Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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Diagram of US Federal Government and American ...Diagram of US Federal Government and American Union. Published: 1862, July 15. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn charges a Nis...English: Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn charges a Nissan Leaf, the first mass-produced zero-emission vehicle. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Vir...A mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Virginia (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)
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ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • How Mya Breitbart Is Mapping The Genomes Of En ...
    Mya Breitbart Joel Kimmel Each year, Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten. Like the 110 honorees before them, the members of this year's class are dramatically reshaping their fields--and the future. Some are tackling prag ...
  • 5 Reasons To Celebrate Colobus Day
    Colobus Just Monkeying Around Flickr user Eric Kilby The colobi are a group of Old World monkeys (meaning, from Africa or Asia) that are widespread throughout Africa. They are better than Christopher Columbus for the following reasons. 1. Amazing Jumpers The various species of colobus monke ...
  • What If Science Fiction Were Boringly Real?
    Gigantic beasts are attacking Earth's cities. Gigantic robots are designed to combat them. The design is rejected in favor of air strikes. — Hard Sci-Fi Movies (@HardSciFiMovies) October 8, 2013 Science fiction is a great genre, but science keeps showing up and explaining why the stories are un ...
  • How The U.S. Government Is Shutting Down Antar ...
    The Laurence M. Gould The Antarctic Research and Supply Vessel Laurence M. Gould pulls away from Palmer Station. Jennifer Bogo As the icebreaker Laurence M. Gould barrels south through the Drake Passage, cutting through the largest ocean current in the world, its portholes look exactly lik ...
  • Which Pizza Chain Dominates Your State? [Infog ...
    Pizza Chains Nationwide Flowing Data Happy Columbus Day! As we remember the Italian explorer, let us also remember the more important Italian contribution to these United States: pizza.  Flowing Data crunched the numbers on pizza chains--Domino's, Pizza Hut, and the like--then charted their ...

Facing South

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • October - the month of wild weather swings
    By any definition autumn has arrived across the UK, with the first northerly gale of the season along the east coast. Meteorologically, today’s weather is perfectly normal for the time of the year. And along the east coast it’s the most dangerous direction for potential flooding.  Sharp fluctuat ...
  • The IPCC report - is the science settled?
    Last week the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) issued their latest high profile report on the current understanding of climate change.  Their main conclusion is that there can be little doubt that man is responsible for at least half of the rise in global temperatures since the 1 ...
  • Record Antarctic sea ice confounds climate models
    The extent of sea ice in the southern hemisphere continues to cause a headache for climate scientists, with news this week that Antarctic sea ice is now at record levels, based on satellite data which began in the late 1970’s.This is contrary to what climate models had predicted.It’s thought tha ...
  • Fine end to September & more on rare solar cycle
    Fine end to September It’s been an unsettled and often cool September, but the jet stream is on the move northwards in the next few days, allowing high pressure to build across the UK, which will lead us into a very pleasant spell of autumn weather.  At this time of the year, the main forecastin ...
  • Rare solar cycle has cold implications for UK ...
    NASA last week confirmed their prediction that the current solar cycle 24 is likely to be the weakest since 1906. Intriguingly, the current solar cycle shows a striking similarity with solar cycle 5 which was also very weak, with the same double peak as the current cycle, and ran from approximat ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Lame PRC Exports Can't Stop Ascendant Yuan
    It is fairly common knowledge by now that Chinese economic growth is slowing down from the double-digit to high single-digit range of years gone by. Among other things, weakness in demand in overseas markets has dented its vaunted export machine. The most recent external figures indicate that th ...
  • Will the Eurozone/Euro Benefit From a US Dolla ...
    With the US supposedly flirting with being the first Western country since 1933 Nazi Germany to default, attention needs to be paid on those other Westerners and their economic plight as a consequence. As a holder of euros myself and other non-junky stores of value--not gold, not Treasuries or ...
  • IMF Returns; Will Pakistanis Hate US Even More?
    I entitled an earlier post about Pakistan, the US and the IMF "When Cash & Hate Collide." To underline that assertion, here's Exhibit A: In a recent Pew Global Attitudes poll, the country which assigned the lowest favorable opinion rating to the United States was--wait for it--Pakistan at a ...
  • Central Banks and Gold: Buy High, Sell Low
    Despite strides made by central banks worldwide in recent years to control inflation, they are hardly infallible. Take the case of gold: With developed country central banks printing money like there's no tomorrow in order to jump-start their moribund economies--especially after the global finan ...
  • Puerto Rico...Uncle Sam's Next Bailout Victim?
    They could use more tourists right about now I don't wanna be your lover...I just wanna be your victim - Elvis Costello's "The Beat" The post title may strike you as unusual: How can someone be a "bailout victim" when a bailout is some sort of "rescue" from financial calamity? Well, read o ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 22 Reasons To Be Concerned About The U.S. Econ ...
    Are we on the verge of another major economic downturn?  In recent weeks, most of the focus has been on our politicians in Washington, but there are lots of other reasons to be deeply alarmed about the economy as well.  Economic confidence is down, retail sales figures are disappointing, job cut ...
  • Power Mad Obama Offers Two Choices: Unconditio ...
    Barack Obama is warning that if he does not get everything that he wants that he will force the U.S. government into a devastating debt default which will cripple the entire global economy.  In essence, Obama has become so power mad that he is actually willing to take the entire planet hostage i ...
  • Extreme Hypocrisy! Obama Orders Federal Worker ...
    Why would the president of the United States try to purposely hurt the American people?  Well, in 2013 this is done in order to score political points and force the opposition in to doing what you want them to do.  A few days ago, an angry Park Service ranger publicly admitted that he and his [...]
  • 12 Very Ominous Warnings About What A U.S. Deb ...
    A U.S. debt default that lasts for more than a couple of days could potentially cause a financial crash unlike anything that the world has ever seen before.  If the U.S. government purposely wanted to damage the global financial system, the best way that they could do that would be to default on ...
  • 30 Statistics About Americans Under The Age Of ...
    Why are young people in America so frustrated these days?  You are about to find out.  Most young adults started out having faith in the system.  They worked hard, they got good grades, they stayed out of trouble and many of them went on to college.  But when their educations where over, they di ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 2 The N ...
    Many hopes are pinned on the National Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to fill the massive gaps left by the narrow terms of reference of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, and the inadequate time and powers of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. This is th ...
  • A Tale of Three Australian Inquiries – P ...
    Everyone supporting survivors in Australia seems to have been suffering from constant exhaustion for the last few months, trying to keep up with three different inquiries and numerous media issues. They do say to be careful what you wish for. Every time we are tempted not to bother dragging ours ...
  • US Court considers dead bodies more important ...
    The law is frequently an ass. But few laws or lawyers are more asinine than the recent decision by US District Court Judge Hon Rudolph T Randa. Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese appealed against a previous decision allowing the funds stashed away in a Cemetery Trust in 2008 to be included in the di ...
  • Song of Lying Bishops
    To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees   Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...
  • Newcastle Diocese’s Disgrace – Mem ...
    Public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle in recent weeks have left survivors and supporters disappointed, horrified, traumatised, gasping in disgust, occasionally giggling, and even bravely protesting before the media contingent. And finally, applauding the amazing b ...

WL Central

  • 2013-10-14 Warning: The WikiLeaks Forum can no ...
    Dear user, You are contacted because you are still registered with wikileaks-forum.com. This is to warn you that this website can not be trusted. People joined this forum in the belief that they were becoming members of WikiLeaks' official forum, a place to express and nurture their support. Reg ...
  • Julian Assange & Benedict Cumberbatch: 1st Letter
    Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 From: Julian Assange To: Benedict Cumberbatch Subject: Message from Assange Dear Benedict, Thank you for trying to contact me. It is the first approach by anyone from the DreamWorks production to me or WikiLeaks. My assistants communicated your request to me, and I have ...
  • 2013-09-03 WikiLeaks to launch criminal invest ...
    Assange lawyer Per E Samuelson has confirmed that a criminal complaint has been filed at 09:44 on Tuesday 3 September 2013 with Swedish police authorities. The complaint concerns the likely unlawful seizure of WikiLeaks property on 27 September 2010, following publication of the Afghan War Diari ...
  • 2013-09-01 Detached Reflections on Resignation ...
    Daniel Matthews offers a furtive thought in the context of his resignation on behalf of pure democracy: read more
  • 2013-08-22 Manning site launches: Pardon.Bradl ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE David Coombs, chief attorney for WikiLeaks whistle-blower Pfc. Bradley Manning, announced at a press conference near Ft. Meade, MD, today that he is formally applying for a Presidential Pardon for Bradley Manning. Coombs is seeking Manning's immediate release, or at the v ...

U N News

  • Security Council extends UN peacekeeping missi ...
    The Security Council today voted unanimously to extend the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti until mid-October 2014 so it can continue contributing to stability and development in the small Caribbean nation.
  • UN renews pledge to help Haiti overcome choler ...
    The United Nations remains committed to do all that it can do to help the people of Haiti overcome the cholera epidemic, a spokesperson for the world body said today.
  • Four decades in solitary confinement amounts t ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on the United States to immediately end the indefinite solitary confinement imposed on Albert Woodfox for the past four decades.
  • Time to turn economic, social systems inside o ...
    The time for words and promises is over; the time for action is now, a Dominican Republic minister told the United Nations General Assembly on the final day of its high-level debate, calling for inclusive development and social justice in a post-2015 sustainability agenda.
  • UN urges Dominican Republic to ensure citizens ...
    The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of the Dominican Republic to take all necessary measures to ensure that citizens of Haitian origin are not deprived of their right to nationality in light of a recent court ruling.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Mexico’s president cancels Nevado de Toluca pr ...
    Through a decree, the president canceled the National Park status granted to the Nevado de Toluca, which since 1936 has prohibited any exploitation of the resources of this natural area. http://www.animalpolitico.com/2013/10/epn-cancela-proteccion-al-nevado-de-toluca-otorgada-por-lazaro-cardenas ...
  • Log Yosemite National Park?!
    Received by TRI October 4, 2013 The Federal Government may be shut down, but that hasn’t stopped the House Natural Resources Committee from taking up a radical pro-logging measure for Yosemite National Park, the Ansel Adams Wilderness and other treasures in the Sierra Nevada affected by the mass ...
  • Blog 43: TrekWest in Montana’s Rocky Mountain ...
    Original Post: 04 Oct 2013 09:22 PM PDT “It was warm enough that we left the flies of our tents open (except for Ed, who sleeps under a tarp) and watched the moon, which would be a full harvest moon in just a few days, arc across the sky, keeping our tents bright well into the […]
  • TrekWest Blog 42: Building Community
    Original Post: 30 Sep 2013 10:31 AM PDT One trail stop at a time  Stop by stop, we have begun the task of building a community of support for protecting and connecting a Western Wildway. As TrekWest draws to its finale, please enjoy this guest blog from Wildlands Network’s new Executive Director ...
  • Dave Parsons Talks About Mexican Wolves on Gil ...
    Earth Matters / Dave Parsons on Mexican Wolves Original post:  24 September 2013 on GMCR This week we welcome Nathan Newcomer of New Mexico Wilderness Alliance to the Earth Matters production team.  His first interview is with Dave Parsons – former US FWS / Fish & Wildlife Service Mexican Wo ...

