Saturday, January 19, 2013

19 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II


IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BRICS Invest in National Priorities
    IPS correspondent John Fraser interviews CHRIS HART, economist and chief strategist of the Johannesburg-based asset manager, Investment Solutions.
  • Criticising the President no Laughing Matter
    Egyptians love to have a good laugh. At every opportunity they rattle off jokes and take jabs at themselves, their society, and – where they dare – their ruler. Former president Hosni Mubarak was a regular target of the country’s satirists and wisecrackers. The egregious corruption, cronyism and ...
  • Injustice Overshadows Growth in Chile
    Chile’s positive economic performance in 2012 is not enough to boost President Sebastián Piñera’s waning popularity, as many Chileans believe the country’s much-touted growth does nothing to compensate or solve decades of accumulated injustices, several analysts told IPS. Chile ...
  • U.S. Public Supports UNESCO, Despite Funding Cuts
    A national poll revealed that 83 percent of voters in the United States believe it is important for the country to be a member of  and provide funding to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, commonly referred to as UNESCO. Polling results released on Jan. 16 by B ...
  • Iran’s Nuclear Plans Drop Off Israeli Radar
    A meeting between Iran and world powers is tentatively set for the month-end in Istanbul, and might constitute a litmus test over a compromise regarding Iran’s uranium enrichment programme. Strangely enough, in Israel, Iran’s nuclear quest is now off the public radar. The previous talks between ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Co ...
    Summary: An eye-opening argument for a new approach to Iran, from two of America's most informed and influential Middle East experts: Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett source: MacMillanread more
  • “International Lawifying” the Supreme Leader’s ...
    Summary: A few days ago a friend sent me a link to a recent interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi. The interview was published in the World Policy Journal, Volume 29, Number 4. One of Salehi’s answers in the interview was particularly interesting from a legal perspective. ...
  • Obama and Iranian Children with cancer
    Summary: Dear President Obama, Would you also shed a tear for Iranian children with cancer? source: YouTuberead more
  • A Conversation with Ali Akbar Salehi, Foreign ...
    Summary: 'The most valuable commodity that we have—and we cherish it and hold it very strongly—is independence. And this is the price we have been paying for the past 33 years. It is the price we are paying as a nation, which has stood up on its feet, saying, “Look, I decide for myself. I am ...
  • 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 Daily Galaxy

  • "The Red Square Nebula" --Is a Colossal Supern ...
                    The hot star system known as MWC 922 appears to be imbedded in a nebula creating the shape of a square. The above image combines infrared exposures from the Hale Telescope on Mount. Palomar in California, and the Keck-2 Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The theory is ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 245,000!
                                             Join the 246,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governme ...
  • From the 'X Files': "Advanced Civilizations m ...
                     "We hypothesize that the advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive black holes in the galactic nuclei being invisible from the outside, " according to Vyacheslav Dokuchaev --Moscow's Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of ...
  • Mars Express Captures Stunning Image of an Anc ...
                    Reull Vallis, the river-like structure in these images, is believed to have formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past, cutting a steep-sided channel through the Promethei Terra Highlands before running on towards the floor of the vast Hellas basin. ...
  • Titan's 'Earthscape' --"Much Older than It App ...
                      Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere, and the only world besides Earth known to have lakes and seas on its surface. However, Titan has a frigid surface temperature of around minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit (94 kelvins). The rain that falls ...

Natural News

  • Why collectivism is doomed and the next great ...
    There is a very good reason why people who live in cities tend to be liberal while those who live in rural areas tend to be conservative. In a city, the existence of nearby neighbors, the shared dependence on infrastructure and the close proximity of police stations...
  • Studies show pranayama can be an alternate the ...
    No doubt, if you frequent enough yoga classes, at one point or another you will be exposed to pranayama. This is a form of yoga related to the breath and is promoted widely as a form of meditation and relaxation. What you might not know is that it holds many more benefits...
  • DNA doesn't lie: Happy children become healthy ...
    It sounds like science fiction but it is a scientific fact. A happy childhood leads to a healthy adult life. This is what scientists found when they examined the effects of childhood adversities to DNA. They found that the tiny protective caps of our chromosomes, which...
  • Even a three-second interruption can double er ...
    Interruptions of even a few seconds can dramatically increase the error rate of a person working on a complex task, according to a study conducted by researchers from Michigan State University and the Naval Research Laboratory and published in the Journal of Experimental...
  • Gorilla destroys property, blames the cat. Are ...
    Koko the Gorilla, celebrated for her 1000-word sign language vocabulary, is known for her affinity toward cats. After she learned how to communicate with her caretakers at the Gorilla Foundation in Northern California, she asked for a kitten to have as a pet. Like...

Threat Level

  • School Kicks Out Sophomore in RFID Student-ID Flap
    A Texas high school on Friday barred a girl from attending class as part of the fallout from a legal flap that began with the sophomore refused to wear around her neck an RFID-chip student ID she claims is the ...
  • TSA Pulls Plug on Airport Nude Body Scanners
    The Transportation Security Administration is pulling the plug on its nude body scanner program, a decision announced Friday that closes the door to a tumultuous privacy battle with the public scoring a rare victory.
  • Aaron Swartz and the Two Faces of Power
    Power isn't just an abstraction: It has possessors, supplicants, and hand servants. And it’s not good to be on Power’s bad side if what you do falls into the gray area of enforcing the letter as opposed to the principles ...
  • U.S. Attorney Says Aaron Swartz Prosecution ‘W ...
    Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said Thursday the government's "conduct was appropriate" in its handling of the Aaron Swartz prosecution.
  • Deception Is Futile When Big Brother’s Lie Det ...
    A new high-tech lie detector system aims to put the simple polygraph out to pasture. It uses a microphone, video camera and infrared technology to detect when you're being deceptive.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Love, Not Guns, the Lesson of Selma for John Lewis
    Just days after the chairman of Gun Appreciation Day tried to misappropriate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the always execrable Rush Limbaugh pointed both barrels at the civil rights movement. Just in time for the weekend jointly marking King's birthday and President Obama's second inau ...
  • Republicans Still Bungling GOP Rebranding
    You can't make this stuff up. One day after being instructed "stop talking about rape," House Republicans attending their caucus' secret conclave will listen to a panel on Friday titled, "Discussion on Successful Communication with Minorities and Women." Unfortunately, that session will be he ...
  • The Stupidest Debt Chart of 2013
    While Congressional Republicans are threatening to trigger a U.S. default if their debt ceiling blackmail is not paid, their allies in the conservative blogosphere are deploying the same chart to attack President Obama's supposedly out-of-control spending. But their horrifying picture of the ya ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Reull Vallis, Ancient River System Discovered ...
    An extremely river-like structure, Reull Vallis, has been discovered on Mars and captured in these images by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter. The structure looks exactly like rivers (and their associated tributaries) look on the Earth. It seems very unlikely that the structure would have been c ...
  • Stars Emerging From Stellar Nursery, New Image ...
    A dark ‘nursery’ cloud of dust where new stars are forming has just been imaged in a brilliant new photo taken by the European Southern Observatory. The image clearly shows the process by which enormous masses of dust and gas coalesce into stars. The only truly significant difference ...
  • Quail Species That Is A Camouflage Expert, Ind ...
    New research done on ground-nesting Japanese quail has revealed that they are incredibly adept at camouflaging their eggs. The quails actually seem to know the specific individual patterning of their eggs before they lay them, and them lay them in the most appropriate spot to match the patternin ...
  • Titan Is Perpetually Being Swept Clean By Dunes
    Using observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, researchers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have discovered that Titan — Saturn’s largest moon — has dunes of hydrocarbon sand which are slowly but steadily filling the impact craters ...
  • ‘Idle No More’; Indigenous Peoples Movement Sp ...
    It is being called the largest indigenous mass mobilization in recent history. You may not have heard yet of the ‘Idle No More’ movement, but you will; it’s momentum has been steadily growing in recent weeks, and, is being fed by a myriad of kindred human rights movements, envi ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

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

  • Faith v. Democracy
    By @TedFrier "Truth is truth and does not change because of the Mob." So says a fundamentalist friend of mine, call her Lori, from my days long ago at Montgomery Catholic High, deep in the Heart of red state Dixie. Lori and I picked up right where we left off back in high school - arguing with o ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC If @BarackObama is a socialist, he's a really bad one. The Dow and the Standard & Poors indexes both closed at a five-year high on Friday. TSA removing full-body scanners. All of the controversial "back-scatter" scanners will be gone by June 1. My daughter in law is a TSA agent, who ...
  • Conservatives Blame Obama for GOP Extremism
    By @TedFrier As he does so often, New York magazine's Jonathan Chait hammers nail flush to plank when he says so called "moderate" conservatives like David Brooks who blame President Obama for the GOP's own extremism are acting in a way that "defies ideological analysis and instead requires psyc ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC @SeanHannity has a sad. Former Bush AG Michael Mukasey appeared on the Fox News blustering blowhard's show on Wednesday and deflated the square-headed-one's outrage balloon by telling him that Obama's executive orders regarding guns were legal, even though he personally finds them dis ...
  • Crashing Through Another Debt Ceiling
    By @TedFrier Still my favorite part of New York Times writer Robert Draper's terrific account of the House Tea Party caucus that swallowed the Republican Party in 2010, is the conversation he recounts between GOP veteran Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson and a far right freshman at the height of the ...

Care 2

  • Focus on Global Warming in the State of the Un ...
    Help President Obama become the leader on climate change we need by demanding he use the State of the Union speech to propose ways to reverse global warming, not make the problem worse Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Web activists celebrate Internet Freedom Day
    One year ago, Web activists were celebrating the end of two Internet piracy bills. This year, while theyre taking time to remember a victory over the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP (Intellectual Property) Act, theyve also got their eyes on a Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society &am ...
  • Q&A: Hearing womens hidden stories of sexual v ...
    Annie Bunting, an associate professor of law and society at York University in Canada, is leading a three-year research project on enslavement in war for forced marriage in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia & Sierra Leone Submitted by J.L. A. to World  |  &nbsp ...
  • Help save endangered blue whales! ACTION
    We can give blue whales a fighting chance by changing the route that these ships pass through. But the waters are controlled by the US Navy, who is refusing to open up the area to commercial ships. Submitted by Nancy C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Craziest Anti-Obama Gun Reactions
    Rick Perry, Louie Gohmert, Rand Paul, Ted Nugent, and more star in our roundup of the oddest and most offensive reactions to the president's gun-control proposal. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Hey Obama, So Much for Defeating Al Qaeda
    My, what a difference three months makes. Back in November, Barack Obama was running around the country bragging about vanquishing Al Qaeda. See, Bad Ass Barack killed that motherfucker Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda was kaput. Seemed like a swell story at the time. Only one little problem–t ...
  • “Transparency Is the Thing This Century”
    John Batchelor spoke to John Bolton at the American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research (AEI), regarding Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Eric Schmidt. Bbelow, I (Bronwyn) added information about Eric Schmidt about Google’s embassy to Pyongyang, North Korea. John Batc ...
  • “Rescue Raid Turns Deadly” (open thread)
    The photo above is from a video released by the IntelCenter on January 16th that shows Mohktar Belmokhtar, leader of the group that claims to have taken hostages at the gas facility in Algeria. Since I wrote the article, “Al-Qaeda took 41 hostages,” Algeria’s military launched ...
  • Al-Qaeda took 41 hostages (open thread)
    A group linked with Al-Qaeda attacked and took control of a gas field owned by BP in Algeria. Al-Qaeda took 41 hostages, including at least seven Americans. (Fox News.) Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com CAPTION: At least seven Americans in group being held at natural gas field The grou ...
  • President Hypocrite
    The White House is screeching like a scalded cat. Good! That means the NRA hit a bullseye with its latest ad, which takes Obama and other elitists to task for their double standard when it comes to security: Unfair to Obama’s girls? Hell no!! Since when is telling the truth a bad thing? Th ...

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

  • Young Justice "True Colors" Review: You Are Wh ...
    Young Justice "True Colors" Review: You Are What You Eat TV.com (blog) On Young Justice this week, the real-world topic was a little less sexy than the governmental abuse of power, but probably more commonly known then mountaintop removal: genetically modified foods (but only kind of)! ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Mining Proves Hard to Stop ...
    Mountaintop Removal Mining Proves Hard to Stop EP Magazine Federal judges ruled EPA exceeded its authority under the Clean Water Act in regulating the impacts of coal mining in Appalachia. EPA has appealed both cases, which could have major implications for its ability to control one of the most ...
  • No More Excuses, End Mountaintop Removal - Liv ...
    No More Excuses, End Mountaintop Removal Living Green Magazine The video is part of a campaign by a broad coalition of regional groups, the Alliance for Appalachia, to focus national attention on the tragedy of mountaintop removal, which has destroyed more than 500 of America's oldest mounta ...
  • Rep. Johnson to take next try at banning 'moun ...
    Rep. Johnson to take next try at banning 'mountaintop removal' Knoxville News Sentinel NASHVILLE — Legislation designed to prohibit "mountaintop removal" coal mining in Tennessee — killed in a House subcommittee for five consecutive years — is back for another try in 2013 with ...
  • Great American Taxi returns to Alaska to shake ...
    Anchorage Daily News Great American Taxi returns to Alaska to shake a leg Anchorage Daily News From mountaintop removal to fracking to speaking out against the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, everyone in the band shares the idea that politics should find a home in music. "It starts wit ...

