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Rodale News

• Recycle Your Cellphone, Save $60 Million?
  Cellphones are wonderful holiday gifts…that can leave a toxic toll on the planet, according to a new report from the United Nations. The report found that Americans toss more e-waste than citizens of any other country, averaging about 66 pounds per person per year (compared with the global aver ...
• FDA Puts Dangerous Soap Chemical in Its Crosshairs
  A toxic chemical use in antibacterial soaps, dish detergents, and even some toothpaste products is coming under fire as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking manufacturers to prove that it's safe and really better at killing germs than regular soap and water. Over the years, the FDA ...
• Move Over Mercury…Plastic's the New Seafood Co ...
  It's unfortunate but true, and something we've known for years now—there's lots of plastic waste floating around our oceans. But new research published in the journal Nature, Scientific Reports, answers one of the "so what" questions, discovering that plastic in fish is a serious pro ...
• Fresh Picks: The Horrors of Factory Farming, a ...
  • This powerful piece will turn you off of to factory-fared meat for good! Warning: Contains graphic content (RollingStone.com) • Besides, eating a lot of meat and dairy messes with your gut bacteria (NPR The Salt) • Enclothed Cognition: Why certain clothes can motivate you to work out (TheAtla ...
• Skip the Ibuprofen: Use These Natural Pain Rel ...
  by integrative medicine expert Isaac Eliaz, MD, founder of the Amitabha Clinic & Healing Center in Sebastopol, California Pain can dominate our life experience, so natural pain relief is on a lot of people's minds. Whether the discomfort occurs in the head, stomach, back, joints, or muscles ...

big think

• William Safire on the Media
  "Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media." - William Safire (born on this date in 1929) Read More
• Meet Google's New Robotic Pets
  Google's recent purchase of the defense contractor Boston Dynamics has raised eyebrows, and also brought the inevitable – if overblown – comparisons between Google and Skynet.  Boston Dynamics is a pioneering robotics company that makes machines such as Big Dog, which is capable of carry ...
• Plugging into the Power of Everyday Sensors
  Sensors silently surround us. Thermostats, alarm systems, traffic lights and even our phones…each contain sensors that detect changes in the environment such as light, sound, movement and location and are literally everywhere. We haven’t even begun to harness their full potential. Taking everyda ...
• 635 - Sex and Drugs and Border Changes
  A combination of sex and drugs (and possibly rock 'n roll) is forcing two governments to change the border that divides them. The Presqu'ile de l'Islal, a small Belgian peninsula stranded on the Dutch bank of the river Meuse, is to change hands to eliminate a zone that is, to all practical effec ...
• Lightweight Drone Able to Fly with Complete Au ...
  Dutch engineers from the Delft University of Technology have developed an autonomous drone called the DelFly Explorer that is able to fly with complete autonomy. That means the drone, which weighs just 20 grams, can avoid obstacles without human guidance. Watch the video here: &# ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
  Coughs and sneezes really do spread diseases, airborne droplets from your infected mucus, phlegm and snot sprayed over your companions on the daily commute, in the office, at the shops, at school etc can pass the viral or bacterial particles to infect that other person if the particles get into ...
• Yesterday’s future tomorrow
  In a thousand years’ time, our apps and smartphones, our status updates and our tweets, Our hybrid EVs, solar panels, windfarms, all of our digital neats Will seem so quaint, and misguided, so twee and lopsided They’ll talk of yet more Dark Ages repeats Just think of our medical scan ...
• Zinc, the only supplement
  Zinc is the only supplement I take if I feel a cold coming on. Vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil etc have no proven effect. But, recent Cochrane analysis vindicates earlier research on which I based my choice. Zinc – The promise: Laboratory studies have found it can inhibit replication o ...
• Large Hadron Collider Pop-Up
  Papadakis publishers have released the Higgs edition of their unique publication – the result of a collaboration between the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky. Radevsky’s previous pop-ups include The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Bo ...
• How does your garden grow?
  I just received what has to be the most bizarre press release ever. It’s either totally genuine and totally naive or a really good anti-gun spoof, can’t quite decide: “Since early eighteenth century the shotgun has been used for hunting and in warfare. Countless deer, rabbits a ...

RFF Library

• The Benefits of Solar Home Systems: An Analysi ...
  World Bank / by Hussain A. Samad, et al. http://bit.ly/1bOB1Fn The Government of Bangladesh, with help from the World Bank and other donors, has provided aid to a local agency called Infrastructure Development Company Limited and its partner organizations to devise a credit scheme for marketing ...
• Moving Out of Harm’s Way
  Center for American Progress / by Shiva Polefka http://bit.ly/1bFtycJ [Climate Wire article by Evan Lehmann, sub. req'd] In a report released yesterday, the Center for American Progress encourages the federal government to expand its program to buy and raze houses in areas facing increased flood ...
• Asynchronous Exposure to Global Warming: Fresh ...
  Environmental Research Letters (2013, v8 n3 034032; doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034032) / by Dieter Gerten, et al. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/3/034032/article [Bloomberg]   Water scarcity will increase around the world due to climate change, with more than 500 million people affected if ...
• Annual Energy Outlook 2014: Early Release Report
  US DOE Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/er/ Some key findings: Domestic production of oil and natural gas continues to grow. Low natural gas prices boost natural gas-intensive industries. Higher natural gas production also supports increased exports of both pipe ...
• The Microsoft Carbon Fee Guide
  The Microsoft Carbon Fee: Theory and Practice Microsoft Corporation / by Tamara “TJ” DiCaprio http://bit.ly/IQaz4s [Microsoft Green Blog]  …As one of those companies that has put a price on carbon, we now have a common language for how to drive awareness around and begin to reduce emission ...

frogblog

• The EU’s climate policy – swimming again ...
  I have argued earlier that the EU is leading the world on climate record and policy.  It is.  The EU-27’s emissions dropped 16% from 5.6 Gt. in 1990 to 4.7 Gt. in 2010, where ours rose 22%.  Its targets are better than others, and its policies are serious and rational. Yet everything is relative ...
• Regional/National climate policy – 4. Eu ...
  They are not perfect but they lead the world in climate policy. If humanity rescues itself from dangerous – or worse, catastrophic – climate change, it will not be because of the US, or the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) or CANZ (Canada, Australia, NZ).  It will be because of the EU. Befor ...
• A Mandela Moment
  Last night was pretty special. After 32 years, some of us returned to the streets and the field of battle at the former Rugby Park – now Waikato Stadium – to pay respects to Nelson Mandela and to the campaign against apartheid. It was a balmy soft and relaxed evening, with a nearly f ...
• My 2013 Best Efforts from a Biased Participant
  Tired of the conventional list of dubious political achievements? Join me in constructing your own from an openly biased rather than faux-neutral list of successes. 1, Big ups to Jan Logie and Lee Rhiannon (Aussie Green MP) for confronting the Sri Lankan Government on human rights the week befor ...
• Anadarko’s deep sea oil drilling information b ...
  "...with Anadarko itself predicting a 66% chance of oil on beaches, I shudder to think of the impact on our animals, ocean, and economy while we wait for a relief rig to sail to New Zealand."

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

• IC 414: Cash of Duty Ghosts
  Changes coming to The Insanity Report and Movie Trailer Reviews The work that goes into applying for SDCC press passes Award Season and Kev gets a ton of Indie movies to review Arkham Origins might have a better story than Arkham City Gamers who play for status symbol instead of enjoyment Why I& ...
• IC 413: The Golden Rule: Don’t Be a Dick
  Killing Time on Netflix Batman Arkham Origins Happy “Dress up as another race in an offensive manner and then claim you had no idea it was offensive even though it is blatantly obvious it was offensive” Month Owning up to being offensive How stupid you have to be to do a racist costu ...
• IC 412: For Colored Boys Who Listen to Drake ...
  Pacific Rim Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm NYCC They Live and the most awesome bad fight of all time Bedazzled dildos SNL and lack of black women talent Adrian Peterson is actually a good father King Kendrick Rap God Drake gets emotional….again Skinny jeans music Drake Slander Share with ...
• IC 411: #NeverForget Travis the Chimp
  The NFL and Breast Cancer Awareness Going overboard with Breast Cancer Awareness month The Government Shutdown Just how dumb Republicans are Obamacare vs Affordable Care Act Fuck George Zimmerman’s wife Woman 0 Tiger 1 GTA Online Share with your friends:
• IC 410: Phone Wars
  GTA V What might be in store for us in GTA Online and possible dlc Next gen systems The Iphone 5c At what point do we not need a faster phone? Droid vs Iphone….who cares? Kanye is right………..and an asshole Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• Carbon prices alone won’t keep warming below 2°C
  Models from Annela Anger-Kraavi at the University of East Anglia show it is possible to for the world’s economy to grow while cutting CO2 emissions to safe levels – but it will take more measures than previous studies have suggested.
• Carbon prices alone won’t keep warming below 2°C
  Models from Annela Anger-Kraavi at the University of East Anglia show it is possible to for the world’s economy to grow while cutting CO2 emissions to safe levels – but it will take more measures than previous studies have suggested.
• Stark conclusions seek to empower young to sue ...
  Climate pioneer Jim Hansen and a stellar research team have shown that 1°C warming is the limit if we’re to avoid dangerous and potentially illegal consequences for the young - and we're already at 0.8°C.
• Stark conclusions seek to empower young to sue ...
  Climate pioneer Jim Hansen and a stellar research team have shown that 1°C warming is the limit if we’re to avoid dangerous and potentially illegal consequences for the young - and we're already at 0.8°C.
• Fighting for useful climate models
  By making choices in his climate simulations other scientists disagreed with Suki Manabe led the way in showing how much warming to expect, and that abrupt changes are possible.

e!Science News

• Duke engineers make strides toward artificial ...
  A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints. read more
• Disease, not climate change, fueling frog decl ...
  A deadly fungus, and not climate change as is widely believed, is the primary culprit behind the rapid decline of frog populations in the Andes mountains, according to a new study published today in the journal Conservation Biology. read more
• Chimpanzees are rational, not conformists
  Chimpanzees are sensitive to social influences but they maintain their own strategy to solve a problem rather than conform to what the majority of group members are doing. However, chimpanzees do change their strategy when they can obtain greater rewards, MPI researchers found. The study was pub ...
• Study breaks blood-brain barriers to understan ...
  A study in mice shows how a breakdown of the brain's blood vessels may amplify or cause problems associated with Alzheimer's disease. The results published in Nature Communications suggest that blood vessel cells called pericytes may provide novel targets for treatments and diagnoses. read more
• Wrist fracture significantly raises risk of hi ...
  A new study presented today at the IOF Regionals 4th Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting in Hong Kong supports widespread evidence that individuals who have suffered a fracture are at significantly increased risk of subsequent hip fractures. In fact, previous studies have shown that half of patien ...

unEarthed

• Missouri Communities Pay a High Price for Lack ...
  Days before TVA spill 5-year anniversary, fight for clean water continues The Missouri river floodplain adjacent to the Ameren power plant. (Photo courtesy of LEO) ...
• Defending a Species Paradise
  Earthjustice uses the ESA to protect Hawai‘i’s many vulnerable species The Oʻahu ʻelepaio, a native flycatcher, relies on the forests that ring Mākua Valley. (Eric VanderWer ...
• Keeping Our Promise to Preserve Endangered Wil ...
  Earthjustice and our clients have made the law's promise a reality A California condor soars over the Grand Canyon. (Chris Parish / The Peregrine Fund) ...
• Navy Sonar Harms Marine Mammals
  Legislators support full examination of new science to protect whales Humpback mother and calf. (Achimdiver / Shutterstock) In November, whales and other mar ...
• Supreme Court Reviews Air Rule that Would Prev ...
  Cross-State Air Pollution Rule would yield up to $280 billion in health benefits A regional smog layer extends across central New York, western Lake Erie and Ohio, and further west. Winds b ...

Brave New Climate

• Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part III
  This is the third and final part of a comprehensive series on radiation that has been published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week — cancer… Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-n ...
• Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part II
  This is the second part of a comprehensive 3-part series on radiation that is being published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week, we look at… mutations! ———- Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, ...
• Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – P ...
  This is the first of a comprehensive new 3-part series on radiation, which will be published on BNC in weekly instalments. If you really want to distinguish science fact from science fiction on the many vexed issues surrounding radiation, including cancer risks, genetic and physical mutations, a ...
• ‘Pandora’s Promise’ document ...
  For my Australian readers, October 2013 is THE month for green energy. It’s at last time to book your tickets to see Pandora’s Promise! You can get further details at the Cinema Ventures website, here. I’ve been involved with the movie, in various small ways, for the last few y ...
• Willacy’s Fukushima
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has collections here and here. The following article was sent to ABC’s “Drum” websit ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Mortgage Repayment Calculator and Extra Mortga ...
  On the average, the typical mortgage can last from 15 to 30 years. Most of the repayments made for these mortgages go to the interest of the loan. It will only be after a couple of years before the payments actually affect the principal amount of the loan. If you’re looking for a quicker way to ...
• Thinking About a Loan? Try a Reverse Mortgage ...
  Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) remain popular with seniors interested in making the most of their home equity during retirement. While many of the requirements necessary to qualify for an HECM are clear, others are somewhat hazy. Seniors who are interested in these loans often wonder i ...
• Advantages of Tankless Water Heaters
  How typically did you are taking a shower and also the water began to run cold before you were finished? do not you hate that? With a standard warmer this is often invariably a haul. And if another person needs to use predicament when you, simply forget it! shopping for a warmer with a humble pl ...
• REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
  California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
• LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
  If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...

Republicans are a Disease

• The War Has Started And The Catholics Are On T ...
  The Koch Brothers donated a million dollars to the Catholic University of America, and some Catholics aren’t happy. We all know that the money the Kochs donate to colleges has strings (chains) attached. The Koch Brothers plan is to bribe colleges with their billions, and force these colleg ...
• What Will The TeaBaggers Do When They Finally ...
  Who knows. The 99% is starting to become fed up, both here and abroad. The “capitalist” system that only rewards those at the top that have all the capitol is crumbling. It needs to be subsidized by the ever growing slave class at ever greater levels to keep the gilded ones happy. Th ...
• Conservative Now Means Helping Billionaires An ...
  Sounds simple doesn’t it? The main thing the conservatives are fighting for is “smaller government”. They have all the mentally retarded ignorant hillbillies, you know, their base, railing against “big guvvmint”. Now here is the deal. The smaller the government is, ...
• Obamacare Rocks And Republicans Can Only Lie A ...
  Republicans are scared to death. So many people will get a better deal because of Obamacare, and many will save thousands on their health care, they are afraid Democrats will get credit for actually doing something good. You know, attempting to do something about the worst problem facing America ...
• Politico Calls Obamacare Sabotage Sabotage Too
  It isn’t just me…. Politico calls out Republican sabotage…

Appalachia Rising

• Residents Bring Dirty Water from Mountaintop R ...
  Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to … Continue reading →
• We’re Bringing Toxic Water to the EPA &# ...
  Folks have begun arriving in Washington DC for a week of meetings with the Obama Administration and lawmakers asking for protections for Appalachian water.  We have brought over 100 gallons of toxic water from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky with … Continue reading →
• Video: EPA Action May 8th!
  Join us in DC on May 8th, 2013 Join Appalachia Rising in D.C on May 8, 2013! from Zein Nakhoda on Vimeo. Please share this powerful video made by Zein Nakhoda for our EPA ACtion on Wednesday, May 8th at … Continue reading →
• May 8th: Day of Action
  Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
• More Actions in Atlanta!
  Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!

