape, after local politicians dec ...
  • Post-terror plans meet opposition
    Redevelopment proposals for Norway’s state government complex in Oslo, heavily damaged in a bombing attack two years ago, were meeting growing opposition over the weekend. The opposition offers an indication of why the redevelopment process is expected to take at least 10 more years. Archi ...
  • Immigrants take most new jobs
    Almost all of the 38,000 new jobs created in Norway last year were filled by immigrant labour, reports state statistics bureau SSB.  Around three out of four of those jobs went to foreigners who have settled in Norway, with the rest filled by foreigners on short-term permits, according to newspa ...
  • Telenor poised to ‘rebuild’ Burma
    Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor is ready to play a major role in helping Burma catch up with the rest of the world. Telenor chief executive Jon Fredrik Baksaas says the company wants t0 engage in nothing less than “nasjonsbygging” (nation-building), after it won a green light from a ...
  • Far North shines in Midnight Sun
    PHOTO SERIES: Northern Norway can get a lot of rough and dramatic weather, but at this time of year, when the Midnight Sun gets a chance to come out, the far northern county of Finnmark can be nothing short of spectacular. See for yourself, on some early summer nights earlier this month. (Hover ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour – Part II
    Last year I took some time out to make a Zaytuna Farm Video Tour for you all (embedded here, with lots of photos and text). The positive comments, both on our site and on YouTube, along with additional questions (see comments below this post), encouraged us to make another! This new video, a ...
  • A Serengeti on Our Doorsteps
    Is it really possible? Yes, I think it is. by George Monbiot Here’s a video of the 15-minute talk I gave at 5×15, where I spell out the remarkable potential for rewilding in Europe, including the possibility of reintroducing the elephants, rhinos, hippos, hyenas and lions ...
  • Permaculture Gardening in a Wildlife Environme ...
    There are many challenges involved in building your own permaculture garden. The choice to avoid inorganic fertilizers and pesticides makes the art of gardening a balancing act which is trouble enough on its own. However, what happens when your garden is located in an area naturally inhabited ...
  • Our Daily Battle and War with Nature – Returni ...
    I don’t really identify with any particular religion, but there is something profound about the story of Genesis in the Bible. Most people are familiar with the story, and I believe it is the most relevant and powerful metaphor for our modern society today. The story of Adam and Eve living ...
  • Pistols at Dawn
    A three-year, £100 bet on solar power has matured. Who won? by George Monbiot The UK — a solar powerhouse…? Summer solstice. At dawn. What better time could there be for resolving a duel, albeit one not fought with flintlocks? The time is of my choosing, as the other party, though ...

Pointman's

  • Know your enemy : the alarmist scientist.
    I’d like to preface this piece by saying there are a number of scientists doing significant work in the field of climate science whom I deeply respect. They have all along raised the balanced doubts about the supposedly “settled” science and I’ve no doubt taken some easil ...
  • Know your enemy : the climate activist.
    In the context of this series of articles about getting to know the opposition, I think it’s important at an early stage to get a realistic view of what we’re actually dealing with when it comes down to this particular category, because so many of the people who fall into the other c ...
  • An interesting thing happened on the way to th ...
    An interesting thing happened on the way to the theatre blog tonight. That’s the sort of prologue or connective phrase a stand-up comedian will use to move his set onto a bit of topical comedy about something, which if accurate and well observed, is always the best kind. It was Saturday ev ...
  • Know your enemy : the foot soldiers.
    We wretched dissenters from the climate orthodoxy have been placed under the psychological microscope several times in the last year or so. Since the studies, and I use that word advisedly, were conducted by featherweight academics with warmista rap sheets as long as your arm, the results as you ...
  • How to run a really bad infowar campaign.
    It’s perhaps a debatable opinion, but I think the main way that a lot people found out there actually was such a thing as the climate skeptic blogosphere, was that its existence was highlighted by the alarmists themselves. In the complete absence of any PR budget, it was actually the alarm ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Open Letter From Curtis Muhammad on Upcoming C ...
    Below we are reposting an open letter from civil rights movement veteran Curtis Muhammad, a founder of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the International School for Bottom-Up Organizing, among many other projects and initiatives. Dear friends and comrades, We are fast approaching the time fo ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Issues LGBTQ Pol ...
    From a press release from BreakOUT! After organizing for over two years, BreakOUT! members enjoyed a victory today in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with the issuing of Policy 402, dealing with the treatment of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questio ...
  • Victory! Sex Workers Removed From Louisiana Se ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Louisiana to Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on Sex Offender Registry Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a ...
  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...

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

  • Defending your personal health choices
    Jabbed is a documentary produced by SBS televison In today's show we zero in on some of the outright fraud which is being perpetrated on behalf of large companies who make their money from selling vaccines. We go through some facts and figures on the the incidence of pertussis (whooping coug ...
  • The Lucifer Effect: Philip Zimbardo on the psy ...
    In today's show we take a look at the work of Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist whose experiments have demonstrated that there is the potential within all ordinary law-abiding folk to become evil. Zimbardo's "prison experiment" involved recruiting a group of normal young people and arbitrarily a ...
  • No jab, no play - the vaccine crackdown and yo ...
    In today's show we look at the controversy over vaccines from the perspective of basic human freedom. We propose that, whether or not vaccines are safe and effective, there is a moral imperative to protect the freedom of the individual which is being eroded by medical fascists who seek to make ...
  • Atmospheric CO2 levels have reached a new high ...
    In today's show we report on the latest climate change news as reported by Australia's national broadcaster the ABC.  On 11 May the ABC reported: The world's longest measure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million (PPM) for the first time in three millio ...
  • World news roundup for 8th May 2013 - Part 1
    In today's show we bring you a wide range of stories from Australia and around the world, leading with the latest developments on the Syrian conflict. In a shocking development, the lead UN investigator into war crimes in Syria, Carla Del Ponte, has announced that the Syrian rebels most likely ...

Beacon

  • "Snuffy the Seal": Offensive or Effective?
    Whether this was your first or fiftieth time watching the Discovery Channel’s viral Shark Week ad, “Snuffy the Seal,” the video is sure to have caught your attention. The ad has been called “polarizing,” “controversial,” and even “horrifying.” Loved or hated, there’s no doubt that the video is e ...
  • Keegan Allen Is Fighting to Protect Our Oceans ...
    As an actor, director, and star of "Pretty Little Liars," Keegan Allen wears many hats. And now he can add "ocean hero" to that ever-growing list of titles -- Keegan has joined us in the fight to protect the world's oceans. Do you know an exceptional individual who is working in new and unique ...
  • Obama's Climate Plan Will Reduce CO2, Increase ...
    President Obama speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, about the future of our environment, and his climate plan for the years to come.  In a speech today at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama laid out his climate plan for the United States moving forward in the mo ...
  • Gearing Up for the First Pacific Leatherback S ...
    Leatherback hatchlings inch their way towards the wide and open ocean We’re already gearing up for this year’s first official Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day on October 15! When Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1776 into law last year, he declared an official celebrat ...
  • 20 Percent of Seafood Worldwide Illegally Caught
    Last week, a U.S. federal court struck a blow against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing operations when it ordered three men to pay $22.5 million in restitution for smuggling sea bass and rock lobster from South Africa, which is the largest monetary penalty ever given for this ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Barack and Michelle Speak with Mandela Family, ...
    AS THE world sends meditations and prayers out to Nelson Mandela, on their trip to the African continent President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama spoke with the Mandela family by phone. On Friday the Obamas visited Goree Island. Obama released this statement via the pool report after speaki ...
  • Zimmerman’s Lawyer Don West & the Unpardonable ...
    IT WAS the photo that was more talked about than any other so far. The offensive ice cream shot of George Zimmerman’s lawyer Don West. The Daily Beast grabbed a shot of it, shown above, before it could be wiped from the web. As of Friday afternoon, the account—and the increasingly infamous ...
  • Zimmerman Neighbor Testifies Trayvon Martin on ...
    Zimmerman has claimed that he fatally shot 17-year-old Martin last year in self-defense as Trayvon Martin was banging his head into the concrete sidewalk behind the townhomes in a gated community. But under prosecution questioning, Jonathan Good said he never saw anyone being attacked that way d ...
  • Rare Bird, White-Throated Needletail, Sighted, ...
    IT’S ONE of those stories people like me, who are bird enthusiasts (though not experts), long to read, the story of a sighting of a very rare bird. The white-throated needletail has only been seen in the UK 8 times since 1846. It flies up to speeds of 106 mph, with only the peregrine falco ...
  • It’s Not the Pipes, It’s What’s In Them: Toxic ...
    Pipelines, in and of themselves, aren’t the fundamental problem, although whenever someone digs a big trench through your property, it’s problematic, even when they cover it and absolutely, positively promise you it’s totally safe, and even it should leak or break or whatever, they’ll be there f ...