Memeorandum

  • Inequality Is Holding Back The Recovery (Josep ...
    Joseph E. Stiglitz / Opinionator: Inequality Is Holding Back The Recovery  —  The re-election of President Obama was like a Rorschach test, subject to many interpretations.  In this election, each side debated issues that deeply worry me: the long malaise into which the eco ...
  • Ahmed Dogan Assassination Attempt: Gunman Aims ...
    Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post: Ahmed Dogan Assassination Attempt: Gunman Aims Gun At Bulgarian Politician's Head (PHOTO, VIDEO)  —  FOLLOW:  —  Video, Ahmed Dogan, Ahmed Dogan Shot In Head, Ahmed Dogan Assassination, Ahmed Dogan Assassination Attempt, A ...
  • When the Rain Came Down - A masterful account ...
    David R. Henderson / Wall Street Journal: When the Rain Came Down  —  A masterful account of how the housing crisis and credit crunch nearly brought down the economy  —  Alan S. Blinder is one of America's leading economists.  One of the few economists who w ...
  • Bill Clinton to Democrats: Don't trivialize gu ...
    Byron Tau / Politico: Bill Clinton to Democrats: Don't trivialize gun culture  —  Former President Bill Clinton warned a group of top Democratic donors at a private Saturday meeting not to underestimate the passions that gun control stirs among many Americans.  —&nbsp ...
  • A new term, a new Obama - David Maraniss, an a ...
    David Maraniss / Washington Post: A new term, a new Obama  —  David Maraniss, an associate editor of The Post, is the author of “Barack Obama: The Story” and “First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton.”  —  At noon Sunday, after taki ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • 北京客，“&#21271 ...
    北京咳，一个带有玩笑意味的舶来词，却充满北京人的爱与恨。这个词汇的流传史提 ...
  • 中国空气污&#2657 ...
    中国工业生产造成的臭氧和汞污染不断扩散到世界其他地区，已成为加利福尼亚等美 ...
  • 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& ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Notre Dame’s Real Dead Woman
     Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player than a real dead girl. Lizzy Seeberg committed suicide, not long after being intimidated by Notre Dame football players for reporting a sexual ass ...
  • Dear Whole Foods CEO, This Is What a Fascist L ...
    Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey, doesn’t know what a fascist is.Speaking with NPR this week, multimillionaire Mackey tried to express how much he hates Obamacare. Back in 2009, he hated Obamacare so much that he called it “socialism.” But now, in 2013, Mackey think ...
  • Why We Can’t Ignore the Sandy Hook Truthers
    We’ve been writing a lot about the conspiracy theories surrounding the Sandy Hook school shooting — some say too much. “Why you’re giving these Sandy Hook truther media whores the time of day. Ignore them and they go away [sic],” one reader emailed ...
  • Can Healthy Food Eaters Stomach the Uncomforta ...
     Not long ago, quinoa was just an obscure Peruvian grain you could only buy in wholefood shops. We struggled to pronounce it (it's keen-wa, not qui-no-a), yet it was feted by food lovers as a novel addition to the familiar ranks of couscous and rice. Dieticians clucked over quinoa approv ...
  • Sleazy "Sugar-Daddies" Site Boasts That Soarin ...
    Soaring tuition rates are causing a number of reactions from the public: concern for young people saddled with ever-growing debt, anger at governments for cutting back on education instead of taxing the rich appropriately, calls for system-wide reform to help restore America’s global c ...

Threat Level

  • School Kicks Out Sophomore in RFID Student-ID Flap
    A Texas high school on Friday barred a girl from attending class as part of the fallout from a legal flap that began with the sophomore refused to wear around her neck an RFID-chip student ID she claims is the ...
  • TSA Pulls Plug on Airport Nude Body Scanners
    The Transportation Security Administration is pulling the plug on its nude body scanner program, a decision announced Friday that closes the door to a tumultuous privacy battle with the public scoring a rare victory.
  • Aaron Swartz and the Two Faces of Power
    Power isn't just an abstraction: It has possessors, supplicants, and hand servants. And it’s not good to be on Power’s bad side if what you do falls into the gray area of enforcing the letter as opposed to the principles ...
  • U.S. Attorney Says Aaron Swartz Prosecution ‘W ...
    Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said Thursday the government's "conduct was appropriate" in its handling of the Aaron Swartz prosecution.
  • Deception Is Futile When Big Brother’s Lie Det ...
    A new high-tech lie detector system aims to put the simple polygraph out to pasture. It uses a microphone, video camera and infrared technology to detect when you're being deceptive.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Unnamed California Lettuce Grower is Cause of ...
    A new case of E. coli in New Brunswick brought the total number of victims in Canada’s E. coli lettuce outbreak to 30.  E. coli O157:H7 Illnesses by province are... Continue Reading
  • 20 years ago today the Jack in the Box E. coli ...
    20 years ago today the State of Washington Department of Health sent out a press release announcing that an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak was occurring in the State and that... Continue Reading
  • Unnamed California Lettuce Grower Sickens 29 w ...
    According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 1 additional case of E. coli O157:H7 illness was confirmed in Ontario as part of this outbreak. This brings the total number... Continue Reading
  • 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

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

  • Global Warming or Global Governance? (Full Len ...
    Global Warming or Global Governance? (Full Length) – YouTube.
  • Kevin Barrett: Is Obama killing ‘kill li ...
    Dr. Kevin Barrett, one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror, has raised questions about the death of Aaron Swartz, a prominent info-warrior and critic of President Obama’s “kill list.” “As with so many freemasonic assassinations, including that of ‘DC Madam’ Deborah Jean Pa ...
  • Confessions of a Pharmaceutical Industry Repre ...
      Confesiones de una Representante de la Industria Farmacéutica – YouTube.
  • Blows Against Big Pharma and Its Vaccine Cultu ...
    Catherine J. Frompovich, Contributor Activist Post Do you hear it happening? Do you hear the emerging discontent within the infrastructure that, up-until-now, Big Pharma was capable of preventing from happening around their ‘sacred cows’—vaccines and pharmaceuticals, aka legal drugs? How many pr ...
  • The world government exposed
    by Jacque Fresco old map of worldThat we live in a world of “Agenda Politics” is absolutely clear. Governments come and go, but the agenda never changes. Policies left incomplete by one government are taken up with gusto by the next. Civil servants get involved in writing party manifestos. One o ...

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

  • Second amendment scholarship (using money to r ...
    Summary:  People with superpowers are running a multi-generational project to reshape America. They have the greatest of superpowers: money, which they’ve used to enlist experts to produce a large volume of research supporting their interests — overwhelming experts with different (ie ...
  • Did we just surrender in the War on Terror?
    Summary:  The United States cannot fight a war against radical Islamism and win.  That’s obvious, but we’re doing it anyway.  Here Chet Richards looks at our Grand Strategy as described by George Friedman of Stratfor. There are those who will tell you that if you can’t sit in on meet ...
  • 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 ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Heavenly Look-Alikes: Animal-Shaped Nebulas an ...
    In honor of the Florida Manatee Festival, the NOAO is renaming nebula W50 as the Manatee nebula. Here, we take a look at other animal-shaped nebulas and how closely they resemble their animal namesakes.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Sunset o ...
    On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dark Clo ...
    This evocative image shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 ...
  • Is It Time to Treat Violence Like a Contagious ...
    It's often said that violence is a sickness, that gun violence threatens public health. Some scientists say these aren't just figures of speech, but literal truths: Violence truly is contagious, spreading through society like an infection.
  • Leprosy Reprograms the Body
    Leprosy has plagued humans for thousands of years, but that doesn't mean it has revealed all of its secrets. A new study in mice suggests the disfiguring disease employs a bit of biological trickery to do its damage: It reprograms ...

PakAlert

  • Complete List Of All 23 Of Obama’s Executive A ...
    The following is a list, provided by the White House, of executive actions President Obama plans to take to address gun violence
  • Gun Confiscation Bill Introduced in Congress
    H.R. 226 was introduced in the House of Representatives by Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro. The bill will amend the 1986 IRS code and allow a credit if taxpayers “surrender” their guns to the government
  • Multiple Paths Lead To One World Government
    That we live in a world of “Agenda Politics” is absolutely clear. Governments come and go, but the agenda never changes. Policies left incomplete by one government are taken up with gusto by the next. Civil servants get involved in writing party manifestos. One of the most obvious of the agen ...
  • We Are All Terrorists
    A new study funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) depicts Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing terrorists.” The $12M report, entitled “Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United State ...
  • Do You Want To Scare A Baby Boomer?
    If you want to frighten Baby Boomers, just show them the list of statistics in this article. The United States is headed for a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and we are woefully unprepared for it. At this point, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every sing ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos: First Snow in London
    First Snow in London, a set on Flickr. This photo set, the 72nd in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, rather sprang upon me yesterday (January 18), when, while still sleep-deprived and rather jet-lagged after returning from my ten-day visit to the US to campaign for th ...
  • Photos: Protestors Call for the Closure of Gua ...
    Protestors Call for the Closure of Guantánamo outside the White House , a set on Flickr. These photos, following on from the previous set, capture some of the key images and the principled, decent and tireless campaigners for justice involved in the protest in Washington D.C. on January 11, 2013 ...
  • 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 ...

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Sciencebase

  • Developing World Special Offer
    A few contacts from the developing world have asked about pricing of my book as they’d like to get a copy but the standard price is, they hint, a little high for their budgets. So here’s the deal. If you live in a blue zone on the map below – China, South America, Asia, Russia ...
  • Why crustaceans might be feeling crabby
    Contrary to the words of Kurt Kobain, it’s probably no longer okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings, perhaps crabs too. The BBC reports this morning that scientists have found further evidence that crustaceans feel pain. A study has revealed that the shore crab, a clo ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Algerian Army Stages 'Final Assault' on BP Gas ...
    The In Amenas gas field in Algeria (file photo) The hostage situation at the BP gas plant in the Algerian desert reached a bloody conclusion Saturday as the official Algerian news agency reported that the army had launched a final assault on the gas field taken over by an Islamic resistance grou ...
  • Palestinians Forge New Village in Protest of I ...
    Night at Bab Al-Karamah. (International Solidarity Movement / Abir Kopty)Palestinian activists began constructing a new village in the West Bank on Friday in protest of the illegal Israeli occupation in Palestine and ongoing land grabs by Israeli settlers in the area. ...
  • Palestinians Forge New Village in Protest of I ...
    Night at Bab Al-Karamah. (International Solidarity Movement / Abir Kopty)Palestinian activists began constructing a new village in the West Bank on Friday in protest of the illegal Israeli occupation in Palestine and ongoing land grabs by Israeli settlers in the area. ...
  • 'Mali Ko': Musicians Come Together in Mali to ...
    Musicians in the west African nation of Mali—now the scene of a military intervention by the French military with backing from the US—have come together with a message calling for a peaceful end to the violent conflict that has recently engulfed their country. ...
  • 'Mali Ko': Musicians Come Together in Mali to ...
    Musicians in the west African nation of Mali—now the scene of a military intervention by the French military with backing from the US—have come together with a message calling for a peaceful end to the violent conflict that has recently engulfed their country. ...

