Thursday, August 01, 2013

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Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Climategate in Review
    The Climategate scandal caused independent scientists and laymen around the globe to take a much closer look at the information that was being presented in support of AGW ; the overwhelming conclusion was that there was no conclusive evidence in support Submitted by John Farnham to Environment ...
  • Millions Wrongly Treated for 'Cancer,' Nationa ...
    A devastating new report commissioned by the National Cancer Institute reveals that our 40-year long 'War on Cancer' has been waged against a vastly misunderstood 'enemy,' that in many cases represented no threat to human health whatsoever. Submitted by Sayer J. to Health & Wellness  |&nbs ...
  • Toxic Environmental Bio Terrain
    The crime scene spewed out poison of unprecedented proportions while the powers that be sprayed toxic chemicals in order to cover up the crime. . It is an ongoing tragedy that continues to expand in scope, affecting the health and the lives of millions Submitted by John Farnham to Environment ...
  • The Saga of Barrett Brown : Inside Anonymous a ...
    Alleged hacktivist Barrett Brown, the 31-year old mislabeled spokesman for the shadowy hacker collective known as Anonymous, faces federal charges that could put him away for over a hundred years Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Chaos over 4 underground oil blowouts in Canada
    ] This is a new kind of oil spill and there is no off button You cant cap it like a conventional oil well or turn off a valve on a pipeline. You are pressurizing the oil bed so hard that its no wonder that it blows out. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it! &nbs ...

Farm Wars

  • Glyphosate, Brain Damaged Babies, and Yakima V ...
    It appears that Yakima, Benton, and Franklin counties just happen to have three things in common – the Yakima River, a noxious weed eradication program using copious amount of Glyphosate for years on both land and in the river, and an increase in anencephaly, which Glyphosate just happens to be ...
  • Hounds From Hell Nipping At Our Heels
    Those who doubt the awesome but evil power of secret societies are in denial because denial is a much more comfortable place to exist. It's much easier to accept all the lies, all the time. To acknowledge the level of deceit and betrayal by almost every president for more than a century, as well ...
  • Save Your Bacon Fundraiser
    Mark Baker in Michigan, who is fighting for the survival of his free range pig farm. His plight has inspired our upcoming event, Save Your Bacon Weekend, a FundRAISER on Sept 7 on Polyface Farm and several grassfed pork inspired events Sept 7-8 in historic Staunton, VA.
  • Why GMOs Can Never be Safe
    In order to survive, the organism needs to engage in natural genetic modification in real time, an exquisitely precise molecular dance of life in which RNA and DNA respond to, and participate fully in ‘downstream’ biological functions. That is why organisms and ecosystems are particularly vulne ...
  • Welcome to PlantVillage – Free and Easy Intera ...
    PlantVillage is built on the premise that all knowledge that helps people grow food should be openly accessible to anyone on the planet. PlantVillage is a user moderated Q & A forum dedicated to the goal of helping people grow their own food. It is an open, freely available resource that he ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Public to Receive New Sandy Hook Timeline
    ShareThisPublic to Receive New Sandy Hook Timeline [Because the old one makes no sense.] --'There should be the right to know, and we should be as transparent as possible without covering things up.' 31 Jul 2013 The state will release an updated [?!?] timeline next week on when they will learn ...
  • Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leave ...
    ShareThisSnowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport 01 Aug 2013 NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and is allowed to enter the country's territory. The whistleblower has been granted temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden's legal repr ...
  • Man who ran presidential barricade in car load ...
    ShareThisMan who ran presidential barricade in car loaded with guns gets prison sentence 31 Jul 2013 A 53-year-old Eastern Kentucky man has received a four-year prison term after trying to run though a presidential security barricade in a car loaded with guns during Barack Obama’s visit to the r ...
  • GCSB Bill needed to watch al-Qaida - Key
    ShareThisGCSB Bill needed to watch al-Qaida - Key 01 Aug 2013 John Key has this morning justified the need for the Government's GCSB Bill by saying there are al-Qaida[al-CIAduh]-trained operatives in New Zealand that need to be watched. Speaking on More FM's Si and Gary Show this morning, Mr K ...
  • Attorney: FBI was aware of plan for snipers on ...
    ShareThisAttorney: FBI was aware of plan for snipers on Occupy Houston 31 Jul 2013 As the Occupy Houston movement gained steam in 2011, the FBI was aware of a plan to use snipers to take out leaders of the movement, according to FBI documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act reque ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Forgotten Combat Video from Afghanistan
     30 July 2013 Last week the Kopp-Etchells series experienced another revival.  For four years the work has been translated into dozens of languages and seen ‘round the world in hundreds if not thousands of outlets ranging from Ripley’s Believe it or Not!, to the Smithsonian.  A ...
  • Helicopter halo effect named for two fallen heroes
    July 29, 2013 Story behind Koppp-Etchells Effect on Fox and Friends. Click Here
  • Fox and Friends at 0820 EST Sunday
    27 July 2013   Jill Stephenson and I will be guests on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning.   Jill is the courageous and inspirational mother of Benjamin Kopp, the hero who literally was killed but did not die.  Army Rangers are hard to stop. Please read this before watching th ...
  • Mesmerizing halo effect caused by blades of la ...
    27 July 2013 The Kopp-Etchells Effect was named in honor of two soldiers - one British and one American - who were killed in Afghanistan in 2009 The dazzling photos were taken by a photojournalist who covered the war, and who decided to start calling the halos the Kopp-Etchells Effect When ...
  • JBLM soldier’s Afghanistan heroics earn Medal ...
    27 July 2013 By Hal Bernton Seattle Times staff reporter A valiant, bloody defense of a small outpost in eastern Afghanistan four years ago has produced a second Medal of Honor recipient — a Spokane-born soldier who repeatedly risked his own life on behalf of his fellow soldiers. Staff Sgt. ...

The Killing Train

  • A tribute to Trayvon, from Delhi
    Trayvon Martin You forgot your Biblical lessons, Dear boy; God being Light, all Good things are white; And Satan being the prince Of darkness, being born black Is a hopeless mess. Against such black vissicitudes Was a just law found that said To the white killer, “stand your ground.” Onl ...
  • The Zimmerman Verdict and MMA
    Misinformation about martial arts seems to have played a role in the Zimmerman verdict. Because of the mass popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), there is an assumption that people know more about martial arts than they actually do. When the defense asked Zimmerman's MMA (mixe ...
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    For those in Toronto, I will be doing a little Q/A session at the University of Toronto's Hart House South Dining Room from 6-8pm on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Here's the description: The Future of India's Conflict Zones - Q/A with Justin Podur July 25, 2013, 6-8pm Hart House South Dining Room ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 2, Jon Elmer on ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This week we have Middle East journalist Jon Elmer, and we discuss the Egyptian Revolution, the Syrian Civil War, and the great powers and their designs in the middle east.
  • Kashmir: The fruits of isolation
    India wants Kashmir for itself. Pakistan wants Kashmir for itself. But the effect of both countries' policies has been to isolate Kashmir. read more

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Mobile libraries bring books to rural communities
    Burma’s first mobile library went operational in villages outside of Rangoon earlier this week. As the first rolling library arrived in Sin Chan’s town square in Kawhmu township, children lined[...]
  • Heavy rain displaces thousands across eastern ...
    Monsoon rains continue to fall throughout Burma’s eastern borderlands. Across the country, 25,000 people have been evacuated to makeshift camps this week. Nearly 3,000 thousand residents in Mon state’s Bilin[...]
  • Protest organisers headed to court after demon ...
    Two Arakanese protestors from western Burma’s Sittwe, who organised a massive rally in March slamming a proposed plan to resettle displaced Rohingya, are set to appear in court on 5[...]
  • Federalism debate fractures Burma’s armed ethn ...
    Burma’s armed ethnic groups have fallen out over how to develop a federal union in the former military dictatorship, resulting in two rival conferences to discuss plans to end decades of civil conflict
  • Activists slam Chinese pipeline as project goe ...
    As natural gas began flowing from Burma’s western coast to energy-hungry China earlier this week, activists from NGOs claim that local populations are still being sidelined by the project’s developers.[...]

Telegraph - Climate Change

  • Good news for the North
    Telegraph View: The 'desolate' North might actually be the best place to introduce fracking, since it would bring about a return to prosperity    
  • How I photographed a tiger for the first time
    Wildlife photographer Adrian Steirn describes the moment when he photographed a tiger from less than 35 metres away    
  • Our fizzy seas of soda water
    Humanity's obsession with fizzy drinks could slow climate change - if we bought 10 times as much, and never drank it    
  • Barack Obama vows to cut pollution and fight c ...
    President Obama announces his most sweeping plan yet to tackle pollution and global warming, as he says America "must have the courage to act" on climate change before it's too late.    
  • Recycle food waste to hit climate change targe ...
    Britain is on course to miss 2025 climate change targets unless households start to collect food waste separately, insulate their lofts and drive more efficiently, Government advisers have said.    

ReDress News

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
    Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
  • What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
    Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
  • Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
  • Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Summer 2013 Information Packages
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 31, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Europe Under ‘Austocracy’ Europe’s policies of austerity and ‘adjustment’ have led to a radical decline and crisis in democracy. Where austerity is imposed, democracy is deposed. This we can understand as an emerging ‘Austocracy.’ Looking at news reports ...
  • Indeed, Whistleblowers Are Traitors- Traitors ...
    Don’t Be Traitors to Those Who Have Honorably Betrayed the Real Traitors to the People Over 200 years ago our Founding Fathers signed the United States Declaration of Independence. They were branded as traitors by their then government. They were traitors to the British Empire. In short, they we ...
  • Egypt Under Empire, Part III: From Nasser to M ...
    The United States Has Been a Major Sponsor of the Egyptian Dictatorship Between 1952 and 2011, Egypt was ruled by three military dictators: Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak. Nasser placated labour unrest and imposed many social programs that benefited the population. Sadat subsequently began to break ...

Afro Spear

  • Byts and Bytes
    The Business of Mass Incarceration Why US v Blewett is the Obama Justice Department’s greatest shame Colorblind Ideology is a …Continue reading »
  • Beware of Babylon Shitstym
  • Sunday Inspirations
    Two highly unknown, but soon to be, black billionaires! And they’re twins! Click on image below for story:
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  • African American Arrogance
    A comment in a recent conversation: “Seems to me that, like the beautiful, Chimamanda Adchie, you don’t really understand what being …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

