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Vaccine Awakening

• Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean?
  Posted 9/24/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher On Sept. 12, 2013, public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) called a press conference to announce that vaccination rates among pre-school children are “high and stable” and “less than 1% are unvaccinated.” 1 More than 90 pe ...
• Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
  Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
• Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
  posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
• Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
  Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
• IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
  Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• CLF Week in Links: Trans fats, I-522, new mayo ...
  As Dennis Keeney, founding director of the Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, observed, “Corn ethanol seemed like a good idea…until we thought about it!”
• Aquaponics: It all Starts with Roots
  The concept of aquaponics has been adapted to a myriad of environments worldwide.
• CLF Week in Links: Fishy Business, More on Mea ...
  In 2010, oil gushed from the Deepwater Horizon for 91 days. How many years will it take for the Gulf’s ecosystem to recover?
• Map Nerds, Unite! With Ice Cream!
  For my fellow map nerds out there, here's a geocaching contest: use your Maryland’s Ice Cream Geocache Passport and you will receive the highly coveted Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail Pathtag.
• We Need to Talk About the Fish You Eat
  Eating seafood is a good way to increase our intake of marine omega-3 fatty acids, which is important for our personal health. But there are big problems with eating this high on the food chain.

k2p blog

• India’s frugal Mars orbiter mission comp ...
  Reaching Mars is not that easy. More missions have failed than succeeded. 25 of 41 missions have failed. There are many crucial steps left for the Mangalyaan mission to achieve and success is far from assured.
• A quick fix for plagiarism
  If accused of plagiarism, just put the impugned text within quotation marks! A stroke of genius. Just eliminate the plagiarism by punctuation!
• Another human intervention for the survival of ...
  Now the very successful brown rats on the Isles of Scilly are to be culled in favour of sea birds that they threaten. Rather than kill the rats and perpetuate the sea birds in their unfit state, surely we ought to be adapting the sea birds to be able to survive in the new environment they live i ...
• University of Queenland completes misconduct i ...
  in September the University of Queensland took the unusual, and laudable, action of itself requesting retraction of a paper for misconduct after a preliminary investigation had found that primary data could not be located. The investigation has been completed and it seems the work reported may ...
• “Liking” on Facebook is a cheap, e ...
  Potential donors presented with the alternative of clicking on a "like" button to making a real donation take the cheaper route. They assuage their consciences and keep their pocket-books untouched! The quality of a "social connection" is still - I think - to be judged by the width and breadth o ...

Left Foot Forward

• Convicted in Bangladesh – what it means ...
  This week one of Britain’s most prominent Muslim leaders was found guilty of war crimes during Bangladesh’s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
• West Papua – the forgotten occupation
  The Indonesian government has taken several highly controversial measures to quash autonomist sentiments.
• This week’s most read: The Global Peace ...
  The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
• We used to fear inflation: deflation is a much ...
  The threat from deflation has been a regular theme for discussion amongst the economists linked to the Green New Deal group over the last few years and rightly so.
• Could 2015 be the living wage election?
  How Britain fares internationally when it comes to low wages.

Consumerist

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

• US’ Kerry Praises Egypt’s “D ...
  [Reuters News Service on November 3, 2013, reported that "'Thus far there are indications that this is what they are intending to do,' Kerry said after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, referring to his recent remarks in Pakistan that Egypt’s military was 'restoring democracy'”. The rules ...
• NSA’s Phone/Internet Spy System = Electr ...
  [In an amazing admission, an NSA official proclaims the government attitude that the people have no right to telephone or internet privacy:  Because it's just the same as the common (though now challenged, in name) police "stop and frisk" policy and practice. -- Frontlines ed.] NSA official cite ...
• On the Bihar (India) State Police Arrest of RD ...
  Rise!                             Resist!                      Liberate! Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) – Press Statement, 5 November 2013 Condemn the arbitrary arrest of Revolutionary Democratic Front’s (RDF) All India General Secretary Rajkishore by the Bihar State Police! Release ...
• New York: City College Protest Leaders Suspend ...
    By Jeff Mays, www.dnainfo.com  October 28, 2013     HARLEM—Two City College students who led protests against the closure of a student-run community center have been suspended indefinitely after officials accused them of trying to incite a riot.   Khalil Vasquez, 22, a seni ...
• N.S.A. Promises to Stop Getting Caught Spying ...
  October 29, 2013 Posted by Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report, The New Yorker WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Responding to the firestorm of controversy over its spying on European allies, the head of the National Security Agency said today it would do everything in its power to avoid being c ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• Europe’s Nuclear Plants: Not Very Safe
  I just stumbled across this New Scientist story from a year ago (and presumably the situation hasn’t improved…) European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster It’s just as well earthquakes and tsunamis are comparatively rare in Europe, because the continent’s nuclear ...
• 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 ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• Al Qaeda Rebels Supported by Uncle Sam: US, Al ...
• The End of American Power? Washington has Lost ...
• Washington's Answers Don't Justify NSA Spying
• We Have Very Sophisticated Big Brothers in the ...
• Damascus Violence Part of US "Negotiations" St ...

Daily Tech

• NVIDIA Beats Profit Expectations, But Predicts ...
  The theme is familiar for semiconductor investors: the slowdown in high-end device sales has hurt     
• Is Microsoft Trojan Horsing Itself? CEO Candia ...
  Sources close to Microsoft unveil Mr. Elop's controversial vision to sell of Xbox, Bing units     
• London to Host Cyber "War Games" for Financial ...
  It's in preparation for cyber attacks on banks     
• NSA Employees Gave Edward Snowden Login Creden ...
  Snowden then accessed and downloaded secret NSA documents with that information     
• Panasonic Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 20-inch Tablet to ...
  Tablet will ship in January     

Oriental Review

• Suffering in Sadad: Bodies of family discovere ...
  Horrific details are emerging of atrocities carried out in a Christian town in Syria, where 1,500 families were held hostage and 45 were killed, including two teenage boys, their mother and three of their grandparents who were thrown down a well. Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the lar ...
• How Foreign Office dares to judge Libya and Ir ...
  The remarkable aspiration of the British Foreign Office to only accuse the administrations of Libya and Iraq for the current state of events there, concealing their initial cause, consisting in initiation by the West and Great Britain in the first place of the recent military intervention in the ...
• Nobel Peace Laureate: “Mother Agnes is b ...
  Open Letter to the American people from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate My dear friends, As a teenager living in Belfast, I admired the American Peace Movement and many prominent figures within it. Fifty years later, two of the most inspiring people still remembered across the world are Am ...
• Nobel Peace Laureate: ‘EU developing in ...
  Address by Mairead Maguire at the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Warsaw, Poland, on October 2l-23rd, 2013. ‘STAND IN SOLIDARITY FOR PEACE TIME TO ACT’. REPLACING VIOLENCE, ARMED REBELLIONS, MILITARISM AND WAR WITH NONVIOLENCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Dear Friends, I believe the next ...
• Revelations of Edward Snowden – Geopolitical I ...
  Part 1 Third lesson. Being a US ally is not a guarantee of a country’s information sovereignty being respected. The cyberspace control is not an end in itself. The real objective is carrying out the traditional strategic mission of gaining geopolitical dominance over large spaces. It would be na ...

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

• Why Aren’t We More Outraged by This Corr ...
  Last month it was revealed Catholic church officials were less than honest with police in NSW about the crimes of their carefully protected child sex offender colleagues and friends. Many would say, so what’s new? What was new was the release under Freedom of Information of documents reque ...
• Will the Royal Commission Use Its Teeth?
  There have been a number of times when evidence before the Royal Commission’s public hearings has been conflicting. Confusing. Dodgy even. But this week’s questioning of YMCA managers has uncovered what only the most naïve would consider to be anything other than direct and deliberate lies to th ...
• Sexually Abused Kids Don’t Have to Suffer All ...
  Evidence about the Jonathan Lord YMCA case continues at Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. A number of brave, strong, articulate mothers spoke about discovering their small boys had been abused by Jonathan Lord. Each one is the kind of mother, the ki ...
• AO is a hero and his mum AN is a hero too
  Today the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard from the amazing mother of a child victim of the child sex offender, Jonathan Lord. AN was the first witness in Case Study 2, which started today, into Lord and the YMCA, which employed, and then promoted him. In ...
• A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 2 The N ...
  Many hopes are pinned on the National Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to fill the massive gaps left by the narrow terms of reference of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, and the inadequate time and powers of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. This is th ...

WL Central

• 2013-11-06 Statement by Sarah Harrison
  Wednesday 6 November 2013, 18:30 CET As a journalist I have spent the last four months with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and arrived in Germany over the weekend. I worked in Hong Kong as part of the WikiLeaks team that brokered a number of asylum offers for Snowden and negotiated his safe ex ...
• 2013-11-03 Edward Snowden meets with Hans-Chri ...
  NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden met with German Green Party MP Hans-Christian Ströbele on 31 October regarding his being a witness for a possible investigation into NSA spying in Germany. read more
• 2013-11-02 Geoffrey Roberton's "The Refugee"
  In an exclusive for the Sydney Morning Herald, Geoffrey Robertson has provided, from his new book published this week, an excerpt dealing with the "case" against Julian Assange. This might be the most complete and most accurate summation yet. read more
• 2013-10-14 Warning: WikiLeaks-Forum.com cannot ...
  Dear user, You are contacted because you are still registered with wikileaks-forum.com. This is to warn you that this website can not be trusted. People joined this forum in the belief that they were becoming members of WikiLeaks' official forum, a place to express and nurture their support. Reg ...
• 2013-10-09 Julian Assange & Benedict Cumberbat ...
  Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 From: Julian Assange To: Benedict Cumberbatch Subject: Message from Assange Dear Benedict, Thank you for trying to contact me. It is the first approach by anyone from the DreamWorks production to me or WikiLeaks. My assistants communicated your request to me, and I have ...

U N News

• Colombia: UN chief congratulates negotiating p ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated Colombia following an announcement that negotiating parties in Havana, Cuba, reached an agreement on the issue of political participation in the South American country.
• UNESCO chief denounces murder of Honduran came ...
  The head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom today denounced the murder of Honduran cameraman Manuel Murillo Varela, who was found shot dead last week in the capital city of Tegucigalpa.
• UN General Assembly renews call for end to US ...
  For the 22nd consecutive year at the United Nations, the General Assembly today adopted a resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.
• Marking one year since Hurricane Sandy, UN off ...
  On the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy making landfall in the United States, United Nations officials are reminding the public not to forget the storm's less documented Caribbean victims.
• UNESCO chief deplores murder of Brazilian radi ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today denounced the murder of radio manager Cláudio Moleiro de Souza in northern Brazil and called for an investigation.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Rally to Save Wildlife – November 16 in Albuqu ...
  TRI received this email about an upcoming protest. We hope you will join them! We are volunteers with the group Stop Coyote Killing Contest in New Mexico. We formed last year when a Los Lunas business sponsored a coyote killing “contest” last November and we protested. It is our unde ...
• TRI Comments on Proposed Revision to the Nones ...
  The US Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to add the Mexican Gray Wolf subspecies (Canis lupus baileyi) to the list of endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.  At the same time FWS is proposing to classify the only wild population of about 75 Mexican wolves as a “nonessent ...
• TrekWest Blog 44: Thanks for a Successful West ...
  Posted: 22 Oct 2013 10:46 AM PDT “Praying (yes, empiricists, I admit it) for the last few Pronghorn struggling to rejoin their herd divided by a barb-wire fence, and shedding tears of joy (yes, hard-core rationalists, I admit it) when the last one found a way under, and galloped off into the Bit ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Chopping ...
  ©2013 by Dave Foreman Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act and we will mark it with merrymaking and wingdings all over the United States.  The big national celebration will be in Albuquerque in October, and I am most happy that Terry Tempest Williams and I ...
• Mexico’s president cancels Nevado de Toluca pr ...
  Through a decree, the president canceled the National Park status granted to the Nevado de Toluca, which since 1936 has prohibited any exploitation of the resources of this natural area. http://www.animalpolitico.com/2013/10/epn-cancela-proteccion-al-nevado-de-toluca-otorgada-por-lazaro-cardenas ...

