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  • Ghouta Video Analyses Raise Doubts
    Sister Agnes Mariam of Syria Analyzes Goutha Videos Touted by Obama White House, Finds Overwhelming Evidence of Fabrication and Fakery; Were Victims Alawites Children Kidnapped from Latakia in Early August, Then Used as Grisly Props for War Provocation? [ ISTEAM linked report (16.4 Mb) downlo ...
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  • Peak Smartphones: Samsung emphasizes components
    Samsung plans to plow a record pile of cash into its semiconductor and display panel businesses, hoping to reduce reliance on sales of high-end Galaxy smartphones that are poised to peak after two years of blistering growth. Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest smartphone maker, repor ...
  • Washington: The REAL Fukushima danger
    The fact that the Fukushima reactors have been leaking huge amounts of radioactive water ever since the 2011 earthquake is certainly newsworthy. As are the facts that: Tepco doesn’t know how to stop the leaks Scientists have no idea where the cores of the nuclear reactors are Radiation could ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Psychopathic U.S. politicians wonder if Obama ...
    There is no shortage of skeptics among the American political class regarding the tentative agreement between the United States and Russia to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons that was announced on Saturday. While Obama has publicly defended the deal, some worry that the deal exposes ...
  • Iran's Rouhani may meet Obama at UN, would be ...
    First meeting of US and Iranian leaders since 1979 revolution could open way to diplomatic end to Iranian nuclear standoff An exchange of letters between Barack Obama and the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has set the stage for a possible meeting between the two men at the UN next week in w ...
  • The more a society coerces its people, the gre ...
    Miserable marriages, unhappy families and severe emotional and behavioral problems all have a root cause. Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours. While these societies have had far fewer consumer goods and less of what modernity calls "efficiency," they also ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: Team of three gunmen shoots u ...
    A naval base in the heart of Washington DC was rocked by a mass shooting on Monday after at least one gunman opened fire and left 13 people dead, in the worst attack on a military base in the US since the Fort Hood killings in 2009. As authorities struggled to piece together the details of what ...
  • German Professor: IPCC finds in a serious jam. ...
    And: "Extreme weather is the only card they have got left to play." So says German Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, who is one of the founders of Germany's modern environmental movement, and agreed to an interview with NoTricksZone. He is one of the co-authors of the German skeptic book "Die kalte Sonn ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The most dangerous job in the world ...
    Police officer in Afghanistan ... if you're a woman. Doesn't concern Steve. He's too busy. Not drinking alcohol. Keeping dope away from your kids. Telling us that Syria's use of poison gas is "unprecedented" ... because he's never heard of the Great War or the Nazi gas chambers of the 2nd Wo ...
  • Right under Pookie's upturned nose
    Jeez, Christy! Maybe you can tell us from your waitress days how a major hotel, just a few feet away from you totally unnecessary, high-end, downtown, taxpayer-funded office (that is neither in the capital of the province nor anywhere near your riding), can even think of getting away with this. ...
  • Maher muses . . .
    READER SUPPORTED NEWS has a fine post by Bill Maher, “The US: World's Policeman or Schoolyard Bully?”. Check it out. New rule: 12 years after 9/11, and amidst yet another debate on whether to bomb yet another Muslim country, America must stop asking the question, "Why do they hate us? ...
  • Comin’ at ya . . .
    MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW has an article by Aviva Hope Rutkin that you should read and ponder. “Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization”. 45% is the estimated job loss over the next 20 years. The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. F ...
  • While Victoria burns, Rex looks at bright shin ...
    Dear Rex Murphy, I, like all other Canadians who revel in your eloquance and scholarly English, want to know. What's happening in Victoria? The place is cooking! Yesterday it broke a temperature record. It's friggin' hot!!! It's like Kamloops fer chrissakes. Jeez Rex. Remember when you ...

Media Matters for America

  • NC's Civitas Institute Obscures GOP Position T ...
    The North Carolina-based Civitas Institute published a piece on its blog attacking the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by criticizing the number of people who will remain uninsured after the law goes into full effect and urging Congress to cut off funding for the law. How ...
  • Right-Wing Media's Love Affair With Putin Cont ...
    Right-wing media have rushed to heap praise on Russian President Vladimir Putin for a proposal to allow Syria to avoid U.S. air strikes by surrendering all of its chemical weapons to the international community, despite the fact that Russia was responding to statements by Sec ...
  • WSJ Pushes Myth That DOJ Lawsuit Against S&P I ...
    A Wall Street Journal editorial pushed the myth that a Department of Justice lawsuit against credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) is retaliation for the company downgrading the U.S.'s credit rating, failing to note experts' explanations that the suit is likely a test case that ma ...
  • 24 Distortions About Guns From Wash. Times Edi ...
    Washington Times senior opinion editor Emily Miller's new book, Emily Gets Her Gun: ...But Obama Wants to Take Yours, is filled with falsehoods about the gun debate and promotes the National Rifle Association's conspiracy theory that President Obama is planning to confiscate ...
  • 8 Myths That Media Trackers Wants Inserted In ...
    The Ohio branch of the media watchdog organization Media Trackers pushed for the media to cover at least eight conservative myths about Medicaid that either lack crucial context, have been widely debunked, or originate from conservative think tanks with a history of ...

Global Research.ca

  • Gay Rights in Russia and the 2014 Sochi Winter ...
    Introductory Background This article is written in part as an update to my article of this past March 6 “Overview Of The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics“. Relative to the upcoming winter Olympiad, that piece addresses the issues pertaining to feasibility,…
  • Syria: Diplomacy and the Ongoing Danger of a U ...
    Developments concerning Syria continue to move very quickly. On Saturday, September 14, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced their governments had reached an agreement to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons. It reportedly called for…
  • Canada: Beyond the Economic Crisis: The Crisis ...
    Discussions on the left about the economy might be summarized as warning that things are going to get a lot worse before they get…worse. This is not just a matter of the sustained attacks on the labour movement but as…
  • “Winnie Mandela”: Film Highlights ...
    Since 2011 the film “Winnie Mandela” starring Jennifer Hudson and Terrance Howard has remained a mystery to many within the United States and internationally. The production was shot in South Africa and it attempts to re-introduce the life of both…
  • Big Banks Manipulated Gold and Silver Markets
    Gold and Silver Are Manipulated The Guardian and Telegraph report that gold and silver prices are “fixed” in the same way as interest rates and derivatives – in daily conference calls by the powers-that-be. Long-time trader Andrew Maguire told told…

TPM Cafe

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

  • 5 Things You Should Know About Colorado's '1,0 ...
    Boulder may record more rainfall this past week than it usually gets in a year. Colorado’s Front Range has been ravaged by heavy rain and flooding since last week, with 15 counties now impacted: Boulder, El Paso, Larimer, Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Fremont, Jefferson, L ...
  • What We Can Learn from the Deadly Boulder Floods
    We can keep arguing whether the devastating still–unfolding flood in Colorado was caused (or amplified) by climate change (or not) or we could get serious about addressing the climate crisis. On Thursday as I was reading about war and peace, headlines about a flash flood in Boulder kept arriv ...
  • California Poised to Enact Dangerous Fracking Bill
    A bill that started out aimed at protecting Californians from fracking veered off course. Sacramento -- Senate Bill 4, a controversial bill sponsored by Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) that opponents say would clear a path to increased fracking, passed the California Legislature on Wedne ...
  • Extreme Energy Extraction Roadtrip — The Scar ...
    A look at what fracking, mountaintop removal for coal and other extraction methods are doing to communities across the country. The view from a Cessna reveals some dirty secrets. Flying at 2,000 feet above the forests of Appalachia I can see what the steep, tree-fringed roads fail to show: ...
  • Take a Frightening Tour Down America's 'Clima ...
    A stretch of a Wyoming road offers a good glimpse of our future. Editor’s Note: Tara Lohan traveled across the U.S. documenting communities impacted by energy development for a new AlterNet project, Hitting Home. Follow the trip on Facebook.Wyoming is not short on scenic drives. You can hug th ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Draw the Line – Saturday, September 21, 2013 – ...
    This coming weekend is a busy one for folks concerned about a variety of issues around climate change and eminent domain focusing around the Texas leg of the Keystone XL and other tar sands pipelines. Saturday, September 21, 2013 is a national day of action, some of the events happening in Texas ...
  • Western wildfires expected to double by 2050
    Climate change will dramatically alter wildfire patterns in the western United States before the century ends, studies show. According to a new study of future wildfire activity and smoke pollution “Ensemble projections of wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations over the wester ...
  • CPS Energy must meet demands before raising rates
    SAN ANTONIO – The newly formed Re-Energize San Antonio Coalition called on CPS Energy to meet a set of conditions before following through with an October rate hike. Describing the hike as an increase that will “unfairly burden residential taxpayers,” coalition members called on CPS to take step ...
  • San Antonio coalition demands CPS action
    The newly formed Re-Energize San Antonio Coalition put its opposition to CPS’s proposed rate hike on the record during a Sept. 9 citizen’s input meeting. Coalition representatives presented the utility with a plan of action that they want addressed before an increase goes into effect ...
  • Austin Affordability Summit Saturday, Septembe ...
    Austin Affordability Summit Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, 1pm-4pm St. David’s Episcopal Church, 301 E. 8th   Hosted By:  Liveable City, HousingWorks, Public Citizen Texas, Sustainable Food Center, Austin Creative Alliance To Register – Email your name and telephone to: info@liveablecity.o ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Creepy clown freaks out Northampton
    A mysterious man in full clown make-up has been spotted several times standing outside people's houses. Local newspapers have picked up on the story w...
  • Are lobsters the key to immortality ?
    Scientists are attempting to learn the secret to immortality through an enzyme found in lobsters. Lobsters might not seem to be the most resilient of ...
  • 'T-1000' self-healing polymer developed
    Scientists have developed the world's first self-healing material that can work at room temperature. The concept of a material that heals on its own w...
  • Scientists release list of doomsday scenarios
    The research aims to provide a complete list of threats capable of bringing about the end of the world. Among the most prominent threats are disasters...
  • Belief in ghosts is on the increase
    A recent study conducted in the UK has reported a steadily increasing trend in paranormal belief. The results suggested that up to 52% of the populati...

Grassroots

  • Holding Up More than Half the Sky
    Subheadline:  Panel of global leaders discuss: Women, social movements and the power of partnership Image:  merged_wmw-lvc_logos.jpg When: Saturday, September ...
  • Holding Up More than Half the Sky Panel of glo ...
    Boston-based Grassroots International will present a panel featuring leaders of some of the world’s most powerful and promising social movements at a special event on September 28. Date and Time:  September 28, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm ...
  • Defending Indigenous Territories and Waters in ...
    copinh_sign.jpg Whether it’s life imitating art or the other way around, the assault so dramatically captured in the Hollywood blockbuster film Avatar (2009) is not pure fiction. The reality is that countries and corporations that are hell- ...
  • No to the WTO and Free Trade Agreements
    Subheadline:  To confront the climate emergency we need to dismantle the WTO and the free trade regime Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  This statement was written and signe ...
  • Global Peasant Movement Reaffirms Commitment t ...
    Subheadline:  Via Campesina outlines new action plan Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  La Via Campesina, a longtime partner of Grassroots International, is an international ...