  • Assad Tipped Off to Israeli Attack by FSA Mole
    Israel discovered the downside of relying on Arab allies in its attacks on its enemies.  The NY Times just exposed the failure of Israel’s July 5th attack on a Syrian government weapons arsenal.  After the assault on the facility in Latakia, reporters said the target had been Russian-made ...
  • Israeli Intelligence Assets Aid African Dictators
    Africa has for decades been a playground for Israel: both in the literal sense as a spot for Israelis to play in the sun (Kenya, Sharm el-Sheikh); and in the figurative sense regarding Israeli diplomats and spies who’ve woven their webs of intrigue there.  In the days of Ben Gurion, he saw ...
  • Bibi: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    Al Franken, before he was elevated to the august chamber of the U.S. Senate, wrote a book about Rush Limbaugh: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.  Al, at the time, apparently hadn’t run into the myriad mendacities of Bibi Netanyahu.  Otherwise, he surely would’ve considered addi ...
  • Israeli Banks Guilty of Discrimination Against ...
    Most readers of this blog will have read either from me or other sources about the serial racism that faces Israeli Palestinians.  They face housing shortages, inadequate funding of schools, poor municipal services, job discrimination, poor health services, etc. But until lately, little was know ...
  • Israel Looted Millions in Mavi Marmara Booty, ...
    One thing you’ve got to hand Israel: it has chutzpah in spades.  Those who participated in the Mavi Marmara expedition to break the Gaza siege were kidnapped by Israeli commandos.  Nine Turks were murdered, many with bullets fired at close range or in the back.  The surviving victims were ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Today In Concern Trolling
    Shorter Clive Crook: “If liberals would just stop talking about inequality, Republicans would totally favor helping the poor. You know, by cutting welfare and food stamps discouraging out-of-wedlock births.” As you can see, Hogan’s dictum is beautifully applicable here, just su ...
  • Completely Justified Spending
    The new Oregon football facility. I think we will all agree that it is reasonable, at least for a team as awesome as the Ducks.    
  • Thomas Cooley Law School: Don’t blame us if yo ...
    Shorter Sixth Circuit: It’s unreasonable for prospective law students to expect a law school’s representations about its employment statistics to be, you know, true: Nor can the graduates establish a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation based on the statistic for “average starting ...
  • This Day in Labor History: August 1, 1917
    On August 1, 1917, Frank Little, a veteran IWW organizer, was dragged out of his hotel in Butte, Montana by company thugs and lynched. His murder, one of the most famous killings of a labor organizer in American history, demonstrated the lengths to which mining companies were willing to go to ke ...
  • Your Arbitrary Preferences Are Not “Feminism”
    I endorse the entirety of this Irin Carmon post, but I’d like to highlight a couple of points: And Huma Abedin might not be acting in the way you believe you would if you were married to Weiner, but you are not Abedin, and her choices about whom to marry belong to her and not [...] &n ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Ema Kuhn, July 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
    Meet Emanuele (Ema) Kuhn, a Fulbright scholar, in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is currently working with Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Chris Fritsen studying microorganisms for the Lake Vida Project from the Antarctica Peninsula. Life in Lake Vida is the major topic for her dissertation, ...
  • A new understanding of the North American monsoon
    Scientists at DRI are developing and testing new ideas that could ultimately help predict the kinds of extreme summer weather that has occurred across the U.S., such as the all-time high temperatures recorded in numerous Western cities in June, Arizona’s deadly wildfires and last year’s drought ...
  • Desert Research Institute contributes to ongoi ...
    Using a dust detection device patented by Desert Research Institute scientists, Dr. Vic Etyemezian and George Nikolich have the ability to identify how “Valley Fever,” a devastating fungus called Coccidioides, spreads.
  • Nyssa Perryman, June 2013 Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Nyssa Perryman, a Ph.D. student working in Atmospheric Sciences as a part of the Climate Modeling Team. Her research focus is understanding how global climate models, when transformed and applied to the complex terrain of the Western U.S., characterize atmospheric rivers and their cons ...
  • DRI Annual Convocation – Honoring our research ...
    Today the Desert Research Institute took time to celebrate the success of its faculty and students during its Annual Convocation event. Eleven awards were presented to scientific researchers and graduate students on behalf of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, DRI’s donors a ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Religious Objections to Health Law Headed to S ...
    Religion-based challenges to the new health care law likely will bring the controversial reforms back to the nation's high court before the end of the coming term.
  • In BP Settlement, Law Firm Loses Bid to Get Cl ...
    A law firm whose oil spill claims were halted as part of an investigation into potential fraud in the administration of the $7.8 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement has lost a bid to get its clients paid while BP, which has asserted potential fraud in the process, raised its estimated costs of ...
  • Judge Cool to Ex-Associate's Bias Claims Again ...
    Ropes & Gray wrote negative reviews of work done by former associate John Ray III years after the fact to justify forcing him out, a lawyer for Ray argued this week during a hearing in his discrimination case against the firm.
  • Judge: Fed 'Inappropriately' Inflated Debit Ca ...
    A federal judge on Wednesday struck down federal regulations on debit-card transaction fees, finding that the Federal Reserve adopted rules that "inappropriately" inflated fees by billions of dollars.
  • No Warrant Needed for Cell Site Data, Fifth Ci ...
    Legal authorities do not need a warrant to obtain records detailing a cellphone's location, a federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled, overturning a trial judge who said subscribers enjoy a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in the data.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Bloodshed Escalates in Cairo
    Violence not only further sets back the process of reconciliation and democratization in Egypt, but it will negatively impact regional stability, he stressed.
  • Dorian's Impact Brings Unwanted Downpour in So ...
    Dorian is essentially a tropical wave, or a very weak tropical disturbance at this time, but it still poses travel disruptions and perhaps occasional risks to lives and property.
  • Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan Resigns
    Pakistan's Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice retired Fakhruddin G Ebrahim has resigned from his post a day after the presidential polls. Ebrahim has sent his resignation letter to President Asif Ali Zardari for approval.
  • Mamnoon Hussain Elected 12th President of Pakistan
    Mamnoon Hussain waselected 12th President of Pakistan on Tuesday. The President-elect will take the oath for his five-year term on 8 September, 2013 when incumbent President Asif Ali Zardari's constitutional tenure is due to expire.
  • Indoor Air Pollution: The Air I Breathe
    The impact of indoor air quality, on airborne infections is often ignored or unknown even though it relates to the health of our lungs-one of the most vital organ of or bodies.

environment 360

  • The Rise of Rubber Takes Toll On Forests of So ...
    In one of China’s most biodiverse regions, the spread of rubber plantations to supply the country’s burgeoning automobile industry is carving up habitat and harming watersheds and tropical forest ecosystems. BY MIKE IVES
  • Jatropha ‘Carbon Farming’ Could Lower Atmosphe ...
    The large-scale planting of jatropha trees in the world’s arid regions could help reduce atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a new study says. Using computer models and data from plantations in Egypt, India, and Jatropha.org Jatropha tree Madagascar, a team of German scientists calculated th ...
  • Vermont Project Seeks New Model For Carbon-Fre ...
    This week a new sailing barge was launched that its backers hope will soon be in the vanguard of a new carbon-neutral shipping alternative. The Vermont Sail Freight Project hopes to prove that carbon-neutral boats Vermont Sail Freight Project The Ceres will haul produce to New York. can be ...
  • Return of Yellowstone Wolves Triggers Surge in ...
    The reintroduction of wolves at Yellowstone National Park has caused a cascade of ecological effects that has led to the regrowth of berries, an important food source for the park’s grizzly bears, scientists say. Writing in the Yellowstone National Park Grizzly bear at Yellowstone Park ...
  • Wired Honeybees Show Harmful Impacts of Pestic ...
    Using tiny radar antennae glued to the backs of honeybees, European scientists have found that bees exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides were more likely to become disoriented and separated from their hives. Handout Honeybee wired with radar antennae After attaching the small transponders to 20 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Cameron’s Inquisition Against Esoterica Marks ...
    "You won’t hear this on the State run media, [...] but David Cameron’s much vaunted initiative to institute automatic opt-in controls for child porn are actually really about suppressing freedom of speech and censorship of esoteric thought... This is not censorship by the back door. They’re doin ...
  • MIT Neuroscientists Can Implant Fake Memories ...
    Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) have developed a technique to implant false memories into the minds of laboratory rats. Steven Ramirez, lead author of the study from MIT identified brain cells associated with specific memories and used a technique to alter the rat’s ...
  • 6,000-year-old ’Halls of the Dead’ unearthed i ...
    Archaeologists have unearthed two nearly 6,000-year-old burial mounds and the remains of two massive buildings in England. The two wooden long-buildings, or halls, were burnt to the ground; the ashes were then shoveled in to make burial mounds. "The buildings seemed to have been deliberately bur ...
  • Teachers Will Be Armed in Arkansas
    Clarksville High School in Arkansas will be the first high school to utilize state laws that allow armed security guards in schools to arm teachers. Training is underway now that will facilitate teachers carrying concealed weapons when classes resume. David Hopkins, superintendent for Clarksvill ...
  • Writing: Better than a Band-Aid?
    For those of us who write, we often feel a psychological or emotional release after writing, especially if we’ve tackled a difficult subject. It turns out this emotional release may work on an even deeper level. According to a new study from New Zealand, expressive writing helps wounds heal more ...

Not My Tribe

  • Florida open season on black teenagers
    George Zimmerman has been found NOT GUILTY of chasing and shooting dead a black teenager for being a “fucking punk”. Now what? George W. Bush got away with murder, he and Zimmerman are peas in the same simian-eyed pod. Yes a Mack Truck might have been as good as a guilty verdict agai ...
  • Have Americans overtaken the Nazis as the real ...
    Funny how Americans think the Nazis are still the ne plus ultra of evildom. Isn’t it about time we stop pretending the cruelty of Hitler’s machine exceeded ours? The US military has of course blown well past the benchmark of “Godwin’s Rule” by any measure of war cri ...
  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is no loser, ...
    Apparently Edward Snowden is a good for nothing high school dropout, but he’s a better man than you. Petty technocrats are splitting hairs to pretend that the NSA whistleblower broke the law while corporate mouthpieces are obfuscating that the public doesn’t care about its privacy. B ...
  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Film 'Counter-Intelligence' Debunks Common Cla ...
    "One of the things this documentary does is to completely debunk common claims/misperceptions about intelligence agencies and black ops: 'someone would have talked', 'everyone would have known', 'governments cannot keep secrets', and so forth. These A Priori arguments are used as a shield to pre ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall 7/18/13: Dr. deHaven-Smith and ...
    Dr. Lance deHaven-Smith is a professor in the Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Georgia, summa cum laude, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. In a 2006 peer-reviewed jo ...
  • David Ray Griffin 2011 "911 Miracles"
    Note: I strongly disagree with some of Griffin's research, such as his analysis of the phone calls from the planes on 9/11 and the Pentagon crash. Published on Jul 6, 2013 911TVorg David Ray Griffin 2011 "911 Miracles" 9/11: Why do Bill Moyers and Robert Parry Accept Miracles? Related: ...
  • New Immortal Technique Album is Free!
    I was checking out some Joe Rogan podcasts the other day and came across a show with Immortal Technique, who if you didn't know is a 9/11 truth activist, having protested at ground zero and rapped about it several times. Joe Rogan Questions Everything, 9/11 included. So I was listening to the sh ...
  • Inform Senator McCain's Office That His '9/11 ...
    "Recently 9/11 activists and various experts held a meeting with a member Senator John McCain's staff to present the evidence that the Twin Towers and World Trade Center Building 7 were brought down in a controlled demolition on 9/11.  In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall those involved in ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Dongrias' resounding 'No' to Vedanta mine ahea ...
    The Dongria Kondh say they are united in their determination to save their Niyamgiri Hills from Vedanta's open-pit bauxite mine.© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalBritish mining giant Vedanta Resources has been humiliated in the run-up to its London AGM on Thursday, after a series of tribal villages i ...
  • Brazil: Congressional bill would be ‘unmitigat ...
    Guarani man. Tribes across Brazil are expressing their anger at a draft bill which would open up their territories for industrial projects.© Sarah Shenker/SurvivalBrazil’s Congress is currently debating a controversial bill to open up indigenous territories for mining, dams, army bases and other ...
  • Bushman court case begins
    Gakelekgolele Gaoberekwe© SurvivalProceedings began today at the High Court in Botswana in the fourth case brought against the government by the country’s Bushmen. The case contests a government requirement that forces Bushmen to apply for permits to enter their ancestral land in the Cent ...
  • Botswana bars Bushmen's lawyer as landmark cas ...
    Mr Bennett with Bushmen clients after their historic 2006 legal victory. Botswana's government is now preventing him from entering the country.© SurvivalIn an unprecedented move branded ‘vindictive and repressive’, Botswana’s government has prevented British attorney Gordo ...
  • Indian tribe blocks Pan-American Highway to pr ...
    Yesterday the Ayoreo demanded that local officials from the Attorney General's office stop the invasion of their land.© GAT/SurvivalA key South American highway connecting Paraguay and Bolivia is being blocked by an Indian tribe angry at the destruction of their rapidly-shrinking island of ...

