Tuesday, January 29, 2013

29 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Islamists Arson Timbuktu Public Library
    Islamist rebels have burnt down a library full of ancient manuscripts in the Malian town of Timbuktu as they fled, according to officials. The South African-funded library contained thousands of priceless documents dating back to the 13th century. "The rebels sit fire to the newly-constructed ...
  • Japan’s currency war
    Japan’s new Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government has begun implementing an aggressive nationalist program on two fronts. An expansion of the military unshackled from constitutional restraints is being matched by a unilateralist monetary policy aimed at weakening the yen and expanding export ...
  • On the French Blitzkrieg in Mali
    Government troops, with help from French soldiers and aircraft, have made rapid advances as they pushed north in recent days, encountering little resistance. .... “This is not a slow waltz, it is a high-tempo break dance,” said Francois Heisbourg, special adviser at the Foundation for Strategi ...
  • Long-term effects of youth unemployment
    The most important group are the young who are looking for their first job. Those 20-24 have a lifetime of expectations and habits created by the start of their career, and by any measure their outlook is not good. While the economy transforms itself into whatever will create the next wave of ...
  • Morgan wants extinction for NZ cats
    New Zealand economist Gareth Morgan is launching a campaign to eradicate domestic cats. Dr Morgan has set up a website called Cats to Go, where he calls the animals sadists and natural-born killers that destroy native wildlife. SPCA chief executive Bob Kerridge called the scheme "hare-brai ...

Independent - London

  • 'A new massacre': At least 65 people found dea ...
    At least 65 people have been dead, apparently shot in the head with their hands bound behind their back, in the Syrian city of Aleppo.Related StoriesUK pledges further aid for Syrian refugeesIsrael gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consentSyrian refugee crisis may be much worse ...
  • Jogger's death in France: British man held by ...
    A British man has been arrested in France over the murder of a mother who was killed while out jogging, local police said. Related StoriesSwedish man accused of killing girlfriend in Fifty Shades of Grey-style sado-masochistic sex gameTrial into secret CIA jails held up to protect Polish stateTr ...
  • Google unveils never-seen-before map of North ...
    Google has updated its map coverage of North Korea, revealing a detailed geographical picture of the country.     Related StoriesVideo: Motorcyclist in China cheats deathSuspect in India gang rape case to be tried as juvenileIran unveils new finger-amputating machine ahead of announcement of in ...
  • Family who 'disappeared off the face of the ea ...
    A US family who seemingly vanished off the face of the earth are continuing to baffle investigators almost exactly three years after their disappearance.Related StoriesMembers of band believed to be responsible for Brazil nightclub fire are arrested as funerals are held for victimsBrazil buries ...
  • Father of six-year-old boy killed in Sandy Hoo ...
    The father of a six-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook school massacre has reportedly been heckled by pro-gun activists while testifying at a local hearing on firearm control. Related StoriesMembers of band believed to be responsible for Brazil nightclub fire are arrested as funerals ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Still no official answers in Wednesday 'boom'
    Corbin - "It sounded like an explosion." "I thought I heard thunder." "It may have been a sonic boom." "We felt the house shake." "I heard something twice." "My wife and I felt an earthquake." Dozens of reports similar to this flooded all areas of law enforcement Wednesday, from Whitley Co ...
  • Experts: Mysterious fireball in sky likely fal ...
    Roanoke, Virginia -- An object that looked like a giant fireball made a brief appearance in the sky at around 9:30pm Sunday -- and while no one can say with 100 percent certainty what it was, experts tell us they have a pretty good idea. Aerospace Corporation -- a federally funded research and ...
  • Pentagon to increase cyber security force five ...
    The Pentagon will expand its cyber security force from 900 personnel to a massive 4,900 troops and civilians over the next few years following numerous concerns over the dangerously vulnerable state of their defenses, according to US officials. ­The Washington Post exposed details of the p ...
  • Heavy snowfall closes dozens of roads in Turkey
    Meric-Ipsala road in the Thrace region of Turkey has been shut down to motor vehicle traffic on Sunday due to heavy snowfall which began in Edirne province. Aside from the Meric-Ipsala road, 37 village roads have also been shut down to traffic due to heavy snowfall in the region. Road crews ar ...
  • The Age of Neo-Feudalism: A government of the ...
    "The shaping of the will of Congress and the choosing of the American president has become a privilege reserved to the country's equestrian classes, a.k.a. the 20% of the population that holds 93% of the wealth, the happy few who run the corporations and the banks, own and operate the news an ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Sing Along . . .
    BUGGER THE BANKERS, performed by The Austerity Allstars.
  • Dealing with comment trolls
    McSweeney's style.
  • Your opportunity to do something . . .
    CONTACT THE CRTC. According to David J. Climenhaga's article on the Rabble site, "With no market for hate and right-wing drivel, Sun News comes cap in hand for public subsidy". That's right, it looks like HateTV is going broke, and they're looking for a handout, to keep up the spew. ...
  • Institutionalised
    Ashley Smith died in the immediate because her prison guards failed to quickly intervene despite clear evidence that a medical emergency was was taking place before their eyes. Robert Dziekanski died after being tasered by the RCMP at YVR who then, astoundingly, failed to check for vital signs a ...
  • Teh Landlords!!1!
    Wow, I've thought CBC has been in a bit of a decline lately, but not to the extent of this piece by Kathy Tomlinson. Tomlinson has taken one example of a landlord getting screwed by a particularly bad tenant and used it to declare landlords everywhere "powerless" victims government legislation t ...

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: Economic Growth Absent From Television ...
    In recent weeks, media outlets have focused heavily on negotiations regarding raising the debt ceiling. But television news has failed to highlight the pressing need for stronger economic growth. Furthermore, discussions about the debt ceiling often ignore facts about deficits, instead pivoting ...
  • Facts And Myths About The Supreme Court Challe ...
    Described as the crown jewel of civil rights law, the Voting Rights Act has been the target of right-wing misinformation for decades, and a parallel legal assault against its constitutionality will be argued before the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder on February 27. The VRA, enacted to ...
  • Right-Wing Media Turn To Absurd Sports Analogy ...
    Right-wing media figures opposed to the Pentagon permitting women to serve in combat roles attacked the decision by pointing to sex-segregated sports teams. But military research has shown that women are capable of serving in combat, and the decision has the support of major political and milita ...
  • Myths And Facts About Solar Energy
    Conservative media have denigrated solar energy by denying its sustainability, ignoring its successes, and arguing the U.S. should simply cede the solar market to China. Yet this booming industry has made great strides, and with the right policies can become a major source of our power. [Inte ...
  • Fox's Talking Points Appear In GOP Lawmakers' ...
    Several of the questions and statements made by Republican lawmakers to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during congressional hearings on the attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, echoed false or misleading narratives promoted by Fox News.Obama Describing Attacks As "Terror" ...

Global Research.ca

  • Who Owns The Federal Reserve?
    “Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and…
  • Hidden Agenda behind America’s War on Af ...
    Harnessing Asia’s growth and dynamism is central to American economic and strategic interests. Hillary Clinton France’s military intervention into Mali may at first glance appear to have little to do with the U.S. “pivot” to Asia. But as a French…
  • Malian War Spreading into Niger: French Milita ...
    Reports emanating from the West African state of Mali indicate that French grounds forces accompanied by the national army from the capital of Bamako–along with a small contingent of regional troops from Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal, Benin, Chad and…
  • The 2006 Mass Murder of Iraqi Civilians by US ...
    Following the massacre, the Iraqi police --which has a mandate to act in liaison with US occupation forces-- accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people, including 5 children and 4 women, before blowing up their house
  • In Walmart and Fast Food, Unions Scaling Up a ...
    by Jenny Brown Small but highly publicized strikes by Walmart retail and warehouse workers last fall set the labour movement abuzz and gained new respect for organizing methods once regarded skeptically. “The labour movement is all about results,” says Dan…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Palestinian deaths raise concern over Israeli ...
    At least five unarmed young Palestinians, including a 21-year-old woman, have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in 13 days since the start of the year, prompting mounting concern about ...
  • Israel to urge court: Drop Palestinian farmers ...
    The Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli police in the West Bank will continue trying to convince the High Court of Justice on Monday that the routine of fear in which two elderly farm ...
  • Medics: Israeli forces shoot, injure man in no ...
    Israeli forces shot and injured a man in north Gaza on Tuesday, medics said. Medical sources told Ma'an that Israeli soldiers stationed near the border opened fire at a laborer collecti ...
  • Palestinian villagers take Israeli army to Hig ...
    The army has been carrying out training exercises for about a week near three Palestinian villages in south Hebron, in violation of a High Court of Justice order that also forbids the v ...
  • Dead Children and Arrested Babies: Palestinian ...
    Israeli soldiers shot Saleh al-Amareen, 16, in the head on Friday Jan. 17 during an altercation at a refugee camp in Bethlehem (Palestinian territory). He died last Wednesday of his wounds. Why is there a refugee camp in Bethlehem? Because Israelis ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of Pa ...

