Thursday, January 17, 2013

17 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Netanyahu Suffers From Being Too Popular
    “We feel like we finally live a normal life in a normal country,” marvelled a popular radio host. Normalcy – this rare appreciation by Israelis of the privilege to indulge in small talk about the stormy weather that’s wreaked the whole region – is so abnormal here. They’re reeling from the worst ...
  • Morphine Kills Pain but its Price Kills Patients
    It took Gily Ncube’s daughters two weeks to sell enough chickens to raise the 18 dollars needed to buy the morphine tablets their mother takes every four hours. In a country where unemployment is estimated at 70 percent, 18 dollars for a bottle of 60 tablets of 10 milligrammes (mg) each is a ste ...
  • People Pay for Research Against Migrants
    This is the second of a two-part report on extraordinary measures the EU is taking to keep unwanted migrants out.
  • Mexico’s Gun Problems Go Beyond Drug Wars
    A lot of attention goes to the U.S.-made weapons in the hands of criminal groups in this Latin American country. But there is little talk of another problem: the large number of light weapons in the hands of civilians. The Mexican Constitution establishes the people’s right to “own guns in ...
  • Treaty “Insufficient” to Reduce Global Mercury ...
    Even as government negotiators from around the world prepare to gather next week for a final round of talks on a new international treaty limiting the use of mercury, scientists and activists are warning that the draft treaty is both too weak and too limited in scope to have a major impact. “Bas ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran and the Fallacy of Saber-Rattling
    Summary: The Iranians have good reason to be suspicious of ultimate U.S. and Western motivations, and threats of military force figure into that in an unhelpful way too. The Iranians do not have to look far to see ample evidence in favor of the proposition that the primary U.S. goal regarding ...
  • The Age of the Siege: Nazi Military Tactics Re ...
    Summary: Sieges now extend to entire countries, they have become the torture before the destruction. And they are not counted in long days, but in long years. Iran thirty three years, Iraq thirteen-plus years. Ironically the disparity in the deaths in Iraq resultant from that siege, mirror ne ...
  • The Guardian admits Iran sanctions are criminal
    Summary: The Guardian features an article today titled "Iran unable to get life-saving drugs due to international sanctions" by Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan, which exposes the criminal nature of Western sanctions on Iran. source: CASMIIread more
  • Hollywood Demonizes Iran Again
    Summary: Comparing Not Without My Daughter with Argo through critical lenses simply alerts us to a frozen time, as if in the twenty year separating the two movies, commonly focusing on Americans' escape from Iran, Hollywood has learned nothing new, still immersed in its ideological wheel of s ...
  • Print Economic Sanctions and Human Rights
    Summary: Multilateral and unilateral economic sanctions imposed on Iran are contrary to the following principle of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration begins with the preamble that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all membe ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Black Holes of the Universe Growing Faster tha ...
                     For years, scientists had believed that supermassive black holes, located at the centers of galaxies, increased their mass in step with the growth of their host galaxy. However, new observations have revealed a dramatically different behaviour. "Black holes have been ...
  • Image of the Day: Oldest "Galaxy City" in the ...
                             This past February, a team of astronomers discovered the most distant cluster of red galaxies ever observed using FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Telescope. The galaxy cluster is located 10.5 billion light yea ...
  • "Every Galaxy has Counterparts in Other Univer ...
                     “The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations," says David Deutsch. "It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a re ...
  • "Gravity is an Illusion" (Today's Most Popular)
                           Could both gravity and the Big Bang be an illusion? In January 2010, Erik Verlinde, professor ofTheoretical Physics and world-renowned string theorist, caused a worldwide stir with the publication of On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton, in which he ...
  • Curiosity Rover Set to Drill to Reveal Clues t ...
                     NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a sam ...

Natural News

  • Obama's 23 executive orders on gun control: Do ...
    As promised, President Obama has issued 23 executive orders as part of his campaign to disarm the American people and strip them of their Second Amendment rights. These executive orders include things like turning doctors into police state snitches by order them to ...
  • Obama turns doctors into gun control snitches ...
    If you needed another reason to avoid visiting a doctor, Obama just gave you a new one: as part of Obama's 23 executive orders announced today, doctors will be transformed into gun control snitches who are ordered by Obama to ask patients about guns they might have at...
  • Psychiatrists and prostitutes: 5 sad similarities
    Almost any profession trading services for money can be loosely compared to prostitution, but the field of psychiatry is especially rich with similarities. Here are five. Can you think of others? 1. Prostitutes are controlled by human trafficking cartels. Psychiatrists...
  • Married people are less likely to die in middl ...
    People who are not married and who do not have a permanent partner are significantly more likely to die prematurely during middle age and people in permanent partnerships, according to a study conducted by Duke University researchers and published in the Annals of Behavioral...
  • Systematic desensitization and Big Pharma
    Developed to treat anxiety-related disorders and phobias, systematic desensitization (SD) is based on the principles of classical conditioning and the premise that what has been learned (conditioned) can be unlearned. This "conditioning;" however, has been systematically...

Threat Level

  • Surveillance Strategy Is ‘Privileged and Confi ...
    The President Barack Obama administration's surveillance strategy in the wake of the Supreme Court's that the installation of a GPS tracker on a vehicle amounted to a search under the Fourth Amendment remains "privileged and confidential," the Justice Department claims ...
  • White House Must Respond to Petition to Remove ...
    A Whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove Massachusetts' top federal prosecutor in the aftermath of the Aaron Swartz suicide has surpassed 25,000 signatures -- meaning the administration must enter the hotly contested debate whether authorities went too ...
  • Megaupload’s Entrapment Claim Is ‘Baseless,’ F ...
    Megaupload’s contention that the authorities entrapped the now-shuttered file-sharing service is “baseless,” the government said in a new court filing.
  • Prosecutor Dismisses Charges Against Aaron Swartz
    Monday morning the government filed one last motion in United States of America v. Aaron Swartz. “Pursuant to FRCP [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] 48(a), the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, hereby dismisses the ...
  • The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors
    The FBI’s been warning that its surveillance capabilities are “going dark,” because internet communications technologies are getting too difficult to intercept with current law enforcement tools. So the FBI wants a more wiretap-friendly internet, and legislation to mandate it will ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Snowflakes Forgotten, Conservatives Fume about ...
    If the broad sweep of President Obama's gun control proposals wasn't enough, conservatives on Wednesday found another reason for their blood vessel-bursting apoplexy. The President was joined at the White House by several children who had written letters to him pleading for action on gun violen ...
  • 10 Easy to Imagine NRA Gun Proposals
    President Obama on Wednesday will unveil the recommendations of the gun violence task force led by Joe Biden. Despite the popularity of many of the measures among the American people and even its own membership, the National Rifle Association is almost certain to oppose each and every bill and ...
  • GOP Pretends Past Debt Ceiling No Votes Equal ...
    One day after New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman described Republican brinksmanship on the debt ceiling as "hostage-taking," President Obama used his Monday press conference declared, "They will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American e ...
  • 100,000 Cops
    In the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school bloodbath last month, National Rifle Association vice president Wayne LaPierre summed up his group's Hobbesian vision for America this way, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." He then proceeded to propose a m ...
  • Hagel Flashback: Corker, GOP Senators Question ...
    This weekend, Republicans led by Senator John McCain stepped up their withering criticism of President Obama's nominee for Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel. In a new line of attack, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker questioned Hagel's "overall temperament." As it turns out, Corker's choice of words w ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David Halvorson
    Eric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
  • “Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...
    An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
  • Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...
    With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
  • Headlines for November 28, 2012
    Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
  • Palestine Activism in the UK
    Across Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians

Consortium News

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

  • First Asteroid Intercept Mission Planned by ES ...
    So, you want to save humanity from the same fate that wiped out the dinosaurs…? Maybe you’ve got a great idea for intercepting and/or deflecting a threat of the asteroid-speeding-towards-Earth kind? Well, first, there are a great many details and logistics to consider when one is tal ...
  • Black Carbon Is Much Larger Contributor To Cli ...
    Black carbon, commonly known as ‘soot’, turns out to be a much more potent contributor to climate change than was previously thought, new research has found. So, in addition to the numerous health problems it causes, and the environmental destruction and deforestation that it is asso ...
  • Apes Have A Sense Of ‘Fairness’ That Is Very S ...
    Chimpanzees apparently possess a sense of what is ‘fair’ that is extremely similar to that of humans, new research has found. Not that it is very surprising, given how extremely similar humans and other ape species are. Previously though, the ‘expert’ consensus had been t ...
  • New Compound Regenerates Auditory Hair Cells – ...
    Sometimes a drug developed to treat one disease or disorder is found to be efficacious in treating another. Such is the case with a new compound called LY-411575 which was originally developed to treat symptoms accompanying Alzheimer’s progression. In studies of the drug, medical experts d ...
  • Large Solar Eruption, CME Will Cause Strong No ...
    A very large solar eruption just occurred on January 13, 2013, in the early morning hours. The Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, is very likely to trigger a strong Northern Lights display this week, researchers from NASA say. But not powerful enough to cause problems for satellites o ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Just so we're clear, this is the same Edwin Meese that was, as Reagan's AG, forced to resign in disgrace in the last year of Reagans administration, over the Wedtech scandal, who is now talking about impeachment for Barack Obama if he uses executive power to enact the sort of assault ...
  • Progressives_The New Right Of Center "Left"
    ne of the things I've found most disheartening about this last few years and the solidification of my transition from a well right of center Republican to a left of center Independent/Populist is the manner on which the two major parties have managed to agree on one thing... that actual liberals ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Bring it, Bitch. Impeach him because you idiotic goons love guns more than you hate closets full of bullet-riddled dead six year olds. Rep. Steve Stockman, an inbred Texas cretin and a living warning about what results when first cousins marry, is beside himself at the prospect of the ...
  • Platinum Coin No Silver Bullet
    By @TedFrier On Sunday, Kevin Drum at Mother Jones echoed my concern that resolving the debt ceiling standoff with silly expedients such as the minting of trillion dollar platinum coins, sets a precedent for craziness that will badly hurt us in the end. A banana republic is a nominal democracy u ...
  • Monday Morning Quad Shot
    By @BGinKC Happy Monday, y'all...Hope your week is off to a better start than my dog's week. He is having to deal with a cat in his space...my youngest has allergies and she's seven months pregnant, so they bought new furniture and are de-dandering the house and I took the cat until the baby pro ...

Care 2

  • Urge Ireland to Ban Harmful Fracking ! PLEASE ...
    Recently, the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed a ban on fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, until a thorough environmental study could be completed. The ban forbids oil companies from beginning fracking procedures until there is evidence Submitted by Cher C. to Environment &nbs ...
  • 10 Things You Need to Know about Arctic Sea Ice
    Much of the Arctic is covered by ocean, which, in turn, is covered by a layer of ice for much of the year. The extent of the ice grows and recedes with the seasons. Submitted by Kit B. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Time To ACT on Gun Violence Is NOW *Take ...
    That's why we're teaming up with GunFreeKids to thank President Obama for his leadership, and then tell Congress to take immediate action to curtail gun violence now. ***Please sign*** Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Justice For The Forgotten Dog - The Petition S ...
    An emaciated dog, denied shelter and subjected to frigid temperatures, was discovered frozen to the ground in Memphis, Tenn. Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Hemp Legalization Effort Gathers Steam
    "While the United States ranks as the worlds leading consumer of hemp products, it is the only major industrialized country that bans growing it, even though 11 states have passed measures removing barriers to hemp production and research. " Submitted by Brian M. to Green Lifestyle  |&nbsp ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “The Vindication of Mitt Romney”
    As you, Larry Johnson, and I have long felt, Mitt Romney would have made an excellent president: From Human Event‘s article, “The Vindication of Mitt Romney”: Defeated presidential candidate Mitt Romney was right about an awful lot of things, including some things he was roundl ...
  • NY approves sweeping gun control package, owne ...
    Yesterday, Larry Johnson wrpte a post, “The Reality of Bearing Arms” yesterday: The ignorance of the American people with respect to the Second Amendment is startling. As a descendant of 18 men who fought in the American Revolution (1776-1783), I understand that the right to keep and ...
  • The Reality of Bearing Arms
    The ignorance of the American people with respect to the Second Amendment is startling: ‘A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.’ As a descendant of 18 men who fought in the Amer ...
  • Obama weighs 19 executive actions on gun contr ...
    The Pentagon has maintained been granting around half of the standard separation pay amount for “troops who were honorably discharged for being open about their sexual orientation …” The photograph was produced by T. Ortega Gaines for the Associated Press. In an Aug. 22, 2011, ...
  • Barack Obama Condemns Barack Obama As Unpatriotic
    Man, is this a case of Pot Calling Kettle Black? Barack Obama hangs himself with his own words. Here he is pontificating back in 2008: The debt was only 9 trillion dollars back then and Barry was having a conniption fit about the profligacy of George W. Bush. Then Obama got his hands on the [...]

Futurismic

  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Alexandria and Arlington religion notes - Wash ...
    Alexandria and Arlington religion notes Washington Post ... and a 20-minute video followed by a question-and-answer by Dottie Bockstiegel of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards about “Mountaintop Removal,” 1-1:40 p.m. Clarendon United Methodist Church, 606 N. Irving St., Arlington. 703-52 ...
  • Keystone XL Pipeline Protests Part of Anti-Ext ...
    Between The Lines Keystone XL Pipeline Protests Part of Anti-Extractive Movement Solidarity Between The Lines From mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia to the tar sands pipelines in Texas and New England, to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking for natural gas, those concerned about climat ...
  • Mountainfilm on Tour brings Olympians to Savan ...
    Mountainfilm on Tour brings Olympians to Savannah to educate, inspire Savannah Morning News Despite his experience, DeChristopher remains firm in his beliefs, and says similar actions should be used to stop mountaintop removal for mining in his home state of West Virginia. “He's very strong, ...
  • House Democrat on Ashley Judd for Senate: 'She ...
    MSNBC House Democrat on Ashley Judd for Senate: 'She'd fit right in' MSNBC “I've been on programs with her—for instance, in opposition to mountaintop removal mining…This is somebody who has always been very involved in issues and very interested in politics, and she sees an oppor ...
  • Washington: Sierra Club Launches New Campaign: ...
    Washington: Sierra Club Launches New Campaign: Obama Climate Legacy Electric Light & Power Adopt and enforce coal pollution protections for carbon, soot, smog, sulfur, water toxics and coal ash, and set water pollution standards that will end mountaintop removal mining. Enact standards and close ...

Memeorandum

  • Failing History: Colleges Neglect Core U.S. Pr ...
    Peter Berkowitz / Real Clear Politics: Failing History: Colleges Neglect Core U.S. Principles  —  The trench warfare between President Obama's Democratic Party and the House-led Republicans over the budget, entitlements, and regulation reflects a profound and historic difference ...
  • PM hits back at Obama: I know what's best for ...
    Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post: PM hits back at Obama: I know what's best for Israel  —  Netanyahu visits Gaza border, says over last four years Israel has stood up to strong pressure and will continue to do so.  —  A day after US columnist Jeffrey Goldberg quoted ...
  • For 'Party of Business,' Allegiances Are Shift ...
    Jackie Calmes / New York Times: For ‘Party of Business,’ Allegiances Are Shifting  —  WASHINGTON — Not for the first time, the White House made known on Monday that top administration officials had reached out to corporate executives for their help in getting R ...
  • Obama turns to 'team player' McDonough as chie ...
    Josh Gerstein / Politico: Obama turns to ‘team player’ McDonough as chief of staff  —  President Barack Obama plans to name Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough as his next chief of staff, a Democratic source briefed on the plans tells POLITICO.  McD ...
  • White House Gun Proposals (New York Times)
    New York Times: White House Gun Proposals

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China Dialogue

  • 不能喝的北&#2014 ...
    北京城里“最会喝水的家庭”已经二十年不喝自来水了。他们告诉公众北京水的严峻&# ...
  • 中国最脏的&#2608 ...
    当大半个中国迎来有史以来最“脏”的日子，中国已不存在环境安全的孤岛。北京空&# ...
  • 中国贷款或&#2355 ...
    国际河流组织政策主管白好德认为，水坝和灌溉项目将引发“伤亡惨重且旷日持久的& ...
  • 冰川与大坝&#2004 ...
    一边是融化的冰川，一边是新建的大坝。川北黑水镇的人们正在努力适应着变化环境 ...
  • 中国猪肉需&#2771 ...
    近在咫尺的猪场给后童垄村带来了严重的健康问题，但在修建前没有任何人征求过村 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Obama Calls for Assault Weapons Ban; Chastises ...
    President Barack Obama today took to the White House podium to deliver a strongly worded statement calling on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, to limit sales of magazines to those that contain no more than 10 rounds of ammunition, and to close a loophole in the law governing gun sales ...
  • GOP Willing to Take Mind-Boggling Risks in Ord ...
    A prolonged confrontation over the nation's debt ceiling -- unlike the "fiscal cliff," which provoked many scary headlines -- could truly be grave for both America and the world. While press coverage often mentions the possibility of lowered credit ratings for the U.S. Treasury (again), that ...
  • Jon Stewart Slams Armstrong Doping 'Confession'
    Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart dug into reports that Lance Armstrong admitted to doping in an Oprah Winfrey interview that will run this Thursday. Scoffing at the media’s obsession with the cancer-survivor/seven-time Tou de France winner’s performance-enhancing drug u ...
  • Has the NRA Lost It Entirely?
    On the eve of President Obama announcing his gun control agenda, based on Vice President Joe Biden’s task force recommendations, the National Rifle Association needed to go big: to remind Americans that the organization protects their gun rights, and to remind politicians that they&#x2 ...
  • AlterNet Comics: Keith Knight on Lance Armstro ...
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Threat Level

  • Surveillance Strategy Is ‘Privileged and Confi ...
    The President Barack Obama administration's surveillance strategy in the wake of the Supreme Court's that the installation of a GPS tracker on a vehicle amounted to a search under the Fourth Amendment remains "privileged and confidential," the Justice Department claims ...
  • White House Must Respond to Petition to Remove ...
    A Whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove Massachusetts' top federal prosecutor in the aftermath of the Aaron Swartz suicide has surpassed 25,000 signatures -- meaning the administration must enter the hotly contested debate whether authorities went too ...
  • Megaupload’s Entrapment Claim Is ‘Baseless,’ F ...
    Megaupload’s contention that the authorities entrapped the now-shuttered file-sharing service is “baseless,” the government said in a new court filing.
  • Prosecutor Dismisses Charges Against Aaron Swartz
    Monday morning the government filed one last motion in United States of America v. Aaron Swartz. “Pursuant to FRCP [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] 48(a), the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, hereby dismisses the ...
  • The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors
    The FBI’s been warning that its surveillance capabilities are “going dark,” because internet communications technologies are getting too difficult to intercept with current law enforcement tools. So the FBI wants a more wiretap-friendly internet, and legislation to mandate it will ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • What’s up with E. coli and Wisconsin
    Glenn’s Market and Catering, a Watertown, WI establishment, is recalling approximately 2,532 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of... Continue Reading
  • Snitching and Jailing your way to Food Safety?
    A couple of headlines caught my attention this morning. The first, “China To Offer Up To $48,000 Reward For Food Safety Informers” might find some takers. Apparently, China will offer... Continue Reading
  • Another Raw Milk E. coli Outbreak Brewing in M ...
    The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has become aware of several cases of diarrheal illness from northwest Missouri, possibly caused by Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC), including one... Continue Reading
  • California Canada Leafy Green E. coli O157:H7 ...
    Last Friday the Public Health Agency of Canada (CFIA) announced 26 E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario linked to shredded lettuce distributed by FreshPoint Inc.... Continue Reading
  • A Nationwide E. coli Outbreak with a Minnesota ...
    In December 2009 the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) uploaded results of molecular testing by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) of an E. coli O157:H7 isolate cultured from a patient... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Coda Automotive undergoes "massive lay ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Electric Plug In Cars is reporting that there have been "massive layoffs" at California electric vehicle startup Coda Automotive. Apparently, more than 50 employees, "including a substantial part of its sales and marketing staf ...
  • Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
  • Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost
    Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...
  • Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
  • First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • The Sandy Hook Shooting – Fully Exposed ...
    The Sandy Hook Shooting – Fully Exposed – YouTube.
  • CFL Bulbs Contain Harmful Chemicals, Damage Yo ...
    With the government moving to ban incandescent light bulbsin favor energy-saving compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs, it’s important to remember what this means for your health. A German Study that found that compact fluorescent lights emit cancer-causing chemicals such as phenol, naphthalene, a ...
  • Windmills Overload East Europe’s Grid Risking ...
    By Ladka Bauerova & Tino Andresen – Oct 25, 2012 5:01 PM MT Germany is dumping electricity on its unwilling neighbors and by wintertime the feud should come to a head. Central and Eastern European countries are moving to disconnect their power lines from Germany’s during the windiest d ...
  • By Way of Attempted Explication.
    By Visible Greetings Friends and welcome to the halls of Origami. I seem to have run afoul of certain sensibilities over the course of the last week in my postings here and there. I just got an email from someone who was upset with me because they said I was fearful. This was something I [...]
  • Tubing down Buffoon River to Shylock City
    By Visible This will probably come as no surprise to the reader. Many of you have seen the various documentaries about the corporate theft of public waters. If not, you can look them up. The films are riveting. In many cases, local government functionaries take bribes that allow large water tank ...