Greg Palast

  • An Open Letter to Trayvon Martin's Father
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Dear Mr. Martin, I have a 16-year old son. I cannot imagine losing him because some beast decided to play Lone Ranger. And so, with cautious humility, I make this suggestion, this plea. Sue the beast. You must. I understand you are reluctant to launch another painful ...
  • The Frog Who Crushed The Planet Did a French Y ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You just knew it had to be one of those brie-biting, Sartre-spewing, overly-garlicked Frenchmen who pushed the Earth's finance system over a cliff. This week, US prosecutors finally began the trial of the only person on the entire planet whom they have charged wi ...
  • New York Genitals Fight for Office ... While S ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Go ahead and shoot me. It’s hopeless. My War on Stupid is facing defeat on every front. I open up the New York Times and there’s a page one story about Anthony Weiner, who is now ahead in the race for Mayor of New York. The article is 17 [...]
  • Summer versus Stupid
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine We all have bad habits. And the worst, besides yelling at our kids when we're hung-over or just generally disappointed, is the daily deal we make with Evil. Every day we are thrown head first into that dog fight between What is Right, What is Horrible and, our th ...
  • Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law Replaces ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King's grave.  The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping away Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I'm so angry, so distraught b ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Interview: Dr. Toni Bark on Autism
    By Anne Dachel This past May at Autism One in Chicago, I attended a packed luncheon with lots of autism parents. One of the speakers was Toni Bark, MD. She was very impressive. Her talk was a pointed attack on...
  • Winner HandHold Adaptive iPrompts App Suite
    CONGRATS TO LEONA AND THERESA OUR WINNERS! Thank you to our friends at HandHold Adaptive (a local Connecticut company founded by an autism Dad and Uncle) for giving us TWO free downloads of a pre-release version of iPrompts PRO, HandHold...
  • Dachel Media Update: Autism? Relax America!
    By Anne Dachel July 31, 2013, CNN Blog: Vaccines and autism July 30, 2013, WJAC TV Johnstown, PA: National Autism Conference held at Penn State July 30, 2013, ABC 7 Los Angeles: Virtual-reality therapy may help with autism July 30,...
  • Will Government Limit a Spectrum of Housing Op ...
    By Nancy Bernaitotis As is typical of our government, a ruling meant to protect Americans with disabilities (Olmstead v. L.C. 1999) is being misconstrued to the detriment of this population. In Olmstead v. L.C., a ruling requires states to “eliminate...
  • Needing an Autism Jackpot
    By Teresa Conrick I have been doing a lot of thinking lately. Megan regressed into illness and then received an Autism diagnosis 18 years ago this coming September. The memories of her infancy, vaccines, chronic infections, and then the DSM...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Glyphosate, Brain Damaged Babies, and Yakima V ...
    It appears that Yakima, Benton, and Franklin counties just happen to have three things in common – the Yakima River, a noxious weed eradication program using copious amount of Glyphosate for years on both land and in the river, and an increase in anencephaly, which Glyphosate just happens to be ...
  • Hounds From Hell Nipping At Our Heels
    Those who doubt the awesome but evil power of secret societies are in denial because denial is a much more comfortable place to exist. It's much easier to accept all the lies, all the time. To acknowledge the level of deceit and betrayal by almost every president for more than a century, as well ...
  • Save Your Bacon Fundraiser
    Mark Baker in Michigan, who is fighting for the survival of his free range pig farm. His plight has inspired our upcoming event, Save Your Bacon Weekend, a FundRAISER on Sept 7 on Polyface Farm and several grassfed pork inspired events Sept 7-8 in historic Staunton, VA.
  • Why GMOs Can Never be Safe
    In order to survive, the organism needs to engage in natural genetic modification in real time, an exquisitely precise molecular dance of life in which RNA and DNA respond to, and participate fully in ‘downstream’ biological functions. That is why organisms and ecosystems are particularly vulne ...
  • Welcome to PlantVillage – Free and Easy Intera ...
    PlantVillage is built on the premise that all knowledge that helps people grow food should be openly accessible to anyone on the planet. PlantVillage is a user moderated Q & A forum dedicated to the goal of helping people grow their own food. It is an open, freely available resource that he ...

new geography

  • America's Engineering Hubs: The Cities With Th ...
    America has always been a nation of tinkerers. Our Founding Fathers, notes author Alec Foege, were innovators in areas ranging from agriculture (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson) and electricity (Benjamin Franklin) to the swivel chair (Jefferson). Engineering advances drove America’s quest f ...
  • Aspirational Cities: U.S. Cities That Offer B ...
    A city at its best, wrote the philosopher René Descartes, provides “an inventory of the possible.” The city Descartes had in mind was 17th-century Amsterdam, which for him epitomized those cities where people go to change their circumstances and improve their lives. But such aspirational cities ...
  • Humiliating Detroit
    As I’ve noted before, Detroit is all too frequently just a blank screen onto which people project their own personal bogeymen. So liberals see in Detroit racism gone wild, America’s comeuppance for its love affair with the automobile, and corporate greed. Conservatives see the ultimate end resul ...
  • Should Uncle Sam Chase a Scandinavian Model?
    When American progressives dream their future vision of America, no place entices them more than the sparsely populated countries of Scandinavia. After all, here are countries that remain strongly democratic and successfully capitalist, yet appear to have done so despite enormously perva ...
  • Bruce Springsteen: The Wrecking Ball Strikes ...
    It makes sense that the European continent would enthusiastically welcome Bruce Springsteen this summer on his Wrecking Ball Tour. Europe is in its second year of a prolonged recession, and its economic union looks like a failed savings and loan association. As he has in the past, the Boss is m ...

water.org

  • Neelamma’s Water Tap
    Neelamma has struggled for years without a water connection at home, suffering from skin conditions contracted through contaminated water and walking long distances to find water sources. At 37, Nelamma is divorced, has a 3 year old daughter, and lives with her parents in Mariyala village, Chama ...
  • A Water Connection for Siddamma
    Siddamma lives with her husband and a daughter in the Mysore district of Karnataka. Her family consumed water from the public tap for several years. On some days, they would get enough water, but on most days the water was not sufficient for consumption. Siddamma and her daughter would wait for ...
  • A Well Inauguration
    The people of Pot 15 applaud with the joy for the well [that they now have] after three months of training to ensure that the well has a future. For several years residents had to go to neighboring communities for a drop of water. During the [well] inauguration ceremony one of the members of the ...
  • Teaching Hygiene Through Song
    Community education is just as important as drilling a well or building a latrine.
  • A Toilet for Sumit
    “Our previous toilet was a ‘katcha’ toilet made with bamboo sticks. The pit was covered with bamboo thatch. It was too near to the house. During monsoons, the water from the katcha toilet used to flow through the house and spread a foul smell all over the place,” says Sumit Deori, who lives with ...

Cryptogon

  • Man Arrested At Theater Had Armor, Gun, Fake C ...
    Random nutter, or??? Via: AP: The FBI said a man arrested at a Michigan movie theater was wearing body armor and carrying a gun. FBI spokesman Simon Shaykhet says police were called to the Trillium Theater in Grand Blanc Township near Flint on around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday after someone noticed the v ...
  • How Hollywood Helped Hitler
    Via: Hollywood Reporter: Beginning with wholesale changes made to Universal’s 1930 release All Quiet on the Western Front, Hollywood regularly ran scripts and finished movies by German officials for approval. When they objected to scenes or dialogue they thought made Germany look bad, crit ...
  • Behavioral Insights Team
    Unfortunately, Fox News is the the original source for this one, but it needs to be posted. Via: Fox News: The federal government is hiring what it calls a “Behavioral Insights Team” that will look for ways to subtly influence people’s behavior, according to a document describi ...
  • Florida: Christian Cannibal Puppeteer Arrested ...
    Via: Dangerous Minds: This is one of those stories that just makes your blood run cold: Ronald William Brown of Largo, Florida, the 57-year-old proprietor of “Puppets Plus,” has been charged with the possession of child pornography and of conspiring with another man to kidnap and then eat a chil ...
  • XKeyscore: NSA Tool Collects ‘Nearly Eve ...
    Via: Guardian: A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NS ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. E ...
    There is one vitally important number that everyone needs to be watching right now, and it doesn't have anything to do with unemployment, inflation or housing.  If this number gets too high, it will collapse the entire U.S. financial system.  The number that I am talking about is the yield on 10 ...
  • 44 Facts About The Death Of The Middle Class T ...
    What is America going to look like when the middle class is dead?  Once upon a time, the United States has the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world.  When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was "middle class" and it was very rare to hear of [...]
  • The Important Things We DON’T Have Money ...
    In an age of "belt tightening" and "budget cuts", you would think that government officials would be trying to spend our money wisely.  Unfortunately, when it comes time to cut spending our politicians tend to do everything that they can to protect their own interests and their own pet projects, ...
  • 7 Charts That Prove That The Stock Market Has ...
    The mainstream media would have us believe that the U.S. economy must be in great shape since the stock market has been setting new all-time record highs this month.  But is that really true?  Yes, surging stock prices have enabled sales of beach homes in the Hamptons to hit a brand new record h ...
  • It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between ...
    If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008?  That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last financial crisis are popping up again.  Many o ...

Desertification

  • The (un)sustainability of food aid programs, a ...
    It all started with a quote of the actor Robin WILLIAMS, recently shared on my Facebook page: “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up alone, it’s not.  The worst thing in life is to … Continue reading →
  • Chile and Argentina may face critical water st ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130729133130.htm Global Warming Endangers South American Water Supply Chile and Argentina may face critical water storage issues due to rain-bearing westerly winds over South America’s Patagonian Ice-Field to moving south as a result o ...
  • Many Bangaloreans (India) are turning to garde ...
    Read at : http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/dont-just-go-green-grow-green/article4943444.ece Don’t just go green, grow green TANIA SINGLA Do tomatoes, instead of onions, bring tears to your eyes? Are you uneasy about all those chemicals in your veggies? Do you ache to ...
  • Models of international efforts to strengthen ...
    Read at : http://www.scidev.net/global/capacity-building/scidev-net-at-large/sip13-does-science-capacity-building-in-africa-make-a-difference.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDev.Net&utm_campaign=2912858_13%2f07%2f29+Newsletter+Global&dm_i=1SCG,1QFKQ,AZRAX9,667JX,1 SIP13: Does sci ...
  • Relief to hundreds of students in developing n ...
    Read at : http://www.scidev.net/global/funding/news/belgian-budget-for-research-cooperation-dodges-cuts.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDev.Net&utm_campaign=2912858_13%2f07%2f29+Newsletter+Global&dm_i=1SCG,1QFKQ,AZRAX7,667JX,1 Belgian budget for research cooperation dodges cuts S ...

News Blaze

  • Bloodshed Escalates in Cairo
    Violence not only further sets back the process of reconciliation and democratization in Egypt, but it will negatively impact regional stability, he stressed.
  • Dorian's Impact Brings Unwanted Downpour in So ...
    Dorian is essentially a tropical wave, or a very weak tropical disturbance at this time, but it still poses travel disruptions and perhaps occasional risks to lives and property.
  • Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan Resigns
    Pakistan's Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice retired Fakhruddin G Ebrahim has resigned from his post a day after the presidential polls. Ebrahim has sent his resignation letter to President Asif Ali Zardari for approval.
  • Mamnoon Hussain Elected 12th President of Pakistan
    Mamnoon Hussain waselected 12th President of Pakistan on Tuesday. The President-elect will take the oath for his five-year term on 8 September, 2013 when incumbent President Asif Ali Zardari's constitutional tenure is due to expire.
  • Indoor Air Pollution: The Air I Breathe
    The impact of indoor air quality, on airborne infections is often ignored or unknown even though it relates to the health of our lungs-one of the most vital organ of or bodies.