Lifehacker

  • Limit Soap Dispenser Output with a Rubber Band
    If your usual soap dispenser doles out more soap than you would like you can restrict the amount pumped by wrapping a rubber band around the neck of the pump. You can usually double the life of your soap refill using this method and your hands will be just as clean. More »
  • Determine the Proper Angle for Sharpening a Kn ...
    If you have trouble sharpening your knives at the correct angle you can give yourself an easy guide by drawing the correct angles on a piece of cardboard, mounting the drawing near your work surface, and using a flashlight or other light source to make sure you're at the proper angle. M ...
  • Top 10 Most Versatile Household Multitaskers
    If ever there was a great way to save money and reduce clutter in your house, it's finding other uses for the stuff you already have. Here are our ten favorite multitaskers that you probably already have at home. More »
  • Avoid Paper Coffee Cup Leaks by Making Sure th ...
    Reddit user frankzapra shares that hot liquids can sometimes leak from your paper coffee cup when the drinking hole in the lid is lined up with the cup seam. To avoid this, just twist the lid a few degrees so that any drops of liquid that get in the seam won't break escape your cup. More& ...
  • Design Some Awesome Business Cards This Weekend
    Whether business cards are irrelevant or not, they're definitely a cool way to express yourself and easily provide your information. If you're looking to make some cool cards, set aside a few hours this weekend and use these resources to help. More »

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Aaron Swartz: a bittersweet memorial
    Mourners exchange fond memories and angry calls for justiceIt was fitting that a memorial service held Saturday for computer freedom activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself on January 11 as he faced hacking charges, was open to all.In a spacious meeting room in the heart of New York's East Vil ...
  • 'Political coward' Binyamin Netanyahu sees rif ...
    Israeli prime minister's aides accused American president of interfering in Israel's electionsAlready fractious relations between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama have been further strained in the runup to the president's inauguration on Monday and the Israeli prime minister's anticipated vic ...
  • Africa's arc of instability has myriad causes ...
    Events in Africa are a vivid illustration of what happens when the west forgets all that has gone beforeLast week's Algerian gas field siege and hostage taking, unforeseen by its victims and dreadful in its consequences, came like a bolt from the blue. How many Britons or Americans, or Norwegian ...
  • Cuts to abattoir meat checks 'will be the next ...
    Move to pare back independent inspections could lead to contamination risks 'far worse than horsemeat', union warnsThe scandal of horsemeat in supermarket burgers should be seen as a warning of things to come, say experts alarmed that meat producers are to be given more powers to police themselv ...
  • Avalanche kills four climbers in Scottish High ...
    Party were descending from a peak when the slope they were on broke away, engulfing them in ice and snowFour people were killed in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands as snow and icy weather continued to bring widespread disruption to Britain.A party of six climbers, three men and three women ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan Releasing Taliban Detainees As Part O ...
    In this photo released by Press Information Department, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, right, meets with Salahuddin Rabbani, head of Afghanistan High Peace Council in Islamabad, ...
  • Pakistan to Release More Afghan Taliban Detainees
    During a trip to the United Arab Emirates, Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said the remaining detainees will be released "subsequently." He did not give a timetable. Last month, ...
  • Motorcycle Bombers Die In Thwarted Afghan Attack
    Afghan officials in the western province of Herat say a suicide bomber and his accomplice were killed when their explosives detonated in a botched attack. Nesar Ahmad Popal, governor of ...
  • Over 1000 Afghan army personnel killed in 2012 ...
    More than 1,000 personnel of Afghan army had lost their lives in Taliban-led attacks, bombings and military operations in 2012 in the insurgency-hit country, said a spokesman of the country's ...
  • Afghanistan tries to lure investments
    By Farangis Najibullah and Zarif Nazar Foreign forces are preparing to leave the country, capital is fleeing, and it's the Afghan government's job to stop it. To meet its objective, 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSHA Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Retirement Hom ...
    On January 10, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in federal court against S.E.M. Villa II Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates S.E.M. Terrace, a retirement facility in Milford Ohio. The lawsuit claims that S.E.M. Villa violated the whistleblower provisions of the Occ ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A Week Later: Reflecting On Aaron Swartz
    For those of us who crossed paths, even if briefly, with Aaron Swartz during his short lifetime, this week was certainly a difficult one. He accomplished so much, but the really distressing point is how much more all of us expected him to accomplish in the future, and how we will all be worse o ...
  • Ahimsa: Sita Sings The Blues Now CC-0 'Public ...
    crossposted from ninapaley.com I am hereby changing Sita Sings the Blues' CC-BY-SA (Share Alike) license to CC-0. A few years ago I started thinking about taking a vow of non-violence: a commitment to never sue anyone over Knowledge (or Culture, Cultural Works, Art, Intellectual ...
  • Jonathan Coulton Publicly Shames Fox For Copyi ...
    We've talked about Jonathan Coulton and his embrace of the internet and new business models plenty on Techdirt -- as well as his nuanced arguments concerning copyright infringement. He's not "pro-piracy," but recognizes that the overall growth of the internet that has resulted in more infringem ...
  • New York State Starts Walking Back On Transpar ...
    The backlash against the publication of gun owner data by the Lower Hudson Journal News late last month has turned into a backlash against "freedom of information" laws. Putnam County officials started this regressive ball rolling by refusing to comply with the Journal News' request, breakin ...
  • DailyDirt: Space Food For Thought
    With more manned space missions planned (both governmental and commercial), the menus for astronauts could be expanding -- especially for passengers of Virgin Galactic flights who might expect more than a bag of peanuts for their tickets. Here are just a few items that have already made it onto ...

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

  • Was al Qaeda given a safe haven in northern Mali?
    In an extract from his forthcoming book, Andy Morgan writes about ties that are claimed to have been secretly formed between the Malian government and Al Qaida in recent years. “There are facts about Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) that are reassuringly hard and verifiable. The orga ...
  • Palestinian activists bemoan their lost Arab S ...
    Asmaa al-Ghoul writes: “Is it easier to get a visa to Belgium or Sweden? How do I apply for asylum? Should I tear up my passport or hide it? Will the iris scan be conducted in the first country in which I arrive or the country in which I will seek asylum?” These questions, among [...]
  • The death of Fatah and the future of Palestine
    Dalia Hatuqa writes: After nearly a half-century of existence, Fatah has left many loyalists and critics alike pondering its accomplishments. On New Year’s Eve, the Palestinian political party — which has led the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for decades and currently holds ...
  • America’s self-sufficiency and self-destruction
    The xenophobic slogan — we must end our dependence on Middle East oil — popularized by American politicians throughout the last decade, will soon become a reality. It was always obvious that this was a pathological mutation of the laudable goal, we must end our dependence on oil. But ...
  • Tribalism and the Syrian crisis
    Tareq al-Abd writes: Prominent tribal figures have become omnipresent in Syrian opposition meetings, at a time when the regime is also hosting meeting after meeting for these same leaders. All of this is transpiring amid fears that societal unity will once again become fragmented, opening the do ...

Watts Up With That?

  • So far, Al Gore appears to be losing ‘th ...
    No cause for alarm at five-year mid-point of the Armstrong-Gore climate “bet” In 2007, University of Pennsylvania Professor J. Scott Armstrong’s attention was drawn to former VP Gore’s concerns about global warming. Having spent five decades studying the science of … Continue reading →
  • End times for carbon trading
    Readers may recall this story this past week at WUWT: European Carbon Trading Hits Another Record Low. It was a short lived record, beaten again the very next day. Today, from Reuters Point Carbon, a view of the end times … Continue reading →
  • Great moments in failed predictions
    While searching for something else, I came across this entertaining collection of grand predictive failures related to resources and climate change, along with some of the biggest predictive failures of Paul Ehrlich. I thought it worth sharing. Exhaustion of Resources … Continue reading &# ...
  • Dust in the wind: Melt ponds in the Arctic has ...
    I’ve often wondered if carbon soot plays a role in this. See our recent WUWT story about how black carbon’s role has been underestimated, and note that Arctic melting is listed as one of the effects. See also the tag … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – Seth Borenstein’s b ...
    Gosh, who knew? Borenstein writes: In September, campaigning in Colorado, Obama was talking to a potential voter who mentioned he had been one of the hundreds of thousands of people outdoors at Obama’s bone-chilling first inaugural when the noontime temperature … 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

  • Car buyers reject electric cars, but Obama won ...
    The market has spoken. People don't want unreliable short-range transportation.
  • Playing give and take with coal
    If coal is good for the Navajo Nation, the Crow Tribe, and other Native Americans, then it should be okay for the rest of us. Coal warms our homes and provides good jobs and does not need billion-dollar subsidies just to try to break even.
  • 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.

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Beam Me Up: Mona Lisa Lasered to the Moon
    Mona Lisa and her famous smile have made it all the way to the moon.
  • Scientists Seek Funding for Glacier Projects
    Russian scientists need more funding for the study of glaciers, especially in the Caucasus and Siberia, a top researcher said on Friday.
  • NASA to Send Inflatable Pod to International S ...
    The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said it wants to send an inflatable space pod to be attached to the International Space Station(ISS) by 2015, which could lead to a completely new and cheaper way to conduct future space missions.
  • One-Third of Americans Turn to Internet for Me ...
    Is that chest pain you feel heart burn or something more serious? Is that cough, just a cold or something more? To get a diagnosis, a growing number of Americans are skipping the doctor’s office and turning to the internet instead, according to a study released this week.
  • 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.

Pruning Shears

  • Utopian colonies and the deep roots of Occupy
    Last year I worked on a series of posts1 with a loose collection of bloggers, mostly from Corrente. The general theme was arguing against the “diversity of tactics” approach being introduced at numerous Occupy encampments, Occupy Oakland in particular. During this process one of ou ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Rebel Towns, Can Local Communities Regulate Th ...
    The 600 residents of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, have done a laudable job of keeping the vulgarities of modern life at bay. There are no fast-food restaurants, no neon signs. Instead, the former iron-mining town has rambling country inns and a main road lined with Victorian and Arts and Crafts ho ...
  • Mexican Corn is a World Heritage--Help Protect ...
    Sign the Avaaz petition asking the Mexican government to not allow the release of genetically engineered corn. Mexico is one of the largest living seed banks in the world, and seeds are still conserved by indigenous and farmer communities. Preserving the diversity of Mexican corn seed is essent ...
  • What's Hiding Behind Our Food Labels? Deceit.
    As consumer interest in how our food is produced has increased, so too has the use of subtle imagery of happy livestock grazing in lush pastures on food packaging. They're backed up by claims like "all natural," "cage free" and "organic." Yet in many cases these labels bear no resemblance whatso ...
  • Worms Produce Another Kind of Gold for Farmers ...
    We're living in an era where the largest food producers in the United States operate more like factories than farms, complete with industrial farming practices that produce obscene amounts of waste and threaten to completely deplete what was once rich and fertile soil.Click here to read this ar ...
  • The Many Health Benefits of Avocado
    You probably know that avocados are an excellent source of healthful fats, but this whole food may also have other unique health benefits.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: Climate Change, Cabinet ...
    With Lisa Jackson’s departure from the EPA, announced at the turn of the year, and now Salazar's from the Interior, President Obama has some serious recruiting to do. We hope the replacements for both agencies will bear similar profiles in courage.
  • The Year of Ethical Eating
    You may be surprised by which restaurants do not provide paid sick days. Hint: Five Guy Burgers and Fries, Maggiano’s Little Italy, McCormick & Schmicks, Morton’s & Ruth’s Chris Steak Houses, and Starbucks.
  • Now, Not Later – We Need to Talk about the Far ...
    The farm bill extension that passed was written behind closed doors and serves a few powerful interests -- not the interests of the average citizen, public health, and the environment. We should be outraged.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Food Safety, Shortages, ...
    This week in food—MRSA in milk, new food safety rules, Jane Brody's bizarro-world blogpost, strange doings at the NIH, still debating antibiotics in animal feed, trouble brewing Zambia, and more.
  • The CLF Week in Links: New Year, New Energy
    Here are a few of the news items that are getting the most attention at the Center for a Livable Future.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Common Link to Autoimmune Diseases
    Infectious disease, such as chronic Lyme Disease Complex, impacts the HPA-axis via neurotoxins that compete for the same receptor sites. This should bring our attention to the Lyme Disease Complex, infections and neurotoxins that block serotonin receptors Submitted by John Farnham to Health & We ...
  • Activist Teacher is Climate Guy
    Wish I'd taken the time to play the video years ago. Lucid analysis of how environmentalists are missing the boat fighting pollution while distracted with a phantom menace. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 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 ...

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

  • 7 hostages reported dead in 'final assault' on ...
    ShareThis7 hostages reported dead in 'final assault' on Algerian refinery 19 Jan 2013 Algerian troops raided a remote natural gas refinery Saturday, killing 11 Islamic militants but not before extremists executed seven hostages who for days had been trapped in a deepening international crisis, a ...
  • School Kicks Out Sophomore in RFID Student-ID Flap
    ShareThisSchool Kicks Out Sophomore in RFID Student-ID Flap 18 Jan 2013 A Texas high school on Friday barred a girl from attending class as part of the fallout from a legal flap that began when the sophomore [Andrea Hernandez] refused to wear around her neck an RFID-chip student ID she claims i ...
  • Fukushima debris hits Hawaii
    ShareThisFukushima debris hits Hawaii 18 Jan 2013 Debris set adrift by the 2011 Japanese tsunami has made its way to Hawaii, triggering concerns over the unknown effects of the radiation it may carry from the meltdown of the Fukushima reactor. Debris has washed ashore the islands of Oahu and K ...
  • Homeland Security Components Getting Set for I ...
    ShareThisHomeland Security Components Getting Set for Inaugural 18 Jan 2013 The Department of Homeland Security will support security operations for the 57th Presidential Inaugural, coordinating with federal, state and local agencies to secure transportation systems and protected sites surroundi ...
  • GOP eyes new election laws in states Obama won
    ShareThisIf you can't beat 'em, steal 'em: GOP eyes new election laws in states Obama won 18 Jan 2013 After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win. From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatu ...