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

  • Vital reading for America: two stories that m ...
    Summary:  Please read these in full. These are big stories. Too important to excerpt. Both concern every American. Perhaps they can help arouse the anger that might be the Republic’s only hope for survival. . “Anger is easy. Anger at the right person, at the right time, for the right reaso ...
  • Myth-busting about gun use in the Wild West
    Summary:  America’s broken Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action becomes most visible during political debates. For both Left and Right,  fidelity to group dogma about “hot  button” issues defines the group, about which no heterodox thought is allowed. This gives US debates t ...
  • Let’s look at the Second Amendment, cutt ...
    Summary:  It’s the great oddity of the US that we order our society based on exegesis of an 18th century document, written in grammar no longer used with words whose meaning has often radically changed.  Instead of justice or logic, our judges have become like the mandarins of Imperial Chi ...
  • Guns do not make us safer. Why is this not ob ...
    Summary:  Public policy in America has become a debate about myths, as our broken OODA loops degrade our ability to see and reason — and we become more easily influenced by propaganda. That’s a natural response by our elites; a sensible person doesn’t attempt to reason with she ...
  • Why comments have been turned off on the FM we ...
    Summary:  The FM website has turned off its comments.  Please comment on our posts at the FM Facebook page.  Here we discuss why. Websites deal with comments in many ways.   Some do not have comments (eg, Instapundit, Lawfare, and James Fallows at the Atlantic).  Some are heavily moderated (eg, ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Discovery of the Spider That Builds Spi ...
    In December, we broke the news about a new species of spider discovered in Peru. Tiny, and likely a member of the genus Cyclosa, the spider builds large, spider-shaped decoys -- and vibrates its web, acting as a master puppeteer. ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Supermas ...
    A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae.
  • Short Penis No Obstacle for ‘Spermcasting’ Bar ...
    Even Charles Darwin marveled at the length of the barnacle's penis. In some species, it's up to eight times the body length. Not all barnacles are so well-endowed, however, raising the question of how animals that can't reach their neighbors ...
  • Curiosity Rover Prepares to Drill Into Rocks T ...
    NASA's Curiosity rover has explored a new area on Mars called Yellowknife Bay, which shows plenty of evidence of flowing water and even contains rocks that were once saturated with water. The rover is preparing to drill into a rock ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Rings of ...
    This image, taken with the Wide Angle Camera (WAC), shows the outer rim and inner peak ring of Raditladi basin. The basin's smooth floor and well-preserved peak ring structure indicate that Raditladi is relatively young. The concentric troughs along the ...

PakAlert

  • New York Senate Passes Strict Gun Ban
    Last night the New York State Senate passed what is being called the toughest gun laws in the country. The law would ban assault rifles, limit magazines to 7 rounds, and has limited grandfathering. The bill still needs to pass the assembly before the governor can sign it into law. “I simply ...
  • Sandy Hook: The curious case of Emilie Parker
    When news came on December 14, 2012, that a gunman had killed 6 adults and 20 young children in Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut, I was in shock — like you were. Even after the many gun shootings of the recent past — in Aurora, CO; Tucson, AZ; Virginia Tech, VA; Columbine, CO — ...
  • Bilderberg Bangs War Drums; Pushes Obama to Bo ...
    Bilderberg luminary Dennis Ross celebrated Christmas by banging his war drums in a campaign to prod President Barack Obama into killing Palestinians and Iranians on behalf of Israel. Americans would, again, spill most of the blood and would finance the military operation. Israel will pay a share ...
  • If You Can Calm Weather, You Can Intensify it ...
    The mainline news publication USA Today thinks that it’s a “good news” that found of Microsoft Bill Gates plans on controlling the weather. Atmospheric management they are calling it, the ability the quail hurricanes by way of deflection, modification, and suppression
  • Texas Congressman Threatens Obama With Impeach ...
    Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) threatened Monday to file articles of impeachment against President Obama if he uses executive orders to institute gun control measures, the Daily Caller reported. Stockman said such executive orders would be “unconstitutional” and would “infringe on our constitutio ...

Andy Worthington

  • Video: Close Guantánamo – Andy Worthingt ...
    On Friday, the 11th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, myself and the attorney Tom Wilner, the steering committee of the “Close Guantánamo” campaign, held our annual reunion at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. with Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor of ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Tells President Obama ...
    “Andy Worthington rips President Obama for failing to close Guantánamo” is the heading that the Baltimore-based filmmaker Bill Hughes gave to his video of my speech outside the White House in Washington D.C. on Friday January 11, on the 11th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo. ...
  • Close Guantánamo: Photos of Protestors outside ...
    Close Guantánamo: Protestors outside the Supreme Court on the 11th Anniversary of the Opening of the Prison, a set on Flickr. These photos are from the protest in Washington D.C. on January 11, 2013 to mark the 11th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantána ...
  • Eleven Years of Guantánamo: End This Scandal Now!
    Eleven years ago, on January 11, 2002, the Bush administration proudly presented to the world one of its major responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 — a prison on the grounds of the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, designed to hold hundreds of men and boys seized i ...
  • A Message from Omar Deghayes on the 11th Anniv ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...

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Sciencebase

  • Climate change makeover
    Often a name change, a brand re-launch or a corporate makeover becomes a matter of urgency when a company gets seriously bad press. I could list a few examples but will spare their blushes (#subtweet). Of course, when it comes to a phenomenon, the same thing can happen. Think global warming morp ...
  • How nutritious is horse meat?
    Just a quick round-up cribbed from NutritionData via KQED to address the issue of how nutritious is horse meat compared to beef in the wake of “StableGate” (horse DNA allegedly present in value burgers sold by UK and Iris supermarkets). Horse meat is about 120 vs beef’s 130 kil ...
  • Parkinson’s treatment might trigger creativity
    According to a press release on Eurekalert: “Parkinson’s experts across the world have been reporting a remarkable phenomenon — many patients treated with drugs to increase the activity of dopamine in the brain as a therapy for motor symptoms such as tremors and muscle rigidity are d ...
  • Zen habits
    This makes sense. A Zen approach to coping with forum trolls, angry commenters and their ilk: “I do not engage in confrontations with anyone, in-person or online. This is a waste of time and energy. If I have caused harm, I apologize and fix the situation. However, if someone simply doesn’ ...
  • Hubble Space Telescope on the iPad
    “Soar through the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, exploring discoveries from dark energy to colliding galaxies. This highly interactive eBook features video, image galleries and more to reveal the record of scientific breakthroughs behind Hubble’s stunning images of the cosmos.   ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Judge: Govt Must Prove Manning Wanted to 'Aid ...
    A military judge ruled Wednesday that in order to convict Bradley Manning of the most serious charge he faces—aiding the enemy—the government must prove that he knew or should have known that the documents he's accused of releasing would be seen by al-Qaida members. Col. Denise L ...
  • US Considers French Request for 'Targeting' In ...
    The United States has backed France’s operation with surveillance and logistical support. Speaking in Spain, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States is considering French requests for additional military help. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: ...
  • New Gun Laws' Chief Enemy: Democratic Senators
    President Obama announced his plan for stricter gun safety laws on Wednesday, saying that while some of his approach would be instituted by executive order much of the broader strokes would necessarily have to pass through Congress if they were to become law. ...
  • EPA Caves to Pressure from Industry, Oil Compa ...
    An investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency into whether fracking was contaminating a Texas homeowner's drinking water was dropped after the EPA succumbed to pressure from the drilling company, the oil industry and the GOP. ...
  • Champions of 'Idle No More' Stage Blockades Ac ...
    Though not officially sanctioned by the Idle No More campaign, First Nations chiefs and activists have picked up the momentum and are rallying across Canada Wednesday as part of a national day of action in solidarity with the ongoing environmental and indigenous rights campaign. Chiefs unsatisfi ...

Lifehacker

  • Remains of the Day: AT&T Customers Can Now Fac ...
    AT&T lifts its FaceTime restrictions, Microsoft launches an app for aiding those involved in natural disasters, Amazon's European streaming service gets some American hits, and T-Mobile stores will soon get the Nexus 7. More »
  • HabitRPG Turns Better Behavior into a Game of ...
    HabitRPG takes the tasks you want to complete, however simple or complex, and turns them into a role-playing game where you earn experience points, gain levels, and stay alive by getting things done. More »
  • Ever had a store scan your ID for a return?
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even ...
  • HelloSign Digitally Signs Documents Right from ...
    Chrome: Technology has somehow made signing paperwork more annoying than it used to be. Now you have to print something out, sign it, and scan it back in if you want to email it. HelloSign adds digital signatures to Gmail, so you can sign a document without even leaving your inbox. More ...
  • Facebook Messenger Makes Free Calls to Any Fac ...
    iOS: Facebook's Messenger app used to be a mere extension of Facebook's messaging functionality, but as of today Facebook added a handy new feature for US users: free voice calling. More »

Water Privatization

  • 10 Firms Eyeing Angat Rehabilitation
    About 10 investor-groups have showed interest in the rehabilitation accord being offered for the 28-megawatt auxiliary units of the Angat hydropower plant.
  • When Privatization Works, and Why It Doesn’t A ...
    As government seeks ways to save cash by outsourcing services, it might keep in mind that private efforts need clear goals and close monitoring, lest they veer in unintended directions.
  • India Trip to Examine Issues in Child Survival ...
    Back in October, I opened my email to find an interesting invitation for me to apply for a trip to India as part of a special International Reporting Project bloggers' trip focusing on child survival and related issues of health and development. The trip described in full [More]
  • Analysis: There's much to be learned about ...
    Today's first public conversation about Gov. Tom Corbett's plan to turn over the $3.5-billion Pennsylvania Lottery’s operation to Camelot Global Services PA, LLC, will likely last much longer than the four hours listed on the Senate Finance Committee agenda.
  • Our menacing infrastructure
    "Expressway tunnels as well as other infrastructure throughout Japan are nearing the crisis stage," warns a university professor who is a member of an advisory body for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Among the repercussions of the Dec. 2 ceiling collapse i ...

Guardian

  • Manchester United v West Ham – live! | Rob Smyth
    Minute-by-minute report: Who will make it through to face Fulham in the last 32? Find out with Rob SmythRob Smyth
  • Arsenal v Swansea City – live! | Simon Burnton
    Minute-by-minute report: The winners face a trip to Brighton. Get the latest news with Simon BurntonSimon Burnton
  • Confidence trickster who defrauded banks out o ...
    Achilleas Kallakis, together with Alex Williams, found guilty of orchestrating Britain's biggest ever mortgage fraudBritain's most successful serial confidence trickster, Achilleas Kallakis, faces up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of duping banks out of more than £750m.Kallakis and ...
  • Horsemeat in frozen burgers prompts urgent inq ...
    Supermarkets and meat processors told to find source of contamination as Food Standards Agency explores legal actionFood standards watchdogs in Britain yesterday launched an urgent inquiry into beef produce after frozen burgers contaminated with horse and pig meat were identified in Irish tests, ...
  • Blockbuster joins UK retail casualty list and ...
    More than 4,000 jobs at risk after Christmas woe but analysts say video rental chain failed to keep up with the competitionThe Blockbuster video rental chain became the third major high street casualty in a week on Wednesday, collapsing into administration and taking the total number of retail j ...

McClatchey

  • Egyptian democracy workers still on trial for ...
    In a court that usually is hosting drug dealers and murderers, Rawda Ali is the unwitting defender of democracy promotion, charged with helping Western nonprofit organizations operate illegally in Egypt.Click to Continue »
  • Smoke hasn’t cleared yet on facts surroun ...
    Questions have continued to linger this week over one of the largest reported bombings to hit China in recent years, a blast Friday that killed 11 people and wounded more…Click to Continue »
  • How France became the lead nation for turning ...
    When France opened the newest front in the war on terror last week with the swoosh of its aircraft over the desert in central Mali, the U.S. found itself in…Click to Continue »
  • Obama’s and Martin Luther King’s ...
    Both battled enormous odds to build historic multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalitions, one to advance the cause of civil rights, the other to win the nation?s highest office. Both won the Nobel…Click to Continue »
  • What happens to Venezuelan oil when Chavez is ...
    The end of Hugo Chavez could mean big changes for the struggling state-owned Venezuelan oil industry, which drives its nation?s economy, provides the money for Chavez?s export of socialism, and…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Marine pleads guilty to urinating on Afghan corpse
    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -; A Marine who pleaded guilty Wednesday to urinating on the corpse of a dead Taliban fighter in Afghanistan will likely be demoted one rank under a plea agreement, although a ...
  • Does the NRA Want to Turn America Into Afghani ...
    I have been in a handful of drunken altercations in my life. Thankfully, I've lived to regret them all. That did not have to be the case, nor was my safe emergence from youthful stupidity a ...
  • Afghan Massacre Suspect to be Arraigned
    " U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians last year, is to be arraigned in a military court in the U.S. state of Washington on Thursday. If he is found guilty, ...
  • Marine pleads guilty in urination on Taliban c ...
    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - A Marine pleaded guilty in a court-martial Wednesday to urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters and posing for photos with their corpses in one of a string of ...
  • Letters Help Afghan women
    Report , 12 January).It is highly significant that his comments come as part of official talks with President Karzai about future troop movements. The weekly assassinations and attacks on women ...

Futurismic

  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • BNSF Railway Co. Agrees to Revise Personnel Po ...
    In a January 15, 2013 press release, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that OSHA and BNSF Railway Co. had reached an agreement for the company to revise personnel policies that violate the whistleblowers provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act and discourage employees from reporting w ...
  • Dean Zerbe Honored As Contender for 2012 Tax N ...
    On January 6, 2013 The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center was announced as the 2012 Tax Notes Person of the Year. Tax Notes also recognized nine others who were “contenders” for the title. Among the contenders was the National Whistleblowers Center’s Senior Policy An ...
  • 2012's 10 Big Moments for Chief Compliance Off ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Janua ...
  • National Whistleblowers Center's Work Highligh ...
    The Washington Post has published year-end articles that highlight three ongoing projects of the National Whistleblower Center. In an article published on December 26, "Top 10 stories in the federal workforce in 2012", The Washington Post cited the scandal involving FDA electronic spy ...
  • Congress Slams National Security Whistleblower ...
    Take Action! As part of a House/Senate Conference approved Tuesday, Congress passed an “Enhancement Act” for Department of Defense contractors.  These contractors already had a right to go to federal court and obtain a jury trial.  However, this new “Enhancement Ac ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Why Are Y Combinator And Andreessen Horowitz B ...
    Raise your hand if you love bundled toolbars and other assorted suspiciously-acting software installing itself on your computer when all you thought you were installing was a Java update or some other unrelated program. No, go ahead. Yeah... that's none of us. Bundled toolbars and the l ...
  • Another Notch In 'Cyber Threat' Rhetoric's Bel ...
    Well, we've seen the always-impending cyberdoom compared to all sorts of horrendous events by legislators and security agencies. The perpetually-just-over-the-horizon cyberattacks have been given catchy names like "cyber-Pearl Harbor" and "cyber-9/11" in an attempt to scare up some support f ...
  • Pharma Companies Try 'DRM' For Drugs As A Ploy ...
    One of the striking features of the drug world is how pharma companies become noticeably more inventive immediately before their patents are due to run out and their drugs are about to enter the public domain. That's because they need to find a way to differentiate themselves from the generic m ...
  • Court, Once Again, Explains To AFP That Twitte ...
    Nearly three years ago, we wrote about one of the most bizarre lawsuits we'd ever seen. AFP (Agence France-Presse), a news organization with a history of copyright maximalism (it once sued Google for linking to its stories), had sued photographer David Morel after he accused AFP of using images ...
  • Rep. Issa Promises Investigation Into Aaron Sw ...
    The backlash following Aaron Swartz's suicide has continued as Rep. Darrell Issa is now promising an investigation into the DOJ's handling of the case, according to statements he gave to the Huffington Post: Praising Swartz’s work toward “open government and free access to the peo ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The internets are rapidly finishing the job Aaron Swartz started. Must read article on what is happening to women who are pregnant. Arrests. Deaths. Involuntary commitment. Medical tests. I am so glad my parents did not have access to microchipping technology. Though I suspect I would have gotte ...
  • Pregnancy, Coercion, and Responsibility
    I was reading about this abortion restricting bill in Michigan. While I realize that it is another attempt to regulate abortion out of existence under the guise of safety and regulations, something in that article struck me. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has approved a controversial package of a ...
  • Book Review – 33 Revolutions Per Minute
    33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey My rating: 4 of 5 stars The subtitle of this book is “A History of Protest Songs, From Billie Holiday to Green Day.” But it should really say that it is a history of (mostly) the U.S. [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Must listen talk by Ashanti Alston over on the AK Press site called Anarchism, Zapatismo & the Black Panthers. More cops and cab driver impersonators out raping women. Charming. Holy crap. 75% of West Virginia teens don’t use any birth control?! Can somebody rent a crop duster and drop ...
  • Victor Jara, Solitude, Justice, and the USA
    It looks like Victor Jara’s murderers have some small chance of being brought to justice. Jara, if you are unfamiliar, was a musician and activist in Chile during the dirty war. He was tortured and killed by Pinochet’s thugs. Now Chile is prosecuting his murderers and it turns out on ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Israel’s upcoming tribal census
    Daniel Levy writes: Israelis will go to the polls on Jan. 22 to elect a new parliament and, by extension, government — an event that has so far attracted relatively little international attention. Understandably so: Benjamin Netanyahu just came closer than any Israeli prime minister in mor ...
  • Opening the Gate of the Sun
    Adam Shatz writes: At 2.30 on Sunday morning, the Israeli army removed 250 Palestinians from Bab al-Shams, a village in the so-called E1 corridor: 13 square kilometres of undeveloped Palestinian land between East Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank with a populati ...
  • Wyden letter to CIA director-nominee Brennan s ...
    Press release from the office of Senator Ron Wyden: With the confirmation process for Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency set to be begin shortly, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, ...
  • Hagel fits within Washington’s war-averse cons ...
    The Forward reports: From his temporary office on the Pentagon’s third floor, Chuck Hagel is already working at full speed. He’s devoting his time not just to learning a new job, but also to clarifying his positions on Iran — the issue his former Senate colleagues have vowed to question him on m ...
  • The neocons overreach on Hagel
    Scott McConnell writes: The neoconservative decison to charge that Chuck Hagel is an anti-Semite strikes me as a tactical blunder — a decision grounded in the idea that since they can’t defeat the nominee on the issues, their better option was to try to assassinate Hagel’s character, presu ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Newsbytes – New Met Office Botch
    From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Climate Scientists Get The Stratosphere Wrong How did the Met Office get their data so wrong? Well there’s the rub. You see, the methodology used to develop the Met Office SSU product was … Continue reading →
  • Flowers like the warmer weather
    From Harvard University An early sign of spring, earlier than ever Researchers say record-high temperatures led to earliest spring flowering in history Record warm temperatures in 2010 and 2012 resulted in the earliest spring flowering in the eastern United States … Continue reading →
  • PODEX Experiment to reshape future of Atmosphe ...
    Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX) in Southern California. The brightness, or “intensity,” and polarization of reflected light provide different information about the elements that make up a scene, apparent in this set of images collected by the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPola ...
  • Michael Mann gets SLAPPed
    From the “we are still laughing at him” department, comes this news via LeClair Ryan who writes: ============================================================= As I predicted last month, Michael Mann’s suit against the National Review, Competitive Enterprise Institute and two of their ...
  • Quote of the week – Hansen concedes the ...
    Dr. James Hansen and Reto Ruedy of NASA GISS have written a paper (non peer reviewed) with a remarkable admission in it. It is titled Global Temperature Update Through 2012. Here is the money quote, which pretty much ends the caterwauling … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Drug Stimulates Regeneration of Sound-Sensing ...
    Listen up, live music fans. The hearing loss caused by exposure to loud noise can be at least partially reversed with drugs, according to a study published by U.S. and Japanese researchers last week in the journal Neuron. The work is the first proof that a drug can spur regeneration of the mamma ...
  • Regulating Single Protein Prompts Fibroblasts ...
    Repression of a single protein in ordinary fibroblasts is sufficient to directly convert the cells – abundantly found in connective tissues – into functional neurons. The findings, which could have far-reaching implications for the development of new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases lik ...
  • Pill-sized device provides rapid, detailed ima ...
    Physicians may soon have a new way to screen patients for Barrett’s esophagus, a precancerous condition usually caused by chronic exposure to stomach acid. Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed an imaging system enclosed ...
  • Study finds a new culprit for epileptic seizures
    Epileptic seizures occur when neurons in the brain become excessively active. However, a new study from MIT neuroscientists suggests that some seizures may originate in non-neuronal cells known as glia, which were long believed to play a mere supporting role in brain function. In a study of frui ...
  • New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis
    Finding ways to diagnose cancer earlier could greatly improve the chances of survival for many patients. One way to do this is to look for specific proteins secreted by cancer cells, which circulate in the bloodstream. However, the quantity of these biomarkers is so low that detecting them has p ...