reference frame

• Burning Bush: a dark movie about post-1968 events
  Scott Armstrong is a climate skeptic and a forecasting expert – who wrote some sensible comments about the journalistic impartiality for Fox and LA Times – is challenging you to disprove his claim that there only exists one published paper that claims to provide s scientific forecast of long-t ...
• Kaluza and Weyl: adding \(U(1)\) to GR
  Exactly 10,000,000 years ago, on November 9th, 1885, two mathematical physicists were born, Hermann Weyl and Theodor Kaluza. Click the hyperlink for some 2007 TRF biographies. Yes, "ten million" is the translation of 128 from decimal to binary. ;-) It may seem remarkable for two mathematica ...
• BadBIOS v2.0: contracting HIV from your digita ...
  A new version of BadBIOS, BadBIOS v2.0, was detected in the Czech Republic. It infects any computer running Unix or Linux or Android or OS X or iOS or Windows because it runs at the BIOS level. It reflashes itself, heals itself, and – like its predecessors – spreads through USB sticks and microp ...
• Galaxies can't be overrun by bored, suicidal e ...
  Petigura, Howard, and Marcy published a paper in PNAS attempting to count the extraterrestrial civilizations: Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars Whopping 22% of Sun-like stars are said to have Earth-sized planets in habitable zones. So the environment is as perfect as h ...
• Currency interventions are immature assaults o ...
  Expletives appropriate after the insane war was declared against the Czech crown A few hours ago, the Czech National Bank has done something insane that hasn't taken place for 11 years: interventions against the Czech currency. Within minutes, the exchange rate weakened by stunning 4 and 6 ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Rob Ford poll shows Ford Nation ‘very, very lo ...
  Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s approval rating has held steady despite a scandal-plagued week involving admissions of crack cocaine use, public intoxication and the release of a video of the mayor swearing violence against an unknown party. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax doll ...
• As BitCoin Touches $400 The Senate Starts Seek ...
  from Zero Hedge: Moments ago BitCoin hit $ 395, and will likely cross $ 400 in the immediate future.  So as more and more pile into the electronic currency, some due to ideological reasons, some simply to chase momentum, some out of disappointment with the manipulated gold price looking to ...
• Olympic torch gets spacewalk ahead of Sochi Games
  NASA Live TV showed Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy carrying the unlit Olympic torch, bobbing weightlessly at the end of a tether in a darkness dotted by stars, outside the International Space Station on Saturday. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so ...
• Trans Pacific Partnership Deal is Discussed in ...
  from TheAlexJonesChannel: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Obama Offers Assad Secret Deal — As Israel Deploys ‘Iron Dome’ Around Jerusalem from DAHBOO77: SGTreport – The Co ...
• Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines, deaths in the ...
  The Philippine Red Cross is estimating that more than 1,200 people were killed in the coastal city of Tacloban and in Samar province when one of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall slammed into the country, although the deaths have not yet been confirmed by the government. CBC | To ...

Modern Survivalism

• List Of The Healthiest Spices
  Like fruits and vegetables, many spices are rich in antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and antibacterial compounds. Used regularly, herbs can help your health in many ways including reduced inflammation, fighting free radicals, aid digestion and circulation, lower blood sugar, boost your ...
• Another Emergency Survival Preparedness List
  Lists are helpful in that you will often find a new idea within — something you may not have thought of before. Here is a list, in no particular order, of items worth considering in your overall emergency survival preparedness plans…   This list of items is meant to give you ide ...
• Home Remedies For A Cold
  Colds are only caught from other people; during cold season. If you are one of the millions who will get a cold this year, here are some home remedies to help your symptoms…   Rose hip tea is full of vitamin C and can help prevent colds. Lemons, oranges, and apple cider are all consid ...
• Oxygen Absorbers For 5-Gallon Food Storage
  When storing foods like rice, beans, wheat, etc., a key factor for successful long term storage is to remove the oxygen from the environment. Here’s why, and how much…   Oxygen enables bad things to happen to your food over time. These bad things include… -Spoilage from or ...
• A Very Dangerous Removal Of Nuclear Fuel Rods ...
  image: TEPCO artwork (not actual fuel pool – damage not shown) More than two years after an earthquake and tsunami brought disaster to a nuclear plant in Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will begin a very dangerous process of removing more than 1,500 nuclear fuel rods from a dam ...

Fast Company

• 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week: The $20,0 ...
  Oh, and we also take a look at Google's logo re–imagined in the spirit of death metal. All this and more in this week's top 10! 1. "This New Skype Ad Might Make You Cry At Work" Co.Create "Born Friends" is the latest heart–warming addition to Skype's Stay Together ad campaign. Just tell your ...
• Highlights From Innovation Uncensored San Fran ...
  Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference in San Francisco featured some of the most innovative entrepreneurs of the moment. If you couldn't make it, here's what you missed.So, you couldn't attend Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference in San Francisco? That's okay. We've pulled t ...
• 5 Apps That Make Reading The News More Fun
  Because we're tired of reading about hipsters, Miley Cyrus, and Breaking Bad spoilers.Today's xkcd comic poked fun at news outlets' stale terminology. Next time you read the oft–used phrase "could not be reached for comment," it'll be hard to not think that person or company avoiding the press " ...
• Type Your Own Animated Movie With This Crazy S ...
  Inside this playful screenwriting software may hide the future of filmmaking: You simply write what you want to see, and that vision plays on screen.Here's how Hollywood works today: Somebody writes a script. And especially if it's an animated feature––a piece that will take hundreds of Pixar ar ...
• Airbnb Gets Support From Fellow Tech Companies ...
  The Internet Association, a lobbying group that represents the most powerful companies in tech, has filed a statement with the Supreme Court of the State of New York supporting Airbnb in the midst of its dispute with the Attorney General.Airbnb is still embroiled in a dispute with New York City ...

Jadaliyya

• Jadaliyya Monthly Edition (October 2013)
  This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of October 2013. It also includes the most recent roundups, editors picks, videos and most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our Monthly Edition series. ...
• The Transforming Landscape of Doha: An Essay o ...
  Doha is a boom city on the Arabian littoral and the singular pre-eminent urban agglomeration on the low Qatari peninsula. Like many other cities on the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, the city has long been entwined in the maritime trade routes of the Indian Ocean world. The city grew around the ...
• Silver Faces
  [Photos and text by Mohamed Ali eddin.] Over the past fifty years Mit Ghamr has been transformed from an agricultural city to a huge industrial hub. At the heart of the Egyptian Delta thousands of farmers left their plots to join the thriving new industry of making aluminum pots. The faces of ...
• Photography Media Roundup (November 8)
  [This is a bi-weekly roundup of articles on photography in the Middle East and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Photography Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in roundups to photos@jadaliyya.com.]   Ni ...
• Spotlight: Access to Mideast and Islamic Resou ...
  Tadween Publishing interviewed Peter Magierski and Chuck Jones, founders of the blog Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR), as part of Tadween’s campaign to highlight individuals, groups, and organizations who play a role in the open access movement and knowledge producti ...

mediagazer

• Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to be question ...
  Guardian: Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to be questioned by MPs over NSA leaks  —  Rusbridger to appear before home affairs select committee after claims that revelations were damaging national security  —  The editor of the Guardian is to be questioned by MPs ...
• Reporter for Reuters Won't Receive China Visa ...
  Andrew Jacobs / New York Times: Reporter for Reuters Won't Receive China Visa  —  BEIJING — The Chinese government has rejected the visa application of a veteran American journalist who had been waiting eight months to begin a new reporting job in China for Thomson Reuters ...
• NSFW Corp lays off three, including one famous ...
  Peter Sterne / Capital New York: NSFW Corp lays off three, including one famous former Anthony Weiner intern  —  On Thursday, the Not Safe For Work Corporation, which publishes nsfwcorp magazine, laid off three of its staffers.  Two of them shared the news on Twitter: sex a ...
• Twitter co-founder Evan Williams hopes Medium ...
  Matt Richtel / New York Times: Twitter co-founder Evan Williams hopes Medium will surface rationality in the cacophony  —  A Founder of Twitter Goes Long  —  Between downtown San Francisco and the new Twitter offices six city blocks to the west, things get sketch ...
• How Future is bringing TV values to online vid ...
  Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk: How Future is bringing TV values to online video  —  Scheduled programming, standardised show lengths and ad breaks to set your watch by - the rigid structures of traditional broadcasting may not seem like a suitable place to take inspiration fr ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

• Olympic Torch Spacewalk: Sochi Torch Rela ...
  MOSCOW -- MOSCOW (AP) — The Sochi Olympic torch has started its first spacewalk. NASA Live TV showed Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy carrying the unlit Olympic torch, bobbing weightlessly at the end of a tether in a darkness dotted by stars, outside the International Spac ...
• Health care cancellations: 2 intimate vie ...
  CHICAGO -- For Shonn Hild, a landscaper from Sullivan, Ill., the controversy over Americans losing their health insurance plans, despite a promise by President Barack Obama, is frustrating and personal. For Jon Gabel, a University of Chicago health care researcher, the surprise is not the ma ...
• Crisis brewing in Israeli-US relations
  JERUSALEM (AP) -- A pair of testy public exchanges this week appear to have undone whatever good will was created between the Israeli and U.S. governments during a high-profile visit by President Barack Obama early this year. Tensions burst into the open during a swing through the region by ...
• Obama golfing at 'Caddyshack' course in F ...
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President Barack Obama is hitting the greens at the private Florida golf club where...
• Player Ratings: Real Madrid 5-1 Real Soci ...
  A sensational hat-trick from Cristiano Ronaldo added to a dominant performance from the hosts, as the visitors struggled to make any impact on the game By Sam Bisby Comments Real Madrid 3.69 3 0 3.50 Diego López Rodríguez Not troubled once in the second-half, but the ‘keeper had a very busy ...

no frakking consensus

• IPCC Author Stars in Sleazy, Fake Nobel Ad Cam ...
  A York University advertising campaign falsely implies that Roger Pulwarty has won a Nobel Peace Prize.
• The IPCC’s ‘Sharpest Critic’
  My work is being discussed in prominent newspapers and magazines - in Germany as well as the US.
• IPCC Summary: The Real Story
  Media outlets remain oblivious to the IPCC's tainted-by-activism personnel.
• NYTimes Calls this Blog ‘Hostile’ ...
  The New York Times reports on the IPCC leak I publicized yesterday.
• New IPCC Leak – Working Group 2′s ...
  The latest document the IPCC doesn't want you to see.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 11/7/13 - Does the Phrase "under God" in the P ...
  undergod.procon.org – Does the Phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance Violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause? – Read our updated pros and cons including statements from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge Stephen R. Reinhardt (pro), the Center for Individual Freedom (con), F ...
• 11/6/13 - Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for Ame ...
  dare.procon.org - Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids (K-12)? - The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) program has been taught to tens of millions of kids worldwide. Proponents say it helps prevent youth drug use, and remains popular with students, parents, and polic ...
• 11/6/13 - Did the Founding Fathers Support a S ...
  undergod.procon.org – Did the Founding Fathers Support a Separation of Church and State? – Read our updated pros and cons including statements from the Anti-Defamation League (pro), former US presidential candidate Rick Santorum (con), Garrett Epps, a law professor at the University of Baltimore ...
• 11/6/13 - Top 20 Highest Paying Jobs and Top 3 ...
  college-education.procon.org  - Top 20 Highest Paying Jobs and Top 30 Fastest Growing Jobs - See what degrees are needed to enter the top 20 highest paying jobs, from #1 ranked oral and maxillofacial surgeons ($166,399 and up with a doctoral or professional degree) to #20 ranked financial ...
• 11/5/13 - Are a "Fair Share" of Taxes Being Pa ...
  immigration.procon.org – Read statements from policy analysts at the Brookings Institution (pro), Heritage Foundation (con), Urban Institute (pro), and Center for Immigration Studies (con), among other pro and con quotes.