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

  • Academy Spirit - January 2013
    19 January 2013
  • Last to Die
    (Photo Credit dvids) 17 January 2013 [Authored by a Marine Field Grade Officer] Over the weekend, I received an order from Higher Headquarters to ask for volunteers for 2013 and 2014 deployments to Afghanistan.  Their mission: train and fight with Afghan National Security Forces during th ...
  • 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

The Killing Train

  • Two Uprisings
    A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. read more
  • Joe Emersberger's review of Haiti's New Dictat ...
    Joe Emersberger's got a sharp eye for discerning when media information is misleading or false. When the 2004 coup happened in Haiti, Joe published his correspondence with the Globe and Mail reporter in Haiti at the time, and very ably showed me how someone with a keen eye and decent principles ...
  • 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 ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • MPs call for end to Kachin conflict
    Burma's parliament on Friday demanded a halt to fighting between the military and rebels in the northern state of Kachin which has marred optimism about the country's political reforms
  • Laiza schools face closure
    Yin Aung lives in Laiza and likes going to school with his siblings. Recently he hasn't been able to attend his classes because his school has been forced to close due to heavy shelling in the area. As Burmese troops step up their attacks, more schools like Yin Aung's face closure.
  • Latpadaung activists sentenced, released in Ma ...
    Activists who were charged for protesting against the police’s brutal crackdown on rally sites at Latpadaung Copper Mining Project were sentenced to one month’s imprisonment but walked free today
  • Food prices rise as fighting escalates near Laiza
    Residents in the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)’s stronghold Laiza are dealing with an increase in food prices as fighting with the government’s army closes in on the rebel base
  • China calls for ceasefire in Kachin state
    A spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry expressed 'grave concern' at the situation in Kachin state and called on parties involved in the conflict to realise a ceasefire soon. Speaking at a daily press briefing, Hong Lei confirmed that artillery was dropped inside China on Tuesday afternoo ...

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

  • Jesus 'Used to Be Jewish'? That's Not What the ...
    Jesus lived and died a dedicated Jew. He had no intention of starting a new religion. Yet the belief persists that he was an apostate Jew who launched Christianity. A full appreciation of Jesus' Jewish identity could help heal the Jewish Christian divide.
  • Sudden Seismic Activity in Louisiana Bayou: Si ...
    At 11:50 am Central Time, on Sat. January 19, the Assumption Parish Police Jury posted on their website, "There has been increased seismic activity near the cavern this morning as well as developments of cracks on Oxy 3 pad. At approximately 10:00 this morning, another burp occurred in the sin ...
  • Shedding Crocodile Tears While Collaborating W ...
    The Organization of Islamic Cooperation suspended Syria's membership on 5/15/12 at a summit of Muslim leaders in Mecca. Saudi Arabia, the summit's host, has led all Arab League and OIC calls for the Syrian rebel opposition to be armed, which Foreign Minister Saud al-Fasial described in Febru ...
  • One Million Moms For Gun Control
    Every day in America, 8 children are killed by guns. There are 4 million NRA members and over 80 million moms. Who holds the power here?
  • Brookings' Bruce Riedel Urges Intensified US S ...
    the rationale for this steadfast US support for Arab tyranny is dubious at best. It's ironic indeed that the only government with valid links to the 9/11 perpetrators has become the closest US ally in the "war on terror," while governments with no such links -- starting with Iran -- have become ...

Switchboard

  • Take Public Transit to L.A.'s Baldwin Hills Pa ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica Angelenos, are you looking for something new and interesting to do over the long weekend? Well, I, for one, am very excited about a brand new shuttle service that is bound to increase public access to on ...
  • New Hudson River PCB Contamination Report Conf ...
    Johanna Dyer, Attorney, New York For more than five decades, high levels of highly toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have polluted the lands, waters and native species of the Hudson River Valley. And for generations, this contamination has thre ...
  • Coal industry front group scapegoats EPA
    Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate Center, Washington, DC Today E&E reported (subscription required) a “study” by the coal industry front group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE). The author of the report, AC ...
  • For Polar Bears, One Man Really Could Make a D ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica It’s rare that one person can have an impact on the future of an entire species, but that’s where things stand with the US proposal to ban the international commercial ...
  • 100th Anniversary of Bowdoin's Polar Bear Masc ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC Today marks the 100th Anniversary of my college mascot (and, in my opinion, the best college mascot of all time) – the Bowdoin polar bear.   The mascot was chosen in 1913 to honor Ad ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • More comedy stylings from Prof. Steve Diamond
    Updated below Compare this with this. Steve Diamond links to a 2010 employment report (describing outcomes for the class of 2008 as of February 2009) that any ordinary reader would understand to be reporting a 99% employment rate for graduates of the law school at which he teaches, in order to a ...
  • Don’t Look At Us — We Didn’t ...
    Ah, Bobo — your commitment do bothsidesdoitism really can produce comedy gold: “He’s already started with a perfectly designed gun control package, inviting a long battle with the N.R.A. over background checks and magazine clips. That will divide the gun lobby from suburbanites. Then he ca ...
  • The End of Carmen Ortiz’s Political Career
    It looks like Carmen Ortiz will not live down her role in the suicide of Aaron Swartz. The fact that she’s still defending the prosecution and the legal process is another sign that she should never, ever be considered for political office. And it sounds the general consensus is that she i ...
  • Earl Weaver RIP
    The great Earl Weaver has passed. Earl Weaver, the fiery Hall of Fame manager who won 1,480 games with theBaltimore Orioles, has died, the team says. He was 82. Weaver was traveling on an Orioles fantasy cruise in the Caribbean when he collapsed in his room with wife, Maryanne, at his side on th ...
  • Metaphor!!!!
    Oh man, this is great. Remember back, a long long time ago. There was a man. He was me. And he said he wanted Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick in the aftermath of Newtown shootings. You know who was really outraged by this common metaphor that all sane people knows actually means “th ...

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.

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National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Law firm websites: Now w ...
    About a decade ago, law firms discovered the Internet -- and not in a good way. Their websites were mired in sameness. So imagine my surprise when I came across a site that really impressed me.
  • OPINION: Urgent need for new litigation approach
    General counsel can implement a systems-based approach for managing cases, with goal of limiting costs through ADR.
  • OPINION: What grounds for secrecy?
    Recent decision denying plaintiffs access to legal memos supporting the Obama administration's conduct of targeted drone strikes on suspected terrorists is deeply troubling.
  • THE PRACTICE: A look at eight significant NLRB ...
    In one, board found even asking employees making a complaint not to discuss it with co-workers violated labor law.
  • D.C. struggling to maintain legal services
    With law firm revenues trending back up, civil legal services groups in Wash­ing­ton are crossing their fingers that law firm giving follows suit. Poverty rates in D.C. have remained stubbornly above the national average, U.S. Census data show. According to administrators at local nonprofit orga ...

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

  • UNAMI Proposal Fails to Resolve Ashraf Propert ...
    Before leaving the US, legal representatives of the residents were told they would probably meet Faleh Fayad, Maliki National Security Advisor or George Bakoos, Maliki political advisor.
  • Cold Air to Hang on Over Much of Europe
    In this pattern, high pressure hovers near Scandinavia and forces storms that roll in from the Northern Atlantic Ocean to drop southward or re-form over the Mediterranean Sea.
  • US Supports Resolution of Claims Involving Hol ...
    In reaffirming these commitments, Ms. Clinton states that the Department of State expresses no view on any issue currently in litigation. U.S. policy will continue to support the fair and just resolution of claims involving Holocaust-Era looted art
  • More Questions Than Answers According to Jodi ...
    As the State rests its case and the jury is dismissed until January 29th, the questions raised by the jury themselves show there may be more questions than answers in their mind regarding Arias' guilt.
  • 'Pot and Pan' Offers Delightful Thai Cuisine i ...
    My guest Tom Hallick, who has a nice part in Gangster Squad, raved about the Pad Thai, which consisted of Vernielli noodles, blended with vegetables. I ordered Red curry with Pineapple with brown rice and a side order of vegetables.

environment 360

  • In Kenya Reserves, Poaching is Leading Cause o ...
    A 14-year study of elephants in northern Kenya has found that the animals are now more likely to die at the hands of human poachers than of natural causes. When researchers began tracking 934 individual elephants at two adjacent reserves, Samburu and Buffalo Springs, in 1997, elephant population ...
  • Journals of Iconic Naturalists Reveal Plants A ...
    An analysis of records kept by iconic naturalists Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold has revealed evidence that some native plants in the eastern U.S. are flowering as much as much as a month earlier in spring than they did even just six decades ago. Writing in the journal PLoS ONE, scientists ...
  • Black Carbon and Warming: It’s Worse than We T ...
    A new study indicates soot, known as black carbon, plays a far greater role in global warming than previously believed and is second only to CO2 in the amount of heat it traps in the atmosphere. Reducing some forms of soot emissions — such as from diesel fuel and coal burning — could prove effec ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 Industrieselectricity needs, according to a new report. Writing in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soc ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Rockefeller Global Tentacles Exposed in 1959 b ...
    The Rockefeller global oil and banking empire has been the subject of much critical commentary on the Internet. However, the Rockefeller Octopus’s tentacles into every facet of America’s banking, oil (through their control of Standard Oil), military, educational, and foreign policy apparatus was ...
  • Serial cow killers baffle French farmers
    Who is slaughtering all the cows? That is the question being asked in the quaint village of Reignac, in Bordeaux’s famous wine region in the south west of France. Since late November last year police have received reports of seven violent attacks against farm animals, leaving local farmers furio ...
  • FBI Uses Portable Device to Track Cell Phone Users
    Even on dry land, Americans should fear the stingray. Not the flat cartilaginous fishes related to sharks, but the secret government surveillance device that not only tracks suspected criminals but also intercepts the private information of law-abiding citizens who happen to be nearby. Now, beca ...
  • IBM Watson Starts using Swear Words, Gets Hard ...
    IBM has learned a rather strange lesson when it comes to teaching artificial intelligence (AI) enabled supercomputers to understand the subtlety of slangs used humans as it was recently revealed by Eric Brown that they had to develop a filter to keep Watson from swearing. The head researcher at ...
  • The Death of Dr. Kelly: An Open Case
    "This documentary studies the suspicious death of Dr. David Christopher Kelly, an internationally recognized British authority on biological weapons, after his claims before the Iraq war."

Russia Today

  • Egyptian activists teargassed during police br ...
    Riot police have used tear gas to disperse a crowd of demonstrators outside an Alexandria courtroom where a former police chief and five other officers are on trial over the killing of civilians during the 2011 uprising... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Thousands march in Athens protesting racist at ...
    About 3,000 immigrants and human rights activists marched in Athens in an anti-racism rally, protesting the death of a 27-year-old Pakistani, who was stabbed in an alleged ‘racially-motivated’ attack earlier this week. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Point blank: Man aims gun at head of Bulgarian ...
    A man boarded the stage and pointed a gas pistol at the head of a leading Bulgarian politician in front of a stunned party conference. Angry parliamentarians then pounced on the would-be assassin, beating him to a... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Mega launch: Kim Dotcom's new file storage pro ...
    Kim Dotcom, founder of the file-storage website Megaupload outlawed by the US, has launched his new project, Mega. It comes exactly one year after the US authorities shut down Megaupload and Dotcom's New Zealand mansion... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 140 countries agree on first-ever global treat ...
    A convention signed in Geneva has legally bound over 140 countries to a set of newly established laws as part of an attempt to prevent the spread of deadly mercury pollution following a rise in the toxin’s emissions. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Inspired by Lance Armstrong confession, dope G ...
    Lance Armstrong appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Confessional TV franchise to admit he doped and lied. If Oprah polled her television audience for who should be next episode’s guest star, it might be Manti Te’o to explain that his fake internet beard. But imagine the ratings if Opra ...
  • 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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • NIST FAIL! The science of denial...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Indigenous protests sweep Canada
    Idle no more protesters marching in Victoria, BC, December 21, 2012.© r.a. paterson/ Creative Commons LicenseNative people across Canada have blockaded roads, bridges and railway lines as part of the grass-roots indigenous movement Idle No More. From British Columbia, where dozens of protesters ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Alex Jones, Guns, Piers Morgan – and My Penis
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine This is the first of Palast's weekly columns for VICE – beginning with a bang: a four-part series on Alex Jones, guns, Piers Morgan and Palast's penis. PART ONE: ALEX JONES VERSUS DOWNTON ABBEY Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chai ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Newtown Shooting Prompts School To Worry if Au ...
    By Anne Dachel I have a wonderful friend in North Augusta, SC, Maurine Meleck. As many of you know, I spend most my time writing comments on news reports on autism. It’s frustrating to no end and I’m always happy...
  • IOM Fails Again to Pursue Science on Vaccine I ...
    SafeMinds Response to 1/16/2013 IOM Report: IOM fails again to pursue science on vaccine injury The January 16, 2013 Institute of Medicine report, The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence, and Future Studies, repeats the IOM pattern...
  • Dachel Media Update: Paul Offit on Chiropracto ...
    Jan 17, 2013, New York Daily News: Flu? What flu? Chiropractors buck the trend by warning against flu shots Jan 17, 2013, MSN Now: Study into outcomes of autism suggests it's just a phase for some kids Jan 17, 2013,...
  • Age of Autism Weekly Wrap Up: A Really, Really ...
    By Dan Olmsted A few really bad ideas in the hands of people in a position to carry them out can create one heck of a mess. That is the point of a book by Fred Kaplan, "Daydream Believers: How...
  • Autism: You Might Outgrow It. Or Die Before Yo ...
    By Kim Stagliano This has been quite a week for news in autism. For starters, David Kirby reported that there are at least two new cases in Vaccine Court whereby there have been awards for vaccine injury in children with...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Falkland Islands set a date for referendum on ...
    Telegraph – Islanders will go to the polls on March 10-11 to vote on a simple yes or no question: “Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?” The Government of the Falkland Islands has arranged for ...
  • Nigerian forces kill two Islamists in Kano bat ...
    Reuters – Nigerian forces killed two Islamist gunmen in a shootout and arrested five others after their checkpoint in the north’s main city of Kano was attacked on Thursday, they said. Kano has seen a spate of shootings this week attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, ...
  • Small Pilot Study Suggests That An Avocado Eat ...
    MNT – The Hass Avocado Board (HAB) is supporting research to improve understanding of the unique, positive benefits of consuming fresh avocados to human health and nutrition. Clinical studies are currently underway to investigate the relationship between avocado consumption and risk factor ...
  • UK retail sales fell in December
    Guardian – Fears that Britain is heading for a triple-dip recession intensified on Friday amid news of a poor Christmas for retailers and concerns that heavy snow will lead to an economic shutdown over the coming days. City analysts pencilled in a small fall in national output for the fina ...
  • TSA removing ‘virtual strip search&#8217 ...
    CNN – Airport body scanners that produce graphic images of travelers’ bodies will be removed from checkpoints by June, the Transportation Security Administration says, ending what critics called “virtual strip searches.” Passengers will continue to pass through machines t ...

