Saturday, January 26, 2013

26 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Police Wedding of Prince William of Wales and ...
Police Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kate Middleton roller skating, and injuring he...
Kate Middleton roller skating, and injuring herself. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Secret Santa Whistleblower Files End Climate C ...
    (IPCC) internal files reveal attempts by agenda-driven activists to skew the science on climate change. IPCC admits global warming predictions were way off and there is no trend in extreme weather. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Activist Teacher is Climate Guy
    Wish I'd taken the time to play the video years ago. Lucid analysis of how environmentalists are missing the boat fighting pollution while distracted with a phantom menace. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Irans Civilian Nuclear Program: A Primer
    Often ignored in public discussions about Irans nuclear ambitions is that its interest in nuclear power and related medicinal use spans over 40 years. The American intelligence community has officially concluded Iran halted suspicious actions in 2003 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
  • Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate
    Understanding the sun-climate connection requires expertise in fields like plasma physics, solar activity, atmospheric chemistry and fluid dynamics, energetic particle physics, and history.Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation peaks around solar maximum. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment & ...
  • Infiltration of Political Movements Is the Nor ...
    Infiltration is the Norm, not the Exception, of U.S. Political MovementsWhen the long history of political infiltration is reviewed, the Occupy Movement should be surprised if it is not infiltrated. Almost every movement in modern history has been inf Submitted by Wild Thang to US Politics &amp ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Sir Julian Joins Polish Farmers in Solidarity ...
    Sir Julian will drive a tractor from Path Hill Farm, carrying Polish flags and placards proclaiming 'Solidarity with the Polish farmers', 'Stop GMO' and 'Free-up Repressive Food Regulations' that inhibit local sales.
  • Farmers Land Stolen for GM Food Production
    Once again, the public has been duped by tricky political rhetoric into believing that the public’s demands are being heeded, when in actuality, this is just another deceptive act which opens the door for the introduction and take over of genetically modified seed, supplied by the world’s most d ...
  • Iodine Madness! Oregon’s Pre-Crime Law
    If you don’t own a vehicle registered with the DMV or know someone who does, your iodine buying days are over in Oregon.
  • Networking to Survive
    What does networking to survive mean? It simply means that people with divergent skills trade goods and services amongst themselves.
  • Food MythBusters – Do we really need industria ...
    Big Ag Busted! Outlines the myths surrounding big industrial agriculture effects on the food supply.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • TSA does surprise check at Lamar Boulevard Amtrak
    ShareThisTSA does surprise check at Lamar Boulevard Amtrak --Random checks happen at stations across country --Once the train arrives, the dogs also sniff the cargo areas. 24 Jan 2013 Passengers catching the 9:30 a.m. Amtrak train from Austin to Dallas were met with an unexpected surprise when ...
  • US appeals panel agrees government can demand ...
    ShareThisUS appeals panel agrees government can demand Twitter account info in WikiLeaks probe 25 Jan 2013 A federal appeals court ruled Friday that prosecutors can demand Twitter account information of certain users in their criminal probe into the disclosure of classified documents on WikiLe ...
  • Court: WikiLeaks Suspects Denied List of Compa ...
    ShareThisCourt: WikiLeaks Suspects Denied List of Companies Who Received Orders for Records 25 Jan 2013 A federal appeals court has ruled that three suspects targeted in a WikiLeaks investigation have no right to know from which companies, other than Twitter, the government sought to obtain th ...
  • Analysis: 201,000 in Florida didn't vote becau ...
    ShareThisAnalysis: 201,000 in Florida didn't vote because of long lines 24 Jan 2013 Analyzing data compiled by the Orlando Sentinel, Ohio State University professor Theodore Allen estimated last week that at least 201,000 voters likely gave up in frustration on Nov. 6, based on research Allen ...
  • France sends troops to secure Niger uranium mines
    ShareThisFrance sends troops to secure Niger uranium mines --The magazine noted that this is the first ever use of the French commandos to directly defend the assets of a corporation. 25 January 2013 Barely two weeks after invading Mali with over 2,000 troops of the Foreign Legion [and commit ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Air Force Crashing
    25 January 2013 Team AFMC, The budgetary uncertainties currently facing the Department of Defense combined with a projected $1.8 billion shortfall in Air Force funding for overseas contingency operations, require us to take prudent steps to mitigate budget execution risks. Based on guidance r ...
  • SAR Overnighter
    24 January 2013
  • US Military Preparing to take Gut Shot
    24 January 2013  
  • Press Release from Free Burma Rangers
    FBR Report: Burma Army attacks against Kachin continue despite ceasefire 18 January, 2013 Kachin State, Burma At 5pm Friday, 18 January 2013, Burma Army airstrikes occurred near Lajayang and Laiza in Kachin State.  On Friday evening, the Government of Burma announced a ceasefire to begin 6 ...
  • Academy Spirit - January 2013
    19 January 2013

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Will the tribunal crisis push for the creation ...
    The Union Parliament engineered a constitutional crisis last year when they impeached six tribunal judged. Did this move spell the beginning of the end of the 2008 constitution?
  • Kachin activists protest in front of US, China ...
    Kachin activists in northern Thailand rallied in front of the US and Chinese consulates in Chiang Mai calling for an end to civil war in Kachin state on Friday morning
  • The kids who sniff glue
    Growing up on the streets of Mandalay is tough. Many of the children sniff glue as a way to escape and to forget about the hunger. With no one to help them they are vulnerable to abuse and harder drugs.
  • Govt launches high-level telecoms graft probe
    Burma has launched a probe into alleged high-level corruption in its telecommunications ministry, officials said Thursday, following a vow to tackle graft in the former junta-ruled country
  • Baby beside the river
    Words and photos by Brennan O`Connor Than Zin Moe sleeps silently in a hospital crib in Maharaj Nakorn Hospital in Chiang Mai. Her mother Daw Lae Lae, always by her side, tenderly strokes the back of her swollen head. I first met Lae Lae and her baby on the banks of the Moei River in [...]

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Portrait of America
    Portrait of America draws an anology between Norman Rockwell's painting of The Freedom of Speech and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. While the picture of Gray grows old and uggly hidden away, the person has retained his youth and features. While the portrait of America grows old and u ...
  • On Women in Military Combat
    Women who choose to pursue a combat role in the military are not fighting for their country, but for imperialist expansion.
  • Somali foreign missions are in failure and neglect
    The Somali foreign embassies are in disaster and neglect: sloppiness and inefficiencies, specially, the Middle East, African embassies and The UN mission top it all. Everyone realizes the unprofessional attitudes on the part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during both Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, ...
  • March on Washington for Gun Control, 26 Januar ...
    A march to and rally at the Washington Monument today, protesting against the NRA's permissive, indifferent advocacy of nearly indiscriminate ownership of assault weaponry, and related issues.
  • Sanctioning to death: the US experiment of Ira ...
    There are very real US sanctions on medical supplies reaching Iran.

