Tuesday, January 29, 2013

29 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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A home in Louisiana damaged by Hurricane Katrina
A home in Louisiana damaged by Hurricane Katrina (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Sandy Hook: Officers encountered 'several indi ...
    ShareThisSandy Hook: Officers encountered 'several individuals' as they approached scene --Investigative report into shooting will not be finished until 'at least June' [Right, say... 5:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, heading into the July 4th holiday weekend?] 26 Jan 2013 There are references ...
  • U.S. Weighs Base for Drones In North Africa
    ShareThisU.S. Weighs Base for Drones In North Africa 29 Jan 2013 The United States military is preparing to establish a drone base in northwest Africa so that it can increase surveillance missions on the local affiliate of Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] and other Islamist extremist groups that American an ...
  • Doctor Shot, Killed at Southern Calif. Office
    ShareThisDoctor Shot, Killed at Southern Calif. Office 29 Jan 2013 Police found a doctor dead from multiple gunshot wounds Monday in an examination room of a Southern California medical office, and took a suspect into custody in the same room, authorities said. Police received reports at about ...
  • TARP Pay Czar Permitted Excessive Executive Pa ...
    ShareThisTARP Pay Czar Patricia Geoghegan Permitted Excessive Executive Pay at Bailed-Out Companies: Report 28 Jan 2013 Top executives at three major companies that received taxpayer-financed bailouts received excessively generous pay packages last year, in an apparent violation of Treasury gu ...
  • Congress passes $50.5B Superstorm Sandy aid bill
    ShareThisCongress passes $50.5B Superstorm Sandy aid bill 28 Jan 2013 Three months after Superstorm Sandy ravaged coastal areas in much of the Northeast, Congress on Monday sent a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for storm victims to President Barack Obama for his signature. Despite op ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

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

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Obama Prioritizes Targeted Killings
    A previous article said Obama decided who lives or dies. His kill list chooses targets. He designated himself judge, jury and executioner.
  • Targeting Iran Continues
    Israel's likely coalition partners assure it. Spurious Iranian threats are hyped. What began years ago continues.
  • Pentagon's New Massive Expansion Of "Cyber-Sec ...
    This new massive expansion has little to do with any actual cyber-threat -- just as the invasion of Iraq and global assassination program have little to do with actual terrorist threats. It is instead all about strengthening the US's offensive cyber-war capabilities, consolidating control over t ...
  • A Blowback Hurricane
    Most violence we face we've provoked. Those confronting us with violence are exactly as wrong as if we hadn't provoked them. But we are not as innocent as we like to imagine.
  • Pleading With Satan
    Such a smoke screen of mythology has now enveloped our beloved rule of law that even seasoned lawyers sometimes can't tell the real thing from the Kabuki version.

Switchboard

  • Proposition 39: California's "Power Boost" for ...
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco Remember those scenes in the cartoons where the hero is about to be overtaken by the bad guys, but at the last minute he tells the co-pilot to turn on the “power boost” and the car leaps forw ...
  • North Dakota: thanks to the oil and gas indust ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. I recently blogged about a hospital in Pennsylvania that has its first budget loss in five years, due to workers in the oil and gas industry who do not have health insurance. I also blogged abou ...
  • New video explains the climate threat from the ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. A new video released by NRDC and 350.org explains how the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a lynchpin enabling the climate intensive tar sands industry to grow unimpeded.  The video ...
  • When it comes to Pebble Mine, here is what's a ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC As Aldo Leopold once pointed out, not everyone makes it to Alaska – just like not everyone makes it to heaven.  I am one of the fortunate ones who has been to Alaska and as a result I feel l ...
  • Latin America Green News: petcoke pollutes in ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. Although today’s edition covers the past two weeks, next week&rsqu ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Britain is Rubbish (UK attitudes towards the E ...
    Next year, the temporary ban on the free movement of labor imposed upon the two newest members of the European Union, Romania and Bulgaria, expires. Terrified of an influx of immigrants from these two member states, the British Government is considering running a negative advertising campaign in ...
  • Foreign Entanglements: Mali, Don’t Ya Know
    On the latest Foreign Entanglements Laura Seay and I talk Mali:
  • Peter Jackson and “Competitive Realism&# ...
    An old (and far more talented) friend of mine responded to the discussion Rob and I had about frame rate: The choice to go from 24 fps to 48 fps was that some filmmakers really hated the strobing effect when the camera pans in 3-D versions of movies. Their solution was to up the frame [...]
  • On the D.C. Circuit Reading the Recess Appoint ...
    I have a more extensive analysis up at the Prospect. In theory, courts should play a role in facilitating the operation of a democratic system; here, they’re going out of their way to make government substantially more dysfunctional. Of course, this is the point: It’s not a coinciden ...
  • “The Framers Were Not Even Men. Or Virg ...
    I don’t have the patience to to deal with David Mamet’s latest hackwork in any detail; I’m glad I’ll be screening The Verdict in law & society class today to help me forget his unfortunate side career as an eighteenth-rate political pundit.  So I’ll mostly outso ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • After D.C. Circuit ruling, what happens to NLR ...
    In the wake of Friday's federal court ruling invalidating three of President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, corporations and the board's own general counsel are left in a cloud of doubt.
  • MIDSIZE MATTERS: Lawyer's inspiration helps op ...
    The National Law Journal speaks with Ford Harrison partner Kay L. Wolf about her efforts to establish a school in Cambodia's poverty-stricken Prey Ven province.
  • EEOC breaks record for amount won for workplac ...
    After a record-breaking year in fiscal 2011, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the past fiscal year has built on the gains it achieved, the agency reported January 28.
  • Attack on sentencing commission website expose ...
    Privacy and data law firm practitioners said the January 26 attack on the U.S. Sentencing Commission's website fit with a pattern of assaults intended on shaming the government by conveying political messages in part through exposing embarrassing weaknesses in federal cyber defenses.
  • Judge lets creditors of company linked to meni ...
    A bankruptcy judge has granted the motions of creditors to attach $21.1 million in assets of four insiders of a company linked to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • 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

Red Ice Creations

  • ’Quantum smell’: Making Scents of it All
    A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a quantum physics effect has received a boost, following experiments with human subjects. It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends only on the shapes of molecules we sniff in the air. Instead, it suggests that the molecules’ v ...
  • Israel admits forcing birth control shots on E ...
    After Israel was accused of forcing Ethiopian women to accept injections of the contraceptive Depo-Provera in an attempt to lower birth rates among black immigrants, an official has for the first time admitted use of the drug among Ethiopian women. In a letter to the Israeli Health Ministry Dire ...
  • Trove of Ancient Skulls Found in Mexico: Mass ...
    A grisly discovery has been unearthed in Mexico. A trove of skulls, dating back to between A.D. 600 and 850, have been found without their bodies in what archaeologists suggest was a mass human sacrifice. From LiveScience.com: The find, described in the January issue of the journal Latin America ...
  • Sandy Hook shooter died day before shootings?
    TheIntelHub Note: In no way is the author of this article claiming that there were no victims shot at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, rather the article points out a complex false flag operation with very real victims. It is also important to note that this matter is still cur ...
  • Reported US Drone Strikes Have Revealed Distur ...
    NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime. Known as the "double tap," the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, ...