Climate

  • Europe's Largest Tidal Energy Project to Be Bu ...
    (Guardian) The largest tidal energy project in Europe can get under way after permission was granted for the first stage in the Pentland Firth. A demonstration project of up to six turbines will be built in the water between ...
  • Everything That Led to Col.'s Devestating Floo ...
    (Quartz) The Front Range of Colorado is reeling from the biggest—and probably most destructive—flash flood in the region's history, thanks to a storm that dropped a year's worth of rainfall in about 24 hours. Here's how it happened:&n ...
  • As Arctic Melts, a Race to Test Oil Spill Clea ...
    (National Geographic) The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy—one of two working icebreakers in the nation's fleet—concluded a sobering mission Tuesday in the ice-strewn waters north of Barrow, Alaska. The crew's task was to practice de ...
  • U.S. Pollution Policy Spurs Coal's EPA Beef
    (Columbus Dispatch) A battle is being fought between Ohio coal companies and the U.S. EPA over pollution limits, and Gov. John Kasich and the Ohio EPA are caught in the middle. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the limits ...
  • Montepeque of Platts Caught in Battle Over Oil ...
    (Bloomberg) By the time Jorge Montepeque came to London in January 2002 to revamp Platts energy-price benchmarks amid a series of manipulation scandals, he'd already earned a reputation as the company’s troubleshooter. read more

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Thank You
    I want to offer my sincere gratitude to the (so far) twenty-four people who have made online contributions today, the others who have made recent contributions, and the many people who wrote to inquire about donating or offering advice and sketching out opportunities. All of you are extremely c ...
  • Tale of Woe
    Every laptop in the house is a paperweight now that I dropped CabinGirl's last night. I have three that need repair. The repairman came last week to replace the elements in our water heater and wound up stripping the threads and told us we needed a whole new heater and no it's not under warranty ...
  • Casual Observation
    These Republicans in disarray articles never get old. Here's the best part of this one: Many GOP lawmakers share that frustration privately and several have gone so far as to call their party "leaderless." Here we are complaining about a president who can't lead [on Syria], who leads us int ...
  • Kill the Paradigm
    I think Marcy Wheeler's analysis on Syria is very good. As I've mentioned before, there seems to be buy-in even from the neo-conservative crowd that conditions on the ground in Syria are not yet ripe for regime change. Specifically, during the debate in the Senate over authorizing military for ...
  • See What I Mean?
    I've written two Syria pieces, one last night and one this morning, that seek to debunk the idea that we're in a proxy war against Russia on the side of the Sunnis in a regional war against the Shiites, and that the president has ever thought that we were, and that the president's Syrian policy ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Dive into our pick of this week's coolest links and pics from around the web. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Stunning Aerial Attack: Peregrine Falcon Snatc ...
    In this amazing sequence of photographs, we witness a gripping scene, as a peregrine falcon pursues, catches and proceeds to feast on her willet prey. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Find out what we've been checking out this week in our fabulous link round up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Magic of MFCs: Generating Electricity from ...
    Microbial fuel cells could soon provide us with a green energy source, as well as a supply of clean drinking water This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Pug-Ugly Mugs: The World's Ugliest Dog Contest ...
    None of these dogs are likely to win any prizes for their beauty, but that’s not why they're here. Welcome to 2013’s World's Ugliest Dog Contest. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Prince William Talks Tusk Trust, Wildlife Cons ...
    Prince William Talks Tusk Trust, Wildlife Conservation In 2013 CNN Interview ... Huffington Post
    In 2009, she travelled to West Virginia and was arrested while protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. Financing the Destruction of Planet Earth Are ...
    Truth-Out Financing the Destruction of Planet Earth Are the Same Banks That Cratered Our ... Truth-Out The shopping that matters most now is dirty coal, mountaintop removal, fracking and tar sands....The hush that has settled over the American landscape, as leader after leader cannot raise their ...
  • Study Puts Environmental Price Tag on Mountain ...
    Daily Fusion Study Puts Environmental Price Tag on Mountaintop Coal Mining Daily Fusion Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining that involves the mining of the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. Coal seams are extracted from a moun ...
  • Diamond in the Mud: The Death of Buckwild Star ...
    Diamond in the Mud: The Death of Buckwild Star Shain Gandee and the Search ... Vulture But as the precious resource of unmediated, unstaged reality has steadily been consumed, reality TV has entered an era of offshore deep drilling and fracking and mountaintop removal. With an ever-expanding uni ...
  • The Death of Buckwild Star Shain Gandee - Vulture
    The Death of Buckwild Star Shain Gandee Vulture But as the precious resource of unmediated, unstaged reality has steadily been consumed, reality TV has entered an era of offshore deep drilling and fracking and mountaintop removal. With an ever-expanding universe of obscure cable channels, there ...

Memeorandum

  • Aaron Alexis, 34, is dead gunman in Navy Yard ...
    Theresa Vargas / Washington Post: Aaron Alexis, 34, is dead gunman in Navy Yard shooting, authorities say  —  Aaron Alexis lived for a time in a bungalow in the woods near a Buddhist temple in Fort Worth, where he occasionally joined Thai immigrants in meditation.  Aaron Al ...
  • Aaron Alexis, Suspect In Washington Navy Yard ...
    Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun: Aaron Alexis, Suspect In Washington Navy Yard Shooting, Was Once Arrested For Shooting Bullet Into Neighbor's Home  —  Buster  —  The suspect in today's deadly shooting at the Washington Navy Yard was once arrested for discharging a f ...
  • At least 12 killed in shooting rampage at Wash ...
    NBCNews: At least 12 killed in shooting rampage at Washington Navy Yard, chief says  —  A man brandishing an assault rifle, shotgun and handgun opened fire Monday inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard.  The city police chief said 12 people were killed.  — ...
  • REVEALED: Gunman, 34, who murdered TWELVE in W ...
    Daily Mail: REVEALED: Gunman, 34, who murdered TWELVE in Washington Navy Yard rampage claimed he had ‘anger issues’ after rescuing victims of 9/11 and was kicked out of Navy after 2011 gun charge  — Aaron Alexis, 34, named as the heavily armed gunman who opened fire at th ...
  • U.N. Implicates Syria in Using Chemical Arms ( ...
    New York Times: U.N. Implicates Syria in Using Chemical Arms  —  A United Nations report released on Monday confirmed that a deadly chemical arms attack caused a mass killing in Syria last month and for the first time provided extensive forensic details of the weapons used, whic ...

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  • Politics, baseball disrupted after Washington ...
    Navy Yard employees depart a gathering point inside Nationals Park in the wake of the shooting September 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. The US Senate was locked down, a Major League Baseball game postponed and a White House celebration delayed following Monday's shooting that left 13 people dead ...
  • Pax Dickinson presents “Pax Dickinson for Dummies”
    Tech-bro Pax Dickinson, whose misogynistic, homophobic and racist tweets finally got him ousted as chief technology officer of Business Insider, is draining every bit he can from the stream of attention that has come his way. Today, Dickinson used the media attention to host a Reddit AMA, which ...
  • US still hopes for Taliban talks: envoy
    A ribbon cutting at the Taliban's office in Doha on June 18, 2013.A US envoy said Monday that Washington still hoped to talk directly with the Taliban to support an Afghan peace deal but that the militants seemed unwilling to do so.The Taliban opened an office in the Qatari capital Doha in Jun ...
  • OITNB’s Danielle Brooks will be first black fe ...
    HBO's "Girls" has finally finally addressed the criticism decrying its lack of racial diversity. "Orange is the New Black" star Danielle Brooks, who plays Taystee on the Netflix dramedy, told Ebony Magazine that she will be "the first Black woman to be on ‘Girls,’ so that’s ...
  • Second top-ranking female member of Afghanista ...
    One of Afghanistan's top-ranking female police officers was fatally shot by an anonymous assailant Sunday night while on her way to work, only months after her predecessor was murdered in another brutal attack.Sub-inspector Negar died of her injuries Monday night."This is a very big loss f ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #851
    Are NSA revelations helping US tech industry? Europol fighting unprecedented crime levels. Allegations that NSA has a listening post in Vienna.
  • Ex-CIA officer seeks Italian pardon for role i ...
    A former officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, who has been convicted in absentia in Italy for his role in an abduction operation, has contacted the Italian president seeking a formal pardon.
  • NSA gives Israel raw intercepts containing US ...
    The United States National Security Agency (NSA) shares raw intercepted data with Israeli intelligence without first deleting information pertaining to American citizens, according to a leaked document.
  • Australian civil servant accused of spying den ...
    Australia’s Federal Court has rejected a bid by a senior civil servant to view the evidence the government is using to accuse him of espionage.
  • Commission urges probe of plane crash that kil ...
    A commission of experts formed to examine the 1961 death of former United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld has urged the reopening of an investigation into the airplane crash that killed him.

War is a Crime.org

  • Humanitarian Murder
    This past Sunday night on "60 Minutes" John Miller of CBS News said, "I've spoken with intelligence analysts who have said an uncomfortable thing that has a ring of truth, which is: the longer this war in Syria goes on, in some sense the better off we are." Now, why would that be uncomfortable, ...
  • Syria News - Sep 17
      Chemical weapons used in Syria on 'large scale' - UN report - RT News Full Text of U.N. Report on Chemical Attack in Syria - NYTimes.com US: UN report makes clear Assad regime behind chemical attack - AFP Russia: UN report on chemical weapons in Syria needs further review, contains ...
  • Frackademia: The People & Money Behind the EDF ...
    Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog The long-awaited Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)-sponsored hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") fugitive methane emissions study is finally out. Unfortunately, it's another case of "frackademia" or industry-funded 'science' dressed up to look like objective academ ...
  • Flush the TPP
     We are in crunch time to stop Congress from granting Fast Track to the President. Fast Track would mean that he could sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement before Congress sees it and would prevent transparency and a democratic review of the TPP in Congress.     &nbs ...
  • See You at the WE CAN STOP WARS Party in Nashv ...
    Click on image to enlarge The Festival for Peace, Prosperity, and the Planet will be held 11am to 6pm Saturday, September 21, 2013 at the "Special Events Pavilion" in Centennial Park. That's in the northwest corner of the park, near the airplane and the locomotive (see green arrow on the ...

