Saturday, January 26, 2013

26 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Children playing soccer, Dogon region, Mali
Children playing soccer, Dogon region, Mali (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Ethnic Reprisals threaten Malian Campaign
    Human rights activists allege Mali's army has killed dozens of people in reprisal attacks and ethnic murders. With many of the rebels being ethnic Tuaregs and Arabs but the Mali army largely black, observers worry the fighting could grow into an ethnic .. FIDH charged that Malian forces were ...
  • AEP: Housing slump engulfs Eurozone core
    “Downturns in the Dutch and French housing markets appear to be accelerating. We forecast nominal price declines of nearly 6pc and 5pc respectively this year as rising unemployment, decelerating wages, and the prospect of austerity measures frightens off buyers,” said Jean-Michel Six, the agency ...
  • How it all began: Pre-1969 Afghanistan
    For most people, it was the Soviet invasion over Christmas 1979 that put Afghanistan on the political map when, in the very last days of the 1970s, the Soviet leadership made the central Asian country the arena of the hottest conflict in the last part of the Cold War. As a result, the internatio ...
  • Women join Assad's ranks in Homs
    "This is not a normal war, it looks nothing like the October (1973 war against Israel). It is not the enemy we knew. This time the enemy is from our family, our neighbours and neighbouring countries supplying arms and spreading fundamentalist thinking. They kill and slay Syrians. This is a savag ...
  • A wee dram for your memory, John ?
    "I know I was starting School C at around that time - it's a memory that's lasted with me till now," Key said this week. John Key was born on August 9, 1961, and the Erebus disaster was on November 28, 1979 - meaning he would have been 18 at the time. Students usually sat School Certificate e ...

Independent - London

  • For sale on Amazon: one jobless Parisian
    Next time one of Britain's 2.5 million unemployed despairs at ever finding a job, they might like to think a bit more creatively about how to make their CV stand out.Related StoriesPhilip, Boris and Nessie: All provide reasons to stay in EUAccused French kidnapper freed from Mexican jailGreek p ...
  • Are we seeing the last flight of the condor?
    The Andean condor, one of the world's biggest flying birds, is in trouble. It may have a 10ft wingspan that enables it to ride warm air currents for hours at a time, but that has proved little protection against habitat destruction and hunting.
  • Why Suu Kyi still loves Burma's army
    Years of house arrest held no fear for Aung San Suu Kyi, thanks to an authoritarian mother who toughened her up. And she remains "fond" of the Burmese military despite the atrocities it committed. "The truth is that I am very fond of the army because I always thought of it as my father's army," ...
  • Harry's game: the prince and the PR mission
    The carefully choreographed recasting of Prince Harry as military hero and all-round good lad continued yesterday, as further details of Captain Wales's daily life in Afghanistan were released. The third in line to the throne did the tea round, ate food on a paper plate and watched war films wi ...
  • Algeria asks for terror help
    Algeria will need international help to better fight terrorism, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mourad Medelci, acknowledged yesterday. His remarks come just a week after his government was criticised for rejecting offers of help to deal with the four-day crisis at a gas plant which left at lea ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Comet PanSTARRS will emerge glowing about as b ...
    INCOMING COMET: In little more than a month, Comet PanSTARRS will cross the orbit of Mercury and probably brighten to naked-eye visibility as it absorbs the heat of the nearby sun. Sky watchers around the world will be looking for it in the sunset skies of early March, when it passes closest to ...
  • Found: weapons cache hidden days after Dunblan ...
    A cache of handguns, rifles and shotguns concealed behind a false wall in the days after the Dunblane massacre has been uncovered. Simon Berni, 41, a builder, was shocked to discover a secret haul of more than 30 shotguns and pistols as well as hundreds of rounds of ammunition. He said: "It wa ...
  • We're screwed: Thoughts following the inaugura ...
    I've been thinking about fault lines, and fractures, and diversity, and when it's all going to implode. I hope I'm still around because it is going to be one gorgeous show. Few things are as entertaining as a truly good disaster. What is going to kill us is diversity. It isn't working well. By ...
  • Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate ...
    Audit trail reveals that donors linked to fossil fuel industry are backing global warming sceptics. A secretive funding organisation in the United States that guarantees anonymity for its billionaire donors has emerged as a major operator in the climate "counter movement" to undermine the scien ...
  • FLASHBACK: Hidden secrets of the Dunblane massacre
    THE full extent of a secret dossier compiled on Dunblane killer Thomas Hamilton is revealed in the Mail on Sunday today. A 100-year closure order has been placed on a catalogue of evidence relating to Hamilton's activities in the years preceding the massacre of 16 children and a teacher at Dunb ...

The Galloping Beaver

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

Media Matters for America

  • Facts And Myths About The Supreme Court Challe ...
    Described as the crown jewel of civil rights law, the Voting Rights Act has been the target of right-wing misinformation for decades, and a parallel legal assault against its constitutionality will be argued before the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder on February 27. The VRA, enacted to ...
  • Right-Wing Media Turn To Absurd Sports Analogy ...
    Right-wing media figures opposed to the Pentagon permitting women to serve in combat roles attacked the decision by pointing to sex-segregated sports teams. But military research has shown that women are capable of serving in combat, and the decision has the support of major political and milita ...
  • Myths And Facts About Solar Energy
    Conservative media have denigrated solar energy by denying its sustainability, ignoring its successes, and arguing the U.S. should simply cede the solar market to China. Yet this booming industry has made great strides, and with the right policies can become a major source of our power. [Inte ...
  • Fox's Talking Points Appear In GOP Lawmakers' ...
    Several of the questions and statements made by Republican lawmakers to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during congressional hearings on the attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, echoed false or misleading narratives promoted by Fox News.Obama Describing Attacks As "Terror" ...
  • What The Media Should Know About Secretary Cli ...
    As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to testify before Congress about the September 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Media Matters reviews the falsehoods conservative media have pushed regarding Clinton and her response to the attack.Why Did Clinton Mention A ...

Global Research.ca

  • The Children Killed by America’s Drones. ...
    This is a list of names of innocent children killed by America’s drones But behind each name there is the face of a child with a family history in a village in a far away country, with a mom and…
  • Japan’s Currency War. Militarization and Monet ...
    Japan’s new Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government has begun implementing an aggressive nationalist program on two fronts. An expansion of the military unshackled from constitutional restraints is being matched by a unilateralist monetary policy aimed at weakening the yen and…
  • The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Ag ...
    The paradigmatic example of “crimes against humanity” is what the Nazis did to the Jewish people. This is where the concept of “crimes against humanity” originally came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Council determined that Israel is doing to the Palestinian people.
  • Obama’s New Appointments Prove that He Will Co ...
    The party line is that Obama’s new pick for SEC boss – Mary Jo White – will be tough on Wall Street. For example, the Wall Street Journal writes: Obama Taps Ex-Prosecutor Mary Jo White, Portending Increased Policing of Wall…
  • Who’s Faking It? Pentagon “Cyber-Warrior ...
    The art of propaganda, deception and digital warfare

TPM Cafe

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

  • Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water ...
    Las Vegas exudes an all-you-can-eat mentality. People walk between casinos carrying giant cups of slushy liquor; advertisements blare from speakers on the streets pitching the best shows, best food and best deals; escalators take you across streets and directly into malls. You spend your time ...
  • Time to Break Up the Monopolies: Why Fixing Ou ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Corporate Land Grabs Reveal a Hidden Agenda: C ...
    Writing in National Geographic in December 2012 about “small-scale irrigation techniques with simple buckets, affordable pumps, drip lines, and other equipment” that “are enabling farm families to weather dry seasons, raise yields, diversify their crops, an ...
  • Is Genetically Engineered Salmon Safe?
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Frankenfish could be on your dinner plate by the end of the year.On December 21, at the very end of the last business day before Christmas week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its environme ...
  • New Report Outlines Our Future: Climate Change ...
    Future generations of Americans can expect to spend 25 days a year sweltering in temperatures above 100F (38C), with climate change on course to turn the country into a hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone place.The National Climate Assessment, released in draft form on Frida ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Ding Dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? ...
    According to a report yesterday by Terrance Henry of NPR’s StateImpact Texas (click here to read the article), the Las Brisas coal power plant proposed for Corpus Christi has not only been suspended, but Chase Power’s parent company, which was financing the project, has gone out of b ...
  • South-central Partnership for Energy Efficienc ...
    The South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER) enters its second year with an exciting Summit, designed to explore, further develop, and prioritize policies and strategies needed to push energy efficiency forward in new buildings, existing buildings, and electric marke ...
  • Rep. Waxman Statement on New Reports on the Cl ...
    Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman issued the following statement on new research from the Pembina Institute and Oil Change International, indicating that the Keystone XL pipeline will accelerate the reckless expansion of the tar sands industry and the climate im ...
  • Fire at South Texas Nuclear Power Plant
    Tuesday, a fire erupted in the Unit 2 main transformer that feeds power from the reactor to the public power grid of the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station near Bay City and about 85 miles southwest of Houston.  The unit 2 was automatically taken offline and STP officials say unit 1 ...
  • 2012 Warmest Year on Record in U.S.
    Well, it’s official.  According to scientists with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2012 was the warmest year on record in the contiguous United States with an average temperature of 55.3 degrees Farenheit.  That’s 3.2 degrees above normal and a full degree higher ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Secret donors funding attacks on climate change
    A secret organisation has been accepting large donations to undermine the science of global warming. According to The Independent newspaper, certain g...
  • Superbugs pose "apocalyptic threat"
    Fresh concerns have been raised over the potential consequences of antibiotic resistant bacteria. An increase in the number of cases involving superbu...
  • Miniature Star Trek 'tractor beam' built
    Scientists have developed a working Star Trek style tractor bream on a microscopic scale. The tiny apparatus is capable of attracting particles toward...
  • Dung beetles navigate via the Milky Way
    In a world first, dung beetles are thought to use our own Milky Way galaxy to orient themselves. Once a beetle has rolled up its ball of dung there is...
  • Does lightning cause headaches ?
    New research has suggested that you are more likely to suffer a headache near to lightning strikes. The study found that on days with lightning there ...