Russia Today

  • Obama-Clinton tandem: Success or failure?
    Once election rivals, but now a unique US foreign policy tandem, President Obama described his partnership with the outgoing US Secretary of State as a "great collaboration.” Read Full Article at RT.com
  • US considering new drone base in Africa - report
    The US is planning to consolidate its position in Africa with a new drone outpost in Niger, with the stated purpose of providing unarmed surveillance support to French efforts in Mali and keeping tabs on al-Qaeda... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Israeli health official addresses claims of fo ...
    Israel's health ministry has admitted to injecting Ethiopian Jewish women on their way to Israel with a birth control drug. It follows increasing publicity to the claim that it was administered without patient consent... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Two shot dead in ongoing Egypt clashes (PHOTOS)
    A young man has been shot and killed in clashes near a police station in Port Said. Another person was killed in Cairo as violence continued across Egypt, despite the state of emergency and the curfew currently in... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Israel deploys Iron Dome batteries amid Syrian ...
    Israel has moved at least one Iron Dome missile defense battery to the north. This is reportedly to prepare for a possible attack on Syria or Lebanon, to prevent Syrian chemical weapons from falling into the hands of... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • US forces push women to front lines, canon fod ...
    Pentagon lifts ban on women in combat. I guess US prisons have consumed the traditional canon fodder labor pool. What’s the upside to this news –a kinder gentler militarized empire? Fail. Our culture of violence doesn’t breed matriarchs. American women on the front lines is goo ...
  • Israel caught birth controlling the Falash Mur ...
    How’s this for a Wikipedia item update? After five years of having denied the practice, the Israeli government admits it is secretly administering birth control injections to its Falash Mura population, reducing that community’s birth rate by half. Falash Mura you may ask, translates ...
  • Target of Occupy Denver boycott expects DPD to ...
    DENVER, COLORADO- Downtown eatery co-owner Jon Schlegel thought the homeless were defenseless when he led an effort to criminalize sleeping or seeking shelter out-of-doors last year. Instead Schlegel incurred the wrath of Occupy Denver, who’ve maintained a now seven-month long Boycott Snoo ...
  • Is Facebook censoring NMT headlines like they ...
    Who can say what is the cause? But this began in November when suddenly images on the Not My Tribe website would no longer appear alongside the NMT articles being crowd-aggregated by Facebook users. Now a link to our Snooze article failed to resolve into a post headline, instead remaining a raw ...
  • Is Facebook censoring Not My Tribe headlines l ...
    Yep. It began in November when suddenly the images on this website would no longer appear alongside Not My Tribe articles aggregated by Facebook. Today links to our stories fail to resolve into headlines, instead remaining raw http links, further reducing NMT’s visibility on social network ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

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Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • BBC Admits Dark Side to Bill Gates’s Polio Pro ...
    BBC forced to admit dark side to Bill Gates’s polio project ahead of lecture. (photo credit Reuters) By John Stone Ahead of tonight’s prestigious Dimbleby lecture by Bill Gates the BBC has been forced to acknowledge that there are serious...
  • Action Alert: Cuomo Admin. Guts NY Autism Insu ...
    By the Autism Action Network Action Alert Tell Gov Cuomo Not To Gut Insurance Law Just weeks before the New York autism insurance reform bill went into effect on January 1 the Cuomo administration issued an erroneous interpretation of the...
  • Can Influenza Vaccines Cause Maternal Immune A ...
    By Teresa Conrick There have been numerous studies over the years, attempting to show a connection from maternal flu to autism. The original studies seemed to develop from the idea that those mothers who had flu during their pregnancy went...
  • Thrown Under the Bus
    By Cathy Jameson I saw two stories in the mainstream news that caught my eye. The stories also left me a little bit stunned. The first was a tragedy that occurred in late December. A fatal bus crash in Oregon,...
  • The Worms Crawl In The Autism Crawls Out
    Aw come on, who hasn't sung that childhood tune? Seems even Mainstream Medicine is giving a serious look to a treatment posed at Autism One several years ago - and has a study to review the efficacy of parasite treatment...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • FEATURE PAGE – Composition Of Earth’s At ...
    We hear nearly daily from politicians and the media that CO2 is the root of all evil – well just how prevelant is it, and other greenhouse gases such as water vapour, in the Earth’s atmosphere? To find out: CLICK HERE
  • News Archive In Focus –Spying (481 articles)
    It seems everyone is at it, albeit some people/countries more than others! The act of governments or individuals obtaining secret and confidential information by illicit means is nothing new. What may be surprising is the lengths and actions that some will go to in order to extract the informati ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Black carbon l ...
    Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment† Authors: T. C. Bond1, S. J. Doherty2, D. W. Fahey3, P. M. Forster4, T. Berntsen5, B. J. DeAngelo6, M. G. Flanner7, S. Ghan8, B. Kärcher9, D. Koch10, S. Kinne11, Y. Kondo12, P. K. Quinn13, M. C. Sarofim6, M. G. Schu ...
  • Tsunami leaves Japan with toxic asbestos legacy
    ABC – While there has been much anxiety about radioactive fallout from the Fukushima disaster, there are warnings that Japan’s tsunami may have left another toxic legacy. With hundreds of thousands of buildings along the north-east coast damaged and destroyed, it’s estimated th ...
  • Nigeria to tackle worst ever lead poisoning th ...
    Reuters – Nigeria will release funds this week to tackle the world’s worst lead poisoning outbreak which has killed at least 400 children, a senator said on Monday, ending months of official inaction in which 1,500 more children were put at risk. In May last year the government pledg ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • Live from Davos
    April Rinne, Director of WaterCredit, speaks with The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore live from The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Watch the full interview here.
  • How far would you go?
    When you complete daily actions to earn points, you climb the virtual mountain and can win prizes! Ascend the 7 routes of Kilimanjaro and along the way qualify to win prizes from HP, Intel, P&G, KLM and Eddie Bauer. The more points you have, the better your chances to win the ultimate grand priz ...
  • Household Water in Ongata Rongai
    When individuals lack household access to water, they must purchase it from another source. This water cart was selling water for 15-20 KES (USD $0.18 and $0.24) per 20 liters in a neighborhood in Ongata Rongai, Kenya. (The average income per person in Kenya is $2.25 per day. Source: The Wor ...
  • Rainwater Harvesting
    Tabitha is a 28 year old primary school graduate living within Rongai town. She lives on a 1-acre farm with her husband’s family and their 4 year old daughter. The family’s semi-permanent (corrugated sheet metal walled) bungalow houses 5 adults and 2 children, which is connected to the electrici ...
  • How far would you go?
    SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT is an initiative designed to drive awareness and change to the global clean water crisis while engaging a community around the issue. By taking cultural influencers, educators and high profile individuals to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, SUMMIT joins the movement to bring clea ...

Cryptogon

  • The Victorville Desk
    Here’s a series of articles about Victorville, CA. Settle in and see what the popped bubbleclave desert ghetto has to offer. NSFWCorp: The Victorville Desk Research Credit: ottilie
  • Military Urban Warfare Training in Florida and ...
    Miami: Some members of the U.S. military were busy in Miami Thursday night as they conducted exercises in Downtown Miami. CBS4 captured video of Black Hawk helicopters flying over the city as part of a joint military training exercise. Thursday night’s training took place near the Stephen P. Cla ...
  • V3Solar Spin Cell = 8 Cents/kWh?
    At a minimum, it’s a neat looking design. Whether or not it will amount to anything more, who knows… Via: Clean Technica: “V3Solar has invented, and is now in the process of commercializing, the first major change to flat panel PV technology in over 50 years – the V3 Spin Cell. For t ...
  • Another General Removed
    Via: Foreign Policy: Word on the national security street is that General James Mattis is being given the bum’s rush out of his job as commander of Central Command, and is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned. Why the hurry? Pentagon insiders say that he rubb ...
  • Homeland Security Researching New Public Surve ...
    Via: Business Insider: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Secret Service have requested information to support the installation of a gunshot detection system in Washington D.C. Such a system is already in place in various cities, as outlined last May by The New York Times, and it ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Federal Reserve Money Printing Is The Real Rea ...
    You can thank the reckless money printing that the Federal Reserve has been doing for the incredible bull market that we have seen in recent months.  When the Federal Reserve does more "quantitative easing", it is the financial markets that benefit the most.  The Dow and the S&P 500 have bot ...
  • Social Decay + Illegal Immigration + Poverty = ...
    What did you think was going to happen?  Moral standards have been falling for decades, we have allowed massive hordes of criminals, gang members and drug dealers to enter this country illegally, and thanks to our declining economy our inner cities are being absolutely ravaged by poverty.  Was s ...
  • The U.S. Has An Even Larger Gap Between The Ri ...
    There are two very different Americas today.  In one, the stock market is soaring, high end homes are selling briskly, big banks and hedge funds are rolling in money as if the last financial crisis never even happened, and life is really, really good.  In the other America, good jobs are incredi ...
  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...