reference frame

  • Alexander Unzicker: The Higgs Fake
    While browsing random websites, I was offered an ad promoting a new book by an author we already know well. It's no one else than Germany's answer to Peter Woit and Lee Smolin, Herr Alexander Unzicker. He released a new minibook (160 pages, available both in Kindle edition and in paperback) ...
  • Debt ceiling collision risk is being underesti ...
    Two weeks ago, I discussed the partial government shutdown that was coming and it indeed came and turned out to be the non-event I expected. However, we were also aware of another threat which is related but much larger, perhaps by a factor of 100-1,000: a collision with the debt ceiling, a ...
  • Templars dispersed on Friday, October 13th, 1307
    Seznam.cz and Stream.cz present 0:15 13th of October, the day when the Order of Templars was dispersed 0:20 It's Friday, 13th of October, 1307. In all of France, a giant raid against the members of the Order of Templars is underway. It was one of the most powerful orders of the medieva ...
  • Are you an urban scientist or an urban whore?
    A part of the blogosphere is discussing the following incident. DNLee5, Dana N. Lee, a black female biologist (specializing in vampire bats: note that the words for vampire, bat are upír, netopýr in Czech, similar endings) who oscillates between Oklahoma and Tanzania and who blogs as the Ur ...
  • Nobel prizes shouldn't be awarded to large groups
    Great physicists are islands of a sort, not mindless screws in an institution I don't remember the last day when I agreed with Sabine Hossenfelder so entirely. She just wrote a blog post called Should the Nobel Prize be given to collaborations and institutions? in which she disagreed wi ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Brazil encrypting government email to thwart f ...
    Brazilian officials say that all government employees will start using an encrypted email service in an effort to stop foreign spies from intercepting emails. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Brazil TV report accuses Canadian spie ...
  • Controversial Post: Why I Won’t Be Charitable ...
    SHTF Plan Editor’s Note: The following article from Chris Carrington of The Daily Sheeple poses an interesting scenario and one that every prepper has likely discussed with friends and family in their preparedness group. When the system fails how far are you willing to go to help your fell ...
  • The Alarming Lack of Pretense in Politics
    by Wendy McElroy, Activist Post: One of the most alarming trends in American politics is the lack of pretense being displayed by authority. Like a ravening beast that loses its fear of humans, government becomes more dangerous when it loses the need to pose as a public servant who performs legit ...
  • Magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits Philippines, at ...
    A 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed at least 32 people across the central Philippines on Tuesday, toppling buildings and historic churches and sending terrified residents into deadly stampedes. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Magni ...
  • Fluoride Could Destroy Our Country
    from iHealthTube.com: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: BERNANKE PROMISES TO DESTROY US DOLLAR from TheMoneyGPS: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Preppers Might Freeze To Death Without A Cross ...
    I read this statement recently, “The best way to think of firewood is an investment account: Add to it slowly and steadily over a long time to maximize your investment.” That sounds like good advice, particularly when facing the prospect of having to cut your firewood by hand after a ...
  • Walmart EBT Chaos Exemplifies Systemic Risk
    Many of us have heard, seen, or read about the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system glitches this weekend, and the havoc that the situation brought about many regions throughout the United States. It has been a reaffirmation of how quickly things would become desperate and chaotic if we wer ...
  • Tools And Equipment Without Fuel Or Electricit ...
    In the event of a SHTF collapse, our refining and fuel operations/infrastructure will quickly grind to a halt while local fuel supplies will deplete and disappear within days. In a long term scenario, your gasoline/diesel/gas/electricity powered equipment and tools will become useless. Have you ...
  • Nukes Transferred And Top Nuclear Commanders Fired
    Image released via Freedom of Information Act and the DOE, weapons transfer trucks This is unprecedented. When I first read of the firing of Navy Vice Admiral Tim Giardina (Second-in-command of the country’s nuclear arsenal), I wondered what was ‘really’ going on. But now, just ...
  • The Post Disaster Security Timeline
    It is very important to know, that there is a security timeline of events which will follow a disaster, and the resulting human behavior can be predictably used to your advantage in the hours, days and weeks into a disaster…   The post-disaster security timeline can be split into five ...

Fast Company

  • Oxford Debuts A Library Chair To Last For Cent ...
    The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford have housed precious literature and scholarly documents for the past 400 years. It's a special place, with its own special chairs––and over those last four centuries, only three chair designs have graced the Bodleian's halls. The lat ...
  • Apple's New Consumer Experience Chief, Angela ...
    This summer, Fast Company asked Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts about her company's greatest challenge. "The greatest challenge? I don't think it's just our challenge," said Ahrendts. "It's [the challenge] of every company, I think [for] every great leader––I think Tim Cook has the same ...
  • Artist Turns Famous Candy Brands Into Hallowee ...
    During Halloweens of old, parents feared that evil–doing neighbors would hide razorblades in unwrapped candy. Artist Andrew Bell would consider such a move redundant. Bell has turned your favorite Halloween treats into the most terrifying candies you'll ever see. His "Hershey Kisses of Dea ...
  • Three Ad Agencies Try to Rebrand Feminism
    For its November Issue, Elle UK decided to "Rebrand Feminism," treating the advancement of women's rights like a dated product that needs to be dusted off and made cool again. The magazine paired three award–winning ad agencies––Brave, Mother, and Wieden + Kennedy–with th ...
  • Poverty Drains Mental Energy: Part Of FixingTh ...
    The following book excerpt builds on a study from the authors that looks at how poverty hurts cognitive function by reducing the amount of mental bandwidth available for everyday activities. Check it out here. Bandwidth Comes at a Price Conditional cash transfers are an increasingly popular way ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt Media Roundup (October 14)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • She Who Tells a Story
    She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 27 August 2013 – 12 January 2014.   On view this fall at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is She Who Tells a Story, an exhibit featuring the work of female photographers from Iran and the A ...
  • Revolutionary Memory: Bahman Ghobadi’s Rhino S ...
    Fasl-e Karkadan [Rhino Season]. Directed by Bahman Ghobadi. Iraq/Turkey, 2012. Falgoosh. Directed by Mohammadreza Farzad. Iran, 2012. Post-revolutionary nations, in particular those with strong state-sponsored cultural organs, very frequently have done much to advance the commemoration of revo ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (October 7-13)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.  Saudi Cleric Confirms That B ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (October 14)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...

mediagazer

  • The International New York Times debuts (Andre ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: The International New York Times debuts  —  The first edition of The International New York Times appeared Tuesday.  It replaces the International Herald Tribune.  In a letter to readers on the front page, Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger ...
  • $70 Billion TV Ad Market Eases Into Digital Di ...
    Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge: $70 Billion TV Ad Market Eases Into Digital Direction  —  Baby Steps Start After Years of Resisting Change  —  Earlier this year, DirecTV took a step into the future of TV advertising.  Rather than let marketers target only shows and ...
  • YouTube Partner: We Are 'Not Happy' With Money ...
    Lucas Shaw / The Wrap: YouTube Partner: We Are ‘Not Happy’ With Money From Subscription Channels  —  Alchemy Networks CEO Peter Griffith was one of the first media executives to bet YouTube viewers would pay to access certain channels.  His company was one of th ...
  • A chat with longtime editor-in-chief Graydon C ...
    Carl Swanson / New York Magazine: A chat with longtime editor-in-chief Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair's centennial  —  154 Minutes With Graydon Carter  —  Morning coffee at home on Vanity Fair's centennial.  —  Longtime Vanity Fair editor-in-chief ...
  • Who's Behind the Sponsored Content at BuzzFeed ...
    Michael Sebastian / AdAge: Who's Behind the Sponsored Content at BuzzFeed, Gawker, Hearst and WashPo?  —  A Look at Four Big Publishers, And How Their Native-Advertising Teams Shape Up  —  What good is native advertising if it doesn't talk like a native?  &m ...

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World News - Top Stories

  • Mahendra Singh Dhoni's World Cup vision: ...
    While it was a surprising sight for many to see Suresh Raina stride out into the middle at the fall of the second wicket during the first ODI in Pune, India's skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said it was part of a plan for the future. India had their regular number...
  • World powers, Iran, brace for new nuclear ...
    World powers were set Tuesday to revive stalled talks with Iran over its controversial nuclear ambitions, with all eyes on what Tehran's top diplomat would put on the table. Two days of closed-door negotiations were due to begin at 9:30 am (0730 GMT) at the United Nations' European base in t ...
  • Peering Inside Mumbai’s Premier Pad ...
    In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. Cars, trucks, mopeds and bicycles vie for space on the streets of Mumbai, India, where they hurtle four or five abreast over bumpy roads that often don’t even have painted lanes. Then there are the rick ...
  • Earthquake death toll rises
    A 7.2-magnitude earthquake collapsed buildings and roofs and cracked roads this morning in the central Philippines, killing at least 20 people. The quake was felt across the central region, and people rushed out of homes and buildings, including hospitals, as aftershocks continued. Offices a ...
  • India's Cyclone Phailin: Thousands maroon ...
    Workers are battling to rescue tens of thousands of people marooned by rising flood waters in Orissa, after the state was hit by the strongest cyclone in 14 years. Flood waters have left nearly 100,000 people marooned in Mayurbhanj and Balasore districts, officials say. The death toll from t ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 10/8/13 - Top 10 Wealthiest Americans with and ...
    college-education.procon.org - Top 10 Wealthiest Americans with and without College Degrees - See the top 10 richest Americans with college degrees (Warren Buffett with an MS from Columbia University tops that list at $58.5 billion) and the top 10 richest Americans without college degrees ( ...
  • 10/3/13 - Historical Timeline: History of the ...
    undergod.procon.org – Historical Timeline: History of the US Pledge of Allegiance & the Phrase "under God" – Our updated timeline includes entries ranging from an 1887 campaign to promote patriotism in public schools to President Eisenhower officially adding "under God" to the Pledge on June ...
  • 10/2/13 - Are Cell Phones Safe?
    cellphones.procon.org - Are Cell Phones Safe? - Read our updated question with statements from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (general reference), the FCC (pro), epidemiologist Lennart Hardell MD, PhD, (con), and other researchers, physicists, activists, and organiz ...
  • 9/30/13 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Is a Coll ...
    college-education.procon.org NEW ProCon.org Website! -  Is a College Education Worth It? - Our 48th website explores the pros and cons in the debate over college education. Proponents of college education say that college is worth it because college graduates have higher employment rates, ...
  • 9/27/13 - New Jersey Becomes 14th State to Leg ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – New Jersey Becomes 14th State to Legalize Gay Marriage – The State Superior Court decision is the first court ruling that a state must allow same-sex marriage on the basis of the US Supreme Court decision that struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA ...

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environment 360

  • World Oceans Are in Worse Condition than Previ ...
    The world's oceans are deteriorating more rapidly than scientists had thought due to rising carbon dioxide levels and associated warming, according to a new analysis by European scientists. By many indicators, ocean conditions are even worse than outlined last USGS/Wikimedia Sea butterfly ...
  • The Ambitious Restoration of An Undammed Weste ...
    With the dismantling of two dams on Washington state’s Elwha River, the world’s largest dam removal project is almost complete. Now, in one of the most extensive U.S. ecological restorations ever attempted, efforts are underway to revive one of the Pacific Northwest’s great salmon rivers. BY C ...
  • Nitrogen from Agricultural Fertilizers Threate ...
    Ammonia emissions from agricultural fertilizers are threatening sensitive ecosystems in U.S. national parks, a study led by Harvard researchers has found. Thirty-eight national parks are seeing nitrogen deposition levels at or above the threshold for ecological damage, rskoon/Flickr Great ...
  • Carbon Capture and Storage Projects Are Laggin ...
    Major projects aiming at capturing and burying carbon dioxide underground have slowed worldwide, according to a study by the Global CCS Institute in Australia. Despite the common view among experts that carbon CO2CRC Otway CCS project, Victoria, Australia capture and storage (CCS) technol ...
  • In Japan, Captive Breeding May Help Save the W ...
    As eel populations plummet worldwide, Japanese scientists are racing to solve a major challenge for aquaculture — how to replicate the life cycle of eels in captivity and commercially produce a fish that is a prized delicacy on Asian dinner tables. BY WINIFRED BIRD

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Hudson New York

  • Al-Hiwar TV: Islamists' Loudspeaker in Europe
    The British communications regulator and watchdog organization, Ofcom, recently fined an Islamic TV £105,000 ($158,000) for airing a speech that condoned murder as a punishment for blasphemy. In its explanation of the fine, Ofcom said the TV channel, DM
  • How Jerusalem's Arabs Act Against Their Own In ...
    As Israelis prepare to cast their ballots in the municipal elections next week, tens of thousands of eligible Arab voters in Jerusalem will once again boycott the democratic process. In the past few days, the Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO],
  • Spain's Escalating Mosque Wars
    Police in Spain have forcibly removed Muslim activists from an illegal mosque in a small town in Catalonia, an autonomous region in northeastern Spain that is home to the largest Muslim population in the country. The eviction ends -- for now, anyway -- a
  • New Islamist Approach to Turks in Germany
    Germany's federal election, held on September 22, had two new consequences, one reported widely in global media -- the failure of the centrist Free Democrats [FDP] to retain their presence in the parliament, or Bundestag -- and the other observed almost
  • Gatestone Weekly Roundup
    Reports have been coming in from Egypt that the American plan, it seems, supported by U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson, was that if the U.S. helped Egypt to oust Mubarak, growing senile and therefore harder to support anyhow, and if the U.S.