Amped Status

• ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
  Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
• Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
  Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

+972

• We shall overcome: Israel’s adherence to ...
  Israel declares itself to be a light unto the nations. It also violates 15 of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz When Israel was established, its founders made sure to emphasize, in its Declaration of Independence, the universal value ...
• Asylum seekers who left ‘open prison&#82 ...
  More than 200 African asylum seekers who deserted from an ‘open prison’ facility reach Jerusalem and are joined by supporters in a first-of-its-kind protest. Police and immigration authorities threaten to make arrests. After deserting from a so called ‘open prison‘ facili ...
• WATCH: ‘Canada Park’ built on dest ...
  Israel’s ‘Ayalon Canada Park,’ in the West Bank but abutting the Green Line, is full of cyclists and hikers enjoying the scenery and weather on any given Saturday. A visit to the park shows that few of the Israelis enjoying the trails and picnic sites know the story of the thre ...
• PHOTOS: Asylum seekers march to Jerusalem to p ...
  In a mass act of civil disobedience, over 150 Sudanese asylum seekers chose not to show up for the evening roll call Sunday night at an ‘open prison’ in Israel’s south. Instead, they set out on a march to Be’er Sheva, more than 50 kilometers (30 miles) away, where they sp ...
• For Arab citizens, Israeli government suffers ...
  Ten years after the Or Commission was formed to investigate the deaths of 13 Arabs protesters at the hands of Israeli police, the government is taking contradictory steps toward implementing its findings. By Ron Gerlitz “The earth shook during the events of October 2000.” These are the wor ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast
  A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion    
• Deeper, sharper, smarter news from New Scientist
  Short Sharp Science is no longer being updated, but our in-depth coverage of the latest breaking science and technology news will be getting even better    
• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    

Tech Drive In

• City of Munich's switch over to Linux and Open ...
  Ten years after the initial decision to switch, the LiMux project will now go into regular operation. Munich has become one of the first cities in the developed world to completely switch over to Linux and Open Source software from proprietary alternatives. The city saved millions of dollars in ...
• Bitcoin soars past US$1000 mark! Adoption spik ...
  We wrote about Bitcoin open source project when it was officially launched sometime in 2010. We did a followup article when the value of one Bitcoin hit $1 USD. And somehow I managed not to buy any during those early days (it was not easy acquiring these elusive "internet money" back then, ...
• Sputnik 3: After System76, Dell is the latest ...
  Ubuntu is finding new takers everyday. System76 was the first to introduce an Ubuntu pre-loaded touchscreen laptop. Though Dell is no stranger to Ubuntu and Linux in general, this is the first time they are showcasing a laptop running Linux equipped with a touchscreen display.  Sputnik 3: ...
• The first ever Sailfish OS powered Jolla phone ...
  Sailfish OS project was started by a group of ex-Nokia employees aimed at continuing the development of MeeGo OS. Originally the MeeGo was the result of the merger of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin projects, both Linux systems. But when Nokia decided to ditch MeeGo in favor of proprieta ...
• Ubuntu spotted in this Self Synchronizing Quad ...
  Another instance of Ubuntu being used in fields most of us are not even aware of. This video popped up on reddit a few hours ago. Skip to 01:00 to see Ubuntu in action.  Coding Motion: Synchronizing Quadcopters aka "Swarm" Seems like Ubuntu is becoming pretty ...

Vaccine Awakening

• Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is It Safe?
   posted 11/12/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher It was 1977 when I found out I was going to become a Mom. I instinctively knew I needed to be careful while I was pregnant, especially during the first two trimesters when the major organ systems of the fetus develop at a rapid rate. In the 196 ...
• 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 ...

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

• On the Ground in Turkey: Repression Gets Personal
  (Originally posted on the Facing Tear Gas website November 28th, 2013.) After the mass escalation of anti-government protest this past late May in Turkey, events there have fallen out of the headlines. But mobilization and repression continue. This past November … Continue reading →
• War Resisters League: Drop the Charges Against ...
  On the morning of October 22nd, 2013 agents of the Department of Homeland Security – acting on on behalf of federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan – arrested Rasmea Yousef Odeh, associate director of the Arab American Action … Continue reading →
• What happens when 100 SWAT teams come together?
  On Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and weapons expo called Urban Shield. … Continue reading →
• 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

Center for a Livable Future

• CLF Week in Links: FDA, Farm Bill, Shrimp and More
  Yesterday U.S. House members approved a 50-day extension of the 2008 farm bill to allow more time for conference committee negotiations on a new, five-year bill.
• When the Fish and Plants Don’t Get Along
  We constantly monitor our water quality, fish health, and plant performance to ensure that we are keeping the system balanced, but what happens when something goes wrong?
• CLF-Lerner Fellows Volunteer Day at Boone Stre ...
  The CLF-Lerner Fellows enjoyed a sunny Saturday afternoon last weekend volunteering in East Baltimore at Boone Street Farm, a small community farm.
• CLF Week in Links: Overfishing, Climate Change ...
  Students’ lunch breaks keep getting shorter—some as short as 15 minutes; the people of Millsboro, Delaware, are trying to prevent an enormous chicken processing plant from moving into town; oil companies are budgeting to pay for carbon, but Koch Industries is fighting it.
• Giving Thanks to Our Food Workers
  Most food workers toil under the poverty line. These conditions are unlivable and the consequences extend from workers to the health of 20 million worker families. Or, the very things, each Thanksgiving, we say we cherish most.

k2p blog

• German football team builds its own resort in ...
  Unable to find a suitable location to set up shop in Brazil during the upcoming 2014 World Cup, the German football team has decided to simply build its own. The remote beachside camp will "help minimize strain" on players.
• The end of the Universe is nigh and getting closer
  It may not be the classic Big Crunch which will negate the Big Bang but it could be a phase transition which will cause the entire Universe and all its galaxies and all their suns and all their planets to collapse in on themselves.
• Waves of aging
  The aging waves across the world's populations.
• Chang’e 3′s Jade Bunny begins gamb ...
  Chang'e 3 landed on the moon on Saturday and her Jade Bunny has now started gambolling on the moon
• You are not just your genes, you are how they ...
  Is the importance of the gene as the driver of evolution being overplayed? So it seems to me that it is perfectly logical that a set of genes only describe and define an envelope of possibilities. It is gene expression which then - reacting to environmental or other triggers - determines the p ...

Left Foot Forward

• The international community must not cut and r ...
  The UK must assist in the effort to bring communal peace and aid to the Central African Republic.
• Crisis in the skies: China, Japan, the US and ...
  Japan’s refusal to accept that the islands are disputed rules out negotiations leaving China little option.
• The unbanked are increasingly excluded from ma ...
  In the UK 12 per cent of people do not have access to a bank account.
• DUP rejects Haass proposals
  The DUP Leader and Northern Ireland first minister has given a hostile reaction to draft proposals drawn up by the US diplomat, Richard Haass, on flags, parades and legacy issues.
• The man who wasn’t actually arrested for ...
  In a shocking disregard for freedom of expression, Neil Phillips from Rugeley, Staffordshire, was arrested last week after he made tasteless jokes about Nelson Mandela on the internet. Or was he?

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

• Edward Snowden: “NSA Surveillance Is Abo ...
  By Edward Snowden 17 December, 2013 [Countercurrents.org published this note introducing Edward Snowden's open letter to the people of Brazil. "This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Gree ...
• US Public Radio interview with Arundhati Roy
  Smiley and West, NPR — December 13, 2013 West: From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West. Smiley: And in Los Angeles I’m Tavis Smiley. West: Brother Tavis, we are blessed to have one of the great and courageous intellectuals of our time. She is Arundhati ...
• US Public Radio interview with Arundhati Roy
  Smiley and West, NPR — December 13, 2013 West: From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West. Smiley: And in Los Angeles I’m Tavis Smiley. West: Brother Tavis, we are blessed to have one of the great and courageous intellectuals of our time. She is Arundhati ...
• India: Revolutionary Students Challenge the He ...
  Democratic Student Union, Jawaharlal Nehru University — December 14, 2013 Nelson Mandela: A Hero for the oppressors, A BETRAYER FOR THE OPPRESSED! The mournings & praises from the imperialists and their agents, are Mandela’s “legacy” of brokering one of the biggest sell outs of the 20t ...
• India: Revolutionary Students Challenge the He ...
  Democratic Student Union, Jawaharlal Nehru University — December 14, 2013 Nelson Mandela: A Hero for the oppressors, A BETRAYER FOR THE OPPRESSED! The mournings & praises from the imperialists and their agents, are Mandela’s “legacy” of brokering one of the biggest sell outs of the 20t ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Former US Marine: President Obama should be tr ...
  I am confident that at some point the American patriots, who seem to be in a bit of a coma and have been sleeping for a long time, are going to wake up soon and realize that when they took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US, the president of the US also took that oath and has breached ...
• 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.

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

• The Maya were right about 2012 (possibly?)
  For a long time now, I have figured that the major possibilities for a scientific prediction from the ancient Maya (or their predecessors) was either a massive solar storm (via noticing patterns in low-latitude auroras) or the return of a long-period comet. Following a 2012-recap interview over ...
• 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 ...

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

• Sudan's Economies Suffering due to US Support ...
• 'Struggle Is My Life': A Look at Mandela's Legacy
• Foreign Forces Need to Stop Fueling Violence i ...
• Will Iran's Landmark Nuclear Deal be Torpedoed ...
• West's Praise for Mandela is Based On Its Own ...

Daily Tech

• Top Microsoft Graphics Genius Defects to Google
  The developer of Seadragon Photosynth, and Bing Maps Augment Reality will join machine learning group     
• Microsoft Wins "Synchronized Calendar" Patent ...
  Motorola Mobility couldn't prove the Microsoft patent was similar to technology used in an old Apple personal assistant     
• Google Testing Smart Thermostat in St. Louis
  It wants to collect data to build applications and services that will ultimately make the energy grid more efficient     
• San Francisco's Market Street Receives Free Ou ...
  You can find it under the name "_San_Francisco_Free_WiFi"     
• President Barack Obama Meeting with Tech Leade ...
  The administration wants to partner with the tech sector to address certain problems     

Oriental Review

• Ukraine: NATO’s Eastern Prize
  Ever since the democracy manipulation efforts of international hedge fund brigand George Soros were joined with the artificial street revolution tactics of CIA tactician Gene Sharp to form the core strategy of the U.S. neo-conservative goal of imposing a «New American Century» on the entire worl ...
• Does the EU really want Ukrainians or just the ...
  Christine Stone asks whether the current crisis over the Ukraine’s relationship with the EU was precipitated by the West rather than President Yanukovich.  Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the demonstrations that have crippled central Kiev for the past fortnight is how they were triggered. ...
• U.S. Role in Global Drug Trafficking
  ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a briefing of the series of articles by Konstantin Penzev recently posted by the New Eastern Outlook (here, here and here). He carefully reviews the sources of the global narco-culture tracking back to the clandestine experiments done in the military laboratories of the ...
• Defeated By The Taliban, Washington Decides To ...
  What are the Ukrainian protests about? On the surface, the protests don’t make sense. The Ukrainian government made the correct decision to stay out of the EU. Ukraine’s economic interests lie with Russia, not with the EU. This is completely obvious. The EU wants Ukraine to join so that Ukraine ...
• CNN Censors Interview of the Russian UN Envoy ...
  On Tuesday the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin was interviewed by the CNN host Christiane Amanpour on the Syrian and Iranian issues. The full text of the interview was published on the web-site of the Russian mission to the UN. Surprisingly, several key Q&As were me ...

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

• Catholic church opens Commission hearing with ...
  Last week survivors, many of whom had travelled long distances, crowded into the hearing room for the historic first Royal Commission hearing into how the Catholic Church handles child sexual abuse. Many lasted only until the well paid Church lawyer first opened his mouth. What emerged was so of ...
• Truth, Justice and Healing comes not from a Co ...
  Survivors in Australia are waking up this week to a different world. A world where those in positions of authority do not look the other way, shrug their shoulders and callously ignore the fact of the criminal child rape of children, the criminal coverup of those crimes and the ongoing re-abuse ...
• Victims Heard at Last
  Statement issued by survivors of Catholic child sexual abuse, their families and supporters on the first day of Royal Commission hearings into the catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse: The children of Australia have long been denied our basic human right to safety. In order to ...
• Inquiry Asked “What Does Justice Look Like?” I ...
  Survivors of child sexual abuse in religious institutions in Australia were very nervous and excited with the imminent release of the final report of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. We have been betrayed by those in authority so uniformly throughout our entire lives. We have seen those dete ...
• RIP Father Kevin Lee – a disobedient pri ...
  The sad news is filtering through about the death of Father Kevin Lee in last week’s massive typhoon in the Philippines. This was no doubt a very great tragedy for his friends and especially his young family, with whom he had spent so little time. Kevin saw his daughter Michelle born in la ...

WL Central

• 2013-12-17 Snowden to Seek Asylum in Brazil
  NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently living in Russia, has agreed to cooperate with Brazil in investigating the actions of the notorious US signals surveillance agency, and is asking political asylum from Brazil in return. read more
• 2013-12-16 Snowden: An Open Letter to the Peop ...
  Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera. I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk ...
• 2013-11-29 WikiLeaks Calls for US to Drop Gran ...
  Friday 29 November 2013, 12:00 GMT In the face of the US government's three-year attack on WikiLeaks, an anonymous Department of Justice official talking to the Washington Post now claims that there is little possibility of prosecuting Julian Assange for publishing, but that a Grand Jury remains ...
• 2013-11-29 Assange Statement on Anakata Extrad ...
  Statement by WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange concerning Sweden's extradition of WikiLeaks consultant Gottfrid "Anakata" Svartholm Warg: "It is time someone says it like it is: Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is a political prisoner and Sweden has fallen off the map of decent nations in its treatment ...
• 2013-11-15 Jeremy Hammond Sentencing Statement
  Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Jeremy Hammond and I'm here to be sentenced for hacking activities carried out during my involvement with Anonymous. I have been locked up at MCC for the past 20 months and have had a lot of time to think about how I would explain my actio ...

U N News

• UN rights expert urges Bahamas to boost effort ...
  Voicing concern over the lack of a national action plan by the Bahamas to address trafficking in persons, an independent United Nations human rights expert called on the Government to ramp up its efforts to fight the ongoing problem.
• Condemning murder of Honduran journalist, UNES ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the killing of Juan Carlos Argeñal Medina, who was shot dead in his home in southeastern Honduras.
• Uruguay's move to legalize cannabis endangers ...
  Amid growing debate over international drug control policy in Latin America, the United Nations drug and crime agency today said that a decision by the Uruguayan parliament to legalize cannabis is a strike against international cooperation.
• UN rights experts concerned about fate of Guan ...
  Two independent United Nations human rights experts have voiced concern about the fate of Djamel Ameziane, who was recently transferred by the United States from the Guantánamo Bay detention centre to Algeria, from which he fled two decades ago to escape persecution.
• UN refugee agency urges Dominican Republic to ...
  Voicing deep concern over a ruling that renders countless Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged the Dominican Government to rapidly restore the nationality of those affected.