Hudson New York

  • Germany Faced with "Loudspeaker Jihad"
    A Turkish mosque in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has begun sounding public calls to prayer from an outdoor loudspeaker system mounted on the roof of the edifice. The mosque is one of a growing number of Islamic institutions in Germany (and
  • U.S. Keeps Joining the Forces of Jihad
    With the June 13, 2013 confirmation by senior Obama administration officials that the president has authorized sending weapons directly to Syrian rebels, there is a trend developing that can no longer be ignored. This is the third country and the third
  • Is Hamas Losing Power?
    Recent developments on a number of fronts in the Middle East suggest that Hamas is beginning to lose both power and popularity among Arabs and Muslims. Of course this is good new for moderate Arabs and Muslims, as well as for stability in the region.
  • "Sunrise" over Istanbul
    By now, it must have dawned on even the most dim-witted European politician that there is a discrepancy between Turkey's rhetoric and performance -- at least, as far as Europe is concerned. Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bağış has from time to time
  • OIC Opens Office in Brussels to Fight "Islamop ...
    The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an influential bloc of 57 Muslim countries, has officially inaugurated a Permanent Observer Mission to the European Union (EU). The primary objective of the OIC, headquartered in Saudi Arabia and funded by

Urban Survival

  • Hints at an “American Death Squad?”
    (Hartford, CT) If you’ve been following the Michael Hastings case, here’s one more log on the fires of burning American anger over the betrayal of the public trust by (corporate-owned) government.  A story is coming to light through the alternative … Continue reading →
  • Coping: What Columnists Figure is Important
    (Hartford, CT) As we rush off to breakfast here in Hartford, the first item on the agenda this morning was to read the last minute submissions of various columnists here to the program book of the National Association of Newspaper … Continue reading →
  • Four Up
    (Hartford, CT) With me indisposed traveling yesterday, the sniveling bulls came out with their usual false bravado and jammed the market up about 150 Dow points Wednesday.  Fortunately, Super Bear hisself is back in the saddle this morning and promises … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Happily, Hartford
    (Hartford, CT)  This afternoon, our hotel here in Hartford will begin to fill as the National Association of Newspaper Columnists (of which I are one thanks to their lax membership rules) holds its annual meeting, story-telling telling festival, and it’s … Continue reading →
  • Turn-Around Tuesday
    Our “Black Monday” turned out not to be so bad after all… a good thing, perhaps and deserving only of the label Gray Monday.  Still, the S&P got down to 0.33 of a point from my 1,560 call, which means … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • MICHAEL SAVAGE Attacks RUSH LIMBAUGH And Hanni ...
    All hail new Babylon(America). the immigration... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Was MICHAEL HASTINGS Murdered?
    What happend to Michael Hastings? The revelation... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • DR. STEVE PIECZENIK ~ NSA/CIA Surveillance - ...
    NSA/CIA Surveillance and Open Lines - June 28... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • EGYPT REVOLUTION 2.0 ~ Muslim Brotherhood Head ...
    Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters Torched in Egypt... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • JULY 4th FALSE FLAG ALERT
    I WOULD CERTAINLY KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON YOUR... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
  • MURDER BY MEDICINE 5: Short Term Advantages vs ...
    Most of us never really stop to consider the long term effects of some of the drugs we take. We are eager to attain short term relief without taking into account the many effects these drugs may have further down the line. Aspirin is one of the most popular drugs in the world, with over [...]
  • WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
    Men are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men really don&#821 ...
  • MURDER BY MEDIA 13: Addiction To Recognition
    It’s always good advice to be told to question every desire, because its easy to forget that deceiving ones self is the easiest form of deception. The media has helped to create a world where recognition has become a not so subtle addiction that we feed on and hunger for everytime we are s ...
  • IS A MARRIAGE FOR LOVE TOO UNREALISTIC?
    Love has come to be the proud and somewhat reluctant owner of many definitions; one of which likens it to a ‘fairytale’. In today’s world the reality is that there are quite a number of other things to think about before love is even considered. After all, love doesn’t pu ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Latin America Green News: Chile's Bachelet say ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. June 23-28, 2013 Chile Former president and current l ...
  • Carbon Limits Will Bring another Victory in Am ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City As part of his climate action plan, President Obama has pledged to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. This breakthrough will help millions of American breathe easier. Carbon pollution causes ...
  • A Stop Pebble Mine Media Blitz!
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California This has been a banner media week for the Stop Pebble Mine campaign: Live Science published my op-ed; the Hill published NRDC Western Director Joel Reynolds&rsq ...
  • Botching the Budget, Ignoring the Infrastructu ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Ezra Klein reiterated his call for those of the deficit-hawkish bent to tackle infrastructure in a recent Passenger Transport newsletter. He makes the argument that those wh ...
  • Electric Industry Reaction to President's Clim ...
    Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. The nattering nabobs of negativism are at it again. The nation’s business soothsayer, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, hardly missed a beat after President Obama announced hi ...

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

  • Social networks steal billions of dollars from ...
    Social networking has been accused of all mortal sins. It deprives people of live communication, makes citizens dependent on the internet, and causes a number of other psychological issues. But these are not the only troubles caused by social networks. It turns out that this technology has an ex ...
  • Russia evacuates Tartus, also military, diplom ...
    Shortly after the DEBKA aired a special video on the Syrian war’s widening circle, Moscow announced Wednesday June 26, that the evacuation which had begun Friday of all military and diplomatic personnel from Syria was now complete, including the Russian naval base at Tartus. “Russia decided to w ...
  • 80% of Pre-Packaged Foods in America Are Banne ...
    If you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods commonly found in grocery stores across the U.S. such as Froot Loops, Swanson dinners, Mountain Dew, and frozen potato and bread products, you may think twice before purchasing them after hearing what they contain: dangerous chemicals that ...
  • World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption ...
    A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, sh ...
  • Chinese Politburo: “The United States Has Turn ...
    You know the U.S. has hit rock bottom not so much when the official mouthpiece of the Chinese politburo accuses America of being the “biggest villain in our age“, but when more and more Americans think it may be 100% correct. From BBC: China’s official Xinhua news agency has co ...

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

  • Govt underestimates high-speed rail profits by ...
    The government has underestimated by $190 billion the profits of its Melbourne-Brisbane high-speed rail (HSR) plan, enough to repay the capital cost of the network, according to  Researchers at independent think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Beyond ...
  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Film: Generation Green
    Generation Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about his companies contribution towards adverse climate change. Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental stewardship, his pe ...
  • National Food Plan blind to biggest threat: cl ...
    This week’s National Food Plan ignores the serious threat to agriculture posed by climate change. Yet research shows that an expanded Carbon Farming Initiative could have major benefits in combating climate change. Andrew Longmire, research fellow with Beyond Zero Emissions, said, “The Feder ...
  • Solar campaigner dies
    Joy Baluch the mayor of South Australia's Port Augusta, who campaigned for solar energy for her city has died but not before South Australia's take-up of rooftop solar has risen to double the national average. Transcript (ABC TV Lateline) TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Joy Baluch, the legendary mayor ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Indonesia’s president says he will work ...
    Last month, Indonesia’s indigenous people won the right to manage their own customary forests after a landmark Constitutional Court ruling struck down a law that had previously given the central government control over indigenous land within the country’s forest estate. On Thursday, ...
  • Deforestation rates for Amazon countries outsi ...
    Deforestation has sharply increased in Amazon countries outside of Brazil, finds a new analysis based on satellite data. Using data from Terra-i, O-Eco's InfoAmazonia team has developed updated forest cover maps for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. ...
  • Sea Shepherd to name new ship after slain sea ...
    Marine conservation group Sea Shepherd will name its newest vessel after Jairo Mora Sandoval, a sea turtle conservationist who was slain on a Costa Rican beach last month.
  • Sumatran tiger density lower than previously t ...
    The critically endangered Sumatran tiger may be even rarer than previously thought, reports a study published in the journal Oryx.
  • World's biggest companies lay out path toward ...
    With a backdrop of fires raging across oil palm and timber plantations in Sumatra, business and political leaders convened in Indonesia to discuss a path forward for producing deforestation-free commodities by 2020.

Sierra Express

  • For killing of ex-US Marine GOSL/SLP to face U ...
    The murdered ex-US Marine, Abdul Karim Kamara’s biological mother, Elizabeth Hawa Sesay, has vowed to report the Government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) and the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) to the US Secretary of State if prompt justice does not prevail in the case of the brutal murder of her son by an o ...
  • Sierra Rutile to boost Sierra Leonean talent f ...
    Sierra Rutile has launched it localization plan this week which is a career development programme which will identify High Potential Sierra Leonean employees (HiPos), and equip them with the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the company’s top technical and management positions. Speakin ...
  • Trade minister explains state of business in p ...
    Freetown, July   (SLENA) The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara (Usu Boie) has said in parliament that his ministry has so far made progress in the area of creating a thriving business environment and thanked parliament for inviting him to explain the necessary checks and b ...
  • ACC Bares Its Teeth; in the drive towards “Age ...
    The President of Sierra Leone has been credited for most of the transformation that the country is basking in, since his election in 2007. Party stalwarts and sympathisers have been singing his praises from the rafters and will continue to do so until the cows come home. There is a strong tempta ...
  • FDID requests government set up a commission o ...
    FDID Press Release – Foundation for Democratic Initiatives and Development a local civil society organization is calling on government to set up a commission of inquiry to look into the rampant police killings. Records have it that over a dozen citizens have been killed by police since the ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Synlait targets infant formula market
    Infant formula is clearly where the action is on the international dairy markets.Up until now, about 92 per cent of Synlait Milk's earnings have come from the ingredients side of the business - specialised wholemilk and skim-milk...
  • Govt unveils sweeping infant formula probe
    The Government has announced a wide-ranging plan aimed at strengthening and protecting the country's "food assurance systems" to match rapid growth in infant formula exports.New Zealand's baby milk industry - which...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Synlait calls and investors jump
    Full marks to Synlait bosses Graham Milne and John Penno for hanging tough in the post-global financial crisis environment and going offshore to find a significant stakeholder for the South Canterbury dairy firm after NZ investors...
  • Willy Leferink: NZ must fight for its dairy re ...
    New Zealand's dairy industry has a global reputation for excellence and integrity. Farmers here help to craft some of the best milk on earth, which is then turned into dairy products consumers can trust.It is also fair to say that...
  • Chinese dairy float for NZX
    China's Bright Dairy will retain four seats on the eight-member Synlait Milk board, despite the likelihood it will lose its majority ownership status after the company's planned initial public offer and sharemarket float, which is...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Earl Glynn on How Obamacare Empowers the IRS
    While promoting Obamacare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged Americans to think of it as a kind of Christmas present. “We have to pass the (health care) bill so that you can find out what is in it,” she told the National Association of Counties in March 2010, days before Preside ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg: We Don’t Stop and Frisk Enoug ...
    Michael Bloomberg doesn’t know the meaning of the words “lame duck,” or humility for that matter. The Democratic contenders vying to replace him come November have pushed to pass two bills they believe would make stop and frisk more palatable to New Yorkers, or at least potential vot ...
  • Alec Baldwin's Real Twitter Problem Isn't Homo ...
    Alec Baldwin saw red after reading a Daily Mail story accusing his wife of tweeting banal sentiments during the memorial service for James Gandolfini (both Baldwin and his wife Hilaria were attending the service). The story about his wife's inappropriate tweets is wrong (and has b ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on Why the Farm Bill’s Future ...
    Earlier this month, it appeared that Congress was on the verge of passing a disastrous new five-year Farm Bill. But as Baylen Linnekin reports, even after intense lobbying from 100 powerful special interest groups and an easy trip through the Senate, the Farm Bill hit the ropes last ...
  • U.S. Park Police Lose Track of Guns. Lots and ...
    Government officials are awfully concerned about how we mere private citizens manage our firearms. Connecticut recently tightened already stringent rules about gun storage, and politicians are full of ideas about trigger locks, documentation, and who can touch your guns and for h ...

