Tuesday, January 29, 2013

29 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • The one good thing the next government could a ...
    An end to the Greater-Israelization of the schools and universities – if Lapid’s party takes over the Education Ministry. After 45 years of occupation and no end in sight, it would be better for Israel to have a completely right-wing/ultra-Orthodox government than a right-wing/centri ...
  • New report details IDF crowd control measures ...
    Crowd control measures have killed 10 protesters since 2005. Meet ‘the skunk,’ the tear gas canister and the rubber-coated bullet – just some of the measures the IDF uses against civilian Palestinian protesters in the West Bank.  At least ten Palestinians have been killed by cr ...
  • Resource: Israel’s use of crowd control ...
    B’Tselem released a new report on the crowd control weapons used by the Israeli army. The report also details the relevant orders of the military and the Israel Police which regulate the use of these weapons, and which the security forces refuse to divulge. In addition it surveys the imple ...
  • Close your books! We’re having a pop quiz in H ...
    Israel’s Hasbara Ministry is starting early these days. ‘Yedioth Aharonoth’ profiles the 10-year-old children who are being trained to ‘make the case for Israel,’ and tests their new skills. Yedioth Aharonoth published today a story about two 10-year-olds from Sdero ...
  • Block by block, Egyptians fight their past for ...
    ‘For me, today is one of the days of the revolution,’ Egyptian poet Zain El-Abdeen Fouad says, describing the recent unrest as part of a process of a continuing social transformation. ‘The [revolt against Mubarak] sparked the revolution and it never ended. The revolution will c ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • NAKED CAPITALISM- The Fraudclosure Reviews- Fl ...
    The combination of the 2012 state/Federal and 2013 the OCC settlements putting band-aids on gangrene means that anyone who buys a house with a mortgage in America is taking a gamble that his servicer will abuse him.
  • Foreclosure Trials….The Settlements Are ...
    Over the last several years, most of my clients have come to my office sometime shortly after being served.  But all of that has changed in January 2013. Over the last several weeks, most of my new clients have been people who got served months or years ago, but areRead the Rest...
  • The Fraudclosure Settlments….GREAT DEALS ...
    The $8.5 billion foreclosure abuse settlement reached earlier this month with the mortgage industry was designed, bank regulators said, to speed quick relief to millions of homeowners. So far, however, it is the mortgage industry that successfully pushed for the deal that is likely feeling the m ...
  • IRS Announces Guidance on the Principal Reduct ...
    he Internal Revenue Service today announced guidance to borrowers, mortgage loan holders and loan servicers who are participating in the Principal Reduction AlternativeSM offered through the Department of the Treasury’s and Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Home Affordable Modificati ...
  • The Out of Control Federal Debt….CLEAR A ...
    The core function of the United States Government should be to protect citizens from danger….as you hear, they have failed completely….. LISTEN HERE FOR CHARLIE MCGRATH Scridb filter

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Kathleen Wynne’s Victory – Look Deeper
    Ontario has a new premier and her ascension is nothing if not groundbreaking – the first female and openly gay …Continue reading »
  • The Necessity of Politics
    I returned from south Sudan to some 4,000 emails. One was from a good friend welcoming me home. He said …Continue reading »
  • Knowing for the First Time
    It was T. S. Eliot who provided one of my favourite quotes of all time: We shall not cease from …Continue reading »
  • Humanity Paired
    Tomorrow the next chapter of the adventure begins. Our life with south Sudan was irrevocably joined together, not by choice …Continue reading »
  • Home, But Not Alone
    On Saturday we leave for our big excursion to the Republic of South Sudan.  We take a team of 16 …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
  • Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
    by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: Horsemeat, Transgenic S ...
    The discovery of horse DNA in supermarket beef products in the UK created quite a stir. But it’s not just horsemeat, offensive enough to horse lovers, there may be pig meat in the beef as well—I can’t imagine British Muslims are taking this news lightly. Food safety issues are being investigated ...
  • If You Grow It, They Will Taste It
    A faith garden is what you might expect: a plot of land, a lot of mulch, some herbs, some tomatoes, a ton of squash. But it’s also food woven into tradition, a commitment to feeding those who are less fortunate, and a plan to help children connect with the Earth.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Climate Change, Cabinet ...
    With Lisa Jackson’s departure from the EPA, announced at the turn of the year, and now Salazar's from the Interior, President Obama has some serious recruiting to do. We hope the replacements for both agencies will bear similar profiles in courage.
  • The Year of Ethical Eating
    You may be surprised by which restaurants do not provide paid sick days. Hint: Five Guy Burgers and Fries, Maggiano’s Little Italy, McCormick & Schmicks, Morton’s & Ruth’s Chris Steak Houses, and Starbucks.
  • Now, Not Later – We Need to Talk about the Far ...
    The farm bill extension that passed was written behind closed doors and serves a few powerful interests -- not the interests of the average citizen, public health, and the environment. We should be outraged.

k2p blog

  • Beatrix retires (abdicates) but Elizabeth dare not
    Queen Beatrix is to abdicate in favour of her eldest son, Prince Willem-Alexander on 30th April but Queen Elizabeth probably does not dare to abdicate in favour of Charles who will be 65 this year.
  • Australia rejects carbon credits for killing c ...
    In Australia killing camels for carbon credits is perfectly acceptable provided only that the emissions reduction by the curbing of their flatulence can be properly assessed.
  • Australia rejects carbon credits for killing c ...
    In Australia killing camels for carbon credits is perfectly acceptable provided only that the emissions reduction by the curbing of their flatulence can be properly assessed.
  • Japanese demographics are alarming as Finance ...
    Japan's demographic problems has led to an outburst from the new Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Taro Aso, when he exhorted the elderly to "Hurry up and Die". But before the demographic challenge can be addressed it has to be acknowledged and maybe Aso's outburst - unpleasant as it i ...
  • Japanese demographics are alarming as Finance ...
    Japan's demographic problems has led to an outburst from the new Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Taro Aso, when he exhorted the elderly to "Hurry up and Die". But before the demographic challenge can be addressed it has to be acknowledged and maybe Aso's outburst - unpleasant as it i ...

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Consumerist

  • Report Rips Treasury Dept. For Giving Out Rais ...
    Today, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program released her report on 2012 compensation for executives at institutions that received TARP bail-out money, and well… the title — Treasury Continues Approving Excessive Pay for Top Executives at Bailed-Out Comp ...
  • Twitter’s Vine Video App Isn’t Eve ...
    It’s just a baby app, but already Twitter’s video-sharing service Vine is coming under fire for having a bit of a hardcore pornography problem. Vine launched last Thursday, touting the ability to allow iPhone and iPod Touch users to take six second videos and then share them with oth ...
  • More Nexus 4 Phones Plummet To The Ground, Sma ...
    Google is always innovating. They’ve brought us the beginnings of a consumer fiber network, smart glasses, driverless cars, and even bringing donkeys back to life. One little-known Google project is the Nexus 4 smartphone, which is unlocked, shiny, and comes with its own field of gravity t ...
  • How Do Different Credit & Debit Cards Stack Up ...
    We’ve mentioned any number of times how federal laws offer more protection to consumers who make purchases with credit cards because $50 is the most you can be held responsible for a fraudulent purchase, while the sky could be the limit with debit cards. But how do the various networks com ...
  • Consumer Group: The Rich May Pay Less For Car ...
    Driving safely and avoiding accidents isn’t just common sense — injuries hurt, car wrecks are bad — but also a way to make sure drivers keep their auto insurance premiums down. But according to figures released by a consumer group recently, insurance companies are in the habit of charging ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GM of Inter-American Investment Corporation Fa ...
    The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), the private sector lending arm of the multilateral Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), continues to display its contempt for the U.S. justice system, despite the fact that the United States government is the IIC's largest single donor. Jacques ...
  • Food Safety and Climate Science Whistleblowers ...
    GAP President Louis Clark with whistleblowers Kenneth Kendrick and Rick PiltzEarlier this month, GAP's American Whistleblower Tour visited Franklin & Marshall College (F&M), a small liberal arts school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This third stop of our 2012-13 collegiate tour brought pro ...
  • CIA Whistleblower/GAP Client Sentenced to 30 M ...
    Post-Gazette: Former CIA Agent Who Outed Fellow Agent Sentenced to 30 Months CIA/Torture whistleblower and GAP client John Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Friday for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Kiriakou and his advocates, like GAP, stress the ...
  • Business Roundtable's High-Handed Cybersecurit ...
    This month, the Business Roundtable (BRT) posted an alarming proposal: "More Intelligent, More Efficient, Cybersecurity Protection." The BRT is an association of the CEOs of the largest U.S. corporations. Its members represent companies that collect combined annual revenues of over $7.3 trillion ...
  • Urging Rewards for Bank Whistleblowers in the ...
    Financial Times: Rewards for Bank Whistleblowers Urged A senior regulator and supervisor of US national banks advised the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards in the United Kingdom to consider adopting a system similar to that of the US to protect individuals who identify wrongdoing in ...

UK Progressive

  • India Embraces Climate Change
    by Robert Hunziker “The Himalayan glaciers are receding, agricultural yields are stagnating, dry days have increased, and patterns of monsoon have become unpredictable. India is increasingly seeing the effects of climate change.” (Jairam Ramesh, Former Minister of Environment & Forest, Gover ...
  • Manti Te’o, Texas v Roe and GOP Dysfunction
    This is The Monday Line By Denis G. Campbell In a week where the biggest news should have been the historic re-inauguration of an African American President to a second term in the USA, we instead had ludicrous stories about an American College football player allegedly duped by a huckster prete ...
  • Hillary Turns Texas Blue
    by Brent Budowsky The Lone Star State is headed blue — the only question is WHEN Texas becomes a Democratic state. If Hillary Clinton runs for president, she will have a fighting chance of carrying Texas, which shares revolutionary demographic trends rewriting the rules of politics, and of creat ...
  • Judge Gives American 35 Years for Plotting Dea ...
    by Sebastian Rotella ProPublica, CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday imposed a 35-year prison sentence on David Coleman Headley for his role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans, and for a foiled plot in Denmark. Headley, a 52-year-old ...
  • The GOP Crackup: How Obama is Unraveling Reaga ...
      by Robert Reich   Soon after President Obama’s second inaugural address, John Boehner said the White House would try “to annihilate the Republican Party” and “shove us into the dustbin of history.” Actually, the GOP is doing a pretty good job annihilating itself. As Louisiana Governo ...