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

  • How far would you go?
    When you complete daily actions to earn points, you climb the virtual mountain and can win prizes! Ascend the 7 routes of Kilimanjaro and along the way qualify to win prizes from HP, Intel, P&G, KLM and Eddie Bauer. The more points you have, the better your chances to win the ultimate grand priz ...
  • 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 ...

Cryptogon

  • Developer Offers Plan to Buy Belle Isle for $1 ...
    If you can’t get your burbclave built in Honduras, maybe Detroit will work? Or Idaho or Texas… My guess is that the Seasteading guys will fire something up before it happens on land. And when they’re through effing around with half ass solutions (cruise ships???), there’s ...
  • Shocker: House G.O.P. Agrees to Lift Debt Limit
    Endless can kicking. Via: New York Times: Backing down from their hard-line stance, House Republicans said Friday that they would agree to lift the federal government’s statutory borrowing limit for three months, with a requirement that both chambers of Congress pass a budget in that time to cle ...
  • The Next Big Thing in Technocrack Pipes: Oculu ...
    Via: Tom’s Hardware: “Holy $#!+,” I blurted after the Oculus Rift VR goggles were slapped on my face. It had nothing to do with the device’s physical aspect – the Oculus Rift was surprisingly light on my head despite its bulky appearance. I just didn’t expect to see ...
  • MacOS Logs All Downloads Regardless of Application
    Via: OSXDaily: Whether it’s for troubleshooting, personal interest, or forensics, the following command will show you everything that you’ve downloaded to a Mac regardless of the application that it came from… … For those who would rather not have an all-inclusive historical list of ...
  • Thailand: Former Protest Leader Jailed for Ges ...
    Via: New York Times: It has become almost routine in Thailand for judges to hand down jail sentences to those convicted of offending the country’s king. But an unusual ruling issued on Thursday appears to considerably broaden the interpretation of Thailand’s already restrictive lèse-majesté law. ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Do You Want To Scare A Baby Boomer?
    If you want to frighten Baby Boomers, just show them the list of statistics in this article.  The United States is headed for a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and we are woefully unprepared for it.  At this point, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every sing ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest (Sci ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130118111705.htm Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest, Study Finds An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a mega-drought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. &#82 ...
  • Drought Predictions in East Africa (Science Daily)
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130118145354.htm New Insights On Drought Predictions in East Africa With more than 40 million people living under exceptional drought conditions in East Africa, the ability to make accurate predictions of drought has never been more importan ...
  • Climate Change and Temperate Rain Forests (Sci ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130118172331.htm Climate Change’s Effects On Temperate Rain Forests Surprisingly Complex Longer, warmer growing seasons associated with a changing climate are altering growing conditions in temperate rain forests, but not all plant spe ...
  • EEuropean Union and agricultural policy (UN Ne ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43942&Cr=agriculture&Cr1=#.UPlegse9vK0 UN expert urges European Union to include development concerns in agricultural policy A United Nations independent expert today called on the European Parliament to take into account development ...
  • Flooding compounds hunger fears in Malawi (IRI ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97264/Flooding-compounds-hunger-fears-in-Malawi Several months of heavy rains in Malawi are threatening to undo any gains that farmers in the south may have made following a prolonged dry spell. At least 9,000 households have been affected by flooding sin ...

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

  • Northern Ireland flag protests the politics of ...
    northern_ireland_protests_belfast_13.jpg On December 3rd Belfast City Council decided, by 29 votes to 21, to reduce the number of days the Union flag was flown above the city hall from 365 to 17 days ...
  • Milton Santos settlement threatened with eviction!
    agirmiltonsantos.png The Milton Santos Settlement in Brazil is threatened with eviction after a struggle of more than 10 years for acquiring and maintaning their land. At this point, the struggle for ...
  • Greek anarchists on anarchist movement in Greece
    307601_499261106763538_1024574500_n[1].jpg Last weekend in the largest show of strength in over a decade thousands of anarchist marched to protest against the violent eviction of the squats of Villa A ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • Banning ANY Gun = Despotism and Loss of Freedom
  • Redeemer, Savior, FRIEND
    This morning I was looking through a songbook, playing through potential songs to work on with my fellow Christian worship team members. I came across an incredible song (new to me) titled simply “Redeemer, Savior, Friend”. As I sat at my piano, and played the notes, the WORDS of thi ...
  • Ralph Fucetola, JD – Attorney for Rima L ...
    In response to my re-posting of Ms. Julia Mitchell’s expose, (see http://atrueott.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/an-honest-response-to-ms-juilia-mitchell/) Mr. Ralph Fucetola, JD posted the following response, personal attack, and CHALLENGE: “Your unprincipled attacks on General Bert, Dr. ...
  • I’m NOT Adam Lanza’s Doctor &#8211 ...
    It’s a little easier to understand when you can see  it in a list……(Oh, I’m sorry…. Okay… It was the gun’s fault….)   Click on the green ‘What’ to access a story. Click on a red column heading to sort the index by that column. What ...
  • Hitting the HARD TRUTH Squarely on the Head!
    Yesterday, Jan. 18, 2013, I interviewed author Christopher Bollyn on my radio show, The Story Behind the Story.   You can hear the entire interview below, but in the sake of brevity, here are the primary points to focus on: 1.  Chris Bollyn was indeed savagely beaten, attacked, and tasered by Ch ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

  • Cell Phones, Cancer and Bee Colony Collapse Di ...
       If video fails to play, go to Resonance – Beings of Frequency (This is Part I of a two part film review of the two part documentary by British filmmaker James Russell) Resonance – Beings of Frequency is an informative, well-researched film about the growing numbe ...
  • Sign Petition Supporting Anonymous
    Anonymous, a loose knit group of Internet activists, has just posted a petition on the White House “We the People” website. It asks that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks be recognized as a legal form of protest. They compare it to the way Occupy protestors occupied ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Wind Power Isn’t Perfect, But It’s a Hell of ...
    If we were to stick with our coal phase-out strategy without wind, we would need to burn more natural gas. The reality is that when the wind blows it gives us the opportunity to burn less natural gas when it’s being used to displace coal. This is partially why greenhouse-gas emissions associated ...
  • An Update on Climate Legislation
    This week the organisation known as GLOBE (The Global Legislators’ Organisation supports national parliamentarians to develop and agree common legislative responses to the major challenges posed by sustainable development) met in London and launched its biannual review of national climate legisl ...
  • Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Mandates: ...
    The basic question for proponents of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) is this: What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to reduce carbon emissions? Are you trying to keep future electric rates affordable? None of these goals are accomplished by the RPS.
  • New Energy Sources: Possibilities and Prospects
    Energy transition is not just an imperative: it’s a certainty. But while it’s certain that we’ll continue to transition towards a new energy mix, far less certain are the nature of this mix and the speed of our transition. Also uncertain, though certain to be profound, are the impacts of this tr ...
  • Webinar Replay: Energy Policy in the 113th Con ...
    The bankruptcy of solar manufacturer and stimulus-loan recipient, Solyndra, sparked a national media firestorm and political debate over the role of government in funding emerging clean energy technologies.

EU Times

  • Russia Prepares To Label Obama Government “Cri ...
    A stunning proposal from the Federation Council (FC), the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, to President Putin that is circulating in the Kremlin today calls for the present government of the United States, under President Barak Obama, to be labeled as a “criminal regime” due to its ...
  • Rand Paul declares war on Obama’s executive ac ...
    Sen. Rand Paul has made plans to nullify President Obama’s 23 executive actions on gun control policy, claiming the president is exercising too much power and demonstrating a ‘king complex’. The Kentucky Senator made a Wednesday night appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity”, during which he outlined t ...
  • First human residents to settle in Mars in 2023
    The Dutch nonprofit company Mars One is planning to establish a human settlement in the Red Planet by 2023, International Business Times has reported. The company released its basic astronaut requirements for the plan to call not only scientists or pilots but anyone who is at least 18 years old. ...
  • Iceland too cold to handle for European Union
    Recently, the government of Iceland suspended talks on a possible accession of the country to the EU. As noted by the media, it had to do with a rather complex political situation. Many believe that in the next election the Independence Party that opposes the idea of joining the EU may come to p ...
  • ­New Zealand calls on Hobbit makers to pay bac ...
    Following the tremendous box office success of The Hobbit film a New Zealand official has called on the moviemakers to repay the $56 million (NZ$67 million) subsidy they received from the country’s taxpayers to fund shooting in New Zealand. The first movie in Peter Jackson’s upcoming trilo ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Judge: Tim Cook should answer for Apple's role ...
    US District Judge Lucy Koh has ordered Apple CEO Tim Cook to give a deposition about Apple's role in a series of deals between top tech companies to not recruit each other's employees. At a hearing this week, Koh said Cook, Google chairman Eric Schmidt, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini must be depose ...
  • Analysis: Apple bid for Samsung sales ban face ...
    Some of the Federal Circuit judges, including Chief Judge Randall Rader - who was not part of the panel that issued the October ruling - are considered by legal experts to be pro-plaintiff, believing that injunctions are a crucial tool for enforcing patent rights. If Apple loses at the Federal ...
  • Ohio student journalist arrested for taking pi ...
    Nicolas Tanner was arrested after emergency personnel tried to force him to stop taking pictures of a person being put in an ambulance across the street from where he was standing.... Tanner's attorney, Patrick McGee, said he does not expect the prosecutor's office to drop the charges, which ...
  • Apple Files for New iPad Trademark in China
    Earlier today Apple submitted two designs to China's Patent and Trademark Office that covers one in black and white and the other in full color. Apple filed their trademark under the sole international class 009 which basically covers computers, book readers, email and more. [PJ: The color versi ...
  • The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr
    Strangely, Orin delves deep into Aaron's life and finds details to add on the negative side of the ledger but not the positive. He takes Aaron's aspirational writings, for example, to indicate that Aaron's idealism might make him particularly prone to civil disobedience, so Orin suggests that w ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Singing the song of angry men
    Steve Hynd ponders the derangement of three angry men from Kentucky who murdered a drug dealer because they wanted to “rid the world of evil” and how there are way too many angry men out there now. I can’t help but think that it takes a lot of rage at the core to do [...]
  • Federal Reserve thought there was no crisis in ...
    This is pathetic on so many levels. The Federal Reserve had no clue financial problems were coming in 2007. Yet blogs like Calculated Risk knew exactly what was coming and predicted it accurately. What’s worse, the very same dimbulbs who knew nothing in 2007 are still running the Fed. The ...
  • Guns don’t kill people, societal rage does…
    (Promoted from the comments on our post about gun laws and angry people. DJ discusses the growing and nasty divides in this country which threaten our unity, compounded and made worse by the already unhinged becoming violent. Is societal rage becoming the norm?) That societal rage is exactly th ...
  • Lance Armstrong non-apology apology
    Media reaction to the Lance Armstrong non-apology apology has been scathing. Zero Hedge invites readers to find the words “apologize” or “sorry” in the word cloud of his interview with Oprah Winfrey saying ,”we look forward to Lance’s rise to the ranks of pri ...
  • US falling behind other countries on cleantech ...
    A Pew Research report, Innovate, Manufacture, and Compete, says the US is starting to lose it when it comes to energy, cleantech, and renewable energy. Ever-changing government policies make it difficult if not impossible to make plans more than a year into the future for those wanting to build ...

