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2012 Blog

  • Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight
    Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.   I think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline: The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabe ...
  • When The Shit Hits The Field
    SHTF has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that helps feed us. Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning Post: You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...
  • Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
    Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...
  • Study: Global Warming = Increasing Violence
    I opened this news item with my skeptical hat on, given that there are so many parameters that could be used. However, it looks pretty legit*. Climate change (regardless of what is causing it) means more violence – yet another reason to be a prepper and/or shift away from highly populated ...
  • Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
    Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • BBC abandoning a pretence of journalism
    British Broadcasting Corporation, a beacon of international journalism, has proposed us this week two exemplary masterpieces on how to discredit legitimate public queries on high-profile issues. Richard Galpin, a BBC World Affairs correspondent who warns on his Twitter that “views expresse ...
  • Geopolitics and Islam
    The geopolitical changes that have taken place at the beginning of the 21st century within the nations of the Islamic world, and which would appear to be the culmination of many spontaneous factors, are, in fact, a manifestation of a very complex qualitative shift in the global balance of power. ...
  • Passing the Torch to a New Generation of Syrians
    Few, one imagines, in the Syrian Arab Republic these days  question the urgency and enormity of the task of  reconstruction of their ancient country from war inflicted destruction caused by a carnage  already more than half as long as World War I and approaching half as long as World War II. For ...
  • Kenya Mall Attack: The Bitter Fruits of Interv ...
    In his speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama devoted little time to the recent slaughter of some 62 shoppers at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Said Obama, in toto: But even a glance at today’s headlines indicates that dangers remain. In Kenya, we’ve seen ...
  • Islamist War on Christians
    I’m waiting. I am a Lebanese Christian, and I am waiting. Waiting for CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, or Time magazine to really tell the story. To finally run this headline: “War on Christians Being Waged by Islamists.” I’m waiting for someone in the mainst ...

BlogHer

  • What A One Night Stand Taught Me About Sex And ...
    What I couldn't figure out was how sex fit into a relationship and how a relationship fits into sex. Since I was 17 years old, sex always came first, and then the relationship. However, it was like pulling teeth trying to get a guy to commit to me. Needless to say, I wasn't thrilled with the sys ...
  • Meet The Children: When Is The Best Time To In ...
    So you have a new beaux and things have been going pretty smoothly.  You have decided that he or she is a keeper and the two of you are pretty much in sync with one another.  It's been a couple of months and now you ready to take the next step-- introducing your new love interest to yo ...
  • Meet The Children: When Is The Best Time To In ...
    So you have a new beaux and things have been going pretty smoothly.  You have decided that he or she is a keeper and the two of you are pretty much in sync with one another.  It's been a couple of months and now you ready to take the next step-- introducing your new love interest to yo ...
  • Swoop and Skimlinks: Help Us Learn Best Practi ...
    At BlogHer, we are forever focused on your success as a blogger—whether those achievements for you are about finding a passionate, engaged audience for your writing or recipes, or about creating new ways to derive income from your work and your influence. Or both! We never want to put boundaries ...
  • Swoop and Skimlinks: Help Us Learn Best Practi ...
    At BlogHer, we are forever focused on your success as a blogger—whether those achievements for you are about finding a passionate, engaged audience for your writing or recipes, or about creating new ways to derive income from your work and your influence. Or both! We never want to put boundaries ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • What are the health benefits of lavender?
              Lavender is an herb native to northern Africa and the mountainous regions of the Mediterranean. The herb is highly regarded for skin and beauty and is commonly used in fragrances and shampoos to help wash ... Related posts:Health Benefits of ...
  • This should not be in your food.
              Azodicarbonamide: commonly found in frozen dinners and frozen potato and bread products – is used make things like bleach and foamed plastics like those found in yoga mats (tasty!). Azodicarbonamide has been banned in most European ... Relate ...
  • The dangers of school bus diesel exhaust and w ...
          GREENVILLE, N.C. - They carry your most precious cargo, sometimes for hours a day; but school buses have a hidden danger that’s threatening your child’s health. “I think everybody needs to be worried,” says James Kenny, MD, ... Rela ...
  • The Violent Side Effects of Antidepressants th ...
          In light of a long list of mass shootings over the past several years, the causative role of psychiatric drugs in violent events will undoubtedly have to be evaluated and addressed at some point. Personally, I’d vote ... Related posts:Climate change linked ...
  • Excessive weight gain during pregnancy linked ...
          FoodFacts.com takes enormous interest in the latest information released that may present us with new insights into the obesity crisis. What we’ve been able to determine from the wealth of new studies published in the last ... Related posts:Antidepressant ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Oct. 4, 2013
    Miners look toward the camera as they stand in the mine shaft of La Flauta coal mine in Tausa, Colombia, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. If La Flauta is closed “everyone here would be left without work,” said Tausa Mayor Javier Pachon. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) The always interesting Toda ...
  • Closing the door: Why W.Va. coal mines aren&#8 ...
    Caitlin O’Dell and her son, Andrew, made a surprise visit to the state mine safety board meeting to lobby for a new proximity device rule. On Thursday morning, members of the West Virginia Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety were settling in for a monthly meeting. They gathered in a confe ...
  • Shutdown: Inspections cut, permit reviews slowed
    A sign is posted on a barricade in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing ab ...
  • Scientists: ‘Substantial and sustained&# ...
    The world’s top scientists today issued their latest findings and here’s the news, as summarized by The Associated Press: Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an intern ...
  • EPA carbon rules: West Virginia leaders contin ...
    While I was out last week, my email inbox certainly filed up with statements about the big U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announcement regarding its continued movement toward the first-ever limits on global warming pollution from the nation’s coal-fired power plants. Most of the reac ...

Daniel Miessler

  • My Bucket List
    I think it’s important to have a list of things you’re working towards, or things you’d like to accomplish. Some take this in an unhealthy direction, i.e. by saying they hope to do these amazing things before they die. I see it quite differently, instead saying these are things ...
  • Upgraded to Vim 7.4
    I just took my vim instance on my Mac to 7.4, and the biggest advantage I’ve seen so far is getting this new line number display, called hybrid mode. As you can see from the screenshot above, you can see both the relative line numbers from where you are, and the absolute line number of [&# ...
  • American Happiness
    image from fineartamerica.com I wonder if anyone in America is truly happy. Well, that’s too strong: I wonder how many in America are truly happy. I feel much of what passes for happiness is actually a smiling veneer over a reluctance to think about the question–most likely because t ...
  • Twitter Cleanup 2013
    Over the last few evenings I’ve been doing some epic Twitter cleanup. Some stats: I’ve gone from following over 15,000 people to following fewer than 500 I’ve gone from around 12 lists to 4 It’s basically a reset. My stream is infinitely easier to consume now, and I&#8217 ...
  • Getting a Full Bodied Cup of Coffee From a Pou ...
    I’ve been pretty into coffee for the last few years, and I’ve been experimenting with multiple ways of preparing a good cup. For the last couple of years I’ve been focused on the French Press, which is a fine method. Here you’re soaking the coffee in the hot water for app ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The FDA and EPA Shutdown... Is This Supposed t ...
    I can’t really mourn too much that the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are unable to continue wreaking regulatory havoc on the little guys due to the government shutdown. In fact, I think a celebration just might be in order. ~ Daisy Luther read more
  • Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That ...
    All of this whining and crying about a "government shutdown" is a total joke. You see, there really is very little reason why this "government shutdown" cannot continue indefinitely because almost everything is still running! 63 percent of all federal workers are still working, and 85 percen ...
  • Of The 10 U.S. FEMA Regions, Why Is Only FEMA ...
    In the video below Pamela Haley wonders why the focus is only on FEMA Region 3... After a quick look at the preparations already known about, including the military vehicles being utilized by police across the country, FEMA camps, the so-called coffins and more, she reveals her throughts and ...
  • ALERT... Is 'Something' HUGE Going On In FEMA ...
    This brand new compilation video report just submitted to YouTube by videographer Audimane420 shares the truth about what has been unfolding in FEMA Region 3. From Michael Savage’s announcement of Russian soldiers preparing to provide security in America for ‘mass events’ to&nb ...
  • HOAX ALERT... D.C. Shooting Exposed
    ATTENTION: The D.C. Shooting Hoax is an exerpt from the “Terrorgate Scandal” which will force President Obama to resign pending Congressional charges of conspiracy and treason. ~ David Chase Taylor read more