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

• Yendegaia National Park Created!
  YENDEGAIA National Park Created! Original post: 2013/12/12:  Tompkins Conservation 370,000 Wild Acres in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego via a Joint Collaboration: Piñera-Tompkins DECEMBER 12, 2013— In Tierra del Fuego—the southernmost extreme of the Americas—Chile will gain a spectacular new nat ...
• Why Wolves? – David Parsons
  A few weeks ago Dave Parsons, TRI’s Carnivore Conservation Biologist,  gave a lecture in Santa Fe for a program called Science Cafe for Young Thinkers sponsored by the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. The lecture is about wolf ecology and trophic cascades explained at a high school level.
• Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Proposed for Fede ...
  Your comments are due by December 2, 2013 Please let the US Fish and Wildlife Service know that you value the yellow-billed cuckoo and want it protected! On October 3, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo as ...
• Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
  Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...
• Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
  Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...

reference frame

• Useless or harmful: hand soap, vitamin pills, ...
  Today, the news outlets are full of reports that some "common supplements" of the modern life that are believed to aid our health are claimed to be useless if not harmful. I will mention three independent major stories: FDA against anti-bacterial soaps Papers against vitamin pills Paper counting ...
• For uncertainty principle, against philosophy
  Scott Aaronson was asked five questions about the "progress in philosophy". In this text, I will replace his talkative nonsensical answers by the concise and correct ones and clarify some of his minuderstandings of quantum mechanics, too. OK, the first question is: 1. Why are you so interested ...
• Real-time global wind map
  I just saw an amazing tweet by Pakistani string theorist Amer Iqbal (whom I know from Harvard) and you have to see it: Real-time global wind map (earth.nullschool.net) It's beautiful, fast, and hopefully accurate. Using the usual gestures (dragging with the left mouse button, mouse wheel et ...
• Tycho Brahe: birthday
  Today, the Google Doodle Booble reminds us of Tycho Brahe: His name has appeared in nine TRF blog posts so this is the tenth one. Tycho Brahe was born on December 14th, 1546, to a top-tier aristocratic family in Scania, Denmark (now South Sweden). He would attend a Latin school (age: 6-12 ye ...
• North Korea reminded us what an undivided left ...
  Most events in North Korea are sad and the latest ones are no exception. Recall that the communist regime was founded by Kim 1 (1912-1994), the eternal president, who was followed by his son Kim 2 (1941-2011). After his death, his young son Kim 3 (1983-hopefully_soon) took the power and he's sh ...

Tatumba 2.0

• You Will Not Blunt My Sword
  First, watch this video. This was submitted to me via a comment on “The Barrel Will Be Hot” that I will quote here, so we all know what is being discussed before I offer my rebuttal below. This is an important time in the movement, but there is some confusion as to what we are [&#823 ...
• Ritalin and other pills for ADHD tied to painf ...
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that a stimulant used in treatments for the childhood condition attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder can trigger painful, long-lasting erections in rare cases. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. ...
• Eyewitness to Hitler Warns: “Keep Your Guns an ...
  Editor’s Note: The warning signs are everywhere. History has shown us exactly what happens to the citizenry of nations who are disarmed by their governments. The comparisons between Nazi-controlled Austria and a socialist-controlled America are frightening. But this time it’s differe ...
• The NSA uses ’60 Minutes’ for PR
  from BoomBustRT: This week may prove to be an explosive one for the financial markets, given the possibility that the Fed may finally begin to pull back on its $ 85 billion a month bond buying program. We’ll tell you about it. Plus, why are some nations prosperous while others struggle? Is ...
• McLaren aims to eliminate windshield wipers fr ...
  Some high-end sports cars may soon come without windshield wipers, relying instead on fighter-jet technology to keep their windshields clear. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: McLaren aims to eliminate windshield wipers from cars S ...

Modern Survivalism

• Do You Need Hot Water To Wash Your Hands And K ...
  Keeping hands clean is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of infection and illness. Chances are that what you think you know about hand washing… might be wrong…   During cold and flu season, people are especially concerned about germs, and avoiding them. People in the Un ...
• Why Do People Always Look At Their Smart Phone?
  People drift into their own little world and zone-out when they are engaged with their smart-phone — completely ignoring what is going on around them. Absorbed device users are oblivious to danger. In fact, it can even kill you, like it did to this young man…   Security video fo ...
• Home Security Systems That Cost Less
  Home security systems could be thought of as a group of burglar deterrent methods-products working all together to provide overall home security. Most often, we think of home security systems as alarm systems. Another way to go about it could be to simply add a number of preventative deterrents ...
• 15 Tips For Staying Safe While Out Shopping
  Burglars know that shoppers are out shopping during the holiday season, and look for easy targets and vulnerabilities to exploit. Here are a few common-sense tips to reduce the odds of becoming a victim…   1. Eliminate any signs that you are gone. Make your house look like you are hom ...
• Winter Storm Preparedness
  When there are forecasts of a winter storm bearing down on you, remember this… BEFORE the winter storm hits, check the following winter weather preparedness items for your home and your vehicle…   This short list should be a general reminder of things for you to think about BEFO ...

Fast Company

• Candy Crush And Minecraft Killed It On Apple's ...
  When it comes to top iPhone and iPad apps, it looks like we all like to play a little game.As part of its annual review of iTunes sales, Apple has revealed the top apps for its iOS devices, separated into free apps and paid apps.Read Full Story     
• A New Pursuit-of-Happiness Index For College Grads
  What if we judged colleges by how engaged, successful, and purposeful their graduates are?Student debt is at a new all-time high of $29,400 per graduate. President Obama wants colleges to be held accountable for the net value of their degrees, but the higher education leadership is balking at be ...
• This "Standing Classroom" Gives Students Stand ...
  Students will be able to stand or sit at their adjustable desks as part of a study to see how more physical activity improves learning and decreases idleness.As more and more evidence suggests that sitting all day is slowly killing both our bodies and our productivity, one group of students in M ...
• Publicis CEO Maurice Levy Is Back With Another ...
  This video uses facial recognition technology to count viewers instead of views.The holiday season is upon us and that means Publicis has trotted out CEO Maurice Lévy in a YouTube project to impress and delight us all.Read Full Story     
• Computers That Feel And Think: An IBM Scientis ...
  Last year, IBM's Bernard Meyerson forecasted that computers will develop the ability to see, smell, and even hear in 5 years. How are we doing on that?Predictions about the future are a dime a dozen. But how often do we look back and see whether a forecast was on the mark?Read Full Story  & ...

Jadaliyya

• Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 17)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
• Turkey Media Roundup (December 17)
  English AKP-Gulen Community War Two Axes Clash in Turkish Politics Murat Yetkin comments on the jeopardization of the peace process after the killing of two civilians in Yüksekova, and the escalating tension between the AKP and the Gülen movement. The Need for a Truly Secular State Mustafa ...
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• برافر لم يمر حتى إشعار آخر
  عمت الفرحة الخميس الماضي، 12 من ديسمبر 2013، صفوف الفلسطينيين عقب إعلان الحكومة الإسرائيلية تراجعها عن عرض مشروع قانون ”برافر- بيغن“ للتصويت عليه لقراءة ثانية في البرلمان الإسرائيلي. وكان مشروع القرار قد حصل على مصادقة أوليّة (قراءة أولى) في السادس والعشرين من يونيو/حزيران 2013.(1)   ...
• الصراع على المكان المديني: حوار مع ديفد هارفي
  لماذا تهم الصراعات المدينية في مشاريع التغيّر الاجتماعي؟ ما أهمية استعادة المكان العام في الحركات الاجتماعية؟ كيف نعيد التفكير بما هو ممكن في هذه اللحظة العالمية المظلمة من التفاوتات المدينية الحادّة واللامساواة الاجتماعية؟ من أجل أجوبة عميقة لهذه الأسئلة، أجرينا مقابلة مع ديفد هارفي David  ...

mediagazer

• Rafat Ali to join Investigative News Network B ...
  Lisa Williams / Investigative News Network: Rafat Ali to join Investigative News Network Board  —  Entrepreneur Rafat Ali is joining the board of the Investigative News Network.  Ali, who is currently the CEO of Skift, a media startup that covers the travel & leisure in ...
• Despite rise of Android tablets, Google still ...
  Arjun Narayan / Guardian: Despite rise of Android tablets, Google still isn't serving magazine publishers  —  Opinion: Google must do more to help magazine publishers if digital editions are to flourish on the Android platform  —  This year, Android-powered table ...
• Continuing Its Public Content Push, Facebook A ...
  Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: Continuing Its Public Content Push, Facebook Acquires SportStream  —  Twitter may still be synonymous with real-time, in-the-moment discussion.  But that's hardly stopping Facebook from moving in on the territory.  —  Natch, Facebook ...
• YouTube Channel Now Playing on Roku (Todd Span ...
  Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube Channel Now Playing on Roku  —  After three years of wrangling, Roku and YouTube have finally come to terms on a pact that will add access to the No. 1 Internet video site to the latest generation of the Roku set-top boxes.  —  Th ...
• Turkish journalist believed kidnapped in Syria ...
  Associated Press: Turkish journalist believed kidnapped in Syria … ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish newspaper says one of its photographers has been kidnapped in Syria by groups linked to al-Qaida.  —  Milliyet newspaper said Tuesday that 43-year-old photographer Bunyamin ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

• Bollywood dance is very popular: Shiamak ...
  Shiamak Davar brought contemporary dance in our country a few decades back and then Indianised it to make it acceptable and even popular in both Bollyood and stage. Shiamak Davar takes...
• Katrina Kaif’s journey in Bollywood
  After a less than desirable Bollywood debut in the fashion-meets-the-underworld themed Boom, it looks like Katrina Kaif will have the last laugh with Dhoom 3 SHE FAMOUSLY MADE her Bollywood debut in Kaizad Gustad’s skin flick Boom back in 2003. The film may have bombed at the box offic ...
• Aircraft crash in Afghanistan kills 6 NAT ...
  Comment () Tweet KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says six service members have died in an aircraft crash in southern Afghanistan, in an area where there was no fighting reported at the time. The alliance says in a statement the crash occurred on Tuesday and that it's under investigation ...
• Obama's top economic aide postpones move ...
  (Reuters) - President 's top economic aide is postponing his departure from the for a month...
• Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story
  Two years ago, on a gorgeous November day, 12,000 activists surrounded the White House to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Signs we carried featured quotes from Barack Obama in 2008: "Time to end the tyranny of oil"; "In my administration, the rise of the oceans will begin to slow. ...

no frakking consensus

• Doubting is Thinking – a Blog from Spain
  In California, low-income car buyers are subsidizing the top 1% who purchase Tesla electric vehicles.
• IPCC Called a ‘Global Thinker of 2013′
  The editors of Foreign Policy magazine inhabit a fairy tale world of planet-saving superheroes and wicked climate deniers.
• Polar Bear Politics and the WWF
  Norway sent eight people to a recent polar bear conference. The WWF sent 10.
• IPCC Officials Keen to Remake the World
  UN climate panel leaders don't behave in a "policy-neutral, never policy-prescriptive" manner.
• Does the IPCC Do Science?
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes itself as a "scientific body." Where in its multi-year, multi-thousand-page bureaucratic report-writing process is science actually practiced?

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

• 12/3/13 - Would Repealing the 1945 Antitrust E ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Would Repealing the 1945 Antitrust Exemption for Health Insurance Companies Lower Premiums? - DEBATED - Read statements from the Congressional Budget Office (Not Clearly Pro or Con), Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) (Pro), David A. Hyman, Professor of Medicine at th ...
• 11/18/13 - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacture ...
  vaccines.procon.org Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer Information - With the start of flu season, find the ingredients for all of the 2013-2014 flu vaccines in addition to the ingredients and manufacturer information for 30 other types of vaccines from Adenovirus to Zoster.
• 11/18/13 - Does Obamacare Allow People to Keep ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Does Obamacare Allow People to Keep Their Current Coverage? - DEBATED - See estimates on how many people have received health insurance policy cancellations due to non-compliance with the Affordable Care Act; read President Obama's Nov. 14 announcement about these ...
• 11/13/13 - Health Care Stocks: Performance und ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Stocks: Performance under Obamacare - The charts and graphs in this resource show the average stock price increase of the top 10 largest health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device companies from Mar. 23, 2010 (the day the Af ...
• 11/12/13 - 10 Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Ca ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 10 Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Cannabis - Read about pharmaceutical drugs that contain chemicals directly from marijuana (Sativex), synthetic versions of chemicals found in marijuana (Marinol), chemicals similar to those found in marijuana (Nabilone, Dexanabi ...

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

• US orders citizens out of Sudan as violence co ...
  The US has ordered its citizens to leave South Sudan immediately due to intense fighting in the capital.
• Russian bailout of Ukraine fuels huge protests
  Russia's agreement to help cash-strapped Ukraine has renewed street protests in Kiev.
• British official accuses Syria of murdering doctor
  A British Foreign Office official says Syria effectively murdered a UK doctor held in custody.
• 'I am not in court because I am afraid' - Aman ...
  "I didn't plot. I didn't kill Meredith," Knox declares in email to court.
• Twin girls saw Sydney dad gunned down
  A man was shot dead in front of his six-year-old twin girls in Sydney's inner-west.

environment 360

• Australian Coal Projects Threatened by Drop i ...
  Major Australian coal projects risk losing value due to falling demand from China, where leaders are increasingly concerned about growing public anger over severe air pollution, a new analysis from Oxford University has found. Future coal mining projects are vulnerable to being "stranded" by a r ...
• Volume of E-Waste Projected to Soar by 2017, S ...
  The volume of electronic waste generated worldwide is expected to climb by 33 percent by 2017 to 65 million tons, according to a study conducted by a partnership of United Nations organizations, industry, governments, and scientists. So many computers, televisions, mobile phones, and other de ...
• Singapore Takes the Lead In Green Building in Asia
  By encouraging the adoption of innovative architectural design and energy-saving technologies, Singapore has emerged as a model of green building in Asia — an important development in a region that is urbanizing more rapidly than any other in the world. BY MIKE IVES
• U.S. Energy Department Invests in Small-Scale ...
  Small, nearly meltdown-proof nuclear reactors are receiving a big boost from the U.S. Department of Energy. The department will give a company in Corvallis, Oregon, as much as $226 million to develop so-called "small modular reactors," which can be used with many local power grids that can't ac ...
• In South Africa, Renewables Vie With the Polit ...
  Although coal has dominated the South African electricity sector for decades, the country’s abundant solar and wind resources offer a promising renewable energy alternative. But entrenched political interests connected to the ruling party are fighting to expand coal’s role in the national econom ...

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

• Five Books for Ocean Lovers
  The holiday shopping season is almost over, and you’re probably still searching for a few last-minute gifts. We’re here to help with five must-read books for ocean-lovers on your gift list.    Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food By Paul Greenburg
• Renewing Ship Speed Rule Will Help Right Whales
  (Photo: MyFWC Research) After centuries of whaling, the North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered species in the U.S. and the rarest of all the large whales. Only 450-500 whales remain, and deaths from ship strikes are hindering their recovery.
• Stand Up for the Deep
  (Photo: Oceana in Europe) Deep ocean species grow slowly and produce few offspring, making them very vulnerable to overfishing. But the European Union fleet in the North-East Atlantic fishes down to depths of 1,500 meters, using bottom-fishing gear that destroys thousand-year-old corals and s ...
• Creature Feature: Polar Bear
  (Photo: Ansgar Walk) We’re sure you’re already familiar with the polar bear: a perennial favorite of zoo-goers, Coke commercials,­ and a poster-child for climate change. But we think these big white bears deserve a second look. (Photo: Alex Berger)
• Creature Feature: Atlantic Puffin
  (Photo: nigel_appleton) Fantastic coloring and undeniable charm makes the Atlantic puffin one of the most popular and recognizable seabird species—but there’s a lot more to these sturdy birds than you’d first expect.  

