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2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• Indian “curry” dates back to 4,500 ...
  Villagers living at the height of the Indus civilization used three key curry ingredients—ginger, garlic, and turmeric—in their cooking. This proto-curry, in fact, was eaten long before Arab, Chinese, Indian, and European traders plied the oceans in the past thousand years.
• US approves sale of taxpayer subsidised batter ...
  For the US this appears to be a damage control exercise to stop the bleeding where some local jobs are temporarily "saved" but the long term benefits are all to the account of Wanxiang. ... Paradoxically the only way in which the US taxpayer wins is if the technology is a dud and the deal repres ...
• US approves sale of taxpayer subsidised batter ...
  For the US this appears to be a damage control exercise to stop the bleeding where some local jobs are temporarily "saved" but the long term benefits are all to the account of Wanxiang. ... Paradoxically the only way in which the US taxpayer wins is if the technology is a dud and the deal repres ...
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Left Foot Forward

• Look Left going out shortly – sign up to recei ...
  Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
• The rise in apprenticeships is not as good as ...
  Jonathan Clifton, senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, explains why the rise in apprenticeships is not as good as it looks.
• “Dear George…” – a rem ...
  Carl Packman writes a letter to George Galloway, reminding him of his record as, to quote the the prime minister, a supporter of "brutal Arab dictators".
• The case for universal free school meals &#821 ...
  Fiona Twycross AM makes the case for universal free school meals, and calls on Labour to adopt the policy.
• How will UK patients benefit from Healthcare UK?
  Claudia Tomlinson looks at Healthcare UK, which sells the services of the best of the UK health sector to rich people overseas.

Consumerist

• Delta: Just Because Our Website Says You Get F ...
  For his recent cross-country flight on Delta, Josh took Economy Comfort class: it’s a little comfier than Economy, but not as fancy as Business class. Delta’s website says that people in this class don’t have to pay for movies on the in-flight entertainment system, but Josh&#82 ...
• What Is This “Football” You Speak ...
  You’ve got your chicken wings ready, the remote has fresh batteries and the perfect spot is staked out on the couch. Does it even matter that there will be a football game airing during the Super Bowl, or are you just excited to see the ads? A new survey says 91% of consumers gearing up fo ...
• A Third Of $900 Billion In Outstanding Student ...
  As if we needed any more bad news about the already burdensome state of student loan debt in America, a new report says about a third of the almost $900 billion in outstanding student loan debt is held by the riskiest borrowers, the subprime. And another third of those borrowers who are in repay ...
• Waitress Who Posted No-Tip Receipt From &#8220 ...
  Earlier this week, we posted a story about a restaurant customer who not only chose to deny the waitress a tip, but also wrote “I Give God 10% Why do you Get 18?” on the receipt. Now we’ve learned that the server who posted the receipt online has been fired. “I originally poste ...
• Ulta Has Secret Limits On Clearance Items, Won ...
  Courtney was on a mission. It’s her job to find things for people at low prices, and then buy them in large quantities. For example, one day she learned that beauty chain Ulta had Big Chi Digital Hair Irons, which usually cost $169.99, on clearance for $49.99. Score! One of her clients wan ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Grassley Hammers IRS Over Whistleblower Treatm ...
  WOWT: Grassley Outlines Shortcoming in Proposed IRS Whistleblower Regulations Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)January 29, 2013 Summary: The Internal Revenue Service continues to fall short of fully including the whistleblower provisions written by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (R) in 2006. I ...
• Global Fund Whistleblower Files Lawsuits: Dail ...
  Whistleblower Fired by Global Fund Board Files Lawsuits The former Inspector General of the Global Fund – the international financial institution that distributes money to fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis – has filed a lawsuit against the multi-billion dollar organization after being dism ...
• GM of Inter-American Investment Corporation Fa ...
  The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), the private sector lending arm of the multilateral Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), continues to display its contempt for the U.S. justice system, despite the fact that the United States government is the IIC's largest single donor. Jacques ...
• Whistleblower Fired by Global Fund Board Files ...
  GAP has learned that Laurence Fauth – an attorney retained by John Parsons, the former Inspector General of the Global Fund (GF) who was dismissed from his post on 15 November 2012 for alleged "unsatisfactory performance" – filed an appeal of the decision before the International Labour Organiza ...
• Food Safety and Climate Science Whistleblowers ...
  GAP President Louis Clark with whistleblowers Kenneth Kendrick and Rick PiltzEarlier this month, GAP's American Whistleblower Tour visited Franklin & Marshall College (F&M), a small liberal arts school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This third stop of our 2012-13 collegiate tour brought pro ...