Urban Survival

  • Heads Up on a New Scam
    Love it!  Nothing to freshen up a Monday like someone calling and saying in a heavy accent: “Hello, I am calling from the support department of Windows.  We have just had a report that your computer is infected by a serious virus.  We need to get some information about your comput ...
  • There Go Friday’s Gains
    Sheep, banksters, and Tarriers served up this morning:   A Monday slap of Reality is ready. There was (predictably) no breakthrough this weekend on the debt ceiling or the budget, so this morning, the market is looking (at least in the futures, and early on) to open about 80 points dow ...
  • Coping: With “When the World Breaks”
    The first thing I want you to do this week is carve out an hour and a half from Ure busy schedule to watch a movie which you can rent off Amazon for four bucks.  “ When The World Breaks” and it features a lot of interview snips with people like Jerry Stiller and Mickey Rooney about what lif ...
  • Advisory for Peoplenomics Subscribers, Interes ...
    As you may know, the topic of Peoplenomics this weekend was a purely hypothetical solution to the devastating consequences of an economic collapse that would involve the mass euthanizing of Americans. As happens so often, what is envisioned in our report is being overtaken by events revealing th ...
  • The Solution No One Wants to Talk About
    Tired of hearing endlessly about the Ceiling and the Shutdown?  Well, there really is a solution no one talks about but it’s a very ugly and messy one.  Many times in the past, we have referred to our purely hypothetical Directorate 153 as being a kind of Central Command for a sh ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • The IMF Warns : Default Would Put Global Econo ...
    It's the Rothschild Banking Cartel that's being threatened. The "Global Economy" is a fiction.  let it burn. the world banking system is set up to put countries in debt, and keep them there. it should have never been created in the first... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Crisis to Chaos: History's Biggest Defaults
    It's the Rothschild Banking Cartel that's being threatened. The "Global Economy" is a fiction. The world has to abandon the economic system we have today. This system is called 'fiat' and it has been manipulated by the gluttons. It's easy to figure... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Alex Ansary ~ Was the EBT Failure a Manufactur ...
    Our nation has money to go to war and bail out the banks but is now having trouble with its servers running the nations federal food stamp program? I think there's more to know here. The bottom line is the loss of social cohesion (food... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Financial Apocalypse ~ The World Is Preparing ...
    I would love to see a world wide Financial Collapse. This is just a scare tactic too try to win the hearts of the people to force the printing of more worthless PetroDollars. We need a collapse so that we can reset a failed system. Let it ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Government Shutdown enters Day 14
    Brit Hume with the latest from Washington Oh yeah, we're all connected...such a nice little global community where the do's support the do nots. We have to drawn the line—No more debt. To hell with the rest of the world. You're on your... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Radical Chic

  • STAINS IN A VOID – By: Uzoma Okoroafor
    Our uncle’s death will go down in the memories of the religious as an untimely one. For the traditionalists, a strike by an unkind deity. As a Maths teacher always ready to flog the living daylights out of his dull students, he was nicknamed Mister Pain. I will never forget how he made me write ...
  • WHEN NIGERIAN’S DO STUPID SHIT! – ...
    While it is true that Nigeria is a rather homophobic country, attempts are being made to rebrand it as a country of the daft, lazy and incurably addled. I suppose that this is slightly preferable to being homophobic. In fact, all of those things make homophobia excusable. Now, I’m not pull ...
  • WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
    Although the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform, AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air cracks ...
  • CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
    I’m crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things. Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]

NRDC Switchboard

  • California's Clean Energy Leadership
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA A newspaper article published today challenges some of California's clean energy investments and indicates some confusion about who is administering most of the energy-saving and renewabl ...
  • City sustainability must begin with reinvestme ...
    Kaid Benfield, Special Counsel for Urban Solutions, Washington, DC   I’ve written before that, for making our cities and suburbs – where over four-fifths of Americans live – perform better as environmentally responsible peop ...
  • Alaskan GOP pols complain again about their sh ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC "Deadliest Catch" gets caught in shutdown and a big oil spill goes unreported for a week in Day 14 of the GOP shutdown. “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue In two-oh-one-three, we g ...
  • Going Gladiator on Asian Carp in the Illinois ...
    Josh Mogerman, Deputy Director, National Media, Chicago Well, at least somebody’s profiting from the Asian carp advance on the Illinois River... Back in 2011 I was blown away by videos of the Peoria Carp Hunters taking on&n ...
  • Food safety inspections fade and Antarctic res ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC “I knew you were trouble when you walked in Trouble, trouble, trouble I knew you were trouble when you walked in Trouble, trouble, trouble”  -- “I Knew You Were Trouble&rdq ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • IMF Discusses A Super Tax Of 10% On All Saving ...
    One of the latest reports from the IMF discusses a super taxation of 10% on savings in the Eurozone. That would solve the debt problem in most sovereign countries. It would be an alternative of higher taxes or spending cuts. The economists who wrote the paper hasten to say that it is a theoretic ...
  • Obama Ousts Top Officers After Nuke Explodes I ...
    A shocking new Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Barack Obama, while in a rage, ousted four of the United States top ranking military officers after they refused to detonate a nuclear device “in/near”Charleston, South Carolina this ...
  • Russia test-fires nuclear-capable missile
    Russia said Thursday it had successfully test-fired an upgraded version of a nuclear-capable missile that entered into service in the Soviet era and had been due to be scrapped. A defence ministry spokesman said the RS-12M Topol had hit its target at a test range that Russia leases from Kazakhst ...
  • North Korea Threatens to “bury in the sea” a U ...
    Seoul: North Korea on Friday threatened to “bury in the sea” a US aircraft carrier, as it slammed a three-nation naval drill involving US, South Korean and Japanese warships. The latest warning from the isolated regime came a day after the United States launched a two-day joint military drill wi ...
  • Obama Retreats To Secret Bunker As “Big Event” ...
    A truly grim “urgent action bulletin” issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) earlier today states that the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) has received word from “highly placed” sources within the Pentagon that President Barack Obama this past week cancelled his trip to Asia and ha ...

Daily Dose

  • Facebook announces tools to let advertisers ta ...
    Facebook today announced new custom audience features that let advertisers and market target users who have previously visited their website and or used their mobile app. The new tools will... Keep reading →
  • General Assembly launches Dash, a Codecademy-s ...
    General Assembly launched today a new service designed to help get more people to take advantage of its Web Development courses. Called Dash, users will be able to take courses... Keep reading →
  • Aviate: A gorgeous and smart new Android homes ...
    The concept of the Android ‘launcher’ only really reached a wide audience outside hardcore mobile geeks with the launch of Facebook Home earlier this year. While that product ended up... Keep reading →
  • Vimeo PRO gets 1TB of storage, unlimited HD pl ...
    Vimeo is updating its premium-tier service in a way that it claims will put “more power in the hands of creative professionals and businesses.” Starting today, Vimeo PRO subscribers will... Keep reading →
  • If you hate ironing, you’ll love this st ...
    Ironing can be filed somewhere alongside washing the dishes and mowing the lawn; nobody actually enjoys it, but it’s one of those things that just has to be done. With... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Bring on the climate solutions!
    After 20 years working on climate change in various roles from research to government to international organisations, my experiences have taught me that to be effective in the change agenda we need to be starting from the point of where we need to be in ten years time, and looking back to th ...
  • No more denying we can act on climate
    During the recent Federal election campaign, BZE received a call from a climate skeptic, inviting us to participate in a debate on climate change. The caller was cagey, she wouldn't even give us her name or affiliation. How did we respond? We politely declined: there is no longer a debate to be ...
  • Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes a new CEO
    It is our pleasure to announce that after a long and exhaustive search we are finally able to announce the appointment of our new Chief Executive Officer - Dr Stephen Bygrave.  Stephen will be commencing as CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions on Monday the 9th of September 2013. Stephen has worked ...
  • Time to ditch the redundant gas network
    By Ben Courtice. RenewEconomy In the record-breaking heatwave that led up to the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, an estimated 374 people died due to the heat – before the fires even started. This is more than double the official figure of 173 deaths in the fires themselves. Hot weather ...
  • How to have zero emissions housing – and tiny ...
    By Dominique Hes, The Conversation A new study says that all Australia’s existing housing could be retrofitted to be zero emissions within ten years. Households could halve their energy use and go gas free. Australian households currently spend approximately A$15 billion every year on electr ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Key European species make 'refreshing' comebacks
    Beaver, bison and eagles are among the species that have made a successful comeback in Europe in the past 50 years, according to a major survey published by a coalition of conservation groups on Thursday. The report selected 37 species that have showed signs of recovery, studied changes in their ...
  • France upholds nationwide ban on fracking
    France's landmark ban on fracking has survived constitutional challenges lobbed by U.S.-company, Schuepbach Energy. On Friday, the nation's Constitutional Council decided that the ban did not violate France's constitution. Passed in 2011 under then President Nicolas Sarkozy, the ban has since be ...
  • Norway blacklists 2 Malaysian logging companie ...
    Norway's $760 billion pension fund has divested from two Malaysian forestry companies due to 'severe environmental damage'.
  • Meeting the mammal that survived the dinosaurs
    So, here I am, running in a forest at night over 2,000 miles from home. This forest—dry, stout, and thorny enough to draw blood—lies just a few miles north of a rural town in the western edge of the Dominican Republic on the border with Haiti. I'm following—or trying to keep pa ...
  • Video depicting conversation between deaf girl ...
    Environmental activists have released an emotive video that aims to raise awareness about the impact of converting rainforests into palm oil plantations.