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

TVNZ

• 1200 feared dead in 'horrific' Philippine Typhoon
  "The devastation is, I don't have the words for it...It's really horrific. It's a great human tragedy."
• Photos: Typhoon Haiyan leaves path of destruction
  A clearer picture of the sheer devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan is emerging.
• Hawaii moves to legalise gay marriage
  Hawaii's House of Representatives has approved a bill to legalise same-sex marriage.
• 'Super typhoon' flattens Philippine city
  At least 100 people are dead after a typhoon devastated a central Philippine city.
• Greenpeace releases Russia arrest video
  Footage of the moment Russian authorities came aboard a Greenpeace ship has been released.

environment 360

• Antarctic Researchers Discover Strips of Rock ...
  Narrow ribs of dirt and rock beneath Antarctic glaciers help slow the glaciers' flow into the sea, according to new research from scientists at Princeton University and the British Antarctic Survey. Using satellite measurements of the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Click to Enlarge NAS ...
• Grand Canyon 'Zombie' Uranium Mine on Hold for ...
  The reopening of a major uranium mine near the Grand Canyon has been put on hold until December 2014 or whenever a federal court rules on the proposed revival of the mine, the Guardian reports. The owner of Canyon Colin.faulkingham/Wikimedia Grand Canyon's South Rim Mine, Energy Fuels Res ...
• Disturbed Tropical Forests Store Carbon But Ar ...
  In tropical forests that are regrowing after major disturbances, the ability to store carbon recovers more quickly than plant biodiversity, researchers from the U.K. have found. However, even after 80 years, recovering forests store less carbon than old-growth Ricardo Solar A regrowing tr ...
• Beijing To Limit New Cars By 40 Percent in Ant ...
  In an effort to reduce severe air pollution in the Chinese capital, Beijing will limit by 40 percent the number of new cars sold annually for the next four years, cutting license plate allocations from 240,000 to 150,000 each Wikimedia Chang'an avenue in Beijing year. The cap, whic ...
• Treaties May Not Be The Key to Global Sustaina ...
  Sweeping international treaties are no longer the key for charting the planet’s path to sustainable development, according to international leaders gathered at the “Rio+20 to 2015” conference last week. Instead, they said, partnerships among governments, businesses, and NGOs hold the most promis ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• The Goat that Wrote
  Tags: hiking photos blog
• NOconsensus.org - Global warming info you dese ...
  Tags: global warming science falsifiability proofs climate change and CO2
• Science Under Assault
  Tags: assault science Post Normal Science
• West Coast Native News | On First Nation Issue ...
  Tags: native news environmental world
• Fracking Canada - INDUSTRY'S GAS MIGRATION
  Brief Review of Threats to Canada's Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing Tags: canada industry gas hydrofracking ...

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: A New Species of Humpback Do ...
  (Photo: Blue Dolphin Marine Tours) For today’s Creature Feature, we’d like to introduce you to a new species of humpback dolphin—so new, in fact, that it doesn’t even have a name! Humpback dolphins are a family of dolphins with a distinctive hump beneath their dorsal fins, similar to the hum ...
• CEO Note: Oceana Honors former Secretary of S ...
  (Photo: Oceana / Tom Vickers) Wednesday night I had the honor of being on stage with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and HBO CEO Richard Plepler at Oceana’s Partners Award Gala in Los Angeles. The gala honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to the cause of prot ...
• Oceana Rolls Out the Blue Carpet for the Partn ...
  (Photo: Oceana/Tom Vickers) Last Wednesday, Hollywood was abuzz with ocean conservation as celebrities descended on the Beverly Hills Wilshire for Oceana’s Partners Award Gala, honoring individuals who have made outstanding contributions to ocean conservation. This year’s special guests were ...
• Discovering Desventuradas
  (Photo: Manu San Felix / National Geographic) You've probably never heard of the Desventuradas – two tiny, remote islands off the Coast of Chile.
• Secretary Jewell Discusses Conservation Agenda
  (Photo: Michael Bamford) Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell delivered an address to the National Press Club in which she focused on the Obama administration’s “conservation agenda.”  Rightfully, she talked about what sort of “conservation legacy” the administration seeks t ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

• Weakness in intelligence rankles Germans
  Germany's exposure to the NSA's prying eyes is a blunt reminder of its past aggression and humiliation long after the country has cleaned up its ...
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  The time line of Richard Flanagan's new novel, "The Narrow Road to the Deep North," slips back and forth from prewar Tasmania, Melbourne and Adelaide ...
• Ima desho!: Do it now!
  今でしょ！ The phrase "Ima desho!," or "Now!," first became popular online last year, but it has taken on a life of its own after Toshin High ...
• Mammals choose when to reward my quest
  My thoughts were miles away as I crossed the parking lot outside my Hokkaido home. Then a nagging doubt intruded: Had there — or had ...
• Stairway to heavenly Haguro
  Some of the more interesting spots in Japan are the ones that are not really on the way to anywhere else at all. A sense ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Rob Ford won’t go to rehab, no, no, no
  Anne Kingston explains why calls for treatment are pointless
• Prince Charles at 65
  Our royal watcher explains why the clothes make the man
• The sketch: What should we expect of a Prime M ...
  Stephen Harper circa 2013 is reminded of Stephen Harper circa 2005
• Econowatch: A scorecard on the state of the ec ...
  Another overly optimistic prediction from the Bank of Canada
• Maclean’s Books: Your weekend awaits
  This week: the days of steroid-free homers and aerial heroism (plus Edgar Allen Poe's other woman)

Making It Count - CCPA

• Participation Rate Lowest in a Decade
  Today’s Toronto Star (page B2) quotes me pointing out that, between September and October, unemployment remained at 1,325,000, well above its pre-recession level. The participation rate remained 66.4%, its lowest level in more than a decade (since February 2002), reflecting the fact that hundred ...
• What the feds should be focusing on
  I was asked on Tuesday to present to the federal Finance Committee and comment on the government’s latest budget. I thought I’d share my remarks with readers: I’d like to thank the committee for their invitation on this important and ongoing issue of “fiscal sustainability and econom ...
• P3 Evaluation: A Co-dependent Relationship?
  In response to the provincial NDP’s call for an independent evaluation of the costs of the government’s proposed P3 school construction project, Minister of Highways and Infrastructure Don McMorris dismissed the opposition’s concern stating that “there will be an independ ...
• Fossil-Fueled GDP Growth
  Yesterday, Statistics Canada reported that the Canadian economy had a month of fossil-fueled growth in August. Overall GDP was up by 0.3%, only half as much as in July but still a respectable monthly growth rate. By far the strongest growth of any industry was a 1.9% increase in “Mining, quarryi ...
• Protection for our cheeses or from the Taliban?
  In times like ours of accelerated islamization in Québec, we cannot possibly ask the government to do everything. Of course, in an ideal world, it would worry about the consequences of the pipeline through which Enbridge will transport dirty oil across Québec and it would put an end to austerity ...

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

• Here, Drink A Nice Glass of Sparkling Clear Wa ...
  “In California’s Silicon Valley, there will soon be a new source of water for residents. That may not sound like big news, but the source of this water – while certainly high-tech — is raising some eyebrows. With freshwater becoming more scarce in many parts of the country, the publi ...
• PeakWater.org Founder Jenna Cavelle to Panel & ...
  10th Red Nation Film Festival & Awards Show Event Title presents: “HOLLYWOOD AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN BLACKLIST” November 5, 2013 @ 9:15pm-10:30pm, Laemmle Theatre, 5240 Lankershim Blvd. NoHo Arts District Produced by Red Nation Films Open to public. Admission Event $5.00 per tick ...
• Noam Chomsky slams Canada’s shale gas en ...
  Canada’s rush to exploit its tar sands and shale gas resources will destroy the environment “as fast as possible”, according to Noam Chomsky. In an interview with the Guardian, the linguist and author criticized the energy policies of the Canadian government under Prime Ministe ...
• Fossil Fuel Divestment in the UK & Sustainabil ...
    Fossil Fuel Divestment in the UK & Sustainability Through Finance by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is now a 1st year PhD student at the University of Manchester ...
• Jenna Cavelle’s Exhibit ” Water & ...
                                      For more info email: jennacavelle@peakwater.org

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

• why … indeed…?
  …Why on earth would corporate for profit health insurance companies choose to HIDE any benefit of the Affordable Health Care Act from the public … why … indeed…?   How Insurers Are Hiding Obamacare Benefits From Customers   Read the Article at Talking Points Memo Filed under: Blogroll
• …What is Boehner opposed too…?
  …What is Boehner opposed too…? The Senate voted 64-32 to pass a bill that bans workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act now goes to the House, where it is opposed by Speaker John Boehner. For more information… ht ...
• Joe loves PR
    …There is no doubt that Sherriff Joe needs “drones” how else can he keep in touch with his PR machine to make sure they are reporting correctly on his “armor tank” … his prostitute posse … his surveillance of anyone NOT “white” … and drones make for great PR and Joe loves PR … […]
• just what the hell do they want…?
  …Tea Party … GOP … choo$e$ to prevent and make abortion illegal … yet they continuously vote to reduce or stop health care to pregnant women … reduce spending on food stamps … reduce funding to education … just what the hell do they want…? Abortion fight returns to the Hill By: Burgess Everett&# ...
• wonder what the ACC campaigns promi$ed
  …GEE .. I wonder what the ACC campaigns promi$ed to AP$ in return for this contribution … …Just remember it’s the ARIZONA CORPORATE COMMISSION and they do protect corporate … protecting you & me … well that’s a different story… Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

• Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
  It appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting alter-ego. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is authored as "Darth Vader", Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
• Who is Willis Eschenbach?
  As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter. He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary). "A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real scientist, ...
• 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
  "Wow, the list is pretty impressive ...It's Oreskes done right." - Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics "I really appreciate your important effort in compiling the list." - Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Geoscientist "A tour de force list of scientific papers..." - Robert M. Carter, P ...
• 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 ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Could camera trap videos galvanize the world t ...
  Even ten years ago it would have been impossible to imagine: clear-as-day footage of a jaguar plodding through the impenetrable Amazon, or a bicolored-spined porcupine balancing on a branch, or a troop of spider monkeys feeding at a clay lick, or a band of little coatis racing one-by-one from th ...
• The mystery of the disappearing elephant tusk
  Give it a few thousand years, and tusks could completely disappear from the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). The beautifully smooth, elongated ivory incisors neatly bordering a long trunk are iconic in the public mind. The reigning hypothesis is that tusks evolved to help male elephants fight o ...
• Photo essay: notes from India's Kabini River
  The Nilgiris, also known as the "Blue mountains," in southern India are an extraordinary mountain range that form one of the most diverse biospheres in the country, the Nilgiri Biosphere. And the Nagarhole National Park, declared a tiger reserve in 1999 is part of this biosphere. The Kabini Rive ...
• Gold mining in the Amazon rainforest surges 400%
  The extent of gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has surged 400 percent since 1999 due to rocketing gold prices, wreaking havoc on forests and devastating local rivers, finds a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The assessment, led by Greg Asner of ...
• Armored giant turns out to be vital ecosystem ...
  The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) is not called a giant for nothing: it weighs as much as a large dog and grows longer than the world's biggest tortoise. However, despite its gigantism, many people in its range—from the Amazon to the Pantanal—don't even know it exists or belie ...

Science - NZ Herald

• NZ grants awarded to study robins, gut bacteri ...
  Scientists studying North Island robins, bowel bacteria and condensed matter physics are among the winners of prestigious research fellowships announced this morning.The Rutherford Foundation Trust Awards and James Cook Research...
• Scientists expect satellite crash next week (+vid)
  The European Space Agency says its GOCE research satellite will crash to Earth on Sunday night or during the day on Monday, but debris is unlikely to cause any casualties.Scientists say the 1,100-kilogram satellite already has fallen...
• EU backs new GM corn for planting
  The European Union moved closer to approving the cultivation of a second genetically modified corn on the continent despite years of objections by environmental groups and widespread apprehension about GMO food among European consumers.Wednesday's...
• Gwynne Dyer: India's Mars trip as vain as the rest
  The Curse of Mars also applies to Asian countries. About two-thirds of the attempted missions to Mars have failed, many of them even before leaving Earth's orbit, and most of the rest when they tried to land. Japan's only Mars mission...
• Scientists probe secrets of blood stains
  The study of blood-splatter patterns, made famous by popular TV crime shows CSI and Dexter , is being looked at by New Zealand researchers.University of Canterbury and Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) staff...