Worldnews

  • Rodgers: Liverpool working hard to bring in mo ...
    The Reds boss says the club have money to spend in the transfer market and are looking to make further signings this summer but will not spend for the sake of it Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers says the club is working hard to bring in more new players ahead of the new season. The Reds have al ...
  • Marchisio flattered by interest
    The midfielder was linked with a move to Manchester United towards the end of last season and remains open to a move Claudio Marchisio says he his "glad to have been linked with big European clubs" after again hinting at leaving Juventus this summer. The Italy international is rumoured to have c ...
  • Seeds Market Worth $85.2 Billion by 2018
    DALLAS, August 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market research report, "Seeds Market By Type (Oilseed, Grain, Fruit & Vegetable, Turf, Forage & Other Seeds), Seed Trait (Herbicide Tolerant, Insecticide Resistant, and Other Stacked Traits) & Geography - Globa ...
  • Merkel coalition takes lead in poll for first ...
    BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition has enough support to win a parliamentary majority in a September 22 election, the first time it has taken the lead in nearly four years, according to a new poll. The Infratest-dimap...
  • 1,000 killed in deadliest month for Iraq in 5 ...
    Baghdad: Violence killed around 1,000 people in July, government and United Nations figures show, making it Iraq's deadliest month since 2008 when the country was emerging from a bloody sectarian conflict. Bombings ripped through crowded cafes and mowed down worshippers at mosques last month, wh ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Avandia (Rosiglitazone) Does Not Raise Heart A ...
    There is not a higher risk of heart attack and cardiovascular events in patients who take controversial type 2 drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) reported after carrying out a re-analysis of data from a pivotal study. The DCRI researchers re- ...
  • Promising Results In Early Trial of Novel MS T ...
    Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine researchers say a new method for essentially resetting the immune systems of patients with multiple sclerosis appears to be safe. Study co-author Stephen D. Miller of Northwestern University, describes the novel approach tested in this smal ...
  • Summer Deadliest Time of Year for Teen Drivers
    Crashes often linked to distracted driving Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Impaired Driving, Motor Vehicle Safety, Teen Health
  • Fewer Families Struggling to Pay Medical Bills ...
    But some may be skipping needed care altogether, expert says Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Health Insurance, Health Statistics
  • Smokers Cost Employers Thousands More Than Non ...
    About $6000 in extra annual costs stem from more time off, smoking breaks, health care, study shows Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Smoking

Common Dreams

  • Iraq Wave of Violence Deadliest in 5 Years
    More than 1,000 Iraqis—most of them civilians—were killed by violence in Iraq during July, marking the deadliest month in Iraq since 2008, the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq announced on Thursday.Aftermath of a Baghdad car bombing near a Sunni mosque on July 24th 2013 (Photo: AP/Kar ...
  • Obama Defends Larry Summers Against Attacks by ...
    In a closed-door meeting with House Democrats, Obama said he “felt that Larry had been badly treated by some on the left and in the press.”When the Obama administration recently floated the idea of Larry Summer being President Obama's nomination for Fed Chairman, a chorus of progressive crit ...
  • Snowden Has Left the Moscow Airport, says Lawyer
    According to various news outlets, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has left the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow after being given the proper documents by the Russian government. read more
  • To Combat Failed "War on Drugs," Uruguay Takes ...
    View of Uruguay's lower house during the debate of the bill legalizing marijuana, in Montevideo, on July 31, 2013 (AFP, Miguel Rojo)Citing the complete failure of the so-called "war on drugs" that has sought to criminalize the growing, selling, possession and consumption of marijuana a ...
  • Aaron Swartz's Loved Ones Slam 'Whitewash' MIT ...
    The late Aaron Swartz (Flickr Creative Commons/Phillip Stearns)An internal MIT investigation into the university's role in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, and culpability in his tragic suicide, has been slammed by loved ones of the deceased internet activist and programmer as a fluffy PR ma ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Scituate, Massachusetts is 100 Percent Powered ...
    With the inauguration of a 3 MW solar power station, Scituate, Massachusettes became the first town in the Commonwealth to get 100 percent of its power from alternative energy sources. The project was developed by Gehrlicher Solar America.
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Explained With Seven ...
    These balloons may not actually look very threatening, but what they represent is large majority of positive climate forcings. Which, to state it in English means that these balloons (which technically shouldn't float so well) are major causes of climate change.
  • A First-Hand View of Fracking in Pennsylvania' ...
    It’s easy to talk about the shale gas revolution in the abstract and forget that it is the cumulative result of thousands of operations in locations across the country. It combines the technological marvel of precisely planned drilling with the efforts of skilled workers on the surface.
  • International Spotlights Shine on Mexico's Air ...
    Mexico hosted the Climate and Clean Air Coalition last week which met to discuss efforts among members to limit short-lived pollutants and mitigate climate change. There were commitments from the Mexican government to reduce black carbon.
  • Road to Daegu Series: Affordable, Sustainable ...
    The U.S. is the world’s largest electricity market, as the country accounts for twenty percent of the global power demand. An “unconventional revolution” is underway: coal is decreasing, natural gas on the rise, emissions are down and energy security is improving.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Trauma of Cultural Genocide
    From http://www.progress.org/books/george.htm The Traumatised Society: How to Outlaw Cheating and Save Our Civilisation By Fred Harrison Book Review - Part II (This is the second part of 3-part review of  Fred Harrison's The Traumatised Society. Part II relates to the trauma and "cheat ...
  • Can an LVT Save the Global Economy
        The Traumatised Society: How to Outlaw Cheating and Save Our Civilisation By Fred Harrison Shepheard-Wallwyn Limited 2012 Book Review – Part I (This is the first of a 3-part review of Fred Harrison’s The Traumatised Society. The book’s title is mi ...
  • The Obamanians
      The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power By James Mann, Penguin Books 2012 Book Review The main focus of the Obamians is the young idealistic foreign policy advisors who joined Obama’s campaign and subsequently his administration. ...
  • At Last a Male Contraceptive?
    Male Birth Control? A recent feature in GreenMedInfo asks whether Monsanto has inadvertently invented a male contraceptive. Owing to the unreliability and/or unpleasant side effects of the contraceptives available to females, women have been begging drug companies for five decades to produ ...
  • Was Occupy Wall Street Coopted?
    After wondering for several months where the Occupy movement had gone, I ran across an article about a new project called Rolling Jubilee. It seems a coalition of Occupy groups has joined up to pay off individuals’ personal debt. Rolling Jubilee is a project of Strike Debt, a group form ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

Energy Collective

  • Scituate, Massachusetts is 100 Percent Powered ...
    With the inauguration of a 3 MW solar power station, Scituate, Massachusettes became the first town in the Commonwealth to get 100 percent of its power from alternative energy sources. The project was developed by Gehrlicher Solar America.
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Explained With Seven ...
    These balloons may not actually look very threatening, but what they represent is large majority of positive climate forcings. Which, to state it in English means that these balloons (which technically shouldn't float so well) are major causes of climate change.
  • A First-Hand View of Fracking in Pennsylvania' ...
    It’s easy to talk about the shale gas revolution in the abstract and forget that it is the cumulative result of thousands of operations in locations across the country. It combines the technological marvel of precisely planned drilling with the efforts of skilled workers on the surface.
  • International Spotlights Shine on Mexico's Air ...
    Mexico hosted the Climate and Clean Air Coalition last week which met to discuss efforts among members to limit short-lived pollutants and mitigate climate change. There were commitments from the Mexican government to reduce black carbon.
  • Road to Daegu Series: Affordable, Sustainable ...
    The U.S. is the world’s largest electricity market, as the country accounts for twenty percent of the global power demand. An “unconventional revolution” is underway: coal is decreasing, natural gas on the rise, emissions are down and energy security is improving.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • NSA Chief Says U.S. Phone, Web Surveillance Se ...
    Before a particular phone number can be added to a list used to search the NSA's database of U.S. call records, he said, approval must be given by one of only 22 people inside the agency authorized to give it. Once approval is granted, only 35 analysts at the NSA are authorized to run queries, h ...
  • Groups oppose proposed change to Internet cont ...
    A proposed change to U.S. law that would allow state attorneys general to hold websites liable for content posted by users is a "dangerous path," a group of tech trade groups and legal scholars said Wednesday. A proposal by a group of state attorneys general to modify the so-called safe harbor ...
  • Why Do All Hollywood Movies Lose Money?
    Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Forrest Gump. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. What do these three films have in common? Each was a blockbuster, among the first or second highest grossing films of the year. All three were also unprofitable. - priceonomics
  • U.S. Department of Commerce Produces Comprehen ...
    The U.S. Department of Commerce today released a green paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (Green Paper) to advance discussion on a set of policy issues critical to economic growth. The Green Paper discusses the goals of maintaining an appropriate balance ...
  • Government Releases Primary Order for Telephon ...
    Readers will recall that when Glenn Greenwald released the FISC order indicating that the NSA was getting all domestic telephony metadata, that order was designated the "secondary order." We have since heard that there was a "primary order" covering what the government is allowed to do with the ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • NSA says: We store all your data but don’t loo ...
    The NSA saying they store data but don’t look at it is is akin to Bill Clinton saying he smoked dope but didn’t inhale. Q: How do you tell when NSA is lying? A: Their lips are moving. Of course, the very act of them seizing so much data without authorization is illegal.
  • How dry I am. Synopsis of water scarcity in th ...
    Be grateful if you live in an area where water is not scarce. Seven states in the American West depend heavily on water from the Colorado River. It’s the most litigated river on the planet. And the water scarcity will unquestionably get worse. Colorado River water is parcelled out based on ...
  • NSA program collects ‘nearly everything a user ...
    Glenn Greenwald has a bombshell article on the ravenous beast that is NSA, which is hoovering up every piece of personal data it can find while ignoring laws and continually lying to Congress. Even worse, Greenwald documents how any NSA analyst can look at any data without authorization. NSA is ...
  • Navajo Generating Station coal plant proposes ...
    The behemoth Navajo Generating Station near Page, AZ generates 2.25 GW of coal power for Arizona, Nevada, Southern California (including Los Angeles.) It also provides electricity to pump water for the crucial Central Arizona Project. New EPA rules mandating cleaner power could shut NGS down. Ho ...
  • That North Pole “lake”, as it turns out, is qu ...
    “Every summer when the sun melts the surface the water has to go someplace, so it accumulates in these ponds,” said Jamie Morison, a polar scientist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and principal investigator since 2000 of the North Pole Environmental Observatory. “This doesn’t look particul ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Young women being ripped off
    According to figures from Statistics NZ’s annual income survey reported in the Dominion Post today young women are earning almost a third less than young men in real terms. The median weekly earnings for men aged 15-24 in 2012 was $600 compared with $384 for women of the same age. This has been ...
  • FCV exemptions are very fishy
    The exemptions given to tuna fishers and Iwi from the Foreign Chartered Vessel (FCV) legislation currently in front of Parliament are appalling and will undermine this otherwise worthy legislation. The Green Party does not agree with any exemptions that mean slave ships continue to operate in ou ...
  • Unpackit Awards are back
    I love voting.  Well, I’m a politician – I would.  But I particularly love voting for the annual Unpackit Awards. This is the annual event run by the Wanaka Wastebusters team to get ordinary New Zealanders to nominate and then vote for the very worst and best examples of product packaging. For t ...
  • An Internet cable connection from Hawaiki?
    New Zealand desperately needs a second cable. As the Green’s discussion paper on this issue pointed out: New Zealand is reliant on a single fibre optic cable system connecting us to the rest of the world. Will Hawaiki's cable deliver?
  • More urgency needed on sexual abuse funding
    I’m really pleased to see Paula Bennett’s announcement that she will increase funding to the Auckland Sexual Abuse Help Foundation (HELP) by $190,000 per annum. It was less than a year ago they were being told they would have to cut their 24 hours phone line because of a $200,000 funding s ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Economics and Armchair Psychology
    Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Dongrias' resounding 'No' to Vedanta mine ahea ...
    The Dongria Kondh say they are united in their determination to save their Niyamgiri Hills from Vedanta's open-pit bauxite mine.© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalBritish mining giant Vedanta Resources has been humiliated in the run-up to its London AGM on Thursday, after a series of tribal villages i ...
  • Brazil: Congressional bill would be ‘unmitigat ...
    Guarani man. Tribes across Brazil are expressing their anger at a draft bill which would open up their territories for industrial projects.© Sarah Shenker/SurvivalBrazil’s Congress is currently debating a controversial bill to open up indigenous territories for mining, dams, army bases and other ...
  • Bushman court case begins
    Gakelekgolele Gaoberekwe© SurvivalProceedings began today at the High Court in Botswana in the fourth case brought against the government by the country’s Bushmen. The case contests a government requirement that forces Bushmen to apply for permits to enter their ancestral land in the Cent ...
  • Botswana bars Bushmen's lawyer as landmark cas ...
    Mr Bennett with Bushmen clients after their historic 2006 legal victory. Botswana's government is now preventing him from entering the country.© SurvivalIn an unprecedented move branded ‘vindictive and repressive’, Botswana’s government has prevented British attorney Gordo ...
  • Indian tribe blocks Pan-American Highway to pr ...
    Yesterday the Ayoreo demanded that local officials from the Attorney General's office stop the invasion of their land.© GAT/SurvivalA key South American highway connecting Paraguay and Bolivia is being blocked by an Indian tribe angry at the destruction of their rapidly-shrinking island of ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Internal EPA Report Conflicts with Agency’s St ...
    from allgov.com: Officially, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said last year that the drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania, was not contaminated by natural gas extraction involving hydraulic fracturing (fracking). However, an internal EPA document obtained by the media ...
  • US Military and #Monsanto Now Actively Engaged ...
    from naturalblaze.com: The word is out and the scientific bodies of manipulation can no longer contain the growing resistance against GMO. The more corrupt studies that attempt to find no harm in the consumption of genetically modified foods, the more an increasingly aware public is gr ...
  • Agenda 21 Land Seizures in US up 100-fold in 1 ...
    from foodfreedomgroup.com: Coast to Coast AM host George Noory interviews Reid Lance Rosenthal (starting at about 5:30, lasts about 70 mins.), author of Land for Love and Money. A rancher, realtor, and author, Rosenthal talks about Agenda 21 anti-private property edicts, and government encro ...
  • Groundwater to be added to Portland supply system
    from portlandtribune.com: The Portland Water Bureau will begin adding a small portion of water from its Columbia South Shore Well Field into the water distribution system on Tuesday, July 30. The blending part of a maintenance operation. It is scheduled to end on Aug. 9.  T ...
  • #MonsantoVideoRevolt best of: GMO A-Go-Go