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JoNova

  • Eight reasons the Australian heatwave is not & ...
    Eight  reasons why this current heatwave is a boring, overhyped example of weather being used for political purposes. 1. It’s the long term trends that matter — not a few weeks of hot weather As climate scientists keep telling us (except when they have a heatwave to milk), ”wea ...
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  • James Lovelock partly recants
    Call me fussy. James Lovelock — the GAIA man himself — is calling it as he sees it, and good on him. Bravo. I’m just a little underwhelmed with the reasoning. Hat tip to Bishop Hill, Phillip Bratby and Barry Woods. Some things are spectacular: I am an environmentalist and found ...
  • Each electric car could add costs of $2000 per ...
    What was that Ms Gillard said about not wanting to “gold plate” our electricity networks? The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) released a warning in December that electric cars will cost a lot more than just the purchase price and the electricity: Electric vehicles in parti ...
  • Monckton returns to Australia, book now… :-)
    He’s dangerous. During his last Australian tour he debated at the National Press Club, and a phenomenal 9% of the polled audience changed their mind in an hour. Fifty university academics (including Lewandowsky) tried to get Monckton banned from speaking at a university. Activists were so ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

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

Facing South

  • 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

One News Page

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

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Oriental Review

  • Portraying Fathers of the Syrian Revolution
    During the whole of the “Arab Spring” and the Syrian war in particular, the Arab press has kept the actions of the emir of Qatar, Saudi Arabia’s royal family and the leader’s of Israel and Turkey in their crosshairs. When confronted with the published facts, it is possibl ...
  • The Arab Winter And Revolutionary Illusionists
    One question is driving us in the face of the Arab revolts: how to assess it? The answer requires a sober view of the events. Let’s start with Syria. Nearly two years ago an opposition movement has been formed, which was run over by history in a very short time. Different internal and exte ...
  • Aleppo: the Final Test
    The winter examination period had begun at the University of Aleppo and 15 January was its first day. Many of the young men and women set off for their exams with the same well-known and completely understandable mixed feelings of nervousness, but also hope that they would pass the intellectual ...
  • Syria and International Criminal Court
    New Phase of Military and Diplomatic Stand-Off The situation in Syria is evolving according to the most unfavorable scenario. The opposition has met the President Bashar Assad’s proposals for peaceful resolution of the crisis with Aleppo University bomb attacks. Another diplomatic provocation is ...
  • Eurasian Union: Flawed Assertions
    I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. The Eurasian Union has been in the news but somewhat quiet for a long time. Any attempt for Russia (or any country) to raise itself from subjugation in a world ruled by a single “hyper power” is sin to people like US Secretary of State Hillary [...]

BlogHer

  • Women, Pregnancy, and "Downton Abbey": Has Any ...
    I didn’t watch "Downton Abbey" last night, but when I saw this post I couldn’t help myself. I read it. And now I am utterly inconsolable and bereft. Where is a linen handkerchief when you need one? (Spoiler alert: If you didn’t watch the episode and don’t want to know what happened, stop readi ...
  • Creating a Community Garden from Scratch
     Creating a community garden from scratch is not for the faint of heart.  That being said, if you have a strong desire to create community and love gardening this can truly be the work of the heart.  By working together to create something tangible you will form lasting friendship ...
  • Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard Speaks on ...
    Immigration is top of mind in Washington, with the Senate “gang of eight” announcing their plan for immigration reform Monday morning. The bipartisan committee, led by Charles Schumer (D-NY) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) unveiled their plan to overhaul immigration policy by emphasizing legal pathway ...
  • An Accidental Purchase of Mom Jeans
    I've been trying to find a new pair of jeans for awhile now. It's been frustrating, time-sucking and rather expensive. I am glad I read this post by Carrie Elle, however, as I was almost tempted this past weekend to pick up a pair of jeans at our local big-box membership store. Apparently they h ...
  • What's Your Perfect Moment from January?
    Perfect Moment Monday, a bloghop that began in 2008, is about noticing a perfect moment rather than creating one. On the last Monday of each month we engage in mindfulness about something that is right with our world. Everyone is welcome to join. To participate in Perfect Moment Monday:Write up ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Pr ...
    A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obesity  An ...
  • Kiwi Orange Coconut Flu Busting Smoothie
    There’s little that tastes better than a fresh fruit smoothie in the morning. They do wonders for the immune system and if you pack them with the right ingredients, they can supercharge your ability to not ... Related posts:Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection Acco ...
  • Regular Aspirin Use Linked to Increased Risk o ...
    Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obe ...
  • Cleaning products ‘linked to adult asthm ...
    People who work with cleaning products risk developing asthma, believe UK experts who have explored the link. Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one ... Related posts:Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Earl ...
  • Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
    Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Jan. 25, 2013
    Representatives of Cloud Peak Energy and Montana’s Crow Tribe sign an agreement Thursday Jan. 24, 2013, that gives the mining company leasing options on 1.4 billion tons of coal beneath the Crow Indian Reservation, in Billings, Mont. Pictured from left are Cloud Peak legal counsel Amy Stef ...
  • W.Va. PSC response to superstorms: ‘Noth ...
    West Virginia’s Public Service Commission has issued a ruling in its big investigation of power outages during last year’s “derecho” storm, and the outcome is fairly predictable. As reported in today’s Gazette: The state Public Service Commission on Wednesday ordere ...
  • Coal priorities: Rockefeller, Manchin offer c ...
     Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., announces his plans to not seek re-election for a sixth term, in Charleston, W.Va. Friday Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Tyler Evert) It’s the time of year when federal and state political leaders make big announcements about their legislative agendas for the comin ...
  • Activists take their message to Arch Coal HQ
    The Gazette’s Dr. Paul Nyden had the story this morning about seven anti-mountaintop removal activists who took their protest against the practice to Arch Coal’s corporate headquarters in St. Louis: Seven people, including at least one West Virginian, locked themselves to a 500-pound ...
  • What will Obama’s 2nd term bring for coa ...
    President Barack Obama receives the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts as first lady Michelle Obama (L-R) and his daughters Malia and Sasha listen at the ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Pho ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Success of Introverts vs. Extroverts &#124 ...
    When social scientists have examined the relationship between extroverted personalities and sales success — that is, how often the cash register rings — they’ve found the link to be, at best, flimsy. For instance, one of the most comprehensive investigations, a meta-analysis of 35 studies of nea ...
  • Women and Makeup | The Last Psychiatrist
    In this case, you are seeing a shift of power be repackaged as a gender battle.  And it’s quite apparent that power is a generation or so ahead of you, so in 1990 a 40 year old who grew up around successful lawyers then says to his 5 year old, “daughter, you should become a lawy ...
  • A Review of Zero Dark Thirty by Steven Harms
    I believe in years to come, “Zero Dark Thirty” will be held in reverence with other great war movies like “Das Boot,” “The Battle of Algiers,” and “Saving Private Ryan.” All of these movies, while ostensibly about a battle or campaign were actually about something deeper: the human condition ...
  • The Difference Between Pursuing Happiness and ...
    This is a brilliant piece about the difference between happiness and meaning, or, more specifically, the difference between pursuing a happy life vs. pursuing a meaningful life. I suggest you read the entire thing, but here are some choice pieces of it. Examining their self-reported attit ...
  • LIfe, Friendship, and Ambition
    They say you are a composite of your closest friends, and given my ambition I often grapple with a balance between seeking to surround myself with those with similar goals and those who I’ve been close with for many decades. On one side I have a clear path to significant improvement through a ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Celebrating Tim McVey Day (No not that one) an ...
    by Ken Gage,WWH/CJE – Saturday night, Marie and I headed out to 1234 E. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, Illinois. That’s the address of Star Worlds Arcade, one of the very few video game arcades from the 1980s still in business and still going strong today in the United States. (This arcade was ...
  • White Power to the Rescue
    By Chris Hedges,opednews.com - 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 has in this case since no written do ...
  • Who’s Faking It? Pentagon “Cyber-Warriors” Pla ...
    By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich,globalresearch.ca - On November 22, 2012, the Los Angeles Times published an alarming piece of news entitled “Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age”. The “cyber-warriors” who are headed for organizations such as the CIA, NSC, FBI, the Pentagon and so on, ...
  • It’s One Of THOSE Mondays
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yeppers, it’s one of those Mondays when fifteen minutes into my morning and I already know it’s going to be a long ugly one. First off, it’s grey with freezing rain and snow already on the ground. On winter mornings like this I hesitate to open up my morning ...
  • CJE Monday News Briefs
    Israel uses deadly weapons on unarmed Palestinian protesters WS – US Tax Dollars At Work. - The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity “committed in the contex ...