Water - AlterNet

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

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Free Tickets to Documentary Chasing Ice Feb 8-10
    Chasing Ice  is an environmental documentary film, listed in the top 15 best documentaries for the Oscars, coming to Austin TX on Feb 8-10 at Regal Arbor. Chasing Ice follows acclaimed photographer James Balog on an epic journey as he deploys time-lapse cameras at glaciers around the world. &#82 ...
  • Ding Dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? ...
    According to a report yesterday by Terrance Henry of NPR’s StateImpact Texas (click here to read the article), the Las Brisas coal power plant proposed for Corpus Christi has not only been suspended, but Chase Power’s parent company, which was financing the project, has gone out of b ...
  • South-central Partnership for Energy Efficienc ...
    The South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER) enters its second year with an exciting Summit, designed to explore, further develop, and prioritize policies and strategies needed to push energy efficiency forward in new buildings, existing buildings, and electric marke ...
  • Rep. Waxman Statement on New Reports on the Cl ...
    Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman issued the following statement on new research from the Pembina Institute and Oil Change International, indicating that the Keystone XL pipeline will accelerate the reckless expansion of the tar sands industry and the climate im ...
  • Fire at South Texas Nuclear Power Plant
    Tuesday, a fire erupted in the Unit 2 main transformer that feeds power from the reactor to the public power grid of the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station near Bay City and about 85 miles southwest of Houston.  The unit 2 was automatically taken offline and STP officials say unit 1 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • Norwegian Sea Can Hold 100 Years of Norway's C ...
    (Reuters) Norway could store 100 times its annual emissions of carbon dioxide under the Norwegian Sea to help fight climate change, adding to its even bigger potential under the North Sea, an official report showed on Friday. The find ...
  • Brazil Plans Amazon Tree Census to Assess Defo ...
    (Guardian) The Brazilian government is to launch a four-year tree census of the Amazon to improve understanding of the impacts of deforestation, climate change and conservation efforts. The study will also help to assess the potential ...
  • World Bank Head Says Don't Shun Poor Coal-Usin ...
    (BBC News) The World Bank should support poor countries that need coal-powered energy in spite of its contribution to climate change, its president has said. Jim Yong Kim, speaking at Davos, said the institution should not "turn its b ...
  • Big Cities' Heat Can Change Temperatures a Con ...
    (Reuters) The energy big cities burn - mostly coal and oil to power buildings, cars and other devices - produces excess heat that can get into atmospheric currents and influence temperatures thousands of miles (km) away, a new study fo ...
  • CO2 Emissions Expected to Rise Significantly b ...
    (Climate Central) Warnings that the world is headed for "peak oil" – when oil supplies decline after reaching the highest rates of extraction – appear "increasingly groundless," BP's chief executive said. Bob Dudle ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • What's Up With Barack and Hillary?
    President Obama not only took the highly unusual and totally unprecedented step of appearing on 60 Minutes with his out-going Secretary of State, but he also instructed some of his best fundraisers to find the money to pay off Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign debt. That's quite a one-two punch, ...
  • A Little Fantasy
    This is a just an exercise in fantasy. Imagine if America elects a Democrat as president in 2016 and then reelects them in 2020. Given the strength of the potential Democratic field of candidates and the weakness of the Republicans' potential field, I do not consider this an outlandish fantasy ...
  • Prospects for Immigration Reform
    Although the legislation is still in a nascent form, it is beginning to look like the Senate is going to he able to introduce and pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The outline provides for an onerous pathway to citizenship, and it should be noted that John McCain and Jeff Flake, Ari ...
  • Conservatives' Immigration Fears
    Conservatives are terrified of immigration reform because they think it will only accelerate the leftward drift of the country. Part of it is just the presumption that nothing can persuade Latinos to vote for conservatives. I think that is misguided on at least two levels. The first is that G ...
  • What's So Hard to Understand?
    Quite often I feel like I am one of the few people in the country for whom the President of the United States is not an inscrutable personality. I never feel like I don't know where he stands. He almost never surprises me. I almost always feel like I know what he is up to. Maybe it is becaus ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Toe Wrestling: The Bizarre Sport Sweeping the ...
    Here's one sport you might not even know existed. But with broken toes and tough competition (with tougher sounding names) to contend with, toe wrestling isn't for wimps! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 2012's Biggest Moments in Science
    The year 2012 was another biggie for scientists and science freaks around the globe. This infographic recaps on the stories that got brains buzzing and tongues wagging. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    A great selection of goodies in this week's roundup, plus the chance to see a scrawny pre-Batman Christian Bale... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Terrible Threat Faced by Tasmanian Devils
    The Tasmanian devil was once hunted to the brink of extinction. Unlike its cousin the Tasmanian tiger, it recovered, but it now faces a potentially even greater threat. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Vegetables That Cause Weird Physical Reactions
    Find out how certain vegetables can cause everything from dermatitis to acid reflux! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • End of the Tar Sands? Under media near-blackou ...
    VIA: Protect the Sacred  Timeline Photos: Here is a picture of Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred. This is the first time a woman has signed such a treaty and she did so on behalf of the Brave Heart Society. Let the healing continue in the name o ...
  • Kurt Johnson & Corporate NAFTA farm politics, ...
    "[T]he activists we are concerned about here are the ones who want to change the way your industry does business--either for good or bad reasons: environmentalists, churches, Public Interest Research Groups, campus organizations, civic groups, teachers unions, and 'Naderites'." (quoted in Montag ...
  • How to check cops checking your driver's licen ...
    Yet another nasty branch on the poisonous tree of data abuse in Minnesota is bearing its digital fruit. Anne Marie Rasmusson, a former law enforcement officer, got 'checked out' by an absurdly sprawling array of Minnesota law enforcement officers illegally abusing their driver's license lookup s ...
  • MPD Tracking OccupyMN Facebook BBQs: Minneapol ...
    Dateline: Pseudo-Secret Minneapolis (aka Fridley): What WCCO called the "secret" "City of Eyes" Strategic Information Center has been located on the Google! Your Federal Stimulus Money & FY2010 Homeland Security Appropriations At Work - A Facility for Spying on Facebook Occupy Barbecues It' ...
  • MPD Homeland Security Unit at Cruz House: Minn ...
    After some months, the Minneapolis Police Department released dozens of pages about Occupy Minnesota / Occupy Minneapolis and several high-profile operations, particularly the eviction of protesters from 4044 Cedar Ave. This data was released from the Department late yesterday afternoon. Interes ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • US lawmakers propose immigration reform deal
    Story Image:  Immigrants hold flags while waiting for a naturalization ceremony to become US citizens on January 28, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. A bipartisan group of top senators proposed a pathway to citizenship for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants liviA bipartisan group o ...
  • Talk of CIA prisons censored at Guantanamo hearing
    Story Image:  This Pentagon approved courtroom drawing shows self-declared 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (R) as he appears at a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. US authorities censored part of a preUS authorities censo ...
  • Congress sends $50 bn storm Sandy aid bill to ...
    Story Image:  US Representative Peter King (C), Republican of New York, stands with New York area first responders and victims of Superstorm Sandy in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2013. Congress on Monday finally approved more than $50 billion in emergency disaster aiCongress on Monday f ...
  • US military plans drone base near Mali: official
    Story Image:  This handout picture released and taken on January 28, 2013 by French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows a French army vehicle in Timbuktu. The US military plans to set up a base for drones in northwest Africa to bolster surveillance of The US military plan ...
  • US, Afghanistan to hold new talks on security deal
    Story Image:  US President Barack Obama listens as Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (L) speaks at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 11, 2013.The United States and Afghanistan this week launch a third round of talks to try to reach an elusive bilateral security deal as Washin ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Would UK, USA, share intel with independent Sc ...
    Scotland plans to set up its own security and intelligence agencies if its people vote in favor of independence from the United Kingdom in 2014, according to policy planners. But critics contend that it might be some time before Scotland’s spy organizations are trusted by their sister intelligen ...
  • Israel intelligence confirms ‘major blast’ at ...
    Intelligence officials in Israel have confirmed reports of a “major explosion” that is believed to have severely damaged an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility, but refused comment on rumors that Israeli jets were seen flying nearby around the time of the blast.
  • Will former US government informant face terro ...
    A former United States government informant, who helped an Islamist militant group plan the 2008 Mumbai attacks in India, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
  • Philby’s son, widow, speak on 50th anniversary ...
    For most of us, January 23, 2013, was a day like any other. But for intelligence history aficionados it marked the 50th anniversary of the escape to Moscow of notorious double spy Harold Adrian Russell Philby.
  • Russia evacuating its citizens from Syria: A p ...
    In a move that surprised observers, the government of Russia began on Tuesday to evacuate its citizens from Syria. Russian officials dismissed rumors that this is the beginning of a mass evacuation of Russian citizens from Syria. But observers described this development as “the strongest indicat ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Obama Prioritizes Targeted Killings
      Obama Prioritizes Targeted Killings   by Stephen Lendman   A previous article said Obama decided who lives or dies. His kill list chooses targets. He designated himself judge, jury and executioner.   He chose John Brennan as new CIA director. He's currently Deputy National ...
  • Targeting Iran Continues
      Targeting Iran Continues   by Stephen Lendman   Israel's likely coalition partners assure it. Spurious Iranian threats are hyped. What began years ago continues.    Washington and Israel want puppet leaders replacing independent ones in power. At issue is unchallenged ...
  • Why Does a Farmer Kill Himself Every 30 Minutes?
  • A Blowback Hurricane
    Most violence we face we've provoked.  Those confronting us with violence are exactly as wrong as if we hadn't provoked them.  But we are not as innocent as we like to imagine. This seems like a simple concept awaiting only factual substantiation, but in fact it is dramatically at odds ...
  • Syria News - Jan 29
        Obama says struggling over whether to intervene in Syria, "Could it trigger even worse violence or the use of chemical weapons? What offers the best prospect of a stable post-Assad regime"? | Reuters Paris meeting urges more funds for Syria opposition - todayszaman Syrian oppositio ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Solari

  • Kevin O’Leary: Capitalism’s New Saviors
    For the better part of a decade, I have been a cast member of CBC’s Dragon’s Den and ABC’s Shark Tank. Today, both of these television shows enjoy tremendous popularity in North America, but it was not always that way. At a media event years ago, I sat with other cast members of [...]
  • Millions Of Middle-Class Jobs Killed By Machin ...
    Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears. Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as w ...
  • Practically Human: Can Smart Machines Do Your Job?
    Art Liscano knows he’s an endangered species in the job market: He’s a meter reader in Fresno, Calif. For 26 years, he’s driven from house to house, checking how much electricity Pacific Gas & Electric customers have used. But PG&E doesn’t need many people like ...
  • Coming Clean in 2013
  • Money & Markets – Week of 01.27.13

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Sharon Neuman Architects’ Minimalist Herzelya ...
    Read the rest of Sharon Neuman Architects’ Minimalist Herzelya Home Keeps Cool With Energy-Efficient Design Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: asymmetric, contemporary, energy efficient, Herzlyia, insulation, Isreal, rainwater collection, residence, Sharon Neuman Ar ...
  • V3Solar’s Spin Cell Cones Could Produce Electr ...
    When V3Solar released information about their Spin Cell photovoltaic cones last year, the details already looked remarkably impressive; they have a smaller physical footprint than flat photovoltaic cells and the capacity to generate up to 20 times more energy for the same surface area. Now Clean ...
  • SpaceLiner Will Zoom from Europe to Australia ...
    Researchers at the German Aerospace Center are developing a hypersonic “SpaceLiner” that would zip half way around the world in 90 minutes flat. The 50-passenger airplane would piggyback off of a rocket to reach speeds of about 24 times the speed of sound. The super-fast SpaceLiner is hoped to p ...
  • Sleeping Around: Belgium’s Pop-Up Shipping Con ...
    Read the rest of Sleeping Around: Belgium’s Pop-Up Shipping Container Hotel Is Always On the Move Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Antwerp, belgium, Cargotecture, eco design, eco hotel, green architecture, Green Building, green design, ...
  • San Francisco 49ers’ New Home to be Pro Footba ...
    The Superbowl-bound San Francisco 49ers are set to move into their new Santa Clara stadium next year, and it’s set to be pro football’s first LEED certified stadium. There’s no word yet as to which level of certification the stadium is aiming for, but the facility will generate enoug ...