Desertification

  • Ways to Combat Desertification (ECOMENA)
    Read at : http://www.ecomena.org/desertification/ The Fight Against Desertification By Kehkashan Basu As the global population crosses 7 billion, the pressure on land has increased exponentially in recent decades. Food security, habitat and livelihood are the buzz words these days. The … C ...
  • Combating desertification in China (Google / C ...
    Read at : http://english.cri.cn/7146/2013/01/28/2982s745563.htm Dunhuang Fights against Desertification Dunhuang in northwestern China’s Gansu Province is known for its UNESCO World Heritage site, the Mogao Grottoes, or the Thousand Buddha Caves. In recent years the city has been fighting ...
  • Afforestation project in Turkey (Sidmouth Peac ...
    Found on Facebook : Sidmouth Peace Trees ‎9 Million trees planted in afforestation project in Turkey. http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=287160 http://www.cem.gov.tr/erozyon/Files/moduller/collesme/belgeler/Turkey_s_National_Action_Program_on_Combating_Desertificatio ...
  • Plan against desertification in China (TMCnet)
    Read at : Google Alerts http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2013/01/23/6873192.htm China cabinet approves plan against desertification in years to 2020 BEIJING, Jan 23, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — The State Forestry Administration (SFA), China’s top wildlife and forestry agency, said on its ...
  • 2nd ECHO East Africa Symposium (ECHO Community)
    Read at : http://www.echocommunity.org/?page=EASymposium 2nd ECHO East Africa Symposium February 5-7, 2013 – Arusha, Tanzania The ECHO Symposium will provide a network and training opportunity for those involved in alleviating hunger and poverty of Africa’s poor. Three mornings of plenary ...

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backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • British TV news airs footage refuting South Af ...
    Ben Fogel on the new footage of the Marikana Massacre screened on Channel Four in the UK. Five months after the Marikana Massacre in South Africa, footage of police action at the ‘killing koppie‘ ["hill"] has finally reached the publi ...
  • The community turns out in force for the Hales ...
    halesowen4rally.jpg On Saturday 26th January over 200 people took to the streets of Halesowen to demand the reinstatement of four members of the Maths department who had been sacked. On a cold day, w ...
  • Budapest: Thirty housing rights activists arrested
    1.jpg On the 19th January 2013, homeless activists and their allies squatted an empty building in the 7th district of Budapest. The squatters demanded the institutionalization of a right to housing an ...
  • Two anarchists defending tenants from eviction ...
    On January 19th, 39 activists were arrested in central Moscow, with anarchists among them. They were involved in a campaign protecting tenants from raiders. Next morning they were released, but two activists were then re-arrested and taken to the Khamovn ...
  • Northern Ireland flag protests the politics of ...
    northern_ireland_protests_belfast_13.jpg On December 3rd Belfast City Council decided, by 29 votes to 21, to reduce the number of days the Union flag was flown above the city hall from 365 to 17 days ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Mike Adams – The Health Ranger – N ...
    Ok friends.  Please understand that I am not “attacking” Mike Adams.   Dozens of concerned e-mails show how Adams has quite a following. I am simply searching for truth. Both Adams and Rima Laibow appeared in the CCHR (a division of Scientology) anti-psychiatry film.    Adams has wri ...
  • Water! God’s Miracle We Take For Granted
    Fifteen years ago, I started my mineral supplement business – originally named Energy Images.   Today it is incorporated and is named Mother Earth Minerals.   I personally designed my company logo to represent the planet earth surrounded by a dark delta pyramid of evil dissipating thanks t ...
  • Must Watch Video: AGENDA: Grinding America Down
    If I were to recommend one video to sum up the problem with America (and the world), this would be it.  It is not a modern problem of the 21st century.  It is the problem plaguing mankind since the dawn of creation – a group of fallen angels and their human “usefull idiots” are ...
  • Henry Makow Blockbuster: “Confessions o ...
    This post is an expansion of my earlier writing: http://atrueott.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/another-christian-red-edomite-alert-the-symbolism-of-9-11-memorial/ I’ll try to make this as simple and as uncomplicated as possible. Three truths: 1. The guiding “book” for the Edomite &# ...
  • Why Edomites Kane and Horowitz HATE Dr. A. Tru ...
    Today, a reader of this blog posted the following: Hi Dr. Ott: Have you seen this pathetic 6-page “open” letter dated 1/19/13 by SHERRI KANE to Lt. Paul Vance of Sandy Hook fame? It’s nasty & includes hate-info re you along with others (Rense, Duff, Adachi, etc.): http://gallery.mailchimp.co ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Chris Hadfield, astronaut (Jan 26, 2013)
    Peter talks to the Canadian Astronaut from his current home in space aboard the International Space Station.
  • Jesse Hirsh, tech expert
    Making sense of changes in technology and what it means for business, privacy and democracy.
  • Alex Anthopoulos, Toronto Blue Jays GM (Jan 12 ...
    Thirteen years ago he was destined for a life in the heating business in Montreal – but something happened and Alex Anthopoulos changed his life direction. In many ways he taught himself to become a big league baseball manager – and now he is, with a chance to be at the top of the game.
  • Stephen Starr, author "Revolt in Syria"
    How long can Assad cling to power and what's the road ahead for the Syrian people? Peter talks to a journalist who spent the past five years living in Syria.
  • Amos Yadlin, Israeli security expert (Dec 1, 2012)
    Peter sits down with Retired Major General Amos Yadlin, Director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, to discuss Iran, Syria, and continuing instability in the Middle East.

Scotts Contracting

  • ALERT: HB44 Threatens Missouri’s RES
  • Introducing the NewPower™ Standard
    the World’s First: Triple-Redundant Alternative Power System For Homes and Business Your Building will never lose power again with this robust power system; 4500 Watt Solar Power Generation 8000 Watt Line-Interactive Inverter / Battery Back-up UPS / Power Center 8000 Watt Stand-by Generator to r ...
  • 27 January, 2013 10:42
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog
  • Congressional Democrats Launch Climate Change ...
    EcoWatch Building on President Obama’s  inaugural commitment to address climate change, key congressional leaders announced a new Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change that will be co-chaired by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA). The goal is to provide a Congressional ...
  • 2 Topics Near and Dear to My Heart
    Missouri Farmers and Renewable Energy Information ADDITIONAL FARM REVENUE FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES The following information covers topics that are very dear to my heart. 1) Clean Energy and 2) Farming / Ranching. For everyone who has not read the About Me Page; I was raised on a 4,000 acre ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Wild Dophin Approaches Diver for Help
    A wild dolphin approached a Hawaiian diving instructor last week after getting entangled in a fishing line and getting the hook caught in its dorsal fin.  Note how the animal positions its body to make the hook easier to remove and how the diver users his hands to communicate. In all proba ...
  • Anonymous - Response to Obama's 2013 Gun Contr ...
    The hactivist group speaks out strongly in favor of the second amendment. In a classic act of YouTube censorship, the original video was taken down. Fortunately viewers copied it to numerous mirror sites. If video fails to play try one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ5V5g9ZHkM htt ...
  • Dotcom Strikes Another Blow for Internet Freedom
    Kim Dotcom New Zealand Folk hero Kim Dotcom has struck another blow for Internet freedom by launching a new cloud file storage service, called MEGA, one year to the minute after the FBI shut down Megaupload, froze his funds and induced New Zealand security services to launch a SWAT team ra ...
  • How Cell Phones are Killing Off Honeybees
    If video fails to play, go to Resonance – Beings of Frequency (This is Part II of a two part film review of the 2012 documentary by British filmmaker James Russell. The first described the link between cell phone technology and the growing cancer epidemic.) Honey Bees and Migrator ...
  • Cell Phones, Cancer and Bee Colony Collapse Di ...
       If video fails to play, go to Resonance – Beings of Frequency (This is Part I of a two part film review of the two part documentary by British filmmaker James Russell) Resonance – Beings of Frequency is an informative, well-researched film about the growing numbe ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

