Wednesday, January 23, 2013

23 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Kurdistan Workers' Party soldiers, commonly kn...
Kurdistan Workers' Party soldiers, commonly known as PKK near the Iran/Iraqi Kurdistan border (Photo credit: james_gordon_losangeles)
Chamoiserie
Chamoiserie (Photo credit: dynamosquito)
John Gielgud
Cover of John Gielgud

Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • A wee dram for your memory, John ?
    "I know I was starting School C at around that time - it's a memory that's lasted with me till now," Key said this week. John Key was born on August 9, 1961, and the Erebus disaster was on November 28, 1979 - meaning he would have been 18 at the time. Students usually sat School Certificate e ...
  • Pilger: Welcome to the Shammies
    The Shammies celebrate the finest sham media. "Competition for the 2013 Gold Shammy," said the panel of judges, "has been cutthroat." The Shammies are not for the tabloid lower orders. Rupert Murdoch has been honoured enough. Shammies distinguish respectable journalism that guards the limits o ...
  • Cansiz: Kurd, rebel with a cause
    Sakine Cansiz, one of the founders of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), led a tough life that included stints on the frontlines and in notorious Turkish jails, making her a legend in PKK ranks.
  • On Jodie Foster's Coming Out Speech
    Why do gay people, such as Ian McKellen, John Gielgud, and indeed Jodie Foster make such luminous actors? Perhaps because they get a lot of practice. We're all child actors. Some never stop. The only difference is Jodie Foster got paid for it.
  • Mali - the new Afghanistan ?
    At the turn of this century a rebel army threatened the capital of an African country and in went Western troops to salvage the situation. In May 2000 the capital under siege was Freetown in Sierra Leone and the troops sent to prevent a takeover were British. They were led by the then Brig ...

Independent - London

  • Emotional and angry, Hillary Clinton faces her ...
    Days away from stepping down as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton faced what could have been one of her most uncomfortable encounters when she was questioned by the Senate Foreign Relations committee about September’s assault on the US consulate in Benghazi in which ambassador Christopher Ste ...
  • Irish nanny faces murder charge after allegedl ...
    An Irish nanny living illegally in the US is facing the prospect of a murder charge after a baby was allegedly fatally injured while in her care.Related StoriesIrish nanny charged with violently assaulting baby before its death in USHilary Clinton chokes up defending handling of Benghazi attack ...
  • Will they ever learn...? Now Berlin’s schools ...
    Chancellor Angela Merkel’s veteran Education Minister was fighting for her political life today after the university which awarded her a doctorate more than 30 years ago took steps to take it away amid allegations that parts of her academic thesis were plagiarised.
  • Nothing gruff about Gary the Australian goat a ...
    Every goat has his day, and today was Gary’s. He waited patiently outside a Sydney court as his owner, Jimbo Bazoobi, contested charges arising from Gary’s decision to snack on a flower bed outside the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art last August.Related StoriesVideo: Gary the goat has charges ...
  • 'We are not messengers of death in Mali', says ...
    The French military has distanced itself from a photograph taken during its operations in Mali, after the image of a soldier with his face obscured by a menacing skull bandana went viral.Related StoriesSpecial report from Mali: You could not recognise the bodies of dead jihadists as humanSpecia ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • South African inflation accelerates as food pr ...
    South African inflation accelerated to a seven-month high of 5.7 percent in December as food prices rose, supporting expectations the Reserve Bank will keep borrowing costs unchanged tomorrow. The inflation rate climbed from 5.6 percent in November, Pretoria-based Statistics South Africa said o ...
  • "Nuke Effect" snow? Pennsylvania power plant s ...
    Just when I think I've seen everything. Meteorologists have known for decades that waste plumes...the vented heat and moisture from power plants can produce clouds downwind. Now a new phenomenon has been captured by Doppler radar. "Nuke Effect" snow. It appears Pennsylvania's Beaver Valley Nu ...
  • Droughts, rising food prices predicted for 2013
    In the dead of winter, planting crops is the last thing on most people's minds. But droughts are still raging across the American Midwest, causing consternation among farmers about their prospects for the spring. If conditions don't improve, food prices will likely remain high this year after a ...
  • Team of Ex-NASA scientists concludes no immine ...
    More counterpunch to Obama's recent speech. Rocket scientists -vs- James Hansen, "in God we trust, all others bring data" WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - A group of 20 ex-NASA scientists have concluded that the science used to support the man-made climate change hypothesi ...
  • Spiegel's stunning 8 part series - Climate C ...
    If you have not read this yet, now is the time. Given what president Obama recently said about skeptics in his inauguration address, I thought this 2010 article would be worth revisiting. In Germany, there's a revolution going on. That revolution is that they are backing away from the global wa ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Dealing with comment trolls
    McSweeney's style.
  • Your opportunity to do something . . .
    CONTACT THE CRTC. According to David J. Climenhaga's article on the Rabble site, "With no market for hate and right-wing drivel, Sun News comes cap in hand for public subsidy". That's right, it looks like HateTV is going broke, and they're looking for a handout, to keep up the spew. ...
  • Institutionalised
    Ashley Smith died in the immediate because her prison guards failed to quickly intervene despite clear evidence that a medical emergency was was taking place before their eyes. Robert Dziekanski died after being tasered by the RCMP at YVR who then, astoundingly, failed to check for vital signs a ...
  • Teh Landlords!!1!
    Wow, I've thought CBC has been in a bit of a decline lately, but not to the extent of this piece by Kathy Tomlinson. Tomlinson has taken one example of a landlord getting screwed by a particularly bad tenant and used it to declare landlords everywhere "powerless" victims government legislation t ...
  • Lost art
    I was reading Simon this morning as everyone should, and he made an insightful comment about hockey, which seemed to be a pretty good analogy for so many other things in Canada these days. So until the National Concussion League tightens the rules, punishes the guilty, and enlarges the ...

Media Matters for America

  • What The Media Should Know About Secretary Cli ...
    As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to testify before Congress about the September 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Media Matters reviews the falsehoods conservative media have pushed regarding Clinton and her response to the attack.Why Did Clinton Mention A ...
  • Media Identify Mainstream Positions As Part Of ...
    The right-wing media are claiming that the "liberal agenda" President Obama outlined in his second inaugural address is out of the mainstream, even though polling has shown that the majority of Americans agree with Obama's stances on marriage equality, sustainable energy, and other issues.Right- ...
  • Fox News Falsely Blames Obama For Median Incom ...
    A Fox News report dishonestly pegged a decline in median household income to the beginning of President Obama's first term. In fact, median income has trended downward since 1999.Fox Highlights Decline In Median Income Since 2008 Fox's Earhardt: Three Years Into Obama's Presidency, Median Inc ...
  • What The Media Should Know About Gun Appreciat ...
    The media has devoted significant coverage to the upcoming Gun Appreciation Day, which is organized by a Republican consulting firm that is pocketing a portion of the contributions. The January 19 event, which asks people to support gun venues and show opposition to ...
  • Media Coverage Of Debt Ceiling Continues To Pr ...
    Media coverage of the debt ceiling frequently claims that raising the limit without simultaneous spending cuts would give President Obama a "blank check," repeating a pattern of promoting this false narrative -- or failing to correct it -- that occurred during the unprecedented brinkmanship of 2 ...

Global Research.ca

  • Obama’s inauguration, Rhetoric versus Reality. ...
    President Obama’s second Inaugural Address, Jan. 21, Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama’s second Inaugural Address has been greeted by much of the corporate media and his supporters as a new “liberal vision,” in the words of a New York Times…
  • A Leader’s Lexicon for the 21st Century
    Intended to help all 21st Century leaders (Western of course) when making speeches or statements to the press and their gullible public.  N.B.: this is not an exhaustive list, and leaders will invent their own useful words and phrases, freely…
  • Idle No More: The Kattawapiskak River Housing ...
    Alanis Obomsawin's documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat's band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help. With the Idle No More movement making front page headli ...
  • L’arte della guerra : La strategia della tensione
    Le drammatiche immagini dell’attacco al campo gasiero in Algeria, da parte di un commando definitosi jihadista, fanno il giro del mondo. Tecnici della Bp e della Statoil legati a esplosivi al plastico, uccisi dai sequestratori o durante gli scontri. Effetto…
  • Mali: France’s New Afghanistan
    Since France launched military strikes against Mali rebels on January 11, the little-known West African country, which has been mired in a crisis for over a year, suddenly came under the media spotlight and made headlines around the world.In view…

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

  • Is Genetically Engineered Salmon Safe?
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Frankenfish could be on your dinner plate by the end of the year.On December 21, at the very end of the last business day before Christmas week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its environme ...
  • New Report Outlines Our Future: Climate Change ...
    Future generations of Americans can expect to spend 25 days a year sweltering in temperatures above 100F (38C), with climate change on course to turn the country into a hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone place.The National Climate Assessment, released in draft form on Frida ...
  • Why the 'Idle No More' Movement Is Our Best Ch ...
    As Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence enters her fourth week of a hunger strike outside the Canadian parliament building, thousands of protesters voice their support in Los Angeles, London, Minneapolis, and New York City. Spence and the protesters of the Idle No More movement are drawing atten ...
  • 5 Reasons Natural Gas Won’t Be an Environmenta ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.If you’re hoping the natural gas boom means we’ve solved our environmental and economic woes, you’re going to be disappointed. While natural gas produces less nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide wh ...
  • Major Military Contractor Poisons American Tro ...
    In the spring and summer of 2003, when U.S. troops were guarding cleanup of a neglected water treatment plant in the Basrah oil fields in Qatmat Ali, southern Iraq, they noticed orange dust scattered on the floor and sitting in open sacks. Within weeks, several were suffering nosebleeds, eye ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • South-central Partnership for Energy Efficienc ...
    The South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER) enters its second year with an exciting Summit, designed to explore, further develop, and prioritize policies and strategies needed to push energy efficiency forward in new buildings, existing buildings, and electric marke ...
  • Rep. Waxman Statement on New Reports on the Cl ...
    Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman issued the following statement on new research from the Pembina Institute and Oil Change International, indicating that the Keystone XL pipeline will accelerate the reckless expansion of the tar sands industry and the climate im ...
  • Fire at South Texas Nuclear Power Plant
    Tuesday, a fire erupted in the Unit 2 main transformer that feeds power from the reactor to the public power grid of the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station near Bay City and about 85 miles southwest of Houston.  The unit 2 was automatically taken offline and STP officials say unit 1 ...
  • 2012 Warmest Year on Record in U.S.
    Well, it’s official.  According to scientists with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2012 was the warmest year on record in the contiguous United States with an average temperature of 55.3 degrees Farenheit.  That’s 3.2 degrees above normal and a full degree higher ...
  • Texas Breaks Another Wind Energy Record
    As we close in on the end of 2012 with a winter front keeping temperatures low, Texas achieved a new wind power integration record of 8.638 GW on Dec. 25 at 3:11 p.m according to the Texas grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Electricity from wind accounted for 25.71 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • Ikea to Double Renewable Energy Investment to ...
    (Bloomberg) Ikea Group, the world's biggest furniture retailer, will double its investment in renewable energy to $4 billion by 2020 as part of a drive to reduce costs as cash-strapped consumers become more price sensitive. The additi ...
  • Andean Glaciers Melting at 'Unprecedented' Rat ...
    (Times Media Group) Climate change has shrunk Andean glaciers between 30 and 50 percent since the 1970s and could melt many of them away altogether in coming years, according to a study published in the journal Cryosphere. Andean glac ...
  • An Early Nuclear Warning: Was It for Naught?
    (Green) Associated PressRubble at Reactor No. read more
  • Wyoming Judge Hears Fracking Disclosure Case
    (AP) A judge heard arguments Tuesday over whether Wyoming regulators should empower the public to look up the ingredients in the chemical products used for hydraulic fracturing, the petroleum industry practice that splits open oil and ...
  • Iowa Utility Agrees to Stop Using Coal at 5 Ge ...
    (Star Tribune) An Iowa utility owned by Warren Buffet-led Berkshire Hathaway said Tuesday it would stop burning coal at five electric generators in a settlement that ends the threat of litigation by the Sierra Club over their smokestac ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • Life or Death
    WARNING: Really long Blog Post! This a meditation, if you will. A few ideas offered for your consideration, regarding what I believe to be most essential in these turbulent times. My meditation bears on the meaning of life and death, and the various ways individuals and peoples can respond ...
  • How to Be Loyal
    It's interesting to see the Republican Party progress through the stages of grief. We are beginning to see signs that they have arrived at the acceptance stage. Signs like this: Were too outnumbered to govern, to set policy, said Representative John Fleming, a Louisiana Republican who has ...
  • Hope For the Future
    I am not surprised that Fox News watchers were not much in the mood to watch the inaugural festivities but I am shocked that only 22% of their audience was in the 25-54 age range. I think it is safe to say that they didn't do very well with views 24 and younger, so it appears that nearly 80% of ...
  • Whence the Filibuster
    I can't suss out Harry Reid's game plan on filibuster reform. He understandably would like to work out a deal with Mitch McConnell to streamline Senate procedure without having to use the so-called nuclear option of changing the rules with a mere majority of the votes. But he isn't playing har ...
  • Netanyahu Gets Shellacking
    It's the middle of the night in Israel and election results are still being tallied but it appears than Benjamin Netanyahu has collapsed as much as he could collapse and still survive. Right now, it looks like the center-right has won 61 seats and the center-left has won 59 seats in the Knesset ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Vegetables That Cause Weird Physical Reactions
    Find out how certain vegetables can cause everything from dermatitis to acid reflux! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Tuscany's Abandoned Asylum for the Criminally ...
    This abandoned facility for the criminally insane might look creepy, but the true terror of institutions like these was reserved for their inmates. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Deadly History of Persia’s Ancient Assassins
    Learn about the deadly group of assassins who held the leaders of the ancient world in abject terror: the Hashashin. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Largely sober fare in this week's link roundup, with the gloom only really lifted by a bunch of sinister fast food mascots. Actually, we take that back. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Brutal Torture and Execution in 19th-Century C ...
    Justice in China at the end of the 19th century could be swift and brutal. And as these images show, such punishments were a popular subject for overseas photographers. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Kurt Johnson & Corporate NAFTA farm politics, ...
    "[T]he activists we are concerned about here are the ones who want to change the way your industry does business--either for good or bad reasons: environmentalists, churches, Public Interest Research Groups, campus organizations, civic groups, teachers unions, and 'Naderites'." (quoted in Montag ...
  • How to check cops checking your driver's licen ...
    Yet another nasty branch on the poisonous tree of data abuse in Minnesota is bearing its digital fruit. Anne Marie Rasmusson, a former law enforcement officer, got 'checked out' by an absurdly sprawling array of Minnesota law enforcement officers illegally abusing their driver's license lookup s ...
  • MPD Tracking OccupyMN Facebook BBQs: Minneapol ...
    Dateline: Pseudo-Secret Minneapolis (aka Fridley): What WCCO called the "secret" "City of Eyes" Strategic Information Center has been located on the Google! Your Federal Stimulus Money & FY2010 Homeland Security Appropriations At Work - A Facility for Spying on Facebook Occupy Barbecues It' ...
  • MPD Homeland Security Unit at Cruz House: Minn ...
    After some months, the Minneapolis Police Department released dozens of pages about Occupy Minnesota / Occupy Minneapolis and several high-profile operations, particularly the eviction of protesters from 4044 Cedar Ave. This data was released from the Department late yesterday afternoon. Interes ...
  • Federal Homeland Security TSA VIPR Team & #Vik ...
    Things are a little strange at the Vikings/Packers Game today. A drone has been photographed hovering around the Metrodome fan plaza on the west side, and a Homeland Security / TSA "VIPR" team has been hanging around as well, indicating the federal government is shifting into "protecting" the ma ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Japan presses Algeria for answers as toll hits ...
    Story Image:  A plane carrying Japanese government representatives prepares to leave Tokyo International Airport on its way to Algeria to bring home Japanese survivors and the bodies of seven Japanese victims of the recent hostage crisis in Algeria on January 22, 2013.A senior Japanese of ...
  • African forces move towards central Mali to bo ...
    Story Image:  Malian people watch a French Sagaie armoured vehicle patrolling on January 23, 2013, in Diabaly. African forces on Wednesday began moving towards Mali's centre, the French foreign minister said, as pressure grew on Malian troops over summary killings in aAfrican forces on We ...
  • Steady rise in government data requests: Google
    Story Image:  A Google logo is seen through windows of Moscone Center in San Francisco during Google's annual developer conference on June 28, 2012. Google on Wednesday reported a "steady increase" in government requests to hand over data from Internet users in the secGoogle on Wednesday ...
  • Steady rise in government data requests: Google
    Story Image:  A Google logo is seen through windows of Moscone Center in San Francisco during Google's annual developer conference on June 28, 2012. Google on Wednesday reported a "steady increase" in government requests to hand over data from Internet users in the secGoogle on Wednesday ...
  • Iraq suicide bomb at Shiite mosque kills 42
    Story Image:  People gather around the site of a car bombing in the north Baghdad neighbourhood of Shuala, on January 22, 2013. A suicide bomber made his way into a crowded Shiite mosque before blowing himself up in the middle of a packed funeral on Wednesday, killing A suicide bomber mad ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Russia evacuating its citizens from Syria: A p ...
    In a move that surprised observers, the government of Russia began on Tuesday to evacuate its citizens from Syria. Russian officials dismissed rumors that this is the beginning of a mass evacuation of Russian citizens from Syria. But observers described this development as “the strongest indicat ...
  • Korea spy gave North data on 10,000 defectors ...
    An employee of the South Korean government has been detained for allegedly providing North Korea with detailed resettlement information on over 10,000 North Korean defectors living in the South.
  • German intelligence report sees US leading glo ...
    A leaked geopolitical study authored by German intelligence sees the United States as the primary beneficiary of the world’s drastically changing energy balance.
  • Sophisticated cyberespionage operation focused ...
    After Stuxnet and Flame, two computer programs believed to have made cyberespionage history, another super-sophisticated malware has been uncovered, this time targeting classified computer systems of diplomatic missions, energy and nuclear groups.
  • Closed-door trial of Soviet/Russian sleeper ag ...
    A married couple accused of spying on Germany on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia for over two decades has gone on trial in Stuttgart.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Jan 24
      HRW: Syria rebels looting churches, destroying mosques, Armed clashes cause mass displacement of minorities | Support Syrian Christians Activists demand end to violence in Syria's Kurdish city of Ras al-Ain - ekurd VIDEO: Syrian Rebels Burn Muslim Mosques - YouTube VIDEO: Wahhabi Destroyi ...
  • Cville v. Drones
    Charlottesville Va City Council has chosen to place on its agenda for the February 19th meeting a resolution opposing, restricting, or banning drones. (This date has been confirmed; it is the 19th.) Sign up if you plan to be there. The Virginia General Assembly has already been considering legis ...
  • MLK Would Be Ashamed
  • Talk Nation Radio: Reese Erlich on Bahrain and ...
    Bahrain and Syria: in one the United States supports a brutal dictatorship against a nonviolent movement for human rights.  In the other the United States supports violent opposition to the government in the name of human rights.  All is not as it appears.  We speak with Reese Er ...
  • Mumia the Movie