Sierra Express

  • World Food Day
    World Food Day (WFD) is celebrated annually on October 16th in honour of the foundation of the FAO in 1945. This year’s theme is “Sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition”. FAO reports that 925 million people are under-nourished and 2 billion are affected by micronutrient malnutr ...
  • Vacancy Notice – Nutrition Field Officer
    If you are a committed and creative individual and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.  For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to p ...
  • The great Marcus Garvey’s son pilots a Paramed ...
    Dr. Julius Garvey, the last son of the late African hero in the US, Marcus Garvey, alongside officials of the UNFPA , the vibrant Health and Sanitation Minister, in collaboration with two District Council Chairmen and local authorities, visited hospitals in the northern city, where Dr. Garvey wi ...
  • Sierra Leoneans should hope for a better futur ...
    On his maiden international trip to the United Kingdom which has been a diplomatic success, the chairman of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) made the statement at a jam-packed social evening event organised by the Council of Elders, the Electoral Commissioner and team and the outgoin ...
  • Sierra Leone’s Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella – The Di ...
    The man that could be the right successor of President Ernest Bai Koroma. A month ago, I went to Sierra Leone for several weeks, traveling to different parts of the country.  Hanging out with the political elite and grassroots alike.  I was particularly amazed by one thing,  ”Kandehmania&# ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Martin Jacques: NZ has a headstart in growing ...
    There is understandable concern that the recent food contamination scandals in China, starting with the Fonterra melamine dairy product crisis in 2008 and book-ended by the fresh concerns over botulism this August, could have a corrosive...
  • Stock food maker who wastes nothing up for prize
    Fuelling dairy cows on high-end rations created from food waste has put Auckland's EcoStock in the running for a million-dollar business prize. EcoStock is one of five finalists in the University o
  • Commodity prices up again - closing on record high
    New Zealand commodity prices rose for a third straight month in September, edging closer to the record set in April, led by a jump in the price of wool to an 18-month high.The
  • World dairy prices up 2.4pc overnight (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products rose in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, paced by whole and skim milk powder, the biggest products by volume, while overall volumes stabilised.The GDT Price Index, previously known as the GDT-TWI...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Danone compo wrangle escalates
    French dairy company Danone invoked the dispute mechanism in its multimillion-dollar contract with Fonterra after it met Prime Minister John Key in Paris last week to discuss the NZ firm's refusal to stump up major financial damages...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • 4 Ways a Budget Deal Could Change Obamacare
    When the government shutdown began, Obamacare was front and center.  House Republicans wanted to defund the health law—and said they wouldn’t vote for any continuing resolution that kept funding in place. But with President Obama and Democrats in the Senate determined to protect the ...
  • Jonathan Rauch Explores America’s Enormous 20- ...
    Reason contributor Jonathan Rauch uses the cover of the latest issue of American Review to discuss the remarkable, breathtaking shift in public opinion on gay and lesbian issues in this country since 1995. Rauch makes note of the many factors resulting in cultural changes, but misses ...
  • Rebels in Syria Risk Making Assad Look Coopera ...
    Although the Assad regime has been accused by Western officials of using chemical weapons, it is the rebels in Syria who could could end up looking uncooperative and disruptive as chemical weapons inspectors continue their mission to dismantle the Syrian government’s chemical wea ...
  • "Economics Teaches Us Humility": Q&A with ...
    "Economics is a set of eye glasses, and when you put them on you bring the world into sharp relief," says George Mason University Professor Pete Boettke, who is author of the new book, Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. "It's a way of thinking about the wor ...
  • Obamacare Navigator Confuses Floridians About ...
    Obamacare being a new, confusing and really poorly implemented system that has Americans baffled and frustrated, the administration set aside millions of dollars to hire highly trained "navigators" to lead Americans through the bureaucratic thickets. Those navigators are hard at ...

Mercury Rising

  • Stateless in Gaza
    Max Blumenthal, TomDispatch (via t/o) [Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu has updated the smokescreen strategy….his government was preparing to implement the Prawer Plan, a blueprint for the expulsion of 40,000 indigenous Bedouin citizens of Israel from their ancestral Negev Desert communities ...
  • NSA databases clogged with spam. Also: why Yah ...
    The NSA has been harvesting address books from Americans’ e-mail. This is done semi-legally. That is, the NSA intercepts e-mail at points where it transits international boundaries, as in Google using a foreign server to handle e-mail. This brings in lots of American communications. The NS ...
  • Harry Reid Doubles Down
    John Boehner’s and the Senate Republicans’ apparent plan to take the pressure off of themselves by propping up the stock market with bogus promises to Wall Street that the shutdown would be over by Monday have just been punctured by President Obama and Harry Reid: In the morning sess ...
  • Galt’s Gulch
    Too weird. The Jeff Berwick of The Dollar Vigilante (via Modemocrat, in a thread appropriately entitled Idiots”): After months of hard work by the entire staff at Galt’s Gulch Chile (GGC) I am extremely pleased to announce to the world that Ayn Rand’s vision in her iconic book, ...
  • Heritage And FreedomWorks Backed The Shutdown. ...
    I read the news today, oh boy: Report: Tea party group FreedomWorks is in deep financial trouble The conservative activist group credited with building the tea party has turned into a nearly broke wingnut welfare slush fund, according to former staffers. Sources told BuzzFeed that FreedomWorks w ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Stay Awake
    Join host John Perkins for the live, interactive video webinar, "Shapeshifting in Action: Spiritual Insight & Expanded Consciousness In Your Everyday Life," and learn to apply the lessons of your awakening experience.read more
  • Manifesting in Meat Space
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  • Psi in the News
    Will Rupert Sheldrake’s Wikipedia entry become the next front in the battle to bring psychical research to the public, does talking about parapsychology increase the likelihood of possession, is there a tacit supernaturalism in popular science? Find out in this week’s Psi in the News.  read more
  • Government Shuts Down while DEA Keeps Going
    [Action Alert] • The DEA is a major force powering the destructive war on drugs. Yet it is considered a necessary use of taxpayer money in the midst of the government shutdown. Express your outrage: click here to tell your members of Congress that funding the DEA should be one of their las ...
  • Entering the Mythic Journey and Making Your Soul
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Desertification

  • U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered ...
    The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer. On Mar. 1, the New York Times announced it was discontinuing the Green Blog that tracked environmental and energy news. In January, the paper had dismantled its three-year-old environment pod. This year, too, ...
  • The Coming Plague
    A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world’s tropical regions. By mid-century no place on the planet will be unaffected, ...
  • Small Island Economies Battered by Erratic Weather
    Malcolm Wallace always knew on which side his bread would be buttered. At the age of 19, he built and operated his own greenhouse on his father’s farm in Dominica, planting lettuce, sweet peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers. “It was very lucrative and I actually made money,” said Wallace, now a grad ...
  • How to Tell the Biggest Stories of Our Times
    What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines? Such are the topics of conversation at the 23rd annual co ...
  • OP-ED: Sustainable Development Goals After 2015
    Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached: At least 870 million people worldwide – and one child in five – still go hungry; this in a world where we already ...

Blogging Canadians

  • $ 200 Billion to see stupid men kicking balls ...
    I wonder what the people in poor  countries think when they see the sheikdoms  throw billions of dollars away on frivolous pastimes (in my opinion) when that kind of money could have been used to teach the poor in Africa and elsewhere how to cultivate and grow food and livestock which ...
  • Life without electricity in flooded Toronto
    In my area of Toronto, we SUFFERED for six LONG hours.  Yeh, I know ... that's laughable ... but that's how much pampered and dependent on the niceties of comfort we have become.  Even six hours was hard to take. There are some areas of Toronto where people are still without power so I ...
  • Rough and rude treatment of travellers by Cana ...
       Complaints pile up over airport border guardsReports show pattern of rude, disrespectful treatment of travellers by CBSA agents "Dozens of travellers arriving home at Ottawa International Airport have filed complaints about rude treatment and harassment by Canada Border Services ...
  • Vatican prostitution ring was a fake, but deep ...
    It turns out that rumours about a gay prostitution ring operating in the Vatican were unsubstantiated. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious problems there. As Pope Francis himself admitted, there is indeed a gay lobby operating in the Vatican. A few weeks ago we also ...
  • The Seasons Test: Are People Too Stupid for De ...
    Last week, an interesting story flashed around the world’s media: in pretty much every country, men are much more knowledgeable about politics than women. Now, you might think that journalists would be disturbed at their failure in this regard. You might think there would be some public so ...

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Nobel Prizewinners 2013
    The science Nobel Prizewinners 2013 were: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 - Franois Englert and Peter W. Higgsfor the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understandin...
  • What is the history of the Nobel Prizes?
    This week, the Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry were awarded. Here's your quickfire science on the life of the prize's founder, Alfred Nobel, and past recipients of the award with Matt...
  • Climate change, 55 million years ago
    About 55million years ago, Earth's temperature suddenly shot up owing to a massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, new research have revealed. Scientists are warning that we should take...
  • Free-floating planet found in deep space
    We normally expect planets to be orbiting stars, and so far that is where we have found them; this makes them easier to find, space is very large and planets are very dim, so up until now they have be...
  • Using drugs to block drug side effects
    Side effects are a common problem associated with prescription drugs, but now a new technique can help to find other drugs that can prevent them from happening. It's a fact that some of the most su...

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Care2 - Environment

  • TAKE ACTION: Tell President Obama and Congres ...
    Stop the celebration of Christopher Columbus as a national holiday. Instead, let's observe the struggles of the indigenous people of our nation. Submitted by Beverly M. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Wisconsin: Who Wrote WI Wolf Hunt Bill? Inside ...
    I want to point out that there was a lack of consult with tribes or tribal biologists, not one of them was consulted. No sound science used. Expert wolf biologists not consulted. Wolves are a species that the Ojibwe see their future entwined with Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |  ...
  • TAKE ACTION: Tell Speaker Boehner: Dont kick ...
    Let Congress vote on a clean continuing resolution and end this government shutdown so that women and children fleeing abuse can have a safe place to recover. Submitted by Beverly M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Anchovies spark humpback feeding frenzy in Mon ...
    This year, an explosion of anchovies in the bay has provided a feast not only for humpback whales but also for sea lions, brown pelicans, and even the largest of all mammals, the blue whales. GREAT PHOTOS! Submitted by Judy E. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Protect North Carolinas Endangered Red Wolves ...
    A recent temporary state rule was approved by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission that allows the night hunting of coyotes. The coyotes twins in the wild are endangered red wolves with similar coats, size, and beautiful red coloring. Submitted by Judy E. to Animals  |  ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • The Right's Obamacare Rhetoric Is Completely D ...
    Were a nation divided not only by partisanship and ideology, but also by wildly divergent realities. Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Mankind - Open Your Eyes
    A message by Kevens that is something I think we can all get behind. Done with music that is very professional and enjoyable. Keven's saying is Positivity is a Necessity . Submitted by Dandelion G. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Science takes a hit in Day 13 of the GOP's gov ...
    Republicans keep saying they really didnt want to shut the government down. As their approval ratings plummet, they keep trying to shift the blame to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, or the Democrats in general, or President Obama. But now in the secon Submitted by Kathy B. to US Politics &amp ...
  • Congress Did Something So Spectacularly Creepy ...
    the GOP quietly passed a measure that said only the House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, can call for the shutdown to end (unless he gives a designee permission). Not even the most senior GOP congressperson, Speaker of the House John Boehner, is allowed to Submitted by BMutiny TCorporationsEvil t ...
  • John Trudell On Colombus
    An older clip, still relevant to the struggle of First Nations peoples on this Columbus Day, where John speaks of the beginning of the predatory virus that arrived from Europe to lay waste to the people, the resources, and the sovereignty of North America Submitted by Brian M. to Society & C ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • The Back and Forth Over the Shutdown – G ...
    The Back and Forth Over the Shutdown – Graphic – NYTimes.com. Filed under: Government
  • October 8, 2013 Public Policy Polling on Congress
    www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2013/PPP_Release_CONGRESS_108.pdf. Filed under: Government
  • Department of Health and Human Services Market ...
    aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2013/MarketplacePremiums/ib_premiumslandscape.pdf. Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, News and politics Tagged: ACA, HHS, Marketplace Premiums, Obamacare, PPACA
  • TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster a ...
    TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster against Obamacare | The Washington Post. Filed under: News and politics
  • Health Plan Rates for State of Illinois
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2013 Governor Quinn Announces Health Plan Rates are 25 Percent Below HHS Estimates 95 Percent of Illinois Residents will have Access to at Least 34 Plans Rates Will Be as Low as $120 Per Month … Continue reading →

