Wednesday, January 23, 2013

23 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

English: U.S. Assistant Secretary Esther Brimm...
English: U.S. Assistant Secretary Esther Brimmer Greets Director General Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Photogra...
IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Photographed by Sarajevo-x.com, 25 March 2007. (IAEA = International Atomic Energy Agency.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Never-Ending Case Arises Again
    Pınar Selek, a Turkish sociologist who has on three occasions been tried and acquitted over a fatal explosion in Istanbul more than 14 years ago, is being taken to court again Jan. 24. On Jul. 9, 1998, seven people were killed and more than 120 injured in an explosion at the historical Spice Baz ...
  • IFC to Fund Major New Microfinance Institution ...
    The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group arm that focuses on the private sector, announced Wednesday that it would be backing a new microfinance institution in Myanmar aimed at reaching 200,000 people by 2020. The move marks the first investment the IFC has ever made in ...
  • Cautious Welcome for ‘Robin Hood’ Tax
    Non-governmental organisations across Europe welcomed the move by 11 European Union countries Tuesday to move forward with the introduction of a financial transaction tax (FTT), but they urged national governments to ensure that a part of the revenues would be allocated to development. Calling t ...
  • Victory Close to Defeat for Netanyahu
    As expected, Benjamin Netanyahu has been ensured another term in office. Against all expectations, he could have been defeated. Now, he faces uncertainty over the kind of governing coalition he will lead and thus the kind of policies he will carry out. And he faces a lingering question: can any ...
  • Drones Provoke Growing Controversy in U.S.
    As Barack Obama renews his lease on the White House for another four years, his administration is debating how best to respond to a growing internal and public controversy over his first term’s non-battlefield counter-terrorist weapon of choice: armed drones. For months, senior administration of ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Gravitinos" --Will They Unlock the Mystery of ...
                     Astrophysicists have known for the last 80 years that most of the universe consists of an unknown, dark matter. The solution to the mystery may now be just around the corner. "We are looking for a new member of our particle zoo in order to explain dark matter. We know ...
  • From the X Files: "A Meteroite That Crashed to ...
                            Sri Lankan-born British mathematician, Chandra Wickramasinghe, discovered that a two-inch wide meteorite that crash landed in a fireball in central Sri Lanka in December was pitted with tiny fossils of algae, similar to the kind found in seaweed. Wickramasinghe ...
  • Did an 8th-Century Gamma Ray Burst That Zapped ...
                   A nearby short duration gamma-ray burst may be the cause of an intense blast of high-energy radiation that hit the Earth in the 8th century, according to new research led by astronomers Valeri Hambaryan and Ralph Neuhӓuser based at the Astrophysics Institute of the Univer ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 245,000!
                                             Join the 247,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governme ...
  • Odd Objects of the Helix Nebula --Each the Siz ...
                   The Helix Nebula is one of the closest and most remarkable examples of a planetary nebula. It lies in the constellation of Aquarius (The Water Bearer), about 700 light-years away from Earth. This strange object formed when a star like the Sun was in the final stages ...

Natural News

  • The Health Ranger's guide to raising healthy, ...
    Raising chickens is smart. It provides you a healthy supply of food in the form of chicken eggs, and you'll even have a source of emergency meat if times get really bad. Chickens largely take care of themselves. They're friendly, curious and smart enough to come running...
  • Ten home remedies for fever - Natural ways to ...
    A fever is your body's way of fighting an infection during a flu or infection. Suppressing a fever is not advised, as the fever will kill the bacteria and virus. However, high fevers can be dangerous, especially for small children. Natural medicine has numerous treatments...
  • Profound solution to emotional and behavioral ...
    A simple and profound solution to human problems was discovered by a colleague of Sigmund Freud around the time of Freud's death. The solution was quietly swept under the rug by the mental health establishment, which is why you have never heard of Edmund Bergler. &#13 ...
  • Top six delicious and simple avocado superfood ...
    First, disregard everything negative you may have read or heard about avocados. Avocados are so nutritious that many consider them superfoods. Forget the stuff about fats and calories. Calories are irrelevant if they're nutritionally packed. It's nutritionally empty...
  • Intelligent questions not allowed on Sandy Hook
    (NaturalNews)First, I need to comment on a rumor that George Soros has been a key player in buying up gun manufacturers, with the intent of exercising "corporate gun control." Cerberus Capital Management, based in New York, owns a company called The Freedom Group. Freedom Group...

Threat Level

  • Sex Offenders Can’t Be Banned From Facebook, C ...
    A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a 2008 Indiana law forbidding registered sex offenders from using instant-messaging and social-networking sites like Facebook is an unconstitutional infringement of their First Amendment rights.
  • Google Tells Cops to Get Warrants for User E-M ...
    Google demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the contents of Gmail and other cloud-stored documents to authorities in the United States -- a startling revelation Wednesday that runs counter to federal law that does not always demand warrants.
  • Mastermind Behind Gozi Bank Malware Charged Al ...
    The mastermind who designed and distributed the Gozi malware that infected more than a million computers worldwide in order to steal banking and other credentials from tens of thousands of victims has been charged in New York along with two ...
  • Mega File-Sharing Service Is No Megaupload
    Kim Dotcom's new Mega file-sharing service surpassed 1 million members one day following its initial Saturday launch from New Zealand, and the number of subscribers has apparently skyrocketed in the following days. It's clearly ironic that a file-sharing kingpin under ...
  • Student Expelled for Hacking After Investigati ...
    A college student in Canada has been expelled after he reported a security vulnerability in a computer system that could have exposed the personal data of more than 250,000 students.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Budget Violates Boehner's New Rules on Debt
    When John Boehner picked up the Speaker's gavel in January 2011, he also laid down some new rules regarding the U.S. national debt. Despite the near-doubling of the red ink and the seven debt limit increases under President Bush (all of which Boehner supported), the first Boehner Rule demands " ...
  • No Daylight with Israel? Which One?
    With today's elections in Israel and the upcoming confirmation hearings for Obama Pentagon nominee Chuck Hagel, U.S.-Israeli relations will be very much in the news. For Republicans continuing their perpetual campaign to whittle away at the overwhelming Jewish support for Democrats, the respons ...
  • Rice Joins CBS News
    Rice may be out as Secretary of State, but soon she'll be on your television screen. Not, that is, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, but former Bush National Security Adviser, Secretary of State and rumored 2016 GOP presidential candidate Condoleezza Rice. Joining her former Bush administration counte ...
  • Love, Not Guns, the Lesson of Selma for John Lewis
    Just days after the chairman of Gun Appreciation Day tried to misappropriate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the always execrable Rush Limbaugh pointed both barrels at the civil rights movement. Just in time for the weekend jointly marking King's birthday and President Obama's second inau ...
  • Republicans Still Bungling GOP Rebranding
    You can't make this stuff up. One day after being instructed "stop talking about rape," House Republicans attending their caucus' secret conclave will listen to a panel on Friday titled, "Discussion on Successful Communication with Minorities and Women." Unfortunately, that session will be he ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Climate Change At Fault For Massive Andes Glac ...
    New research into the continued decline of glaciers around the planet is not new, yet nevertheless these studies remain critically important to understanding our impact upon the environment and the sort of world we will be living in ten years from now. The most comprehensive review of Andean gla ...
  • State Department Receives New Report On Climat ...
    Four days before President Obama promised, during his second inauguration address, to combat climate change, officials at the US State Department received a new report by scientists which details how a particular byproduct of the Keystone XL pipeline — “Petroleum Coke” — ...
  • Tapir Populations Are Thriving Inside Of Madid ...
    Lowland tapirs are a rather strange looking, and large, herbivore native to the forest and grassland environments of many parts of South America. Owing to their large size and reliance on mineral licks, they are rather easy to hunt, and this has resulted in their numbers falling in recent years. ...
  • Scientists Discover Third Type Of Volcanic Eru ...
    There have been two types of volcanic eruptions for some time now – explosive or effusive. An explosive eruption is marked by a violent and explosive eruption, such as the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980. An effusive eruption is marked by the outpouring of lava onto the ground.  However, ...
  • ‘Quadruple Helix’ DNA Observed in Human Cells ...
    Scientists at Cambridge University in the UK have observed ‘quadruple helix’ DNA in human cells for the first time. Most all DNA — the DNA we all learned about in school — has two strands of genetic material, each spiraling about the other in what is referred to as a doub ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • On threading the needle and being in favor of ...
    By @BGinKC I'll get nicer when people get smarter. Also when I believe they have actually READ and, more importantly, UNDERSTOOD that Constitution they are always waving in the air and screaming about. Seriously. Get smarter or I'm going to get a hell of a lot meaner. As in you ain't ever seen m ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC It's the @AlFranken Decade!  Public Policy Polling has put a poll in the field in Minnesota and found that Al Franken is favored by a wide margin over any republican challenger. I'm proud to have given him a few bucks for his 2008 run back when he first announced. Roe v Wade is 4 ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC @MikeWalsworth is exceptionally stupid -- even for a state senator from Louisiana. He totally got clowned by a retired science teacher when he asked where the proof is for evolution, and showed his dumbfuckery to all the world. The clueless dipshit believes that all evolution is towar ...
  • Sen. Mitch McConnell (r) starts the next four ...
    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (r): ....The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.... Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama during the official swearing-in ceremony in t ...
  • As Roe v. Wade Ruling Nears 40, What's The Bot ...
    Abortion as a concept alone is ugly -- there's no denying that. If any female relative of mine were pregnant and asked me what I thought about the prospect of her getting one, I'd advise her not to do it. It's a decision that will haunt you for life, I'd say. You will always wonder what sort of ...

Care 2

  • Kennel Dog Zeus Freed
    For over 18 months, the dog could only look at the wall, no variety, no outlet, although this is forbidden, a permanent kennels is illegal for reasons of welfare in Germany. This interested the pet owners and the veterinary office is not obvious. Submitted by Nicole W. to Animals  |  ...
  • Cat ''Cried Like a Child'' During Fire: Meet ...
    Baby is one of the luckiest cats in America today. A week ago she was home alone when a fire broke out in her Queen Creek, Arizona home. But thanks to first responders and the goodwill of a local veterinary clinic, this once-lifeless cat is now breathin Submitted by BarbCat SunshineLady to Offbe ...
  • MAP: Does Your State Let You Carry a Gun on Ca ...
    On Tuesday, a dispute between two people at Lone Star College in Houston ended in a gun fight. Three people were wounded (including suspects in the shooting) and a fourth person was reportedly hospitalized with an unspecified "medical emergency" ---> Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov& ...
  • John McCain, Rand Paul take on Hillary Clinton ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her departments handling of the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic outposts in Benghazi under sometimes fiery questioning from Republican senators. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  &nb ...
  • Zimbabwe: Elephant Death Prompts Action Agains ...
    The death of a baby Zimbabwean elephant in a Chinese zoo has prompted public action against the upcoming United Nations (UN) tourism conference, with participants being urged to boycott that meeting. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Hillary on Benghazi–Open Thread
    Hillary is on the Hill today testifying about Benghazi. First up, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to be followed later today by an appearance before the House Foreign Affairs. The spin she is doing is worthy of a Ferrari engine revving at full RPM. She is doing a dandy job of misleading ...
  • “Go Ahead, Hit the Snooze Button”
    “Weary Workers Learn to Count Sheep Using Special Lighting, Office Nap Pods” 74% of workers over 30 who report not getting adequate sleep say that sleepiness affects their work 9% of Americans say they are likely to fall asleep at an inappropriate moment, such as during a meeting or ...
  • Obama to Libs–Kiss My Ass?
    Obama is a class act. He promises to lower the cost of health care but fails. Nonetheless, the liberals shout, HUZZAH! They believe Obama is the 21st Century Lincoln. So, I ask no indulgence as I do a happy dance as the weight of reality falls principally on those liberal/progressives who teach ...
  • “Loyal understudy Biden becomes target of spec ...
    Last night, I discovered a fascinating Web site named “Gossipcop.com“: Al Roker really, really wanted to score the first “interview” with President Obama after Monday’s Inauguration. His tactics were not exactly sophisticated. CAPTION: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, ...
  • You’re laughing aren’t you?
    Larry Johnson asked me to post this very funny e-mail with all of you. Research confirms that drinking gives you the same benefits yoga does!!! Just to let you know I’m thinking of you today. No matter what situations life throws at you … No matter how long and treacherous your journ ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Tar Sand Mining And The Keystone XL Pipeline H ...
    Business Insider Tar Sand Mining And The Keystone XL Pipeline Have A Huge Impact On Future ... Business Insider Stopping even more bad news is why Hansen expects to be arrested again, whether at a protest against mountaintop removal mining for coal in West Virginia or a sit-in outside the White ...
  • Wednesday Roundup: Gun Culture - Daily Yonder
    Daily Yonder Wednesday Roundup: Gun Culture Daily Yonder Ward thinks it "unlikely" that the administration will do anything on mountaintop removal issues until after several court cases are decided. Ward says that workplace safety was hardly a priority of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, w ...
  • How Much Will Tar Sands Oil Add to Global Warm ...
    Scientific American How Much Will Tar Sands Oil Add to Global Warming? Scientific American Stopping even more bad news is why Hansen expects to be arrested again, whether at a protest against mountaintop removal mining for coal in West Virginia or a sit-in outside the White House to convince the ...
  • With Massey Energy Execs Cutting Deals, Will t ...
    With Massey Energy Execs Cutting Deals, Will the Don of Coal Country Finally ... In These Times In the same vein, environmentalists say he's the key force behind the spread of the “mountaintop removal” mining technique, which leaves behind an utterly barren landscape and polluted streams. Fr ...
  • 10 ways Barack Obama can address climate chang ...
    NPR 10 ways Barack Obama can address climate change Responding to Climate Change One step he could take is to ban mountaintop removal mining, a cheap but environmentally catastrophic method of exploiting coal seams that has been linked with birth defects. If the coal industry has to internalise ...

Memeorandum

  • TARP Czar to Take Shot in Politics (Wall Stree ...
    Wall Street Journal: TARP Czar to Take Shot in Politics  —  Neel Kashkari, who oversaw the U.S. Treasury's much-maligned Troubled Asset Relief Program during the financial crisis, said he is leaving Pacific Investment Management Co. to consider running for public office in Democ ...
  • Combat Ban for Women to End (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal: Combat Ban for Women to End  —  The Pentagon is dropping the last vestiges of rules barring American women from serving in combat, paving the way for the largest expansion ever of their role on the front lines.  —  Women in the military alrea ...
  • CNN's GUT CHECK for January 23, 2013 (CNN)
    CNN: CNN's GUT CHECK for January 23, 2013  — n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle  —  BREAKING: MILITARY TO OPEN COMBAT JOBS TO WOMEN... The U.S. military is ending its policy of excluding women from combat, and will open c ...
  • Lanny Breuer, Justice Department criminal divi ...
    Danielle Douglas / Washington Post: Lanny Breuer, Justice Department criminal division chief, is stepping down  —  Sean Gardner/GETTY IMAGES - The Justice Department's Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer addresses the media while announcing new c ...
  • Hillary Clinton 69, Rand Paul 10 (Brent Budows ...
    Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog: Hillary Clinton 69, Rand Paul 10  —  I was not planning on writing any more pundit blogs this week, but I do have a brief comment about Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) outburst at the Benghazi hearing with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  — ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Hokkaido, Japan region
    Wednesday, January 23, 2013 21:34:32 UTC Thursday, January 24, 2013 06:34:32 AM at epicenterDepth: 59.50 km (36.97 mi)
  • M 5.1, Seram, Indonesia
    Wednesday, January 23, 2013 08:23:00 UTC Wednesday, January 23, 2013 05:23:00 PM at epicenterDepth: 32.40 km (20.13 mi)
  • M 5.2, off the coast of Aisen, Chile
    Wednesday, January 23, 2013 07:43:02 UTC Wednesday, January 23, 2013 02:43:02 AM at epicenterDepth: 26.30 km (16.34 mi)
  • M 5.1, southern East Pacific Rise
    Wednesday, January 23, 2013 04:29:38 UTC Tuesday, January 22, 2013 09:29:38 PM at epicenterDepth: 14.10 km (8.76 mi)
  • M 5.0, Coquimbo, Chile
    Wednesday, January 23, 2013 02:47:38 UTC Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:47:38 PM at epicenterDepth: 29.10 km (18.08 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 中国应优先&#2231 ...
    过去经验表明，中国的减排目标只有在经济衰退时才能实现。如何让经济增长与减排 ...
  • 北京需要一&#2233 ...
    北京拥有9000万平方米可绿化的屋顶空间，这既可以提供食品，减小污染和洪灾威胁，&#21 ...
  • 禁牧不能拯&#2593 ...
    在青海藏区三江源，政府实施禁牧措施以保护高原草甸，然而，雷东军在黄河源头实 ...
  • 北京客，“&#21271 ...
    北京咳，一个带有玩笑意味的舶来词，却充满北京人的爱与恨。这个词汇的流传史提 ...
  • 中国空气污&#2657 ...
    中国工业生产造成的臭氧和汞污染不断扩散到世界其他地区，已成为加利福尼亚等美 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 23 Women File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Rev ...
    In what is likely the first case of its kind, 23 women have joined a class-action lawsuit against the “revenge porn” website Texxxan.com.Not sure what revenge porn is? Congratulations, you’re a good person.Revenge porn is what you get when jilted exes and one-time hookups ...
  • Study: Recent Elections Show a Strong Link Bet ...
    As he looks back on his first term, President Barack Obama can take satisfaction from a series of significant accomplishments. But according to a new analysis by a Brown University political scientist, his rise to power has also produced a less-welcome result: A renewed alignment between poli ...
  • About Time Women and Men Got Charged the Same ...
    Denmark, the feminist paradise of subsidized childcare and socialized healthcare, upped the ante this year with a new gender equality ruling to outlaw expensive women’s haircuts.The Board of Equal Treatment (great title for the board, by the way), fined a salon that charged more f ...
  • Federal Court Denies Lawsuit Claiming Marijuan ...
    Preserving the main legal barrier to medical marijuana, a federal appeals court on Jan. 22 rejected a lawsuit intended to force the Drug Enforcement Administration to move marijuana out of Schedule I, the federal law that classifies marijuana as a dangerous drug with no valid medical use.The ...
  • 7 Uncovered Quotes That Show How Far off the R ...
    The 143-year-old National Rifle Association has not always been like today's NRA, fighting every gun control law as if the essence of American freedom depends on every citizen owning a gun. What follows are a series of shocking quotes taken from various academic histories of the NRA by top of ...