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. E ...
    There is one vitally important number that everyone needs to be watching right now, and it doesn't have anything to do with unemployment, inflation or housing.  If this number gets too high, it will collapse the entire U.S. financial system.  The number that I am talking about is the yield on 10 ...
  • 44 Facts About The Death Of The Middle Class T ...
    What is America going to look like when the middle class is dead?  Once upon a time, the United States has the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world.  When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was "middle class" and it was very rare to hear of [...]
  • The Important Things We DON’T Have Money ...
    In an age of "belt tightening" and "budget cuts", you would think that government officials would be trying to spend our money wisely.  Unfortunately, when it comes time to cut spending our politicians tend to do everything that they can to protect their own interests and their own pet projects, ...
  • 7 Charts That Prove That The Stock Market Has ...
    The mainstream media would have us believe that the U.S. economy must be in great shape since the stock market has been setting new all-time record highs this month.  But is that really true?  Yes, surging stock prices have enabled sales of beach homes in the Hamptons to hit a brand new record h ...
  • It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between ...
    If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008?  That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last financial crisis are popping up again.  Many o ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Southern elected officials take stands against ...
    From Arkansas to North Carolina, Mississippi to Florida, elected leaders are speaking out and taking action against laws that would restrict citizens' access to the ballot. read more
  • After a pause, Walmart strikes back
    The Arkansas-based retail giant is disciplining and firing workers who participated in a strike in June. While the firings are almost certainly illegal, congressional Republicans have declawed the national labor board, leaving it without a quorum to conduct business. read more
  • NAACP appealing North Carolina redistricting r ...
    The NAACP is asking the state supreme court to throw out political district lines that it says were improperly shaped by race -- and it's willing to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. read more
  • NC legislature slows fracking rush, renews pus ...
    A bill that would have allowed North Carolina to issue fracking permits before all of the regulations were in place failed to pass, but lawmakers approved a measure that requires the state to join with Virginia and South Carolina to promote offshore energy development. read more
  • DOJ to sue Texas under Voting Rights Act 'bail ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court may have struck down one provision of the Voting Rights Act, but the Department of Justice is turning to another to sue Texas over its discriminatory redistricting law. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • A Fully Free Android based Mobile OS? FSF is A ...
    Android OS is a free and open source piece of software, just like an Ubuntu or a Fedora, no questions about that. But is it devoid of proprietary software entirely? No. Though the OS itself is completely open source, there are always components like drivers and such, which in many of the cases ...
  • MKBHD Explains Ubuntu Edge
    Wondering what MKBHD is all about? They are kind of a YouTube sensation for everything tech related. I was in the process of preparing an "Ubuntu Edge explained" post and then I saw this MKBHD video detailing Ubuntu Edge. And I thought, this is as good as it gets. So here it is, "Ubuntu Ed ...
  • Top 10 Keyboard Apps for Android
    With the kind of customizability Android is capable of, things can get a little overwhelming for an average user who has just bought his first smartphone. There are plenty of app replacements for each and every action. Take launchers for example. From lightweight to the extremely flamboyant ki ...
  • Ubuntu Edge Campaign Touches 4.5 Million! New ...
    Ubuntu Edge campaign smashed a number of records on the first day itself. Many of its "perks" were instantly sold out and now, the total amount raised stands at a staggering 4.5 Million USD! Canonical team has now replaced sold out perks with new ones with the cheapest one selling at a lowly ( ...
  • Canonical sets the Biggest ever Crowdsourcing ...
    So Ubuntu Edge it is. That's what the countdown on Ubuntu home page just a week ago was all about. Ubuntu Edge is Canonical's own superphone, with the kind of specs that can make any tech enthusiast drool. But Canonical is approaching this differently. Ubuntu Edge will be produced in limited ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • THE END OF THE LIE: GERMAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OF ...
    GERMANY S DOUBTFUL ROLE IN CLOSING THE GREEK NATIONAL BROADCASTER REVEALED MILITARY OCCUPATION OF GREECE NEXT AS FAILED AUSTERITY POLICIES DEVASTATE GREECE? WILL IRELAND, SPAIN AND ITALY ALSO HAVE THEIR NATIONAL MEDIA SHUT DOWN BY THE EU AND GERMANS ON THE PRETEXT OF HAVING TO SAVE MONEY? *MERKE ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Gitmo costs US taxpayers $5 billion
    A new report says the Pentagon will have spent a whopping $5.242 billion on its notorious detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba by the end of 2014. The report by the Defense Department™s Office of the Comptroller puts the cost of operating the Guantanamo prison camp at $454.1 million for the cu ...
  • Vaccines Cause Severe Cardiorespiratory Harm t ...
    GAIA Health – by Heidi Stevenson Premature infants are vaccinated as aggressively as full term babies. This is done in spite of research clearly documenting a high rate of cardiorespiratory harm to these neonates. Known as the Pourcyrous study, it also revealed that a full 85% of these inf ...
  • Congress Confronted About 9/11 by Wave of CSPA ...
    By Eli Rika Sunday, July 28, 2013 CSPAN’s Washington Journal news show makes it easy for anyone to talk to members of the U.S. House and Senate, Washington bureaucrats, and media pundits live on TV. Recently, callers have used the opportunity to bring attention to the explosive World Trade Cente ...
  • WARNING: Using a different computer could chan ...
    How bad are these global forecast models? When the same model code with the same data is run in a different computing environment (hardware, operating system, compiler, libraries, optimizer), the results can differ significantly. So even if reviewers or critics obtained a climate model, they cou ...
  • MSNBC host says newborn infants don’t count as ...
    By Mike Adams Today Natural News denounces Melissa Harris-Perry, the latest talking head “death worshipper” to publicly imply that she supports the murder of living, breathing newborn children. According to Harris-Perry, life begins when the parents feel like life begins. And together with some ...

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  • Whose Future?
    If Susan Crawford is right about the introduction of fast fiber internet being analogous to the introduction of electricity then America is in big trouble — because a lot of other countries are getting fiber before we do. And, I suppose, possibly getting smarter faster, too... Unquestionab ...
  • Inspector Chen
    Sometimes we learn more through literature than non-fiction. Sometimes, believe it or not, there's a lot to be learned from police procedurals. Sometimes, also, police procedurals are just plain fun! But there really aren't that many great writers of them — few enough, anyhow, such that if ...
  • Après 1947
    The watershed 1947 National Security Act provided a post-war full employment guarantee to the U.S. arms industry. Indeed, it succeeded so well — with no real changes since then in the apparatus it devised — that today U.S. spending for military purposes bears no meaningful relationsh ...
  • Worst Cases
    As the war in Syria grinds on the children of Washington want to get credit for doing something. Arming the "good guys" and opposing the "bad guy" seems to be the path of least resistance. A pity, that, because throwing arms into Syria will only prolong the bloodshed indefinitely... Much better, ...
  • On Recognizing Geographical Realities
    The question of when a country is not a country may seem, for outsiders, little more than an abstract principle or an academic argument. But for those who dwell in the imaginary state the issue may well be about abject poverty or, indeed, life and death. The Congo being the most extreme example ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Request for Proposals — Athabasca Watershed As ...
    Position:  Athabasca Watershed Assessment Phase 4: Organic Compounds in Surface Water and Sediments, and Trace Metals in Sediments (RFP) Organ ...
  • AEN needs casino fundraiser volunteers
    Position:  Casino volunteers Organization:  Alberta Environmental Network ...
  • Career Opportunities with the Pembina Institute
    Pembina Institute The Pembina Institute is currently seeking to fill a number of job opportunities in Calgary and Edmonton. Visit the Pembina Institute website for details: Director of Finance and Administration (Calgary) Directo ...
  • Cheap Power At What Cost?
    Carbon Conversations 10 Jun 2013 - 07:30 A Panel Discussion on the Health Impacts of Alberta's Heavy Reliance on Coal-Fired Power Plants doors open 7pm, panel begins at 7:3 ...
  • Bike Month
    Velofest Edmonton League and Organization (VELO) 1 Jun 2013 (All day) - 30 Jun 2013 (All day) June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Check out the Bikeology website for events throughout t ...

Stop NATO

  • NATO Helicopter Attack Kills Afghan Soldiers
    Voice of Russia August 1, 2013 NATO helicopter accidentally kills four Afghan soldiers A NATO helicopter mistakenly attacked the position of Afghan troops, killing at least four Afghan army soldiers, reports Interfax citing the AP on Thursday. Afghan troops reported an attack after a NATO helico ...
  • Henri Barbusse: The mournful hearse of the arm ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Chains (1925) Translated by Stephen Haden Guest I have seen the army that was called forth from such distant lands. Those that survive from the radiant setting-out – ...
  • U.S. In Dramatic Warplane Deployments To Encir ...
    Stars and Stripes July 30, 2013 US deploying jets around Asia to keep China surrounded By John Reed WASHINGTON:The United States Air Force will dramatically expand its military presence across the Pacific this year, sending jets to Thailand, India, Singapore and Australia, according to the servi ...
  • Top Military Chief: NATO Keeping Close Eye On ...
    Al Arabiya July 31, 2013 NATO says it is keeping close eye on Egypt, plans no action NATO is keeping a close eye on Egypt and watching how the crisis there affects its “partners,” the alliance’s top military commander has said , according to Reuters. “Right now, NATO is not planning for any acti ...
  • Interview: U.S., NATO Expect Karzai To Do Afgh ...
    Press TV July 31, 2013 ‘US expects Karzai to kill Afghans’ AUDIO The United States expects the Afghan government to kill Afghan citizens, says Rick Rozoff, the manager of the organization Stop NATO International. “Hamid Karzai regime in Kabul, which is everyone knows a proxy regime for the West ...

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Intel Hub

  • Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones
    JG Vibes | The Obama administration finally admits that their drone program has targeted US citizens.The post Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Department of Homeland Security Teaching Kids ...
    Cassius Methyl | Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps? The post Department of ...
  • JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffin ...
    author | An interesting controversy over the JFK assassination has erupted at the Huffington Post.The post JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffington Post appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump
    Cop Block | Long story short, the supervisor showed up and made the cop give me back my pump. The ambulance showed up and I went with them because I was then bleeding where the port is.The post Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can ...
    Andrew Puhanic | An exciting and new water treatment breakthrough has been announced that will now make the removal of fluoride from the drinking water supplies of the world’s poorest people more affordable than ever.The post Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can Be Used To Remove ...