CFACT

  • Frackophobia: fear that the age of hydrocarbon ...
    Renowned energy expert Robert Bryce: “Over the past six decades, the fracturing process has been used more than 1 million times on American oil and gas wells. If it were as dangerous as the anti-drilling/anti-hydraulic fracturing crowd claims, then hundreds, perhaps thousands, of water wells wo ...
  • Many “Green” policies trample on p ...
    One would think these paradigm shifts would alter environmentalist thinking and government programs designed to replace “disappearing” oil and gas with wind, solar and biofuel energy. But hell hath no fury like an environmentalist scorned. Any attempt to revise laws, regulations or subsidies is ...
  • “Epic” California freeze threatens ...
    California citrus growers were up all night trying to save their crops, yet the media sees California's "epic" freeze, along with deadly cold in the nations of the east as normal, while continuing to hype warm days as man-made.
  • CIA shuts doors on global warming center
    [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/252/5039.mp3] The CIA recently shut down its global warming center. Kevin Mooney of the group, Americans for Limited Government, says that it's about time, and likens this initiative to the Pink Panther:
  • A Florida wind energy company destroys a Canad ...
    Destroying a bald eagle nest to make way for collection of subsidies through wind turbines. WATCH NOW.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • ESA Joins NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Project
    The European Space Agency (ESA) on Wednesday officially joined NASA’s project to build Orion, a spacecraft to carry astronauts into deep space, NASA said on its website.
  • Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015
    Russia will launch a robotic lunar station in 2015, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday.
  • Future Shock: US Police Using ‘Crime-Predictio ...
    It seems like a scene from the sci-fi thriller Minority Report, but police in three US cities are already using or testing new technology for predicting crimes before they happen – and taking preemptive, concrete steps to prevent them, US media reported.
  • Russian Space Industry to Double Output by 202 ...
    An ongoing reform of Russia’s ailing space industry should double its output by 2020, according to a new state program published on Saturday.
  • Americans Less Healthy, Die Younger: Study
    Americans under the age of 50 are less healthy and die sooner than their peers in other developed countries due in part to disease and the prevalence of car accidents, gun violence and drug overdoses, according to a new study by a panel of US experts released Thursday.

Pruning Shears

  • Testing water and building community
    Last summer I wrote about the Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels program for testing water. Our town’s anti-fracking activists have been using it at their homes for a while now, but around the time of my post we also began free monthly water testing for the community. We are careful to ...
  • Best Music of 2012
    IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.Links will be live for one week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me know and I’ll comply. You heartless, small-minded, ungenerous b******.Here are ...
  • Gun violence, public health and the missing piece
    The massacre in Newtown has once again opened up the discussion of firearms in America. We are getting the usual dumbassery about how this is a punishment from God or the fault of video games (which apparently are unavailable outside of the US) and the usual preemptive whining about how this is ...
  • "no one is there for you but you know who? You ...
    One of the under appreciated hazards of fracking is its effect on democracy. Fracking is a big, intrusive process - one that sucks up lots of water, creates enormous amounts of traffic and an ungodly amount of noise, etc. Setting aside the environmental dangers and health effects (!), the heav ...
  • Transcript: When fracking comes to town: Maria ...
    Video here.…now sits there with two contaminated wells up for sale. As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of customers for a contaminated farm. So it’s sitting there waiting to go into bankruptcy. Her husband’s in Africa serving in the military. Her horses - she has t ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • 2012: A Look Back at the Year We Didn't Want
    2012 Whizzed and then it Fizzed, but 2013 can be Better To get 2013 off with a technological BANG, ETC staff are offering (what, for us, amounts to) a 'light-hearted' reflection on the year past and projections for the one already upon us. Click here to read this article
  • The Unsavory Truth About the McDonald's McRib
    Over the past couple of years, we've learned the unsavory truth about "pink slime," reconstituted meat, and how the use of meat glue cheats you out of your hard-earned money at the grocery store and threatens your health.Click here to read this article
  • Pesticides and Phthalates Top the P.O.P. Conta ...
    Earth's conventional food and water supply is quickly becoming its own huge "cancer." Persistent organic pollutants, POPs for short, are "brewing and breeding" the ultimate destruction of organic life on planet earth, as they bio-accumulate in the environment AND in human and animal body tissues ...
  • Insecticide 'Unacceptable' Danger to Bees, Rep ...
    The world's most widely used insecticide has for the first time been officially labelled an "unacceptable" danger to bees feeding on flowering crops. Environmental campaigners say the conclusion, by Europe's leading food safety authority, sounds the "death knell" for the insect nerve agent.Click ...
  • Fortified by Global Warming, Deadly Fungus Poi ...
    A carcinogenic mold, its growth exacerbated by the warming climate, reached record highs in 2012 Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Irans Civilian Nuclear Program: A Primer
    Often ignored in public discussions about Irans nuclear ambitions is that its interest in nuclear power and related medicinal use spans over 40 years. The American intelligence community has officially concluded Iran halted suspicious actions in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
  • Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate
    Understanding the sun-climate connection requires expertise in fields like plasma physics, solar activity, atmospheric chemistry and fluid dynamics, energetic particle physics, and history.Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation peaks around solar maximum. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • Infiltration of Political Movements Is the Nor ...
    Infiltration is the Norm, not the Exception, of U.S. Political MovementsWhen the long history of political infiltration is reviewed, the Occupy Movement should be surprised if it is not infiltrated. Almost every movement in modern history has been inf Submitted by Wild Thang to US Politics &amp ...
  • Indigenous Ecuadorian Village Battles Oil Gian ...
    An indigenous community in the Ecuadorian rainforest says they "will die fighting to protect the rainforest" after they say they were swindled by an oil company into signing away rights to 70,000 hectares of one of the most biodiverse areas in the world. Submitted by Judy C. to Environment &nbs ...
  • The Unspoken Link Between Dispersants and Sic ...
    The federal government now considers human health an acceptable risk tradeoff for dispersant use. Many of the same chemicals in dispersants are also ingredients in diluents for tar sands and drilling fluids for hydraulic fracturing Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |  & ...

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Hours after 'routine drill,' student opens fir ...
    ShareThisHours after 'routine drill,' student opens fire at Calif. high school --'We will never know what his plan was. I don't think he knew what his plan was.' [Right, but I'm sure his handlers do.] 10 Jan 2013 Hours after a routine school lockdown drill, a student with a 12-gauge shotgun open ...
  • At Least 3 Americans [Conveniently] Held Hosta ...
    ShareThisAt Least 3 Americans [Conveniently] Held Hostage by Al Qaeda-Linked Group in Algeria 16 Jan 2013 Two U.S. officials tell ABC News that Americans are among the hostages held following an attack by al Qaeda[al-CIAduh]-linked insurgents on a BP joint-venture natural gas field in Algeria. O ...
  • List of executive actions Obama plans to take ...
    ShareThisList of executive actions Obama plans to take as part of anti-gun violence plan 16 Jan 2013 The following is a list, provided by the White House, of [23] executive actions President Obama plans to take to address gun violence... Most interesting nuggets: 4. Direct the Attorney General ...
  • Texas Proposal: JAIL Any Federal Officials Try ...
    ShareThisTexas Proposal: JAIL Any Federal Officials Trying to Enforce New Gun Restrictions in the State 15 Jan 2013 A Texas lawmaker says he plans to file the Firearms Protection Act, which would make any federal laws that may be passed by Congress or imposed by Presidential order which would ba ...
  • Oregon, Texas officials warn White House again ...
    ShareThisOregon, Texas officials warn White House against enforcing new gun regulations 16 Jan 2013 State officials in Oregon and Texas are vowing to fight back against any attempt by the federal government to impose new gun control laws. The warnings come as President Obama on Wednesday unveile ...

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.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Rob Bowman Passed Away
    LTC Erik Kurilla (L) and SFC Rob Bowman after terrible car bomb in Mosul, Iraq (April 2005) 15 January 2013 The United States has lost a great Soldier and fine man to cancer.  Rob struggled with the disease for about 20 months before passing yesterday.  It is with great sorrow that ...
  • Exclusive Images from Fighting in Burma
    15 January 2013 These images came from Burma today.  There have been reports about peace breaking out in Burma, but reports to me from insiders indicate this is false. The message with these images says they were made in Laiza, seconds after a mortar attack by the Burma Army.  The ...
  • Tracking Training in South Africa
    07 January 2013
  • Note from a Wise Man
    07 January 2013 A note appeared on a private message board.  This private group includes many current and former generals, and just about anyone you see on television or in books as a national security specialist, ranging from CIA to all the top war correspondents, special operations types ...
  • Amber of War
    06 January 2013 A defense expert commenting on my dispatch “Stuck in the Mud” recommended the book Mud:  A Military History.  I completed reading the book.  The recommendation was solid. The subject became more interesting in Iraq.  Goo would sometimes rain from the skies ...

The Killing Train

  • Duets for Abdelrazik
    I'm listening to Duets for Abdelrazik, which my friend Stefan Christoff sent to me as an early holiday present. It's mellow music considering that it is the story of the thoroughly appalling mistreatment of someone by an appalling system. read more
  • Global Research Podcast on the DRC
    A podcast interview with me on the DRC on global research.ca, conducted by Michael Welch.
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship (the short version)
    December 19, 2012 Socialist Project Bullet article summarizing Haiti's New Dictatorship What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which had one of the lowest turnouts in recent history and which was subject to all ...
  • Mark Twain's Killing Train
    Every time I give someone my email address, or tell them the title of my blog, I get a raised eyebrow or a shocked look. Now, telling people the title of my first book has the same effect. For that reason, I've set up this blog to have "Why Killing Train?" and an explanation about the new book v ...
  • Partition talk
    When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be able to hold on to Congo, it set about trying to guarantee continued control over the strategic aspects of the economy, especially the mines. At first, it sponsored it ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • S Korea, Burma plan monument to 1983 bombing
    A South Korean delegation will visit Burma next month to finalise an agreement on building a monument to the victims of North Korea's 1983 attempt to assassinate the South's president in Rangoon
  • Britain speaks out as Burma’s ‘biggest war’ es ...
    Britain has warned of the “increasingly serious” situation unfolding in Kachin state after fresh shelling hit the town of Laiza on Monday night, following the deaths of three civilians by artillery fire
  • Ethnic alliance prepares for potential politic ...
    The United Nationalities Federal Council is sending teams across Burma to meet with local civil society groups to prepare for potential political talks with the government
  • Government denies Kachin attacks
    Shelling hit the rebel stronghold town of Laiza early yesterday morning. Three civilians were killed and six more injured in a series of attacks by the Burmese army. But the government denies any attacks in the area.
  • How feudal imperialism continues to destroy th ...
    The government’s on-going war against the Kachin continues to demonstrate that the country's leaders are more interested in empire building than nation building

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • How Low Can You Go?
    The NRA has set its gun-sights on Barack Obama's two little girls. Their latest hate-filled ad blitz ad campaign targets the two children in an attempt to illustrate how hypocritical it is for the President to advocate for safer gun laws when his own girls have Secret Service protection.
  • Zero Dark 30 in the toilet
    While buying a ticket to view how dark the world was becoming, the movie house manager told a half dozen anxious teenagers trying to buy a ticket to 0 Dark 30, "You need an adult with you," causing them to text someone. Were they like most of us at that invincible age, yearning to see how they ...
  • Why The "All Government Is Bad" Movement " Is Bad
    Almost every day, members of Congress, that much-maligned institution, are actually proposing measures to deal with real problems that affect our well-being, and employees of federal agencies are working to establish rules and procedures to implement those measures. We believe strongly that the ...
  • The Depressing "Zero Dark Thirty"
    Director Kathryn Bigelow -- in both Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker -- presents stories of heroic Americans operating in a world of either apathetic or crazy Muslims, with little explanation of the whys behind the conflicts. This lack of context makes her films vacuous and depressing.
  • Another Quagmire in the Making?
    Five days ago French Pres. Hollande sent war planes into Mali to repel Islamist militants advancing to the capital Bamako. Islamists are late comers to the strife in Mali coming in after taking part in the civil war in Libya. But w/ the Malian army demoralized the Islamists have set out to estab ...

Switchboard

  • Coalition Releases a New Portfolio-Based Conc ...
    Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Today, a diverse coalition of environmental and business groups and urban water agencies released a new “portfolio-based” conceptual alternative to meet the ecosystem and ...
  • European Agency concludes neonicotinoid pestic ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, came out with a report today concluding that the neonicotinoid pesticides, or "neonics", pose an unacceptably high risk to bees, whose pollination services a ...
  • Air Pollution in China Should be a Catalyst fo ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing This post was co-written with my colleagues Christine Xu and Jake Schmidt. While many Beijing residents have long voiced concern and discontent over air pollution levels, it took possibly the worst ...
  • Size Matters, but the Whole Package is the Imp ...
    Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Today, NRDC and several of our colleagues in the water agency, business and conservation world are proposing an alternative for analysis in the Bay Delta Conservation Planning process.  The details of ...
  • From Solid Waste to Sweet Music: The Recycled ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City I played the cello for many years--but I doubt I ever produced any music as inspiring as 19-year-old Juan Manuel Chavez playing the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite #1, on a cello made out of an oil can ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Centralia
    If you live a city named Centralia, I recommend moving with all due speed before something terrible happens. Exhibit A: Centralia, Washington, home of the Centralia Massacre of 1919. Exhibit B: Centralia, Illinois, home of the Centralia mine disaster of 1947. Exhibit C: Centralia, Missouri, home ...
  • And You Thought Notre Dame’s #1 Ranking ...
    Naughty, naughty — apparently the most egregious sports overhype since Charlie Weis turns out to have a deceased girlfriend from Canada. I guess that ends the suspense over who the Jets will be making their #1 pick this year! Weigel:  “My girlfriend was so devastated at the Manti Te& ...
  • You Say Proliferation, I Say Diffusion
    I have some thoughts on the diffusion of anti-access military technology over at The Diplomat During the Cold War, the Soviet Union had a strong political incentive to maximize diffusion of its military capabilities.  Proxies with Soviet technology could fight the United States and its proxies o ...
  • Obscure Remembrances
    Back many, many years ago in my undergraduate days, my intramural floor hockey team won a lopsided victory.   Since the other team was called “Conrad Bain,” however, I felt they were the real winners.   R.I.P.
  • This is Just All Some Horrible Nightmare I Jus ...
    No… Oregon coach Chip Kelly will be the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, league sources told ESPN. Kelly re-emerged as a candidate recently and an agreement was just reached Wednesday. The Eagles had interviewed Kelly early in its search for a replacement for longtime coach Andy Reid, ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Kathryn Bywaters, Jan. 2013 Featured DRI Gradu ...
    Meet Kathryn Bywaters, an Environmental Science student working on her Ph.D. Her current work focuses on utilizing microalgae and cyanobacteria consortia as a potential source for biofuel production.
  • Gary Trubl, Dec. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate St ...
    Meet Gary Trubl, a student working towards his masters in Environmental Science and currently studying the biogeochemistry related to denitrification of Lake Vida, Antarctica.
  • Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...
    This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...
  • Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
  • DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...
    DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • FTC demands juice maker conduct trials before ...
    In a ruling that seems to put pomegranate juice on comparable footing with pharmaceutical drugs, the Federal Trade Commission in a final decision issued January 16 will require juice maker POM Wonderful to conduct extensive clinical trials before it can make any claims about the health benefits ...
  • Attorney charged with aiding boyfriend's jail ...
    The Oklahoma Supreme Court on January 14 accepted the resignation of Amy McTeer, a criminal defense attorney who also faced charges of drug possession and child endangerment.
  • Arkansas-Little Rock selects teaching expert a ...
    Michael Hunter Schwartz will assume the school's top post in July. He now is associate dean for faculty and academic development at Washburn University School of Law and co-director of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning.
  • Eastern District of Texas reclaims lead from D ...
    The Eastern District of Texas, which in 2011 appeared to be losing its lustre as the preferred venue for patent suits, regained its prominence in 2012, usurping the District of Delaware for the No. 1 spot, according to a new analysis by a Perkins Coie partner. Nationwide, the number of new suit ...
  • Chicago's Neal Gerber boosting real estate pra ...
    The addition of the three real estate attorneys stems from an "uptick" in real estate deals for the firm, said Douglas Lubelchek, chair of the real estate practice.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