UK Progressive

• Women in Combat is More Than a Civil Rights Issue
  by Dr Kyle Scott Univeristy of Houston We should not be surprised to see the U.S. outpace every other country in the developed world in domestic gun violence when it outpaces every other country in the world in international violence. Domestic and international cultures are not, and cannot be, c ...
• Filibuster Reform Kaput
  by Brent Budowsky If the obstructionist monkey remains on the back of Republicans in the grip of factions far to the right of mainstream America, the surrenderist monkey remains on the back of Democrats in Washington who will soon face a backlash from the Democratic base that they have no idea i ...
• At Some Schools, Achievement Lags Behind Oppor ...
  by Jennifer LaFleur ProPublica Some education experts say the opportunity to take advanced classes is critical to helping low-income students succeed later in life. But opportunity doesn’t always equal achievement. Our new analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that, in som ...
• When Doctors Feel Pain After a Medical Mistake
  by Blair Hickman ProPublica Dr. David Ring, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and board certified orthopedic and hand surgeon, once performed the wrong surgery on a patient’s finger. Ring quickly noticed and fixed his mistake, but it was one of the worst experiences of his life, h ...
• Michelle Obama: The Eyes Have It
  by Carl Matthes What fun to read and hear all of the speculation regarding the reason and/or meaning behind First Lady Michelle Obama’s seemingly reactive eye-roll while she was seated at the head table, between Barack and Speaker of the House John Boehner, during a congressional luncheon follow ...

NewsAlert

• US debt headed toward 200 percent of GDP even ...
  The Hill
• Big Money Gets in on Cabinet Nomination
  The L.A. Times
• Medical Excise Tax on Retail Receipts Show How ...
  Infowars
• No Grains Equals No Migraines
  Mark Sisson
• Major lobbies going toe-to-toe in the ongoing ...
  Hot Air reports:Last week, a federal appeals court informed the Environmental Protection Agency that, no actually, the EPA may not punish oil companies for failing to comply with the Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates that they blend a certain amount of advanced cellulosic biofuels into the ...

JoNova

• Sydney Morning Herald: Jessica Wright gets her ...
  The SMH — another Fauxfacts publication Jessica Wright of the Sydney Morning Herald blatantly tries to smear Heartland with outright falsehoods: “A sister pro-tobacco lobbying organisation and corporate member of ALEC, the Heartland Institute, paid for Senator Bernardi’s accomm ...
• Gillard calls election for Sept 14th 2013
  I’ve heard rumors she might rush a March election partly because the global economy is teetering… (and the coalition obviously heard those rumors too, with the mini-campaign launch they put on the weekend). But given that the polls are fairly awful it’s not surprising she&#8217 ...
• Cloud forming bacteria?
  File this under: “How little we know.” The upper troposphere is apparently teeming with particles of bacteria and fungi, surprising researchers.* Proving that life is tenacious and that microbes can survive just about anywhere, a team at Georgia Institute of Technology have discovere ...
• Eight reasons the Australian heatwave is not & ...
  Eight  reasons why this current heatwave is a boring, overhyped example of weather being used for political purposes. 1. It’s the long term trends that matter — not a few weeks of hot weather As climate scientists keep telling us (except when they have a heatwave to milk), ”wea ...
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ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• Chinese Sinkhole: Buildings Collapse
  I’m not convinced that sinkholes are anything more natural occurrences that occasionally get a kick-start from human activities. Certainly the apparent rise in the number of sinkholes worldwide seems to be merely an increase in reporting. Still, you never know! A massive sinkhole in Guangz ...
• Giant Sunspot AR1654: Serious Threat
  I said this a few days ago: If sunspot AR1654 sends an X-flare our way, it will still  most likely be one of the hundreds per century that do us and our satellites no harm at all. But because it is a large sunspot, pointing our way soon, then the potential for the next Carrington Event is there. ...
• Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene
  I’m generally not a fan of theories disguised as fiction, and not a fan of prophecy either (too much to wade through to find anything real, and too hard to determine you have found it). That’s two reasons why Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene is one of the many 2012-related books I failed ...
• Giant Sunspot on the Horizon
  AR1654 is getting bigger as it turns toward Earth. Not only is the chance of flares increasing, but also the chance of an Earth-directed eruption.This could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet. It is all about potential. While a killer sol ...
• More Cranial Deformations / Elongated Skulls i ...
  Today I saw a local lad with an earring that made a hole in his ear lobe the size of a 50c piece. But that is today – I doubt that 1000 years ago people would dare to be so different just to make a spectacle of themselves…. “Cranial deformation in Mesoamerican cultures was used to di ...