Switchboard

  • Struggles faced by one Montana community in th ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The Fall 2012 edition of the Montana Policy Review focuses on community responses to energy development. Among other topics, it discusses the challenges facing Sidney, Montana. Sidney, with a p ...
  • 10 Essential Blogs on Hurricane Sandy Recovery
    Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York In his State of the State address earlier this month, Governor Cuomo announced a set of important initiatives that will help New York become more resilient in the face ...
  • Bisphenol A to be listed on California's Prop ...
    Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, Health Today a California EPA office announced that they intend to put bisphenol A or BPA on the Prop 65 list of chemicals known to cause reproductive toxicity.  This listing is long overdue and is not based on ...
  • Does Energy Efficiency Avoid the Need for Powe ...
    Devra Wang, Director, California Energy Program, San Francisco California has a long and rightfully proud history of using energy efficiency to avoid the need for expensive new power plants that pollute our air. In fact, energy efficiency is now the ...
  • Pebble Mine: The Worst Idea Ever
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California I have blogged time and time again about the devastating impacts of, and significant opposition to, the proposed Pebble Mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, A ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Name our production studio(s)!
    In the first podcast, Lawyers, Guns and Money presented a Lawyers, Guns and Money Production. Which is all well-and-fine for a first podcast, but as we’re mere decades away from monetizing the Internet, I think we need names that are more representative than repetitious. In the comments to ...
  • The Success of Vote Suppression
    Chilling: The long Election Day lines around Florida may have turned away more than 200,000 frustrated would-be voters who gave up and went home before they cast ballots — or else saw the lines and elected not to join them. Analyzing data compiled by the Orlando Sentinel, Ohio State University p ...
  • The World’s Most Dangerous Perfesser!
    As you may have noticed, some underlings of the nation’s preeminent racist concentration camp apologist attempted to send her flying monkeys against me for daring to call a highly partisan judge who believes that the Constitution enacted Ms. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged a “neoconf ...
  • John Roberts’ summer vacation
    “Debts that can’t be repaid won’t be.” Michael Hudson
  • Britain and the European Union, belatedly
    On Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron managed to finally deliver a speech that half the Conservative Party has wanted delivered for decades: at some point following the next Parliamentary election due no later than the Spring of 2015, there will be a referendum asking whether or not Britain ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • German Plant to Produce Methane Using Surplus ...
    Audi is building a plant in Germany that will use surplus power produced from renewable sources, such as wind energy generated when demand is low, to produce methane from water and carbon dioxide. The plant, which will use technology developed by Stuttgart-based SolarFuel, reportedly will produc ...
  • Solid Electrolyte Could Lead to Larger, Safer ...
    U.S. researchers have developed a high-performance, solid electrolyte for use in energy-dense lithium ion batteries that they say is safer than existing liquid electrolytes and could lead to batteries that are five to 10 times more powerful than existing batteries. While lithium-ion batteries ty ...
  • To Tackle Runoff, Cities Turn to Green Initiat ...
    Urban stormwater runoff is a serious problem, overloading sewage treatment plants and polluting waterways. Now, various U.S. cities are creating innovative green infrastructure — such as rain gardens and roadside plantings — that mimics the way nature collects and cleanses water. BY DAVE LEVITAN
  • BPA Alternative Also Disrupts Development At L ...
    A synthetic chemical developed as an alternative to the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA), and now widely used in many products, also disrupts human development at low doses, according to a new study. Created after research indicated potential health risks associated with BPA — a componen ...
  • Interview: Charting a New Course for America a ...
    Time magazine once called him the “ultimate insider,” and indeed Gus Speth has had a long career as an establishment environmentalist. And so it might be Gus Speth surprising that his latest book, America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy, offers a bleak picture of what U.S. envi ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Extraterrestrial Life: Exopolitics being discu ...
    In December 2012 the Prime Minster of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, caused a stir by speaking straight-faced to reporters about extraterrestrial beings. In a candid moment after a televised interview, he made statements to a reporter that instantly got the attention of many. What makes Medvedev’s wor ...
  • Four-strand DNA structure found in cells
    Unusual nucleic-acid structure may have role in regulating some genes. There is no more iconic image in biology than that of DNA’s double-stranded helix, which coils and supercoils on itself to form dense chromosomes. But a quite different, square-shaped type of DNA structure can easily be creat ...
  • Violence flares on anniversary of Egypt uprising
    Two years after Egypt’s revolution began, the country’s schism was on display Friday as the mainly liberal and secular opposition held rallies saying the goals of the pro-democracy uprising have not been met and denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. With the anniversary, Egypt is definit ...
  • German court rules internet "essential"
    A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an "essential" part of life. The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe made the ruling after hearing the case of a man who was u ...
  • Why did men stop wearing high heels?
    For generations they have signified femininity and glamour - but a pair of high heels was once an essential accessory for men. Beautiful, provocative, sexy - high heels may be all these things and more, but even their most ardent fans wouldn’t claim they were practical. They’re no good for hikin ...

Russia Today

  • N. Korea says third nuclear test is 'demand of ...
    North Korea has confirmed its intention to carry out a third nuclear test, saying it is the “demand of the people.” It comes after the UN tightened sanctions against the regime, following its December long-range rocket... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • ‘US govt uses classification as excuse to sile ...
    John Kiriakou, an ex-CIA agent, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for revealing the torture program at Guantanamo. Activist Sibel Edmonds told RT he became a victim of witch-hunt while hundreds of... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 10 killed, 14 injured in fire at Moscow underg ...
    At least 10 people have died and 14 others were injured in a massive blaze at an underground parking lot in Moscow. Another 10 people were rescued. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Apple products made with child labor – interna ...
    Apple Inc. used child labor in the making of its products by employing 106 underage workers across 11 facilitates in 2012, an internal audit revealed. According to a report, the company also discovered wage problems and... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Deaths, army deployed in Egypt as crowd storms ...
    The Egyptian army has been deployed in Port Said, where a crowd attempted to storm a prison. The deadly assault follows the sentencing of 21 people to death for the riot and stampede in Port Said in which dozens were... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • NPR: women berserkers, oil whores, Goebbels Su ...
    I accidentally listened to NPR today, what an earful of crap! No wonder Americans are so uninformed, none more than self-identifying progressives, waylaid by Corporate Public shysters. Here’s what I overheard:   The Defense Department is running short on recruits so they need to draft ...
  • Manti Te’o mistery phone paramour is a l ...
    You’d think that Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o would be overjoyed to learn his internet girlfriend’s death was a hoax, that the person with whom he spent days and nights on the phone is alive and well, even if her name isn’t Lennay Kekua. If it’s true the NFL hot ...
  • Inspired by Lance Armstrong confession, dope G ...
    Lance Armstrong appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Confessional TV franchise to admit he doped and lied. If Oprah polled her television audience for who should be next episode’s guest star, it might be Manti Te’o to explain that his fake internet beard. But imagine the ratings if Opra ...
  • Can Idle No More First Nations assert their so ...
    Here’s an idea for First Nations rattling their chains with IDLE NO MORE. Declare your sovereignty for real. “Sovereignty” has become a meaningless descriptor, now counting puppet states of Iraq and Afghanistan. How did we expect George W. Bush to explain what sovereignty meant ...
  • Zero Dark Thirty has critics protesting that t ...
    Protest torture, don’t protest Zero Dark Thirty’s depiction of torture as working, even if the public account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden holds that it did not. Who’s your source for that, the CIA? No doubt countless plenty were tortured elsewhere in the actual narrative. H ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Speaking Truth to Power
    I’ve recently been involved in a series of debates with science blogger Myles Power over the events of 9/11. Though I’m currently working on Part 2 of my response to his YouTube video series, I need to address one issue that’s recently come to my attention. It seems that Mr. Power has decided to ...
  • Lupe Fiasco Kicked Off Stage At Obama Inaugura ...
    On June 10th 2011, I posted the official video and lyrics for Lupe Fiasco's "Words I Never Said" ft. Skylar Grey. So he was already cool in my book. Now I think hero is more befitting than cool. As recently reported on 9/11blogger: Score one for truth, justice and accountability. "At the Obama ...
  • Quotes Rant
    Ok, this is getting ridiculous! Why the hell would Albert Einstein ever say that?! He was a physicist, not a botanist! I found this image on the front page of David Icke's site and it's obvious from the file name that it came Facebook - probably some "truth" page. I called BS immediately ...
  • NIST FAIL! The science of denial...
  • Rebuttal to Myles Power - Molten Aluminum?
    Related Info: Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOSMpf6br1k My detailed response: http://adamtaylor42.blogspot.com/2012/12/taylor-contra-powers.html(Also posted at the Debunking the Debunkers blog: http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2012/12/taylor-contra-powers.html) High quality im ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Piers Morgan And My Pee Pee
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Now, if this were a movie, you would hear the audience scream, "DON’T TAKE THE KEY! DON’T GO UP THOSE STAIRS!" The reporter part of my brain was screaming, too: 'THIS SMELLS BAD.' But I couldn’t  hear a thing because, while I was out for the story, the memory of  ...
  • Assault Gun Ban - Weapon of Mass Distraction
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine George Bush told America he'd keep us safe from terrorists by having us take off our shoes at the airport. Yesterday, Barack Obama again took the Oath of Office. And this Obama 2.0 is also going to save America from insane killers – by limiting ammo clips to ten ...
  • Alex Jones, Guns, Piers Morgan – and My Penis
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine This is the first of Palast's weekly columns for VICE – beginning with a bang: a four-part series on Alex Jones, guns, Piers Morgan and Palast's penis. PART ONE: ALEX JONES VERSUS DOWNTON ABBEY Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chai ...
  • Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers – and it's the ketchup. [As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, ...
  • 'The Assassination of Hugo Chavez' Download th ...
    Over the years many things have been said about Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez but rarely has the true story of the man Pat Robertson called "a dangerous enemy" been told - that's what I've done in The Assassination of Hugo Chavez. Since the main stream media has decided that Chavez is "a rui ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • The Worms Crawl In The Autism Crawls Out
    Aw come on, who hasn't sung that childhood tune? Seems even Mainstream Medicine is giving a serious look to a treatment posed at Autism One several years ago - and has a study to review the efficacy of parasite treatment...
  • Vaccine Injury Causes Life Changing Narcolepsy ...
    American doctors, public health and government officials are quick to tell the public that immunization against "vaccine preventable disease" (which is merely a phrase for any vaccine that has been developed, without regard to the severity or danger of the...
  • Study Finds Infants Toddlers on "Slower" Vacci ...
    A Population-Based Cohort Study of Undervaccination in 8 Managed Care Organizations Across the United States Jason M. Glanz, PhD; Sophia R. Newcomer, MPH; Komal J. Narwaney, MD, PhD; Simon J. Hambidge, MD, PhD; Matthew F. Daley, MD; Nicole M. Wagner,...
  • Doing "God's Work": is Bill Gates's Second Car ...
    By John Stone Next week Bill Gates is to deliver the BBC’s annual Dimbleby lecture. In advance of this event Gates was profiled by a Daily Telegraph feature writer, Neil Tweedie. Unfortunately – like so many modern mainstream journalists –...
  • Dachel Media Update: Bless Me Father.. Catholi ...
    Jan 22, 2013, Catholic Online: Almost half of U.S. children not getting vaccinated in timely fashion “Recent studies have shown many parents asking to delay or skip certain vaccines, often citing safety concerns such as a link between vaccines and...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Sir Julian Joins Polish Farmers in Solidarity ...
    Sir Julian will drive a tractor from Path Hill Farm, carrying Polish flags and placards proclaiming 'Solidarity with the Polish farmers', 'Stop GMO' and 'Free-up Repressive Food Regulations' that inhibit local sales.
  • Farmers Land Stolen for GM Food Production
    Once again, the public has been duped by tricky political rhetoric into believing that the public’s demands are being heeded, when in actuality, this is just another deceptive act which opens the door for the introduction and take over of genetically modified seed, supplied by the world’s most d ...
  • Iodine Madness! Oregon’s Pre-Crime Law
    If you don’t own a vehicle registered with the DMV or know someone who does, your iodine buying days are over in Oregon.
  • Networking to Survive
    What does networking to survive mean? It simply means that people with divergent skills trade goods and services amongst themselves.
  • Food MythBusters – Do we really need industria ...
    Big Ag Busted! Outlines the myths surrounding big industrial agriculture effects on the food supply.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Brazil to take soy lead with respect for rainf ...
    DW – Brazil is expected to surpass the United States as the world’s biggest soy producer by the end of 2013. Though soy production no longer threatens the Amazon rainforest, environmentalists see cause for concern. Soy is the main crop grown in Brazil, and one of the country’s ...
  • UK Petrol prices ‘to rise by 4p per litr ...
    Telegraph – The rise forecast by the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) would add £2 to the cost of filling a Vauxhall Astra. Brian Madderson, chairman of the PRA, said wholesale prices had risen by five pence a litre since Christmas. “Independent retailers have been soaking up this ...
  • UK Government ‘powerless to protect teac ...
    Telegraph – The Education Secretary issued formal reassurances that teachers and other staff who hold traditional views on marriage should not be punished for refusing to promote same-sex marriage at work. But a senior source in Mr Gove’s department said the UK was not “in control” a ...
  • Russian anti-smoking bill backed by lawmakers
    Reuters – Russian lawmakers on Friday backed a law which would ban smoking in bars, cafes and other public spaces to promote healthier living in the world’s largest tobacco market after China. Supported by President Vladimir Putin, who likes to present a healthy, active image, and ha ...
  • Would YOU like to become part of the Open Your ...
    There are currently six volunteers based worldwide who bring you Open Your Eyes News. As we continue to expand, and in advance of our new website launch, we are seeking one additional member to join our team to become a category editor, taking responsibility for publishing articles in one of our ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