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

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Govt to unveil new digital economy project (Au ...
    The federal government and the CSIRO is launching a new $40 million a year project to boost the economy in post mining boom Australia. WATCH: Panel discussion on the future of the digital economy, featuring internet creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy an ...
  • More Thoughts on the Six CFAA Scenarios About ...
    In last night's post, I offered six scenarios to help identify what should be the proper line between access to a computer that is authorized versus without authorization under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The reader responses are still coming in, and if you haven't voted yet, please read t ...
  • Aarons Law, Drafting the Best Limits of the CF ...
    Granick's helpful post on some of the ambiguities of "code-based restrictions" provides a great opportunity to run through some of the most interesting fact patterns that have come up - either in cases or hypos - on where the border should be for CFAA liability. I'm going to run through some of ...
  • DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searc ...
    Pushing privacy is a good way to carve out a competitive niche against Google et al, as by definition they can never compete on privacy. I get that. But what I found most compelling is DDG's strong vision of a crowdsourced network of plugins giving broader search coverage by tying an army of ver ...
  • Mozilla Recognized as Most Trusted Internet Co ...
    I'm very happy to share that Mozilla has been named the Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy in 2012, according to a study [PDF] performed by the Ponemon Institute. Their findings were released today in celebration of an internationally recognized holiday that we at Mozilla look forward to ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Metiria Turei’s debate in reply to the P ...
  • We shouldn’t need to sponsor kids in NZ
    It’s good that Variety, KidsCan, and others have stepped in to fill the yawning chasm of child poverty that too many of our kids are falling into. But let’s take this as a challenge and demand governments that will eradicate the need for such schemes by guaranteeing the essentials for all our kids.
  • Back To School
    Despite the Novopay chaos and the depressing Government commitment to undermining public education, school starts today and can be a great place. The Green Party is keen to support students and teachers to stay positive and keep working together. We want to see more schools working closely with ...
  • Picnic for the Planet & campaign launch!
    Our annual Picnic for the Planet was a great success yesterday, with great food, perfect weather, summer tunes, and an inspiring speech from co-leader Metiria Turei. Though I’d never admit it, as a staunch Wellingtonian, on days like yesterday in the beautiful Tahaki Reserve at the base of ...
  • The fracking boom is here
    BusinessDesk said today, “Onshore Taranaki oil explorer TAG Oil is planning more than 130 new onshore wells, with 13 to be drilled in 2013 and consents sought for platforms from which another 120 could eventually be drilled.” Not all wells will necessarily be fracked, but you can be certain that ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Insecticide ‘Unacceptable’ Danger to Bees, Rep ...
    By Dr. Mercola Systemic insecticides known as neonicotinoids have become the fastest growing insecticides in the world. Two prominent examples, imidacloprid and clothianidin, are used as seed treatments in hundreds of crops. Virtually all of today's genetically engineered Bt corn, for instanc ...
  • First Genetically Engineered Flu Vaccine Now o ...
    By Dr. Mercola As recently reported, a hardier than normal type of flu has spread around the US, and much earlier than normal, causing some states to declare public health emergencies. To speed up flu vaccine production, the US FDA has approved a new insect-based, genetically engineered flu ...
  • How to Detox with Chlorella
    By Dr. Mercola Chlorella, single-celled fresh water algae, is often referred to as a near-perfect food, with a wide range of health benefits. A recent study investigated the effects of chlorella on methylmercury transfer to fetuses during pregnancy. Pregnant mice were fed diets containing e ...
  • Blueberries and Strawberries Reduce Heart Atta ...
    By Dr. Mercola When it comes to fruit, berries are among the healthiest variety to choose, as they are densely packed with a variety of potent phytochemicals and fiber while at the same time being relatively low in sugar. Blueberries and strawberries, in particular, have recently been highli ...
  • Soybean Oil: One of the Most Harmful Ingredien ...
    By Dr. Mercola Processed food is perhaps the most damaging aspect of most people’s diet, contributing to poor health and chronic disease. One of the primary culprits is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), the dangers of which I touch on in virtually every article on diet I write. The s ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • BPA Substitute Could Spell Trouble: Experiment ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: ScienceDaily: The industry responded by creating “BPA-free” products, which were made from plastic containing a compound called bisphenol S. In addition to having similar names, BPA and BPS share a similar structure and versatility: BPS is now known to be used in every ...
  • Regulators Discover Hidden Viral Gene in Comme ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Independent Science News:  In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fra ...
  • Evidence Grows for Narcolepsy Link to GSK Swin ...
    from health.yahoo.net: Emelie is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she's often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school or having fun with friends. She is only 14, but at times she has w ...
  • Nurses Fired for Refusing Flu Shot
    from news.yahoo.com: An Indiana hospital has fired eight employees, including at least three veteran nurses, after they refused mandatory flu shots, stirring up controversy over which should come first: employee rights or patient safety. The hospital imposed mandatory vaccines, responding to ...
  • Urban Farm generates 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10 ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Over 6,000 pounds of food per year, on 1/10 acre located just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Dervaes family grows over 400 species of plants, 4,300 pounds of vegetable food, 900 chicken and 1,000 duck eggs, 25 lbs of honey, plus seasonal fruits throughout ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Federal Reserve Money Printing Is The Real Rea ...
    You can thank the reckless money printing that the Federal Reserve has been doing for the incredible bull market that we have seen in recent months.  When the Federal Reserve does more "quantitative easing", it is the financial markets that benefit the most.  The Dow and the S&P 500 have bot ...
  • Social Decay + Illegal Immigration + Poverty = ...
    What did you think was going to happen?  Moral standards have been falling for decades, we have allowed massive hordes of criminals, gang members and drug dealers to enter this country illegally, and thanks to our declining economy our inner cities are being absolutely ravaged by poverty.  Was s ...
  • The U.S. Has An Even Larger Gap Between The Ri ...
    There are two very different Americas today.  In one, the stock market is soaring, high end homes are selling briskly, big banks and hedge funds are rolling in money as if the last financial crisis never even happened, and life is really, really good.  In the other America, good jobs are incredi ...
  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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.

Veterans Today

  • Iran Launches Monkey Into Space
    The Islamic Republic of Iran has sent a monkey into space on a suborbital flight and returned it to Earth safely.
  • Liars, Gun Control and Money in a Culture of V ...
    Nevermind the phony gun control debate. What's really going on here? Know your history, know your rights, see and understand your culture, and do what you will do.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Janu ...
    There have been a few times I’ve used VA services when I’ve asked, “Why do they need this information from me? Isn’t it out there somewhere?” This is especially true for anyone who has had to fill out an eligibility verification report to confirm eligibility for benefits—an annual event that put ...
  • Will David Ward’s Scalp Soon Hang in the Zioni ...
    Alistair Carmichael is the Liberal Democrats’ Chief Whip. His letter to Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust about MP David Ward's remarks just before Holocaust Memorial Day is now in the public domain.
  • Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
    At perhaps the most perilous time in world history, exposing vital truths takes on greater urgency than ever.

electric politics

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

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Stop NATO

  • Pentagon’s Global Expansion Plans for 20 ...
    Voice of Russia January 28, 2013   The US did not set up US/AFRICA Command as a social service agency – Rozoff John Robles   Audio: Download   Regular Voice of Russia contributor Rick Rozoff discusses Syrian defenses and how they are preventing a Western invasion, Russian-Sy ...
  • Iranian, Russian Borders: NATO Expands Ties Wi ...
    Trend News Agency January 28, 2013 Ambassador: Last year important for expanding NATO-Azerbaijani relations H. Valiyev Baku: Last year was one of the most important in the expansion of relations between NATO and Azerbaijan, Ambassador of Romania to Azerbaijan Daniel Cristian Ciobanu said at the ...
  • Baltics: French Warplanes To Take Over NATO Ai ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti January 28, 2013 French Air Force to Take Over Policing Baltic Air in May RIGA: The French Air Force will take over from Denmark the mission of policing Baltic airspace in May, the Latvian Defense Ministry said on Monday. Danish F-16 fighters will be replaced b ...
  • U.S. AFRICOM Intensifies Role In Mali War
    Russian Information Agency Novosti January 27, 2013 US Steps up Mali Involvement French troops board U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft en route to Mali MOSCOW: The United States will intensify its involvement in the military operation in Mali, where the French-led offensive&#823 ...
  • Georg Brandes: Two million men held in readine ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Georg Brandes: An Appeal Against Wholesale Murder Georg Brandes: War, uninterrupted series of horrors, atrocities, and slaughter Georg Brandes: The World at War Georg Brandes: Only officers and ammunition-makers wish war ==== G ...