Pogue's Posts

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Syria’s Afghan Refugees Trapped in a Double Crisis
  • Managing Mali
    Strategically ill-conceived as it might been in a moment of panic and almost stillborn as a result ofits bumpy start (thanks to diminished European military logistics capabilities), the French military intervention in Mali has nevertheless altered the dynamics in the fight against al-Qaeda’s reg ...
  • Obama Expresses Uncertainty on Syria Intervent ...
    The (new) The New Republic sits down with President Obama for a rather wide ranging interview. Publisher and owner Chris Hughes asks a poignant question about Syria. Obama responds with a series of uncomfortable questions of his own. CH: The last question is about Syria. I wonder if you can spea ...
  • A More Perfect European Union
    As President Barack Obama embarks on his second term, he and many other global leaders hoping for economic recovery paid close attention to the recent speech given by British Prime Minister David Cameron about whether he would lead the UK out of the European Union. Europe is the largest trading ...
  • What Western Analysts Got Wrong About the Isra ...
    This is a guest post by Brent Sasley. Sasley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. He blogs at Mideast Matrix and Open Zion. Follow him on Twitter. The Israeli election results are far messier than anyone had hoped, leading to furi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Only Thing to Fear is Never Getting Electe ...
    Ah, bipartisanship. Can you smell it? Well it's in the air again, as a group of eight senators (for the love of god, can we not call them a "gang"?), four Democrats and four Republicans, unveiled a proposal for immigration reform. It includes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (a ...
  • How African Americans View Immigration Reform
    For as much as immigration reform is talked about as an unqualified good for Democrats (who need to protect their standing with Latinos) and Republicans (who need to improve it), it’s not nearly that simple. The GOP relies on high support from working-class whites to win elections. These are th ...
  • Why Playwrights Aren't Political Analysts
    During last year's presidential campaign, journalist Buzz Bissinger got some attention for writing an opinion piece explaining that he was voting for Mitt Romney because Barack Obama hasn't done enough to end poverty, which is kind of like saying you're switching from salad to Big Macs for lunc ...
  • Employees? Consumers? Feh!
    Should the Supreme Court uphold it, last Friday’s decision by three Reagan-appointees to the D.C. Circuit Appellate Court appears at first glance to rejigger the balance of power between Congress and the president. The appellate justices struck down three recess appointments that President Obam ...
  • Voters to the GOP: It's Not You—It's Your Ideas
    Over the weekend, conservative activists and politicians got together under the banner of the National Review to discuss the future. How can Republicans recover from 2012 and move the United States away from the liberalism of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party? While some political observers ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • TeaParty.org Drops the (Other) H-Bomb
    Godwin’s Law, an Internet adage started by lawyer and writer Mike Godwin in 1990, states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” The law’s point, Godwin explained in a 1995 article for Wired magazine, was the Internet see ...
  • Kentucky Neo-Nazis Charged in Gruesome Murder, ...
    The 25-point manifesto of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) makes several hyperbolic “demands,” such as “all non-Whites currently residing in America be required to leave the nation forthwith and return to their land of origin: peacefully or by force.’’ But it appears that two Kentucky membe ...
  • Second Amendment Vigilantes
    Editor’s note: The author of this guest column, Ron Carver, is a former field organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He is currently an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPC). This piece was distributed via OtherWords, a nonprofit editorial service opera ...
  • Army Veteran Pleads Guilty in Fort Stewart Mil ...
    Another former soldier has pleaded guilty for his role in an anti-government militia authorities say is responsible for the execution-style murder of two teenagers in the Georgia woods in late 2011. Timothy Joiner, a 22-year-old Iraq War veteran, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Liberty County, Ga., to ...
  • White Nationalist in Race for Suburban Missour ...
    A reported member of the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens is running for a seat on a suburban Kansas City, Mo., school board on a platform that includes “removing materials that promote racial diversity” in a district that is becoming increasingly diverse. The candidate, Edward ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Groups Sue Interior Department for Failure to ...
    Today a broad coalition of citizen and environmental groups reopened litigation against the Department of Interior for its removal of a key protection for streams against mountaintop removal mining—the “Stream Buffer Zone Rule.” The Bush administration removed this protection t ...
  • No Way Out: Freeway Gridlock Could Stall Evacu ...
    One year ago, a leak of radiation caused an emergency shutdown of a reactor at the San Onofre nuclear plant -- a crisis that led to the discovery of unprecedented damage to critical equipment and has kept the plant closed ever since. But Southern California Edison wants to experimentally restart ...
  • New Paper Finds that the IMF is Promoting Soci ...
    A new research paper finds that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been pushing for reduced spending, shrinking government, and cutting social protections for broad sectors of the population in Europe Union member countries, often regardless of a country’s specific economic circumst ...
  • American Workers' Access to Birth Control Must ...
    American workers’ access to birth control should not be subject to their employers’ religious beliefs, Americans United for Separation of Church and State has told a federal appeals court. In a friend-of-the-court brief, Americans United urged the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals t ...
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders Sanders Opposes Vermont Wi ...
    U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today opposed a moratorium on wind power projects in Vermont that he said would send a “terrible message” to the rest of the country and set back efforts to stop global warming. A member of the U.S. Senate environment and energy committees, Sanders ur ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Why Do Poor People Living in an Abandoned Skys ...
    Jim Naureckas Jon Lee Anderson is a reporter I've long admired–since reading Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League, which h ...
  • Neoliberalism No More: Making Common Cause to ...
    Stephen Harper has an agenda and it is all about turning Canada into a resource-extraction economy. He would like to make sure that nothing and no one stands in the way of exploiting the oil and the gas, the minerals and the water.read more
  • To End Extreme Poverty, Let’s Try Ending Extre ...
    Sam Pizzigati Apologists for inequality have a standard retort to anyone who calls for a more equal distribution of the world’s treasure. If you took all the wealth of the wealthy and divvied it up equally among all the poor, the reto ...
  • Employees? Consumers? Feh!
    Harold Meyerson Should the Supreme Court uphold it, last Friday’s decision by three Reagan-appointees to the D.C. Circuit Appellate Court appears at first glance to rejigger the balance of power between Congress and the president. ...
  • Is Obama About to Blow His Climate Credentials?
    Fred Pearce Faced with rising anger from environmentalists last year over his plans for a transcontinental pipeline to deliver treacly Canadian tar (Photo: tarsandsaction via Flickr)sands to Texas oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, the C ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Gov. Walker Expresses ‘Real Concern’ About Ele ...
    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is tempering his previous support for a proposed plan to rig the Electoral College in favor of Republicans, saying that he has “real concern” about the idea. The proposal would entail shifting the state’s electoral votes from a winner-takes-all s ...
  • Nicholas Stern: ‘I Got It Wrong On Climate Cha ...
    Another day, another climate expert explains the deadly combination of inaction and faster-than-expected impacts. This time the man ringing the bell is Lord Nicholas Stern, the author of the famous Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. The UK Guardian reports: Stern … said: &#82 ...
  • Texas School Superintendent Wants ‘Two Armed E ...
    After a poll of Texas’ Gatesville Independent School District’s employees found widespread support for allowing those employees to carry firearms on campus, district Superintendent Stewart Speer says he supports having two armed school officials for every 400 students on the district ...
  • Despite Dan Cathy’s New Gay Friendship, Nothin ...
    Campus Pride executive director Shane Windmeyer revealed on the Huffington Post Monday that he and Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy are now friends. Windmeyer is gay, married, and advocates for LGBT college students, whereas Dan Cathy believes that same-sex marriage is “twisted up kind of s ...
  • REPORT: Israeli Intelligence Sees ‘Deliberate ...
    Israeli intelligence officials now believe that Iran would be unable to produce a nuclear weapon until 2015 at the earliest, up-ending previous assessments of its nuclear program, according to a report from McClatchy. The report counters prior claims that Iran is nearing a point in its nuclear p ...

thwap's schoolyard

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

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canada's Special Forces are on the ground in Mali
    Sources of Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) said that members of Canada's secretive Joint Task Force Two (JTF 2) have been deployed on the ground in Mali. Foreign Affairs pointed out that the task force is not involved in combat operations.
  • Justin Bieber on losing Selena Gomez: 'I learn ...
    It's been over a month now since Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez attempted to rekindle their relationship with a ski trip to Utah. That pre-Christmas excursion ended with their relationship ending, seemingly for good, and Bieber's going through real pain.
  • Canadian man arrested for drunk driving - for ...
    A Canadian man, Maurice Larrivee from the province of Quebec, has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol for the 17th time. Larrivee, 69, was arrested and charged Sunday in Sherbrooke.
  • Roberto Luongo's big game vs. Kings earns Canu ...
    Roberto Luongo was the best player on the ice in the Vancouver Canucks game in L.A. Monday night but it didn't get him his first win of the season. The Canucks took a 2-0 lead and tried depending on their new 2nd string goalie, but the Kings fought back.
  • Video: 'Injustice — Gods Among Us' versus trailer
    Lex Luthor, a titular antagonist in DC Comics, is introduced as one of the characters in the upcoming fighting game from Netherealm Games called "Injustice: Gods Among Us."