  • Potential Health Risk: Low Levels of Common Fl ...
    Low levels of common flame-retardant chemical damages brain cells and find May Have Implications for Autism patients
  • Water Levels Up on Ohio and Lower Mississippi ...
    Several drenching storms, combined with snow melt in some areas during the recent warm spell, have pushed a few tributaries of the Ohio River to flood levels in recent days.
  • Somalia Recruits Future Fire Fighters
    The Mayor of Somali capital and former basketball player Mahmoud Ahmed Nur who officially launched the recruitment sessions praised IQRA foundation for its help in the revival of Somalia's fire department.
  • Al-Qaida Survives and Continues to Threaten Th ...
    The United States commended the success of the Yemeni government, military, and people in re-taking important areas of southern Yemen, including the cities of Ja'ar and Zinjibar, from al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
  • edX Rules for Free Education in America
    Universities and teacher unions have forgotten basic economics. When you price yourself out of the market, something better replaces you. If you have kids, want an education, know anyone with kids, or just want to help save the world, spread the wor

environment 360

  • Insecticides Pose Threat to Bee Populations, R ...
    European scientists have found that imidacloprid, the world’s most widely used insecticide, poses “unacceptable” risks to bee populations, a finding that some groups hope will result in a ban on the chemical. Asked to assess the health risks of imidacloprid and two other neonicotinoids — clothi ...
  • Key Offshore Transmission Line To Be Built For ...
    A group of prominent U.S. investors, including Google, is expected to announce today that it is moving forward with construction on the first leg of an ambitious $5 billion undersea transmission line that will connect Atlantic Wind Connection New Jersey Energy Link future offshore wind fa ...
  • Tidal Energy Can Meet 20 Percent Of UK Electri ...
    UK officials are underestimating the vast energy potential of marine tides, a renewable and reliable energy source that could meet 20 percent of the nation’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries electricity needs, according to a new report. Writing in the journal Philosophical Transactions of t ...
  • Should Polluting Nations Be Liable for Climate ...
    An international agreement to study how to redress developing nations for damages from climate change illustrates how ineffective climate diplomacy has been over the last two decades. But this move may pave the way for future court suits against polluting countries and companies. BY FRED P ...
  • California Solar Rebate Program Reaches 1-Giga ...
    California homeowners and businesses, taking advantage of a state rebate program that encourages the installation of solar panels, are now generating 1 gigawatt — or 1,000 megawatts — of electricity, roughly the equivalent of a nuclear power plant, state regulators say. Launched in 2 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • New Discovery Provides Unprecedented Control o ...
    In a new study, physicists have shown that surrounding a magnetic source with a magnetic shell can enhance the magnetic field as it moves away from the source, allowing magnetic energy to be transferred to a distant location through empty space. This newly discovered technique lies in the transf ...
  • "The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed"
    This video, posted by ThinkOutsideTheTV, is an examination of evidence reported the day of, and following, the Sandy Hook school shooting of December 14, 2012. So far the video has circulated widely, with 8,698,621 views since January 7, 2012. The mainstream media has gone into official ’reactio ...
  • Anger as Norway police drop internal investiga ...
    The family of a teenager killed by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has reacted angrily after a probe into police’s slow response to the July 2011 twin attacks was dropped. "Apparently, no one will ever learn from the grave mistakes that were made on July 22, not the police nor any ...
  • The South’s Shocking Hidden History: Thousands ...
    The horrifying, little-known story of how hundreds of thousands of blacks worked in brutal bondage right up to the middle of the 20th century. On July 31, 1903, a letter addressed to President Theodore Roosevelt arrived at the White House. It had been mailed from the town of Bainbridge, Georgia, ...
  • Cameron and Obama’s Hired Thugs Now Butchering ...
    While they wine and dine in DC and Westminster, their hired hands work overtime to make rivers of blood in Syria. Barak Obama and David Cameron, flanked by their ‘diplomats’ Hillary Clinton and William Hague, are all doing their bit to increase the bloodshed in Syria by backing the FSA rebel, al ...

Russia Today

  • Mediaworks pulls plug on Kim Dotcom’s Mega ad ...
    Mediaworks, a New Zealand media company, has cancelled an ad campaign for Kim Dotcom’s new business Mega, a file-locker service. The enfant terrible of web media still faces extradition to the US for breaking copyright... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Mali’ Islamists kill 3, take 41 hostage in Al ...
    Islamists claiming to come from Mali killed three foreigners and are holding 41 more hostage after a raid on a compound near an Algerian gas field. The attack is reportedly in retaliation to the ongoing French military... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • UK with(out) EU: Pressure on Cameron mounting ...
    Ahead of a crucial speech on Friday on Britain’s relationship with the EU, Cameron is facing increasing pressure from within his own party to offer the nation a choice on whether to stay in the Union. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Holding further peace talks with Israel is in ...
    Palestinian leaders wasted 20 years on fruitless negotiations with Israel, and now need a foreign power to manage the peace process, Dr. Diana Butto told RT. Dr. Butto is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and former... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Quebec euthanasia bill may bypass Canadian law
    Quebec is pushing ahead with a euthanasia bill that Canada’s federal government has decried as illegal and tantamount to assisted suicide. The move comes after recommendations from legal experts, claiming the bill does... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Can Idle No More First Nations assert their so ...
    Here’s an idea for First Nations rattling their chains with IDLE NO MORE. Declare your sovereignty for real. “Sovereignty” has become a meaningless descriptor, now counting puppet states of Iraq and Afghanistan. How did we expect George W. Bush to explain what sovereignty meant ...
  • Zero Dark Thirty has critics protesting that t ...
    Protest torture, don’t protest Zero Dark Thirty’s depiction of torture as working, even if the public account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden holds that it did not. Who’s your source for that, the CIA? No doubt countless plenty were tortured elsewhere in the actual narrative. H ...
  • MIT drives Aaron Swartz to suicide, JSTOR only ...
    RSS pioneer and Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz, age 26, found hanged. Swartz was facing 35 years for hacking, aka liberating MIT research archives buried behind a pay-wall, often to the frustration of their own authors. You might think schools of higher learning are in favor of disseminating know ...
  • Who is ‘Idle No More’?
    Here is a short explanation of who is Idle No More? Idle No More: Hints of a Global Super-Movement
  • In defense of China against US imperialism today
    China and Russia might have both been turned backwards towards capitalism by their own ‘communist parties’, but that is no reason today to let them remain undefended while under constant threats of direct military attack by Western Imperialism led by the Pentagon and Nato. And YES, t ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Rebuttal to Myles Power - Molten Aluminum?
    Related Info: Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOSMpf6br1k My detailed response: http://adamtaylor42.blogspot.com/2012/12/taylor-contra-powers.html(Also posted at the Debunking the Debunkers blog: http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2012/12/taylor-contra-powers.html) High quality im ...
  • When Your Right You Don't Have to Worry About ...
    Spartans of Truth .... https://www.facebook.com/groups/183728944973010/ When I was in the second grade my teacher asked the entire class to raise their hands if they thought … "John ran." … was a sentence ... I proudly raised my hand because she had literally just got done telling us that it wa ...
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...
  • 9/11 Truth on Netflix
    If you are trying to introduce someone to the 9/11 truth movement that has Netflix, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, can be beamed onto their TV in seconds via their streaming service! Reviews from Netflix subscribers can be read here on the Neflix site. Many other great documentaries are ...
  • Why we KNOW the 911 Truth 'Debunkers' are Actu ...
    When dismissing or ignoring the key scientific evidence that proves the 911 attacks upon the World Trade Centre involved inside help most 'Debunkers' rest their case upon a few central fallacies - that the key evidence is not adequately proven or that the conspiracy material bein ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • Showdown on tribal rights in India
    Former Minister Jairam Ramesh meets Dongria and Majhi Kondh leaders© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalAs India’s Supreme Court case over Vedanta Resources’ proposed mine on the land of the Dongria Kondh tribe draws to a close, a showdown on tribal rights is brewing. The case of the Niyamgiri mine is curre ...
  • Bushman children arrested under renewed govern ...
    The recent arrests of children by paramilitary police are the latest sign of a renewed government crackdown in the CKGR. © SurvivalThree Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who h ...
  • Remembering Marcos Veron 10 years on
    Marcos Veron was killed 10 years ago for reclaiming his ancestral land.© Joaó Ripper/SurvivalGuarani Indians gathered today to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Marcos Veron, who was brutally murdered after leading his community back onto part of their ancestral land. The killing by a r ...
  • 'Human safari' row goes to India’s Supreme Court
    Months after the Supreme Court ordered a buffer zone around the Jarawa's Reserve, hundreds of tourists continue to travel along the Andaman Trunk Road every day.© Andaman Chronicle/ SurvivalSurvival has urged India’s Supreme Court to take immediate action against ‘human safaris’, exactly a ...
  • In pictures: The reindeer people under threat ...
    Tribal people rely on reindeer for food, transport, shelter and warmth.© Steve MorganEach year, the image of the reindeer finds its way onto cards, sweaters and into people’s imaginations, but to the world’s indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the animal is not just for Christmas. As news emerges ...

Greg Palast

  • Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers – and it's the ketchup. [As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, ...
  • 'The Assassination of Hugo Chavez' Download th ...
    Over the years many things have been said about Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez but rarely has the true story of the man Pat Robertson called "a dangerous enemy" been told - that's what I've done in The Assassination of Hugo Chavez. Since the main stream media has decided that Chavez is "a rui ...
  • The Obligatory, End of the Year Top 10 List
    Here's the stories the got the most attention in 2012 The Palast Investigative Fund was quite effective this year. Vulture funds were banned, election theft made national headlines, and we outed gov't profiteer posing as a candidate. Oh, and our little book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits hit ...
  • The Anti-Clause: Reverend Billy's No-Click Chr ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout.org [New York, December 18, 2012] Even for New York, this was WEIRD. There were a half dozen Santa Clauses on Second Avenue getting a sermon from a Midwestern preacher who looks like a cross between televangelist Jerry Falwell and a white-haired Elvis. The Santa Crew ...
  • Before it's too late...Xmas/Xanuka Gifts from ...
    By Greg Palast The Mayans sure know how to take the fun out of Christmas. The world ends on December 21... but that still gives you time, if you act NOW, to make your year-end tax-deductible donation to the not-for-profit Palast Investigative Fund. And we'll get a 'Thank You Gift' out to you (or ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • Institute of Medicine Chokes On the Epistemolo ...
    By Dan Olmsted It isn't worth spending much time and energy to take on the new Institute of Medicine report on vaccine safety concerns-- bought and paid for by the Department of Health and Human Services -- except to note...
  • Tell Congress that Vaccine Court Has Ruled CA ...
    Take Action! This isn't supposed to happen. It happened again. The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has awarded Ryan Mojabi and his family a multi-million dollar settlement for autism as the result of an injury from the Measles Mumps...
  • Age of Autism Contest: HandySpeech App Develop ...
    Necessity and LOVE appear to be the "brothers" of invention in this app we're giving away. 12 year old Eric Zeiberg of CT created "HandySpeech," an app that converts writing into speech. We have 2 codes for this app to...
  • Breaking News: US Vaccine Court Awards Million ...
    By David Kirby The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as "vaccine court," has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for "pain and suffering" and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens...
  • Autism and Medication Hell
    By Natalie Palumbo I am 18, a senior in high school, and the only sibling of an older brother with low-verbal autism. I recently read an article in which Dr. Hyla Class discussed certain neurological drugs, their troubling side effects,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Pot smokers might not turn into dopes after all
    Nature – Cannabis rots your brain — or does it? Last year, a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)1 suggested that people who used cannabis heavily as teenagers saw their IQs fall by middle age. But a study published today2 — also in PNAS — says that fac ...
  • India PM issues Pakistan warning
    BBC – Indian PM Manmohan Singh has said it “cannot be business as usual” with Pakistan after deadly exchanges along the disputed Kashmir border last week. He said the deaths of two Indian soldiers – one of whom India says was beheaded – were “unacceptable&#822 ...
  • CIA drones have already killed at least 40 sin ...
    RT – The CIA has escalated its use of drones in Pakistan, launching seven deadly strikes during the first 10 days of 2013 and killing at least 40 people, 11 of which may have been civilians. The flurry of strikes has raised speculation that the Obama administration is accelerating attacks ...
  • Climate-friendly clean energy from Abu Dhabi?
    DW – Ever since it was decided to hold the 2012 UN climate conference in Qatar, I’ve been interested in the position of renewable energies in the oil- and gas-rich Gulf region. These countries would have the wealth to invest in innovative technologies and plenty of sun to harvest – but is ...
  • Calls for diabulimia to be recognised, say medics
    BBC – Insulin omission is a growing problem in young women, the latest NHS figures suggest. The NHS National Diabetes Audit says a high proportion of women aged between 15 and 30 are skipping insulin injections to lose weight. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Groups say smaller delta tunnel is better
    A group of conservation organizations and Bay Area water agencies is proposing a vastly scaled-down version of a new export system for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, arguing that it would cost less and be more reliable than a plan supported by Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration.
  • Listen to call of the wild at vast online arch ...
    Wonder what a walrus sounds like underwater? Or what sounds a West European hedgehog makes? Or an ostrich chick while still inside its shell?
  • NASA to launch new Landsat earth observation s ...
    NASA is preparing to launch the eighth observation satellite in the Landsat remote sensing program that has chronicled changes in the Earth’s land cover for four decades.
  • Low rates of extinction made California a hot ...
    California plant life is unusually rich and diverse. The state has more than 5,500 native plant species, more than any other state. Roughly 40% of them are found nowhere else.
  • Great white sharks may warrant listing as 'thr ...
    State fish and wildlife officials, although deeply skeptical about low numbers of great white sharks off the Pacific Coast, determined that there was sufficient scientific information to warrant a full review on whether the feared, toothy creature should be listed as threatened with extinction.

water.org

  • Household Water in Ongata Rongai
    When individuals lack household access to water, they must purchase it from another source. This water cart was selling water for 15-20 KES (USD $0.18 and $0.24) per 20 liters in a neighborhood in Ongata Rongai, Kenya. (The average income per person in Kenya is $2.25 per day. Source: The Wor ...
  • Rainwater Harvesting
    Tabitha is a 28 year old primary school graduate living within Rongai town. She lives on a 1-acre farm with her husband’s family and their 4 year old daughter. The family’s semi-permanent (corrugated sheet metal walled) bungalow houses 5 adults and 2 children, which is connected to the electrici ...
  • How far would you go?
    SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT is an initiative designed to drive awareness and change to the global clean water crisis while engaging a community around the issue. By taking cultural influencers, educators and high profile individuals to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, SUMMIT joins the movement to bring clea ...
  • A safe drink of water
    Mrs. Rangamma and her family members used to drink water directly from the tap in front of the house that was then stored inside. However, the water was not safe for drinking as Mysore City Corporation is not using proper methods of water purification. Rangamma used to find a white layer of cont ...
  • Summit on the Summit Begins
    Chevenee Reavis, Director of Strategic Initiatives, co-leads a team of safe water advocates and educators on an ambitious expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro in an effort to drive awareness of the global water crisis.

Cryptogon

  • Inspection Team Headed to Pa. Nuclear Plant
    In other news, Malware infects US power facilities through USB drives: Two U.S. power companies reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Indus ...
  • 3D Printing High Capacity Magazines
    The guys over at Defense Distributed are having some success with 3D printing 30 round magazines for AR-15 type weapons. While I wouldn’t suggest cancelling any backorders for “real” magazines, this is still pretty interesting. Via: Defense Distributed:
  • Fitch May Downgrade U.S. Credit Rating
    Via: AP: The United States could lose its top credit rating for the second time from a leading credit agency if there’s a delay in raising the country’s debt ceiling, Fitch Ratings warned Tuesday. Congress has to increase the country’s debt limit, which effectively rules how mu ...
  • Low Power Thermoelectric Generator Runs on Bod ...
    Via: Fast Company: It’s no science-fiction fantasy. With wearable gadgets like Google’s Project Glass on the horizon, all that’s missing is an ultraportable power source that never needs recharging–like, say, your own body heat. A startup in Corvallis, Oregon, has developed a small chip th ...
  • ‘The Sandy Hook Shooting – Fully E ...
    Comments open on the main Sandy Hook thread. Via: ThinkOutsideTheTV YouTube Channel:

The Economic Collapse

  • 50 Shocking Questions That You Should Ask To A ...
    Share this list of shocking questions with everyone you know that needs to wake up.  Sometimes asking good questions is the best way to get someone that you care about to understand something.  When I attended law school, I became very familiar with something called "the Socratic method".  It is ...
  • 35 Statistics About The Working Poor In Americ ...
    In America tonight, tens of millions of men and women will struggle to get to sleep because they are stressed out about not making enough money even though they are working as hard as they possibly can.  They are called "the working poor", and their numbers are absolutely exploding.  As a recent ...
  • Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Push ...
    As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the "too big to fail" banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits.  But when you use debt to potentially multiply your profits, you also create the possibility that your losses will be multiplied if the markets ...
  • The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The ...
    Barack Obama has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency during his time in the White House, but there is one institution that he simply will not mess with.  There is one organization that is considered to be so sacred in Washington D.C. that Obama will not dare utter a single negative wor ...
  • The Federal Government Hands Out Money To 128 ...
    The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 to over 128 million today.  A shocking new research paper by Patrick Tyrrell and William W. Beach contains that statistic and a whole bunch of other very revealing numbers.  Ac ...

Desertification

  • Ethanol, drought and the price of corn (New Ag ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/developments/devItem.php?a=2846 For the past three years, America’s Midwest has experienced serious drought and recent reports suggest that similar weather patterns will continue to hamper agricultural growth throughout the region. The resulting spike in ...
  • Appropriate knowledge and tools for smallholde ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/research/innovationItem.php?a=2898 The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) brings together all those working to strengthen and transform agricultural research for development around the world. As part of this role, GFAR is working with New Agriculturi ...
  • Empowering Africa’s women agricultural s ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/research/innovationItem.php?a=2889 The recent Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2) put the needs of women in agriculture at the forefront of the agricultural reform agenda. Women comprise nearly half the world’s farm ...
  • Food-for-work scheme (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97246/Food-for-work-scheme-helps-Malagasy-forests-and-people Food-for-work scheme helps Malagasy forests and people The dry, spiny forests of southern Madagascar comprise one of the most unique ecosystems in the world, but they are becoming increasingly e ...
  • Global food crisis in 2013? (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97255/Will-there-be-a-global-food-crisis-in-2013 Drought last year devastated much of the maize crop in the US, the world’s biggest maize exporter, driving prices of the staple cereal to record levels. While food experts did not anticipate the rising pric ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • Harper tries, fails not to impose theological ...
    By Montreal Simon It was a bizarre sight. Stephen Harper standing in front of a giant poster for “Dragon’s Den,” appearing to be deep in prayer. Although he was only at a newser in Montreal, trying to figure out what to say, after being asked an embarrassing question: Why is yo ...
  • Canadian humour: Deadpan, or just dead?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Vanity Fair devotes its January issue to celebrating comedic geniuses, and more than a handful of the spotlighted actors and writers have Canadian roots. But before all that celebrating begins, an essay by Bruce McCall ponders the dearth of Canadian comedy, and wonders w ...
  • I’m a racist. No really, I am.
    Things were not comfortable for German Jews in 1938, but nobody was interested in that story at that point. Just like how, in 2013, seemingly nobody is interested in the real story of Aboriginals in Canada ~~ By Jimmy Goatcher ~~ As I watched the video below, I thought about this idea that gets ...
  • A Modest Opinion – 2013: A Year In Preview
    Now that the hangovers are all done (or, if you’re like me you don’t get hungover . . . because you just keep on drinking), it’s time to see what 2013 has in store for us.  So, without further ado (I can feel the soberness creeping up), let’s get on to my Fourth Annual Year [.. ...
  • Idle No More and the racist backlash
    By Montreal Simon As the great rising continues, I see that a Global TV crew has been kicked out of Attawapiskat.  “A Global News crew was escorted off the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario and threatened with arrest after trying to do a story on living conditions in the community.& ...