The Bovine

• Hospital backing out in case of 10 yr old Amis ...
  From David Michael on  the Journal of Natural Food and Health: “Akron Children’s Hospital (ACH) wants to back out of their involvement with the Sarah Hershberger forced-chemo case according to two reports received by the Journal from family friends at … Continue reading →
• Food rights attorney detained in LA
  From Peace News Now: “Around 8am this morning, Attorney Ajna Sharma-Wilson was detained without explanation on a Frontier Airlines flight in LA. She is a lawyer who plays a critical role in defending the rights of people to consume and … Continue reading →
• Toronto’s Rachel Parent talks GMOs tonig ...
  From Rachel Parent on Facebook: Rachel Parent and Dr. Thierry Vrain want to meet with Health Minister Rona Ambrose. Add your voice: Fourteen year old Rachel Parent has been an outstanding young advocate for GMO labeling. Other stories involving Rachel … Continue reading →
• Cowsharing raw milk cosmetic farmer in Austral ...
  From Paul Marks on Alternative Law Journal: “Tyler set up ‘My Cow’, a cow-share program, about six years ago. Applicants purchase a one per cent share of a cow for $27.50. Shareholders then pay a small monthly boarding fee. Each … Continue reading →
• Joel Salatin debates Joseph Mercola on GMOs &# ...
  From Kimberly Hartke’s “Hartke is Online” blog: “The hue and cry over GMO ingredients in our food supply is probably giving the herbicide pushers sour stomachs and sleepless nights. What if organic food activists actually succeed in drumming up enough … Continue rea ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Credit Boom in China Could Trigger Bigger Cris ...
  In case you think all is well with China and the Yuan will soon replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency, you may wish to reconsider. Credit growth in China is expanding at a massive rate on nonviable projects, and that is the only reason China has been able to meet its growth tar ...
• Expect Another Leap in Healthcare Costs; New O ...
  If you are already stunned by rising Obamashock! healthcare costs, you can expect still more shocks thanks to new rules and expanded coverage for mental health and addiction programs. A few snips from the New York Times article Rules to Require Equal Coverage for Mental Ills will explain. ...
• Establishment Survey: +204K Jobs, Household Su ...
  Initial Reaction The already wide discrepancies between the household survey and the establishment survey took a wild leap today. The establishment survey showed a gain of 204,000 jobs but the household survey showed a drop in employment of -735,000. However, the BLS states that on un ...
• Czech Republic Enters Currency Debasement Club ...
  Currency madness has spread to the Czech Republic. Central bank intervention triggered a record plunge in the Koruna vs. the Euro. Bloomberg reports Czechs Play Koruna Hardball as Intervention Triggers Record Drop The Czech central bank’s return to currency interventions after 11 years h ...
• Euro Swings Significantly, Gold Dips Following ...
  Here is a 10-minute Euro chart that shows wild swings following the Unexpected ECB Decision to lower rates today. 10-minute Euro Chart   The Euro swung 2 cents vs. the US dollar but has now regained about half of the move.On a percentage basis, these are substantial swings. ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Nina Simone – “Mississippi Goddam” The Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick this week is a real treat. Once again it features the incredible Nina Simone. The song is Mississippi Goddam and was Nina’s response to murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama ...
• The Debtor’s War: A Modern Greek Tragedy
  Welcome to the Most Completely INSANE Point in Human History: The All-or-Nothing Early on Thursday, 7 November 2013, Greek riot police stormed the offices of Greece’s main public broadcaster, which had been under a five-month occupation by workers who opposed the government’s decision to shutdow ...
• A License to Kill in the Constitution-Free Zone
  Trigger-Happy Border Patrol Agents & Their Underage Victims Last week, in my hometown of Laredo, Texas — a city resting on the US-Mexico Border — US Border Patrol agents shot and nearly killed a 20-year-old Mexican national, yet another case of the agency’s highly questionable use-of-force p ...
• Jamiol Presents
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• Let’s Not Repeat the Barack Fuckup with Hillary
  Did You Know: George Soros Is Delighted to Join More Than One Million Americans in Supporting Ready for Hillary Not that it really matters who the Democrats nominate for the presidency in 2016. Whoever that politically regressive and morally bankrupt party chooses will be at best an uninspired a ...

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 →

gCaptain

• Admirals Under Investigation Amidst U.S. Navy ...
  Two senior Admirals have now found themselves under the searing spotlight of a high profile criminal investigation that has already led to the arrest of two U.S. Navy Commanders, a Navy [...]
• OSX Brasil Ousts CEO, Plans Bankruptcy Filing
  OSX Brasil SA, the Brazilian shipbuilder controlled by former billionaire Eike Batista, ousted its chief executive Marcelo Gomes on Friday and called shareholders meeting to approve a bankruptcy protection filing.
• New Video Shows Russian Forces Boarding Greenp ...
  Greenpeace has released this previously unseen footage allegedly showing a Russian boarding team repelling onto the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in the Pechora Sea.
• Scary Moment: Barge Crew Swims to Shore as Sup ...
  Here is some nail biting raw video showing the crew of a grounded barge abandoning ship and swimming to shore as Typhoon Haiyan (aka Yolanda) slammed the central Philippines with record breaking force.
• U.S. Coast Guard Comes to Rescue of “Salty Dog ...
  The U.S. Coast Guard this week, with the assistance of the U.S. Navy, came to the rescue of a total of five distressed sailboats who were all participating in the so-called "Salty Dawg Rally" and got caught in a storm off the Atlantic Coast.

Press TV

• Greeks protest against mining project
  Thousands of Greeks have staged a protest against a controversial gold mining project that they fear will cause irreparable environmental damage.
• Stop searching people for drugs
  The war on drugs is out of control. How do we know this? Look no further than the disturbing story that just broke about a New Mexican resident whose routine traffic stop turned in a 14-hour living nightmare that led to him being medically violated, all in the name of the drug war.
• Zarif, Ashton, China's Li meet in Geneva
  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and China's Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong are holding talks on Iran's nuclear energy program in the Swiss city of Geneva.
• Only 5 enrolled in DC Obamacare
  Only five people have fully completed the enrollment process in the DC insurance exchange, according to information compiled by lawmakers from four of the insurance companies participating in the exchange.
• British MPs to question Guardian editor
  The editor of The Guardian daily is to be questioned by British lawmakers over the publication of intelligence files leaked by US whistleblower and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
  When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
• 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
  When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
• The Dreaded Freshman 15
  OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...
• The Dreaded Freshman 15
  OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...
• Africa and its Diaspora
  How connected are we?  Take the survey and share your thoughts! I recently watched the African Day parade which traveled down my street in Harlem, and attended the festival in Marcus Garvey park. It was a paradoxical experience for me. On one hand, it felt familiar, and I felt connected. I saw f ...

Dissident Voice

• Achieving a Non-GMO Tipping Point
  People should oppose GMOs for a myriad of reasons based on: 1) the precautionary principle Before a product is released to the market, it should be independently tested and verified to the utmost standards as posing no untoward risks to the public, in particular, the elderly, children, and pregn ...
• Isolation: Another Vote on Washington’s ...
  Annually, a near-ritual unfolds in the Fall Session of the United Nations General Assembly: the assembled states and governments dutifully, in near-unanimous consensus, vote in favor of a Resolution on the “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo by the United S ...
• Israeli Bombers: Al Qaeda’s Air Force
  Israel has committed repeated acts of war against countries that opposed its Zionist policies of colonization and annexation of Palestinian territory in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israeli leaders have secured arms and diplomatic support for their attacks through their Zionist proxies in t ...
• Of Truth, Reconciliation, and the Musical Ride
  Somebody once said — it was either S.J. Perelman or me, since I’ve been known to steal from him — that history is best if it’s constantly re-written. Rooting in my archives for inspiration, I came up with this chef d’oeuvre from two years ago. It illustrates how far ...
• Can Pensions Afford Recovery?
  Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan wrote another excellent academic paper, Can Capitalists Afford Recovery?: Economic, financial and social commentators from all directions and persuasion are obsessed with the prospect of recovery. The world remains mired in a deep, prolonged crisis, and the k ...

Nick Turse

• As a prelude to Veterans Day, here’s my (some ...
  As a prelude to Veterans Day, here’s my (somewhat truncated) review of David Finkel’s Thank You for Your Service in the San Francisco Chronicle. Finkel has given us an important book about the toll that the Iraq War took on Americans who served there, but we still await books written with the ...
• kateoplis:Haiyan, the most powerful typhoon ...
  kateoplis: Haiyan, the most powerful typhoon in recorded history.
• nationalpost:Super typhoon Haiyan batters Ph ...
  nationalpost: Super typhoon Haiyan batters Philippines with winds exceeding 200 kph, forcing 750,000 to flee The strongest typhoon this year slammed into the central Philippines on Friday, setting off landslides and knocking out power and communication lines in several provinces. At least four ...
• San francisco, United States. 24th June 2013 — ...
  San francisco, United States. 24th June 2013 — Street artist Eclair Acuda Bandersnatch’s stencil of Edward Snowden on Divisadero St. in San Francisco. — Street artist Eclair Acuda Bandersnatch stenciled an image of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked secret details to the press of ...
• Demonstrators and policeman confront during cl ...
  Demonstrators and policeman confront during clashing in downtown Rome, 31 October 2013. The clashes ensued after officers tried to haul down protestors who attacked and climbed onto a police armoured van. One policeman was seen on the ground after injuring his leg amid the trouble and protestor ...

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Newswise

• Preeclampsia During Pregnancy May Be Linked wi ...
  * Preeclampsia was associated with an increased likelihood of developing kidney failure; however, after adjusting for diabetes and hypertension, the association was attenuated and no longer significant. * Additional studies are needed to confirm the association of preeclampsia and kidney failure.
• Acid Levels in the Diet Could Have Profound Ef ...
  * In patients with hypertensive nephropathy, kidney health was preserved in those consuming extra fruits and vegetables, which are highly alkaline. * In patients with chronic kidney disease, those with high dietary acid levels experienced accelerated kidney function decline. * In chronic kidne ...
• 9/11 Responders Suffered Kidney Damage Due to ...
  Highlight * Among first responders at Ground Zero following the 9/11 tragedy, those exposed to high levels of particulate matter experienced significant kidney damage.
• Use of Calcium-Channel Blocker and Antibiotic ...
  Among older adults taking a calcium-channel blocker, simultaneous use of the antibiotic clarithromycin, compared with azithromycin, was associated with a small but statistically significant greater 30-day risk of hospitalization with acute kidney injury, according to a study published by JAMA.
• Soft Drinks and Sugar in the Diet May Have Neg ...
  Highlights * Consuming at least two soft drinks per day is linked with increased excretion of protein in the urine. * Moderate fructose intake increases salt reabsorption by the kidneys.

Metanoia

• Psywar screened on Free Speech TV on MLK day
  https://www.freespeech.org/tv-schedule/day/2013-01-22T00–2013-01-22T23?timezone=MST
• Rise Like Lions screened at Digital Film Festi ...
• Rise LIke Lions screened at Seoul Independent ...
  http://www.filmfestivalworld.com/festival/Seoul_Independent_Film_Festival/
• Lifting the Veil screened at Peace and Justice ...
  http://www.peaceandjusticefilms.org/2012fall/index.html
• American Empire: the Feature Film
  Scott Noble’s “The Power Principle” American Empire: the Feature Film by RON JACOBS Counterpunch Discussing the nature of the US Empire and how it got to where it is today with most US residents is always a challenge. Recommending books explaining it is equally so. This is espe ...

Jae's News

• Wayne Co. Prosecutors Office: Treat Renisha Mc ...
  'I'm scared of Black people' shouldn't be a valid legal defense. Bring charges against Renisha McBride's killer. Submitted by Timothy Spurlin to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• CBS retracts bogus Benghazi report, apologizes ...
  CBS News apologized this morning for airing the accusations of a now-apparently-fake Benghazi whistleblower, Dylan Davies. Davies repeated his fanciful story on this past Sundays 60 Minutes television show, in which Davies claimed to have been at the... Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics &a ...
• Words to avoid using if you don't want the gov ...
  We know that the U.S. government has been secretly monitoring data on the Internet, allegedly for the purpose of scanning for threats to national security. But now thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, we also know exactly which keywords and... Submitted by Freya H. to US Politics &amp ...
• Dark Money Groups Are Funded By Dark Money Gro ...
  Please read and share; more people need to know the truth. Submitted by Laura H. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Lies My Country Told Me - Cui Buono? Obamasca ...
  Please join Fred and Marg on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2012 at 2:00 pm EST (1:00 pm CST, 12:00 pm Mountain, 11:00 am PST and 3:00 pm AST. You can join us in the chatroom or call in at (347) 677-1814 with your opinion or email us at liesmycountrytoldme@gmail.com. Submitted by Fred Lemon to US Politics & ...

  IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Secret Evidence Plays Growing Role in Canada&# ...
    Gossip and rumour based on secret intelligence sources may be all that is needed to deport a foreign national from Canada on national security grounds, legal experts say. Secret evidence has been used “in a whole range of immigration procedures,” such as applications for permanent residenc ...
  • Libya’s Berbers Close the Tap
    “Oil tankers won´t get crude from this port until Tripoli finally meets our demands,” says Younis, one of the Amazigh rebels today blocking one of Libya´s largest gas and crude oil plants. Located 100 kilometres west of Tripoli, the Mellitah complex is a joint venture between the Ita ...
  • A Shortage of ARVs and a Surplus of Stigma in ...
    At the Cocody-Anono community health centre, south-east of the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan, Bertine Bahi* regularly attends awareness sessions on Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) for women living with HIV. Bahi tested positive in her third month of pregnancy. In October, t ...
  • Syria’s Economy May Be Devastated for 30 Years
    The almost three-year-old Syrian civil war has been a “silent war on human and economic development”, destroying the ability of ordinary Syrian citizens to maintain basic livelihoods, according to a report launched here Wednesday by two United Nations agencies. “There is an informal rule that it ...
  • Iran’s Zarif Talks Possible Details on N ...
    Raising expectations for a deal over its controversial nuclear programme, Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that a joint statement on the framework of a nuclear deal could be issued as early as Friday here amid ongoing negotiations with the P5+1 group of world powers. Those e ...

  My AntiWar

  • Canada’s Electronic Watchers Enjoy Secre ...
  • Codepink DC Alert: D-Day for Drones (All Week)
  • Maldivians Finally Vote to Elect New President
  • Up to 11 Dead in Mogadishu Hotel Blast That Ma ...
  • Iranians Dare to Hope Amid Geneva Talks

  CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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  The Daily Galaxy

  • Massive Elliptical Galaxy --"Where is the Cent ...
      "Expecting to find a black hole in every galaxy is sort of like expecting to find a pit inside a peach," explains astronomer Tod Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson. "With this Hubble observation, we cut into the biggest peach and we can't find the pit. We d ...
  • Two Back-to-Back Supernova in Same Galaxy --NA ...
        While there is, on average, only one supernova per galaxy per century, Hubble has revealed two back-to-back supernova explosions in spiral galaxy NGC 6984, which played host to one of these explosions back in 2012, known as SN 2012im. Now, another star has exploded, forming super ...
  • "Strange, Baffling Object" Observed by Hubble ...
      Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a unique and baffling object in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler or badminton shuttlecock. While this object is on an asteroid-like orbit, it looks like a comet, and is sending out tails of dus ...
  • Image of the Day: Cosmic Geysers --"Spewing Cl ...
                 Supermassive black holes are now thought to lie at the centers of many if not all galaxies. Under the right conditions, X-ray emission from hot gas very close to the black holes can stimulate water molecules further out to emit maser (i.e., microwave laser-like) emission. T ...
  • Newly Discovered Extremophile Points to Surviv ...
      Microbiologists often do thorough surveys of bacteria and other microbes in spacecraft clean rooms. Fewer microbes live there than in almost any other environment on Earth, but the surveys are important for knowing what might hitch a ride into space. If extraterrestrial life is ever ...

  Natural News

  • Health Ranger, Ed Group reveal superfood smoot ...
    The Health Ranger and Ed Group teach you how to make amazing superfood recipes in episode 5 of "Secrets to Health" on GAIAM TV. Check it out at SecretsToHealth.TV In the episode, the Health Ranger demonstrates how to make his chocolate avocado superfood smoothie that's...
  • Just as we predicted: New call to arm TSA agen ...
    We here at Natural News have well documented the unconstitutional acts, criminal activity and escapades of the hapless Transportation Security Administration - the agency that has elevated feeling people up to an Olympian level. We have also always thought that someday...
  • Here's another way processed meats may increas ...
    Colon cancer is a particularly deadly form of the disease that is rapidly increasing among those who consume a traditional Western-style diet, which has previously been shown to dramatically raise disease incidence due to a lack of fiber and high intake of sugary, processed...
  • Fracking pinpointed as cause of Texas earthquakes
    Yet another study has linked fracking and similar oil and gas mining practices to earthquakes, this time in Texas. The new study was conducted by researchers from China University of Geosciences and the University of Texas at Austin and published in the Proceedings...
  • Are you drinking too much water?
    Americans everywhere are encouraged to drink half their body weight in fluid ounces in water each day or the proverbial eight eight-ounce glasses of water per day. Is it too much? Is it not enough? For answers, we turn to some basic aspects of human physiology. While...

  Threat Level

  • New York Police Detective Pleads Guilty to Hac ...
    A New York City police detective has pleaded guilty to hiring hacking services to steal the passwords of dozens of email accounts belonging to fellow officers in the police department and others.     
  • Power Plants and Other Vital Systems Are Total ...
    What do the controls for two hydroelectric plants in New York, a generator at a Los Angeles foundry, and an automated feed system at a Pennsylvania pig farm all have in common? What about a Los Angeles pharmacy's prescription system ...     
  • Secret Service Report Noted Aaron Swartz’s ‘De ...
    The Secret Service has released another 26-pages of documents about coder and activist Aaron Swartz in my ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the agency.     
  • AOL Smacks Startup for Using CrunchBase Conten ...
    Can you release content under a free Creative Commons license, then change your mind later and shut down anyone using the material? That's the question posed in a simmering battle between media giant AOL and a small three-person startup called ...     
  • Senate Committee Votes in Favor of NSA Phone-R ...
    A key Senate committee approved today a measure that would give congressional blessing to the NSA's bulk collection of domestic telephone metadata, and bolster the legal underpinnings of the controversial snooping program.     

  PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rand Paul Submits His First Column to Breitbar ...
    While the conservative Washington Times terminated Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul's weekly column in response to his mushrooming plagiarism scandal, the right-wing web site Breitbart.com quickly offered him a new outlet. Here is a sneak peak at a draft of Rand Paul's first piece for Brei ...
  • Play "Name That Health Care Debacle!"
    It was the biggest health care overhaul in decades. Tens of millions of Americans were impacted by it. And its launch was a fiasco of epic proportions. Let's play "Name That Health Care Debacle": The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruled that some of the administration's ...
  • Obamacare Hearings Recall Resignations of Bush ...
    The launch of the biggest health care overhaul in decades--one impacting 43 million Americans-- was a disaster. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruled that some of the administration's ads promoting the new program were illegal while others were misleading. GAO investigat ...
  • GOP Deploys Team Bush to Accuse Obama of Lying
    For Republicans, nothing succeeds like failure. For proof, look no further than your television screen or the pages of the Washington Post. There, you will find George W. Bush's Iraq war salesman Andrew Card and speechwriter turned torture enthusiast Marc Thiessen calling President Obama a lia ...
  • How Insurers are Sabotaging Americans' Health ...
    On March 5, 2009, President Obama hosted a White House Forum on Health Care Reform. That day, the audience heard a very bold promise not from Obama, but from Karen Ignani, the president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). The top lobbyist for the nation's health insurance compa ...

  Global Research.ca

  • The Offshore Outsourcing of American Jobs: A G ...
    Is offshore outsourcing good or harmful for America? To convince Americans of outsourcing’s benefits, corporate outsourcers sponsor misleading one-sided “studies.” Only a small handful of people have looked objectively at the issue. These few and the large number of Americans&# ...
  • GMO and Morgellons Disease
    Since the Clinton administration made biotechnology “a strategic priority for U.S. government backing” (1), giant transnational agri-business concerns have aggressively taken over the global food chain by flooding it with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) without regard for the consequences t ...
  • Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military’s Expe ...
    ‘Climatic warfare’ has been excluded from the agenda on climate change.
  • Who is Behind the “Anonymous” Mask ...
    As a general rule, state-run and corporate mainstream media networks will only allocate coverage to certain demonstrations, namely those that are aligned with either state-sanctioned political parties or advocacy groups. Anything else outside of that is normally swept under the…
  • Israeli Bombers over Syria: Al Qaeda’s Air Force
    Introduction Israel has committed repeated acts of war against countries that opposed its Zionist policies of colonization and annexation of Palestinian territory in East Jerusalem and the West Bank .  Israeli leaders have secured arms and diplomatic support for their…

  TPM Cafe

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

  • Israeli forces open fire on West Bank protests ...
    Israel forces injured dozens of Palestinians and international activists after opening fire on demonstrations in four cities across the West Bank on Friday afternoon. Israeli forces dis ...
  • Israeli forces shoot Palestinian protestor in ...
    Israeli forces seriously injured a Palestinian teenager in clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces at Kabsa junction between al-Eizariya and Abu Dis on Friday. Usaid A ...
  • Israel detains 25 Palestinian activists over F ...
    Israeli police detained 25 Palestinian social media activists in East Jerusalem on Thursday, a prisoners rights group said. Nasser Qous, head of the Jerusalem branch of the Palestinian ...
  • Israeli forces detain Jerusalem journalist (M ...
    Israeli forces detained a Palestinian journalist from Jerusalem while he was returning to Israel from Egypt on Thursday. Mohammad Abu Khdeir, an East Jerusalem resident with permanent I ...
  • Israeli army kills Palestinian at checkpoint i ...
    Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man at the Zaatara checkpoint in southern Nablus Thursday, witnesses told Ma'an. The 20-year-old man from Nablus was shooting fireworks at I ...

  Water - AlterNet

  • Plan Proposed to Allow Fracking Wastewater to ...
    A Coast Guard plan would allow companies to ship wastewater in bulk on barges on the nation’s 12,000 miles of waterways. The U.S. Coast Guard, which regulates the country’s waterways, will allow shale gas companies to ship fracking wastewater on the nation’s rivers and lakes under a proposed p ...
  • Great Lakes and $7 Billion Fishing Industry Th ...
    The insatiable and destructive Asian carp is reproducing in the Great Lakes watershed for the first time—now what? This story first appeared in OnEarth Magazine.Fifty years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imported a species of Asian carp to Arkansas as part of an initiative to control ...
  • The Fight to Take Public Assets Back from Priv ...
    No state has seen more "reverse" privatizations of water resources than California. While high profile privatizations have dominated the news in recent years, a new trend is quietly emerging -- communities taking public assets back under public control. The trend is most pronounced i ...
  • A Year Since Superstorm Sandy, Disaster Is Far ...
    No one can stop the next superstorm, mega wildfire, or 1,000-year flood. But we can get behind stopping the pollution that's disrupting our climate. A year has passed since Sandy, the second-costliest storm in U.S. history, slammed into the Eastern Seaboard, causing $65 billion in damage ...
  • Governor Jerry Brown’s 10 Worst Environmental ...
    The governor failed to show up for an environmental award after outrage from environmentalists, indigenous leaders and labor activists who exposed Brown's abysmal environmental record. On October 17, Governor Brown failed to show up to receive a “Right Stuff” environmental award from the ...

  Public Citizen in Texas

  • This week in the Healthy Port Communities Coal ...
    In response to the disaster in West, Texas, a listening session on chemical safety was held in Texas City with several federal agencies in attendance.  The goal of the listening session was to hear the public and stakeholders’ ideas on how the government should proceed in ensuring the safety of ...
  • American Council for an Energy Efficient Econo ...
    A new report by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has Texas ranked 33nd in the nation for programs to promote energy efficiency. This unimpressive ranking shows Texas has a wasteful reliance on fossil fuels which contribute to air pollution and global warming and cost ...
  • Sign up for EPA Coal hearing in Dallas on Thur ...
    This summer, President Obama committed the U.S. to be a global leader on curbing climate disruption and proposed that we start by limiting carbon pollution from power plants. Currently, there are no limits on the amount of carbon pollution spewed into the air by power plants. It’s time to ...
  • Residents and Wetlands Advocates File Suit Aga ...
    Community and environmental organizations filed suit today against Louisiana’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for illegally approving a coastal use permit for the proposed RAM coal export terminal on the Lower Mississippi River in Myrtle Grove. The suit, filed in Louisiana’s 25th Judicial ...
  • Citizens Group Challenges Permit for EFH/Lumin ...
    Neighbors for Neighbors (NFN), an organization of residents near Luminant Mining’s Three Oaks Mine, filed late Monday for a contested case hearing on an EFH subsidiary’s request to renew the mining operation in Lee and Bastrop counties. In its filing, NFN asks the Texas Railroad Commission, the ...

  Unexplained Mysteries

  • 48-year-old man believes he is a dog
    Gary Matthews spends much of his time dressed up in a dog costume and going by the name 'boomer'. The retired technology worker is such a fan of dogs ...
  • Iguana-shaped rock spotted on Mars
    NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has captured another unusually shaped object on the Red Planet. There has been no shortage of unusual claims surrounding o...
  • Ancient cave drawings discovered in Brazil
    Wildlife researchers came across the prehistoric rock-art while searching for white-lipped peccaries. Considered a strong environmental indicator of h...
  • Astronomers spot strange six-tailed asteroid
    The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed an asteroid unlike anything ever seen before. Described as "weird and freakish", the object designated P/2...
  • 'Ghost' vortex damages parked police car
    CCTV footage at a police parking lot has revealed an unusual culprit in a recent vandalism case. A Hartford police officer returning to his vehicle on...