Facing South

• Bulk of Pope Foundation money channeled into c ...
  Every December, the family foundation run by GOP mega-donor Art Pope publicizes the money it gives to the arts and community services. But it rarely mentions its grants to conservative groups and causes -- even though they make up 70% of the Pope Foundation's philanthropy. read more
• In North Carolina, full speed in reverse
  The legislative session that starts today promises to bring big changes to North Carolina as the leaders of the once-progressive state seek to slash unemployment insurance, create a more regressive tax code, impose voter ID requirements, increase private control of public schools, and enshrine r ...
• VOICES: The injustice of BP's criminal plea deal
  In New Orleans today, a federal judge approved a deal allowing BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges related to the Gulf disaster in exchange for a $4 billion fine, probation and monitoring. Some of the company's victims objected to the deal including Cherri Foytlin, who explained ...
• Did Duke Energy's secret talks break the law?
  An environmental watchdog group has petitioned the N.C. Attorney General to reopen the probe into the controversial Duke-Progress merger, pointing to CEO Jim Rogers' newspaper interview in which he contradicted official testimony and described what sounds like illegal secret talks with state reg ...
• 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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• NATO in Syria: The Cost of a "New Libya"
• Idle No More: The Kattawapiskak River Housing ...
• Edible City: Grow the Revolution
• La France au Mali: Repérer les médiamensonges (FR)
• Fractured Land: Confronting Big Oil the Ravage ...

Daily Tech

• ZTE Plans Firefox OS Phone, Airs Massive 5.7-i ...
  ZTE is one of the first major OEMs to plug Mozilla's fledgling OS
• Artificial Pancreas Improves Glucose Control b ...
  Type 1 diabetics are expected to benefit from the new dual-hormone treatment
• Nintendo Profitable Again, Cuts Wii U/3DS Sale ...
  Wii U sales goals were reduced by 27 percent
• Judge Koh Deals Apple Another Blow, Says Samsu ...
  Federal judge says Samsung had reasonable reason to believe that Apple's patents were invalid
• Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says Boeing's 787 Dreamlin ...
  He offered his help to Boeing, but the company declined

Oriental Review

• Britamgate: Staging False Flag Attacks in Syria
  On January 22 a telling leak cropped up in the Internet. British defense contractor’s BRITAM server was hacked and megabytes of classified internal files of the firm were released to the public. Now the case is acquiring a Britamgate scale due to the publication on Prison Planet. What is the sto ...
• Britamgate: Staging False Flag Attacks in Syria
  On January 22 a telling leak cropped up in the Internet. British defense contractor’s BRITAM server was hacked and megabytes of classified internal files of the firm were released to the public. Now the case is acquiring a Britamgate scale due to the publication on Prison Planet. What is the sto ...
• Portraying Fathers of the Syrian Revolution
  During the whole of the “Arab Spring” and the Syrian war in particular, the Arab press has kept the actions of the emir of Qatar, Saudi Arabia’s royal family and the leader’s of Israel and Turkey in their crosshairs. When confronted with the published facts, it is possibl ...
• The Arab Winter And Revolutionary Illusionists
  One question is driving us in the face of the Arab revolts: how to assess it? The answer requires a sober view of the events. Let’s start with Syria. Nearly two years ago an opposition movement has been formed, which was run over by history in a very short time. Different internal and exte ...
• Aleppo: the Final Test
  The winter examination period had begun at the University of Aleppo and 15 January was its first day. Many of the young men and women set off for their exams with the same well-known and completely understandable mixed feelings of nervousness, but also hope that they would pass the intellectual ...