Threat Level

  • Sex Offenders Can’t Be Banned From Facebook, C ...
    A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a 2008 Indiana law forbidding registered sex offenders from using instant-messaging and social-networking sites like Facebook is an unconstitutional infringement of their First Amendment rights.
  • Google Tells Cops to Get Warrants for User E-M ...
    Google demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the contents of Gmail and other cloud-stored documents to authorities in the United States -- a startling revelation Wednesday that runs counter to federal law that does not always demand warrants.
  • Mastermind Behind Gozi Bank Malware Charged Al ...
    The mastermind who designed and distributed the Gozi malware that infected more than a million computers worldwide in order to steal banking and other credentials from tens of thousands of victims has been charged in New York along with two ...
  • Mega File-Sharing Service Is No Megaupload
    Kim Dotcom's new Mega file-sharing service surpassed 1 million members one day following its initial Saturday launch from New Zealand, and the number of subscribers has apparently skyrocketed in the following days. It's clearly ironic that a file-sharing kingpin under ...
  • Student Expelled for Hacking After Investigati ...
    A college student in Canada has been expelled after he reported a security vulnerability in a computer system that could have exposed the personal data of more than 250,000 students.

Equality Trust

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

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

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AutoblogGreen

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | A Smorgasbord of Sh*t from D ...
    By Visible I’ve been told the Kali Yuga is over. Apparently, the temporal zone hasn’t gotten the memo yet. How can something be over if it is still happening? It must be one of those Zen things. Psychopathic behavior is still freewheeling down the boulevard of broken dreams and all t ...
  • 20 ways to become more self-sufficient before ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) One thing you don’t want to be during the coming “crunch” — a polite word for “collapse” — is dependent on the system. The more you can take care of yourself, the better off you’ll be physically, finan ...
  • Sandy Hook Investigation – Joyce Riley I ...
    Joyce Riley Interviews Mike Powers Sandy Hook Investigation (Edited version no commercials) – YouTube.
  • Weather – Sudden stratospheric warming r ...
    That’s right, folks.  The cold weather in Europe is caused by…you guessed it…warming!!!! By John Hammond BBC Weather Peter Gibbs explains sudden stratospheric warming and why it’s often linked to outbreaks of cold weather. A snowy chill has arrived across the UK, with all ...
  • Lupe Fiasco – Words I Never Said
    Grammy-nominated rapper Lupe Fiasco was escorted off the stage of StartUp’s Rock On inauguration event while performing the antiwar song, “Words I Never Said”.   Organizers claim that the audience was not happy with Fiasco’s choice of music.  Given that Lupe is an outspok ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Guns in the wild west: regulated, with no fear ...
    Summary:  An oddity of the New America is how we stumble dealing with problems solved not just by our peers in other developed nations, but in our past.  Gun control is but one example. Other nations, our peers in the developed world, have accomplished what we’re told is impossible for Ame ...
  • Do guns make us more safe, or less? Let’ ...
    Summary:  The incidence of apparent murders justified under the “stand your ground” laws raises questions about the vast number of claimed “self-defense” gun use.  How many of these were justifications of improper use, not legitimate (and socially prestigious) self-defens ...
  • Secrets about global warming that you must not ...
    Summary:  The climate refuses to continue warming and much of the US public refuses to believe forecasts of climate catastrophe. As a result the tone of the propaganda becomes increasingly hysterical, the disdain for science increasingly obvious. Here we contrast current agitprop with actual wor ...
  • Our geopolitical experts, like Max Boot, lead ...
    Summary:  A nation’s experts guide it into the darkness of the future, to success or failure. And the experts choose as guides reflect the nation’s values and wisdom.  The grim events during the 11 years since 9-11 allow an accurate evaluation of America.  Read this, then make your o ...
  • Fierce words about those “wacky professi ...
    Summary:  Adversity tests one’s character.  As the global temperature pause continues into its second decade, we can learn much the reaction from the reaction of laypeople committed to belief in a coming climate catastrophe. . Contents Fierce words from Slate’s voice about climate ch ...

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Shock claim: Obama only wants military leaders ...
    On Monday, renowned author and humanitarian Dr. Jim Garrow made a shocking claim about what we can expect to see in Obama's second term. Garrow made the following Facebook post: I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in dete ...
  • Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military’s Expe ...
    ‘Climatic warfare’ has been excluded from the agenda on climate change. HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, capable of destabilising agricultural and ecological systems globally.” “‘Climatic warfare’ potentially threatens the future of humanity, but has casually been excluded from the r ...
  • This Is Not A Mosquito It’s An Insect Spy Dron ...
    It's an insect spy drone for urban areas, already in production, funded by the Government. It can be remotely controlled and is equipped with a camera and a microphone. It can land on you, and it may have the potential to take a DNA sample or leave RFID tracking nanotechnology on your skin ...
  • Uncovered, the ‘toxic’ gene hiding in GM crops ...
    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 grown around the world for both human and farm animal consumption, include the gene. A new study by the EU's official food watchdog, ...
  • What the devil? Scientists tap power of ‘Lucifer’
    It’s one of the most powerful and advanced telescopes in the world – and it uses the fierce power of LUCIFER to capture images of planets outside our solar system and peer back toward the beginning of time. The Large Binocular Telescope, or LBT, perched atop the Mount Graham International Obs ...

Andy Worthington

  • London in the Snow: Photos of Brockley and New ...
    London in the Snow: Brockley and New Cross, a set on Flickr. On January 20, 2013, as London became enveloped in snow — the second snowfall in two days, and this time much heavier than the first — I visited Hilly Fields, the hill-top park on Brockley, in south east london, where I hav ...
  • Save Lewisham Hospital: We March Again This Sa ...
    Please come to the demonstration to save Lewisham Hospital this Saturday (January 26), and please also send health secretary Jeremy Hunt a quick email, via 38 Degrees, to ask him to save the hospital. This Saturday, January 26, a huge protest is taking place in the London Borough of Lewisham, in ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo’s ...
    Listen to my interviews here with Peter B. Collins (at 55 minutes in) and here with Scott Horton. It’s four days since I came back from a ten-day trip to the US to join other campaigners, on the 11th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, in calling for President Obama to revisit the pr ...
  • Photos of London: Hilly Fields in the Snow
    Hilly Fields in the Snow, a set on Flickr. On Friday, when the snow began falling on London — something that is not even necessarily an annual occurrence in the UK — I took a tour by bike around Brockley, my home in south east London, and also visited Ladywell, Lewisham and Greenwich ...
  • Photos: First Snow in London
    First Snow in London, a set on Flickr. This photo set, the 72nd in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, rather sprang upon me yesterday (January 18), when, while still sleep-deprived and rather jet-lagged after returning from my ten-day visit to the US to campaign for th ...

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Sciencebase

  • Developing World Special Offer
    A few contacts from the developing world have asked about pricing of my book as they’d like to get a copy but the standard price is, they hint, a little high for their budgets. So here’s the deal. If you live in a blue zone on the map below – China, South America, Asia, Russia ...
  • Why crustaceans might be feeling crabby
    Contrary to the words of Kurt Kobain, it’s probably no longer okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings, perhaps crabs too. The BBC reports this morning that scientists have found further evidence that crustaceans feel pain. A study has revealed that the shore crab, a clo ...
  • Climate change makeover
    Often a name change, a brand re-launch or a corporate makeover becomes a matter of urgency when a company gets seriously bad press. I could list a few examples but will spare their blushes (#subtweet). Of course, when it comes to a phenomenon, the same thing can happen. Think global warming morp ...
  • How nutritious is horse meat?
    Just a quick round-up cribbed from NutritionData via KQED to address the issue of how nutritious is horse meat compared to beef in the wake of “StableGate” (horse DNA allegedly present in value burgers sold by UK and Iris supermarkets). Horse meat is about 120 vs beef’s 130 kil ...
  • Parkinson’s treatment might trigger creativity
    According to a press release on Eurekalert: “Parkinson’s experts across the world have been reporting a remarkable phenomenon — many patients treated with drugs to increase the activity of dopamine in the brain as a therapy for motor symptoms such as tremors and muscle rigidity are d ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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. ...

Lifehacker

  • If You Want a Good Job, You Need More Than One ...
    If you want a challenge in 2013, try getting a good job. With high unemployment rates and lower entry-level salaries, many people take what they can get. While no magic trick will get you the job of your dreams, you can greatly improve your chances if you have multiple talents that interse ...
  • Search Challenge: What, Why, and Where are The ...
    Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution—using whatever search technology and methodology fits th ...
  • Combine Cheap Disposable Batteries and High-Ca ...
    Rechargeable batteries are great, but they're costly and an encumbrance. Disposable batteries are cheap, but they're wasteful and lose their charge over time. While you can't have the best of both worlds in one battery, you can get the best combination for the best value. More »
  • Delete All Those Annoying "Recent Recipients" ...
    Every time you go to type an email address into iOS' Mail app, you get a giant list of everyone you've ever contacted that might fit the letters you've typed. This can get annoying very quickly. Here's how to delete those from your phone for good. More »
  • I'm Eben Upton, Executive Director of the Rasp ...
    All week here at Lifehacker, we're showing you some of our favorite Raspberry Pi projects. The $35 palm-sized computer packs enough punch to create a home media center, run a VPN, and much more. So who better to chat with this week than Eben Upton, cofounder and executive director of the R ...

Water Privatization

  • Photo Release -- New York Based Sea Tow Servic ...
    NEW YORK -- For three decades Captain Joe Frohnhoefer and his wife Georgia of Sea Tow Services International have leveraged their greatest strengths-- Captain Joe's in-depth knowledge of the sea and Georgia's ...
  • DEP's Marcellus water testing explained; v ...
    The Beaver County Times explains Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection's controversial water testing testimony . Last year, a DEP lab tech testified in depositions about the department's testing of water around Marcellus Shale sites, kicking up a storm over the adequa ...
  • Samaras to meet with heads of Greek privatizat ...
    Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is due to hold a meeting at 2 p.m. on Monday with the top executives of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) to discuss the government’s privatization strategy.
  • Conservation plan or moving toward water priva ...
    The rule changes DEP is proposing were introduced in our 2012 legislative session and failed to pass because of concerns that they were the first steps toward water privatization.
  • Greece's blowout sale
    Privatization may prove to be the Greek government's best option, but who will pay the price?

Guardian

  • Swansea City v Chelsea – live! | Paul Doyle
    Minute-by-minute report: Swansea have a 2-0 aggregate advantage. Will they join Bradford City in the final? Find out with Paul DoylePaul Doyle
  • Taliban kill 1,100 members of Afghan security ...
    Casualties have doubled and desertion rates spiked over past year as Nato steps back, figures revealThe Taliban have killed 1,100 members of the Afghan security forces in the past six months as Nato troops have stepped back and left the local army and police to fight the insurgency, it has emerg ...
  • Antibiotic-resistant diseases pose 'apocalypti ...
    Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies tells MPs issue should be added to national risk register of civil emergenciesBritain's most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack, pa ...
  • Harriet Harman: royal charter for press watchd ...
    Shadow culture secretary likens Tory proposals for regulation to Dolly the sheep, saying you don't know what you will getHarriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader, has said government proposals to create a royal charter for a new press watchdog are akin to Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be ...
  • UK unemployment rate falls to 7.7% but wages s ...
    Number of people in work reached a record level in the three months to last November, but wages rises stalled as employers kept a lid on pay packetsPhillip InmanEconomics correspondentBritain is heading for a fifth year of falling living standards after official figures showed a decline in avera ...