Tarpley

  • Executive Action Needed to Resolve Looming Con ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio October 5, 2013 [download audio]  
  • To Stop GOP Chaos, Obama Must Re-open Governme ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com October 2, 2013 [download audio]  
  • US Constitution Not a Suicide Pact
    Obama Must Follow District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray: Declare the Entire Federal Government Essential and Keep It Fully Funded at Current Levels While Citing Multiple States of Emergency; Obey Fourteenth Amendment Against Unconstitutional Debt Ceiling and Default Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. ...
  • Tarpley at National Press Club for 150th Anniv ...
    Was Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation Inspired by Help from Tsar Alexander II? — How Russians Advanced Careers of Grant and Thomas, The Rock of Chickamauga Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 27, 2013 Recorded on September 24, 2013 at the National Press Club [downloa ...
  • American Banker Wharton Barker’s First-P ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 23, 2013 Wharton Barker This account, written by the American banker Wharton Barker and published in The Independent (LVI) of March 24, 1904, recounts Barker’s conversation with Russian Tsar Alexander II, the celebrated Liberator of the serf ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Drillo’s departure: ‘Surprising, s ...
    Now age 71, Egil “Drillo” Olsen became a legend in Norwegian football years ago. On Friday he suddenly found himself stripped of his post as head coach of the national men’s football team (landslaget), but insisted he’s not bitter that he was asked to make room for his re ...
  • Drillo’s departure: ‘Surprising, strange’
    Now age 71, Egil “Drillo” Olsen became a legend in Norwegian football years ago. On Friday he suddenly found himself stripped of his post as head coach of the national men’s football team (landslaget), but insisted he’s not bitter that he was asked to make room for his re ...
  • Mosques hit by threats, harassment
    Several mosques in Norway have been threatened in recent weeks and the local Islamic Council (Islamsk Råd) fears a new wave of hate and harassment. The threats have materialized both at the mosques themselves and over the Internet. Newspaper Dagsavisen reported that last Wednesday, a mosque in O ...
  • Mosques hit by threats, harassment
    Several mosques in Norway have been threatened in recent weeks and the local Islamic Council (Islamsk Råd) fears a new wave of hate and harassment. The threats have materialized both at the mosques themselves and over the Internet. Newspaper Dagsavisen reported that last Wednesday, a mosque in O ...
  • City Hall’s chimes draw complaints
    The carillon in the Oslo City Hall’s bell tower has long been a traditional part of daily life in the Norwegian capital, chiming on the quarter-hour and also playing an occasional concert. Now the classic chimes seem to have fallen out of tune with some of City Hall’s neighbours, who ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Re-enchant the Seed!
    Why Seed Saving and Exchange is Essential Permaculture & Community Practice — a How-To with Red Semillas Libres Chile. by Crystal Allene Cook Poster for the Red Semillas Libres Chile Seed Exchange Like many permaculturalists I work another job and this fall mine happened to take me t ...
  • The Hour is Darkest just before Dawn: Crisis a ...
    The Festival of Ideas is on at the University of Melbourne at the moment, and I was invited to give a short talk, envisioning how Australia made the transition to a low-carbon society by the year 2033. Here is the transcript: As I look back from the year 2033, I would like to be able to [...]
  • Kiwi Web App Paves Way for Everyday Democracy
    A Collaborative Decision-Making Tool Editor’s Note: I believe many permaculturists will find this new collaborative decision-making tool of extreme value. Please watch the short, easy-to-understand intro video at top, and learn more about the reasons for its creation via the TEDx video at ...
  • The Story of Solutions
    The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal. In the current ‘Game of More’, we’re told to cheer a growing economy — more roads, more malls, more Stuff! — ...
  • Winter 2013 at ‘Caroola’ (NSW, Australia) – Pr ...
    Who said winter was a quiet time on the farm. I have to say we’ve never been busier, preparing, planting and more. Forest Garden Prep With many of the trees around the house and old tennis court burned by the bushfire, we set about removing them. We had to use large machinery in many ins ...

Pointman's

  • Russia 2, Greenpeace 1.
    One of my simple pleasures in life is to spend an occasional evening watching a good sporting event with friends. We all come clinking along with whatever booze we prefer and a few emergency nibbles. It’s usually an evening of decent sport, a little too much to drink and giving each other ...
  • In the aftermath of AR5.
    AR5 or the fifth Assessment Report on global warming was published last week, amid a fair amount of fanfare but nothing compared to what it would have been like in the glory years of climate alarmism. Everyone has had their say on it by now but I thought it worth adding my own thoughts. What&#16 ...
  • In the aftermath of AR5.
    AR5 or the fifth Assessment Report on global warming was published last week, amid a fair amount of fanfare but nothing compared to what it would have been like in the glory years of climate alarmism. Everyone has had their say on it by now but I thought it worth adding my own thoughts. What&#16 ...
  • Alice and the unicorn.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— ALICE AND THE UNICORN By Louis Karrol. Alice was almost asleep when the green rabbit wearing an unfortunate waistcoat ran past her. She didn’t notice at first that he was green because he was peering at his fob wat ...
  • Alice and the unicorn.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— ALICE AND THE UNICORN By Louis Karrol. Alice was almost asleep when the green rabbit wearing an unfortunate waistcoat ran past her. She didn’t notice at first that he was green because he was peering at his fob wat ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
    From the Angola 3 Newsletter. This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world.  It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing. Herman never did anything half way.  He embraced ...
  • Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...
  • Women With A Vision and BreakOUT! Respond to T ...
    The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “Uneasy Street,” are an unfortunate example of glorified and sensationalized media reporting that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities, rather than solutions. As staff o ...
  • Dream Defenders Florida Take Over Enters Week ...
    Packed into the small reception area of the Florida Governor’s office in Tallahassee, a couple dozen determined Dream Defenders conducted a people’s hearing on racial profiling.  Black and brown college and high school youth took turns giving compelling testimony of being profiled at school ...
  • “This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution”
    Reprinted from our friends at Women With A Vision: This past Sunday, WWAV gathered with friends, allies and fellow organizers in a Solidarity Rally for Trayvon Martin. We want to personally thank everyone who came out so that we could raise our voices in unison.  This is the beauty of New ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Kevin P Miller: Letters From Generation Rx - P ...
    In today's show we bring you an exclusive interview with filmmaker Kevin P. Miller in which he discusses his latest film project.  Letters From Generation Rx is a sequel to the shocking expose of the lethal effects of Psycho-Pharmaceutical drugs, Generation Rx, which was released in 2008. ...
  • Western anti-Syrian propaganda analysed and ex ...
    Today's show focuses once again on Syria. We analyse and highlight the issues in the Syrian crisis and remark upon the inability or unwillingness of corporate media to give any credence to the possibility that the chemical weapons attacks in Syria were false flag provocations designed specifical ...
  • Scott Bartle on the dirty little secret about ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Scott Bartle, author of "Frequently Unanswered Questions of the Australian Government". Scott claims that the "Australian Government" is now in receivership, having defaulted on repayments of bank loans which are ultimately underwritten by the US Fed ...
  • Updates on Syria, the Australian election and ...
    Today's show largely focuses on Syria and we bring you 2 interviews during the course of the show. In the first hour I am joined by John Bursill who outlines his view about Syria and then gives us a breakdown of his view of the Australian political spectrum. This show was recorded before the 2 ...
  • Narcissism and the New World Order - Part 1
    Foreign Minister Bob Carr says that there is a flaw in international law, and the US should be able to bomb Syria without UN approval In today's show we delve into the psychological underpinnings of the new tyranny. We propose the idea that modern society is afflicted with an epidemic of narci ...

Beacon

  • Creature Feature: Reef Lizardfish
    This good-looking creature is a reef lizardfish. (Photo: Colby Bidwell)  You won’t find land-dwelling lizards scampering about coral reefs, but you might do a double-take when you see the reef lizardfish. Also known as variegated lizardfish, these strange reef-dwellers look surprisingly ...
  • Behind the Scenes: Seafood Fraud
    (Photo: Oceana / Jenn Hueting) October is National Seafood month—the perfect time to dig in to all of the delicious dishes that come from the sea. But before you head to the market, you should read up on the nation-wide issue of seafood fraud.
  • Ted Danson Sets the Record Straight on Farmed ...
    Farmed salmon are not a sustainable seafood alternative. (Photo: Oceana / Jenn Hueting) Last week we wrote about the Washington Post’s misleading article on farmed salmon. Since then, Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless teamed up with actor and ocean activist Ted Danson to set the record straight in an ...
  • CEO Note: 100,000 Against Seismic Blasts
    Seismic airguns could injure or kill dolphins along the Atlantic coast. (Photo: Bryan)  I have more great news to share with you about Oceana’s campaign to halt the use of deadly seismic airguns on our Atlantic coast.
  • Oceana Kicks Off Public Forum Series on Seismi ...
    Oceana staff hold a public form about seismic airguns in New Jersey. (Photo: Oceana) Last week marked the beginning of a month-long, 10-stop East Coast tour for Oceana’s climate team.