Grassroots

  • Adiammal's Struggle for Land and a Life with D ...
    img_0567.jpg  For 24 years Adiammal worked as a landless laborer on a landowner’s farm. She used the word coolie to describe herself and her work – coolie was used derogatorily by the British during the Raj to describe Indian or Chines ...
  • Accomplishments from 2012 - A sample of inroad ...
    brazil-mab_protest-international_rivers.jpg Grassroots International supports hands-on solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges: hunger, violations of human rights, climate change and environmental degradation, and economic ...
  • International Solidarity and Advocacy
    mst-pe_serro_azul_2.jpg In addition to Grassroots International’s role as a grantmaker to social movements across the world, we also understand that financial support alone does not bring about change.  We hear about the dire conseque ...
  • Wind Farm Mega-Project in Oaxaca sparks resist ...
    mexico-ucizoni_wind_protest.jpg Local residents from San Dionisio del Mar (Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico) are protesting the construction of a huge wind farm in their community.  Their prolonged and energetic resistance has be ...
  • Hunger Strike Aims to Stop GMO Corn in Mexico
    774340_10151313195619792_1071996494_o.jpg  read more

Climate

  • With New Battery Hub, Chicago Seeks to Lead Na ...
    (Midwest Energy News) Chicago has often been called the nation’s candy capital, murder capital, basketball capital,steakhouse capital and even the capital of “false confessions.” Now Chicago boosters are plann ...
  • Waxman, Whitehouse Form Congressional Task For ...
    (Bloomberg News) Representative Henry Waxman of California, the senior Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse formed a joint task force on climate change after President Barack ...
  • Waxman: Keystone XL 'Small' Piece of Climate P ...
    (The Hill) A top Democratic global warming advocate said Thursday that President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is a “small” part of battling climate change. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said he hopes Obama nixes the pro ...
  • Federal Court Won't Review Decision that Struc ...
    (The HIll) A federal court won’t reconsider a decision that nullified major Environmental Protection Agency rules to cut soot- and smog-forming power plant emissions that cross state lines. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District o ...
  • How Climate Change Could Wipe Out the Western ...
    (The Atlantic) The fire that burned through Forest Canyon, a breathtaking stretch of wilderness ringed by snowy peaks in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, started in October and burned long past the end of the fire season. Trees ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Stuff on Guns
    There is a widespread perception within political circles that voting to curtail access to semiautomatic military-style rifles through a ban or more extensive background checks could be catastrophic to individual Democrats and the Democratic brand in large swaths of the country. So, you have th ...
  • Sen. Harkin Won't Run Again
    I'm sad to learn that Iowa Senator Tom Harkin will not seek reelection in 2014. He is one of my favorite members of Congress and an all around decent person. He will be missed. The Democrats have several excellent options to run for the seat, so I am not overly concerned about that. I di ...
  • Serious Question
    Why do you read this blog? Discuss
  • They Are Slaves to Their Own Bullshit
    Dana Milbank points out something that ought to be obvious but really isn't. [Rep. Paul] Ryan and his fellow House Republicans...know their budget will never become law. They are free to be as reckless as they want to be, to throw as many bombs as they wish… ...Ryan is free to propose su ...
  • Georgia GOP Too Crazy for Chambliss
    Although he ran one of the most despicable campaigns in Senate history against decorated war hero and triple-amputee Max Cleland back in 2002, Saxby Chambliss has not been among the worst Republicans serving in Congress in recent years. While his voting record has earned him miserable ratings f ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    A great selection of goodies in this week's roundup, plus the chance to see a scrawny pre-Batman Christian Bale... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Terrible Threat Faced by Tasmanian Devils
    The Tasmanian devil was once hunted to the brink of extinction. Unlike its cousin the Tasmanian tiger, it recovered, but it now faces a potentially even greater threat. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Vegetables That Cause Weird Physical Reactions
    Find out how certain vegetables can cause everything from dermatitis to acid reflux! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Tuscany's Abandoned Asylum for the Criminally ...
    This abandoned facility for the criminally insane might look creepy, but the true terror of institutions like these was reserved for their inmates. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Deadly History of Persia’s Ancient Assassins
    Learn about the deadly group of assassins who held the leaders of the ancient world in abject terror: the Hashashin. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Lizzing to keep from crying: Reflecting on “30 ...
    Heartbreakingly, “30 Rock” will air its very last episode on Thursday. Rather than cry about it, here are 10 episodes to make you laugh — and remind you just how zany and hilarious “30 Rock” has been. It’s been so great, in fact, that it’s hard ...
  • When the law won’t call it rape
    The night of August 18, 2011, 25-year-old Lydia Cuomo could barely sleep. The next day was her first day of work teaching second grade at an elementary school in the South Bronx. She’d just landed the job a few days before, and she was pumped. In the morning, she planned to get a ride w ...
  • China to modernise before boosting global role ...
    Story Image:  File picture shows senior Chinese planning official Zhang Xiaoqiang pictured at Davos, Swizerland on January 25, 2007. China's new leadership will focus on modernising the country before it increases Beijing's role in international affairs, Zhang told a DChina's new leadersh ...
  • 10 police killed in Afghanistan suicide attack ...
    Story Image:  An Afghan policeman stands guard at the site of a suicide attack in Kunduz city on January 26, 2013. At least 10 policemen were killed and 18 others, mostly civilians, were wounded in a suicide attack Saturday in a crowded area of the northeast Afghan citAt least 10 policeme ...
  • Playing music may lower your blood pressure
    Want to lower your blood pressure? Pick up a musical instrument.That’s the implication of a pilot study from the Netherlands, which suggests playing music is beneficial to one’s cardiovascular system.“Our study suggests that active music making has some training ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Will former US government informant face terro ...
    A former United States government informant, who helped an Islamist militant group plan the 2008 Mumbai attacks in India, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
  • Philby’s son, widow, speak on 50th anniversary ...
    For most of us, January 23, 2013, was a day like any other. But for intelligence history aficionados it marked the 50th anniversary of the escape to Moscow of notorious double spy Harold Adrian Russell Philby.
  • Russia evacuating its citizens from Syria: A p ...
    In a move that surprised observers, the government of Russia began on Tuesday to evacuate its citizens from Syria. Russian officials dismissed rumors that this is the beginning of a mass evacuation of Russian citizens from Syria. But observers described this development as “the strongest indicat ...
  • Korea spy gave North data on 10,000 defectors ...
    An employee of the South Korean government has been detained for allegedly providing North Korea with detailed resettlement information on over 10,000 North Korean defectors living in the South.
  • German intelligence report sees US leading glo ...
    A leaked geopolitical study authored by German intelligence sees the United States as the primary beneficiary of the world’s drastically changing energy balance.

War is a Crime.org

  • Déjà Vu All Over Again: Notes on Jonathan Sche ...
      By Michael Uhl Jonathan Schell‘s probing review of Nick Turse’s new book Kill Anything That Moves originated on Tom Dispatch and migrated to Salon, where it appeared under the head “Vietnam was even more horrific than we thought.” read more
  • Washington's in Good Hands with Mary Jo White
      Wall Street's in Good Hands with Mary Jo White   by Stephen Lendman   On January 24, Obama nominated Mary Jo White as SEC head. "You don't want to mess with Mary Jo," he said. Others have different views. More about her below.   Washington is Wall Street occupied territory. ...
  • Israel's Likely Coalition Partner Government T ...
      Israel's Likely Coalition Partner Government Threatens Humanity   by Stephen Lendman   Extremist Israel officials favor wealth, power, privilege and dominance. Tuesday's elections hardened fascism.    Palestinians have the greatest cross to bear. Jews have their own. H ...
  • Syria News - Jan 26
      West's fears over Syria Islamists mount as coalition flounders - chicagotribune.com Jordan’s King Abdullah: “The New Taliban Are In Syria” - The Daily Beast Saudi prince calls for Syrian rebels to be armed with anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons - Reuters Regional issues on the agenda fo ...
  • TSA shows up at Austin Amtrak station, by Wend ...
    We’ve written about the TSA’s so-called VIPR teams many times, but most Americans still don’t know about them. These teams conduct warrantless searches on all modes of transportation all over the country — buses, trains, subways, ferries. Even highways. Yes, that means the TSA isn ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Obama’s Dirty Wars Exposed at Sundance
    *By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan PARK CITY , Utah — As President Barack Obama prepared to be sworn in for his second term as the 44th president of the United States, two courageous journalists premiered a documentary at the annual Sundance Film Festival. “Dirty Wars: The World Is ...
  • Aaron Swartz and the Freedom to Connect
    Aaron Swartz wanted nothing more than to change the world. He was doing just that until he ended his own life, at the age of 26, on Jan. 11. Aaron was a social justice activist, gifted with deep understanding of how computers and the Internet work, and how they could empower people around the w ...
  • VIDEO: Amy Goodman on MSNBC’s Up With Chris Ha ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appeared on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" Sunday to discuss the Obama administration’s use of drones, and John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA . Wach the videos below to see much of the conversation. Visit NBCNews.com fo ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Sunday, January 13th from 8-10 am ET.
  • Part 2: Jonathan Katz on How the World Came to ...
    To mark the third anniversary of the massive 2010 Haiti earthquake, we continue our conversation with Jonathan Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster . He was the only full-time American reporter in Haiti when the earthquake stru ...

Solari

  • I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire -T ...
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  • Breaking Gamechanger: Printable Gun Magazines
    What just a few months ago was dismissed as a pipe dream or wishful thinking has today become a reality that will no doubt take the gun ownership debate, not just nationally but worldwide, to a whole new level. Continue Reading. Related Reading: Dale Dougherty on the Maker Movement Solari Report
  • Solari Special Report: Economic Census – ...
    By Carolyn Betts, Esq. We have informed Solari subscribers in the past about the decennial census, fines for failing to mail in decennial census forms and the economic census generally (see links below). Given the confusing state of the law we found surrounding penalties for failing to respond ...
  • Book Recommendation: Wheat Belly
    [CAF Note: Thank you to the subscribers that recommended this intriguing book. I have read it and for those of you who seek vibrant health, I recommend!] Related Reading: Wheat Belly Blog William Davis, MD on Wikipedia
  • Transcript of Equity Overview with Chuck Gibso ...
    Transcript of Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Chuck joins us on the Solari Report quarterly for an equity market report. He has outdone himself in preparation this week for our discussion of the U.S. equity markets. The U.S. equi ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Sales of gDiapers’ “Gift of Love” gPants Benef ...
    Just in time for Valentine’s Day, gDiapers is debuting its new “Gift of Love” gPant diaper, featuring a rainbow hued print of X’s and O’s. In addition to reducing your impact on the Earth, you can feel good about supporting a good cause with your green lifestyle choice, as a portion of the ...
  • The Laptop Compubody Sock is a Commentary on O ...
    Working on your laptop in public can be distracting, and it can be difficult to keep your work private from the wandering eyes of the people around you. Electronics guru Becky Stern came up with a playful solution to both problems with this knitted “Compubody” garment that will keep ...
  • SpaceLiner Will Zoom from Europe to Australia ...
    Researchers at the German Aerospace Center are developing a hypersonic “SpaceLiner” that would zip half way around the world in 90 minutes flat. The 50-passenger airplane would piggyback off of a rocket to reach speeds of about 24 times the speed of sound. The super-fast SpaceLiner is hoped to p ...
  • Apple Supply Chain Report Reveals Labor and En ...
    Photo via Shutterstock Apple released its annual supplier responsibility report this week, which detailed a number of labor and environmental violations in the company’s supply chain. The most troubling revelation, and the one that is getting the most media attention, is the disc ...
  • Why Google’s Autonomous Cars Probably Won’t Ki ...
    It’s undeniable the Google’s autonomous driving tech is pretty awesome—impressive enough that even a blind man can travel behind the wheel of one of the web giant’s self-driving cars. And there’s been a lot of buzz surrounding it, as Google became the first company to gai ...