Mercury Rising

  • Union Edge on Mexican miners
    Via Union Edge, Mexican Mineworkers, Metalworkers, and Silverworkers president Napoleon Gomez speaks about issues affecting miners. He is in exile in Canada.
  • Scahill and Greenwald
    Via Quentin Compson at DK. BTW, Greenwald says the NSA is in fact storing every phone call. You can hear it at about 40 minutes into the talk.
  • Did Venezuelan opposition seek US coup?
    That’s what the Venezuelan government is claiming in releasing a recording of a conversation between two opposition figures. Ryan Mallett-Outrim, Venezuela Analysis: The Venezuelan government released a recording that allegedly shows that one of the leaders head of the country’s oppo ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Conquering Mt. Sofa.
  • Alex is coming!

Reality Sandwich

  • A Waking Dream
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  • Angels and Demons
    Do Angels and Demons really exist and influence our human affairs? Graham Hancock and Lorna Byrne discuss in a new YouTube film, "Graham Hancock and Lorna Byrne in Conversation," released today. read more
  • Sex in the News
    How the government screws pornographers, why women love losers, Exodus International exits the ex-gay movement, and more in this week's update. read more
  • The Cellular Shaman: How Cells Can Shape-Shift ...
      The following is excerpted from Secrets of Your Cells: Discovering Your Body's Inner Intelligence published by Sounds True. A Shamanic Doorway - Crossing Over read more
  • Hunger Games
    read more

Desertification

  • Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit Record High in 2012
    Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide rose by 1.4 percent last year, setting a new record, according to data released Monday. The findings, from the International Energy Agency (IEA), come just weeks after scientists in Hawaii recorded carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere higher than 400 parts p ...
  • Peak Water, Peak Oil…Now, Peak Soil?
    Soil is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík. And a big part of reversing soil decline is carbon, the same element that is overheating the planet. “Keeping and putti ...
  • Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangl ...
    Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh’s arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of rea ...
  • Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
    Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water. This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and activis ...
  • Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
    As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable. For the past six years, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has teamed up with ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Anti-Racist Canada Soft On Genocide?
    Here's a comment I left on the Anti-Racist Canada blog concerning their lack of concern over Boer genocide: You had three legitimate comments from: 'Another Bonehead Protest Goes Bust,' and the one you chose to republish is, "fuch you c*nts those bastards are singing songs about kill the boar a ...
  • We have to care about Hamilton’s history
    I lived at home during my undergrad days. The HSR became my best friend, shuttling me from campus to home with a slight downtown detour with…
  • "Emperor" Erdogan doing what Muslim dictators ...
    People are being arrested for using Twitter to spread "untrue information" according to the regime. ....Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 25 people for "spreading untrue information" on social media and provoking protests. The Anadolu Agency says Wednesday the peop ...
  • Canada's Bank CEO's Are Among Highest Paid .. ...
    "Canadian bankers were among some of the highest-paid banking executives in North America last year, with three in the top 10, according to a new list compiled by Bloomberg Markets magazine. In all, six Canadian bank CEOs were in the top 20." CBC  "Canada's biggest banks accepted ten ...
  • Chair of Toronto Catholic School Board Tries t ...
    Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the Catholic school system, they find a way to further disgust you. The Toronto trustees are preparing to vote on a motion tomorrow to replace the government-mandated Gay-Straight Alliances with the Archdiocese’s Catholic alternative called ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Israel deploys Iron Dome system in north
    Israel has deployed Iron Dome missile interceptor batteries in the north, citing the alleged tension on its northern borders.
  • Lebanon's Berri denies secterianism
    The Lebanese parliament speaker has dismissed accusations that link holding parliament sessions to the issues between the Sunni and Shia Muslim communities in the country.
  • 1000s attend Taksim Sq. demo
    Thousands of demonstrators have gathered at Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square for fresh protest against the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
  • Israel receives first C-130J airlifter
    The Israeli regime has received the first of three C-130J Super Hercules airlifters from the US aerospace company, Lockheed Martin.
  • 2 killed in Lebanon blast, shooting
    At least two people have been killed and eight others injured as a result of shootings and a grenade explosion in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Paula’s Pound of Flesh
    Paula Deen is in the news again and, no, it’s not because people discovered that frying food in massive amounts of butter is not healthy. This time she was fired her contract was not renewed by Food Network because she did not perjure herself. Ok, so it wasn’t exactly for not perjuring her ...
  • Lynx Love
    More lynx photos, videos, and fun facts on the CUNY SPS Pinterest account.
  • Your Diploma is Ready for Pick Up!
    Class of 2013 degree students, your diploma is ready for pick up! Visit the SPS Office on the 9th floor in room 905 at 101 West 31st with a photo ID. We will be open from 9:00am through 7:30pm Monday through Thursday. During the summer, we will be closed on the following days: July 4, […]
  • Applied Mothering
    Carrie has been a teaching artist in NYC for 10 years and a mom for 6 months. She received her MA in Applied Theatre from CUNY School of Professional Studies in 2011. Carrie is currently working for organizations such as TDF, The Roundabout Theatre Company, and The Museum of the City of New York ...
  • Claire Davis, SPS Spring 2013 Graduate
    Claire Davis, SPS ’13 shares her thoughts on why she selected the Adult Learning Graduate Certificate Program at SPS: I am currently working as a genetic counselor and as the assistant director of the Master of Genetic Counseling Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. One ...

Dissident Voice

  • World’s Most Evil and Lawless Institution
    America’s Secret Shame America has a secret. It is not discussed in polite company or at the dinner tables of the powerful, rich and famous. Parents do not teach it to their children. Best-selling authors do not write about it. Politicians and government officials ignore it. Intellectuals avoid ...
  • US and Israeli Intelligence: The Practice of T ...
    Uncovering documented instances of torture is a challenge. That challenge grows even greater when the torture one is investigating is undertaken by agencies whose definition demands secrecy and cover up. Therefore, when I began this article by looking for instances of torture committed by the Un ...
  • Raghead the Fiendly Neighborhood Terrorist: In ...
    It ain’t personal, just business…
  • Breaking Good
    Critical thoughts Caught in the mind, like A grain of sand In an oyster shell Over time Becoming pearls of wisdom Transformative praxis at large One ally at a time Changing the world Betting it all on better tomorrows Envisioning a world without: War, poverty, greed, hunger, genocides Putting eg ...
  • The Crime of Alleviating Poverty
    Former Peace Corps volunteer Will Ruddick and several residents of Bangladesh, Kenya, face a potential seven years in prison after developing a cost-effective way to alleviate poverty in Africa’s poorest slums.  Their solution: a complementary currency issued and backed by the local community.  ...