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Intel Hub

  • Central Planning Causes Mass Starvation and Ca ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com January 28, 2012 North Korea is experiencing a horrible famine brought on by the insane policies that the regions government has been forcing on its population for decades. Like many, this government celebrates itself as a “democratic peoples republic”, an ...
  • BACKFIRE: Seattle Gun Buyback Turns Into Gun Show
    By Mac Slavo theintelhub.com January 29, 2013 Leave it to enterprising Americans to always find a loophole in the midst of ever-expanding government regulation. While thousands of Seattle residents lined up for hours to trade their handguns, rifles and family heirlooms away in exchange for up to ...
  • How Television News Creates the Illusion of Kn ...
    By Jon Rappoport No More Fake News January 29, 2013 In analyzing network coverage of the Sandy Hook murders, I had no intention of doing a series of articles on television news, but the opportunity to deconstruct the overall grand illusion was compelling. A number of articles later, I want to di ...
  • Monsanto Infiltrates World Business Council fo ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com January 29, 2012 The vast majority of mainstream environmental organizations and bureaucracies have nothing to do with protecting the environment. Environmentalism just happens to be the public relations scheme that they use to as a pretense for their bureaucracy. Wit ...
  • Final FDA Raid and Takeover of Morningland Raw ...
    By Heath Callaghan Activist Post January 29, 2012 January 25th, 2013 was a sad day that marked an end to the two-and-a-half-year battle for Morningland Dairy raw cheese farm. Supporters watched as state agents finally dispensed of $250,000 worth of their cheese, embargoed since the day of the in ...

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Science Confirms The Obvious: Americans Are Se ...
    We're less motivated to do something challenging if it benefits the common good. If you need an American to do something, don't mention the common good, team work or caring for others. A new study in Psychological Science this month found that trying to get Americans to think and act interdepe ...
  • Bacteria In Earth's Atmosphere May Affect Clou ...
    Weather can transport microbes long distances, and they can promote the formation of ice and cloud droplets. Vast populations of microbes live between four and six miles above the Earth’s surface in the upper troposphere, an atmospheric zone considered at best a pretty lousy location for life. ...
  • Crazy Art Piece Commemorates The First Russian ...
    And particle accelerators, and four-dimensional space, and a bunch of other cool stuff. Just watch these videos. We’re not exactly sure what particle accelerators sound like on the inside, but it seems plausible enough that they might sound like Cyclotone, a real-time audio/visual performance p ...
  • Gun Shoots Criminals With DNA Tags, Marking Th ...
    DNA tags label rioters and other criminals so cops can find them "at a less confrontational time for officers." Riots are a tough nut for law enforcement in part because of the sheer number of people involved--it’s impossible to stop and arrest every person involved in a skirmish. That’s why c ...
  • A Stark, 3-D Look At Carbon Emissions [Infogra ...
    Twirl the globe to see the world's worst polluters. Rather than breaking down stats on carbon emissions and emptying the digits into something bland, interactive media designer Robbie Tilton made this striking globe, which looks like a view from a satellite after the apocalypse. Turn the plane ...

Veterans Today

  • Iran Launches Monkey Into Space
    The Islamic Republic of Iran has sent a monkey into space on a suborbital flight and returned it to Earth safely.
  • Liars, Gun Control and Money in a Culture of V ...
    Nevermind the phony gun control debate. What's really going on here? Know your history, know your rights, see and understand your culture, and do what you will do.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Janu ...
    There have been a few times I’ve used VA services when I’ve asked, “Why do they need this information from me? Isn’t it out there somewhere?” This is especially true for anyone who has had to fill out an eligibility verification report to confirm eligibility for benefits—an annual event that put ...
  • Will David Ward’s Scalp Soon Hang in the Zioni ...
    Alistair Carmichael is the Liberal Democrats’ Chief Whip. His letter to Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Educational Trust about MP David Ward's remarks just before Holocaust Memorial Day is now in the public domain.
  • Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
    At perhaps the most perilous time in world history, exposing vital truths takes on greater urgency than ever.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Fleeing Egypt? Buy Caribbean Dual Citizenship
    Mur-dah! Today, let's look at the utterly fascinating intersection of e-commerce, nationality for sale, and the turn for the worse in any number of Middle East countries. I saw the banner advertisement above while visiting Ahram Online that pretty much sums up the mood in Egypt and that outstand ...
  • Antigua & Online Gaming: Fighting the US Bullies
    The United States likes to throw its weight around the international political economy; that much is obvious. Given the sheer girth of its residents, this is not something to be easily ignored. However, like all bullies, the United States can be put in its place if you stand up and fight for a p ...
  • Globalization's Victims: Filipino Workers in A ...
    The Philippines is famously a country of migration with an estimated one-tenth of its population of ninety million working overseas. I am of the belief that there is nothing wrong with that. After all, the UN Declaration of Human Rights Article 13 (2) states: "Everyone has the right to leave any ...
  • The Japan That Can't Export? Its 2012 Trade De ...
    Japan used to epitomize the Asian Exporting Nation, feared around the world for its superior-quality and in-demand products. Those glory days, however, are rapidly receding like the hairline of HRH Prince William the Bald. Most recently, the news was that Japan had a "record" trade deficit in 20 ...
  • "Hurry Up and Die": Japan & the Cost of Eldercare
    Former Japanese PM and current Finance Minister Taro Aso has a novel way of dealing with Japan's increasing health care tab that may not resonate so well with their (obviously aging) electorate: "Heaven forbid if you are forced to live on when you want to die. I would wake up feeling increasing ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Federal Reserve Money Printing Is The Real Rea ...
    You can thank the reckless money printing that the Federal Reserve has been doing for the incredible bull market that we have seen in recent months.  When the Federal Reserve does more "quantitative easing", it is the financial markets that benefit the most.  The Dow and the S&P 500 have bot ...
  • Social Decay + Illegal Immigration + Poverty = ...
    What did you think was going to happen?  Moral standards have been falling for decades, we have allowed massive hordes of criminals, gang members and drug dealers to enter this country illegally, and thanks to our declining economy our inner cities are being absolutely ravaged by poverty.  Was s ...
  • The U.S. Has An Even Larger Gap Between The Ri ...
    There are two very different Americas today.  In one, the stock market is soaring, high end homes are selling briskly, big banks and hedge funds are rolling in money as if the last financial crisis never even happened, and life is really, really good.  In the other America, good jobs are incredi ...
  • Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Foo ...
    Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it?  According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.  Overall, 2012 was quite a banner year for Goldman Sa ...
  • Does China Plan To Establish “China Citi ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN chief saddened by tragic fire at Brazil nig ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was saddened to learn of the tragic fire that occurred at a nightclub in Brazil on Saturday night, which led to the death of hundreds of people.
  • Haiti: top UN official calls for delayed elect ...
    The top United Nations official in Haiti today called on the Government of the beleaguered Caribbean country to carry out free and fair elections, which have been delayed for over a year, as soon as possible within 2013.
  • UNESCO recognizes Brazilian friar&#39s contrib ...
    The United Nations has recognized a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto, with a leading international prize for his &#8220exceptional contribution&#8221 to building a universal culture of peace, social justice and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Marking third anniversary of earthquake, Ban c ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to continue its support for Haiti as he marked the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean country, while praising the progress achieved so far.
  • Haiti: UN-backed survey finds progress for chi ...
    Almost three years after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, preliminary results of a new United Nations-backed national household survey show substantial progress for children there in the education, nutrition, health and sanitation sectors since 2006.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Is Fort Campbell, Kentucky the 'Area 51 of App ...
    The state of Kentucky has, at times, been considered a rather odd place. Tracing the state’s northern border, one can follow the Ohio River all the way down to its tributaries that empty into the southwest end, forming a cluster of counties that are riddled with odd stories of weird creature ...
  • Caught Red Handed!... Why Was CNN Using Fake S ...
    Why was CNN running fake Sandy Hook school shooting footage during their initial report? According to this excellent story on Digital Journal, anyone with Google Earth can examine the property layout of Sandy Hook elementary school and tell that footage used by CNN in this school shooting video ...
  • Newtown, CT... Changes Were Made To The Connec ...
    The Newtown truth tug of war is getting stranger with each day. Below you will see some screenshots from radioreference.com of information on the Connecticut Statewide Emergency Radio Network (CSERN). There is a list of changes made beginning approximately 5 hours before the shooting at Sand ...
  • SSDI Death Report... Adam Lanza Died One Day B ...
    New information has come to light regarding the Sandy Hook School shooting, as the “official story” given to the American public is riddled with inconsistencies. According to and confirmed by GenealogyBank.com, the alleged lone shooter Adam Lanza that left 26 people dead on December 14, 2 ...
  • Why Johnny Can’t Breed...
    If the lyrics below, which represent a recently created children’s song praising the virtues of President Obama, doesn’t make you cringe, then there is a good chance that you will love the new Common Core educational standards. ~ Dave Hodges read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Survival Cooking
    Survival cooking is a high priority matter for a prepper or person who is aware of modern day risks, who puts plans in place as contingency against emergency, disaster, or even collapse. While cooking is not imperative for every survival situation, it is a means to maintain a safe and healthy di ...
  • List of ‘Collapse’ Medical Supplies
    Ken adds: This is a re-post of a guest article on Modern Survival Blog from ‘Nurse Amy’ of DoomAndBloom.net. This list is a good reminder that we should consider our medical supplies in addition to our other preparedness supplies.   Guest post: by ‘Nurse Amy’ Here&#8 ...
  • Social Chaos Survival Guide
    Definition of Social Chaos A condition or place of great disorder or confusion A disorderly mass A state of utter confusion Lacking order or predictability Complete disorder Behavior so unpredictable as to appear random Anarchy Bedlam Disorder Pandemonium Turmoil   There is no single accura ...
  • Gun Control Hypocrisy: Governmnent ‘Offi ...
    The Washington Times has reported that Feinstein’s sweeping gun control legislation would exempt government ‘officials’, law enforcement and retired law enforcement personnel. Now bear with me for a minute… think about it… why is it that ‘they’ would be ...
  • LDS Preparedness Survey Checklist
    The following survival preparedness survey checklist is excerpted from the latest LDS Preparedness Manual. Having received communication from Christopher Parrett, he indicated that they have revised their preparedness manual to the the 15th anniversary edition, and was published June 1, 2012. I ...