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Aaron Swartz and the Freedom to Connect
    Aaron Swartz wanted nothing more than to change the world. He was doing just that until he ended his own life, at the age of 26, on Jan. 11. Aaron was a social justice activist, gifted with deep understanding of how computers and the Internet work, and how they could empower people around the w ...
  • VIDEO: Amy Goodman on MSNBC’s Up With Chris Ha ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appeared on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" Sunday to discuss the Obama administration’s use of drones, and John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA . Wach the videos below to see much of the conversation. Visit NBCNews.com fo ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Sunday, January 13th from 8-10 am ET.
  • Part 2: Jonathan Katz on How the World Came to ...
    To mark the third anniversary of the massive 2010 Haiti earthquake, we continue our conversation with Jonathan Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster . He was the only full-time American reporter in Haiti when the earthquake stru ...
  • Book Excerpt: How the World Came to Save Haiti ...
    Read an excerpt from the new book by Jonathan Katz, who will be on Democracy Now! Friday to discuss the aftermath of a the January 12, 2010, earthquake in which a quarter of a million people died. In The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, Katz ...

Solari

  • Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet
    By Christian Stork The suicide last Friday of information activist, computer hacker and technical wunderkind Aaron Swartz has focused attention on Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, whose overzealous prosecution may have led to his death. Swartz, co-founder of a website later a ...
  • EU States to Get Go-Ahead For Tax on Trading
    By John O’Donnell and Robin Emmott Germany, France and nine other euro zone countries will get the go-ahead on Tuesday to start work on a financial transactions tax, a measure likely to unsettle banks and trading houses but which will please voters and could raise much-needed revenue. Euro ...
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
    As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari Special Rep ...
  • QE3 – Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Est ...
    With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money…and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way ...
  • Money & Markets – Week of 01.20.2013

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

Inhabitat

  • Eric Standley’s Mind-Blowing Paper Sculptures ...
    Read the rest of Eric Standley’s Mind-Blowing Paper Sculptures Look Like Gothic Cathedral Windows Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, Biodegradable, Eric Standley, green materials, laser cut, paper cut, paper sculptures, recycling / compost
  • PHOTOS: Anne Militello’s Light Cycles LED Art ...
    This year, winter in NYC will be all the more beautiful with this stunning new light installation by artist Anne Militello located in Brookfield Place World Financial Center. Opened just last night, Light Cycles transforms a ten story glass pavilion into a dazzling light sculpture that can be se ...
  • Enter The LightCollector Photo Contest for a S ...
    Have you entered our mobile photo contest yet? There’s still time to enter for a chance to win $1000! Are you a designer, architect or creative who finds inspiration in photography? If so, you’ll want to check out Philips’ new free LightCollector photo app to collect photograph ...
  • San Francisco Bay Bridge to Be Adorned With 25 ...
    Soon San Francisco Bay Area commuters will have something more entertaining to stare at in traffic than the tail lights of the car in front of them. As the Bay Bridge enters its 75th year in 2013, it is set to be embellished with a display of 25,000 individually programmed white LEDs in a projec ...
  • Chairigami: Funky Cardboard Furniture Folded I ...
    Whoever thought cardboard could be so funky? Charigami (yes, a portmanteau of chair and origami) has concocted a line of furniture pieces that are exclusively crafted from cardboard materials. The results are as expected: unique and, more importantly, low carbon in nature. And, as far as range g ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Three Windows 8 Features Worth Celebrating
    Here are three completely overlooked features in Windows 8, discovered while mucking around in the operating system's deepest, darkest corners.
  • The Fitbit Flex Improves on Its Rivals
    At the Consumer Electronics Show, FitBit flashed the features of the FitBit Flex. It's a silicone bracelet just like the Up and Nike bands, but with neither of the drawbacks - it does track sleep and it does use energy-saving Bluetooth 4.0.
  • C.E.S. 2013: A Genuinely Novel Gadget, the Sel ...
    Google, which has had a successful self-driving car experiment for some time, was not at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. But a few other companies were showing their own take on the concept.
  • C.E.S. 2013: What's New in TVs
    David Pogue walks the floor of the International Consumer Electronics Show and finds humor in the excess -- mostly of it unintended by the companies.
  • Microsoft's Surface Pro Tablet Changes the Game
    Even if the Surface Pro is not strictly a laptop killer, it nonetheless changes the game. It's a machine nobody's built before, and it should get a lot of imaginations whirring. For thousands of people, it will be an ideal mobile companion.

The Progressive Realist

  • Ask the Experts: Social Media and Conflict Pre ...
    An increasing number of policymakers and think-tank residents are championing the power of social media and big data to pressure governments, empower civil society, deter human rights abuses through the power of witness, and semi-accurately forecast political instability and conflict without the ...
  • Obama Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine
    As his second term is about to begin, we may finally be seeing the emergence of an Obama Doctrine in foreign policy. It's one that looks very much like the Reagan Doctrine. In his 1985 State of the Union address, Reagan asserted that "we cannot play innocents abroad in a world that's not ...
  • The Spiral Model and an India-Pakistan Border ...
    Beheadings get people’s attention. This week, the India-Pakistan ceasefire along the Line of Control in Kashmir broke down in dramatic fashion. The Line of Control serves as the de facto boundary between India and Pakistan in the disputed territory of Kashmir, the product of the first India-Paki ...
  • Mainly Continuity: Foreign Policy During a Sec ...
    The following piece is also appearing in the Bengali daily published by the Times of India in Kolkata, India U.S. President Barack Obama had practically nothing to say about foreign policy in his second inaugural address, but the figures he has chosen for his new national security team tell us a ...
  • Top of the Morning: Israel’s Surprising Electi ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Netanyahu Weakened in Closer Than Expected Israeli Elections A shocker in in the Knesset elections. “Israel’s parliamentary election ended Wednesday in a stunning deadlock between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line bloc and center-left rivals ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • To Run or Not to Run, That Is the Question
    If the latest poll from ABC News and The Washington Post is any indication, Hillary Clinton is one of the most popular political figures in the country. Sixty-seven percent of Americans have a positive view of the Secretary of State, former senator, and former first lady. Twenty-six percent hol ...
  • Women to Serve In Combat Units
    Today, acting on the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that he is lifting the ban, in place since 1994, on women serving in combat roles in the United States military. One has to wonder how much longer this would have taken had we not had t ...
  • Virginia Republicans Move Forward with Mass Di ...
    James Madison University Virginia's congressional districts. This morning, I wrote on an emerging Republican plan—in swing states won by President Obama—to rig presidential elections by awarding electoral votes to the winner of the most congressional districts. Because Democratic ...
  • Labor, and Middle Class, Still Shrinking
    Can we at least agree to stop using the term “Big Labor?” Whatever else may be said of the American union movement, it’s not really big any more. Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its report on the number of Americans in unions in 2012, and it tells a tale of steady, and in s ...
  • What If They Held an Election and Nobody Won?
    Here's the very short version of the Israeli election results: Benjamin Netanyahu ran unopposed—and lost. But he's still got a very good chance of returning to the prime minister's office. In his last term, Netanyahu brought a total breakdown of negotiations with the Palestinians and stuck to a ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Army Veteran Pleads Guilty in Fort Stewart Mil ...
    Another former soldier has pleaded guilty for his role in an anti-government militia authorities say is responsible for the execution-style murder of two teenagers in the Georgia woods in late 2011. Timothy Joiner, a 22-year-old Iraq War veteran, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Liberty County, Ga., to ...
  • White Nationalist in Race for Suburban Missour ...
    A reported member of the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens is running for a seat on a suburban Kansas City, Mo., school board on a platform that includes “removing materials that promote racial diversity” in a district that is becoming increasingly diverse. The candidate, Edward ...
  • Religious-Right Radicals Join NRA Side In Gun ...
    Religious-right extremists who have spent most of their energy in recent years vilifying LGBT people or fighting the nation’s culture wars on other fronts have found a new demon to slay: gun control. It might seem odd that those who profess allegiance to the teachings of Jesus Christ would be so ...
  • Gun Appreciation Day’s Sponsors Raise a Few Qu ...
    The past few weeks have seen a plethora of over-the-top reactions and a flurry of right-wing freak-outs over new proposals regarding gun control in the wake of the horrific shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which a lone gunman armed with an semi-automatic rifl ...
  • Convicted Extortionist a Key Figure in Idaho C ...
    If you’re a band of antigovernment “Patriots” pitching a plan to build a walled city in North Idaho and manufacture handguns and assault rifles there, you might expect raised eyebrows, a little criticism. But potshots from other Patriots? Potshots, indeed, are flying at III Arms Co. and its sist ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Common Cause Urges Senators to Reject "Handsha ...
    A filibuster “compromise” that takes the form of a handshake deal and allows the minority to obstruct action effortlessly would continue the Senate’s march toward irrelevance and deliver another two years of partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill, Common Cause said today. "A ...
  • The Case Against Kerry
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  • ACLU Urges EEOC to Update Guidance Policy
    The ACLU and a coalition of civil rights and civil liberties groups sent a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in response to the Commission’s briefing on “The Impact of Criminal Background Checks and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Conviction Rec ...
  • California Failing to Deliver Vital Instructio ...
    The ACLU of California, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) and the law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP today warned state education officials of possible litigation if they do not act immediately to provide essential language instruction to thousands of underserved English learner ...
  • Sanders: Strong Filibuster Reform Needed Now
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today he strongly supports long-overdue filibuster reform to stop a single senator without explanation from forcing an extraordinary majority of 60 votes to advance legislation.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Conservatives Have Their Worst Week Ever
    Matt Taibbi Have Republicans, and the right wing in general, ever been more disjointed? More confused? More incapable of getting out of their own way?NRA head Wayne LaPierre. (Photo: Bonnie Jo Mount/Getty Images)read more
  • Giant Victory in Europe on Taxing Financial Sp ...
    Sarah Anderson EU finance ministers were scheduled to vote January 22 on whether to authorize 11 member states to proceed with the introduction of a financial transaction tax (FTT). As it turned out, the ministers didn’t even have to ...
  • Ethical Enbridge? The Real Story of Line 9 and ...
    Enbridge's Line 9 reversal project has become a hot button issue in Ontario as Big Oil seeks to expand tar sands markets in the 401 corridor, the U.S. and potentially Europe. Line 9 runs from Sarnia, Ontario to Montreal, Quebec, passing within 50 km of an estimated 9.1 million ...
  • What Obama's Inaugural Address Got Wrong About ...
    Betsy Reed Liberals seeking affirmation for their faith in President Obama believed they found it in his second Inaugural Address, with his passionate invocation of Stonewall and Seneca Falls, his soaring rhetoric about government “of ...
  • Time for a Paradigm Revolution
    "It is not so easy to ask our young scientists to think outside the box when a significant portion of their salary (and mortgage payments) depends on guaranteeing a steady source of funding. Consequently, professors become highly attuned to the institutional priorities of various funding ag ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • News in Brief: Symposium organized to address ...
    The Ninth Annual Water Law Symposium will be held Saturday, Jan. 26 at the UC Davis School of Law and the UC Davis Conference Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event, titled “Beyond the Water Wars: Collaborative Management Solutions for a Shared Resource,” will feature expert discussion of contro ...
  • Missouri Needs to Solve Water Wars in 2013
    COMMENTARY | The severe drought of 2012 has led to near-record low water levels on the Mississippi River. There are fears barge traffic along the vital waterway will cease altogether as commercial shipping relies on higher water levels. The Belleville News-Democrat reports melting snow upstream ...
  • A water war plays out in Caldwell
    Caldwell blames its fight with the Pioneer Irrigation District on its attorney.
  • New Plan Offers an Effective, Affordable Packa ...
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 16, 2013) – Investing in a broad portfolio of Bay-Delta water solutions can save Californians billions of dollars in costs while increasing water supply and strengthening protections for the ailing delta ecosystem and its fisheries, according to a new proposal released ...
  • Amid Drought, Water Wars Pick Up on Borders
    Battles over water along state borders can increase during times of drought, and Texas is no stranger to such conflict. As the state's drought wears into its third year, it is locked in a legal conflict over water with New Mexico. And a North Texas county is suing the state of Oklahoma to ge ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Colorado Senate Committee Advances Civil Union ...
    The Colorado Senate’s Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to authorize civil unions Wednesday, on a 3-2 vote. The bill now moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee. All three committee Democrats voted in favor, the two Republicans voted no. A similar bill passed the Democratic-controll ...
  • Incoming! New Report Notes 14 “Carbon Bombs” T ...
    The general scientific consensus is that the average global temperature cannot be allowed to warm more than two degrees Celsius [3.6°F] in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. In fact, a two degree rise alone would threaten the water supplies of hundreds of millions of people, lead to glo ...
  • Catholic Leaders Challenge ‘Pro-Life’ Politici ...
    A group of 60 Catholic clergy, theologians, and social justice leaders are calling on “pro-life” members of Congress — such as Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — to focus on gun violence prevention as part of their moral commitment to sanctity of huma ...
  • Long Voting Lines Drove Away At Least 201K Flo ...
    Voting lines of more than six hours during the November 2012 election likely deterred hundreds of thousands of Florida voters from casting a ballot, according to a new academic analysis of data compiled by the Orlando Sentinel. The analysis by Ohio State University Professor Theodore Allen finds ...
  • High School Student Comes Out And Receives Sta ...
    High school senior Jacob Rudolph won an award from his classmates at Parsippany High School in New Jersey on Sunday for “Class Actor.” In a courageous move captured by his father for YouTube, Jacob used the opportunity to inform them that he’d been doing a lot more acting than ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Sigh. Busy.
    I thought this was funny. There you go.
  • CBC Manitoba
    double nickel has informed me about a story on CBC Manitoba about the controversy behind the racist comments at the Morris Mirror, the local newspaper in Morris Manitoba: In a one-paragraph comment, which appeared earlier this week in the Mirror, Turcotte gave a "thumbs down" to the Idle No More ...
  • Getting With The Program
     So, ... it seems important for me to remind everybody that our political opponents, for the most part, actually believe all the nutty stuff that they say. Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. $3 billion "gravy trains" at Toronto City Hall. Radical left-wing kooks all decided to go into stu ...
  • Videos
    Doing other things today ...  This is a good listen. This was interesting. Hopefully.
  • John Ibbitson's Stupid Column
    So, my previous post was going to describe how Globe & Mail columnist and full-time shit-licker John Ibbitson is nothing more than a mainstream media version of an internet troll and to establish this by going through his execrable column on harper's response to the "Idle No More" protest mo ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Growing number of Canadians prefer TFSAs to RR ...
    With the growing popularity of Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs), a key question has started to come about across Canada: what's a better investment TFSAs or RRSPs? A new poll finds Canadians favour TFSAs.
  • ESA space launches in 2013: A busy year for Eu ...
    The European Space Agency has released details of space missions scheduled in 2013 and developments in prospect with current orbiters and satellites.
  • Man acquitted of sexual assault after serving ...
    The Alberta man, whose identity cannot be disclosed, was acquitted after being convicted of sexually assaulting his stepson in 1995 and jailed for eight years. The stepson later admitted lying about the assault.
  • Winter deep freeze a challenge for Canadians
    Cold winters should be no surprise to Canadians. Winter, for those living north of the 49th parallel should be second nature and relatively easy to cope with. It seems that the cold snap has most Canadians running for cover and somewhat unprepared.
  • Home is where the heart is; Saturday still Hoc ...
    The 60th season of Hockey Night in Canada launched with a record-breaking average of 3.3 million viewers for last Saturday’s Toronto-Montreal game, making it the most watched regular-season Prime East game ever on the network. Did anyone say 'boycott'?