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Royalties should be the Keystone of Saskatchew ...
    The Saskatchewan Party has appropriated the province’s name, flag and football team. More recently, it asserted a new symbol of Saskatchewan patriotism: the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Earlier this year, provincial energy and resources minister Tim McMillan had the following letter in Regina’ ...
  • Toronto is Canada’s hottest job market – for b ...
    This piece was first published in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. A company called Career Builder recently released a list of what it called the ten hottest jobs in Toronto, based on data about the occupations with the fastest increases in employment between 2010 and 2013. That made me wonder: ...
  • IPCC: Time for a Global Carbon Budget
    Political commitments on climate action, to the extent they exist, are usually pitched in terms of targets and timelines. BC, for example, has a legislated target of 33% below 2007 levels by 2020; Canada’s official target is a 17% reduction by 2020 relative to 2005 levels. Neither target w ...
  • City of Regina, we need to talk
    Regardless of the outcome in the City of Regina’s wastewater referendum being held today, there is one thing that is certain. We need to establish very clear rules for how City-wide referenda should be conducted in the future and we need very specific rules on how the City communicates wit ...
  • Quebec Values Charter: Bad Solution to the Wro ...
    It’s near impossible to ignore the current debate regarding the Québec Values Charter. It would seem laudable at first for a society to decide to reflect on its shared values. There is no cause to rejoice in the face of the current debate: it is certainly not the relevant exercise it could have ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • A Return Long Overdue- Hiatus-Busting Nexus Re ...
      A Return Long Overdue- Hiatus-Busting Nexus Revitalisation by Miles Ten Brinke Seems it’s been rather a long while since you last heard from me, but the hiatus is done. The summer came and went, and you’ve not seen a single column from me. Fear not, it was just the season for it. Autumn’s ...
  • Polluted farm runoff linked to toxic green alg ...
    “Toxic algae is the byproduct of the same types of pollution that causes dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and the Chesapeake Bay— phosphorous and nitrogen from livestock manure and chemicals sprayed on crops such as corn that spills from farms into assorted waterways during moderate to hea ...
  • Black Market for Water Expands in Delhi
    “On a recent afternoon, as an intense stench rose from a carcass dump, a group of women pushed, shoved, and threw expletives at each other outside a temple in Sangam Vihar on the southern edge of Delhi. The women, carrying a few plastic buckets and empty jerry cans, were fighting to get a ...
  • Amid Drought, Explaining Colorado’s Extreme Floods
      “U.S. President Barack Obama declared an emergency for Boulder, Larimer, and El Paso Counties on Friday and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has deployed four rescue teams to the area, the most ever in the state. Just as troubling as all the damage, Udall says, is that ...
  • Golf a major drain on Coachella Valley water s ...
    “With a total of 124 golf courses, the Coachella Valley has one of the largest concentrations of courses in the nation. The lush fairways set against backdrops of ocher brown mountains have helped make the valley a mecca for the sport. And for half a century, golf has driven the desert’s r ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • Where is the evidence the shutdown is solely
    …Where is the evidence the shutdown is solely the result of alleged right-wing rage … there is sufficient evidence to indicate … right … left … fringes of all color and persuasion … which most assuredly includes you and me are accountable…   Understanding the Culture of White Right-Wing Rag ...
  • When are we going to choose to have a meaningf ...
    …When are we going to choose to have a meaningful conversation & discussion about food safety … we long ago gave us holding those selling food to us accountable as we chose to accept whatever “label” agencies now corporate manipulated assign … Just follow the $$$….   Playing Chick ...
  • this dude is a mover and shaker
    …this dude is a mover and shaker … I confess it strikes me …  his actions make him a target for those “obsessed” Catholics…   Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control 10-05-2013  •  arclein   …“We have to find a new balance,” the pope continue ...
  • are you actually suggesting that America is re ...
    …OK… are you serious … are you actually suggesting that America is ready to have this conversation … leaving out the ‘spin’ … hyperbole … polarization … come on, please … our legacy is America got caught up in … “what’s in it only for me, and to hell with you”… but are we really […]
  • whatever they will ‘spin’ it and g ...
    …Not to worry … America’s oil/gas giants will find some way to “spin” this perhaps blaming it on the Japanese Fukushima nuclean power plant disaster … whatever they will ‘spin’ it and guess what … we’ll most likely believe it…   Radioactive Water Streaming Out of Pennsylvania Fracking Waste ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Unlikely success: how Zimbabwe has become a gl ...
    With its collapsed economy, entrenched poverty, and political tremors, one would not expect that a country like Zimbabwe would have the capacity to safeguard its rhinos against determined and well-funded poachers, especially as just across the border South Africa is currently losing over two rhi ...
  • Forgotten species: the nearly extinct primate ...
    The attention paid to charismatic popular primates—such as gorillas, chimps, orangutans, lion tamarins, and even some lemurs—could make one suppose that conservationists have the protection of our closest relatives well in hand; the astounding fact that no primate species is known to ...
  • Climate change pushing tropical trees upslope ...
    Tropical tree communities are moving up mountainsides to cooler habitats as temperatures rise, a new study in Global Change Biology has found. By examining the tree species present in ten one-hectare plots at various intervals over a decade, researchers found that the proportion of lowland speci ...
  • 'Yet another wakeup call': global warming is h ...
    Human actions are responsible for warming the Earth, reconfirms the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today, the first mammoth report on the physical science of climate change issued in seven years. Scientists now say they are 95-100 percent certain that h ...
  • Malaysia clearcutting forest reserves for timb ...
    In July Bikam Permanent Forest Reserve in Malaysia's Perak state was degazetted, allowing the forest to be clearcut for an oil palm plantation. Only after the forest was lost, did the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) announce that it had contained the last stands of keruing paya (Dipter ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • NZ's manuka honey exports under threat
    New Zealand's lucrative manuka honey export industry is under threat from a cheaper Scottish alternative that scientists say boasts even greater medicinal powers.Heather honey, cultivated by bees buzzing around the Scottish Highlands,...
  • Scientists push quake role for smartphones
    Smartphones can accurately monitor major earthquakes and could be used to improve the efficiency of rescue operations, new research has found.Scientists have discovered that a tiny sensor that detects which way a handset is facing...
  • Andrew Hammond: Tide turning on climate change
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released the most comprehensive ever study on global warming, prepared by more than 200 scientists over two years.The landmark report concludes that if the world continues to emit...
  • Giant waves pose huge risks
    A large earthquake could trigger a wall of water more than 12m high, giving people just minutes to get to higher ground.A tsunami could reach land so quickly there might not be time for sirens to be sounded or a warning to be broadcast.And...
  • Climate report a wake-up call - NZ environment ...
    A damning international report on mankind's role in climate change should be a wake-up call for urgent action, New Zealand environmentalists say.The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's draft fifth assessment report, released...