Fast Company

  • Whatsapp Given A Privacy Hosedown By Canadian ...
    The messaging app transmits all contact numbers from a smartphone to its servers without deleting non-users. A joint investigation by Dutch and Canadian privacy regulators has found that Whatsapp, the photo-sharing, messaging and all things social app has been storing non-users' contact da ...
  • The 4 Ego Traps That Sink Rockstar Developers
    You just launched your first app. Don't blow it by thinking like a rockstar. When a team of indie developers begin building a product, there's a high: you just build, build, build. You’ve already validated your idea with real live people, they love it, and your team’s enthusias ...
  • How BluePrint Designed A Better Way To Sell Juice
    Zoe Sakoutis and Erica Huss founded the BluePrint Cleanse on a simple premise: juice fasting should be easier. My friends began talking about a lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup detox program called the Master Cleanse in the 1990s, and the variety of juice 'fast' diets has grown ...
  • Google Publishes More Detailed Maps Of North K ...
    How much of the information was Eric Schmidt responsible for? Google has published more detailed maps of North Korea. In an announcement on its Lat Long blog, the firm announced that the extra data had been provided by a "community of citizen cartographers" who had used the firm's Map Make ...
  • Sandy’s Driftwood Becomes Color-Blocked Art Fo ...
    Two New York art directors collected, dried, and painted wood they found on the Jersey Shore after the hurricane. Now, the pieces are being sold to benefit local reconstruction efforts. It’s been three months since Hurricane Sandy blasted New York and New Jersey, and the media spotli ...

Jadaliyya

  • Another Year of Rage
    The date 28 January 2011, also known as the “Friday of Rage,” holds a special place in the hearts of many Egyptians and is widely seen as the turning point at which the “January 25 protests” turned into the “January 25 uprising.” Some associate that day with the image of flames emanating from go ...
  • The Meaning of Revolution: On Samira Ibrahim
    At that thin membrane, the hymen, narratives unfold and lives are determined. There, the binaries of the clean and the stained, the righteous and the debauched, the honorable and the shamed flourish. There the blurry border between the civilized and the backward, the liberated and the oppressed, ...
  • A Nation Derailed
    Just ten days before the second anniversary of the 25 January revolution, Egyptians awoke to another railway tragedy. A train loaded beyond its capacity with security forces recruits heading from Sohag to Cairo derailed in the Badrashin area of Giza leaving nineteen dead and over 120 injured, ad ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (Jan 21-27)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups.  Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. The Revolution Will Not Be C ...
  • Palestinian Refugees in Jordan and the Revocat ...
    [Anis F. Kassim is an international law expert and practicing lawyer in Jordan. He was a member of the Palestinian legal defense team before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the 2004 landmark case on Israel’s separation wall, and that led to the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Lega ...

mediagazer

  • Starting salary for j-school grads rises to $4 ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Starting salary for j-school grads rises to $41K, on average  —  NACE's annual report on college grads has good news for 2012 communications majors: Their starting salaries were up 4 percent on average over 2011 grads'.  Reached by email, NACE Empl ...
  • Billboard's Website Redesign Makes Music Chart ...
    Brian Anthony Hernandez / Mashable!: Billboard's Website Redesign Makes Music Charts Playable  —  Billboard this week gave a facelift to its magazine, launched an iPad app and refreshed its business-focused Billboard.biz.  What's more, the music brand unveiled a revamped Bi ...
  • Twitter's Speech Problem: Hashtags and Hate (E ...
    Emily Greenhouse / The New Yorker: Twitter's Speech Problem: Hashtags and Hate  —  On October 19, 2012, Twitter turned censor.  In response to complaints from the Union of French Jewish Students, Twitter pulled tweets that used the hashtag #UnBonJuif, or “a good Jew,& ...
  • Media Firms Probed on Data Release (Wall Stree ...
    Wall Street Journal: Media Firms Probed on Data Release  —  Investigators Examined if Economic Figures Were Given Early to Clients; No Criminal Charges Seen  —  WASHINGTON—Law-enforcement authorities have conducted a wide-ranging investigation into whether ...
  • German rights holders sue YouTube in escalatin ...
    Janko Roettgers / paidContent: German rights holders sue YouTube in escalating royalty fight  —  German music rights group GEMA has filed a lawsuit against YouTube, alleging that the video site is misleading users about the details of an ongoing licensing dispute between the two ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

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

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/28/13 - Voting Systems & Use: 1980-2012
    votingmachines.procon.org - Voting Systems & Use: 1980-2012 - Find the availability of voting systems in US presidential elections from 1980 to 2012 by percentage of registered voters, as well as explanations and quotes from organizations (like the US Election As ...
  • 1/23/13 - Marijuana Reclassification Rejected ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Marijuana Reclassification Rejected by DC Circuit Court
  • 1/23/13 - Marijuana Reclassification Rejected ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Marijuana Reclassification Rejected by DC Circuit Court
  • 1/22/13 - Official 2012 Presidential Election ...
    2012election.procon.org - Official 2012 Presidential Election Results - On Jan. 17, 2013 the Federal Election Commission released the official 2012 presidential general election results. Barack Obama won the general election with 51.06% of the vote. Mitt Romney received 47.21% of the vote follow ...
  • 1/22/13 - Official 2012 Presidential Election ...
    2012election.procon.org - Official 2012 Presidential Election Results - On Jan. 17, 2013 the Federal Election Commission released the official 2012 presidential general election results. Barack Obama won the general election with 51.06% of the vote. Mitt Romney received 47.21% of the vote follow ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Fracked to death: how gas companies and their ...
    Explaining coal seam gas and its extraction (Source) Today's show reveals the shocking truth about the toxic, and one might say, genocidal effects of Coal Seam Gas, which is now spreading like a cancer throughout the country in both rural and urban environments. My guest in the second hour i ...
  • Count me out of the Sandy Hook truther movement!
    You know what worries me even more than the predatory agenda of the ruling elites? It's the tendency of truthers to fall into line like lemmings on any given conspiracy, to engage in mass group think and, even worse, the readiness to leap to defammatory accusations about people whom they know ...
  • 3 way discussion on guns, your rights and the ...
    President Obama's attempt to "get tough" on gun control has provoked a massive backlash from the patriot community in the US who are sworn to uphold the 2nd amendment at all costs, even if that means civil war. On today's show we take a long hard look at some of the key questions in the debate ...
  • Lies and cover-ups by the Australian national ...
    Today, in the second hour, we welcome journalist Chris Graham to the show. Chris is the founding editor of the National Indigenous Times and the recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs reporting. In the course of our interview Chris documents a range of ...
  • The pharmacracy exposed, with Thomas Szasz - P ...
    In the second hour of today's show we bring you some audio clips from the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, pyschiatrist, philosopher and intellectual giant of the modern era. Szasz was well known for his critique of biochemical reductionism in psychiatry, but it is interesting to note that he was also a ...