libcom

  • Wisconsin's Got a Cop Problem
    summary and analysis of an anti-police action in Madison, WI that R.W.B. attended In Madison, Wisconsin, a crowd of over 200 people gathered outside the City-County Building on Saturday over the shooting death of local musician Paul H ...
  • Chicago Factory Occupiers Form Worker Cooperative
    1.jpg First, they occupied the factory to get their wages from the bosses that owned the machinery. Then, they occupied their factory to keep the second bosses from shutting down their machinery. And, ...
  • Can't we all just get along? An apolitical res ...
    hippies.jpg A Belfast comrade writes about the "Peace Gathering", called in response to Loyalist protests about the removal of the Union Flag from Belfast City Hall. O ...
  • In memory of Cameron Minshull
    cameron minshull.jpg Greater Manchester Hazards Centre and Families Against Corporate Killers statement on the death of Cameron Minshull, 16, at an engineering company in Bury, Thursday 10th January 2 ...
  • Tinley Park five accept non-cooperating plea b ...
    l.jpg From Anti-racist action - On January 4, 2013 all members of the Tinley Park Five accepted a non-cooperating plea bargain in which they each plead guilty to three felony counts of Armed Violence ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Obama – The TOP HYPOCRITE!
    One of the things my recently deceased pilot friend Rob knew, was the inside TRUTH about American Oil Reserves – and how many Americans are blissfully ignorant about what is going on there. Here it is in a nutshell.  Obama, immediately after his inauguration in 2009, sends Hillary Clinton ...
  • A Tribute to My Friend, Rob Thompson
    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865570680/Utah-pilot-killed-in-Texas-plane-crash-remembered.html Saturday evening, a truly fine and good man returned home much too early at age 49 due to a fiery plane crash in Texas.  Rob Thompson will long be loved and remembered by his closest friends and f ...
  • The Disinformation Agenda – aka the SOUN ...
    Attention Friends: I am just a patriotic American Christian, trying to connect the dots to make sense of an increasingly crazy world.   I have dozens of historical textbooks on my shelf detailing the world events leading to the rise of Adolph Hitler and his “Third Reich”.   I have ve ...
  • An Honest, Heartfelt Response to Ms. Julia Mit ...
    Dear Ms. Mitchell:I don’t know you, but I must say I MOSTLY agree with your expose posted here below.   A few years back, I was in contact with patriot truth-seekers in Arizona who covertly observed Mike Adam’s NATURAL NEWS operation when it was headquartered in that state.  They swo ...
  • If I Were the Devil – by Paul Harvey
    The clip below was originally broadcast over 47 years ago on April 3, 1965.  Are you old enough to remember the famous ABC radio commentator Paul Harvey back in the “good old days” when America was great, primarily because it was once morally GOOD?  Millions of Americans faithfully l ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Alex Anthopoulos, Toronto Blue Jays GM (Jan 12 ...
    Thirteen years ago he was destined for a life in the heating business in Montreal – but something happened and Alex Anthopoulos changed his life direction. In many ways he taught himself to become a big league baseball manager – and now he is, with a chance to be at the top of the game.
  • Stephen Starr, author "Revolt in Syria"
    How long can Assad cling to power and what's the road ahead for the Syrian people? Peter talks to a journalist who spent the past five years living in Syria.
  • Amos Yadlin, Israeli security expert (Dec 1, 2012)
    Peter sits down with Retired Major General Amos Yadlin, Director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, to discuss Iran, Syria, and continuing instability in the Middle East.
  • Russ Jackson, CFL star (Nov 24, 2012)
    Peter talks with the football legend on the eve of the 100th Grey Cup.
  • Eric McGeer, author - Nov 11, 2012 (encore)
    Conversation with the author of Words of Valediction and Remembrance about the inscriptions carved into the stones above Canada's war dead. Originally aired Nov 2008.

Scotts Contracting

  • INSTALLING A SOLAR SYSTEM IN ST LOUIS MO-CAD D ...
    Solar Equipment-Typical St Louis Home-CAD Designs INSTALLING A RENEWABLE ENERGY SOLAR SYSTEM IN ST LOUIS MISSOURI CAD Examples and Components Needed for a Typical Roof Mount Solar System provided by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy CAD DIAGRAM-EXTERIOR VIEW OF MATERIALS NEEDE ...
  • Benton Rehab Flooring-Custom Floor Patch
    Although it is not impossible to find Lumber to match a floor built in the late 1800s.  The Owner of the Property decided to Jazz it up and incorporate a design into the floor. Part 14-Custom Flooring Patch Hardwood Floor Repair-Benton Rehab Original Flooring Material-Douglas Fir Wood Flooring P ...
  • From: EcoWatch Top News of the Day
    Interesting news about the Unified front to continue the fight against Global Warming and Climate Change:  Coal, Fracking, XL Pipeline, Climate Change, President Obama, Clean Water, Monsanto Genetically modified Seeds, US Farmers,    Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Top News of the Day Pr ...
  • Ways to make your bathroom greener
    How much time do we spend in the bathroom each day? The mornings are probably the most busy bathroom times in any house, followed closely by right before bed. But do you know the burden your bathroom can put on your house’s overall carbon footprint? By Diane Kuehl Most people probably don& ...
  • ICE Dam Prevention
    Ice Dam Prevention for Homes and Business is a simple process to correct and prevent.  Scotts Contracting recommends installing a Ridge Vent and Soffit Vents to prevent Ice Dams. “I feel that Ridge Vents-when coupled with Soffit Vents are one of the Greatest Energy Efficient ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The PKK Assassination in Paris
    Sakine Cansiz Somehow I find myself on the mailing list of the PKK (the Kurdish Workers Party), which is engaged in an armed struggle against Turkey for an autonomous Kurdistan and cultural and political rights for all Turkish Kurds. According to Wikipedia, international human rights grou ...
  • Low Power FM: Reclaiming the Airwaves
    Demo of Low Power FM transmitter One for Our Side US activists fed up with the distortions and overt censorship of the corporate media, finally have the opportunity to start their own Low Power FM (LPFM) stations. Under new FCC rules issued last November, the window for nonprofit organizati ...
  • Teacher Layoffs Make Way for School Privatization
    As he begins his second term, Obama’s school privatization agenda is chugging along at full steam. Citing the Department of Labor’s monthly employment report, the World Socialist Website reveals that 11,000 public school teachers were laid off in December 2012. This brings tota ...
  • Sign Petition for Palestine Right of Return
    On January 5, Ali Abunimah’s Electronic Intifada reposted a January 1, 2013 petition launched by Jews for the Palestinian Right of Return. The text accompanying the petition is profoundly moving. It also makes the following important points: 1. As a result of systematic ethnic cleansing, ...
  • Fiscal Cliff Bill: 100s of Billions in Corpora ...
    The corporate media isn’t telling you about the billions in corporate tax breaks in the Fiscal Cliff Bill Obama signed this week. The mainstream media also failed to mention the corporate CEOs who had to be placated to get this deal off the ground. In his Naked Capitalism article e ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Milhous, in Three Acts
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore ACT I: Nixon’s the One Every good Catholic blamed Lyndon Johnson for Kennedy’s death. Not that he had anything to do with the actual assassination (though there were those who believed he did). But we all kne ...
  • Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Supporting ...
    From The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Almost from the beginning, Kissinger had secretly had all his telephone calls, including those with the President, monitored and transcribed... Nixon was often on the phone with Kissinger for fifteen minutes or longer. The President was r ...
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...
    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...
  • Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on ...
    From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate" "RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES." "RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape s ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Introducing the Future Energy Fellows
    We at The Energy Collective are pleased to announce the launch of the Future Energy Fellows program, which is sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell and will provide the rising stars of the global energy industry and policy worlds with an online presence, means to connect and collaborate, and a forum to ...
  • Could Diesel Fuel Made from US Natural Gas Com ...
  • Propane: A New Alternative Fuel for Vehicles?
    When you hear about alternative fuels for gasoline, what comes to mind?  Most likely, you’re thinking about liquefied natural gas.  While that is the most popular substitute, it is not the only one breaking ground.  This may come as a surprise, but propane could be the next big fu ...
  • With Water and Energy, India is Different
    In India, the confrontation over rising demand for energy and food, and diminished water resources is, like a powerful political and cultural undertow. India is pushed forward by the forces of modernization to expand its energy production, electrical transmission, and water supply and transport ...
  • Europe’s Climate Change Fail
    Despite its green energy credentials, Europe has ramped up its consumption of coal. Ironically, the very policies that the continent has built its environmentalist reputation on — vigorous support for renewables — may be crowding out its best chances for reducing emissions, given its return to c ...

EU Times

  • Obama Demands Ban on Assault Weapons from Congress
    From Washington on Wednesday, United States President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass a number of proposals that could allow for sweeping new gun laws across the country. In an address delivered to an audience made up of the families of victims of last month’s mass shooting in Newtown, C ...
  • France plans to send more military troops to Mali
    France is planning to triple the number of its soldiers fighting anti-government militants in the West African nation of Mali. “There will be a gradual build-up [in the number of French troops in Mali] to a figure of 2,500,” said a source close to Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian ...
  • UK ‘Good Samaritan’ helps drunk woman get home ...
    These pictures show the chilling moment a sexual predator posed as a ‘Good Samaritan’ to help a drunken woman before taking her home and raping her. Ebrima Dampha, 33, was caught on CCTV as he pounced on his vulnerable victim when she passed out in a bar at four times the drink drive ...
  • Iran to unveil optimized tank on revolution an ...
    Commander of Iranian Army Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan says a tank optimized by Iranian military experts will be unveiled on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The general said on Tuesday that the inauguration of optimized Zulfiqar tank is timed to c ...
  • Helicopter smashes skyscraper crane in central ...
    Two people died when a helicopter collided with a crane close to Vauxhall train station in central London during the morning rush hour, reports Scotland Yard. Nine people were also injured in the incident and have been taken to hospital. Authorities have confirmed that one of the dead was the pi ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Darrell Issa Probing Prosecution Of Aaron Swartz
    House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is investigating the Justice Department's prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who committed suicide on Friday after fighting felony hacking charges for two years. Issa's inquiry comes amid bipartisan expressions of sympath ...
  • Galaxy tablets do not infringe Apple patents, ...
    In a judgment handed down by a district court in The Hague, the court found that the rounded corners of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, 8.9 and 7.7 did not infringe the patents held by Apple, citing a similar case in the British courts last year, which also found in favour of Samsung. In a statement given ...
  • Secret Methods (cartoon)
    "Hold on a moment.... How do you have any demographic information on me at all?" - Help Desk
  • New report shows Congress' favorite BitTorrent ...
    Congress has become gun-shy about putting together Internet-related legislation after the attempt to pass SOPA generated unprecedented public outrage, but Internet piracy is still on its radar. Still, it turns out that digital copies of pirated movies and TV shows aren't just the subject of com ...
  • Google Glass to Hit Developers' Hands This Month
    Developers who want to get their hands on Google's Project Glass won't have to wait much longer. Google announced plans Tuesday to hold a "Glass Foundry" in San Francisco and New York in the coming weeks: Two full days of hacking that will allow developers to get an early look at Glass and star ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Cat beats investment professionals in picking ...
    Credit: The Observer, Jill Insley Orlando the Cat has trounced so called investment professionals in picking stocks, probably because he wasn’t focused on touting garbage stocks to clients (AKA “muppets”, as Goldman employees have charmingly called them) then secretly shorting ...
  • $670 million Littoral combat ship not expected ...
    Credit: US Navy The war pigs have built themselves a fine, new, rootin’, tootin’ class of fighting ships called the Littoral Combat Ship for a mere $670 million each. Tragically though, there are a few small glitches. The guns don’t fire right and it is “not expected to b ...
  • Lynda.com raises $100 million in outside funding
    If you’re a geek or a coder, you’ve used the training videos on Lynda.com. $25 a month for all the courses you want to take. I’ve used it many times. Lynda.com started 18 years ago on $20,000 and has been profitable virtually all that time. Last year they booked over $100 mill ...
  • Robot band plays Blitzkrieg Bop
    Now they just need to add a slam pit of robots. Hey, I wonder if robots can stage dive??? And of course they need a robot with the “Gabba Gabba Hey” sign too.:)
  • MIT refused to support keeping Aaron Swartz ou ...
    MIT cries crocodile tears about how deeply tragic the death of Aaron Swartz is. They vow a thorough investigation of themselves before of course finding themselves mostly blameless because after all who could have predicted such an outcome. That their actions allow MIT to keep sucking on the fe ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Four important reads on Syria
    The first two are excellent, on-the-ground reporting from Aleppo, by the seasoned, native Arabic speaker Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Dec 27 and Dec 28. The second two are from the Carnegie Endowment: This thoughtful Dec 24 piece by Yezid Sayegh: Can the National Coalition Lead Syria?; and this very well ...
  • Crunch time for funding G. Porter's book on Iran!
    Hi, everyone! We have just six days to go in our online fundraiser for Gareth Porter's very important planned book Manufactured Crisis: The Secret History of the Iranian Nuclear Scare. We've just topped getting pledges for 2/3 of the $10,000 we need for this. Can you do anything to help us get ...
  • Palestine and the Arab Spring
    Plenty of western commentators have asserted that the attention that participants in the Arab Spring have been paying to governance issues in their own countries means that somehow they no longer really care about Palestine. (A few people, most notably As'ad Abou-Khalil, have challenged that as ...
  • Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
    Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
  • Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...
    1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...

frogblog

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Cholesterol Plays Key Role in Cell Signaling
    By Dr. Mercola Are you still under the impression that cholesterol is a dietary villain and a primary cause of heart disease? And do you avoid eating healthy animal foods like eggs, butter and grass-fed beef because of “high-cholesterol” fears? It’s time for these perv ...
  • The Unsavory Truth of the McRib and Other Fake ...
    This is a Flash-based video and may not be viewable on mobile devices. By Dr. Mercola Over the past couple of years, we’ve learned the unsavory truth about “pink slime,” reconstituted meat, and how the use of meat glue cheats you out of your hard-earned money at the grocer ...
  • Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Meryl Nass on Vacci ...
    By Dr. Mercola The average person in the United States and, for that matter, most of the world has been convinced – or a better term might be “manipulated” – that there is an overwhelming benefit received from vaccines. Most people accept the recommendation to vaccin ...
  • Threats to Your Water Supply Abound -- The Dev ...
    By Dr. Mercola Polluted drinking water is a significant health threat that is sorely underreported and oft-ignored. A recent article in the Star Tribune1 highlights the very real struggle to access clean drinking water right here in the United States. "Debbie Carlson can laugh at the iro ...
  • Aspirin Use Linked to Macular Degeneration
    By Dr. Mercola Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the deterioration of your macula (the region in your eye that controls acute vision), which typically occurs later in life. AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the United States, as it can destroy your central vision, which is ne ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Showdown on tribal rights in India
    Former Minister Jairam Ramesh meets Dongria and Majhi Kondh leaders© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalAs India’s Supreme Court case over Vedanta Resources’ proposed mine on the land of the Dongria Kondh tribe draws to a close, a showdown on tribal rights is brewing. The case of the Niyamgiri mine is curre ...
  • Bushman children arrested under renewed govern ...
    The recent arrests of children by paramilitary police are the latest sign of a renewed government crackdown in the CKGR. © SurvivalThree Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who h ...
  • Remembering Marcos Veron 10 years on
    Marcos Veron was killed 10 years ago for reclaiming his ancestral land.© Joaó Ripper/SurvivalGuarani Indians gathered today to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Marcos Veron, who was brutally murdered after leading his community back onto part of their ancestral land. The killing by a r ...
  • 'Human safari' row goes to India’s Supreme Court
    Months after the Supreme Court ordered a buffer zone around the Jarawa's Reserve, hundreds of tourists continue to travel along the Andaman Trunk Road every day.© Andaman Chronicle/ SurvivalSurvival has urged India’s Supreme Court to take immediate action against ‘human safaris’, exactly a ...
  • In pictures: The reindeer people under threat ...
    Tribal people rely on reindeer for food, transport, shelter and warmth.© Steve MorganEach year, the image of the reindeer finds its way onto cards, sweaters and into people’s imaginations, but to the world’s indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the animal is not just for Christmas. As news emerges ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: If 2013 is to be a year of reform, ...
    Generally speaking, 2012 might be said to have been the year of red squares and brown envelopes. Both were symbolic of things going badly in Montreal.
  • Editorial: Poll confirms sovereignist movement ...
    The separatist movement’s problem is not so much that it is divided into partisan factions , but that most Quebecers aren’t interested in what it’s peddling.
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.

Food World Order

  • Researchers find childhood diet affects cognit ...
    from chicagotribune.com: Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have found that adults who occasionally went hungry during childhood had a slower rate of decline in their cognitive abilities as they aged than those who always had enough to eat as children. "We didn't expec ...
  • Junk food linked to #asthma and #eczema in chi ...
    from telegraph.co.uk: The high saturated fat levels in food such as burgers lower children's immune systems, it is believed. A research project involving more than 50 countries found that teenagers who ate junk food three times a week or more were 39 per cent more like ...
  • City works on code change for controversial ve ...
    from clickorlando.com: ORLANDO, Fla. - The city of Orlando says it's trying to work with the couple whose front yard vegetable garden has sparked controversy nationwide by passing new regulations that would require changes to their garden, a move that would affect several others in College Pa ...
  • #Video: New Govt Mandated Lightbulbs A Major H ...
    from brasschecktv.com: Remember when the Congress decided to outlaw normal US-made light bulbs in favor of mercury-containing "green" ones made only in China? If dropped and broken, these bulbs require someone in a hazmat suit to clean up. Well, apparently, that's not all. They cast a light that ...
  • #Video: Anti-Depressants Help Create Killers
    from brasschecktv.com: It's not the guns. It's not violent video games. The unifying factor behind virtually every school shooting? Anti-depressant drugs - and there's a near total blackout on this subject in the news.

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 50 Shocking Questions That You Should Ask To A ...
    Share this list of shocking questions with everyone you know that needs to wake up.  Sometimes asking good questions is the best way to get someone that you care about to understand something.  When I attended law school, I became very familiar with something called "the Socratic method".  It is ...
  • 35 Statistics About The Working Poor In Americ ...
    In America tonight, tens of millions of men and women will struggle to get to sleep because they are stressed out about not making enough money even though they are working as hard as they possibly can.  They are called "the working poor", and their numbers are absolutely exploding.  As a recent ...
  • Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Push ...
    As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the "too big to fail" banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits.  But when you use debt to potentially multiply your profits, you also create the possibility that your losses will be multiplied if the markets ...
  • The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The ...
    Barack Obama has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency during his time in the White House, but there is one institution that he simply will not mess with.  There is one organization that is considered to be so sacred in Washington D.C. that Obama will not dare utter a single negative wor ...
  • The Federal Government Hands Out Money To 128 ...
    The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 to over 128 million today.  A shocking new research paper by Patrick Tyrrell and William W. Beach contains that statistic and a whole bunch of other very revealing numbers.  Ac ...

CASSE

  • Confessions of a Closet Football Fan
    by Brian Czech If you’re an American or just familiar with the American scene, you know what’s brewing. We’re not talking about the inauguration, sequestration, or Secretary of State nomination. No, something much bigger. We’re into the NFL playoffs and the biggest sporti ...
  • Enough: the Central Concept in Economics
    In his foreword to the book, Enough Is Enough, Herman Daly contemplates the role of sufficiency in obtaining "the good life."
  • The Visible Hand: Manipulating Market Prices b ...
    Just how efficient are are market prices when they put the future of all species, including humans, at risk?
  • The Outlook for Steady State Economics in 2013
    Looking beyond Mayan myths, there's a sign of good things to come in 2013 and beyond: more and more people are joing the steady state cause.
  • Aristotle in Connecticut
    Eric Zencey searches for deeper causes in the midst of grief and dismay over the most recent American shooting tragedy.