The Bovine

  • Vive la raw milk difference
    From Christian Saretzki via The Biodynamics blog: “Milk was never appealing. It was rather tasteless and a bit too watery, not to mention the fact that it came in a plastic bag on which the words “homogenized” and “pasteurized” were clearly … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk, TED, and the resurgence of neo-primi ...
    Scientist Rupert Sheldrake was exiled from TED after spouting this heresy: TED has been told, it would seem. They’ve been told to hew to the materialist dogma, and to eschew what they are calling bad science, or pseudoscience. Because back … Continue reading →
  • Is the 100th monkey effect kicking in on the f ...
    First, a few words about the 100th monkey effect, from Wikipedia: “The story of the hundredth monkey effect was published in Lyall Watson‘s foreword to Lawrence Blair’s Rhythms of Vision in 1975,[2] and spread with the appearance of Watson’s 1979 book Lifetide. The claim ...
  • Lessons from the Bushmen in Laurens van der Po ...
    Both as an author and as a man, Laurens van der Post was someone who did not shy away from the difficult questions of life. Although one biographer slags him for allegedly fabricating stories and passing them off as real, … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt’s learnings from three d ...
    From Michael Schmidt, raw milk advocate, farmer, and accused sheep-napper: Day one, two, three in court from my perspective Our court proceedings are becoming a family gathering of determined CFIA prosecutors and accused sheep-nappers Here are the main players: Mr. … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Boehner on Shutdown: "This Isn't Some Damn Gam ...
    Here is an amusing Bloomberg TV video of House Speaker John Boehner complaining about the negotiation process with President Obama. Link if video does not play: 'This Isn't Some Damn Game' Video Transcript When we have a crisis like we are in the middle of this week, the Am ...
  • Pragmatic Look at the Debt Ceiling Debate; Who ...
    My best friend in high school, David Wise, wrote an interesting OpEd for the Baltimore Sun two days ago. I do not agree with all of it, but he does hit the nail on the head of the critical issue as to who is to blame for the default impasse. Wise says Obama must not allow a default. I ...
  • Ron Paul Ruins a Great Economic Rant, Being Se ...
    It really pains me to see Ron Paul (or anyone else) make a masterful statement on an issue, then blow it at the end with a nonsensical reference to something that is not going to happen. To understand what I mean, please consider Ron Paul's article A Grand Bargain for Liberty? As he ...
  • Never Has Arrived; The Last Mile
    Train drivers working for Australian miner Rio Tinto make as much as A$240K (US$224K) per year to haul ore. According to BLS data, that is as much as surgeons in the US, and more than the $151K average of New York State lawyers. Does that pay schedule make any sense? I do not think so, nor ...
  • France Vows to "Save the Bookstores", Fixes Pr ...
    In yet another act of economic stupidity, France targets Amazon to protect bookshops. France’s parliament has passed a law preventing internet booksellers from offering free delivery to customers, in an attempt to protect the country’s struggling bookshops from the growing dominance of US ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • U.S. Government: Documents Pertaining to Awlak ...
    The 9/11 Double Agents, Pentagon, CIA & FBI- From Ali Mohamed to Anwar al-Awlaki Last Friday lawyers for Ali Al-Timimi, a Virginia man serving a life sentence for supporting jihad against the U.S., pushed to obtain more information from the federal government on evidence pertaining to the cl ...
  • The New Great Game Round Up- October 6, 2013
    Washington Arms Taliban, Banning Wahhabism & NGOs, Comeback of the Mujahideen & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in Central Asia ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    BeBe & CeCe Winans – “I’ll Take You There” Last week it was all about soul on the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick with Aretha doin’ her thing. This week we segue into a little gospel with brother/sister Gospel duo BeBe and CeCe Winans performing their version of the Sta ...
  • BFP Book Review- ‘Secrets, Spies and 7/7’ by T ...
    “Dead Men Tell No Tales. Muslim Suicide Bombers––Even Less.” By Mark Mondalek To speak of absolutes on behalf of 7/7 is a difficult task. To properly distill the facts of that tragic day, any serious inquiry must rest on one simple foundation: that on July 7, 2005, London bombings (of some kind) ...
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bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • Leader thanks v-ballers for victory
    Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed gratitude to Iranian volleyball players for their victory in the Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship.
  • Portugal gets bn 5.5 euros from troika
    Portuguese Deputy Prime Minister Paulo Portas says representatives from the so-called troika of international lenders have decided to grant another rescue loan of around USD 7.4 billion (5.5 billion euros ) to the recession-ravaged country to meet its crushing debt burden.
  • The Monarchy Part 40
    The Monarchy program is aimed at shedding light on the dark corners of British internal affairs, foreign affairs, and of course, the UK economy.
  • 28 killed in clashes across Egypt
    Egyptian Health Ministry says more than two dozen people have been killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, across the North African country.
  • ‘Iran will never give up nuclear rights’
    A senior Iranian parliamentarian has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s stance on defending its nuclear energy program, stressing that the country will never give up its absolute rights.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • #FindYourReason
  • I’m back
    Hello All, This is my second post. I had to work through the kinks.  Well it’s officially week 5 and although it’s a lot of work but I am actually loving school.  I feel so academically inclined these days.  Tonight I am going to rush home to do some schoolwork and get ready for the ...
  • Let the adventure begin 10/03/13
    Hello All, I have no idea what I am doing and this is a test as I try to keep up with the 21st century by starting a blog. This is from a woman who does not indulge in social media. I don’t tweet or Facebook, but I decided to join the Community Blog to […]
  • Professor Amy Green Reflects on Project Rwanda
    While NYC wilted in the sticky, sweltering weeks of early July, twelve fortunate members of the SPS Master of Arts in Applied Theatre program (eight students, three faculty members, and Linda Key, a MAAT alumna who returned to Rwanda as a Fulbright Specialist) spent seventeen dry and temperate d ...
  • Where are you from?
    Piper Anderson is a 2011 graduate of the CUNY SPS M.A. in Applied Theatre program. She is currently the Director of Education & Artist Development at Young Audiences New York. She is also a performance artist, writer, educator, and life coach. Below is her reflection on the question “Where a ...

Dissident Voice

  • Postcard from the End of America: Norristown
    Wandering around so much, I’m constantly among strangers, in completely unfamiliar neighborhoods. Though these novel situations have opened my eyes much, it would take but a single unfortunate encounter to blacken or close them, even for good, and in Norristown this week, I had to call 911 as I ...
  • Canada Comes up Lily White in Crimes against H ...
    In enlightened Toronto, the National Post, that leading Canadian broadsheet, ever on the alert to report on bad stuff, particularly about foreigners, not long ago struck a blow for freedom, humanity and motherhood, of a sort. Commodore Nadarajah Kuruparan, a Sri Lankan naval officer, had arrived ...
  • Shutdown Follies
    Is the phrase “government shutdown” actually an oxymoron?  By the time you read this, the government shutdown may or may not be over, and it may or may not matter to you personally, and it may or may not matter to the country – depending on the criteria you use to assess it. Those who […]
  • The Unsung Heroes in the Israeli Occupation of ...
    Only last month a military strike on Syria looked likely; today it appears that diplomacy has stalled any strike and opened up a potential space for dialogue. It was a moment that changed, if only slightly, the dynamics of the war in Syria. A little over 200km from Damascus lies a city that is c ...
  • Jeremy Hammond, True Patriot for Balance of Po ...
    Dear Judge Preska, I became aware of Mr. Hammond’s case through the 2012 defining Rolling Stone article on him. I saw a young person full of idealism and a sense for justice, which are admirable qualities in anyone. The ending remark of the article summarizes how I see him. It reads: “[Hammond] ...

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Newswise

  • How Binge Drinking Impairs Healing of Broken B ...
    Physicians have long observed that binge drinking impairs healing of broken bones. A new study is providing insights into how alcohol slows healing on the cellular and molecular levels. The findings could lead to better treatments to improve bone healing.
  • Massive DNA Study Points to New Heart Drug Tar ...
    A global hunt for genes that influence heart disease risk has uncovered 157 changes in human DNA that alter the levels of cholesterol and other blood fats - a discovery that could lead to new medications.
  • Better Coordinated Health Care Needed to Bette ...
    Three years after an earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and left an estimated 1.5 million people homeless in Haiti, a Henry Ford Hospital study found that more mobilized medical care is necessary to bridge cultural and health care barriers and better serve the Haitian population.
  • Skin Infection Linked to Exposure to Aquariums ...
    A skin infection linked to exposure to contaminated water in home aquariums is frequently under-diagnosed, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Researchers say diagnosing and managing Mycobacterium marinum infection is difficult because skin lesions don't appear for two to four weeks after ...
  • Study Examines Effect of Use of Gloves and Gow ...
    The wearing of gloves and gowns by health care workers for all intensive care unit (ICU) patient contact did not reduce the rate of acquisition of a combination of the bacteria methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), although there was a lo ...

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Jae's News

  • It's the Austerity, Stupid: How We Were Sold A ...
    Austerity is working out fine for the 1 percent: Their jobs are safe, their investments are growing, and their taxes are low. But the rest of us are paying a high price in the form of slow growth, high unemployment, and stagnant wages for years to come. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics &amp ...
  • Report: American-supplied arms fell into al Qa ...
    And this is to no one's surprise, of course this was part of the CIA's overall strategy to destabilize Assad...where else would the weapons go? Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • U.S. backs brutal Egyptian military regime
    Armed to the teeth by the U.S., the Egyptian military regime under General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is brutally attacking not only the Muslim Brotherhood, but also a wide range of progressive groups and individuals, including striking workers, journalists,etc Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics &am ...
  • Who Should Run the Fed? Yellen, Kohn, or The P ...
    The fight over who will succeed Ben Bernanke as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve rolls on, getting bigger and more tangled as it goes. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cornel West rips GOP: Vote to cut food stamps ...
    Civil rights activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West laid out the case for the countrys continued income disparity to conservative pundit William Kristol on CNNs Crossfire Monday night. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...