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered ...
    The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer. On Mar. 1, the New York Times announced it was discontinuing the Green Blog that tracked environmental and energy news. In January, the paper had dismantled its three-year-old environment pod. This year, too, ...
  • Climate Change a Mixed Blessing for Cococut Fa ...
    Climbing up the coconut industry has been anything but easy for Rosamund Benn, who has dedicated the past 32 years of her life working on a 50-acre coconut farm in The Pomeroon, a farming region of Guyana. The Pomeroon borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara ...
  • BOOKS: Containing Iran Is the “Least Bad ...
    The day that the much-heralded new round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 world powers opens might seem like the wrong day to pick up Unthinkable, Kenneth Pollack’s new exploration of what to do if talks fail. After all, the Iranian side talked almost giddily on Saturday about setting ...
  • India Beats a Cyclone
    “No casualties have been reported till now,” India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) declared at 9:30 am the morning after the near Super Cyclone ‘Phailin’ made landfall in India’s east. The response “has been a success because of coordination between NDMA and the Indian Meteorolog ...
  • Tamils Get Some Symbolic Power
    True democracy at last or a toothless tiger propped up to appease unfavourable international opinion? As Sri Lanka’s Northern Province got its first council after an election last month, many in this South Asian island nation were mulling this conundrum. For Tamil people long demanding a say in ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Remove all sanctions against Iranian people!
    Summary: The comprehensive US/EU sanctions attacking the lifeline of Iranian economy is a criminal war of choice against the Iranian population. Far from the claims of sanctions as diplomacy aimed at the resolution of the conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme, sanctions are inflicting, both ...
  • Don't Get Your Hopes Up: Obama’s duplicitous ...
    Summary: Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and historian, discusses the Obama administration’s duplicitous and reactionary Iran policy; why even Netanyahu’s biggest fans are getting tired of his inflammatory rhetoric; and the great opportunity for US-Iran reconciliation w ...
  • West May Drop Demand for Iran to Halt Civilian ...
    Summary: US officials have repeatedly presented ending civilian enrichment as a primary demand, but Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius says that his understanding is that Iran can continue the program if they agree to some other concessions that will convince western nations of the ...
  • The Other Lobby: Newspapers of Persian Gulf Oi ...
    Summary: Juan ColeWebsite of independent, pro-government daily on 29 September carries a commentary saying that the Gulf states “are going to pay the price” for the US-Iranian relations. The commentary says that the United States “will steadily adopt the Iran’s stances toward the region,” ref ...
  • U.S. Has to Be Prepared to Make Real Concessio ...
    Summary: Pledging not to overthrow the Iranian government is the bare minimum required to encourage trust that the U.S. is willing to accept a deal on the nuclear issue, but it is still a very small, boilerplate commitment. It would be a more meaningful gesture, and a real shift in policy, if ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 285,000!
                   Join the 285,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organization ...
  • "Rogue Planets May Help Seed Microbial Life in ...
                       There may be 100,000 times more wandering “nomad planets” in the Milky Way than stars, and some may carry bacterial life, according to a new study by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). A nomadic object may be an icy bod ...
  • Image of the Day: Metorites Ripping Through Sa ...
      Images made by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn’s rings. The Image above shows meteoroids bursting through Saturn’s faint F-ring, seen in 2009 by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. An ...
  • Star at Edge of Milky Way Closest to Compositi ...
               Today's Most Popular: A primordial star discovered in 2012 at the outer edges of our Milky Way galaxy upsets current theories of star formation in the universe. The star simply shouldn't exist since it lacks the materials astronomers have long thought necessary for low-mass s ...
  • Galactic Star Factories --Astronomers Identify ...
          A UA-led group of astronomers has completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way – pockets shrouded in gas and dust where new stars are being born. Each cloud is a potent brew of primordial hydrogen and helium heavily seasoned with the residue of dead stars ...

Natural News

  • Worse than Healthcare.gov: EBT food stamp syst ...
    Thank you to all those who shared and supported our feature article from yesterday about the EBT card recipient ransacking of Wal-Mart stores in Louisiana. With stories like that, Natural News has gained a reputation for stating things that everyone is thinking but few...
  • FDA finally joins ban of three arsenic drugs u ...
    After years of careless neglect that prompted threats of a lawsuit by environmental and human rights advocacy groups, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reluctantly agreed to nullify approval for three of the four arsenical drugs currently being used in...
  • Researchers say marital satisfaction is based ...
    As the trend to attribute everything to physiology and genetics rages on, researchers from UC Berkeley and Northwestern University claim that genes are what determine satisfaction in your marriage. Specifically, the 5-HTTLPR gene, which you received from both parents...
  • Five great ways to fortify energy supply to yo ...
    Most people today lead busy lives and often require quick energy fixes to fight off fatigue during the day. Energy drinks and bars can bring temporary relief. Experts, however, have raised concerns about the harmful food chemicals, such as caffeine, sugar, and other...
  • Research shows marijuana can be effectively us ...
    Israeli researchers have once again confirmed the healing potential of marijuana (cannabis), a natural, medicinal plant loaded with dozens of disease-fighting cannabinoids and other beneficial compounds. A recent announcement by American Friends of Tel Aviv University...

Threat Level

  • Feds Demand Supreme Court Thwart Challenge to ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the National Security Agency's once-secret telephone metadata spying program.     
  • NSA Leaks Prompt Rethinking of U.S. Control Ov ...
    The leaders who run the internet's technical global infrastructure say the time has come to end U.S. dominance over it. In response to leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Fadi Chehadé, who heads the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ...     
  • A Necessary Evil: What It Takes For Democracy ...
    Where exactly is the maximum tolerable level of surveillance, beyond which it becomes oppressive? That happens when surveillance interferes with the functioning of democracy: when whistleblowers (such as Snowden) are likely to be caught.     
  • Lavabit Files Opening Brief in Landmark Privac ...
    Secure email provider Lavabit just filed the opening brief in its appeal of a court order demanding it turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site.     
  • Obama’s Efforts to Control Media Are ‘Most Agg ...
    The President Barack Obama administration has “chilled the flow of information on issues of great public interest,” according to a Thursday report that amounts to an indictment of the president’s campaign pledge of a more open government.     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Sarah Palin Calls for Impeachment of President ...
    One day after hijacking a veterans march on the World War II Memorial closed by the government shutdown her Tea Party has been demanding since 2011, Sarah Palin took to Facebook to lob another grenade at President Obama. Should Republicans succeed in blocking the debt ceiling increase required ...
  • The Tea Party: Shutting Down Your Government S ...
    On Sunday, Tea Party icons Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz appropriated a veteran's march to the World War II memorial in Washington to blame the Obama administration for services idled by the government shutdown. The march organizers were none too happy about it, explaining on their web site, "We fee ...
  • Memo to Media: Deficits Rapidly Shrinking, Spe ...
    After first threatening to destroy the American economy if Obamacare wasn't defunded or delayed, desperate House Republicans have sent the President a new ransom note. Now, the GOP will grant a six-week extension to the debt ceiling and reopen the government if President Obama, among other thin ...
  • There is No Debt Crisis. There Should No Debt ...
    Having discovered that their shutdown of the federal government has made them less popular than the Ebola virus, House Republicans are backing away from their blackmail that Obamacare be delayed or defunded. But John Boehner's new ransom note is almost as preposterous. In exchange for a short- ...
  • Sebelius' Obamacare Critics Forget Bush's "Hor ...
    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has not had a very good week. Just days after the glitch-filled roll-out of the Affordable Care Act's online health insurance exchanges, Sebelius got grilled by Jon Stewart of the Daily Show. So it should come as no surprise that CNBC resid ...

Global Research.ca

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  • Denial in the Face of “Debt Default&#822 ...
    Debt Ceiling?  What Debt Ceiling?  That’s a unicorn in Congress’s garden! For all the talk about the United States approaching a catastrophic Debt Ceiling and subsequent unprecedented but exceptional default that would have unpredictable but probably dire impact on pretty…
  • Can a “Grand Bargain” be Reached in the New Ro ...
    On October 15-16, Iran will negotiate in Geneva once again with the countries forming the 5+1 (US, UK, France, Russia, China + Germany). Are there any changes in the positions of the opposing parties, especially in regards to Iran verses…
  • What will Happen to the Global Economy if BRIC ...
    Peter Koenig, a former World Bank economist and a Voice of Russia regular, outlines one of the scenarios in which America’s plans for a New World Order are broken. This is the second part. The first part of the scenario…
  • Global Warfare and NATO’s “Quick R ...
    ‘The magniloquence of the US’ language is almost pharaonic’ – Rick Rozoff While in fact being illegal aggressions and incursions onto these southern territories of foreign countries recent operations by the US in Somalia as well as the kidnapping of…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • Disaster Spiraling Out of Control at Fukushima ...
    Massive quantities of heavily contaminated water are pouring into the Pacific Ocean, dousing workers along the way. Huge, flimsy tanks are leaking untold tons of highly radioactive fluids. Japan’s pro-nuclear Prime Minister has finally asked for global help at Fukushima. It probably hasn’t hu ...
  • One Man's Clever Idea to Fight Frackers and Sa ...
    He did more than just act against fracking when he became the first private property owner in the United States to use a deed easement recognizing the Rights of Nature. When J. Stephen Cleghorn realized that Paradise Gardens and Farm, his certified-organic farm in Pennsylvania that sits above ...
  • The Growing Environmental Costs of America's T ...
    There are growing concerns over radiation risks and a new report finds widespread environmental damage on an unimaginable scale in the US. Fracking in America generated 280bn US gallons of toxic waste water last year – enough to flood all of Washington DC beneath a 22ft deep t ...
  • The Striking Challenge of Fracking: Who Does i ...
    Two experts on fracking debate the controversial topic with strong — and sometimes opposing — points of view as part of a new collaborative media project . Fracking is now a flashpoint in debates about climate change, energy policy, and inequality.AlterNet has partnered with th ...
  • Famed Chef Alice Waters Leads the Foodie Fight ...
    Waters, the founder of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse restaurant, and other foodie icons are protesting against fracking’s impacts on farming and food. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) imposed new regulations on the state’s fast-growing fracking industry last week, but dozens of elite chefs are still ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Climate-Com: Climate Change Communications Fro ...
    Our climate is changing and action is desperately needed, but that message is not getting through to to many of our leaders. Climate-Com will explore how the media can better present current climate science so that the public and our leaders will be convinced to act. What: A panel discussion on ...
  • EPA to hold public events in 11 cities on thei ...
    The public will soon get a chance to present ideas and feedback to EPA officials on the agency’s plan to require existing power plants to cut their carbon emissions. The agency will hold a series of 11 public events around the country over the next two months, the agency announced today. The EPA ...
  • A Capital Area Symposium on Climate Resilience ...
    When:   October 4, 2013 Where:  LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin Central Texas Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies: A Capital Area Symposium. This one-day conference will bring Capital Area stakeholders together to identify and assess the shared challenges ...
  • Groups Protest Permit for Louisiana Coal Terminal
    PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana (Sept. 18) – Community and environmental organizations lodged a formal protest against the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’s recent permit for a coal export terminal in the already polluted Plaquemines Parish corridor. In a letter sent to LDNR Secretary St ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • When Peasant Movements Unite...
    g4-dessalines_brigade.jpg Strength through unity. That is the motto on the Haitian flag, and it is being played out now in a new collaboration among the country’s leading social movements. Each of the four largest Haitian peasant movement ...
  • Palestinian Human Rights Defender Receives the ...
    rajisourani.jpg It is with tremendous pride and admiration that Grassroots International shares the news that Raji Sourani, director of our partner the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), has won the 2013 Right Livelihood Award, oft ...
  • New UN Report says: It's Time for Action on Pe ...
    unctad_cover.jpg A new UN report brings urgency and insights into the current food system – and touches upon the hot button question that is increasingly on people’s minds around the world:  Is industrial food safe – either for pe ...
  • Bid on Unique Items -- Grassroots Internationa ...
    mv_exterior.jpeg As part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations, Grassroots International is holding an online auction. Thanks to generous donors, we have a variety of unique items that our supporters can bid on. read more
  • 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 ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION: Tell President Obama and Congres ...
    Stop the celebration of Christopher Columbus as a national holiday. Instead, let's observe the struggles of the indigenous people of our nation. Submitted by Beverly M. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Wisconsin: Who Wrote WI Wolf Hunt Bill? Inside ...
    I want to point out that there was a lack of consult with tribes or tribal biologists, not one of them was consulted. No sound science used. Expert wolf biologists not consulted. Wolves are a species that the Ojibwe see their future entwined with Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |  ...
  • TAKE ACTION: Tell Speaker Boehner: Dont kick ...
    Let Congress vote on a clean continuing resolution and end this government shutdown so that women and children fleeing abuse can have a safe place to recover. Submitted by Beverly M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Anchovies spark humpback feeding frenzy in Mon ...
    This year, an explosion of anchovies in the bay has provided a feast not only for humpback whales but also for sea lions, brown pelicans, and even the largest of all mammals, the blue whales. GREAT PHOTOS! Submitted by Judy E. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Protect North Carolinas Endangered Red Wolves ...
    A recent temporary state rule was approved by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission that allows the night hunting of coyotes. The coyotes twins in the wild are endangered red wolves with similar coats, size, and beautiful red coloring. Submitted by Judy E. to Animals  |  ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Veterans Take Back the War Memorials
    Under the leadership of Special Operations Speaks (a group I am part of), thousands of men and women gathered this morning at the World War II memorial and opened it up for all Americans. This was put together at the last minute. Although hyped as the “Million Vets March,” the realit ...
  • Who Scares You the Most?
    I am truly fascinated by the name calling and vitriol directed at Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and other Tea Party folks. I understand it. Establishment Republicans and Democrats are scared shitless of the Tea Party crowd. Hysterical efforts by the left and the media to tag advocates to the Tea Party as r ...
  • Obama Crosses the Fairness Line
    We have reached the watershed moment in the shutdown showdown and Barack Obama has detonated his fiscal suicide vest. Obama, despite the acclaim heaped on him by a fawning media, is not too bright when it comes to political tactics. Yesterday, October 8th, was the day that Obama shot himself in ...
  • Obama’s Obamacare Debacle
    Kudos to Jon Stewart for exposing the full dimension of the clusterfark that is Obamacare. He put Health and Human Services Secretary Sibelius on the hot seat and grilled her good: She is certain that the program is swell but has not a clue about how many have actually signed up. Her incompetenc ...
  • Obama Protects Illegal Aliens, Arrests Veterans
    Just when you think that Barack Obama and his Choom Crew have descended into the darkest depths of incompetence, they manage to surprise and shock us at the same time by embracing a hate America meme. How else to explain the Administration’s decision to arrest US military veterans for visi ...