Nick Turse

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Newswise

  • Eating Right, Exercise May Help Prostate Cance ...
    UCLA study finds that following well-known cancer-prevention recommendations may also benefit those already diagnosed with the disease.
  • Unclean at Any Speed
    Ironically, electric cars may prove worse for the environment than the vehicles they are meant to replace.
  • University Hospitals Eye Institute to Offer 'F ...
    University Hospitals Eye Institute will be one of the first medical centers in the United States to offer the Argus(r) II Retinal Prosthesis System ("Argus II").
  • Getting A Good Night's Sleep Is A Nightmare Fo ...
    Summer means more hours of daylight and for many, it contributes to trouble falling asleep. More than 40 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders, resulting in $18 billion in cost to employers due to sleep loss issues."The inability to get a good night's sleep can be a complex iss ...
  • Pre-Existing Insomnia Linked to PTSD and Other ...
    New research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found military service members who have trouble sleeping prior to deployments may be at greater risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety once they return home. The study fou 

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Zanzibar’s Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water
    Khadija Komboani’s nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania’s Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. And until recently, the 36-year-old mother of 12 from Nungwi village in Unguja on the northernmost part of Zanzibar, spent most of her day walking to her nearest ...
  • Scales Tip Towards Women in Jewish Religious R ...
    The struggle for gender equality and Jewish pluralism took a highly symbolic turn on Sunday at the Western Wall, Judaism’s most revered site and emblem of unity, as a group of women known as “Women of the Wall” prayed legally and in a way they saw fit. For 24 years, the Women o ...
  • Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel S ...
    The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag’s apartment in one of Cairo’s poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building. Constructed ...
  • Globe Less Peaceful Than Five Years Ago – Report
    The world – especially the Greater Middle East – has become less peaceful than it was five years ago, according to the 2013 edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) released here Tuesday by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP). Consistent with that trend, the Index also foun ...
  • U.S. Regulatory System “Stymied by Special Int ...
    A broad-based alliance of public interest and other groups is warning that years of attacks by business interests has made the U.S. regulatory so inefficient that public safety is being put at risk. The groups, under the umbrella of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS), are urging the Whi ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Former US general James Cartwright named in St ...
    Summary: A retired US general, James Cartwright, is the target of a Justice Department investigation into the leaking of secret information about the Stuxnet virus attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing unidentified legal sources. source: The Gu ...
  • Syria: Ten Reasons Why We Oppose Intervention
    Summary: An attack on Iran remains the ultimate goal for the US. Intervention in Syria is a stepping stone toward that goal. source: Stop The War Coalitionread more
  • Smearing President-elect Rowhani with AMIA
    Summary: A few days ago, it was widely reported that an Argentinian prosecutor had claimed that Iran's president-elect Rowhani was involved in the secret plans to bomb the AMIA Jewish cultural center in Argentina in 1994. There are now more recent reports that say the opposite: that the prose ...
  • Iran Signals Continuity in Its Syria Policy Fo ...
    Summary: In the wake of Hassan Rohani’s election as the Islamic Republic’s next president, some Western commentators have argued that Rohani’s election is a manifestation of popular antipathy toward various aspects of Iranian foreign policy, including Tehran’s strategy toward Syria. This rea ...
  • How bogus narratives perpetuate
    Summary: Back in April, The Guardian newspaper published an article in its Business section on the supposed sanctions-evading trade relationship between Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and the massive British commodities broker Glencore. The article, written by Rupert Neale, was riddled wit ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA Turns Off Galaxy Evolution Explorer --"Di ...
                   NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decaden of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic time. In the space telescope's last year ...
  • "Did Our Solar System Evolve in a More Oxygen- ...
                  In February 2012, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, the centerpiece of a $169 million mission mapping the frontier of the sun's influence, detected atoms from interstellar space streaming by Earth, that are different from the chemical make-up of the solar system. ...
  • Voyager Spacecraft Enters a Strange, Mysteriou ...
                                 Launched 36 years ago, the Voyager 1 spacecraft speeds a rate of about a million miles a day entering a bizarre and mysterious region more than 11 billion miles from Earth that scientists are struggling to make sense of. It's a region where the fierce solar ...
  • New Hubble Discovery --Spiral Galaxies Like Mi ...
                New observations with Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, show that normal spiral galaxies are surrounded by halos of gas that can extend to over 1 million light-years in diameter. The current estimated diameter of the Milky Way, for example, is about 100,000 ligh ...
  • "NASA Fears of Contaminating Mars with an 'Ear ...
                   "Detailed and expensive" efforts to keep Earth microorganisms off Mars are making missions to search for life on the red planet "unviable," say astrobiologists Alberto Fairén of Cornell University and Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University of the NASA Office o ...

Natural News

  • USDA approves horse slaughterhouse to produce ...
    The next burger you bite into might be a horsemeat burger, thanks to the U.S. government approving horse slaughterhouses to produce meat for human consumption. Valley Meat Co in Roswell, New Mexico, is being green-lighted by the USDA, which will routinely send inspectors...
  • Is the NSA actually Blackmail Inc. for the mil ...
    (NaturalNews)Every director of the NSA is a general or an admiral. The NSA is organized under the US Dept. of Defense. Imagine that you are a powerful player who straddles two worlds---the Dept. of Defense and the private sector where corporate defense-contr ...
  • Vitamin P deficiency: How lack of pleasure sev ...
    As we race through our busy days and barely take time to eat, let alone enjoy a meal, more is at stake than simply depriving our taste buds - vitality is seriously compromised too. When we don't take pleasure in our food, regardless of how nutritionally superior it may...
  • Supreme Court rules cops can collect your DNA ...
    Your constitutional right to not be searched or detained by law enforcement officials without reasonable suspicion or probable cause has been further eroded by a recent Supreme Court ruling, which now allows police officers to freely collect DNA samples from individuals...
  • How to make lab tests lie
    Modern medicine, with its heavy reliance upon both technology and pharmaceutical interventions, has changed the very nature of medicine and how it is practiced. Traditionally, medicine placed a high value upon the human skills of the physician: Intuition, insight, personal...

Threat Level

  • Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps for First Time ...
    Encryption for the first time is thwarting government surveillance efforts through court-approved wiretaps, U.S. officials said today. The disclosure, buried in a report by the U.S. agency that oversees federal courts, also showed that authorities armed with wiretap orders are ...  &nb ...
  • NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower
    Today's revelations that the National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans provides startling evidence for the first time to support a whistleblower's longstanding claims that AT&T was forwarding global internet traffic to the ...  &nbs ...
  • Under Obama, NSA Collected Bulk Email, Interne ...
    The National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans under the Obama administration, according to new documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.    
  • WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for t ...
    Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange for $5,000.    
  • Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Law that Ma ...
    Ruling 5-4, the Supreme Court today struck down a federal law that recognized lawful marriages as only between between a man and a woman.    

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mike Huckabee Gets Slapped by the Hand of God
    God, it is often said, works in mysterious ways. Just ask Mike Huckabee. After all, the Baptist minister turned Arkansas governor turned Fox News host responded to the Supreme Court's marriage equality decisions this week by lamenting, "Jesus wept." But back in 2008, Huckabee had a different ...
  • John Roberts Completes 30 Year Mission to Kill ...
    During his confirmation hearings in 2005, John Roberts made three promises to the American people. Less than a decade later, he's broken them all. For starters, the future Chief Justice proclaimed his fidelity to precedent, a commitment he shattered so quickly that a Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N ...
  • Health Insurers to Skip Half of Mississippi Co ...
    As the New York Times documented last week, the choices and pricing of private health insurance will vary widely from state to state when the Affordable Care Act's exchanges launch this fall. In state-run marketplaces in California, Colorado and Oregon, residents will have a wide array of provi ...
  • GOP Abortion Bills Mandate Medical Malpractice
    Few issues incite Republican fury like medical malpractice. For conservative ideologues, malpractice lawsuits are a double affront which interferes with the righteous operation of the free market while lining the pockets of trial lawyers who help fund the Democratic Party. That's why, despite th ...
  • GOP Still Fixates on Border Security as Illega ...
    There is a saying that America is always preparing to fight the last war. So it is with the conservative crusade against illegal immigration. After all, even as Tea Party Republicans demand draconian--and expensive-- new "border security" measures, apprehensions of the undocumented have plumme ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Gas-Giant Exoplanets Generally Stay Close To T ...
    Gas-giant planets are far more likely to orbit very closely to their parent star than they are to orbit at distances farther away, according to new research made possible by the Gemini Observatory’s Planet-Finding Campaign. “It seems that gas-giant exoplanets are like clinging offspr ...
  • Obesity-Cancer Link Explained By ‘Gut Bug’ Cha ...
    A long-standing question in medical science has been explaining the obesity-cancer link in humans; previous studies have shown that obesity increases the risk for many illnesses such as diabetes and cancer. But the exact biological mechanism that underlies this link has been elusive. But now, a ...
  • Dolphin Killed By Tourists?
    An injured dolphin in China was reportedly mishandled by swimmers at Dadonghai beach on the island of Hainan, which is several hundred miles from Hong Kong. A group of male swimmers picked up the distressed dolphin out of the water to have photographs taken with it. It was also reported that the ...
  • Argentavis Magnificens — Largest Flying Bird E ...
    The Giant Teratorn — Argentavis magnificens — was an absolutely enormous species of flying bird which lived in Argentina during the late Miocene, about six million years ago. As of now, it’s the largest species of flying bird ever discovered. It’s worth noting that the sp ...
  • Our Physical Surroundings And Postures Can Mak ...
    An expansive office space or desk, or even a large car interior, alters our posture, making us feel more powerful…and this tends to make us dishonest…that’s according to new research to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science. The study, entitle ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • American Work Ethic a Hypocritical Fraud
    By @TedFrier One of the great hypocrisies of our times, and throughout American history, has been the readiness of people who are contemptuous of work, and studiously avoid it themselves, to preach to others the homey virtues of prudence, diligence, reliability and responsibility to others that ...
  • Whither the Rural Landline
    @todwest This isn't the sexiest story, politically speaking. But it does show quite clearly the importance of regulation of public utilities. First, here's a piece that appeared in the Kingston Daily Freeman yesterday (Kingston is a small city on the Hudson River between NYC and Albany): Verizo ...
  • Rick Perry: Crony Capitalist Poaching on North ...
    By @TedFrier Poaching on the labor of others is an ancient and honored Southern tradition, whose antebellum antecedents Texas Governor Rick Perry has recently brought up-to-date with a $1 million advertising campaign to encourage businesses in other locales to pack up and come on down to the Lon ...
  • Things that make me bang my head on the desk, ...
    By @BginKC So there is some drama going on down in the Lone Star State surrounding the special session that Perry called, and in it the GOP is rushing headlong to roll back the options and choices that women have a right to exercise over their bodies. Hundreds of women from all over the state sh ...
  • McConnell Plays to GOP's "Paranoid Style"
    By @TedFrier Richard Hofstadter's paranoid style in American politics was on vivid display yesterday when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke to the American Enterprise Institute. Give Kentucky's senior senator credit: He knows where the Republican Party's sweet spot is. And that sweet ...