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • What’s your opinion about the war in Mali?
    The Harper government is moving toward more direct military involvement in Mali. What is your opinion about events in Mali and Harper’s response? Leave your comment.
  • Mali war: Blowback and mission creep
    The West's intervention to overthrow Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in 2011 was one of the triggers of the current war in Mali, and as Canada's role in Mali slowly grows, the danger of being drawn further into a spreading West African conflict also grows.
  • C-17 to support Mali intervention
    Prime Minister Harper announced on Monday that Canada would assign one RCAF C-17 transport aircraft to provide logistical support to the French military intervention in Mali for a period of one week.
  • No “direct military” mission to Mali
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a press conference on Tuesday that Canada is not considering a “direct military mission” in Mali. He did not, however, rule out other forms of assistance.
  • Canadian Auto Workers staff continue to suppor ...
    The Canadian Auto Workers’ staff made $15,000 donation to the Rideau Institute’s Ceasefire.ca program for 2013. Annie Labaj, Director of the CAW’s International Department, noted that the Rideau Institute and Ceasefire.ca “have been and continue to be important allies to our union and the ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • KT’s Holiday Gift Ideas
    The holiday season is upon us and they can be the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, for yourself and others. So, this holiday, let’s help each other out by giving gifts that will help someone eat healthier, be healthier, and ...
  • Eliminate Those Deadly Chemicals In Your Body
    Our US Government does not want you to know what their own agency, The Center for Disease Control, just reported in their own study. They took thousands of American citizens and checked their blood and urine for 212 toxic chemicals. They took a random sample of them and all 212 toxic chemicals w ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-10-12
    Today, Kevin reveals how he was able to build his financial empire and gives you tips on how to do the same! Self Help: Flood Your System With Nutrition Lose Weight Safely Become Financially Set Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast Follow Kev ...
  • Traveling This Holiday Season? Here Are Some S ...
    Well, the holiday season is here and you know what that means… travel. If you’re traveling a lot this holiday season to see family, friends or just to relax, you need to take the extra precautions to keep yourself from getting sick. Here are my suggestions to protect yourself before ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-29-12
    Today, Kevin explains how congressmen and government officials make a killing on making money from insider information! You won’t believe the net worth of some of these congressmen and congresswomen! Plus, Fred Van Liew gives you the facts behind electromagnetic chaos and how it is virtual ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Oakland spends $250K to hire ex-LAPD chief Bratton
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The Oakland City Council voted 7-1 on Tuesday night to hire former Los Angeles and New York Police Chief Bill Bratton as part of a team of consultants tasked with stopping the city’s increasing cri ...
  • A Leader’s Lexicon for the 21st Century
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Lesley Docksey Intended to help all 21st Century leaders (Western, of course) when making speeches or statements to the press and their gullible public. N.B.: this is not an e ...
  • Honest Rating Agency Is Punished for Telling t ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHonest Rating Agency Is Punished for Telling the Truth By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com While Hooey-Peddling Agencies Are Rewarded The big 3 government backed ratings agencies (technically known as Nationally Recogn ...
  • Prominent Gun-Control Advocate Compares Firear ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comVeteran passionately defends Second Amendment at Chicago anti-gun forum Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Jan 23, 2013 A pro-gun control meeting held by New Trier Democrats in Glenview, Chicago, turned into a raucous exchang ...
  • Rand Paul to Hillary Clinton: If I were presid ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAlexis Levinson The Daily Caller January 23, 2013 Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been negligent in conducting her job, and said that if he were president, he would have relieved her ...

Dandelion Salad

  • A Time for ‘Sublime Madness’ by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig January 21, 2013 The planet we have assaulted will convulse with fury. The senseless greed of limitless capitalist expansion will implode the global economy. The decimation of civil liberties, carried out in the name of fighting terror, wi ...
  • Tar Sands Exposed + Garth Lenz: The True Cost ...
    Dandelion Salad MrEnergyCzar·Jan 18, 2013 Website: http://MrEnergyCzar.com This video is about defining what the Tar Sands are. Tar Sands are also known as the oil sands because it sounds like it’s actually oil but it’s not, it’s Bitumen, underground mixed in with sand. Bitumen ...
  • Gung-ho French in Another Fatal African Attrac ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from www.strategic-culture.org January 17, 2013 With France’s ignominious track record for disastrous military adventures on the African continent – the 1956 Suez Crisis comes most to mind – one would think that the former ...
  • John Perkins: Corporate Assassins Determine Wo ...
    Dandelion Salad breakingtheset·Jan 18, 2013 Abby Martin interviews John Perkins, economist and author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’, about how corporations are determining the world order, and how assassins take out those who challenge the system. from the archives: Libya: I ...
  • The Incredible Debt Spider by Rand Clifford
    by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 17, 2013 The “Federal Reserve Bank” (Fed) is not part of the United States Government. The Fed is a private, for-profit corporation ultimately owned by eight elite banking families: 1. Rothschild’s of London and Berlin 2. Lazard Brot ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
  • No title
    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
  • No title
    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
  • No title
    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • No title
    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - Science

  • Ready or Not: Mutant H5N1 Research Set to Resume
    One year after public uproar forced them to pause, researchers who study H5N1 avian influenza by designing new, extra-virulent strains are set to resume their work. Though the virologists might be ready, other experts say concerns about the experiments -- ...
  • New Supergel Has Strange Biological Properties
    Using synthetic molecules, scientists have created a gel that behaves similarly to the proteins that form a cell’s internal, shape-controlling scaffold. Eventually, the gel might be able to help heal wounds, build artificial cells, and deliver drugs to targeted areas.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Gas and ...
    Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. ...
  • How People Smell Themselves
    You might not be able to pick your fingerprint out of an inky lineup, but your brain knows what you smell like. For the first time, scientists have shown that people recognize their own scent based on their particular combination ...
  • The Solar System’s Most Spectacular Geology Re ...
    Scientists have gained an incredible amount of information and understanding in the half-century since Mariner 2 took flight in 1962. Here we take a look at some of the geologic highlights from the wealth of information that has come to ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Palestinian citizens wearily ey ...
    As Nazareth, the capital of Israel’s Palestinian minority, gears up for the country’s general election next week, the most common poster in the city features three far-right leaders noted for their... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Jonathan Cook: How 20 tents rocked Israel
    However futile the activists' efforts prove to be on this occasion, the encampment indicates that ordinary Palestinians are better placed to find inventive ways to embarrass Israel than the hidebound... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Netanyahu on evacuating Palestinian protest te ...
    Netanyahu: "We will not let anyone harm the contiguity between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim." IOA Editor: Obviously, what Netanyahu has in mind is "not let[ting] anyone harm" Jewish "contiguity... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestini ...
  • E-1 tent camp built on private Palestinian lan ...
    Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian protest leader: “The people who need to leave are the settlers who have taken over the land, because the Palestinians have the right to stay on their land.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
  • Moshé Machover: Israel-Palestine – race agains ...
    If an Arab state west of the Jordan is legitimate, then Zionist colonisation and its state were and are illegitimate. So by acting consistently to prevent a ‘two-state solution’ Israeli governments... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Astrophysicist Rachel Somerville Wins 2013 Dan ...
    The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are pleased to announce that astrophysicist Rachel Somerville, Ph.D., has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, which is given annually to recognize outstanding work i ...
  • Bioengineers Discover the Natural Switch That ...
    With a desire to inhibit metastasis, Cornell biomedical engineers have found the natural switch between the body's inflammatory response and how malignant breast cancer cells use the bloodstream to spread.
  • Garcia-Pichel Appointed Dean of Natural Scienc ...
    Ferran Garcia-Pichel, an internationally recognized microbiologist, has been appointed dean of natural sciences in Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
  • Frequent Multitaskers Are Bad at It; Can't Tal ...
    Most people believe they can multitask effectively, but a University of Utah study indicates that people who multitask the most - including talking on a cell phone while driving - are least capable of doing so.
  • ASU Grad Student to Build Infrared Camera for ...
    Michael Veto, a third-year graduate student in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University, has been chosen to build an infrared and visible light camera system that will launch on a space satellite.

Natural Health News

  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
  • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
    A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
  • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
    A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
  • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
    A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
    If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Placard? I Don’t See No Stinking Placard!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Pathetic: Ambassador Susan Rice objected Wednesday to the Palestinians’ latest bid to capitalize on their upgraded UN status when their foreign minister spoke at Security Council while seated behind a nameplate that read “State of Palestine.& ...
  • John Bellinger Responds to Julian Ku on Interv ...
    by John Bellinger by John Bellinger [John B. Bellinger III is a partner in the international and national security law practices at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, DC and an adjunct senior fellow in international and national security law at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served a ...
  • At Your Fingertips ….. International Law Apps
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon It’s becoming a trend …. international law apps that aim to influence policy makers and engage the public. The app for “Children and Armed Conflict” (sponsored in part by the Mission of Liechtenstein)  collates information on the legal framework and grave violat ...
  • Will China Participate in the UNCLOS Arbitrati ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku China’s initial reaction to the Philippines’ decision yesterday to file an arbitration claim has been to stick to its guns.  From the BBC: On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told journalists that China has “indisputable soverei ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey US Trade Representative Ron Kirk is stepping down in late February. UK Prime Minister David Cameron has given his long-awaited speech on UK membership of the EU, promising a referendum in 2017 if the Conservative Party wins the 2015 elections. North Korea ha ...

Public News Service

  • “Know it. Name it. Stop it.” Stalk ...
    “Know it. Name it. Stop it.” Stalking Awareness Month in AZ PHOENIX - January is Stalking Awareness Month in Arizona, and a national campaign is under way to "Know it. Name it. Stop it." State law lists stalking as a crime, but Caroline Fleming, executive director of the Custer Netw ...
  • Report Gauges Public Opinion, 40 Years After R ...
    Report Gauges Public Opinion, 40 Years After Roe v. Wade PHOENIX - As of this week, it's been a hot-button issue for 40 years. The Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, Roe versus Wade, was decided in January 1973. And today, a new poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life finds mo ...
  • Gun Violence In Arizona
    Gun Violence In Arizona PHOENIX - The FBI says there were 339 murders in Arizona in 2011, the most recent year for which statistics are available, and two-thirds of them involved guns. The package of gun-safety legislation the President unveiled last week includes a ban on high-capacity gun maga ...
  • Advocates For Medicaid Expansion Hopeful of La ...
    Advocates For Medicaid Expansion Hopeful of Lawmaker Support PHOENIX, Ariz. - The ball is now in the Legislature's court, following Gov. Jan Brewer's proposal to expand Arizona's Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. ...(Read More)
  • Defensores de la expansión de Medicaid es ...
    Defensores de la expansión de Medicaid esperanzados de obtener apoyo legislativo PHOENIX, Ariz. – La pelota está en la cancha de la Legislatura, para secundar la propuesta de la Gobernadora Jan Brewer de ampliar el programa Medicaid de Arizona bajo la Affordable Care Act (Ley de ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Calls on EPA to Follow ...
    New European Pesticide Agency study reports “unacceptable” dangers to bees; supports suspension of use in U.S. Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the cue of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and immediately suspend t ...
  • Congress Passes Damaging Farm Bill Extension i ...
    Biotech riders omitted, but organic and other sustainable programs take a major hit By Colin O’Neil, Director of Government Affairs, Center for Food Safety On September 30, 2012 Congress did the unthinkable when it let the 2008 Farm Bill – the legislation that governs national food and farm poli ...
  • Post-Prop. 37 Poll Shows Strong Public Support ...
    Young voters, communities of color, women pushed landmark initiative to near win; more than one-fifth of ‘no’ voters favor GE labeling An independent post-election poll shows that California voters continue to strongly support the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the wake of Nove ...
  • Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forwar ...
    400,000 public comments, 40 Members of Congress ignored; CFS calls proposed approval of first ever GE animal “premature and misguided” Center for Food Safety sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the contro ...
  • Center for Food Safety, Save Our Seeds File Su ...
    Case pitting corporations against farmers set to impact the future of seed patents Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS)—two organizations dedicated to promoting safe, sustainable food and farming systems—challenged the agrochemical giant Monsanto and its restrictive “seed ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

Pensieve

  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...
  • Aaron Swartz on SOPA
    The late Aaron Swartz explains SOPA. His recent suicide has been in the news so much that I feel it isn’t worth discussing. His opinions, though, are. Related posts: Aaron Ortiz, Rest in Peace I’m very sorry to say that one of my namesakes... Aaron Ortiz, Flickr Pro These are some o ...
  • Merida and the Bechtel test
    The thing that most resonated about this talk was Colin Stokes’s defense of a particular Disney Princess: Merida, from Pixar’s Brave. I wrote a disappointed rant about that movie when it came out. I still deeply dislike the “You are a princess, act like it!” storyline. I ...
  • Another Civil Coup in Honduras?
    In 2009, the Honduran congress and supreme court perpetrated a messy coup against president Manuel Zelaya. Yesterday President Lobo and the Honduran congress have perpetrated an “institutional” coup against the supreme court, sacking 4 out of its 5 members. This was in retaliation fo ...
  • Fractal Reality
    We inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...

Green Times

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
  • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
    Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
  • How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
    We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • US electrical grid capacity estimates
    The US electrical grid has insufficient storage capabilities. Thus, power must always be available from generating plants when needed. In total, the US has enough power to meet most any demand. However, getting power from one grid to another can be problematic. The Texas ERCOT grid was designed ...
  • Broke Greeks burn wood for heat while bankster ...
    Austerity is good for Greece, say the banksters, as they continue to rape that country in order to be paid back in full on bonds they bought and loans they made which they knew were almost as much bottom-dwelling junk as they are. The result of this austerity is Athens is now filled with smoke [...]
  • One gigawatt wind farm to be built off Fukushi ...
    Credit: United Nations photo Japan plans to build a behemoth 1 GW wind farm ten miles offshore Fukushima consisting of 143 turbines, enough to power about 600,000 homes. Meanwhile, as regular readers are no doubt expecting, I will note that despite our huffing and puffing about the wonderfulness ...
  • ADHD diagnoses way up among families who can p ...
    Credit: vrij-natuurlijk.nl Inquiring minds want to know. Is ADHD a genuine problem or rather a way to prescribe meds to tranquilize out otherwise active children? Hey, I was “hyperactive” when I was a kid and probably still am. Most of the time I was bored by school. If I was a child ...
  • Belgium pumped hydro island will store wind power
    Pumped hydro is one of the oldest and most reliable ways of storing energy. Belgium plans to take excess wind power and use it to pump water out of the lagoon back into the ocean. When power is needed, the water is let back into the lagoon, powering the turbines. [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Armed Drones Could Target President: Former U. ...
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/armed-drones_n_2527242.html Posted: 01/22/2013 1:26 pm EST  |  Updated: 01/22/2013 7:05 pm EST WASHINGTON — As the technology for arming drones spreads around the world, terrorists could use the unmanned, missile-firing aircraft to attack and k ...
  • Exposed – LAPD/Media Tout Fake Rocket La ...
    wizbangblog.com The L.A. Police Department had big news on December 27. They had seized a pair of rocket launchers! This, of course, would have been shocking news if only they really had found “rocket launchers” in the City of Angels. As the L.A. Police Department’s “gun buyback program” came to ...
  • Fantasy Politics: On Reforming the Banking System
    Special Note: G. EDWARD GRIFFIN WILL JOIN US ON THE JACK BLOOD SHOW NEXT WEDNESDAY 1.30.13 @ 11AM edt by Gary North GaryNorth.com Recently by Gary North: The Crackpot Economist Who Provided Milton Friedman With His Monetary Theory Via Lew Rockwell The largest banks are immune to reform or regula ...
  • The Brennan connection – Did the CIA san ...
    Jerome Corsi World Net Daily NEW YORK – John Brennan, the Obama counter-terrorism adviser nominated this week to head the CIA, played a controversial role in what many suspect was an effort to sanitize Obama’s passport records.   On March 21, 2008, amid Obama’s first presidential campaign, two u ...
  • MSM covers false flag? Terror in North Africa: ...
    English-speaking jihadis seen in Mali, as a Canadian is reported to have co-ordinated Algeria attack   1 / 2 London Independent Canada is investigating an allegation by the Algerian Prime Minister that one of its citizens co-ordinated the terror raid at the Saharan gas plant in which dozens ...