McClatchey

  • Novice Sudanese journalists of Nuba Reports we ...
    As Sudan?s Nuba Mountains descended back into war in 2011, Yassin Hassen prepared to flee his homeland a second time. But he wound up canceling his plans ? and now…Click to Continue »
  • Syrian Palestinians fear three-way fight for c ...
    Syria?s Palestinians have been trapped by the conflict in that country, much the way Palestinian refugee populations found themselves trapped between factions in the civil wars in Iraq and Lebanon.Click to Continue »
  • Will Charlotte host GOP convention in 2016?
    It worked for Democrats. Could it work for Republicans? With national Republican Party officials gathering in Charlotte this week, its a natural question: Will the party return for its 2016…Click to Continue »
  • Emotional and defiant, Clinton answers Congres ...
    At times emotional and at times defiant, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared before Congress on Wednesday in long-anticipated hearings on the government?s handling of the Sept. 11 attacks in…Click to Continue »
  • Mississippi Marine Resources department agrees ...
    Faced with a lawsuit, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources agreed today to give the Sun Herald agency documents the newspaper seeks under the state's Public Records Act.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Investigation clears Allen in email scandal
    WASHINGTON - Top US commander in Afghanistan Gen John Allen has been cleared of allegations of sending "inappropriate" emails to a Florida woman in an adultery scandal that also led to the retired ...
  • Prince Harry under fire for candid description ...
    Prince Harry is facing growing criticism for his unguarded descriptions of killing Taliban fighters, with one front-bench MP suggesting he had been too 'candid'. Members of the Afghan Government ...
  • US commander in Afghanistan cleared in miscond ...
    The Pentagon has cleared the top US commander in Afghanistan of wrongdoing over emails with a woman tied to the sex scandal that forced CIA director David Petraeus to resign, a US official said ...
  • Prince Harry’s assertion that he killed Taliba ...
    Britain's Ministry of Defence revealed late on Monday that Prince Harry is returning from a 20-week deployment in Afghanistan, where he served as an Apache helicopter co-pilot with the Army Air ...
  • Deconstructing Afghanistan - By John Arquilla
    After more than a decade of nation-building in Afghanistan, with at best mixed results, perhaps it is time to take an opposite tack: "deconstructing" that sad land. This would entail some ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Whistleblower Scores Victory Over Justice Depa ...
    On January 15, 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland issued a key ruling in support of Justice Department whistleblower Richard G. Convertino in his longstanding Privacy Act lawsuit against the DOJ. The Court ordered the Detroit Free Press to produce all documents related to how ...
  • OSHA Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Retirement Hom ...
    On January 10, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in federal court against S.E.M. Villa II Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates S.E.M. Terrace, a retirement facility in Milford Ohio. The lawsuit claims that S.E.M. Villa violated the whistleblower provisions of the Occ ...
  • BNSF Railway Co. Agrees to Revise Personnel Po ...
    In a January 15, 2013 press release, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that OSHA and BNSF Railway Co. had reached an agreement for the company to revise personnel policies that violate the whistleblowers provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act and discourage employees from reporting w ...
  • Dean Zerbe Honored As Contender for 2012 Tax N ...
    On January 6, 2013 The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center was announced as the 2012 Tax Notes Person of the Year. Tax Notes also recognized nine others who were “contenders” for the title. Among the contenders was the National Whistleblowers Center’s Senior Policy An ...
  • 2012's 10 Big Moments for Chief Compliance Off ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Janua ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Retired Federal Judge Criticizes Carmen Ortiz' ...
    While US Attorney Carmen Ortiz continues to stand by her actions in regards to the Aaron Swartz case (and other cases where she's being accused of being over-aggressive in prosecuting people), more and more criticism is coming to light, including from some influential voices who understand first ...
  • Dear HuffPo: Feel Free To Send Techdirt Traffic
    Let me kick this of by saying that I'm a big fan of The Verge, which has quickly become a top tech site for many. I don't always agree with what's written there (I don't always agree with what's written anywhere!), but it tends to regularly produce high quality work. The Verge is at its best w ...
  • The War On Computing: What Happens When Author ...
    We've obviously been covering a lot about Aaron Swartz lately, but his case is really just one of many similar cases involving people in positions of authority who simply don't understand basic technology, but feel that something must be illegal because they try to overlay an analog view on a di ...
  • Mega's Security Appears To Be Surprisingly Bad
    We were a little skeptical of Kim Dotcom's new Mega cloud storage offering, in part because the claims of security and privacy seemed somewhat dubious upfront. We didn't see how it would be reasonably possible to do everything the service claimed it was doing in a manner that really kept the da ...
  • iNanny: Apple Takes Down Popular Photo Apps Be ...
    We've written here before about Apple's autocratic control of its app store, which has resulted in many questionable removals. To date, Apple has blocked a dictionary (because it contained profanity), a Project Gutenberg scan of The Kama Sutra (ancient sexytime), any app that connec ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Schools Teach Shame and Bullying
    I came across this news story yesterday. Some school official told a girl’s mother that, if her daughter wanted to end the harassment she was subjected to, she should get a breast reduction. Because, you know, how dare you have a body that might make people think of sex. And then there is ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The internets are rapidly finishing the job Aaron Swartz started. Must read article on what is happening to women who are pregnant. Arrests. Deaths. Involuntary commitment. Medical tests. I am so glad my parents did not have access to microchipping technology. Though I suspect I would have gotte ...
  • Pregnancy, Coercion, and Responsibility
    I was reading about this abortion restricting bill in Michigan. While I realize that it is another attempt to regulate abortion out of existence under the guise of safety and regulations, something in that article struck me. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has approved a controversial package of a ...
  • Book Review – 33 Revolutions Per Minute
    33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey My rating: 4 of 5 stars The subtitle of this book is “A History of Protest Songs, From Billie Holiday to Green Day.” But it should really say that it is a history of (mostly) the U.S. [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Must listen talk by Ashanti Alston over on the AK Press site called Anarchism, Zapatismo & the Black Panthers. More cops and cab driver impersonators out raping women. Charming. Holy crap. 75% of West Virginia teens don’t use any birth control?! Can somebody rent a crop duster and drop ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Israelis prefer to imagine they live somewhere ...
    Aluf Benn says Yair Lapid’s success in yesterday’s election sprang from his ability to define the Israeli mainstream and become its voice. What the 2011 middle-class revolt demonstrated, in Lapid’s analysis was that “Israelis couldn’t care less about the Palestinian ...
  • Netanyahu’s election setback
    Patrick Martin reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earned the right in Tuesday’s Israeli election to be asked to try to form the country’s next government, but whether he will succeed or not is up to a neophyte politician named Yair Lapid, whose party’s second-place finish has stunned the ...
  • Why have Wall Street’s leaders escaped prosecu ...
    Watch The Untouchables on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
  • Torture and Zero Dark Thirty
    David Bromwich writes: Zero Dark Thirty is a spy thriller about the tracking and killing of Osama Bin Laden. Good police work did it, the film says, and it aims to show what (in the extraordinary circumstances) good police work amounts to. Action movies have been the director Kathryn Bigelow&#82 ...
  • The Hard Places — the Tom Little story
    Afghanistan is on the verge of momentous change as U.S. and NATO troops prepare to withdraw in 2014. Will this be the dawn of lasting stability or will the country slip back into war? What kind of commitment will be required to address the huge problems facing the country? “The Hard Places” is a ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climate Craziness of the Week – these ar ...
    …words fail me here. Just laugh, it is funny. The “props” for the Rev. Al Sharpton, and not the congratulatory kind, can be viewed here: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/23/rev-busts-out-the-science-lab-to-school-right-wing/
  • Burt Rutan: ‘This says it all and says i ...
    People send me stuff. Engineer and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan writes to me in an email today: The chart the Alarmists do not want you to see.  Human Carbon emissions vs. The ‘Gold Standard’ global temperature data set (chart from … Continue reading →
  • Programming note Morano vs. Nye
    Round Two! CFACT’s Marc Morano vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy tonight on CNN Last month, CFACT’s Marc Morano debated global warming with Bill Nye the Science Guy on CNN. This evening, Piers Morgan has invited them both back for … Continue reading →
  • A question for Zeke Hausfather
    Zeke is upset that I made this statement in a story at Fox news: Is history malleable? Can temperature data of the past be molded to fit a purpose? It certainly seems to be the case here, where the temperature … Continue reading →
  • EU carbon sinks to new record low – lose ...
    From the told ya so department, after a small dead cat bounce yesterday due to an auction, traders are unloading today. Yesterday’s closing price was 5.02, today it is 4.64. That’s a value loss of 8% in a single day. … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Dendritic cells and T cells
    Dendritic cells trigger an adaptive immune response by activating two major classes of T lymphocytes—cytotoxic T cells that can kill infected host cells, and helper T cells that direct the activities of other immune cells. Cytotoxic T cells recognize class I MHC receptors loaded with antigen, wh ...
  • Scientists Work To Unravel Mystery Behind Woma ...
    Twenty year old Brooke Greenberg hasn’t grown since age five. For the last 15 years mystified doctors have been unable to explain the cause for Brooke’s disorder that has kept her aging in check. At age twenty, she maintains the physical and mental appearance of a toddler. Eric Shadt wants to so ...
  • The Beauty of Smooth Muscle
    We humans have long wondered how, exactly, we develop from embryos into adults. This photo of an embryonic smooth muscle cell hints at the tremendous complexity of this fundamental biological mystery. And for those of you who might be wondering just what smooth muscles are, they’re the involunta ...
  • Leprosy bug turns adult cells into stem cells
    Leprosy bacteria can reprogram cells to revert to a stem-cell-like state, able to mature into different cell types, researchers report today in Cell1. The scientists stumbled on the discovery while researching the way leprosy spreads around the body. The mechanism of the hijacking is unclear, bu ...
  • Aspirin, the 2,000-Year-Old Wonder Drug
    Developed in 1897 by the German chemist Felix Hoffmann, aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid, has long proved its value as an analgesic. Two millenniums before that, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, used its active ingredient — which he extracted from the bark and leaves of the willow tre ...

CFACT

  • Ushering in the new (socialist) world order, o ...
    Much of the scary climate stuff gleefully trumpeted by the global media comes from the UN’s IPCC, a highly politicized organization that does not actually carry out any original climate research. Instead, it simply issues assessments based upon supposedly independent surveys of published researc ...
  • Chinese air episode exposes EPA fraud on PM 2. ...
    EPA claims that fine particulate matter at levels above 12 micrograms per cubic meter kills people within hours and causes a quarter of all U.S. deaths, but during a recent episode in China when fine PM levels were 89 times higher than the EPA standard, the only deaths attributed to the episode ...
  • Environmentalist says humans are plague on Earth
    David Attenborough, British broadcaster and environmentalist, is at it again, claiming that humans are a plague. According to today's UK Telegraph, Attenborough said, “We are a plague on the Earth."
  • Will the GOP really grill John Kerry?
    Senator Kerry, based on your record of investing with KPCB, we have every reason to believe that, as Secretary of State, you will push forward a clean energy agenda, one that moves climate change to center stage; a top-tier priority—and this will financially benefit your family and friends.
  • Car buyers reject electric cars, but Obama won ...
    The market has spoken. People don't want unreliable short-range transportation.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • ‘Apps for Apes’ at the Washington National Zoo
    Forget the bananas, the apes at Washington’s National Zoo are turning to “Apples,” at least for entertainment during the bitter cold weather that is keeping them inside.
  • Skolkovo, ASI Become Microsoft Imagine Cup Par ...
    Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) signed on Wednesday a deal to cooperate with Microsoft in holding the Imagine Cup in Russia, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
  • Scan Could Help Detect Athlete Brain Injuries
    Researches have developed a test they say can help diagnose in living people a brain disease that has been linked to repeated head trauma in athletes. Previously the disease could only be detected after death.
  • US Scientists Recommend Retiring Most Research ...
    Government scientists from the United States, the only country that keeps chimpanzees for medical research, have recommended that hundreds of chimps be permanently retired from laboratories and moved to a national sanctuary.
  • Harvard Professor Denies ‘Neanderthal Clone’ P ...
    A renowned Harvard University professor was forced Tuesday to deny he was planning to clone a Neanderthal hominid after news stories to this effect went viral on the internet based on an erroneous reading of remarks he made to a German magazine.

Pruning Shears

  • Utopian colonies and the deep roots of Occupy
    Last year I worked on a series of posts1 with a loose collection of bloggers, mostly from Corrente. The general theme was arguing against the “diversity of tactics” approach being introduced at numerous Occupy encampments, Occupy Oakland in particular. During this process one of ou ...
  • Testing water and building community
    Last summer I wrote about the Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels program for testing water. Our town’s anti-fracking activists have been using it at their homes for a while now, but around the time of my post we also began free monthly water testing for the community. We are careful to ...
  • Best Music of 2012
    IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.Links will be live for one week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me know and I’ll comply. You heartless, small-minded, ungenerous b******.Here are ...
  • Gun violence, public health and the missing piece
    The massacre in Newtown has once again opened up the discussion of firearms in America. We are getting the usual dumbassery about how this is a punishment from God or the fault of video games (which apparently are unavailable outside of the US) and the usual preemptive whining about how this is ...
  • "no one is there for you but you know who? You ...
    One of the under appreciated hazards of fracking is its effect on democracy. Fracking is a big, intrusive process - one that sucks up lots of water, creates enormous amounts of traffic and an ungodly amount of noise, etc. Setting aside the environmental dangers and health effects (!), the heav ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Com ...
    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 years?Click here to read this article
  • Why Are Americans Less Healthy?
    According to a new health analysis bearing the revealing title: US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, Americans come in dead last in a comparison of 17 affluent nations.Click here to read this article
  • The Health Ranger's Guide to Raising Healthy, ...
    Raising chickens is smart. It provides you a healthy supply of food in the form of chicken eggs, and you'll even have a source of emergency meat if times get really bad.Click here to read this article
  • Nursing Homes Serving Local, Sustainable Food
    The sustainable food movement has been gaining traction quickly over the last few years. In fact, it is difficult to get anywhere around a plate of food without the word sustainability cropping up.Click here to read this article
  • Today's Seafood Special: Pig Manure, Antibioti ...
    Next time you tuck into a Red Lobster "Endless Shrimp" special or score some $7-per-pound salmon at a supermarket, consider this: You're very likely eating imported seafood raised on a factory-style farm in Asia-and it almost certainly was never inspected by the Food and Drug Administration on ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Secret Santa Whistleblower Files End Climate C ...
    (IPCC) internal files reveal attempts by agenda-driven activists to skew the science on climate change. IPCC admits global warming predictions were way off and there is no trend in extreme weather. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Common Link to Autoimmune Diseases
    Infectious disease, such as chronic Lyme Disease Complex, impacts the HPA-axis via neurotoxins that compete for the same receptor sites. This should bring our attention to the Lyme Disease Complex, infections and neurotoxins that block serotonin receptors Submitted by John Farnham to Health & We ...
  • Activist Teacher is Climate Guy
    Wish I'd taken the time to play the video years ago. Lucid analysis of how environmentalists are missing the boat fighting pollution while distracted with a phantom menace. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Irans Civilian Nuclear Program: A Primer
    Often ignored in public discussions about Irans nuclear ambitions is that its interest in nuclear power and related medicinal use spans over 40 years. The American intelligence community has officially concluded Iran halted suspicious actions in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
  • Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate
    Understanding the sun-climate connection requires expertise in fields like plasma physics, solar activity, atmospheric chemistry and fluid dynamics, energetic particle physics, and history.Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation peaks around solar maximum. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...

Angry Indian News

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

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True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Clinton angrily defends handling of Benghazi a ...
    ShareThisClinton angrily defends handling of Benghazi attack 23 Jan 2013 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday angrily defended her handling of the September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi and denied any effort to mislead the American people. By turns e ...
  • Scientists to resume research on deadly man-ma ...
    ShareThisScientists to resume research on deadly man-made H5N1 avian flu 24 Jan 2013 Scientists who created a mutant bird flu virus will resume the controversial research after taking a year-long break amid fears the bug would escape the lab or fall into terrorist hands. Citing a public health r ...
  • Pentagon to Lift Ban on Women in Combat
    ShareThisPentagon to Lift Ban on Women in Combat 23 Jan 2013 The Pentagon on Thursday will announce it is rescinding a rule that excludes women from combat, a move that may allow women to serve for the first time alongside infantry troops as battlefield medics, pilots and in other dangerous r ...
  • TSA says all backscatter machines will be remo ...
    ShareThisTSA says all backscatter machines will be removed by summer 21 Jan 2013 All of the controversial backscatter X-ray body scanners will be removed from TSA checkpoints by June said the airport security agency. TSA said the maker of the backscatter systems, Rapiscan, will remove the sys ...
  • Were Logan airport security scanners scrapped ...
    ShareThisWere Logan airport security scanners scrapped because of radiation risks? by Deborah Kotz 22 Jan 2013 I was relieved when I heard the news that Logan airport would be replacing its full body backscatter scanners -- which use small amounts of radiation -- with the millimeter wave scanne ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Press Release from Free Burma Rangers
    FBR Report: Burma Army attacks against Kachin continue despite ceasefire 18 January, 2013 Kachin State, Burma At 5pm Friday, 18 January 2013, Burma Army airstrikes occurred near Lajayang and Laiza in Kachin State.  On Friday evening, the Government of Burma announced a ceasefire to begin 6 ...
  • Academy Spirit - January 2013
    19 January 2013
  • Last to Die
    (Photo Credit dvids) 17 January 2013 [Authored by a Marine Field Grade Officer] Over the weekend, I received an order from Higher Headquarters to ask for volunteers for 2013 and 2014 deployments to Afghanistan.  Their mission: train and fight with Afghan National Security Forces during th ...
  • Rob Bowman Passed Away
    LTC Erik Kurilla (L) and SFC Rob Bowman after terrible car bomb in Mosul, Iraq (April 2005) 15 January 2013 The United States has lost a great Soldier and fine man to cancer.  Rob struggled with the disease for about 20 months before passing yesterday.  It is with great sorrow that ...
  • Exclusive Images from Fighting in Burma
    15 January 2013 These images came from Burma today.  There have been reports about peace breaking out in Burma, but reports to me from insiders indicate this is false. The message with these images says they were made in Laiza, seconds after a mortar attack by the Burma Army.  The ...

The Killing Train

  • Questioning Natural & Community Capital
    A Conference at York University about Capitalizing Power, organized by Jonathan Nitzan. In my talk, I try to relate Nitzan's "Capital as Power" framework to environmentalist thinking.
  • Two Uprisings
    A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. read more
  • Joe Emersberger's review of Haiti's New Dictat ...
    Joe Emersberger's got a sharp eye for discerning when media information is misleading or false. When the 2004 coup happened in Haiti, Joe published his correspondence with the Globe and Mail reporter in Haiti at the time, and very ably showed me how someone with a keen eye and decent principles ...
  • Duets for Abdelrazik
    I'm listening to Duets for Abdelrazik, which my friend Stefan Christoff sent to me as an early holiday present. It's mellow music considering that it is the story of the thoroughly appalling mistreatment of someone by an appalling system. read more
  • Global Research Podcast on the DRC
    A podcast interview with me on the DRC on global research.ca, conducted by Michael Welch.

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Transport authority to deploy more police to d ...
    The Public Transport Authority (PTA) in Rangoon has revealed a plan to tackle the looming traffic calamity in the city by deploying more policemen to seven of its busiest intersections
  • Karen rebel group returns seized weapons to Bo ...
    A government peace delegation met with a Karen ceasefire group on the Thai-Burma border on Tuesday to discuss weapons the militia had seized from the area’s Border Guard Force
  • Ethnic federation to hold talks with govt over ...
    The United Nationalities Federal Council said Tuesday it had agreed to hold talks with the government to try to end the conflict in the northern Kachin state
  • President bows to parliament on controversial ...
    President Thein Sein on Tuesday agreed to amend Burma’s constitutional tribunal law after an escalating standoff with the country’s parliament over the legality of the proposed changes, according to state media
  • Voices from Laiza
    Residents from Laiza speak about whether they think there is a possibility for real future peace in the war-ravaged Kachin state.