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

  • ‘Consider the Fork’ Chronicles Evolution of Eating
    By Dr. Mercola First came the discovery of fire, which eventually lead to a shift to the cooked-food diet. This, so the theory goes, gave humans the extra calories they needed to allow their brains to get bigger. In other words, human brains “smartened up” – allowing for ...
  • Case Dismissed! Texas Ends 15-Year Fight Again ...
    By Dr. Mercola After a grueling 15-year long battle, the Texas Medical Board has officially ended its crusade to revoke Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski's medical license in an effort to end his use of Antineoplastons, as well as his combination gene-targeted therapy for cancer. The Texas Medical ...
  • Worms Produce Another Kind of Gold for Farmers
    By Dr. Mercola We’re living in an era where the largest food producers in the United States operate more like factories than farms, complete with industrial farming practices that produce obscene amounts of waste and threaten to completely deplete what was once rich and fertile soil. W ...
  • The Many Health Benefits of Avocado
    By Dr. Mercola You probably know that avocados are an excellent source of healthful fats, but this whole food may also have other unique health benefits. To learn more, the Hass Avocado Board (HAB) is supporting clinical research to investigate various health effects of avocado consumption, ...
  • 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 ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Indigenous protests sweep Canada
    Idle no more protesters marching in Victoria, BC, December 21, 2012.© r.a. paterson/ Creative Commons LicenseNative people across Canada have blockaded roads, bridges and railway lines as part of the grass-roots indigenous movement Idle No More. From British Columbia, where dozens of protesters ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Case Dismissed! Texas Ends 15-Year Fight Again ...
    from mercola.com: After a grueling 15-year long battle, the Texas Medical Board has officially ended its crusade to revoke Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski's medical license in an effort to end his use of Antineoplastons, as well as his combination gene-targeted therapy for cancer. The T ...
  • Debunking GE Myths. Again.
    from civileats.com: Twitter-land was abuzz last week with news that a formerly ardent critic of genetic engineering (GE) has recanted his position. Mark Lynas gave a long mea culpa speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, in which he apologized to the world for tearing up GE crops back in the ...
  • Wheat Gluten Newly Confirmed To Promote Weight ...
    from greenmedinfo.com: New research confirms some of the basic tenets of the Wheat Belly, a book by Dr. William Davis, which argues that wheat avoidance results in healthy weight loss. Published in Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry this month, and titled "Gluten-free diet reduces adiposit ...
  • Whole Foods CEO Says #Obamacare Law 'Like Fascism'
    from washingtontimes.com: The CEO of Whole Foods compared President Obama's health care law to "fascism" in a radio interview on Wednesday, a turnabout from earlier comments in which he compared the signature reforms to socialism. "Technically speaking, it's more like fascism," John Mackey told ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Do You Want To Scare A Baby Boomer?
    If you want to frighten Baby Boomers, just show them the list of statistics in this article.  The United States is headed for a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and we are woefully unprepared for it.  At this point, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every sing ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Congressman introduces bill to prod administra ...
    As the nation prepares to celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Congressman Al Green, a Texas Democrat, has introduced a bill, for the fourth time, to fund a national program to test for housing discrimination. read more
  • From the Southern Exposure Archives: With the ...
    Much of the impetus for the civil rights movement came from students who led marches, took beatings, sang freedom songs, and went to jail. James Orange organized schools in Birmingham, Ala. and recounted his experiences in a 1981 interview in Southern Exposure, which we share in honor of the mag ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: How Southern states' weak gun ...
    Southern states with weak gun laws are a major source of weapons used to commit crimes in other states -- but some of the region's political leaders say they plan to resist new federal initiatives to curb gun violence. read more
  • Map Mischief: How gerrymandering has undercut ...
    In 2012, 45 percent of Southern voters chose a Democrat for Congress. But this month, less than a third of U.S. Representatives from the South will be Democrats. Welcome to the world of gerrymandering, Southern-style. read more
  • Amid North Carolina anti-labor campaign, publi ...
    Already the least-unionized state in the nation, North Carolina will become even more hostile to labor if its current political leaders have their way. But despite the anti-union onslaught, public workers scored a key win this week in the state's biggest city. 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

  • Global Warming or Global Governance? (Full Len ...
    Global Warming or Global Governance? (Full Length) – YouTube.
  • Kevin Barrett: Is Obama killing ‘kill li ...
    Dr. Kevin Barrett, one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror, has raised questions about the death of Aaron Swartz, a prominent info-warrior and critic of President Obama’s “kill list.” “As with so many freemasonic assassinations, including that of ‘DC Madam’ Deborah Jean Pa ...
  • Confessions of a Pharmaceutical Industry Repre ...
      Confesiones de una Representante de la Industria Farmacéutica – YouTube.
  • Blows Against Big Pharma and Its Vaccine Cultu ...
    Catherine J. Frompovich, Contributor Activist Post Do you hear it happening? Do you hear the emerging discontent within the infrastructure that, up-until-now, Big Pharma was capable of preventing from happening around their ‘sacred cows’—vaccines and pharmaceuticals, aka legal drugs? How many pr ...
  • The world government exposed
    by Jacque Fresco old map of worldThat we live in a world of “Agenda Politics” is absolutely clear. Governments come and go, but the agenda never changes. Policies left incomplete by one government are taken up with gusto by the next. Civil servants get involved in writing party manifestos. One o ...

Veterans Today

  • Who is Allen Ruff and why does he oppose Chuck ...
    Why is self-styled "peacenik" Allen Ruff working so hard to offer clandestine support to wars that have killed millions and displaced more than ten million people?
  • On Turning 79
    What is illuminating to me now is that even at that young age of three ~ I felt an innate need to share my individual joy and delight with the world at large ~ which is precisely what I am still doing as I embark on my 79th year on the planet .
  • JFK: An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
    by Ralph Cinque (with Jim Fetzer)   When I published “JFK: What we know now that we didn’t know then” (21 November 2011), I had become convinced by the discovery of the obfuscated face of a figure in the doorway area of a famous photograph taken by AP photographer James &# ...
  • In Defense of 21st Century Judaism and Israel
    Most people who practice Judaism do NOT ever want to live Israel. Find out why!
  • The Death of America
    As corporate America moves forward with record profits, the majority of Americans will continue to be left out of this economic feast. But things are only going to get worse. Now that U.S. consumers have been tapped out and will never again provide the purchasing power required to maintain robus ...

electric politics

  • Wampum Wranglers
    So Mr. O won't mint the magic coin. He says. Well, good luck to him, then, getting the Southern secessionists to grovel. More's the pity, though, that neither side have a clue what they're talking about. Essentially, they're disputing the finer points of a primitive theory of value: call it wamp ...
  • 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 ...

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Stop NATO

  • Clinton Reiterates Backing For Strategic Ally ...
    Xinhua News Agency January 19, 2013 Commentary: U.S. endorsement of right-leaning Japan jeopardizes regional security By Wang Fan BEIJING: The United States pledged Friday stronger security ties with Tokyo’s new right-leaning administration and lent veiled support to Japan in the Diaoyu Is ...
  • Anatole France: Only two ways out of militaris ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Anatole France: Selections on war ==== Anatole France From The Wicker-Work Woman (1897) Translated by M.P. Willcocks “As for the Romans, they were not essentially a military people, since they made profitable an ...
  • Getting Ready For War: Pentagon Boosts Militar ...
    Trend News Agency January 17, 2013 Azerbaijan, U.S discuss military cooperation E. Mehdiyev Baku: Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev has today received a delegation headed by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs of the U.S. Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, the Defen ...
  • Thorstein Veblen: Habituation to war entails a ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war ==== Thorstein Veblen From The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) It may not be entirely beside the point to note that in point of time this curious reversion seems to coincide with the cul ...
  • Japan: Main Pillar Of U.S. Plan For Asia-Pacif ...
    China Daily January 18, 2013 Japan’s grand Asia-Pacific strategy By Wu Huaizhong* ==== esides the United States, Japan is so far the firmest supporter of the existing order. Japan’s grand Asia-Pacific strategy is a strong pillar in sustaining US hegemony and the Western-dominated ord ...

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FRS

  • Philippines: On the struggle to defeat milita ...
       “….the Aquino government tries to trick the CPP-NPA and NDFP to enter into a trap by entering into a peacetalk that is based on an unprincipled reactionary constitution of the GRP and also promote localized peace talks that is aimed to weaken and the surrender of the revolutionary forces…” &# ...
  • Philippines: New Peoples Army unit assigned t ...
    Merardo Arce Command Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command New People’s Army Press Statement 18 January 2013 NPA takes prisoners of war, defeats military raid vs AFP operations in Typhoon Pablo-ravaged towns As the AFP and the US-Aquino regime resumed its fascist counterrevolutionary cam ...
  • As “peace talks” get no traction, ...
    Revved-up counterinsurgency AT GROUND LEVEL, by Satur C. Ocampo (The Philippine Star) | January 19, 2013 “I am now in a position to influence the implementation of (Oplan) Bayanihan as chief of staff because I now become its operational commander. Unlike when I was the CGPA (commanding gene ...
  • Nepal: ‘If bourgeois state does not del ...
    [While the split in the revisionist-bourgeois UCPN(M) and the formation (re-formation) of the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist has been the focus of high hopes among revolutionary Maoists internationally, the consolidation of the CPN-M has also been a subject of conflicting views and an emergin ...
  • Nepal: ‘If bourgeois state does not del ...
    [While the split in the revisionist-bourgeois UCPN(M) and the formation (re-formation) of the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist has been the focus of high hopes among revolutionary Maoists internationally, the consolidation of the CPN-M has also been a subject of conflicting views and an emergin ...

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
  • Obama Takes Great Risks in Nominating Chuck Ha ...
    It appears that President Obama is intent on nominating former Sen. Chuck Hagel to become his next Secretary of Defense, according to the Washington Post. The question arises concerning why he would do such a thing.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 07, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • A Landscape Tweeted From Space And Other Amazi ...
    Including moth wings in macro, a hidden leopard and more Click here to enter the gallery
  • FYI: Why Would Someone Create A Fake Internet ...
    Put some people in front of a screen, and they won't always reveal the most truthful information. This week, Deadspin broke the news that Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend--one of the most heartbreaking sports stories of last year--was a hoax. The fake girlfriend was create ...
  • Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Fluffy Bea ...
    Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: we have a winner! So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example: Hey ...
  • Study: Viagra Helps Mice Burn Fat Faster
    Will a drug already popular among athletes suddenly become a hit with the couch potato crowd? We hope not. We've heard about athletes using Viagra to gain a (modest/debatable) competitive edge. Now, researchers are reporting another potential perk of the little blue pill, one that might appeal ...
  • BeerSci: Why You Should Never Drink Beer From ...
    Avoid gross-smelling drinks by protecting your brew from light. The subject of Beer Gone Bad came up at the office the other day, and I gave my colleagues an impromptu lesson in why "skunking" in beer is very different from a lot of the other ways a beer can turn on you. (And there are many, ma ...

Veterans Today

  • Who is Allen Ruff and why does he oppose Chuck ...
    Why is self-styled "peacenik" Allen Ruff working so hard to offer clandestine support to wars that have killed millions and displaced more than ten million people?
  • On Turning 79
    What is illuminating to me now is that even at that young age of three ~ I felt an innate need to share my individual joy and delight with the world at large ~ which is precisely what I am still doing as I embark on my 79th year on the planet .
  • JFK: An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
    by Ralph Cinque (with Jim Fetzer)   When I published “JFK: What we know now that we didn’t know then” (21 November 2011), I had become convinced by the discovery of the obfuscated face of a figure in the doorway area of a famous photograph taken by AP photographer James &# ...
  • In Defense of 21st Century Judaism and Israel
    Most people who practice Judaism do NOT ever want to live Israel. Find out why!
  • The Death of America
    As corporate America moves forward with record profits, the majority of Americans will continue to be left out of this economic feast. But things are only going to get worse. Now that U.S. consumers have been tapped out and will never again provide the purchasing power required to maintain robus ...

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

  • Britannia Forever: UK to Jilt EU for Commonwealth?
    The classic split within the British Conservative Party is reappearing with a vengeance: On one hand you have those wishing to leave the European Union altogether or severely dilute Britain's misplaced fealty to those supposedly usurping the last vestiges of the UK's sovereignty--AKA those facel ...
  • Victors and Vanquished: Korean Cars in Europe
    Seeing what Japanese carmakers did to the United States automobile industry during the Eighties, the Europeans have always been wary of the same story repeating itself in their part of the world. However, the remarkable thing for many years is that while Japanese brands have made inroads into th ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Do You Want To Scare A Baby Boomer?
    If you want to frighten Baby Boomers, just show them the list of statistics in this article.  The United States is headed for a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and we are woefully unprepared for it.  At this point, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every sing ...
  • 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 ...