    PS - Inter Press Services

  • Amid Shutdown, Cutting Through the “Noise of D ...
    Frustration is mounting with elected representatives here on the fourth day of a U.S. government shutdown that has left nearly 800,000 federal workers temporarily out of work, and advocates across the political spectrum are working to get their voices heard. Others are working to strengthen the ...
  • Turkey’s Reform Package Gets Tepid Reception
    Turkey’s new democratisation reform package may mark a step forward for civil rights, but it does not go far enough to ease social tension and feelings of mistrust that are afflicting the country, analysts say. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the long-awaited reform package on Sep. ...
  • OP-ED: Bahrain Repression Continues Amid Sham ...
    The lengthy prison sentences handed down to 50 Shia activists last week and the refusal of Bahraini courts to hear their allegations of torture once again confirm the regime’s continued repression of the opposition. Amnesty International in a statement this week decried the unfair trials and sen ...
  • Q&A: You Are One Percent Away from Being a Bonobo
    Anna Shen interviews author and environmental journalist DENI BÉCHARD
  • FAO: Modernisation or Irrelevance
    In this column, Denis Aitken, assistant director-general a.i. of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), writes about the United Nations agency’s current efforts to modernise and become more efficient.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • 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 ...
  • After Rohani’s Visit to New York: Flynt Levere ...
    Summary: As Flynt points out on the Newshour, the core idea animating President Rohani’s approach to nuclear diplomacy—recognition of Iran’s nuclear rights, as a sovereign state and as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (including the right to enrich uranium under internation ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Fomalhaut Star System -- Intriguing Discov ...
          The nearby star system Fomalhaut – of special interest for its unusual exoplanet and dusty debris disk – has been discovered to be not just a double star, as astronomers had thought, but one of the widest triple stars known. There are another 11 star systems closer to our Sun ...
  • "Our Final Invention" --Will Artificial Intell ...
      It has been claimed that Mankind's last great invention will be the first self-replicating intelligent machine. The Hollywood cliché that artificial intelligence will take over the world could soon become scientific reality as AI matches then surpasses human intelligence. Each year ...
  • The Early-Earth "Weak, Cold Sun" Paradox --Eni ...
                 Scientists at the CRPG-CNRS University of Lorraine, The University of Manchester and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris have ruled out a theory as to why the planet was warm enough to sustain the planet's earliest life forms when the Sun's energy was roughly three ...
  • A Pale Red Dot --The Most Distant Object in th ...
        A gamma-ray burst known as GRB 090429B for the 29 April 2009 date when it was detected by NASA's Swift satellite has been found to be a candidate for the most distant object in the Universe at an estimated distance of 13.14 billion light years. The burst lies far beyond any ...
  • Europa --"Harbors Compounds that Led to Rise o ...
        The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped by the depth of the ocean on the Jupiter's moon, Europa, which some measurements put at 62 miles. Although Europa is covered in a thick crust of scarred and cr ...

Natural News

  • Tempeh: A highly nutritious and protein-rich f ...
    Tempeh is a fermented soy product of Indonesian origin. It is made from cooked and dehulled soybeans and culturing agents and is characterized by its distinctive texture and solid consistency. Tempeh remains a staple in the diet of many Indonesians, though it is also...
  • Pharmaceutical company asks FDA to withdraw ap ...
    A major manufacturer of antibiotic and arsenical chicken feed drugs has voluntarily requested that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdraw approval for some of the combination varieties that the company has stopped manufacturing in recent years. In alleged...
  • Study finds a high-protein, high-fat breakfast ...
    Alternative nutrition researchers and practitioners have postulated that a large breakfast, moderate lunch and small-portion dinner is an important key to weight loss and optimal health maintenance. Excess calories, especially in the form of processed and refined junk...
  • Health Basics: 50% of gluten-free foods still ...
    Let us delve into a recent news story that aired this past August on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams; it talked about gluten-free foods only being necessary for people suffering from celiac and dismissed them for just about everyone else. One yoga instructor came...
  • Long-term health care crisis: Looking eastward
    Published just this past Monday, U.S. News & World Report highlights two responses from aging Americans who took the Harris Interactive/HealthDay survey. First, two-thirds are anxious about long-term health care costs. Second, most are unaware of which costs are covered...

Threat Level

  • Alleged Silk Road Mastermind Appears in Court
    The 29-year-old man accused of masterminding the notorious Silk Road drug forum appeared in court minutes ago for a planned bail hearing, but his lawyer asked for a continuance until next week to give him more time to prepare.     
  • Edward Snowden’s E-Mail Provider Defied FBI De ...
    The U.S. government in July obtained a search warrant demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site, according to to newly unsealed documents. The July 16 order ...     
  • Feds Arrest Alleged ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’, th ...
    The FBI has arrested the San Francisco man they say ran Silk Road, the notorious underground digital bazaar that allowed traffickers to anonymously peddle heroin, cocaine and nearly anything else illegal.     
  • How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justifi ...
    It began as an ordinary purse snatching. The court wrangling that followed set the binding precedent for what we now call metadata surveillance. In particular, it's the keystone of the National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. telephone data, in ...     
  • Feds Targeted Snowden’s Email Provider the Day ...
    When on June 9 Edward Snowden stood up in Hong Kong and revealed himself to the world as an NSA whistleblower, the Justice Department wasted little time in targeting his email provider. A new appeals court filing today shows the ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Kentucky's Success Makes a Mockery of GOP Obam ...
    Wednesday's Wall Street Journal provides the perfect encapsulation of the conservative crusade against the Affordable Care Act. On the opinion pages, columnist James Taranto mocked the story of new Obamacare enrollee Brendan Mahoney. But where news is actually reported, the WSJ's Arian Campo-F ...
  • Lincoln Speaks to Today's Republican Extortionists
    It is a tragic state of affairs when the antidote to the Party of Lincoln is Abraham Lincoln himself. But with House Speaker John Boehner and his band of "terrorists" and "hostage-takers" and "kamikazes" (as described by his fellow Republicans) prepared to trigger what Boehner himself warned "w ...
  • Better Dead and Red: How the GOP Blocked Healt ...
    For two decades, Republicans have opposed health care reform not because they thought it would fail the American people, but because they feared it would succeed. Passage of Bill Clinton's health care program, Bill Kristol warned in 1993, wouldn't just "do everything to help Democratic electora ...
  • Republicans Call Republicans Terrorists and Ho ...
    With House Republicans once again threatening to take the unprecedented step of blocking a debt ceiling increase and thereby triggering a U.S. default Speaker John Boehner admitted "would be a financial disaster, not only for our country but for the worldwide economy," frustrated Democrats are r ...
  • Boehner Should Pass Same Clean Debt Ceiling Bi ...
    Unless Congress raises the debt ceiling by October 17, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned this week, the federal government will be unable to pay its bills. But while some Republicans like Rep. John Fleming (R-FL) responded, "I don't think we should run government based on economists' predict ...

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

Planetsave

  • Draconid Meteor Shower Peaks Monday Night — Oc ...
    The Draconids meteor shower is only a couple days off now — on Monday October 7, 2013, the sometimes prolific, but very unpredictable, meteor shower will be peaking, sometime shortly after nightfall. Though the absolute peak will be on Monday — Tuesday October 8, 2013, should also be ...
  • Government Shutdown Boomerangs On U.S. Health
    Everyone’s thinking about the U.S. government shutdown. American media have chosen to dramatize a health official’s suggestion that children with cancer will not be able to receive advanced clinical treatments because funds are unavailable. But the kids with cancer are only a sidesho ...
  • Massive Fireball Streaks Midwestern Skies
    Tennessee photo of the bright, fast “fireball” meteor that passed over Indiana last week (from WKRN). It wasn’t just any old meteor that buzzed the nation’s midsection at around 11:30 last Friday night. It was AMS Event 2132, one of 4,401 meteors and about 15 fireballs se ...
  • Draconids Meteor Shower Peaks On October 7 2013
    The often times prolific, but somewhat unpredictable, Draconid meteor shower is almost here — next Monday, on the night of October 7, 2013, the Draconids are expected to reach their peak rate for the year, sometime around nightfall for those in mid and northern latitudes. October 8 should ...
  • Long-jawed Croc Fossil Comes To Life In 3-D, F ...
    Thoracosaurus neocesariensis, a fossil crocodile that lived 65 million to 100 million years ago, when the oceans were higher, in the ancient warm, carbon-dioxide-rich mangrove swamps of present-day southern New Jersey. Crocodiles have been chasing fish for a very, very long time–since the ...