Grist - News

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

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  • Time magazine hides Putin’s success from ...
    By Neil Monro Putin seemingly headed off a U.S. airstrike on his Syrian ally, while Obama, after extensive public agonizing, has seemingly agreed to token compliance with a weapons inspection regime. The foreign-policy fumble prompted anger, embarrassment and amazement among professionals in the ...
  • Untouchable: Government Gives Monsanto the Go- ...
    By Daisy Luther FY14 Continuing Resolution (CR) spending bill is soon to be on the table in the Senate, and hidden in this bill is a continuance of the controversial “Monsanto Protection Act” that was passed 6 months ago (HR 933) amidst enormous public outcry. It probably won’t come as much of a ...
  • Activist Post: Breaking: US Navy Yard shooting ...
    Jon Rappoport Activist Post I’ve covered a number of mass shootings. Assuming the people arrested or killed had anything to do with them, one of the top questions is: was the shooter on psychiatric meds? The mainstream press doesn’t push for answers. It’s a vital question. In school shootings, w ...
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Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Read these articles about our past to learn ab ...
    Summary:  One reason we have such difficulty charting  path to the future is that have lost so much of our past. It not only destabilizes us, but limits our ability to learn from our history. Here are three articles about our past that illuminate problems we face today. (1)  “Why weren’t t ...
  • The pilgrimage of Martin Luther King: an antid ...
    Summary: Racism stained the American experiment at its formation, and has warped its evolution at every stage since. The civil war could have purged it, but the Union abandoned Reconstruction unfinished — allowing the South’s whites to stage one of the most effective insurgencies in ...
  • Warnings about the economy from people you sho ...
    Summary: The US economy has taxied down the runway since the end of the recession in 2009, with a failed attempt to take off each year. Now we try again. The throttles are firewalled, the crew and passengers excited at the prospect of takeoff . But some begin to worry as the end of the […]
  • Take the climate change quiz. How warm was Aug ...
    Summary:  Most of you have read scores, or hundreds of articles about global warming. Drawing on what you learned from those, estimate how much warmer was the world in August than the 30-year average? For bonus credit, what was the Earth’s rate of warming per year (or per decade) since 197 ...
  • Start of another swing of the media narrative ...
    Summary: We have the first newspaper headlines announcing global cooling. Does this herald the news media yo-yo swinging from one extreme to another, after a few months in the middle? Here will look at the latest story, and show the rest of the story not told well by activists on either side. Th ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Syria: Now Comes the Tough Security Council Di ...
    The UN inspection team’s report on chemical weapons is in. And, as everyone already knew, chemical weapons were used in Syria. From a diplomatic standpoint, today’s release adds a degree of urgency to negotiations soon-to-be-underway to back up the Russia-US agreement with a Security ...
  • William Polk on Syria: What Now?
    Two weeks ago today, just after President Obama made his surprising and very welcome decision to seek Congressional approach before launching strikes on Syria, I posted a very long analysis by William R. Polk of the stakes, opportunities, risks, and alternatives in dealing with Syria. Despite it ...
  • Top of the Morning: US and Russia Reach Accord ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest US and Russia Reach Accord on Syria. Now What? Now comes the very hard part: implementation. The Security Council will offer its support for the deal, and the Secretary General is tasked with coming up with plans to send weapons inspectors back to Syria, this time t ...
  • The Week Ahead Sept. 14-20: Syria UN Report; P ...
    This bulletin highlights significant events in the world of arms control in the coming week, as compiled by staff and friends of the Arms Control Association. (Send your suggestions here.) UN Report on Syria’s Chemical Weapons Due on Monday The U.N. chemical weapons inspectors are expected ...
  • Syria: Factoring in the Russian Factor
    Recent events have demonstrated yet again that Russians are Russians whether in charge of the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation.  Whether the Obama administration inadvertently stumbled onto this fact of life or not, Americans and others who worked on Soviet affairs during the Cold War coul ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Sum of Its Parts
    We're just two weeks away from the start of open enrollment for the new state health care exchanges established as part of the Affordable Care Act, and it's safe to say that Republicans will not be able to repeal the law between now and then. It's equally safe to say that they won't be able to ...
  • Daily Meme: Bye, Bye Larry
    Yesterday, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers withdrew his nomination for the Federal Reserve chairmanship. The wave of Janet Yellen-speculation following in the announcement's wakewas swift. Summers's reasoning? "This is a complex moment in our national life. I have reluctantly concluded ...
  • Reagan's Court v. the Libertarians'
    In 1983, Chief Justice Warren Burger asked Congress to create a new national appeals court to resolve cases the Supreme Court was too busy to hear. At the Reagan White House, a cheeky 28-year-old Harvard Law graduate named John G. Roberts was horrified. “The President we serve has long campaign ...
  • Proof the Left Coast Is the Best Coast?
    The AFL-CIO held its national convention in California last week, and it turns out it couldn’t have picked a better time to be there. For it was last week that California really began to deliver on the promise of the labor-Latino alliance. On Thursday, with the legislature rushing to meet its t ...
  • Anti-Choicers' New Mexico Experiment
    AP Photo/ The Albuquerque Journal, Kitty Clark Fritz; homepage photo by Chloe Hall/The American Prospect Abortion-rights supporters and opponents demonstrate at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In early August, several dozen teenagers and a few adult supervisors desce ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Longtime Racist Joins Constitution Party’s Exe ...
    The Constitution Party, a small third party that has been around in one form or another since 1992, says its goal is “to limit the federal government to its delegated, enumerated, Constitutional functions.” As a practical matter, that has meant that it opposes abortion and most immigration, seek ...
  • FBI: Young People Tricked Into Gaining Address ...
    The FBI believes an antigovernment “sovereign citizens” group may be behind an effort in Austin, Texas, to find out the addresses of police officers and other first responders through a scam in which young people canvass neighborhoods posing as fundraisers for charity. Early last month, the FBI ...
  • Jihadist Born in Alabama and Radicalized in U. ...
    Omar Hammami, the intellectually gifted, popular, church-going teen from small town Daphne, Ala., who turned into a rap song-writing and performing al Qaeda propagandist, was reportedly killed in an ambush on Thursday in southern Somalia. The ambush, according to the Associated Press, was ordere ...
  • Matthew Heimbach Suggests Retaliatory Violence ...
    Matthew Heimbach, a leader of the Traditionalist Youth Network that is trying to set up “white student unions” on various college campuses, just keeps getting more extreme. As Hatewatch reported last week, Heimbach has been sounding like a full-fledged neo-Nazi in recent months, railing about “c ...
  • Oregon Bomb Investigation Centers on Controver ...
    1972 Vietnam Memorial in Coos Bay, Ore photo courtesy of The World Federal authorities are now involved in the investigation of a minor bombing and the threat of more violence in Coos Bay, Ore., where a Christian cross attached to a Vietnam War memorial is the focus of controversy. A small impro ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CDC Report on Antibiotic Resistance in the U.S ...
    "We welcome the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendations regarding antibiotics in factory farms released today in its report. The link between sub-therapeutic use in food animals and antibiotic-resistance in humans is clear, and we must follow through on the ...
  • New Industry-Sponsored Study on Fracking More ...
    In response to a new study on methane leakage from fracking wells, Americans Against Fracking released the following statement: read more
  • More than 100 Groups Call on EPA to Withdraw ...
    Over 100 environmental organizations today called on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to withdraw EPA’s controversial new Protective Action Guides (PAGs), which would allow exposure to very high doses from radiation releases before government would tak ...
  • Statement on Larry Summers' Withdrawal from Fe ...
    Below is a statement from Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica on the Larry Summers' withdrawal from consideration for chair of the Federal Reserve. "Larry Summers' withdrawal from consideration for the chair of the Federal Reserve is a victory for working families, the environ ...
  • Upcoming Case Tests Whether U.S. Supreme Court ...
    Note: On July 25, U.S. Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and David Price (D-N.C.) submitted an amicus curiae, or “friend-of-the-court,” brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of the Federal Election Commission in this case. Public Citizen Attorney Scott Nelson and former U.S. Solici ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Boulder's 100-Year Flood & Weather Weirding
    Tom Weis I have lived in Boulder for nearly 30 years and have never seen anything -- weatherwise -- like what I've witnessed these past two years.(Reuters / John Wark)read more
  • Defending the Public From Greed
    David Morris A month before the 1932 election, Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Portland, Oregon to deliver a speech about government and governance. Some 80 years later, his talk, given in the depths of the Depression to a nation that had ye ...
  • Dollarocracy: How Big Money Undermines Our Dem ...
    Robert McChesney John Nichols (Image: Reuters)“We’ve found through our experience that timid supplications for justice will not solve the problem,” declared the Rev. Martin Luther ...
  • The Origins of Our Police State
    Chris Hedges JaQuan LaPierre, 22, was riding a bicycle down a sidewalk Sept. 5 when he noticed a squad car pulling up beside him. It was 8:30 on a hot Thursday night at the intersection of Bond Street and Jackson Avenue here in Elizabeth, N ...
  • I Hope Syria Will Not Suffer Western Intervent ...
    Jasmina Tesanovic Firefighters tackle the burning Serbian interior ministry building in downtown Belgrade after a Nato cruise missile attack, in April 1999. (Photograph: Stringer/EPA)None of my friends in Belgrade believed that the west wou ...

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Guardian

  • Gun rampage at Washington navy yard leaves 13 ...
    • Worst attack on US military base in America since Fort Hood • Obama: Washington victims faced 'unimaginable violence' • One gunman dead as police hunt second possible shooterA naval base in the heart of Washington DC was rocked by a mass shooting on Monday that left 13 people dead, including t ...
  • Government kicks off Lloyds sale
    Announcement after closure of stock exchange marks significant step in returning bailed out bank to private sectorThe government on Monday began to sell off its stake in Lloyds Banking Group in a move that marks a significant step in returning the bailed out bank to the private sector five years ...
  • CDC warns of 'catastrophic' results of increas ...
    Centers for Disease Control says 23,000 people a year die as a direct result of resistance and 14,000 die from related infectionsThe US faces "potentially catastrophic consequences" if it does not act immediately to combat drug resistance which already kills an estimated 23,000 people a year, th ...
  • Syrian chemical attack used sarin and was wors ...
    Chemical attack on rebel-held areas of Damascus involved rockets known to be in Syrian regime's arsenal, say expertsThe UN has confirmed that the worst chemical weapons attack in 25 years took place in eastern Damascus last month, involving specially designed rockets that spread sarin nerve agen ...
  • Syria crisis: UN inspectors submit chemical we ...
    Follow live updates as a UN report into last month's chemical weapons attack in Syria is expected to be published and France, Britain and the US meet to draft a new UN resolution Matthew WeaverTom McCarthy

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Head of UN Women condemns intimidation targete ...
    Print 16 September 2013 &#150 The head of the United Nations body tasked with promoting women’s rights today condemned the intimidation and targeted killings of female Afghan officials and called for bringing the perpetrators to justice. The latest victim is the top woman police offi ...
  • Gunman Kills Senior Afghan Policewoman as Tali ...
    An Afghan policewoman died and was buried Monday. Sub-Inspector Negara was fatally shot by gunmen outside her home on Sunday. She was apparently targeted because of her gender. Negara was the most senior policewoman in Helmand province. Like many Afghans, she had only one name. She was a mo ...
  • Afghan Presidential Election Process Begins
    ISLAMABAD -- Election officials in Afghanistan have begun accepting the nominations of would-be candidates for presidential polls set for April 5, which could be the first peaceful transfer of power in the history of the war-torn country. The Independent Election Commission, while formally op ...
  • Top Afghan policewoman killed in Helmand
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The top Afghan woman police officer in southern Helmand died in a hospital Monday, a day after she was shot by unidentified gunmen in one of the most troubled provinces in Afghanistan. Sub-inspector Negar, who goes by her first name only, was attacked months after her ...
  • Afghan Policewomen Report High Levels of Sexua ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan ...

Futurismic

  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
  • Improving Reality
    Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Court Ruling Major Setback For National Securi ...
     "Hundreds of Thousands" of Federal Employees Lose Civil Service Rights Washington, D.C. August 20, 2013. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling today potentially stripping "hundreds of thousands" of federal employees rights under civil servic ...
  • NWC's David Colapinto Featured on Program Disc ...
    NWC General Counsel David Colapinto appeared on The Firm, a show on CNBC-TV18 (India).  The Firm produced an in depth segment explaining the SEC's Whistleblower Policy. Mr. Colapinto shared his expertise in this informational program. 
  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Senate Establishes "National Whistleblower App ...
    Yesterday, by an unanimous resolution the U.S. Senate declared July 30, 2013 as "National Whistleblower Appreciation Day." The National Whistleblowers Center strongly supports the Senate's historic action and calls on every American reflect upon the tremendous contributions whistlebl ...
  • Washington Journal: Stephen Kohn on the Mannin ...
    Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Center discusses the military court's decision to refuse to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy" for information given to WikiLeaks. He also discusses federal laws that cover whistleblowers. Bradley Manning Verdict and Trea ...