Pogue's Posts

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Optimism After Jordan's Election
    Against all expectations, Jordan's parliamentary election this week seems to have generated some optimism. The big questions had little to do with the appeal of specific political platforms or even the candidates themselves, but rather with process and turnout. Would the newly-established Indepe ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Cyber and Mytho ...
    Jill Lepore, “How Much Military is Enough?” New Yorker, January 28, 2013. Veit Medick, “Germany Plans to Deploy Armed Drones,” Spiegel Online International, January 25, 2013. Bowing to pressure from the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, the federal government in Berlin is preparing to deploy ...
  • Why 2013 Could Be a Turning Point for Zimbabwe
    This year is bound to be an important one for Zimbabwe. Four years after violent elections in 2008 led to a power sharing government, the country is finally preparing for a referendum on a draft constitution and national elections should be held by the end of the year. This could mark a turning ...
  • Top of the Morning: Clashes Mark Anniversary o ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Mali Rebel Group Splits There’s been a schism in one of Mali’s strongest Islamist rebel groups. “One wing of Mali’s Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali in a decla ...
  • Equal Opportunity Soldiers On
    You know what repealing "don't ask, don't tell" did to change the military, right?   Nothing, absolutely nothing. It simply acknowledged what was already true: lesbians and gay men were doing their jobs, just like everyone else. With the repeal, of course, thousands of people were freer to breat ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • You Snooze, You Lose
    For all the successes of his first term, Barack Obama had a number of notable failures, some of which got more attention than others. One of the less-noticed is the fact that Obama has been slow to fill vacancies on the federal courts. Granted, Republicans in the Senate have resisted the appoin ...
  • Why Immigration Reform Won't Save the GOP
      Gage Skidmore / Flickr The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin has kind words for Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s immigration proposal, which would create a path toward legal residence—but not citizenship—for undocumented immigrants: Why is Rubio having great success so far? I think there ...
  • Equality of Flying Time
    Poking holes in the arguments that appear on The Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages bears a close resemblance, I admit, to shooting fish in a barrel, but an op-ed in Thursday’s Journal makes points so idiotic I cannot restrain myself. Its thesis, as woozily argued by Donald Boudreaux, a Geor ...
  • Will the GOP Vote-Rigging Effort Invite a Back ...
    Over the last 12 years (since the Florida debacle of 2000), I've argued repeatedly that politics in America is characterized by an Audacity Gap. It may not hold in every situation and every controversy, but most of the time, Republicans are willing take actions both small (shouting at the presi ...
  • A New American "demos"?
    Standing on the mall Monday among the great and diverse crowd who came to celebrate the second inauguration of the President, I reacted strongly to two aspects of the day.  The first was to the feeling produced by the crowd, to the moment itself.  The second was something else, something perfec ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Kentucky Neo-Nazis Charged in Gruesome Murder, ...
    The 25-point manifesto of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) makes several hyperbolic “demands,” such as “all non-Whites currently residing in America be required to leave the nation forthwith and return to their land of origin: peacefully or by force.’’ But it appears that two Kentucky membe ...
  • Second Amendment Vigilantes
    Editor’s note: The author of this guest column, Ron Carver, is a former field organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He is currently an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPC). This piece was distributed via OtherWords, a nonprofit editorial service opera ...
  • Army Veteran Pleads Guilty in Fort Stewart Mil ...
    Another former soldier has pleaded guilty for his role in an anti-government militia authorities say is responsible for the execution-style murder of two teenagers in the Georgia woods in late 2011. Timothy Joiner, a 22-year-old Iraq War veteran, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Liberty County, Ga., to ...
  • White Nationalist in Race for Suburban Missour ...
    A reported member of the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens is running for a seat on a suburban Kansas City, Mo., school board on a platform that includes “removing materials that promote racial diversity” in a district that is becoming increasingly diverse. The candidate, Edward ...
  • Religious-Right Radicals Join NRA Side In Gun ...
    Religious-right extremists who have spent most of their energy in recent years vilifying LGBT people or fighting the nation’s culture wars on other fronts have found a new demon to slay: gun control. It might seem odd that those who profess allegiance to the teachings of Jesus Christ would be so ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Flawed EPA Air Pollution Plan for “Scenic Land ...
    Conservation and public health groups seeking to restore clear skies over some of our nation’s most scenic landscapes filed a challenge today with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver against plans approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that allow coal-fi ...
  • Flawed EPA Air Pollution Plan for “Scenic Land ...
    Conservation and public health groups seeking to restore clear skies over some of our nation’s most scenic landscapes filed a challenge today with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver against plans approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that allow coal-fi ...
  • ‘School Choice Week’ Promotes Vouchers, Underm ...
    Sectarian lobbies and right-wing interest groups are waging war on the public school system, and “National School Choice Week” is part of that effort, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.read more
  • ‘School Choice Week’ Promotes Vouchers, Underm ...
    Sectarian lobbies and right-wing interest groups are waging war on the public school system, and “National School Choice Week” is part of that effort, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.read more
  • Now It’s Official: Leaders Offer More Reaction ...
    Yesterday, the Fix the Senate Now coalition reacted to the agreement between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), calling it “a missed opportunity to provide meaningful filibuster reform, while advancing some decent procedural improvem ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Teacher Boycott of Standardized Test in Seattl ...
    Valerie Strauss A boycott of Washington state’s mandated standardized test by teachers at a Seattle school is spreading to other schools and winning support across the country, including from the two largest teachers’ unions, pa ...
  • Obama’s Record Belies Inaugural Words
    Ralph Nader A friend asked me what I was thinking while listening to President Obama’s inaugural address. Here were my reactions: Obama: “They [the Patriots of 1776] gave to us a republic, a government of and by and for the peop ...
  • Egypt: The People Still Want the Fall of the R ...
    Juan Cole On the two-year anniversary of the demonstration that kicked off the Egyptian Revolution and the Second Republic, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians came out to demonstrate. They were not so much commemorating the fall of the Muba ...
  • Three Strategies to Block the Gerrymandering o ...
    John Nichols As Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus promotes one of the most blatant assaults on democracy in modern times—a scheme to gerrymander the Electoral College so that the loser of the popular vote could win ...
  • Don’t Buy Lies About Social Security
    Dave Zweifel Let’s be brutally frank today: The claim by some of those Wall Street money changers and politicians like Wisconsin’s own Paul Ryan and many of his Republican colleagues that Social Security is contributing to the n ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Panel to debate solutions for Sacramento-San J ...
    Is peace possible in the war over the waters in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta? A UC Center Sacramento panel discussion aims at answering that question.
  • Water Wars Spreading
    Riverside’s water authority hired a consultant for $15,000 a month to work with key stakeholders in San Diego, like the Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Council.
  • News in Brief: Symposium organized to address ...
    The Ninth Annual Water Law Symposium will be held Saturday, Jan. 26 at the UC Davis School of Law and the UC Davis Conference Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event, titled “Beyond the Water Wars: Collaborative Management Solutions for a Shared Resource,” will feature expert discussion of contro ...
  • Missouri Needs to Solve Water Wars in 2013
    COMMENTARY | The severe drought of 2012 has led to near-record low water levels on the Mississippi River. There are fears barge traffic along the vital waterway will cease altogether as commercial shipping relies on higher water levels. The Belleville News-Democrat reports melting snow upstream ...
  • A water war plays out in Caldwell
    Caldwell blames its fight with the Pioneer Irrigation District on its attorney.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • For The Sixth Time In One Week, Man Shot At Gu ...
    Gun activists designated last Saturday “Gun Appreciation Day” in an attempt to highlight their opposition to gun safety laws. The PR stunt proved to be more of an embarrassment, however, when 5 people were shot at 3 different gun shows on Gun Appreciation Day. On Friday afternoon, an ...
  • How To Convince The NRA That Assault Weapons, ...
    Stephen King — best selling author of the very kind of violent books that gun advocates say contribute to gun violence — has penned Guns, a 25-page essay dismissing their criticism, while calling for universal background checks for gun purchases, and a ban on assault weapons and high ...
  • WashPost And AP: Obama Is ‘Liberal’ Because He ...
    This Washington Post headline sums up so much that is wrong with the media and politics today: I understand why fossil-fuel-funded conservatives assert that climate change is “liberal.” By why does the Associated Press and WashPost fall into that trap? I guess it’s true, as Ste ...
  • Arizona Bills Require Public School Students T ...
    Public high school students in Arizona will have to “recite an oath supporting the U.S. Constitution” to receive a graduation diploma, if a new bill introduced in the new session of the state legislature is passed and signed into law. The measure, House Bill 2467, was offered by Rep. ...
  • Open Thread And Cartoon Of The Week
    Opine away. For more Jen Sorensen gems, click here.