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

Cryptogon

  • Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: ‘The Continent ...
    Via: Independent: Sergei Gaschak’s photography offers an unparalleled glimpse at animal life inside “the zone”, the area of Ukraine and Belarus that has been officially closed off to human habitation since the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe of 1986. Using camera traps to take photographs mechanic ...
  • U.S. May Give $32 Million to Train African Tro ...
    Via: AP: The Obama administration is seeking an additional $32 million to train African troops to fight Islamic extremists in Mali.
  • Egypt Deploys Troops to Suez
    Via: CNN: Egypt deployed troops to the coastal city of Suez on Saturday after a security chief declared the area “out of control” following deadly clashes on the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The announcement on state-run EGYNews followed reports that ...
  • Maisto Fresh Metal Tailwinds 1:97 Scale Die Ca ...
    Check out the comments. Via: Amazon (This is not an Amazon affiliate link): Includes: US Air Force Medium Altitude, Long Endurance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) RQ-1 Predator with Display Stand (Dimension: 6″ x 3-1/2″ x 1″) Detailed authentic replicas with display stand Die ca ...
  • Iran Unveils Machine for Amputating Thieves’ F ...
    Via: France24: One of Iran’s official press agencies published photos showing the public amputation of a thief’s fingers on Wednesday. These show a man getting his finger chopped off with a machine resembling a rotary saw. WARNING: These images may shock viewers.

The Economic Collapse

  • The U.S. Has An Even Larger Gap Between The Ri ...
    There are two very different Americas today.  In one, the stock market is soaring, high end homes are selling briskly, big banks and hedge funds are rolling in money as if the last financial crisis never even happened, and life is really, really good.  In the other America, good jobs are incredi ...
  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...
  • 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Oba ...
    The mainstream media covered the inauguration of Barack Obama with breathless anticipation on Monday, but should we really be celebrating another four years of Obama?  The truth is that the first four years of Obama were an absolute train wreck for the U.S. economy.  Over the past four years, th ...
  • The Sovereign Debt Bubble Will Continue To Exp ...
    Why are so many politicians around the world declaring that the debt crisis is "over" when debt to GDP ratios all over the planet continue to skyrocket?  The global economy has never seen anything like the sovereign debt bubble that we are experiencing today.  The United States, Japan, and nearl ...

Desertification

  • 2nd ECHO East Africa Symposium (ECHO Community)
    Read at : http://www.echocommunity.org/?page=EASymposium 2nd ECHO East Africa Symposium February 5-7, 2013 – Arusha, Tanzania The ECHO Symposium will provide a network and training opportunity for those involved in alleviating hunger and poverty of Africa’s poor. Three mornings of plenary ...
  • Global Warming Less Extreme Than Feared? (Scie ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130125103927.htm Global Warming Less Extreme Than Feared? New Estimates from a Norwegian Project On Climate Calculations Jan. 25, 2013 — Policymakers are attempting to contain global warming at less than 2°C. New estimates from a Norwegian p ...
  • Ignored Crops (ECHO)
    Read at : dov.echo_presentation Ignored crops that can change Sahelian Agriculture
  • WATER HARVESTING TECHNOLOGIES (ECHO / INERA/CN ...
    Read at : echo_burkina__sawadogo USING WATER HARVESTING TECHNOLOGIES TO FIGHT AGAINST THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN REGIONS OF BURKINA FASO Dr SAWADOGO HAMADO September 2012 INERA/CNRST Soil and Water Conservation specialist
  • ECHO Community – Best Practices Notes
    Read at : http://www.echocommunity.org/?page=BPN We are pleased to announce the first issue of a new type of publication that we are calling “Best Practices Notes” (BPN). You may already be familiar with our Technical Notes, plant information sheets, and our … Continue reading ...