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

• Japan adopts new security strategy to counter ...
  Japan on Tuesday adopted a new national security strategy, pledging to beef up defenses against an increasingly assertive China to protect its territory, as Prime ...
• Lithuania, Poland concerned about deployment o ...
  Concerns grow over signals that Russia has deployed state-of-the-art missiles in a territory that borders the NATO countries.
• Jang killing dents myth of North united under Kim
  North Korea's propaganda machine has long kept alive the myth of a serene, all-powerful ruling dynasty that enjoyed universal love and support at home. In ...
• Court ruling slams NSA snooping, but long road ...
  A federal judge declares that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records is likely unconstitutional, but even he realizes his ...
• Stastny, Avs clobber Stars
  Paul Stastny was slumping and frustrated with his scoring drought. Facing the Dallas Stars helped clear that up for the Colorado Avalanche center. Stastny scored twice and ...

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

• Need to know: Iraqi death tolls should get our ...
  Ninety-two people died in several bombings and shootings yesterday
• Year Zero: A History of 1945
  By Ian Baruma
• Wilson
  By A. Scott Berg
• My Ghosts
  By Mary Swan
• Tudors: The History of England of Henry VIII t ...
  By Peter Ackroyd

Making It Count - CCPA

• What do we know about job vacancies in Canada?
  The most recent Jobs Vacancy statistics are out, and the trend for 2013 so far has been a reduction in the number of job vacancies reported by businesses compared to 2012. The number of job vacancies reported by businesses fell by 41,000 between September 2012 and September 2013, so that even th ...
• Saying no to the conjurers’ trick of tax cuts
  Alex Himelfarb has had an impressive career in public service. A former professor, author and diplomat, he is probably best known for his service as clerk of the Privy Council for Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, and, briefly, Stephen Harper. His most recent accomplishment is “Tax is Not a Four Lette ...
• Cutting Canada Post: It’s About More Than Mail
  I admit it—I probably don’t use the post office as often as I could. But there’s no doubt I appreciate that it’s there when we all need it, regardless of our socioeconomic situation or location. I also appreciate the fact that it provides good, steady, well-paid employment with benefits to so ma ...
• Canada Post’s vow to ‘protect taxpayers’ needs ...
  This piece was first published in the Globe & Mail. In a move that caught everyone off-guard, Canada Post announced a five point “action plan” last week that included phasing-out home delivery of the mail over the next five years, making Canada the only G7 nation to do so. Why? To “protect t ...
• Canada Post: A Billion-Dollar Boondoggle?
  One of the most frequently repeated claims in coverage of yesterday’s Canada Post announcement is that the Crown corporation is on track to lose a billion dollars annually by the decade’s end. This apprehended threat to taxpayers supposedly justifies the complete elimination of door-to-door mail ...

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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• Russia Warns of Nuclear Response to US Global ...
  A senior government minister warned Wednesday that Russia could retaliate with a nuclear strike if a new US military strategy threatened its security. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that Russia was “preparing a response” to plans by the United States to develop a new fast-strike weapo ...
• EU-approved ‘safe’ air pollution levels causin ...
  Air pollution in the European Union is causing premature deaths even when levels meet quality guidelines, a report has shown. Even in areas where pollution was much lower than the limit, scientists found there is a higher-than-normal risk of death. The study, published the British Medical Associ ...
• China-Japan Conflict Could Lead to World War I ...
  Former Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Sha Zukang has warned that the dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands could lead to World War III. CIting a Chinese-language piece written by Zukang for the the pro-regime Global Times, a report in the China Times says that Zukang ...
• South Korea Unveils It’s Own Air Defense Zone, ...
  South Korea has officially announced that it will expand its air defense identification zone, making it partially overlap those of Japan and China. South Korea’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the expansion will go into effect on December 15th. The move comes after China established ...
• Riots break out in Singapore. Think your count ...
  Mohamed Bouazizi. It’s not a name that means much to most people. But you’ll recall his story. Frustrated with the absurd amount of regulation and corruption that prevented him from being able to put food on the table for his family, Bouazizi was the 26-year old Tunisian fruit merchant that set ...

Daily Dose

• Apple will require all new apps to be optimize ...
  Apple has told developers that all apps submitted to the App Store — be they new releases or merely updates – must be optimized for iOS 7 by February 1. A note... Keep reading →
• Rocksmith 2014 review: Learning to play the gu ...
  Ubisoft’s new Rocksmith 2014 Edition may be a game, but it’s also a covert masterpiece in music education that can legitimately teach you to play the guitar and help you... Keep reading →
• Facebook acquires social sports data startup S ...
  Facebook has announced the acquisition of SportStream, a startup focused on tracking and surfacing sports-related social content, news and statistics, as noted by AllThingsD. Justin Osofsky, Facebook’s VP of Media... Keep reading →
• What’s the big deal with big data? Break ...
  Jeff Anaya is part of the marketing team with Viralheat, the social media marketing suite for business. Big Data is one of the latest phenomenon to hit tech news. This is... Keep reading →
• Google Glass firmware update adds screen lock, ...
  Google has updated its Glass project to firmware version XE12, adding a screen lock feature, YouTube uploading, and the ability to wink to take a photo. Early code for the... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• The bloody-minded Banjos keepin' carbon in our air
  Stephen Bygrave, Climate Spectator Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about average household expenditure show how repeal of the carbon price cannot save households very much. Why not? Because households don't spend very much on power. For a house that is struggling to pay all i ...
• High-speed rail network $30 billion cheaper th ...
  ABC Lateline - by environment and science reporter Jake Sturmer A comprehensive new study investigating east coast high-speed rail argues that it could be $30 billion cheaper than first thought and pay itself off entirely within 40 years. The rail debate is back on track, with the Federal Gove ...
• Regular investment key to upgrading PT and cur ...
  Media release, 20 November 2013 A budgeted annual investment of $1.74 billion would build the comprehensive rail network upgrade and expansion proposed by Public Transport Victoria, according to a study released today by environmental think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “To deliver the PTV rail ...
• Cut emissions and save on household bills
  From BEAM blog  Seymour and surrounds can reduce their carbon emissions to zero with four simple steps. Trent Hawkins, Project Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, will talk about how this can be done at the Energy Futures Forum in Seymour on November 16. Energy Futures Fo ...
• Energy freedom on or off the grid?
  By Ben Courtice. Chain Reaction #119, Nov 2013 It's long been a favoured wish of many environmentalists to go off the grid, to be self-sufficient in energy and other services, and avoid the corporate utilities and their coal-powered electricity. The ambition for freedom from energy bills and f ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Canada's biggest logger loses eco-certification
  Resolute Forest Products, the largest industrial logging company in Canada, suffered a major setback this week when the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) revoked three certifications for the forestry giant. According to Greenpeace, the company lost its certification in Quebec and Ontario due to s ...
• New Guinea animals losing vital tree cavities ...
  Across New Guinea, deforestation is occurring at increasing levels. Whether it be industrial logging, monoculture plantations, hunters felling trees in pursuit of arboreal wildlife, or other forms of forest conversion, deforestation is depleting not only forest carbon stocks and understory envir ...
• Democratizing forest monitoring on a global scale
  Efforts to map and analyze deforestation and forest degradation got a boost today when Stanford University announced a new online course that provides training on how to use advance forest monitoring software. The course, which is freely available via Stanford University Online Learning, could i ...
• Scientists make one of the biggest animal disc ...
  In what will likely be considered one of the biggest (literally) zoological discoveries of the Twenty-First Century, scientists today announced they have discovered a new species of tapir in Brazil and Colombia. The new mammal, hidden from science but known to local indigenous tribes, is actuall ...
• Asian elephants depend on shifting cultivation ...
  Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) have co-existed with human practices for thousands of years, including shifting cultivation. Shifting agriculture encompasses a variety of different practices that involve abandoning plots for periods of time to allow natural vegetation to grow. The practice con ...

Sierra Express

• Vacancy – Country Director, Sierra Leone
  LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL SIERRA LEONE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Living Water International exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience “water for life in Jesus’ name” – the gospel of Jesus Christ – which alone satisfies the ...
• Tottenham Sack Andre Villas-Boas
  On the plus side, AVB will have some time off over Christmas… On Sunday, Tottenham capitulated for the second time in five Premier League matches to be on the wrong end of a heavy defeat, this time losing 5-0 to Liverpool, just a few weeks after their 6-0 thrashing at the Etihad Stadium against ...
• Fuel crisis hits Makeni
  Makeni, Sierra Leone – It is getting worrisome in the northern city over the alleged shortage of fuel and its inflated cost, which seriously borders around the high cost of transportation movement from within and around the northern city and its immediate surroundings over the last couple ...
• UNIMAK takes education to another level
  The University of Makeni (UNIMAK) was established as an institution in 2005 by Bishop Emeritus George Biguzzi and Reverend Father Professor Joe Turay.  It was established as an institution that can provide the academic platform to enable Sierra Leoneans reflect on the reality of their nation, es ...
• Human Rights Commission, FAO partner on food s ...
  The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization of Sierra Leone has jointly launched the Business and Human Rights Monitoring tool and Voluntary Guidelines of responsible governance of Land Tenure, Fisheries and Forest. The ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• World dairy prices up again overnight (+graphic)
  Fitch Ratings has praised Fonterra Cooperative Group's decision to hold the forecast payout to farmers and slashing its dividend by two-thirds amid a growing gap in prices between milk powders and its cheese and casein products. The...
• Product mix big call for Fonterra
  Fonterra's top executives will have plenty to think about early next year when they devise the co-operative's next three-year business plan.Uppermost in their minds will be the rampant demand for milk powder, particularly from Fonterra's...
• UK butter eaters lose taste for Anchor after d ...
  British shoppers have noticed that their favourite Anchor butter tastes different - with the explanation being it's no longer from New Zealand.In Britain, the famous Kiwi brand is used by European dairy company Arla. Until recently,...
• Dairy lift adds to interest pressures
  Export commodity prices have joined the housing market and the exchange rate in the front row of drivers of the interest rate outlook."How much and how quickly interest rates rise will depend on what happens to the exchange rate,...
• Fonterra price slump on dividend cut
  Fonterra's unit price slumped by 60 cents or almost 10 per cent after the co-operative warned of a big cut in its dividend and a sharp drop in its earnings for the current year.But by late morning the units, which offer investors...

Hit & Run | Reason

• What Government’s Being Accused of Serial Pate ...
  It’s not China, often accused of IP and copyright piracy, and used as a stalking horse by politicians seeking to push through legislation to control internet security. Fox News finds several companies accusing various agencies of the federal government of stealing software and oth ...
• Ronald Bailey on Vaccines and the Responsibili ...
  Education and the incentives of the market have encouraged lots of Americans to get themselves and their children vaccinated. Surely those avenues of persuasion have not been exhausted and should be used more. Perhaps schools and daycare centers could attract clients by advertising t ...
• No Entrepreneurs, Please; We're French
  CNet's Stephen Shankland has the interesting story of encounters at international tech entrepreneurship conference, LeWeb, between start-up business people and Arnaud Montebourg, France's minister for industrial renewal. Specifically, entrepreneurs compared their experiences in ...
• Gene Healy Says David Brooks' Paean to Preside ...
  For four years running, Gene Healy has closed the holiday season with a column saying “bah, humbug” to the year's worst op-eds. Christmas came early this year, thanks to perennial contender David Brooks. In Thursday's New York Times, Brooks offered a bold panacea for the problems of ...
• French Foreign Minister: Other European Countr ...
  French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said that troops from other European nations will be taking part in the intervention in the Central African Republic. During a radio interview last Sunday, Fabius said that logistical support for the U.N.-backed mission was already being su ...

Mercury Rising

• Belying His Current “Reasonable” P ...
  While the rest of the US news media touts the myth of a newly “reasonable” Paul Ryan, when he’s chatting with his fellow Republicans on FOX News he’s still the same old hold-the-debt-limit-hostage guy he was back in October: WALLACE: Sir, I understand, but the question is ...
• Belying His Current “Reasonable” P ...
  While the rest of the US news media touts the myth of a newly “reasonable” Paul Ryan, when he’s chatting with his fellow Republicans on FOX News he’s still the same old hold-the-debt-limit-hostage guy he was back in October: WALLACE: Sir, I understand, but the question is ...
• More tension in international waters off China
  Reuters: A US guided missile cruiser operating in international waters in the South China Sea was forced to take evasive action last week to avoid a collision with a Chinese warship, the US Pacific Fleet has revealed. The USS Cowpens had been operating in the vicinity of China’s only aircr ...
• More tension in international waters off China
  Reuters: A US guided missile cruiser operating in international waters in the South China Sea was forced to take evasive action last week to avoid a collision with a Chinese warship, the US Pacific Fleet has revealed. The USS Cowpens had been operating in the vicinity of China’s only aircr ...
• USA Today/Pew Poll: Democrats Have 2014 Edge
  Gee, I wonder why this wasn’t on the evening TV news tonight? A new poll released on Friday by USA Today and Pew Research shows that voters prefer Democrats to Republicans in a generic Congressional vote. The results showed that 48% of respondents would vote for a Democratic candidate if t ...

Reality Sandwich

• Another Green World: Psychedelics and Ecology
    The following article appears in Manifesting Minds: An Anthology from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, available from Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books.  read more
• The Brothers Guthrie: Pagan Christianity of th ...
  "Inspiration and Aspiration" by Solon Borglum, in the garden of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, commissioned by William Guthrie. The following originally appeared on Newtopia magazine. read more
• Conversations with Cobra, Chapter One
  Elizabeth:  I’d like to start our conversation with a big overview of the Fukushima situation, largely because so many people here on the west coast have expressed a lot of anxiety about it. There was something in our paper today from one of the columnists about not eating seafood. If you co ...
• Amanda Charchian
  The following originally appeared on newtopiamagazine. read more
• Separation
    The following is excerpted from The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, published by North Atlantic Books. read more

Desertification

• U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Needs a Triple Play
  As the international community fleshes out a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be unveiled next year, civil society activists and U.N. officials agree their success will hinge on policies that address the nexus of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation. Secretary-General ...
• U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Needs a Triple Play
  As the international community fleshes out a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be unveiled next year, civil society activists and U.N. officials agree their success will hinge on policies that address the nexus of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation. Secretary-General ...
• The Carbon Warrior
  Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity. As one of the world’s foremost exp ...
• The Carbon Warrior
  Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity. As one of the world’s foremost exp ...
• In Haiti, Planting Trees Is No Simple Matter
  Reforestation and soil conservation programmes costing many thousands of dollars in this rural community have resulted in hundreds of small ledges built of straw or sacks of earth. In certain areas, the earthworks seem to be lasting, but in others, they are disintegrating. The construction and d ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• ‘Israel siege crushing Gaza residents’
  Residents of the besieged Gaza Strip are “being crushed” under pressure from restrictions imposed by the Israeli regime on the enclave, a historian writes in a column for Press TV.
• Syrian army mop-up continues
  The Syrian army has conducted successful mop-up operations in several areas across the Arab country, inflicting heavy losses on foreign-sponsored militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
• Rockets hit Lebanese army barrack
  Several rockets have hit a Lebanese army barracks in the border town of Hermel, leaving a number of people injured.
• EU warns Israel over new settlements
  The European Union has warned Tel Aviv against hurting talks with the Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) by announcing plans to construct new settler units on occupied Palestinian territories.
• Attacks kill 8 Shia pilgrims in Iraq
  Iraqi security officials say deadly attacks, including a bombing, have killed at least eight Shia pilgrims in the Baghdad Province.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• How pandemics spread
  Air passenger links between cities internationally are the most powerful determinants of disease spread, new reserach has shown. Historically, the spread of infectious diseases tend to be limited by ...
• Optimal crop irrigation
  Growing crops in arid areas has become a little easier with the release of new technology that assesses the local environment. Understanding weather and environmental data to calculate how much water...
• How diet changes your gut bacteria
  Microorganisms in the gut adapt to changing diet within 24 hours, researchers have found. Furthermore, high fat diets encourage the growth of specific species of bacteria, including those that cause i...
• Oldest Homo genome revealed
  Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany have used new techniques to extract and analyse DNA from the bones of human ancestors from 400,000 years ago - the old...
• Snake genomes slither into view
  In a pair of papers published in the journal PNAS, two international teams of researchers have described the first complete genome sequences of the Burmese python and the king cobra. Although snakes h...