thwap's schoolyard

  • Don't Feed the Trolls!!!
    I notice with considerable consternation, that the troll has returned to Saskboy's comments section. The individual in question will obnoxiously guffaw over the slightest errors (either real or the product of a deliberate misreading of what someone says) but lapses into cowardly silence when its ...
  • And Successive Federal Governments Threw Money ...
     So, it dawned on me this morning, that the "Awesome Canadians" believe that there's no racism in Canada against the First Nations. I mean, sure, we used to kidnap them and forced our religion and culture on them, while denying them their own, and some of the residential schools were full o ...
  • Them or Us: Part II
    Remember what I said yesterday. Now ponder this: And, now  this: The people we're up against are so deluded and stupid that they deny the truth of evolution. But in reality, we're just descended from a common ancestor of us and the apes. And, as far as we know, we're alone in the universe ...
  • Them or Us
    Just been reading about how the usual suspects are pressuring Chief Spence to end her fast while doing sweet fuck all to pressure stephen harper and the GG to meet with her. It's the Canadian Way, I suppose. You know; if there's rampant electoral fraud and the "Contempt of Parliament Party" sque ...
  • Sigh. Busy.
    I thought this was funny. There you go.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Video: 'Splinter Cell — Blacklist' collector's ...
    A new trailer has been released for "Splinter Cell: Blacklist" the sixth main installment of the "Splinter Cell" series. This trailer promotes the special collector's edition that involves a remote-control plane.
  • Dying dog devours dream last meal before being ...
    A much-loved dying dog, Lennox the boxer, has gone viral in a video of his last meal. Lennox had many operations to try to save him from cancer but deteriorated so badly that putting him down was the option deemed most humane. But not before he ate.
  • Study officially links willpower to succeeding ...
    You may have felt this to be the case all along but now a study has come along to officially link success at losing weight with willpower. The study also found that you can improve your willpower along the way to weight loss.
  • Video: 'Aliens - Colonial Marines' marines pep ...
    Sega and Gearbox Softwear have released the latest trailer for its sci-fi horror first-person shooter game called "Aliens: Colonial Marines" which is directly connected to the movie "Aliens" that was directed by James Cameron.
  • Law proposed in Oregon would make possessing c ...
    Oregon state legislator, Rep. Mitch Greenlick, a Democrat, has sponsored a bill to make possession of cigarettes illegal. Smokers would need a doctor's prescription to smoke and possessing cigarettes without one could lead to jail time.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadian special forces to Mali?
    Will Canadian special forces soldiers be sent to Mali? Prime Minister Harper has clearly stated that his government is “not considering” a “direct” military role in the current conflict. But can his words be trusted?
  • What’s your opinion about the war in Mali?
    The Harper government is moving toward more direct military involvement in Mali. What is your opinion about events in Mali and Harper’s response? Leave your comment.
  • Mali war: Blowback and mission creep
    The West's intervention to overthrow Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in 2011 was one of the triggers of the current war in Mali, and as Canada's role in Mali slowly grows, the danger of being drawn further into a spreading West African conflict also grows.
  • C-17 to support Mali intervention
    Prime Minister Harper announced on Monday that Canada would assign one RCAF C-17 transport aircraft to provide logistical support to the French military intervention in Mali for a period of one week.
  • No “direct military” mission to Mali
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a press conference on Tuesday that Canada is not considering a “direct military mission” in Mali. He did not, however, rule out other forms of assistance.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-6-12
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that the economy is getting worse and that your standard of living is deteriorating! Plus, the creator of the Resolve mineral detox, Dr. Ray Lala, stops by to explain how his mineral detox can virtually cure you from any viral infection, including herpes an ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-5-13
    Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino! Self Help: Learn The Secrets ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-13-12
    Today, Kevin explains how illegal aliens are hurting America’s economy and what the government should do about it. Plus, find out how well Dr. Theresa Dale’s colon cleanse really works! Self Help: A Weight Loss Program That Works! Take A Stand With Kevin Trudeau! Health: “Top 7 Diets” According ...
  • Just A Couple Videos To Brighten Your Day!
    Due to popular demand, here are the songs I have been playing on my radio show: ASK YOUR DOCTOR BYE BYE AMERICAN PIE
  • New Information Regarding My Legal Battle
    Watch the video above to get all the latest information directly from Kevin regarding his legal battles!

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Malaysian biologist named head of U.N. biodive ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A prominent Malaysian biologist on Saturday was named first chief of a UN scientific panel which aims to turn the world’s spotlight on species loss, as a Nobel-winning counterpart has done for clim ...
  • Keiser Report: Plunderers Pumping Pelf (E398)
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMax Keiseryoutube.com In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the American legal system that authorizes plunder, a moral code that glorifies it and a financial system that profits from it. In the second hal ...
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worr ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Israeli Bomb By Jonas E. AlexisSaturday, January 26th, 2013 View the original about Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Israeli ...
  • Debating Torture Is Like Debating Whether Rape ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDebating Torture Is Like Debating Whether Rape Is Good By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com False Debate Torture doesn’t work to produce helpful intelligence. All of the top experts say that it hurts our national ...
  • Rabbi tells Israeli TV: ‘not the slightest ant ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   An Israeli-born rabbi who claims to know Chuck Hagel well said in an interview aired Saturday that he has never heard any anti-Israeli sentiment from the nominee for US defence secretary, despite accusat ...

Dandelion Salad

  • A Terrible Normality by Michael Parenti
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Jan. 25, 2013 Through much of history the abnormal has been the norm. This is a paradox to which we should attend. Aberrations, so plentiful as to form a terrible normality of their own, descend upon u ...
  • Chris Hedges: We Have Truth On Our Side
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 23, 2013 McMaster Humanities·Jan 22, 2013 The 14th Mahatma Gandhi Lecture on Non-violence with Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, th ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Prison Industrial Complex (clip ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky mumiathemovie·Jan 23, 2013 Long Distance Revolutionary opens NYC February 1, 2013 Opens Seattle February 22, 2013 Opens LA March 1, 2013 Like Us: http://on.fb.me/QFLhnk Follow Us: http://twitter.com/LDRmovie http://www.mumia-themovie.com *** Long Distance Revolu ...
  • Inauguration Day: Two Nobel Laureates, Drones ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England January 22, 2013 One day … Children at school will ask: What is war? You will answer them. You will tell them: Those words are not used any more. Like stagecoaches, galleys or slavery. Words no longer meaningful … – Mart ...
  • The Black Elite and the Legacy of MLK + Martin ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Jan 21, 2013 Glen Ford: Black upper class took advantage of legal victories won by MLK and the Civil Rights Movement and then helped to undermine the movement. *** Repost from January 18, 2011. Martin Luther King Jr.: Organized Non-violent resistance is the most power ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Fire in ...
    A new image from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile shows a beautiful view of clouds of cosmic dust in the region of Orion. While these dense interstellar clouds seem dark and obscured in visible-light observations, APEX’s LABOCA ...
  • Crazy Alien Weather: Lightning-Filled Rocket D ...
    Scientists have modeled the internal workings of lightning-filled “rocket dust storms” on Mars that rise at speeds 100 times faster than ordinary storms and inject dust high into the Martian atmosphere.
  • We the Geeks: Best White House Science Petitions
    From Sasquatch to the Starship Enterprise, we’ve collected some of our favorite science and tech-related White House petitions. And, of course, included the White House homebrew recipe.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Scarred ...
    This mosaic of the four highest-resolution images of Ariel represents the most detailed Voyager 2 picture of this satellite of Uranus. The images were taken through the clear filter of Voyager's narrow-angle camera on Jan. 24, 1986, at a distance ...
  • Lowly Dung Beetles Are Insect Astronomers
    Even the humble dung beetle, standing barely an inch off the ground, its life spent pushing balls of waste, steers by starlight.

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup: January 19-25, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Duncan was thrilled that the Supreme Court had finally reached a decision on whether to grant certiorari in Bond v United States, a case that requires revisiting Missouri v Holland. Julian though questioned whether Bond v United States w ...
  • What Happens if China Tries to Boycott UNCLOS ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku [I know that what this blog needs is yet another post on the China-Philippines UNCLOS Arbitration! We aim to please!] Steve Groves of Heritage asks in the comments to my prior post: What happens if China simply refuses to show up at the arbitration? Can an arbitral tr ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, January 25, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights while Countering Terrorism, Ben Emmerson, announced the launch of a special investigation into drone warfare and targeted killings yesterday. The United Nations is planning to consider later this year the scientific ...
  • Has China Rejected the Philippines Arbitration ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This article from the Global Times, a hawkish state-controlled newspaper in China, is probably reflects a little bit of the official Chinese view on the Philippines UNCLOS claim. It also contains this troubling bit of analysis, from a Chinese scholar: The internationa ...
  • Why It (Formally) Matters Whether Palestine Ra ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller David Bosco has an important post at The Multilateralist today reminding people that Palestine does not have to ratify the Rome Statute for the ICC to be able to investigate the situation in the West Bank and Gaza.  As David notes, because Palestine has ...

Public News Service

  • Volunteers Ready for Arizona's Annual Homeless ...
    Volunteers Ready for Arizona's Annual Homeless Count PHOENIX – Whether on the streets, in alleyways or in the river bottom, thousands of Arizonans spend their days looking for a place to sleep for the night. And next Wednesday, hundreds of volunteers will fan out across the state to find ...
  • Study: AZ Ranks Near Bottom for Salaries that ...
    Study: AZ Ranks Near Bottom for Salaries that Don't Meet Basic Needs PHOENIX - The economic recovery has yet to reach half the Arizonans who lost their jobs in the Great Recession, according to a new study. The report from the Working Poor Families Project shows many of those who have found wor ...
  • “Know it. Name it. Stop it.” Stalk ...
    “Know it. Name it. Stop it.” Stalking Awareness Month in AZ PHOENIX - January is Stalking Awareness Month in Arizona, and a national campaign is under way to "Know it. Name it. Stop it." State law lists stalking as a crime, but Caroline Fleming, executive director of the Custer Netw ...
  • Gun Violence In Arizona
    Gun Violence In Arizona PHOENIX - The FBI says there were 339 murders in Arizona in 2011, the most recent year for which statistics are available, and two-thirds of them involved guns. The package of gun-safety legislation the President unveiled last week includes a ban on high-capacity gun maga ...
  • New Analysis: Evidence of Climate Change Stron ...
    New Analysis: Evidence of Climate Change Stronger Than Ever PHOENIX – Climate experts say the evidence is stronger than ever that climate change is happening, and comes with devastating consequences for Arizona and the rest of the nation. A new draft of the National Climate Assessment, r ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Archangel Ancient Tree Archive. Cloning ancien ...
    The mission of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is to: Propagate the world’s most important old growth trees before they are gone. Reforest the Earth with the offspring of these trees to benefit all life through the natural filtering process of the trees to increase oxygen, sequester carbon dioxi ...
  • Anonymous: “a line was crossed” with Aaron Swa ...
    Anonymous is going nuclear after the death of Aaron Swartz, which was provoked by the prosecutorial abuse of Carmen Ortiz and other government officials who wanted to make an example of him. Anonymous is promising releases of docuements which they say will be very damaging to the government and ...
  • Next generation geothermal power sounds like f ...
    A test geothermal project in Bend OR was done with constant monitoring of seismic activity and with getting the community involved and keeping them informed. Seismic activity was virtually undetectable. Geothermal power is about the only source of renewable energy that produces uninterrupted po ...
  • Who could have predicted Obama would appoint f ...
    Apparently some are shocked, just shocked that Obama would appoint a Wall Street crony to pretend to enforce laws against Wall Street crime at the SEC. Matt Taibbi feigns shock to make a point. Couldn’t they have found someone who wasn’t a key figure in one of the most notorious sca ...
  • Vine launches. 6 second videos for Twitter and ...
    Vine 6 second videos are iPhone and iTouch only for now and publish to Vine, Twitter, and Facebook. They can be edited and are fun to make. An entire new mini art-form, 6 second videos, is being born. Chris Brogan has 11 Things a business can do with Vine. Today we’re launching Vine, a new ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • America Can be a Scary Place for Americans! Po ...
    WOW – for all who love big Govt and it’s so called “protection” – read and share this one! This could happen to any of you next!  ` jB Salem-News.com Larissa Nearing’s story is a poignant illustration of what can happen when you are busy living your life. Larissa Ne ...
  • Sheriffs Being Stripped Of Arrest Powers?
      • Delaware attorney general strips county sheriffs of arrest powers By Pat Shannan American Free Press Sheriff Jeff Christopher of Sussex County, Delaware, when he was elected to the office in 2010, thought he was handpicked by the people to represent them as the highest-ranking law offic ...
  • Belgian MP LAURENT LOUIS stands against war in ...
    Belgian MP LAURENT LOUIS stands against war in Mali and exposes the international no-colonial plot at the Belgian Parliament. We are attempting to verify the authenticity of this translation. If anyone seeing this speaks the language – please let us know if this is accurate. On January the ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Intelligence breach and drug money ...
    By Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info January 26, 2013 The U.S. State Department finds itself in yet another scandal. This time, it involves an intelligence breach in Mexico City. In what appears to be something out of a spy novel, Mexican drug cartels have demonstrated, yet again, sophisticated co ...
  • Earn $20 pretending to hate wind energy
    Important job opportunity, everyone. From Craigslist: Our firm needs 100 volunteers to attend and participate in a rally in front of the British Consulate/Embassy in Midtown Manhattan on the East Side on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12 noon. The event is being held in order to protest wind tur ...