Care 2

  • The Ripple Effect: The Heartbeat to Eternity
    Drop a pebble in a still pond and watch the ripple travel out in an ever expanding ring The Ripple Effect is rooted in the belief that all we are all connected by our shared Humanity. Submitted by Lynn Squance to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • Paws in Prison Helps Inmates and Their Dogs
    This saved the dogs from death Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PLEASE HELP: Rescue animals from the Bangkok z ...
    These animals need to be rescued:they are caged and are forced to perform in Bangkok.There is also a gorilla grasping the cage as he looks sadly at onlookers.None of the animals have access to sunlight or fresh air.Please sign! Submitted by Jeanie S. to Animals  |   Note-it! &nb ...
  • Philadelphia Designer Cuts Fresh Turf with Boo ...
    EAT UP: The Inside Scoop on Rooftop Agriculture, the newly released book on rooftop agriculture by Lauren Mandel, has people figuratively and literally looking up at the notion of rooftop farming. Mandels instructional and inspirational text is Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  | ...
  • Researchers find human activities threaten Sum ...
    Sumatran tigers are threatened with extinction; it is estimated that fewer than 400 currently survive in the wild. Credit: naturepl.com/Edwin Giesbers/WWF-Canon Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Egypt Into the Abyss?
    The folly of the Arab Spring, and Obama’s embrace of this madness, is now quite clear. Thanks to either the naiveté or inattention of Barack Obama, Islamic extremism has spread throughout the Middle East and raised the specter of a regional war. The turmoil gripping Egypt is particularly d ...
  • General Cartwright, Scapegoat?
    Some very interesting chatter circulating in military–especially Marine Corps–circles regarding Friday’s reports that Four Star General, James “Hoss” Cartwright, is suspected of leaking intelligence about the Stuxnet virus, which the United States deployed to great ...
  • Why is Obama So Out of Touch?
    Why is Barack Obama now so obsessed about the constitutional right to participate in homosexual acts and shutdown coal production? Are those really the top priorities for this nation? While he is celebrating those “hot button” issues, Obama is running around Africa, taking his family ...
  • Gay Marriage Open Thread
    Supreme Court is out with two decisions. So much for the Constitution. It is clearly stated in the Constitution, the Tenth Amendment to be precise: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or t ...
  • More on the Looming Syrian Morass
    Each day brings a new revelation or insight into the briar patch that is Syria. The latest, courtesy of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, highlights an apparent rift between Al Qaeda in Iraq (aka Islamic State of Iraq aka ISI) and the “real” Al Qaeda,” which is now under t ...

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

  • Energy use comes at a cost - Sun-Sentinel
    Energy use comes at a cost Sun-Sentinel Under a bill pending in Congress, the Clean Water Protection Act, the U.S. can decrease the damage caused by our demand for energy by banning mountaintop removal mining waste from being dumped into Appalachian streams. Almost 75 members of ...
  • Protest Planned at Power Plant - ithaca.com
    Protest Planned at Power Plant ithaca.com “Now is not the time to invest in fossil fuels, the earth can no longer sustain invasive extraction processes like fracking, coal mining, mountain top removal and tar sands mining,” Stevens said. “These practices are poisoning and exploiting people ... ...
  • Celebrities With Green Homes: Jessica Alba, Li ...
    Celebrities With Green Homes: Jessica Alba, Lisa Ling and Four Other A-Listers ... Huffington Post
    In 2009, she travelled to West Virginia and was arrested while protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. How To Deal With Shareholder Enviro Risk Scrut ...
    How To Deal With Shareholder Enviro Risk Scrutiny Law360 (subscription) Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank have all noted increased scrutiny of prospective loans to companies engaged in mountain-top removal, and some have decided to opt... To ...
  • Kentucky Study Finds No Dangerous Levels of He ...
    The Courier-Journal Kentucky Study Finds No Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals in Public Drinking ... WFPL The study was prompted by work from other researchers that has found correlations between mountaintop removal mining and certain types of cancer. One of those researchers is Michael Hendryx, ...

Memeorandum

  • Where's the special prosecutor? (Chicago Tribune)
    Chicago Tribune: Where's the special prosecutor?  —  The IRS scandal demands an independent investigation … “It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it.  I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but e ...
  • Bill Maher: Antonin Scalia more racist than Pa ...
    Andrea Drusch / Politico: Bill Maher: Antonin Scalia more racist than Paula Deen  —  Taking a swing at the Supreme Court's decision on the Voting Rights Act, Bill Maher mocked Justice Antonin Scalia as “more racist” than Paula Deen.  —  The liberal co ...
  • SUSAN RICE: SNOWDEN LEAKS HAVEN'T WEAKENED OBA ...
    Edith M. Lederer / bigstory.ap.org: SUSAN RICE: SNOWDEN LEAKS HAVEN'T WEAKENED OBAMA  —  You are here  —  Home » Susan Rice » Susan Rice: Snowden leaks haven't weakened Obama … UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice dismissed cl ...
  • Take the Impossible "Literacy" Test Louisiana ...
    Rebecca Onion / Slate: Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s … - Pro-Lifers Ask, “What if Your Mother Had Aborted You?”  Here's My Answer.  - Try the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Would-B ...
  • Bryan Fischer: The New Yorker Is 'Promoting Ch ...
    Zack Ford / ThinkProgress: Bryan Fischer: The New Yorker Is ‘Promoting Child Abuse’ With Bert And Ernie Cover  —  Sesame Street's timeless roommates Bert and Ernie have long jokingly been thought of as a closeted gay couple, despite denials from Sesame Workshop.&nbsp ...

Energy & Environment News

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    Saturday, June 29, 2013 06:34:40 UTC Saturday, June 29, 2013 04:34:40 PM at epicenterDepth: 96.80 km (60.15 mi)
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  • Brazil leader's popularity plummets after protests
    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attends a meeting with governors and city mayors at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on June 24, 2013. Rousseff's popularity has plunged since Brazil's nationwide street protests erupted, a poll found Saturday as Rio braced President Dilma Rousseff's popularity h ...
  • Gay marriage? Ca-ching!
    The very same day that the Supreme Court handed down rulings in favor of marriage equality, popular wedding site The Knot premiered its digital magazine for LGBT brides- and grooms-to-be. It was a powerful reminder: There's a lot of money to be made on gay marriage. Same-sex weddings will ...
  • NSA reportedly has secret data collection agre ...
    The NSA has been working with at least seven European other countries to collect personal communications data, according to Wayne Madsen, a former NSA contractor who has come forward because he does not think the public should not be "kept in the dark." According to Madsen, Denmark, the Netherl ...
  • British PM backs Taliban peace talks on Afghan ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) shakes hands with British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) during a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on June 29, 2013. Cameron made a surprise visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan Saturday, backing talks British Prime Minister David Cameron ma ...
  • Ecuador president says spoke to US vice presid ...
    Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa speaks at the Refineria del Pacifico camp, in El Aromo, Manabi, on June 29, 2013. Correa said Saturday he has spoken with US Vice President Joe Biden about Edward Snowden, and that the American official asked Ecuador to President Rafael Correa said Saturday h ...

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IntelNews

  • Germany probes UK spy program revealed by CIA ...
    Germany wants to know whether its citizens were spied on under a British government surveillance program revealed last week by American intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden.
  • Australia fears Asia backlash over PRISM surve ...
    The government of Australia is concerned that American whistleblower Edward Snowden may leak classified information that could damage Australia’s relations with its Asian neighbors, including China and Malaysia.
  • Taliban insurgents attack CIA station in Kabul
    Taliban assailants launched an unprecedented attack against the presidential palace in Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday morning, which included a targeted assault on a nearby command post of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Snowden flees to Russia despite US passport re ...
    An American former intelligence contractor, who leaked classified information about intelligence operations, was able to leave Hong Kong for Russia on Sunday, despite having his United States passport revoked.
  • Skype set up secret project to enable governme ...
    Skype, the world-famous company that provides Internet-based communications between registered users, set up a secret project five years ago to facilitate persistent requests by government agencies to listen in on users' phone calls.