Futurismic

  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • 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 ...

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • "Capital Shield 2014": Military Defense Suppor ...
    The US government runs a lot of exercises, which usually happens for ordinary training reasons. On the other hand, many researchers of geopolitics and covert politics note that exercises serve other geopolitical purposes -- for example demonstrating a military alliance with an ally state in fron ...
  • Sheriff Stanek lied on Minnesota Public Radio ...
    Super quick note: Sheriff Stanek lied on Minnesota Public Radio this morning claiming that tons of people are intoxicated on marijuana when they commit violent crimes - a dramatic distortion of yesterday's Stanek Star Tribune op-ed saying more than 50% of people booked at Hennepin Co Jail test p ...
  • Occupy Boulder Flood Relief gets rolling as oi ...
    The good news is that people are organizing for flood relief in Colorado along the proven lines of previous efforts at Occupy Sandy. URLZ: #boulderflood relief :: Boulder Flood Relief - Get help & get involved First meeting 28 mins video: Boulder Flood Relief - Orientation Meeting - YouTube ...
  • Leon Trotsky discusses Freemasonry as inspirat ...
    Poppa Karl makes the Sign of the Itchy Belly Here is an interesting angle which I just found. The connection between Freemasonry and Communism is debatable but a favorite of conspiracy cats, full of ironic twists. While Trotsky talks about how Freemasons in different areas formed a revolutionary ...
  • Terrible proposed shield law spells doom for j ...
    Here is some horrible news. I am inquiring further since of course it's people like me that this is intended to chill and/or enable grand juries to throw in prison without charges…. I have put in inquiries with MN Sens. Klobuchar and Franken offices to determine if they believe reporters should ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Get Nervous: The Fate of the Country Is in Joh ...
    With a Senate deal imminent, the speaker has a choice to make: His job or our economy. He could go either way. Minding the caveat that fluid events are fluid and thus subject to flowing to unexpected places, it looks like Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell are a hair’s breadth from a deal to reope ...
  • PHOTOS: The Oil Spill North Dakota Tried to Ke ...
    It took nearly two weeks after a farmer first reported the spill for the state to finally make the news public, and as you can see from the photos below, the damage is extensive. On September 29th, Steve Jensen, a farmer in northwest North Dakota, discovered crude oil "spewing and bubbling 6 i ...
  • "Edward Snowden Is a Patriot": Ex-NSA CIA, FBI ...
    Four former U.S. intelligence officials — all whistleblowers themselves — tell about their trip to meet NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia and present him with an award. AMY GOODMAN: We’re joined by four former U.S. intelligence officials who met with Snowden to give him an award for i ...
  • Think a New Economy Is Possible? Meet the Man ...
    Rob Hopkins helped start the first Transition Town. Now it's a global network of thousands of communities showing no signs of slowing down. Standing in front of a crowd of hundreds at Oakland, California’s Grand Lake Theater, Rob Hopkins shows a picture of a butcher shop in a small town i ...
  • What Gives? California Gov. Jerry Brown Lines ...
    The only explanation for Brown’s maddening decisions is that he's positioning himself for re-election in November 2014. California Gov. Jerry Brown has killed one of the most common-sense criminal justice reforms to come from the state legislature in years—lessening charges for possessing ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Demand Supreme Court Thwart Challenge to ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the National Security Agency's once-secret telephone metadata spying program.     
  • NSA Leaks Prompt Rethinking of U.S. Control Ov ...
    The leaders who run the internet's technical global infrastructure say the time has come to end U.S. dominance over it. In response to leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Fadi Chehadé, who heads the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ...     
  • A Necessary Evil: What It Takes For Democracy ...
    Where exactly is the maximum tolerable level of surveillance, beyond which it becomes oppressive? That happens when surveillance interferes with the functioning of democracy: when whistleblowers (such as Snowden) are likely to be caught.     
  • Lavabit Files Opening Brief in Landmark Privac ...
    Secure email provider Lavabit just filed the opening brief in its appeal of a court order demanding it turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site.     
  • Obama’s Efforts to Control Media Are ‘Most Agg ...
    The President Barack Obama administration has “chilled the flow of information on issues of great public interest,” according to a Thursday report that amounts to an indictment of the president’s campaign pledge of a more open government.     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • What is the Status of the CSPI Petition to USD ...
    Two years ago, the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a Citizen Petition urging the USDA/FSIS to issue an interpretative rule, similar to what the agency had already... Continue Reading
  • If Costco Can’t Cook Chicken Correctly, Why Sh ...
    “If people would just cook the chicken the way they should they’ll be fine,” Craig Wilson, Costco’s food safety manager, told the Oregonian in response to why Costco has not... Continue Reading
  • Next Week – Farm to Fork to Court Symposium – ...
    PROVISIONAL AGENDA: DAY 1 07h30 Registration & Refreshments 08h30 Symposium Starts 17h00 Symposium Closes This ground-breaking symposium will address the issues surrounding the very relevant topics of foodborne illnesses and... Continue Reading
  • Why does the FSIS like Foster Farm’s Salmonell ...
    Still no Foster Farms recall despite hundreds sickened. Today the CDC reported a total of 317 individuals infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 20... Continue Reading
  • Foster Farms: 451 Sickened (likely 13,752) in ...
    Two outbreaks since April 2012. Will there be a recall with the number of ill has doubled, or will we await deaths? Today the CDC reported a total of 317... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid [w/video]
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesDelivering On Promises The 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid should surprise no one. Its look is something we've seen since the non-hybrid versions went on sale last year. Its powertrain, mostly, we are familiar with from the already-on-sale Accord Pl ...
  • Report: Fisker's remains on the auction block ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Fisker, Electric How will a federal government that is partially shut down sell an automaker that is all-but-shut-down? We'll find out Friday when the Department of Energy starts an auction for what is left of Fisker's assets, according to TheDetroitBure ...
  • Frankfurt: Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E Rac ...
    Filed under: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, Motorsports, Electric, Racing The Spark-Renault SRT_01E looks like it'd be at home on any Formula One track in the world, but this is a car with a different destiny: the all-electric Formula E series. Unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show this week, ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Single-Payer Prescription for What Ails Obamacare
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “We apologize for the inconvenience. The Marketplace is currently undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance and will be back up Monday 10/7/3013.” You read it right, 3013. That was the message on the homepage of the New York state health insurance exchan ...
  • Single-Payer Prescription for What Ails Obamacare
    “We apologize for the inconvenience. The Marketplace is currently undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance and will be back up Monday 10/7/3013.” You read it right, 3013. That was the message on the homepage of the New York state health insurance exchange website this past weekend. Yes, th ...
  • READ: "The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian ...
    Tune in Tuesday ahead of the elections in oil-rich dictatorship of Azerbaijan when we'll discuss how what critics call "carbon democracies" occur in the pursuit of oil. We will speak with Timothy Mitchell, author of "Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil," and with James Marriot, ...
  • READ: "The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian ...
    Tune in Tuesday ahead of the elections in oil-rich dictatorship of Azerbaijan when we'll discuss how what critics call "carbon democracies" occur in the pursuit of oil. We will speak with Timothy Mitchell, author of "Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil," and with James Marriot, ...
  • Part 2: Max Blumenthal on "Goliath: Life and L ...
    Part two of our conversation with journalist Max Blumenthal on his new book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel . Blumenthal looks at life inside Israel and the Occupied Territories. Watch Part 1 of interview here. AMY GOODMAN : I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Our g ...

Solari

  • Federal Budget
    By The Solari Team There are so many irreconcilable issues in the federal budget, and there are many pieces and aspects to understanding the fiscal cliff policy. If you’d like to take a deeper look or learn steps you can take to become more independent of government disparity you can read ...
  • Crowdfunding: Growing Fresh Food Entrepreneurs
    By Catherine Austin Fitts One of the most important opportunities in America today is the creation of new enterprises to provide fresh, local food. The national debate over healthcare has made clear one of the most important lessons I have learned as an investment advisor: eating the highest qu ...
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
    As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari Special Rep ...
  • Welcome to Going Organic Magazine
    By Going Organic Magazine Going Organic Magazine is a unique publication dedicated to creating better health and lifestyles for readers. Our goal is to provide information and inspiration to help people of all ages and backgrounds achieve their highest potential within a sustainable environment ...
  • Poem From a Solari Subscriber!
    By John Rushton Nighttime falls, I study on. I find another hero. It’s time to sleep. Sleep lasts but half the night. Burdens pile up, The tax man calls in 5 days, Men of all kinds fight for control. The world spins round; we spend half our life [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • New Palo Alto Building Code Requires Wiring fo ...
    A big hurdle facing potential electric vehicle owners is installing the equipment to charge their new car at home. Installing a home charging station can be a complicated process, often involving retrofitting the appropriate electrical service and wiring.     
  • Somdoon Architects’ IDEO Morph 38 Tower is Wra ...
    The smaller ten-story tower is called Skyle, and it targets singles or young couples with the smallest unit footprint being just 23.3 m2 (76.4 square feet). Apartments in this building have a small footprints in order to control the overall unit price and     
  • Infographic Shows the Amount of Various Buildi ...
    In the Scale of Carbon is a new exhibition launched by the Materials Council during the London Design Festival that explores the sustainability of different building materials. The exhibit uses cubes to physically demonstrates the amount of various materials     
  • CORKIGAMI: Cool Seating Designs Made from Eco- ...
    Cork is very flexible and it is also quite strong. The creatives at Carlos Ortega Design wanted to apply the versatile material to their new furniture designs and so they created a series of CORKIGAMI chairs inspired by the Japanese art of paper folding.     
  • Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson Talks With Da ...
    David Letterman took a break from chatting up celebrities and movie stars to talk about something serious and imperative for our country - renewable energy. Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Atmosphere/Energy     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Hokusai Crater
    This dramatic image features Hokusai in the foreground, famous for its extensive set of rays, some of which extend for over a thousand kilometers across Mercury's surface. The extensive, bright rays indicate that Hokusai is one of the youngest large ...     
  • How Quantum Computers and Machine Learning Wil ...
    Big data is overwhelming nearly every field of science. But in order to handle it, we will also need to make advancements in how we process this data deluge. As computers approach the limits of Moore's Law, what new algorithms ...     
  • Arafat and Polonium Poisoning: A Sort-of Update
    On Friday, the news network Al Jazeera made an announcement:  the British medical journal, The Lancet, was now supporting the theory that the deceased Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, had died of polonium-210 poisoning. According to the report, independent scientists had reviewed earlier ... & ...
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Hot Young Filaments
    Filaments stream from nebula N44C, a region of glowing hydrogen gas around an association of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The star responsible for illuminating the nebula is unusually hot. Typically, the most massive stars have maximum temperatures ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Hebes Chasma
    This mosaic of Hebes Chasma is composed of eight single images taken with the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express, corresponding to orbits 360 (2 May 2004), 2149 (16 September 2005), 3217 (12 July 2006), 5142 (3 January 2008), ...     