The Air Vent

  • The Lukewarmer’s Way
    When a climate scientist claims that 2 + 2 =5 and the rest of the scientists tell them it doesn’t, CS turns a blind eye.   Michael Mann’s hokey stick nonsense drives those of us who actually read math completely wild.  When they add extreme need for compulsory planet wide behavioral ...
  • A Reasoned Rejection of Science, Explaining th ...
    Ex-spurt is a commonly misunderstood term.   The true definition of Ex-spurt is, “A drip under pressure”, or perhaps in past tense form, “a drop under pressure.” Often an ex-drip will self-identify as a spurt, but on closer examination he is really just a drip.  Reader (A ...
  • Yellow Science
    Reader Skiphil has left a link to some incredible commentary by our good friend Stephan Lewandowski who apparently holds a PhD in bovine scatology.  There is nothing wrong with being educated in scatology, however, Stephan’s propensity to practice his chosen craft publicly leaves one wonde ...
  • Common Sense on Government Spending
    Tom Fuller and I have always had a cordial relationship despite the fact that his politics are Pelosi-left.   He left a comment on the last thread in relation to taxes and the deficit which depicts exactly how the left-wing media is trying to portray our current debt situation.   While he is ref ...
  • Two Sides of the Laffer
    Happy New Year readers.   2013! I still owe everyone some commentary on Steig’s 3rd (or is it the 4th) victory lap.   I have spent several hours on the new Antarctic doom paper, hopefully I will have some time shortly to write on that.  In the meantime, we are awaiting some movement on the ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: mobile app, lobbying, HQ exp ...
    Facebook finishes 2012 as No. 1 mobile app in U.S. – Facebook edged Google Maps as the top mobile app in the U.S. at the end of 2012, according to ComScore. Google’s app had been No....
  • Facebook suggests similar pages after users cl ...
    Facebook is trying a new module that immediately recommends additional pages to Like after a user clicks the Like button on a page’s Timeline. When users click Like on some pages, a box of “More Pages...
  • Facebook formalizes reciprocity policy and cle ...
    Facebook today amended its platform policy to formalize its stance toward which types of apps can use its data and when. The company clarified two key points: developers may not use its platform if they replicate...
  • Facebook careers: Italy policy, community part ...
    Facebook added 26 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the account management, recruiting, marketing, sales, user operations and other teams. We’ve also seen the company running a new Facebook ad...
  • Facebook hires and departures: public policy m ...
    Facebook Manager of Public Policy Cory C. Owens today announced that he would be leaving the company to work for car services startup Uber. Owens worked out of Facebook’s D.C. office. The company put up a job...

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • Prelude to a Coming Interview- Operation Gladio
    The Master Key to Understanding the States’ Secrets James Corbett and I are preparing an episode on Operation Gladio. The interview should be ready in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, I strongly urge you (emphasis on ‘strongly’) to listen to the following podcast interview conducted by James ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 14
    “Congo & the Politics of Genocide” with Keith Harmon Snow This week Eric examines the continued conflict and genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He explores the various factions on the ground as well as the forces behind the violence and the imperialist powers that support. Eric p ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Whole Foods CEO Shoots Self, Company in Foot
    I don’t often write about food subjects as I once did in this blog. But John Mackey’s latest comments force me to change course a bit. I shop every week at Whole Foods. It’s one of the best food markets I’ve ever encountered (not the best, but close). It has an astonishin ...
  • Israel’s Elections: Dirty Tricks and Rearrangi ...
    Yes, that title is a bit harsh.  But we’ll get to that later.  There is much to say about the results of today’s Israeli election. But in essence, very little has changed and what little has–not for the better. Let’s start with winners and losers. Losers: Bibi big time. L ...
  • Dirty Tricks Israel-Style: Knesset Elections C ...
    Activists associated with the Eretz Chadasha party, about whom I’ve been posting over the past week, have just told me about a new and outrageous development in today’s election, for which polling began a few hours ago.  Voters in communities including Holon, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and ...
  • Panic in Likud at Party’s Freefall in Internal ...
    The Likud Party house organ, Yisrael HaYom, has a headline this morning (Israel time) showing Likud-Beitenu in a panic as internal party polls show it falling to either 31 or 29 seats (depending on the poll).  In an appeal to voters to renounce the party’s main rival, Bayit Yehudi, the hea ...
  • New Election Poll Forecasts Likud Implosion, S ...
    I’ve been forwarded results of a new Israeli election poll compiled over the past few hours.  I know the pollster’s name, though I can’t name it.  It’s one of Israel’s most reputable.  I don’t have physical possession of the actual poll.  If the poll is accura ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The New Egypt - Police Clash with Egyptian Pro ...
    Egyptian protestors clashed with riot police in cities throughout Egypt on Friday during mass rallies marking the second anniversary of the uprising that ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. In Cairo, thousands of protesters marched towards Tahrir Square, where police fired tear gas on stone-th ...
  • French Court Correct in Issuing Twitter Identi ...
    ADL is committed to reducing the prevalence of anti-Semitic and other hate speech on the Internet. With respect to the circumstances surrounding the French court order to Twitter demanding the identification of the person who posted anti-Semitic content on that service, we welcomed Twitterâ ...
  • The Mali War - French-Backed Malian Forces Pus ...
    French-backed Malian forces are battling Islamist militants in a key town that leads toward the city of Gao, a militant stronghold in the country's north. Residents and security officials say French and Malian forces fought rebels in Hombori, on Friday, a town about 250 kilometers from Gao.Meanw ...
  • India and Pakistan - Indo–Pakistani Tension: ...
    Tensions between India and Pakistan are heating up along the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir. A series of border incidents in early January left three Pakistani and two Indian soldiers dead. One of the Indian soldiers was beheaded and another severely mutilated, provoking Indian Prime ...
  • China on Edge - China’s Other Pollution Prob ...
    When chemicals recently contaminated a river in China’s northern Shanxi province, it took authorities five days to report the incident. While the mayor offered an apology and chemical plant officials were dismissed, the spill ended up affecting drinking water in several cities downstream. It a ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • A List of the 157 Types of Firearms Diane Fein ...
    Here are the makes and models of the firearms that Feinstein wants to ban: Rifles: All AK types, including the following: AK, AK47, AK47S, AK–74, AKM, AKS, ARM, MAK90, MISR, NHM90, NHM91, Rock River Arms LAR–47, SA85, SA93, Vector Arms AK–47, VEPR, WASR–10, and WUM, IZHMASH Saiga AK, MAAD ...
  • Federal Appeals Court: Obama ABUSED His Power
    A federal appeals court ruled this morning that the "recess appointments" President Obama made a year ago to the National Labor Relations Board were an abuse of power,  that he acted when the Senate was not actually in a recess and  and the board has not had quorum to operate. Fur ...
  • France's Richest Man Moves to Belgium Avoidin ...
    Back in September when Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault the richest man in France applied for Belgian citizenship. Left-wing French newspaper Libération ran a picture of the head of LVMH with the headline, Casse-toi riche con!  which (according to Google Translate) means "F**K Off Rich ...
  • Legendary Coach Lou Holtz "I’m Done, Finished, ...
    Lou Holtz is universally known as a great college football coach and motivational speaker. He has spent decades giving pep talks, both on and off the football field. The man has been able to inspire though many bad times, heck, he even got through almost an entire full season as the Co ...
  • Roe at 40: A Discussion with Live Action's Lil ...
     By Matt Vespa  On January 22, the United States celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, which legalized abortion in all fifty states.  In doing so, the Court usurped a developing consensus amongst the state legislatures on the ...