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Axis of Logic

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

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Care 2

  • Stop Law Endangering Farm Animals - ForceChang ...
    The U.S. Congress is negotiating a final bill, called the Farm Bill, that would repeal dozens of animal protection laws. According to the Humane Society, this new bill would repeal protections relating to animal confinement, horse slaughter, puppy mill. Submitted by marie J. to Animals  | ...
  • Giant Squid Washes Up on Spanish Beach
    A giant squid, whose oversized eyes and gargantuan blob of a body make it look more mythical than real beast, washed ashore Tuesday (Oct. 1) at La Arena beach in the Spanish community of Cantabria. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...
  • Condemn Rejection for Ban on Polar Bear Tradin ...
    If more care is not given to the polar bears,their population may decline faster in the upcoming years and saving them then would be even harder.Condemn CITES for rejecting the proposal completely.More petitions to help polar bears on the 1st comment,TY! Submitted by Jeanie S. to Animals   ...
  • Call for a Nationwide Ban on Keeping Monkeys a ...
    Goal: Implement a state-wide and nation-wide ban outlawing pet monkey ownership. Submitted by marie J. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cheap, spray-on solar cells developed by Canad ...
    Silicon-free solar cells, light and flexible enough to roll up or use as window blinds, are under development at a University of Alberta lab. Submitted by Michael O. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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No Quarter

  • Barack Obama Dishonors America
    Each passing day of the contrived Government shutdown brings a new revelation of how unworthy Barack Obama is be called either a leader or the Commander-in-Chief. He does not give a damn about America and our heritage as a nation. All he cares about is whether he can gain political advantage. Hi ...
  • Obama Holding America Hostage
    The following picture captures the insanity that is Barack Obama: Obama is spending your taxpayer dollars to post a guard at a monument that normally is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and does not require access any kind of controlled access. To now set up barricades to prevent people f ...
  • Washington Elite Games
    The events of the last week surrounding the so-called “Government shutdown” are certainly shining a bright light on the cockroaches that inhabit Washington, DC and feast on Federal funds. Take Trent Lott, for example. A Republican whore who abandoned the job of governing in order to ...
  • Sorry for the Absence
    Its been relatively quiet over the past three days. I have been in the Midwest celebrating my 40th High School reunion. It was great fun. Saw some folks who were still easily recognizable from High School and then there were others who were unrecognizable. That was part of the treat. Yes, I know ...
  • Country Joe, Sing for Obama
    For you youngsters, this is a flashback to the glories of Woodstock. A young guitarist and crooner, Country Joe, made quite a name for himself and left a mark on a generation disgusted with an unnecessary war in Vietnam: So now we have Barack Obama. Nobel Peace Prize winner, but instead of peace ...

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

  • Fox Business Host Slams Federal Employees Work ...
    Stuart Varney feels a-okay about the government shutdown--because it’s hurting federal workers. A Fox Business host feels a-okay about the government shutdown--because it’s hurting federal workers. The host, Stuart Varney, says he sees the shutdown as an opportunity to “punish” government empl ...
  • The Government Shutdown is the Dumbest Extorti ...
    GOP's demands are putting the economy and American presidency on the line -- and now they can't back away from them. This is the fourth day of the GOP’s government shutdown and the sequence of events that will ultimately end it — the government can’t stay shut forever! — remains uncl ...
  • Tropical Storm Closes In On Louisiana: What Ha ...
    Tropical Storm Karen could become a hurricane by Saturday at a time when the National Hurricane Center is partially shut-down. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) declared a state of emergency on Thursday as the only-partially-shut-down National Hurricane Center warned that Tropical Storm Kare ...
  • FBI Pressures Muslims on No-Fly List to Become ...
    Muhammad Tanvir refused to spy on his Pakistani community, so he remains on the no-fly list, preventing him from seeing his ailing mother. Muhammad Tanvir was asked by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to spy on his Pakistani community. He refused, and so he remains on the no-fly lis ...
  • Jon Stewart Blasts Fox News' "Bullshit" Covera ...
    The Daily Show gives a reason to laugh about the government shutdown: Fox News' insane way of reporting on it. The Daily Show, like the rest of the country, is fixated on the government shutdown--or as he calls it, “Shutstorm 2013.”Last night, Jon Stewart took a deep dive into the bizarro ...

Threat Level

  • Alleged Silk Road Mastermind Appears in Court
    The 29-year-old man accused of masterminding the notorious Silk Road drug forum appeared in court minutes ago for a planned bail hearing, but his lawyer asked for a continuance until next week to give him more time to prepare.     
  • Edward Snowden’s E-Mail Provider Defied FBI De ...
    The U.S. government in July obtained a search warrant demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site, according to to newly unsealed documents. The July 16 order ...     
  • Feds Arrest Alleged ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’, th ...
    The FBI has arrested the San Francisco man they say ran Silk Road, the notorious underground digital bazaar that allowed traffickers to anonymously peddle heroin, cocaine and nearly anything else illegal.     
  • How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justifi ...
    It began as an ordinary purse snatching. The court wrangling that followed set the binding precedent for what we now call metadata surveillance. In particular, it's the keystone of the National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. telephone data, in ...     
  • Feds Targeted Snowden’s Email Provider the Day ...
    When on June 9 Edward Snowden stood up in Hong Kong and revealed himself to the world as an NSA whistleblower, the Justice Department wasted little time in targeting his email provider. A new appeals court filing today shows the ...     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • What’s up with Canada and E. coli?
    The Public Health Agency of Canada, along with its health and food safety partners, is investigating 25 cases of E. coli O157:H7 illness; 12 in British Columbia, 10 in Alberta... Continue Reading
  • The Park Doctrine Resurrected
    Last week, Eric Jensen, age 37, and Ryan Jensen, age 33, brothers who owned and operated Jensen Farms, located in Granada, Colorado, presented themselves to U.S. marshals in Denver and... Continue Reading
  • Casa Mexicana Link in Kentucky Salmonella Outbreak
    According to the Madisonville Kentucky Messenger, tate and local health officials confirm the source of a Salmonella outbreak. Health officials say Casa Mexicana, a Madisonville restaurant, has been identified as... Continue Reading
  • Another E. coli Outbreak in Canada – This Time ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Belmont Meats Ltd. (Est. 112) are warning the public not to consume certain Compliments brand Super 8 Beef Burgers described below because they... Continue Reading
  • Gort’s Gouda Cheese Sickens 23 and Kills 1 wit ...
    The Public Health Agency of Canada, along with its health and food safety partners, is investigating 23 cases of E. coli O157:H7 illness; 11 in British Columbia, 9 in Alberta... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • 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 ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...

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!

  • 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 ...
  • Herman Wallace, Free At Last
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan After close to 42 years in solitary confinement, Herman Wallace is free. Wallace is dying of liver cancer, with days if not hours to live at the time of this writing. In a stunning legal ruling, Judge Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Mi ...
  • Breaking: Federal Judge Orders Immediate Relea ...
    A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Herman Wallace, a member of the so-called Angola 3, who was held in solitary confinement for more than 40 years. The judge ordered his release because women were excluded from the grand jury in his case four decades ago. The decision comes as ...
  • Full Interview with Ecuadorian Foreign Ministe ...
    Watch our full hour-long interview with Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño on historic Chevron lawsuit, oil drilling in the Amazon, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Ecuador's new media law, meeting with Fidel Castro, the legacy of Hugo Chavez and more.
  • Climate Change Protests Heat Up
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Last week, far out in the Arctic Ocean, the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise approached a Russian oil-drilling platform and launched a nonviolent protest, with several protesters scaling the side of the platform. They wanted to draw attention to a danger ...

Solari

  • A Beginners Guide to 3D Printing
    Photo Credit: Subhashish Panigrahi By Catherine Austin Fitts What is 3D printing and why is everyone making such a big fuss about it? According to Wikipedia: “3D printing is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. 3D printing is ac ...
  • Bob Dylan – “Times They Are A Chan ...
    Related Reading: Bob Dylan on Wikipedia Bob Dylan’s Official Website
  • Catherine’s Speech – Links
    CAF Note: I am posting links referred to in my speech on October 5th at the Casey Research Summit in Tucson. Sir James Goldsmith’s Globalization Warning Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits Financial Coup d’Etat Coming Clean Beyond the Fiscal Cliff The Missing Money  
  • ’4D Printing’ Adaptive Materials
    By Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence Researchers from three universities are proposing to add a dimension to 3D printing by developing “4D” materials that can exhibit behavior that changes over time. Imagine an automobile coating that changes its structure to adapt to a humid environment or a ...
  • U.S. Debt and Debt Ceiling
    (Click Image to View Larger) Photo Credit: Whitehouse.gov Related Reading: IMF head warns US debt crisis threatens world economy

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

  • Infographic: The Ultimate Guide to Upcycling W ...
    With a little bit of ingenuity, simple shipping pallets can be transformed into an amazing array of things - from furniture and housewares to entire buildings! This new infographic by Terry's Fabrics shows the ins and outs of sourcing and building with recycled     
  • Pia Interlandi’s Biodegradable “Garments for t ...
    When Pia Interlandi struggled to dress her grandfather in a suit for burial, she realized that the clothes we wear in life are not designed for death—those who have passed on have little use for zippers, buttons and tailoring. The Australian designer decided     
  • Students Install the World’s First Solar Pavem ...
    Studio39 Landscape Architecture just teamed up with students at the Solar Institute at George Washington University to install the world's first solar panel walking path! The students and designers installed a total of 27 durable photovoltaic panels to create     
  • Watch Ford and the AIANY’s ‘Design With a Purp ...
    On October 3rd, 2013, Inhabitat kicked off NY's Archotober with a fantastic panel discussion and live webcast at New York's Center For Architecture, to talk about resilient design and the intersection of building and automotive design. This provocative discussion brought      ...
  • 6 Ways to Enjoy End-of-Season Tomatoes Through ...
    A ripe, juicy tomato represents all of the joys of summer. Beautiful, tasty, and a great source of vitamins, these members of the nightshade family are stars in a myriad of dishes. As their season in many parts of the country draws to a close, enterprising     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Eta Carinae in I ...
    Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, as can be seen in this new view of the Carina nebula from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The bright star at the center of the nebula is Eta Carinae, one of the ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Titan, Enceladus ...
    Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus hangs below the gas giant’s rings while Titan lurks in the background, in this new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Faint details of the tiger stripe markings can be seen on Enceladus’ surface, which is ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Sapas Mons
    This false-color image shows the volcano Sapas Mons, which is located in the broad equatorial rise called Atla Regio (8 degrees north latitude and 188 degrees east longitude). The area shown is approximately 650 kilometers (404 miles) on a side. ...     
  • Absurd Creature of the Week: This Prehistoric ...
    Platybelodon was an ancestor of the modern elephant that looked like it got hit in the face with a shovel, then absorbed that shovel into its mouth.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Red Hot Gas
    This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Informally known as the spider, IC 417 is an emission nebula that is energized by embedded hot, massive ...     