TechDirt

  • DailyDirt: Dangerous Death-Ray Buildings
    When architects design a new building or bridge, they really need to think through a lot of little details because these things usually last a long time (and take a long time to build). There are some famous design mistakes like the (original) Tacoma Narrows bridge which serves as a physics less ...
  • How Keith Alexander Spent Taxpayer Money To Ma ...
    Last week, in discussing Foreign Policy magazine's giant profile on NSA boss Keith Alexander, we noted the wackiness of his decision, in an earlier job, to have the information center set up to look like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise to impress politicians: When he was running the Army' ...
  • NY Times Doesn't Think That NSA Sharing Raw Co ...
    Last week, we were among those who wrote about the latest revelations via the Guardian about how the NSA was sharing raw communications it had collected with Israeli intelligence. This is a big story for any number of reasons, but apparently the NY Times doesn't think so. When Public Editor Marg ...
  • US Gov't Funded Julian Assange's Crypto Resear ...
    PandoDaily has a fascinating story from Peiter Zatko who had known Julian Assange way back in the day, and last ran into him at Chaos Congress in 2009 (Wikileaks was going strong at this point, but it was well before the release of the "Collateral Murder" video, the accusations of rape, the Ecua ...
  • Netflix Uses Piracy As Market Research, Isn't ...
    We've been amazed at how few players in the traditional entertainment business recognize two basic facts: (1) file sharing is a form of free market research to get a very accurate picture of what people are demanding and (2) the best way to beat it is to offer a better overall experience. Of cou ...

VacTruth

  • Blood Donations are Potential Biohazard from T ...
    The huge wave of serious adverse conditions after Gardasil vaccination has caused deep concern across the world. However, the suffering may not only be limited to those who are vaccinated. Blood donated from individuals vaccinated with Gardasil may have horrific consequences for the recipients’ ...
  • New Minnesota State Law Bans Cancer-Causing Fo ...
    Lawmakers in the state of Minnesota have banned formaldehyde from children’s products. Sadly, vaccines are excluded from this ban.
  • These Weird New Tricks Are Being Used to Vacci ...
    A recent report has stated the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has plowed $100,000 into the development of small pink and blue silicon bracelets to remind mothers that is time for their child to be vaccinated. These are just some of the tricks being used to vaccinate your children.
  • Baby A’s Parents Speak Out Publicly On Radio F ...
    Recently, Baby A’s parents spoke publicly for the first time about their daughter's tragic death and their own forthcoming murder trial on Faridinkum Radio, when host Leon Pitard interviewed them along with VacTruth journalist Christina England and retired police sergeant Chris Savage.
  • This Pharmaceutical Company Used NSA-Like Tact ...
    Pharmaceutical companies like GlaxoSmithKline are collecting data posted on popular websites by parents who are concerned about the safety of vaccines.

BroadSnark

  • Harassment is About Power
    Yesterday it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his employees. Also a groper is  Kentucky state representative John A. Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier this week,  ...
  • Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
    Back when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around $1.35.  Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap. When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...

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War in Context

  • Syrian chemical attack used sarin and was wors ...
    The Guardian reports: The UN has confirmed that the worst chemical weapons attack in 25 years took place in eastern Damascus last month, involving specially designed rockets that spread sarin nerve agent over rebel-held suburbs of the Syrian capital. The report did not assign blame for the attac ...
  • Who was responsible for the August 21st attack?
    Brown Moses Blog: In light of today’s report from the UN confirming the use of sarin in the August 21st attacks in Damascus, I thought I’d take a look at the open source evidence of who is responsible. I’ll be looking at evidence that’s freely available for anyone to exam ...
  • How the U.S. went from, Assad must go, to, he ...
    The New York Times reports: Both sides in Syria’s civil war see the deal to dismantle President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles as a major turning point. It left rebels deflated and government supporters jubilant. And both sides say it means the United States knows Mr. Assad is not ...
  • U.N. report confirms rockets loaded with sarin ...
    The New York Times reports: Rockets armed with the banned chemical nerve agent sarin were used in a mass killing near Damascus on Aug. 21, United Nations chemical weapons inspectors reported Monday in the first official confirmation by nonpartisan scientific experts that such munitions had been ...
  • Who is fighting for what in Syria?
    The Daily Telegraph reports: Opposition forces battling Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria now number around 100,000 fighters, but after more than two years of fighting they are fragmented into as many as 1,000 bands. The new study by IHS Jane’s, a defence consultancy, estimates there ...

Watts Up With That?

  • What People Will Read and See with the IPCC’s ...
    Anthony Watts published an illustration and an excerpt of the draft of the IPCC’s Summary for Policymakers due out later this month. See the WUWT post Excerpts from the Leaked Summary for Policy Makers. Included with his post is the … Continue reading →
  • Getting a second opinion on IPCC’s view ...
    A common argument in warmist circles goes like this missive from Prince Charles: “If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests… The risk of delay is so enormous that we can’t wait until … Continue reading →
  • Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 5: No ice free Ar ...
    It looks like the Maslowski Countdown has ended early and there will be no “ice free Arctic” as predicted this year. From NSIDC, which has a 5 day average in the plot. It looks like the minimum extent is ~5.0-5.1 … Continue reading →
  • Excerpts from the leaked AR5 Summary for Polic ...
    I’ve been given a copy of the “leaked” AR5 SPM, which has been widely circulated and cited in advance in the MSM, but I’ve just now been able to get a copy.  Reportedly, there are some 1800 changes requested by … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    The Week That Was: 2013-09-14 (September 14, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, … Continu ...

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Biosingularity

  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...
  • ▶ Atherosclerosis
    This 3d medical animation illustrates the story of how the buildup of cholesterol plaque causes a heart attack myocardial infarction from a blocked coronary artery due to atherosclerosis, which is chronic inflammation of the blood vessels. Beginning with damage to the endothelial arterial wall, ...
  • Development of a fly embryo in real time
    Development of a fly embryo in real time – YouTube.
  • GBacteria from Lean Humans Can Slim Obese Mice
    Graduate student Vanessa Ridaura and colleagues at the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the September 6 issue of Science that mice lacking bacterial colonies of their own that received gut bacteria from obese humans put on mo ...
  • Brain circuit can tune anxiety
    Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, affect 40 million American adults in a given year. Currently available treatments, such as antianxiety drugs, are not always effective and have unwanted side effects. To develop bett ...

CFACT

  • The U.S. Navy protects world free trade
    The Somali pirates remind us that pirates and bandits can still cut our access to goods and services. North Korea’s closed borders remind us of the poverty and human degradation that goes with isolation. Let us all hope that the U.S. Navy continues to be a global force for the good in the coming ...
  • Aussie Abbott set to axe the carbon tax!
    While other countries are changing course and shedding the unsustainable policies, America stands apart from them by continuing to push, as the Washington Post editorial board encourages, building “the cost of pollution into the price of energy through a simple carbon tax or other market-based m ...
  • No fix for the ethanol caper!
    Only an environmentalist would think it was a good idea to burn food as fuel instead of permitting corn to be used as part of the nation’s food chain and for export. As a former Republican member of the House of Representatives, Bob Beauprez of Colorado, noted in a Washington Times commentary, “ ...
  • Sermonizing at the church of the burning planet
    Scientists who give in to this temptation make meaningless claims; activists for certain causes supported by those claims pull political strings; and the scientists, in turn, are rewarded with more research funding. The result is an “Iron Triangle” of destructively twisted science incentives. Li ...
  • Join CFACT’s Paul Driessen for this live ...
    Job Creation! How the shale boom is fueling employment Wednesday, September 11, 2013 Noon to 1:30 p.m. EDT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Church of Chelyabinsk Meteorite Founded in Rus ...
    The meteorite that hit Russia’s Urals Mountains in mid-February contained “scriptures” that can usher in a new age on Earth, say followers of a new religious group in Russia, local media reported Monday.     
  • WWII Chemicals Threaten Baltic Marine Life - R ...
    Some 50,000 tons of bombs and missiles dumped in the Baltic Sea after World War II are contaminating the seabed and causing mutations in local fish population, according to the recently reported findings of European marine researchers.     
  • Russian Space Agency Explains ‘Blind Landing’ ...
    The head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency on Friday denied reports that the spacecraft that brought a crew of the International Space Station back to Earth this week had to execute a “blind landing” due to malfunctioning sensors.     
  • NASA Confirms Voyager Spacecraft Has Left Sola ...
    The Voyager 1 space probe has left our solar system and entered interstellar space, NASA said Thursday after analyzing recent data from the craft’s sensors.     
  • NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Biggest Known Gr ...
    A team of international scientists has used NASA's Hubble space telescope to discover the largest known group of dense bunches of stars called globular clusters, more than two billion light years away, the US space agency said Thursday.     

Natural Health News

  • Certain Fruits May Be Linked to a Lower Risk o ...
    By Dr. Mercola You’re probably well-familiarized with my controversial stance on fructose. Compelling evidence shows that fructose is, by far, more harmful to your health than other sugars—especially when it’s removed from whole fruits and highly processed and genetically mo ...
  • Common Myths About Sunglasses That Can Hurt You
    By Dr. Mercola Just as a natural, non-toxic sunscreen can be beneficial when you’re going to be exposed to excessive amounts of sunlight, sunglasses, too, have their place. If you’re downhill skiing or out on the water, sunglasses can help to shield your eyes from sun damage &hel ...
  • Campaign for Mercury-Free Dentistry Celebrates ...
    By Dr. Mercola Today we begin the third Mercury-free Dentistry Week. We set aside an entire week for three reasons. First, we build awareness of this stark fact: Dental amalgam is 50 percent mercury. Through misleading marketing to the public and through gagging dentists wh ...
  • Documentary: Numen
    The producers of Numen: The Nature of Plants have generously made it possible for Mercola subscribers to watch a free on-line screening of their film. You can support their work by hosting a screening, purchasing the DVD as a gift for friends or for your own public library. Your purchase ...
  • 5 Common Chewing Gum Ingredients That May Caus ...
    By Dr. Mercola You might not pay much attention to the ingredients in chewing gum because, after all, it’s not actually swallowed. But the ingredients, many of which are potentially dangerous, do enter your body, directly through the walls of your mouth. As with the toxic ingredients i ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Can the U.S. Legally Deny a Visa to Sudan’s Pr ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and the U.S. State Department are using unequivocal language to condemn Sudan’s President Omar Bashir’s application for a visa to attend the U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York.  But this tough talk is prob ...
  • IL/IR Book Discussion: Beyond the “Isms War”?
    by Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack by Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack [Jeffrey L. Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law and Mark A. Pollack is professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam at Temple University] One of the ...
  • IL/IR Book Discussion: Steinberg Reply to Hurd
    by Richard Steinberg by Richard Steinberg [Richard H. Steinberg is Professor of Law at the University of California. Los Angeles; Visiting Professor of International, Comparative & Area Studies at Stanford University; and Director of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project.] I am gra ...
  • IL/IR Book Discussion: Comment on Richard Stei ...
    by Ian Hurd by Ian Hurd [Ian Hurd is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Northwestern University] Steinberg opens his chapter with the line that “realism is the theory that international lawyers love to hate.” But he goes on to present a version of realism that is so encompassing th ...
  • IL/IR Book Discussion: Wanted- Dead or Alive: ...
    by Richard Steinberg by Richard Steinberg [Richard H. Steinberg is Professor of Law at the University of California. Los Angeles; Visiting Professor of International, Comparative & Area Studies at Stanford University; and Director of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project.] “Realism ...