Beacon

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

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Taylor Marsh

  • Ready for Hillary Super PAC Launches
    FRIDAY WILL be one of the busiest days of Hillary’s recent weeks when she sits for interviews with five networks. Avid supporters, fans, believers and everyone else who want to make sure Hillary Rodham Clinton understands how much people want her to run in 2016 are not leaving anything to ...
  • Secretary Clinton’s Live Global Townterview [S ...
    IT BEGINS today at 9:30 a.m. It will be Secretary Clinton’s final townterview. From the State Department: This will be Secretary Clinton’s 59th town hall and an opportunity to engage with young people around the world in advance of her last day as Secretary of State on Friday, February 1st ...
  • Thank You Martha Raddatz
    THIS IS a classic exchange, with Martha Raddatz slamming down the notion that some women can’t pull their own weight and then some. Host Martha Raddatz interrupted him, saying she’d seen female combat medics rescue 6’4″ Marines. “That’s fine,” Will respo ...
  • Where are They Now, Romney’s Hacks Edition
    BAY BUCHANAN has evidently quit politics and is starting a new career in real estate. Considering how badly she comported herself in the campaign season it’s a better decision than continuing the path she was on. From a report: “It was so tough. It was brutal,” she said of the ...
  • News Desk: State of Emergency in Egypt Ignored ...
    Thousands of Egyptian protesters ignored a curfew on Monday to take to the streets in cities along the Suez canal, defying a state of emergency imposed by Islamist President Mohamed Mursi to end days of violence that has killed at least 51 people. [Reuters] EGYPT HAS exploded in recent days, wit ...

Hudson New York

  • "Palestine" as a Source of International Dysfu ...
    The phenomenon of "Palestine" is becoming a misfortune for any international institution in which it crops up. This is because those institutions are governed by councils whose members are states. Whenever "Palestine" is on the agenda, these states vote
  • Britain's Little Anti-Semitism Problem
    How bad must things get before people notice that their country has an anti-Semitism problem? Three striking stories from recent days go some way to demonstrating that though Britain may not admit it, we have a problem. Earlier this month the Israeli
  • Hamas's Talibanization of the Gaza Strip
    Those who thought that Hamas would ever establish a modern and liberal regime in the Gaza Strip received another reminder this week of how the radical Islamist movement is pursuing its effort to create a Taliban-style entity in the territory that has
  • Israel's Elections: Going Forward
    The Israeli elections last week saw a meteoric rise of a centrist party, and disproved near-universal forecasts of a rise of the religious right. What do last week's elections say about Israel's future defense policies? Israelis returned Netanyahu to the
  • Muslim Gangs Enforce Sharia Law in London
    Muslim gangs have been filmed loitering on streets in London and demanding that passersby conform to Islamic Sharia law. The self-proclaimed vigilantes, who call themselves Muslim London Patrol, are seen in several videos abusing people for drinking

Urban Survival

  • JumpStart the Presses!
    The magic of liquidity is about to roll over US markets, and as it does, we are expecting to see a huge run-up in gold and silver prices, a bond market collapse and a soaring run of the stock market … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Owning the Future
    Depending on how much coffee you’ve had this morning, you may notice that the previous section had something of a new look to it organizationw-wise.  The reason is something I mentioned in Peoplenomics this weekend and it deserves something of … Continue reading →
  • Friday Adventures in MoneyLand
    An article at Bloomberg/Business week asks a rather intriguing question:  Where has $114 billion in withdrawals from big U.S. banks gone?  There are a couple of lines of thought here.  One mentioned in the article is that the Transaction Account … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With ‘Spiking’ a Story
    You may not have had enough old-time newspaper reporters in your circle of friends to know what ‘spiking’ a story is all about, so consider this a bit of J-school on the cheap.    When a reporter comes in with … Continue reading →
  • NuKoldWar
    The reports are all over the net this morning about how the North Koreans are not only planning a high level nuclear test, but also they seem to have developed enough space-launch capability to make the US defense establishment a … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Proposition 39: California's "Power Boost" for ...
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco Remember those scenes in the cartoons where the hero is about to be overtaken by the bad guys, but at the last minute he tells the co-pilot to turn on the “power boost” and the car leaps forw ...
  • North Dakota: thanks to the oil and gas indust ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. I recently blogged about a hospital in Pennsylvania that has its first budget loss in five years, due to workers in the oil and gas industry who do not have health insurance. I also blogged abou ...
  • New video explains the climate threat from the ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. A new video released by NRDC and 350.org explains how the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a lynchpin enabling the climate intensive tar sands industry to grow unimpeded.  The video ...
  • When it comes to Pebble Mine, here is what's a ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC As Aldo Leopold once pointed out, not everyone makes it to Alaska – just like not everyone makes it to heaven.  I am one of the fortunate ones who has been to Alaska and as a result I feel l ...
  • Latin America Green News: petcoke pollutes in ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. Although today’s edition covers the past two weeks, next week&rsqu ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, January 25, 2013: Los Angeles, California: A secretive cellphone spy device known as StingRay, intended to fight terrorism, was used in far more routine LAPD criminal investigations 21 times … Continue reading →National ...
  • Illegal Detentions by New York Police
    From the New York Times: The judge excoriated the city for flagrant indifference to the Fourth Amendment. The amendment has been interpreted by the courts to mean that police officers can legally stop and detain a person only when they … Continue reading →Illegal Detentions by New Yo ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, January 24, 2013: Bexar County, Texas: A deputy constable is under arrest for allegedly helping other officers get credit for training they never completed. ow.ly/h5YJB Update: Readstown, A 375-page … Continue reading &#859 ...
  • An Anger Management Class?
    Hmm.   If an ordinary Joe threatened a prosecutor, would he get an anger management class and then have the charges thrown out?  Or would he be looking at a felony charge and prison time?  Would the ordinary Joe be eligible … Continue reading →An Anger Management ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, January 23, 2013: Fort Deposit, Alabama: An officer was sentenced to more than three years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against rights and four … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW Daily Dose: Twitter’s transparency r ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, a gas leak at Samsung’s semiconductor plant in South Korea, Twitter’s transparency report, Plurk funding and Chinese games consoles. You can catch The Daily Dose every... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Bye-bye Symbian, hello Vine fo ...
    Bye-bye Symbian, Hello Vine for Twitter and blogging for Quora, all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mozilla’s device ...
    Nikon’s new image sharing space, Deezer and Spotify expand internationally and Mozilla’s mobile devices. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Atari bankruptcy, Yand ...
    Atari files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Yandex provides machine learning for CERN and buying a car over a social network. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: LG hits a milestone, S ...
    SimCity has a small beta that you can enjoy, LG sold 1 million of its new phone, and messaging in Asia is taking off like a Saturn rocket. You can catch The... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Feb 1st - Reef Day of Action events
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  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...
  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...
  • BZE Awards its Volunteers
    BZE relies on its dedicated and skilled volunteers for much of our research and public education initiatives. All our volunteers deserve an award! Today we are recognising those people that have excelled themselves in 2012. A big thank you to them and to all the people that have volunteered fo ...
  • Hartcher should stop providing PR for the gas ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions statement, 20 December 2012 New South Wales Energy Minister Chris Hartcher recently said “If we are unable to access gas the lights will go out. It's as simple as that." (Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2012). The statement is clearly wrong, on many counts (see below). Why is ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • NASA data registers strong deforestation signa ...
    NASA satellites picked up signals of extensive potential deforestation in Sumatra, Borneo, Central Africa, the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon, the Chocó in Colombia and Ecuador, and the Chaco region of Paraguay between October 1 and December 31, 2012, according to the latest update on Mong ...
  • HarperCollins establishes policy barring paper ...
    HarperCollins has established a policy that excludes paper sourced from destruction of tropical rainforests and old growth forests. The revised policy, posted on its web site earlier this month, is a response to a campaign by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an activist group that is targeti ...
  • New palm oil concession imperils orangutan pop ...
    Three conservation groups warn that a proposed palm oil plantation puts a significant Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) population at risk in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The plantation, which would cover 400 hectares of private forest land, lies adjacent to Kulamba Wildlife Reserve, home to 4 ...
  • Cute koalas have become 'urban refugees'
    According to Susan Kelly, koalas have become "urban refugees," under siege by expanding cities that bring with them deforestation, dogs, traffic, and other ills for native wildlife. Director of Global Witness, and writer, producer and director of the new documentary Koala Hospital, Kelly has sp ...
  • Popular pesticides kill frogs outright
    Commonly used agrochemicals (pesticides, fungicides and herbicides) kill frogs outright when sprayed on fields even when used at recommended dosages, according to new research in Scientific Reports. Testing seven chemicals on European common frogs (Rana temporaria), the scientists found that all ...