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Cosmic Story: Leo Full Moon 2013
    The Cosmic Story is telling us to get down to business now with like-minded people. But don't forget the fun and creativity. Leo wants our political action to be both articulate and artistic. Participate in political rallies but don't forget the ART to get new people involved. Serious Fun is ...
  • The Untouchables: How The Obama Administration ...
    Obama justice officials acted to protect the most powerful factions in the society in the face of overwhelming evidence of serious criminality. Indeed, financial elites were not only vested with immunity for their fraud, but thrived as a result of it, even as ordinary Americans continue to suffe ...
  • The East Is A Promotion
    Since Deng Xiaoping's opening-up policy, millions of Western entrepreneurs, scholars and adventurers have swarmed eastward and flocked into China. We got our careers, now we want a promotion. Here's how.
  • The Eleven Ladies, The Eleven Daughters and Th ...
    Remember the current political system, though modified over history, was set up to serve probably one tenth of the current US population. We live in a world where change is the name of the game
  • Rape in High School and College Athletics: Wh ...
    College and professional athletes who engage in violence against women are often protected from prosecution.

Switchboard

  • UNEP and FAO Launch Think.Eat.Save., Global Ca ...
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Bon Appetit!  Buen Provecho!  Mahlzeit! And congratulations to the Think.Eat.Save, a global campaign launching TODAY to change the culture of food waste.  Grab ...
  • Avoiding the National Climate Assessment's Wor ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Last week a federal Advisory Committee released the draft National Climate Assessment for public comment. The report is the most comprehensive, peer-reviewed analysis of climate ...
  • Take Public Transit to L.A.'s Baldwin Hills Pa ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica Angelenos, are you looking for something new and interesting to do over the long weekend? Well, I, for one, am very excited about a brand new shuttle service that is bound to increase public access to on ...
  • New Hudson River PCB Contamination Report Conf ...
    Johanna Dyer, Attorney, New York For more than five decades, high levels of highly toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have polluted the lands, waters and native species of the Hudson River Valley. And for generations, this contamination has thre ...
  • Coal industry front group scapegoats EPA
    Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate Center, Washington, DC Today E&E reported (subscription required) a “study” by the coal industry front group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE). The author of the report, AC ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Decline of Unions
    Not a good day for a labor person. Labor Department figures released today showed that 11.3% of the American workforce belongs to a labor union. That is the lowest number since 1936. To put that in context, the National Labor Relations Act was upheld by the Supreme Court and the Congress of Indu ...
  • What We Owe Our Readers…
    Lawyers, Guns and Money continues to struggle for mainstream respectability. Here is our six seven-part plan for entering the “MSM:” Sell posting space to the Church of Scientology or religious organization of similar legitimacy. Hire Charles Krauthammer to write a weekly column. Com ...
  • “Hitler Was A Vegetarian”: Still N ...
    Roy finds Jeffrey Lord* and — natch — Jonah Goldberg making what you might call the “inverse Katznelson” (or perhaps “Katznelson for morons”) argument. That is, the argument that attempts to discredit the contemporary welfare state by arguing that various publ ...
  • High-Density Housing Must Be The Future
    As Sean Griffiths points out, cute semi-detached housing might make for aesthetically pleasing New Urbanist cities, but it is not sustainable as a dominant mode of architecture within the 21st century city. Density is the only answer, not only for social and environmental reasons, but because th ...
  • You: Worse for Animals Than Chernobyl
    Where is this amazing photo of a wolf near a wetland taken? Chernobyl. As has been noted before, the most militarized parts of the earth (the DMZ for instance) and the most contaminated parts of the earth are the best places on the planet for wildlife to survive. Why? Because the sheer existence ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

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

Red Ice Creations

  • "Gravitinos" - Will They Unlock the Mystery of ...
    Astrophysicists have known for the last 80 years that most of the universe consists of an unknown, dark matter. The solution to the mystery may now be just around the corner. "We are looking for a new member of our particle zoo in order to explain dark matter. We know that it is a very exotic be ...
  • “Guard cats” in public service
    The State Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg ‘hires’ cats to protect its artworks against rodents. The so-called ‘guard cats’ go unnoticed as they dwell in the attics and basements, away from the tourist eye. The museum administration has been ‘employing’ these highly skillful ‘guards’ ever since ...
  • The Conflict in Mali Has Nothing to Do With Fi ...
    Another Western nation and former colonial power, has engaged in yet another conflict with an African country, bombing from the air and attacking from the ground. We are told that France is fighting in Mali to push back ’Islamist’ rebels (not too comfortable with the word ’Islamist’, I’ve never ...
  • David Cameron pledges referendum on EU (He won ...
    Britain’s prime minister has promised a referendum on whether the UK should stay in the European Union or leave if he wins the next election. EU membership has sparked heated debate in the UK for four decades. Now with the anti-EU party UKIP making headway David Cameron has promised a straight ‘ ...
  • Escaping the Clutches of Helplessness
    We can all feel fragile at times, fading feebly in and out like a tiny sparkle in the vast firmament. It’s easy then to feel helpless, overlooked, insignificant, and unappreciated. An entanglement in helpless feelings can certainly dampen our light, leaving us afraid to be venturesome. We can fe ...

Russia Today

  • Up in arms: Turkey Patriots ready by weekend a ...
    Patriot missile batteries sent to Turkey from NATO countries will start operating this weekend, despite continuing protests from local activists unhappy at their deployment. In the latest incident German troops were... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Central banking with ‘other people's gold’: A ...
    Germany is repatriating its gold reserves from the New York Federal Reserve. This decision has created a frenzy in the gold market. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘Bible-burning fest’: Calls to set alight Mala ...
    Leaflets inviting people to a “Bible-burning festival” have stirred outrage in Malaysia. This coincided with a nationalist group leader urging to “seize and burn” Malay-language Bibles, prompting calls for his... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Syrian rebels burn and plunder religious sites ...
    Syrian rebels have looted and burned minority religious sites in Northern Syria, US-based Human Rights Watch says. The attacks highlight the increasingly sectarian nature of the conflict as the bloodshed continues... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Desert is their land: ‘French up against Mali ...
    A successful advance of French troops in Mali has prompted hopes in the Malian command that the war could be over within a month. But freelance journalist Andy Morgan tells RT France is yet to taste the might of... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Manti Te’o mistery phone paramour is a l ...
    You’d think that Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o would be overjoyed to learn his internet girlfriend’s death was a hoax, that the person with whom he spent days and nights on the phone is alive and well, even if her name isn’t Lennay Kekua. If it’s true the NFL hot ...
  • Inspired by Lance Armstrong confession, dope G ...
    Lance Armstrong appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Confessional TV franchise to admit he doped and lied. If Oprah polled her television audience for who should be next episode’s guest star, it might be Manti Te’o to explain that his fake internet beard. But imagine the ratings if Opra ...
  • Can Idle No More First Nations assert their so ...
    Here’s an idea for First Nations rattling their chains with IDLE NO MORE. Declare your sovereignty for real. “Sovereignty” has become a meaningless descriptor, now counting puppet states of Iraq and Afghanistan. How did we expect George W. Bush to explain what sovereignty meant ...
  • Zero Dark Thirty has critics protesting that t ...
    Protest torture, don’t protest Zero Dark Thirty’s depiction of torture as working, even if the public account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden holds that it did not. Who’s your source for that, the CIA? No doubt countless plenty were tortured elsewhere in the actual narrative. H ...
  • MIT drives Aaron Swartz to suicide, JSTOR only ...
    RSS pioneer and Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz, age 26, found hanged. Swartz was facing 35 years for hacking, aka liberating MIT research archives buried behind a pay-wall, often to the frustration of their own authors. You might think schools of higher learning are in favor of disseminating know ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Quotes Rant
    Ok, this is getting ridiculous! Why the hell would Albert Einstein ever say that?! He was a physicist, not a botanist! I found this image on the front page of David Icke's site and it's obvious from the file name that it came Facebook - probably some "truth" page. I called BS immediately ...
  • NIST FAIL! The science of denial...
  • Rebuttal to Myles Power - Molten Aluminum?
    Related Info: Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOSMpf6br1k My detailed response: http://adamtaylor42.blogspot.com/2012/12/taylor-contra-powers.html(Also posted at the Debunking the Debunkers blog: http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2012/12/taylor-contra-powers.html) High quality im ...
  • When Your Right You Don't Have to Worry About ...
    Spartans of Truth .... https://www.facebook.com/groups/183728944973010/ When I was in the second grade my teacher asked the entire class to raise their hands if they thought … "John ran." … was a sentence ... I proudly raised my hand because she had literally just got done telling us that it wa ...
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Survival launches 'Stop Complaining' ad for Ea ...
    Survival's new ad 'Stop Complaining' will bring global attention to the plight of Earth's most threatened tribe.© SurvivalHuman rights organization Survival International has launched a worldwide advertising campaign to raise awareness of the plight of the Awá tribe in Brazil ...
  • Victory for ‘human safari’ campaign as court b ...
    The campaign against 'human safaris' to the Jarawa tribe has won an important victory.© SurvivalSurvival International’s campaign to stop ‘human safaris’ in India’s Andaman Islands has gained an important victory, after the Supreme Court banned tourists from traveling along the road wh ...
  • Indigenous protests sweep Canada
    Idle no more protesters marching in Victoria, BC, December 21, 2012.© r.a. paterson/ Creative Commons LicenseNative people across Canada have blockaded roads, bridges and railway lines as part of the grass-roots indigenous movement Idle No More. From British Columbia, where dozens of protesters ...
  • Showdown on tribal rights in India
    Former Minister Jairam Ramesh meets Dongria and Majhi Kondh leaders© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalAs India’s Supreme Court case over Vedanta Resources’ proposed mine on the land of the Dongria Kondh tribe draws to a close, a showdown on tribal rights is brewing. The case of the Niyamgiri mine is curre ...
  • Bushman children arrested under renewed govern ...
    The recent arrests of children by paramilitary police are the latest sign of a renewed government crackdown in the CKGR. © SurvivalThree Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who h ...

Greg Palast

  • Assault Gun Ban - Weapon of Mass Distraction
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine George Bush told America he'd keep us safe from terrorists by having us take off our shoes at the airport. Yesterday, Barack Obama again took the Oath of Office. And this Obama 2.0 is also going to save America from insane killers – by limiting ammo clips to ten ...
  • Alex Jones, Guns, Piers Morgan – and My Penis
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine This is the first of Palast's weekly columns for VICE – beginning with a bang: a four-part series on Alex Jones, guns, Piers Morgan and Palast's penis. PART ONE: ALEX JONES VERSUS DOWNTON ABBEY Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chai ...
  • Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers – and it's the ketchup. [As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, ...
  • 'The Assassination of Hugo Chavez' Download th ...
    Over the years many things have been said about Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez but rarely has the true story of the man Pat Robertson called "a dangerous enemy" been told - that's what I've done in The Assassination of Hugo Chavez. Since the main stream media has decided that Chavez is "a rui ...
  • The Obligatory, End of the Year Top 10 List
    Here's the stories the got the most attention in 2012 The Palast Investigative Fund was quite effective this year. Vulture funds were banned, election theft made national headlines, and we outed gov't profiteer posing as a candidate. Oh, and our little book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits hit ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Update: Vaccine Court Awards
    Jan 20, 2013, Alex Jones Show: Dr. Wakefield on Alex Jones Talks About the Recent Awards Given Children with Autism as a Result of the MMR Vaccine MIKE ADAMS INTERVIEWS ANDREW WAKEFIELD Dr. Wakefield on his lawsuit against Brian Deer...
  • Barbara Loe Fisher on IOM Vaccine Report
    By Anne Dachel The news that the Institute of Medicine has again cleared vaccines of safety concerns hit the media last week. It reminds me of the famous 2004 IOM Report that was supposed to end the debate over vaccines...
  • Dachel Media Update: Employment, Flu Shot Alte ...
    Jan 22, 2013, NJ.com: Employment training center for adults with autism opens in Hamilton Jan 21, 2013, NBC News: Jan 16, 2013, WAOW Stevens Points (WI): Some recommend flu shot alternatives NJ.com “A new employment training center will open here...
  • Mercury Laden Vaccines Exempted From Mercury T ...
    Managing Editor's Note: The American Academy of Pediatrics has won the fight to keep mercury in vaccines exported around the globe. The AAP has all but disavowed the 1999 decision to remove mercury from pediatric vaccinations as stated in Ban...
  • Dear President Obama: From American Autism Fam ...
    By Kim Stagliano Yesterday President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term as POTUS. The President looks older, with more than a touch a gray, which seems to be the case with each second term President....

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Magazine editor jailed for defaming Thai king
    ABC – A former Thai magazine editor has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for defaming the country’s king. Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, 51, was charged in April 2011 with lese majeste over two articles published in the now-closed Voice Of Taksin magazine. The magazine was shut down by Th ...
  • Australia: Aspirin linked to age-related blindness
    ABC – Sydney researchers say they have found a link between aspirin and age-related blindness. Aspirin is used to treat heart diseases, arthritis and other conditions, but researchers have now raised concerns about regular use of the drug. Read article
  • Japan’s money-printing plan
    Independent – Japan will embark on a “bold”, unlimited money-printing programme next year, the Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, said today. The “monetary regime change” sees the Bank of Japan adopt the same strategy as the US Federal Reserve, which has committed to unlim ...
  • JPMorgan Embraces Offshore Yuan as Trading Doubles
    Bloomberg – Standard Chartered Plc estimates offshore trading of yuan has doubled to at least $6 billion a day, giving investors more confidence to invest in the currency using options, forwards and Dim Sum bonds. Average daily transactions in Hong Kong surged from $3 billion in the past y ...
  • Australia: Cancer-causing toxin found in Gipps ...
    ABC – The Victorian Health Department has found low levels of a cancer-causing toxin in fish caught in the Gippsland Lakes. The nodular toxin was found in fish affected by a blue-green algae bloom detected in a small area of the lakes before Christmas. Read aritcle

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • How far would you go?
    When you complete daily actions to earn points, you climb the virtual mountain and can win prizes! Ascend the 7 routes of Kilimanjaro and along the way qualify to win prizes from HP, Intel, P&G, KLM and Eddie Bauer. The more points you have, the better your chances to win the ultimate grand priz ...
  • Household Water in Ongata Rongai
    When individuals lack household access to water, they must purchase it from another source. This water cart was selling water for 15-20 KES (USD $0.18 and $0.24) per 20 liters in a neighborhood in Ongata Rongai, Kenya. (The average income per person in Kenya is $2.25 per day. Source: The Wor ...
  • Rainwater Harvesting
    Tabitha is a 28 year old primary school graduate living within Rongai town. She lives on a 1-acre farm with her husband’s family and their 4 year old daughter. The family’s semi-permanent (corrugated sheet metal walled) bungalow houses 5 adults and 2 children, which is connected to the electrici ...
  • How far would you go?
    SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT is an initiative designed to drive awareness and change to the global clean water crisis while engaging a community around the issue. By taking cultural influencers, educators and high profile individuals to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, SUMMIT joins the movement to bring clea ...
  • A safe drink of water
    Mrs. Rangamma and her family members used to drink water directly from the tap in front of the house that was then stored inside. However, the water was not safe for drinking as Mysore City Corporation is not using proper methods of water purification. Rangamma used to find a white layer of cont ...

Cryptogon

  • Momentum Machines Robots Will Prepare Hamburge ...
    Via: The National: Funded by San Francisco’s Lemnos Labs, it has developed a robot designed to take the place of humans in burger restaurants. Its creators believe their patty-flipping Alpha robot could save the fast-food industry in the United States about US$9 billion a year. Designed to ...
  • Around 800 European Children Have Developed Na ...
    When I posted about this story back in October 2011, there were 79 victims in Finland. And now… Via: Reuters: Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she’s often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barel ...
  • Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Com ...
    Via: Independent Science News: In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene (Podev ...
  • U.S. Begins Transporting French Troops, Equipm ...
    Via: Reuters: The United States has started transporting French soldiers and equipment to Mali as part of its logistical aid to French forces fighting Islamist militants in the north of the country, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. Paris has launched a military campaign against Islamist fighters ...
  • Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill ...
    Via: Wired: The man in charge of America’s drone wars will face Senate questioning about perhaps their most controversial aspect: when the president can target American citizens for death. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter on Monday to John Brennan, the White House’s counterterrorism adviser ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...
  • 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Oba ...
    The mainstream media covered the inauguration of Barack Obama with breathless anticipation on Monday, but should we really be celebrating another four years of Obama?  The truth is that the first four years of Obama were an absolute train wreck for the U.S. economy.  Over the past four years, th ...
  • The Sovereign Debt Bubble Will Continue To Exp ...
    Why are so many politicians around the world declaring that the debt crisis is "over" when debt to GDP ratios all over the planet continue to skyrocket?  The global economy has never seen anything like the sovereign debt bubble that we are experiencing today.  The United States, Japan, and nearl ...
  • Do You Want To Scare A Baby Boomer?
    If you want to frighten Baby Boomers, just show them the list of statistics in this article.  The United States is headed for a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and we are woefully unprepared for it.  At this point, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every sing ...