The Air Vent

  • A Reasoned Rejection of Science, Explaining th ...
    Ex-spurt is a commonly misunderstood term.   The true definition of Ex-spurt is, “A drip under pressure”, or perhaps in past tense form, “a drop under pressure.” Often an ex-drip will self-identify as a spurt, but on closer examination he is really just a drip.  Reader (A ...
  • Yellow Science
    Reader Skiphil has left a link to some incredible commentary by our good friend Stephan Lewandowski who apparently holds a PhD in bovine scatology.  There is nothing wrong with being educated in scatology, however, Stephan’s propensity to practice his chosen craft publicly leaves one wonde ...
  • Common Sense on Government Spending
    Tom Fuller and I have always had a cordial relationship despite the fact that his politics are Pelosi-left.   He left a comment on the last thread in relation to taxes and the deficit which depicts exactly how the left-wing media is trying to portray our current debt situation.   While he is ref ...
  • Two Sides of the Laffer
    Happy New Year readers.   2013! I still owe everyone some commentary on Steig’s 3rd (or is it the 4th) victory lap.   I have spent several hours on the new Antarctic doom paper, hopefully I will have some time shortly to write on that.  In the meantime, we are awaiting some movement on the ...
  • Gun Control Demands
    Liberals are in a froth over a new gun ban on semi-automatic rifles (fire once per trigger pull).  While these are powerful and dangerous weapons, I flatly don’t believe this new ban will have any impact at all on violent crime.  Like so many things from the unbiased media, I cannot see an ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Non-social page-Like ads appear on Facebook mo ...
    Facebook is expanding its test that puts non-social page-Like ads in the feed by opening inventory on m.facebook.com. Although these ads are not eligible for the mobile app feed yet, we’ve heard this is coming soon....
  • Facebook continues to test variations of Timel ...
    Facebook is experimenting with a new Timeline format that puts all of a user’s posts in a single column to the right and apps and other modules on the left. We first saw Facebook testing a...
  • Trident, Nestlé Fitness, Lipton and others amo ...
    Trident is this week’s top gainer among food and beverage pages for the People Talking About This metric. The page has seen almost four million additional engagements across its 11 global pages this week. The pages...
  • New Facebook homepage module gives advertisers ...
    Some Facebook advertisers are seeing a “Your Ads” module on their homepage in the sidebar above birthdays and other reminders. The module lets advertisers see their active campaigns at a glance. The feature was first written...
  • Facebook conversion tracking goes live for all ...
    Facebook today announced the global launch of its conversion tracking tool to help advertisers measure and optimize their ads leading off-Facebook. Marketers will be able to use the new tool to generate a unique bit of...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Introduction to the Drone Wars Flying killer robots in the skies, operated out of a base in Florida, kill thousands of innocent people in countries all over the world. It sounds like science fiction, but unfortunately, this is a reality in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, ...
  • The EyeOpener- Foreign Agents: The Zionist Org ...
    Discussion of the Israeli lobby and its influence in Washington tends to center on AIPAC, the largest Israel-centered lobbying group currently operating in the US. The oldest continually operating such lobby group, however, the Zionist Organization of America, was for decades one of the most pow ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Big Media Discovers US Special Ops are Targeti ...
    Unlike Wine, Old News Doesn’t Improve With Age By Bill Conroy Earlier this week, the Washington Post and a series of other mainstream media outlets breathlessly reported that the Pentagon has set up a US-based special operations center that is focused on helping the Mexican government track down ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Israel’s Elections: Dirty Tricks and Rearrangi ...
    Yes, that title is a bit harsh.  But we’ll get to that later.  There is much to say about the results of today’s Israeli election. But in essence, very little has changed and what little has–not for the better. Let’s start with winners and losers. Losers: Bibi big time. L ...
  • Dirty Tricks Israel-Style: Knesset Elections C ...
    Activists associated with the Eretz Chadasha party, about whom I’ve been posting over the past week, have just told me about a new and outrageous development in today’s election, for which polling began a few hours ago.  Voters in communities including Holon, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and ...
  • Panic in Likud at Party’s Freefall in Internal ...
    The Likud Party house organ, Yisrael HaYom, has a headline this morning (Israel time) showing Likud-Beitenu in a panic as internal party polls show it falling to either 31 or 29 seats (depending on the poll).  In an appeal to voters to renounce the party’s main rival, Bayit Yehudi, the hea ...
  • New Election Poll Forecasts Likud Implosion, S ...
    I’ve been forwarded results of a new Israeli election poll compiled over the past few hours.  I know the pollster’s name, though I can’t name it.  It’s one of Israel’s most reputable.  I don’t have physical possession of the actual poll.  If the poll is accura ...
  • מפלגת הצדק החברתי, ארץ חדשה, עומדת להשיג בכנסת ...
    אזרחי ישראל יצביעו מחר בבחירות לכנסת החדשה. מאמרים בעיתונים כמו “הארץ”  עודדו ישראלים להצביע. חברי בישראל אשר שותפים לדעותיי הפוליטיות מנהלים מסע שכנוע על גבי דפי הפייסבוק וחשבונות הטוייטר, מדרבנים את כותביהם לא להתייאש מההליך הדמוקרטי, לא לתת לרעים לנצח. ליבי איתם, באמת ובתמים. אך ה ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Making Digital Security a Priority for Journalists
    What do you do when you know, going into your project, that it's a losing battle -- one that journalists will not win? My yearlong mission as a Stanford Knight Journalism Fellow is to try to come up with solutions to improve journalists' digital security. The project was born from personal ex ...
  • Capturing the Presidential Inauguration from Space
    If it's a clear day on Monday, GeoEye's satellites will capture incredible imagery of President Obama's second Inauguration and make them available for use by members of the media. These images will be transmitted back to Earth in near real-time and, expanding from GeoEye's approach for the 2009 ...
  • Making Mapping Easy: A New Editor for OpenStre ...
    2012 was the year in which a wide audience began to understand the process behind making maps -- and that it's a massive, global effort in the pursuit of better and more complete map data. OpenStreetMap, a collaborative, open data process for making maps, has continued its fast growth last year ...
  • Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust
    The planets have finally aligned on one of my early assignments at The Boston Globe. The project is called Quizzler, and it is by no means going to change anything. It's a quiz system -- something the producers ultimately want because it will generate page views. It has been done. This post ...
  • Innovative Journalism Projects from 2012 That ...
    This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. While the Knight Lab spent last week looking back at 2012, what we're really excited about is 2013 and beyond. Nieman Journalism Lab has a whole series on what to look for ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Inside Israel - Possible Election Upset Signal ...
    Yair Lapid the new prime minister? What seemed absurd two days ago is now a remote possibility. There is the chance that Israel's president, Shimon Peres, might turn to the former television journalist to form the next governing coalition. His Yesh Atid party garnered 19 votes in Tuesday's elect ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - A Pattern of Deception ...
    The gruesome murders of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and 3 other Americans at the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya have deservedly attracted much attention. But it is the latest, not the first, in a pattern of disregard for the safety of American diplomats as is evidenced in other African diplo ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Clinton Admits Benghaz ...
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says last September's attack on the U.S. mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi is part of wider terrorist insecurity across North Africa. Clinton made the remarks during testimony Wednesday before Congress on the attack that killed four Americans, includi ...
  • Edge of Climate Change - Water Source for Mill ...
    Glaciers in the tropical Andes have been retreating at increasing rate since the 1970s, scientists write in the most comprehensive review to date of Andean glacier observations. The researchers blame the melting on rising temperatures as the region has warmed about 0.7°C over the past 50 years ...
  • Inside Israel - What Does Lapid Think About Je ...
    The big surprise of Israel's elections is the rise of Yair Lapid's "Yesh Atid" (There is a future) party, which received 19 seats in the upcoming 19th Knesset. The second biggest party after the Likud, it is presumed that Lapid will join Netanyahu's next government as a senior partner. As a larg ...

High Country News

  • Oil boom spurs a rush on extractive education ...
    As production from unconventional reserves ramps up, students are flooding into university and technical programs supporting oil and gas development.
  • My low-impact life
    In a quest to save money while going to school in pricy Bozeman, Mont., the author built himself a tiny cabin behind a junkyard. He's still there today.
  • A field program teaches undergrads to think di ...
    Whitman College's Semester in the West and similar programs strive to make students think about resource issues critically and compassionately, and often change their lives in the process.
  • How Outward Bound lost, and found, itself
    The original outdoor education school came close to falling apart after consolidating into a single national school. Now, its newly separate branches are thriving and redefining themselves.
  • Oil and gas companies pour money into research ...
    In the midst of the nation’s current oil and gas frenzy and controversies over fracking, energy company contributions to schools are raising questions about academic integrity.

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • Yes Hilary-- Lying Makes a HUGE Difference
    In one of her final acts as Barack Obama's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in front of the Senate regarding Benghazi this morning (the house gets it's opportunity this afternoon). Perhaps the most dramatic part of her testimony was when she was confronted by Senator Ron Johnson rega ...
  • Feb. 23rd 2013 Will Be a Day of Resistance
     Cross-posted from Right Wing News By John Hawkins “The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.” — Thomas Jefferson Yes, Barack Obama did beat Mitt Romney in 2012. But, he was reelected as P ...
  • Israel Has Voted: Now The REAL Politics Begin
    The media will tell you that Israelis have voted, the election is over and Bibi Netanyahu has been reelected by a small margin to his third term as prime minister---100% true and 100% useless.  In Israel the election is just one part of the political process, as of today the politics truly ...
  • Happy 7th Blogiversary To Me ....
    Tomorrow January 23rd is the 7th anniversary of the first time I posted here at The Lid (that's 49 in dog years). Back then it was called Yidwithlid and instead of Jeff Dunetz I used a pseudonym Sammy Benoit.  Eventually I discovered  Yidwithlid said to potential readers that only Jewi ...
  • Americans For A Strong Defense Launches Anti-H ...
    Objections the the Hagel nomination continue to build. The latest comes from the group called Americans For A Strong Defense, they have launched a multi-state campaign urging residents to call their Senator to oppose the nomination of Chuck Hagel to Sec. of Defense.  While Americans ...

The Real Agenda

  • Hillary Clinton takes the blame on Benghazi in ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 23, 2013 United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on took full responsibility on Wednesday for the attack that killed 11 people, including the U.S. Ambassador in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last September 11. Clinton appeared at a ...
  • Terrorists in Argelia same as the ones who opp ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 23, 2013 Some Egyptians who participated in the mass kidnapping of a gas plant in Algeria last week also participated in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed four diplomats, as reported Tuesday by the New York Times, whose ...
  • European Food Safety Authority identifies toxi ...
    Presence of segments of Gene VI create proteins that are deadly to humans. By SEAN POULTER | MAIL ONLINE | JANUARY 23, 2013 A virus gene that could be poisonous to humans has been missed when GM food crops have been assessed for safety. GM crops such as corn and soya, which are being g ...
  • World Economic Forum calls for Sustainability ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 22, 2013 It seems that sustainability is a concept that is not applicable to money and debt. As the World Economic Forum begins in Davos, Switzerland, the first round of speeches has been focused on demanding that the world finances a global ...
  • Extreme Wealth and Inequality are responsible ...
    Annual income of richest 100 people is enough to end global poverty four times over, says report. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 21, 2013 Like it or not, money talks and the more concentrated money and power are, the more concentrated wealth and poverty are. The issue is n ...

Wind Watch

  • Feds decide Goodhue County wind project’ ...
    A bitterly contested wind farm proposed for Goodhue County got the go-ahead Wednesday to pursue a permit that would allow it to legally kill or injure eagles, in what could be the first case of federal authorities issuing a license to kill the protected national symbol. The 48-turbine project wo ...
  • Some Canadian County residents considering law ...
    Some Canadian County residents are doing everything they can to stop two wind farm projects that would be built near some homes. Residents said they are considering a lawsuit against the company which plans to build 400 turbines on 46,000 acres of private land leased by farmers in Canadian and K ...
  • Vermont League of Cities & Towns: Give towns m ...
    WINDHAM — An ongoing wind turbine debate in the Town of Windham has prompted a statewide organization to rethink its stance on energy projects. The Vermont League of Cities & Towns is asking the state Public Service Board to give local concerns much more weight when considering energy ...
  • Wind developer wants to fast-track PSC approval
    FROSTBURG — Annapolis-based Synergics, developer of the proposed Fourmile Ridge wind project in eastern Garrett County, is seeking fast-track approval from the Maryland Public Service Commission. On Monday, Synergics Wind Energy LLC and Fourmile Wind Energy LLC filed a request for a waiver of a ...
  • Deluge of windfarms causes storm of protest
    The massive increase in windfarm applications across Scotland has sparked a furious public backlash. Nearly 10,000 people across Scotland have objected directly to the Scottish Government about major windfarm applications in the last five years. Figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives sho ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
  • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
    To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...
  • Required reading: How open source makes you better
    In this blog post (Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust), Dan Schultz of The Boston Globe describes what amounts to one of the big reasons why news websites are not as successful as they could be. If you borrow code then you are more likely to be familiar with what the rest of the world is doing. I ...
  • Teaching programming to journalists
    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate journalism course that I will begin teaching in January. I’ve been learning Python and starting to learn about jQuery. I’ve got some advantages: I learned HTML in ...
  • Most-viewed posts in 2012
    According to my WordPress stats, these are the posts with the most pageviews in the past 12 months: Best social media tools for journalists (5,669) Timelines in journalism: A closer look (4,365) A few words about digital audio recorders (3,626) How to shoot video interviews (3,465) 10 Rul ...

Facing South

  • Bank of America returns to the scene of the crime
    The North Carolina-based banking giant, including two companies acquired in 2008, has done so much harm in the mortgage and mortgage-backed securities markets that banishment would be the appropriate punishment -- yet it is taking a new run at the U.S. mortgage business. read more
  • VOICES: Remembering North Carolina's pro-choic ...
    Until recently, North Carolina was recognized as a leader in expanding women's access to abortion care. What happened? read more
  • First gay, Latino inaugural poet speaks of 'On ...
    The poet for President Obama's second inauguration was Richard Blanco, the child of Cuban exiles who was raised in Miami and graduated from Florida International University. Blanco is the first Latino and the first openly gay person to be chosen as the inaugural poet. At 44, he is also the young ...
  • Citizens United at Three: The fight for democr ...
    Besides being Inauguration Day and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, today also marks the three-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision opening the floodgates for political spending -- but also sparking a grassroots movement to take back democracy. read more
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Iraq wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for ...
    Stirling Newberry has up an important piece on how protected works are used to pay for imports. You should read it.  There’s a reason the laws against “piracy” are more punitive than those against, say, negligent murder.
  • Iraq wouldn’t have happened if it weren& ...
    Stirling Newberry has up an important piece on how protected works are used to pay for imports. You should read it.  There’s a reason the laws against “piracy” are more punitive than those against, say, negligent murder.
  • Justice is not Law, Law is Not Justice
    A law is deserving of respect to the extent, and only to the extent, it is just.  A law which is not just deserves only the level of obedience one gives to any group or individual who says “do this, or I’ll hurt you.”  That is, to the extent that you believe their threat is [...]
  • Justice is not Law, Law is Not Justice
    A law is deserving of respect to the extent, and only to the extent, it is just.  A law which is not just deserves only the level of obedience one gives to any group or individual who says “do this, or I’ll hurt you.”  That is, to the extent that you believe their threat is [...]
  • Sweden v. Canada: Taxation and Inequality
    Ok, so Stephen Gordon in MacLeans feels compelled to weigh in on taxes, to suggest that the Nordic countries just redistribute money from the bottom 99% to each other to maintain equality and so Canada should increase its GST and give money to the poor and middle classes. It’s true that No ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Why Republicans Need the Cities
    Republicans took an all around shellacking in the 2012 elections. Part of the reason is that Democrats dominated the cities. President Obama won 69% of the big city vote, according to a New York Times exit poll analysis. Some of this is perhaps on account of the racial makeup of the cities, as b ...
  • Demographic and Economic Challenges: The 9th A ...
    The just released 9th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey (pdf) indicates that housing affordability has deteriorated modestly in the last year. A number of major metropolitan areas remain severely unaffordable. Highlights: Metropolitan Areas Among the 337 Metropolitan markets ...
  • California's Politics of Farce
    Karl Marx wrote, "History repeats ... first as tragedy, then as farce." Nothing better describes how California, with its unmatched natural and human riches, has begun to morph into what the premier California historian Kevin Starr has called "a failed state" – a term ...
  • The New Power Class Who Will Profit From Obama ...
    When President Obama takes the oath of office for the second time, he will also usher in a new era in American power politics. Whereas the old left-wing definition of “who rules” focused on large corporations, banks, energy companies and agribusinesses, the Obama-era power st ...
  • Will Driverless Cars Help us Drive Less?
    The war on automobiles is real. Backed by a legion of city officials, environmentalists, and new urbanists, the argument to mitigate vehicle has so far been an easy sell – at least in planning circles. Their assumptions echo concerns about the trajectory American cities – the downfall of rur ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Tennis: Federer beats Tsonga in five sets
    Roger Federer's trademark poise under pressure has propelled him into his 10th straight Australian Open semi-final after a high-class five-set battle with power-packed Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The athletic Muhammad Ali look-alike went shot for shot with the four-time Open champion throu ...
  • Judge rejects restraining order for Fishb ...
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge refused Wednesday to grant Laurence Fishburne a three-year restraining order against a convicted felon who claims he owns the actor's home. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson said she could not consider Mark Francisco's criminal history and s ...
  • Lautenberg proposes closing 'gun-show loo ...
    Follow @dsherfinski Recent Entries Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg said Wednesday that he has reintroduced legislation to close the "gun-show loophole" that allows private vendors to sell guns without conducting background checks on the purchasers. "Criminals, terrorists, the mentally ill and other ...
  • Mourinho relishing clash with 'fantastic' ...
    The Portuguese also revealed that he was "ready" to take charge of England following his sacking as Chelsea manager, while reiterating his desire to return to the Premier League By Alex Young More On : Man Utd., Real Madrid CF, Sir Alex Ferguson, José Mourinho Comments...
  •   ...
    Posted: January 23, 2013 Injured and angry, tennis pro Serena Williams threw a world class temper tantrum after losing her quarterfinals match in the Australian open to 19-year-old Sloane Stephens, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. The world’s number three ranked woman’s tennis player wasn’t ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Dementia: Snowdrops can fight the condition an ...
    A third of new pharmaceuticals since 2008 originated or were inspired by natural products including flowers, says the Society of Chemical Industry.
  • Row over farm 'double payments'
    Green campaigners are furious at plans that would allow Europe's farmers get two subsidies for one lot of environmental benefits.
  • [Correspondence] Drotrecogin alfa (activated) ...
    Paul Marik's analysis of the three randomised clinical trials of drotrecogin alfa (activated) misses the main point of our study: our aim was to assess the survival outcome associated with the drug in the real-life clinical setting (ie, its effectiveness) and not in the strict randomised clinica ...
  • [Correspondence] Drotrecogin alfa (activated) ...
    In their meta-analysis and metaregression, on activated protein C in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock Kalil and LaRosa draw attention to the difficulties associated with relying solely on randomised clinical trials to make a marketing decision for a drug, especially when the results ...
  • Four-strand DNA structure found in cells
    Unusual nucleic-acid structure may have role in regulating some genes.