reference frame

  • A visit to Crumlaw
    Fun paper: More than 12 years after the LEP collider was closed (now the LHC sits in the same tunnel), the collaborations publish a paper on the search for charged Higgses. That's quite a delay! ;-) On Sunday, I gave an interactive blackboard physics talk in Český Krumlov, an architectonic and ...
  • A theory of everything is an important researc ...
    Richard Feynman stressed that we shouldn't make preconditions about how our future description of Nature is going to look like: Lisa Randall, a top phenomenologist whom I know very well, gave an interview to Nude Socialist in which she says that it's an illusion that physics is mostly ...
  • Klaus' successor: Miloš Zeman elected Czech pr ...
    I have "more positive than negative" opinions about both candidates but I voted for Miloš Zeman (*1944, see a sensible story in NYT) in both rounds of the first direct presidential elections because he seemed like a decent enough successor to Klaus to me – and I am not claiming that Zeman is qui ...
  • Weinberg's evolving views on quantum mechanics
    Cool anniversary: CERN discovered the W-boson (UA1 experiment) exactly 30 years ago, two months after their first W candidate; there was a press conference. Via Joseph S. Lectures on Quantum Mechanics by one of the world's most achieved living physicists may be grabbed from the bookshelves; cl ...
  • HEP: the bias favors women
    In the Time Magazine, when Jeffrey Kluger wrote about Ms Fabiola Gianotti, the spokesman of ATLAS at the LHC, as the runner-up for their "Person of the Year", he wrote, among other things: Physics is a male-dominated field, and the assumption is that a woman has to overcome hurdles and face do ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Police Chief: Within A Generation, Guns Will B ...
    by Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr., CNS News: San Diego Police Chief, William Lansdowne said in an interview that the implementation of new gun laws will take guns off the streets of America within a generation. According to San Diego 6, Lansdowne said that it may take a generation but guns will ...
  • Black cumin: The secret miracle heal-all remedy
    What if we told you there was a seed so densely packed with healing compounds that cancer, bacteria, viruses, ulcers, diabetes, chronic inflammation, and many other common health conditions hardly stand a chance in its presence? Not to be confused with black sesame seed… NaturalNews.com ...
  • Past & Future Speculative Bubbles – What They ...
    from Deviant Investor: This is not a prediction of future prices of gold and silver; it is an indication of what could happen in a speculative bubble environment based on the history of previous bubbles. I’ll summarize a simple analysis of past bubbles. Definitions: Bubble: A speculative mania i ...
  • Public Lecture—Deep Secrets of the Neutrino: P ...
    Lecture Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Among the many beautiful, unexpected and sometimes revolutionary discoveries to emerge from subatomic physics, probably none is more bizarre than an elementary particle known as the “neutrino”. More than a trillion of these microscopic phantoms ...
  • Canadian special forces on ground in Mali, sou ...
    As International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino heads to Africa for talks on the fighting in Mali, CBC News has learned Canadian special forces are inside the West African nation to protect Canadian assets there. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Canadian C-17 joins allied eff ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Ship tunnel plan sails forward
    Plans for a huge tunnel for ships at Norway’s stormy West Cape might finally be given the go-ahead this spring. It would be the first such tunnel in the world and could become a major tourist attraction, but critics blast the project as being a fantasy without social merit. If approved, re ...
  • Royal Palace to get new gravel
    After years of seeing rains wash away the gravel around the grounds of Norway’s Royal Palace, state officials are allotting NOK 70 million to replace it all with a new, more permanent type of gravelly ground cover. The palace grounds are supposed to get their facelift in time for bicentenn ...
  • Family reports Bhatti missing
    The family of Arfan Bhatti, who had a long record of criminal convictions in Norway before he became a radical Islamist and traveled to the Middle East last fall, has reported him missing after not hearing from him since January 7. Another Norwegian jihadist is missing as well, and three who tra ...
  • Four hostages confirmed dead
    UPDATED: Four of the five missing employees of Norwegian state oil company Statoil who were among those taken hostage in Algeria on January 16 are now confirmed to have been killed. One of their colleagues still has not been found and is feared dead as well. Statoil had announced Friday evening ...
  • Warmer winter weather turned fatal
    After an extended period of bitterly cold temperatures, thermometers rose especially in southern Norway over the weekend. Fresh snow that turned to rain in some areas, however, led to slippery roads and extremely hazardous driving conditions from north to south. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) repo ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Helping Small Farmers Help Themselves, on Rusi ...
    Fishing boats on Rasinga Island, Kenya I was invited by PRI Kenya to teach a special PDC course in December 2012, tailored to small rural farmers — 50% women, 50% men — on Rusinga Island, Kenya. The entire course was taught in English and Luo, the native language on Rusinga. One ...
  • Helping Small Farmers Help Themselves, on Rasi ...
    Fishing boats on Rasinga Island, Kenya I was invited by PRI Kenya to teach a special PDC course in December 2012, tailored to small rural farmers — 50% women, 50% men — on Rusinga Island, Kenya. The entire course was taught in English and Luo, the native language on Rusinga. One ...
  • Hazardous Virus Gene Discovered in GM Crops af ...
    ISIS has warned against the CaMV 35S promoter and called for all affected GM crops to be withdrawn since 1999 while damning evidence on its safety continues to emerge by Dr Mae-Wan Ho How to bury a bombshell Cauliflower Mosaic Virus A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientist h ...
  • Crystel Vultier: From PDC Student to Local Foo ...
    by Rob Avis Crystel Vultier is a true local food purveyor for her home town of Canmore, AB. Over the past several years she has been instrumental in creating the Canmore Community Garden which now provides plots for over 100 gardeners in the city and area. She has also created a project cal ...
  • The Biggest Climate Rally in U.S. History
    Editor’s Note: Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has just said that the entire country of Australia is being "challenged by nature". I think it’s a sad way of looking at what we’re facing — it’s as if we’re the innocent victims. Rather, ...

Pointman's

  • A Tale of Two Davids.
    I’m a people person, who likes talking with people, because each one is a new voyage of discovery. When it comes to media people, the one-way direction of the relationship is a bit too passive for my taste. They talk at me and I listen to them talking and although I take in the words  ...
  • On climate science and all those leaks.
    Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of substantial leaks of sensitive material from deep within the very heart of climate science. In each case, it’s been fairly obvious that the person doing it works in the field and is relatively senior, if only because they have access to ...
  • The shape of things to come; Snailbats, HALsay ...
    Environmental alarmism is by now a well established phenomenon with nearly a four decade long history. In that time, we’ve been on the receiving end of doomsday predictions as diverse as holes in the ozone layer, overpopulation, resource wars, acid rain, a new ice age and the most successf ...
  • Another whopping leak from the IPCC.
    A substantial second leak, already nicknamed the Secret Santa leak, of further portions of the forthcoming IPCC AR5 has just occurred. There was a smaller leak of material last year, which was owned up to by the person who did it on their blog. While everyone is no doubt considering how on Earth ...
  • Credo.
    It seems to be a human need that we all have to have some sort of belief in a higher thing. Every culture that’s ever been, had some sort of belief system. I think it’s an unavoidable side effect of our unique consciousness. The people I’ve met, who ended up believing in absolu ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Idle No More Comes to the Gulf Coast, By Cherr ...
    Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Last Sunday, January 20, I had the pleasure of seeing a short-term dream materialize, when over 100 folks traveled from every Gulf state to attend a gathering organized by Idle No More – Gulf Coast, of which I am proudly a part. Idle No More is the ...
  • How NOT to be a Gentrifier With Your Theater: ...
    New Orleans has seen a recent theatre resurgence. Below is a critical perspective on this wave of new theatre from educator and writer Catherine Michna, reprinted from her local blog catherinemichna.wordpress.com. I spent this past weekend at the Network of Ensemble Theater’s MicroFest in New O ...
  • Women With A Vision, Recovering From Arson, Pu ...
    Women With A Vision, a community-based non-profit founded by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color, has just made a downpayment on a building in Midcity New Orleans. The Vision House will enable the organization to co ...
  • Turning Problems Into Parades, By Nick Slie
    This weekend is MicroFest USA: New Orleans: RENEW. The event is a celebration of the renaissance that has taken place in New Orleans' performance and social justice fields since Hurricane Katrina.  Part festival, part think-tank, part community tour, and part dance party, the all-local prog ...
  • This is Not Theoretical: Reflecting on a Recen ...
    Reposted from our friends at The Oyster Knife. This piece was written after guest contributor Nicky Gillies participated in the NOLA to Angola bike ride, a fundraiser for the Cornerstone Builders’ Bus Project, which helps people in Louisiana travel to visit their incarcerated loved ones.  ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    FrankDialogue wrote: Amanda wrote and memory hole added: An Inquisitive Couple’s Visit to Newtown, Connecticut http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/01/28/an ... #more-2220 Like I state earlier, we need 'boots on the ground' up there...Problem is, if you ask the wrong questions, or talk to the wro ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRVh_gEg7wStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:31 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    In Furor Over Cartoon, Murdoch Apologizes for ‘Grotesque’ Drawing By ALAN COWELL Published: January 29, 2013 LONDON — Rupert Murdoch, the media tycoon whose British newspaper outpost has been mired in a phone hacking scandal, took the unusual step of apologizing personally for a cartoon printed ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    for holohoax day and all Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:23 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Interesting torrent on CC http://concen.org/tracker/download.php? ... p4.torrent Description: Take a look, and have a listen, decide for yourselves. Is this Robbie Parker? One minute Video worth watching for anyone following the sandy hook psy-op yellow brick road which apparently leads from A ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Major Cities Alter Weather Across Long Distanc ...
    Heat generated in major metropolitan areas is altering the character of the jet stream and other atmospheric systems, at times affecting the weather thousands of miles away, a new study says. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, a team of scientists reports that so-called “waste heat” ...
  • Boom in Mining Rare Earths Poses Mounting Toxi ...
    The mining of rare earth metals, used in everything from smart phones to wind turbines, has long been dominated by China. But as mining of these key elements spreads to countries like Malaysia and Brazil, scientists warn of the dangers of the toxic and radioactive waste generated by the mines an ...
  • German Plant to Produce Methane Using Surplus ...
    Audi is building a plant in Germany that will use surplus power produced from renewable sources, such as wind energy generated when demand is low, to produce methane from water and carbon dioxide. The plant, which will use technology developed by Stuttgart-based SolarFuel, reportedly will produc ...
  • Solid Electrolyte Could Lead to Larger, Safer ...
    U.S. researchers have developed a high-performance, solid electrolyte for use in energy-dense lithium ion batteries that they say is safer than existing liquid electrolytes and could lead to batteries that are five to 10 times more powerful than existing batteries. While lithium-ion batteries ty ...
  • To Tackle Runoff, Cities Turn to Green Initiat ...
    Urban stormwater runoff is a serious problem, overloading sewage treatment plants and polluting waterways. Now, various U.S. cities are creating innovative green infrastructure — such as rain gardens and roadside plantings — that mimics the way nature collects and cleanses water. BY DAVE LEVITAN

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • A Tale of Two Telecoms or Actions Speak Louder ...
    Where does the Saskatchewan government stand on the privatization of provincial Crown corporations? You’d be hard pressed to come up with a definitive answer after the government’s partial privatization of Information Services Corporation (ISC), the introduction of new private liquor ...
  • Our Way or the Norway
    One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces. Norway has been very effective in distributing oil wealth amongst it regions and its population. Its level of income inequ ...
  • Seeing inequality through rose-coloured classes
    Amidst the reluctant media coverage of Idle No More exists a particularly irritating contradiction that centres on how wealth and inequality are examined. The Occupy movement was roundly criticized by the elite’s media handmaids for going after the 1%. “Why are you punishing ingenuity and hard w ...
  • The dubious case for casinos
    I got way off my usual research agenda this morning for a business panel on CBC radio. The topic was the economics of casinos, the result of the City of Surrey voting down a new casino proposal. I have often disparagingly compared stock markets to casinos, but in fact I knew relatively little ab ...
  • Yukon’s court ruling on free-entry mining coul ...
    On 27 December, this past year, the appeals court of the Yukon Territory gave an important ruling regarding the rights of First Nations in relation to Yukon’s free-entry mining policy. The plaintiff in the case, the Ross River Dena Council tribe, considers that Yukon’s government cannot allow qu ...