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Care2 - Environment

• Demand No More Mislabeled Foods!
  Have you read this? Sneaking GMO's into our food and LYING!! NO MORE!! We need to start making demands we are not buying what we wan Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• No Funding to Romanian Dog Killers in the Euro ...
  We ask that you remove Romania from the European Union and stop all funding until they abide by EU Animal Welfare laws and regulations. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Retire Tiger as Louisiana Football Mascot ! PL ...
  The Louisiana State University Tigers football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers or Bayou Bengals, have a live school mascot, Mike the Tiger. It has been the tradition of the University to have live tiger mascots since 1936. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it! &n ...
• India - buried under stinking rubbish heaps
  Under the 'Incredible India' brand lurk millions of fast-growing piles of decomposing waste Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• UK Protestors Block Fracking Site With Giant W ...
  At 5.30 a.m., fifty people blocked the entrance to IGass exploratory drilling site in Salford, a metropolitan borough of GreaterManchester in North West England, with a giant wind turbine blade. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...

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• Retire Tiger as Louisiana Football Mascot ! PL ...
  The Louisiana State University Tigers football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers or Bayou Bengals, have a live school mascot, Mike the Tiger. It has been the tradition of the University to have live tiger mascots since 1936. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it! &n ...
• No Funding to Romanian Dog Killers in the Euro ...
  We ask that you remove Romania from the European Union and stop all funding until they abide by EU Animal Welfare laws and regulations. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Campaign for answers, healthy cows culled at S ...
  Lloyd and Leila, two cows who lived at Stepney City Farm were culled and incinerated this week. They had been resident at the farm for years, even making an appearance on a TV show in the UK. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Will you pledge to help us ensure the Great Be ...
  We are building a movement of people who are willing to help us ensure that the Great Bear Rainforest remains oil tanker free. When the Panel Report is released in coming weeks, you will be the first to get our take on how the recommendation will impact Submitted by Cher C. to Environment &nbsp ...
• Dont let Northwestern Energy Company mar Yello ...
  Northwestern has asked Yellowstone National Park for permission to expand the companys footprint in Americas first national park by building seven new 60-foot-high towers in the heart of Yellowstone! Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

• Ignorance is Bliss Unless You Are an Officer o ...
  By Patricia L Johnson President Obama issued a proclamation regarding the death of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013 which read in part as follows: “As a mark of respect for the memory of Nelson Mandela, by the authority vested … Continue reading →
• Compared to Peers a Pitiful, Pathetic, Poor Pe ...
  By Patricia L Johnson Every three years the PISA, Programme for International Student Assessment, is administered to 15 year old students around the world to determine their knowledge in reading, math and science. The last test was offered in 2012 … Continue reading →
• Progress Report – Affordable Care Act We ...
  s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/HealthCare-Site-Progress-Report-Final.pdf.Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured Tagged: ACA Website, Obamacare, PPACA
• Final Policy and Payment Changes to the Medica ...
  Details for Title: Final Policy and Payment Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2014.Filed under: Government Tagged: Calendar Year 2014, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, Medicare, Physician Fee Schedule, Policy
• Final Report on The Supplemental Nutrition Ass ...
  www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/snap_report_-_final.pdf.Filed under: Government Tagged: Food Insecurity, Hunger, Republican cuts, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Rogue Government - WP

• TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
  Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...
• The King of the Freeloaders
  As Karl Marx once quoted Goethe “everything that exists deserves to perish.” And it is exactly that petulant and craven mentality birthed by the king of the freeloaders that conservatives are up against. The “progressive” notion of freedom is freedom from responsibility. ...
• 2013-2014 NFL Fantasy Team
• Americans Warned of ‘Revolution from Abo ...
  Anyone that has spent more than five minutes delving into the background of the progressive media’s appointed Messiah — the self-professed Marxist radical community organizer and “regular” attendee of the Jeremiah Wright school of America-hatred — a man so well-vers ...
• Conservatives Should Not Give Up
  After President Obama came to power, he ran trillion dollar deficits every year, doubled spending, exploded the national debt, downgraded the country’s credit rating, and sought to remove the debt limit, permanently. Unemployment slowly declines because of the record numbers of Americans giving 

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Dam the Fish
  “I prefer the dam to the fish,” says middle-aged farmer Ton Noun, when asked his opinion on a proposed 400 megawatt dam on Sesan river near his home in northeastern Cambodia. Then he chuckles and asks, “What fish?” That’s because there are few fish in the brown, murky waters of the river, and he ...
• U.S. Wind Industry Buffeted by Uncertainty
  The U.S. wind industry looks set to enter a period of uncertainty, with an important government subsidy expiring at the end of the month and no clear plan for lawmakers to work towards an extension. Because of the way the subsidy, known as the wind production tax credit (PTC), was extended in Ja ...
• Guantanamo Transfers Hint at Momentum Towards ...
  The U.S. government announced Monday it has repatriated two Saudi detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison, less than two weeks after two Algerian detainees were likewise sent back to their home country. Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdulla Hamood have reportedly been transferred f ...
• Syria, CAR top U.N.’s Challenges for 2014
  As the ongoing crises in some of the world’s hot spots – including Syria, the Central African Republic, Mali, Libya, Palestine and Darfur, Sudan – continue unabated, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday singled out some of the biggest challenges facing the international communi ...
• Bachelet’s Promised Reforms Could Face Uphill ...
  The promised structural reforms to modify the political system inherited from Chile’s 1973-1990 dictatorship and reduce the severe social inequalities in the country propelled Michelle Bachelet to a resounding triumph in the Sunday Dec. 15 runoff election. But the 62-year-old pediatrician and pu ...

My AntiWar

• Denying Armenian ‘Genocide’ Is No ...
• Four Bodies Exhumed in Mali Thought to Be Murd ...
• Gunfire in South Sudan as Military Hunts Coup ...
• Homemade Bomb Wounds 2 Policemen in Bahrain
• French Troops Take on Central African Republic ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Mysterious disease kills 100 goats in Nepal
  Rajbiraj: The death of scores of goats in the past two weeks in Rajbiraj has got farmers of Saptari worried. The goats have suddenly started dying one after another in Sitapur, Tairahauta, Prasabanni, and Pato among other VDCs in the district. According to Dik Bahadur Moktan, a farmer of Taira ...
• Multiple UFO orbs over Mexico and Maricopa Cou ...
  "This fleet of glowing orbs was seen this week in Mexico coming from the Pacific Ocean and made it on prime time TV", says Scott Waring author of UFO Sightings Daily
• Cold wave grips Mumbai for 2nd day
  Mumbai: A cold wave continued to grip Mumbai for the second consecutive day with Santa Cruz recording a minimum temperature of 15.6 degrees Celsius on Monday. On Sunday, Mumbai had recorded the first coldest day of this season with a minimum temperature of 15.7 degrees C. This sudden drop in te ...
• Mysterious object in the sky reported in San D ...
  Officials received calls from residents of San Diego County reporting something falling from the sky early Tuesday. San Diego County Sheriff's Department received several calls reporting something in the sky over State Route 52 at Mission Gorge in Santee. Deputies checked the area where witnes ...
• New calls for Jewish prayer at Jerusalem Templ ...
  Jerusalem - For decades, the religious Jews who bucked a rabbinic ban and visited a contested holy site in Jerusalem where the ancient Jewish temple once stood were seen by many as a fanatic fringe. But their cause is gaining support among both mainstream religious Jews and Israel's government, ...

The Galloping Beaver

• “Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I ...
  That, from Harper Industry Minister and Harper MP for Port Moody, James Moore when questioned on the embarrassing levels of child poverty in British Columbia.  The only words that don't fail me are, Fucking selfish ... greedy ... scumbag. Typical bloody-minded right-wing puke. Charles Dicken ...
• A Christmas message from BC's biggest liar
• Nelson Mandela scholarships
  So the Harper crowd, never ones to miss an opportunity to cash in on the deaths of better human beings, are launching a series of Masters and PhD scholarships for African students. Candidates will study in Canada in French or English at the master’s degree level or equivalent in the area ...
• Funerals and funnymen
  Well, off they go to South Africa, our Prime Minister and assorted hang-arounds past and present from different parties. They all were, are, or want to be in the driver's seat, so they are all hang-arounds. Chief among them but far from a chief is the current occupant of two-four Sus ...
• CON control . . .
  SETTLER TREATY CARD: a fine concept from the folks at Briarpatch. Click on the link to see a giant-size version, 'cause the fine-print ‘some conditions apply’ is worth reading.

Media Matters for America

• Ohio Newspapers Fail The ALEC Disclosure Test
  Ohio's major newspapers cited sham think tank Buckeye Institute 44 times in six months, promoting the opinions of its conservative allies including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Koch brothers, and big tobacco. Despite these connections being well-documented, every article ...
• Cable And Broadcast News Hide The Economic Ben ...
  Following Texas State Senator Wendy Davis' June 25, 2013, filibuster of extreme restrictions on reproductive health clinics in Texas, national evening broadcast and cable news programs have provided extensive coverage of issues pertaining to women's reproductive rights. The vast majority of segm ...
• Network News Coverage Of Obamacare Rollout Ove ...
  Broadcast evening news programs slanted coverage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by hyping negative aspects of the law's rollout while underplaying or not exploring positive changes to insurance coverage under the health care law, including the role that subsidies would play in making health ca ...
• "Denmark Babe": Danish PM Objectified For Sitt ...
  Right-wing media launched a series of sexist attacks on Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt after she took a photo with President Obama during the Nelson Mandela memorial service, calling her "Denmark Babe," "Danish Pastry," and referring to her as a sexual object.Rush Limbaugh Calls Pr ...
• REPORT: Cable News Focuses On Handshake, Selfi ...
  In their evening coverage of the December 10 Nelson Mandela memorial service, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC focused a majority of segments on President Obama's handshake with Cuban President Raul Castro and on a "selfie" Obama took with world leaders during the event rather than&n ...

Consortium News

• Falling Short on ‘Challenge Grant’
• Judge Leon’s Dirty Climb to the Bench
• Playing Deadly Games with ‘Gun Rights’
• The Blacklisting of Noam Chomsky
• Latin America Finds Its Footing

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• What Makes A Town An “EV Town”
  How come Normal, Illinois, about 150 miles south of Chicago, has ten times as many electric vehicles per capita than the U.S. average? (You’re right; it’s not just coincidence.) A coalition of business, industry, nonprofits, all levels of government, and farsighted individuals has co ...
• Homeless Man Learns to Code, Creates Carpoolin ...
  When a programmer offered a homeless NYC man, Leo Grand, the choice of receiving a one-time gift of $100 in cash or instead receiving coding lessons for an hour a day (plus the loan of a laptop and some programming textbooks), Leo chose to invest in himself instead of taking the cash, and the re ...
• Ursids Meteor Shower Peaks On December 21, 2013
  The Ursids meteor shower is nearly here — the noted meteor shower will be reaching its peak only a week from now, on the night of December 21, 2013. While the exact peak will be on the night of December 21, 2013, any night between the 17th and 25th offers the possibility of seeing some Urs ...
• Geminids Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight On Decemb ...
  The Geminids meteor shower — regularly one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year — will be reaching its peak tonight, on December 13, 2013 (early morning hours of December 14, 2013). While the peak rate would typically occur sometime around 2 AM (local time), this year you ...
• In First, Physicists Demonstrate Complex Quant ...
  In a first for Physics, scientists working at IBM Research have successfully demonstrated Bose-Einstein condensation — a complex quantum phenomenon in which multiple particles suddenly begin acting in unison — using a photo-luminescent polymer. What’s more, the phenomenon was d ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Fracking fluid infused beer anyone?
  Recently under the consensus of a town in Northern Colorado a community has banded fracking for the
• The floating wetlands project is off the groun ...
  Students and volunteers launch a floating wetland island into the stormwater detention basin. Photo:
• World's tallest, fastest water slide takes shape
  World’s tallest, fastest water slide takes shape To celebrate the 1 year anniversary with our
• What did $150 million buy in 2003? And was it ...
  The early 2000′s were heady days for land conservation. The state was flush with funds from vo
• Plastics. Waste. Take Three.
  I’m a big fan of the “Take3″ beach clean initiative. The concept is extremely simp

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Delicious Irony of Morris Greenberg’s AIG ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 12, 2013 Image by codep
• Michael Hudson: 2013 – the stage is set
  with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 11, 2013 Image by jim
• The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of ...
  Image by LividFiction via Flickr by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, Engla
• Gareth Porter: Afghan war, dead weight around ...
  with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 12, 2013 Image by Dandelion Salad via Fli
• America's Indefinitely Detained + Close GITMO ...
  with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk January 11, 2013 Ima

Axis of Logic

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

Climate

• Australian Government Not Interested in Nuclea ...
  (Guardian) The government has insisted it has no intention of introducing nuclear power to Australia after releasing a paper that states the technology continues to be an option for "future reliable energy." An issues paper  ...
• Environmentalists Split Over Need for Nuclear ...
  (NPR) California is regarded as the leading state when it comes to addressing climate change. But in 2012, according to analysts at Rhodium Group, California's carbon emissions actually increased more than 10 percent, bucking the ...
• Rail Service to Resume in Lac-Mégantic After F ...
  (Globe and Mail) Trains will return to Lac-Mégantic, Que,. on Wednesday, less than six months after a fatal derailment laid waste to the downtown. Mayor Colette Roy-Laroche said service will be restored gradually and will initially be ...
• Kinder Morgan Files for Trans Mountain Pipelin ...
  (CBC News) Kinder Morgan has officially filed an application to expand its Trans Mountain Pipeline, which would triple its capacity to ship crude oil between Strathcona County, near Edmonton, and Burnaby, B.C. The company release ...
• Supreme Court Rejects Gulf Oil Spill Contempt Case
  (Reuters) The Interior Department will not be held in contempt over its actions in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill after the Supreme Court declined on Monday to review an appeals court ruling in the government's favo ...