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backofthebook.ca

  • BC throws a film party — for India
    \\\|\\\ Tags:  Bollywood, British Columbia, film, India, Ontario, Quebec Del.icio.us Facebook TweetThis Digg StumbleUpon ...
  • Sun News might just get its way
    By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special ...
  • The NHL is back, but I won’t be
    By Montreal Simon A couple of my friends came over this evening to watch the Habs-Leafs game on my big screen TV. And they were surprised to find out that I hadn’t been planning to watch it, until they turned up. And that I wasn’t the least bit excited that the season had finally sta ...
  • An Idle proposal to Canadian journalists: STFU
    By Frank Moher Kevin Newman’s interview with Chief Theresa Spence, aired today on CTV’s “Question Period,” illustrated pretty neatly in its first few minutes all that’s been wrong with mainstream coverage of Spence’s fast, and of Idle No More. Newman began by ...
  • Harper tries, fails not to impose theological ...
    By Montreal Simon It was a bizarre sight. Stephen Harper standing in front of a giant poster for “Dragon’s Den,” appearing to be deep in prayer. Although he was only at a newser in Montreal, trying to figure out what to say, after being asked an embarrassing question: Why is yo ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Introducing the NewPower™ Standard
    the World’s First: Triple-Redundant Alternative Power System For Homes and Business Your Building will never lose power again with this robust power system; 4500 Watt Solar Power Generation 8000 Watt Line-Interactive Inverter / Battery Back-up UPS / Power Center 8000 Watt Stand-by Generator to r ...
  • 27 January, 2013 10:42
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog
  • Congressional Democrats Launch Climate Change ...
    EcoWatch Building on President Obama’s  inaugural commitment to address climate change, key congressional leaders announced a new Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change that will be co-chaired by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA). The goal is to provide a Congressional ...
  • 2 Topics Near and Dear to My Heart
    Missouri Farmers and Renewable Energy Information ADDITIONAL FARM REVENUE FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES The following information covers topics that are very dear to my heart. 1) Clean Energy and 2) Farming / Ranching. For everyone who has not read the About Me Page; I was raised on a 4,000 acre ...
  • 2 Topics Near and Dear to My Heart
    Missouri Farmers and Renewable Energy Information ADDITIONAL FARM REVENUE FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES The following information covers topics that are very dear to my heart. 1) Clean Energy and 2) Farming / Ranching. For everyone who has not read the About Me Page; I was raised on a 4,000 acre ...

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Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Anonymous - Response to Obama's 2013 Gun Contr ...
    The hactivist group speaks out strongly in favor of the second amendment. In a classic act of YouTube censorship, the original video was taken down. Fortunately viewers copied it to numerous mirror sites. If video fails to play try one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ5V5g9ZHkM htt ...
  • Dotcom Strikes Another Blow for Internet Freedom
    Kim Dotcom New Zealand Folk hero Kim Dotcom has struck another blow for Internet freedom by launching a new cloud file storage service, called MEGA, one year to the minute after the FBI shut down Megaupload, froze his funds and induced New Zealand security services to launch a SWAT team ra ...
  • How Cell Phones are Killing Off Honeybees
    If video fails to play, go to Resonance – Beings of Frequency (This is Part II of a two part film review of the 2012 documentary by British filmmaker James Russell. The first described the link between cell phone technology and the growing cancer epidemic.) Honey Bees and Migrator ...
  • Cell Phones, Cancer and Bee Colony Collapse Di ...
       If video fails to play, go to Resonance – Beings of Frequency (This is Part I of a two part film review of the two part documentary by British filmmaker James Russell) Resonance – Beings of Frequency is an informative, well-researched film about the growing numbe ...
  • Sign Petition Supporting Anonymous
    Anonymous, a loose knit group of Internet activists, has just posted a petition on the White House “We the People” website. It asks that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks be recognized as a legal form of protest. They compare it to the way Occupy protestors occupied ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

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SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • 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 ...

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Ex-CIA officer sentenced in leak case
    Kiriakou's lawyers and civil rights advocates portrayed the 48-year-old former counter-terrorism officer as a whistle-blower who helped expose CIA torture of detainees then held in secret prisons. The CIA and its defenders denied using torture, which is illegal, referring instead to "enhanced in ...
  • Facebook updates developer policy after Vine s ...
    In a blog post Friday, Facebook's Justin Osofsky, director of platform partnerships and operations, said the "clarifications" were published after the site received questions about its policies over the past few days. "For the vast majority of developers building social apps and games, keep doi ...
  • Judge Alsup and Instagram
    Excellent- Instagram class action over privacy changes, derided by some, lands with Judge Alsup. This will be fun! - Dan Levine, Twitter
  • Ass'n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad - Pet ...
    QUESTION PRESENTED Many patients seek genetic testing to see if they have mutations in their genes that areassociated with a significantly increased risk of breast or ovarian cancer. Respondent MyriadGenetics obtained patents on two human genes thatcorrelate to this risk, known as BRCA1 and BRCA ...
  • Apple pressured to provide iOS 6 source code
    The software technology Samsung claims to have been infringed are related to the function that allows iPhone users to check updated messages, weather information and schedules by swiping the upper-end of the screen. The Korean company said it registered the patent in November 2006 and the featu ...