ReDress

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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    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 ...

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Peakwater

  • Battle for the Mekong takes new turn
    “Laos reached an agreement with downstream countries Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand more than a year ago to suspend construction of the US$3.5-billion (Bt113 billion) dam while independent studies were made on fish migration patterns and the possible threat posed by the dam to food securit ...
  • More Threats From Fracking: Radioactive Waste
    “Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection announced Thursday it was embarking on a year-long study of radioactivity in by-products from oil and natural gas development. But findings and any action from the study may come too late for people like Portage, Pennsylvania res ...
  • A Raging River
    “As the Brazil government pursues its reckless plans to build mega-dams on major Amazonian rivers like the Xingu and Madeira, we can expect to see their catastrophic social and environmental consequences continue to befall local communities. This article highlights how the construction of ...
  • Plying the Water-Energy Nexus
    Plying the Water-Energy Nexus by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbright. Growing up the in the Ame ...
  • Ban lifted on controversial Nu River dam projects
    “Beijing has decided to reopen controversial plans to dam the Nu River in Yunnan province – eight years after Premier Wen Jiabao suspended the plans out of environmental concerns. The decision was mentioned in a 2011-15 energy-sector blueprint that was released by the State Council l ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • … Suggest we just follow the $$$ see whe ...
    … Suggest we just follow the $$$ see where it leads$ … Catholic Schools in Iowa working with Dept. of Homeland Security 01-28-2013  •  libertyfight.com  Why would a federal government which continuously refers to pro-lifers as terrorists be invited into private parochial schools by C ...
  • … YUP … AMA … CDC .. “big-ph ...
    … YUP … AMA … CDC .. “big-pharma” have your back … ‘Vaccine court’ awards millions to two autistic children damaged by vaccines 01-28-2013  •  naturalnews.com As reported by the Huffington Post, two more children who developed autism following routine vaccinat ...
  • … How in the hell did they miss that …
    … How in the hell did they miss that … ABC, CBS, NBC Admit No Assault Rifle Used at Sandy Hook 01-28-2013  •  Prison Planet   ABC, CBS and NBC positively reported that the Bushmaster rifle was in the car and not used at Sandy Hook.  Filed under: Blogroll
  • Football appears to have become modern day equ ...
    … Football appears to have become modern day equivalent to Christians vs. Lions …   Obama Executive Order to ban full-contact college football due to head injury concerns! 01-27-2013  •  The Political Commentator  Barack Obama has expressed concern over the real possibility that coll ...
  • CONNECTING THE DOTS
    … So does it follow those who voted for the other guy voted for more FREE stuff for corporation$ …   CONNECTING THE DOTS Everyone who voted for Obama voted for more free stuff Frosty Wooldridge  … Churchill said, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, an ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • White Island activity still 'vigorous'
    White Island has been spewing mud and rock several tens of metres into the air in the past few days, as GNS Science warns of a greater risk to visitors.Scientists monitoring the island volcano in the Bay of Plenty say the crater...
  • Bee plight could have massive impact on econom ...
    The plight of bees could have a massive impact on the New Zealand economy, a University of Canterbury ecologist says.Ecology professor Jason Tylianakis said New Zealand exports 80 per cent of its food production, and crops such...
  • Tech Universe: Tuesday 29 January
    POLES APART: There's an actual pole at the South Pole, but it's replaced every year because it keeps shifting. The ice below the Geographic South Pole mov
  • CERN chief firmer on 'God particle'
    The world should know with certainty by the middle of this year whether a subatomic particle discovered by scientists is a long-sought Higgs boson, the head of the world's largest atom smasher said.Rolf Heuer, director of the European...
  • Dung beetles navigate by the stars - research
    Oscar Wilde's famous quote "we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars" could not be more true of the humble dung beetle.South African and Swedish scientists have discovered the insects use the Milky Way for...

The Bovine

  • Britain’s FSA goes after farmer and stor ...
    From Louise Gray in The Telegraph UK:  “Selfridges is being taken to court for putting public health at risk by selling fashionable ‘raw’ milk at its flagship London store, the government’s food watchdog has announced. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) … Continue read ...
  • Why can’t we test GMOs for health impact ...
    Jokes abound about software end user licence agreements, which, by and large, nobody reads, although to install the product, you do usually have to click on the box that says you have read it and agree to its terms. Well … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt in court yesterday in Cobourg ...
    Yesterday, Michael Schmidt appeared in court in Cobourg to face criminal charges related to the disappearance of Montana Jones’ flock of heritage Shropshire sheep which the CFIA had placed under quarantine and were planning to slaughter for testing. Montana Jones … Continue reading & ...
  • The final solution…. Morningside Dairy s ...
    From Doreen Hannes, via Morningside Dairy’s Uncheese Party blog: “On August 26th, 2010 the destruction of Morningland Dairy began. Having lost a two and half year battle with cancer of the State, the interment will take place on January 25th, … Continue reading →
  • America is becoming a land without farmers, sa ...
    From Evaggelos Vallianatos at Independent Science News: The plutocratic remaking of America has a parallel in the countryside. In rural America less than 3 percent of farmers make more than 63 percent of the money, including government subsidies. The results … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • "We Are Going To Kill The Dollar" Says Obama S ...
    Infowars posted an interesting clip of a Kyle Bass interview regarding the fate of the US dollar. Let's take a look at the video. Here's the article reference: Senior Obama Official: “We Are Going To Kill The Dollar”. Kyle Bass ... "How do you solve a problem when you are ru ...
  • Hard Times: Dijon France Sells Prized Wine Col ...
    Fresh on the heels of France's labour minister stating "France is a Totally Bankrupt State" comes news the city of Dijon needs to sell its prized wine collection to help those "appealing for social aid." Please consider L’austérité à la française: city sells prized wines. The city of Dij ...
  • France "Totally Bankrupt" Says Labour Minister ...
    Sometimes the truth comes from the strangest of places (like ranking government officials). I must say it's refreshing to see a bit of honesty, even if it is immediately denied elsewhere. Please consider France 'totally bankrupt', says labour minister Michel Sapin. France's labour mi ...
  • Iceland Wins! "Icesave" Lawsuit Dismissed, Cou ...
    Iceland is in an economic recovery thanks to its decision to not bailout banks at taxpayer expense during the great financial collapse. Iceland's decision upset the UK and Netherlands. Both countries foolishly decided to reimburse its depositors, then sue Iceland to pay. The story goes bac ...
  • Australia Roundup: Hundreds of Restaurants Clo ...
    It's time once again to take a look at happenings down under. Restaurants are closing en masse rather than pay double time and a half to stay open on holidays. Please consider Penalties blamed for taking high-end dining off menu. The annual survey of the 7500- member Restaurant and Cater ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Coast Guard: Damaged Barge Still Leaking Oil I ...
    NEW ORLEANS – A unified command continues to respond to a crude oil spill in the lower Mississippi River near mile marker 434 in Vicksburg, Miss., the U.S. Coast Guard [...]
  • USMMA Gets New Deputy Superintendent
    KINGS POINT, N.Y., January 25, 2013 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy welcomed its new Deputy Superintendent during a Town Hall meeting that was held at Ackerman Auditorium today. [...]
  • TOTE Returns to NASSCO in New LNG-Conversion P ...
    General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego said Monday that it has finalized a contract with Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) to design the conversion of the company’s two existing [...]
  • DSME 2012 Net Profit Plunges
    By Kyong-Ae Choi SEOUL–Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.’s (042660.SE) net profit in 2012 plunged 82%, primarily reflecting the decision it made in 2009 to book orders for ships at [...]
  • Seadrill’s West Pegasus Sets Deepwater Drillin ...
    Lee Freeman, Captain of Seadrill’s record-breaking rig West Pegasus provides us with the following update via satellite. On 28 January 2011, the first crew members arrived at Jurong shipyard in [...]

Press TV

  • Iran to produce jet fuel soon
    Iran is close to becoming self-sufficient in producing jet fuel with the renovation of Abadan Oil Refinery, the oldest crude oil treatment facility in the Middle East.
  • ‘Greater Mideast, plot to save Zionists’
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Greater Middle East is a scheme hatched by the West in order to save the Zionists.
  • Gaza teen wounded by Israeli gunfire
    Israeli forces have shot and wounded a Palestinian teenager in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, in yet another violation of a 2012 truce agreement.
  • Belgian steelworkers clash with police
    Thousands of Belgian steelworkers rally against the closure of an ArcelorMittal factory in the capital of Liege as police fire water cannons to disperse the protesters.
  • Iran to attend Kuwait forum on Syria
    A high-ranking Iranian delegation led by a deputy foreign minister will attend the ‘International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria’ in Kuwait.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Robotic router
    Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
  • Flexible batteries
    One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
  • Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
    Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
  • Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
    A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
  • Nanoparticles poison soil
    Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