War is a Crime.org

  • Report on the Emergency Forum at Cooper Union
    240 people came together on short notice on June 19,2013 in The Great Hall of Cooper Union in NYC, and hundreds more watched online as we united to say “We will not be complicit... We DO NOT Consent.” The room reverberated with outrage, support for Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning, and, in som ...
  • Senate Passes Racist Immigration Bill
      Senate Passes Racist Immigration Bill   by Stephen Lendman   On June 27, S. 744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (BSEOIMA) passed. House members address it next.   On June 28, The New York Times headlined "Senate, 68 to 32, Passes Ov ...
  • More Evidence of Lawless US Spying
      More Evidence of Lawless US Spying   by Stephen Lendman   Post-9/11, unprecedented domestic spying began. It did so extrajudicially. It continues under Obama. It's institutionalized. It's warrantless. It's unconstitutional.    It doesn't matter. It's sweeping and all-e ...
  • Syria News June 29
      Vatican confirms Al Nusra jihadists beheaded Catholic priest (GRAPHIC VIDEO) - Catholic Online Al Nusra captures major army post in southern city of Daraa after days of fighting - The Washington Post Syria Report: Deadly Clashes Between Kurdish Militia and FSA in Amuda - eaworldview. ...
  • Iran's Peaceful Nuclear Program
      Iran's Peaceful Nuclear Program   by Stephen Lendman   Iran complies fully with NPT provisions. Nothing suggests otherwise. It's program is legal and non-military. Washington, other Western nations and Israel know it. They maliciously claim otherwise.   read more

Grist - News

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Watch Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman on MSNBC's ...
    Watch Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on MSNBC's “Melissa Harris-Perry” show this Sunday from 10am-noon ET. She will discuss the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela, President Obama’s trip to Africa, China’s involvement in Africa, and climate change. See Democracy Now's coverage of Nelson Man ...
  • Horace Campbell on Mandela's Legacy, NATO's Fa ...
    In this web-only interview, Syracuse University professor Horace Campbell reflects on the importance of Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle. He also talks about his new book, "Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya." Watch Part 1
  • VIDEO: "Promised Land" Examines How Nelson Man ...
    Filmmaker Yoruba Richen describes how the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa inspired some of the six million blacks who were forcefully removed from their land and resettled into so-called "homelands" to try and reclaim their land. We play excerpts from her film, Promised ...
  • The Supreme Court Makes History: Two Steps For ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The U.S. Supreme Court announced three historic 5-4 decisions this week. In the first, a core component of the Voting Rights Act was gutted, enabling Southern states to enact regressive voting laws that will likely disenfranchise the ever-growing number o ...
  • Breaking: Court Strikes Down DOMA; Dismisses P ...
    In a historic day, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and has paved the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California. In a 5-4 decision, the court has ruled the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act signed by President Clinton is unconstitutional. This ...

Solari

  • 2nd Quarter Wrap Up – July 4
    “The world needs a wake up call, gentlemen. We’re gonna phone it in.” – Gilbert, They Live By Catherine Austin Fitts Please join me for the July 4th fireworks on the Solari Report! G-7 and the developed nations are calling their capital homewards. The resulting squeeze ...
  • Robert D. Shushan – “We Must Heal ...
  • June Solari Toon!
  • The Anti-Empire Report
    By William Blum Despite these concerns the US has continued to expand ECHELON surveillance in Europe, partly because of heightened interest in commercial espionage – to uncover industrial information that would provide American corporations with an advantage over foreign rivals. German security ...
  • U.S. Needs More Time on Overseas Swaps, Democr ...
    By Silla Brush and Cheyenne Hopkins U.S. regulators will inject risk into the derivatives market if they don’t take more time to coordinate Dodd-Frank Act rules with their overseas counterparts, six Democratic senators said. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, facing a July 12 deadline to ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Artist Berndnaut Smilde Creates Amazing Indoor ...
    It's looking rather cloudy inside. That's because Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has the ability to create small, fluffy clouds indoors. He creates luminous masses of vapor that slowly float through rooms and hallways of buildings, transforming them into surreal,    
  • India Outlaws All Animal Testing for Cosmetics ...
    Photo via Shutterstock In a bold and historic move, India has become the first South Asian nation to ban all animal testing for cosmetics. On Friday the Drug Controller General announced the ban, adding that the use of modern, non-animal tests for cosmetics    
  • GREEN MY RIDE: Win a Brand New 7-Speed Linus S ...
    The sun is out, the weather is warm, and the days are longer than ever — and pedaling around town on a brand new bicycle is the best way to savor all that summer has to offer! Inhabitat has teamed up with Linus Bikes to give one lucky reader a shiny new    
  • Austria’s Blob-Shaped Kunsthaus Graz Art Museu ...
    Located on the west bank of the River Mur in the his­toric center, the Graz Art Museum opened its doors back in 2003. Created as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations, the one-of-a-kind building rapidly became a city landmark. Measuring 27,000    
  • Sixteen-Year-Old Student Turns Banana Peels In ...
    Photo via Shutterstock As fruit, bananas are perfectly packaged - all the protection they need is provided by their flexible, resilient peels. As sixteen-year-old Turkish student Elif Bilgin discovered, the starches and cellulose contained in their outer    

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The Progressive Realist

  • Senate Scales Back the B61
    In a victory for fiscal sanity, Senate appropriators today cut the budget for the B61 gravity bomb, a $10 billion program to upgrade a weapon that President Obama said last week he wants to reduce. Given the high cost of this effort, the declining military justification, and the fact that less e ...
  • Top of the Morning: USA Suspends Bangladesh’s ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest US Suspends Bangladesh’s Favored Trade Status The United States is suspending long-time trade benefits for Bangladesh until the country makes progress on poor workers’ safety conditions. “The U.S. sanction does not directly affect Bangladesh’s multi-bill ...
  • Susan Rice’s Valedictory as UN Ambassador
    Susan Rice offered the UN press corps a farewell press conference as US Ambassador to the UN. Her remarks offer some insights into what the USA believes it has accomplished at the United Nations since the start of Barack Obama’s presidency. They are a useful reminder that while some confli ...
  • Who Is Protesting in Brazil?
    The current developments in Brazil have caught all by surprise. Yearly increases in bus fares, notoriously bad public transportation, inflation and slow economic growth (weirdly combined with low unemployment rates) have been looming for some time now. The Free Fare Movement (MPL) has been activ ...
  • Turkish Delight No More
    Observers of modern Turkey have long been fascinated by the rise of political Islam and uneasy about its ultimate trajectory under the leadership of Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan. While the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been instrumental in democratizing the country and ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Can You Tell Me How to Get to Castro Street?
    Those liberal Northeastern elitists are at it again. It isn't enough that they have to go out and celebrate the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8, like it was cause for something besides quiet mourning for the heterosexual marriages soon to b ...
  • Christian Employers Claim Their Religion Puts ...
    Ready for the next court fight over Obamacare? Get to know Hobby Lobby, the chain of stores fighting the Affordable Care Act's requirement that the health insurance employers offer their employees cover contraception, and the next Christian martyr to the unholy scourge of health coverage for em ...
  • A Queer History
    I’ve been writing about marriage since 1993—two decades now. I expected these decisions, like everyone else. And yet I was still grinning like a fool when, with one fist, the Supreme Court smashed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)—the 1996 law that banned the federal government from recognizin ...
  • Is the World Facing the Next Pandemic?
    GENEVA—Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, is a slight, Chinese woman prone to power shades of lipstick. At the World Health Assembly in Geneva, where ministers of health from the U.N.’s 194 member countries gathered to discuss the world’s most pressing illness ...
  • Burning Down the (White) House
    AP Photo/Sony Columbia Pictures, Reiner Bajo Here’s a confession likely to guarantee you’ll never trust me again: I had a pretty good time at White House Down, the new movie starring Channing Tatum as a wannabe Secret Service agent who ends up as President Jamie Foxx’s only hope of sur ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Canadian Gold Coins, Other Assets Going to U.S ...
    The National Alliance, the group that long dominated the American neo-Nazi scene but has shriveled since the 2002 death of its founder, is close to receiving a Canadian bequest that may be worth as much as $1 million, reliable sources say. The money comes from the estate of Robert Harry McCorkel ...
  • Islamophobes Geller and Spencer Banned from Br ...
    Two of America’s most vociferous anti-Muslim activists have been banned from Britain as extremists after the home secretary determined their presence “would not be conducive to the public good.” Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, co-founders of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), had planned to ...
  • Religious Right Apoplectic over SCOTUS Decisio ...
    Pedophilia. Incest. Bestiality. Oh my! What in heaven have the Supremes wrought with their decision that it’s unconstitutional for the federal government to discriminate against legally married same-sex couples? It’s a slippery slope, my friend. So says the rabidly homophobic Bryan Fischer of th ...
  • 2nd Company Begins Selling Bullets Coated with ...
    The advertising pitch says it all: “Put some Ham in MoHAMed.” Jihawg Ammunition, based in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, has recently begun selling bullets laced with a pork coating, promising “patriot” gun owners that the bullets “will strike fear into the hearts of those bent upon hate, violence and m ...
  • New Black Panther Party National Leader Faces ...
    An infamous leader of the racist New Black Panther Party, known nationally for his boiling hatred of white people and apparent attempt to intimidate voters in 2008, is slated to appear in a New York City courtroom today to face charges of illegally carrying a loaded, unlicensed handgun and weari ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Federal Judge Blocks Alabama Abortion Law
    A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Alabama law that imposes medically unnecessary restrictions that would force most of the clinics in the state to stop providing abortions. The law was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Alabama, Planned Parenthood Federation o ...
  • Egypt: Security forces must show restraint and ...
    The Egyptian authorities must uphold the right to peaceful assembly and protect protesters and bystanders from violence, Amnesty International said today ahead of planned nationwide demonstrations this weekend. Opponents of President Mohamed Morsi are expected to take to the streets en masse in ...
  • Clean Energy Manufacturing Fights Climate Chan ...
    In the wake of President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday laying out his action plan to address the harmful effects of climate change, the Center for American Progress released a report today showing how clean energy manufacturing hubs can flight climate change, increase U.S. competitivene ...
  • House of Representatives Passes Bill Leaving C ...
    By a vote of 235–186 the House of Representatives passed an offshore drilling bill that aims to increase oil production in the Outer Continental Shelf, leaving most of our coasts, from California, to Maine, to Bristol Bay in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean vulnerable to a BP oil spill disaster ...
  • TD Bank Divestment From Keystone XL Tar Sands ...
    This morning, a fake press release was sent from an email address at yourtdbank.com, to a parody website designed to look like TD Bank's press page announcing the bank's divestment from Keystone XL and tar sands. The fake release cited President Obama's recent climate speech and ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Guns Lost, Stolen or Strayed
    Michael Winship Back in January, a month after the Newtown school slayings and just a few days before his second inauguration, Barack Obama announced he would “put everything I’ve got” into the fight against gun violence.r ...
  • The Social Security and Medicare Cutters Are V ...
    Dean Baker Who can blame them? The vast majority of people across the political spectrum oppose their plans to cut these programs. Furthermore, improved budget projections (partly because of cuts that are very bad news) have drastically red ...
  • Where Would We Be Without Social Security?
    Jo Comerford Nearly every single American is intimately connected with the earned benefits of Social Security and Medicare — as either a contributor, a recipient, or both.read more
  • The Truth Tellers
    Christopher Brauchli “I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner, by saying no.” — James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence in an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchellrea ...
  • From Dhaka to Broadway, Protests Target Bangla ...
    Michelle Chen The United States may lead the world in some measures of national wealth, but it is fiercely regressive when it comes to protecting the workers whose blood and sweat subsidize American lifestyles. Since the tragic factory coll ...