  Grassroots

  • Hydroelectric Resistance: MAB’s Energy Politic ...
    leonardo-maggi-and-sara-mersha2.jpg The article below orginally appeared in La Jicarita: An online magazine of Environmental Politics in New Mexico following a presentation by Leonardo Maggi (from the Movement of People Affected b ...
  • Hidden Tent Camps Persist in Haiti Four Years ...
    haiti-kids.jpg It has been almost four years since the devastating earthquake of 2010 shook Haiti to its core. In the aftermath—amid grand plans to ‘build back better’ and huge promises of international aid—more than 1 million people s ...
  • Palestinian NGOs Issue Statement Condemning Wo ...
    red_sea_dead_sea_canal.jpg The $10-billion proposed canal would divert water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea in an effort to save the later from “environmental degradation.” The project is a partnership between Israel, Jordan and the Pales ...
  • Insights Fall 2013: Activists Become Targets i ...
    The fight for social justice is not for the faint of heart. This edition of Insights is a powerful reminder of that fact, bearing witness to the tremendous courage of our partners, whose activism often puts their lives at risk. Many courageous individuals have lost their lives. Because supportin ...
  • Agroecology Learning Exchange Lets Farmers Sha ...
    mexico-carlos_hernandez.jpg Carlos Henríquez can talk about fertilizer for hours. He knows what mix of ingredients will help certain crops grow better, the right “recipe” for creating well-balanced compost and fertilizers, the best ways to ...

  Care 2

  • When Animal Shelters Struggle, Operation Blank ...
    At the end don't forget to vote. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TEACHING TORTURE: California Bullfighting Sch ...
    The academy, which teaches "movements & techniques," has been operating since 1997. The author recently launched an online petition at Care2 as a means of gathering support for its closure. Over 25,000 signers & counting have voiced SHUT IT DOWN! Join us! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nb ...
  • Stephen Harper, Right Hon, Prime Minister of C ...
    Horses brought us here and carried us through time, they sacrificed for us, loved us and fought our battles, and how do we return the favor? by slaughter pain and suffering. that is not how they deserve to be treated. Please sign petition. Submitted by Judy E. to Animals  |  &nb ...
  • Mimi The Pregnant Maltese Gets Rescued From Sh ...
    Mimi was abandoned and left at a shelter after her owners learned she was pregnant. Mimi was hopeless with no one to love her, and no one to love her puppies. Submitted by marie H. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Australian Racing Industry: racehorses aren't ...
    *Warning: the video above contains graphic footage The racing industry refers to these horses as "wastage". Each year, about 18,000 racehorses are shot and killed -- most of them bought by meat buyers and turned into pet food. PLEASE sign petition! Submitted by Judy E. to Animals  |&nb ...

  Smirking Chimp

  • What If Rand Paul Were a Woman?
  • You Might Have Been Fooled by Republicans If ...
  • Coverage of the anti-NSA Protest is an Example ...
  • de Blasio in New York: If You Can Do It Here...
  • U.S. Official Propagates Myths About Iran and ...

  Paul Krugman

  • More Notes On France-Bashing
    It's a free-falling time bomb, I tell you.
  • Mario and the Austerians
    About that success story.
  • My Head Talks Actual Economics
    From behind a podium.
  • Non-Crisis France
    France is really, really not Spain.
  • Friday Night Music: San Fermin
    And my life improves further.

  No Quarter

  • Obamacare, the Hydra
    Much of the caterwauling surrounding the botched rollout of Obamacare tends to portray the health care issue as a lone entity, a one-head monster. It is not. It is a Hydra–a multi-headed monster. This is akin to dealing with the various levels in the computer game, Super Mario Brothers. Th ...
  • Barack Obama is a Goddamn Liar
    Misspoke? The New York Times, desperate to prop up their boy, trotted out the nonsense that Obama was simply not properly understood when he vowed that Americans could keep their health plans and doctors if they liked them. This is not a case of the most “brilliant” guy ever to inhab ...
  • Shit Storm, Thy Name is Obamacare
    The debacle that is Obamacare becomes more profound, more disturbing and more widespread with each passing day. Apparently, Obama was too busy smoking dope back in 1992 and destroyed too many brain cells to learn the lesson of George H.W. Bush. Old Man Bush destroyed his credibility and legacy w ...
  • John Kerry, Barack Obama, Dance of Delusion
    Facing heat from foreign governments, especially allies like Germany, France and the UK, over revelations (courtesy of young Mr. Snowden) that the United States is listening in on their conversations and email, both John Kerry and Barack Obama are being true to their cowardly nature and blaming ...
  • How Big of A Damn Liar is Obama?
    I apologize for my radio silence. Been on the road and unavailable. Words now escape me in trying to define the malevolent mendacity of the ass-clown who now inhabits the White House. Obama’s incompetence in all matters has been completely exposed thru the Obamacare SNAFU. An you remember ...

  Futurismic

  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

  Al Jazeera

  • Afghan minister grilled over migrant rights
    Afghans protest in front of parliament as Refugees and Repatriation minister questioned by parliament over corruption.
  • Nasheed wins Maldives polls but faces run-off
    Former president garners 45 percent votes but fails to secure outright majority to avoid run-off, results show.
  • Sochi Olympic torch makes first spacewalk
    Two Russian cosmonauts take torch for Sochi Winter Olympics on its historic trip into outer space.
  • Indian PM to skip Sri Lanka summit over abuse
    Foreign Minister to attend Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting instead of PM, who was under huge domestic pressure.
  • Blatter: World Cup in Qatar is not reversible
    FIFA President says decision for Qatar to host 2022 Football World Cup is "not reversible" and rules out co-hosting.

  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

  • Wide Rejection of Labels for Genetically Engin ...
    A measure that would require labeling of genetically modified foods is rejected in Washington State.
  • If Only… Grazed Grasslands Could Sop Up ...
    A popular talk on how livestock grazing can stop global warming gets a tough scrub.
  • Helen Caldicott, Chernobyl and the New York Ac ...
    A closer look at a claim of a million deaths from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.
  • Survival of the Extraordinary – A Fly Wi ...
    An extraordinary fly in the United Arab Emirates has images of ants on its wings.
  • ‘To Those Influencing Environmental Poli ...
    Four climate scientists press environmental organizations to embrace efforts to develop and deploy a new generation of nuclear power plants.

  Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
    A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...
  • Bitcoin taps $200 again as ecosystem for servi ...
    Prices around $200 USD now, interesting price patterns. Stabilization & slow growth reigned since the woolly early 2013 era. Here: Bitcoin fake fibonacci trend line fun - even in crashes it never broke thru the lowest trend line. It's hard but not impossible to see it below $100 again. I thi ...
  • Local cell phone spying KingFish stonewall: Mi ...
    It's been dawning on Americans this year that their everyday electronic devices are used by law enforcement for investigations. However the lawmen and the county attorneys are withholding the policy information about the Harris Corporation Kingfish system which is a device that can alter the ...
  • "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 ...

  AlterNet Top Stories

  • Don Lemon Stirs the Stop and Frisk Pot—What Ev ...
    A fierce polarized battle continues on Stop and Frisk, as new Mayor de Blasio will need to thread the needle. Twitter is exploding right now. CNN's Don Lemon is the focus of 140-character rage as accusations fly back and forth that his weekly Tuesday radio commentary on The Tom Joyner Show w ...
  • JFK Assassination: CIA and New York Times Are ...
    Fifty years later, a complicit media still covers up for the security state. We need to reclaim our history. We’ll never know, we’ll never know, we’ll never know. That’s the mocking-bird media refrain this season as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of America’s greatest mystery – the assass ...
  • Obama’s War On Pot
    While the press has hailed the president’s “public health” approach, the White House has cracked down on cannabis. This article appeared in the November 18, 2013 edition of The Nation.In February 2013, three months after Colorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana, a sullen Gil Ke ...
  • New Mexico's Cops Have an Anal Fixation: They ...
    Humiliating drug search that made national news is the latest outrage. The war on drugs is out of control. How do we know this? Look no further than the disturbing story that just broke about a New Mexican resident whose routine traffic stop turned in a 14-hour living nightmare that led to hi ...
  • Republican Lawyers Who Gutted 1965 Voting Righ ...
    The lawyers who argued the case destroying the law now want taxpayers to pay them. Whomever said crime doesn’t pay isn’t looking at one of the nation’s top Republican political law firms. The firm is seeking $2 million in legal fees from the government after litigating its “successful” Supre ...

  Threat Level

  • New York Police Detective Pleads Guilty to Hac ...
    A New York City police detective has pleaded guilty to hiring hacking services to steal the passwords of dozens of email accounts belonging to fellow officers in the police department and others.     
  • Power Plants and Other Vital Systems Are Total ...
    What do the controls for two hydroelectric plants in New York, a generator at a Los Angeles foundry, and an automated feed system at a Pennsylvania pig farm all have in common? What about a Los Angeles pharmacy's prescription system ...     
  • Secret Service Report Noted Aaron Swartz’s ‘De ...
    The Secret Service has released another 26-pages of documents about coder and activist Aaron Swartz in my ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the agency.     
  • AOL Smacks Startup for Using CrunchBase Conten ...
    Can you release content under a free Creative Commons license, then change your mind later and shut down anyone using the material? That's the question posed in a simmering battle between media giant AOL and a small three-person startup called ...     
  • Senate Committee Votes in Favor of NSA Phone-R ...
    A key Senate committee approved today a measure that would give congressional blessing to the NSA's bulk collection of domestic telephone metadata, and bolster the legal underpinnings of the controversial snooping program.     

  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...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    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 ...
  • Among Equals: read our newsletter
    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  

  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

  • Another Raw Milk E. coli Outbreak Linked to a ...
    “It’s just the nature of the raw milk industry.  Even with safety precautions in place at the dairy, there is no way to guarantee that raw milk is safe for consumption.” ... Continue Reading
  • The Porch: Was it Hamburger or Bad Food Handl ...
    The Allegheny County Health Department today reported the results of its investigation of E. coli O157:H7 cases involving employees and customers of The Porch restaurant in Oakland. “There were 12... Continue Reading
  • FSIS Engeljohn: Salmonella is Job One!
    Lisa M. Keefe of www.meatingplace.com reported this week that “Salmonella is Job One” for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service for the next 12 months, said Dan Engeljohn, assistant administrator... Continue Reading
  • San Francisco Department of Public Health Comm ...
    Outbreak of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157 Infection Associated with a Restaurant San Francisco County, California – August 2013 Between Friday, August 23 and Monday, August 26, 2013, the San... Continue Reading
  • A History of Jimmy John’s Food Safety Problems
    With eight with E. coli O157:H7 in Denver linked to Jimmy John’s, it might be helpful to document some of its past problems. Multistate Jimmy John’s Restaurants Raw Clover Sprouts... Continue Reading

  AutoblogGreen

  • Study: Oil company predicts gas-powered cars w ...
    Filed under: Technology, Electric "By 2070, the passenger road market could be nearly oil-free." That's the key line (for us, anyway) in a report out from Shell titled New Lens Scenarios. The oil giant is trying to understand the future (who isn't?) and to do that, it envisioned two possible ...
  • First Drive: 2014 BMW i3
    Filed under: Hatchback, BMW, First Drives, Electric We can only imagine the challenges BMW is going to have explaining the i3 electric vehicle to the world. It's got a new powertain (all-electric, with optional range extender), a new production method (carbon fiber reinforced plastic!), a new ...
  • First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid [w/video]
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesDelivering On Promises The 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid should surprise no one. Its look is something we've seen since the non-hybrid versions went on sale last year. Its powertrain, mostly, we are familiar with from the already-on-sale Accord Pl ...
  • Report: Fisker's remains on the auction block ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Fisker, Electric How will a federal government that is partially shut down sell an automaker that is all-but-shut-down? We'll find out Friday when the Department of Energy starts an auction for what is left of Fisker's assets, according to TheDetroitBure ...
  • Frankfurt: Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E Rac ...
    Filed under: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, Motorsports, Electric, Racing The Spark-Renault SRT_01E looks like it'd be at home on any Formula One track in the world, but this is a car with a different destiny: the all-electric Formula E series. Unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show this week, ...

  Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • 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!