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

  • Louisiana governor continues to ignore growing ...
    Over five months since the Texas Brine sinkhole first appeared over the Napoleonville Salt Dome, residents of Louisiana's Bayou Corne struggle to be heard by Gov. Bobby Jindal -- and look to Washington for help. read more
  • VOICES: ALEC leads attack on North Carolina cl ...
    Corporate polluters are taking aim this year at states with renewable energy laws, starting with an attack on North Carolina's law by a corporate front group supported by Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, and Koch Industries. read more
  • BP challenges official estimate of oil spilled ...
    The company is seeking to reduce its civil liabilities under the Clean Water Act by excluding the oil it salvaged from the total amount spilled in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Meanwhile, the court has approved a settlement for medical claims related to the spilled oil and dispersants use ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Confronting a deepening clima ...
    With new data out showing that 2012 was the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States, and with costs mounting due to droughts and other climate-related disasters, will political leaders finally take action to address the problem? read more
  • An action-packed 2013 in store for Southern labor
    The new year promises lots of action on the labor front -- and as always in the South, it comes with heavy baggage from the past. read more

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

Tech Drive In

  • A 10.1 inch Tablet that Dual-Boots Android 4.0 ...
    Kite (Nibbio in Italian) is a Full-HD tablet made by little known Italian electronics firm, DaVinci Mobile Technology. Kite tablet will be powered by Samsung Exynos 4412 quad-core processor and is supposedly going to dual boot latest stable versions of Ubuntu and Android, an idea no oth ...
  • Top 5 Fast, Lightwieght and Free Android Launchers
    First, we introduced you to a chosen collection of 6 awesome launchers for Android. Then we featured 3 more launchers tailor-made for Android 4.0 ICS+ operating system. Since then, a lot of our readers have been asking for more lightweight alternatives to the ones we already featured. SPB Shel ...
  • Ubuntu Phone OS Demo at CES 2013: Showcases Ca ...
    Yet another video is up showcasing several new features of Ubuntu Phone OS. While the first video, demoed by Mark Shuttleworth himself, illustrated how slick the OS has become since it was announced, the second video here features default Camera and Photo apps, Facebook integration and brill ...
  • Mark Shuttleworth Demos Ubuntu for Phones at C ...
    Ubuntu for Phones was announced with much fanfare just a few days ago. While the OS is still in pre-alpha state, there are already videos of the same running on various hardware. Initial videos showed how a pre-alpha software looks like, very buggy and quite unusable, so to speak. But this lat ...
  • Steam Box is Coming this Year, Will be Based O ...
    Valve is into hardware aggressively and there were plenty of rumors circling around about the imminent announcement of official Valve gaming console. Valve is betting big on Linux and this became very clear when they released official Steam for Linux client. Even an year ago, nobody was e ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Sandy Hook Shooting – Fully Exposed ...
    The Sandy Hook Shooting – Fully Exposed – YouTube.
  • CFL Bulbs Contain Harmful Chemicals, Damage Yo ...
    With the government moving to ban incandescent light bulbsin favor energy-saving compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs, it’s important to remember what this means for your health. A German Study that found that compact fluorescent lights emit cancer-causing chemicals such as phenol, naphthalene, a ...
  • Windmills Overload East Europe’s Grid Risking ...
    By Ladka Bauerova & Tino Andresen – Oct 25, 2012 5:01 PM MT Germany is dumping electricity on its unwilling neighbors and by wintertime the feud should come to a head. Central and Eastern European countries are moving to disconnect their power lines from Germany’s during the windiest d ...
  • By Way of Attempted Explication.
    By Visible Greetings Friends and welcome to the halls of Origami. I seem to have run afoul of certain sensibilities over the course of the last week in my postings here and there. I just got an email from someone who was upset with me because they said I was fearful. This was something I [...]
  • Tubing down Buffoon River to Shylock City
    By Visible This will probably come as no surprise to the reader. Many of you have seen the various documentaries about the corporate theft of public waters. If not, you can look them up. The films are riveting. In many cases, local government functionaries take bribes that allow large water tank ...

Veterans Today

  • Obama “Gun Address” Misses Real Te ...
      Military Sources Confirm Sandy Hook Suspected Foreign Terrorist Attack — by  Gordon Duff, Senior Editor — Despite attempts to blame a seemingly endless ...
  • Shining New Light on the Kosher Scam
    The Jewish umbrella group, which includes the world’s largest kosher certification company, the Orthodox Union, is having serious internal leadership problems. The problems are ...
  • OBAMA THE DRAMA
    Despite the monumental snow job by the White House to carefully craft and spin the image of the US president as cerebral & aloof ‘no drama Obama’, his modus operandi has generated a pileup of smoldering snafus in domestic & foreign policy.
  • The Canadian Ministry of Justice’s Anti- ...
    January 16, 2013. Chilliwack British Columbia. The Canadian Government Is Put on Trial for Violating Section 35. Idle No More Makes a Breakthrough in ...
  • Mother of twins shoots burglar five times
    - Her husband says, "She's a hero. She protected her kids, she did what she was supposed to do."

electric politics

  • Speaking Truth
    These days, the only reasonable thing to say to Power is, "Here's the arrest warrant, please come quietly." But Speaking Truth, that's a different story. We speak truth to affirm and reaffirm who and what we are, what the reality of the world is, and why it is the way it is. Not an easy task &md ...
  • Counting Electors
    If the Republican Party were to adopt a scorched earth policy — counting electors one way in certain swing states and another way in solid red states — they could conceivably lock in a Republican presidential win for the next several election cycles. As a practical matter it would no ...
  • Constitutional Wrinkles
    Americans have been brainwashed into thinking we have the greatest system of government in the world. Arguably, however, much the opposite is true. In practical terms our system is neither democratic nor representative, when, that is, it works at all. But the Constitution has become America's ci ...
  • Three Truths and a Lie
    'Tis the season for... reflections on life. And death. Yet death often feels ominously dark, especially when a young person dies before their time. It's difficult, in such circumstances, to remember that darkness isn't all bad — indeed, there's reason to believe it may be a source of enlig ...
  • Running Against the Grain (Part II)
    Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...

PR News

  • Proactive comms key for rise in shareholder ac ...
    MIAMI: Corporate communicators should prepare for an increase in shareholder activism this year as more activists target large companies, said executives during a panel discussion at the ICR XChange conference in Miami.
  • Ethisphere Institute appoints advisory board
    NEW YORK: The Ethisphere Institute has established a communications advisory board that will serve as a "real-time think tank" for the organization, it said in a statement.
  • Fujitsu America taps Finn Partners as AOR
    NEW YORK: Fujitsu America, the North American subsidiary of Japanese information and communication technology giant Fujitsu Limited, has selected Finn Partners as its PR AOR following a competitive review.
  • Cyprus government calls in FTI to boost bailou ...
    The government of Cyprus has brought in international communications help as the country fights to secure a €17 billion ($22.6 billion) bailout from the European Union.
  • Asia's CEOs remain inactive on social media: Weber
    Weber Shandwick's latest study revealed that 81% of CEOs among the world's top 50 companies engage socially, but chief executives in the Asia-Pacific region lag behind their counterparts.

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Youth Empowerment Program
    Deadline:  15 Feb 2013 (All day) Organization:  Edmonton Community Foundation Money To Make Your ...
  • Watershed Ambassador Breakfast
    Red Deer River Watershed Alliance 18 Jan 2013 - 07:30 - 20:45 Flow into the new year with a hot buffet breakfast and a presentation on monitoring Alberta's biodiversity! Jim H ...
  • Earthbag Building Presentation
    ReThink Red Deer 16 Jan 2013 - 18:30 - 21:00 ReThink Red Deer is back at it in the new year with a great presentation on natural building! Evonne and Robert Smulders, owners of Sa ...
  • AWA Tuesday Talk: Greater Sage-grouse Partnership
    Alberta Wilderness Association 29 Jan 2013 - 19:00 with Cliff Wallis, Sean Nichols, and Wonnita Andrus Join us for the first talk of the New Year as we discuss the critically enda ...
  • ICYMI: Wildlands Advocate Vol. 20 No. 6
    Alberta Wilderness Association In case you missed it over the holidays, the latest issue of the Alberta Wilderness Association's Wild Lands Advocate is online.  Features A Last Look at AWA's 2012 Priorities What Ex ...

Stop NATO

  • Russian General Staff Following NATO Missile D ...
    Itar-Tass January 16, 2013 RF General Staff keeps eye on Patriot missiles supply to Turkey Patriot missile launcher (NATO photograph) BRUSSELS: The Russian General Staff follows the situation with the supply of Patriot missile air-defense complexes to Turkey, Colonel-General Valery Gerasimov, an ...
  • Romain Rolland: To the Murdered Peoples
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland To the Murdered Peoples (1916) Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul The horrors that have taken place during the last two and a half years have given a rude spiritual shock to ...
  • East China Sea Crisis: U.S. Pulling Strings On ...
    Global Times January 16, 2013 US won’t let Japan go its own way ==== As for Japan’s territorial disputes with other countries, such as China, South Korea and Russia, these have already taken a toll on Japan’s international image. Japan aims to mitigate the situation and break the dea ...
  • Karl Kraus: Selections on war
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Karl Kraus: This is world war. This is my manifesto to mankind. Karl Kraus: The evolution of humanitarian bombing Karl Kraus: The Last Days of Mankind Karl Kraus: The Warmakers Karl Kraus: War renders unto Caesar that which is God’s Kar ...
  • Interview: U.S. Approach To Russia More Abrasi ...
    Voice of Russia January 16, 2013 Recorded in late December   Clinton’s language has no place in international diplomacy – interview John Robles   Audio: Download   The owner of Stop NATO, Rick Rozoff, recently spoke to the Voice of Russia about NATO’s global plan ...

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Intel Hub

  • Sandy Hook Shooters Described by Officials as ...
    Shepard Ambellas | The Sandy Hook investigation gets even deeper as new evidence surfaces that the mainstream media (including CNN's host Anderson Cooper) refuses to cover.
  • Jackie Chan Calls America “The Most Corrupt in ...
    theintelhub.com | Jackie Chan is most well-known for is action-packed films like the “Rush Hour” movies and “Shanghai Noon,” but his signature stunt moves aren’t the only thing people are talking about lately.
  • Glenn Beck Designs Utopian City Independence, USA
    Sarah Dee | Right-wing radio and television host Glenn Beck has just revealed his plans to create Independence, USA: a combination theme park, farm, residential community, and marketplace that will serve as an example of American ingenuity and self-sufficiency.
  • Parabens Found in Cosmetics Linked to Breast C ...
    Sarah Dee | For many women, applying make-up is as basic a part of their normal morning routine, as brushing their teeth or showering, but this activity could have harmful health consequences according to a scientific study conducted in 2004 in the UK (i).
  • Radio Interview: Shepard Ambellas on ‘Do ...
    theintelhub.com | Shepard Ambellas appears on Popeye's "Down the Rabbit Hole" radio broadcast to talk about SHADE the Motion Picture and current events.

FRS

  • Hundreds Of Indigenous Women And Girls Were Mu ...
    By Farooque Chowdhury, Countercurrents.org 30 October, 2012 Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada . To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece , migrants an ...
  • Hundreds Of Indigenous Women And Girls Were Mu ...
    By Farooque Chowdhury, Countercurrents.org 30 October, 2012 Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada . To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece , migrants an ...
  • Philippines: Revolutionary forces making gain ...
    A victorious decade of People’s War in Mindanao Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris), Spokesperson, NDF-Mindanao December 26, 2012Together with all revolutionaries and the the people of Mindanao and the entire nation, the NDFP-Mindanao wishes to express its warmest congratulations and highest tribute to ...
  • Philippines: Revolutionary forces making gain ...
    A victorious decade of People’s War in Mindanao Jorge Madlos (Ka Oris), Spokesperson, NDF-Mindanao December 26, 2012Together with all revolutionaries and the the people of Mindanao and the entire nation, the NDFP-Mindanao wishes to express its warmest congratulations and highest tribute to ...
  • Update on Tracking Police Murders: Every 36 Ho ...
    This episode of  Critical Insight we were joined by Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement to discuss their 2012 report detailing the fact that every 36 hours (at least) a Black person is extra-judiciously executed by “Law Enforcement” within the United States. Please watch ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...
  • Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
    Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
  • Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
    I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...

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

Associated Content

  • Congress Must Limit Executive Order Powers Now
    Congress needs to take steps now to define what the president can and cannot pass by executive order. President Obama's discussion about passing gun control legislation through executive order should be the catalyst.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 15, 2013
  • Cracking the Nut: Time for Gun Owners' Insurance
    A retired Navy commander may have come up with a very effective way to reign in our gun problem.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 11, 2013
  • Dismayingly, the Sandy Hook Elementary Conspir ...
    Proving that nothing can happen that does not attract the attention of conspiracy nuts, the Daily Caller reports that two fringe academics have announced that the official version of the Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre is not the correct one.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 10, 2013
  • The Debt Ceiling is Political Dynamite -- the ...
    It is wrong for congressional Republicans to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in deficit reduction negotiations. Their refusal to approve a debt ceiling increase with Democrats will spell doom for them in 2014.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 08, 2013
  • Voiced Outrage by Christie, Cuomo, King Gets S ...
    Chris Christie said in a press conference that he joined the people of his state in feeling betrayed by the House for not voting on the Hurricane Sandy Relief. He joined other politicians in his outrage, prompting a quick House reconsideration...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Jan 04, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • The Disco Clam Has A Built-In Strobe Light
    But poor dance moves. The disco clam is truly one of the most tragic of nature's creatures. It uses it reflective lip to control an awesome strobe-light show, but it has no real appendages to dance with. So if not for dancing, why does the clam bother? Researchers from the University of Califor ...
  • A Single Bout Of Exercise Can Make Your Flu Sh ...
    Just make sure your sweat levels are optimal. So, you've gotten yourself a flu shot. Good thinking, since this flu season is especially rough. A shot's not always going to save you--even the best batches are only about 70 percent effective--but there's a simple way to improve your odds: exerci ...
  • Obama Calls For Research Into Causes Of Gun Vi ...
    Obama also called on the private sector to develop new gun-safety technology. President Obama issued 23 executive actions on gun control today, including provisions encouraging research into the causes and prevention of gun violence. He also challenged the private sector to develop innovations ...
  • Superomniphobic Material Repels Any Liquid You ...
    A new kind of liquid-repelling coating sends any liquid bouncing, rolling, or wicking away. We’ve seen lots of hydrophobic materials before, but these water- and liquid-repelling materials often work within constraints. Some liquids bounce or wick away, while others--based on properties like vi ...
  • Herd Of Secret Drug Goats Discovered At Biotec ...
    In which a large company tries to solve the problem of animal treatment violations by lying to the USDA (but it doesn't work) Let's say you're a giant biotech company in sunny California, and you have a big ranch where you keep thousands of goats. You use the goats to produce all kinds of antib ...

Veterans Today

  • Obama “Gun Address” Misses Real Te ...
      Military Sources Confirm Sandy Hook Suspected Foreign Terrorist Attack — by  Gordon Duff, Senior Editor — Despite attempts to blame a seemingly endless ...
  • Shining New Light on the Kosher Scam
    The Jewish umbrella group, which includes the world’s largest kosher certification company, the Orthodox Union, is having serious internal leadership problems. The problems are ...
  • OBAMA THE DRAMA
    Despite the monumental snow job by the White House to carefully craft and spin the image of the US president as cerebral & aloof ‘no drama Obama’, his modus operandi has generated a pileup of smoldering snafus in domestic & foreign policy.
  • The Canadian Ministry of Justice’s Anti- ...
    January 16, 2013. Chilliwack British Columbia. The Canadian Government Is Put on Trial for Violating Section 35. Idle No More Makes a Breakthrough in ...
  • Mother of twins shoots burglar five times
    - Her husband says, "She's a hero. She protected her kids, she did what she was supposed to do."

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
    Many parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire had their first snowfall of the winter yesterday, with coastal areas suffering the largest falls with around 10cms (4 ins) of fresh snow being reported by yesterday evening. With high pressure developing across Scandinavia, cold air will be with us ...
  • Met Office scale back global warming forecast
    A new global temperature forecast published by the Met Office, through to 2017, has scaled back projections of the amount of warming they expect compared with previous estimates. The new projection can be seen below with more details on the Met Office website. I have written several times ...
  • Dry weather returns to UK following 2nd wettes ...
    2012 averaged across the UK was the second wettest on record in data which stretches back to 1910, falling short of a new record by only 6.6mm. In total 1330.7mm fell last year, compared with the average of 1154mm. A new record has been set across England and Wales with 1205mm of rain. And ...
  • How the Arctic may be impacting UK summers
    We may have to get used to wet summers like we've seen recently across the UK, according Dr Edward Hanna from Sheffield University in an interview which you can see on Inside Out and Look North tonight. According to Dr Hanna and an international team of scientists, melting summer Arctic ice ma ...
  • The Beast from the East is slain
    The cold easterly which a large majority of computer models were predicting to develop this week has failed to materialise, with a much more unsettled weather pattern expected to return from the Atlantic during tomorrow. Last week, 80% of the ECMWF model solutions wanted an easterly 'blocking' ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Trash for Treasure: CenBanks Swapping $ for RMB
    The old saying goes "one man's trash may be another man's treasure." To be sure, there are any number of countries around the world that would welcome even dollar foreign exchange reserve assets. Think of Egypt. The happy-sad fact though is that, in part because of international currency war bei ...
  • How Broke is Greece? It Drops Volleyball Tourneys
    Blues legend Buddy Guy has a song entitled "Too Broke to Spend the Night" from his comeback album Damn Right I've Got the Blues. I think Greek officialdom may be singing a similar tune right about now in sporting terms. In 2004 it famously hosted--rather unprofitably, too--the world's foremost g ...
  • End of an Outsourcing Era: 787 Nightmareliner
    There is a justifiably very well-cited article in Review of International Political Economy by Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey and Timothy Sturgeon concerning "The Global Governance of Global Value Chains." (I think it's required reading for anyone with an interest in the field; simple as that.) Her ...
  • Odd Arne Westad on Frosty China-Japan Relations
    LSE IDEAS is such a hive of activity nowadays I don't even manage to keep up with what the boss is up to. (Of course he isn't "odd"; it's a Norwegian name!) A few weeks ago I featured his well-received book about China's history of reaching out to the rest of the world since 1750. Fluent in Mand ...
  • Nuke to Thrill: Rekindling Japan's Fission Passion
    The taste of love is sweet  When hearts like ours meet  I fell for you like a child  Oh, but the fire went wild... [The chart above is from Nuclear Tourist.] The return to the status quo ante of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership in Japan unsurprisingly means the comeback ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 50 Shocking Questions That You Should Ask To A ...
    Share this list of shocking questions with everyone you know that needs to wake up.  Sometimes asking good questions is the best way to get someone that you care about to understand something.  When I attended law school, I became very familiar with something called "the Socratic method".  It is ...
  • 35 Statistics About The Working Poor In Americ ...
    In America tonight, tens of millions of men and women will struggle to get to sleep because they are stressed out about not making enough money even though they are working as hard as they possibly can.  They are called "the working poor", and their numbers are absolutely exploding.  As a recent ...
  • Goldman Sachs And The Big Hedge Funds Are Push ...
    As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the "too big to fail" banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits.  But when you use debt to potentially multiply your profits, you also create the possibility that your losses will be multiplied if the markets ...
  • The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The ...
    Barack Obama has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency during his time in the White House, but there is one institution that he simply will not mess with.  There is one organization that is considered to be so sacred in Washington D.C. that Obama will not dare utter a single negative wor ...
  • The Federal Government Hands Out Money To 128 ...
    The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 to over 128 million today.  A shocking new research paper by Patrick Tyrrell and William W. Beach contains that statistic and a whole bunch of other very revealing numbers.  Ac ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Obama Demands Ban on Assault Weapons from Congress
    From Washington on Wednesday, United States President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass a number of proposals that could allow for sweeping new gun laws across the country. In an address delivered to an audience made up of the families of victims of last month’s mass shooting in Newtown, C ...
  • France plans to send more military troops to Mali
    France is planning to triple the number of its soldiers fighting anti-government militants in the West African nation of Mali. “There will be a gradual build-up [in the number of French troops in Mali] to a figure of 2,500,” said a source close to Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian ...
  • UK ‘Good Samaritan’ helps drunk woman get home ...
    These pictures show the chilling moment a sexual predator posed as a ‘Good Samaritan’ to help a drunken woman before taking her home and raping her. Ebrima Dampha, 33, was caught on CCTV as he pounced on his vulnerable victim when she passed out in a bar at four times the drink drive ...
  • Iran to unveil optimized tank on revolution an ...
    Commander of Iranian Army Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan says a tank optimized by Iranian military experts will be unveiled on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The general said on Tuesday that the inauguration of optimized Zulfiqar tank is timed to c ...
  • Helicopter smashes skyscraper crane in central ...
    Two people died when a helicopter collided with a crane close to Vauxhall train station in central London during the morning rush hour, reports Scotland Yard. Nine people were also injured in the incident and have been taken to hospital. Authorities have confirmed that one of the dead was the pi ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    It was encouraging to learn today that German researchers working with catholic officials to produce the latest, supposedly independent, supposedly research based support for Vatican lies about endemic child rape by catholic religious have had enough and pulled the plug on the project. Read the ...
  • Fire’s Too Good for These Devils
    As much of Australia prepares to face catastrophic bush fire conditions today, I hope everyone is safe from fires and comes through unscathed. That even includes the church’s carefully protected child rapists and those who sacrifice additional children to cover up their crimes. Fire is too ...
  • Smokescreen Council Working for Deceitful Chur ...
    The CEO of the Council Which Should Not Exist, Francis Sullivan, is following in the footsteps of church officials by claiming, without basis, to speak for victims of the serial child sex offenders enabled and protected by his church. This week’s comments include a stated desire to be &#82 ...
  • Papists protect child rapists
    Papists protect rapists  by Voiceless Victim Papists protect their child rapists but won’t protect kids – like me. Papists pretend. What rapists? Who cares what those lies do to me. Papists revere holy rapists but won’t even listen to me Papists stand up for their rapists the o ...