FRS

  • BRAZIL: Combative protests during the visit of ...
    [Three videos from Brazil, documenting the massive protests at the corruption and mis-use of State resources for the Pope's visit.  The videos are narrated in Portuguese, and the videos give visual testimony to the ongoing problems of credibility and legitimacy of the Brazilian state, in the fac ...
  • BRAZIL: Combative protests during the visit of ...
    [Three videos from Brazil, documenting the massive protests at the corruption and mis-use of State resources for the Pope's visit.  The videos are narrated in Portuguese, and the videos give visual testimony to the ongoing problems of credibility and legitimacy of the Brazilian state, in the fac ...
  • Missteps by Brazil Mar Visit by Pope
    [The New York Times reports the Brazilian power elite's attempts to attribute "blunders" -- not mass resentment at religious and political arrogance, extravagance, and brutal repression -- for the obvious breakdown of bourgeois authority and credibility in social and political life. -- Frontline ...
  • Missteps by Brazil Mar Visit by Pope
    [The New York Times reports the Brazilian power elite's attempts to attribute "blunders" -- not mass resentment at religious and political arrogance, extravagance, and brutal repression -- for the obvious breakdown of bourgeois authority and credibility in social and political life. -- Frontline ...
  • The Nightmare of the American Dream
    Prisoner — Undocumented — Immigrants… July 7, 2013  –  CORCORN SHU I would like to take this moment to possibly enlighten you to a situation we as Hispanic Mexican Nationals would like to share with all of you. Our hope is to create discussion and ultimately change this sad rea ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Military Responds to Oklahoma Tornado
    The Oklahoma National Guard, joined by Air Force personnel, are on location in Moore, OK, following an EF4 tornado that struck the community yesterday. At least 250 Army and Air National Guard soldiers and airmen have been dispatched.Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: May 21, 2013
  • Watching Tornadoes and Severe Weather Go Right ...
    Not everyone here in Oklahoma is sitting outside in a lawn chair, or chasing tornadoes in their cars, some of us are trying to be prepared, calm children, and be safe.Contributor: M.D. Weems Published: May 20, 2013
  • Super Cell Tornados Tearing Through Oklahoma
    Super cell tornadoes have been carving paths of destruction throughout Oklahoma since Sunday afternoon.Contributor: Marie Lowe Published: May 20, 2013
  • Congress Wants the Abrams, but the Army Says ' ...
    There’s a reason that there’s a huge bloated Pentagon budget, and it really doesn’t involve the Pentagon. It’s about Congress and the private sector pushing for products the government doesn’t want or need.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 29, 2013
  • The Red Line Crossed, Obama Now Must Step Up i ...
    According to Politico, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Syria has crossed “the red line” it said it must not cross and has dropped sarin gas on its own people. The bluff having been called, the White House is mulling what to do next.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 26, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • How Realistic Is The Sci-Fi Space Thriller 'Eu ...
    We chat with Kevin Hand, an astrobiologist who consulted on the film, about realism in space thrillers, why actors are better than robots, and more. It's rare that a great space movie breaks the Hollywood traditions of big budgets, blatant abuse of physics, over-the-top special effects, factit ...
  • Why People Love Tipping Waiters
    As an economic phenomenon, tipping is really weird. As a psychological phenomenon, it's something else entirely. When the Linkery, a small San Diego restaurant, shuttered its doors this summer, it ended a fascinating social experiment. The Linkery had instituted a standard 18 percent service c ...
  • Big Pic: Goodnight Moons
    Cassini snaps two of Saturn's moons through the rings NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been hanging out near Saturn since 2004, studying the planet's icy moons. In this image taken in mid-May, Mimas and Pandora, two of Saturn's 62 confirmed moons, hang out around 730,000 miles away from Cassini's ...
  • Yes, Vaccines Work [Infographic]
    Some numbers before and after the introduction of common childhood vaccines Do vaccines really work? Over the past decade, some parents in the U.S., Canada and Europe have started refusing to give their kids the recommended childhood vaccinations. They worry about safety, believing vaccines may ...
  • Tiny Poisonous Trees Could Fight Climate Chang ...
    Like something straight out of Dune, but the boring, terraforming parts. Five German scientists have proposed a new strategy for mitigating the effects of climate change: turn coastal deserts into forests. Why? Forests, full of trees that consume carbon dioxide, are a great bulwark against the ...

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Rest of July & early August outlook
    Although our weather has turned more unsettled, temperatures remain well above average.  To illustrate how warm it has been, at Linton on Ouse in North Yorkshire, up to and including the 24th July, the mean maximum temperature stood at 24.44C which places the month 3rd warmest on record.  Of cou ...
  • Exceptional July weather coming to an abrupt end
    July so far has been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny, but a notable change in the weather is expected in the next 36 hours.  At Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, less than 2mm of rain has fallen so far this month.  It’s fair to say that farmers and gardeners are now very keen for rain, althou ...
  • Outlook for the rest of July
    Friday will see the heat returning to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.  On Tuesday Linton-on-Ouse recorded 28.7C (84F) making it the hottest day in our region of the year so far, and there’s a chance that temperatures on Friday, perhaps again somewhere in the Vale of York, will be slightly higher sti ...
  • At long last, summer is here
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • Summer is here at last
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • 'Like Saudi Leaving OPEC': Russians Ditch Pota ...
    Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Share PriceFertilizer may not be the sexiest of industries, but make no mistake: Given its widespread agricultural applications which span virtually the entire globe, nearly every nation with such industries need the stuff. In the past few years, a duopoly has emerged ...
  • Car Talk: Detroit is Dead; Long Live S Carolina!
    Despite giving up its distinction of being the world's largest car market to China in 2009, the United States remains comfortably in second place. What's more, the average price of a passenger vehicle sold in the US remains higher than one sold in China for the simple reason that US income per c ...
  • Belo Monte, Brazil's "Ethical Megadam"
     Here at the IPE Zone, we are true aficionados of oxymoronic terms, many of them wrought by those famously tongue-twisted Yanquis. For starters, try "financial stability," "Internet freedom," and my current favourite, "American savings." Today, though, we have some other (Latin) Americans e ...
  • Private Banking: When Will Asia Overtake Europe?
    As more fortunes are being built with each passing day in Asia than in Europe, it is inevitable that the former will overtake the latter as the world's top region for HNWI (high net worth individual) accounts. Remember, the Forbes Rich List already had more Asian billionaires than European ones ...
  • PRC TV Drama Viewership: The Int'l Pecking Order
    Popular culture has a way of reflecting preferences and biases, especially when taken from an international perspective. Commercial implications aside, the WSJ's China Real Time blog has an interesting feature on TV drama viewership habits in China, with British dramas such as Downton Abbey gain ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. E ...
    There is one vitally important number that everyone needs to be watching right now, and it doesn't have anything to do with unemployment, inflation or housing.  If this number gets too high, it will collapse the entire U.S. financial system.  The number that I am talking about is the yield on 10 ...
  • 44 Facts About The Death Of The Middle Class T ...
    What is America going to look like when the middle class is dead?  Once upon a time, the United States has the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world.  When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was "middle class" and it was very rare to hear of [...]
  • The Important Things We DON’T Have Money ...
    In an age of "belt tightening" and "budget cuts", you would think that government officials would be trying to spend our money wisely.  Unfortunately, when it comes time to cut spending our politicians tend to do everything that they can to protect their own interests and their own pet projects, ...
  • 7 Charts That Prove That The Stock Market Has ...
    The mainstream media would have us believe that the U.S. economy must be in great shape since the stock market has been setting new all-time record highs this month.  But is that really true?  Yes, surging stock prices have enabled sales of beach homes in the Hamptons to hit a brand new record h ...
  • It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between ...
    If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008?  That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last financial crisis are popping up again.  Many o ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • Song of Lying Bishops
    To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees   Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...
  • Newcastle Diocese’s Disgrace – Mem ...
    Public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle in recent weeks have left survivors and supporters disappointed, horrified, traumatised, gasping in disgust, occasionally giggling, and even bravely protesting before the media contingent. And finally, applauding the amazing b ...
  • Fasten your seat belts, its going to get bumpy
    Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, snarled this famous line before a party brimming with hidden undercurrents, lies, and deception, in the 1950 film, All About Eve. We are in for a bumpy few years. It’s going to get bumpier come September, when the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry and N ...
  • Vatican determined to canonise him, but JPII a ...
    The news we were dreading has been released. The magic wand will be brought out and, with an abracadabra and a puff of pink smoke, Pope John Paul II will become a saint. Pope Francis has approved a second supposed “miracle”, pretending once again that someone mumbling ritual words to ...
  • Julia Gillard’s legacy lives on in historic Ro ...
    Many victims of child sexual abuse are mourning Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s overnight defeat at the hands of the smirking, conniving, grey haired boys club. I suspect she knew all along her time at the top would be short and that she had a limited opportunity to achieve real change before she ...

WL Central

  • 2013-07-30 Tonight: emergency protest for Brad ...
    Where: Dupont Circle, Washington DC, then march to White House When: 8:30pm ET read more
  • 2013-07-30 Manning verdict
    FT MEADE - Judge Denise Lind today returned the verdict in the trial of Bradley Manning. Manning is found not guilty of aiding the enemy, but is found guilty on 19 counts, four of which were his lesser included pleas. He still could face more than 100 years in jail. read more
  • 2013-07-30 European parliamentarians call for ...
    Seventeen members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have written a letter calling on US President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to free whistleblower Army Pfc Bradley Manning. The MEPs laud Manning for exposing "evidence of human rights abuses and apparent war crimes in Iraq and ...
  • 2013-07-30 Manning judge alters charges to ass ...
    In an ominous sign for Army whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning, military judge Col. Denise Lind altered important charges last week in order to assist prosecutors ahead of her verdict, which is expected tomorrow at 1 PM ET. Defense attorney David Coombs explained, "The Government has pushed this ...
  • 2013-07-30 Bradley Manning Verdict Today 18:00 UTC
    What: Military Judge Col. Denise Lind to read verdicts on 21 charges against US Army WikiLeaks whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning When: July 30, 2013 at 1 PM ET (credentialed media arrive approx 11 AM) Where: Ft Meade, Maryland, enter at intersection of Reece Rd and MD 175 (Annapolis Road) read ...

U N News

  • UN anti-narcotics panel urges Uruguay to recon ...
    The independent United Nations body tasked with monitoring the production and consumption of narcotics worldwide today urged Uruguay to review a draft law that would permit the sale of cannabis for non-medical use.
  • Chile must stop using anti-terrorism law again ...
    A United Nations independent expert has urged the Chilean Government to stop applying an anti-terrorism law against its Mapuche indigenous people, who are fighting to recover their ancestral land.
  • UN expert urges Panama to strengthen rights of ...
    Panama must continue to strengthen the rights of its indigenous people and ensure they are allowed to preserve their land and autonomy, a United Nations independent expert said today, raising concerns over the recent loss of large indigenous areas to third parties.
  • Ban rings Wall Street closing bell, welcomes N ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to a United Nations initiative which seeks to support responsible and sustainable investments.
  • UN, Caribbean bloc hail strong partnership, hi ...
    Sustainable development, climate change and security challenges were among the shared concerns highlighted during a two-day meeting between the United Nations system and the regional grouping known as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which wrapped up today in New York.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
    Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.