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadian special forces already in Mali
    Canadian special forces soldiers are already deployed in Mali protecting Canadian diplomats, but according to the government they are not on a "combat" mission.
  • Canadian special forces to Mali?
    Will Canadian special forces soldiers be sent to Mali? Prime Minister Harper has clearly stated that his government is “not considering” a “direct” military role in the current conflict. But can his words be trusted?
  • What’s your opinion about the war in Mali?
    The Harper government is moving toward more direct military involvement in Mali. What is your opinion about events in Mali and Harper’s response? Leave your comment.
  • Mali war: Blowback and mission creep
    The West's intervention to overthrow Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in 2011 was one of the triggers of the current war in Mali, and as Canada's role in Mali slowly grows, the danger of being drawn further into a spreading West African conflict also grows.
  • C-17 to support Mali intervention
    Prime Minister Harper announced on Monday that Canada would assign one RCAF C-17 transport aircraft to provide logistical support to the French military intervention in Mali for a period of one week.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-15-12
    Today, Kevin explains how the media, internet, television, movies, magazines and newspapers are ALL misleading you. Plus, find out why, in life, it’s not about the mistakes you’ve made, but the lessons you’ve learned. Self Help: You Become What You Think About Most Of The Time Success Is A Decis ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-22-12
    Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Self Help: Grass Fed Meat & Poultry KT’s Daily Supplement Program Change Your DNA Vibration Health: How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 C ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-26-13
    Today, Kevin explains how there is one very unique ability that ALL successful people have. Find out what it is and if YOU have what it takes to become a part of this exclusive club! Self Help: Your Wish Is YOUR Command Lose Weight The Safe Way Improve Your Health & Vitality Give Kevin YOUR ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-6-12
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that the economy is getting worse and that your standard of living is deteriorating! Plus, the creator of the Resolve mineral detox, Dr. Ray Lala, stops by to explain how his mineral detox can virtually cure you from any viral infection, including herpes an ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-5-13
    Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino! Self Help: Learn The Secrets ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Colbert tells North Korea: ‘We loathe you, we’ ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Upon hearing that North Korea had begun referring to the U.S. as its “arch-enemy,” Stephen Colbert took it upon himself to do the sensible thing: let them down easy. “We loathe you,&#82 ...
  • Government to Enforce No Fly Zone Over Super Bowl
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPilots warned they could be shot down by missiles Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com January 29, 2013 In another illustration of how law enforcement in America is becoming increasingly militarized, the government plans ...
  • Caught On Tape! Bubble Gun Rampage
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com Jan 29, 2013 It seems the Homeland has found out about Alex Jones and his bubble gun. He seems he has been detained under provisions of NDAA stay tuned for more updates.Check out all the best #altnews a ...
  • BACKFIRE: Seattle Gun Buyback Turns Into Gun S ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMac Slavo SHTFPlan.com Jan 29, 2013 Leave it to enterprising Americans to always find a loophole in the midst of ever-expanding government regulation. While thousands of Seattle residents lined up for hours to trade thei ...
  • Federal Reserve Money Printing Is The Real Rea ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Snyder Economic Collapse Jan 29, 2013 You can thank the reckless money printing that the Federal Reserve has been doing for the incredible bull market that we have seen in recent months. When the Federal Reserve ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Rick Rozoff: Pentagon’s Global Expansion Plans ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO January 28, 2013 John Robles Voice of Russia January 28, 2013 Regular Voice of Russia contributor Rick Rozoff discusses Syrian defenses and how they are preventing a Western invasion, Russian-Syrian cooperation, the pretext of the war on t ...
  • White Power to the Rescue by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig January 28, 2013 On a windy afternoon a few days ago I went to a depressed section of North Memphis to visit an old clapboard house that was once owned by a German immigrant named Jacob Burkle. Oral history—and oral history is all anyone h ...
  • The 2012 NDAA – The Most Dangerous Law S ...
    Dandelion Salad ASecond0pinion·Jan 27, 2013 Join the movement: http://www.pandaunite.org The PANDA (People Against the NDAA Mission Statement: Our Mission is to nonviolently nullify, strike down, repeal, stop, void and fight the indefinite detention provisions, Sections 1021 and 1022, of the Nat ...
  • France’s War in Mali: Neo-imperialist gr ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV January 23, 2013 France’s intervention in Mali is simply this: a neo-imperialist power grab dressed up in “war on terror” rhetoric. Since the old colonial power began bombing the West African country on 11 Jan ...
  • CIA: World’s Biggest Terrorist Organization
    with William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org January 27, 2013 PressTVGlobalNews·Jan 24, 2013 A close look at the history of the CIA from its initial mission of intelligence gathering during World War II to covert subversive, counterrevolutionary, assassination operations ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Supernova Remnants: Dazzling Entrails of Viole ...
    Even in death, there can be great beauty. Consider supernova remnants, the results of massive stars dying in great explosions, creating some of the most spectacular cosmic objects around. Here, we take a look at some of the most famous ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Molecula ...
    This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic II camera on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory on January 11th, 2012. It shows a portion of the giant Monceros R2 molecular cloud. It is ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Saturn’s ...
    The ring-region Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pan are both caught "herding" their respective rings in this image. Through their gravitational disturbances of nearby ring particles, one moon maintains a gap in the outer A ring and the other helps keep ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Fire in ...
    A new image from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile shows a beautiful view of clouds of cosmic dust in the region of Orion. While these dense interstellar clouds seem dark and obscured in visible-light observations, APEX’s LABOCA ...
  • Crazy Alien Weather: Lightning-Filled Rocket D ...
    Scientists have modeled the internal workings of lightning-filled “rocket dust storms” on Mars that rise at speeds 100 times faster than ordinary storms and inject dust high into the Martian atmosphere.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • At least 166 homes in Israeli settlement built ...
    Dror Atkas: "The contemptible cooperation of the state with land theft in the West Bank is constantly growing... They are trying to retroactively legalize whatever they can in order to enable massive... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s left turn to the far right
    This election has been a personal blow to Netanyahu, but not to the right. Netanyahu misread the public mood, but not on the central issues that should define the left-right divide in Israel: the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Hannu Reime: Neither one nor two states, but a ...
    A continuous theme in ... the book is the view that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a confrontation between the Zionist settler-colonialism and the Palestinian Arab people; it’s the last colonial... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Remembering Howard Zinn
    We remember Howard Zinn, our friend and teacher (and among the first members of the IOA Advisory Board), who passed away on 27 January 2010, leaving a formidable legacy. In the words of his close... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Palestinian citizens wearily ey ...
    As Nazareth, the capital of Israel’s Palestinian minority, gears up for the country’s general election next week, the most common poster in the city features three far-right leaders noted for their... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Study Demonstrates Health Benefits of Coming O ...
    Out lesbians, gays, and bisexuals are in better mental and physical health than others. "Coming out is no longer a matter of popular debate but a matter of public health" - lead author Robert-Paul Juster
  • Early Menopause May Occur In Women with BRCA Gene
    Women with harmful mutations in the BRCA gene, which put them at higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, tend to undergo menopause significantly sooner than other women, allowing them an even briefer reproductive window and possibly a higher risk of infertility, according to a study ...
  • Virginia Tech Expands Sports Concussion-Risk S ...
    Virginia Tech is expanding its research into helmeted sports beyond football, due to new research that allows for better prediction of sports-related concussions resulting from linear and rotational head accelerations. These accelerations result from head impacts that cause the head to translat ...
  • Debunking the 'July Effect': Surgery Date Has ...
    The "July Effect" -- the notion that the influx of new residents and fellows at teaching hospitals each July makes that the worse time of year to be a patient -- seems to be a myth, according to new Mayo Clinic research that examined nearly 1 million hospitalizations for patients undergoing spin ...
  • For Pentagon's Cybersecurity Expansion, Even t ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Yet Another Estimate of When Iran Will Have th ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller McClatchy reports that Israel now believes Iran will not be able to produce a nuclear weapon until 2015 or 2016.  That is progress of a sort; Netanyahu had previously been claiming that Iran would have the bomb no later than late summer 2013 — arou ...
  • The Legal Systems of the World
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford In case you ever wanted a snapshot of the legal systems of the world, this handy chart is worth a look. If you follow the link you can get a brief explanation of the legal system of each country, including the historical roots. The orange is common law, the blue ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, January 28, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Talks have broken down at the African Union summit in Ethiopia on plans to solve the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The UN wants to set up an intervention force to fight rebels fueling conflict in the DRC, according to a UN official. According t ...
  • So, How Does the Chinese Press Feel About the ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku For those of you wondering how seriously the Chinese media is taking the Philippines’ arbitration claim against China over the South China Sea (there must be at least two of you out there), here is an illustrative cartoon from a Chinese newspaper, “JingChu ...
  • Events and Announcements: January 27, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers The International Law Discussion Group of the University of Edinburgh is launching a call for papers for its biennial spring Doctoral Symposium to take place on June 17-18, 2013 on Regime Interactions. Abstracts are due by March 1, 2013. More info ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Reform Groups View Senate Immigration Frame ...
    AZ Reform Groups View Senate Immigration Framework with Cautious Optimism PHOENIX - Immigration reform must include family preservation, say Arizona advocates. Various groups reacting to a reform framework announced by eight U.S. senators, including Arizona's John McCain and Jeff Flake, say the ...
  • Free Tax Help Available from AARP Foundation S ...
    Free Tax Help Available from AARP Foundation Starting Friday PHOENIX - Tax season is here again, and whether you use an accountant, a computer program, or file on your own, it can be an expensive and complicated process. But thanks to the AARP Foundation, free tax help will be available to Arizo ...
  • La Fundación AARP dará ayuda gratuit ...