Public News Service

  • Letting Kids Be Kids - The Benefits of Roughho ...
    Letting Kids Be Kids - The Benefits of Roughhousing PHOENIX - It's an order that has passed the lips of many a parent - "Quit that horsin' around!" But a better option may be to loosen the reins a bit. According to Larry Cohen, a licensed psychologist who encourages roughhousing, physical engage ...
  • Awareness, Education Focus of Suicide Preventi ...
    Awareness, Education Focus of Suicide Prevention Week PHOENIX – Awareness and education is the focus of National Suicide Prevention Week in Arizona and across the country this week. Lisa Brattain with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention says recognizing and treating depression ...
  • AZ Remains Third-Highest State for K-12 Educat ...
    AZ Remains Third-Highest State for K-12 Education Cuts Phoenix, AZ - Despite a recent $82-million increase in state K-12 education funding, Arizona still has the third-highest state funding cuts per student since the recession began. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows state funding ...
  • Keeping Poor White Women Alive
    Keeping Poor White Women Alive PHOENIX - The life expectancy of white, female high school dropouts has dropped markedly in the past 20 years, according to researchers in population, human longevity and public health. Poor, undereducated, white American women can now expect to die five years ear ...
  • Congress Debates Military Strike on Syria
    Congress Debates Military Strike on Syria PHOENIX - Congress is debating a possible military strike against the regime in Syria. Supporters say the U.S. has no choice but to punish Syria for a chemical attack on its own people. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food

Pensieve

  • Medicine for Bleak Mornings
    Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
  • At my work desk remembering the good times at ...
    aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:
  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...

Green Times

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Rooftop solar panels can be problematic for fi ...
    Firefighters in New Jersey were unable to get on the roof to battle a major fire at a distribution center, due to electrocution concerns from rooftop solar panels. Instead of being able to battle the flames from the roof they were forced to do so from afar, and the entire structure was lost. Sol ...
  • How Detroit went broke. It didn’t have to happen
    The Detroit Free Press (a mainstream newspaper) has a sobering in depth look at why their beloved city is bankrupt. It’s the usual culprits. Politicians who spent recklessly, took on huge debt, gave themselves and public workers huge pensions, and hired more and more employees. Wall Street ...
  • The frightening truth: Those running NSA are t ...
    Snowden was a sysadmin. He took documents. The NSA solution is to fire 90% of sysadmins and replace them with software. Gosh, that means crackers only need to breach one piece of software to get access to everything. And who will write that software, test it, and then monitor it? NSA doesn&#8217 ...
  • NSA spies on international credit card transac ...
    The voracious spy agency that is NSA continues to break laws it doesn’t like and ignore international friendships and relationships. All it wants is more data. If you believe they are doing this to prevent terrorism, I got a nice bridge for sale. NSA is a monster determined to watch everyt ...
  • Noogies from Putin

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • Yellowstone jolted with small earthquake
    YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — A small earthquake jolted Yellowstone National Park near Old Faithful geyser on Sunday. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 3.6 magnitude temblor occurred just before 10 a.m. with the epicenter located about 6 miles north of Old Faithful, one of the park&# ...
  • DC Navy Yard shooting – Multiple Shooters
    Will this be tracked back to Iran and Syria? Reeks of desperation! Look for “Multiple Shooters” to be scaled down to one lone nut? Four people have been confirmed dead and eight injured, after a shooting at a Navy Yard in Washington DC. Witnesses say a gunman was shooting from the 4t ...
  • Charlotte police kill unarmed man who may have ...
    (CNN) — Police in North Carolina shot and killed a man running toward them Saturday morning — but he may have just been looking for help after a car wreck. Officers responded to a “breaking and entering” 911 call at a home in Charlotte. The homeowner told dispatchers that ...
  • FU-UN? Syria’s “Rebels” Thre ...
    (Remember when all of the Neo Cons were sticking to their WMD in Iraq claims looong after the proof was out there that Iraq was bluffing? They said that the WMDs were moved to Syria (they didnt know where despite total satellite surveillance!!!) Well ha ha …. They are now claiming that Syr ...
  • Government Seeking Inclusion of ‘Social and Be ...
    We have been warning Americans for years…. Govt “Healthcare” means a colossal invasion of privacy! And a complete Big Brother management / punishment for bad behavior!   Free Beacon The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to require health care providers ...

The Air Vent

  • Weaponized “Science”
    I don’t have much time today unfortunately, but there was a minor kerfuffel in the news about a study (a term very loosely used) which according to the media reporters (also loosely used)  shows that Fox news watchers are being tricked by Fox into “distrust” of climate scientis ...
  • Climate Science – A Field of Dreams
    Real Climate is still trying to communicate the message that climate science needs to communicate better, never realizing that the content of their message is their problem.  I mean, the first link on their page is to a Richard Alley presentation, where he flat says that there is no reason to ad ...
  • Regulatory Creep
    The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States is one of the largest and most draconian governmental organizations on the planet.  Under Obama, it has also become one of the most powerful.   The ability to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, being one of the chief new results of Obama’s ...
  • Time Travel
    Well, I’m not really interested in replacing coal plants as our eco-nazi climate science community would have us do, but there are a bunch of forms of nuclear power which are viable replacements and this one is fairly interesting to me.   A smaller modular plant produced in a factory using ...
  • Fools and Their Right to be Fools
    Socialist Liberalism is completely out of control in this world, and now it has infected every aspect of American governance.   Nearly every news article is biased with complete left-wing nonsense and any prospect of fair representative governance is in ruins.   There is no media check for the r ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook developing marketing mix model soluti ...
    Facebook strives to be taken seriously as an advertising option. The company has rolled out simpler advertising methods and a Facebook for Business hub, where the social network can show what it can do for brands....
  • Facebook PMD KRDS announces PromoFactory — a t ...
    KRDS, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer in pages and apps, announced Monday that by Sept. 30, the company will launch PromoFactory, a timeline promotion and contest tool. In response to Facebook’s recent changes regarding promotions, KRDS...
  • Study: One Facebook like can ignite a current ...
    B2B companies accept the power of word-of-mouth marketing. These companies know the weight that a recommendation from a colleague about their services or products carry. B2B firms know that all it takes is one positive testimonial...
  • Facebook platform industry hires: Offerpop
    Offerpop, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer in apps, recently announced a round of talented new hires. Offerpop drew from Patch.com (an AOL company), ExactTarget and Oracle, among others. Here’s the full list of new hires by...
  • Exploring Power Editor’s recent changes
    Change 1: Ad Creation Flow and Interface Polishing One first thing that you will notice when using the new power editor is the reconfiguration of how you create ads.  Instead of cycling through the different steps on...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • It's a Wrap: Obama is No Bush Warmonger
    Apparently, short of invasion, no president named Obama will hawk the audacity of war with the urgency of now. What klutz orchestrates a remote, one-shot war without rounding up home troops, political and otherwise, in advance?
  • The Financial Core of the Transnational Capita ...
    While millions suffer, a transnational financial elite seeks returns on trillions of dollars that speculate on the rising costs of food, commodities, land, and other life sustaining items for the primary purpose of financial gain. They do this in cooperation with each other in a global system o ...
  • "We Just Wish for the Hit to Put an End to the ...
    When I asked the refugees of Zaatari about alternatives to US intervention like a massive international aid effort, or the Russian-brokered deal to confiscate the Syrian regime's chemical weapons supply, I was immediately dismissed. "Just hit Assad and leave us to take care of ourselves!" a 65-y ...
  • The Populist Rebellion That Tripped Up Larry S ...
    The Fed is a staggeringly powerful institution, with the resources and influence to define the direction of the US economy, the character of the nation's "too-big-to-fail" banks and the extent to which unemployment issues are addressed. Unfortunately, the Fed has a long history of serving Wall S ...
  • Not the Last, Just the Next
    Another Monday, another madman with a weapon. What else is there to say? We posted a long list last Monday of shooting deaths over that last weekend. And, there's a fresh batch of gunfire and smoke to greet us this week -- every week. It just never stops...

Switchboard

  • Anglo American Dumps the Pebble Mine
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA Today Anglo American, a 50 percent partner in the Pebble Limited Partnership, announced that it is withdrawing from Pebble Mine – a giant gold and copper mine proposed at the h ...
  • Clean Energy Research, Development, and Demons ...
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco The California Legislature just voted to establish a $162 million annual clean energy research, development, and demonstration program, allowing the newly minted Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) ...
  • Americans Tell EPA Loud and Clear: Stop Pebble ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Senior Policy Analyst, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California BOOM!  The comments to EPA are in, and the numbers are incredible. Hundreds of thousands of Americans spoke up and said “NO” t ...
  • Senate Must Reject Climate-Deniers' Latest Gam ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. The Senate’s climate-change deniers are trying a new gambit to block the president’s Climate Change Action Plan.  At a time when the real costs of clima ...
  • Where superbugs come from: CDC report reiterat ...
    Carmen Cordova, Sustainable Livestock Science Fellow, San Francisco A CDC report released earlier today highlights the growing public health crisis that threatens our health. Superbugs or antibiotic resistant bacteria are increasingly a problem as p ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Developers, Knight Fellows Mingle at Matter Event
    About 20 Knight Alumni and Fellows recently converged on a big-windowed workspace in San Francisco's South of Market district. Sure, there was pizza and beer, but what really drew them was the chance to crunch ideas with developers working to "change media for good." The dozen or so ...
  • Join the Zeega Makers Challenge for 'The Makin ...
    In 24 hours, Zeegas -- a new form of interactive media -- will be installed on four projection screens at San Francisco's renowned Museum of Modern Art. This showcase is part of "The Making Of..." -- a collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR's Localore, ...
  • OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
    Hundreds of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's largest o ...
  • The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
    Recent events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices. While the tsun ...
  • Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair. Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Cameroon on Edge - Voter ID Card Controversy M ...
    Campaigning for parliamentary and local elections is officially underway in Cameroon, amid controversy over the alleged fabrication and buying of fake voter cards ahead of the September 30 poll.Loudspeakers placed at strategic locations and in populous neighborhoods of Cameroon’s capital blare ...
  • The Digital Edge - US Doctors Aid Syrians With ...
    A field hospital near Aleppo was destroyed Wednesday by shelling, killing the six medical personnel inside, and patients. The Syrian American Medical Society says that hospital was the third that has been destroyed in the town in two years - in a war that has killed more than 100,000 people. A g ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Syria's Chemical Disarm ...
    When chemical-weapons experts work with things as dangerous as mustard gas and sarin, they don't like to be rushed. But a fast timetable is exactly what the United States and Russia have agreed for Syria. The deadline of mid-2014 for destroying all of Syria's chemical weapons is the fastest sche ...
  • Afghanistanon Edge - Author Provides Glimpse I ...
    Underground converts to Christianity, shadowy male cross-dressers, and gay bloggers are not usually associated with Afghanistan. And yet they are part of the real but often unseen world Afghans live in. That unknown side of Afghanistan is the topic of a new book, "Afghan Rumor Bazaar: Secret Sub ...
  • The Edge of Violence - At Least 12 Killed in S ...
    At least twelve people, including a gunman, were killed in shootings on Monday in and around the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. Gray said at a news conference Monday afternoon that there was no known motive for the rampage, ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Speech Obama Should Give On Keystone XL B ...
    Bill Henderson writes a speech for Obama
  • The Downwinders : Fracking Ourselves To Deat ...
    Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty b ...
  • Boston, Brazil And Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, ...
    The official purpose of Hagel’s recent visit to Israel was to finalize US arms sales to Israel and other countries which total about $10 billion. Knowing how such weapons have been used in the past, one can hardly appreciate the ‘sarcasm’ in Eric Rush’s tweet of wanting to ‘kill them all.’ Per t ...
  • From Lidice To Deir Yassin: The Unbearable Sha ...
    The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons o ...
  • Postcard From The End Of America : San Jose B ...
    Each of my visit to San Jose is a kind of homecoming, for my father, brother and, uh, absolutely composed, considerate and non-screaming stepmother are still here, and have lived here for decades. Though I have no sentimental attachment to this place, I also don't hate it. Personal crap can be t ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • Obama: Will Negotiate With Putin, Assad and Ev ...
    Throughout his Presidency Obama has refused to negotiate with Congress unless he was up against a wall with no other options. Today he has held true to form and said he would not negotiate with Congress over the debt ceiling--and he made the claim in his usual hypocritical way.  In ...
  • Obama Appeasement Policy on Syria Reminiscent ...
    By Barry Rubin Last week, President Barack Obama proposed a policy of allying with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafists, and al-Qaeda against Syria. What is amazing about Islamism parallels the debate on appeasing--rather than opposing--Hitler based on newly released British intellige ...
  • New Pew Poll: Americans Hate Obamacare More Th ...
    The more Americans learn about Obamacare and begin to feel the negative effects of the President's oppressive signature legislation the more they hate the bill. With health insurance exchanges set to open on Oct. 1, the latest national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY, ...
  • IPCC, The UN's Global Warming Authority Says O ...
    One of the problems with the Global Warming Hoax is the climate scientists are too reliant on computer models. They will work for years coming up with proprietary computer models containing all their prejudices, input thousands of numbers based on their presumptions and come up wit ...
  • House Oversight Committee Says Hillary's Bengh ...
    According to a report compiled and leaked last night by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee the  State Department willfully obstructed the congressional investigation of the terrorist  attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi last year, and the State Departm ...