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E U Times

  • Russia Prepares To Label Obama Government “Cri ...
    A stunning proposal from the Federation Council (FC), the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, to President Putin that is circulating in the Kremlin today calls for the present government of the United States, under President Barak Obama, to be labeled as a “criminal regime” due to its ...
  • Rand Paul declares war on Obama’s executive ac ...
    Sen. Rand Paul has made plans to nullify President Obama’s 23 executive actions on gun control policy, claiming the president is exercising too much power and demonstrating a ‘king complex’. The Kentucky Senator made a Wednesday night appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity”, during which he outlined t ...
  • First human residents to settle in Mars in 2023
    The Dutch nonprofit company Mars One is planning to establish a human settlement in the Red Planet by 2023, International Business Times has reported. The company released its basic astronaut requirements for the plan to call not only scientists or pilots but anyone who is at least 18 years old. ...
  • Iceland too cold to handle for European Union
    Recently, the government of Iceland suspended talks on a possible accession of the country to the EU. As noted by the media, it had to do with a rather complex political situation. Many believe that in the next election the Independence Party that opposes the idea of joining the EU may come to p ...
  • ­New Zealand calls on Hobbit makers to pay bac ...
    Following the tremendous box office success of The Hobbit film a New Zealand official has called on the moviemakers to repay the $56 million (NZ$67 million) subsidy they received from the country’s taxpayers to fund shooting in New Zealand. The first movie in Peter Jackson’s upcoming trilo ...

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

  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 14 January 2013 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of statements made by members of the Swedish Executive and government officials on the Assange case. read more
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 28 November 2012 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of links to evidence relating to the existence of a criminal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks. read more
  • 2013-01-02 Inside the Hourglass, A World Risin ...
    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 ...

U N News

  • Haiti: top UN official calls for delayed elect ...
    The top United Nations official in Haiti today called on the Government of the beleaguered Caribbean country to carry out free and fair elections, which have been delayed for over a year, as soon as possible within 2013.
  • 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.

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

  • 'Preppers Will Die Without Rule Of Law'... Co ...
    When the lights go out... The video below shares a warning to all preppers from a combat veteran... Preppers are going to die... unless they wake up. ~ Video read more
  • 47 States Revolt Against Obama's Gun Control.. ...
    Thousands of gun owners across America have had enough of the Obama administration’s attack on the Second Amendment – and they’re preparing to take their concerns to the capitols in at least 47 states. Be at YOUR state capital this Saturday, January 19th at 12 p.m. ~ List of States - Related ...
  • 2nd Amendment, Liberty and The American People ...
    The government insider from the Ulsterman Report is sharing some heartwarming information this evening, the American people have spoken and Barack Obama has been forced to listen. Video read more
  • 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 ...

Tarpley

  • Northern Syria Learns to Hate Occupation by th ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 19, 2013 On the one hand, official Washington – the principal sponsor of the foreign fighters – has been deeply shaken by reports coming from circles close to the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) which depict a rising wave of hatred in northern Syria ...
  • 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 ...

Modern Survivalism

  • The Police State Final Act: How Do People Know ...
    Why do Americans appear to be such whipped dogs today? Are we really different from the Germans of recent memory? When is it time to be fully prepared, to hunker down for the final act, the clamp down, the police state? How do people know?   One doesn’t exactly know. Believe me, this ...
  • Gun Sight 101
    So having spent some time at the range recently with my new Smith & Wesson M&P45, I thought I would share a ‘back to basics’ tip that helped me get better on target after expending my first magazine with poor results… It’s like any sport, skill, technique… ...
  • Water Clarification And Purification
    Safe drinking water involves a process that begins with clarification and ends with purification. Water Clarification Water foraged from natural sources is often contaminated with dirt, debris and suspended particles. Water should be clarified before placing it into the water filter or purifying ...
  • 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 [...]

Fast Company

  • Last Chance To See The Bouroullec Brothers In ...
    The French duo has created products that toe the line between art and design, public and private, play and work--all on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. This weekend is your last opportunity to see Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac, a mid-career exhibition of works by t ...
  • Tired Of Star Wars Fans, The White House Is Ra ...
    Want an official response from the government? You’ll need to collect at least 100,000 signatures. On the very first day of his first term, January 21, 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, calling on all federal government agencies to begin ...
  • Taco Bell Revs Up Its Super Bowl Campaign With ...
    Oldster Bernie Goldblatt and his high-powered scooter introduce Taco Bell’s "Live Mas"-themed Super Bowl efforts. Taco Bell has joined the teasers. The brand is the latest to kick off its Super Bowl ad efforts well ahead of game day with a splashy teaser--this one 60 seconds long and ...
  • 625 Outdated Remote Controls Become A Remarkab ...
    An artist and programmer uses infrared “clickers” to build a lo-fi display in London. It’s been nearly 65 years since remote controls came to market--at the time, the devices were called "Lazy Bones." Much has changed since then (except for the lazy part), and these days, ...
  • Giving Siri A Personality: A Possible Job List ...
    Who would you want to talk to in your iPhone? According to a report on 9 to 5 Mac, Apple is (possibly) looking for a special someone to help them "evolve and enrich Siri." The person, according to the job listing (which is no longer viewable online), must be "a uniquely creative individual ...

Jadaliyya

  • Focus sur le Mali, deuxième partie: Une guerre ...
    [Cet article est le deuxième d'une série de trois, avec des perspectives différentes sur les développements au Mali. Le premier article - « Mali in Focus, Part One: The Jihadist Offensive Revisited » ] « …Ce conflit est légitime et vital pour la sécurité des Fran ...
  • "Business Networks in Syria": Jadaliyya Co-Edi ...
    Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad discussed his book, Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience with C-Span's Book TV, and talked about the current conflict in that country. This interview was recorded on the campus of George Mason University on 27 S ...
  • A New Revolt in Morocco?: An Interview with Mo ...
    [Mohamed El Marouani is the author of Abdessalam Yassine's funeral oration, who died on 13 December 2012. Sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for "conspiring against state security," El Marouani was released during the wake of the February 20 Movement. He is the founder of the Al ...
  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (18 January)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ...
  • Infographic: Born at Qalandia Checkpoint
    "Born at Qalandia Checkpoint" focuses on the impact of Israeli movement restrictions on the everyday lives of Palestinians. The phenomenon of Palestinian women forced to give birth at military checkpoints peaked during the Second Intifada (2000-05). Since then, Palestinian women i ...

mediagazer

  • Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer ...
    Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery  —  We've learned today that mobile news-delivery company Circa has raised another $750K on top of the $900K raised previously.  The company launched its ...
  • Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and ...
    Tim Carmody / The Verge: Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity  —  Unsubstantiated statements implicate US Secret Service in his prosecution and break the organization's own rules by ‘doxxing’ Swartz  —  Aar ...
  • YouTube halts funding for WSJ and Reuters chan ...
    Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: YouTube halts funding for WSJ and Reuters channels; Reuters cuts positions  —  YouTube has cut off funding to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters that formed part of its $150 million dollar plan to help launch more than 100 premium channels.  T ...
  • Senator John Cornyn Asks Eric Holder To Explai ...
    Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Senator John Cornyn Asks Eric Holder To Explain DOJ Prosecution Of Aaron Swartz  —  While we've seen some politicians in Congress speak out about the prosecution against Aaron Swartz, for the most part, it had been the “usual crew” of folks w ...
  • Memo: The Atlantic president explains Scientol ...
    Jim Romenesko: Memo: The Atlantic president explains Scientology advertorial ‘screw-up’  —  The Atlantic president Scott Havens sent this staff memo about the Scientology advertorial “screw-up” shortly after 6 p.m. Friday:  —  From: Havens ...

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

  • Beaten Brit Laura Robson laments her atta ...
    Laura Robson believes she may need to curb her attacking instincts as her career progresses over the next few years. The world No 53 was dumped out of the Australian Open by fellow teenager Sloane Stephens who reached the last 16 with a 7-5 6-3 victory in 109 minutes. Robson started slowly.. ...
  • Kirilenko avoids exit after taking fashio ...
    Gear change … Maria Kirilenko wears a yellow bandanna on Saturday after she was told her visor breached branding regulations. Photo: AFP RUSSIAN glamour girl Maria Kirilenko flirted with disqualification before booking a fourth-round showdown with Serena Williams at the Australian Open ...
  • Djokovic to take easy way to final
    Nice draw: Novak Djokovic should sail into the final. Photo: Sebastian Costanzo SHOULD the men's event follow the seedings, Novak Djokovic will end up playing plucky Spanish base machine David Ferrer for a place in his third consecutive Australian Open final. It no great insult to Ferrer to ...
  • Murray joins doping crackdown push
    ANDY MURRAY has backed a tougher anti-doping regime for tennis, including biological passports and more blood tests, to keep...
  • Agnieszka Radwanska ready for acid test a ...
    AGNIESZKA Radwanskas six-week preparation of cracking tennis balls surrounded by -10C conditions and on a different surface to Melbourne Park faces is set to face its first acid test tonight. The Polish star will meet No. 13 seed Ana Ivanovic with a quarter-finals berth on the line, but is c ...

no frakking consensus

  • Authors of ‘Extreme Misrepresentation’
    A majority of the 13 senior scientists responsible for a US government report are also associated with activist groups. (Eight of them have an IPCC connection.)
  • Rajendra Pachauri, Pessimist-in-Chief
    The head of the IPCC thinks "a large part of the human species" is endangered by climate change. Apparently that makes him an optimist.
  • 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.

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

  • 1/17/13 - Watch seven wonderful student films ...
    www.procon.org - – Watch seven wonderful student films about ProCon.org. A panel of prominent film celebrities and education leaders judged 1-2 minute student videos on the theme "Why I Love ProCon.org," and their seven lucky winners in the ProCon.org national student video contest have been a ...
  • 1/17/13 - Watch six wonderful student films ab ...
    www.procon.org - – Watch six wonderful student films about ProCon.org. A panel of prominent film celebrities and education leaders judged 1-2 minute student videos on the theme "Why I Love ProCon.org," and their winners in the ProCon.org national student video contest have been announced.
  • 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
  • 1/16/13 - 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.

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

  • 3 way discussion on guns, your rights and the ...
    President Obama's attempt to "get tough" on gun control has provoked a massive backlash from the patriot community in the US who are sworn to uphold the 2nd amendment at all costs, even if that means civil war. On today's show we take a long hard look at some of the key questions in the debate ...
  • 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 ...

Beacon

  • Call of the Wild
    King Penguins, South Georgia Island. WikiMedia Commons. Have you ever wanted to learn how to speak whale?  Here’s your chance! Cornell University has recently completed digitizing its catalog of animal sounds.  With audio and video recordings dating back to 1929, the archive contai ...
  • 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 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Tonight’s Music: President Obama’s Inaugural P ...
    Watch out Beyonce and Katy Perry. There’s another diva set to performing during the inauguration festivities — Lady Gaga. A person familiar with the inauguration tells The Associated Press that the pop star will perform at Tuesday’s ball for White House staffers. The source spoke on ...
  • Ye GADs: Gun Appreciation Day
    Today is Gun Appreciation Day. I’ll admit it sounds a bit odd to me, to “appreciate” a gun, but then, we treat other inanimate objects as if they were human. Cars come to mind. Gun or car or whatever, we even give them names. Or at least refer to them endearingly as, for example, “my [...]
  • Queer Talk: Ft. Bragg Discriminates Against Sa ...
    As significant as the repeal of DADT was, as long as DOMA is in place, this kind of thing will likely keep happening. Zack Ford, at Think Progress: The Association of Bragg Officers’ Spouses, the military spouses group at Ft. Bragg, has offered a “guest membership” to Ashley Broadway ...
  • A Landmark Coalition [by AA Birch, New Contrib ...
    TM NOTE: I’d like to introduce you to England’s own AA Birch, who will be writing about British politics, as well as sports. This is the first piece he’s posted here at TM and we’re thrilled he’s on board. He’ll be writing periodically throughout the week in t ...
  • Having Conversations, For a Change: About Guns ...
    Conversations. I’m thinking we need to have some. Not caps lock and bold screams. Not label and insult exchanges. Not simplistic repetitions of the same arguments and counter-arguments. Not quotes pulled from Founding Father types, or historical figures or presidents or celebrities or whoever, t ...

Hudson New York

  • Facebook's "Accidental Mistake" and Free Speec ...
    "All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of
  • Showdown between UN Human Rights Council and I ...
    Another major confrontation is brewing between Israel and the United Nations. On January 29, Israel is scheduled for its quadrennial Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council (HRC). Following the March 2012 Council session, however,
  • Al Jazeera: Non-Arabs Should Not Be Fooled
    Many Arab liberals and reformers were shocked by the sale of former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore's Current TV to Al Jazeera, a pan-Arab broadcasting system charged with sympathy for terrorists. In 2009, even the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank,
  • 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.