WideShut

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

  • The fracking boom is here
    BusinessDesk said today, “Onshore Taranaki oil explorer TAG Oil is planning more than 130 new onshore wells, with 13 to be drilled in 2013 and consents sought for platforms from which another 120 could eventually be drilled.” Not all wells will necessarily be fracked, but you can be certain that ...
  • Organics the future of agriculture
    The Worldwatch Institute has just released their report into organic land use and found that between 1999 and 2010 the amount of land farmed organically grew more than threefold. The growing worldwide demand for organic food, clothing, and other products is leading to this change in land use. Th ...
  • Engaging Maori Learners
    Yesterday I drove to Waitangi to participate in the “Engaging Maori Learners” conference of about 400 principals and teachers. I was especially pleased to hear the korero from Dr Chris Sarra from Bundaberg, Queensland who is one of about 20 aboriginal school principals in Australia a ...
  • Strict GE monitoring a must
    AgResearch sacked a senior scientist, Dr Kardailsky, last year for allowing genetically engineered (GE/GM) ryegrass to flower without the use of the controls put in the trial, such as putting bags over any flowers to stop GE pollen spreading. Dr Kardailsky filed for unjustified dismissal as he q ...
  • Home for life – Metiria Turei’s sp ...
     Metiria Turei’s speech to the annual gathering to celebrate the birthday of the prophet, Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana  24th January, 2013  Tēnēi au e tu whakaiti nei i raro i a Ranginui, i runga i a Papatuānuku, e titiro kau ana ki ngā maunga whakahi me ngā tini uri o Tane. Ki Te Temepara Tapu, ki ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How This Important Mineral Reduces Your Risk o ...
    By Dr. Mercola Your diet is one of, if not the most, powerful ally you have to help reduce your cancer risk. Countless natural compounds in a variety of whole foods and spices have anti-cancer properties, which is why eating a varied diet is so important. Among the latest research is a stu ...
  • US Cancer Death Rates on the Decline, But Canc ...
    By Dr. Mercola A new report on US cancer rates1 received extensive coverage in print and online, as well as on two nightly national news broadcasts, where it was featured on many stations for more than five minutes. Many of the reports, and the experts quoted therein, expressed a caut ...
  • Avoidance of HPV Vaccine may Contribute to Inc ...
    By Dr. Mercola A new report published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute highlights increasing rates of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers, and uses this as a platform to peddle “efforts to increase vaccination coverage.”1 The report, which notes increased ra ...
  • Five Strategies for a Healthier Gut in 2013
    By Jeff Leach In the summer of 2008, a 26-year-old man from Shanxi Province walked into a lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and 23 weeks later walked out 113 pounds lighter. He had not participated in a clinical trial of some new secret weight loss pill, or signed up for a punishing Big ...
  • Wake-Up Call: FDA Pushes Drugmakers To Weaken ...
    By Dr. Mercola Ambien, Edluar, Zolpimist and other drugs that contain the active ingredient zolpidem are the most widely used sleeping pills in the United States. In 2011 alone, an estimated 40 million prescriptions for such drugs were dispensed.1 These drugs have long been linked to “ ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The U.S. Has An Even Larger Gap Between The Ri ...
    There are two very different Americas today.  In one, the stock market is soaring, high end homes are selling briskly, big banks and hedge funds are rolling in money as if the last financial crisis never even happened, and life is really, really good.  In the other America, good jobs are incredi ...
  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...
  • 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Oba ...
    The mainstream media covered the inauguration of Barack Obama with breathless anticipation on Monday, but should we really be celebrating another four years of Obama?  The truth is that the first four years of Obama were an absolute train wreck for the U.S. economy.  Over the past four years, th ...
  • The Sovereign Debt Bubble Will Continue To Exp ...
    Why are so many politicians around the world declaring that the debt crisis is "over" when debt to GDP ratios all over the planet continue to skyrocket?  The global economy has never seen anything like the sovereign debt bubble that we are experiencing today.  The United States, Japan, and nearl ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Flu Shot Narcolepsy, Bye Bye Scanners, Privacy ...
    Flu Shot Narcolepsy, Bye Bye Scanners, Privacy Glasses – New World Next Week – YouTube.
  • Here Are All The Children Murdered By Drone St ...
    Steve Watson Infowars.com Jan 24, 2013 The president likes children right? He surrounds himself with them constantly to help bolster his political agenda. When it comes to children who get in the way of his political agenda, however, it’s a different story. Here is a visual of the hundreds of ch ...
  • Piers Morgan Falls Ill Days After Receiving Fl ...
    Infowars – by Adan Salazar CNN host Piers Morgan is likely wanting another chat with daytime talk-show host Dr. Oz. for an explanation on why he got sick just days after having a flu vaccination administered on live television. According to his recent interview with country music star and actor ...
  • Deadly GM flu research that could ‘wipe ...
    Flu experts overturn self-imposed ban on creating mutant firms of the H5N1 bird flu virus They claim the risky research is needed to prepare in case it naturally mutates to human transmissible form But leading experts condemn decision to restart research into genetically modified versions of the ...
  • 30 Population Control Quotes That Show That Th ...
    By Michael Snyder The Truth January 24, 2013 There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that the world is facing and that something desperately needs to be done about it. They truly believe that humans are a plague up ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • On Magical War
    Secure in the ignorance of our traditions we treat war as if it were a game, as if we should try to win when we play. Oorah! But if we think like a human being war assumes a great deal more complexity, indeed, a necessary ambiguity. Dr. David Keen challenges conventional wisdom in a great book, ...
  • Wampum Wranglers
    So Mr. O won't mint the magic coin. He says. Well, good luck to him, then, getting the Southern secessionists to grovel. More's the pity, though, that neither side have a clue what they're talking about. Essentially, they're disputing the finer points of a primitive theory of value: call it wamp ...
  • Speaking Truth
    These days, the only reasonable thing to say to Power is, "Here's the arrest warrant, please come quietly." But Speaking Truth, that's a different story. We speak truth to affirm and reaffirm who and what we are, what the reality of the world is, and why it is the way it is. Not an easy task &md ...
  • Counting Electors
    If the Republican Party were to adopt a scorched earth policy — counting electors one way in certain swing states and another way in solid red states — they could conceivably lock in a Republican presidential win for the next several election cycles. As a practical matter it would no ...
  • Constitutional Wrinkles
    Americans have been brainwashed into thinking we have the greatest system of government in the world. Arguably, however, much the opposite is true. In practical terms our system is neither democratic nor representative, when, that is, it works at all. But the Constitution has become America's ci ...

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  • Turkey: First Of Six NATO Missile Batteries Op ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations January 26, 2013 FIRST NATO PATRIOT BATTERY OPERATIONAL Patriot missile launch station at the Adana International Airport on January 25. (NATO photograph) MONS, Belgium: The first of six Patriot missile batteries deploying to Turkey wa ...
  • Obama, Hollande Pledge Expansion Of North Afri ...
    Xinhua News Agency January 26, 2013 U.S., French leaders pledge expanded counter-terrorism in North Africa [Repeated, near ritualistic, expressions like "terroristically terroristic terrorists" and suchlike have been excised.] ==== The Obama administration sent some 100 military trainers last we ...
  • Russian Military Chief Warns of New Types of War
    Voice of Russia January 26, 2013 Russia should come up with integral theory of fighting in new-type armed conflicts – Chief of General Staff Russian military scientists should come up with an integral theory of fighting in new-type armed conflicts, said the Chief of the Russian General Staff, Va ...
  • NATO Solidarity: U.S. Planes Move French Troop ...
    U.S. Air Forces in Europe January 25, 2013 U.S. planes deliver French troops to Mali By Staff Sgt. Nathanael Callon USAFE – AFAFRICA Public Affairs ISTRES, France: The U.S. Air Force delivered on its promise to Paris by delivering French troops via airlift to Bamako, Mali, Jan. 21. The fir ...
  • Guy de Maupassant: I only pray that our sons m ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Guy de Maupassant: Why does society not rise up bodily in rebellion at the word “war”? ==== Guy de Maupassant The Mad Woman (La Folle) (1882) Translator not identified “I can tell you a terrible story about the Franco-Pru ...

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Intel Hub

  • CIA Torture Whistleblower Sentenced to 2 1/2 Y ...
    theintelhub.com January 26, 2012 Former CIA agent and torture whistleblower John Kiriakou has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years  in prison for what was apparently an unpublished leak but what Kiriakou’s supporters believe is retaliation for exposing the horrific CIA torture program. Kiriakou w ...
  • Anonymous Avenges Death of Aaron Swartz with G ...
    Shepard Ambellas | The group known as Anonymous recently hacked into a government website (US Sentencing Commission) making it display the message, "A line was crossed".
  • 5 Anti-Aging Herbs to Slow the Aging Process
    By Elizabeth Renter Natural Society January 26. 2013 Chris Kilham has been called the “Indiana Jones of natural medicine” and the “medicine hunter”. He is an ethnobotanist and has researched medicinal plants in over 30 countries. He travels, writes, studies, and makes appearances on television t ...
  • Cops covering cops who commit murder
    By William Steinberg Cop Block January 26, 2013 On the afternoon of October 2, 2006 my close friend of 20 years James Woodson was standing in the courtyard of his apartment building talking to his wife of 6 months, Pena. He had just gotten home from work, had gotten his mail and was lingering by ...
  • Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Webs ...
    Torrent Freak January 26, 2013 The Government of Antigua is planning to launch a website selling movies, music and software, without paying U.S. copyright holders. The Caribbean island is taking the unprecedented step because the United States refuses to lift a trade “blockade” preventing the is ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Benghazi: Yes, Secretary Clinton, it Does Matt ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to know "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Either the administration had faulty intelligence reporting which needs to be exposed or President Obama lied about Benghazi.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 23, 2013
  • President Obama's Right: We're Made for This M ...
    At his second inauguration, President Barack H. Obama hit on something universal when he added a line apparently not in his prepared remarks.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 21, 2013
  • Congress Must Limit Executive Order Powers Now
    Congress needs to take steps now to define what the president can and cannot pass by executive order. President Obama's discussion about passing gun control legislation through executive order should be the catalyst.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 15, 2013
  • Cracking the Nut: Time for Gun Owners' Insurance
    A retired Navy commander may have come up with a very effective way to reign in our gun problem.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 11, 2013
  • Dismayingly, the Sandy Hook Elementary Conspir ...
    Proving that nothing can happen that does not attract the attention of conspiracy nuts, the Daily Caller reports that two fringe academics have announced that the official version of the Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre is not the correct one.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 10, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • A Map Of The Internet Universe [Infographic]
    If the biggest 350,000 web sites on the internet were real places, this is what the map would look like As of last year, there were something like 650 million active web sites on the Internet. That number is growing fast, but even if it weren't--even if it stopped dead in its tracks right now-- ...
  • A Robot Lumberjack And Other Amazing Photos Fr ...
    Including a beautiful photo made by a beer can, BMW's slick new bobsled, and more Click to enter the gallery
  • A Robot Lumberjack And Other Amazing Photos Fr ...
  • Researchers Make Super-Realistic Artificial Lu ...
    A new way to give 3-D structural integrity to vat-grown tissue. Traditionally, cell cultures have been made in a 2-D petri dish. Problem is, cells cultured flat don't act quite the same as cells made in 3-D cultures. So instead, researchers from Rice University and Nano3D Biosciences started us ...
  • BeerSci: What Is The Difference Between A Lage ...
    Hint: it has nothing to do with the beer's flavor. For the average beer drinker, the difference between an ale and a lager comes down to how the beer looks, smells, and tastes. Ales tend to be fruity-estery, while lagers are clean-tasting and frequently described as "crisp." But to a brewer, t ...