Wind Watch

  • A setback for wind farms
    An airplane that never takes off. A diesel truck idling. An interstate highway. Tennis shoes thumping in a dryer. That’s how several Vermilion County residents who live in the California Ridge wind project describe the various noises from wind turbines near their homes. “Sometimes it ...
  • Operator says dozens of endangered bats could ...
    CHARLESTON — The operator of a southern West Virginia wind farm estimates that several dozen endangered bats could be killed by flying into turbine blades during a 25-year period, according to a federal review of the risks to the flying mammals. The estimated death toll comes as Beech Ridge Ener ...
  • Tribes lead fight against eagle ‘take&#8 ...
    American Indian tribes have emerged as vocal opponents of an Obama administration plan to allow wind farms to harm or kill a limited number of eagles. From the Osage Nation of northern Oklahoma to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, tribes are urging the Fish and Wildlife Service to abandon plans to perm ...
  • Planners rule some Lake Michigan Energy Park w ...
    Long-time Lake Winds Energy Park critic Evelyn Bergaila had urged the commission take that literal interpretation of “though shall” rule in violation if there was an exceedance of 45 dba. She said in 2003, during a planning commission meeting, she had been told if there was a violation the turbi ...
  • Federal biologists tally eagle deaths at US wi ...
    Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists. The research represents one of the first tallies of eagle deaths attributed to the nation’s growi ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Aggregation and curation in journalism
    About two months ago, I had to explain the concept and use of aggregation in online journalism to a group of journalists (mostly editors) in Vietnam. I found most of my material in this blog post by Steve Buttry — and in fact, much of what you need to know is in his headline: Link, attribu ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use Hoo ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: I ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...

Facing South

  • Homicides soar in states with 'Stand Your Grou ...
    Image Caption:  A new report documents an increase in homicides in states with controversial Stand Your Ground laws and shows the disproportionate impact they have on African Americans. A new report documents an overall rise i ...
  • The Gini is out of the bottle: Why Wall Street ...
    Image Caption:  People protested growing income inequality at a NAACP-led march in North Carolina earlier this year. (Photo by Sue Sturgis) The U.S. has witnessed a sharp climb in income inequality since the 1970s -- and its e ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Promoting the myth of 'sustai ...
    Image Caption:  A mountaintop removal mining site in Central Appalachia. (Photo by Vivian Stockman of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition during a flyover by SouthWings.) A group of prominent Democrats has launched a proj ...
  • McCutcheon Supreme Court case could give mone ...
    Image Caption:  As more money pours into politics, the public is losing trust in government. (Photo by Steve Goodyear via Flickr.) The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month in McCutcheon v. FEC, a case t ...
  • AFL-CIO resolves to organize the South
    Image Caption:  The AFL-CIO has promised to make increasing union membership in the South a top priority. With workplace organizing efforts in the region already making progress, the AFL-CIO adopted a resolution at its nationa ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Emptywheel is fundraising
    The blog does good work, and Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) does work that is simply not found anywhere else, in depth analysis no one else does.  If you can afford to give (never give if your own food or rent is iffy), please consider doing so. (Fundraising post).
  • Late nineteenth and early 20th century intelle ...
    I want to get some notes down on the reasons for certain literary tropes and intellectual beliefs in the late 19th and early 20th century.  The difference in how our ancestors thought about the world really smacks you in the face if you read 19th and pre-WWII fiction.  This is true from pulp fic ...
  • Putin Stings America
    I bring to your attention these two beauties: “We have a contract for the delivery of the S-300s. We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn’t been completed. We have suspended it for now. But if we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international ...
  • The intolerance of genius
    One of the reasons, today, that we have such mediocre progress on important issues, is the unwillingness to put up with geniuses who don’t have “soft skills”, aka. who don’t play well with others. (Obligatory note, this isn’t a post about me.)  There is this odd bel ...
  • Twain’s War Prayer
    (note that it was rejected for publication during his lifetime. The truly important writings often are or sell atrociously.) The War Prayer By Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Conservationists fear Bounty Mining coal mine ...
    ABC – A landmark deal between Indigenous owners and a mining company for a coal mine on Cape York has prompted conservationists to warn of an impending environmental disaster. Cape York Indigenous leader Gerhardt Pearson and the Kalpowar people have signed the deal with mining company Boun ...
  • FEATURE PAGE – The effects of Anthropoge ...
    We’re all doomed! Well according to the hysteria coming from the proponents of the theory of Anthropogenic Climate Change anyway. From causing everything from Acne to World War Four damn this climate change is scary stuff. To find out just how scary it apparently is CLICK HERE EDITORS WARN ...
  • Babies given Calpol just once a month ‘a ...
    Daily Mail – hildren who are given Calpol are far more likely to develop asthma, a major study has found. Those given the medicine once a month are five times more at risk while even having it just once a year increases the chances by 70 per cent. Read article
  • Australia – Territory to legalise same-s ...
    Canberra Times – The ACT government will introduce a bill on Thursday to legalise same-sex marriage in the territory and has vowed to fight off any federal or court challenge to the laws. Attorney-General Simon Corbell will announce the bill on Monday. It is set to make the ACT the first A ...
  • Rain slows rescue efforts amid deadly Colorado ...
    CNN – “Mother Nature is not cooperating.” That was the message Sunday from frustrated authorities battling even more bad weather in flood-hit Colorado. Heavy clouds and rain grounded helicopters, slowing the search for the nearly 500 people who remain unaccounted for. Authoriti ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Revealed: How Cristiano Ronaldo landed re ...
    The Portugal international is to be paid a basic weekly salary of £338,000 after signing a five-year contract on Sunday, making him the best paid player in the history of football SPECIAL REPORT By Duncan Castles Cristiano Ronaldo's new Real Madrid contract makes him not only the best paid f ...
  • Katy Perry Calls Out Rihanna: 'We All Kno ...
    Katy Perry and Rihanna may have burned through men, but when it comes to each other, they found love. The best friends and singers haven't been shy about expressing their friendship, hugging, giggling and fondling each other during award shows and on the red carpet. So it's no surprise that ...
  • Google Has Ambitious Plans To Tear Down T ...
    Google CEO Larry Page. See Also Google's moving the chains once again as it bares down for its next big moonshot project: to blow up the language barrier. Spiegel reports on some ambitious new plans for the Google Translate team to develop a voice-enabled universal translator. Just like some ...
  • Arrested prelate tells magistrates of sec ...
    Catholic Church Reuters September 16, 2013 - 15:48 By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican department in charge of paying salaries and managing real estate acted improperly as a parallel bank, providing accounts to outsiders, an arrested prelate who worked there for 22 years has told ...
  • Matt Kenseth wins opening Chase race at C ...
    JOLIET, Ill. — Matt Kenseth pulled away from teammate Kyle Busch to win the opening race in the Chase for Sprint Cup championship. The steely win by the top seed in the Chase helped restore a sense of normalcy at the end of a week that saw NASCAR fighting the biggest credibility crisis ...

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

  • Obama Admits: Top One Percent Is Winning, Poor ...
    President Barack Obama (Photo: Alexander Vilf/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)Five years after the financial collapse, President Obama admitted Sunday that his administration has overseen a deepening gulf between rich and poor, with 95 percent of all income gains going to the top one percent ...
  • Obama Admits: Top One Percent Is Winning, Poor ...
    President Barack Obama (Photo: Alexander Vilf/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)Five years after the financial collapse, President Obama admitted Sunday that his administration has overseen a deepening gulf between rich and poor, with 95 percent of all income gains going to the top one percent ...
  • Typhoon Forces Dumping of Radioactive Water at ...
    As Typhoon Man-Yi crashed into Japan on Monday with heavy winds and rain, the owners of the Fukushima nuclear power plant were forced to hurriedly pump rising levels of stored radioactive water into the ocean in order to fend off the threat of a further disaster. ...
  • Typhoon Forces Dumping of Radioactive Water at ...
    As Typhoon Man-Yi crashed into Japan on Monday with heavy winds and rain, the owners of the Fukushima nuclear power plant were forced to hurriedly pump rising levels of stored radioactive water into the ocean in order to fend off the threat of a further disaster. ...
  • US Maintains Threat of War as UN Confirms Sari ...
    Professor Ake Sellstrom, head of the UN chemical weapons investigation in Syria, handing over the report on the Al-Ghouta massacre to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday Sept. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/United Nations, Paulo Filgueiras) UPDATED (3:05 PM EST): ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Eliminating Tree-Tree Roots from a Brick Building
    Getting to the Root of the Problem Do You Need Help with a Tree Growing in your Brick Wall? Scotts Contracting will get to the Root of the Problem! Photo collection of Removing a Tree from a Masonry Brick Wall in StLouis and repairing the damage the Tree Roots had caused  to the Brick Building. ...