GreenBiz

• SolarCity brings power to schools in developin ...
  By creating a foundation, SolarCity plans to bring light to rural villages outside the U.S. with solar and back-up battery systems. 
• 5 deep retrofit projects: A fresh look from Ne ...
  Five years ago, the Rocky Mountain Institute launched its Retrofit Initiative. Where does the ambitious plan stand today? 
• Solar industry forecast: sunny with a chance o ...
  Solar in the U.S. has been on a tear, but utilities' uneasiness with distributed solar, costs and grid integration could throttle the pace of growth. 
• How Ecova helps a restaurant chain save water, ...
  Shari's Café & Pies uses Ecova's energy and utility management services to cut water consumption.
• How smart funding helps water tech innovation flow
  Existing challenges block the pipes of innovation, but new tech and funding models can root out the problems.

Duly Noted

• Criminal complaint against Silk Road’s owner
  The criminal complaint against Ross William Ulbricht, known as "Dread Pirate Roberts."
• Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
  Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
• A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
  A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
• Are African governments suppressing art?
  The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
• Greek debt – remember the goats
  Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.

Booman Tribune

• How to Prevent Another Santorum
  Iowa Governor Terry Branstad was born on November 17th, 1946, so he would be just shy of 70 years old on election day in 2016. That's pretty aged for a presidential candidate, but he's only a year older than Hillary Clinton and he's actually four years younger than Joe Biden. Branstad serv ...
• Rodman Should Cancel Trip
  Maybe Dennis Rodman is a mad genius. I certainly like the idea that dialogue with North Korea is better than total isolation, but sometimes you have to cancel a trip despite of whatever promises you may have made. Kim Jong Un just executed his uncle for clapping half-heartedly. Under the circ ...
• Paging Donald Trump
  Jeh Johnson was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security by the Senate today. This would be unremarkable except that Jeh (pronounced 'Jay') is black, was born on September 11th, and is named after a Liberian tribal chief who saved his grandfather's life in 1930. This combination of facts sho ...
• Profile on Harry Reid
  I don't pay much attention to state-level politics, even in my home-state of Pennsylvania, but Jon Ralston single-handedly makes Nevada politics compelling. He is assisted, of course, by the curious and unique history of the state, which makes for all manner of strange alliances and double-dea ...
• Lock-Em-Up Mentality Costs Money
  Here is what happens when you are governed by wingnuts whose thinking on crime doesn't extend beyond the punitive. BOISE Nonviolent criminals are being kept behind bars in Idaho twice as long as they are in the rest of the nation. Thats among the major findings of a nine-month study int ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  A great selection of goodies for you this week. Don’t miss Christmas monsters, imaginary friends, a guy in a tutu, and real-life mad scientists. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Island Nation Doomed to Disappear Within H ...
  For hundreds if not thousands of years, the I-Kiribati have lived on their island paradise, but now their home is being slowly submerged under rising sea levels. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  The hottest links have got a geeky feel this week. Check out some awesome t-shirts, wallets, and real-life nutty professors. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 15 Damn Cool Dogs Wearing Shades
  The phrase may be “cool cats,” but as these canines wearing sunglasses show, dogs can give their feline rivals a run for their money when it comes to style. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  A bit of a mixed bag this week, but we're excited as it's the first one of the year to feature something holiday-themed. Sorry... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

• W.Va. AG asks US Supreme Court to review mine ...
  W.Va. AG asks US Supreme Court to review mine case WVAH AG asks US Supreme Court to review battle over EPA powers in mountaintop removal mine. Reported by: Associated Press Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:49 PM EST CHARLESTON, W.Va. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is urging the U.S. Supreme Court ...
• New scrutiny for Keystone contractor's ties to ...
  New scrutiny for Keystone contractor's ties to energy groups - Murkowskis ... Politico The Obama EPA retroactively withdrew parts of a permit for a major mountaintop removal coal mine in Mingo County, W.Va., and despite a strong rebuke from a district court judge, the appeals court said the ...
• Gogebic Taconite mine will harm the environmen ...
  Gogebic Taconite mine will harm the environment The Sheboygan Press As a former resident of the Sheboygan area now living up north, I share my concerns. In June Gogebic Taconite filed intent to open a mountain top removal mine in the Penokees, and the rift between job seekers and environmentalis ...
• Appalachian Voices places new focus on energy ...
  Appalachian Voices places new focus on energy savings Watauga Democrat The Boone-based environmental nonprofit most known for its national campaign to end mountaintop removal coal mining has launched a new effort focused on making Appalachian households more energy efficient. Last week, Appalach ...
• Environmentalists sue over new water pollution ...
  Environmentalists sue over new water pollution standard in Kentucky RenewablesBiz In one notable case, environmental groups won an agreement from Patriot Coal Corp. to stop mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia and limit production from surface mines in a lawsuit that involved selenium con ...

Memeorandum

• Rep. Latham won't run for reelection (Cameron ...
  Cameron Joseph / The Hill: Rep. Latham won't run for reelection  —  Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) won't run for reelection, he announced Tuesday evening, opening up a competitive House seat in southwestern Iowa.  —  “It is never a perfect time or a right time to ...
• Billie Jean King highlights U.S. delegation to ...
  Jennifer Epstein / Reuters: Billie Jean King highlights U.S. delegation to Sochi Olympics  —  The Obama administration's delegation to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi includes two openly gay athletes — including tennis legend Billie Jean King — and, in a snub ...
• Wolf Won't Seek Re-Election In 2014 (Jill Shat ...
  Jill Shatzen / Congressman Frank R. Wolf: Wolf Won't Seek Re-Election In 2014  —  Washington, D.C. (December 17, 2013) - Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th) today announced that he would not seek election to an 18th term in 2014.  —  He released the following statement anno ...
• Pope Replaces Conservative U.S. Cardinal on In ...
  New York Times: Pope Replaces Conservative U.S. Cardinal on Influential Vatican Committee  —  ROME — Pope Francis moved on Monday against a conservative American cardinal who has been an outspoken critic of abortion and same-sex marriage, by replacing him on a powerful Vat ...
• The global warming scam that will not die (Wes ...
  Wesley Pruden / Washington Times: The global warming scam that will not die  —  We were all supposed to be dead by now, fried to a toasty potatolike chip.  Or doomed to die with the polar bears.  It was to be a soggy end for the most beautiful planet in the cosmos and ...

Energy & Environment News

• In Uzbekistan, the Practice of Forced Labor Li ...
  Every autumn, the government drafts about a million people — including doctors, teachers and other professionals — to pick cotton, providing free labor for the world’s fifth-largest cotton exporter.     
• Britain Opens Door to More Shale Gas Drilling
  The government said it planned to award more drilling permits next year, despite persistent opposition from environmental groups.     
• USEC, Enricher of Uranium for U.S., Seeks Bank ...
  USEC will file for bankruptcy though it expects to continue operating.     
• BP and Oman Agree to Develop Gas Field
  The challenging project in the Arabian Desert could be a breakthrough because BP will use new approaches, including horizontal wells and hydraulic fracturing, to release gas that is embedded in sandstone.     
• Global Coal Use Predicted to Keep Growing
  The International Energy Agency says consumption through 2018 is expected to increase by 2.3 percent a year.     

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, Alaska Peninsula
  Saturday, December 7, 2013 16:44:10 UTC Saturday, December 7, 2013 07:44:10 AM at epicenterDepth: 13.10 km (8.14 mi)
• M 5.4, Alaska Peninsula
  Saturday, December 7, 2013 07:36:27 UTC Friday, December 6, 2013 10:36:27 PM at epicenterDepth: 51.90 km (32.25 mi)
• M 5.5, off the coast of Northern California
  Sunday, December 1, 2013 03:19:33 UTC Saturday, November 30, 2013 07:19:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 5.00 km (3.11 mi)
• M 5.2, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  Tuesday, November 26, 2013 08:11:25 UTC Monday, November 25, 2013 10:11:25 PM at epicenterDepth: 41.50 km (25.79 mi)
• M 6.6, South Atlantic Ocean
  Monday, November 25, 2013 06:27:08 UTC Monday, November 25, 2013 02:27:08 AM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)

Daily Censored

• Federal Judge Rules Against Mass Surveillance
• US Scholars Endorse Boycotting Israel
• Corinthian College is a criminal enterprise: T ...
• Washington’s Dirty Game in Ukraine
• Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Six US soldiers killed in Afghan helicopter crash
  A NATO helicopter flies over Nejrab base near Kabul, on September 21, 2012Six US troops from the NATO mission in Afghanistan were killed and one was wounded in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, with officials saying it was not a suspected Taliban strike.The Afghan insurgents, however, immediately ...
• US budget deal clears key Senate hurdle
  US Senator Patty Murray (2ndR), speaks while flanked by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (2ndL), Senator Dick Durbin (L) and Senator Charles Schumer during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on December 12, 2013 in Washington, DCThe Senate advanced a bipartisan budget deal Tuesday, virtually ...
• India retaliates over US arrest of diplomat as ...
  Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade's father Uttam Khobragade leaves parliament in New Delhi, on December 17, 2013India launched a series of reprisals against US officials Tuesday, foreign ministry sources said, as outrage grows over a diplomat's arrest in New York, which New Delhi has branded ...
• Snowden offers to help Brazil investigate NSA ...
  UK intelligence leaker Edward Snowden givevs an interview with The Guardian newspaper at an undisclosed location in Hong Kong on June 6, 2013US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden offered to help Brazil defeat US spying Tuesday but in an open letter said he needs permanent political asylum to d ...
• Detained US businessman flees Bolivia
  Bolivian Minister of Justice Cecilia Ayllon attends a press conference in Brasilia on September 6, 2013A US businessman detained in Bolivia for the past two and a half years on suspicion of money laundering has escaped to the United States, Bolivian and US officials said Tuesday.Justice Minist ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Uruguay's Legalization of Marijuana
  CCTV interviews Sanho Tree, drug policy expert, on Uruguay's "historic and counterintuitive" decision to be the first country in the world to legalize the production and sale of marijuana.
• Vietnam War Created Middle East Activist
  Phyllis Bennis traces her development from an active Zionist youth to a leading U.S. critic of Israel and international anti-war activist on The Real News.
• From Zionist to Anti-Zionist Activist
  Phyllis Bennis traces her development from an active Zionist youth to a leading American anti-Zionist writer and analyst on The Real News.
• Mandela's Global Social Impact
  Emira Woods speaks on the significance of Nelson Mandela's passing on CCTV America: "The spirit of Mandela lives on, a spirit that continues to fight for justice."
• "Viva Mandela, Viva!"
  The Institute for Policy Studies Mourns and Celebrates Nelson Mandela, Revolutionary Freedom Fighter

IntelNews

• American who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was w ...
  An American private investigator, who was last seen in Iran in 2007, was under contract with the United States Central Intelligence Agency when he disappeared, according to information published last week.
• China ‘hacked European government computers’ p ...
  A group of hackers from China managed to compromise computer networks belonging to the foreign ministries of several European governments prior to last September’s G20 Summit, according to a private computer security firm.
• News you may have missed #859
  Some fear terrorists are exploiting online computer games. Niger's president says Libya risks becoming like Somalia. Secret memos show British spies’ efforts to keep Cyprus base.
• US charges 49 Russian diplomats with fraud, sa ...
  The United States has filed charges against dozens of current and former Russian diplomats, accusing them of defrauding American taxpayers of over a million dollars. Meanwhile, sources have told CNN that some of the accused also engaged in espionage against the US.
• CIA to cut back ‘unsuccessful’ non-official-co ...
  The United States Central Intelligence Agency is scaling down an ambitious human intelligence program that places case officers in non-diplomatic cover jobs, because it has been ineffective, according to media reports.

War is a Crime.org

• The Hunger Games Are Real: We Are The Districts
  Originally posted at AcronymTV Donald Sutherland, who stars in the Hunger Games Franchise, wants to see a revolution that brings about the end of the American Empire, and he wants the Hunger Games movies to be a spark for that flame. Speaking to Rory Carroll of the Guardian UK, Sutherland says: ...
• European Leaders Call for a New Approach to Se ...
  The statement is also available in German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. read more
• Are There Just Wars?
• Oppose Drone Strikes - A War Crime!
  Today, Monday 16th of Dec. 2013 JUST International released following statement: OPPOSE DRONE STRIKES ― A WAR CRIME! On 12 December 2013, 15 civilians who were part of a wedding convoy were killed in an unmanned US drone attack in Central Yemen. A Yemeni official has explained that the air stri ...
• Oppose Drne Strikes - A war Crime!
  Today, Monday 16th of Dec. 2013 JUST International released following statement:   OPPOSE DRONE STRIKES ― A WAR CRIME! On 12 December 2013, 15 civilians who were part of a wedding convoy were killed in an unmanned US drone attack in Central Yemen. A Yemeni official has explained that th ...

Grist - News

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

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Time - Top Stories

• Astronauts Plan Emergency Spacewalks
  To fix problem aboard ISS
• Ukraine Gets $15B From Russia
  Distancing itself from European Union
• San Fran Mulls Bottle Ban
  Calif. city may outlaw bottled water
• The NSA Is Having an Awful Week
  PR war heats up amid congressional pressure
• Why Google Is Building a Robot Army
  Why Google Is Building a Robot Army

Invisible Opportunity

• Reflections in a Petri Dish | Merry Christmas ...
  By Visible This is the cultural blog. Is dis a culchar? This is a culture in the way that that mysterious oleaginous, sewer scum taffy on the Petri dish could be called a culture. It’s horrific and fascinating in the way that a bad traffic accident appeals to rubbernecking death and dismembermen ...
• Activist Post: VICTORY: License Plate Scanners ...
  Kevin Samson Activist Post Even as revelations of nearly ubiquitous NSA surveillance have been detailed, and databases of every stripe seem to be on the rise, we cannot ignore our victories. Little by little, we are beginning to see a roll-back of some of the surveillance state. From highways to ...
• Smoking Mirrors | Turbo Stupid and the Dominoe ...
  By Visible Sometimes you just have to open a posting with some good news; a great example of functioning humanity. A lot of people talk the talk but very few walk the talk. Here’s someone who does. I have to continue to remind myself that the criminal Crass Media, owned by the largest gene ...
• OMG! SANDY HOOK KIDS “ALIVE” CLEAR ...
  OMG! SANDY HOOK KIDS “ALIVE” CLEAR EVIDENCE!!! – YouTube.
• Israel inches closer to ‘tipping point’ of Sou ...
  Chemi Shalev — Haaretz Dec 11, 2013 This has happened in recent days: The Dutch water company Vitens severed its ties with Israeli counterpart Mekorot; Canada’s largest Protestant church decided to boycott three Israeli companies; the Romanian government refused to send any more construction wor ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

• What are the big questions that 2014 might answer?
  Summary:  December brings forth a crop of retrospective analysis about the past year and confident forecasts about the next. The FM website has posted almost daily doses of the former, and I lack the confidence to do the latter. Instead let’s ask about questions. What issues might dominate ...
• Consequences of growing inequality in wealth, ...
  Summary: Part One looked at America’s rising inequality. Today we look at the resulting wide range of ill effects, a major driver building a New America. A rising concentration of income and wealth quickly becomes self-perpetuating as the 1% exploits their control of the government to gain ...
• Growing inequality powers the rise of New America
  Summary: Five years ago I wrote my first article about the problem of rising inequality in America. Now it’s become big time following a speech by President Obama. Today we review the evidence about the problem, its likely effects, and the inevitable pushback. . Contents Description of the ...
• Let’s defend the oceans, before it&#8217 ...
  Summary:  The environmentalist community has put their resources into fighting anthropogenic global warming. For reasons discussed in other posts, that campaign has achieved few of the political gains sought. Meanwhile the prosaic forces of commerce destroy the oceans through pollution and and o ...
• A summary of the state of climate change and e ...
  Summary: Today we look at climate change politics, as an example of how we are one people. Our Left and Right, each confident it is the reality-based community, remain unaware that they’re mirror images of one another. Each has fears that the other see as exaggerated, neither aware of how ...