WL Central

  • Inside the Hourglass, A World Rising Anew
    With economic and military force, in the last decades the United States has attained sole superpower status in the world. The legacy of the US empire carries a dark history: genocide of natives, slavery of blacks and criminalizing immigrants from the South. None can deny that much of US hegemon ...
  • 2012-12-28 Julian Assange essay wins "Russian ...
    This month, Russian Pioneer magazine reportedly awarded WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange the "Grand Prix" in the publication's second annual literary competition. Assange received the prize for his essay "Washington vs. Mankind" Winners were said to receive bicycles and bottles of cogna ...
  • 2012-12-28 Assange leads in online vote for Pe ...
    Julian Assange is currently the lead contender in an online voting contest for the Pericles Prize. Votes for the WikiLeaks leader and others have been cast in answer to the question "Who of all politicians was most sincere in his fight for social progress in 2012?" In the "Global" category, Assa ...
  • 2012-12-26 More pro-WikiLeaks Swedish organiza ...
    On Monday Torrent Freak reported that, after three years of service to the organization, PayPal has frozen the funds of PRQ, an ISP founded by The Pirate Bay's Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm. Earlier this month, sources also reported the suspension of the Twitter account of Anonymous Sweden ...
  • 2012-12-24 Several WikiLeaks movies in product ...
    Following on the heels of Underground: The Julian Assange Story - a 2012 biopic on the WikiLeaks founder's teen years - several major Hollywood studios are in various stages of planning or producing feature films about Assange and his organization. One full-length feature, tentatively titled The ...

U N News

  • UNESCO recognizes Brazilian friar&#39s contrib ...
    The United Nations has recognized a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto, with a leading international prize for his &#8220exceptional contribution&#8221 to building a universal culture of peace, social justice and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Marking third anniversary of earthquake, Ban c ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to continue its support for Haiti as he marked the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean country, while praising the progress achieved so far.
  • Haiti: UN-backed survey finds progress for chi ...
    Almost three years after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, preliminary results of a new United Nations-backed national household survey show substantial progress for children there in the education, nutrition, health and sanitation sectors since 2006.
  • Canadian authorities must start meaningful dia ...
    A United Nations independent expert today urged the Canadian Government to establish a meaningful dialogue with the country's aboriginal leaders in light of recent protests.
  • Renowned US doctor appointed to support UN eff ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed renowned United States physician Paul Farmer to help galvanize support to eliminate cholera in Haiti, where the disease has already claimed over 7,750 lives.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
    The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
  • CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
    He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

  • Life on the Brink
    LIFE ON THE BRINK  Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation Edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist University of Georgia Press, December 2012 About the book Life on the Brink aspires to reignite a robust discussion of population issues among environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, ...
  • Wild Utah Project needs your help!
    HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising chall ...
  • Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...
    Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
  • Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...
    (September 4, 2012)  The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy.  PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
  • Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...
    Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Sandy Hook Shooting Suspects ‘Last Seen on Sto ...
    Intense police audio from the day of the shooting points to a deeper more sophisticated type of operation... In the weeks since the seemingly horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, numerous inconsistencies and outright frauds have been detailed in regards to t ...
  • Sandy Hook Conspiracy Goes Viral!... The Sandy ...
    The Sandy Hook Conspiracy has gone viral, thanks largely to alternative media, who refuse to let this abomination of lies go to rest. Thanks also to the many YouTube video creators and bloggers and researchers in cyberspace who keep digging through the lies to unearth facts, Americans are awaken ...
  • Sandy Hook... Raw Helicopter Footage Before Sh ...
    I was tipped off about helicopter footage of the Sandy Hook 'incident' BEFORE the shooting started... This is the footage... You decide. ~ John Rolls - Video read more
  • Where has Adam Lanza Been for the Past 3 Years ...
    There is ZERO online fingerprint of him, there is ZERO video evidence, there is ZERO car insurance, tax information, phone history. There is ZERO proof this guy has even been alive for the last 3 years. ~ John Rolls - Video read more
  • Where Are The Sandy Hook Bodies???
    The inconsistencies and the questions continue to mount in the Sandy Hook massacre. Why are parents being told they can not see the bodies? It is their right to see the bodies, officials have no right to tell them they cannot. Parents need to demand the bodies be exhumed, and they need to be ...

Tarpley

  • Syria: Meddling Thani Royals of Qatar Grow Des ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 14, 2013 [download video] [download audio] An analyst says the fact that Russia has stood firmly against the US drive to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power has made Washington unable in imposing its will regarding the issue. The commen ...
  • Obama’s Drone Gang vs. Neocon Battalions
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 14, 2013 Military intrigues swirl around Obama at start of second term: The drone gang confronts the gulf of Tonkin cabal. The moment when any colonial power begins to downsize its empire or pull back from foreign aggression generally brings with it th ...
  • Syriac-Aramean Church Peace Program for Syria ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 11, 2013 Recorded on January 5, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
  • Republican Austerity Fanatics in New Drive for ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 7, 2013 Tarpley at a demonstration promoted by the United Front Against Austerity (UFAA) at the US Capitol, December 31, 2012, as Obama and the Congress prepared a Satan Sandwich of capital gains and estate tax cuts to benefit Wall Street finance oligar ...
  • The Key to Peace in Syria: Expel the NATO-back ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 5, 2013 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • Suggested Items For A 72-Hour Car Kit
    Use the following list as a guide for your 72 hour survival kit. The items in bold should be in every kit, whereas the rest could be shared among a group. These are only suggestions, and personal tailoring is not only recommended, but it get’s you thinking… The kit should be assemble ...
  • Paracord Overstock Sale
    I just got an email from Tom over at Camping Survival.com which many of you may be interested in… After a long period of time with our three main suppliers of paracord not being able to keep up with our needs, they are finally at the point of supplying us with regular shipments. We now [...]
  • Buying Guns And Ammo Before The Storm
    Ladies and gentlemen… I have been experiencing the exact same phenomenon recently as is experienced just prior to a major forecast storm, where everyone is running out to the stores to buy milk, bread, shovels, gas and other supplies to hold them over. Instead of an atmospheric storm howev ...
  • Post Collapse Survival
    Survival following a collapse or disaster is impossible to fully prepare for. It is impossible to accurately quantify and list. There is no single formula that will fit. The reason for this of course is that the unknowns are too many regarding the disaster or collapse scenario as well as the pre ...
  • Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians
    Most of us instinctively know that government has ballooned well beyond its means. Most of us also know that the business of politics is very big business. After all, how is it that politicians spend millions upon millions of dollars to become seated in government that officially pays them a fra ...

Fast Company

  • In the Future, WIll Libraries Look More Like A ...
    A new library in Texas appears to be normal, until you realize it doesn’t have any books in it. In Bexar County, Texas, the center of the San Antonio metropolitan area’s breakneck growth, a population boom has left some residents without adequate library access. A new initiativ ...
  • Around The World, People Are Either Fat Or Don ...
    A new report from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Toronto has found a disturbing trend about the health of people in the developing world. As incomes and quality of life goes up, populations are becoming more obese. But the poor, undernourished people are staying poor a ...
  • At Long Last, Pantone Swatches For Beer
    Because beer comes in more colors than “yellow” or “blurry.” There is no finer nerdom than beer nerdom. As oenophiles once scrutinized the nose and legs of the fermented grape, so too do beer aficionados track the bite, mouthfeel, and froth of the grain. After a few ...
  • An App That Uses Frustrated Riders’ Phones To ...
    By crowdsourcing data on speed, arrival times, cleaniness, and crowdedness, the app Moovit gives a clear picture of what’s happening in a city’s public transit system. Transit apps like Google Maps let drivers know when the freeways are jammed with traffic. So shouldn’t t ...
  • Three Absurd Tools For Coping With Waiting Roo ...
    Philip Lüschen’s Waiting Room Survival Kit makes light of pre-appointment frustrations. Going to the doctor’s office wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the wait beforehand. Those waiting rooms, filled with bad magazines and a diverse array of germs, are place ...

Jadaliyya

  • Raped, Without Justice, and Without Hope
    Last year, Moroccan civil society was highly mobilized around the case of Amina Filali—the young Moroccan girl who committed suicide after having been forced to marry her rapist. Ten months later, article 475—the article that absolves a rapist of his crimes if he marries his victim—remains in pl ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Nicola Pratt, The Gender Lo ...
    Nicola Pratt, "The Gender Logics of Resistance to the 'War on Terror': Constructing Sex-Gender Difference Through the Erasure of Patriarchy in the Middle East." Third World Quarterly 33:10 (2012). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Nicola Pratt (NP): This article is ba ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Noga Efrati, Women in Iraq: ...
    Noga Efrati, Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Noga Efrati (NE): The US-led invasion of Iraq became a full-scale military occupation while I was in the midst of working on a historical account of women un ...
  • ملف من الأرشيف: نزيهة الدليمي
    [”ملف من الأرشيف“ هي سلسة تقوم ”جدلية“ بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم العربي.] الإسم: نزيهة الشهرة: الدليمي اسم الأب: جودت تاريخ الولادة: 1923 تاريخ الوفاة: 2007 الجنس ...
  • On the Margins Media Roundup (January)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Mali, South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, and Comoros Islands and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the On the Margins Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusi ...

mediagazer

  • It's on: Time Warner Cable alleges that Netfli ...
    Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: It's on: Time Warner Cable alleges that Netflix discriminates against its customers  —  Time Warner Cable upped the ante in the dicey relationship between Netflix and some of the country's largest ISPs Wednesday, alleging that the video subscription ser ...
  • Notre Dame football player Te'o girlfriend hoa ...
    Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: Notre Dame football player Te'o girlfriend hoax 'became truth through the media"  —  The sports editor at The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune was, not suprisingly, in a meeting when we called Wednesday to ask about the Deadspin bombshell that the widely repor ...
  • Dear HBO, Disney, Netflix Et Al: Fragmenting O ...
    Leigh Beadon / Techdirt: Dear HBO, Disney, Netflix Et Al: Fragmenting Online TV Lets Piracy Keep Its Biggest Advantage  —  As surely as iPods will continue to outsell wax cylinders, the film and television industries are moving online.  Really, the whole distinction of medi ...
  • The List: People who never looked up Lennay Ke ...
    Spencer Hall / SBNation.com: The List: People who never looked up Lennay Kekua  —  The following is a list of organizations and people who, to varying degrees of incompletion, never bothered to check to see if Manti Te'o's girlfriend was real.  —  1. Us.  &m ...
  • AOL's Patch to go from lousy local news networ ...
    Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: AOL's Patch to go from lousy local news network to even worse community message board network  —  Ever since Tim Armstrong took over AOL to “save” the news business, there's been apocalyptic sign after apocalyptic sign that the slick Google a ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Hostages taken at BP plant in Algeria
    IN what could be the first spillover from France's intervention in Mali, Islamist militants attacked and occupied a natural gas complex partly operated by energy company BP in southern Algeria. Two foreigners were killed and dozens of others, including Americans, were taken hostage. A m ...
  • Apple Dilemma: Does Everyone Already Have ...
    Using some unusual analysis of global wealth demographics not typically seen in a stock report, Pacific Crest Securities makes a case against owning Apple by theorizing that just about everyone in the world who could pay for an iPhone already owns one. "Street estimates for iPhone units in 2 ...
  • Fruit seeds for a healthy body
    Nutritional For the health conscious or those on a strict diet regime, fruit seeds can be the best option to fill empty stomachs without compromising on the basic requirements of the body. Seeds of watermelon, musk melon, flax/linseed and sunflower are the ones with high nutritional content, ...
  • Dutch Court Concurs With U.K. Ruling - Sa ...
    By Natasha Lomas Apple's (AAPL) courtroom skirmishes against its Android OEM enemy No. 1 Samsung (SSNLF.PK) have not been going very well of late, despite Cupertino's big $1 billion+ damages win against Samsung last summer. Today another legal blow for Cupertino: A Dutch district court has r ...
  • Sniper kills Russia crime boss
    One of Russia's most prominent reputed crime bosses, a 75-year-old nicknamed "Grandpa Hassan" who survived time in Soviet jails and assassination attempts, was shot dead on a Moscow street today in what may have been a turf war, authorities said. After the criminal chaos that characterised t ...

no frakking consensus

  • The Secret Santa Leak: Translations & IPCC Rea ...
    The IPCC's response to the leak of three data sticks is typical of that organization. It expects us to accept its version of reality at face value. Its statement provides no opportunity for the public to draw its own conclusions.
  • Climate Change Morality
    Climate change is, indeed, a moral issue. Because the green plan for fighting it amounts to a war against the poor.
  • Gutting Democracy to Save the Planet
    According to the editors of a prestigious magazine, Obama should pull a fast one. Even though he barely mentioned climate change on the campaign trail, they think it should now be his foremost concern.
  • Searchable Secret Santa
    Simon Barnett has created a wonderful analysis tool for the new IPCC data.
  • Cogs in the Climate Machine
    The scientists who write IPCC reports have so little authority that changing the word "systems" to "ecosystems" involves multiple layers of bureaucracy.

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

  • 1/16/13 - How to Vote on an Electronic Voting ...
    votingmachines.procon.org - How To Vote on an Electronic Voting Machine - Find instructions with photos on how to vote on four of the most popular electronic voting machines as well as information on where in the United States those machines were used in the 2012 elections.
  • 1/16/13 - Abortion Controversy Remains 40 Year ...
    abortion.procon.org - Abortion Controversy Remains 40 Years After Roe v. Wade
  • 1/11/13 - 20 Highest and Lowest Radiation Cell ...
    cellphones.procon.org  - 20 Highest and Lowest Radiation Cell Phones - The RIM Blackberry Curve has the highest SAR level (1.58) and the Samsung Galaxy Note has the lowest level (0.19). See the levels for the 20 highest and 20 lowest radiation phones, all Apple iPhones, and find the level f ...
  • 1/9/13 - Climate Change Made 2012 the Hottest ...
    climatechange.procon.org - Climate Change Made 2012 the Hottest Year in Continental United States Since 1895, NOAA Reports
  • 1/9/13 - Would financial motivations encourage ...
    euthanasia.procon.org  - Would financial motivations encourage insurance companies, health care providers, and patients to seek euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide if those options were legally available? Read new pro and con arguments from physicians, medical organizations, and advoc ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Post-revolutionary science
    Last year’s Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt’s first free presidential election made headlines around the world. There have been differing perspectives on what a Muslim Brotherhood victory might mean for science. For example, it was recently reported in Nature that some Egyptian scientists we ...
  • The Future of Academic Impact
      LSE’s public policy group put on an excellent conference programme on 4 December at Beveridge Hall. The conference explored the themes:1) the Economic impact of academic research; 2) impact and the new digital paradigm; 3) next steps in assessing impact; 4) impact as a driver for Open Access. ...
  • LERU 10 – Open Horizons: A Revolution in Open ...
      Brussels on a cold morning, the sun reluctantly rising in the clear sky, and there’s science to be done. Sitting at a jaunty angle from the European Parliament is “possibly the best investment Bavaria ever made” (according to Gunnar Wiegand, Deputy Director at the Representation of the Free St ...
  • CODATA 2012
      On the understanding that we needed to be indoors for a conference, the Taipei weather was accordingly drizzly with rain. The CODATA 2012 International Conference began on Sunday 28th October running until Wednesday 31st October. With several keynotes, high level panel discussions, and 4 or 5 ...
  • Predistribution Strategies: Innovation, Financ ...
    I attended a Policy Network event on 3 December. It was part of their series on economic reform, and the launch of William Lazonick & Marian Mazzucato’s paper called The Risk-Reward Nexus. Committee Room 3 in the House of Lords was a wonderfully grandiose setting. The event was to centre on ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Lies and cover-ups by the Australian national ...
    Today, in the second hour, we welcome journalist Chris Graham to the show. Chris is the founding editor of the National Indigenous Times and the recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs reporting. In the course of our interview Chris documents a range of ...
  • The pharmacracy exposed, with Thomas Szasz - P ...
    In the second hour of today's show we bring you some audio clips from the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, pyschiatrist, philosopher and intellectual giant of the modern era. Szasz was well known for his critique of biochemical reductionism in psychiatry, but it is interesting to note that he was also a ...
  • Rochelle Macredie on the Sandy Hook massacre - ...
    My guest tonight is Rochelle Macredie, LLB, BSc, who joins us to expose discrepencies, anomalies and disinformation in the coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Rochelle's incisive intellect dissects many confusing strands of this story in an attempt to penetrate through the propaganda t ...
  • Restore Australia! - Part 1
    On today's show in the second hour we welcome Mike Holt of Restore Australia. Restore Australia’s goal is to amend Section 128 of our Constitution to give all Australian voters, as well as the Parliament, the right to initiate a referendum to amend the Constitution. Why should we do th ...
  • Australia - the new capital of the New World O ...
    Today I'm joined in studio by Damon Crowe for a general discussion about the quality of life in Australia and the way in which our society has been swallowed up by the forces of international homogenisation and enslavement. We look at the cost of living, sky rocketing property prices, and the ...