The Real Agenda

  • Hillary Clinton reafirma compromisso dos EUA p ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANEIRO 26, 2013 Enquanto os grandes conflitos no Oriente Médio começam a diminuir, os Estados Unidos estão preparados para apoiar as guerras e conflitos em outras regiões do mundo. Na verdade, a história mostra que o intervencionismo dos EUA tem si ...
  • Construção de assentamentos ilegais explodiu s ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANEIRO 26, 2013 A organização Paz Agora publicou um relatório em que fala de um crescimento recorde na construção de assentamentos nos territórios palestinos durante o atual mandato. A publicação desta informação coincide com o anúncio de novos con ...
  • Construcción de asentamientos judíos ilegales ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | ENERO 26, 2013 La organización Paz Ahora ha publicado un informe en el que habla de un crecimiento récord en la construcción de asentamientos en los territorios palestinos durante la actual legislatura. La publicación de esta información coincide co ...
  • Hillary Clinton reitera compromiso de EE.UU. d ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | ENERO 25, 2013 Mientras los grandes conflictos en el Medio Oriente comienzan a menguar, los Estados Unidos se prepara para la apoyar guerras y  conflictos en otras regiones del mundo. De hecho, la historia muestra que el intervencionismo de EE.UU. h ...
  • Foro Económico Mundial aboga por sostenibilida ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | ENERO 25, 2013 Parece que la sostenibilidad es un concepto que no es aplicable al dinero y la deuda. Al comenzar, invitados del Foro Económico Mundial en Suiza, han centrado sus presentaciones en la exigencia de que el mundo se financie a nivel mund ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm owner and Coos County wrangle over p ...
    Just as other wind farms are being considered around the state, Coos County officials are fighting with the operator of the 33 turbines located in their county over payment. The county contends Brookfield Renewable Energy owes it twice as much as Brookfield wants to pay. In 2008 three Coos Count ...
  • Legislation in General Assembly seeks renewabl ...
    BLUEFIELD, Va. — Legislation that was introduced in the Virginia General Assembly last week apparently seeks to exempt electric utilities from local zoning and land use requirements. On Jan. 18, State Senator Richard L. Saslaw, D-Springfield, introduced Senate Bill 1341, the “Renewable energy fa ...
  • Wisconsin Towns Association calls for moratori ...
    A group of government leaders wants to halt the spread of huge wind farms around the state. The Wisconsin Towns Association voted Monday to adopt a resolution calling on the state of Wisconsin and the Public Service Commission to enact a moratorium on the construction of industrial wind turbines ...
  • Turbines fan fire concern
    A controversial wind farm bid is under fire from dozens of local firefighters who say it could have disastrous consequences. Residents of Whiteheads Creek, east of Seymour, have dug in with Mitchell Shire Council to battle the $100 million Cherry Tree Wind Farm project in a 12-day VCAT hearing. ...
  • Fourmile project on state’s ‘sensitive a ...
    OAKLAND — A major portion — 75 percent — of the proposed Fourmile Ridge wind project in eastern Garrett County is in the state’s designated “sensitive areas” as having rare, threatened and endangered species, according to Jim Torrington, chief of the Garrett County Permits and Inspections Divisi ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Big Money in NC: Outside groups unleashed $14. ...
    Super PACs and outside spending groups spent millions on state-level races in North Carolina. Who are these groups? Where did there money come from, and where did it go? read more
  • FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: How two S ...
    Two pregnant Southern women played key roles in the legalization of abortion in the United States. A story in the 1977 edition of Southern Exposure detailed their experiences, and we share it in honor of the 40th anniversary of both the magazine and the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. ...
  • In North Carolina, school resegregation by cha ...
    At the same time North Carolina is dramatically expanding the number of charter schools operating in the state, new research from Duke University finds that charter schools are much more likely than traditional public schools to be racially unbalanced -- and that can have negative educational co ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Conservatives are selling eco ...
    North Carolina and Louisiana are among the states considering a plan to eliminate corporate and personal income taxes. But analyses of the plan and other work by its author find serious flaws -- and one of the plan's own financiers is distancing himself from it publicly. read more
  • VOICES: As Obama lays out progressive agenda, ...
    President Obama outlined a decidedly progressive-minded agenda for his second term -- one the South's white oligarchy of business, political, religious and media leaders will fight tooth and nail. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Detroit Future City
    Recently the Detroit Works Project released their long awaited strategic plan for the city. This is the one led by Toni Griffin that produced a lot of public controversy because of suggestions it would result in the planned shrinkage or decommissioning (or even forced residential relocat ...
  • World's Most Affluent Metropolitan Areas: 2012
    Late in 2012, the Brookings Institution published its annual Global Metro Monitor(by Emilia Istrate and Carey Anne Nadeau), which estimates economic data for the 300 world metropolitan areas with the largest gross domestic product (GDP). The Global Metro Monitor also provides estimates of th ...
  • State Components of Population Change: 2010-2012
    What have the last two years of modest recovery meant to the growth and redistribution of population among the states? New data on the components of change for states are now available.  In March county level data will permit a more detailed portrait. For states I present four maps, overal ...
  • Why Republicans Need the Cities
    Republicans took an all around shellacking in the 2012 elections. Part of the reason is that Democrats dominated the cities. President Obama won 69% of the big city vote, according to a New York Times exit poll analysis. Some of this is perhaps on account of the racial makeup of the cities, as b ...
  • Demographic and Economic Challenges: The 9th A ...
    The just released 9th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey (pdf) indicates that housing affordability has deteriorated modestly in the last year. A number of major metropolitan areas remain severely unaffordable. Highlights: Metropolitan Areas Among the 337 Metropolitan markets ...

GM Watch

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spiked

  • The struggle to moralise capitalism
    A fascinating exploration of the role of liberal intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek in the rehabilitation of free-market ideology also exposes the crisis of liberalism in the modern era.
  • Israeli settlers: the new ‘niggers&#8217 ...
    Bidisha's remarkably candid assault on abnormal, thuggish, lying, zombie-like Israelis confirms that they're the one group of foreigners it's acceptable to fear and loathe these days.
  • Saving the planet by condemning people
    Chandran Nair argues that Asians should be kept in backward drudgery, at the expense of civil liberties if necessary, in the name of protecting the environment.
  • ‘The answer to speech you don’t li ...
    Journalism academic Brian Winston talks to Jason Walsh about the parlous state of free speech in the UK, how ‘crap’ the News of the World was, and why it should still be in existence.
  • How to overcome racism: a hopeful subject
    A new book explains how both racism and multiculturalism have been state-led projects. The way out, the authors argue, is to revive a sense of common, purposeful humanity.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Burt Reynolds admitted to the hospital af ...
    Even Burt Reynolds couldn't avoid the flu epidemic that’s sweeping the country. The movie icon was admitted to the hospital on Friday after coming down with a severe case of the flu. According to TMZ, the 75-year-old Smokey and the...
  • Kutcher takes on tech idol Steve Jobs in ...
    PARK CITY, Utah - Ashton Kutcher says playing Steve Jobs on screen "was honestly one of the most terrifying things I've ever tried to do in my life." Enlarge From left, actor Ashton Kutcher, who portrays Steve Jobs, director Joshua Michael Stern, and actor Josh Gad, who portrays Steve Woznia ...
  • Pakistan PM for friendship with India, ar ...
    Pakistan wants friendly ties with India and would like to resolve all issues through dialogue, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said Saturday. Ashraf's conciliatory comments came as Pakistani and Indian troops exchanged sweets on the occasion of India's Republic Day, only weeks after clashi ...
  • Kaepernicking: letting your life reflect ...
    Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers is letting his life shine his way to reflect God’s glory. Can it really be that simple? Last year it was Linsanity and how Jeremy Lin displayed his moment his way to demonstrate what God’s plan for his life meant for him. Now another young man is u ...
  • No wet look for Angelica
    PLAYING dual roles is always a big challenge for any actress. The very sexy Angelica Panganiban is portraying one in the new primetime bida teleserye, “Apoy Sa Dagat.” Her character as Rebecca is rich and sociable while Serena is a child of poverty. Swept away in an island,Serena has no memo ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Thousands March In Washington for Gun Control
    Thousands of protesters marched in Washington, DC on Saturday calling for national gun control legislation in the wake of recent gun violence tragedies in the U.S. read more
  • Iraqis Demand Justice After Troops Shoot Down ...
    Sunni Arab tribes in Falluja (presumably branches of Dulaim) on Saturday demanded that the government turn over to them within 7 days the troops who fired on protesters on the outskirts of the western city of Falluja, killing 6 and wounding 19 on Friday. Otherwise, they say, they will declare j ...
  • New Englanders Converge: 'No Tar Sands Pipeline'
    (Photo: Common Dreams / Creative Commons)Opponents of a proposed pipeline project that would bring Canadian tar sands oil through New England gathered in Portland, Maine Saturday for a regional protest against the scheme by oil pipeline companies to use existing lines to transport what experts c ...
  • Dozens Dead After 21 Convicted in Egyptian Soc ...
    At least 30 people have been killed in the Egyptian city of Port Said Saturday in clashes that erupted over the sentencing of 21 people to death regarding last year's deadly soccer stadium riot. The fighting follows a day of deadly protests that marked the second anniversary of the country&# ...
  • Re-Calculated Results in Pennsylvania Show Cha ...
    The nationwide push for privatization of education through corporate-backed charter schools received a rebuke this week after newly calculated data in Pennsylvania showed that such schools are markedly out-performed by their public counterparts. Both brick-and-mortar charters and online institut ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • The Manufacturing Sector Needs Natural Gas
    America’s new favorite fuel, liquefied natural gas or LNG, is causing a rift between gas producers and manufacturers. The question is, what to do with the shale gas surplus that US gas producers now have at their disposal?
  • Carbon Emissions & Climate Change: Can We Get ...
    A new report from PWC finds that the average rate of decarbonisation globally has been 0.8% a year since 2000 (it was 0.7% in 2011), but it needs to be 5.1% a year from now until 2050 unless we want to start looking at a 2°C, 4°C, or even 6°C rise in average global temperatures, with devastating ...
  • America’s Nuclear Energy Future
    When it comes to nuclear energy, Dr. Burton Richter is Mr. Credible. Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for discovering a new sub-atomic particle, Richter has advised presidents and policymakers for almost 40 years. We interviewed Richter recently to get his opinion on next generation nuclear reacto ...
  • How High Oil Prices Lead to Recession
    There is ample evidence that spikes in oil prices leads to recession, at least in the US, which is an oil-importing nation. James Hamilton has shown that 10 out of the last 11 US recessions were associated with oil price spikes. How does this happen? An oil product, such as jet fuel, is in some ...
  • Where's the Real Bottleneck for Natural Gas? D ...
    As a scientist and an unabashed nerd, I love data. Particularly, I love it when ready access to data reveals things that are surprising in the face of conventional wisdom. Despite record-low wholesale electricity prices there's been a slow but quite noticeable creep of wholesale natural gas ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Is Opposing Obama's 'Kill List' & Drone Missil ...
    Larry Pinkney “You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” -Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evi ...
  • Wall Street's in Good Hands with Mary Jo White
    by Stephen Lendman On January 24, Obama nominated Mary Jo White as SEC head. "You don't want to mess with Mary Jo," he said. Others have different views. More about her below. Washington is Wall Street occupied territory. Regulatory oversight is absent. Earlier New Deal reforms are gone. ...
  • Obama the 44th President Says Goodbye to Obama ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD We, as Americans, need to ask ourselves what all this is about? Why is our government so provocative toward Islam, Russia, China, Iran? What purpose, whose purpose is being served? Certainly not ours…………Where do we go from here? If not to nu ...
  • Fascism Wins Big in Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Israeli election results hardened fascist rule. Dominant right-wing parties control 102 of 120 Knesset seats. Israelis have themselves to blame. They elected Israel's most extremist government in history. Militarism, belligerence, state-sponsored terrorism, occupation ...
  • Israeli Election Results
    by Stephen Lendman Israel has no constitution. Basic Laws substitute. One defines the "Powers and Functions of the Knesset." It's elected by "general, national, direct, equal, secret and proportional elections in accordance with Knesset Elections Law." Israel's Central Elections Committee o ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Countering austerity: New CCPA-Ontario resources
    The CCPA-Ontario office hosted a full-day session at Ryerson University in Toronto on January 9, 2013. The session focused on countering the austerity agenda in this province and beginning the conversation about what a post-austerity agenda could look like. Alex Himelfarb asked Canadians to ima ...
  • Our way or the Norway: managing oil wealth in ...
    When it comes to managing oil wealth, Canada has something to learn form our European neighbours. In a new report, CCPA’s Executive Director Bruce Campbell compares the Canada and Alberta experience of managing oil wealth to that of Norway and finds that for too long foreign and d ...
  • Federal Job Cuts and the Atlantic Provinces
    CCPA-NS has released a study that makes projections for federal public sector job losses in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of their impact in the region.  The report, titled “Public Disservice: The Impact of Federal Government Job Cuts in Atlantic Canada,” explains that ...
  • Joel Bakan to speak at the CCPA-BC Annual Gala ...
    We're pleased to announce that author and filmmaker Joel Bakan will be the featured speaker at our Annual Gala. Joel is the author of the widely-acclaimed book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (a companion to the documentary film), and Childhood Under Siege: How Bi ...
  • Interview with Scott Sinclair on trade and Atl ...
    CBC recently interviewed CCPA senior researcher Scott Sinclair about his report, Globalization, Trade Treaties and the Future of the Atlantic Canadian Fisheries. The report raises concerns about the impact trade treaties like CETA could have on the regulation of Atlantic fisheries. Wa ...