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Antigua & Online Gaming: Fighting the US Bullies
    The United States likes to throw its weight around the international political economy; that much is obvious. Given the sheer girth of its residents, this is not something to be easily ignored. However, like all bullies, the United States can be put in its place if you stand up and fight for a p ...
  • Globalization's Victims: Filipino Workers in A ...
    The Philippines is famously a country of migration with an estimated one-tenth of its population of ninety million working overseas. I am of the belief that there is nothing wrong with that. After all, the UN Declaration of Human Rights Article 13 (2) states: "Everyone has the right to leave any ...
  • The Japan That Can't Export? Its 2012 Trade De ...
    Japan used to epitomize the Asian Exporting Nation, feared around the world for its superior-quality and in-demand products. Those glory days, however, are rapidly receding like the hairline of HRH Prince William the Bald. Most recently, the news was that Japan had a "record" trade deficit in 20 ...
  • "Hurry Up and Die": Japan & the Cost of Eldercare
    Former Japanese PM and current Finance Minister Taro Aso has a novel way of dealing with Japan's increasing health care tab that may not resonate so well with their (obviously aging) electorate: "Heaven forbid if you are forced to live on when you want to die. I would wake up feeling increasing ...
  • Markets, Not China, Will Determine RMB Adoption
    I think this is a point we often forget when discussing "China's rise": while its government can tinker with several important factors that will affect RMB adoption alike its convertibility, its interest rate and even its pace of appreciation, markets will ultimately determine the pace at which ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The U.S. Has An Even Larger Gap Between The Ri ...
    There are two very different Americas today.  In one, the stock market is soaring, high end homes are selling briskly, big banks and hedge funds are rolling in money as if the last financial crisis never even happened, and life is really, really good.  In the other America, good jobs are incredi ...
  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...
  • 37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Oba ...
    The mainstream media covered the inauguration of Barack Obama with breathless anticipation on Monday, but should we really be celebrating another four years of Obama?  The truth is that the first four years of Obama were an absolute train wreck for the U.S. economy.  Over the past four years, th ...
  • The Sovereign Debt Bubble Will Continue To Exp ...
    Why are so many politicians around the world declaring that the debt crisis is "over" when debt to GDP ratios all over the planet continue to skyrocket?  The global economy has never seen anything like the sovereign debt bubble that we are experiencing today.  The United States, Japan, and nearl ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • Social Chaos Survival Guide
    Definition of Social Chaos A condition or place of great disorder or confusion A disorderly mass A state of utter confusion Lacking order or predictability Complete disorder Behavior so unpredictable as to appear random Anarchy Bedlam Disorder Pandemonium Turmoil   There is no single accura ...
  • Gun Control Hypocrisy: Governmnent ‘Offi ...
    The Washington Times has reported that Feinstein’s sweeping gun control legislation would exempt government ‘officials’, law enforcement and retired law enforcement personnel. Now bear with me for a minute… think about it… why is it that ‘they’ would be ...
  • LDS Preparedness Survey Checklist
    The following survival preparedness survey checklist is excerpted from the latest LDS Preparedness Manual. Having received communication from Christopher Parrett, he indicated that they have revised their preparedness manual to the the 15th anniversary edition, and was published June 1, 2012. I ...
  • Food Dehydrator Basics
    Food Dehydrator A food dehydrator is a unique low temperature oven, typically with a built-in fan that is moving air over the food as it slowly draws out the moisture content so as to dry and preserve the food. The food dehydrator components include the containment shell, food trays, fan, heater ...
  • What Is Going On With Our Country And Our Guns
    Guest post: by Chrstine of FlamingPhoenixFamilyFarm.blogspot.com PROPOGANDA defined: 1. Publicity to promote something: information put out by an organization or government to promote a policy, idea, or cause 2. Misleading publicity: deceptive or distorted information that is systematically spre ...

Fast Company

  • Beautiful Toy Models Of Nuclear Power Plants A ...
    Maykel Roovers redesigns the timeless toy with an eye toward the realities of contemporary life. Give a kid some toy blocks, and you can expect to get action figure hideouts and towers. Always towers. If your child is a particularly precocious (and socially responsible) little urban planne ...
  • Hordes Of Microscopic Submarines Could Suck Up ...
    The cone-shaped vessels, one-tenth the size of a human hair, each collect a droplet of oil. With enough of them, oil spills could be cleaned up fast. Oil spills like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico can cause intense damage and take years to clean up. Some experts ...
  • A Stunning Natural Phenomenon, Abstracted From ...
    A Modern artwork? A Martian landscape? Nope, that’s just a crazy pink lake in Western Australia, seen through the lens of photographer Steve Back. Charged with shooting some landscape photographs to adorn the walls of a hotel in Perth, photographer Steve Back was desperately searchin ...
  • Furniture Inspired By The Unexpected Beauty Of ...
    Coal-mining complexes and photos of towers get Mieke Meijer’s creative juices flowing. It’s been a decade since Mieke Meijer developed Newspaperwood as a student, and the solid, durable material composed of broadsheets has subsequently been put into production on a variety of p ...
  • A Smartphone Game That Tests Your Ability To T ...
    Good old spatial reasoning with a touch of interactivity--and a time limit. Typically, matching games are based on memory. You flip over two cards at a time, gradually building a mental map of what lies where until you can match pony with pony or parakeet with parakeet. Rotal, a simple gam ...

Jadaliyya

  • Will Civil Marriage End Lebanon’s Confessional ...
    In tying the matrimonial knot last week, Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish sliced through a cultural, legal, sectarian knot of Gordian proportions. The pair became the first couple in history to be wed in a civil marriage on Lebanese soil. Until last week, Lebanese citizens (or, only those wh ...
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Celebrated
    The common, seemingly benign question “where were you during the revolution” leaves most partisans of the January 25 Revolution with a strong sense of unease. While it is obvious that the question, whenever it comes up, is almost always posed in reference to the 2011 eighteen days of national pr ...
  • Was There A January 25 Revolution?
    The “January 25 Revolution” has already taken its place in Egyptian national historical memory along with the “1919 Revolution” and the “July 23 Revolution.” Assigning dates to these events, whose significance in the modern history of Egypt is undeniable, is perhaps a necessary convenience. Call ...
  • Brothers and Officers: A History of Pacts
    The politics of the past two years have generated widespread interest in the historical relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Egypt’s wielders of power, especially at a time when observers are eager to understand the prospects for accommodation (or adversity) between the MB and tr ...
  • Meet AbdelRahman Mansour Who Made 25 January A ...
    AbdelRahman Mansour is the cyberactivist who set the date of 25 January for the Egyptian revolution. It is time for you to meet him. In June 2010, at twenty-three years old, AbdelRahman approached Wael Ghonim to set up a Facebook page and anti-torture campaign in honor of Khaled Said, the Alexa ...