Green House - USA Today

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 Role of Foreign Banks in US History
    Stuff They Forgot to Teach in High School The Money Masters Ben Still 1996 Film Review   Produced twelve years before the 2008 economic collapse, The Money Masters provides a comprehensive outline of the role of the international banking cartel in hijacking America’s so-called ...
  • The NSA is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
      Guest post by Steven Miller and Satish Musunuru (Part 5 of a five-part post on the corporatization of Internet surveillance.) The capitalist class deliberately distorts the class nature of the state. This is a scientific question, not an ideological one. Government is the administra ...
  • A Marxian Analysis of Information Technology
    Guest post by Steven Miller and Satish Musunuru  (Part 4 of a five-part series on the corporatization of Internet surveillance.) Relations of Production Since Bill Gates raised the question, what do communists have to say about turning the Internet into private property? Karl Marx show ...
  • The Corporatization of the Internet
    Guest post by Steven Miller and Satish Musunuru (Part 3 of a five-part series about the corporatization of Internet surveillance.) Bill Gates Dismisses Open Source Pioneers as Communists From the beginning, Bill Gates argued that no public discussion of who controls the Internet should even ...
  • The Early Internet Vision: Public and Free
    Linux: Free Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Windows Guest Post by Steven Miller and Satish Musunuru (Part 2 of a five-part series on the corporatization of Internet surveillance.) Back to the Future Back in the early 1990s, the Internet was barely beginning. Everyone was dazzled about t ...

FourWinds10

  • Offshore Fracking Uproar Grows in California I ...
    Aug. 22, 2013 n the three weeks since a Truthout investigation revealed that federal regulators have approved at least two hydraulic fracturing operations in federal waters of the Santa Barbara Channel since 2009, a state commission has launched an investigation into the practice, California law ...
  • Study links fracking with methane-contaminated ...
    June 26, 2013 Household drinking water that comes from wells near known fracking sites contains levels of methane six times greater than what’s common elsewhere, a new study has found. Researchers at Duke University sampled drinking water from 141 wells across northeastern Pennsylvania and ...
  • Fukushima: Radioactive cesium levels jump 9,00 ...
    July 24, 2013 (NaturalNews) Some of the highest levels of ionizing radiation yet detected since the disaster first occurred were recently recorded at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan, according to shocking new reports. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs the ...
  • Worldwide Air Pollution Deaths Per Year Number ...
    July 22, 2013 Air pollution may be responsible for more than 2 million deaths around the world each year, according to a new study. The study estimated that 2.1 million deaths each year are linked with fine particulate matter, tiny particles that can get deep into the lungs and cause health prob ...
  • Ecosystem and Food Supply Threatened by Gross ...
    June 18, 2013 Research has shown that many pesticides are neurotoxic and can cause disruptions to your neurological system and your brain. The reason why neurotoxins still enjoy widespread use on our food supply is really more about the bottom line for farming operations than it is about the sci ...

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

  • Addressing Misleading Claims of Arctic Sea Ice ...
    There have been many claims brought to my attention this week alleging the “final nail in the coffin” of anthropogenic global warming – the same nail that’s been fumbled around by deniers and the unfortunately misled for decades now.
  • US Navy Triples Funding For Clean Energy In Hawaii
    The US Navy has just pumped $30 million into the Energy Excelerator, a funding agency for renewable energy start-ups in Hawaii. Even at that modest initial funding level, the program has raised private sector follow-on investments totaling more than $38 million.
  • Conflict Could Be Good for Energy Investors: I ...
    Marin Katusa is the chief investment strategist for the energy division of Casey Research. A regular part of his due diligence process for Casey Research includes property tours, visiting hundreds of mining and energy producing and exploration projects all around the world.
  • Alberta's New Wetland Policy Gives a Pass to T ...
    The people of Alberta have sought a policy to protect its valuable wetlands from degradation by the tar sands industry. Over the past eight years, tar sands development has destroyed numerous wetlands in Alberta’s boreal forest, one of North America’s carbon storehouses.
  • Remembering the Contributions of Ronald Coase
    On September 2nd, Ronald Coase, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Chicago Law School, Nobel laureate, and principal creator of the academic field of law and economics, passed away at the age of 102.

Rodale News

  • Are You Suffering from "False Hunger" Pains?
    Adapted from the New York Times bestseller The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction by Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. You hunger for a better life, the freedom to ...
  • Big News: Walmart Kicks Toxic Chemicals Out of ...
    In a major move announced on September 12, 2013, Walmart will soon start kicking toxic chemicals to the curb. At the company's annual Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting, Walmart officials announced that it is launching a chemicals reform policy that will require household-cleaner, cosmetic ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: How to Make Sourdough Starter
    Before commercial dried yeast was invented, bread bakers just saved a bit of the finished but unbaked dough from each batch and mixed it with more flour and water to start the next batch. They didn't know why it worked, just that saved dough seemed to jump-start the transformation of a mixture ...
  • Broccoli—The New Sunscreen?
    What we were talking about this week… It isn't just tea for wusses: Drinking warm water with lemon really is a radical health boost. Food-safety news to squawk about: USDA wants to process more chicken with fewer inspectors . They'll just try to avoid foodborne illness using industry-funded i ...
  • Is This "Healthy" Plant Wrecking Your Health?
    Is wheat bad for you? You wouldn't think so, given the advice you hear to load up on whole grains. In today's world, whole-wheat spaghetti is heralded as a healthy alternative to white pasta, with organic, sprouted wheat bread the choice for health-conscious sandwiches. But the truth is, modern ...

big think

  • Why Does the NSA Control Center Look Like the ...
    Growing up, I fell in love with Science Fiction watching reruns of Star Trek , the version now known to fans as “The Original Series.” The storylines and (then state of the art) special effects hooked me early on, but it was the interplay between William Shatner’s Captain James T. Kirk, Leo ...
  • Angry Birds Arrive In Shanghai Classroom
    What's the Latest Development? Last week, six-year-olds at a Shanghai early-learning center became the first to experience Angry Birds Playground, a educational curriculum developed by Rovio in partnership with the University of Helsinki. The program covers a broad range of subjects and ...
  • My Latest Adventures in the Sensory World
    One of the things my lab is doing is building a vibratory vest so that we can feed in sensory information through the skin of your torso rather than through more typical sensory channels.  So, for example, we’re doing this for people who are deaf who want to be able to hear.  We set up a ...
  • The Paradox of Success
    We philosophers deal in paradoxes.  And probably the most known and ancient paradox is the paradox of happiness.  That if you pursue happiness directly it tends to allude you.  But if you do things that are meaningful, are valuable to others, things that you’re really passionate about because yo ...
  • Understanding the Religious View of Freedom an ...
    Religion starts with the view that we are torn between good and evil.  There is a definitely a good core, but it’s permanently tempted.  And so what the individual needs is a structure which will constantly try and tug a person back towards the best of themselves.  Religions do not see that effo ...

Groklaw

  • Presiding juror in Microsoft-Motorola trial a ...
    Among the interesting tidbits to come out of the recently concluded Microsoft-Motorola patent trial is this fact: The presiding juror was Mary-Claire King, a University of Washington professor and a renowned geneticist who played a leading role in the identification of breast cancer genes. King ...
  • Bruce Schneier's 5 tips: A guide to staying mo ...
    Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.... At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping se ...
  • Obama reassures Europeans over US surveillance
    Obama said additional changes to the programs may be required because of advances in technology. He said his national security team along with an independent board is reviewing everything to strike the right balance between the government's surveillance needs and civil liberties. "There may be ...
  • Black Budget Summary: Consolidated Cryptologic ...
    The resources devoted to signals intercepts are extraordinary. Nearly 35,000 employees are listed under a sweeping category called the Consolidated Cryptologic Program, which includes the NSA as well as the surveillance and code-breaking components of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines. [Cf. ...
  • LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities N ...
    According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It a ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • New endocrine disruptor found in bottled water
    Chemistry World commissioned me to report on this new EDC and used a short version of my story. Here’s the full pre-edit. German researchers have used a combination of bioassay work and high-resolution mass spectrometry to pin down the source of endrocrine-disrupting behaviour in 18 bottle ...
  • Silver’s gold standards for stats
    Nate Silver’s Statistical Standards: Statistics aren’t just numbers Data requires context Correlation is not causation The average is still the most useful statistical tool ever invented Human intuition can often cause errors when it comes to making statistical judgments and inferenc ...
  • Could rhyming save the world?
    Could a rhyming comic book help save the world? The Universe Verse is an illustrated, rhyming ode to science that appeals to the child in anyone, and it’s raising money on Kickstarter.com until Sept 29th. Fun-loving authos and illustrator James Lu Dunbar has just launched a fundraising cam ...
  • Elemental discoveries – ununpentium
    Experiments carried out between 14th July and 10th August 2003 involving scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at the U400 cyclotron with the Dubna gas-filled recoil separator, DGFRS) in Russia in a collaboration also involving scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National La ...
  • Earth calling Cassini
    People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a collage from those images. ...

RFF Library

  • Organizational and Institutional Issues in Cli ...
    International Food Policy Research Institute / by Catherine Ragasa, et al. http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01279.pdf [From Press Release]  This report provides some reflections and insights on the level of awareness, practices, and organizational and institutional is ...
  • Wind Turbines Do Not Affect US Residential Pro ...
    A Spatial Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of Wind Energy Facilities on Surrounding Property Values in the United States / by Ben Hoen, et al. US DOE, Berkeley National Laboratory http://emp.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/lbnl-6362e.pdf [From Press Release] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkele ...
  • State-dependent Climate Sensitivity in Past Wa ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (August 27, 2013 v110 n35 p14162-14167; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1303365110 ) / by  Rodrigo Caballeroa and Matthew Huber http://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14162.short Projections of future climate depend critically on refined estimates of climate sensiti ...
  • Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; ...
    US Fish and Wildlife Service | US NOAA (50 CFR Part 424) http://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/20130820%20424_19_final%20e-version%20to%20OFR.pdf [From a Greenwire article by Phil Taylor, sub. req'd]  The Interior Department late last week finalized a rule to determine how and when it ...
  • Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Asses ...
    National Renewable Technology Laboratory http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/2283.html [From Press Release]  A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive ...