Common Dreams

  • New Labor Stats Show Assault on Public Unions ...
    As the Washington Post's Jim Tankersley points out and new data from the US Department of Labor released on Wednesday confirms, the Republican push to destroy public sector unions in the last several years is having its desired effect. ...
  • Google Report Shows 'Disturbing Growth in Gove ...
    Google has released its newest semiannual Transparency Report on Wednesday, which shows a "steady increase in government requests" for user data and marks a "disturbing growth in government surveillance online." read more
  • JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon Spurs Outrage in Davos
    Amid calls for stricter regulations of the banking industry, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon came under fire Wednesday after telling corporate and political leaders at the World Economic Forum that banks had been wrongly "scapegoated" as the cause of the global economic crisis, and resisted ...
  • Eleven EU Nations Take on 'Financial Elite' wi ...
    In a "major milestone in tax history," 11 European countries are taking on the financial industry by agreeing on Tuesday to implement a Robin Hood tax earning potentially billions of euros for a region besotted with economic distress, finally taxing those institutions that created the ...
  • Climate Crisis Pushes Sierra Club to End Civil ...
    After 120 years of advocating on behalf of nature, one of the the nation's largest and oldest environmental organizations—The Sierra Club—has at last decided to end its refusal to participate in acts of civil disobedience. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Western Powers Go Full Retard on Africa, Part ...
    by chycho In Africa, China has been securing access to resources through lucrative trade agreements while Western powers have decided to take the military option to secure their share of the pie. “Across Africa, the red flag of China is flying. Lucrative deals are being struck to buy ...
  • Qatar and U.S.: Collusion or Conflict of Interests
    By Nicola Nasser** In his inaugural address on January 21, U.S. President Barak Obama made the historic announcement that “a decade of war is ending” and declared his country’s determination to “show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peace ...
  • Extreme Wealth vs Global Sharing
    Rajesh Makwana Campaigners have long proposed measures to reduce extreme inequality, but policymakers remain fixated on an economic model that threatens to undermine the fabric of society. When will the political elite heed the growing demands for redistribution that are being voiced in countle ...
  • Four More Years
    by Stephen Lendman Inaugurating US presidents quadrennially reflects institutionalized hypocrisy. On January 20, Obama began term two. After all the harm he caused so many, imagine how much more he plans. He broke every major campaign promise made. He mocks legitimate governance. He ...
  • Goldman, Other Welfare Queens Tell Us Forget S ...
    Michael Collins (Washington, DC 1/21) A long standing Money Party front, the Business Roundtable, wants you to wait until you're 70 years old before you get Social Security and Medicare benefits. This is just a reprise of the November 2012 dictate from the king of corporate cronyism, Goldm ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Our way or the Norway: managing oil wealth in ...
    When it comes to managing oil wealth, Canada has something to learn form our European neighbours. In a new report, CCPA’s Executive Director Bruce Campbell compares the Canada and Alberta experience of managing oil wealth to that of Norway and finds that for too long foreign and d ...
  • Federal Job Cuts and the Atlantic Provinces
    CCPA-NS has released a study that makes projections for federal public sector job losses in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of their impact in the region.  The report, titled “Public Disservice: The Impact of Federal Government Job Cuts in Atlantic Canada,” explains that ...
  • Joel Bakan to speak at the CCPA-BC Annual Gala ...
    We're pleased to announce that author and filmmaker Joel Bakan will be the featured speaker at our Annual Gala. Joel is the author of the widely-acclaimed book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (a companion to the documentary film), and Childhood Under Siege: How Bi ...
  • Interview with Scott Sinclair on trade and Atl ...
    CBC recently interviewed CCPA senior researcher Scott Sinclair about his report, Globalization, Trade Treaties and the Future of the Atlantic Canadian Fisheries. The report raises concerns about the impact trade treaties like CETA could have on the regulation of Atlantic fisheries. Wa ...
  • Executive pay in Canada: Overcompensating?
    For Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs, the rewards start clocking in very early into the New Year.  By 1:18pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s top 100 CEOs will have already pocketed $45,448. It takes the average Canadian an entire year of full-time w ...

World Wide Hippies

  • (Almost) Every Thing You Never Knew About Insu ...
    by Linda Wolf -,CJE - Geico’s gecko promises us lower rates. Allstate has Mayham. State Farm have people who appear when you sing. Nationwide has the “vanishing deductible”. Personally, I really like ‘Flo’ from Progressive. Can all these insurance companies really b ...
  • Ed Beat: A Personal Note; Resistance!, Gran Snark!
    by John Konopak, Ph.D. (LSU, 1989, Education) WWH/CJE +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ Rant: The CorpoRatistas, the Standardistas, the Charteristas are making tortured noises about the condition of Amrica’s public schools, bemoaning the recently released test results whi ...
  • CJE Wednesday News Briefs
    800 children in Europe develop narcolepsy after swine flu vaccine WS – Beats Benadryl and soda before bed. Hundreds of European children have developed the sleep disorder after being vaccinated with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine. 800 children in Europe have developed narcolepsy afte ...
  • Torture Is Trivial Compared to its other crime ...
    by Robert Jensen,commondreams.org – The great American torture debate has been rekindled by the nationwide release of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the hot new movie about the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden. But all the fussing over whether or not the movie condones, glorifies, and/or misrepresents ...
  • Hippie Digest: ’80s music video vixens & ...
    ‘80s music video vixens: Where are they now?  Do you remember where you were on August 1, 1981? That was the birthday of Music Television (MTV) and the beginning era of a string of music videos which starred a bevy of sultry video vixens. In addition to the bands and singers who created th ...

FourWinds10

  • EPA Requiring $85M in Upgrades to Industrial P ...
    Aug. 19, 2012 Read: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/epa-requiring-85m-upgrades-industrial-plants-cut-haze-montana This is complete nonsense!* Haze is not caused solely in MT. You would have to clean up the entire world also and we know that ain't gonna happen.   A good start would be to ...
  • Chemist: Residents near sinkhole already repor ...
    Aug. 23, 2012 COMMENT:  As the severity of this disaster increases, conversely to that, there will be less and less reporting, until finally the entire area will be cordoned off by the military, not unlike the aftermath of the Hurricane Andrew in Florida. If the people in that are ...
  • SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS FACE 6 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ...
    nOV. 13, 2012 San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality. Although residents of the city are forced to drink toxic wast ...
  • DESTROYING PRECIOUS LAND FOR GAS
  • Obama Ignores Huge Dangers In Approving Arctic ...
    Sept. 1, 2012 The Obama administration today gave Shell Oil the initial approval to begin controversial and dangerous oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, despite the fact that a critical oil-spill containment vessel is still awaiting certification in Bellingham, Wash. Until now, the Arc ...

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Amazing Reversal of the US Oil Industry
    Oil production in the US began to rise in 2009, in response to record capital expenditures by oil companies in the face of sharply rising oil prices. The rise has been sustained to the point that production rose all four years of President Obama's first term.
  • Five Energy Predictions for 2013
    Normally when I list the Top 10 stories of the year, I close the post by making predictions for the upcoming year. For 2012, my predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline ...
  • Five Energy Predictions for 2013
    Normally when I list the Top 10 stories of the year, I close the post by making predictions for the upcoming year. For 2012, my predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline ...
  • A Look at DuPont Biofuel’s Work on Cellulosic ...
    Robert Rapier interviewed Mr. Jan Koninckx, global director of biofuels for DuPont Industrial Biosciences regarding DuPont's efforts in 2nd generation biofuels. DuPont is currently engaged in two major projects to commercialize advanced biofuels.
  • A Look at DuPont Biofuel’s Work on Cellulosic ...
    Robert Rapier interviewed Mr. Jan Koninckx, global director of biofuels for DuPont Industrial Biosciences regarding DuPont's efforts in 2nd generation biofuels. DuPont is currently engaged in two major projects to commercialize advanced biofuels.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Healthiest States in the U.S.
    If only getting your health back on track was as simple as moving to a healthier place. The research is certainly out there: People who live in areas with plenty of green plants and trees are happier, and working out in a city could lead to higher inflammation. But when the United Health Founda ...
  • Bee-Killing Pesticide "Unacceptable," Europe Says
    There's no denying it. Pesticides are killing honeybees—industry just doesn't want you to know it. Meanwhile, independent studies have been showing clear links between neonicotinoid pesticides and unprecedented bee die-offs that pose a threat not just to nature, but to the entire food supply, g ...
  • Are You Eating Shady Cereal?
    A new year means a fresh start, and what better place to start fresh than your morning bowl of cereal—the meal that greets many Americans each and every morning. To help increase consumer awareness and hold companies responsible for labeling ingredients, a national coalition has launched "GMO ...
  • The Best New Reason to Plant a Tree
    The benefits of trees are growing. We already know they boost home value by gussying up curb appeal. They serve as beautiful water filters, too, reducing flooding and keeping runoff out of precious water supplies. But it's clear their benefits stretch much farther, though, as evidenced by a new ...
  • 5 Things You Need to Know about the 2013 Flu
    America is engulfed in a sea of influenza, an especially potent viral strain that's sickening people from coast to coast. And America's doctors are making no qualms about it—it's a nasty flu season—one of the worst in years. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows th ...

big think

  • 14 "Carbon Bomb" Projects Will Increase Global ...
    What's the Latest Development? A study commissioned by Greenpeace lists 14 planned fossil-fuel energy projects that, if allowed to proceed, will together increase global carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent, making it even harder to stay within the targeted maximum global temperature i ...
  • Why Do We Crave Out-Of-Body Experiences?
    Eben Alexander, author of the bestseller Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, is only the latest in a long line of historical figures who has argued for the possibility of a disembodied state—that the human ‘soul’ or some such ineffable agent has the ability to leave the ...
  • NIH Advised To Retire Most Research Chimpanzees
    What's the Latest Development? A report released Tuesday by a working group of experts recommended that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) retire all but approximately 50 of 360 research chimpanzees currently owned by the agency, and that they begin planning sanctuary housing "immed ...
  • Kepler Exoplanet Data Now Easily Available To ...
    What's the Latest Development? From now on, all exoplanet sightings by the Kepler observatory will be posted directly online for anyone to see via the new NASA Exoplanet Archive Web site. Previous procedures for posting data required a long planet confirmation process; now, says Kepler t ...
  • Land- And Water-Grabbing Increasing Worldwide
    What's the Latest Development? A study done by the University of Virginia and the Polytechnic University of Milan is the first-ever assessment of efforts by corporations to "grab" land and water in other countries for agricultural use. Sixty-two countries, most of them in Africa and Asia ...

Information Liberation

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
    Last Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart, south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
  • The Liberals Have Taken Over California
    An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
  • The Liberals Have Taken Over California
    An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Deceived Wisdom everywhere
       Deceived Wisdom everywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom everywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • 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 ...
  • 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
    UPDATE: Apparently, research from James Rose and colleagues has demonstrated that actually, fish don’t feel pain in any conscious, meaningful way. Sounds fishy to me… Contrary to the words of Kurt Kobain, it’s probably no longer okay to eat fish because they don’t have an ...
  • Why crustaceans might be feeling crabby
    UPDATE: Apparently, research from James Rose and colleagues has demonstrated that actually, fish don’t feel pain in any conscious, meaningful way. Sounds fishy to me… Contrary to the words of Kurt Kobain, it’s probably no longer okay to eat fish because they don’t have an ...

RFF Library

  • Major Emissions Reduction Performance Gap betw ...
    “Reducing Risk And Driving Business Value” from the Carbon Disclosure Project https://www.cdproject.net/CDPResults/CDP-Supply-Chain-Report-2013.pdf From Executive Summary: A persistent performance gap exists between CDP Supply Chain members and their suppliers This year’s questionnai ...
  • Do Bark Beetle Outbreaks Increase Wildfire Ris ...
    Natural Areas Journal (2013, v33 n1 p59-65; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3375/043.033.0107) / by Scott H. Black, et al. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3375/043.033.0107 [Abstract] Appropriate response to recent, widespread bark beetle (Dendroctonus spp.) outbreaks in the western United States has ...
  • Point of No Return: the Massive Climate Threat ...
    Greenpeace | Ecofys / by Ria Voorhar & Lauri Myllyvirta http://bit.ly/10DB3N7 [Business Green] … Point of No Return study from Greenpeace and Ecofys…analyses the 14 largest fossil fuel projects currently in the planning pipeline around the world, including proposals for gian ...
  • Well-to-wheels Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas E ...
    Environmental Research Letters (2012, v7 n4, p045905 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045905) / by Michael Wang, Jeongwoo Han, Jennifer B Dunn, Hao Cai and Amgad Elgowainy http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/045905/ [Green Car Congress] A new lifecycle analysis of five bioethanol production pathway ...
  • Failure to Act: The Impact of Current Infrastr ...
    American Society of Civil Engineers http://www.asce.org/uploadedFiles/Infrastructure/Failure_to_Act/SCE44%20summary_report_FINAL-hires.pdf [Press Release via Full Text Reports]  ASCE’s Failure to Act economic report series shows the economic consequences of continued underinvestment in our natio ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • Dig Deeper: Pitch an Investigative Story to Th ...
    February 1 deadline for pitches to The Media Co-op Investigative Fund The Media Co-op has broken critical stories and probed issues glossed by the mainstream media.  We've published exposés of unchecked racism in the Canadian milit ...
  • Fewer Affordable Housing Strategies, More Affo ...
    Activists question effectiveness of Community Services proposal Late in 2012, the Department of Community Services announced that it was launching a series of public consultation eve ...
  • Reversing the flow? Quebec says 'no' to tar sa ...
    When Enbridge shelved its Trailbreaker project due to the 2009 economic downturn, Quebecers heard right through the company’s talking points. The Trailbreaker would have reversed the east-to-west flow of the existing Line 9 pipeline ...
  • Atelier 2: Les différents aspects légaux des a ...
    Journée de réflexion sur la violence sexuelle (dans les milieux de mobilisation) Une journée de réflexion sur la violence sexuelle dans les milieux de mobilisation a eu lieu le 8 décembre 2012 dans le but d'organiser une discussion coll ...
  • Alex Hundert, prisonnier du G20, est en isolement
    depuis Guelph ABC traduit de l’anglais par sabotagemedia En date d’aujourd’hui le 17 janvier 2012, Alex Hundert est maintenu depuis six jours en isolement (le trou). Il fait face à des accusations institutionnelles (qui sont différentes des accusations criminelles, mais peuvent ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Israeli elections
    David Seaton's News Links“This is a government that will not be able to make decisions on anything — on the peace process, on equal sharing of the burden or on budgetary matters,” Emmanuel Rosen, a prominent television analyst, said early Wednesday on Channel 10. “The next elections are alrea ...
  • The Inauguration and the Speech
    David Seaton's News LinksI found Obama’s message encouraging, but then again the president always speaks/reads well.His speech was a direct attack on the Reagan revolution and made important social democratic points about solidarity and equality -- health and education -- being directly connecte ...
  • Lance Armstrong: price versus value
    David Seaton's News Links"Any given accumulation of commercial wealth may be indicative, on the one hand, of faithful industries, progressive energies, and productive ingenuities: or, on the other, it may be indicative of mortal luxury, merciless tyranny, ruinous chicanery." John Ruskin (8 Febru ...
  • Democracy in an age of "unhappy capitalism": s ...
    David Seaton's News Links They say that only the good die young.  In the short time he lived, it was given to Aaron Swartz to define the principal problem facing public life in the United States of America: If it was conventional wisdom that a bunch of unelected bankers looking out for rich ...
  • Whither Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksThe demographic shift evident in the last election and the growing estrangement of the aspirational middle class from the super rich and a general disenchantment with the "conservative revolution" is offering the president-elect some interesting opportunities. However it ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Republicans Are Not Being Cynical Enough in Th ...
    Virginia Republicans, last seen ramming through a quick mid-decade redistricting plan while a Democratic state senator's attendance at Monday's inaugural ceremonies gave them a one-seat majority for a few hours, are now busily in the process of changing the way they allocate electoral votes. U ...
  • Yet More on Government Spending Levels
    Last night I posted a chart showing government expenditures per capita over the past two decades. I guess somebody must have linked to it, because my Twitter stream is suddenly full of conservatives claiming that it's all a fake because I showed total government spending (state+local+federal) ...
  • Hillary Clinton Treats John McCain With Exactl ...
    Dave Weigel describes the GOP approach to Hillary Clinton's long-awaited testimony on the Benghazi attacks: Watching it, I'm struck by the division between two kinds of Republicans. Group One has questions about the timing of the Benghazi attack, what the State Department could have done t ...
  • Can I Donate Money Anonymously on the Internet?
    OK, hivemind, here's a question for you: is it possible to donate money anonymously other than by sending wads of cash to people? I sometimes want to contribute to a cause without having my name attached, either because I don't want to be put on an eternal mailing list for further donations or ...
  • Raw Data: The Union Premium
    The Department of Labor released its latest report on union membership today, and it's no surprise that private sector union membership continued its long-term decline, down from 6.9 percent last year to 6.6 percent this year. To give you an idea of what this means in real-life terms, here's t ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 376: Hulkamania
    Topic: America is ruining football 8 hours of pregame show Lingerie Football loses the lingerie XFL = What if Twitter Fans ran football The good ole days of Professional wrestling What happened to Hulk Hogan? Professional wrestling porn Obama’s 2nd Inauguration Algeria doesn’t negoti ...
  • IC 375: Young C Murda Jr
    Topic: Gotta have a little “ism” in you Using disrespectful words Kev tells an infidelity story Worst.Friend.Ever Carl Jr. is awesome Kriss doesn’t fuck with Obama anymore Working on the Enterprise actually sucks Higher body count: Picard or Kirk Herschel Walker = old man stren ...
  • IC 374: #SoftC-erved
    Topic: #softc lame niggas still mad When the lights come on the roaches scatter Karma’s a bitch You’re not really about that life Where Michael Cane Tears rank Being Human comes back SyFy wins but we need more space based SciFi Ben Affleck could direct Batman Hot Indian chicks are li ...
  • IC 373: As Useful As Aquaman
    Topic: Being Lame on the Internet “Caping” for friends isn’t a bad thing Nerds & Geeks can be the worst lames on the Internet No one wants to be a nerd How Joe lost on Catfish Casting for Batman “As Useful As Aquaman” Why the Oscars are worthless Leonardo DiCap ...
  • IC 372: 2013 Pet Peeves
    Topic: First show of 2013 and Kriss & Kev are joined by Karen from The Black Guy Who Tips. They discuss their Pet Peeves that they aren’t putting up with in 2013. Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Temperature cuts swathe through Australian seaweed
    A record heatwave in 2011 completely killed off a seaweed species in one bay and over 1/20 of the area it covers worldwide, finds Dan Smale of the University of Western Australia
  • Delays raise emission halt urgency
    Staying under the 2°C warming target demands a serious action rethink, find Steve Davis at University of California, Irvine and team-mates, after updating a method that breaks down the steps needed into “wedges”.
  • Climate limits room at the global dinner table
    With farming producing up to one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and more people wanting more meat, agricultural research faces big challenges to avoid us having to make more difficult choices about what we eat.
  • Warming brings home the value of a meal
    Research into how climate change affects agriculture, and therefore the food we eat, shows the challenges farmers face and the knock-on costs to the rest of us.
  • 2012’s record events put climate in mind
    Wet summers and droughts, deadly storms, Arctic melting and Antarctic freezing. How do climate records in 2012 fit in with the broader picture of climate change?