BlogHer

• Lying About Birth: Yes, Kate Winslet Should Fe ...
  A friend recently brought to my attention, via Facebook, that Kate Winslet apparently just came out as having lied about having a natural childbirth when in fact she had an emergency c-section. She was embarrassed about having had the section. There seems to be a “c-sections are nothin ...
• Returnships: Great Opportunity or Cheap Labor?
  A new trend is taking hold for people 40-plus returning to the workforce. It's called a returnship (a spin-off of the word internship, and trademarked by Goldman Sachs). The purpose of a returnship is for a mature worker who has been out of the workforce for a few years (usually at least 2 years ...
• If You Can’t Google a Question, You Should Thumb
  Have you ever had a question that you wanted to have a mass opinion on? If you have ever sat and wondered whether or not you can wear socks with sandals and still look fashionable…fear not, now there’s an app for that. Image provided by Web Success Team What is Thumb.it? If you are looking for ...
• Monday Motivation: Power Down and Don’t You Re ...
  It’s Monday morning, and if you are like me, this means you are catching up on tons of email, writing out your weekly plan, goals for the week, and trying to decide what to tackle first. This Monday is especially hectic because last week, I fell sick after taking care of two sick children. Alth ...
• Super Bowl Sparkling Cocktails
  In my household, Super Bowl isn't just a day where we gather around the tv and watch men running with a ball across a large grassy field while trying to avoid getting tackled by the opposing team. It's an event. We usually have anywhere between 20 and 40 of our closest football-loving friends ov ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Protecting the rights of coal miners
  In recent months, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has been patting itself on the back for what it says are stepped up efforts to stop mine operators from discriminating against coal miners who complain about dangerous safety and health practices in the workplace. We mentioned this ...
• Board drops ball – again – on Tomb ...
  Over at the State Journal, Taylor Kuykendall just posted a good follow-up piece to a story we broke two weeks ago in the Gazette. As he explains: A rule regarding methane levels in West Virginia coal mines is held up at a health and safety board that failed to attract enough members to officiall ...
• Do we need to get President Obama off our backs?
  One of the tenets of the “War on Coal” campaign is that coal states like West Virginia need desperately to get President Obama, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal regulators off our backs. Is this true? Well, consider the story we ran in Sunday’s Gazett ...
• UMWA explains Patriot plan for health-care cuts
  Judging from the online video stream (from which I pulled the above photograph) from the United Mine Workers of America protest at Patriot Coal headquarters in St. Louis today, it looks like some folks might soon get arrested. UPDATED: Read the latest on the arrests here. Mike Elk from In These ...
• ‘War on coal’: Industry predicts g ...
  We all remember how the mining industry waged a non-stop campaign against President Obama’s re-election, saying the administration was engaged in a “war on coal.”  At one point, a top National Mining Association official invoked a Muslim reference, claiming the U.S. Environment ...

Daniel Miessler

• Placebos Might Not Be
  One reason this is so disturbing is that drug companies are allowed to use (and do increasingly use) active placebos in their studies. An active placebo is one that is biologically active, rather than inert. “But wait,” you’re probably saying. “Isn’t the whole p ...
• A New Way of Thinking About Fear | TED
  Related Posts:The Happy Secret to Better Work | TEDMemoto Begins What Will Become LifecastingSam Harris on the Joe Rogan ShowThinking, Fast, and Slow: Daniel Kahneman | @Google PresentsMichael Smith @rybolov DDoS Talk
• The Success of Introverts vs. Extroverts &#124 ...
  When social scientists have examined the relationship between extroverted personalities and sales success — that is, how often the cash register rings — they’ve found the link to be, at best, flimsy. For instance, one of the most comprehensive investigations, a meta-analysis of 35 studies of nea ...
• Women and Makeup | The Last Psychiatrist
  In this case, you are seeing a shift of power be repackaged as a gender battle.  And it’s quite apparent that power is a generation or so ahead of you, so in 1990 a 40 year old who grew up around successful lawyers then says to his 5 year old, “daughter, you should become a lawy ...
• A Review of Zero Dark Thirty by Steven Harms
  I believe in years to come, “Zero Dark Thirty” will be held in reverence with other great war movies like “Das Boot,” “The Battle of Algiers,” and “Saving Private Ryan.” All of these movies, while ostensibly about a battle or campaign were actually about something deeper: the human condition ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