Desertification

  • 12 Common Drought Tolerant Vegetables (Veggie ...
    Read at : http://www.veggiegardener.com/try-using-these-drought-tolerant-vegetables/ If you love to grow great tasting vegetables but live in a very drought-prone region, there are some delicious vegetables that are just right for you. You could be the vegetable gardener that is tired of … ...
  • Food insecurity in N. Mali (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97320/Food-insecurity-the-next-crisis-for-northern-Mali Food insecurity the next crisis for northern Mali Many more northern Malians are likely to face severe food shortages in the coming days and weeks if markets remain blocked by border and road closure ...
  • New ways to fight desertification (Israel Min. ...
    Read at : http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/InnovativeIsrael/Fighting-desertification-13-Jan-2013.htm In search of new ways to fight desertification Israel’s Fourth International Conference on Drylands, Deserts and Desertification drew more than 500 participants from 60 countries. By Patricia Golan Near ...
  • Nations to acquire quality agricultural land f ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130122142845.htm First Global Assessment of Land and Water ‘Grabbing’ 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 ga ...
  • Plants can adapt to extreme shifts in water av ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130122143222.htm Plant Water Demands Shift With Water Availability Jan. 22, 2013 — Plants can adapt to extreme shifts in water availability, such as drought and flooding, but their ability to withstand these extreme patterns will be tested & ...

The Paper Trail

Empty newsfeed.

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Budapest: Thirty housing rights activists arrested
    1.jpg On the 19th January 2013, homeless activists and their allies squatted an empty building in the 7th district of Budapest. The squatters demanded the institutionalization of a right to housing an ...
  • Two anarchists defending tenants from eviction ...
    On January 19th, 39 activists were arrested in central Moscow, with anarchists among them. They were involved in a campaign protecting tenants from raiders. Next morning they were released, but two activists were then re-arrested and taken to the Khamovn ...
  • Northern Ireland flag protests the politics of ...
    northern_ireland_protests_belfast_13.jpg On December 3rd Belfast City Council decided, by 29 votes to 21, to reduce the number of days the Union flag was flown above the city hall from 365 to 17 days ...
  • Milton Santos settlement threatened with eviction!
    agirmiltonsantos.png The Milton Santos Settlement in Brazil is threatened with eviction after a struggle of more than 10 years for acquiring and maintaning their land. At this point, the struggle for ...
  • Greek anarchists on anarchist movement in Greece
    307601_499261106763538_1024574500_n[1].jpg Last weekend in the largest show of strength in over a decade thousands of anarchist marched to protest against the violent eviction of the squats of Villa A ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Henry Makow Blockbuster: “Confessions o ...
    This post is an expansion of my earlier writing: http://atrueott.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/another-christian-red-edomite-alert-the-symbolism-of-9-11-memorial/ I’ll try to make this as simple and as uncomplicated as possible. Three truths: 1. The guiding “book” for the Edomite &# ...
  • Why Edomites Kane and Horowitz HATE Dr. A. Tru ...
    Today, a reader of this blog posted the following: Hi Dr. Ott: Have you seen this pathetic 6-page “open” letter dated 1/19/13 by SHERRI KANE to Lt. Paul Vance of Sandy Hook fame? It’s nasty & includes hate-info re you along with others (Rense, Duff, Adachi, etc.): http://gallery.mailchimp.co ...
  • Manti Te-o Hoax and Sandy Hook – Line &# ...
    America has become the Land of Hoaxes.   Recently, there is the Manti Te-o hoax.  There is the Lies of Lance [Armstrong] hoax.   Talk about “Dreamland”!  Is there ANYTHING that is “real” anymore, or is the collective American psyche controlled by the fiction of Hollywood ...
  • Banning ANY Gun = Despotism and Loss of Freedom
  • Redeemer, Savior, FRIEND
    This morning I was looking through a songbook, playing through potential songs to work on with my fellow Christian worship team members. I came across an incredible song (new to me) titled simply “Redeemer, Savior, Friend”. As I sat at my piano, and played the notes, the WORDS of thi ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • 2 Topics Near and Dear to My Heart
    Missouri Farmers and Renewable Energy Information ADDITIONAL FARM REVENUE FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES The following information covers topics that are very dear to my heart. 1) Clean Energy and 2) Farming / Ranching. For everyone who has not read the About Me Page; I was raised on a 4,000 acre ...
  • Question:Whats Better Than a Clean Energy Sola ...
    ANSWER: A CLEAN ENERGY PRODUCING SYSTEM THAT IS MADE IN AMERICA! Support America by buying American Products! Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy is Proud to Offer: American Made Solar Equipment Q:Whats Better Than a Clean Energy Solar System?A: Clean Energy Producing System that is Ma ...
  • Why Canadian Tar Sands are the Most Environmen ...
    Our report reveals the following startling facts about the tar sands and petcoke. Petcoke in the tar sands is turning American refineries into coal factories. There is 24 percent more CO2 embedded in a barrel of tar sands bitumen than in a barrel of light oil. 15 to 30 percent of a barrel o ...
  • How to Power 100 Percent of the World’s Electr ...
    A new report released on the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit today, shows that even if all electricity is to be generated through renewable energy (RE) sources, and with solar photovoltaics (PV) alone, it would take up only an insignificant amount of total land area, contra ...
  • Solar Equipment-Typical St Louis Home-CAD Designs
    Installing a Renewable Energy Solar System in St Louis Missouri  CAD Examples and Components Needed for a Typical Roof Mount Solar System  provided by Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy CAD Diagram-Exterior View of Materials Needed Typical Solar Sy ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Dotcom Strikes Another Blow for Internet Freedom
    Kim Dotcom New Zealand Folk hero Kim Dotcom has struck another blow for Internet freedom by launching a new cloud file storage service, called MEGA, one year to the minute after the FBI shut down Megaupload, froze his funds and induced New Zealand security services to launch a SWAT team ra ...
  • How Cell Phones are Killing Off Honeybees
    If video fails to play, go to Resonance – Beings of Frequency (This is Part II of a two part film review of the 2012 documentary by British filmmaker James Russell. The first described the link between cell phone technology and the growing cancer epidemic.) Honey Bees and Migrator ...
  • Cell Phones, Cancer and Bee Colony Collapse Di ...
       If video fails to play, go to Resonance – Beings of Frequency (This is Part I of a two part film review of the two part documentary by British filmmaker James Russell) Resonance – Beings of Frequency is an informative, well-researched film about the growing numbe ...
  • Sign Petition Supporting Anonymous
    Anonymous, a loose knit group of Internet activists, has just posted a petition on the White House “We the People” website. It asks that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks be recognized as a legal form of protest. They compare it to the way Occupy protestors occupied ...
  • The PKK Assassination in Paris
    Sakine Cansiz Somehow I find myself on the mailing list of the PKK (the Kurdish Workers Party), which is engaged in an armed struggle against Turkey for an autonomous Kurdistan and cultural and political rights for all Turkish Kurds. According to Wikipedia, international human rights grou ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Top Wall Street Banker: "It's a Shame We Can't ...
    In his new book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President, Ron Suskind describes the perspective of a top Wall Street banker on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the Obama administration in September, 2009, soon after Obama delivered a speech about financial refo ...
  • Milhous, in Three Acts
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore ACT I: Nixon’s the One Every good Catholic blamed Lyndon Johnson for Kennedy’s death. Not that he had anything to do with the actual assassination (though there were those who believed he did). But we all kne ...
  • Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Supporting ...
    From The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Almost from the beginning, Kissinger had secretly had all his telephone calls, including those with the President, monitored and transcribed... Nixon was often on the phone with Kissinger for fifteen minutes or longer. The President was r ...
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...
    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Russia Orders Obama: Tell World About Aliens, ...
    A stunning Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) report on Prime Minister Medvedev’s [photo top right] agenda at the World Economic Forum (WEF) this week states that Russia will warn President Obama that the “time has come” for the world to know the truth about aliens, and if the United States won’t ...
  • 25 Signs American Women Are Being Destroyed
    Has the sexual revolution been good for American women? Not at all. In fact, when you look at the facts it becomes clear that the sexual revolution has been an absolute disaster for American women. In the United States today, men have been trained to primarily view women as sex objects, and our ...
  • Italian Colosseum restorers uncover old fresco ...
    A restoration in the Italian most famous and historical monument Colosseum has yielded ancient traces of colorful frescoes as well as graffiti and drawings. The restorers cleaning the Colosseum discovered the artworks in the internal passageway, between the second and third levels of the first C ...
  • Philippines takes China to international court ...
    The Philippines will sue China over its claim on disputed territory in the South China Sea. This is the first legal case over land to be launched against the Asian powerhouse, despite a number of current territorial rows with neighbors. The Philippines Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario announc ...
  • Iran to unveil space observatory in early February
    Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says the country will unveil its first space observatory early next month when it marks the victory in 1979 of the Islamic Revolution. “During Ten-Day Dawn [festivities], a space observatory, named after [the sixth Shiite imam] Imam Sadeq (P ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Synthetic double-helix faithfully stores Shake ...
    This information should last for millennia under cold, dry and dark conditions, says Goldman, as is evident from the recovery of readable DNA from long-extinct animals. "The experiment was done 60,000 years ago when a mammoth died and lay there in the ice," he says. "And those weren't even caref ...
  • Subway Hero Describes Saving Man From Tracks: ...
    The incident happened around 4 p.m. on Friday at the Lexington Avenue / 59th Street Station in Manhattan. Ocasio, who works at the law firm Kirkland and Ellis, had gotten out of work early that day, and was listening to music while waiting for the N/Q train to come when he saw people rushing pa ...
  • Senate Democrats Moving Quickly on Judicial No ...
    Five federal judicial nominees got a nomination hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a sign that Democrats will continue to push aggressively to reduce the historically high number of vacancies on the federal bench. - BLT
  • What Justice Thomas Said
    What does an official U.S. Supreme Court oral argument transcript have in common with the Congressional Record (at least if you're a Justice)? Apparently you can revise and extend your remarks. See page 42 of the newly revised official transcript of oral argument in Boyer v. Louisiana, No. 11-99 ...
  • KBOX a miniature Linux distribution integrate ...
    KBOX is a project to create a miniature Linux distribution for non-rooted (i.e., unmodified) Android devices, integrated directly into Jack Palevich's Android terminal emulator (see here). Installing the Android package (see below) gives you the terminal emulator, a decent set of Linux utilities ...

WideShut

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. [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

  • under-unionised work force not an asset
    Hey the world – New Zealanders are smart but poorly paid and not that many are protected by unions. Wahay come on down and go for it! I’ll change the laws to make it even better for y’all!!! LOL Yours sincerely, John Key. The New Zealand Herald today reported how John Key sees the lack [...]
  • A tour of Auckland’s housing challenges
    Housing affordability has been a hot topic lately, especially in Auckland, so I spent yesterday touring various Auckland suburbs, looking at some great - and some not so great - examples of affordable, efficient housing and discussing potential solutions to the exploding crisis in housing cost a ...
  • The Routeburn tunnel – National Parks or ...
    Birdsong should not be replaced by the sound of diggers in our National Parks. Promoters claim that the Department of Conservation (DoC) will soon decide whether Milford Dart Ltd’s application for a proposed 11.3km private bus tunnel from the Glenorchy end of the Routeburn track to the Hol ...
  • Reshuffle musical chairs – who cares?
    How interesting is it for most people that Ministers who earn fat six figure pay-packets played musical chairs with their jobs today? Commentators have labelled John Key’s Cabinet reshuffle “dramatic” and “bold” but really all he is doing is swapping a few roles around between his MPs who have f ...
  • General debate, January 20, 2013

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Wake-Up Call: FDA Pushes Drugmakers To Weaken ...
    By Dr. Mercola Ambien, Edluar, Zolpimist and other drugs that contain the active ingredient zolpidem are the most widely used sleeping pills in the United States. In 2011 alone, an estimated 40 million prescriptions for such drugs were dispensed.1 These drugs have long been linked to “ ...
  • Americans are Less Healthy, and Die Sooner Tha ...
    By Dr. Mercola According to a new health analysis bearing the revealing title: US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health1, Americans come in dead last in a comparison of 17 affluent nations. The research was unable to uncover any single cause or “rallying ...
  • During One of the Worst Flu Seasons, is the Fl ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.comBy Dr. Mercola More people than ever are reportedly sick this winter,1 including those who got their flu vaccination. But while the push for vaccination reaches a fever pitch, the hard evidence has yet again shown that flu vaccines rarely work, a ...
  • Mercury Pollution and Prenatal Exposure
    By Dr. Mercola Every year, up to 2 million children in the European Union (EU) are born with methylmercury exposures that exceed the EU’s safe limit. Of them, 200,000 have levels above the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended maximum for mercury exposures, which means the ...
  • Sweetened Drinks Associated with Increased Dep ...
    By Dr. Mercola Foods have an immense impact on your body and your brain, and eating whole foods as described in my nutrition plan is the best way to support your mental and physical health. Avoiding sugar (particularly fructose) and artificial sweeteners is in my view, based on the evidenc ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Survival launches 'Stop Complaining' ad for Ea ...
    Survival's new ad 'Stop Complaining' will bring global attention to the plight of Earth's most threatened tribe.© SurvivalHuman rights organization Survival International has launched a worldwide advertising campaign to raise awareness of the plight of the Awá tribe in Brazil ...
  • Victory for ‘human safari’ campaign as court b ...
    The campaign against 'human safaris' to the Jarawa tribe has won an important victory.© SurvivalSurvival International’s campaign to stop ‘human safaris’ in India’s Andaman Islands has gained an important victory, after the Supreme Court banned tourists from traveling along the road wh ...
  • Indigenous protests sweep Canada
    Idle no more protesters marching in Victoria, BC, December 21, 2012.© r.a. paterson/ Creative Commons LicenseNative people across Canada have blockaded roads, bridges and railway lines as part of the grass-roots indigenous movement Idle No More. From British Columbia, where dozens of protesters ...
  • Showdown on tribal rights in India
    Former Minister Jairam Ramesh meets Dongria and Majhi Kondh leaders© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalAs India’s Supreme Court case over Vedanta Resources’ proposed mine on the land of the Dongria Kondh tribe draws to a close, a showdown on tribal rights is brewing. The case of the Niyamgiri mine is curre ...
  • Bushman children arrested under renewed govern ...
    The recent arrests of children by paramilitary police are the latest sign of a renewed government crackdown in the CKGR. © SurvivalThree Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who h ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Charbonneau Commission’s mandate mu ...
    The larger problem with the Charbonneau Commission is starting to look conceptual, having to do with what it can and cannot investigate.
  • Editorial: If 2013 is to be a year of reform, ...
    Generally speaking, 2012 might be said to have been the year of red squares and brown envelopes. Both were symbolic of things going badly in Montreal.
  • Editorial: Poll confirms sovereignist movement ...
    The separatist movement’s problem is not so much that it is divided into partisan factions , but that most Quebecers aren’t interested in what it’s peddling.
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...