e!Science News

  • Motion control keeps electric car's 4 wheels - ...
    It weighs half as much as a sports car, and turns on a dime -- so its no surprise that the electric car being developed at Ohio State University needs an exceptional traction and motion control system to keep it on the road. read more
  • Modifications of a nanoparticle can change che ...
    Researchers at Syracuse University's Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are studying the toxicity of commonly used nanoparticles, particles up to one million times smaller than a millimeter that could potentially penetrate ...
  • Controlled crumpling of graphene forms artific ...
    Duke University engineers are layering atom-thick lattices of carbon with polymers to create unique materials with a broad range of applications, including artificial muscles. read more
  • Household chores: Gender equality's final frontier
    Working-class couples that buck convention and live together rather than marry take on traditional roles when it comes to housework, according to a new study by a Cornell University sociologist. read more
  • Space instrument adds big piece to the solar c ...
    The Sun's visible surface, or photosphere, is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. As you move outward from it, you pass through a tenuous layer of hot, ionized gas or plasma called the corona. The corona is familiar to anyone who has seen a total solar eclipse, since it glimmers ghostly white around the ...

unEarthed

  • Tr-Ash Talk: Bullying the Messenger, Burying t ...
    GOP sponsors press CRS to change its unfavorable report on coal ash bills Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) The Congressional Research Service, the non-partisan resea ...
  • President Obama Must Lead on Climate Change
    The silence is broken, now is the time to act On Monday, President Obama’s inauguration will officially mark the beginning of his second term, and with it ...
  • Going to Extremes In Arctic: Is it Worth It?
    Industry not ready for offshore drilling in treacherous waters Shell drill rig grounded near Kokiak Island. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Painter) ...
  • Journalists Expose Fracking Cover Up
    Earthjustice attorneys in court to expose industry secrets Tap water is lit on fire, as seen in the fracking documentary Gasland. New uncovered documents show ...
  • Journalists Expose Fracking Cover Up
    Earthjustice attorneys in court to expose industry secrets Tap water is lit on fire, as seen in the fracking documentary Gasland. New uncovered documents show ...

Brave New Climate

  • Zero emission synfuel from seawater
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...
  • Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
    As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear. W ...
  • 2012 BNC stats in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. (Note: about mid-way through the year, the site closed WP comments and moved them to the BNC Forums – this led to a redirection of many pageviews to the new site). Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tour ...
  • Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...
    The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...
  • CSIRO Energy Future 2050 tool
    CSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Republicans Want To Screw More People Out Of T ...
    Since fewer and fewer people are willing to vote for Republicans for president the Republicans have a plan. Since Republicans  have drawn districts where they control the state even though more people vote for democrats, they want to change the electoral map. They want to keep Texas the same, bu ...
  • Hey Debt Ceiling Traitors
    We don’t have to raise the debt ceiling. All we have to do is tax billionaires at the same rate of the middle class, and we would have a budget surplus. That’s right. Surplus, without having to starve granny, or refuse medical care to babies. Then we could tax corporations at the eff ...
  • Worried About The Deficit?
    Maybe we could have some of the Americans that have 8 trillion dollars sitting in the tax havens pay some taxes? You know, the folks that are hoarding all the money their “investments” squeezed out of your family. Remember, for every dollar Mitt Romney pays in taxes, I pay $4, if you ...
  • Poor? Sick? Have Republican Governor? You&#821 ...
    I just don’t understand why the millions of uninsured Americans who can’t afford to see a doctor don’t demand care. They could surround every capitol building in every state with a Republican Terrorist Governor and demand health care. Millions upon millions of Americans are one ...
  • Are You Really A Republican? A Conservative?
    To be a Republican / Conservative these days, you must agree that the following is just fine: A small business owner who makes a fair living will pay taxes at a rate over 4 times as high as wealthy Americans. These small business owners pay both sides of wage withholding taxes soon to equal 15.3 ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
    Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

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

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  • The ethnic vote and the ‘white coalition ...
    Netanyahu is most likely to form his next government around the religious and the secular middle class, represented by election victors Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. The coalition will concentrate on domestic reform and will only strengthen the status quo on the Palestinian issue. Also: Did Is ...
  • A personal account: (Not) voting in an age of ...
    One simple answer to the question of why elections matter is that I feel part of something when I vote in Israel. Being away for four months, living deep inside the world of other peoples’ conflicts, provided a few more answers. For the first time since moving to Israel 15 years ago, I was not [...]
  • A double whammy for American advisers to Israe ...
    Stan Greenberg and Arthur Finkelstein are both architects of two of the biggest election flops Israeli politics has ever seen. First of all, let’s get things straight: these elections results show that the two evils – corporate capitalism and the occupation – will continue to reign s ...
  • Yair Lapid: The rise of the tofu man
    Despite an astonishing surge to second place in the polls, chances of Yair Lapid making  an actual premiership bid are slim. He is risk-averse, lacks a political program, and his projected coalition is too fanciful to work. Lapid is much likelier to join Netanyahu’s next government, and th ...
  • Will surprising results stop a status-quo Neta ...
    Despite the surprising weakness of the Right-ultra-Orthodox bloc, the final result of the elections, according to exit polls, is still likely to be a status-quo Netanyahu-led government. Why? Because the big winner in this election, media personality Yair Lapid, is a vapid centrist who is likely ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • BOOM! FORECLOSURE SUMMARY JUDGMENT REVERSED- F ...
    Therefore, an issue of fact remains as to whether the bank fulfilled the condition precedent to foreclose the mortgage. Because a material issue of fact remains, we reverse the summary judgment and remand for further proceedings.
  • FRONTLINE ON PBS: HOW WALL STREET AVOIDED PROS ...
    The mainstream press fails to report anything meaningful.  It’s now nearly entirely garbage, propaganda and delusions. Only alternative press reports on the reality of America and Frontline is doing some of the best reporting. CLICK ON HERE TO SEE THIS STORY LIVE Scridb filter
  • The California Bar Association: First Thing We ...
    In an unprecedented move that can only be described as stunning ignorance, the California State Bar recently released a legal opinion that will effectively deny legal representation to millions of homeowners faced with foreclosure. The controversy is around SB-94, a law put into effect in 2009 t ...
  • UNTOUCHABLES- HOW WALL STREET WALKED FROM THE ...
    The criminal masterminds that destroyed this world’s economy continue to live lives of privilege and prestige….meanwhile everyday Americans suffer…like Aaron Swartz…. WATCH PBS HERE     Scridb filter
  • Running The Sahara- An Amazing Story of Inspir ...
    Running two marathons, 52 miles a day for 100 days, a total of more than 4000 miles. Across the Sahara Desert.  What an inspiration.  What a story.  But this heroic journey turned into a nightmare for one of its warriors, when he was sent to prison for mortgage fraud. AsRead the Rest...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Knowing for the First Time
    It was T. S. Eliot who provided one of my favourite quotes of all time: We shall not cease from …Continue reading »
  • Humanity Paired
    Tomorrow the next chapter of the adventure begins. Our life with south Sudan was irrevocably joined together, not by choice …Continue reading »
  • Home, But Not Alone
    On Saturday we leave for our big excursion to the Republic of South Sudan.  We take a team of 16 …Continue reading »
  • How Was 2012 For Women?
    My new Huffington Post piece on how women fared globally and in Canada in 2012. huff.to/UDkrBq Filed under: Citizenship, Politics, …Continue reading »
  • Goodwill Hunting
    And on earth, peace to those of goodwill … Luke 2:14 Today I turn 62. A birthday is always a …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
  • Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
    Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
  • Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
    August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
  • Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
    by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
  • A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
    By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...

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.

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Consumerist

  • McDonald’s Apparently Hitching Its Wagon ...
    How do you keep profits from sinking? With buckets of fried fish bites, if you’re McDonald’s and looking for a quick boost to the menu. The company is reportedly angling for its Fish McBites to take on the role of sales star after the McRib performed that task last quarter. The fish ...
  • I Use Facebook To Check On My Monitor Repair, ...
    Graeme has two Samsung monitors, and has had them repaired under warranty a few times. Two years into his three-year warranty, he sent a monitor that snapped off its stand in for repair. Not terribly worried, he checked in on it using Facebook. Samsung took this as an indication that he was unha ...
  • Papa John’s Worker Talks Would-Be Robber ...
    Just a couple days ago, we told you about the Starbucks barista who talked a would-be robber into accepting just a free cup of coffee for his efforts. Now comes the story of a Montana man who walked into a Papa John’s intent on robbing the place and left, in tears, only holding a pizza. A ...
  • Can The Auto Insurance Model Work For Employer ...
    With most people with employer-sponsored insurance plans, an employee who never visits the doctor pays the same premium as her co-worker who is a regular in his doctor’s waiting room. But what about plans that either reward an employee’s healthy behavior or penalize those with risky ...
  • Mother Probably Less Concerned With Size Of Su ...
    Today’s news is all shards and we haven’t stopped cringing: First it was the potential for metal shards in pizza and now a mother is claiming her three-year-old daughter ate pieces of glass that were allegedly inside her Subway sandwich. Kinda makes all those complaints of 11-inch Fo ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Honoring CIA/Torture Whistleblower Kiriakou To ...
    Politico: Feds Dispute CIA Leakers Contrition Federal prosecutors continue to claim that CIA/Torture whistleblower and GAP client John Kiriakou falsely claims to be a whistleblower. This piece from On The Media last week, featuring journalist Ted Gup, also addressed Kiriakou's disclos ...
  • Honoring CIA/Torture Whistleblower Kiriakou To ...
    DC Event: CIA-Torture Whistleblower Kiriakou to be Honored with Portrait John Kiriakou, CIA/Torture whistleblower & GAP client, will be honored tomorrow night in Washington, DC. The event will unveil a portrait of Kiriakou, the newest edition to the series “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” ...
  • Internal Hanford Document Sounds the Alarm: Da ...
    The Seattle Times: Hanford Official Had Sought Halt to Waste-Treatment Project An internal December memo from a high-level official at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state has been made public. The paper recommends that the plant halt all activities related to its nuclear safety, desi ...
  • DC Event: CIA-Torture Whistleblower Kiriakou t ...
    Dear GAP Supporters: We'd like to invite you to a special event next Wednesday, when CIA/Anti-torture whistleblower and GAP client John Kiriakou will be honored with the unveiling of his portrait! This portrait, the newest edition of prominent artist Robert Shetterly's "Americans Who Tell the T ...
  • Whistleblower Rights Strengthened for Some Uni ...
    A provision in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA 2013) – which was signed into law by President Obama on January 2, 2013 – will strengthen whistleblower rights for U.S. police officers who work in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions. Specifically, all police officer ...

UK Progressive

  • Obama Linking Selma to Stonewall Divides Black ...
    Rev. Irene Monroe President Barack Obama’s inaugural address was the most inclusive speech a president has ever given. It was delivered on the 27th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and the President honored King’s legacy when he eloquently spoke of how the many U.S. libera ...
  • Birth of a Nation – For God’s Sake
    by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall On Thursday (1/16/13) I witnessed the birth of a nation. At 12 noon President Obama greeted Hassan Sheikh Mahamud the newly elected President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, a rebirthed nation – 22 years a failed state. The next hour President Mahamud ...
  • Russia’s Climate Change Quandary
    by Robert Huniker “Today it is not enough to study glaciers, ice sheets and sea ice… Permafrost soil is a very decisive piece of the puzzle in worldwide climate events and there’s no place in the world that it’s so widespread as in Russia.” -(Global Environmental Society)  According to the U.S. ...
  • NRA: Neocons Rule America
    by Carl Matthes On January 16, 2013, all eyes were on President Obama as he announced gun safety proposals by saying, “This is our first task as a society: Keeping our children safe. This is how we will be judged. And their voices should compel us to change.” With those words, the President spok ...
  • The 2nd Inaugural Address of President Barack ...
    Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution.  We affirm the promise of our democracy.  We recall that what bi ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Spiegel speculates on why global warming stalled
    This is one of the best mainstream articles I have seen trying to make sense of the point: Why are we not warming? It is rare to see work that tries to cover this much detail and nuance. The great global warming debate might finally be beginning? GWPF has a translation. Axel Bojanowski has manag ...
  • Coldwave killing people in Russia, Britain, an ...
    If a few weeks of extreme heat suggest CO2 is causing a catastrophe, then don’t a few weeks of Siberian record-breaking cold suggest the opposite?* I bet Siberians would appreciate some global warming this winter. People are dying of cold weather in Ireland, the UK, the US and Russia. Spar ...
  • Tipping Point? Boris Johnson writes bravely &# ...
    Mark the moment. This is unusual. Firstly, it’s not just anyone, but Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, personality, and potential Tory leader in the UK.  (He’s got so much potential several Tories in safe seats have offered to resign to let him run.) Secondly, he’s confident, bra ...
  • Scientists behaving badly — more retra ...
    Who said scientific experts should be trusted? Is corruption endemic? Fully 43% of retractions in the life science and medical research journals are due to fraud or suspected fraud. Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications Ferric C. Fang R. Grant Steen and Arturo ...
  • Whistleblower Science Fraud Site is Shut Down
    I would like to see what was on the Science Fraud site. The only parts left seem eminently admirable. Apparently in just six months, the site received anonymous tips documenting suspicious results in over 300 papers. Some of those papers were subsequently retracted. Wherever there are big dollar ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Giant Sunspot AR1654: Serious Threat
    I said this a few days ago: If sunspot AR1654 sends an X-flare our way, it will still  most likely be one of the hundreds per century that do us and our satellites no harm at all. But because it is a large sunspot, pointing our way soon, then the potential for the next Carrington Event is there. ...
  • Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene
    I’m generally not a fan of theories disguised as fiction, and not a fan of prophecy either (too much to wade through to find anything real, and too hard to determine you have found it). That’s two reasons why Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene is one of the many 2012-related books I failed ...
  • Giant Sunspot on the Horizon
    AR1654 is getting bigger as it turns toward Earth. Not only is the chance of flares increasing, but also the chance of an Earth-directed eruption.This could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet. It is all about potential. While a killer sol ...
  • More Cranial Deformations / Elongated Skulls i ...
    Today I saw a local lad with an earring that made a hole in his ear lobe the size of a 50c piece. But that is today – I doubt that 1000 years ago people would dare to be so different just to make a spectacle of themselves…. “Cranial deformation in Mesoamerican cultures was used to di ...
  • Pane Andov on Failed Predictions
    Pane Andov, from Macedonia, is well known for his extensive presentations within posts at various forums  – I was one of the moderators that let him get away with it, and I saw a presentation he gave in Melbourne a few years back. Like Geryl, he comes across as genuine, but he lacks a BS d ...