PakAlert

  • Video: This Why FEMA Is Prepping For The Worst ...
    Sometimes a visual can do more to pound a point home that any amount of words can, so while in the video below Paul Begley describes the chart showing the last 50 meteor locations, it is when you see how many of those are clumped together all over the United States, it makes a whole lot more sen ...
  • Why Do They Keep Calling It Obamacare?
    Professional disinformers of both the Republican and the Democratic factions of the Repucratic party[1] have joined forces once more to brainwash us about a new aberration they call Obamacare. But Obamacare is nothing but a reincarnation of a corpse called Hillarycare, which died of natural caus ...
  • Obama Supporters Strip To Underwear To Get You ...
    We guess it was inevitable that, given the public’s overwhelming failure to use the insurance exchanges to get covered, insurance companies would have to start drumming up business the old-fashioned way – with publicity stunts. In Colorado, this took the form of hiring pretty models to parade ar ...
  • Property owners in Lake Mead evicted until gov ...
    People are being forced out of their own homes on Lake Mead and prevented from returning until the government shutdown ends because they sit on federal land, even though the homes are privately owned. Much has happened since the shutdown began. On Thursday, an unarmed mother was killed by Cap ...
  • The government knows it’s a medical killing ma ...
    Here are four smoking guns that substantiate the title of this article. Smoking gun #1: As I detailed in my two previous articles (click here and here), Dr. Barbara Starfield’s article in the July 26, 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association, “Is US Health Really the Best in the Worl ...

Andy Worthington

  • In Court, Guantánamo Prisoner Shaker Aamer Ask ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our ac ...
  • London Events: Afghan War Protest, and Vigils ...
    I quickly want to point out three forthcoming events for very worthy causes — two tomorrow (Saturday October 5) and one next Wednesday (October 9). Tomorrow afternoon, at 4pm, I’ll be attending an event to mark the 12th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. This is a horrible a ...
  • Andy Worthington: An Archive of Guantánamo Art ...
    Please support my work! Since March 2006, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there, initially through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007, as a full-time independent investigative journalist, assiduously chronicling the crimes of th ...
  • Andy Worthington Talks to Voice of Russia Abou ...
    Please sign and share the petition, “EU leaders: Stop mass surveillance,” which, shamefully, has just under 5,000 signatures at the time of writing. Last week, as the European Parliament’s Office of Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs released what Index on Censorship describ ...
  • Photos: The 10,000 Cuts and Counting Protest i ...
    The 10,000 Cuts and Counting Protest in Parliament Square, September 28, 2013, a set on Flickr. On Saturday September 29, disability activists, the Very Rev. David Ison, the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the MP Michael Meacher and representatives of the Occupy movement held a protest in Pa ...

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

  • Vigils Around the Globe for Greenpeace Activis ...
    Protests were held in cities around the world on Saturday to rally support for the 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists currently being held by the Russian government on charges of piracy. Both activists and governments have been shocked by Russia's decision to level serious piracy ch ...
  • Canadians Tarek Loubani and John Greyson Relea ...
    Two Canadians who were arrested and held in a cramped Egyptian jail cell for more than seven weeks without charges have been released. John Greyson, left, and Tarek Loubani are pictured in undated photos.In a statement released early today, Canadian Minister of State Lynne Yelich said the govern ...
  • Canadians Tarek Loubani and John Greyson Relea ...
    Two Canadians who were arrested and held in a cramped Egyptian jail cell for more than seven weeks without charges have been released. John Greyson, left, and Tarek Loubani are pictured in undated photos.In a statement released early today, Canadian Minister of State Lynne Yelich said the govern ...
  • Climate Change: Mayors Around the Globe Leadin ...
    Part of the Sustainable Urban Masterplan for Shanghai, this image shows the channels with pedestrian and slow traffic lanes on the right, and urban food gardens on the left. The channel transports water from vertical farm to vertical farm, cooling the city and being filtered through various plan ...
  • Climate Change: Mayors Around the Globe Leadin ...
    Part of the Sustainable Urban Masterplan for Shanghai, this image shows the channels with pedestrian and slow traffic lanes on the right, and urban food gardens on the left. The channel transports water from vertical farm to vertical farm, cooling the city and being filtered through various plan ...

Lifehacker

  • Get Only Search Suggestions from Chrome's Omnibox
    When you type something into Chrome's address bar, you get everything from search suggestions to bookmarks and browsing history. If you only want to see search suggestions, you can do so with a simple question mark.Read more...     
  • Check Out the Best From This Week's Open Thread
    How can I make working outside more comfortable?I'm building a new computer. Can I use my old hard drive without doing a clean install on the new machine?Can I do a clean install of OS X Mavericks from the App Store when it comes out?Any tips for DIY smartphone screen repair?I spilled water on ...
  • Set a Dollar Limit to Decide Whether Your Old ...
    We've all got clutter, and sometimes selling that stuff is a great way to make a bit of extra money. But, as Unclutterer notes, sometimes it's just a time suck—and you don't get as much back as you thought.Read more...     
  • Access Blocked Sites at School or Work with Go ...
    If your school or office blocks a good portion of the web for "productivity's" sake, Redditor sidewayssammich shares a useful tip: just plug a site into Google Translate to view it.Read more...     
  • Mental Exhaustion Before Exercise May Hinder Y ...
    We all have tight schedules, but a recent study found that if you do something mentally draining before exercising, your workout may be less effective—even if your muscles are well rested.Read more...     