Food World Order

  • Regulators Discover Hidden Viral Gene in Comme ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Independent Science News:  In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fra ...
  • Evidence Grows for Narcolepsy Link to GSK Swin ...
    from health.yahoo.net: Emelie is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she's often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school or having fun with friends. She is only 14, but at times she has w ...
  • Nurses Fired for Refusing Flu Shot
    from news.yahoo.com: An Indiana hospital has fired eight employees, including at least three veteran nurses, after they refused mandatory flu shots, stirring up controversy over which should come first: employee rights or patient safety. The hospital imposed mandatory vaccines, responding to ...
  • Urban Farm generates 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10 ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Over 6,000 pounds of food per year, on 1/10 acre located just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Dervaes family grows over 400 species of plants, 4,300 pounds of vegetable food, 900 chicken and 1,000 duck eggs, 25 lbs of honey, plus seasonal fruits throughout ...
  • Case Dismissed! Texas Ends 15-Year Fight Again ...
    from mercola.com: After a grueling 15-year long battle, the Texas Medical Board has officially ended its crusade to revoke Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski's medical license in an effort to end his use of Antineoplastons, as well as his combination gene-targeted therapy for cancer. The T ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...
  • 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Oba ...
    The mainstream media covered the inauguration of Barack Obama with breathless anticipation on Monday, but should we really be celebrating another four years of Obama?  The truth is that the first four years of Obama were an absolute train wreck for the U.S. economy.  Over the past four years, th ...
  • The Sovereign Debt Bubble Will Continue To Exp ...
    Why are so many politicians around the world declaring that the debt crisis is "over" when debt to GDP ratios all over the planet continue to skyrocket?  The global economy has never seen anything like the sovereign debt bubble that we are experiencing today.  The United States, Japan, and nearl ...
  • Do You Want To Scare A Baby Boomer?
    If you want to frighten Baby Boomers, just show them the list of statistics in this article.  The United States is headed for a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and we are woefully unprepared for it.  At this point, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every sing ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Valve Now Actively Promoting Steam for Linux, ...
    This has been an amazing turn of events. Until an year or two ago, Valve Inc. was a company popular among Windows users primarily. A great number of Linux users maintained a dual boot system with Windows on it because of the lack of good games for Linux, especially those from the Steam library ...
  • A 10.1 inch Tablet that Dual-Boots Android 4.0 ...
    Kite (Nibbio in Italian) is a Full-HD tablet made by little known Italian electronics firm, DaVinci Mobile Technology. Kite tablet will be powered by Samsung Exynos 4412 quad-core processor and is supposedly going to dual boot latest stable versions of Ubuntu and Android, an idea no oth ...
  • Top 5 Fast, Lightwieght and Free Android Launchers
    First, we introduced you to a chosen collection of 6 awesome launchers for Android. Then we featured 3 more launchers tailor-made for Android 4.0 ICS+ operating system. Since then, a lot of our readers have been asking for more lightweight alternatives to the ones we already featured. SPB Shel ...
  • Ubuntu Phone OS Demo at CES 2013: Showcases Ca ...
    Yet another video is up showcasing several new features of Ubuntu Phone OS. While the first video, demoed by Mark Shuttleworth himself, illustrated how slick the OS has become since it was announced, the second video here features default Camera and Photo apps, Facebook integration and brill ...
  • Mark Shuttleworth Demos Ubuntu for Phones at C ...
    Ubuntu for Phones was announced with much fanfare just a few days ago. While the OS is still in pre-alpha state, there are already videos of the same running on various hardware. Initial videos showed how a pre-alpha software looks like, very buggy and quite unusable, so to speak. But this lat ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • AUSTRIANS VOTE BY TWO THIRDS FOR DRAFT ARMY IN ...
    *Austrians vote overwhelmingly to keep conscription in historic referendum and triumph for direct democracy *Mainstream media propaganda machine suffers death blow as new style of political campaign emerges *Politicians use internet to connect with grass roots, bypass corporate media *Austria&#8 ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | A Smorgasbord of Sh*t from D ...
    By Visible I’ve been told the Kali Yuga is over. Apparently, the temporal zone hasn’t gotten the memo yet. How can something be over if it is still happening? It must be one of those Zen things. Psychopathic behavior is still freewheeling down the boulevard of broken dreams and all t ...
  • 20 ways to become more self-sufficient before ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) One thing you don’t want to be during the coming “crunch” — a polite word for “collapse” — is dependent on the system. The more you can take care of yourself, the better off you’ll be physically, finan ...
  • Sandy Hook Investigation – Joyce Riley I ...
    Joyce Riley Interviews Mike Powers Sandy Hook Investigation (Edited version no commercials) – YouTube.
  • Weather – Sudden stratospheric warming r ...
    That’s right, folks.  The cold weather in Europe is caused by…you guessed it…warming!!!! By John Hammond BBC Weather Peter Gibbs explains sudden stratospheric warming and why it’s often linked to outbreaks of cold weather. A snowy chill has arrived across the UK, with all ...
  • Lupe Fiasco – Words I Never Said
    Grammy-nominated rapper Lupe Fiasco was escorted off the stage of StartUp’s Rock On inauguration event while performing the antiwar song, “Words I Never Said”.   Organizers claim that the audience was not happy with Fiasco’s choice of music.  Given that Lupe is an outspok ...

Veterans Today

  • Veterans Jobs Bill Introduced
    Legislation to help veterans find jobs was introduced yesterday in a package of top-priority bills filed on the first legislative business day of the new session of Congress.
  • US Weaves Nuclear Fairy Tale on Iran
    By Dr. Ismail Salami   In a 155-page report, four US nuclear experts have called upon the Obama administration to impose tougher economic sanctions against Iran and resort to overt operations through using warplanes and missiles on Iranian nuclear sites. Apart from the fact that morbid mind ...
  • Israeli Election: Time to bin Left and Right T ...
    Israel is concerned solely with the interests of the chosen people and the results of the Israeli election confirms this. All we see is a vacuous competition between different Judeo-centric narratives.
  • Netanyahu Rejects Palestinian Sovereignty and ...
    On January 20, Netanyahu said no to independent Palestine, yes to settlement expansions. More on that below.
  • ADL Owns www.ratfacedjews.com
    Nazi Website Used to Scare Jews, Launder Cash — By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor — A forensic search of www.ratfacedjews.com, www.thejewishproblem.com and dozens of ...

electric politics

  • Wampum Wranglers
    So Mr. O won't mint the magic coin. He says. Well, good luck to him, then, getting the Southern secessionists to grovel. More's the pity, though, that neither side have a clue what they're talking about. Essentially, they're disputing the finer points of a primitive theory of value: call it wamp ...
  • Speaking Truth
    These days, the only reasonable thing to say to Power is, "Here's the arrest warrant, please come quietly." But Speaking Truth, that's a different story. We speak truth to affirm and reaffirm who and what we are, what the reality of the world is, and why it is the way it is. Not an easy task &md ...
  • Counting Electors
    If the Republican Party were to adopt a scorched earth policy — counting electors one way in certain swing states and another way in solid red states — they could conceivably lock in a Republican presidential win for the next several election cycles. As a practical matter it would no ...
  • Constitutional Wrinkles
    Americans have been brainwashed into thinking we have the greatest system of government in the world. Arguably, however, much the opposite is true. In practical terms our system is neither democratic nor representative, when, that is, it works at all. But the Constitution has become America's ci ...
  • Three Truths and a Lie
    'Tis the season for... reflections on life. And death. Yet death often feels ominously dark, especially when a young person dies before their time. It's difficult, in such circumstances, to remember that darkness isn't all bad — indeed, there's reason to believe it may be a source of enlig ...

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Stop NATO

  • Turks Rally Against NATO Missile Deployment Ne ...
    Voice of Russia January 23, 2013 Residents of Turkish province say no to NATO’s Patriots Part of the NATO Patriot anti-missile complexes, which were requested by Ankara from the Alliance, has already arrived in Turkey. They are planned to be deployed near the border with Syria, ostensibly to pro ...
  • Atlantic Values: Bahrain’s King Receives ...
    Bahrain News Agency January 22, 2013 HM the King receives NATO delegation Then-NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Foreign Minister of Bahrain Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa in 2008 Manama: His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa today received at Sakhir Palace th ...
  • Romain Rolland: To the undying Antigone; wagin ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland To the Undying Antigone (1915) Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul The most potent action within the competence of us all, men and women alike, is individual action, the actio ...
  • Mali: France’s New Afghanistan
    Global Times January 22, 2013 Hollande has set alarming precedent for intervention By He Wenping* Edited by RR ==== Mali: U.S. Africa Command’s New War? Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African Standby Force ==== Since France launched military strikes against Mali rebels on January 11 ...
  • Kosovo: NATO’s Neo-Nazi Clients On New R ...
    Beta News Agency January 22, 2013 KPS suspend members over WW2 memorial incident Source: Beta PRIŠTINA: The Kosovo police, KPS, have announced that five of their members were suspended over an incident that occurred on Monday in the town of Vitina. They include the police station and operations ...

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Intel Hub

  • Radio: Beck to Use Straw Man Arguments to Debu ...
    Shepard Ambellas | There is no doubt that famous radio talk show host Glenn Beck will be running a show debunking Sandy Hook "conspiracy theories" using straw man arguments to avoid answering legitimate questions on mainstream media.
  • CIA Media Infiltration & Operation Mockingbird
    theintelhub.com January 23, 2012 From RT: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin takes a look at America’s history of government infiltration in news media citing the CIA’s secret cold-war program dubbed Operation Mockingbird.
  • Brave New World: Oxford Professor Says Genetic ...
    By Aaron Jackson Waking Times January 23, 2012 Genetically screening our offspring to make them better people is just “responsible parenting”, claims an eminent Oxford academic, The Telegraph reports. Professor Julian Savulescu, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics, said that creatin ...
  • Founding Fathers Battle Gun Grabbers From the ...
    Their Own Quotes Prove They Wanted Americans Armed, and Government Restrained By Aaron Dykes Infowars.com January 22, 2012 The Founding Fathers agree: an armed population makes good government. Numerous quotes from the revolutionary era make their intent extremely clear — that individuals were m ...
  • Unreal: US Court Rules Against Reclassificatio ...
    Activist Post January 22, 2013 The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling today in the medical marijuana reclassification case, Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration. In a 2-1 decision, the Court granted standing in the case — the right to brin ...

FRS

  • In The US, Mass Child Killings Are Tragedies. ...
    George Monbiot, The Guardian, Monday 17 December 2012   [A memorial to the victims of the Sandy Hook school shootings in Connecticut. The children killed by US drones in north-west Pakistan 'have no names, no pictures, no memorials of candles and teddy bears'. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty.] “ ...
  • The barbaric comprador monarchy of Saudi Arabi ...
    [That barbarism, feudalism, monarchism, and imperialism present an undivided front of arrogant impunity--of acting like nothing's wrong--is shocking and disgusting, but expected, given their history and nature.  But that the story is so hidden, in the highly touted "information age," is a shamef ...
  • How to Avoid “Stop and Frisk”
    Filed under: Abusive Police, African-Americans, Black Liberation Movement, Chicano, Government Repression, Racism, U.S. Tagged: abusive, african-american, black people, brown people, human rights, NYPD, oppressed Afrikan people, police abuse, racial profiling, racism, stop and frisk
  • The Palestinian Prisoner’s Intifada
    A Leap of Faith Toward Freedom by RAMZY BAROUD, Counterpunch If Palestinian leaders only knew how extraneous their endless rounds of “unity” talks have become, they might cease their enthusiastic declarations to world media about yet another scheduled meeting or another. At this point, few Pales ...
  • The Palestinian Prisoner’s Intifada
    A Leap of Faith Toward Freedom by RAMZY BAROUD, Counterpunch If Palestinian leaders only knew how extraneous their endless rounds of “unity” talks have become, they might cease their enthusiastic declarations to world media about yet another scheduled meeting or another. At this point, few Pales ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • President Obama's Right: We're Made for This M ...
    At his second inauguration, President Barack H. Obama hit on something universal when he added a line apparently not in his prepared remarks.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 21, 2013
  • Congress Must Limit Executive Order Powers Now
    Congress needs to take steps now to define what the president can and cannot pass by executive order. President Obama's discussion about passing gun control legislation through executive order should be the catalyst.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 15, 2013
  • Cracking the Nut: Time for Gun Owners' Insurance
    A retired Navy commander may have come up with a very effective way to reign in our gun problem.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 11, 2013
  • Dismayingly, the Sandy Hook Elementary Conspir ...
    Proving that nothing can happen that does not attract the attention of conspiracy nuts, the Daily Caller reports that two fringe academics have announced that the official version of the Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre is not the correct one.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 10, 2013
  • The Debt Ceiling is Political Dynamite -- the ...
    It is wrong for congressional Republicans to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in deficit reduction negotiations. Their refusal to approve a debt ceiling increase with Democrats will spell doom for them in 2014.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 08, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Oddly Shaped DNA Structures Found In Human Cells
    We've seen 'G-quadruplex structures' before, but a new study shows they are much more prevalent in our genomes than we thought. The above is a digital model of DNA, but it’s probably not the DNA you’re familiar with. The double-helix structure of DNA and RNA--two strings of nucleic acids spiral ...
  • Flu Researchers Say: Let Us Get Back To Work S ...
    Virologists are ending their worldwide bird-flu research hiatus, but they need approval from U.S. funding agencies. One year after voluntarily pausing their work on airborne bird flu, an international group of flu researchers wants to get back to it, promising safeguards that will protect lab w ...
  • "Privacy Visor" Protects You From Facial Recog ...
    Spy-blocking goggles take camera-shyness to a new level. Worried about people stalking you on Facebook Graph Search? Soon you may be able to pose for every picture in a privacy visor that would prevent facial recognition software from identifying you in photographs. Japanese scientists are de ...
  • Can I Have A Pet Fox?
    How a furry-convention-attending, Midwestern-accented fox owner teamed up with a bizarre Floridian exotic animal importer and a Soviet geneticist to bring pet foxes to your living room. Do a YouTube search for pretty much any smallish animal you can think of and there'll be several videos of a ...
  • The Wheel Of Exotic Pets [Infographic]
    Want a pet bobcat? How about an adorable otter? Consult our Wheel of Exotic Pets to find out exactly how good or bad a pet these exotics would make. And don't forget to read our feature on the quest for a true pet fox.

Veterans Today

  • Veterans Jobs Bill Introduced
    Legislation to help veterans find jobs was introduced yesterday in a package of top-priority bills filed on the first legislative business day of the new session of Congress.
  • US Weaves Nuclear Fairy Tale on Iran
    By Dr. Ismail Salami   In a 155-page report, four US nuclear experts have called upon the Obama administration to impose tougher economic sanctions against Iran and resort to overt operations through using warplanes and missiles on Iranian nuclear sites. Apart from the fact that morbid mind ...
  • Israeli Election: Time to bin Left and Right T ...
    Israel is concerned solely with the interests of the chosen people and the results of the Israeli election confirms this. All we see is a vacuous competition between different Judeo-centric narratives.
  • Netanyahu Rejects Palestinian Sovereignty and ...
    On January 20, Netanyahu said no to independent Palestine, yes to settlement expansions. More on that below.
  • ADL Owns www.ratfacedjews.com
    Nazi Website Used to Scare Jews, Launder Cash — By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor — A forensic search of www.ratfacedjews.com, www.thejewishproblem.com and dozens of ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • In the big freeze - but for how long?
    Amounts of snow across some parts of our region are the deepest since December 2010, with 21 cms being reported at Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale at midday, and a notable 18 cms in the middle of Sheffield at Weston park. Waddington in Lincolnshire is reporting 14 cms of snow. There are some big ...
  • Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
    Many parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire had their first snowfall of the winter yesterday, with coastal areas suffering the largest falls with around 10cms (4 ins) of fresh snow being reported by yesterday evening. With high pressure developing across Scandinavia, cold air will be with us ...
  • Met Office scale back global warming forecast
    A new global temperature forecast published by the Met Office, through to 2017, has scaled back projections of the amount of warming they expect compared with previous estimates. The new projection can be seen below with more details on the Met Office website. I have written several times ...
  • Dry weather returns to UK following 2nd wettes ...
    2012 averaged across the UK was the second wettest on record in data which stretches back to 1910, falling short of a new record by only 6.6mm. In total 1330.7mm fell last year, compared with the average of 1154mm. A new record has been set across England and Wales with 1205mm of rain. And ...
  • How the Arctic may be impacting UK summers
    We may have to get used to wet summers like we've seen recently across the UK, according Dr Edward Hanna from Sheffield University in an interview which you can see on Inside Out and Look North tonight. According to Dr Hanna and an international team of scientists, melting summer Arctic ice ma ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • "Hurry Up and Die": Japan & the Cost of Eldercare
    Former Japanese PM and current Finance Minister Taro Aso has a novel way of dealing with Japan's increasing health care tab that may not resonate so well with their (obviously aging) electorate: "Heaven forbid if you are forced to live on when you want to die. I would wake up feeling increasing ...
  • Markets, Not China, Will Determine RMB Adoption
    I think this is a point we often forget when discussing "China's rise": while its government can tinker with several important factors that will affect RMB adoption alike its convertibility, its interest rate and even its pace of appreciation, markets will ultimately determine the pace at which ...
  • Britannia Forever: UK to Jilt EU for Commonwealth?
    The classic split within the British Conservative Party is reappearing with a vengeance: On one hand you have those wishing to leave the European Union altogether or severely dilute Britain's misplaced fealty to those supposedly usurping the last vestiges of the UK's sovereignty--AKA those facel ...
  • Victors and Vanquished: Korean Cars in Europe
    Seeing what Japanese carmakers did to the United States automobile industry during the Eighties, the Europeans have always been wary of the same story repeating itself in their part of the world. However, the remarkable thing for many years is that while Japanese brands have made inroads into th ...
  • Trash for Treasure: CenBanks Swapping $ for RMB
    The old saying goes "one man's trash may be another man's treasure." To be sure, there are any number of countries around the world that would welcome even dollar foreign exchange reserve assets. Think of Egypt. The happy-sad fact though is that, in part because of international currency war bei ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...
  • 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Oba ...
    The mainstream media covered the inauguration of Barack Obama with breathless anticipation on Monday, but should we really be celebrating another four years of Obama?  The truth is that the first four years of Obama were an absolute train wreck for the U.S. economy.  Over the past four years, th ...
  • The Sovereign Debt Bubble Will Continue To Exp ...
    Why are so many politicians around the world declaring that the debt crisis is "over" when debt to GDP ratios all over the planet continue to skyrocket?  The global economy has never seen anything like the sovereign debt bubble that we are experiencing today.  The United States, Japan, and nearl ...
  • Do You Want To Scare A Baby Boomer?
    If you want to frighten Baby Boomers, just show them the list of statistics in this article.  The United States is headed for a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and we are woefully unprepared for it.  At this point, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every sing ...