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  • Egypt Faces ‘Mubarak-Like’ Morsi
    Concerns are mounting over Egypt’s future after the outbreaks of violence that marked the second anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution. Massive anti-government rallies led to ongoing clashes between protesters and security forces that have left at least 40 people dead. Cities along ...
  • African Union Unable to Bring Peace to Warring ...
    The African Union summit failed to provide a breakthrough in the ongoing negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan when it ended on Monday Jan. 28. President Salva Kirr of South Sudan and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir met on the sidelines of the summit, which was held in Addis Ababa from Ja ...
  • Latin America Flexes Muscles at Joint EU Summit
    The nations of Latin America and the Caribbean strengthened their position with respect to Europe at the CELAC-EU summit held this weekend in the Chilean capital, reaching agreements that protect their natural resources from foreign investors and securing a joint condemnation of the United State ...
  • Landmark U.S. Immigration Framework Heavy on B ...
    A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Monday unveiled a set of principles that will serve as an initial framework for a legislative push that many are increasingly optimistic could result in the largest overhaul of the country’s immigration system in decades. While the exact details of any futu ...
  • Opponents of “Corporate Personhood&#8221 ...
    There is a growing national movement to establish a 28th amendment to the constitution of the United States to address the issue of unlimited corporate spending in elections, although the groups working on the issue diverge on what exactly the amendment should say. One national coalition called ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • US: We are not sanctioning medicial supplies t ...
    Summary: In mid-November last year the first casualty of the sanctions on Iran was Manouchehr Esmaili-Liousi. Manouchehr was a 15-year-old from a nomadic tribe near the city of Dezful. He died in the hospital after the hemophilia medication that is produced in Europe and the US was not able t ...
  • Building Blocks: The obsession that is prevent ...
    Summary: Following two days of talks last week, officials from Iran and the IAEA threw in the towel, failing again to clinch a deal on access to sites, people, and documents of interest to the agency. The IAEA's immediate priority is to get into certain buildings at the Parchin military base ...
  • US-led economic sanctions strangle Iran's drug ...
    Summary: Economic sanctions against Iran are affecting the availability of essential and life-saving drugs in the country, forcing patients to turn to an unregulated black marke source: Lancetread more
  • Pretty in Pink: The Parchin Preoccupation Paradox
    Summary: The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has just released an important new expert report on Iran’s nuclear program, specifically on the Parchin site of much recent interest to the IAEA. The report is a must-read for a number of reasons, not the least of which is ...
  • Dominance, Not Deals: Why Diplomacy With Iran ...
    Summary: The Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear program is in shambles. In the broadest terms, this is because the so-called diplomatic opening Obama initiated upon coming into office never actually happened; Washington has been more apt to continue to bully Iran dipl ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Moon Was Once Powered by a Dynamo Core" - ...
                         MIT's research in 2012 von an ancient lunar rock suggests that the moon once harbored a long-lived dynamo — a molten, convecting core of liquid metal that generated a strong magnetic field 3.7 billion years ago. The findings pointed to a dynamo that lasted much l ...
  • Antarctica Science Team Begins Probe of Earth' ...
                     A major Antarctic research project is underway in which scientists will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden processes that govern the dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet. The scientists will be the first visitor ...
  • Colossal Quasar Discovered with Energy Output ...
                          This past December, researchers discovered a quasar known as SDSS J1106+1939 with the most energetic outflow ever, a finding that may answer questions about how the mass of a galaxy is linked to its central black hole mass and why there are so few large galaxies ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 245,000!
                                             Join the 248,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governme ...
  • Mystery Pulsar Baffles Astronomers
                     A pulsar that is able, without warning, to dramatically change the way in which it shines has been identified by an international team of astronomers. Using a satellite X-ray telescope combined with terrestrial radio telescopes the pulsar was found to flip on a rough ...

Natural News

  • Why every U.S. city is like a Brazilian nightc ...
    As most of the connected world knows by now, 230 people died recently in a Brazilian nightclub "as fire ravaged the building." Why didn't those 230 people get out of the burning building? Because all the exits were blocked except one, of course. And bouncers wouldn't...
  • Bullies picking on kids with food allergies
    Food allergies can undoubtedly cause some unpleasant effects on the body, but now it's taking a turn for the worse. A new study has found that almost one-third of suffering children are bullied due to their food allergies. The lead researcher in the study was Dr...
  • The psychiatric wolves attack more innocent ch ...
    (NaturalNews)To understand even a little bit about real psychiatry, versus the false picture, you have to know that someone running around the streets naked and screaming has nothing to do with a mental disorder. If you can't grasp that, you'll always have a lingering sense th ...
  • Choose a doctor certified by the American Boar ...
    This article contains the thoughts of my colleague Felicia Briones-Colman, MD. There is nothing more important than your health. Your health deeply affects every aspect of every day of your life. It determines if you can get up in the morning and how well you function...
  • Clear out your body's toxins for more energy a ...
    Not only are we exposed to external environmental toxins (air pollution, pesticides, heavy metals...

Threat Level

  • Brothel Patrons Have No Legal Expectation of P ...
    Brothel patrons have no expectation of privacy, a Maine judge has ruled while dismissing 49 criminal counts against a man accused of secretly filming illicit sexual encounters at his Zumba studio that authorities claim was a whorehouse.
  • Government Appetite Growing for Twitter User Data
    Twitter said Monday that just 19 percent of federal and state government requests for user data were accompanied by probable-cause search warrants during the six months ending in December 2012.
  • Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins T ...
    A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained ...
  • Yahoo, Like Google, Demands Warrants for User ...
    Yahoo demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the content of messages inside its popular consumer e-mail brands -- Yahoo and Ymail, the web giant said Friday. The Sunnyvale, California-based internet concern's exclusive comments came two days after Google revealed to ...
  • Court: WikiLeaks Suspects Denied List of Compa ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that three suspects targeted in a WikiLeaks investigation have no right to know from which companies, other than Twitter, the government sought to obtain their records.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • John McCain Comes Full Circle on Immigration-- ...
    The new bipartisan immigration framework announced by the "Gang of 8" brought some great news for Mitt Romney. After he lost the Hispanic vote by 44 points in 2012 (up from just 9 in 2004), Senate Republicans have apparently concluded you can have illegals, for Pete's sake. But at least for no ...
  • Lincoln's Heir
    One sure sign of the success of Barack Obama's second inaugural address on Monday is that right and left shared a common assessment of its impact. Conservatives decried the "amazing" speech (Charles Krauthammer) as "among the best of the past half-century" (David Brooks) precisely because liber ...
  • Gun Control Foes Resurrect Confederate Constit ...
    President Obama's gun control proposals have predictably--and disturbingly--spawned protests with names like "Gun Appreciation Day" and the February 23rd "Day of Resistance." But with their bills calling for the nullification of new national gun laws and the imprisonment of federal officials en ...
  • Mississippi Governor Declares No One Without H ...
    This week, Mississippi Republican Governor Phil Bryant had great news for the residents of the Magnolia State. Whether you have insurance or not, cancer or cardiac disease, diabetes or dialysis, Bryant declared, "There is no one who doesn't have health care in America." Rejecting the Affordabl ...
  • GOP Budget Violates Boehner's New Rules on Debt
    When John Boehner picked up the Speaker's gavel in January 2011, he also laid down some new rules regarding the U.S. national debt. Despite the near-doubling of the red ink and the seven debt limit increases under President Bush (all of which Boehner supported), the first Boehner Rule demands " ...

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Samples Taken From Isolated Antarctic Lake Ben ...
    An Antarctic research team has accomplished what no other team has ever accomplished previously by drilling through 800 metres (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach an isolated subglacial lake and taking water and sediment samples. Isolated from our atmosphere for thousands of years, the sample ...
  • Climate Change Impacting Health, Safety And Ec ...
    A new report authored by leading scientists and experts explains that the effects of climate change are going to continue threatening the health of coastal communities throughout the United States. The report emphasises the need for increased coordination and planning to protect US coastal commu ...
  • Andromeda Galaxy Seen In A New Way, Nearest Ga ...
    The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way (our Galaxy), has been captured in two new “eye-catching” images taken by the Herschel space observatory. Located about two million light years away, the Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), is the closest large galaxy us. It’ ...
  • Large Cities Change The Weather Of Regions Tho ...
    Large cities have been found to have a significant effect on the weather, even for thousands of miles around the urban area, new research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; University of California, San Diego; Florida State University; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, ...
  • DNA Data Storage Now A Reality, Researchers En ...
    DNA data storage is now a reality, thanks to research from the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Researchers there have devised a process to encode data into DNA, offering the possibility of a storage material that can potentially last for hundreds of thousands of years without ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By@BGinKC This damned fool does realize,  doesn't he, that the last time a budget was balanced the President who balanced it was a Democrat? Of course, deficits only matter when there's a Democratic president. Boy Scouts Get With the Times -- They're Considering removing their ban on gay le ...
  • "Liberal! Liberal! Liberal!"
    By @TedFrier Conservatives really need to get their history straight. Either President Obama is a "reactionary" liberal, as Charles Krauthammer insists, committed to an "unyielding" defense of the 20th century welfare state" while clinging "zealously to the increasingly obsolete structures of So ...
  • Republicans Conspiring to Game America's Democracy
    By @TedFrier One of the rewards of indulging an interest in early American history is the lesson which keeps getting repeated that the more things change the more they stay the same. In his history of the early republic from 1789 to 1815, Empire of Liberty, historian Gordon Wood paints a portrai ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC Worry about our own guys raping our female military members, Jackass. David Frum, the hyperbolic goon who gave us the "Axis of Evil" (which I had always figured to be an alliance between Lex Luthor, Magneto and the Green Goblin) is now worried about female soldiers getting raped if th ...
  • Financial Reform? Don't Hold Your Breath
    Sourced from PBS Frontline, The Untouchables OK, now that the inauguration is over and it's time to see how many of the pie in the sky promises and premises actually get fulfilled over the next four years, it's also a good time to look at some of them and try to assess their chances in a country ...

Care 2

  • ZERO-TOLERANCE FLU PREVENTION (SATIRE)
    Cough only into a Ziploc sandwich bag, one-quart freezer-style with E-Z plastic sliding tab to lock in airborne contaminants. In regions where Ziploc bags are in short supply, the Centers for Disease Control urges coughers to cover their mouths by ... Submitted by Carrie B. to Offbeat  |&n ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! No more abandoned dogs ...
    Dozens of purebred dogs are purchased by nonresident aliens in Uruguay during the holiday time. At the end of them, abandon them, becoming part of the thousands who wander and starve or killed on the streets and highways. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it! &nbsp ...
  • Is Obama About to Blow His Climate Credentials?
    "The US president could be poised to approve the doubling of imports of tar sands oil, one of the filthiest fuels on Earth." Submitted by Brian M. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Video: FLASHBACK: The Most Sexist Barbie To Ev ...
    Although this sexist Barbie debacle from 1992 inspired one of my favorite Simpsons episodes, "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy," I was never able to find footage of an actual doll ... until now. Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • French-led troops enter Timbuktu
    French-led troops in Mali have entered the historic city of Timbuktu encountering little resistance, French and Malian military sources say. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Marco Rubio, Lightweight Poser
    During the Presidential election, I was open to consider Marco Rubio as a fresh voice of promise for the Republican party. I thought he had some substance. Boy, was I wrong. Watch the following exchange last week with Hillary Clinton over the debacle in Benghazi, Libya. Rubio started off with so ...
  • More On Why Women Should Not Serve in the Infantry
    Let’s face it. The sole reason that women are now “approved” for possible service in combat units is career service, i.e. getting promoted. In other words, we want to jeopardize our nation’s security just so some woman in the military can feel good about herself. What a c ...
  • The Keystone Pipeline Project (open thread)
    From an article titled, “Approving Keystone XL Pipeline Would Be a Big Win for Obama,” from U.S. News & World Report: Gov. Dave Heineman’s approval this week of the Keystone XL pipeline reroute through Nebraska rocketed one of America’s most important energy decision ...
  • Disqus Has Changed Its Password Policy (open t ...
    I have noticed that some of you are experiencing difficulty signing in to Disqus. Disqus now requires that passwords be no longer than 6 characters. To change your password, go to Disqus’s home page. Click here. By the way, the following images are screenshots. You will then receive an e-m ...
  • You Can’t Change Human Nature
    Originally posted by Larry Johnson in December 2012. (View all of Larry’s posts and biography.) : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : The fundamental difference between genuine conservatives and genuine liberals is this–liberals believe they can make people do what [...]