Facing South

  • Bank of America returns to the scene of the crime
    The North Carolina-based banking giant, including two companies acquired in 2008, has done so much harm in the mortgage and mortgage-backed securities markets that banishment would be the appropriate punishment -- yet it is taking a new run at the U.S. mortgage business. read more
  • VOICES: Remembering North Carolina's pro-choic ...
    Until recently, North Carolina was recognized as a leader in expanding women's access to abortion care. What happened? read more
  • First gay, Latino inaugural poet speaks of 'On ...
    The poet for President Obama's second inauguration was Richard Blanco, the child of Cuban exiles who was raised in Miami and graduated from Florida International University. Blanco is the first Latino and the first openly gay person to be chosen as the inaugural poet. At 44, he is also the young ...
  • Citizens United at Three: The fight for democr ...
    Besides being Inauguration Day and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, today also marks the three-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision opening the floodgates for political spending -- but also sparking a grassroots movement to take back democracy. read more
  • 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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Aleppo: the Final Test
    The winter examination period had begun at the University of Aleppo and 15 January was its first day. Many of the young men and women set off for their exams with the same well-known and completely understandable mixed feelings of nervousness, but also hope that they would pass the intellectual ...
  • Syria and International Criminal Court
    New Phase of Military and Diplomatic Stand-Off The situation in Syria is evolving according to the most unfavorable scenario. The opposition has met the President Bashar Assad’s proposals for peaceful resolution of the crisis with Aleppo University bomb attacks. Another diplomatic provocation is ...
  • Eurasian Union: Flawed Assertions
    I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. The Eurasian Union has been in the news but somewhat quiet for a long time. Any attempt for Russia (or any country) to raise itself from subjugation in a world ruled by a single “hyper power” is sin to people like US Secretary of State Hillary [...]
  • Lithuania: Stamped Out Truth
    The contemporary Lithuania uses the official interpretation of bloody events that took place in Vilnius on January 13 1991 as an ideological foundation for Russophobia-based confrontation with its eastern neighbor. It says “the Soviet soldiers committed an intentional murder of 13 unarmed people ...
  • The Bared Teeth of the Syrian War: Qatar Feels ...
    The “Arab Spring” instigated by Qatar and its allies in Syria is slowly but surely beginning to subside, and the real people behind the terrible spectacle known as the “Syrian Revolution” are being mercilessly and cynically exposed. High-ranking officials in Qatar who wis ...

BlogHer

  • The Belly of the Sky: When Children Make You W ...
    I've written before about how being a mom makes you interested in things you never thought you do or say or care about. But this week in parenting elevated that to a whole new level. A RHYMING level. Like many writers-to-be, I had my adolescent spate with poetry in high school (that's not my en ...
  • It's My Dinner and I'll Take a Photo If I Want To
    Clogging your friends’ Instagram feed with food photos may only be rivaled by too many tweets about baby vomit as the most irritating act on social media. (I’m guilty of both.) But are so many people taking photos in restaurants these days that food photography should be banned from them? The Ne ...
  • Leon Panetta: Women Now (Officially) Allowed i ...
    Women will now be able to serve in combat—and be recognized for doing so. According to the Associated Press, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is lifting the ban on women in combat. Panetta’s announcement seems to signal that he’s going out with a bang, as the Secretary of Defense is expected t ...
  • Differing Advice for a Mom Who Is Depressed
    Editor's Note: We talk lots about postpartum depression, how to spot it and what to do about it. But what about when a mom is depressed and it's not PPD, like Mother of Ambition recently shared. In her sharing, she received a lot of and varied advice. The question comes back to: What is a mom wh ...
  • Academy Awards: Not for Geeks?
    Scifi, comics, video games: they are all being taking out of the geeky universe and made into major Hollywood movies. They are bringing in major millions from the fans, but getting no major awards from the Academy Awards. Here's a look from Elizabeth Giorgi at The Mary Sue that will give you sta ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Regular Aspirin Use Linked to Increased Risk o ...
    Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obe ...
  • Cleaning products ‘linked to adult asthm ...
    People who work with cleaning products risk developing asthma, believe UK experts who have explored the link. Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one ... Related posts:Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Earl ...
  • Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
    Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...
  • New Treatment Could Combat Deadly Chemical Agents
    An enzyme treatment which could neutralise the effects of lethal chemicals responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the world has been developed by experts at the University of Sheffield. Organophosphorus agents ... Related posts:Coconut Oil Could Co ...
  • Tell FDA Not to Approve Genetically Engineered ...
    Target: Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Goal: To stop the FDA’s approval of genetically engineered salmon. The Food and Drug Administration has recently stated that genetically modified salmon is an unlikely environmental ... Related ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Activists take their message to Arch Coal HQ
    The Gazette’s Dr. Paul Nyden had the story this morning about seven anti-mountaintop removal activists who took their protest against the practice to Arch Coal’s corporate headquarters in St. Louis: Seven people, including at least one West Virginian, locked themselves to a 500-pound ...
  • What will Obama’s 2nd term bring for coa ...
    President Barack Obama receives the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts as first lady Michelle Obama (L-R) and his daughters Malia and Sasha listen at the ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Pho ...
  • Taking the ‘comprehensive’ out of ...
    West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tombin, a Democrat, laughs as he delivers his inauguration speech on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, in Charleston, W.Va. This is Tomblin’s second term in office. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder) We’ve written before on this blog about how Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s ...
  • Remembering the Aracoma Mine Fire
    Aracoma coal miner Billy Mayhorn is greeted by his wife, Sharon, late Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006, in Melville, W.Va. Mayhorn was one of 19 miners who escaped after a fire broke out on a conveyor belt at the Alma No. 1 Mine.   AP Photo/The Logan Banner, Jerry Fekete My thoughts today are with the fa ...
  • Friday roundup, Jan. 18, 2013
      Gary May, former UBB mine superintendent walks away from the U.S. District Court in Beckley Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 with his attorney, Tim Carrico, after his sentence hearing. May was sentenced to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Judge Irene Berger also ordered t ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Bird Flu Story Epidemic Imminent
    All the early indicators are that this season stories about Bird Flu will wipe out millions of other news items. We are especially concerned about the vulnerability of the young and old stories in our communities, and those already compromised by poor immunity to public indifference. Thousands o ...
  • Stylometry
    “Your writing style can give you away and on the internet anonymity is difficult to achieve,” say the US researchers who have developed online tools to analyse writing. Advertisement The researchers, from Drexel University in Philadelphia, studied the leaked conversations ...
  • A List of Things to Know About San Francisco & ...
    I moved to San Francisco 9 months ago from the East Coast bastion of Boston. Despite having experience living in a major US city, I found quite a few surprises coming here.  Some have been great, while others not so much. If you’re planning the move here, I hope this will help you know bet ...
  • Software Development as a Cooperative Game &#1 ...
    Software development is a cooperative game, in which people use markers and props to inform, remind and inspire themselves and each other in getting to the next move in the game. The endpoint of the game is an operating software system; the residue of the game is a set of markers to inform and a ...
  • Simple Math Behind Early Retirement | Mr. ...
    The most important thing to note is that cutting your spending rate is much more powerful than increasing your income. The reason is that every permanent drop in your spending has a double effect: via mrmoneymustache.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ...

Fitwatch

  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
    Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
    Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • (Almost) Every Thing You Never Knew About Insu ...
    by Linda Wolf -,CJE - Geico’s gecko promises us lower rates. Allstate has Mayham. State Farm have people who appear when you sing. Nationwide has the “vanishing deductible”. Personally, I really like ‘Flo’ from Progressive. Can all these insurance companies really b ...
  • Ed Beat: A Personal Note; Resistance!, Gran Snark!
    by John Konopak, Ph.D. (LSU, 1989, Education) WWH/CJE +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ Rant: The CorpoRatistas, the Standardistas, the Charteristas are making tortured noises about the condition of Amrica’s public schools, bemoaning the recently released test results whi ...
  • CJE Wednesday News Briefs
    800 children in Europe develop narcolepsy after swine flu vaccine WS – Beats Benadryl and soda before bed. Hundreds of European children have developed the sleep disorder after being vaccinated with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine. 800 children in Europe have developed narcolepsy afte ...
  • Torture Is Trivial Compared to its other crime ...
    by Robert Jensen,commondreams.org – The great American torture debate has been rekindled by the nationwide release of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the hot new movie about the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden. But all the fussing over whether or not the movie condones, glorifies, and/or misrepresents ...
  • Hippie Digest: ’80s music video vixens & ...
    ‘80s music video vixens: Where are they now?  Do you remember where you were on August 1, 1981? That was the birthday of Music Television (MTV) and the beginning era of a string of music videos which starred a bevy of sultry video vixens. In addition to the bands and singers who created th ...

reference frame

  • Medical literature: do wrong results prevail?
    The Physics arXiv Blog wrote a comprehensible review of a new paper, Empirical estimates suggest most published medical research is true, which studies the same question as the 2005 paper by John Ioannidis that claimed that most published biomedical results are wrong – false positives. ...
  • Are slow quantum computers needed to demolish ...
    Today, the black hole firewall saga continues with two new preprints: Quantum Computation vs. Firewalls by Harlow, Hayden Black Hole Complementarity and the Harlow-Hayden Conjecture by Susskind They are the first two papers on hep-th, rather clearly signalling that the authors consider the ...
  • Slovak CIA spy caught in Iran
    Communicating scientific secrets? Hunter in trap Four days ago, TV viewers in Iran could have seen this dramatic 20-minute James-Bond-like report (that partly resembles the Czechoslovak communist sitcom, Thirty Cases of Major Zeman): The hero of this video is Mr Matej Valúch, a 2 ...
  • Lasers: Star Trek's tractor beam tugs particle ...
    Discovery News and others (especially Czech media) didn't overlook an interesting experiment in the Czech Republic – the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno, the country's second largest city (team led by Dr Pavel Zemánek) – that has made some Star Trek d ...
  • Statistics, laymen, and shuffling cards
    On Sunday, we usually spend hours by playing Canasta, a card game, in a broader family. Most typically, there are 2 teams with 2 players each (the composition of the team may change during the tournament which consists of something like 25 games per afternoon). Sometimes men win ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • David Seaman: The System is Rigged
    from BreakingTheSet: Abby Martin talks to journalist and former congressional candidate, David Seaman, about the inauguration, why he withdrew his candidacy, public sentiment of the US congress and the NDAA. SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty ...
  • Jon Nadler, Ultimate Shill? Here’s His Take On ...
    from KitcoNews: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Confluence: Cup & Handle Pattern + Elliott Wave Principle — What It Signals for Gold: Chart This! from KitcoNews: SGTreport – The Corporate Propag ...
  • Harper, McGuinty pledge $34M for Canadian-made ...
    The federal government and Ontario are providing up to $ 34 million to Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada to produce a hybrid car built in Ontario. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Toyota recalls 7.4 million vehicles worldwide Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 7.43 million vehicles wo ...
  • The Hipster Techie Mental Map
    Washington D.C. is not even on the Hipster Techie mental map. by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds: We all have inner maps that assign awareness, priority and importance to geographic features. For those who work inside the Beltway, Washington D.C. dominates their mental map of the world. Residen ...
  • Revealed: An Inside Look at Ron Paul’s Portfolio
    from Wealth Wire: Ron Paul is a lot like licorice; not everyone likes him, but the ones who do really like him. The former Texas congressman built his reputation and loyal following by taking strong positions on a number of controversial issues. The first is his desire to audit and eliminate the ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Study Links Hair Products to Early Puberty in ...
    By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow As a child, one of my least favorite activities was getting my hair styled. It required a lot of time and patience -- two things I had in short supply.  Being raised... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
  • Parkinson's and Pesticides
    By Alex Formuzis, VP of Media Relations Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook often points out that many pesticides that were once liberally sprayed on food crops and considered perfectly safe turn out to be anything but - after... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
  • ChiTrib Finds Toxic Fire Retardant in Crib Mat ...
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst The Chicago Tribune reports it has detected cancer-causing chemicals known as chlorinated tris in 11 crib mattresses made in China and sold by Babies R Us, Foundations and Angeles brands. None of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  • Cleaning Never Tasted So Good
    By Samara Geller, EWG Research Fellow Olive oil and lemon juice,...sounds like a base for a fantastic vinaigrette, right? As a former professional chef, I always keep these simple ingredients stocked to create a variety of tasty sauces, dressings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • 10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
    The top environmental health stories of 2012 were all about everyday hazards that are right in our backyards. They have to do with the unintended consequences of chemical pollution that could harm the health of our families, our neighbors,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Munch celebration gets underway
    After months, even years, of planning, quarreling and funding worries, Norway’s cultural elite gathered in Oslo Wednesday to kick off a year of celebrations to mark the 150th birthday of the country’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch. King Harald was among those attending the festivi ...
  • Multinational firms avoid paying tax
    Many multinational corporations operating in Norway have been avoiding paying taxes by using creative accounting and loopholes in the tax system. Norwegian politicians are calling for tighter rules and a revision of tax laws to plug the holes. They’re calling such behaviour by foreign comp ...
  • Questions raised over Statoil’s risk
    Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil underestimated the risk of operating in Algeria, claims a former Statoil board member. His claim, made a week after terrorists attacked an Algerian gas plant partly operated by Statoil, raises questions over the company’s risk disclosure, while oth ...
  • Norwegians urged to stop bragging
    So much for Norwegian modesty: New research shows that Norwegians are now seen as bragging about their affluence, strong currency and lifestyle so much that their Nordic neighbours want them to shut up and calm down. Norwegians have generally been viewed as humble and modest folks who like a sim ...
  • Government split over aid to Mali
    Norway’s coalition government is by no means united on a proposal to send Norwegian troops to Mali, to help allies fend off an Islamist insurgency. While government ministers from the dominant Labour Party are considering joining the French-led military effort, their partners are skeptical ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Integrating Livestock in the Food Forest
    Cattle grazing under alder in silvopasture system at Las Canadas, Huatusco, Mexico Integrating livestock seems to be the best way to have a larger-scale food forest (anything over one hectare or a couple of acres). If done properly, livestock integration can greatly reduce labor and fossil f ...
  • Laikipia Permaculture Centre – a New Centre fo ...
    PRI Kenya starts the Laikipia Permaculture Centre, with the theme: Permaculture for Food Security and Environmental Sustainability in Kenya. School children using most of their time fetching firewood from great distances Location: Laikipia County, North of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya By ...
  • Australian Regulators Urged to Check Poison Th ...
    by Safe Food Foundation Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Australian food regulators are being urged to investigate alarming reports from Europe that GM crops worldwide may contain a gene that is potentially poisonous to humans. A study by the EU’s official food watchdog – the Euro ...
  • Food For Thought – Permaculture in Schools (So ...
    Watch the video above, and be inspired. I suspect that if many of our schools had been incorporating this kind of permaculture education over the last few decades, the world would today be in a far better situation, as many of the adults and young adults of the present generation would now alre ...
  • Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Com ...
    by Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson. Originally published on Independent Science News. Cauliflower Mosaic Virus How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty yea ...