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E U Times

  • Russia Orders Obama: Tell World About Aliens, ...
    A stunning Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) report on Prime Minister Medvedev’s [photo top right] agenda at the World Economic Forum (WEF) this week states that Russia will warn President Obama that the “time has come” for the world to know the truth about aliens, and if the United States won’t ...
  • 25 Signs American Women Are Being Destroyed
    Has the sexual revolution been good for American women? Not at all. In fact, when you look at the facts it becomes clear that the sexual revolution has been an absolute disaster for American women. In the United States today, men have been trained to primarily view women as sex objects, and our ...
  • Italian Colosseum restorers uncover old fresco ...
    A restoration in the Italian most famous and historical monument Colosseum has yielded ancient traces of colorful frescoes as well as graffiti and drawings. The restorers cleaning the Colosseum discovered the artworks in the internal passageway, between the second and third levels of the first C ...
  • Philippines takes China to international court ...
    The Philippines will sue China over its claim on disputed territory in the South China Sea. This is the first legal case over land to be launched against the Asian powerhouse, despite a number of current territorial rows with neighbors. The Philippines Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario announc ...
  • Iran to unveil space observatory in early February
    Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says the country will unveil its first space observatory early next month when it marks the victory in 1979 of the Islamic Revolution. “During Ten-Day Dawn [festivities], a space observatory, named after [the sixth Shiite imam] Imam Sadeq (P ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 14 January 2013 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of statements made by members of the Swedish Executive and government officials on the Assange case. read more
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 28 November 2012 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of links to evidence relating to the existence of a criminal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks. read more
  • 2013-01-02 Inside the Hourglass, A World Risin ...
    With economic and military force, in the last decades the United States has attained sole superpower status in the world. The legacy of the US empire carries a dark history: genocide of natives, slavery of blacks and criminalizing immigrants from the South. None can deny that much of US hegemon ...
  • 2012-12-28 Julian Assange essay wins "Russian ...
    This month, Russian Pioneer magazine reportedly awarded WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange the "Grand Prix" in the publication's second annual literary competition. Assange received the prize for his essay "Washington vs. Mankind" Winners were said to receive bicycles and bottles of cogna ...
  • 2012-12-28 Assange leads in online vote for Pe ...
    Julian Assange is currently the lead contender in an online voting contest for the Pericles Prize. Votes for the WikiLeaks leader and others have been cast in answer to the question "Who of all politicians was most sincere in his fight for social progress in 2012?" In the "Global" category, Assa ...

U N News

  • Haiti: top UN official calls for delayed elect ...
    The top United Nations official in Haiti today called on the Government of the beleaguered Caribbean country to carry out free and fair elections, which have been delayed for over a year, as soon as possible within 2013.
  • UNESCO recognizes Brazilian friar&#39s contrib ...
    The United Nations has recognized a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto, with a leading international prize for his &#8220exceptional contribution&#8221 to building a universal culture of peace, social justice and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Marking third anniversary of earthquake, Ban c ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to continue its support for Haiti as he marked the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean country, while praising the progress achieved so far.
  • Haiti: UN-backed survey finds progress for chi ...
    Almost three years after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, preliminary results of a new United Nations-backed national household survey show substantial progress for children there in the education, nutrition, health and sanitation sectors since 2006.
  • Canadian authorities must start meaningful dia ...
    A United Nations independent expert today urged the Canadian Government to establish a meaningful dialogue with the country's aboriginal leaders in light of recent protests.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Caught Red Handed!... Why Was CNN Using Fake S ...
    Why was CNN running fake Sandy Hook school shooting footage during their initial report? According to this excellent story on Digital Journal, anyone with Google Earth can examine the property layout of Sandy Hook elementary school and tell that footage used by CNN in this school shooting video ...
  • Newtown, CT... Changes Were Made To The Connec ...
    The Newtown truth tug of war is getting stranger with each day. Below you will see some screenshots from radioreference.com of information on the Connecticut Statewide Emergency Radio Network (CSERN). There is a list of changes made beginning approximately 5 hours before the shooting at Sand ...
  • SSDI Death Report... Adam Lanza Died One Day B ...
    New information has come to light regarding the Sandy Hook School shooting, as the “official story” given to the American public is riddled with inconsistencies. According to and confirmed by GenealogyBank.com, the alleged lone shooter Adam Lanza that left 26 people dead on December 14, 2 ...
  • Why Johnny Can’t Breed...
    If the lyrics below, which represent a recently created children’s song praising the virtues of President Obama, doesn’t make you cringe, then there is a good chance that you will love the new Common Core educational standards. ~ Dave Hodges read more
  • Shocking!... Schools Getting Up To $1,000 Or M ...
    Our school district is getting extra money for every student that is diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. It is no wonder we have such a sick society. Everyone is on drugs! Our federal education system has been a complete failure. First it was Outcome Based Education, then Goals 2000, then No Child Left ...

Tarpley

  • United Front Against Austerity Brings Fight fo ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. UFAA January 20, 2013 From CNN interview with Cyndi Lauper on January 20, 2013 — view video
  • Northern Syria Learns to Hate Occupation by th ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 19, 2013 On the one hand, official Washington – the principal sponsor of the foreign fighters – has been deeply shaken by reports coming from circles close to the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) which depict a rising wave of hatred in northern Syria ...
  • Syria: Meddling Thani Royals of Qatar Grow Des ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 14, 2013 [download video] [download audio] An analyst says the fact that Russia has stood firmly against the US drive to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power has made Washington unable in imposing its will regarding the issue. The commen ...
  • Obama’s Drone Gang vs. Neocon Battalions
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 14, 2013 Military intrigues swirl around Obama at start of second term: The drone gang confronts the gulf of Tonkin cabal. The moment when any colonial power begins to downsize its empire or pull back from foreign aggression generally brings with it th ...
  • Syriac-Aramean Church Peace Program for Syria ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 11, 2013 Recorded on January 5, 2013 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • What Is Going On With Our Country And Our Guns
    Guest post: by Chrstine of FlamingPhoenixFamilyFarm.blogspot.com PROPOGANDA defined: 1. Publicity to promote something: information put out by an organization or government to promote a policy, idea, or cause 2. Misleading publicity: deceptive or distorted information that is systematically spre ...
  • Is This Inflation?
    The FED doesn’t call this inflation, but to you and I it probably is. When a company chooses to package a product differently, it is often a sneaky way to increase their profit margin. Sure, a company is in business to make money. No argument or disagreement there. But the fact that many o ...
  • FEMA says, Get a Survival Kit
    This is a ‘re-post’, reminder that FEMA served up a public service announcement suggesting that we all get a survival kit, in case our ‘world is turned upside down’. I wonder if they know something… Get a Kit Make a Plan Stay Informed   The following is a prett ...
  • First Aid Kit 101
    First Aid Kits should be checked, replenished or replaced each year. Check for expiration dates on any ointments or medications (this is important!). Keeping first aid kits in cars or other temperature harsh environments, although advised or recommended, it will reduce the shelf life of some med ...
  • Emergency Preparedness Kits
    Emergency Preparedness Kits: HOW LONG UNTIL HELP OR RECOVERY You may have to survive on your own after an emergency. This means having in sufficient quantity, your own food, water and other supplies because you don’t know if you will get help in hours, days, weeks, or longer. The disaster ...

Fast Company

  • A Photo Tribute To America’s Biggest Solar Farm
    Jamey Stillings’s dazzling photographs of the Ivanpah solar thermal plant in California force us to consider not just the "how" of green energy, but the "where," too. The more our society talks about renewable energy, the better off we’ll be in the future. Bold action is needed ...
  • Thread Installations That Look Like They’re St ...
    Jeongmoon Choi transforms empty rooms into elegant neon labyrinths using fluorescent cords. For those of you who’ve ever fantasized of making like a young Jeff Bridges transported into the Tron mainframe, or experiencing an epic laser show from the inside out, Jeongmoon Choi’s ...
  • NYPD Using New Scanner Technology To Catch Peo ...
    Safety concerns about the scanners have already been raised. Commissioner Ray Kelly announced on Wednesday that the New York Police Department (NYPD) will roll out portable radiation scanners in high-crime areas to search for concealed firearms. Speaking to guests at a Police Foundation ev ...
  • Training A New Generation Of Designers To Desi ...
    Design That Matters has created some revolutionary devices to help fix problems like infant care in the developing world, but its more lasting legacy may be the new mindset it’s giving the designers it teaches. Editor’s NoteThis is the latest profile in Catchafire's Generosity ...
  • A Piece Of Cloth That Conjures Light And Sound
    Luiz Zanotello envisions fabric as interface. With the right flourish, a simple piece of fabric can be dazzling. Just think about the people who twirl flags in parades, or the matadors who dodge peril with a graceful swoosh of their capes. Of course, to do these things well requires practi ...

Jadaliyya

  • اليمن ودورة جديدة للصراع بالوكالة
    لا يمكن وصف ما أثير ضد السفير الإيراني بسبب تصريحاته يوم السادس من يناير الجاري بأقل من زوبعة. في لقائه مع مجموعة من الصحفيين اليمنيين احتج السفير على الاتهامات الموجهة ضد بلاده من الرئيس اليمني عبد ربه بحجة اكتشاف شبكات تجسس إيرانية، قال فيها السفير “لا شيء في اليمن يستحق التجسس عليه والرئيس عب ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Paolo Gerbaudo, Tweets and ...
    Paolo Gerbaudo, Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism. London and New York: Pluto Books, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Paolo Gerbaudo (PG): I have been involved in progressive social movements in Italy and the UK for the last twelve years, som ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most M ...
    Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Madawi Al-Rasheed (MAR): First, the banality of superficial opinions on Saudi women that is so perv ...
  • The Human Rights Situation in Egypt: An Interv ...
    Aida Seif El-Dawla is a psychiatrist, long time Egyptian human rights activist, and Executive Director of the al-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence. Since 1993 the Nadeem Center has worked both to rehabilitate victims of state torture while also helping to mobilize diffe ...
  • Early Perspectives from Algeria on Northern Ma ...
    Thus far, Algerian press coverage and reactions are divided on France’s military intervention in northern Mali, Operation SERVAL, as well as the additional thrusts in the south by Mali’s jihadist coalition. Skepticism that has been prevalent in Algerian media coverage of calls for the internatio ...

mediagazer

  • Vine, Twitter's Instagram for Video, Launching ...
    Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Vine, Twitter's Instagram for Video, Launching Soon — At Apple's App Store  —  Yep, that was Twitter CEO Dick Costolo using video from Vine, the video-sharing startup he bought last fall, in a tweet he sent out today.  And yes, that means Vin ...
  • Battling Kobo, Amazon launches Kindle e-reader ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Battling Kobo, Amazon launches Kindle e-readers and store in Canada  —  Toronto-based Kobo is Canada's leading e-reading company, but Amazon hopes that won't be the case for long as it ramps up its Canadian presence.  Canadians have long bee ...
  • Rolling Stone Lays Off Two Noted Staff Members ...
    Christine Haughney / Media Decoder: Rolling Stone Lays Off Two Noted Staff Members  —  6:02 p.m. |  Updated Rolling Stone, amid a variety of magazines responding to a troubled advertising environment by trimming staff, laid off two of its bigger names this month.  &mda ...
  • Netflix Talks a Little Trash About the Competi ...
    Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Netflix Talks a Little Trash About the Competition  —  Netflix turned in a Q4 that beat Wall Street's expectations, and it's basking in the results as investors bid up its shares by more than 25 percent.  That's a much better story for Reed Hasting ...
  • "Disagree And Still Be Friends": A Conversatio ...
    Maria Bustillos / The Awl: “Disagree And Still Be Friends”: A Conversation With Andrew Sullivan  —  My leftist friends are mainly baffled by how much I like Andrew Sullivan.  His blog, the Daily Dish, presents a libertarian-inflected center-right political stanc ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/23/13 - Marijuana Reclassification Rejected ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Marijuana Reclassification Rejected by DC Circuit Court
  • 1/22/13 - Official 2012 Presidential Election ...
    2012election.procon.org - Official 2012 Presidential Election Results - On Jan. 17, 2013 the Federal Election Commission released the official 2012 presidential general election results. Barack Obama won the general election with 51.06% of the vote. Mitt Romney received 47.21% of the vote follow ...
  • 1/21/13 - 2012 CDC Immunization Schedule
    vaccines.procon.org  - 2012 CDC Immunization Schedule - Find the current CDC vaccine recommendations for children from birth to 6 years old, children from 7 to 18 years old, and adults, as well as brief descriptions of the diseases against which the CDC recommends vaccinating.
  • 1/21/13 - 6 States with Pending Legislation to ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 6 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Six states have introduced legislation that would legalize medical marijuana (AL, IL, IA, KS, KY, and NY).
  • 1/17/13 - Watch seven wonderful student films ...
    www.procon.org - – Watch seven wonderful student films about ProCon.org. A panel of prominent film celebrities and education leaders judged 1-2 minute student videos on the theme "Why I Love ProCon.org," and their seven lucky winners in the ProCon.org national student video contest have been a ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Count me out of the Sandy Hook truther movement!
    You know what worries me even more than the predatory agenda of the ruling elites? It's the tendency of truthers to fall into line like lemmings on any given conspiracy, to engage in mass group think and, even worse, the readiness to leap to defammatory accusations about people whom they know ...
  • 3 way discussion on guns, your rights and the ...
    President Obama's attempt to "get tough" on gun control has provoked a massive backlash from the patriot community in the US who are sworn to uphold the 2nd amendment at all costs, even if that means civil war. On today's show we take a long hard look at some of the key questions in the debate ...
  • Lies and cover-ups by the Australian national ...
    Today, in the second hour, we welcome journalist Chris Graham to the show. Chris is the founding editor of the National Indigenous Times and the recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs reporting. In the course of our interview Chris documents a range of ...
  • The pharmacracy exposed, with Thomas Szasz - P ...
    In the second hour of today's show we bring you some audio clips from the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, pyschiatrist, philosopher and intellectual giant of the modern era. Szasz was well known for his critique of biochemical reductionism in psychiatry, but it is interesting to note that he was also a ...
  • Rochelle Macredie on the Sandy Hook massacre - ...
    My guest tonight is Rochelle Macredie, LLB, BSc, who joins us to expose discrepencies, anomalies and disinformation in the coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Rochelle's incisive intellect dissects many confusing strands of this story in an attempt to penetrate through the propaganda t ...

Beacon

  • Sperm Whales Adopt Malformed Dolphin Into Thei ...
    Deformed dolphin plays along with its adopted sperm whale family. Photo credit: Alexander D. M. Wilson/Aquatic Mammals and ScienceNOW News http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/   Herman Melville’s Moby Dick may paint a picture of the sperm whale as a terrifying, ferocious creature tha ...
  • Call of the Wild
    King Penguins, South Georgia Island. WikiMedia Commons. Have you ever wanted to learn how to speak whale?  Here’s your chance! Cornell University has recently completed digitizing its catalog of animal sounds.  With audio and video recordings dating back to 1929, the archive contai ...
  • CEO Note: Shell's Arctic Gamble
    Coast Guard helicopter hoists crew members from the Kulluk. Photo: Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis If you were paying attention over the winter break you might have heard about things going very awry up North. Shell, which last fall closed the books on a disastrous season try ...
  • High-Tech Robot Seeks Out Right Whales
    Chief scientist Mark Baumgartner secures glider (with its wings removed) after it was recovered Dec. 4 from its three-week mission. Photo by Nadine Lysiak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place over the weekend, but one new hig ...
  • Chile's Seamounts Up Close
    Take a dive and witness one of the most remote but ecologically diverse habitats in the world: the seamounts off of Chile. Seamounts are underwater mountain ranges where nutrient-rich water from the depths comes up to the surface and fuels an explosion of colorful marine life. In these coral ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Secretary Clinton’s Full Remarks on Benghazi t ...
    SECRETARY CLINTON’s full remarks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are below [video here]. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, members of the committee, both older and new. I’m very grateful for this opportunity and I thank you very much for your patience to give me ...
  • Queer Talk: Obama Says ‘Gay’ in Inaugural Spee ...
    It isn’t just the LGBT realm which has enthusiastically pointed to Obama’s inclusion of “Stonewall” and “our gay brothers and sisters” in his Inaugural speech on Monday. I wrote about the importance of, along with a need for context and caution, his mention of Seneca, Selma and Stonewall in that ...
  • Rand Paul to Clinton: “I Would Have Relieved Y ...
    REPUBLICANS WERE loaded and ready to use their time for purely political gain. Senator Rand Paul stepped out and not only unleashed a diatribe that amounted to accusing Secretary Clinton of dereliction of duty, but also that he was ignorant about what Ambassador Chris Stevens wanted to do in Ben ...
  • Top Story — Secretary Clinton Unloads on Repub ...
    “As I have said many times since September 11, I take responsibility. Nobody is more committed to getting this right. I am determined to leave the State Department and our country safer, stronger, and more secure.” – Secretary Hillary Clinton THE ONE clear thing that’s being re ...
  • As Clinton Testifies on Benghazi, Popularity R ...
    Clinton, set to testify before Congress today about the Benghazi attack, appears undamaged by the security failure that led to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya: Sixty-seven percent of Americans see her favorably overall, numerically a new high in her long career in the public spotlight, ...