Urban Survival

  • U.S. Devaluation Doodles
    I assume you know why foreign exchange exists, right?  Wikipedia’s entry on topic begins like so:   “The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a form of exchange for the global decentralized trading of international currencies. Financial … Continu ...
  • Coping: With Bids and Benedictions
    Reader Roy was in good form in his latest email…and one part of what he was writing about really jumped out at me since I had mentioned in a column this week about how the White House press office had … Continue reading →
  • D.C.–The City-State?
    Since my friend Clif pegged 2013 as the “Year of Separation” where some of the country goes off in one direction, while others go off in some other, we have to wonder if the cleaving of America isn’t already picking … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With ‘Universe’–the ...
    One of our ongoing projects around here is to figure out how everything works.  You know… a kind of Grand Theory of Everything.    Here recently, we have been working on figuring out if Universe is nothing more than a … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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 ...

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Avoiding the National Climate Assessment's Wor ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Last week a federal Advisory Committee released the draft National Climate Assessment for public comment. The report is the most comprehensive, peer-reviewed analysis of climate ...
  • Take Public Transit to L.A.'s Baldwin Hills Pa ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica Angelenos, are you looking for something new and interesting to do over the long weekend? Well, I, for one, am very excited about a brand new shuttle service that is bound to increase public access to on ...
  • New Hudson River PCB Contamination Report Conf ...
    Johanna Dyer, Attorney, New York For more than five decades, high levels of highly toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have polluted the lands, waters and native species of the Hudson River Valley. And for generations, this contamination has thre ...
  • Coal industry front group scapegoats EPA
    Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate Center, Washington, DC Today E&E reported (subscription required) a “study” by the coal industry front group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE). The author of the report, AC ...
  • For Polar Bears, One Man Really Could Make a D ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica It’s rare that one person can have an impact on the future of an entire species, but that’s where things stand with the US proposal to ban the international commercial ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, January 17, 2013: Blakely, Georgia: A former state trooper has been indicted for stealing marijuana from the evidence locker, and then giving it to teenage girls. He is charged … Continue reading →National Police Misco ...
  • The Aaron Swartz Case
    There is much buzz surrounding the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz–and whether prosecutorial abuse by Carmen Ortiz played a part. Glenn Greenwald: Whenever an avoidable tragedy occurs, it’s common for there to be an intense spate of anger in its … Continue reading →The Aar ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, January 15, 2013: Frederick County, Maryland: A family is suing the Maryland State Police after a woman died in her home after a confrontation with a state trooper. http://ow.ly/gRZE1 … Continue reading →National Poli ...
  • 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 &# ...

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: LG hits a milestone, S ...
    SimCity has a small beta that you can enjoy, LG sold 1 million of its new phone, and messaging in Asia is taking off like a Saturn rocket. You can catch The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mega, Amazon, and lazy Bob
    Bob didn’t want to work, Kim Dotcom is ready to peeve copyright hawks in the United States, and Amazon is trying to combat iPods, of all things. You can catch... Keep reading →
  • 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 →

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 )

  • Amazon deforestation rate pacing ahead of last ...
    Data released by Imazon, a Brazil-based NGO, shows that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continues to pace well ahead of last year's record low rate.
  • Palm oil sustainability initiative must rule o ...
    The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) must implement standards that protect forests and account for greenhouse gas emissions to remain credible, said an environmental group ahead of a that will determine the body's 'Principles and Criteria' for the next five years.
  • Fish unable to pass through dams in U.S. prese ...
    Dams create a largely impenetrable barrier for fish even when the dams were installed with specially-built passages, according to a new study in Conservation Letters. The scientists found that migrating fish largely failed to use the passages in the U.S., resulting in far fewer moving through th ...
  • Presence of trees may mitigate cardiovascular ...
    Scientists with the U.S. Forest Service have observed a link between human health and trees, implying that trees may actually mitigate both cardiovascular and lower respiratory disease. Although the researchers do not yet put forward a reason why or how the presence of trees save lives, they are ...
  • Can ranchers co-exist with jaguars?
    Jaguar once roamed from the United States to Argentina, but today they've been eliminated from several range countries, including the United States. The chief reasons are habitat loss and direct killing by humans, putting ranchers and farmers at the heart of the issue. Both ranchers and farmers ...

Sierra Express

  • Solar2Africa400 Portable System now available ...
    The Solar2Africa400™ package has been designed in the UK specifically for developing countries.  We have produced a simple to use box that will provide mains electricity of >1100W/h per day. Using the built in 12VDC socket, USB port and 230V output inverter our customers are able to charge p ...
  • Former Canadian Defence Minister appointed as ...
    Washington, DC, Friday, January 11, 2013: His Excellency Bockari Stevens, Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the United States, today presented a Letter of Commission to the newly appointed Honorary Consul in Canada, the Honorable David Pratt, P.C. at a short ceremony at Sierra Leone’s Washington emba ...
  • ABC post-elections campaign reaches Bo schools ...
    The post-election civic education campaign of the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat has reached schools in Bo. The ABC Secretariat visited at least three schools in the southern city of Bo on Tuesday 15th January 2013. The pupils at the St. Andrews Secondary School, Methodist ...
  • Maternity Health in Nigeria: Progress is Possi ...
    Governor Olusegun Mimiko has emphasised that maternal health is possible in Nigeria provided there are a strong political will and resource accountability. He disclosed this on Wednesday, 16th January 2013 while delivering his speech as a key speaker at the globally acclaimed Centre For Strategy ...
  • African leaders to renew their promise for chi ...
    Addis Ababa, 16 January 2013 – The African Union Conference Center hosted on 16th January 2013, the Conference of African Leaders on Child Survival held under the theme: “African leadership for child survival: a promise renewed”. Organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fran O'Sullivan: Chinese eager to milk brand NZ
    More major Chinese dairy companies are looking to build infant milk formula plants in New Zealand to leverage the country's reputation for safe milk-sourced foods.The galloping trend poses issues for New Zealand's political leaders...
  • 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...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • John Ross on Washington’s Civil Forfeiture Racket
    Jerrie Brathwaite was not in her car when Washington, D.C. police seized it in January 2012. She had lent her 2000 Nissan Maxima to a friend, and that friend was pulled over, searched, and found to be in possession of drugs. A year later, Braithwaite—who has never been charged with a ...
  • Tate Watkins on Foreign Aid in Haiti
    After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, foreign governments and agencies such as the World Bank sent aid and advisors to the country. In The Big Truck That Went By, the AP's Jonathan Katz reports that the money has largely gone to outsiders operating with limited local, languag ...
  • 3D Printing and the Future of Shopping: Shapew ...
    "3D Printing and the Future of Shopping: Shapeways CEO Peter Weijmarshausen" is the latest video from Reason TV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more Reason TV clips. View this article.
  • Baylen Linnekin on the FDA’s Pathetic Food Saf ...
    Earlier this month the FDA released drafts of two highly anticipated food-safety rules. The agency has billed the proposed regulations as key tools for implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act, the biggest FDA food-safety update in more than seven decades, which President Obama ...
  • Jesse Walker on Dick Morris
    Eight days after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Dick Morris presented President Bill Clinton with a proposal to take advantage of the blast by using it to link the Republican Party to "extremists." Nearly two decades later, the same man has coauthored a book called Here Come th ...

Mercury Rising

  • When Do Republicans Like Gun Control? When It ...
    In the wake of President Obama’s executive orders on guns (helpfully translated into NRA-speak by the sterling Charles Pierce), I thought it appropriate to remind people that the National Rifle Association has historically been just fine with gun control, so long as white people weren&#821 ...
  • When is it ok to intervene?
    If one is curious about just how the US meddles abroad, the NS Archive released some documents from a lawsuit filed by a man who has been jailed by the Cuban government. The documents released by Peter Kornbluh describe providing “support to the Cuban people in hastening transition: The U. ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Gambling mogul Adelson’s wife used non-p ...
    Danny Weil, t/o According to Opensecrets.org, The Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment and Research was the fourth largest contributor to right-wing political action committees (PACs), political parties and outside spending groups in the nation in 2012; the organization contributed over $24 m ...
  • Asked again: Will the US intervene in Mali?
    Since I quickly put together a post titled The Yellowcake War on whether the US would intervene in Mali, the following have emerged: * The US is not permitted to directly aid the Malian government, such as it is, because it was formed through a coup. * The US is permitted to do whatever it [...]

Reality Sandwich

  • Our True Nature
      The following is excerpted from Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, published by North Atlantic Books. read more
  • Technology Conference Furthers Global Evolution
    Campus Party is an annual week-long technology festival and LAN party. Thousands of hackers, developers, gamers, and geeks attend the conference, now hosted in multiple locations each year. Participants refer to themselves as Campuseros, and have created a community that yearns to reunite each ...
  • Ayahuasca, Wolves and Music: A Talk with John ...
      With “Wolf 06,” master guitarist John Sheldon offers a memorial tribute that he hopes will bring attention to senseless wolf killings. Last December, wildlife advocates were stunned when a hunter shot Wolf 06, the alpha female of Yellowstone’s Lamar Canyon Pack and the park’s most fa ...
  • Planetary Initiation
    In this Tedx Talk, "Planetary Initiation," Daniel Pinchbeck describes the imminent shift in consciousness that is transforming our world at TedxSanMigueldeAllende.  Photo by sezzles, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing. 
  • Raw Magic: An Interview with Superfood Expert ...
      The following originally appeared in Newtopia Magazine.   read more

Desertification

  • Peering into the Energy Crystal Ball
    Trying to predict the future of the energy sector is like trying to predict the weather in London in an era of global warming. But delegates had a go at it during the three-day World Future Energy Summit that ended in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 17. They foresee new world leaders in the energy sector, [...]
  • Digging for Water, But Striking Oil
    The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil. But when the oil-blessed region runs out of water, there could be a change in the political landscape, triggering potential conflicts. The world’s future wars, experts predic ...
  • Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation
    Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems. “We’re all scared,” said Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at St ...
  • 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 ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Here Are The Changes That The Harper Conservat ...
    One of the first questions that people ask about the Idle No More movement is what the movement is all about. While the historical injustices experienced by First Nations are too many to list, activists say the current government is pushing through a range of new bills that violate treaty rig ...
  • A Canadian Heritage Moment: Hungry, Hungry Indians
    Étienne Brûlé was born near Paris in 1592. Growing up, he dreamt of coming to New France and learning the ways of the Indians. Champlain made this possible and he set sail at the age of 16. He lived life as an Indian, learning their languages. He became the first French explorer to see the Grea ...
  • Suspended Manitoba Lawyer Jeff Salmon
    The following disciplinary notice has been edited in terms of formatting. THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA NOTICE OF SUSPENSION TAKE NOTICE that by resolution of the Complaints Investigation Committee of The Law Society of Manitoba, effective the 12th day of J ...
  • "The Terrorists in Iraq" and "teh Powa"
    The following tweets were originally posted by "NOH8ER" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/NOH8ER), variously, on January 11, 2013 and January 12, 2013. They have been edited in terms of formatting. #ISupportManning because the most powerful criminals on Earth cannot break his s ...
  • "All Forms of Power"
    The following tweets were originally posted by "Texts To My Boss" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/TextsToMyBoss), variously, on November 20, 2012; November 25, 2012; November 26, 2012; November 28, 2012; December 1, 2012; December 3, 2012; December 4, 2012; December 6, 2012; D ...

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

  • LIFE magazine captioned this as “American F-4C ...
    LIFE magazine captioned this as “American F-4C Phantom jet firing rockets into small village known to be an important Vietcong stronghold during the Vietnam War.”  The problem of course is that these villages that were “Vietcong strongholds”were also filled with civilians — women, children, old ...
  • In early August 1967, I arrived in I Corps, th ...
    In early August 1967, I arrived in I Corps, the northernmost district of American military operations in what was then South Vietnam.  I was there to report for the New Yorkeron the “air war.” The phrase was a misnomer.  The Vietnamese foe, of course, had no assets in the air in the South, and ...
  • “Scientists have identified a new bright-blue ...
    “Scientists have identified a new bright-blue lizard hiding in plain sight. The lizard, found in Vietnam and named Calotes bachae, had long been thought to be another blue lizard species found in Myanmar and Thailand.” —- Pretty sure I saw one of these while examing some Cham ruins in Vietnam b ...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:This Week in War. A Fri ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: This Week in War. A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week. It’s a mix of news reports, policy briefs, blog posts and longform journalism. Subscribe here to receive this round-up by email. 106 ...
  • wnyc:Ivory Poaching Threatens ‘Elephant Memo ...
    wnyc: Ivory Poaching Threatens ‘Elephant Memory One hidden impact of poaching on elephant society and behavior is that as older matriarchs and bulls are targeted due to their large tusks, their extensive knowledge of humans and other predators is then lost to the herd. via
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