The Progressive Realist

• U.S. Transfers Two Detainees in Step Towards a ...
  A Guantanamo detainee holds on to a fence inside the detention center CREDIT: AP The Department of Defense announced on Monday that it had over the weekend quietly transferred two more of the detainees being held at the military base in Guantanamo Bay, a seeming increase in tempo of such transfe ...
• North Korean Leader’s Aunt Reportedly Escapes ...
  Kim Jong-Un seen with his aunt, Kim Kyung-Hee CREDIT: AP Kim Kyung-hee — sister to deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and aunt to current ruler Kim Jong-Un — reportedly managed to come out alive on the other side of the purge that saw her husband publicly accused of treason and ...
• Top of the Morning: Peacekeepers Killed in Mal ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest Turnout Low in Mali Presidential Elections Following Attack on Peacekeepers A Tuareg radical group has claimed responsibility for the attack There were no serious incidents during 10 hours of voting but polling stations were reporting turnout as low as 15 percent as ...
• Finishing the Fight Against Hunger
  Ed note. This article originally appeared in Project Syndicate and is reprinted here with permission. The author, Jomo Kwame Sundaram is Assistant Director General and Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ROME – At least ...
• Congress Avoids Clash on Iran Sanctions but Ro ...
  Article originally appeared on Voice of America Congress appears poised to give the Barack Obama administration some early Christmas gifts as it finishes its work for the year.   A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the House and Senate on Tuesday reached a budget compromise that, if passed b ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Daily Meme: Diners and the Politicians Who Lov ...
  Esquire asked House Speaker John Boehner to advise its readers on what to do in January 2014. He endorsed breakfast at a diner, an act nearly as entwined with an American politician's electoral fate as legislating and making fundraising calls. "What is it about politicians and diners?" Who know ...
• White Like Me
  It might seem that an argument about whether Santa Claus and Jesus are "really" white is nothing more than an opportunity for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to make fun of people on Fox News, and not a matter with actual political consequences. After all, Santa is a fictional character whose c ...
• Among the Common Folk, a Breakfasting Boehner
  From the "Politicians—they're just like us!" file today, we have something seemingly aimed straight at one of my pet peeves, the habit of Blue Collar Chic among politicians (and to an even greater extent, certain bigshot media figures). Esquire magazine asked John Boehner to "endorse" something ...
• The Year in Preview: Obama's Last Stand
  Margaret Chase Smith, the pioneering Republican moderate senator from Maine, was asked by a reporter in the early 1950s what she would do if she awoke to find herself in the White House. She replied, “I’d go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I’d go home.” Anyone trying to concoct an a ...
• Four Takeaways from Yesterday's NSA Ruling
  Flickr/Cliff Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that the National Security Agency's extensive collection of "metadata"—as revealed by Edward Snowden earlier this year—is likely to have violated the Fourth Amendment. Justice Leon stayed his ruling ordering the go ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Four Theories Why Junior Doesn’t Drive
  Fewer U.S. teens are driving, a factor now being incorporated into U.S. energy forecasts. But researchers don't know if it's a transitory economic trend, or a cultural shift.
• Why Are Corpse-Eating Beetles Being Put Back I ...
  No one knows why American burying beetles are disappearing, but scientists are trying to save the unique bugs.
• Opinion: Discover Earth's Millions of Species— ...
  Ignorant of more than 80 percent of Earth's plants and animals, we are flying blind into an unprecedented storm of extinction, a conservationist argues.
• 20,000 Species Are Near Extinction: Is it Time ...
  Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not be the best approach.
• Washing Hands in Hot Water Wastes Energy, Stud ...
  The United States wastes energy equal to the fuel demand of Barbados on a practice with no proven health benefit: washing hands in hot water rather than cool, a study says.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Two Sentenced in Racially Charged ‘Good Friday ...
  Facebook With the families of his victims sitting and sobbing in the front row of a Tulsa, Okla., courtroom yesterday, the young killer apologized to them and the rest of the city’s black community for his role in the racially charged rampage known as the Good Friday Shootings. “There are no wor ...
• Neo-Nazi Bill White Indicted for Internet Thre ...
  Legal problems for neo-Nazi Bill White keep piling up. Already in jail for one crime and awaiting sentencing for another, the 36-year-old racist was just indicted in Florida on six counts of using the Internet to make violent threats against investigators and a judge. One of those threats, accor ...
• Canadian ‘Freeman’ Leader Arrested After Skipp ...
  Vimeo/Deanclifford.info The arrest in late November of a prominent “Freeman” leader in Canada has underscored the recent rise of the “sovereign citizens” movement north of the border, as well as law-enforcement authorities’ concerns about that development. Dean Clifford, a self-described “contra ...
• Minnesota Militia Leader Arrested in Military ...
  The “commander” of an antigovernment Minnesota militia — a man who was trained in intelligence gathering by the U.S. Army and currently serving in the National Guard — was arrested yesterday by the FBI on charges of stealing the classified personnel roster of 400 members of his former military u ...
• Army Secretary Wrong to OK Participation in An ...
  The U.S. Army, in its guide on extremist activities, notes that the “Department of Defense has a longstanding policy of intolerance for organizations, practices, or activities that are discriminatory in nature.” It also notes that “[h]igher and more restrictive standards of conduct distinguish m ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Snowden Whistleblower Status Confirmed by Ruli ...
  US District Court Judge Richard Leon has declared that the bulk phone record collection activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) are likely in violation of the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable search. The very first of its kind, the 68-page legal opinion is highly critical of the ...
• New Nationwide Certification Program Brings Qu ...
  Patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) launched a new nationwide program today that will certify the quality and reliability of medical marijuana products sold at licensed businesses. Patient Focused Certification (PFC) is the only nonprofit, third-party certification for the med ...
• NAFTA’s Legacy: Growing US Trade Deficits Cost ...
  Former President Bill Clinton claimed that NAFTA would create an “export boom to Mexico” that would create 200,000 jobs in two years and a million jobs in five years, “many more jobs than will be lost” due to rising imports.read more
• Eyes of Arctic 30 Turn to Russian Parliament o ...
  At a first hearing the Duma today adopted the text of an amnesty bill drawn up by the office of President Putin which does not include the Arctic 30. But amendments are being proposed and a final vote is expected tomorrow. Crucially, powerful figures in the Duma today indicated their support for ...
• ACLU Comment on Ruling in NSA Lawsuit
  A federal court ruled today that the NSA’s mass call-tracking program violates the Constitution. The lawsuit was filed in Washington by activist Larry Klayman. The American Civil Liberties Union is currently litigating a similar legal challenge in New York, ACLU v. Clapper. ACLU Deputy Leg ...

Common Dreams-Views

• On Selling Out: Progressives on the Take
  Robert Scheer John Podesta (Center for American Progress)read more
• Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story
  Bill McKibben (Illustration by Victor Juhasz / RollingStone)Two years ago, on a gorgeous November day, 12,000 activists surrounded the White House to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Signs we carried featured quotes from Barack Ob ...
• Just Because Congress Cut a Budget Deal Doesn’ ...
  Katrina vanden Heuvel (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)As a novelist once put it, President Calvin Coolidge “aspired to become the least president the country had ever had; he attained his desire.” Last week, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash ...
• The Internet Giants Oppose Surveillance—but On ...
  Zoë Carpenter
• Considering Extinction: Are We Falling Off the ...
  Dahr Jamail

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• New water strategy planned
  Governor of the General Organization for Water Desalination (GOWD) Abdul Rahman Al-Ibrahim has stressed the importance of rationalizing water consumption in the Kingdom, pointing out that 10 percent of water saved translates into 10 percent savings in finance and building resources. Speaking abo ...
• Mexico passes landmark oil reform: boon or ban ...
  The government argues the historic shift will lower prices and boost output. But many Mexicans associate privatization with cronyism and declines in services.
• Abu Dhabi energy firm to cut workforce by 16%
  Abu Dhabi National Energy Co, or TAQA is planning to reduce its staff in Abu Dhabi office by 16 percent in a cost-cutting drive, it said in a statement. The measures will reduce general and administrative costs by more than $20 million in 2014,” company sources added. “As we become a more cohesi ...
• Mexico passes landmark oil reform: boon or bane?
  The government argues the historic shift will lower prices and boost output. But many Mexicans associate privatization with cronyism and declines in services.

Guardian

• Alan Rusbridger, Jimmy Wales and ex-GCHQ chief ...
  The Guardian editor, the Wikipedia founder and the former GCHQ spy chief Sir David Omand debate UK surveillance with MPsPaul Owen
• British drug mules jailed for more than six ye ...
  Michaela McCollum, of Northern Ireland, and Melissa Reid, of Scotland, sentenced after £1.5m of cocaine found in luggageTwo drug mules from Northern Ireland and Scotland have been sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for smuggling cocaine in Peru.The 20-year-olds had been held in cust ...
• Tech firms push back against White House effor ...
  Tech executives say 'We are here to talk about the NSA' despite White House efforts to shift focus to troubled healthcare websiteDominic RushePaul Lewis
• British surgeon 'murdered by Syrian regime'
  UK foreign minister Hugh Robertson says death of Abbas Khan in jail is at best extremely suspiciousA British surgeon who was imprisoned in Syria for more than a year appears to have been "murdered by the regime", a UK foreign minister has said.After the death of Dr Abbas Khan in jail was announc ...
• Turkish ministers' sons arrested in corruption ...
  Surprise raids on allies of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan send shockwaves through government months before electionsTurkish police have arrested the sons of three cabinet ministers and at least 34 others in orchestrated raids that appeared to represent the biggest assault on the authority of the prime mi ...

McClatchey

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

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Futurismic

• A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
  “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
• 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• NWC Fears UBS Banker Raoul Weil Will Get Sweet ...
  Today the National Whistleblower Center issued a press release regarding Raoul Weil, the former head of UBS’s Global Wealth Management business. Weil was extradited to the United States from Italy where he was arrested on an international warrant after being indicted for his role ...
• NWC Releases New Report on Importance of False ...
  Today the National Whistleblower Center released a new report on the importance of the False Claims Act which rebuts the Chamber of Commerce proposals.   "Whistleblower Reward Laws: Reform or Enhance?" was delivered by NWC Executive Director Stephen Kohn at a briefing before ...
• Special Offer: The Whistleblower's Handbook
  This year, as you are deciding what to give your loved ones, friends, and colleagues for the holidays, why not choose to give something interesting and useful? One of the most powerful gifts you can give is knowledge. The third edition of the The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Ste ...
• Dean Zerbe Gives Guidance for IRS Whistleblowe ...
  Today on Forbes.com, Dean Zerbe, the National Whistleblower Center’s Senior Policy Analyst, explains the potential issues that may be slowing or sidetracking submissions at the IRS Whistleblower Office. He also gives detailed insight into issues that may cause delay that whistleblower ...
• Pennsylvania Moves Toward Adopting FCA
  Pennsylvania reportedly remains the largest state in the country without a state-level false claims statute. Two state legislators hope to change that. In early June, State Representatives, Brandon Neuman and Tony DeLuca introduced House Bill 1493, a state version of the federal False Claims Ac ...

TechDirt

• Copyright Strikes Again: No Online Access To U ...
  Last week we wrote about how Norway had come up with a way to provide online access to all books in Norwegian, including the most recent ones, available to anyone in the country. Here, by contrast, is how not to do it, courtesy of publishers in the UK: The UK is preparing to launch its official ...
• Ed Snowden Sends Open Letter To Brazil... Whic ...
  This morning, a Brazilian publication, A Folha, released a very interesting open letter from Ed Snowden. It's worth reading in full, and we'll include the full thing beneath this post, but first, a few snippets. His summary of the overall situation is key: Today, if you carry a cell phone in Sa ...
• Digital Exports Dwarf Other Industries, So Why ...
  We've talked a few times about how the USTR seems to have an antiquated view of the American economy these days, which is driving it to make some really bad and dangerous assumptions about what sorts of things should be in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement -- things that benefit a fe ...
• Tone Deaf NSA Officials Tell Reporter It's Tim ...
  Daniel Drezner has a fairly incredible short blog post over at Foreign Policy magazine about his experience visiting the NSA as the organization is seeking to ramp up its PR campaign about how it's not actually evil. We've already covered the 60 Minutes debacle, but in many ways this piece is ju ...
• You Don't Own What You 'Bought': Disney And Am ...
  We've discussed many times before how, in the digital age, you no longer really seem to own what you've "bought." Instead, you're getting a temporary license, and at times that means that the copyright holder and partners can remove it. In a story making the rounds this week, it appears that Ama ...

VacTruth

• Your Children to be Used as Guinea Pigs for Ne ...
  A US vaccine company has applied for permission to infect up to one thousand individuals, including children, with genetically modified live bacteria contained in an oral vaccine.
• How the Current Medical System Misinforms You ...
  We are living in the age of disinformed consent. Parents assume their doctors and their public health authorities are providing them with all relevant vaccine information, and nothing could be further from the truth.
• Bill Gates’ Polio Vaccine Program Eradic ...
  In the depths of cyberspace lurks a press release written by the CDC, confirming that the OPV, or oral polio vaccination, given to millions of children throughout the developing world, is causing them to develop vaccine-induced polio.
• Deadly 5-in-1 Vaccine Kills At Least Eight Infants
  A press release stated that between September and October 2013, eight infants had died and many more had been seriously injured after they had received the pentavalent (5-in-1) vaccination.
• Doctor Offers Vaccines to Starving Children
  A doctor from the Children's Hospital in Colorado is working on a bold new initiative to improve the lives of children in Guatemala who struggle with poverty and hunger each day. Unfortunately, his ambitions do not include plans to provide clean water or education.