    La Fundación AARP dará ayuda gratuita con los impuestos a partir del viernes PHOENIX - Llegó la hora de presentar el reporte de impuestos. Ya sea que se haga con un contador, un programa de computadora o personalmente, puede ser un proceso caro y complicado. Pero gracias a la Fund ...
  • Volunteers Ready for Arizona's Annual Homeless ...
    Volunteers Ready for Arizona's Annual Homeless Count PHOENIX – Whether on the streets, in alleyways or in the river bottom, thousands of Arizonans spend their days looking for a place to sleep for the night. And next Wednesday, hundreds of volunteers will fan out across the state to find ...
  • “Know it. Name it. Stop it.” Stalk ...
    “Know it. Name it. Stop it.” Stalking Awareness Month in AZ PHOENIX - January is Stalking Awareness Month in Arizona, and a national campaign is under way to "Know it. Name it. Stop it." State law lists stalking as a crime, but Caroline Fleming, executive director of the Custer Netw ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Attention bands and audience
  • Jail Guitar Doors USA. Wayne Kramer speaks
    CIW: Music: Wayne Kramer from Chicago Ideas Week on Vimeo. Wayne Kramer started Jail Guitar Doors USA with Billy Bragg. He served time in federal prison for drugs after the MC5 broke up and now devotes time to bringing guitars and music to prisons so inmates can work out things in a positive ma ...
  • Contest – Design a Future Financial Crime
    From the Future of Money Design Award comes a contest to design a future financial crime. Hmm, with digital money becoming increasingly common and financial instruments ever more deliberately opaque, seems to me a future financial crime could blend those two trends together with money launderin ...
  • Columbus Ohio finalist in Top Seven Intelligen ...
    Columbus Ohio is one of seven finalists in the 2013 Intelligent Community of the Year, as chosen by the Intelligent Community Forum. Whoa, isn’t Columbus a bombed out, rust belt disaster? Apparently not. A lot of smart people, organizations, and companies have joined together to make Colu ...
  • GuantanAmerica – Why is Guantanamo still open?
    Innocent men are still held in Guantanamo ten years after first prisoners arrived The Congress of the United States appropriates, and the President of the United States spends more than $400,000 per day, seven days a week, to imprison people whom the government itself has deemed innocent. The U ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Epiphany of a Cog in the Machine
    As a writer and a blogger, I do occasionally correspond with some of my readers who my writings have touched. Sometimes I am exposed to interesting stories about their lives and maybe some epiphany they might have had. Such is the case with Howard who recently emailed me with a personal story ab ...
  • Office Working to Close Guantánamo Is Shuttered
    FORT MEADE, Md. — The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement. Mr. Fried’s office is being closed, and his former responsibilities will be “assu ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – January 28 2013
    1.28.13 – Brick by Brick… Jack Blood does his monthly installment with Journalist Extraordinaire – James Corbett (www.corbettreport.com) talks gets going on the Phony claim that North Korea could nuke the USA… false flags at American airports / TSA drills, geo – pol ...
  • This Day In History – January 29
    1795 – The United States Naturalization Act of January 29, 1795 repealed and replaced the earlier Act of 1790 changes included increasing the period of required residence from two to five years and The Act specified that naturalized citizenship was reserved only for “free white perso ...
  • Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to abdicate f ...
    Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has announced she is abdicating in favour of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander. In a pre-recorded address broadcast on TV, she said she would formally stand down on 30 April. The queen, who is approaching her 75th birthday, said she had been thinking about this mo ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook updates iOS app with voice messaging, ...
    Facebook today released an update for its main iOS application, which includes voice messaging and video recording, as well as a more efficient way to hide ads and mark posts as spam directly from News Feed....
  • Payvment to shut down social commerce platform ...
    Social commerce platform Payvment today announced it will be ending service on Feb. 28, after nearly three and a half years of powering Facebook storefronts through which users could buy items from merchants. Payvment will refer...
  • Unified acquires PageLever
    Enterprise marketing technology company Unified today announced it has purchased Facebook analytics platform PageLever. PageLever’s seven employees will join Unified full-time in the company’s San Francisco and New York offices. PageLever customers’ service will continue uninterrupted,...
  • Facebook adds 3-in-1 ad unit to News Feed
    Facebook is trying a new design for ads in the desktop News Feed, grouping ads for three different pages into one horizontal “Pages You Might Like” unit. The new format, which began rolling out over the...
  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Jan. 21 and Jan. 25. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Tuesday, Jan. 22 Flurry Source 13...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- Episode 11: The ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Peter Schiff Peter Schiff is strong supporter of the Austrian Economic school of thought and was an economic adviser to Ron Paul in 2008. Peter is currently the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital. Peter also owns Euro Pacific Bank, www.europacbank.com, which allows non-US residents ...
  • Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
    Obama Heads the Worst of Rogue Governance At perhaps the most perilous time in world history, exposing vital truths takes on greater urgency than ever. Freedom in America is endangered. Truth telling and dissent increasingly aren’t tolerate. Whistleblowers are called threats to national se ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Transparency International Finds “High” IDF Co ...
    Transparency International just published an index measuring levels of corruption in defense spending and military policy for nations around the world.  Israel placed in Band D, just above the middle rank.  The summary of concerns listed in the analysis was: …While formal provisions for le ...
  • Was Fordo a Hoax? If So, Why?
    A few days ago I published a post based on an Israeli source who told me there had been sabotage at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant.  Just before I decided to publish I wrestled with whether to go forward or to wait till journalists I knew with sources in U.S. intelligence could vet this stor ...
  • SocialTV Video Segment on Transforming Politic ...
    SocialTV has just uploaded my new video segment which is my analysis of the Israeli election.  I reject the widespread claim that the election is a triumph of the Israeli center and a rebuke to the far-right.  I also suggest a path toward fully realizing the political power of Israel’s Pal ...
  • SCOOP: Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Plant Extensively ...
    A highly-placed Israeli source informs me that Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Fordo has been extensively damaged by an explosion.  The bomb was the work of a joint Israeli-U.S.-MEK sabotage operation codenamed Achilles, which used a Trojan horse to infiltrate the plant. Bibi Netanya ...
  • Whole Foods CEO Shoots Self, Company in Foot
    I don’t often write about food subjects as I once did in this blog. But John Mackey’s latest comments force me to change course a bit. I shop every week at Whole Foods. It’s one of the best food markets I’ve ever encountered (not the best, but close). It has an astonishin ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Mapping with Kites in the Age of Drones
    This post compares technologies for aerial photography, but it is also about how tool choices can embed values, including transparency, openness, and accessibility, into the growing popular culture of mapping. Most map imagery is collected by airplane or satellite and processed by GIS (ge ...
  • Making Digital Security a Priority for Journalists
    What do you do when you know, going into your project, that it's a losing battle -- one that journalists will not win? My yearlong mission as a Stanford Knight Journalism Fellow is to try to come up with solutions to improve journalists' digital security. The project was born from personal ex ...
  • Capturing the Presidential Inauguration from Space
    If it's a clear day on Monday, GeoEye's satellites will capture incredible imagery of President Obama's second Inauguration and make them available for use by members of the media. These images will be transmitted back to Earth in near real-time and, expanding from GeoEye's approach for the 2009 ...
  • Making Mapping Easy: A New Editor for OpenStre ...
    2012 was the year in which a wide audience began to understand the process behind making maps -- and that it's a massive, global effort in the pursuit of better and more complete map data. OpenStreetMap, a collaborative, open data process for making maps, has continued its fast growth last year ...
  • Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust
    The planets have finally aligned on one of my early assignments at The Boston Globe. The project is called Quizzler, and it is by no means going to change anything. It's a quiz system -- something the producers ultimately want because it will generate page views. It has been done. This post ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Medicine - Artificial Pancreas: Th ...
    IRCM researchers, led by endocrinologist Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, were the first to conduct a trial comparing a dual-hormone artificial pancreas with conventional diabetes treatment using an insulin pump and showed improved glucose levels and lower risks of hypoglycemia. Their results can have a ...
  • Broken Economy - Bailed-Out Executives Still E ...
    A government watchdog is blasting the Treasury Department for continuing to dole out robust pay packages to executives of bailed-out companies. A new report found that executives from American International Group (AIG), General Motors, and Ally Financial, while still on a government lifeline, re ...
  • The Race for Coal - Mining Trade Group Confide ...
    A major mining trade association said Monday that it expects its congressional allies to push for legislation shortening mine permitting periods and to block attempts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.National Mining Association (NMA) CEO Hal Quinn pinned much of the industry’s recent strug ...
  • Broken Government - Total Tax -Code Termination
    It would be the ultimate fiscal cliff. A group of House Republicans wants to put an expiration date on the 75,000-page U.S. tax code. The Tax Code Termination Act would require the repeal of the entire code in 2017 — except for the bits dealing with Social Security and Medicare — with a new ...
  • Singapore on Edge - Singapore Cemetery Demolit ...
    The ultra-modern city state Singapore has become a model that other Asian nations aspire to - organized, immaculate and efficient - but at what cost? Some residents say that plans to plow through one the country’s most important heritage sites show that Singapore’s rapid urbanization has rea ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newsbusted: Chris Matthews Says Obama Speaks T ...
    Chris Matthews, "Dr. Tinkle down his leg" is at it again. The MSNBC talking head has been overly effusive about Barack Obama ever since he was nominated for president in 2008. But since the 2012 election, he has been over-the-top even for Chris Matthews. According to a special report in today's ...
  • Your Tax Dollars At Work: U Of Minn. Offers Cl ...
    When I was graduating high school my parents told me that I could go to any school I wanted, as long as it was a state school. After all the State U of NY system was partially funded by the state and they represented the only schools in our "price range."   With this latest news kids ...
  • Bloomberg's Goons Accost Journalist For Asking ...
    Mayor Mommy Bloomberg is the type of parent who doesn't like to be questioned. Jason Mattera approached the NY Mayor during the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington D.C. on 1/18. Mattera politely asked the Mommy Mayor, why it's alright for him to be surrounded by a half dozen huge arm ...
  • Gang o' Eight Immigration Framework a Replay o ...
    Admittedly there hasn't been enough time to fully digest the proposal, but on first glance this "gang of eight" immigration framework doesn't seem much different than the McCain, Kennedy, George W. Bush plan proposed six years ago. The eight senators include John McCain (R-Ariz.) Chuck Schu ...
  • Ahmadinejad's Look-Alike Brother Sent Into Space
    Sorry I couldn't help myself, but look at the family resemblance especially the smile.  The Times of Israel is reporting:  Iranian state TV says the country has successfully sent a monkey into space, in what’s described as another step toward Tehran’s goal of a ma ...