mediagazer

  • Amid Algeria Siege, 2 Mauritanian News Agencie ...
    Scott Sayare / New York Times: Amid Algeria Siege, 2 Mauritanian News Agencies Get Scoops  —  PARIS — There were no reporters on hand when Islamist militants emerged from the sands of eastern Algeria last week to storm a gas facility full of international workers, and Alge ...
  • Why It's Hard for Trump - or Anyone - to Buy t ...
    Edmund Lee / Bloomberg: Why It's Hard for Trump — or Anyone — to Buy the N.Y. Times  —  Ridicule of Donald Trump has become an almost daily occurrence.  This week, the mockery came after he was revealed to be the latest billionaire interested in owning the New Y ...
  • Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over ...
    Declan McCullagh / CNET: Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says  —  The late Internet activist was facing a stern warning from local prosecutors.  But then the U.S. Attorney's office, run by Carmen Ortiz, chose to make an example of Aaron Swartz, a ...
  • Twitter suspends account of Somali Islamist mi ...
    Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing: Twitter suspends account of Somali Islamist militants linked to Al-Qaeda  —  Two days after a group of Somali islamist militants vowed to execute Kenyan hostages, and tweeted a video of a captive pleading for the Kenyan government to help free them, th ...
  • "We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers" (Michael ...
    Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: “We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers”  —  A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation - they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET's parent co ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Rescued Right Whales Show off New Calves
    Right whale calf swims with it's mother. Courtsey of NOAA. One of the dangers whales face is entanglement in fishing gear such as longlines, traps and pots.  When officials become aware of these events, disentanglement teams are sent out to assess the situation and free the whales w ...
  • CEO Note: Big Win for Wind
    Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless If you’ve been paying attention to news out of the nation’s capital, it would seem that there’s little to be encouraged about. But what you might not have heard is the genuinely good news that emerged when the dust settled on the so-called “fiscal cliff” deal just af ...
  • Massachusetts Tackles Seafood Fraud
    Massachusetts legislators are taking a stand against seafood fraud, which includes mislabeling or substituting one type of fish for another that is cheaper, less desirable or more readily available, usually for financial gain.  Oceana commends the Massachusetts Legislature for taking up the ...
  • Sperm Whales Adopt Malformed Dolphin Into Thei ...
    Deformed dolphin plays along with its adopted sperm whale family. Photo credit: Alexander D. M. Wilson/Aquatic Mammals and ScienceNOW News http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/   Herman Melville’s Moby Dick may paint a picture of the sperm whale as a terrifying, ferocious creature tha ...
  • Call of the Wild
    King Penguins, South Georgia Island. WikiMedia Commons. Have you ever wanted to learn how to speak whale?  Here’s your chance! Cornell University has recently completed digitizing its catalog of animal sounds.  With audio and video recordings dating back to 1929, the archive contai ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: The Task Force, Creating Change fo ...
    In Atlanta, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, founded forty years ago, is now meeting for the 25th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change. I very much regret I’ve never been able to attend one of these conferences. At least there’s a Conference feed. Below is the introducto ...
  • Sarah Palin and Fox News Channel Split
    “It’s my understanding that Gov. Palin was offered a contract by FOX, and she decided not to renew the arrangement,” the source close to Palin told RCP. “She remains focused on broadening her message of common-sense conservatism across the country and will be expanding her voice in the national ...
  • Top Story — Jesse Helms Man Judge Sentelle Lea ...
    THE DECISION announced today is a stunning and very sobering end to an otherwise spectacular week. It is also wholly and completely political, proved through involvement of Chief Judge David Sentelle, who was responsible for Ken Starr’s appointment back during the Clinton witch hunt. Read ...
  • Cleavage Appreciation Day
    WHAT ELSE needs to be said? If you want more, see Mr. Gosling in “Gangster Squad,” which is a lot of fun. No doubt this will bring back memories of cleavage Fridays for some of you. photo via Holly Gossip.
  • Drones: In the U.S. Counterterrorism ‘Playbook ...
    The use of drones, domestically and internationally, continues to rise. Two recent developments caught my attention, both focused on the international arena. First, from the Washington Post: The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to ...

Hudson New York

  • Muslim Gangs Enforce Sharia Law in London
    Muslim gangs have been filmed loitering on streets in London and demanding that passersby conform to Islamic Sharia law. The self-proclaimed vigilantes, who call themselves Muslim London Patrol, are seen in several videos abusing people for drinking
  • What Happened to Sweden?
    Just as Raoul Wallenberg remains as an example of courage, Sweden's Mayor of Malmo, Ilmar Reepalu, a Social Democrat who has held the office for 17 years, does not. Last October, around 300 people assembled in Raoul Wallenberg Square in Malmo, to join in
  • Israeli Elections and Palestinian Negotiations
    The American politician Tip O'Neill once famously observed "that all politics is local." Had O'Neill been an Israeli, he might have added: "but local politics often has international consequences." The as yet uncertain results of the Israeli election
  • How the Palestinian Authority Tried to Scare I ...
    The Palestinian Authority either does not know what it wants from the Israelis or is too afraid to admit that it does not have a mandate to sign a peace treaty with Israel. When left-wing parties and candidates were in power, the Palestinian Authority
  • Britain: Immigration Seen as Top Problem
    Britons' view immigration as the biggest problem facing their society, according to a flurry of new surveys and research reports about the current state of affairs in Britain. Taken together, the data highlights the widening gulf between the views of

Urban Survival

  • Friday Adventures in MoneyLand
    An article at Bloomberg/Business week asks a rather intriguing question:  Where has $114 billion in withdrawals from big U.S. banks gone?  There are a couple of lines of thought here.  One mentioned in the article is that the Transaction Account … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With ‘Spiking’ a Story
    You may not have had enough old-time newspaper reporters in your circle of friends to know what ‘spiking’ a story is all about, so consider this a bit of J-school on the cheap.    When a reporter comes in with … Continue reading →
  • NuKoldWar
    The reports are all over the net this morning about how the North Koreans are not only planning a high level nuclear test, but also they seem to have developed enough space-launch capability to make the US defense establishment a … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Wind Winners
    Hat tip to famous author Frank for sending along this lil tidbit:  The Think Progress site has an interesting article on how “Wind beats out natural gas to become top source of new electricity capacity for 2012” a little info … Continue reading →
  • Can We Be Saved by the Davosians?
    Why, it seems like only last week I was hinting to you that a bond disaster could be in the wings as early as late Spring once interest rates begin to tick up.  And what could cause such an unthinkable … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Struggles faced by one Montana community in th ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The Fall 2012 edition of the Montana Policy Review focuses on community responses to energy development. Among other topics, it discusses the challenges facing Sidney, Montana. Sidney, with a p ...
  • 10 Essential Blogs on Hurricane Sandy Recovery
    Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York In his State of the State address earlier this month, Governor Cuomo announced a set of important initiatives that will help New York become more resilient in the face ...
  • Bisphenol A to be listed on California's Prop ...
    Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, Health Today a California EPA office announced that they intend to put bisphenol A or BPA on the Prop 65 list of chemicals known to cause reproductive toxicity.  This listing is long overdue and is not based on ...
  • Does Energy Efficiency Avoid the Need for Powe ...
    Devra Wang, Director, California Energy Program, San Francisco California has a long and rightfully proud history of using energy efficiency to avoid the need for expensive new power plants that pollute our air. In fact, energy efficiency is now the ...
  • Pebble Mine: The Worst Idea Ever
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California I have blogged time and time again about the devastating impacts of, and significant opposition to, the proposed Pebble Mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, A ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, January 24, 2013: Bexar County, Texas: A deputy constable is under arrest for allegedly helping other officers get credit for training they never completed. ow.ly/h5YJB Update: Readstown, A 375-page … Continue reading &#859 ...
  • 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 … Continue reading →An Anger Management ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, January 23, 2013: Fort Deposit, Alabama: An officer was sentenced to more than three years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against rights and four … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
  • More on the Aaron Swartz Case
    From the One Generation Away blog: Aaron Swartz was an influential man with very important friends, and that’s why this case is getting so much attention.  Sadly, this kind of behavior by prosecutors is not an extreme example, but instead … Continue reading →More on the Aa ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, January 19 to Tuesday, January 22, 2013: Memphis, Tennessee: An officer has been suspended after accusations of sexual assault were brought up. He has been relieved of duty with … Continue reading →National Police Mis ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW Daily Dose: Bye-bye Symbian, hello Vine fo ...
    Bye-bye Symbian, Hello Vine for Twitter and blogging for Quora, all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mozilla’s device ...
    Nikon’s new image sharing space, Deezer and Spotify expand internationally and Mozilla’s mobile devices. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Atari bankruptcy, Yand ...
    Atari files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Yandex provides machine learning for CERN and buying a car over a social network. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: LG hits a milestone, S ...
    SimCity has a small beta that you can enjoy, LG sold 1 million of its new phone, and messaging in Asia is taking off like a Saturn rocket. You can catch The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mega, Amazon, and lazy Bob
    Bob didn’t want to work, Kim Dotcom is ready to peeve copyright hawks in the United States, and Amazon is trying to combat iPods, of all things. You can catch... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Photos: Population of critically-endangered 'g ...
    An important population of critically endangered Sulawesi black macaques (Macaca nigra) is showing signs of recovery after years of decline in an Indonesian forest reserve, reports a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Primatology.
  • Scientists point to research flaw that has lik ...
    The impact of logging on tropical forest species has likely been exaggerated by statistical problems, according to a new study in Conservation Biology. Reviewing 77 studies on how logging affects tropical biodiversity, scientists found that 67 percent were flawed by a technical problem known as ...
  • Split Derivatives – Sandor’s argum ...
    The Petraeus scandal reminded us that all biographers are inappropriately infatuated with their subject matter, and nowhere is this truer than in Richard Sandor's autobiographical memoir.
  • Typhoon Bopha decimated coral reefs
    When Typhoon Bopha, also known as Pablo, ran ashore on Mindanao, it was the largest tropical storm it ever hit the Philippine island. In its wake the massive superstorm left over 1,000 people were dead and 6.2 million affected with officials saying illegal logging and mining worsened the scale o ...
  • Forests in Kenya worth much more intact says g ...
    Kenya's forests provide greater services and wealth to the nation when they are left standing. A landmark report by The Kenyan Government and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) addresses the importance of forests to the well-being of the nation, putting Kenya among a pioneering grou ...