Beacon

  • CEO Note: Shell's Arctic Gamble
    Coast Guard helicopter hoists crew members from the Kulluk. Photo: Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis If you were paying attention over the winter break you might have heard about things going very awry up North. Shell, which last fall closed the books on a disastrous season try ...
  • High-Tech Robot Seeks Out Right Whales
    Chief scientist Mark Baumgartner secures glider (with its wings removed) after it was recovered Dec. 4 from its three-week mission. Photo by Nadine Lysiak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place over the weekend, but one new hig ...
  • Chile's Seamounts Up Close
    Take a dive and witness one of the most remote but ecologically diverse habitats in the world: the seamounts off of Chile. Seamounts are underwater mountain ranges where nutrient-rich water from the depths comes up to the surface and fuels an explosion of colorful marine life. In these coral ...
  • Save the Whales: Threats Old and New
    Once a rallying cry of environmentalists and ocean lovers, the call to “Save the Whales!” has seemingly died down in recent years.  At the 2010 meeting of the International Whaling Commission, the 88 member countries even discussed lifting the ban on commercial whaling.  Though whali ...
  • The Real-Life Kraken, Caught on Tape
    After a decade-long hunt almost as obsessive as Captain Ahab’s search for Moby Dick, a team of researchers and journalists from Japan’s National Science Museum, the Discovery Channel, and Japanese broadcaster NHK have captured video of the mysterious giant squid in its natural habitat, about 9 m ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • News Desk: Islamists in Algiers Take Hostages ...
    “By all indications this is a terrorist act…” – Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta THE REPORT comes from CNN and has been confirmed by BP. Islamists angry over Algiers’ support for the French offensive in Mali attacked an Algerian gas field, caused casualties and sei ...
  • ‘The Pentagon as a Global NRA’
    A quick thought regarding gun ownership and regulation as related to the role of the U.S. in the global arms trade. This has long been a part of the national conversation (if what we usually do can be called something that thoughtful), but with all the familiar arguments about gun regulation bei ...
  • Top Story — Obama Moves Forward on New Gun Saf ...
    A new federal assault weapons ban and background checks of all gun buyers, which President Obama is expected to propose on Wednesday, might have done little to prevent the massacre in Newtown, Conn., last month. The semiautomatic rifle that Adam Lanza used to shoot 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults ...
  • Queer Talk: LGBT Protections in Vicco, KY and ...
    If you’ve read even a scattering of my QT posts, you’ve probably picked up on my ongoing frustrations with the “everyone should move away from places where gaining LGBT rights is a bigger struggle” argument. I do understand that for some, maybe many, a move from a town, city or even state that i ...
  • Soulless NRA Ad Uses Obama’s Kids as Fodder
    Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ON A dedicated site called “Stand and Fight,” the N.R.A. is using the ad shown in the “Morning Joe” clip above to publicize their battle with President Obama and others on gun safety. The ad is ru ...

Hudson New York

  • Hungary's "Revival of the the Cult of Anti-Sem ...
    The Hungarian national football team, after fans chanted aggressively anti-Semitic abuse during a game with Israel, has been ordered to play the next World Cup qualifier in an empty stadium. The international governing body of football, known as FIFA,
  • The "Victimology" Subterfuge
    Islamists, who have, like many others, found ways of influencing Western democracies, have refined one process in particular, called al Taqiyya [dissimulation], sanctioned to promote Islam to "unbelievers" or "infidels," if and when considered necessary.
  • Palestinians: Fatah's Armed Gangs Are Back
    After keeping a low profile for the past few years, Fatah's armed gangs have resurfaced in the West Bank. The reappearance of the masked gunmen could only mean one of two things: either the Palestinian Authority is really losing control, or that it is
  • Syria's Chemical Weapons
    In recent days, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ended speculation over whether thousands of American troops might be sent to Syria to prevent deadly chemical weapons from falling into the wrong hands, and he publicly rejected contingency plans drawn up
  • Many of the Worst Anti-Semites Are European
    A few days ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the leading Jewish human rights organizations today, published its "Top 10" list of the world's worst anti-Semitic/anti-Israel slurs. The usual suspects are named and in the top spots : Mahmoud

Urban Survival

  • Data Roulette
    “Step right up – come on in to Ure’s House of Failed Fortunes.  Spin the Big Wheel and see what Lady Longwave Luck has posted at the BLS website!”   “The Producer Price Index for finished goods declined 0.2 percent … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Losing the Freedom to Connect
    Curious things are afoot lately, where the line between “We the People” and officials in government seem to be thinning to the point where it’s no long commonly thought to be “We” – with governance self-arising.  Instead, we’re moving closer … ...
  • 90-120 Days from a Bond Collapse?
    I trust you’ve looked at this chart of the 10-year US government bond and have concluded – as I have – that the 10-year bond is running out of room to decline?   So as an adherent to the Long … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Talk Among Time Monks
    The most interesting parts of the weekend were not the longest, nor were they particularly surprising.  Yet they will likely hold the longest impacts over the long term, I think.   First one with was Clif…who’s up to his ears … Continue reading →
  • So, Do We Get New All-Time Highs?
    The big news in financial markets this morning  – and it’s not much – is the new Balance of Trade figures and it’s hardly what anyone in their right mind would call exciting:   “The U.S. Census Bureau and the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Coalition Releases a New Portfolio-Based Conc ...
    Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Today, a diverse coalition of environmental and business groups and urban water agencies released a new “portfolio-based” conceptual alternative to meet the ecosystem and ...
  • European Agency concludes neonicotinoid pestic ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, came out with a report today concluding that the neonicotinoid pesticides, or "neonics", pose an unacceptably high risk to bees, whose pollination services a ...
  • Air Pollution in China Should be a Catalyst fo ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing This post was co-written with my colleagues Christine Xu and Jake Schmidt. While many Beijing residents have long voiced concern and discontent over air pollution levels, it took possibly the worst ...
  • Size Matters, but the Whole Package is the Imp ...
    Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Today, NRDC and several of our colleagues in the water agency, business and conservation world are proposing an alternative for analysis in the Bay Delta Conservation Planning process.  The details of ...
  • New poll proves that voters are entranced by t ...
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. On the heels of NRDC's nationwide public opinion polling which found strong support for public transportation amongst voters across the political spectrum, a new poll by the American ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, January 15, 2013: Saratoga Springs, New York: A man who was injured outside a sports pub by an off-duty officer plans to sue him and the city. The officer … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily R ...
  • Show ‘COPS’ – 25 Years on TV
    From the American Conservative: The show “COPS” is celebrating its 25th season on television, the opening strains of its signature opener as familiar as the images of mascara-stained prostitutes, half-naked wife beaters, and obscured faces of a thousand different men, planted &# ...
  • The Christina Eilman Case: Nightmare in Chicago
    More here.The Christina Eilman Case: Nightmare in Chicago is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Satruday, January 12 to Monday, January 14, 2013: Franklin County, Virginia: The sheriff’s deputy who publicly fatally shot and killed his ex-wife pleaded no contest to first-degree murder. He arrived … Continue reading → ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, January 11, 2013: Update: Creve Coeur, Missouri: An officer has left his job in the wake of his arrest for allegedly beating, choking and kicking two high school students … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct Ne ...

Total Collapse

  • Russian Navy to Get over 50 Warships by 2016
    The Russian navy will receive more than 50 new warships by 2016, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. In the coming three years, 18 surface warships, 30 special-purpose and counter-subversion vessels as well as six multi-purpose strategic submarines will be put into service, the ministry said in ...
  • Obama Warned To Prepare For Hillary Clinton Death
    A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s return to the United States that her health prognosis was “grim” as her likelihood o ...
  • Russian Navy to hold biggest war games in decades
    The four major Russian Navy fleets will hold a joint exercise in late January in the Mediterranean and Black seas. It will be the biggest such event in decades. Commands for the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific fleets have been preparing for the exercises since December of last year, the ...
  • Hillary Clinton in hospital amid speculation o ...
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s admittance to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Monday, Dec, 31 – with a blood clot caused by concussion – gave wings to a cloud of rumor and conspiracy theories surrounding her state of health. The hospital, where Saudi King Abdullah was also ...
  • Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret ...
    A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [photo 2nd left]was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed near ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Glass, Myspace, ...
    It’s a wild and woolly TNW Daily Dose today kids, as a donkey doesn’t die but a Justin Timberlake single resurrects Myspace. Get listening. You can catch The Daily Dose every... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Dell reportedly set to go pr ...
    Trading in Dell stock was halted temporarily yesterday after is was reported that plans may be afoot to take it private, the new version of Myspace opens to all, and... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Global PC shipments fall (th ...
    The tablet market appears to be having a negative affect on worldwide shipments of traditional PCs, Obvious Corporation’s curated discussion platform Branch opens to all, and Eric Schmidt stops by... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Java, Best Buy, and th ...
    Java gets whacked, Groupon goes payments on Android, Best Buy has a flat holiday season, and TwitPic’s dude is back. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Amazon AutoRip gives you MP3 ...
    Amazon launches AutoRip, giving US customers MP3 copies of CDs they’ve bought, Nokia fares surprisingly well in Q4 2012, and Digg’s new owners are bullish about its future. It’s all... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...
  • This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
    For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...
  • BZE Awards its Volunteers
    BZE relies on its dedicated and skilled volunteers for much of our research and public education initiatives. All our volunteers deserve an award! Today we are recognising those people that have excelled themselves in 2012. A big thank you to them and to all the people that have volunteered fo ...
  • Hartcher should stop providing PR for the gas ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions statement, 20 December 2012 New South Wales Energy Minister Chris Hartcher recently said “If we are unable to access gas the lights will go out. It's as simple as that." (Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2012). The statement is clearly wrong, on many counts (see below). Why is ...
  • Is dirty gas killing clean coal?
    CSG fracking: destroying carbon capture & storage potential? Media release, December 17, 2012 “Fracking” to tap unconventional gas resources could destroy the much-hyped “clean coal” carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Earlier this year, Scientific American reported findings that ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Bloodsucking flies help scientists identify ra ...
    Last year scientists released a study that is likely to revolutionize how conservationists track elusive species. Researchers extracted the recently sucked blood of terrestrial leeches in Vietnam's remote Annamite Mountains and looked at the DNA of what they'd been feeding on: remarkably researc ...
  • Madagascar's Rajoelina pledges not to run in p ...
    Madagascar's president Andry Rajoelina on Tuesday pledged not to run in the presidential election scheduled for May, raising hopes democracy will return to the island nation, which has suffered from stagnation and political turmoil since he took after a 2009 coup.
  • New website tracks protected areas under attack
    The struggle to safeguard wild lands and species doesn't end when a park or protected area is created. In fact, social scientists and conservationists are increasingly uncovering a global trend whereby even long-established protected areas come under pressure by industrial, governmental, or comm ...
  • Rhino wars: documenting the poaching crisis in ...
    In 2012 a record 668 rhinos were slaughtered by poachers in South Africa for the horns, which are used as scientifically-debunked medicine in Asia. Rhino poaching has hit record levels worldwide over the past few years, but no where is the carnage greater than South Africa, which houses well ove ...
  • Cute animal picture of the day: white-cheeked ...
    A northern white-cheeked gibbon pair (Nomascus leucogenys) at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Bronx Zoo have given birth to a brand new infant. This is the mother gibbon's 11th infant.

Sierra Express

  • Dr Sylvia Blyden reacts to IMC in Sierra Leone
    Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden Licensed Publisher Awareness Times Newspaper, 17 Garrison Street, Freetown. Tel: 076-812345    Tel: 076-812345    Tel: 076-812345   TO: The Executive Secretary Independent Media Commission (IMC) Kissy House, Freetown   January 15th 2013   Dear Sir, REQUEST FOR REACTION ...
  • ACC signs Contract Agreement for the Construct ...
    The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara  and the Chairman of the Board of MODCON Construction Company Limited, Bassan Ghodssoub   on Tuesday 15th January 2013 signed a  contract agreement  for the construction of the Commission’s headquarter  which is to be s ...
  • Bo Mayor makes change commitment
    Mayor of the Bo City Council, His Worship, Mr. Harold Tucker, has made a very strong commitment to lead in polity and behavior. The Mayor promised to embrace and domesticate positive change in the Bo municipality while delivering the keynote address during the post election workshop organized by ...
  • ACC investigates embezzlement $1 million donor ...
    ACC INVESTIGATES ALLEGED MISUSE OF DONOR FUNDS ESTIMATED AT OVER $1 MILLION USD FROM THE GAVI ALLIANCE TO THE HEALTH SECTOR The attention of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been drawn to an allegation relating to the misuse of donor funds at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation totalin ...
  • Sierra Leone, a land we love
    Home, they say, is sweet, and as such we hear expressions like, ‘home sweet home’; ‘there is no place like home’. It is indeed true. This is especially so when the place you call home is going through transformation, through the commitment of her people and leadership.  (Photo: Mabel John Baimba ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy prices up 1.1pc in overnight dairy aucti ...
    World dairy prices were up again in the latest overnight dairy auction, lifting 1.1 per cent from two weeks ago. It is the third straight lift in the Fonterra- run GlobalDairyTrade auction of dairy products. Prices for whole milk...
  • Crafar Farms animal abuse trial postponed
    A trial involving five parties linked to the running of Crafar Farms who face hundreds of charges between them of animal abuse has been postponed. The trial was to start today in the Rotorua District Court but has been put off for...
  • This year looking good for beef, dairy
    The signs are mildly positive for the dairy and beef sectors this year, but the outlook for sheep farmers does not look quite so rosy, agricultural economists said.Farmers across the board will face the likelihood of a rising New...
  • Chinese firm plans $210m milk plant in NZ
    Yashili International Holdings, which manufactures and distributes infant milk formula products in China, is the latest Chinese company looking to invest in New Zealand, with plans to build a 1.1 billion yuan ($210 million) processing...
  • Gisborne Milk Co-op survival bid fail
    Gisborne Milk Co-op, the 66-year-old Bay of Plenty dairy supplier in liquidation, has lost a last-ditch bid to get back shares and supply arrangements with Fonterra Cooperative Group.In the High Court in Auckland, Justice Rebecca...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • The Latest 'Fact-Check' Foolishness: NBC Goes ...
    In my February-issue editor's note, I lamented that "the fact-checking press gives the president a pass," in part by providing checks not "on the exercise of power," but rather "on the exercise of rhetoric." As if to illustrate my point, NBCnews.com's First Read had a breaking fact- ...
  • The Problem With the 'Public Health Research o ...
    One element of President Obama's gun control agenda is research by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which may sound unobjectionable. It is not. Here is how the White House describes the situation: For years, Congress has subjected the [CDC] to restrictio ...
  • Ronald Bailey on Whether a Carbon Tax Can Solv ...
    Last week, the U.S. National Climate Data Center declared that 2012 was the warmest year on record for the lower 48 states by a healthy margin. In fact, 2012 was more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 20th century average and 1 degree warmer than the previous record year of ...
  • 23 Proposals on Guns from Obama, Mali Islamist ...
    President Obama presented a 23 step program for gun control that includes proposals for an “assault weapons” ban, a 10-round limit on magazine capacity and more background checks. The proposals have a price tag of $500 million. A second Republican congressman says impeachment ...
  • Stealing the Future: More Eminent Domain for P ...
    Last month, Philadelphia officials used eminent domain to seize 35 properties for a private development project in Kensington, a neighborhood the city first declared blighted in 1968. The project, affordable housing and retail space, depends on public subsidies: tax credits and a $ ...

Mercury Rising

  • Charles Murray In The News
    Looks like the people behind the S.H.A.M.E. Project have discovered Charles Murray: In high school, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Charles Murray burned a cross on a hill in his Iowa town, according to a New York Times profile of Murray. Murray later claimed he had no ...
  • Anti-democratic and proud of it: the GOP boast ...
    Via MaddowBlog, the Republican State Leadership Committee brags about how unpopular the GOP is: Farther down-ballot, aggregated numbers show voters pulled the lever for Republicans only 49 percent of the time in congressional races, suggesting that 2012 could have been a repeat of 2008, when vot ...
  • The Yellowcake War: Our Splendid New Adventure?
    (Crossposted with notable improvements at Daily Kos) Whether this turns into another American war is yet to be seen… but the stakes are significant enough that it would be surprising if we don’t get involved. DemocracyNow has an excellent wrap explaining the basic situation: Mali is ...
  • Colin Powell Strongly Endorses Hagel: Take THA ...
    Yet another person whose judgement counts for something has come out in Chuck Hagel’s corner: Colin Powell said Sunday that Chuck Hagel would be confirmed secretary of defense, offering a ringing endorsement of the decorated war hero and former Republican senator from Nebraska. The former ...
  • There’s never enough Bachmania
    Via Kaili Joy Gray at DK, Salon’s Alex Seitz-Wald: Over a year after she dropped out, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has refused to pay five staffers from her failed presidential bid, according to a former top campaign official. Peter Waldron, her controversial former national field coor ...

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

  • OP-ED: Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of ...
    Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest challenge of the brand new year. Re-engineering our societies and lifestyles to prosper on green a ...
  • OP-ED: A Universal Climate Change Agreement Is ...
    The results of the United Nations climate change conference that closed in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 8 show once again that the international negotiations are moving steadily in the right direction, but alarmingly slow. At the heart of these negotiations is nothing less than the most challenging energ ...
  • Critics Brand Climate Talks Another Lost Oppor ...
    Rich countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to decline adds to ...
  • Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts ...
    The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015. “This an incredibly weak deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalit ...
  • A Hotter World Is a Hungry World
    Food prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say. Carbon emissions are already disrupting the world&# ...

Blogging Canadians

  • "Your Friend" and Facebook, Inc.
    The Ultimate Facebook Prank: How To "Kill" Your Friends on Facebook by Faking Their Deaths by Osas Obaiza As originally posted on: WonderHowTo January 4, 2013 It only takes a minute for something well intentioned to turn into something sinister. Facebook created 'memorial pages' as way fo ...
  • Finale: "The Government / #Bankster / Corporat ...
    the biggest #mafia in the world is the government/#bankster/corporate/military cartel. by J.S. Kim As originally posted on: Gold&SilverRealMoney (smartknowledgeu) on Twitter August 9, 2012
  • On the Twelfth Day of Cronyism . . . : The System
    The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti War" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/_AntiWar_), variously, on October 17, 2012; December 9, 2012; December 10, 2012; December 11, 2012; December 13, 2012; December 14, 2012; December 15, 2012; December 16, 2012; December 17, ...
  • On the Eleventh Day of Cronyism . . . : "The P ...
    WAR IS BUSINESS. by "Ann Arky" As originally posted on: annarky's blog. December 24, 2012 In times of "austerity" our "democratic" governments still spend a whopping slice of your money and my money in killing people across the globe. We in the UK are the world's fourth largest spender on ...
  • Liberal leadership – a beauty pageant?
    If Justin Bieber were a nobody and you’d met him in the street or at a bar, you might be inclined, provided he’s your type, to ask him, “Wanna hang out sometime?”, or, more awkwardly, “For you, I’d change the alphabet and put U and I next to each other.” (Yeah, good luck with that.) But Justin ...

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
    In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
  • Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
  • I am a marathoner.
    Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...
  • A Post-Sandy Report from Far Rockaway
    Hello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]

Dissident Voice

  • Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
  • The Dawn of Medicare
    A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
  • Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
    In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.”  Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
  • Inflation of the University Degree
    Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
  • After The Fireworks Have Faded
    On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERN&#82 ...

Nick Turse

  • I was on Democracy Now yesterday to discuss my ...
    I was on Democracy Now yesterday to discuss my new book Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam as well as the current Afghan War and Obama’s Vietnam veteran national security post nominees: Chuck Hagel and John Kerry.  Video above or here, if you’d like to take a look.
  • picadorbookroom:braiker:jhermann:Teju Co ...
    picadorbookroom: braiker: jhermann: Teju Cole continues to devastate in 140 characters or less. ProPublica: Everything we know so far about drone strikes Everyone else should just stop tweeting.  Brilliant author. Brilliant twitter. See Teju Cole in conversation with Andre Aciman, ...
  • "The consensus U.S. solution to [Afghanistan’s ...
    “The consensus U.S. solution to [Afghanistan’s] security problem is… a large and...
  • Secret U.S. State Department cable: Chemical w ...
    Secret U.S. State Department cable: Chemical weapons used in Syria | The Cable: A secret State...
  • As French military air strikes continued for t ...
    As French military air strikes continued for the sixth day, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that at least 30,000 Malians have fled their homes, according to a report by the U.N.’s news agency, IRIN. (via IRIN Africa | Fear, rumour and reli ...

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