  • Election 2013: A Grassroots Resurgence
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The cable news channels wasted no time before crowing over the landslide re-election victory of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. According to exit polls, Christie won a majority of both women and Latino voters, traditional Democratic voting blocs. The poli ...
  • Election 2013: A Grass-Roots Resurgence
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The cable news channels wasted no time before crowing over the landslide re-election victory of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. According to exit polls, Christie won a majority of both women and Latino voters, traditional Democratic voting blocs. The pol ...
  • Part 3: Oliver Stone on His Visit to Jeju Isla ...
    We continue our extended interview with three-time Academy Award-winning director, producer and screenwriter Oliver Stone. He discusses recent NSA protests, his recent visit to Jeju Island in South Korea to join protests against a planned naval base to house a U.S. missile defense system clos ...
  • Tuesday: Director Oliver Stone on the Assassin ...
    Tune into Tuesday's show when we will spend the hour with Academy Award-winning film director Oliver Stone. We'll discuss his work that examines the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago this month, including his 1991 film, " JFK ," and his series, "The Untold History of the U ...
  • Tuesday: Director Oliver Stone on the Assassin ...
    Tune into Tuesday's show when we will spend the hour with Academy Award-winning film director Oliver Stone. We'll discuss his work that examines the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago this month, including his 1991 film, " JFK ," and his series, "The Untold History of the U ...

  Solari

  • Floyd Cramer – “Vaya Con Dios”
    Related Reading: Floyd Cramer on Wikipedia
  • Transcript of “Halloween Special: Solari Zombi ...
    Transcript of “Halloween Special: Solari Zombie Report” is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine Austin Fitts: So at last, for Halloween we’re having our special report on zombies. As many of you know, I’ve been shaking my head and trying to understand this thing. I ...
  • Commodity Divergance
    By Catherine Austin Fitts The extraordinary divergence between the prices of commodities and equities this year can be seen in a chart of Starbucks. The lower the cost of goods becomes (in this case coffee), the greater the profitability, the higher the shares go.
  • CFTC Revives Plan to Limit Excessive Commodity ...
    By Douwe Miedema The U.S. derivatives regulator on Tuesday reintroduced a plan to curb commodity market speculation, reviving a crucial Wall Street reform after a judge knocked down an earlier version of its rules on position limits. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposal will set ca ...
  • Christie’s Reelection
    “Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of [...]

  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

  • Awesome Library’s Climbable Bookshelves Encour ...
    Kids these days. With all the awesome technology swirling around our homes and schools, the simple joy of a book, or climbing a tree, are lost on them. In order to encourage life-saving exercise, play, and the growth of imagination muscles through the reading     
  • Tired of Your Granny Panties? DIY Some New One ...
    Ladies, let's talk. When it's "that time of the month", leaks can be an issue. Many of us reach for the old, worn underwear in the back of the drawer, because who wants to risk destroying those fancy panties you save for sexy-time? Well, a new technological     
  • New Green School to Open in New York City’s Ea ...
    Relief is on the way for downtown Manhattan parents who are worried about increasingly overcrowded classrooms and teach-to-the-test mentality. The New Amsterdam School, lower Manhattan's first Waldorf grade school, is currently accepting students to learn     
  • SPONSORED: Watch This Couple’s Epic Wedding Su ...
    Honda is all about big surprises lately. In their "Start Something Special" program, they aim to excite Honda fans with big, heartwarming experiences. When the couple, Mairead and Kevin, asked a local Honda dealer to loan them three black CR-Vs for the bridal     
  • UNStudio Unveils Radical Daylit Kutsai Interna ...
    The architecture of the terminal emulates the large open spaces and high ceilings of the great railways stations of the past, according to lead designer, Ben van Berkel. A clear, undulating structure provides a transparent and protective umbrella over the     

  WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Lagoon Nebula
    The Lagoon Nebula, M8 or NGC 6523. As one of the showpiece objects of the summer sky in the northern hemisphere, the Lagoon never rises very high from most locations north of the equator. This image of the Lagoon was ...     
  • How Super Typhoon Haiyan Compares to Some of t ...
    Super Typhoon Haiyan is hitting the Philippines. How does it compare to some of history's most ferocious recorded storms?     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Six-Tailed Asteroid
    This NASA Hubble Space Telescope set of images reveals a never-before-seen set of six comet-like tails radiating from a body in the asteroid belt, designated P/2013 P5.     
  • Absurd Creature of the Week: The Anglerfish an ...
    The deep-sea anglerfishes' mating ritual goes something like this: Boy meets girl, boy bites girl, boy’s mouth fuses to girl’s body, boy lives the rest of his life attached to girl sharing her blood and supplying her with sperm. Ah, ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Boxy Supernova R ...
    3C 397 (also known as G41.1-0.3) is a Galactic supernova remnant with an unusual shape. Researchers think its box-like appearance is produced as the heated remains of the exploded star -- detected by Chandra in X-rays (purple) -- runs into ...     

  PakAlert

  • Will Americans Put Up with Americans Being Tra ...
    As evidence mounts that the U.S. military is being trained to engage citizens domestically, the lack of outcry from the American people has been astounding. A military police officer with the Special Reaction Team, 178th Military Police Detachment, 89th Military Police Brigade, raids a house ...
  • Gummy Bears, Pharmaceutical Drugs And Vaccines ...
    That is a really crazy headline, right? Unfortunately, it is not a joke. Right now, gelatin made with human DNA fragments is already being used in pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, and scientists believe that recent breakthroughs will soon make it economically feasible to use such gelatin in ...
  • IRS Advises of Power Outage Ahead of Grid Ex E ...
    Next week on November 13th and 14th the Department of Homeland Security will be engaging in a widespread power outage drill involving scores of international government agencies and business in an effort to test the viability of a national response plan in the event of a cyber attack, electro-ma ...
  • Genetically engineered trees under USDA consid ...
    As the US Department of Agriculture considers whether to authorize the unrestricted planting of genetically engineered Eucalyptus trees experts are warning that such a policy would not only be unnatural, but negatively impact the environment. The GE tree is primarily developed by ArborGen, a ...
  • China Deploys New Bomber with Long-Range Land ...
    China’s military recently deployed an upgraded strategic bomber that will carry the military’s new long-range land attack cruise missile, capable of attacking Hawaii and Guam, according to a draft congressional report. The Oct. 8 draft of the forthcoming report of the U.S.-China Economic and ...

  Andy Worthington

  • African Human Rights Commission Hears Evidence ...
    Last Saturday, for the first time, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, founded in 1986, heard a case relating to the program of rendition and torture established under George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks, with particular reference to US crimes committed on African soil. The ca ...
  • Andy Worthington Attends Amnesty Film Screenin ...
    I just wanted to let you know about a couple of Guantánamo events I’m taking part in, for anyone in London and the south east over the next few weeks, which are listed below. The first, on Wednesday December 13, is a screening by the Canterbury Amnesty Group of “Outside the Law: Stor ...
  • Will the End of War in Afghanistan Spur Obama ...
    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 activiti ...
  • Photos: Burning Effigies of Tories and Protest ...
    Burning Effigies of Tories at the Bonfire of Cuts in Lewisham, a set on Flickr. On November 5, 2013 — Bonfire Night — I photographed effigies of members of the cabinet of the Tory-led coalition government — including David Cameron, George Osborne and others, as well as key Lib ...
  • Third Victim of CIA Torture in Poland Granted ...
    It’s almost exactly eight years since Dana Priest of the Washington Post first broke the story, on November 2, 2005, that, “according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents,” the CIA had been “hiding and interrogating some of its ...

  Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
    Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
  • Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
    A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
  • Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
    A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
  • Celebrating the fall of a dictator
    Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
  • A tweet that explains everything
    The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

  The BiPartisan Report

  • Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
  • Nihilism 1 American People Nil
  • Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
  • Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
  • Those holier than thou Conservatives

  Sciencebase

  • A graphene piano
    Is there anything Nobel-winning, all-carbon, one-atom-thick, wonder material graphene won’t be able to do? Here’s a demonstration of a graphene “piano”… A graphene piano is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom Subscribe to our Ema ...
  • Move closer…what if the Moon…
    …were as close to the Earth as the International Space Station (ISS). Gravitational and tidal effects aside, this is a nice photorealistic animation to show the night during the day. And, then…what if the Earth had rings like Saturn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoz5Q2rGQtQ Move c ...
  • News from the Squares – Book review
    In Robert Llewellyn’s eagerly awaited sequel to News From Gardenia, erstwhile engineer Gavin Meckler is trying to get back to the present in his Youneec aircraft, but something is amiss. He soon realises he has travelled sideways through time to another possible future, as unlike his visit to 22 ...
  • Designing out desire for sustainable life
    We’ve got it all wrong, it seems. We invest millions in recycling centres, refuse sorting facilities, and in some parts of the world in assimilating every last scrap of metal, plastic, glass and feeding it back into the system as usable source materials whether that’s for plastics re ...
  • Amygdalin – anticancer “vitamin” B17
    Amygdalin the so-called safe and natural anticancer vitamin B17, is none of those things. It is not a vitamin in any sense of the word. It has no anticancer properties. It is poisonous. The compound, formula C20H27NO11, is a glycoside initially isolated from the seeds of the tree Prunus dulcis i ...

  Common Dreams -News

  • Poland Books Coal Industry Summit Alongside UN ...
  • State Where It All Began to Win Marriage Equal ...
    Maddie Sesepasara shows support for gay marriage at Hawaii's capitol on Friday (Photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times)Hawaii—where the fight for gay marriage erupted 20 years ago—is poised to be the latest to join 15 other states in legalizing gay marriage after an equality bill passe ...
  • State Where It All Began to Win Marriage Equal ...
    Maddie Sesepasara shows support for gay marriage at Hawaii's capitol on Friday (Photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times)Hawaii—where the fight for gay marriage erupted 20 years ago—is poised to be the latest to join 15 other states in legalizing gay marriage after an equality bill passe ...
  • Over 1,000 Dead as Super-Typhoon Leaves Bodies ...
  • Over 1,000 Dead as Super-Typhoon Leaves Bodies ...

  Lifehacker

  • Bubbli Makes 360-Degree Photospheres With Sound
    iOS: iPhone users don’t have an equivalent of Android’s photosphere feature, but free app Bubbli changes that. Bubbli creates 360-degree photographs, complete with sound—or “bubbles”, as the app likes to call them.Read more...     
  • Spot Fake Fashion Items With This Infographic
    When a deal for a designer handbag or a pair of jeans sounds too good to be true, how do you tell a fake from the genuine item? It ain’t easy, but keep in mind some of the tips from this infographic, made by Farfetch for London Is The Reason.Read more...     
  • Our Favorite Kitchen Gadgets
    In case you haven't noticed, we love gadgets around here. In fact, our list of our favorite kitchen gear quickly became far too long for a single article, so we're splitting it in half. We present to you our favorite Kitchen Gadgets, and stay tuned in the near future for our favorite Cooking Gea ...
  • Top 10 Things You Never Have to Pay Full Price For
    Who doesn't love a good bargain? Getting a good deal always feels great, and there are some things you can almost always get at a discount. Here are 10 things you can avoid ever paying full price for.Read more...     
  • Make an "Anxiety List" to Figure Out Today's M ...
    Your to-do list can have a whole bunch of items, so where do you start? Try making a list of tasks that make you most anxious or uncomfortable, suggests angel investor Tim Ferriss.Read more...     

  Water Wars

  • Letter: Water wars in Bonita
    Deborah M. Maclean, Bonita Springs: I want the water right first.
  • Water Wars: One Thousand Years of Troubled Los ...
    Maybe you've heard that today is the one hundredth anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the engineering marvel that brought enough water to the city to seed its growth (and much more on that later). But all it could...
  • How An Aqueduct Turned Los Angeles Into A &#39 ...
    The pipeline that brings water out of California's Owens Valley to metropolitan Los Angeles turns 100 this month. The water wars it has spawned over the century still simmer, and the issues of water use, scarcity and stewardship are inextricable — if often invisible — to life in the city.
  • How An Aqueduct Turned Los Angeles Into A &#39 ...
    The pipeline that brings water out of California's Owens Valley to metropolitan Los Angeles turns 100 this month. The water wars it has spawned over the century still simmer, and the issues of water use, scarcity and stewardship are inextricable — if often invisible — to life in the city.
  • How An Aqueduct Turned Los Angeles Into A &#39 ...
    The pipeline that brings water out of California's Owens Valley to metropolitan Los Angeles turns 100 this month. The water wars it has spawned over the century still simmer, and the issues of water use, scarcity and stewardship are inextricable — if often invisible — to life in the city.