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA threatened with lawsuit over W.Va. waterwa ...
    WCHS-TV8 EPA threatened with lawsuit over W.Va. waterways Marietta Times Meanwhile, another coalition of environmental groups announced Monday that it was reopening a separate lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Interior over the so-called stream buffer zone rule for mountaintop removal mines ...
  • Groups Sue Interior Department for Failure to ...
    Groups Sue Interior Department for Failure to Protect Streams eNews Park Forest WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--January 28 - 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 mountaint ...
  • OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Kerry heads to Foggy Bottom ...
    OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Kerry heads to Foggy Bottom with climate, pipeline ... The Hill (blog) Environmental groups are reviving a lawsuit aimed at increasing regulatory protections for Appalachian waters threatened by so-called mountaintop-removal coal mining. The groups had sued the Interior Departm ...
  • Priests and Rice, Rabbis and Wheat - Huffingto ...
    Priests and Rice, Rabbis and Wheat Huffington Post ... panels, implement a range of waste-reducing and energy-conserving measures, rally to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, encourage wind energy, and abolish mountaintop removal mining activities in an increasing effort to improve how we care for c ...
  • EPA threatened with lawsuit over W.Va. waterwa ...
    EPA threatened with lawsuit over W.Va. waterways San Francisco Chronicle Meanwhile, another coalition of environmental groups announced Monday that it was reopening a separate lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Interior over the so-called stream buffer zone rule for mountaintop removal mines ...

Memeorandum

  • NYC's real enemy is illegal handguns, Police C ...
    Chuck Bennett / New York Post: NYC's real enemy is illegal handguns, Police Commissioner Kelly says  —  The nation's looming assault-weapons ban is plain common sense, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said yesterday — but the city's real enemy is illegal handguns.  — ...
  • Assad: We Regained the Upper Hand (english.al- ...
    english.al-akhbar.com: Assad: We Regained the Upper Hand  —  Damascus - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told visitors that the Syrian army “regained the initiative on the ground to a very high degree and achieved important results, which will come to light soon.”&nb ...
  • Obama wades back into immigration debate as se ...
    Fox News: Obama wades back into immigration debate as senators pitch new blueprint … President Obama, just days into his second term, is pressing ahead on the explosive issue of immigration reform — boosted Monday by a bipartisan group of senators drafting a proposal of their own w ...
  • Roxanne Rubin, Nevada Republican, Accepts Plea ...
    Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post: Roxanne Rubin, Nevada Republican, Accepts Plea Deal After Committing Voter Fraud  —  A Nevada Republican arrested for voter fraud in the 2012 election, after claiming she was trying to test the system's integrity, pled guilty and accepted a pl ...
  • Kroft: Obama-Clinton interview request a surpr ...
    David Bauder / Associated Press: Kroft: Obama-Clinton interview request a surprise  —  NEW YORK (AP) - With limited time and the unusual nature of a dual appearance with President Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, CBS' Steve Kroft said Monday said he ...

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    过去经验表明，中国的减排目标只有在经济衰退时才能实现。如何让经济增长与减排 ...
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AlterNet Top Stories

  • 4 Freedoms in America That Don't Exist Anymore
    If asked why we live in a great country, an American is likely to respond: "Because we are free." Fortunately for the respondent, explanation is rarely required. Freedom is difficult to define, and today it seems to exist more in our minds than in reality. In a 1941 Message to Congress, Fran ...
  • Ashton Kutcher Lands in the Hospital After Ado ...
    Getting into character for his portrayal of Steve Jobs in a new biopic, Ashton Kutcher adopted a fruitarian diet, as Jobs was known to sometimes do. Jobs ate fruits, nuts and seeds. Ricardo Bilton writes for Venture Beat, “Jobs, who at one point went a whole week eating just apples, was ...
  • Ashton Kutcher Lands in the Hospital After Fol ...
    Getting into character for his portrayal of Steve Jobs in a new biopic, Ashton Kutcher adopted a fruitarian diet, as Jobs was known to sometimes do. Jobs ate fruits, nuts and seeds. Ricardo Bilton writes for Venture Beat, “Jobs, who at one point went a whole week eating just apples, wa ...
  • From Bradley Manning to Aaron Swartz -- The Go ...
    “Prosecutors destroy a life.” That could be a headline in every newspaper every day in a land where the answer to every problem (and many nonproblems) is police and prisons. When 26-year-old Internet prodigy and freedom of information activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide on Jan ...
  • G-Spot Orgasm Therapy? Inside the Sexual Heali ...
    Just over eight minutes after getting onto the table, Becky is crying. “Let your goddess out,” says Ben Rode, the 29-year-old man rubbing down her naked body with oil. “This is your goddess ceremony.” Meanwhile, Ben’s 31-year-old wife, Jen, who is five months pr ...

Threat Level

  • Brothel Patrons Have No Legal Expectation of P ...
    Brothel patrons have no expectation of privacy, a Maine judge has ruled while dismissing 49 criminal counts against a man accused of secretly filming illicit sexual encounters at his Zumba studio that authorities claim was a whorehouse.
  • Government Appetite Growing for Twitter User Data
    Twitter said Monday that just 19 percent of federal and state government requests for user data were accompanied by probable-cause search warrants during the six months ending in December 2012.
  • Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins T ...
    A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained ...
  • Yahoo, Like Google, Demands Warrants for User ...
    Yahoo demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the content of messages inside its popular consumer e-mail brands -- Yahoo and Ymail, the web giant said Friday. The Sunnyvale, California-based internet concern's exclusive comments came two days after Google revealed to ...
  • Court: WikiLeaks Suspects Denied List of Compa ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that three suspects targeted in a WikiLeaks investigation have no right to know from which companies, other than Twitter, the government sought to obtain their records.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Marler Clark Retained in Raw Ground Beef Salmo ...
    We were retained today by two sisters who each spent a week in the hospital after suffering Salmonella Typhimurium infections after eating raw ground beef kibbeh (that they thought was... Continue Reading
  • Tell me again why the President of PCA is not ...
    In 2009 714 persons were infected and nine died from Salmonella Typhimurium linked to the Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia.  According to the last update by the CDC,... Continue Reading
  • Another Macomb County Michigan Salmonella Outb ...
    The facts of this most unfortunate incident were well covered in the report issued by the Macomb County Health Department on May 1, 2002.  Of note, the illnesses were “associated... Continue Reading
  • A Salmonella Outbreak to Remember: 2003 Vernon ...
    The posts I recently did on Jack in the Box and Odwalla prompted some readers to ask what other stories I had.  Unfortunately, I have a very large plate full. ... Continue Reading
  • Whole Foods Recalls Listeria Salmon
    Whole Foods Market is recalling one lot code of Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon (4 oz), cold smoked and sliced, sold in stores in 12 states, because it may... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Is UK Defense Contractor Planning Syrian WMD F ...
    Tony Cartalucci, Contributor Activist Post Documents allegedly “hacked” belonging to UK-based defense contractor Britam (official website here) appear to show the company considering an offer from Qatar to use Libyan chemical weapons in Homs, Syria in order to frame both the Syrian a ...
  • Jews in Iran – YouTube
    Jews in Iran – YouTube.
  • Wisconsin sheriff urges residents to arm thems ...
    by rhumstruck Fox News – Associated Press A sheriff who released a radio ad urging Milwaukee-area residents to learn to handle firearms so they can defend themselves while waiting for police said Friday that law enforcement cutbacks have changed the way police can respond to crime. In the 30-sec ...
  • Chris Matthews Speaks out on Conspiracy Theories
    By Henry Shively Something happened at Sandy Hook, guns are bad, and that is all we need to know. Stop questioning whatever happened at Sandy Hook just because it is being used as an excuse to implement gun confiscation. This government wouldn’t lie to you and it most certainly would not disposs ...
  • 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre – Urban ...
    6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre – Urban Farm – Urban Homestead – Growing Your Own Food – YouTube.

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • About the future of an American army with wome ...
    Summary: Martin van Creveld discusses a timely topic: “To Wreck a Military“, Small Wars Journal, 28 January 2013. He describes the likely results of employing women as soldiers, no matter how politically and ideologically necessary. Here we examine his claims, however impolitic. His ...
  • Why America’s growth is slowing, and a s ...
    Summary:  The 21st century holds many economic challenges for the world.  Rivals (eg, China). The robot revolution (job losses from the next wave of automation). And slowing technological growth, an essential driver of the US economy.  This is a follow-up to Has America grown old, and can no lon ...
  • What will China’s new leaders do? Bold o ...
    Summary:  China is one pole of the 21st century world. Skeptics have predicted China’s crash for over a decade.  Even the IMF has began warming about China’s over-investments and shake banking system. Now a new generation of leadership take command. Much depends on their decisions, w ...
  • Too many “takers”? Look to science ...
    Summary:  People’s favorite fantasies don’t reveal what they’ll do, but provides a window into their thinking. Conservatives talk about the problem of the “takers” (ie, the “47%”). A famous science fiction author describes one solution in his best-sellin ...
  • Putting women in combat: a quick look at the o ...
    With DoD’s decision to open more combat-related jobs to women, it’s timely to review of some the literature on the subject. Especially the non-consensus thinking (yes, there are two sides to the issues). Here we look at Women as soldiers – an update from 25 August 2009. . . Contents ...