Hudson New York

  • Britain: Immigration Seen as Top Problem
    Britons' view immigration as the biggest problem facing their society, according to a flurry of new surveys and research reports about the current state of affairs in Britain. Taken together, the data highlights the widening gulf between the views of
  • Enshrining Ideologies: Egypt and the US
    For days now, the twittersphere and even the mainstream media have been agog at the anti-Semitism spewing in a now-viral video by Mohammed Morsi in 2010 when he was head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He called President Obama a liar as well, but
  • Facebook's "Accidental Mistake" and Free Speec ...
    "All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of
  • Showdown between UN Human Rights Council and I ...
    Another major confrontation is brewing between Israel and the United Nations. On January 29, Israel is scheduled for its quadrennial Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council (HRC). Following the March 2012 Council session, however,
  • Al Jazeera: Non-Arabs Should Not Be Fooled
    Many Arab liberals and reformers were shocked by the sale of former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore's Current TV to Al Jazeera, a pan-Arab broadcasting system charged with sympathy for terrorists. In 2009, even the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank,

Urban Survival

  • Can We Be Saved by the Davosians?
    Why, it seems like only last week I was hinting to you that a bond disaster could be in the wings as early as late Spring once interest rates begin to tick up.  And what could cause such an unthinkable … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Global Coastal Thoughts
    Reader Bill has been thinking about that Jim McCanney post this weekend about comet ISON and he’s starting to worry that could be the source of Clif’s global coast event.  I’ll let his email sketch it out:   “That would … Continue reading →
  • Holiday Gambler in the Bidmocracy
    We begin this morning’s epistle with the Post-It which reads: MLK – No mkts.  If my steel-trap mind is working, that means this is Martin Luther King day and, consequentially, no mail delivery, no Dow to mess with, and so … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Falling Birth Rates
    A story passed across my desk a while back that reader Charles reminded me of this morning.  It’s a report in Slate that the world population explosion may be ending.   This is a huge nightmare for the Western economic … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Devaluation Doodles
    I assume you know why foreign exchange exists, right?  Wikipedia’s entry on topic begins like so:   “The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a form of exchange for the global decentralized trading of international currencies. Financial … Continu ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • UNEP and FAO Launch Think.Eat.Save., Global Ca ...
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Bon Appetit!  Buen Provecho!  Mahlzeit! And congratulations to the Think.Eat.Save, a global campaign launching TODAY to change the culture of food waste.  Grab ...
  • Avoiding the National Climate Assessment's Wor ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Last week a federal Advisory Committee released the draft National Climate Assessment for public comment. The report is the most comprehensive, peer-reviewed analysis of climate ...
  • Take Public Transit to L.A.'s Baldwin Hills Pa ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica Angelenos, are you looking for something new and interesting to do over the long weekend? Well, I, for one, am very excited about a brand new shuttle service that is bound to increase public access to on ...
  • New Hudson River PCB Contamination Report Conf ...
    Johanna Dyer, Attorney, New York For more than five decades, high levels of highly toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have polluted the lands, waters and native species of the Hudson River Valley. And for generations, this contamination has thre ...
  • Coal industry front group scapegoats EPA
    Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate Center, Washington, DC Today E&E reported (subscription required) a “study” by the coal industry front group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE). The author of the report, AC ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • More on the Aaron Swartz Case
    From the One Generation Away blog: Aaron Swartz was an influential man with very important friends, and that’s why this case is getting so much attention.  Sadly, this kind of behavior by prosecutors is not an extreme example, but instead … Continue reading →More on the Aa ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, January 19 to Tuesday, January 22, 2013: Memphis, Tennessee: An officer has been suspended after accusations of sexual assault were brought up. He has been relieved of duty with … Continue reading →National Police Mis ...
  • Florida Police Abuse Database. 400% Increase ...
    From the Orlando Sentinel: Florida’s driver-and-vehicle database, the system that can help law enforcement identify victims of fatal crashes and decipher the identity of a suspect, can be a useful tool for cops. But the system — known as D.A.V.I.D., … Continue reading →Fl ...
  • Deputy: ‘You can get a new dog’
    From Denver CBSLocal.com: An Adams County man is in shock after he says deputies shot and killed his dog. Jeff Fisher said deputies went to his house by mistake. He said when they forced their way through the door his … Continue reading →Deputy: ‘You can get a new dog’ is ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, January 18, 2013: Update: Las Vegas, Nevada: A now-former police officer is going to prison for two years. He pleaded guilty to charges of coercing women to expose their … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mozilla’s device ...
    Nikon’s new image sharing space, Deezer and Spotify expand internationally and Mozilla’s mobile devices. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Atari bankruptcy, Yand ...
    Atari files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Yandex provides machine learning for CERN and buying a car over a social network. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: LG hits a milestone, S ...
    SimCity has a small beta that you can enjoy, LG sold 1 million of its new phone, and messaging in Asia is taking off like a Saturn rocket. You can catch The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mega, Amazon, and lazy Bob
    Bob didn’t want to work, Kim Dotcom is ready to peeve copyright hawks in the United States, and Amazon is trying to combat iPods, of all things. You can catch... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Glass, Myspace, ...
    It’s a wild and woolly TNW Daily Dose today kids, as a donkey doesn’t die but a Justin Timberlake single resurrects Myspace. Get listening. You can catch The Daily Dose every... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...
  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...
  • This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
    For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...
  • BZE Awards its Volunteers
    BZE relies on its dedicated and skilled volunteers for much of our research and public education initiatives. All our volunteers deserve an award! Today we are recognising those people that have excelled themselves in 2012. A big thank you to them and to all the people that have volunteered fo ...
  • Hartcher should stop providing PR for the gas ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions statement, 20 December 2012 New South Wales Energy Minister Chris Hartcher recently said “If we are unable to access gas the lights will go out. It's as simple as that." (Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2012). The statement is clearly wrong, on many counts (see below). Why is ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Birds of the Masai Mara - book review
    Birds of the Masai Mara by Adam Scott Kennedy, is the first dedicated bird book to the Masai Mara region. This handy guidebook, covering over 200 species of birds, on purpose avoids any unnecessary ornithological techno-jargon while presenting the region’s birds using high-quality photogra ...
  • Scientists point to research flaw that has lik ...
    The impact of logging on tropical forest species has likely been exaggerated by statistical problems, according to a new study in Conservation Biology. Reviewing 77 studies on how logging affects tropical biodiversity, scientists found that 67 percent were flawed by a technical problem known as ...
  • Getting intimate with a giant, yet poorly know ...
    For large, conspicuous, and somewhat notorious animals, relatively little is known about cassowaries, a group of flightless birds that roams the rainforests of Northern Australia and New Guinea. This fact is highlighted in Cassowaries, a recent documentary by Australian journalist and film produ ...
  • Global warming - 56 million years ago
    Sandy, Irene, Katrina... Hurricanes are fast becoming household names and have many people worried over the connection between extreme weather and the amount of greenhouse gases people are pumping into the atmosphere. No one can predict for sure what will happen decades or centuries from now as ...
  • From the brink of extinction: elephant seals s ...
    In the 19th century the Northern Pacific Elephant was thought to be extinct until a small population was discovered on an island of Baja California in 1892. Since then, the species has staged a remarkable comeback which was greatly accelerated by protective measures adopted by the U.S. and Mexic ...

Sierra Express

  • Fresh Elections for Freetown Municipality star ...
    The prevailing Local Government Act of 2004 makes provision for the election of Ward Committee members charged with the responsibility to cooperate with the Freetown City Council (FCC) and take development to the forty-nine wards in the municipality. It should be noted that after the elections o ...
  • Usman Boie and others face State House to take ...
    Monday, 21st January 2013, was a memorable and exciting day at the Office of the President at State House in Freetown which was jam packed with youths including traders who accompanied some of the most vibrant ministers and deputies recently appointed by His Excellency, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma. Am ...
  • VACANCY – Admin Assistant/Public Relations Officer
    The Independent Media Commission was established by an Act of Parliament in 2000 and amended in 2006 and 2007 as an autonomous body for the regulation of mass media institution and for matters connected therewith:- The Commission currently seeks to fill the position of:- Admin Assistant/Public R ...
  • VACANCY – Driver
    The Independent Media Commission was established by an Act of Parliament in 2000 and amended in 2006 and 2007 as an autonomous body for the regulation of mass media institutions and for matters connected therewith:- The Commission currently seeks to fill the position of Driver. Duties and Respon ...
  • Shepherd’s Hospice Sierra Leone – A Success Story
    Stigmatization is a thing of the past that has led to the successes of treatment of HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone through the support of International Donor Partners and the HIV/AID office in Sierra Leone. Speaking to the media, the M&E Officer of the Shepherds Hospice Sierra Leone at Allen Town, ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Boom in live cattle exports to China
    Demand for New Zealand dairy livestock in China appears to be booming, with more than 38,000 live animals leaving our shores for Chinese pastures last year. And one of the major buyers in China is our own - the New Zealand dairy...
  • Crafar Farms animal abuse trial date still not set
    A date is yet to be set for the trial of five parties linked to the running of Crafar Farms, who between them face hundreds of charges of animal abuse.The parties' lawyers appeared in Rotorua District Court today where the case...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Chinese eager to milk brand NZ
    More major Chinese dairy companies are looking to build infant milk formula plants in New Zealand to leverage the country's reputation for safe milk-sourced foods.The galloping trend poses issues for New Zealand's political leaders...
  • Dairy prices up 1.1pc in overnight dairy aucti ...
    World dairy prices were up again in the latest overnight dairy auction, lifting 1.1 per cent from two weeks ago. It is the third straight lift in the Fonterra- run GlobalDairyTrade auction of dairy products. Prices for whole milk...
  • Crafar Farms animal abuse trial postponed
    A trial involving five parties linked to the running of Crafar Farms who face hundreds of charges between them of animal abuse has been postponed. The trial was to start today in the Rotorua District Court but has been put off for...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Greg Beato on How Graffiti Empowers Big Government
    According to the gallery owners, art book publishers, art critics, advertising agency creatives, collectors, American Studies graduate students, and all the other cultural tastemakers who have helped position graffiti as a glamorous means of grassroots resistance against the encroach ...
  • Debt Ceiling Fight Pushed to Spring, Florida M ...
    The House has passed the temporary debt ceiling suspension bill over the objections of many Congressional Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says there’s enough votes in the Senate to pass as well. Moralistic Florida legislation would ban massage parlors from operating ...
  • Mea Culpa: Wrong Inaugural Edition
    Yesterday I wrote a post criticizing President Obama’s second inaugural speech and some of the liberal reaction to it. There was a big, big problem with the post: I quoted from the president’s first inaugural address. I owe Reason’s readers an apology for this boneheaded mistake, and ...
  • Gay Marriage Opponents Cite Dubious Left-Wing ...
    On March 26, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument over whether California’s Proposition 8, the voter initiative which banned gay marriage in that state, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. In the brief they submitted to the Supreme Court yesterday, Prop ...
  • EFF Says 'Accidental' Tracking Subjects Should ...
    When we fret over surveillance and tracking by government agencies — the techniques they use and the policies and legal protections that govern snooping — we usually think in terms of making sure the powers-that-be cross their "t"s and dot their "i"s before going after their intende ...

Mercury Rising

  • Mic Check, Tild Style!
    Just go check it out: http://tildology.com/2012/09/17/mic-check-crate-label-art-for-ows/ You’re welcome. :-)
  • Virginia GOP Pulls Dirty Trick That Violates T ...
    Dear Virginia Republicans: When you shoot at a king, you must kill him. And when you opt to attempt a colossally arrogant and slimy stunt, you’d better make sure in advance that it will work. Yesterday, on a public holiday, while a member of the Democratic caucus of the Virginia Senate (cu ...
  • NM Governor accused of voter fraud
    I have no idea whether these allegations will go anywhere, but it’s always amusing to see how casually the party of voting integrity takes voting laws. Election documents, obtained by ProgressNowNM, from a 2011 school board election in Dona Ana County show that both Martinez and her husban ...
  • Dirty Money: the Vatican’s bequest from ...
    David Leigh, Jean François Tanda and Jessica Benhamou: Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewellers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the nearby headquarters of the wealthy investment bank Altium Capital, on the ...
  • By any means necessary
    Someone might start thinking that the GOP doesn’t believe in democracy: The state Senate is split 20-20 between Republicans and Democrats. On Monday, while state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) — a 79-year-old civil rights veteran — was reportedly in Washington to attend President Obama’s second inau ...

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

  • Peering into the Energy Crystal Ball
    Trying to predict the future of the energy sector is like trying to predict the weather in London in an era of global warming. But delegates had a go at it during the three-day World Future Energy Summit that ended in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 17. They foresee new world leaders in the energy sector, [...]
  • Digging for Water, But Striking Oil
    The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil. But when the oil-blessed region runs out of water, there could be a change in the political landscape, triggering potential conflicts. The world’s future wars, experts predic ...
  • Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation
    Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems. “We’re all scared,” said Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at St ...
  • OP-ED: Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of ...
    Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest challenge of the brand new year. Re-engineering our societies and lifestyles to prosper on green a ...
  • OP-ED: A Universal Climate Change Agreement Is ...
    The results of the United Nations climate change conference that closed in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 8 show once again that the international negotiations are moving steadily in the right direction, but alarmingly slow. At the heart of these negotiations is nothing less than the most challenging energ ...

Blogging Canadians

  • American Businessman / Television Host / Pop C ...
    @realDonaldTrump Go fuck yourself. As originally posted on: Deadspin (Deadspin) on Twitter January 17, 2013
  • United States President Barack Obama and "this ...
    Second GOP congressman suggests impeachment over executive action for gun control by Caroline May As originally posted on: The Daily Caller January 16, 2013 A second Republican congressman is suggesting that impeachment should be an option as President Barack Obama takes executive action ...
  • Here Are The Changes That The Harper Conservat ...
    One of the first questions that people ask about the Idle No More movement is what the movement is all about. While the historical injustices experienced by First Nations are too many to list, activists say the current government is pushing through a range of new bills that violate treaty rig ...
  • A Canadian Heritage Moment: Hungry, Hungry Indians
    Étienne Brûlé was born near Paris in 1592. Growing up, he dreamt of coming to New France and learning the ways of the Indians. Champlain made this possible and he set sail at the age of 16. He lived life as an Indian, learning their languages. He became the first French explorer to see the Grea ...
  • "Your #Government"
    Your #government has been trolling you for years. Now, it's your turn to return the favor and #TrollYourGovernment. by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: °l||l°AnonySec°l||l° (AnonHackNews) on Twitter December 15, 2012

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • nwkarchivist:WOMEN & WAR: You’ve Come A Long ...
    nwkarchivist: WOMEN & WAR: You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby!
  • "I and many others who work to protect free sp ...
    ““I and many others who work to protect free speech fundamentally disagree with the...
  • Civilians return to battle-scarred Malian town ...
    Civilians return to battle-scarred Malian town of Diabaly The United Nations’ news service, IRIN, reports on the return of civilians to the Malian town of Diabaly following its capture by Islamist forces and subsequent air strikes by French forces. “I no longer recognize Diabaly. Everywhere yo ...
  • projectrenew:463rd UXO found at Ai Tu BAC Si ...
    projectrenew: 463rd UXO found at Ai Tu BAC Site on Flickr. This finding marks the 463rd unexploded ordnance that BAC Team have found since it was deployed to clean up the area consisting of 250,000 square meters in Trieu Ai Commune of Trieu Phong District since Feb this year. The site is expec ...
  • pulitzercenter:Remembering the Earthquake ...
    pulitzercenter: Remembering the Earthquake Today’s date might not stick in your mind. But January 12, 2010, is a date that every person in Haiti will remember for the rest of his or her life. At 4:53 pm outside the Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, the ground rumbled. A 7.0-magnitude ear ...

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