Water Privatization

  • In the Know: Privatization of MWSS
    The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) faced problems like poor coverage, inefficient service and high nonrevenue water caused mainly by meter tampering, illegal connections, pipeline leaks and illegal use of fire hydrants.
  • First Nations water act doomed?
    People living in some First Nations communities have access to less clean water than the United Nations recommends be made available in disaster zones. So why aren't they cheering the Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act passed by the House of Commons earlier this month?
  • Red Bank GOP ticket pushes privatization
    RED BANK — Sean DiSomma said his appearance at the June 12 Borough Council meeting to challenge the all-Democratic council before it voted to borrow $500,000 to replace water mains lit the fuse on his just-announced candidacy for Borough Council.
  • Robert Kennedy Criticizes Privatization of Wat ...
    SAO PAULO, June 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Privatization is currently the most troubling issue we face in relation to water. That is the opinion of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an activist and attorney specializing ...
  • Robert Kennedy Criticizes Privatization of Wat ...
    SAO PAULO, June 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Privatization is currently the most troubling issue we face in relation to water. That is the opinion of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an activist and attorney specializing ...

Guardian

  • Humans – the real threat to life on Earth
    If population levels continue to rise at the current rate, our grandchildren will see the Earth plunged into an unprecedented environmental crisis, argues computational scientist Stephen Emmott in this extract from his book Ten BillionEarth is home to millions of species. Just one dominates it. ...
  • Rolling Stones headline at Glastonbury 2013 – ...
    As crowds flock to the Pyramid stage to watch Mick Jagger and co perform a lengthy set on the second night of the festival, those of you still in the comfort of your own homes can watch along on TV with Michael HannMichael Hann     
  • Nelson Mandela's wife draws strength from Bara ...
    US president stays away from hospital out of deference to Mandela's 'peace and comfort', but meets family members who praise the Obamas' personal warmth and sensitivityIt spoke volumes that when an audience awaiting the president of the United States burst into full-throated song, it was with th ...
  • Israeli authors fight to stop eviction of Pale ...
    25 Israeli authors sign petition as Palestinians face being evicted from caves in live-fire training zone and moved to nearby townOn the sun-baked, windswept, near-barren hills of the southern West Bank, a thousand Palestinian villagers are braced for the final act in a long drama that could swe ...
  • GPs told to charge non-Britons for NHS services
    Jeremy Hunt to unveil plans to introduce a registrations and tracking system to spot people not eligible for free careHealth secretary Jeremy Hunt will ask GPs to crack down on the use of free NHS services by non-Britons, under controversial plans to be unveiled this week. A registration and tra ...

McClatchey

  • 100th Tibetan self-immolation reported in a pr ...
    An account released on Wednesday of an ethnic Tibetan man in western China lighting himself on fire earlier this month, calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama before…Click to Continue »
  • Agencies warn Congress not to use humanitarian ...
    Humanitarian groups are lobbying hard against a proposal by several U.S. senators that would turn over the delivery of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to a Syrian opposition council…Click to Continue »
  • Democrats offer long-shot bill to meet Obama&# ...
    Democrats in Congress wasted no time in taking up President Barack Obama?s challenge Tuesday night that lawmakers take a "market-based" approach to addressing climate change, even if their effort has…Click to Continue »
  • Panetta: Congress hurting itself and U.S. imag ...
    The world is nervously watching a dysfunctional Congress and wondering ?whether or not we can rise to the challenges? that face the United States, outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta…Click to Continue »
  • GOP’s complaints about looming spending ...
    Republicans forced the budget crisis that helped create the pending across-the-board cuts in the first place. And Republicans provided crucial votes for the 2011 deal that ended that impasse, an…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Video British PM pushes for Afghan peace talks
    British Prime Minister David Cameron visited with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Saturday (June 29) in an attempt to reinvigorate stalled peace talks with the Taliban. Mana Rabiee ...
  • David Cameron to ask Pakistans PM for help on ...
    David Cameron will today ask Pakistan's re-elected leader to help shore up security in the region - and to stay out of Afghanistan as it takes it first faltering steps as an independent democracy. Mr Cameron will become the first major leader to meet Nawaz Sharif, as he starts an unpreceden ...
  • Taliban could soon be coming in from the cold
    Families of British troops killed in Afghanistan will have to accept that the Taliban will take a role in the Afghan national government and even its army, as international leaders make the final push for a "political solution", senior military officials said ...
  • Having learned nothing from the catastrophes o ...
    "Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terrorism." President Barack Obama 15th February 2013. (Re Boston ...
  • Afghan President Karzai still wants to negotia ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday that his government is still willing to start talks with the Taliban, easing concerns that a brazen attack by the group on the presidential palace last week would derail the country's nascent peace ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Federal Employee Whistleblowers Win Rare Victory
    The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) issued a ruling today in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. The MSPB held that the new definition of a" protected disclosure" set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WEPA) applied to cases pending and/or whic ...
  • The Whistleblower's Handbook Featured in Bosto ...
    This past Sunday Katharine Whittemore of the Boston Globe published an article entitled “A look at books on whistle-blowing.” Whittemore writes that it is currently “kind of a strange, explosive golden age” for whistleblowers. The “tipping point” in a cultura ...
  • Whistleblower Group Requests Attorney General ...
    Request Based on Credible Evidence of Illegal  Conduct Raised by Whistleblower Edward Snowden Washington, D.C. June 13, 2013. Attorneys at the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund (“NWLDEF”) sent a letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder r ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Case Highlights Lack of Prot ...
    There is a lot of discussion as to whether Edward Snowden, the NSA Whistleblower is a hero or a villain. If the government had established procedures under which intelligence employees could report wrongdoing and be protected from retaliation, Snowden would not have had to risk his freedom ...
  • The National Whistleblower Center Issues State ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement of Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center “Edward Snowden should not be prosecuted. Instead, the White House must keep the promise made by President Obama, during his 2008 election campaign, when he pledged to support ...

TechDirt

  • ChurchHatesTucker's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of ...
    The elephant in this week's news has been Edward Snowden. While he's been quiet since ditching Hong Kong early in the week, the effects of his leaking of evidence of the NSA's spying on American citizens continue to reverberate. Rep. Mike Rogers, head of the House Intelligence Committee (inse ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Ambitious Projects
    For our latest awesome stuff post, I thought perhaps we'd look at a few more "ambitious" projects. Many crowdfunding projects are really effectively "presales" of something that people might want: a gadget, an album, a book, a movie, an accessory, etc. However, there are some projects that are m ...
  • Valerie Plame & Joe Wilson: This Has Nothing T ...
    Husband and wife Valerie Plame Wilson and Joe Wilson are well-known for an earlier "leaking" of "intelligence" information that resulted in Plame being outed as a covert CIA officer. The two have now written a powerful op-ed for the Guardian pointing out that the "intelligence-industrial complex ...
  • Spanish Anti-piracy Firm Ares Rights History O ...
    We already wrote about Ecuador apparently using highly questionable copyright takedowns to help censor documents that revealed Ecuador's government's attempts to purchase surveillance tools. In response, Ecuador first claimed that the documents were faked, but Adam Steinbaugh has done a truly fa ...
  • Dentist Threatens Patient Who Left Yelp Critic ...
    We've seen lots of folks freak out when a bad Yelp review gets left about their service, but some people take it to extremes. Over at Popehat there's an example of a dentist, William Coppola, in San Antonio, Texas, who had a lawyer, Isabel de la Riva, send an absolutely ridiculous legal threat l ...

VacTruth

  • Hepatitis A Infected Blueberries Sicken 113, H ...
    Blueberries infected with Hepatitis A virus are taken off of shelves while the Hepatitis A vaccine, while causing injuries, remains in use.
  • Dangerous Vaccines Found to Cause Symptoms of ...
    Over the years, parents have more and more commonly been blamed of child abuse if their child is diagnosed with the “triad” of injuries associated with Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) after receiving a vaccine. The “triad” includes bleeding inside the brain, bleeding behind the eyes and swelling or i ...
  • These Tricks Are Played to Get You to Vaccinat ...
    Countries around the world are coming up with more and more elaborate tricks to pressure parents into fully vaccinating their children. Here are just a few...
  • The Value of Your Child’s Life – According to ...
    Most mothers and fathers vividly remember the days they took their child for shots, filled with anxiety, knowing it would be painful for the child...but you should know much of this doesn't matter to those promoting vaccines.
  • Revealed Government Documents Show Vaccine Inj ...
    In December 2012, five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being force-vaccinated with a meningitis A vaccine. Government documents reveal more of the story...