PakAlert

  • Former Hillary Associate Claims to Have Been H ...
    Like many Americans I have been glued to the Pete Santilli show today in an attempt to keep up to date with any updates on the truckers. That show is streaming live at www.ridefortheconstitution.org as I write this
  • Riot Police Use Force Against Elderly Vets Out ...
    WWII veterans rammed with batons as they protest peacefully Shocking video shows hyped-up riot police hitting and shoving elderly war veterans with batons at a peaceful protest outside the White House
  • Video: New $100 Bill Shows Tidal Wave & Nuclea ...
    In this video, TheJonathankleck decrypts the new $100 bill and the new $10 bill. Do these bills show both a New York City nuclear attack AND a tidal wave as claimed by Jonathan? The new $100 bill has just been released to the public and this new bill finishes the story that the $10 bill started ...
  • The International Plot to Steal All Retirement ...
    Almost three months ago, the Saturday night host of Coast to Coast AM, John B. Wells and I were co-guests on the same show in which he expressed the view that Putin and Obama were playing for the same team and that the apparent Russian/American conflict over Syria and Iran was merely an exercise ...
  • Negative US Media Coverage Fails to Stop Const ...
    More DC Truckers along with many other vehicles have continued to pour into the nation’s capital today, as day three of Ride for the Constitution commences. Convoy spokesman, Ernest “General” Lee (photo, left) was busy Saturday coordinating new incoming convoys. From early Sunday morning, ...

Andy Worthington

  • Some Progress on Guantánamo: The Envoy, the Ha ...
    I wrote the following article — under the heading, “Progress on Guantánamo,” for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ...
  • Watch the Shocking New Animated Film About the ...
    Below is a powerful new animated film, six minutes in length, which tells the story of the hunger strike at Guantánamo that began in February, and involved the majority of the 164 prisoners still held over the six-month period that followed. At its height, 46 prisoners were being force-fed, and ...
  • Photos: Free Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo, Par ...
    Free Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo, Parliamentary Vigil, October 9, 2013, a set on Flickr. On Wednesday October 9, 2013, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign held a vigil outside Parliament for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo, whose British wife and four British children await his ...
  • Reflections on Herman Wallace – and I Di ...
    Suddenly I’m talking to people on the radio all the time — for the first time since the height of the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo a few months back. I’ll shortly be speaking to an old friend, Peter B. Collins in San Francisco, and on Sunday I’ll be speaking to ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses the Ongoing ...
    On Saturday, I was delighted to talk about Guantánamo past, present and future with Chuck Mertz, who hosts an excellent four-hour radio show, “This is Hell,” every Saturday on WNUR 89.3FM Chicago. Chuck and I have spoken several times in the seven and a half years since I began resea ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Elemental discoveries – Hipsterium
    Back in the day (well 1995) I created one of the first chemistry websites – Elemental Discoveries – it was a spinoff of my news column for the RSC’s young chemists’ print magazine New Elements (a name I coined to replace the old Gas Jar). Anyway, Elemental Discoveries was ...
  • Obamacare and the shutdown
    The US has shut down for the day…it’s some kind of budgetary rebellion over Obamacare, right? This is roughly how Wiki describes Obamacare, or to give it its formal name The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): “[Obamacare] aims to increase the quality and afford ...
  • Tim Minchin – philosopher
    Ooh get him in his robes and mortar board…no, I mean it “get” him, ignore the robes and mortar board, ignore the long hair if that’s not your thing. But, give his philosophy a listen to, all the way through…I perhaps do his speech an injustice quoting so briefly fro ...
  • The monsters in your peripheral vision
    A while ago there was a meme that went viral, it showed images of people one after the other, but if you stared at a spot just to the side of the faces flashing past something very strange happened – you got the impression that the faces were monstrous, ghouls, with distorted features. Giz ...
  • No mystery to free will, just cause and effect
    The debate about free will rages on and on, it always will, with some saying it would violate causality and the laws of physics if it were anything but an illusion, others pointing out that it is “god-given” and so must exist(!) and yet others pointing out that so much of the brain&# ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Pro-Coal Kids' Pages Pulled from Government S ...
    The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has removed coal-related educational sections from its website, less than two weeks after the launch of a grassroots campaign demanding that the pages be taken down. read more
  • Russian Authorities Mass Arrest Alleged Migran ...
    Russian police rounded up and detained over 1,600 alleged undocumented migrants in Moscow on Monday, a day after white-power, nationalist protests swept the southern Biryulyovo residential district of Moscow.
  • 'Iraq Replay': Kerry Demands Immunity for US T ...
    US troops set out on a patrol in Paktika province, Afghanistan. There are currently 87,000 international troops in Afghanistan, including 52,000 U.S. troops.(Photo: David Furst/AFP/Getty Images)Secretary of State John Kerry is demanding immunity for U.S. military service members in Afghanistan a ...
  • Activists Chain Themselves Together to Challen ...
    Action ends in victory! We #shutdownice today with no arrests & we will be back!! #Not1more (via @NPAction)Immigration reform activists chained themselves outside a detention facility in Arizona on Monday continuing of a campaign of civil disobedience that calls for an end to inhumane incarc ...
  • AP: Another Historically Low Increase to Socia ...
    Next year's benefit increase for Social Security recipients is projected to be one of the smallest increases ever, according to a new analysis by the Associated Press. The AP projects that the cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the 58 million Americans who rely on Social Security will rais ...

Lifehacker

  • Transform Your Garage into a Home Gym
    This guide from the Art of Manliness shows you how to create a gym in your garage, for a complete, full-body workout anytime you feel like getting fit.Read more...     
  • LightZone Is a Free, Awesome Photo Editor and ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: Adobe Lightroom might be the professional photographer's photo management tool of choice, but you can save $149 and download free and open source LightZone instead.Read more...     
  • The Most Common Home Repairs You Can Easily Do ...
    Your home is one of the most expensive things you'll ever pay for, so whether you're renting or buying, you should take good care of it. While you'll probably be tempted to call a professional when something breaks, you can take care of a lot of problems yourself.Read more...    & ...
  • Bake Soft, Perfectly Sized Cookies in a Muffin Pan
    If you prefer your cookies soft and round, rather than spread out into one giant layer, just bake the cookies in a muffin pan.Read more...     
  • T-Mobile announced today that anyone on an old ...
    T-Mobile announced today that anyone on an old, grandfathered plan will be migrated to a comparable new plan. The carrier hasn't released many details yet, but if you want to take this opportunity to switch carriers, you have until February 21st, 2014 to do so without fees. Read more here.Read m ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Countdown To Catastrophe: The Latest Updates O ...
    The latest, breaking updates on negotiations to reopen the government and avert default. The post Countdown To Catastrophe: The Latest Updates On The Shutdown And The Debt Ceiling appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • California Now Seventh State To Bar Employment ...
    Domestic violence victims in California now can't be fired because of their abuse, but those in 43 other states don't have the same protections.The post California Now Seventh State To Bar Employment Discrimination Against Domestic Violence Victims appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • The Morning Pride: October 15, 2013
    Start your day with a round-up of LGBT political news stories!The post The Morning Pride: October 15, 2013 appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • The One Thing The Emerging Senate Deal Would C ...
    Everything you have to know about how Congress plans to change a provision designed to stabilize the health care market in the first two years of reform.The post The One Thing The Emerging Senate Deal Would Change About Obamacare appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Senators Rumored To Reach A Deal On Shutdown A ...
    If House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) accepts this deal, the shutdown -- and the default crisis -- could end.The post Senators Rumored To Reach A Deal On Shutdown And Default appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • Chicken-Hawk Scum-Bags
    A good survey of the harpercon's dismal record of hypocrisy and deceit. I can't believe that we didn't force these ugly fuckers from power years ago. Canadian apathy.
  • This Oughta Mean Something ...
    International cover-up of genotoxic environmental catastrophe? I'm one of those limp-wristed "pwogwessive" types whooz against things like the death penalty. But maybe an uprising, followed by executions of those who launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003 would teach these scumbags some fucking l ...
  • Economic Incompetence
    What we're seeing in the USA's political-economic policy isn't so much "policy" based on flawed theories, as it is naked, short-sighted greed, being justified with a fig-leaf of delusion. They want more and more money. They don't want to share it. They want to "invest" it in an unregulated, tota ...
  • The World Is Made for Edward Burkhardt
    Remember the CEO of Rail World Inc., and owner of the MMA trains that derailed in Lac-Megantic, killing 42 people? He pushed deregulation, fought unions, pursued profit over safety, and when the inevitable happened, blamed everyone but himself and had MMA declare bankruptcy so as to escape payin ...
  • ain't nobody gonna save Canuck democracy!
    Murray Dobbin gives us a terrifying overview of the 31-year "trade" deal with China, in an essay entitled "Who Will Save Canadian Democracy?" I'll skip ahead to the answer: Who will save us from this repugnant, anti-democratic initiative? Probably no one. The only player to come to the&nb ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Staying out of missile defence
    Canada will not be signing on to the U.S. missile defence program any time soon, says James Fergusson.
  • Does your bank invest in nuclear weapons?
    Read “Don't Bank on the Bomb," the new report from ICAN and IKV Pax Christi that details how 298 private and public financial institutions from around the world invest almost $314 billion in 27 companies involved in the production, maintenance, and modernization of nuclear weapons.
  • Learn more about the arms industry
    Learn more about the defence lobby from Ceasefire.ca's new factsheet, "Inside Canada's Defence Lobby."
  • Hartung: Beware LockMart!
    Canada should be wary of its relationship to the defence industry, especially in regard to the American defence firm Lockheed Martin, U.S. expert William D. Hartung warns.
  • Afraid to pull the trigger on ATT
    The United States signed the Arms Trade Treaty last week, raising the total number of signatures to 107. Unfortunately, Canada remains one of the shrinking number of countries that have failed to sign the treaty. Months after Canada voted in favour of the treaty at the UN General Assembly, the H ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • NSA collects millions of e-mail address books ...
    The Washington Post reports: The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by ...
  • Bush administration feared chemical weapons in ...
    The New York Times reports: More than a decade before the international agency that monitors chemical weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize, John R. Bolton marched into the office of its boss to inform him that he would be fired. “He told me I had 24 hours to resign,” said José Bustani, who was dire ...
  • The scary map of the Middle East is the curren ...
    Rami G Khouri writes: An article and map in The New York Times’ Sunday edition two weeks ago examined the possibility that current upheavals may cause some Arab states to break up into smaller units. Written by the veteran foreign correspondent Robin Wright, the article created lively discussion ...
  • Radiation experts confirm polonium on Arafat c ...
    AFP reports: Swiss radiation experts have confirmed they found traces of polonium on clothing used by Yasser Arafat which “support the possibility” the veteran Palestinian leader was poisoned. In a report published by The Lancet at the weekend, the team provide scientific details to ...
  • Gov’t moves to keep NSA surveillance lawsuit a ...
    Ars Technica: Not long after widespread NSA phone surveillance was revealed by a series of leaks this summer, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy-oriented nonprofit, tried a bold and novel legal tactic: it appealed straight to the Supreme Court, asking for an immediate shutdown ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Will Global Warming Increase the Intensity of ...
    FIRST CLIMATE MODELS HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SIMULATE EL NIÑO AND LA NIÑA PROCESSES—CAPABILITIES THEY CONTINUE TO LACK AFTER DECADES OF MODELING EFFORTS (PERSONALLY, I DON’T THINK THE MODELERS ARE REALLY TRYING) BBCNews published an article yesterday by Matt … Continue reading →
  • The other divergence problem – climate c ...
    I regularly get angry emails from people who are convinced that I’m single-handedly destroying the world with my opinion which is supposedly funded by “big oil” and the Koch brothers. Of course, having nothing else, that’s all part of the … Continue reading →
  • 90 climate model projectons versus reality
    Reality wins, it seems. Dr Roy Spencer writes: As seen in the following graphic, over the period of the satellite record (1979-2012), both the surface and satellite observations produce linear temperature trends which are below 87 of the 90 climate … Continue reading →
  • Godspeed Scott Carpenter
    Last week, astronaut Scott Carpenter died at the age of 88, and while I was thinking of a suitable way to honor the man, much as I did for Neil Armstrong, I was also in the midst of many distractions … Continue reading →
  • AGU summarily rejects minority report without ...
    Further Discussion on the Narrow Process of the AGU Review of Climate Change Guest essay by Roger A. Pielke Sr. With the appearance of the new 2013 WG1 IPCC report, it is useful to visit my recent experience with the … Continue reading →