Rewilding Institute

  • Finding of Rare Gartersnake Underscores Need t ...
    Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic’s Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on July 15, 2013 The northern Mexican gartersnake, thought to be extinct from New Mexico, was recently found along the Gila River. Last month, after no confirmed sightings in nearly twenty years, scien ...
  • TrekWest Blog #38: Wild Island of Love
    Posted: 24 Jul 2013 08:02 AM PDT Mountain Island Ranch, Colorado & Utah, June The western Colorado ranch was fairly glowing with romance.  Being of New England academic heritage, I could not help but blush, as flowers, willows, rose bushes, bees, hummingbirds, and nighthawks did their wild t ...
  • Trek West Blog #37 – Exactly as We Want
    Posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:48 AM PDT “In addition to the words and still images here, a short video also shares with you the inspiring High Lonesome Ranch story…”Trail Break at High Lonesome Ranch in Western Colorado, June Half way through TrekWest, 2500 or so miles into a journey we expect will be ...
  • TrekWest Blog #36: Easy Being Green
    Posted: 05 Jul 2013 11:52 AM PDT A Week on Desolation, Gray, and Labyrinth Canyons, Green River, Utah, June “So there we were, a sun-baked bunch of veteran conservationists and river guides, paddling the Green, exploring side canyons, and plotting strategies to save the wild West…” People are tr ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Wilderne ...
    End of the Frontier It hit America like a grizzly’s slap across the cheeks.  After the 1890 census, the U.S. Census Bureau said there was no more frontier.  Before, there had been a line of settlement past which was mostly wild, uninhabited country.  That line was gone in 1890.  The Killin ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • WARNING... A Gigantic Chunk Of Sun Headed Towa ...
    As the sun goes into a peak time of solar activity I’m very concerned  about the latest news from NASA. A chunk of the sun is missing and  heading toward earth at 2 million miles per hour. It’s an astonishing 80 times bigger than earth. ~ Videoread more
  • Something Strange Is Going On In Detroit... Wh ...
    Something very strange is happening to Detroit...  Once upon a time, it was the center of American manufacturing and it had the highest per capita income in the United States.  Now the city is dying and the Chinese are moving in to pick up the pieces. ~ Michael Snyder  ...
  • United Nations Disarmament Agenda 1961
    "The United States calls on all states to make a continuous uninterrupted offense to achieve a total program for general and complete disarmament". ~ United States Arms Control Disarmament Agency - 1961 - Video read more
  • US Military and Monsanto Now Actively Engaged ...
    The word is out and the scientific bodies of manipulation can no longer contain the growing resistance against GMO. The more corrupt studies that attempt to find no harm in the consumption of genetically modified foods, the more an increasingly aware public is growing skeptical. ~ Marco Torr ...
  • DARPA to Genetically Engineer Humans by Adding ...
    We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca?... In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are bioengineered to be ‘perfect specimens’, and one’s entire life and position in the world is based on their genetics. ~ Aaron ...

Tarpley

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.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Alleged serial murderer acquitted
    A Swedish psychiatric patient was acquitted on Wednesday of the last in a series of murders he’d claimed to have committed in Sweden and Norway in the 1990s. Sture Bergwall, also known as Thomas Quick, now wants to be released from mandatory psychiatric care as well. Bergwall had been char ...
  • Problems rise around foreign truck drivers
    Police in Norway are sounding alarms over what they call a hazardous driving culture among foreign truck drivers. Many from eastern European countries have been found to be especially reckless on Norway’s narrow, two-lane roads. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) aired a frightening video on its ...
  • Police charge Høyre politician
    Tor Johannes Helleland, the Conservatives (Høyre) politician who hacked his way into young women’s computer files and spread naked photos of them on pornographic websites, has been formally charged with data theft and faces several years in prison. Police stated on Wednesday that the charg ...
  • Police launch search for bank robber
    An armed, blond man wearing a black motorcycle suit robbed a bank in downtown Stavanger on Wednesday after first attempting an armed robbery outside a bank in Sandnes, south of Stavanger. Witnesses said the man escaped in a white Fiat Doblo that had stolen license plates. The drama began around ...
  • Election campaign cranks into gear
    Norway’s national parliamentary election is less than six weeks away, but only now are politicians returning from their summer holidays and getting into campaign mode. Many voters seem to assume that Norway’s non-socialist parties will win this time, leading to worries that voter tur ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in ...
    Editor’s Note: I’ve expressed my firm belief before, and will express again, that any serious attempt at reinventing society — to make systemic design adjustments to how our society/economy functions — necessitates a serious overhaul in our educational systems. Without th ...
  • Permaculture in Lesotho
    The PRI editor has been encouraging me to give a little more background info on my work on the ground here, so you can all better understand the situation I’m working in. Here’s a short attempt to do so. I have been living in Lesotho for two years, as a volunteer with Australian Vo ...
  • Endgame Strategy
    Why the Revolution Must Start in America The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, the hunger sweeping across failed states such as Somalia, the freak weather patterns and the systematic unraveling of the American empire do not signal a lurch toward freedom and democracy bu ...
  • Report on Permaculture Training in Dembe Dollo ...
    It was the beginning of June this year and we were off on another exciting permaculture adventure in Ethiopia. This time we would be heading into the west. I was contacted last year by Gemma Pilcher, an Australian lady who supports a small food security project run by some Catholic nuns from D ...
  • PRI Konso, South Ethiopia to Run Two PDC-Inter ...
    PDC, September 2013 4-week Internship, Sept/Oct 2013 PDC, Dember 2013 4-week Internship, Dec/Jan 2013/14 Strawberry Fields Eco-Lodge is pleased to announce we are running our 29th and 30th PDCs in September and December 2013 and a 4-week Internship to follow each, at our educational, demonstr ...

Pointman's

  • A quarter of a million pages later.
    The pages read counter on this blog is closing in on 250,000, so it seems to be a natural review point. The blog came out of an extended discussion with some friends that occurred at the height of climate hysteria. We could all see the damage it was doing but for them it was an … Read ...
  • Know your enemy: the establishment journalist.
    The origins of journalism go back a long way. For most of agrarian history, there were individuals who travelled from settlement to settlement, mainly trading goods but part of what they did was bring the news of what was happening in those distant lands twenty or more miles away. Beyond the new ...
  • Know your enemy: the environmental regulator.
    If you work in an industry and gain a reputation for being one of the more knowledgeable people knocking around in it, you’ll eventually be asked to attend external meetings to discuss things like standards or simply to represent the particular sector you are working in. They’re usua ...
  • The pause.
    There’s a book called Puckoon by the wildly erratic comedy writer Spike Milligan. It concerns the travails suffered by a fictional village of the same name, as the boundary commission draws the border between Northern Ireland and the new Republic of Eire in the aftermath of the War of Inde ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • “This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution”
    Reprinted from our friends at Women With A Vision: This past Sunday, WWAV gathered with friends, allies and fellow organizers in a Solidarity Rally for Trayvon Martin. We want to personally thank everyone who came out so that we could raise our voices in unison.  This is the beauty of New ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The elephant in the room: it’s immigrati ...
    Both sides of Australian politics are once again playing the game of "getting tough on people smugglers", taking turns to sound more aggressive, ruthless and brutal in turning back boats filled with people less fortunate than ourselves. Tony Abbott has declared a "national emergency" and plans ...
  • A heart to heart talk with Fair Dinkum Leon - ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Leon Pittard, host of Fair Dinkum Radio, a show which lifts the lid on the sordid mess of corruption, propaganda and disinformation which characterizes Australian public discourse on virtually any topic. During the show we go through issues of the da ...
  • Craig Isherwood outlines plans for a Cyprus st ...
    Craig Isherwood is the National Secretary of the Citizen's Electoral Council (CEC). The CEC recently launched a petition to the Commonwealth Parliament, calling for immediate legislation to enact a Glass-Steagall-style banking separation in Australia, to protect deposits and essential banking se ...
  • The psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks
    As the psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks steps up I want to offer my perspective on some aspects of the situation. Firstly, we have to recognise that in situations where the powers that be are powerless to directly control outcomes, they often resort to indirect means, specifically: ...
  • The pale shadow of democracy
    In today's show we cover the bizarre turn of events in Australian politics which has seen the return of Kevin Rudd as the nation's Prime Minister. Is this democracy in action, or is it just the pale shadow of democracy? We also share some clips from ABC's coverage of the Edward Snowden story w ...

Beacon

  • Senate Passes Two Bills to Combat Pirate Fishing
    US Navy boards and inspects two fishing skiffs for suspected pirate activity. l Photo: Jason R. Zalasky Today the U.S. Congress took one step closer to passing legislation to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated international fishing, or “pirate fishing.” The Senate Committee on C ...
  • Congratulations, Rory and Maeve McCracken, our ...
    When we told Rory and Maeve McCracken that they had won our 2013 Ocean Hero Awards in the Youth category, they were excited, to say the least: “I could barely breathe, I couldn’t move. I was so happy and so shocked at the same time,” ten-year-old Maeve explained. “I couldn’t really comprehend ...
  • Congratulations, Jean Beasley, our 2013 Ocean ...
    We are thrilled to announce Jean Beasley as the winner of our 2013 Ocean Hero Award. Jean established and runs a sea turtle rehabilitation center that has rescued and released over 300 sea turtles over the last sixteen years. After hundreds of nominations, a dozen inspiring finalists, and over ...
  • BIG NEWS for the Big Apple: NY Bans Shark Fin ...
    With Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signature today, New York joins Maryland and Delaware as the third state on the East Coast to ban the sale, trade, distribution and possession of shark fins throughout the state, and the eighth state in the nation to adopt the ban. Every state that passes similar l ...
  • Anonymous Heroes
    Photo: © OCEANA | Claudia Pool The coal-fired power plants in Las Ventanas in Chile look like something out of science fiction.  They loom larger than life over the bay, their pipes extending like the legs of some huge prehistoric spider out into the water where they deposit contami ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Flush with Spin: Wastewater versus Sewage
    Perhaps some of you have noticed a rather curious change in the nomenclature advanced by the City of Regina and adopted by both the Leader-Post and Star-Phoenix in the days immediately after city council approved the referendum for the wastewater treatment plant. You see, it’s no longer a ...
  • The financial portion of our economy
    A very interesting text by Christian Cauvin, published in a special issue of Alternatives économiques, contains a particularly revealing graph. It addresses the growing weight of the financial economy: Graph 1: Dividends and operating surpluses in France, indexed to 100 = 1993 level   &#160 ...
  • The absurdity and injustice of now
    I’m back from a short sabbatical, grateful for some time outside of my daily work and home life, feeling all big picture. But as I settle back into work, I feel like I’m seated in a Theatre of the Absurd play. My news feeds are pulling up astonishing things. Exhibit one: the North Po ...
  • PotashCorp Reports Inadequate Royalties
    PotashCorp reported today that it paid $81 million of “provincial mining and other taxes” on $975 million of potash sales in the second quarter of 2013. In other words, Saskatchewan’s potash production tax and resource surcharge amounted to 8% of potash sales. Adding the basic Crown royalty of j ...
  • Average Weekly Earnings: Wages vs. Hours & Sal ...
    Today, Statistics Canada reported a seemingly impressive monthly rise of 0.9% in average weekly earnings, from $906.24 in April to $914.68 in May. Digging a bit deeper reveals that average weekly earnings for workers paid by the hour – the majority of Canadian employees – edged up by ...

ReDress

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
    Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
  • What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
    Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
  • Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
  • Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Connecticut-sized dead zone found in Gulf of M ...
    “The dead zone is caused primarily by agricultural runoffs that “stimulate an overgrowth of algae that sinks, decomposes and consumes most of the oxygen needed to support life.” Not much life without oxygen, hence dead zone. “A near-record area was expected because of wet sprin ...
  • Drinking Water Infrastructure: Who pays and ho ...
    “How Do Water systems Pay or infrastructure? In the united states, most water customers are served by systems that are municipal water used in this country is provided by public water systems, this guide is focused on the way these public water systems are financed. There are two mechanism ...
  • 35,000 steelhead trout rescued from rapidly dr ...
    “Due to drier than normal conditions, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District initiated its annual Steelhead Rescue Program in the Carmel River in April, several months early. As of July 1, the program has rescued and relocated 35,000 of the endangered trout and will continue its ...
  • China Coal-Fired Economy Dying of Thirst as Mi ...
    “At first glance, Daliuta in northern China appears to have a river running through it. A closer look reveals the stretch of water in the center is a pond, dammed at both ends. Beyond the barriers, the Wulanmulun’s bed is dry. Daliuta in Shaanxi province sits on top of the world’s biggest ...
  • The Alberta Oil Sands Have Been Leaking for 9 ...
    “The sites are located in a remote area which has restricted access to the public. The emulsion is being effectively cleaned up with manageable environmental impact. Canadian Natural has existing groundwater monitoring in place and we are undertaking aquatic and sediment sampling to monito ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • EXPECT SOLAR TO PROSPER…?
    …Think about it … do you really expect that APS or SRP actually want solar electric energy to prosper … neither is honestly a “public service” as in each case they answer to “owners” … not us … owners expecting reoccurring dividend$ … And they own via campaign contributions our so-called Arizona ...
  • news is for $ale
    …Our corporate owned  U S Supreme Court made accepting $$$ acceptable … see Citizens United … reporting news is for $ale to the highest bidder…   Washington Post Shamefully Takes Money From Big Oil to Sponsor Its Headlines Online   Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: …  Read ...
  • the game is you can’t do anything that m ...
    …OK … he did NOT aid the enemy but corporate needs him to be found guilty of costing them profitS … the game is you can’t do anything that might injure corporate or their bottom line$ … got it…   Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy, but could still go to jail for over […]
  • Not revelations sanctioned
    …Not revelations sanctioned by CAP or SRP or ADEQ or ADWR or public/private water purveyors … According to all “official” press releases from Arizona … we do not have to worry about WATER … we have plenty … built it and they will come…   Never Again Enough: Field Notes from a Drying West &# ...
  • The State Fears Its Own People
    Noam Chomsky: The State Fears Its Own People   AlterNet Chomsky on terror, Snowden, and why "security" is usually an excuse for government repression. READ MORE» “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competiti ...