World Wide Hippies

  • You Are God Who? … Me?
    By William T. Hathaway - The statement “You are God” seems an absurd and presumptuous blasphemy, so it needs to be clarified. According to the Vedic tradition and panentheism, it’s not just you who are God; all of us are God. And it’s not just all of us who are God; every ...
  • Anonymous Threatens Massive WikiLeaks-Style Ex ...
    BY GREGORY FERENSTEIN - techcrunch.com/ - Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, is threatening perhaps their biggest play ever: a massive WikiLeaks-style exposure of sensitive U.S. government secrets. As proof of their power, they announced details of the plan on hacked government website, the Uni ...
  • Mexico – Pride and Division
    By Milva Matseva, CJE - It is 4;30 pm and the local buffet is preparing to open for dinner. Mariela Teutle walks around with a rag in her hands making last sweeps of all the surfaces. The bus boy, a seventeen-years-old senior in high school, is following her with pleading eyes. “What does it mea ...
  • CJE Saturday News Briefs
    Many killed in Bangladesh factory fire WS – Another Fire Sale at Walmart. At least six garment workers have been killed and 10 others injured in a factory fire in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, according to fire fighters and witnesses. The blaze on Saturday comes just two months after the coun ...
  • A Tale of Cocaine Trafficking, Sex Crime Charg ...
    From Danny Weil projectcensored.org Jan 13, - As reported at Dailycensored.com on  November 14, 2012, two sources have alleged that the CIA has been engaging in cocaine trafficking in Chile to fund an $88 million campaign to defeat President Rafael Correa in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential elect ...

FourWinds10

  • 'Its the worst weve ever seen': Hauls of shrim ...
    Oct. 18, 2012 Title: About 565,000 pounds of oiled material from Deepwater Horizon stirred up by Hurricane Isaac Source: Times-Picayune Author: Jeff Adelson Date: October 17, 2012 [...] While the uncovered tar has been a problem for the island’s tourism industry, the spill and the remainin ...
  • Feds: Oil in Gulf leaking from BPs containment ...
    Oct. 18, 2012 >> Updated Here: Oil Spill Expert: I remain skeptical they found source of BP crude in Gulf << Title: ROVs investigate possible sheen source Source: US Government Date: October 18, 2012 Remote operated vehicles deployed from the offshore construction vessel Skandi ...
  • Sewage Flows After Storm Expose Flaws in System
    Nov. 29, 2012 Uli Seit for The New York Times Workers this week replacing pumps at the Bay Park sewage-treatment plant in East Rockaway, N.Y., on Long Island, that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. More Photos » EAST ROCKAWAY, N.
  • Extensive coal ash contamination found in US w ...
    Oct. 22, 2012 Recent data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that as many as 197 different sites across 37 states registered violations to federal drinking water statutes due to contamination from coal ash produced by power plants nearby. Coal ash impoundment sites, calle ...
  • Defeat the planet-killing trade deal
    Nov. 28, 2012 Right now, the tar sands, a toxic oil reserve almost the size of Saudi Arabia's but over 3 times as dangerous for climate change, sits landlocked in Northern Canada. People power has twice blocked new pipelines into this poison, but now we have a bigger challenge. A new trade d ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 5 Tips for Feeding Kids Healthy Eats on the Road
    When you’re cooped up in the car on a family vacation, it’s all too easy to send healthy eating habits packing and cave in to whining with dining on fast food. While it’s important to be flexible on vacation (nothing wrong with an occasional burger or ice cream!), if you completely abandon your ...
  • McDonald's: The Greenest Restaurant on the Block?
    Pop quiz: If you want to buy sustainable seafood, are you better off going to McDonald's or that fancy sushi place down the street? If you guessed the sushi restaurant…you'd be wrong. Not only did a recent report from the nonprofit Oceana find that most sushi restaurants are mislabeling fish i ...
  • A Health Warning from Cleaning Pros
    People all over the world are cleaning themselves sick. Many of the dozens of cleaning products on the market contain toxic compounds that are clearly linked to lung damage. The latest evidence to tarnish cleaning products' standing comes from a study that IDs occupational hazards that are like ...
  • The Canned Food—Heart Disease Connection
    Canned food, in most cases, has way too much salt—enough to send any healthy person's blood pressure through the roof. But it may not be the heavy salt content that makes canned food bad for your heart. The can's lining contains a chemical that a new study has linked to widespread kidney proble ...
  • The Healthiest States in the U.S.
    If only getting your health back on track was as simple as moving to a healthier place. The research is certainly out there: People who live in areas with plenty of green plants and trees are happier, and working out in a city could lead to higher inflammation. But when the United Health Founda ...

big think

  • Human DNA Could Store All the World's Data
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers at European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge, UK, have sketched workable plans to encode hard data onto strands of human DNA, rather than use the magnetic tape or hard disks used by computers. "[The system] should, think the researchers, ...
  • When Being a Good Patient is Bad for Your Health
    What's the Latest Development? In the medical profession, patient obedience to doctors' orders is called compliance. But for Susan Gubar, professor emerita of English at Indiana University, diligently following the advice of her medical professionals did not keep two stints from being le ...
  • The UnQueered World: Take a Walk on the Mild Side
    My favorite Baltimorean iconoclast, filmmaker John Waters, had a wonderful line during a local NPR interview a few years ago. The topic had turned to same-sex marriage campaigns and Waters reacted, “I thought the whole point of being gay was that you didn’t have to get married, have kids, or joi ...
  • Should the Obese be Publicly Shamed?
    What's the Latest Development? Bioethicist Daniel Callahan has made a case for the public derision of people who overeat in a style similar to how smokers have been sent outside, taxed more and are considered to be at personal fault for their own poor health choices. "The force of being ...
  • Moratorium Lifted on H5N1 Flu Virus Research
    What's the Latest Development? University of Wisconsin scientists have decided to lift a self-imposed year-long moratorium on research into how the H5N1 flu virus could possibly mutate, becoming more easily transmittable from human to human and potentially causing a disease pandemic. The ...

Information Liberation

  • I Put My Life on the Line Writing This Article!
    America*s two biggest groups of scammers have got to be police officers and firefighters, whose union reps routinely tell Americans that their members put their lives on the line every day simply by slipping into their uniforms. They really use t...
  • Gary Raney: The Slave-Catching Sheriff of Ada ...
    If Idaho had been part of the Union in 1850, and Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney had occupied that office at the time, he would have dutifully arrested any black man or woman identified as an escaped slave. Oh, sure, Raney may have expressed agonized r...
  • Illinois Citizens Still Being Arrested For Fil ...
    Illinois citizens are still being arrested for recording police officers despite a 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year that blocked the enforcement of the law on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. Following yesterday*s story c...
  • Kim Dotcom wants to encrypt half of the Intern ...
    he United States government says that Kim Dotcom, a German millionaire formerly known as Kim Schmitz, masterminded a vast criminal conspiracy by operating the file-storage site Megaupload. Dotcom, on the other hand, begs to differ. One year after t...
  • An Anger Management Class?
    Hmm. If an ordinary Joe threatened a prosecutor, would he get an anger management class and then have the charges thrown out? Or would he be looking at a felony charge and prison time? Would the ordinary Joe be eligible for a law enforcement ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • NASA solar montage of Elmer the Elephant
    We usually think of the sun as that big glowing ball in the sky, at least on days when we can see it, grey here again (ahead of imminent snow storms). But NASA can paint a different picture using specialized instruments, either in ground-based or space-based telescopes, which can “see&#822 ...
  • Deceived Wisdom everywhere
       Deceived Wisdom everywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom everywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • Developing World Special Offer
    A few contacts from the developing world have asked about pricing of my book as they’d like to get a copy but the standard price is, they hint, a little high for their budgets. So here’s the deal. If you live in a blue zone on the map below – China, South America, Asia, Russia ...
  • Developing World Special Offer
    A few contacts from the developing world have asked about pricing of my book as they’d like to get a copy but the standard price is, they hint, a little high for their budgets. So here’s the deal. If you live in a blue zone on the map below – China, South America, Asia, Russia ...
  • Why crustaceans might be feeling crabby
    UPDATE: Apparently, research from James Rose and colleagues has demonstrated that actually, fish don’t feel pain in any conscious, meaningful way. Sounds fishy to me… Contrary to the words of Kurt Kobain, it’s probably no longer okay to eat fish because they don’t have an ...