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Must-See Chart: Cost Of PV Cells Has Dropped A ...
    The price of solar photovoltaic cells has dropped 99% in the past quarter century. So in an increasing number of markets around the country, solar is at or very close to grid parity.The post Must-See Chart: Cost Of PV Cells Has Dropped An Amazing 99% Since 1977, Bringing Solar Power To Grid Pari ...
  • Undocumented Immigrants Can Now Receive Law Li ...
    One hundred days after the Senate approved a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform bill, one governor has taken the initiative to extend legal rights to undocumented immigrants.The post Undocumented Immigrants Can Now Receive Law Licenses In California appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • CBS Host Takes Apart GOP’s Shutdown Argument
    A top Republican senator struggles to defend the GOP's position on the shutdown.The post CBS Host Takes Apart GOP’s Shutdown Argument appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Republican Convention Features Sexist Anti-Hil ...
    So how's that Republican Party rebranding effort working out?The post Republican Convention Features Sexist Anti-Hillary Buttons: ’2 Fat Thighs, 2 Small Breasts’ appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Republican Congressman Says GOP To Blame For S ...
    Rep. Peter King (R-NY) disagrees with colleagues who claim that his caucus is not to blame for the shutdown.The post Republican Congressman Says GOP To Blame For Shutdown appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • I Got's Woik 2 Do
    Argh.
  • I Don't Care About the US Government Shut-Down
    I really don't care about the Republican Congress shutting down the US Government until Democrats agree to reform the Affordable Care Act. (or "Obamacare"). Because "Obamacare" is a Repug-inspired, shitty piece of legislation that forces people to buy something they don't want (and was upheld as ...
  • Dean Del Mastro Goes To Prison
    I'd like to see that rancid, corrupt, election finance law violating, robo-Con deception scum-bag go to prison. I'd like to see his fat stupid face distorted by bawling and tears. I'd like the incarceration of this harpercon scumbag to be the biggest nail in turd-boy stephen harper's desperate a ...
  • Stress
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  • The Rob Ford Revival
    Rob Ford's chances for re-election have improved lately: Almost half of Torontonians approve of the job Rob Ford has been doing as mayor of Canada’s largest city, a new poll suggests.Forty-nine percent of the 1,082 Toronto residents over 18 surveyed on Sept. 21 and 22 indicated they supported ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Ottawa Peace Festival – Prophets of War
    Register to attend the Ottawa Peace Festival event "Prophets of War: Unmasking the Defence Lobby," a presentation by William Hartung.
  • CCV procurement “stuck in a rut”
    A new report released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives questions the wisdom of the Harper government's $2-billion plan to purchase Close Combat Vehicles for the Canadian Forces.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-13-13
    Today, Kevin explains how every single person in America is technically breaking the law and how the IRS could take advantage of it. Plus, the author of Undateable, Anne Coyle, stops by to reveal the secret list of over 311 things that perfectly eligible guys manage to wear, say, or do to make t ...
  • Boost & Strengthen Your Immune System
    There are certain products that I endorse and recommend for anti-aging.  There are certain products that I endorse and recommend to change the way you think. And there are certain products that I travel with all the time. I always, always have Silver Hydrosol with me. I also pack Royal Velvet an ...
  • You Are What You Eat
    Eating good quality food every single day makes a huge difference in how you feel, your energy, your sleep, your skin, and your digestion.  So, a lot of people come up to me and ask, “Kevin, what should I eat? What do YOU eat?” The simplest answer is number one; always avoid high fructose corn [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-3-13
    Today, Kevin goes into why the government has banned him from every Fox News network, every Disney owned television station and even USA Today & TIME Magazine! Get the latest news you won’t hear from those news sources! 100% of Non-Organic Chickens Carry Deadly Bacteria Secrets to Boost Your ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-8-13
    Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Arrest 1% criminals or have unlawful Wars of A ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comArrest 1% criminals or have unlawful Wars of Aggression destroying our families sacrifices, murdering millions By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com All of our families sacrificed through two world wars: if theres one law that ...
  • Square One: Deadly clashes erupt across Cairo ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSquare One: Deadly clashes erupt across Cairo leaving dozens dead youtube.com Turning to developments in Egypt this Sunday – fierce clashes have broken out between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and anti-Morsi protest ...
  • On your marks! Olympic torchbearers set off fr ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comOn your marks! Olympic torchbearers set off from Moscow in record-breaking relay youtube.com Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the start of the Russian leg of the record-breaking Olympic torch relay for the 20 ...
  • Imperialism destabilizing Africa
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comImperialism destabilizing Africa RT.com The African continent is being ravished as it was in the darkest days of direct colonialism. There are no exact statistics available, but at least 6 million people have died in war-r ...
  • Al-Qaeda Slams Republicans, Says Government Sh ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAl-Qaeda Slams Republicans, Says Government Shutdown Is Bad For War disquietreservations.blogspot.co.ukBy Saman Mohammadi Related:Al-Qaeda Presents The Moral Case For U.S. Intervention In Syria.Al-Qaeda Is Disappointed In ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Washington’s Israeli Co-driver has Roadblocks ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation October 5, 2013 The Iranian government has described the newfound path of diplomacy with the United States as “a long road with a lot of ups and downs”. Not only ups and downs, it m ...
  • Harvey Wasserman on the Ongoing Nuclear Disast ...
    Dandelion Salad eon3 on Oct 4, 2013 Journalist, author, activist and historian Harvey Wasserman has been reporting on, and participating in, the nuclear free movement for decades. In that time, by his judgment, only one other event matches the danger to the world posed by the Cuban Missile Crisi ...
  • Food Stamps Cut As Hunger Rises by Kathy Durkin
    Dandelion Salad by Kathy Durkin Workers World October 3, 2013 Cupboards will be bare next year for nearly 4 million people in the United States if the bill cutting the food stamp program, which was passed by the Republican majority in the House on Sept. 19, becomes law. They voted to cut this li ...
  • Keiser Report: Michael Hudson: Working Class D ...
    with Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com October 23, 2013 RT on Oct 5, 2013 In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, discuss David Cameron as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which causes the wealth of the nation to drop. They also discuss Continuo ...
  • Ralph Nader’s New Job: Consultant For Bi ...
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader PensionRightsCenter on Oct 4, 2013 Consumer Activist Ralph Nader competes for the title of Washington’s Funniest Celebrity at the 19th Annual Funniest Celebrity Contest, at the D.C. Improv in Washington, D.C. on September 25, 2013. Video courtesy of Matt Bu ...

Your New Reality

  • China's So-Called "Ghost Cities" Now Filling U ...
    By Darryl Mason Western media got a good run of China's "Ghost Cities", numerous 'serious' newspaper stories, online slide shows, currents affairs stories, tens of million of hits and video video views, so all very popular. But not so very accurate: In the case of Henan’s Zhengzhou—frequently ...
  • "China Will Be The Centre Of The Global Film I ...
    Image via this great Joblo story  China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, has big plans for China's cinema industry, and he's cherry-picking the best talents in Hollywood to come and work for his studio. The Wall St Journal reports the property-and-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Grou ...
  • Kurt Cobain's Mad Bad Dream
    In the weeks leading up to the September 1993 release of Nirvana's In Utero album (title taken from a poem by his wife Courtney Love), Kurt Cobain explained what the Nevermind fame circus had done to his sleeping mind movies. "In my dreams, there's always this apocalyptic war going on between ...
  • Rupert Murdoch: I Don't Want To Bully The Comm ...
    By Darryl Mason Front page Murdoch tabloid attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd Hard to believe the same person most responsible for the moral disintegration of newspapers in the West, and the destruction of dozens of competitor newspapers in Australia, actually once said ...
  • What Happened To All The Outtakes From Stanley ...
    Oh, Stanley Kubrick, what did you do? Here's Stanley Kubrick's friend and key assisstant through three decades, Leon Vitali, on why there are no 'gag reels' or even alternate takes of classic scenes from his movies, anywhere on his DVDs and BlueRays. And Why There Never Will Be: "Outtakes a ...

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Eta Carinae in I ...
    Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, as can be seen in this new view of the Carina nebula from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The bright star at the center of the nebula is Eta Carinae, one of the ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Titan, Enceladus ...
    Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus hangs below the gas giant’s rings while Titan lurks in the background, in this new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Faint details of the tiger stripe markings can be seen on Enceladus’ surface, which is ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Sapas Mons
    This false-color image shows the volcano Sapas Mons, which is located in the broad equatorial rise called Atla Regio (8 degrees north latitude and 188 degrees east longitude). The area shown is approximately 650 kilometers (404 miles) on a side. ...     
  • Absurd Creature of the Week: This Prehistoric ...
    Platybelodon was an ancestor of the modern elephant that looked like it got hit in the face with a shovel, then absorbed that shovel into its mouth.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Red Hot Gas
    This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Informally known as the spider, IC 417 is an emission nebula that is energized by embedded hot, massive ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Remembering Fouzi El-Asmar, poet of the Palest ...
    Fouzi’s work centered around Israel and the Palestinians, with particular focus on the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Following in the footsteps of his mother, Najla El-Asmar, who was an activist... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Palestinian journalist/author/poet/activist Fo ...
    Journalist Magda Abu Fadil remembers Palestinian activist Fouzi El-Asmar who died last month in the Washington DC area. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Fouzi El-Asmar: Al-Ard – the seed of the Pales ...
    Fouzi El-Asmar discusses Al-Ard (The Land), a political organization he helped found in Palestine during the late 1950s whose history and perspective have been marginalized if not largely absented... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Why the Israel-Palestine ‘negoti ...
    The negotiations provide a cover for Israel's takeover of the territories it wishes to control and should spare the United States some further embarrassment at the UN. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go ...
  • Noam Chomsky weighs in on Syria strike
    "As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Coming Saturday, October 12th: Music for the M ...
    On Saturday, October 12th there will be a concert at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky to raise money to help fight mountaintop removal coal mining. Details on the Music for the Mountains 2 concert and its accompanying compilation album are here. It is supported by Ohio Citizen Action ( ...
  • The incredible shrinking Internet
    A couple of weeks ago, Yves Smith’s link roundup included a McClatchy piece about consumers dropping cable TV. She remarked: “Trust me, when you seem more consumers ditching cable, you’ll see the pipeline providers start charging based on how much you download a month.” ...
  • Is football on a glide path to obscurity?
    This post argues football may be about to experience a long, slow decline in popularity. First, two disclosures about why I may be predisposed to believing this - and one very important point of emphasis. Disclosures: 1) I am a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan, and since they returned to the NFL ...
  • 18th century political thinking in the 21st
    In 2006 Matthew Yglesias posted “The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics” at the now-defunct site TPM Café. He wrote how he enjoyed reading Green Lantern comic books and briefly explained how the power rings from the series worked, then added:But a lot of people seem to think that A ...
  • Shoddy gun paper excites right wing
    There is new interest in a 2007 study by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser. “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” was published in Harvard’s Journal of Public Law and Policy and has been cited recently on a number of political blogs, message boards, even on a popular ...

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