Sierra Express

  • Open letter to the people of Kabala
    SUBJECT: THERE IS TOURIST POTENTIAL AT KABALA, HOW CAN WE DEVELOP IT FURTHER? A couple of weeks ago, I made an appeal to H.E. the President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma for a review of Presidential decision to locate a new airport at Mamamah (see Sierra Express Media, Premier News, Awareness Times etc. ...
  • President Koroma: The jewel of the internation ...
    Since the post-independence era, Sierra Leone has had the unfortunate situation of having some unpatriotic government functionaries that were only bent on milking the country’s natural resources dry through mismanagement and outright corruption that went unchecked.  (Photo: Alhaji Jalloh, IA, Sa ...
  • Reinforcing the Campaign on Accelerated Reduct ...
    Addis Ababa, 27th Jan 2013: The AU Chairman H.E. Mr. Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin, the African Union Commission and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, hosted a High-Level Event with more than 30 Heads of State and Government under the theme “Reinforcing the Campaign on A ...
  • Summit Ends with Strong Decisions and Declarat ...
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 28 January 2013- The 20th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit holding on the theme: “Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance” ended Monday 28 January 2013 at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with commitment by the AU Heads of State and Government t ...
  • Equatorial Guinea Donates 30K to The Goree Cha ...
    The Goree Challenge is a 5,000 mile solo transatlantic row from Las Palmas, Canary Islands to New York City and will begin later this year. The Goree Challenge mission is to encourage voluntary HIV testing, increase access to antiretroviral medicine for those who need them and advocate for preve ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • A.M. Links: WTO Chief Thinks Cutting Red Tape ...
    The director general of the World Trade Organization says that cutting back on red tape could provide a $1tn boost to the global economy. Who'd have thunk? Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said that the future of Egypt is at stake as anti-government ...
  • Chris Kjorness on How New York Tried to Regula ...
    For more than two decades musicians, comedians, and anyone else employed by a Gotham nightclub would be fingerprinted, photographed, and interviewed by police in exchange for a license to work. The card had to be renewed every two years, and it could be revoked at the whim of the po ...
  • Brickbat: The First Shall Be Suspended
    As students at a Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, middle school were leaving for lunch, substitute teacher Walter Tutka told the last student to leave the classroom "Just remember the first will be last and the last will be first." The student asked where that phrase came from, and Tutk ...
  • Shikha Dalmia Talking Government Motors Dethro ...
    Toyota again knocked GM off its perch as the world's biggest carmaker. Reason Foundation Senior Analyst will discuss the reasons tonight on Huff Post Live. Go here to listen.
  • Preparations for Presidential Election in Iran ...
    The Islamic Republic of Iran will hold its tenth presidential election this summer. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won his second term in a contentious election with a brutal aftermath in 2009 is not eligible to run for a third term. Candidates for the presidency have to be approved by th ...

Mercury Rising

  • US claims authorization to intervene in Mali
    Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy: 1) The Obama Administration has apparently made a legal determination that the conflict in Mali is covered under the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. Most of the reservations about whether President Obama has the legal authority to engage in m ...
  • What happens when you tolerate/aid coups
    Via Adrienne, AP’s Alberto Arce reports that Honduras is “no longer functioning” in the words of Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy. Street surveillance cameras turned off for non-payment, with threats of cutting off police radio as well. Teachers unpaid for six months. Soldi ...
  • News from the Vatican
    Betty Clermont has an epic post on the nature of intramural and extramural conflicts in the Vatican. While I think that reports of the Church’s demise are just a bit premature, the main thread is that there has been a lack of accountability, particularly with regard to financial transactio ...
  • Things To Watch In The Coming Weeks
    Some things to watch in the coming weeks: – In addition to violating the state constitution as already noted, did the Virginia Senate Republicans’ coup attempt flout it in yet another manner? Paul Goldman at Blue Virginia thinks so, arguing that since the Virginia constitution states ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging

Reality Sandwich

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  • The Divine Eros
    During the month of February, Evolver explores conscious love, sexually and intimacy in its many forms. read more
  • Oil Showdown in the Amazon
    [Action Alert] • There is one area of the Ecuadorian Amazon that is so pristine that the whole ecosystem has been preserved and even jaguars roam free! But the government is now threatening to go in and drill for oil. Ecuador’s Sani Isla Kichwa people have asked for our help to stop the g ...
  • The Importance of Living: Lin Yutang meets the ...
    Razzle, dazzle, drazzle, drone, time for this one to come home
 Razzle, dazzle, drazzle, die, time for this one to come alive
 And hold my life until I'm ready to use it
 Hold my life because I just might lose it Because I just might lose it read more
  • Sex in the News
    Female sexuality and global conflict, does girl power make love more confusing, Lena Dunham speaks for girls, online dating and monogamy, and more in this week's update.  read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • "Corporate Bosses"
    How many corporate bosses does it take to solve a problem? 'They're too busy lashing out at workers for sexual thrills'. by "Texts To My Boss" As originally posted on: Texts To My Boss (TextsToMyBoss) on Twitter December 13, 2012
  • "Anybody"
    How to Remove Your Online Identity: The Ultimate Guide to Anonymity and Security on the Internet by Alex Long As originally posted on: Null Byte [Post date not given] Anonymity is something that doesn't exist today. Everything you do in the world is tracked, from the purchases you make to ...
  • "This Admin that Got Hacked" and "You Guys"
    The following tweets were originally posted by "Hmei7" on Twitter via the hacked personal account of "The Lulz Boat" (https://twitter.com/TheLulzSecPress) on January 19, 2013. They have been edited in terms of formatting. This account is now under the control of @officialHmei7 ;-) Hey follo ...
  • "The Evil"
    The following tweets were originally posted by Bryan Runnels on Twitter via his personal account (https://twitter.com/TheLibertysmith), variously, on January 4, 2013 and January 18, 2013. They have been edited in terms of formatting. Network with people who serve each other for each others ...
  • American Businessman / Television Host / Pop C ...
    @realDonaldTrump Go fuck yourself. As originally posted on: Deadspin (Deadspin) on Twitter January 17, 2013

Press TV - Middle East

  • 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.
  • About 700,000 refugees flee Syria: UN
    The UN's refugee agency says more than 700,000 Syrians have fled to neighboring countries as violence fueled by foreign-backed militants continues to threaten civilian lives.
  • Saudis protest in Riyadh again
    Saudi protesters have once again taken to the streets in Riyadh, calling for the release of prisoners detained during anti-regime demonstrations.
  • ‘2 injured in Lebanon bomb attack’
    A bomb has gone off in the suburb of al-Selloum, south of Beirut, leaving at least two people injured, Press TV reports.
  • Rally held in Gaza in support of inmates
    The Islamic Jihad Movement has staged a rally in the Gaza Strip to show solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • projectrenew:Pic of the Day: Walking across ...
    projectrenew: Pic of the Day: Walking across rice the field to rid of unexploded cluster bomb on Flickr. These folks do incredibly important and dangerous work.  (I’ve seen it up close and personal!) Please consider following their Tumblr!
  • Over the course of the Vietnam War, tens if no ...
    Over the course of the Vietnam War, tens if not hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese were detained by U.S. and allied South Vietnamese forces. For some it was only a minor inconvenience: they were held for a few hours, questioned, and then released.  Some were forced to spend a day baking in the ...
  • nprfreshair:Nick Turse, author of Kill Anyth ...
    nprfreshair: Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War In Vietnam, tells Dave Davies about how the U.S. measured military success in Vietnam: They had only this one metric really to go by — body count. And they really never rethought how to fight the war. So when t ...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:American graphic design ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: American graphic designer Robert Brownjohn’s 1969 “Peace Sign” poster, designed for the New York Peace Campaign. From “Visualizing the Many Ways to Say ‘Peace’” by Alice Rawsthorne in The New York Times.
  • "…one day in Afghanistan in 2010, my patrol go ...
    “…one day in Afghanistan in 2010, my patrol got into a firefight and ended up killing...
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