BroadSnark

  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...
  • The Power of Denial
    My relationship with my parents started a downhill slide when I reached my teen years and never recovered. My father was the type of person who never wanted to talk about anything. He would blow up once in a while. But mostly he handled the hurt – the hurt that he felt or that he [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure none of you have missed the NSA spying scandal, which will probably blow over in about 10 minutes. Or maybe people will finally freak out when they find out all their phone sex and dick pics are being filed somewhere. How intricate do you think their filing system is? A homeland s ...
  • Stuff Dudes Do
    Mild rant warning. I’m an anarchist. I used to be in a punk collective. I worked on criminal injustice issues. Sadly, all of these things mean that I end up in spaces that are largely dudes. Maybe those things attract more men than women. Or maybe a whole lot of us women have been chased [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Challenging the ruling bureaucracy
    In 1969, Hannah Arendt wrote: Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it. And since when we act we never know with any amount of certainty the eventual consequences of what we are doing, violence can remain rat ...
  • The myth of secrecy
    Leaf Van Boven, Charles M. Judd, and Mark Travers write: The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing huge amounts of data about Americans’ phone and Internet use has sparked a lively debate about the proper role of secret information in a free and open society. Th ...
  • Video: Glenn Greenwald addressing Socialism 20 ...
    Glenn Greenwald spoke via Skype to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago on June 27, 2013.
  • When the democratic process isn’t enough
    Rami G. Khouri writes: The fascinating, simultaneous demonstrations and challenges to democratically elected regimes in Egypt, Turkey and Brazil this month suggest that we need to look for an explanation for all this in something structural in newly democratized societies, rather than in cultura ...
  • Video: Snowden, Greenwald and the media saga

Watts Up With That?

  • Saturday silliness – The only thing more ...
    People send me stuff. Here at WUWT, we all tend to laugh at Dr. Joshua Halpern who fancies himself as a rabbit and writes in tongues third person as ‘Eli Rabett‘ about the evils of global warming to show everyone … Continue reading →
  • Australia and ACORN-SAT
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As Anthony discussed here, some Australian climate scientists think that there was an “angry summer” in 2012. Inspired by the necromantic incantations in support of the Aussie claims coming from the irrepressible Racehorse Nick Stokes, … Continue ...
  • Hey Ya! (mal) McIntyre was right – CRU A ...
    This must be personally satisfying for Steve McIntyre, though I doubt the folks at RealClimate will have the integrity to acknowledge that he was right, and they were wrong. It seems that in the latest publication from CRU’s Keith Briffa, … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny: New world record temperature &#8 ...
    Gotta love this, with all the hullabaloo over a possible new world temperature record in Death Valley, a logging town in Washington has pre-empted them. Hilariously, the reading of 139 degrees F is listed as “suspect” as it should be, … Continue reading →
  • Is it time to prosecute the IPCC for fraud?
    By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The IPCC, having spent almost two months working out how to respond to my complaint about a notoriously bogus graph in its Fourth Assessment Report, has found itself not guilty. In doing so, it is … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • One million people who have non-body odour gen ...
    Researchers have found that two per cent of the population have a genetic variant that means they do not suffer from under arm body odour yet more three quarters of them continue to use scents. The ‘cultural norm’ in Britain is to use deodorant every day whether body odour is a probl ...
  • Gut Bugs Could Explain Obesity-Cancer Link
    Why does obesity raise the risk of developing cancer? A new study suggests that the wrong mix of gut bacteria could be to blame. Researchers report that obese mice carry altered communities of intestinal bugs, which produce DNA-damaging acid that leave the mice more susceptible to liver cancer. ...
  • Mechanics of Throwing
    The ability to throw an object with great speed and accuracy is a uniquely human adaptation, one that Harvard researchers say played a key role in our evolution. In a paper published June 26 in Nature, a research team led by Neil Roach, who recently received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and Daniel Li ...
  • Oral Cancer Caused by HPV Soars in Developed C ...
    Oral Cancer Caused by HPV Soars in Developed Countries – YouTube.
  • Migraine study opens door to research into a cure
    A major study into the causes of migraine could offer hope for sufferers, experts believe.Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute say they have identified five regions of DNA containing genes linked to the onset of migraine.Studying these could “open new doors” to understan ...

CFACT

  • Are you killing the planet with a burger and a ...
    As Maurice Strong who spearheaded the 1991 Rio Earth Summit wrote in the U.N.’s Conference on Environmental Development (UNCED) report: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class … involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen ...
  • Obama’s Climate Initiative: A Green Elit ...
    By circumventing Congress and unleashing the vast powers of the administrative regulatory state in the name of combating “climate change,” President Obama has – yet again – revealed his determination to subject the American people to the unchecked whims of the federal bureaucracy.
  • Climate alarmism’s 10,000 commandments
    Even the most die-hard alarmists have finally recognized that average global temperatures have hardly budged since 1997, even as atmospheric levels of plant-fertilizing CO2 climbed steadily. For many areas, the past winter was among the coldest in decades; the USA and Britain just recorded one t ...
  • Government by fiat — the EPA’s end ...
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Ria Novosti Online News

  • 60 Arrests As Confrontation over Immigration E ...
    About 60 people were detained late Friday following a fight in the Russian capital apparently linked to the actions of an informal group of volunteers that campaigns against illegal immigrants, according to police.    
  • One Police Officer Killed in Chechen Shootout
    One police officer has been killed and 13 injured during a shootout with militants in the Shatoi district of the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, local police said Saturday.    
  • Criminal Case Opened Into Attack on Man in Pol ...
    A criminal case has been opened against two police officers who violently assaulted a man in police custody in Russia’s Lipetsk region, according to a statement released by the Investigative Committee.    
  • Fitch Affirms Ukraine at ‘B’; Revises Outlook ...
    Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine’s long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at ‘B’ and revised the outlooks on the ratings to negative from stable, the ratings agency reported Friday.    
  • Russia to Spend $11Mln on Maternal, Child Heal ...
    Russia will spend up to 366 million rubles ($11.1 million) in 2013-2015 to hold training workshops to implement an international initiative on maternal and child health, the Russian government reported Saturday.    

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Academy of Sciences Inches Closer to L ...
    A bill was submitted to parliament on Friday seeking to strip the Russian Academy of Sciences of its right to manage its own property.    
  • Main News of June 27
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours    
  • Laika, First Dog in Space, Returns to Earth in ...
    Long thought lost among the stars, Laika, the Moscow street dog launched into orbit on board Sputnik 2 in 1957 is to return to Earth later this year to do battle against “evil” Soviets in her own video game, The Escapist Magazine reported Thursday.    
  • Russia to Overhaul Academy of Sciences
    The Russian government is to overhaul the nation’s Academy of Sciences, it announced on Thursday, including stripping it of the right to manage its property in apparent impatience with the state of the organization.    
  • Cold War Space Race Focus of US TV Project
    An American production company is developing a new television series on the space race between the US and the Soviet Union in the wake of World War II and through the apex of the Cold War.    

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

  • My Latest Paper on the Enforcement (or Lack Th ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Those international investment law nerds out there know that Article 54 of the ICSID Convention requires each state party to “recognize an award rendered pursuant to this Convention as binding and enforce the pecuniary obligations imposed by that award within it ...
  • McDonald’s Israel Refuses to Build in Il ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller ABC reports: The McDonald’s restaurant chain refused to open a branch in a West Bank Jewish settlement, the company said Thursday, adding a prominent name to an international movement to boycott Israel’s settlements. Irina Shalmor, spokeswoma ...
  • Weekend Roundup: June 22-28, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, our main event was a book symposium on Katerina Linos’ The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion, introduced here (along with details on OUP’s special offer to our readers). David Zaring and Larry Helfer kicked off the s ...
  • Was the Expert Letter on Palestine Buried by t ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller On 7 August 2012, in response to Moreno-Ocampo’s decision not to accept Palestine’s ad hoc acceptance of the ICC’s jurisdiction, Bill Schabas and John Dugard submitted a letter — signed by 30 leading ICL experts — to the Ass ...
  • Linos Book Symposium: Response to Verdier, Coh ...
    by Katerina Linos by Katerina Linos [Katerina Linos is an Assistant Professor of Law at Berkeley Law] I am very pleased that Pierre Verdier, Harlan Cohen, and Roger Alford are offering the closing comments in the symposium on The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion.  Of Pierre Verdier’s ...

Public News Service

  • Your Hands Can Save a Life
    Your Hands Can Save a Life PHOENIX – Learning Hands-Only CPR is easy, and could well put you in a position to save someone's life – possibly that of a family member. Katie Connolly, community CPR manager for the American Heart Association, says 80 percent of sudden cardiac arrests ...
  • AZ Congressman Honored for Conservation Work
    AZ Congressman Honored for Conservation Work WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva has been honored for his strong dedication to conservation issues as part of Great Outdoors America Week. ...(Read More)
  • U.S. Supreme Court Opens Path for "Election Re ...
    U.S. Supreme Court Opens Path for "Election Reform" Law in AZ PHOENIX - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act means Arizona's new law changing how elections are conducted will go into effect without federal approval. The decision means the so-called elec ...
  • Arizona Slips Again in Conditions for Kids
    Arizona Slips Again in Conditions for Kids PHOENIX - Arizona has slipped again in the latest Kids Count Data Book rankings of children's well-being, from 46th in the nation to 47th. Children's Action Alliance president Dana Naimark said she is most concerned about Arizona's proportion of childre ...
  • NSA “Wants the Capacity to Listen to Eve ...
    NSA “Wants the Capacity to Listen to Everything” PHOENIX – The National Security Agency wants a system that can monitor all electronic communications, according to an expert on the agency. The FBI director and the general heading the NSA are testifying to Congress that keepin ...
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