WIRED Magazine | 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.

PakAlert

  • A $14 Trillion Extortion for a Global Warming Scam
    The latest megalomaniacal threat from the financial globalists wants to saddle the world economy with a cost of trillions of dollars that benefits favorite corporatists. The phony global warming cult has a core purpose. Their objective is to drive down the standard of living for non-elites and p ...
  • Anonymous avenges death of Aaron Swartz with t ...
    Mere weeks after the death of internet revolutionary Aaron Swartz who was threatened with 50 years of prison time by the U.S. government, the group Anonymous has struck back with a takeover of the U.S. Sentencing Commission website. (IP address of 66.153.19.162)
  • CHECK OUT THE NEW GUN THAT ALLOWS COPS TO SHOO ...
    Selecta DNA’s high velocity DNA tagging system in action, available in both pistol and rifle formats. (Photo: Selectamark Security Systems) A new tool that would allow law enforcement to prevent criminals from running away or disappearing into a crowd before arrest was highlighted last week a ...
  • What Causes Cancer? 7 Strange Cancer Claims Ex ...
    Bras, deodorant, and mouthwash­—just a few of the everyday products that have been linked to cancer at some point during the past several decades. Preposterous? Not at the time, and new suspects have been added to the list. The following slides reveal the real story behind ordinary household ite ...
  • UN Investigates US Drone Attacks
    A UN investigation into the legality and casualties of drone strikes has been formally launched, with a leading human rights lawyer revealing the team that will carry out the inquiry.The announcement came as the latest reported US drone strike in Yemen was said to have mistakenly killed two chil ...

Andy Worthington

  • Save Lewisham Hospital: More Photos of the Mas ...
    Save Lewisham Hospital: More Photos of the Massive Protest on January 26, 2013, a set on Flickr. So now we wait. On Saturday, as this second set of my photos shows — following on from the first set here — around 25,000 people marched through Lewisham, in south east London, to a rally ...
  • Save Lewisham Hospital: Photos of the Huge Mar ...
    Save Lewisham Hospital: The Huge March on January 26, 2013, a set on Flickr. On January 26, 2013, in Lewisham, in south east London, I took these photos of an extraordinary demonstration, in which an estimated 25,000 people marched from the centre of Lewisham, past Lewisham Hospital and up Georg ...
  • A Hollow Inauguration
    On January 11, the 11th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, I was in Washington D.C., with various human rights groups, lawyers, mainly religious anti-torture groups, and other concerned individuals, calling on President Obama to fulfill the promis ...
  • Omar Deghayes and Andy Worthington Discuss Gua ...
    On Tuesday January 29, 2013, I will be in Brighton — and, specifically, the University of Sussex, in Falmer — for an event organised by the Sussex University Amnesty International Society entitled, “Freedom from Torture: Guantánamo Bay Panel Event with former detainee and leadi ...
  • No More Drones and Close Guantánamo: Protest P ...
    No More Drones and Close Guantánamo: Protest at CIA Headquarters, a set on Flickr. On January 12, 2013, during my ten-day visit to the US to campaign for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo on the 11th anniversary of its opening, I joined around a hundred protesto ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...
  • Developing World Special Offer
    A few contacts from the developing world have asked about pricing of my book as they’d like to get a copy but the standard price is, they hint, a little high for their budgets. So here’s the deal. If you live in a blue zone on the map below – China, South America, Asia, Russia ...
  • Why crustaceans might be feeling crabby
    Contrary to the words of Kurt Kobain, it’s probably no longer okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings, perhaps crabs too. The BBC reports this morning that scientists have found further evidence that crustaceans feel pain. A study has revealed that the shore crab, a clo ...
  • Climate change makeover
    Often a name change, a brand re-launch or a corporate makeover becomes a matter of urgency when a company gets seriously bad press. I could list a few examples but will spare their blushes (#subtweet). Of course, when it comes to a phenomenon, the same thing can happen. Think global warming morp ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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

Lifehacker

  • Why You Should Work From a Coffee Shop, Even W ...
    Here at Lifehacker, we've often encouraged switching up your working environment to spark creativity and prevent burnout. Even taking a few days each month to work in a new place can benefit you greatly. Here, entrepreneur Wesley Verhoeve explains the benefits of his favorite non-office sp ...
  • Office 2013 Is Available Now As a Boxed Copy o ...
    Windows: Microsoft has released the newest version of its popular Office software. On top of the different retail offerings, Microsoft now offers a new subscription model for the suite, as well as a version designed specifically for Windows RT devices. More »
  • Unfold a Chinese Takeout Box Into an Emergency ...
    The takeout boxes you typically get with Chinese food are great, but it's not exactly easy to eat directly out of the box. If you don't have a plate on hand, food blog Foodbeast shows off a simple way to unfold the box itself into a plate. More »
  • The Most Sadistic Apps That Force You to Get S ...
    Sometimes willpower is hard to muster up without a little poking from exterior sources. Thankfully, if you prefer a little masochism or negative reinforcement from your apps, you have plenty of options for getting into shape, waking up, and breaking bad habits. More »
  • Audiozue Is a Menubar App That Controls Music, ...
    Mac: Audiozue is minimilist app that sits in your menubar and gives you quick access to all your music sources, including iTunes, Rdio, and Spotify, all in one place. More »

Water Privatization

  • Privatization hits roadblock
    WOONSOCKET — The Budget Commission has refused to let the city’s plan to privatize a new water treatment plant move forward after hearing from a well-organized band of opponents at its last meeting.
  • U.K. Utilities Urged to Pipe More Water to Sou ...
    U.K. utilities are being encouraged to pipe more water to drought-prone parts of the country such as the southeast according to proposals outlined today by the regulator Ofwat, the Telegraph reported.
  • Clark County's fourth quarter: Grain tussl ...
    • some ways, the biggest story in the final quarter of 2012 was one that never happened.
  • Angat Plant Turnover Facing Hurdles
    Given the proposed rehabilitation deal being dangled for auxiliary units 4 and 5 under a public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement, the targeted February turnover of the privatized Angat hydropower plant is confronting new round of stumbling blocks.
  • US Oil Shale Reserves: Stinky Water, Sweet Oil
    The energy reserves of the Piceance Basin, upon which Rio Blanco County sits, contain massive petroleum reserves of a very unusual nature: Oil shale .

Guardian

  • MPs vote on boundary changes: Politics live blog
    Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including Elizabeth Truss's speech on nursery and childcare reform and the Commons debate on boundary changesAndrew SparrowElizabeth Truss
  • Eurozone crisis live: Spanish austerity rethin ...
    Retail sales slumped by over 10% in December as spending cuts and tax rises made for a grim Christmas. Time for a change?Graeme Wearden
  • Sunday Times acting editor to meet Jewish lead ...
    Martin Ivens expected to apologise to Board of the Deputies of British Jews over Gerald Scarfe cartoonThe acting editor of the Sunday Times is expected to apologise personally to the Board of the Deputies of British Jews for publishing a Gerald Scarfe cartoon that has provoked claims of antisemi ...
  • Hedgehog population in dramatic decline
    Once common sightings of hedgehogs are becoming rare in UK's gardens, parks and hedgerows, say ecologistsThe once common sight of hedgehogs in gardens could become a thing of the past, with the spiny species having suffered a dramatic decline in recent years on a par with the loss of starlings, ...
  • Childcare reform proposals face fierce criticism
    Plan to increase number of children childminders and nursery workers can look after will have negative impact, critics sayParents and childcare bodies have come out strongly against government proposals to let carers look after more children.Elizabeth Truss, the early years minister, said the me ...

McClatchey

  • Bit by bit, Obama already nicking away at barr ...
    President Barack Obama will unveil his sweeping plan on immigration Tuesday in the midst of a rapidly shifting political environment. It?s his most ambitious move yet on the emotionally divisive…Click to Continue »
  • U.S. effort to undercut Islamist rebels in Syr ...
    A U.S.-supported push to form military councils across Syria to unite the hundreds of groups fighting to topple President Bashar Assad and coordinate the provision of aid to secular rebel…Click to Continue »
  • Another day of violence leaves Egypt wondering ...
    Egypt descended into chaos Monday as fresh clashes between protesters and security forces rocked cities around the country, with few people honoring a 9 p.m. curfew that had been ordered…Click to Continue »
  • Are the Democratic and Republican parties capt ...
    America?s two major political parties are prisoners of their images, stifling their ability to broaden their appeal. Democrats are routinely portrayed as liberals and Republicans as conservatives, and movement toward…Click to Continue »
  • Islamists fleeing France’s Mali advance s ...
    Frances Defense Ministry said Monday that French troops had arrived on the outskirts of Malis historic Timbuktu, but their rapid advance appeared to have been too late for some of…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Counting Down to 2014 in Afghanistan
    latest updates from TomDispatch.com . Kabul, Afghanistan -- Compromise, conflict, or collapse: ask an Afghan what to expect in 2014 and you’re likely to get a scenario that falls under one of ...
  • Retired warrant officer pleads not guilty in f ...
    A retired warrant officer in Manitoba has pleaded not guilty to six charges stemming from a deadly training accident in Afghanistan.Paul Ravensdale is accused of manslaughter, unlawfully causing ...
  • U.S. Photographer Captures Central Asian Metap ...
    Ivan Sigal , 43, was bid "white road" countless times between 1998 and 2005, as he and his camera crisscrossed the steppe. He knew the region well, having worked for years to help design ...
  • China could prove ultimate winner in Afghanist ...
    China, a witness to the conflict in Afghanistan, is stepping up its involvement in the country as U.S.-led forces are preparing to withdraw. China's move comes after being attracted by the ...
  • Defence cooperation between Afghanistan Pakist ...
    Islamabad, Jan 28/Nationalturk: After continuously accusing Pakistan of supporting Taliban and Haqqani network, Afghan Defence Minister General Bismillah Khan Muhammadi Monday stressed that defence ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Carlos Miller Arrested (Again) For Perfectly L ...
    Thanks to an enforced climate of fear, law enforcement and security agencies remain deeply suspicious of photography in public places. Despite the fact that most public places are now covered in cameras erected by law enforcement and security, the prevailing view seems to be that a member of the ...
  • DailyDirt: Looking For Smarter Animals
    The search for intelligent life might be more fruitful if we started looking more closely at other animals right here on Earth. The progress of artificial intelligence in computers might also be surpassed by breeding a few hyper-intelligent pets someday. Some zoo animals are already playing arou ...
  • Google Explains How It Handles Government Requ ...
    Just recently, we pointed to Google latest Transparency Report, which showed a massive increase in requests for info on users from government agencies. However, it also showed that a much lower percentage of such requests were being honored, raising some questions about how Google handled such ...
  • OXO Shows The Right Way To Respond To Bogus 'O ...
    We see stories often enough about "big" companies "copying" the ideas of individuals or small upstarts, and it's not uncommon to see a group of fans rise up in protest, often leading the big company to back down and apologize. This can show how social pressure can keep egregious behavior in che ...
  • Alan Cooper Sues John Steele, Prenda Law And T ...
    Well, well. It was really only a matter of time, but the Alan Cooper saga has moved into its next phase. If you don't recall, this story all starts with John Steele, who had been a divorce lawyer until he discovered copyright trolling, and suddenly went absolutely crazy filing copyright trolli ...