The Real Agenda

  • Mass shootings: The videos Piers Morgan and Di ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 28, 2013 The following main stream media report has strangely been kept from the public for the past few weeks. In it, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and congressmen admit that there is a direct relation between using pharmaceutical ...
  • Morsi calls for talks with opposition to end c ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 28, 2013 Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi has had to learn quickly as the leader of Egypt. Morsi, who after being elected attempted to illegally give himself more power than he was supposed to have, rapidly found out that the Egyptian people ...
  • North Korea launches a new round of threats ag ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 28, 2013 The government from North Korea promised “significant steps” towards strengthening its position in the world stage, reported the Asian news agency KCNA. The report suggested that the country’s leadership is poised t ...
  • Hillary Clinton reafirma compromisso dos EUA p ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANEIRO 26, 2013 Enquanto os grandes conflitos no Oriente Médio começam a diminuir, os Estados Unidos estão preparados para apoiar as guerras e conflitos em outras regiões do mundo. Na verdade, a história mostra que o intervencionismo dos EUA tem si ...
  • Construção de assentamentos ilegais explodiu s ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANEIRO 26, 2013 A organização Paz Agora publicou um relatório em que fala de um crescimento recorde na construção de assentamentos nos territórios palestinos durante o atual mandato. A publicação desta informação coincide com o anúncio de novos con ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Texas construction workers: 40 hours a week, ...
    An investigation has uncovered hundreds of examples of illegal and hazardous workplace practices at construction sites across Texas, the deadliest state for construction workers. read more
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Britain's Housing Crisis: The Places People Live
    For twenty years British house building has fallen behind demand, forcing up prices and rents. Here's a series of photos showing some of the things people have had to do to live. Victoria Campbell was living in a shed in her parents' garden in Havant, while she and her fiance saved up ...
  • Prescription for an Ailing California
    Only a fool, or perhaps a politician or media pundit, would say California is not in trouble, despite some modest recent improvements in employment and a decline in migration out of the state. Yet the patient, if still very sick, is curable, if the right medicine is taken, followed by th ...
  • Detroit Future City
    Recently the Detroit Works Project released their long awaited strategic plan for the city. This is the one led by Toni Griffin that produced a lot of public controversy because of suggestions it would result in the planned shrinkage or decommissioning (or even forced residential relocat ...
  • World's Most Affluent Metropolitan Areas: 2012
    Late in 2012, the Brookings Institution published its annual Global Metro Monitor(by Emilia Istrate and Carey Anne Nadeau), which estimates economic data for the 300 world metropolitan areas with the largest gross domestic product (GDP). The Global Metro Monitor also provides estimates of th ...
  • State Components of Population Change: 2010-2012
    What have the last two years of modest recovery meant to the growth and redistribution of population among the states? New data on the components of change for states are now available.  In March county level data will permit a more detailed portrait. For states I present four maps, overal ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • The unloved dollar standard
    Role as international anchor beginning to falter, as emerging markets are frustrated by Fed's near-zero interest-rate policy Since the end of World War II, the US dollar has been used to invoice most global trade, serving as the intermediary currency for clearing international payments among ...
  • Guatemala ex-dictator to stand trial on g ...
    A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war will stand trial on charges he ordered the murder, torture and displacement of thousands of Mayan Indians, a judge ruled Monday. Human rights advocates have said that the prosecution of Jose ...
  • Rupert Sanders' wife files for divorce in ...
    LOS ANGELES — Rupert Sanders' wife has filed for divorce five months after it was revealed the director had a brief affair with actress Kristen Stewart. Liberty Ross,...
  • Rick Ross shooting: Details emerge
    The Rick Ross shooting the occurred this morning has been unfolding by the hour. On Jan. 28, TMZ updated readers with new information that will hopefully lead police to the suspect(s). As previously reported, Ross was driving his Rolls-Royce when shots were fired at the vehicle around 5 a.m. ...
  • International Monetary Fund grants Mali $ ...
    WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund agreed to provide a $18.4 million emergency loan to Mali, a move likely to lead to other donors releasing more funds after...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Omnicell to Showcase Automation Solutions at A ...
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicell, Inc., (NASDAQ:OMCL), a leading global provider of medication and supply management solutions and analytics software for healthcare facilities, will exhibit their award-winning G4 technology and other solutions, including...
  • Masimo Showcases Advanced, Noninvasive Patient ...
    IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) returns to Arab Health Jan. 28-31, the world's longest running healthcare exhibition and congress held each year in Dubai, UAE, to showcase advanced, noninvasive patient monitoring technologies – including...
  • Identifying Adolescent Sexual And Reproductive ...
    Quality sexual and reproductive health care is an essential component of public health. However, there are insufficient evidence-based policies related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries. In an effort to address the research gap, faculty from the Joh ...
  • Clinical significance of ESR1 gene copy number ...
    Aims The ESR1 gene encodes for oestrogen receptor (ER) α, which plays a crucial role in mammary carcinogenesis and clinical outcome in patients with breast cancer. However, the clinical significance of the ESR1 gene copy number change for breast cancer has not been clarified.Methods ES ...
  • Minnesota twins? Multiple births on the decline
    Whether it's the economy or changes in infertility treatment procedures, births of twins and triplets are down in Minnesota.

Common Dreams

  • Report: US Shops for New Drone Base in Africa
    Reporting in the New York Times Monday reveals that the US government is busy in west Africa looking for a country willing to host a military base for a portion its fleet of Predator drones. Officials who spoke to the newspaper say that only un-armed surveillance drones would be part of an origi ...
  • Groups Slam Senate Immigration Plan for Privac ...
    Civil liberties organizations are raising flags about the proposed immigration reform framework being unveiled on Monday by a bipartisan Senate working group saying that the plan includes provisions that endanger personal freedoms for all US citizens.  ...
  • 'Dirty Wars': Documentary on US Covert Warfare ...
    The documentary "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield" follows investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen as he chases down the hidden truth behind America’s expanding covert wars, focusing on the Obama administration’s increasing use of arm ...
  • You Ain't Gonna Frack Near Maggie's Farm: Acti ...
    Anti-fracking activists in Bessemer, Penn. on Sunday. A flare from Shell's drilling is visible in the background. (Photo: Shadbush Collective) We need farms, not fracking. This was the message from a group of concerned activists on Sunday afternoon as they blocked a Shell fracking site in Penns ...
  • Crash of River Barge Creating Oil Disaster in ...
    (Photo: AP)A unknown amount of crude oil continues to pour into the Mississippi River after a barge carrying 80,000 gallons of oil crashed into a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., early Sunday morning. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • China's Rise: Environment & Climate Change
    The cost of environmental degradation cost to the Chinese economy is pretty heavy, and there’s reason to assume that the cost on health, corrective measures and investments in clean energy will only increase.
  • Why Expanded Alternative Energy Increases the ...
    Despite very significant technological advancements, wind and solar power costs continue to be greater than existing low carbon alternatives such as natural gas. And why does expansion of wind and solar power continue to require increasing levels of natural gas electric power generation?
  • Could Political Turmoil in Venezuela Be Good f ...
    Political instability is virtually guaranteed for Venezuela, should confirmation emerge of Chávez’ death or definitive public disclosure of permanent incapacitation. Elections will have to be called within 30 days of the declaration that President Chávez cannot assume office in his new term. Cha ...
  • An Automated Approach to Wind Energy Siting
    The same sophisticated computer process that has been used to engineer the structure of a space satellite antenna or formulate financial trading strategies through multiple scenarios is being utilized by the wind industry to site wind energy farms and turbines.
  • The PTC and the Future of the Wind Energy Industry
    After seeing the Production Tax Credit (PTC) extended through 2013 in the recent “fiscal cliff” legislation, the wind industry is now looking ahead to the tax reform debate. According to E&E Publishing several industry lobbyists are preparing for a renewed push for a longer-term extension of ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Tim Geithner's Legacy of Shame
    by Stephen Lendman From January 26, 2009 - January 25, 2013, he was Obama's Treasury Secretary. He and Fed chairman Bernanke engineered crisis conditions. Bankers profited hugely. They still do. Ordinary people were scammed. Geithner's gone. His legacy speaks for itself. His background s ...
  • Medical Negligence in Israeli Prisons
    by Stephen Lendman Palestinians in Israeli prisons are grievously abused. Conditions resemble gulag hell. Treatment is deplorable. Fundamental human rights are violated. Geneva's Common Article 3 requires "humane treatment for all persons in enemy hands, specifically prohibit(ing) murde ...
  • R U Sandy or R U Hooked
    By Melanie Lamport Gun Control takes center stage following another in a series of horrific mass shooting. The latest one at the Sandy Hook Elementary School left 20 children dead in Newtown Connecticut. The corporate controlled media and President Barack Obama have launched a full-scale attac ...
  • Empire Project Failing in Syria Says French Fo ...
    Michael Collins The survival of the Syrian government represents a major failure of the empire project to recolonize and dominate energy rich Middle Eastern and North African states. In an abrupt change from months of anticipatory triumphalism, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius admitted ...
  • Obama's War on Whistleblowers
    by Stephen Lendman At perhaps the most perilous time in world history, exposing vital truths takes on greater urgency than ever. Freedom in America is endangered. Truth telling and dissent increasingly aren't tolerate. Whistleblowers are called threats to national security. The ACLU sa ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Income inequality on the rise, especially in l ...
    Income inequality in Canada is on the rise—especially in the country's largest cities. CCPA analysis of new data finds the richest 1% of Canadians make almost $180,000 more today than they did in 1982 (adjusted for inflation), while the bottom 90% of Canadians saw income gains of only $1,700. ...
  • Countering austerity: New CCPA-Ontario resources
    The CCPA-Ontario office hosted a full-day session at Ryerson University in Toronto on January 9, 2013. The session focused on countering the austerity agenda in this province and beginning the conversation about what a post-austerity agenda could look like. Alex Himelfarb asked Canadians to ima ...
  • Our way or the Norway: managing oil wealth in ...
    When it comes to managing oil wealth, Canada has something to learn form our European neighbours. In a new report, CCPA’s Executive Director Bruce Campbell compares the Canada and Alberta experience of managing oil wealth to that of Norway and finds that for too long foreign and d ...
  • Federal Job Cuts and the Atlantic Provinces
    CCPA-NS has released a study that makes projections for federal public sector job losses in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of their impact in the region.  The report, titled “Public Disservice: The Impact of Federal Government Job Cuts in Atlantic Canada,” explains that ...
  • Joel Bakan to speak at the CCPA-BC Annual Gala ...
    We're pleased to announce that author and filmmaker Joel Bakan will be the featured speaker at our Annual Gala. Joel is the author of the widely-acclaimed book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (a companion to the documentary film), and Childhood Under Siege: How Bi ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • GMO Farming, Glyphosate Significant Causes of ...
    June 29, 2012 Water pollution and air pollution has been and continues to be a serious issue in many nations. Both of these pollution types are successfully bringing down the health of not only humans, but also animals, plant life, and the ecosystem as a whole. While the causes of water pollutio ...
  • Amazon of Europe Threatened by a Straightening
    BELGRADE, Jun 30 2012 (IPS) - Wildlife is being increasingly threatened around the Danube river, the “Amazon of Europe”. The need for profit is taking over from the need to protect natural resources along the river. Austria and Croatia are engaged in a major project to tame the Danub ...
  • WHY ARE COWS TAILS DROPPING OFF?
  • ~WHAT THE FRACK?
  • Oil may be seeping from Deepwater Horizon site
    Dec. 13, 2012 CBS News has learned that BP is set to embark Thursday on the fifth day of a little-known subsea mission under Coast Guard supervision to look for any new oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The BP oil rig exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending a total estima ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work
    There is a reason I don't ride a unicorn to work. It isn't because it's too far to work. Nor is it because it rains here in Hawaii nearly every day and I might get wet. It isn't because the powerful automobile lobby has convinced me that driving a car to work is a better option for me. No, it's ...
  • The Amazing Reversal of the US Oil Industry
    Oil production in the US began to rise in 2009, in response to record capital expenditures by oil companies in the face of sharply rising oil prices. The rise has been sustained to the point that production rose all four years of President Obama's first term.
  • Five Energy Predictions for 2013
    Normally when I list the Top 10 stories of the year, I close the post by making predictions for the upcoming year. For 2012, my predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline ...
  • Five Energy Predictions for 2013
    Normally when I list the Top 10 stories of the year, I close the post by making predictions for the upcoming year. For 2012, my predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline ...
  • A Look at DuPont Biofuel’s Work on Cellulosic ...
    Robert Rapier interviewed Mr. Jan Koninckx, global director of biofuels for DuPont Industrial Biosciences regarding DuPont's efforts in 2nd generation biofuels. DuPont is currently engaged in two major projects to commercialize advanced biofuels.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • What You Need to Know about Shatterproof Dishes
    You've broken your addiction to nonstick pans and eliminated canned food from your cabinets. And here's one more kitchen staple to kick to the curb: melamine. Melamine resins are used to make plastic kitchen utensils and shatterproof cups, bowls and plates, like those sold as picnic ware, and ...
  • 5 Tips for Feeding Kids Healthy Eats on the Road
    When you’re cooped up in the car on a family vacation, it’s all too easy to send healthy eating habits packing and cave in to whining with dining on fast food. While it’s important to be flexible on vacation (nothing wrong with an occasional burger or ice cream!), if you completely abandon your ...
  • The New Toxic Pesticide Threat
    A chemical fungicide commonly sprayed on nonorganic strawberries, kale, sugar beets, blueberries, and other greens has been shown to kill frogs within an hour of exposure, according to new research from British scientists. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, found pyraclostr ...
  • McDonald's: The Greenest Restaurant on the Block?
    Pop quiz: If you want to buy sustainable seafood, are you better off going to McDonald's or that fancy sushi place down the street? If you guessed the sushi restaurant…you'd be wrong. Not only did a recent report from the nonprofit Oceana find that most sushi restaurants are mislabeling fish i ...
  • A Health Warning from Cleaning Pros
    People all over the world are cleaning themselves sick. Many of the dozens of cleaning products on the market contain toxic compounds that are clearly linked to lung damage. The latest evidence to tarnish cleaning products' standing comes from a study that IDs occupational hazards that are like ...