  WordPress | Economics

  • Want Shiny, Tender Locks In An Quick? Try The ...
    Want Glossy, Tender Locks In An Immediate? Consider The Brazilian Blow Dry The Brazilian Blow Dry is
  • New Subaru Impreza WRX Goes on Sale in Japan
    New Subaru Impreza WRX Goes on Sale in Japan The WRX STI attracts motorsports technological know-how
  • 5 Uncommon Motor vehicle Related Details!
    five Unusual Car or truck Similar Information! Heading into in the New Yr men and women have a tende
  • State Median Household Income Continues Decline
    From 2000 to 2012, real U.S. median household income decreased 6.6 percent. The U.S. median househol
  • Summer Car or truck Care
    Summer time Car Treatment Summer season is ideal all-around the corner and with so a lot of people t

  Electronic Intifada

  • Brooklyn College battle reveals hidden agenda ...
    Max Blumenthal New York City 12 February 2013 Why are J Street leaders afraid to debate Palestinians advocating a boycott of Israel?
  • Biased new study skirts around racism in Israe ...
    Nurit Peled-Elhanan 12 February 2013 Western academics get offended when Palestinians use terms like “colonialism.”
  • "I was determined to live with dignity," says ...
    Rami Almeghari Rafah 11 February 2013 Prisoner’s daughter recalls pain of not having her father around on her wedding day.
  • Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boyc ...
    Eva Bartlett Gaza Strip 11 February 2013 Protests against Israeli goods take place close to the Gaza-Israel boundary.
  • "Gaza is a Bantustan": author Samah Sabawi int ...
    Joe Catron Gaza City 10 February 2013 Playwright and political analyst visits Gaza after 17-year absence.

  The Wonk Room

  • It’s Official: When It Comes To Immigrat ...
    Despite insisting that comprehensive immigration reform was still a "priority," Republicans will not take-up the issue this year.The post It’s Official: When It Comes To Immigration, House GOP Can Only Agree On Deporting DREAMers appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Former Israeli Security Chief Says U.S. Iran P ...
    While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slams the U.S. on a possible deal with Iran, former members of Israel's security establishment are steadily coming out in support of the talks. The post Former Israeli Security Chief Says U.S. Iran Policy ‘Is A Policy Of Wisdom’ appeare ...
  • Judge Says Athletes’ Case Against NCAA A ...
    Ed O'Bannon's suit against the NCAA's compensation rules will move forward, but only partially.The post Judge Says Athletes’ Case Against NCAA Amateurism Rules Can Move Forward appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • White Anti-Gay Activist Wins Election After Pr ...
    White anti-gay activist Dave Wilson defeated longtime incumbent Bruce Austin, who actually is black, in an overwhelmingly African American district. The post White Anti-Gay Activist Wins Election After Pretending To Be Black appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Is GMO Labeling The Wrong Food Fight?
    GMO labeling may have failed in Washington on Tuesday, but the real food fight is only just beginning.The post Is GMO Labeling The Wrong Food Fight? appeared first on ThinkProgress.

  thwap's schoolyard

  • http://thwapschoolyard.blogspot.com/2013/11/of-all-let-me-begin-by-saying-that-i.html
     First of all, let me begin by saying that I despise Jim Flaherty. He's a cretin whose economic understanding is stuck in the 19th Century. What he does that isn't based on two hundred year old cliches is based on crude, deliberate fraud. He's a thug, who has made more people homeless, cond ...
  • So, My Boss Likes Rob Ford
    Tells me that after he buys me lunch and news about the drunken buffoon comes on the radio. He likes the job he's doing so far. Mistakes the St. Clair streetcar line for LRTs. Thinks the cost overruns during construction were caused by ... ? (They were actually caused by lawsuits brought about b ...
  • Thinking Big ...
    I was recently told that my hopes n' dreams failed because my plans were too grandiose. I should think about smaller-scale things and do what's within my own personal capacity. 1. I see "smaller-scale things" as either being useless protests about some sort of recent elite atrocities, or as an ...
  • Imagine If Canadians Controlled the Canadian E ...
    COMPANY PRESIDENT "So, let's have a vote! Should we protest the government's confiscatory taxation policies by shutting down and re-opening as another entity in Mexico?" MAJORITY IN THE WORKPLACE "No." COMPANY PRESIDENT "The absentee shareholders would like us to cut costs and dump our unt ...
  • Why Wouldn't One War Criminal Welcome Another ...
    So, the blood-soaked war criminal, anti-democratic, complete and utter shit-head, Dick Cheney was in Toronto yesterday. Speaking to a bunch of brain-dead sheeple about some stupid thing or other. Disappointing. Canada puts out the welcome mat for a mass-murdering, corrupt scumbag like Dick Che ...

  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

  • Steven Staples interviewed by Sun News on &#82 ...
    Ceasefire.ca responds to Sun TV's attack on I Remember for Peace
  • Do you remember for peace?
    Sign up to be counted this November 11 as someone who remembers for peace!
  • Close Combat Vehicle problems continue
    The Canadian government’s plan to procure Close Combat Vehicles continues to be plagued by problems.
  • Pamela Wallin and the arms dealer . . .
    For years Pamela Wallin has used her government roles to back George W. Bush, promote the Afghanistan War, and support the arms industry.
  • Should Prison Labourers be Making Poppies for ...
    This year, nine federal institutions on the Prairies will employ prison inmates to assemble Remembrance Day poppies.

  Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

  • The LaRouche Show, November 2, 2013
    John F. Kennedy vs. The Empire
  • American Exceptionalism
    EIR Editorial Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 43
  • The Search for a Mislaid Truth
    By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 43
  • An Open Secret: The Saudi-Israel Pact vs. the ...
    By Ramtanu Maitra Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 43
  • Between Nightmare and Graveyard: Europe Is a S ...
    By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 43

  War in Context

  • Iran nuclear deal remains elusive as split eme ...
    Reuters reports: France warned of serious stumbling blocks to a long-sought accord with Iran as unity among Western powers seemed to fray in talks on getting Tehran to curtail a nuclear program seen as a bomb risk in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. Iranian media quoted the Islamic R ...
  • Israel tries to undermine possible internation ...
    The Washington Post reports: Israeli officials registered fierce opposition to an emerging international nuclear deal with Iran on Friday, making clear that the Obama administration faced the uncomfortable prospect of reaching an agreement with one of America’s firmest enemies while overriding t ...
  • Firsthand accounts of how NSA surveillance chi ...
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has provided a federal judge with testimony from 22 separate advocacy organizations detailing how the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass telephone records collection program has impeded the groups’ work, discouraged their members and reduce ...
  • Feinstein’s NSA bill shows she doesn’t have a ...
    Michelle Richardson writes: Members of Congress have introduced almost 30 separate bills to rein in NSA spying, increase transparency, or rework the secret court process that has sanctioned these programs. Two pieces of legislation, however, have momentum, and they couldn’t be more differe ...
  • Master of many trades
    Robert Twigger writes: I travelled with Bedouin in the Western Desert of Egypt. When we got a puncture, they used tape and an old inner tube to suck air from three tyres to inflate a fourth. It was the cook who suggested the idea; maybe he was used to making food designed for a few […]

  Watts Up With That?

  • Saturday Silliness: The Zero of all sums = ooommmm
    A cartoon inspired by your Steve McIntyre’s post on Lew & Mann, and of course all the other posts from everyone else!  I realise the maths/latin title joke might be a wee bit subtle but hopefully it’ll ring some bells. … Continue reading →
  • Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda – another o ...
    Here is the sort of headlines we had Friday, for example this one from Huffington Post where they got all excited about some early reports from Andrew Freedman: Super Typhoon Haiyan — which is one of the strongest storms in … Continue reading →
  • Who are the true denialists?
    Guest essay by Professor Philip Lloyd People have the nasty habit of giving their opponents names.  Those who are convinced that humans are wrecking the world by burning fossil fuels call those who don’t believe them “denialists.” It implies that … Continue reading →
  • Virginia is for warmers? Data says no.
    A new tool for climate data visualization is showcased David Walton writes to tell us about a satirical piece by Mark Steyn – titled Virginia is for Warmers I was blessedly out of the country on Tuesday, so I’m belatedly catching up … Continue reading →
  • Wood-burning power plants: Misguided climate c ...
    By Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times Is wood the best fuel to generate electricity? Despite wood’s low energy density and high cost, utilities in the US and abroad are switching from coal to wood to produce electrical … Continue reading →

  treehugger

  • Photo of the Day: Vervet monkey hangs out for ...
    This vervet monkey at Kruger National Park knows how to spend the day, hanging out picnicing and enjoying the view.
  • 45 large U.S. cities ranked by percentage of b ...
    The main takeaway for me is how much variability there is, and how big the opportunity is to just bring the laggard cities up to the level of the best biking cities.
  • 5 interesting facts about electric-bikes
    E-bikes are becoming more popular in the United States. Here are some reasons why you should give an electric bicycle a try!
  • Inexpensive wireless device harnesses "lost" e ...
    The "lost" waves from microwave transmitters and WiFi signals that blanket our local environment could be used to power other devices, according to recent research.
  • Super-Typhoon Haiyan is almost like Katrina an ...
    With sustained winds of 315 kph (195 mph) and gusts as strong as 380 kph (235 mph), Haiyan may be the strongest tropical cyclone to hit land anywhere in recorded history.

  Biosingularity

  • Healing Damaged Hearts With Stem Cell Implants ...
    We’re much better at saving the lives of those who suffer a heart attack these days. Sadly, many people survive a heart attack only to later succumb to heart failure from the damage it caused. Modern methods help heal the heart somewhat after a heart attack, but cardiologists think stem cell the ...
  • Predicting the fate of stem cells
    University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this week\’s issue of the journal ...
  • How Staph Toxin Disables the Immune System
    Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center report the discovery of a novel mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. They say their findings “Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxin ED Targets the Chemokine Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 to Kill Leukocytes and Pro ...
  • Monaco and humanitarian aid for a heart surgery
    In this compassionate video, the monaco humanitarian aid organization describes a 12 year old girl, Aminata Keita who lives in Barnako, in the African country of Mali with a heart condition. Aminata suffers from cardiomyopathy, which results in failure of the heart and requires complicated and d ...
  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...

  CFACT

  • CFACT provides expert testimony at EPA coal he ...
    EPA has been holding public hearings on coal energy around the country. CFACT's Duggan Flanakin, Bonner Cohen, and Paul Driessen took the microphone in Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.to ensure some hard facts make into EPA's record. CFACT Collegians brought the fight to sessions in Atla ...
  • MEDIA ADVISORY: CFACT headed to COP 19 Warsaw
    The most important UN climate conference of the year will take place in Warsaw, Poland from November 11th to the 22nd. Headlining CFACT's delegation will be Apollo VII Astronaut Walter Cunningham who said, "it is clear that the science is not settled. Models have not succeeded in predicting the ...
  • The report of 2013 United States wildfires is ...
    President Obama and the mainstream media are flat-out lying about wildfires in 2013. His brand-new executive order, Prearing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change, addresses an increase in wildfires -- but the number of wildfires in the U.S. through November 1 is the lowest in a d ...
  • “Trumping” a golf course over PEC- ...
    The Piedmont Environmental Council sees itself as the guardians -- and also the lords -- of Virginia's rural landscape. Their thirst for power has been whetted by a proposal by a Donald Trump enterprise to expand a nine-hole golf course to 18 holes, hardly an environmentally devastating develo ...
  • Mining policy designed to benefit our own: Mig ...
    With China controlling 85% of the world's production of rare earth elements, the rest of the world -- and in particular, the U.S. economy -- is beholden to China for its own natioanl security and the future of its high-tech economy. This could change with a determined effort to overcome environ ...

  Ria Novosti Online News

  • Miss Venezuela Wins Miss Universe Crown
    Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler was crowned Miss Universe 2013 on Saturday beating 85 other contestants at a glittering ceremony in Moscow.     
  • Miss Venezuela Wins Miss Universe Crown
    Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler was crowned Miss Universe 2013 on Saturday beating 85 other contestants at a glittering ceremony in Moscow.     
  • Main News of November 9
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours     
  • Russian Contestant Out of Miss Universe Finals
    Russian beauty queen Elmira Abdrazakova was left Saturday out of the list of finalists at the Miss Universe beauty pageant held in Russia for the first time, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the event.     
  • Black Kangaroo Spotted in Russian Forest
    A couple driving through a forest in southeastern Russia has videotaped a black kangaroo on the side of the road and fed the exotic animal with a banana.