VacTruth

  • African Children Still Paralyzed After Vaccine ...
    It has now been officially confirmed that in December 2012, 38 children were hospitalized after receiving the meningitis vaccine, "experts" are trying to say that the children’s condition is psychological.
  • Vaccination – A Very Personal Decision. Are Yo ...
    You are about to become a parent. Soon your baby will be injected with neurotoxins and other preservatives, and their immune system will be challenged to its core. If you aren’t lucky, you may experience what other parents in your situation have experienced: a vaccine-injured child...
  • Court Awards $969,474.91 for MMR Vaccine Causi ...
    According to a document filed on December 13, 2012, a California boy was $969,474.91 for injuries caused by the MMR vaccine.
  • What Vaccines Should I Avoid?
    "I am expecting my son to be born in April. I am very skeptical of anything that is related to vaccinations..."
  • Video Footage Shows Prime Minister Visits Para ...
    The details of a vaccine campaign disaster that occurred last month in a north African country continue to unfold, while headlines of this tragedy are strangely absent from news organizations around the world.

BroadSnark

  • Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
    According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...
  • Schools Teach Shame and Bullying
    I came across this news story yesterday. Some school official told a girl’s mother that, if her daughter wanted to end the harassment she was subjected to, she should get a breast reduction. Because, you know, how dare you have a body that might make people think of sex. And then there is ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The internets are rapidly finishing the job Aaron Swartz started. Must read article on what is happening to women who are pregnant. Arrests. Deaths. Involuntary commitment. Medical tests. I am so glad my parents did not have access to microchipping technology. Though I suspect I would have gotte ...
  • Pregnancy, Coercion, and Responsibility
    I was reading about this abortion restricting bill in Michigan. While I realize that it is another attempt to regulate abortion out of existence under the guise of safety and regulations, something in that article struck me. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has approved a controversial package of a ...
  • Book Review – 33 Revolutions Per Minute
    33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey My rating: 4 of 5 stars The subtitle of this book is “A History of Protest Songs, From Billie Holiday to Green Day.” But it should really say that it is a history of (mostly) the U.S. [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Most of Timbuktu’s manuscripts saved
    In interviews with TIME on Monday, the preservationists [of Timbuktu’s centuries-old artifacts] said that in a large-scale rescue operation early last year, shortly before the militants seized control of Timbuktu, thousands of manuscripts were hauled out of the Ahmad Baba center to a safe house ...
  • Destruction of Timbuktu manuscripts is an offe ...
    Jonathan Jones writes: The reported destruction of two important manuscript collections by Islamist rebels as they fled Timbuktu is an offence to the whole of Africa and its universally important cultural heritage. Like their systematic destruction of 300 Sufi saints’ shrines while they he ...
  • In Israel, advocates of peace are viewed as ex ...
    Outside Israel, Shlomi Eldar is best known as the TV broadcaster who spoke to Gaza doctor, Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, moments after al-Aish’s three daughters had been killed in an Israeli strike during Operation Cast Lead in 2009. In an interview with Haaretz, Eldar says: A few days after the ...
  • How the New York Times covers the Israel lobby ...
    The cartoon above, which appeared in Politico a few days ago, is pretty straightforward in identifying who is behind the campaign against Chuck Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary: the Israel lobby. (It’s worth noting, Politico is a fairly lobby-friendly publication, so the willi ...
  • How the pharmaceutical industry deceives docto ...
    Ben Goldacre writes: In 2010, three researchers from Harvard and Toronto found all the trials looking at five major classes of drug — antidepressants, ulcer drugs and so on — and then measured two key features: were they positive, and were they funded by industry? They found over 500 trial ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Eurekalert’s lack of press release stand ...
    I noted a link to WUWT in this NYT essay by Andrew Revkin titled: When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in Climate Science (Part One). I liked Andy’s bit of artwork to go with it, seen at right below. I was … Continue reading →
  • Flu outbreaks and warmer winters
    From Arizona State University where I really don’t think they understand that warmer winters aren’t necessarily a product of “climate change” but are mostly weather pattern and ocean cycle pattern driven. Then there’s the recent study about waste heat where … ...
  • Matt Ridley: A Lukewarmer’s Ten Tests
    What it would take to persuade me that current climate policy makes sense Guest post by Matt Ridley I have written about climate change and energy policy for more than 25 years. I have come to the conclusion that current … Continue reading →
  • The Tao of El Nino
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was wandering through the graphics section of the TAO buoy data this evening. I noted that they have an outstanding animation of the most recent sixty months of tropical sea temperatures and surface heights. … Continue reading →
  • Coralline Algae and the Case for Natural Clima ...
    Guest post by Jim Steele Director Sierra Nevada Field Campus, emeritus, San Francisco State University There was a very revealing 2012 paper demonstrating the power and interconnections of natural ocean oscillations, “Marine proxy evidence linking decadal North Pacific and Atlantic … Conti ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • A tsunami of governmental global warming lies
    It’s bad enough when major environmental organizations continue to lie about a “global warming” that does not exist in lieu of a planetary cooling cycle now entering its 17th year, but when those allied with the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are also in charge ...
  • Ushering in the new (socialist) world order, o ...
    Much of the scary climate stuff gleefully trumpeted by the global media comes from the UN’s IPCC, a highly politicized organization that does not actually carry out any original climate research. Instead, it simply issues assessments based upon supposedly independent surveys of published researc ...
  • Chinese air episode exposes EPA fraud on PM 2. ...
    EPA claims that fine particulate matter at levels above 12 micrograms per cubic meter kills people within hours and causes a quarter of all U.S. deaths, but during a recent episode in China when fine PM levels were 89 times higher than the EPA standard, the only deaths attributed to the episode ...
  • Environmentalist says humans are plague on Earth
    David Attenborough, British broadcaster and environmentalist, is at it again, claiming that humans are a plague. According to today's UK Telegraph, Attenborough said, “We are a plague on the Earth."
  • Will the GOP really grill John Kerry?
    Senator Kerry, based on your record of investing with KPCB, we have every reason to believe that, as Secretary of State, you will push forward a clean energy agenda, one that moves climate change to center stage; a top-tier priority—and this will financially benefit your family and friends.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Syrian Rebels Hail Russia’s ‘New Stance’ on Syria
    The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) said on Tuesday it considers Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's statement on Syria on Sunday as a “new stance” by Moscow, which will speed up the ousting of the embattled Assad regime.
  • Twenty Feared Dead in Kazakhstan Plane Crash
    Twenty people are feared dead after an airliner crashed on Tuesday near the Kazakh city of Almaty, Kazakhstan's Scat airline told RIA Novosti.
  • Russian Police Think Murder Suspect Killed 13 ...
    Police suspect a 32-year-old native of the Pskov Region, believed to have targeted retirees in a killing spree more than seven years ago, of being involved in 13 murders, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
  • Energy Firms to Miss Out on Far East Start-Up ...
    Energy, tobacco and alcohol producers will be denied the preferential tax regime the government is introducing for start-up businesses in the Russian Far East, according to draft amendments to the Tax Code published by the Finance Ministry on Tuesday.
  • Russian Coast Guards Chase Down Okhotsk Trawler
    Russian border guards opened fire on a Sierra Leone-flagged trawler in the Sea of Okhotsk after an eight-hour chase, forcing it to stop, security officials reported on Tuesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Pruning Shears

  • Away from energy independence, and towards ene ...
    Two of the more loaded words in contemporary politics are independence and freedom. Despite their similarities in meaning they get used in very different ways. Independence is used in a more national sense, which might be natural because of its prominence in what is arguably our founding docum ...
  • Utopian colonies and the deep roots of Occupy
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    Last summer I wrote about the Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels program for testing water. Our town’s anti-fracking activists have been using it at their homes for a while now, but around the time of my post we also began free monthly water testing for the community. We are careful to ...
  • Best Music of 2012
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  • Gun violence, public health and the missing piece
    The massacre in Newtown has once again opened up the discussion of firearms in America. We are getting the usual dumbassery about how this is a punishment from God or the fault of video games (which apparently are unavailable outside of the US) and the usual preemptive whining about how this is ...

Organic Consumers.org

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    A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientist has just discovered that major GM crops and products the regulatory agency has been approving for commercial release over the past 20 years contain a potentially dangerous virus gene. The gene - Gene VI - overlaps with the cauliflower mosaic viru ...
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    For the third year in a row, tens of thousands of people from all over Germany went onto the streets in the capital at the start of International Green Week on Saturday 19.1.2013. The broad alliance of farmers, environmental and nature conservation associations, church organizations and other gr ...
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    Rebecca Solnit has no patience for those who are paralyzed by despair and helplessness in an age of doubt about the human condition and the sociological/political situation in the United States. To be passive in the face of disappointment is to ensure that injustice prevails.Click here to read t ...

Center for a Livable Future

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    The discovery of horse DNA in supermarket beef products in the UK created quite a stir. But it’s not just horsemeat, offensive enough to horse lovers, there may be pig meat in the beef as well—I can’t imagine British Muslims are taking this news lightly. Food safety issues are being investigated ...
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    With Lisa Jackson’s departure from the EPA, announced at the turn of the year, and now Salazar's from the Interior, President Obama has some serious recruiting to do. We hope the replacements for both agencies will bear similar profiles in courage.
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    The farm bill extension that passed was written behind closed doors and serves a few powerful interests -- not the interests of the average citizen, public health, and the environment. We should be outraged.

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