treehugger

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

  • What about those private sector furloughs?
    Official Washington furloughed government workers without pay, but then voted to restore their lost pay and benefits upon resolving the budget dispute. Furloughed private sector workers will foot the bill but get no help from their government -- which instead continues to do them harm through l ...
  • Politics always “manages” science ...
    New Zealand scientist Dr. Vincent Gray, an expert reviewer for all five UN IPCC reports, explains how the political masters of the IPCC have for 17 years forced the "science" to fit their alarmist models with increasing difficulty -- and that the attempt to hide 17 years of no global warming may ...
  • Physicist: There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster
    Anti-nuclear activists do not want the public to know the truth. Fukushima showed that a nuclear plant can take the maximum punch of nature’s brutality. Yet the media and the anti-nukes enjoy stoking the fear.
  • The fantasy world of the warmist!
    The perverse UN is at it again -- with fake predictions of massive world population growth that belie the declining birth rates in just about every nation on earth. They also expect us to provide energy for all of these imaginary extra people by cutting back drastically on highly efficient foss ...
  • An Uncritical View Of EPA: Why I Agree With Obama
    The IPCC now says we can conquer Mother Nature and end climate change if we just give them a LOT more money and power. Problem is, even though hardly anyone believes in them any more, they just might get the money and power away from us anyway!

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia to Make Second Attempt at Mars Moon Mis ...
    Russia will take a second crack at bringing back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after an attempt in 2011 ended in the spacecraft crashing back to Earth, a top scientist said Tuesday.     
  • Cabbage Contains Radiation-Protective Compound ...
    One of the healthiest staples of the Russian diet, cabbage, just added another feather to its cap: US scientists have found that it contains a compound that protects rodents from potentially deadly doses of radiation, a study published Monday says.     
  • Unrest Sees Obscure Moscow Region Go Global on ...
    Unrest sparked by a local murder and discontent with the government’s policy on migration saw an obscure region of Moscow make the big-time on Sunday – as the Cyrillic word Biryulovo became a global trend on microblogging site Twitter.     
  • Russians Discover Kilometer-Wide Near-Earth As ...
    A near-Earth asteroid about a fifth the size of the space rock thought to have killed the dinosaurs has been discovered by a Russian-operated observatory in New Mexico     
  • ‘Lonely’ Planet Found Wandering in Space
    It was found wandering all by itself, 80 million light years from Earth – a planet that is not orbiting a star, discovered accidentally by an international team of astronomers spending night after night scanning the sky from their base in Hawaii.     

Natural Health News

  • Raw Milk: A Key Ingredient in Some of the Worl ...
    By Dr. Mercola Based on their vehement warnings to the public, as well as their raids on small farms, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) want you to believe that raw milk is unsafe. And ...
  • The Perilous Road Ahead: Designer Babies and O ...
    By Dr. Mercola In 2001, a study1 announcing the successful birth of the world’s first genetically engineered babies—30 in total—was published. This staggering development didn’t receive media attention until nearly a decade later. The children were created using genes ...
  • The Power of Peppermint: 21 Health Benefits Re ...
    By Dr. Mercola As we approach the season of candy canes and peppermints, it’s a perfect time to pay homage to the medicinal herb that gives these winter treats their flavor: peppermint. Far from just a flavoring for candies, the therapeutic effects of fresh peppermint leaves and pepper ...
  • The Rich Benefits of Eating Chocolate
    By Dr. Mercola New research has emerged proving that chocolate is good not only for the soul, but for your mind and body as well. According to a video released by the American Chemical Society (ACS), chocolate contains hundreds of compounds, and many of them come with benefits that go far ...
  • Ronnie Cummins on Turning the Tide Against Mon ...
    By Dr. Mercola Between October 18 and November 5 the next big GMO-labeling vote will take place in the United States; this time in Washington State, where citizens will cast their votes for the people's initiative 522, "The People's Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act." Initiative ...

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

  • Guest Post: The OPCW Grows Up
    by Faiza Patel by Faiza Patel [Faiza Patel is the Co-Director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law] In the decade that I worked at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, few people outside the arms c ...
  • Carsten Stahn Guest Post: On Intervention, Nar ...
    by Carsten Stahn by Carsten Stahn [Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden University and Programme Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Executive Edito ...
  • Speaking of Evolving Approaches to Counterterr ...
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Further to the topic of how the U.S. can/should combat terrorism without, as President Obama puts it, “keeping America on a perpetual wartime footing,” Marty Lederman and Mary DeRosa have a post up at Just Security highlighting the recent U.S. operat ...
  • Libya’s Magic Security Situation and al-Senuss ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller One of the most distressing aspects of the admissibility decision in al-Senussi is PTC I’s remarkable unwillingness to question Libya’s strategic invocation of its precarious “security situation.” As described by Libya, that situa ...
  • Events and Announcements: October 13, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Events The Cassese Initiative is pleased to inform you about its coming workshop on the topic “Enforced Disappearance: Challenges to Accountability under International Law”, which will be held at the European University Institute in Florence, on ...

Public News Service

  • Government Shutdown: Undermining Workplace Safety?
    Government Shutdown: Undermining Workplace Safety? PHOENIX - With many safety inspections suspended because of the federal government shutdown, observers say there's an increasing risk for workers and the public. At least half of the staff members at federal safety agencies are furloughed, and m ...
  • Seeds of a Much Smarter Farm Policy Dying in G ...
    Seeds of a Much Smarter Farm Policy Dying in Gridlock PHOENIX - It's the peak of the farmers' market season in Arizona, and tiny federal programs for farmers' markets could grow big results for the state's farmers, communities, seniors and low-income families, if only Congress would pass a new f ...
  • NAMI: One In Four Americans Live With Mental I ...
    NAMI: One In Four Americans Live With Mental Illness PHOENIX – Creating more awareness about the services available for people suffering with mental illness is the focus his week during Mental Illness Awareness Week. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) says one in four America ...
  • Petitions Urge Thumbs Up for “Citizen Ko ...
    Petitions Urge Thumbs Up for “Citizen Koch" Film PHOENIX – Petition drives are asking individual public television stations, including Channel 8 in Phoenix, to air a documentary called "Citizen Koch." It's about money in politics and the two billionaires, Charles and David Koch, who ...
  • Report: Maricopa County in Top 10 List for Dea ...
    Report: Maricopa County in Top 10 List for Death Penalty Use PHOENIX - Not all counties are created equal when it comes to issuing death-penalty sentences in Arizona - or the rest of the nation. Just 2 percent of U.S. counties produce the majority of death-penalty cases. ...(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

  • Denial in the face of debt default. What debt ...
    Why is surrender so often the President’s first option?  Debt ceiling?  What debt ceiling?  That’s a unicorn in Congress’s garden! For all the talk about the United States approaching a catastrophic debt ceiling and subsequent unprecedented but exceptional default that would have unpredictable b ...
  • How drug cartels launder money, manipulate sto ...
    This sobering report from Chatham House details the various ways DTOs (Drug Trafficking Organizations) launder money, manipulate stock prices, and turn dirty money into minty fresh clean money. Drug cartels have multitudes of businesses, some of which may have legitimate income. Invoices and con ...
  • Solar Decathlon. Net Zero House stays at 70 wh ...
    Heating costs are expensive in New England. Students at Norwich University in Vermont have designed an affordable 2 bedroom 1 bath home with net zero energy use that will stay at 70 degrees even if it’s minus 20 outside. Wow. The Solar Decathlon features homes designed and built by college ...
  • African inventor creates 3D printer from e-was ...
    Kodjo Afate Gnikou of Togo built a functional 3D printer out of electronic waste and discarded parts for $100, crowdfunded with just $4,000. He wants to inspire young Africans to create, saying “My dream is to give young people hope and to show that Africa, too, has its place on the global ...
  • It’s official. Our politicians are irresponsib ...
    Congress is waiting to see what the markets will do, hoping it will drop off a cliff so the other side will be forced to cave. Yes, they really are that self-absorbed and selfish. They are literally trying to sleaze their way to short-term political gain and don’t care what catastrophes ha ...

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

  • Radiation experts confirm polonium on Arafat c ...
    AFP – Swiss radiation experts have confirmed they found traces of polonium on clothing used by Yasser Arafat which “support the possibility” the veteran Palestinian leader was poisoned. In a report published by The Lancet at the weekend, the team provide scientific details to m ...
  • China Commentary: U.S. fiscal failure warrants ...
    By Xinhua writer Liu Chang BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — As U.S. politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good t ...
  • Vet Invasion: US ex-service personnel storm Wa ...
    In just 3 days, the U.S. will be forced to make a decision that will affect the entire global economy. If lawmakers don’t find a way to re-open the frozen government, and then agree to raise the national debt ceiling. America will default on its debts. If that happens, the shock would be f ...
  • Tesoro oil spill: over 20,000 barrels seep int ...
    Officials say the seven-acre spill, allegedly from a quarter-inch hole in the pipeline, has not contaminated any water sources (ALLEGEDLY) shhhhhhHHHHHHHHH London Guardian Tesoro owns North Dakota’s only oil refinery, built in 1954, which it acquired from BP in 2001. Photograph: Karen Blei ...
  • Pentagon admits to holding phony arrival cerem ...
    October 12, 2013 by legitgov   Pentagon admits to holding phony arrival ceremonies for soldiers’ remains 12 Oct 2013 The Department of Defense unit charged with recovering servicemembers’ remains abroad has been holding phony “arrival ceremonies” for seven years, wit ...

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 ...

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