big think

  • Can We Still Afford Higher Education?
    This discussion must start by distinguishing between the cost and price of college. Costs per student, in terms of real (inflation-adjusted) resources spent, have actually increased very little in the last 25 years, at least in public colleges and universities. Prices, however, have clim ...
  • Combined Efforts Help With Drop In Japan's Sui ...
    What's the Latest Development? In Japan, which has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world, and where it is one of the leading causes of death among men, the news that the number of deaths dropped below 30,000 last year -- for the first time in 15 years -- was cause for celebrat ...
  • Big Idea: We Can Measure Educational Value in ...
    E.D. Hirsch (the cultural literacy guy) has, I think, written the most important article on educational "outcomes" in a long time.  The great benefit of education, "the key to increasingly upward mobility," is expanding the vocabulary of students.  Why is that?  1. Hirsch observes that . ...
  • Would Jesus Carry an Assault Rifle?
    A few days ago, 64 influential Catholics appealed to their co-religionists in Congress to support gun-control legislation. They laid down a pretty solid Catholic guilt trip: Members of Congress who take pride in their pro-life stance and appeal to family values have no excuse for ...
  • Immigrating To The UK? Brush Up On Your Monty ...
    What's the Latest Development? As of March, migrants who want to settle in the UK will be required to answer questions about British culture and history on the revised "Life in the United Kingdom" citizenship test. According to a study guide released today, practical questions about dail ...

Information Liberation

  • Another Family Business Destroyed: Morningland ...
    Moriningland Dairy, a family business that has been in operation for over 30 years without a single complaint or report of any illness has ceased today. The over two year battle they've had with the Missouri Milk Board ended today with a raid and c...
  • Youth Turns in Parents for Growing Marijuana
    Welcome to Soviet Amerika, where children turn their parents in to the government for the "crime" of smoking marijuana. Via Phillyburbs: A Doylestown Township dad whose teenage son tipped off police to his indoor marijuana garden was sentenced, a...
  • Three Connecticut police officers caught on ca ...
    Three Connecticut police officers have been put on administrative leave after they were caught on video brutally beating a suspect in a local park. Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins, all 10-year veterans of the Bridgeport Police Dep...
  • Swartz prosecutor slammed again for bullying a ...
    The same prosecutor accused of bullying Internet freedom hero Aaron Swartz to commit suicide, Carmen Ortiz, is once again being defined as a bully after her failed attempt to seize a mom-and-pop motel. According to the Boston Herald: A Tewksbury...
  • Police Chief Vows To Stop "Tyrannical Thugs" F ...
    Gilberton, Pennsylvania Police Chief Mark Kessler promises not to enforce unconstitutional laws that eviscerate second amendment rights. *I will take my uniform off and I will stand with freedom before I stand with tyrannical thugs.* Speaking...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Fossil perspective on economic growth
    A paper from a researcher at Fukushima University caught my eye recently. Not least because it was from that university, but also because the city was in the news again because of proposals to plant a wind farm off the coast there. Moreover, the paper is about how fossil fuels drive economic gro ...
  • NASA solar montage of Elmer the Elephant
    We usually think of the sun as that big glowing ball in the sky, at least on days when we can see it, grey here again (ahead of imminent snow storms). But NASA can paint a different picture using specialized instruments, either in ground-based or space-based telescopes, which can “see&#822 ...
  • Deceived Wisdom everywhere
       Deceived Wisdom everywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogDeceived Wisdom everywhere is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • Developing World Special Offer
    A few contacts from the developing world have asked about pricing of my book as they’d like to get a copy but the standard price is, they hint, a little high for their budgets. So here’s the deal. If you live in a blue zone on the map below – China, South America, Asia, Russia ...
  • Developing World Special Offer
    A few contacts from the developing world have asked about pricing of my book as they’d like to get a copy but the standard price is, they hint, a little high for their budgets. So here’s the deal. If you live in a blue zone on the map below – China, South America, Asia, Russia ...

RFF Library

  • Expedited Federal Authorization of Interstate ...
    Interstate Natural Gas Association of America http://www.ingaa.org/Foundation/Foundation-Reports/EPAct2005.aspx [Oil and Gas Journal]  Project permits from federal agencies other than the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are taking interstate pipelines longer to obtain since passage of th ...
  • America’s Children and the Environment, ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/ace/ America’s Children and the Environment is an EPA report that presents key information on environmental stressors that can affect children’s health. In January 2013, EPA released an updated third edition of this report (ACE3) that shows the status and trends of: Env ...
  • Building America’s Future: Falling Apart and F ...
    Building America’s Future Educational Fund http://www.bafuture.org/pdf/Building-Americas-Future-2012-Report.pdf Anyone who travels abroad can see that the United States no longer has a world-class infrastructure. And there’s hard evidence to back up that impression. The World Economic Forum comp ...
  • Factor Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions fr ...
    University of Michigan / by John M. DeCicco http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2205144 [Green Car Congress]    In a new working paper, Prof. John DeCicco at the University of Michigan argues that to reduce transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions, the proper policy focus sh ...
  • The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Industries: 10 Tren ...
    Pike Industries http://www.pikeresearch.com/wp-assets/uploads/2013/01/WP-FC10T-13-Pike-Research.pdf The 10 key trends for 2013, in no particular order, are: Annual installed capacity from the stationary fuel cell sector will top 200 megawatts (MW) Funding pace for hydrogen refueling stations wil ...