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • Fresh hope for people with disabilities?
    Government promises more individualized approaches, closing of institutions A new government report on Community Services Services for People with Disabilities (SPD) program represen ...
  • Students Launch Politician Apathy Campaign
    Dalhousie Student Union responds to the lack of political feedback on their student platform   Students at Dalhousie University are taking action to voice their demands for th ...
  • Whose Values? On Nationalism in English Canada ...
    Since the details of the PQ’s proposed Charter of Québec Values were first leaked to the media a few weeks ago, there has been a firestorm of condemnation across the Rest of Canada (ROC). The corporate media’s universal denunciations on the matter are matched only by the many petitio ...
  • Throwing a Wrench in the "Capitalism Works" Piece
    I'm not sure quite where to start my rant on this public art project in Times Square by Steve Lambert (http://gothamist.com/2013/09/12/talk_about_capitalism_in_the_heart.php), given that it perturbs me on so many levels. The artist mig ...
  • SMU isn’t alone in rape culture, rally organiz ...
    Saint Mary’s University isn’t alone in rape culture, students, admin and faculty heard at a rally Thursday. “We are the quiet, the ones who drop out of classes because our rapist is sitting beside us,” El Jones read over the microphone. About 110 people gathered in the ou ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Chutzpah, thy name is Putin
    David Seaton's News Links "We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal." Vladimir Putin "What a crazy world we are living in when Russia sounds more sane and responsible than our own government on a serious international crisis. ...
  • Obama's war - II
    David Seaton's News LinksWhat I think distinguishes Obama from all the presidents in my lifetime, (I’m 69) is his lack of any previous experience of leadership.Even lackluster performers such as Bush II and Carter had been governors of important states. Ronald Reagan had been two term governor o ...
  • Obama's War
    David Seaton's News Links Everything about "Obama's War" is like a bad dream after a heavy meal or some sort of zombie film. It all reeks of decadence and idiocy. So stupid that I have problems writing about it.They say that history repeats itself. I said that this was all like "a bad dre ...
  • Summertime - blogger's rest
    David Seaton's News Links   The endless south Europe August is well underway and I am "busy" sleeping off a a very hard year, which seems to be ending better than I expected. Before it's over I may even get a little beach in, who knows? I probably wont post much of anything till mid-Septem ...
  • Support the fast food workers strike!
    David Seaton's News LinksHundreds of fast food workers in seven cities across the U.S. walked out on their jobs Monday demanding a “living wage,” or double what many are making now. More strikes are expected this week in what’s become one of the biggest pushes to organize the industry’s histori ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Yep, the Ghouta Gas Attacks Were Carried Out B ...
    The UN report on the chemical weapons strike in the Ghouta suburb of Damascus has been released, and to no one's surprise it confirms that a sarin gas attack was carried out. The report doesn't try to affix blame for the attack, but the facts it provides make it vanishingly unlikely that it wa ...
  • The Tea Party Really, Really, Really Wants to ...
    We all know that plenty of people disapprove of Obamacare. But do they want lawmakers to make the best of it, or do they want them to "do what they can to make the law fail"? According to Pew, only 12 percent of Americans want elected officials to work hard for failure. Ed Kilgore points ou ...
  • Attacking Stupid Ideas: A Dirty Job, But Someo ...
    Tyler Cowen posits today that on economic issues, the right wing was both more dynamic and more correct than the left during the 70s and 80s, with "peak right" coming in 1989. After that, the left became more dynamic and more interesting. Obviously this is an arguable hypothesis, but let's put ...
  • Obama's Syria Plan: Epic Botch or Brilliant Di ...
    This is today's omnibus Syria post. First, I have a question. I keep hearing people talk about how hard it will be to verify that Bashar al-Assad has really given up all his chemical weapons under the agreement reached this weekend with the Russians. Fair enough. It will be hard. But then I ...
  • Financial Markets Sure Seem to Hate Larry Summers
    Neil Irwin points to the chart on the right, which shows the stock market's reaction to news the Larry Summers is no longer a candidate for chairman of the Federal Reserve: What is going on here? The answer that Wall Street analysts are coming up with is simple: Call it the Yellen Rally. ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • EU beef imports threaten uncontacted Indians
    Yaguarete has bulldozed a new track (labelled 'picada identificada' on this photo) through uncontacted Indians' forest. They plan to clear everything to the right of this track.© GATForest inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay is being destroyed to make way for cattle desti ...
  • Awá: Top human rights watchdog demands answers ...
    The Awá tribe is being driven towards extinction by Brazil's failure to protect its forest. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human rights body, has demanded answers from the Brazilian government about the plight of the ...
  • Access case dismissed – Final end for Bushman ...
    Botswana's High Court has dealt a blow to the Kalahari Bushmen which could spell the end of the tribe's way of life. © Survival InternationalBotswana’s High Court has thrown out an attempt by the Kalahari Bushmen to gain free access to their ancestral land, raising fears that thi ...
  • 'Private militia' firm ordered to close over G ...
    Gaspem is accused of killing at least two Guarani leaders, including Nísio Gomes© SurvivalBrazil’s Public Prosecutors have called for the closure of a notorious security firm accused of carrying out at least eight brutal attacks on Guarani communities, and of killing at least two of their ...
  • Sámi protest against British mining company
    Sweden's Sámi people are protesting against iron ore mining on their lands.© Johan Sandberg McGuinne/SurvivalSwedish police have broken up a protest by Sámi men and women protesting against iron ore mining in a crucial reindeer herding area in the Swedish Arctic Circle. The Sámi and other ...

Montreal Gazette

  • COVER STORY
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Editorial: One year later, PQ’s main quality i ...
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Montreal startup finds its Groove
    Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
  • Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
    It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.
  • Editorial: Seeking fairness for all when credi ...
    There is an inherent unfairness in the premium credit card system that penalizes business owners and customers who don't use them.

Food World Order

  • Deodorant Linked To Breast Cancer According To ...
    from govtslaves.info: If you really take the time to look into it, it can be extremely overwhelming to find out just how many ingredients in cosmetic and personal care products shouldn’t be in there. We have surrounded ourselves with an extremely toxic environment, with approximately one ...
  • Japan deep-sea drilling boat casts off to find ...
    from apperspective.net: A Japan-led team of seismologists set off Friday on a mission to drill deep beneath the seabed in a search for the origin of earthquakes. The scientists weighed anchor on Japan's deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu, heading for a spot in the ocean off the ...
  • ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ quietly extended by ...
    from RT.com: A budget provision protecting genetically-modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks was extended for three months in an approved US House of Representatives’ spending bill on Tuesday evening. Called “The Monsanto Protection Act” ...
  • Stem cells: Living adult tissue transformed ba ...
    from bbc.co.uk: The living tissue inside an animal has been regressed back into an embryonic state for the first time, Spanish researchers say.  They believe it could lead to new ways of repairing the body, for example after a heart attack. However, the study ...
  • US Farmers in Supreme Court Appeal over #Monsa ...
    from sustainablepulse.com: A group of 73 American organic and conventional family farmers, seed businesses and public advocacy groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to hear their case against Monsanto Company challenging the chemical and biotech seed giant’s patents on genetically ...

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 Percentage Of Americans That Consider Them ...
    Do you consider yourself to be "lower class"?  Most Americans wouldn't dream of thinking that way.  Even at the toughest times of my own life, I always considered myself to be "middle class".  Traditionally, the vast majority of Americans have described themselves as either "middle class" or "wo ...
  • 25 Fast Facts About The Federal Reserve &#8211 ...
    As we approach the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve, it is absolutely imperative that we get the American people to understand that the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems.  It is a system of money that was created by the bankers and that operates for the ...
  • They Denied That We Were In A Depression In 19 ...
    The more things change, the more things stay the same.  The Great Depression actually started in 1929, but as you will see below, as late as 1933 the Associated Press was still pumping out lots of news stories with optimistic economic headlines and many Americans still did not believe that we we ...
  • Prepare For Tough Times If Your Job Has Anythi ...
    If you have a job that involves building homes, buying homes, selling homes or that is in any way related to the mortgage industry, you might want to start searching for alternate employment.  Seriously.  Interest rates are starting to rise dramatically, and mortgage lenders such as Bank of Amer ...
  • How Big Banks Can Steal Your Home From You Eve ...
    Did you know that the big banks have a way to legally steal your house from you even if you don't owe a single penny on your mortgage?  Big banks and hedge funds are buying billions of dollars worth of tax liens from local governments all over the nation, and they are ruthlessly foreclosing on [...]

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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

  • Homicides soar in states with 'Stand Your Grou ...
    Image Caption:  A new report documents an increase in homicides in states with controversial Stand Your Ground laws and shows the disproportionate impact they have on African Americans. A new report documents an overall rise i ...
  • The Gini is out of the bottle: Why Wall Street ...
    Image Caption:  People protested growing income inequality at a NAACP-led march in North Carolina earlier this year. (Photo by Sue Sturgis) The U.S. has witnessed a sharp climb in income inequality since the 1970s -- and its e ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Promoting the myth of 'sustai ...
    Image Caption:  A mountaintop removal mining site in Central Appalachia. (Photo by Vivian Stockman of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition during a flyover by SouthWings.) A group of prominent Democrats has launched a proj ...
  • McCutcheon Supreme Court case could give mone ...
    Image Caption:  As more money pours into politics, the public is losing trust in government. (Photo by Steve Goodyear via Flickr.) The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month in McCutcheon v. FEC, a case t ...
  • AFL-CIO resolves to organize the South
    Image Caption:  The AFL-CIO has promised to make increasing union membership in the South a top priority. With workplace organizing efforts in the region already making progress, the AFL-CIO adopted a resolution at its nationa ...

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 →

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Tech Drive In

  • Football Manager 2014 for Linux Release Date A ...
    This is great news. After the likes of Dota 2, Half Life 2, Portal and Left 4 Dead 2, another massive gaming title is opening its gates for Linux users. Sports Interactive has announced that Football Manager 2014 will be released on October 31 for Windows, Mac and Linux.  ...
  • Ubuntu Touch adds Support for Over the Air Updates
    With the first ever Ubuntu phone touted to arrive in early 2014, Canonical is wasting no time in the development for Ubuntu Touch for smartphones. Currently, the four supported Ubuntu Touch devices include maguro (Galaxy Nexus), mako (Nexus 4), grouper (Nexus 7) and manta (Nexus 10). Anyone us ...
  • FEZ for Linux Released via Humble Indie Bundle 9
    Humble Indie Bundle is back and this time, Linux users are not left behind. As usual, Humble Indie Bundle 9 offers 6 blockbuster games (all DRM-free) at pay what you want prices. And for the very first time, FEZ for Linux is also released!  Hundle Indie Bundle 9: New Games ...
  • Ubuntu bags the top spot overtaking Red Hat in ...
    This might come as a surprise to many. Ubuntu is known to be more of a regular consumer-focused OS. But in a test conducted by NetworkWorld to find out the best enterprise oriented Linux distro out there, Ubuntu came on top overtaking the likes of enterprise specific Linux distors such as Red ...
  • Google's Driverless Cars are using a Lightly C ...
    Only last week we came to know that the upcoming Sony Play Station 4 (PS4) is based out of FreeBSD. And it is a fairly common knowledge that Google uses a modified version of Ubuntu at their workplaces. Now, it seems like Linux is being used at even more unheard of places. Google's driverles ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

  • Against intervention in Syria by a friend in L ...
    by Zayd Sifri I visited Lebanon for the first time more than ten years ago. The wounds of the civil war were much more visible to a visitor than they are today. In Beirut, bullet holes of varying sizes and … Continue reading →
  • Aging Behind Bars
    [Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
  • The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
    [originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...

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    The Renewable Fuel Standards Mess
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    Pity the American farmer. Now, if Senators Klobuchar and Grassley are to be believed, they have been the victims of monopolistic behavior by the oil companies, who are limiting sales of ethanol-enhanced gasoline by requiring gasoline stations to carry ...
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    Wind farms and renewable energy: a modern version of a medieval scam
    Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
    Opponents of wind farms are, says Lib Dem energy minister Ed Davey, living in "the stone age". In know it is Lib Dem conference season – and so Mr D and co are therefore looking for something to say – but this is daft. It is not the opponents of wind ...
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    AS MAPS showing the distribution of animals make clear, two main factors limit critters' range: latitude and altitude. Distance from the equator and height above sea level affect things that many species are directly sensitive to, like temperature and ...
    Ecology & Environment co-founder resigns from Lancaster firm
    Buffalo News
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    Deadly brain amoeba infects US tap water for the first time
    NBCNews.com
    A deadly brain amoeba that's killed two boys this year has been found in a U.S. drinking water supply system for the first time, officials said Monday -- in a New Orleans-area system. The Naegleria fowleri parasite killed a 4-year-old Mississippi boy ...
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    New Water Sources Won't Quench the World's Thirst
    Businessweek (blog)
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