Pointman's

  • On climate science and all those leaks.
    Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of substantial leaks of sensitive material from deep within the very heart of climate science. In each case, it’s been fairly obvious that the person doing it works in the field and is relatively senior, if only because they have access to ...
  • The shape of things to come; Snailbats, HALsay ...
    Environmental alarmism is by now a well established phenomenon with nearly a four decade long history. In that time, we’ve been on the receiving end of doomsday predictions as diverse as holes in the ozone layer, overpopulation, resource wars, acid rain, a new ice age and the most successf ...
  • Another whopping leak from the IPCC.
    A substantial second leak, already nicknamed the Secret Santa leak, of further portions of the forthcoming IPCC AR5 has just occurred. There was a smaller leak of material last year, which was owned up to by the person who did it on their blog. While everyone is no doubt considering how on Earth ...
  • Credo.
    It seems to be a human need that we all have to have some sort of belief in a higher thing. Every culture that’s ever been, had some sort of belief system. I think it’s an unavoidable side effect of our unique consciousness. The people I’ve met, who ended up believing in absolu ...
  • Ladiees and Gennulmen, we have a winnah!
    It’s time to announce the winner of this year’s climate prat award and boy was the competition a doozie. Talk about a rush. It had everything; a bewildering variety of prats to choose from, agonies of indecision having to cull all the nominees down to finalists, rule changes when non ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • How NOT to be a Gentrifier With Your Theater: ...
    New Orleans has seen a recent theatre resurgence. Below is a critical perspective on this wave of new theatre from educator and writer Catherine Michna, reprinted from her local blog catherinemichna.wordpress.com. I spent this past weekend at the Network of Ensemble Theater’s MicroFest in New O ...
  • Women With A Vision, Recovering From Arson, Pu ...
    Women With A Vision, a community-based non-profit founded by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color, has just made a downpayment on a building in Midcity New Orleans. The Vision House will enable the organization to co ...
  • Turning Problems Into Parades, By Nick Slie
    This weekend is MicroFest USA: New Orleans: RENEW. The event is a celebration of the renaissance that has taken place in New Orleans' performance and social justice fields since Hurricane Katrina.  Part festival, part think-tank, part community tour, and part dance party, the all-local prog ...
  • This is Not Theoretical: Reflecting on a Recen ...
    Reposted from our friends at The Oyster Knife. This piece was written after guest contributor Nicky Gillies participated in the NOLA to Angola bike ride, a fundraiser for the Cornerstone Builders’ Bus Project, which helps people in Louisiana travel to visit their incarcerated loved ones.  ...
  • Our People Are Worth the Risks: A Southern Que ...
    Reprinted from the SONG website and from the Scholar & Feminist Online, a webjournal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women:  In the best parts of our tradition as LGBTQ people for liberation, we have resisted assimilation. We have held die-ins, we have risked our li ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Lindsey mp3 link don't workStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:22 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    This is where Gordon's Bluff went on Rinse's show and made these libelous claims about Delaney's sites being ADL, and apparently Fluff has "proof" after tracking them back... http://www.talkshoe.com/resources/talks ... 2.2of3.mp3 http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID ... 4017233338 ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The situation is messed up, but like I said I know who the instigators are.Statistics: Posted by Travis — Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:36 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Instead of attacking the messenger, which is the typical knee-jerk reaction on this forum as of late, why not address the message? Even the Protocols of Zion admit that racial anti-Semitism is useful for the Rabbinate.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:32 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZufw3G931Q Duff openly says he feeds Fetzer, why did Mark have him on, we already knew he was a 911 shill, why give him the publicity Lindsey? Ok they cut him off, but shill Fetzer came from nowhere to being the expert on SH? Re-read 29 pages of resear ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • BPA Alternative Also Disrupts Development At L ...
    A synthetic chemical developed as an alternative to the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA), and now widely used in many products, also disrupts human development at low doses, according to a new study. Created after research indicated potential health risks associated with BPA — a componen ...
  • Interview: Charting a New Course for America a ...
    Time magazine once called him the “ultimate insider,” and indeed Gus Speth has had a long career as an establishment environmentalist. And so it might be Gus Speth surprising that his latest book, America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy, offers a bleak picture of what U.S. envi ...
  • Obama Emphasizes Climate Change Fight In Secon ...
    In his second inaugural address, President Obama prominently cited the need to tackle climate change, a vow Democrats say the president will carry out using his executive powers to bypass Congress. After barely Getty Images President Obama addressing the issue during his reelection camp ...
  • NASA Map Shows Air Pollution Across Asia and t ...
    New satellite data released by NASA provide dramatic visual evidence of the dangerous air quality reported from cities across Asia and the Middle East this month. Click to enlarge NASA Nitrogen dioxide levels, January 2013 Based on data collected from its satellite-based Ozone Monitorin ...
  • Proposed Energy Exploration Sparks Worry on Oc ...
    The Atlantic Canyons off the Northeastern U.S. plunge as deep as 15,000 feet and harbor diverse and fragile marine ecosystems. Now, the Obama administration’s plans to consider offshore oil and gas exploration in the canyons is troubling conservationists. BY PAUL GREENBERG

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Sun News might just get its way
    By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special ...
  • The NHL is back, but I won’t be
    By Montreal Simon A couple of my friends came over this evening to watch the Habs-Leafs game on my big screen TV. And they were surprised to find out that I hadn’t been planning to watch it, until they turned up. And that I wasn’t the least bit excited that the season had finally sta ...
  • An Idle proposal to Canadian journalists: STFU
    By Frank Moher Kevin Newman’s interview with Chief Theresa Spence, aired today on CTV’s “Question Period,” illustrated pretty neatly in its first few minutes all that’s been wrong with mainstream coverage of Spence’s fast, and of Idle No More. Newman began by ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • Where Does the GOP Go From Here?
    To cap off today's series on proposals for a stronger, better GOP, here's a quote from Rod Dreher, a writer for The American Conservative (and a must read for people who want to understand the strongest arguments put forth by theological conservatives.) Dreher:
  • Some Conservative Pundits Tout Moderation Afte ...
    Kristol, Hannity urge GOP rethinking
  • More Fallout at the BBC
    The BBC is investigating why a report about abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile, one of its former stars, was scuppered.
  • Chris Hayes is a Type?
    The host of Up With Chris Hayes has unknowingly seduced famed singer Cher. Very impressive!
  • Don't Let a Good Thing Pass Us By
    Jeffrey Leonard has a fascinating article in the Washington Monthly regarding the future of our electrical grid. He seems cautiously optimistic about natural gas as a replacement for dirtier forms of carbon such as coal and gasoline, but there's a hangup. Without major upgrades to our elect ...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Microsoft to release pro version of tablet
    Microsoft says the pro version of its Surface tablet will be available to purchase Feb. 9 in the U.S. and Canada. Unlike the previous version that launched in October, the Surface Windows 8 Pro will use the full version of Windows 8, which is compatible with programs that run on earlier versions ...
  • Shooting on Texas campus hurts three
    A fight between two people led to a shooting at a Texas community college Tuesday that left three people injured. The gunfire on the Lone Star College System campus about 30 km north of downtown Houston sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said. ...
  • Japan bids to build S. Africa rail link
    Japan joined Germany, China and France Tuesday in bidding to build a 157 billion rand (¥1.6 trillion) high-speed rail link between South Africa’s eastern port city of Durban and Johannesburg, the country’s commercial hub. Funding models include partnerships between g ...
  • Royal ‘slur’ nets Thai editor 10 years
    A prominent Thai labor rights activist and magazine editor was sentenced to a decade in prison Wednesday for violating much-debated laws designed to protect Thailand’s royal family. The verdict came despite repeated calls by rights groups to free Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, who has been jai ...
  • Rail linkup to ease metro commute
    Railways in Tokyo announced Tuesday a new timetable set to come into effect March 16 when the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line are to be connected. According to Tokyu Corp. and Tokyo Metro Co., Tokyo’s Ikebukuro will be linked with Yokohama in 38 minutes at the fastest ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Our Way or the Norway
    One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces. Norway has been very effective in distributing oil wealth amongst it regions and its population. Its level of income inequ ...
  • Seeing inequality through rose-coloured classes
    Amidst the reluctant media coverage of Idle No More exists a particularly irritating contradiction that centres on how wealth and inequality are examined. The Occupy movement was roundly criticized by the elite’s media handmaids for going after the 1%. “Why are you punishing ingenuity and hard w ...
  • The dubious case for casinos
    I got way off my usual research agenda this morning for a business panel on CBC radio. The topic was the economics of casinos, the result of the City of Surrey voting down a new casino proposal. I have often disparagingly compared stock markets to casinos, but in fact I knew relatively little ab ...
  • Yukon’s court ruling on free-entry mining coul ...
    On 27 December, this past year, the appeals court of the Yukon Territory gave an important ruling regarding the rights of First Nations in relation to Yukon’s free-entry mining policy. The plaintiff in the case, the Ross River Dena Council tribe, considers that Yukon’s government cannot allow qu ...
  • Marc’s Enbridge Testimony
    Testimony to the Joint Review Panel on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project By Marc Lee, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives January 16, 2013 My name is Marc Lee, and I have served as an economist for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives for more than 14 years. Most recently I have b ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • First Global Assessment of Land and Water ‘Gra ...
    “As world food and energy demands grow, nations and some corporations increasingly are looking to acquire quality agricultural land for food production. Some nations are gaining land by buying up property — and accompanying water resources — in other, generally less wealthy cou ...
  • Tracing the Culprit if Fracking Pollutes Water ...
    “Scientists are developing ways to add non-toxic tracers to drilling fluid so if groundwater is contaminated, investigators would be able to pinpoint if an oil or gas drilling operation was to blame. “What’s impossible at the moment is if you’ve got multiple companies in an area and it’s t ...
  • Jenna Cavelle wants to correct ‘Chinatown’
    “If you’ve heard any history of the California desert at all, you’ve likely heard of the Owens Valley Water War. Here’s the canonical version of that War: The Owens Valley is watered by runoff from the immense snowfall from the Sierra Nevada to its west, much of which runs into the Owens R ...
  • Drought Fuels Water War Between Texas and New ...
    “As climate change alters rainfall patterns and river flows, tensions are bound to rise between states and countries that share rivers that cross their borders. In the Rio Grande Basin of the American Southwest, that future inevitability has arrived. Last week Texas, suffering through a de ...
  • Between the glacier and the dam: life on the T ...
    “The Tibetan Plateau covers approximately a quarter of China’s land area, spreading out over 2.5 million square kilometres in the west of the country. Home to the largest store of freshwater outside of the poles, it feeds water into Asia’s major rivers which supply water to over a billion ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • COWARDICE ASKS
    Cowardice asks the question – is it safe?  Expediency asks the question – is it politic?  Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right?  And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor ...
  • Artificial Foods and Corporate Crops: Can We E ...
    Artificial Foods and Corporate Crops: Can We Escape the ‘Frankenstate’? By Claire Hope Cummings, Beacon Press Posted on May 2, 2008, Printed on May 8, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/83301/ The following excerpt is reprinted from Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future ...
  • MELTDOWN
    . .. It appears to me, today many Americans lack the ability as well as the courage to choose for self a “safe” haven wherein they can literally tune out the incessant 24/7 “noise” bombardment. An insidiously invasive computer like virus is affecting Americans on a daily basis. This duplicitous ...
  • More Aging US Coal Plants Hit the Chopping Block
    … But is converting to natural gas via “fracking” truly a environmental victory…?   More Aging US Coal Plants Hit the Chopping Block   Friday, 11 January 2013 11:30By Matthew Cardinale, Inter Press Service  …http://truth-out.org/news/item/13854-more-aging-us-coal-plants-hit-the-chopping-block At ...
  • Selective freedom of speech
    … Freedom of speech and expression unless … what … your feelings are hurt or you disagree or find the expression unsettling… ‘Inigo Montoya’ shirt upsets travelers, leads to awkward flight 01-22-2013  •  The Sideshow  Wynand Mullins of New Zealand told Stuff M ...

Popular Technology

  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
  • 2016: Obama's America
    2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
  • The Truth About "Jon Stewart"
    "Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
  • Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Living beside a tiger reserve: scientists stud ...
    During an average year, 87% of households surrounding Kanha Tiger Reserve in Central India report experiencing some kind of conflict with wild animals, according to a new paper in the open-access journal PLOS One. Co-existence with protected, free-roaming wildlife can be a challenge when living ...
  • Bloodsucking flies help scientists identify ra ...
    Last year scientists released a study that is likely to revolutionize how conservationists track elusive species. Researchers extracted the recently sucked blood of terrestrial leeches in Vietnam's remote Annamite Mountains and looked at the DNA of what they'd been feeding on: remarkably researc ...
  • In the kingdom of the black panther
    The black panther has a mythical aura: Rudyard Kipling chose the animal for one of his heroes in the Jungle Book, in the 1970s it became the symbol of an African-American socialist party, while comic guru Stan Lee selected the stunning feline for his first black superhero. But the real black pan ...
  • Paradigm shift needed to avert global environm ...
    Global strategist, trained educator, and international lecturer Daniel Rirdan set out to create a plan addressing the future of our planet. His book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse, published this year, does just that. "It has been a sixty hour a week routine," Rirdan told mongabay.com i ...
  • Mercury hurts birds and people: what we can le ...
    Birds aren't that different from people. We learn from our parents, just like zebra finches learn songs from their fathers. We are active and noisy during the day, like birds, and we can also be territorial. Also like birds, we try to attract mates through colorful displays and beautiful songs. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Bowls may up melamine levels in food
    Some tableware may release melamine when used to serve hot food, Taiwanese researchers have found.However the amounts of melamine leached are unlikely to be at levels which would cause serious harm to people.In the study entitled...
  • Tech Universe: Thursday 24 January
    MUSSEL MUSCLE: Backpacks on mussels? Researchers at the University of Iowa attached wireless sensor packa
  • Former FBI tech guru joins Wynyard board
    Wynyard Group, the Kiwi developer of intelligence-gathering software used by companies and governments, has appointed a former FBI high-flyer to its advisory board.The Wellington-based company, which has split from its parent firm...
  • Scientist justifiably sacked over biosecurity ...
    A senior government scientist who intentionally allowed genetically modified ryegrass plants to flower and potentially release pollen was justifiably sacked, the Employment Relations Authority has found.Igor Kardailsky was dismissed...
  • Tech Universe: Wednesday 23 January
    LASER LISA: NASA like to track their Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter with a laser. Recently though they used the laser to try something new:sending a picture of the

The Bovine

  • The final solution…. Morningside Dairy s ...
    From Doreen Hannes, via Morningside Dairy’s Uncheese Party blog: “On August 26th, 2010 the destruction of Morningland Dairy began. Having lost a two and half year battle with cancer of the State, the interment will take place on January 25th, … Continue reading →
  • America is becoming a land without farmers, sa ...
    From Evaggelos Vallianatos at Independent Science News: The plutocratic remaking of America has a parallel in the countryside. In rural America less than 3 percent of farmers make more than 63 percent of the money, including government subsidies. The results … Continue reading →
  • The true price of a gallon of raw milk
    From the Midlife Farm Wife: “Yesterday we had some very unusual visitors, raw milk farmers like ourselves. But because they work very hard to stay under the same radar I am always swinging from dressed like a clown grabbing as … Continue reading →
  • Ancient grains from Biblical times
    From Justin Cascio, on the Boston Local Food Festival blog: “Eli Rogosa has a long history with rare seeds. Twenty years ago Rogosa went to the Middle East to work with farmers in the ancient lands of the “Fertile Crescent,” … Continue reading →
  • Long-term dangers of covert farming
    From Heather Retberg, on the Complete Patient blog: “….For the last three years, I’ve been engaged in the urgent and pressing work of understanding who else is defining me, other farmers, and our community, and what impact those definitions bear … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • China Flash PMI at 2-Year High; Don't Expect T ...
    China manufacturing PMI is at a 24 month high. At 51.9, it's not all that much to get terribly excited about, nor is it all that unexpected. Nonetheless, conditions show a temporary rise following a lengthy bout of contraction. The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI™ shows Operating co ...
  • Why I'm a Deflationist Who Likes Gold - Interv ...
    On Tuesday I had a nice opportunity to Chat with GoldMoney's Andrew Duncan. I explain why I am a deflationist who likes gold, why most of the Austrians went wrong in ignoring credit, how hyperinflationists are too US-centric in their approaches, and why credit events are more likely (at lea ...
  • Top Gaining and Losing Jobs in the "Recovery"
    This is part three in a series of articles on jobs gained and lost since December 2007. The first article was an interactive map from Tableau: Job Gains and Losses in the Recovery by Job Type (Healthcare, Education, Mining, Construction, Finance, Real Estate, etc). The second artic ...
  • Let Elderly People 'Hurry Up and Die', says Ja ...
    Taro Aso, Japan's Finance Minister who had a serious problem with foot-in-mouth disease says Let Elderly People 'Hurry Up and Die' Taro Aso said on Monday that the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" to relieve pressure on the state to pay for their medical care. "Heaven forbid ...
  • Sarkozy, Under Investigation in France for Fra ...
    To the victor, belongs the spoils. Had former French president Nicolas Sarkozy won reelection, he certainly would not be under investigation for illegally funding his campaign, nor there would be an investigation regarding his involvement in fraudulent arms sales to Pakistan. Perhaps S ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Big Media Discovers US Special Ops are Targeti ...
    Unlike Wine, Old News Doesn’t Improve With Age By Bill Conroy Earlier this week, the Washington Post and a series of other mainstream media outlets breathlessly reported that the Pentagon has set up a US-based special operations center that is focused on helping the Mexican government track down ...
  • Four More Years: Obama Menaces Humanity- It Ma ...
    Inaugurating US presidents quadrennially reflects institutionalized hypocrisy. On January 20, Obama began term two. After all the harm he caused so many, imagine how much more he plans. He broke every major campaign promise made. He mocks legitimate governance. He lawlessly serves powerful monie ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Historic North Atlantic Superstorm Possible fo ...
    A historic extratropical storm is possible over the central North Atlantic on Saturday, the 26th of January based on the latest computer models. A weak 1014mb low will move off [...]
  • Former Pirate Kingpin Leading Anti-Piracy Gang ...
    Mohamed Abdi Hassan (aka Afweyne), the ex-Somali pirate Kingpin once referred to by the United Nations as “one of the most notorious and influential leaders” in the Somali pirate business, [...]
  • Shippers Tell Different Story on Chinese Expor ...
    SHANGHAI–Many in the shipping industry see a sluggish year ahead for Chinese exports, a cornerstone of the world’s No. 2 economy, despite other indications of growing demand for China’s products. [...]
  • Seaspan Orders Four Fuel Efficient, 10,000 TEU ...
    New York-listed Seaspan Corporation (NYSE: SSW) announced Wednesday that it has signed contracts for the construction of four fuel efficient 10,000 TEU containerships and also agreed to purchase of four [...]
  • Daily Earnings for VLCCs Plunge 76 Percent, Bi ...
    Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) — Earnings for the largest oil tankers plying the industry’s busiest trade route plunged 76 percent, nearing a reversion to negative returns, as the supply of vessels [...]

Press TV

  • US-led airstrike kills 3 Afghans
    At least three Afghan people have been killed in an airstrike carried out by US-led forces in the war-torn country, Press TV reports.
  • Spain’s Catalonia declares sovereignty
    The parliament of Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia has approved a declaration of the region’s sovereignty as a major step towards its independence from Spain.
  • IMF cuts Britain’s growth forecast
    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its forecast for UK growth for both this year and the next, blowing hopes for a quick recovery to the country’s ailing economy.
  • Dead Bahraini receives prison sentence
    A court in Bahrain has handed down a three-year prison sentence to an anti-regime activist and protester who died in detention last year.
  • Borrowing hits record in UK among others
    British Chancellor George Osborne has warned cabinet ministers to be prepared for further budget cuts up until 2016, as new figures revealed he borrowed millions of pounds more than expected in December.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
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