Scientific American - News

  • App d to Fail: Mobile Health Treatments Fail F ...
    Health care via mobile technology is still in its infancy. Of 75 trials in which patients used mobile tech, such as text messaging and downloadable apps, to manage a disease or adopt healthier behaviors, only three showed reliable signs of success, according to a systematic survey . In an accom ...
  • Why Poor Sleep and Forgetfulness Plague the Ag ...
    Deterioration of a specific brain region impairs sleep quality as people age, leading to poorer memory retention, according to research published today in Nature Neuroscience .  [More]
  • Study Bolsters Quantum Vibration Scent Theory
    How does the sense of smell work? Today two competing camps of scientists are at war over this very question. And the more controversial theory has just received important new experimental confirmation. [More]
  • California Intends to Declare BPA a Reproducti ...
    California today is announcing its inten t to declare bisphenol A a reproductive hazard. [More]
  • Shrunken Proton Baffles Scientists
    One of the Universe's most common particles has left physicists completely stumped. The proton, a fundamental constituent of the atomic nucleus, seems to be smaller than thought. And despite three years of careful analysis and reanalysis of numerous experiments, nobody can figure out why. [M ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Map of January 28th Idle No More Events
    Scroll down to find a map of some of the Idle No More events that took place on January 28th  If you were involved in an event that is not located on the map, you can add it to this spreadsheet and it will later be added to the map.&n ...
  • Connaître nos droits : Traités 101 pour non-au ...
    Une traduction de : Know your rights : A treaty primer for non-natives Texte par Dru Oja Jay Traduction par Claude Vallée, avec l'appui de Maude P ...
  • GroundWire News - January 27th Edition
    Idle No More, Fill the Gap, and Resistance to Plan Nord Produced at CFRU, in Guelph Ontario by Carly Forbes Headlines: Reyes family deported from Montreal back to Mexico. Mexicans United for Regularization say that Canada deports 7 Mexicans ...
  • Idle No More - Toronto Walk for Water
    On January 26th Idle No More supporters gathered for a Walk for Water to participate in a ceremony honouring the sacredness of our water.  Water carriers carried the water to the waterfront where a sacred fire was burning an ...
  • A Few Photos From the Sudbury Coalition Agains ...
    On Saturday, January 26, more than 25,000 people marched on the leadership convention of the Ontario Liberal Party to demand an end to the provincial government's austerity measures which, protesters say, amount to attacks on workers, poor people, and other ordinary Ontarians. The main march ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Is middle class renewal in any way based on ch ...
    David Seaton's News Links Fracking illustrated It seems to me that the challenge of rebuilding the American middle class: bringing back the jobs, ensuring good public education, health care and decent pensions is now to a great extent predicated on a very controversial "energy revolution": the l ...
  • The Israeli elections
    David Seaton's News Links“This is a government that will not be able to make decisions on anything — on the peace process, on equal sharing of the burden or on budgetary matters,” Emmanuel Rosen, a prominent television analyst, said early Wednesday on Channel 10. “The next elections are alrea ...
  • The Inauguration and the Speech
    David Seaton's News LinksI found Obama’s message encouraging, but then again the president always speaks/reads well.His speech was a direct attack on the Reagan revolution and made important social democratic points about solidarity and equality -- health and education -- being directly connecte ...
  • Lance Armstrong: price versus value
    David Seaton's News Links"Any given accumulation of commercial wealth may be indicative, on the one hand, of faithful industries, progressive energies, and productive ingenuities: or, on the other, it may be indicative of mortal luxury, merciless tyranny, ruinous chicanery." John Ruskin (8 Febru ...
  • Democracy in an age of "unhappy capitalism": s ...
    David Seaton's News Links They say that only the good die young.  In the short time he lived, it was given to Aaron Swartz to define the principal problem facing public life in the United States of America: If it was conventional wisdom that a bunch of unelected bankers looking out for rich ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Lead and Crime: Is Correlation Also Causation?
    A big chunk of the evidence linking gasoline lead emissions to violent crime rates is based on statistical analysis. This naturally leads to the criticism that correlation is not causation, so we don't really know if lead caused crime rates to go up and down. If you're curious to learn more ab ...
  • Am I the Only Person Left Who Hates Anti-Aliasing?
    I'm not trying to pick on the New Republic here, but I'm curious about something. They launched a redesigned website yesterday, and here's how the main text font renders on my PC: Why does it look so bad? Because I'm running Windows with ClearType turned off. Does anyone else do this, or am ...
  • Hooray! Newegg Defeats a Patent Troll.
    From Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng, on why they went to court over a patent on the "shopping cart" feature of their e-commerce site: We basically took a look at this situation and said, "This is bullshit." I'd say that this pithy comment is both legally and technically precise. A ...
  • Federal Spending Isn't Out of Control, But It' ...
    Bruce Bartlett argues that federal spending really isn't out of control: Getting back to the chart, we see that spending for every single government program going forward is remarkably stable as a percentage of GDP. Those who complain loudest about spending and deficits nearly always base ...
  • Goodbye Sarah, We'll Miss You. Sort of.
    Paul Waldman pens a bittersweet farewell to Sarah Palin, now that she'll no longer be appearing on Fox News: There are few political figures remotely as interesting as Palin, with her unmatched combination of crazy ideas, absolute confidence despite a level of understanding of public affai ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • New study shows stable fisher population in th ...
    After experiencing years of population decline on the West Coast, a recent study examining fisher populations found that -- at least in the southern Sierra Nevada -- the animal's numbers appear to be stable. read more
  • Climate change projected to alter Indiana bat ...
    Research by U.S. Forest Service scientists forecasts profound changes over the next 50 years in the summer range of the endangered Indiana bat. In an article published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, Forest Service Southern Research Station researchers Susan Loeb and Eric Winters discuss t ...
  • New research will help shed light on role of A ...
    Earth's forests perform a well-known service to the planet, absorbing a great deal of the carbon dioxide pollution emitted into the atmosphere from human activities. But when trees are killed by natural disturbances, such as fire, drought or wind, their decay also releases carbon back into the a ...
  • Study finds significant microorganism populati ...
    In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers used genomic techniques to document the presence of significant numbers of living microorganisms -- principally bacteria -- in the middle and upper troposphere, that section of the atmosphere approximately four to six miles above ...
  • Slow-release 'jelly' delivers drugs better
    Duke University biomedical engineers have developed a new delivery system that overcomes the shortcomings of a promising class of peptide drugs -- very small proteins -- for treating diseases such as diabetes and cancer. read more

unEarthed

  • Scope of Science: Climate in a New Era
    What your weatherman may not tell you about 2013 Crops shriveled to dust this summer while thermometers hit continuous triple digits in the Midwest and Southwest ...
  • Friday Finds: Fracking Lands In Hot Water In C ...
    Plus: Lead-poisoned parrots and climate change fairy dust The City of Bath. (Photo courtesy of Daz Smith, Flickr) Fracking may ruin spa time in UK’s his ...
  • Court Acts In Favor Of Cleaner Air
    Strikes EPA rule that allowed for more soot pollution Soot blackens the walls of a Pennsylvania residence neighboring a coal-fired power plant. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice) ...
  • Great News for Lungs
    Supreme Court refuses to review case that upheld limits to SO2 emissions The U.S. Supreme Court has kept the life-saving sulfur dioxide standard intact. (Mark Fischer) ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Bullying the Messenger, Burying t ...
    GOP sponsors press CRS to change its unfavorable report on coal ash bills Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) The Congressional Research Service, the non-partisan resea ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

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    Germany Plans to Cap Renewable Subsidies
    Wall Street Journal
    BERLIN—Moving to prevent a political backlash over the costs of shifting from nuclear power to alternative energy, a senior ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel announced plans to cap the rise in household electricity prices and force industry to pay a ...
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    Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners Named Top 25 Dividend Stock With 4.58 ...
    Forbes
    Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP (Toronto: BEP-UN) has been named as a Top 25 dividend stock, according the most recent Canada Stock Channel ”DividendRank” report. The report noted that among the coverage universe, BEP.UN shares ...
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    Arizona Resolutely Marches Backward on Renewable Energy
    KCET (blog)
    Not that that commitment was all that remarkable to begin with: Arizona's Renewable Energy Standard (REST) required that utilities derive 15 percent of their electrical power from renewable sources by the year 2025. Compare that to California's ...
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    DOD to quadruple renewable energy installations
    SmartPlanet.com (blog)
    The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest single consumer of energy in the world, gobbling up 3.8 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and 120 million barrels of oil per year. It's an expensive habit, costing the agency some $20 billion a year. So ...
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    Ecology seminar March 2 in Newtown Township
    phillyBurbs.com
    Greening up your property without breaking your household budget will be one of the main topics of a March 2 seminar in Newtown Township. The event, called Audubon Bird Town Backyard Stewardship Training, is 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the township ...
    Open source ecology explained
    Boing Boing
    Tristan sez, "Open Source Ecology founder Marcin Jakubowski and the OSE team explain the philosophy behind their work and the open source movement as a whole. We're always looking for remote collaborators to pick up and run with our designs.
    Owner of derelict barge Davy Crockett fined $405000 by Ecology for Columbia ...
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is fining Bret A. Simpson and his company Principle Metals LLC $405,000 for spilling oil and 40 days of ongoing environmental harm from continuing oil leaks to the Columbia River from the ...
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    Woodland Garden Club: Dabney Elementary students learn about ecology ...
    Henderson Daily Dispatch (registration)
    Jeannette Metzger, club member, presented the program “Ecology/Recycle and Litter Control.” She was assisted by club members in defining recycling: the collection and processing of materials that would be thrown away but can be turned into new products.
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    Water Power

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    Brisbane Faces Water Shortages as Floods Muddy Supplies
    Bloomberg
    The Mount Crosby Water Treatment Plant is off-line due to “record turbidity levels” in the Brisbane River following the passage of remnants of Tropical Cyclone Oswald, Seqwater Chief Executive Officer Terri Benson said today in a statement on the ...
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    Turkish Cypriot Republic to Open Tender for Water Works
    Bloomberg
    Turkey started construction three months ago on a pipeline under the Mediterranean Sea to supply fresh water to northern Cyprus. The 107-kilometer (67-mile) pipeline will run from Alakopru dam near Anamur on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey to a dam ...
    Snow Kansas City to Marquette, Water for the Mississippi
    AccuWeather.com
    Farther upstream, while the snow events may seem minor, the cumulative effect of the nickel-and-dime snow may be critical for water levels and agriculture come spring. While snowfall over the region as a whole has not been great, it is ahead of last ...
    Antarctic Drilling Team Nabs First Water Samples From Buried Lake Whillans ...
    Huffington Post
    On Monday, the team pulled mud and water from the lake floor, 2,625 feet (800 meters) below the surface of the ice, marking the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) mission a success, the researchers said on the project's ...
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