RFF Library

  • The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Industries: 10 Tren ...
    Pike Industries http://www.pikeresearch.com/wp-assets/uploads/2013/01/WP-FC10T-13-Pike-Research.pdf The 10 key trends for 2013, in no particular order, are: Annual installed capacity from the stationary fuel cell sector will top 200 megawatts (MW) Funding pace for hydrogen refueling stations wil ...
  • Pipeline Safety: Better Data and Guidance Need ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/651408.pdf [From a Greenwire article by Nick Juliano, sub. req'd]  Federal pipeline regulators should collect more data and better collaborate with industry to avoid leaks or explosions along the nation’s 2.5-million-mile ne ...
  • Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRI ...
    National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18262 [Description] Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fourth Report follows on three previous NRC reviews of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, which was the predecessor of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership ...
  • Audit Report: The Department of Energy’s ...
    US DOE, Office of the Inspector General http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/OAS-RA-13-08.pdf [Press Release] …The audit found that the Department had not always managed the Program effectively and efficiently.  Review of 11 projects, awarded $279 million in Recovery Act funding and $10 mill ...
  • U.S. Wind Turbine Manufacturing: Federal Suppo ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42023.pdf …The outlook for wind turbine manufacturing in the United States is more uncertain now than in recent years. For the past two decades, a variety of federal laws and state policies have encouraged both wind energy pro ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Le Québec sonne le glas du nucléaire
    La production d’électricité de la dernière centrale de la province cesse Sans faire grand bruit à l’extérieur de la belle province, le gouvernement du Québec a annoncé à l’automne dernier une décision pour le moins historique. L ...
  • Eat or Heat
    Ruthless treatment of poor by Nova Scotia Power showing signs of weakening   HALIFAX — For many people on low income, paying the power bill isn't easy. During the wi ...
  • Book Review: HAITI’S NEW DICTATORSHIP: The Cou ...
    During the build up to and aftermath of the 2004 overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s popular priest-turned-president, the Haitian and international press reported two conflicting narratives. Even in the left-wing media offic ...
  • Book Review: HAITI’S NEW DICTATORSHIP: The Cou ...
    During the build up to and aftermath of the 2004 overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s popular priest-turned-president, the Haitian and international press reported two conflicting narratives. Even in the left-wing media offic ...
  • Constitutional Challenge Filed Against Quebec' ...
    MONTREAL—This Wednesday, Laurent Proulx and Miguael Bergeron, both students at Quebec City's University of Laval, submitted an application to the Superior Court of Quebec contesting the constitutionality of seven articles in Queb ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Commuting in Your Driverless Car
    In an email to Stuart Staniford yesterday about whether private car ownership is ever likely to be replaced by subscriptions to fleets of driverless cars, I told him, "I love arguments like this because there's exactly zero evidence either of us can bring to bear. So we can argue forever and n ...
  • The Story Behind My Porsche
    I seem to have unleashed a mini-storm of incredulity yesterday by mentioning that I drive a Porsche. Here's a typical email from a longtime reader: You read a guy for ten years and you think you know him, and I would have never guessed that you drive a Porsche. You can preserve my construc ...
  • Apple's Higher R&D Expense May Not Be Good News
    Apple announced lower gross margins and slower growth this week, leading to a selloff of their stock. But Chris O'Brien reports some good news: [If] investors are looking for some reasons for optimism, they might do well to check Apple's numbers related to its research and development spen ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 25 January 2013
    No quilt today! We have a lot of quilts around our house, but we don't actually have 52 of them, so there were always bound to be some missed weeks in this year of quiltblogging. These missed weeks will appear randomly, mostly depending on whether I have an alternate catblogging photo that I w ...
  • Not Everyone is Living Longer
    On the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, Donald Boudreaux and Mark Perry argue that the middle class is doing better than we liberals think. They haul out all of the usual arguments, some of which are valid (you need to count healthcare benefits as part of income) and some of which aren't (the a ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 377: Scallenge
    Topic: Movie discussions Next Batman film Justice League lineup Children stories as movies JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars Movies and Music being generational Fuck It Gene evolved Brian Scalabrine is still better than you Share with your friends:
  • IC 376: Hulkamania
    Topic: America is ruining football 8 hours of pregame show Lingerie Football loses the lingerie XFL = What if Twitter Fans ran football The good ole days of Professional wrestling What happened to Hulk Hogan? Professional wrestling porn Obama’s 2nd Inauguration Algeria doesn’t negoti ...
  • IC 375: Young C Murda Jr
    Topic: Gotta have a little “ism” in you Using disrespectful words Kev tells an infidelity story Worst.Friend.Ever Carl Jr. is awesome Kriss doesn’t fuck with Obama anymore Working on the Enterprise actually sucks Higher body count: Picard or Kirk Herschel Walker = old man stren ...
  • IC 374: #SoftC-erved
    Topic: #softc lame niggas still mad When the lights come on the roaches scatter Karma’s a bitch You’re not really about that life Where Michael Cane Tears rank Being Human comes back SyFy wins but we need more space based SciFi Ben Affleck could direct Batman Hot Indian chicks are li ...
  • IC 373: As Useful As Aquaman
    Topic: Being Lame on the Internet “Caping” for friends isn’t a bad thing Nerds & Geeks can be the worst lames on the Internet No one wants to be a nerd How Joe lost on Catfish Casting for Batman “As Useful As Aquaman” Why the Oscars are worthless Leonardo DiCap ...

Simple Climate

  • Iconic authors help reveal record early flowering
    150 years since Henry David Thoreau observed them, plants flower three weeks earlier thanks to climate change, find Boston University’s Libby Ellwood and her teammates.
  • Temperature cuts swathe through Australian seaweed
    A record heatwave in 2011 completely killed off a seaweed species in one bay and over 1/20 of the area it covers worldwide, finds Dan Smale of the University of Western Australia
  • Delays raise emission halt urgency
    Staying under the 2°C warming target demands a serious action rethink, find Steve Davis at University of California, Irvine and team-mates, after updating a method that breaks down the steps needed into “wedges”.
  • Climate limits room at the global dinner table
    With farming producing up to one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and more people wanting more meat, agricultural research faces big challenges to avoid us having to make more difficult choices about what we eat.
  • Warming brings home the value of a meal
    Research into how climate change affects agriculture, and therefore the food we eat, shows the challenges farmers face and the knock-on costs to the rest of us.

e!Science News

  • How to predict the future of technology?
    The bread and butter of investing for Silicon Valley tech companies is stale. Instead, a new method of predicting the evolution of technology could save tech giants millions in research and development or developments of new products -- and help analysts and venture capitalists determine which c ...
  • New tool for mining bacterial genome for novel ...
    Vanderbilt biochemists have discovered that the process bacteria undergo when they become drug resistant can act as a powerful tool for drug discovery. read more
  • Emotional stress reduces effectiveness of pros ...
    Not surprisingly, a cancer diagnosis creates stress. And patients with prostate cancer show higher levels of anxiety compared to other cancer patients. read more
  • BUSM study shows potential of differentiated i ...
    A new study from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) shows that tissues derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in an experimental model were not rejected when transplanted back into genetically identical recipients. The study, published online in Cell Stem Cell, demonstrates t ...
  • Cows fed flaxseed produce more nutritious dair ...
    Dairy cows that are fed flaxseed produce more nutritious milk, according to a new study by Oregon State University. read more

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Fracking Lands In Hot Water In C ...
    Plus: Lead-poisoned parrots and climate change fairy dust The City of Bath. (Photo courtesy of Daz Smith, Flickr) Fracking may ruin spa time in UK’s his ...
  • Court Acts In Favor Of Cleaner Air
    Strikes EPA rule that allowed for more soot pollution Soot blackens the walls of a Pennsylvania residence neighboring a coal-fired power plant. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice) ...
  • Great News for Lungs
    Supreme Court refuses to review case that upheld limits to SO2 emissions The U.S. Supreme Court has kept the life-saving sulfur dioxide standard intact. (Mark Fischer) ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Bullying the Messenger, Burying t ...
    GOP sponsors press CRS to change its unfavorable report on coal ash bills Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) The Congressional Research Service, the non-partisan resea ...
  • President Obama Must Lead on Climate Change
    The silence is broken, now is the time to act On Monday, President Obama’s inauguration will officially mark the beginning of his second term, and with it ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Lapid’s platform: No compromise over Jer ...
    On the Palestinian issue, the new leader of the Israeli center holds positions that take several steps back from ideas held by Israeli negotiators in the previous decade. The surprising success of Yair Lapid in the Israeli elections has led many people to believe that a new window of opportunity ...
  • What Yair Lapid’s anti-Zoabi comments re ...
    It is not considered racist in Israel to discriminate against 20 percent of the population and the millions more living in the occupied West Bank. It is considered the self-determination of the Jewish people. The few words Yair Lapid said to the press the day after the election that made his Yes ...
  • Ten post-election, pre-coalition takeaways
    There’s no doubt about it – Yair Lapid is the star of these election results. His 19 mandates will most certainly give him and his party a senior position in the next government, likely to be led by Benjamin Netanyahu. But before you go reporting about the upcoming Bibi-Lapid coaliti ...
  • After the elections, the Palestinians must sca ...
    Our post-election depression comes from being reminded that an end to tyranny and inevitable war is as distant as ever. It’s time for new ideas – or old ideas that haven’t been tried. Well, that was fun. And now it’s over, and who really cares whether Yair Lapid becomes m ...
  • In Bab Al-Shams, Palestinians create new facts ...
    ‘What made Bab Al-Shams significant was the fact that it asserted that Palestinian activists would not simply react to injustices the occupation laid at our doorstep, but that we were determined to create our own realities on the ground.’ By Irene Nasser Last week, I witnessed a rema ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • The Fraudclosure Settlments….GREAT DEALS ...
    The $8.5 billion foreclosure abuse settlement reached earlier this month with the mortgage industry was designed, bank regulators said, to speed quick relief to millions of homeowners. So far, however, it is the mortgage industry that successfully pushed for the deal that is likely feeling the m ...
  • IRS Announces Guidance on the Principal Reduct ...
    he Internal Revenue Service today announced guidance to borrowers, mortgage loan holders and loan servicers who are participating in the Principal Reduction AlternativeSM offered through the Department of the Treasury’s and Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Home Affordable Modificati ...
  • The Out of Control Federal Debt….CLEAR A ...
    The core function of the United States Government should be to protect citizens from danger….as you hear, they have failed completely….. LISTEN HERE FOR CHARLIE MCGRATH Scridb filter
  • LIVE BROADCAST! TODAY 1/24/13- 9:00 A.M. FLORI ...
    Post foreclosure judgment, if sale has not occurred; servicer shall provide written notice to borrower prior to sale/eviction if servicer filed a faulty affidavit to support judgment or improperly notarized documents.
  • CONSUMER RIGHTS UPDATE! DEFEND YOUR FORECLOSURE!
    Lanny Breuer is leaving his position as head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The Necessity of Politics
    I returned from south Sudan to some 4,000 emails. One was from a good friend welcoming me home. He said …Continue reading »
  • Knowing for the First Time
    It was T. S. Eliot who provided one of my favourite quotes of all time: We shall not cease from …Continue reading »
  • Humanity Paired
    Tomorrow the next chapter of the adventure begins. Our life with south Sudan was irrevocably joined together, not by choice …Continue reading »
  • Home, But Not Alone
    On Saturday we leave for our big excursion to the Republic of South Sudan.  We take a team of 16 …Continue reading »
  • How Was 2012 For Women?
    My new Huffington Post piece on how women fared globally and in Canada in 2012. huff.to/UDkrBq Filed under: Citizenship, Politics, …Continue reading »

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