BroadSnark

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Keiser Report: Airbrushing Past Failures (E537)
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKeiser Report: Airbrushing Past Failures (E537) Max Keiseryoutube.com In this episode of the Max Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert believe we are all Jang now! The despicable human scum that was Kim Jong Un&#8217 ...
• Edward Snowden offers to help Brazil over US s ...
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comEdward Snowden offers to help Brazil over US spying in return for asylum Paul Owen, Jonathan Watts London Guardian December 17, 2013 Edward Snowden has offered to help Brazil investigate US spying on its soil in exchange f ...
• Dem Bill Would End Death Penalty for Espionage ...
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDem Bill Would End Death Penalty for Espionage, Treason, Assassinations ELIZABETH SHELD Breitbart.com December 17, 2013 Eight Democrats have proposed a bill that would take the death penalty off the table for a variety of ...
• Gazans Suffer Genocide under the Israeli-Egypt ...
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGazans Suffer Genocide under the Israeli-Egyptian Siege dissidentvoice.orgBy Dylan Murphy “The world has forgotten Gaza, its women and children. The blockade is as bad as the war; it’s like a slow death for eve ...
• Man’s severed hand grafted to ankle after acci ...
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMan’s severed hand grafted to ankle after accidentCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com

Dandelion Salad

• As Judge Rules NSA Surveillance “Almost ...
  Dandelion Salad democracynow on Dec 17, 2013 democracynow – A federal judge ruled Monday the National Security Agency”s bulk collection of American’s phone records “almost certainly” violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches. U. ...
• Chris Hedges: Journalism is Being Pushed To th ...
  Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges LARBeditorial on Dec 10, 2013 see Chris Hedges: The Role of Art in Rebellion Glenn Greenwald: The Job of Journalists Is To Prevent People In Power From Lying To The People Over Whom They’re Ruling Chris Hedges: What Are the Myths, Realities and Costs of War? (20 ...
• Blessed Are The Destitute, For Theirs Is The K ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Writer, Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Originally published February 27, 2011 December 16, 2013 In Aristophanes play Plutus, the god of wealth Plutus declares to Poverty and Destitution that they are like two sisters. Right away Povert ...
• Pope Francis Labels Capitalism “New Tyra ...
  Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Dec 15, 2013 Matthew Fox and Luke Hansen discuss Pope Francis’ recent anti-capitalist rhetoric and whether there will be any changes to the church’s economic practices.  Transcript see The Wild and Cruel Gap Between Debtors and Creditors by Ralph Nader ...
• Why Americans Must Demolish the Two Party Duop ...
  by Thomas Baldwin Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad proactvoice Biloxi, MS Dec. 15, 2013 A Call to Action! “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”– Albert Einstein Duopoly: “preponderant influence or control by two political powers.&# ...

Your New Reality

• Obowma Is At Again!
  We've previously covered President Obama's tendency to bow in front of dictatorial world leaders, and also children. Yes, as a very tall world leader he often has to lower his face to the sight-lines of the height-challenged, but....well, there is no but, when you're tall and you meet someone it ...
• How To Produce Hit Songs, By Rick Rubin
  (photo source) With his work on new albums by Black Sabbath, Metallica, Eminem and Jay-Z hitting the top of US and UK charts this year, producer Rick Rubin is back at the forefront of changing tastes, trends and sounds in both hip-hop and metal. Just like he was in the 1980s and early 1990s. So ...
• Star Wars Episode VII - How To Build A Milleni ...
  Not much yet known about Star Wars: Episode VII, except it will be directed by JJ Abrams, from a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and will feature R2-D2 and C3PO (as all Star Wars films must), and that opening night is still more than 730 days away. One more thing, original trilogy cast mem ...
• Why David Cronenberg Is Wrong About Stanley Ku ...
  By Darryl Mason Director David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) says Stanley Kubrick "didn't understand horror" when he adapted Stephen King's The Shining. "I think I'm a more intimate and personal film-maker than Kubrick ever was," Cronenberg told the Toronto Star. "That's why I find The Shin ...
• China's So-Called "Ghost Cities" Now Filling U ...
  By Darryl Mason Western media got a good run of China's "Ghost Cities", numerous 'serious' newspaper stories, online slide shows, currents affairs stories, tens of million of hits and video video views, so all very popular. But not so very accurate: In the case of Henan’s Zhengzhou—frequently ...

Wired - Science

• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Vesta’s Aelia
  This colorful composite image from NASA's Dawn mission shows the flow of material inside and outside a crater called Aelia on the giant asteroid Vesta. The area is around 14 degrees south latitude. The images that went into this composite ...     
• In Memoriam: The Space Robots We Lost This Year
  At the end of every year, news sites publish memorials for all the important people the world has lost. But nobody ever mentions the space robots.     
• Steve Jobs’ Doctor Wants to Help Us All Live L ...
  David Agus helped Steve Jobs live longer. Now he want to help us all.   Bryce Duffy It’s 6:30 on a Monday morning and already David Agus is doing an admirable job of sticking to the rules. Dressed in the ...     
• Building Bridges and Supercomputers Is Tough, ...
  Bay Bridge | Demolition began: November 2013 | Duration of project: 3 years | (1) The original eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, photographed from the Oakland side on November 8, 2013. (2) The 80-year-old steel is not ...     
• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Pulsating Stella ...
  This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planetary nebula NGC 2452, located in the southern constellation of Puppis. The blue haze across the frame is what remains of a star like our Sun after it has depleted all its ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Moshé Machover: Belling the cat
  A political project is purely utopian unless it can indicate a likely agent - a socio-political force able to realise it and whose long-term interests it would serve. In the present article I propose... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Noam Chomsky: The Arab Spring – power does not ...
  There are two parts of the Arab world that remain effectively colonies: Western Sahara ... and of course Palestine, where negotiations are underway conforming to the two essential US-Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Chris Hedges: Imploding the myth of Israel
  Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Noam Chomsky: The one state/two state debate i ...
  t is assumed almost universally that there are two options for cis-Jordan: either two states -- Palestinian and Jewish-democratic -- or one state "from the sea to the river." Israeli commentators... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Noam Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine
  At the fringes, some observers reject the shared [US] assumptions, bringing up the historical record: for example, the fact that "for nearly seven decades" the United States has led the world in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

• How strange is too strange for bedfellows?
  Political coalitions often bring together otherwise adversarial groups: In the eighties a subset of feminists and Christian fundamentalists worked together on anti-pornography issues; starting in the nineties immigrant rights and business groups found common cause on citizenship reform (still no ...
• Naturally occurring, but not with wanderlust
  About a year ago a local family began getting flammable water. The fact that their house’s recorded methane levels (along with their sink) shot up shortly after fracking began nearby was considered maybe not coincidental, so the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) looked into it. ...
• Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
  Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
• Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
  Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
• Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
  Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Secret Trade Deal Spawns ‘We Will Not Obey’ Mo ...
  In his epic book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman advises “Resist Much. Obey Little.” But when it comes to corporations trampling on local rights, the city of Madison, Wis., advises other cities and counties to do what it has done: Resist much. Obey not. Click here to read this article
• Organic Food Market in United States to Grow a ...
  The increasing awareness of health benefits coupled with the per capita income are stimulating the demand for organic food in the United States market. Click here to read this article
• Why the First GMO Labeling Law in the US Doesn ...
  It's here! On Wednesday, Connecticut because the first state in America to pass a law that requires food manufacturers to indicate the presence of genetically-engineered ingredients on the label.Click here to read this article
• Farms Finest: Green-Washing Tactics Abound
  I saw an advertisement last week that would make any organic farmer's blood boil. In the Dec. 6 edition of the Wall Street Journal, there was a half-page ad showing a young boy's face and the American flag, with the red and white stripes flowing into rows of crops being harvested. Bold words her ...
• Rich People's Idea of Charity: Giving to Elite ...
  The wealthy aren't donating to food shelters. They're giving to Yale and fancy theaters for a tax deduction. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• CLF Week in Links: FDA, Farm Bill, Shrimp and More
  Yesterday U.S. House members approved a 50-day extension of the 2008 farm bill to allow more time for conference committee negotiations on a new, five-year bill.
• When the Fish and Plants Don’t Get Along
  We constantly monitor our water quality, fish health, and plant performance to ensure that we are keeping the system balanced, but what happens when something goes wrong?
• CLF-Lerner Fellows Volunteer Day at Boone Stre ...
  The CLF-Lerner Fellows enjoyed a sunny Saturday afternoon last weekend volunteering in East Baltimore at Boone Street Farm, a small community farm.
• CLF Week in Links: Overfishing, Climate Change ...
  Students’ lunch breaks keep getting shorter—some as short as 15 minutes; the people of Millsboro, Delaware, are trying to prevent an enormous chicken processing plant from moving into town; oil companies are budgeting to pay for carbon, but Koch Industries is fighting it.
• Giving Thanks to Our Food Workers
  Most food workers toil under the poverty line. These conditions are unlivable and the consequences extend from workers to the health of 20 million worker families. Or, the very things, each Thanksgiving, we say we cherish most.

Investigate - Breaking News

• Vitamin D deficiency provides ‘reasonable doub ...
  Vitamin D deficiency provides ‘reasonable doubt’ in child abuse case.
• New climate change report trashes exaggeration ...
  New climate change report trashes exaggeration of global warming.
• Email scam hits NZ: We are all Nigerians now
  Email scam hits NZ: We are all Nigerians now.
• Breaking news: leaked IPCC climate report admi ...
  Breaking news: leaked IPCC climate report admits ‘we got it wrong’.
• World’s top atheist Richard Dawkins defends ‘m ...
  World’s top atheist Richard Dawkins defends ‘mild pedophilia’.

My Care2 Picks

• IPCC spin translated
  A lightheated romp through the misrepresentations of a political organization perverting science as only accomplished liars can manage - the Intergovernmental Panel being devoted to selling policy via fearmongering Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it! ...
• If Only for a Second - You Need to Watch This
  'Carefree'...bear with captions. It's better than a sight gag. Laughter moments. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Seed : The Untold Story - The Final Push
  Noted on Facebook Non-GMO Project : story of seeds video project Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Russian Nuclear Weapons Have Supplied Power to ...
  "In fact, nearly ten percent of electricity in the United States over the past fifteen years has come from dismantled nuclear bombs." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Israels War on Palestinian Children
  In 1991, Israel ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).Israel is the only nation trying children in military courts.Since start of the September 2000 second Intifada, Israel arrested and brutalized over 9,000 Palestinian children Submitted by John Farnham to World &nbs ...

Farm Wars

• Corporate Espionage: The Séralini Affair and B ...
  Comprehensive information regarding government collusion and the relentless push for GMOs throughout the world. What Séralini’s team discovered in rats is happening in humans.
• F. William Engdahl: Origins & Aims of GMO
  The origins and aims of GMO - Control of food by Globalist Criminal Corporations.
• Who Owns the Children?
  With all the tribulations it takes to raise a child, there should be no question that the final authority to raise a child rests with the parents. The ultimate authority over a child, resides with the parents.
• The White Wave of Organic Deceit
  The consolidation of organic interests by conglomerates having no real interest in true organics, but merely the bottom line continues at a dizzying rate.
• Did journal editor read the Seralini paper bef ...
  Hayes not having read the paper is, of course, the charitable interpretation of his actions, because if he is familiar with the paper's contents it might be hard not to conclude that he has deliberately misrepresented them.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
  Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Requesting Asylum, Snowden Offers to Help Braz ...
  ShareThisRequesting Asylum, Snowden Offers to Help Brazil With N.S.A. Inquiry 17 Dec 2013 Edward J. Snowden, the former contractor for the National Security Agency now living temporarily in Russia, said in comments published on Tuesday that he was prepared to assist Brazilian investigations of ...
• West Coast Evacuation Due to Fukushima Radiati ...
  ShareThisWest Coast Evacuation Due to Fukushima Radiation Is Possible - ABC News 15 Nov 2013 Nuclear Engineer Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, confirmed that ocean currents are carrying the radioactive water to the West Coast. "There are seve ...
• Six U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash i ...
  ShareThisSix U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan 17 Dec 2013 Six U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO said. U.S. defense officials said the soldiers killed in the crash, which occurred in Afghanistan's southern Zabul provi ...
• Edward Snowden says judge's ruling vindicates ...
  ShareThisEdward Snowden says judge's ruling vindicates NSA surveillance disclosures 16 Dec 2013 Edward Snowden, the former security contractor who leaked a trove of National Security Agency documents, welcomed a court ruling on Monday that declared the bulk collection of Americans' teleph ...
• Subpoenas seek any Christie correspondence in ...
  ShareThisSubpoenas seek any Christie correspondence in GWB lane closure debacle 16 Dec 2013 The Democratic lawmaker investigating September's controversial lane closures at the George Washington Bridge has subpoenaed any correspondence on the matter between Gov. Chris Christie and Port Authority ...

Daily Loaf

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Use better techniques not desalination for irr ...
  Desalination may seem like a magic solution to water shortages. It’s not, primarily because it’s expensive. A former mayor of Phoenix thinks the Sea of Cortez should have multiple desalination plants. Much of that water would go for irrigated farming. Watering The Desert says a far b ...
• 60 Minutes NSA story trashed, response from po ...
  The good news about the despicable 60 Minutes segment on NSA is multitudes of other media trashed it. The bad news is, not a single politician did. This highlights the growing gulf between the public and DC, most of whom apparently are too terrified or bought-off to publicly question NSA or anyt ...
• Grid-scale battery storage for renewable energ ...
  California is mandating utilities invest in renewable energy storage. However, no one yet knows how or if this will work. Renewable energy is by nature unpredictable yet the grid must always be in perfect parity between supply and demand. Storing energy for future use sounds like a solution. How ...
• California high speed rail plans finally in se ...
  California Governor Jerry Brown is determined to build high speed rail, his gift to big labor and big banks. But courts may have slowed him. Recent rulings say they can’t use state money because it violates the terms of the bond issue that financed it. Now lawmakers are saying using federa ...
• Solar power soaring, US is 6th worldwide
  Interesting, that despite all our hoopla about renewable energy, that the US is just sixth in production worldwide. This chart is promising however total renewable energy production is still just a blip compared to coal, gas, and nuclear.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Exposing The 1/10th Of The 1 Percent: Recogniz ...
    Via Political Outcast CNBC, much like Bloomberg, is a source for regime propaganda. It wants people to comply with a system of central-bank-driven nation-states. But the only way it can be effective as propaganda is to keep its ratings up. That is the only reason people like James Grant g ...
• Washington’s Dirty Game in Ukraine (Regi ...
  “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” ~ Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)   by Stephen Lendman  Da ...
• Why are Republicans Silent about past, and pre ...
  ED: Of course the other side of all of this is that the Obama IRS, DHS, FBI, NSA are also working to harass and silence groups on the far Left. Democrats are silent. Godfather Politics Two seemingly unrelated articles caught my attention. Here’s the first one: “Wall Street Journal columnist Kimb ...
• After 100 Years Of Failure, It’s Time To End T ...
  By Ron Paul 12.16.13 Lew Rockwell A week from now, the Federal Reserve System will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. Resulting from secret negotiations between bankers and politicians at Jekyll Island, the Fed’s creation established a banking cartel and a board of government overs ...
• Google’s Racing Robots destined for milt ...
  Google’s racing robots give Amazon’s drones a run for their money FT   Google has snapped up the creator of the world’s fastest running robot and other eerily realistic animal-like machines supplied to the US military. The internet company’s acquisition of Boston Dynamics is latest in a str ...

The Air Vent

• Adaptation to Global Warming
  A look out the back door in mid December.
• Taxes and Society
  There is a lot of dogma in politics regarding tax rates and general government performance. I personally have found that most people make statements about politics with literally zero data.  On thanksgiving, I spent about 4 hours on the government data website – http://www.bea.gov/iTable/i ...
• In the News
  There has been a ton of interesting activity in the climate world and I’m tired of missing out on it.   In case you haven’t noticed, Nic Lewis has established himself as a top expert on climate model performance. I don’t believe anyone in the climate community is turning out wo ...
• Sausage the Deer
  So I finally got a deer – while hunting!   I’m 44 so most had completely given up hope on me ever shooting one, and the office humor revolved around how much drinking we were going to do and whether I was going to bring the gun this year, but the area we hunt in isn’t […]
• Climategate Week 2013
  I’m gone for a week and won’t be blogging after today.   Perhaps Kevin will answer my graph on the previous thread while I’m gone. We will see if he embraces facts as well as he claimed. As for me, I’ll be lost in the northern woods of Michigan, which means that this is t ...

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