Sierra Express

  • ABC sensitizes Makeni schools & Ataya Base
    The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat stormed at least two schools and an Ataya Base in Makeni on Tuesday 22nd January 2013 to lecture on civic-rights and responsibilities.  (Photo: Programme Manager Mr. Ishmeal Cole lecturing the students on the importance of the Girl Child) ...
  • Zainab Bangura addresses African Union on Sexu ...
    Statement to the Permanent Representatives’ Committee of the African Union by Zainab Hawa Bangura, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict 23 January 2013 Excellencies, I wish to thank you for the opportunity to address you today.  My first m ...
  • Dr. Samura Kamara attends Executive Council Me ...
    Hon. Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (in photo) is attending the 22nd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council which is underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The confab will be held from 24th -25th January 2013 at the new Conference Centre ...
  • ABC Executives lecture in Makeni
    Executive Director and National Coordinator cum Second-in-Command at the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat, Dr. Ivan Ajibola Thomas and Madam Nanette Thomas respectively have delivered educative and interesting lectures in Makeni City on democracy, good governance, citizenship ...
  • At Davos, UNIDO Director General Yumkella to p ...
    DAVOS, January 24, 2013 – The Director General of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Kandeh K. Yumkella, is playing a leading role in the 43rd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum taking place this week in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos. Each year, Dr. Yumkella joins a c ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Greens hit out at milk contamination
    The Green Party says New Zealand should focus on true sustainability in farming rather than setting acceptable levels of chemical residues in milk and food.But Fish and Game has taken a swipe at Fonterra, accusing the dairying giant...
  • Fertiliser aid dropped after milk tests
    An important fertiliser aid has been culled from farmers' chemical shopping lists after it turned up in milk products destined for human consumption.The suppliers, Ballance Agri-Nutrients and Ravensdown, have voluntarily suspended...
  • Boom in live cattle exports to China
    Demand for New Zealand dairy livestock in China appears to be booming, with more than 38,000 live animals leaving our shores for Chinese pastures last year. And one of the major buyers in China is our own - the New Zealand dairy...
  • Crafar Farms animal abuse trial date still not set
    A date is yet to be set for the trial of five parties linked to the running of Crafar Farms, who between them face hundreds of charges of animal abuse.The parties' lawyers appeared in Rotorua District Court today where the case...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Chinese eager to milk brand NZ
    More major Chinese dairy companies are looking to build infant milk formula plants in New Zealand to leverage the country's reputation for safe milk-sourced foods.The galloping trend poses issues for New Zealand's political leaders...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Bounced a Check? Go to Jail.
    The Dallas Observer published a feature this week on folks who inadvertently bounce a check, which isn’t illegal, and find themselves faced with threats of prosecution. From the Observer: Julie Orr wrote a check for $91 at an Albertson's grocery store. A few days later, whil ...
  • Video: National School Choice Week 2013 Kicks ...
    "National School Choice Week 2013 Kicks Off in Los Angeles" is the latest offering from Reason TV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more Reason TV clips. View this article.
  • Brian Doherty on the Mont Pelerin Society and ...
    With The Great Persuasion, Brian Doherty reports, historian Angus Burgin has produced a well-researched, well-written, and largely well-thought-out study of F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, and the other academics, think tankers, and businessmen who comprised the Mont Pelerin Society. T ...
  • Get Ready for National School Choice Week, Com ...
    National School Choice Week officially begins tomorrow. Click above to learn details from Andrew Campanella, the head of the operation, about the thousands of events that will take place between January 27 and February 3. It's the largest annual event celebrating the benef ...
  • Two Cheers for the Coming Collapse of the U.S. ...
    "At some point, holders of Treasury securities are going to recognize that these unfunded liabilities are going to affect the fiscal capabilities of the government and then you're going to have the same situation that happened in Greece happening in the U.S.," says Jeffrey ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Why Isn’t There A “CSI: South Caro ...
    Reading this story allowed me to run across this one, from 2011: The map above charts firearm deaths for the 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Note that these figures include accidental shootings, suicides, even acts of self-defense, as well as crimes. As of 2007, 10.2 out of every 100,00 ...
  • Mic Check, Tild Style!
    Just go check it out: http://tildology.com/2012/09/17/mic-check-crate-label-art-for-ows/ You’re welcome. :-)
  • Virginia GOP Pulls Dirty Trick That Violates T ...
    Dear Virginia Republicans: When you shoot at a king, you must kill him. And when you opt to attempt a colossally arrogant and slimy stunt, you’d better make sure in advance that it will work. Yesterday, on a public holiday, while a member of the Democratic caucus of the Virginia Senate (cu ...
  • NM Governor accused of voter fraud
    I have no idea whether these allegations will go anywhere, but it’s always amusing to see how casually the party of voting integrity takes voting laws. Election documents, obtained by ProgressNowNM, from a 2011 school board election in Dona Ana County show that both Martinez and her husban ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
    Female sexuality and global conflict, does girl power make love more confusing, Lena Dunham speaks for girls, online dating and monogamy, and more in this week's update.  read more
  • "We're All Still Here"
    Referred to as, "an ethereal poet with a talent for writing contagious pop hooks," by Billboard Magazine, Laurell Eden has been super busy responding to the success of the single “We’re All Still Here”, a funny dance, pop song poking fun at our collective fears about December 21. R ...
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  • Take Control of Money: Print Your Own
    Revival of local currencies during the past 25 years proves that communities can issue money to create green jobs, fund local nonprofits and farms, make interest-free loans, and connect residents as fellow workers. The Ithaca HOURS money that I started in 1991, for example, has traded m ...
  • Psi in the News
    Two new e-books outlining current approaches to investigating the anomalous, Edge Realms contributor Conner Habib on Dr Eben Alexander’s NDE,  author Michael Tymn asks ‘Was William James a Wimp?’ and Dr. Steven Novella responds to Steven Volk’s critique of the James Randi Education Foundation C ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • Over the course of the Vietnam War, tens if no ...
    Over the course of the Vietnam War, tens if not hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese were detained by U.S. and allied South Vietnamese forces. For some it was only a minor inconvenience: they were held for a few hours, questioned, and then released.  Some were forced to spend a day baking in the ...
  • killanythingthatmoves:One of a group of “lim ...
    killanythingthatmoves: One of a group of “lime gatherers” in South Vietnam’s Binh Long Province killed in August 1970 by soldiers from the U.S. 25th Infantry Division.  Photo from: Buy the book: Also available as an ebook:
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  • "…a billion-plus of taxpayer’s money went to e ...
    “…a billion-plus of taxpayer’s money went to essentially nothing.” - -Air Force...
  • breakingnews:South African police join hunt ...
    breakingnews: South African police join hunt for 10,000 crocodiles on the loose South Africa has called in police to join the hunt for as many as 10,000 crocodiles on the loose after they escaped from a farm during floods and were washed into one of southern Africa’s biggest rivers. The Guardi ...

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