Popular Technology

  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share ...
  • Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it is revealed their lack of humanity for the death of a political adversary. In a forum thread titled, "Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43" f ...
  • Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech
    "The impact of that ban on PopTech was to silence him." - Skeptical Science In March of 2012, the same computer illiterates at Skeptical Science who do not know how to use Google Scholar had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these I am mentioned in at least 65 discussion ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries
    Deforestation has fallen in Congo Basin countries over the past decade despite a sharp increase in the rate of forest clearing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a new study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B as part of a set of 18 papers on the ...
  • Scientists build app to automatically identify ...
    New technology makes it possible to automatically identify species by their vocalizations. The platform, detailed in the current issue of the journal PeerJ, has been used at sites in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica to identify frogs, insects, birds, and monkeys. Many of the animals identified by the ...
  • Stand up paddleboarding in the Amazon for cons ...
    This week an international team is setting off on a unique journey, aiming to be the first to descend the Amazon River using inflatable Stand Up Paddle boards. The group, led by Dr. Mika Peck, a conservation biologist from the University of Sussex with years of work in Ecuador and Colombia, incl ...
  • Investigation clears APP of deforestation alle ...
    Two logging companies that supply Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) with timber have not violated the Indonesian forestry giant's new zero deforestation commitment, according to a field investigation by The Forest Trust, a conservation group. The investigation was a direct response to allegations rais ...
  • Fighting deforestation—and corruption&#8 ...
    The basic premise of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program seems simple: rich nations pay tropical countries for preserving their forests. Yet the program has made relatively limited progress on the ground since 2007, when the concept got tentative go-ahead du ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • AgResearch jobs head to Lincoln, Palmerston North
    Nearly 300 AgResearch jobs would be relocated over the next few years - mostly from Hamilton and Dunedin - as part of a planned major shake-up by the country's largest crown research institute.The organisation today...
  • Janet McAllister: Einstein showcase cutest eve ...
    Einstein would have been a giant of the twitterverse. Brevity is the soul of t-wit, and you can't get more super-saturated with meaning than "E=mc2". Then there are poetic bon mots such as: "I live my daydreams in music" and "imagination...
  • Kiwi who helped find 'hobbits' dies
    A New Zealand-born archaeologist involved in the discovery of a new species of people, known as "hobbits'', has died.Professor Mike Morwood, most recently of the University of Wollongong in Australia, was one of the archaeologists...
  • New type of big-nosed dinosaur unearthed
    Researchers in Utah say they have discovered a new type of big-nosed, horned-faced dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago when the North American continent was split in two.The discovery of the creature, named "Nasutoceratops...
  • Lab success: Chromosome for Down's is switched off
    Gene scientists say that in lab-dish cells, they had found a way to switch off the rogue chromosome that causes Down's syndrome.The breakthrough opens up the tantalising goal of therapy for Down's, they said, cautioning that years...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →
  • Science-based public policy being eroded in th ...
    From Carrie Saxifrage, in the Vancouver Observer: “Dr. Katie Gibbs has seen her colleagues at the University of Ottawa biology department realize that if anybody in Canada can stand up to the attacks on science, it’s the scientists themselves. Last … Continue reading →
  • Science-based public policy being eroded in th ...
    From Carrie Saxifrage, in the Vancouver Observer: “Dr. Katie Gibbs has seen her colleagues at the University of Ottawa biology department realize that if anybody in Canada can stand up to the attacks on science, it’s the scientists themselves. Last … Continue reading →
  • GMO scientist turned anti-GMO activist
    From Ken Roseboro, on NewHope360.com “The “conversion” of for­mer anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas to GMO promoter has gar­nered huge media atten­tion, but Thierry Vrain, Ph.D., a for­mer genetic engineer who speaks out against the risks of genetically engi­neered foods, has far … Contin ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • India Housing Bubble Still Expanding
    This is a guest post from by Deepak Shenoy, an economic blogger at Capital Mind in India. Charts and analysis that follow are from Deepak. RBI has released the latest data for their House Price Index and it looks like the mad pace of real estate price growth has mellowed, but only slightly ...
  • About that "Beat the Street" GDP Number
    GDP beat second quarter estimates of 1 percent easily. However, the BEA revised first quarter growth down from 1.7% to 1.1%. Is this a good thing, a bad thing, or nonsense? The correct answer is "nonsense". One look at BEA GDP Release is all it takes to determine the answer. The ...
  • Economic Recovery in Spain? Tax Collections, R ...
    In an attempt to distract voters from all the political scandals in his administration, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is talking about the pending economic recovery in Spain. Don't believe it. Huky Guru at Guru's Blog in Spain takes a good look at numbers that prove Rajoy is disingenuous. ...
  • "Tax Nightmare" of Eminent Domain Mortgage Sei ...
    Gayle McLaughlin, mayor of Richmond, California is hell-bent on her plan to seize mortgages via eminent domain, then provide "mortgage forgiveness" for the homeowners. I smacked the idea from a legal standpoint in Illegal Public Seizure of Mortgages Via Eminent Domain in the Spotlight. ...
  • Illegal Public Seizure of Mortgages Via Eminen ...
    Bloomberg reports Richmond Escalates Eminent Domain Plan With Loan Offers. Richmond, California, is backing a plan to buy mortgages in low-income areas for as little as 25 cents on the dollar and may force the sales under eminent domain laws, moving forward with a controversial program tha ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Summer 2013 Information Packages
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 31, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Europe Under ‘Austocracy’ Europe’s policies of austerity and ‘adjustment’ have led to a radical decline and crisis in democracy. Where austerity is imposed, democracy is deposed. This we can understand as an emerging ‘Austocracy.’ Looking at news reports ...
  • Indeed, Whistleblowers Are Traitors- Traitors ...
    Don’t Be Traitors to Those Who Have Honorably Betrayed the Real Traitors to the People Over 200 years ago our Founding Fathers signed the United States Declaration of Independence. They were branded as traitors by their then government. They were traitors to the British Empire. In short, they we ...
  • Egypt Under Empire, Part III: From Nasser to M ...
    The United States Has Been a Major Sponsor of the Egyptian Dictatorship Between 1952 and 2011, Egypt was ruled by three military dictators: Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak. Nasser placated labour unrest and imposed many social programs that benefited the population. Sadat subsequently began to break ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

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Press TV

  • Russia mass arrests 1,200 Vietnamese
    Russian police officers have arrested what they describe as 1,200 illegal Vietnamese migrants in a massive police operation in the Russian capital of Moscow.
  • Activists slam death of Calif. prisoner
    Activists in Los Angeles are fasting to voice their anger over the inhumane treatment of prisoners in California and the recent death of an inmate in solitary confinement, Press TV reports.
  • Iran urges massive Quds Day rallies
    Iran’s Foreign Ministry has invited the Iranian nation as well as Muslims and freedom-seekers across the globe to take part in the World Quds Day rallies on Friday to vent their opposition to the Israeli regime.
  • Bangladesh declares top party illegal
    The high court of Bangladesh has declared the country’s Jamaat-e-Islami Party as illegal, banning it from contesting the 2014 elections.
  • Turkey FM to attend Rohani inauguration
    Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will take part in the upcoming inauguration ceremony of Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Awards Six Scholarships for the 2013-2014 ...
    The SPS Scholarship Committee has identified six scholarship recipients for the 2013-14 academic year. After careful deliberation, the Committee selected these students from an impressive pool of approximately 70 submissions—the most SPS has received to date. Vearlane Edge and Velma Felix have b ...
  • Divided By Race Again
    Once again we are a country divided by race. Without any witnesses to the altercation between George Zimmerman and Treyvon Martin, sides have been drawn, and not much has to do with the evidence presented. Zimmerman has injuries consistent with his story but Martin is dead with no way to tell us ...
  • Learning to Lead, Remembering to Follow
    From yratlarge We awoke to another beautiful day in Rwanda: birds singing, perfect temperatures and the promise of another rich day at work with the K.I.E. students. The day lived up to its promise. Chris and Helen led a session examining the speed at which things move in “real time” versus the ...
  • Microsoft Excel© for HIM Professionals
    The webinar Maximizing Microsoft Excel© for HIM Professionals: Transforming Data Into Actionable Information presented by Michael Gera, was recorded on June 18, 2013 in conjunction with the CUNY School of Professional Studies online degree in Health Information Management. You can access the pre ...
  • Domestic Violence 19 Years Later
    19 years ago a mother was butchered to death in her walkway as her children slept upstairs. Not far from where she laid dying was her friend, also butchered, after attempting to do a good deed. Small personal touches like a bath that had been run or a cup of ice cream melting on a […]

Dissident Voice

  • Dessert Law Write-Ins
    Papers arrived: The Law. Prose of imperative be-ribboned in fey grammar.  Trickle-down discourse barked in the language of command; written, copied, distributed as far and wide as the global jurisdiction of Their rockets.  Even the same old same is not the same as it was – or seemed. Watch the N ...
  • Manning Verdict Risks Freedom of the Press if ...
    The verdict in the Bradley Manning trial has already begun to create reverberations as people start to understand its impact, beyond the impact on Manning.  While the greatest threat to Manning, Aiding the Enemy, was defeated, another threat, The Espionage Act, was not.  The crimes Manning was c ...
  • Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo
    Just recently, in late July, Wells Fargo surpassed the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) as the world’s largest bank by market capitalization. This followed Wells Fargo reporting a 19% increase in profits over the second quarter as the bank has been busy consolidating the housing ma ...
  • The Muslim Brotherhood, the Constitution, and Gaza
    In Part 1, B.J. Sabri, observer of Middle East politics, professed skepticism to western portrayals of the Arab “springs.” Sabria said that in the case of Egypt, the “revolution” wound up in a situation where “… the Muslim Brotherhood, and the United States co ...
  • The One-sided See-Saw…
    A holding company is the people you give your money to while you’re being searched. — Will Rogers Everybody talks about capitalism but nobody has done anything about it, recently. Except maybe for Richard D. Wolff, in a long interview with David Barsamian, resulting in a book called &#8220 ...

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Newswise

  • Blocking Sugar Intake May Reduce Cancer Risk o ...
    Blocking dietary sugar and its activity in tumor cells may reduce cancer risk and progression.
  • UC San Diego Researchers Develop Efficient Mod ...
    Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report a simple, easily reproducible RNA-based method of generating human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in the August 1 edition of Cell Stem Cell. Their approach has broad applicability for the successful producti ...
  • New Insight Into How Brain 'Learns' Cocaine Ad ...
    A team of researchers says it has solved the longstanding puzzle of why a key protein linked to learning is also needed to become addicted to cocaine. Results of the study, published in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Cell, describe how the learning-related protein works with other proteins to f ...
  • New Designer Compound Treats Heart Failure by ...
    Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a new molecular pathway responsible for causing heart failure and showed that a first-in-class prototype drug, JQ1, blocks this pathway to protect the heart from damage.
  • Targeted Therapy Identified for Protein That P ...
    MD Anderson scientists targeted drug for prime cancer- promoter

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