• Czech temperature record 1961-2012
  Because Frank E. L. asked me about related issues, I have downloaded all the monthly/regional Czech Hydrometeorological Institute's temperature data from the years 1961-2012 to Mathematica and calculated all statistical quantities I considered interesting. Here is the PDF preview of the notebo ...
• Feed URLs for blog categories
  This is a purely technical blog entry. Magnus Andersson asked me to create a feed with the climate articles only. Blog posts on this blog are assigned several categories or labels – see "other texts on similar topics" beneath each post or the list of categories or labels in the right sideba ...
• Evolving portrait of the electron
  About 150 years ago, people began to do the experiments that would lead to the discovery of the electron. They would study the electrical conductivity of rarefied gases. Finally, in 1896, J.J. Thomson and his collaborators proved that the colorful fog coming from the cathodes is compo ...
• A visit to Crumlaw
  Fun paper: More than 12 years after the LEP collider was closed (now the LHC sits in the same tunnel), the collaborations publish a paper on the search for charged Higgses. That's quite a delay! ;-) On Sunday, I gave an interactive blackboard physics talk in Český Krumlov, an architectonic and ...
• A theory of everything is an important researc ...
  Richard Feynman stressed that we shouldn't make preconditions about how our future description of Nature is going to look like: Lisa Randall, a top phenomenologist whom I know very well, gave an interview to Nude Socialist in which she says that it's an illusion that physics is mostly ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Mockingbird CNN Brings on SPL’s Mark Potok to ...
  “This man was quite well known to his neighbors as holding anti-government views. And also he was known as a survivalist.” – Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center from MOXNEWSd0tC0M: The demonization of military vets, “preppers”, “survivalists” and tho ...
• Widespread price-fixing alleged in Toronto hom ...
  A construction-industry conspiracy to inflate the price of pouring foundations for new houses has been operating in the Toronto area since 1997, Canada’s Competition Bureau maintains in documents obtained by CBC News. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Canadian soccer an easy t ...
• Record withdrawals at U.S. banks as Americans ...
  You probably haven’t heard much about it from the mainstream media, but the latest figures released by the privately-owned Federal Reserve (FED) indicate that America’s largest banks saw record cash withdrawals during the first full week of January 2013. As reported… NaturalNew ...
• Why We Cannot Print/Borrow/Spend Our Way to Pr ...
  Ballooning government deficit spending and debt has a negative effect on private GDP, money supply, money velocity and wages. by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds: I have often explained why the Keynesian belief that the government can print/ borrow and spend enough money to trigger self-sustaini ...
• Exposed: Johnson & Johnson hid data showing 40 ...
  The skeletons just keep on coming out of the closet for pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J), which is currently being sued by tens of thousands of hip replacement patients for knowingly selling a faulty hip implant device that generates loose metal shards and… NaturalNew ...

Truth About Our World

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• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

 

WORLD TRUTH TODAY

• Epigenetics- How Does it Work?
• Nikola Tesla – The secrets hidden in the pyramids of Egypt
• The Hunger Games movie review – a glimpse of our own future if the cancerous growth of government is not checked
• Secrets of Prometheus
• David Icke and Credo Mutwa – The Solution
• The Cancer Report
• We’re Shifting Global Frequencies: Major Victories Await For Humanity In This Decade
• Afghanistan massacre by U.S. sergeant reveals epidemic of psychiatric drugging of soldiers
• 100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911-2011)
• Rense & Jay Weidner – Psychopathic Satanic Evil Everywhere
• Earth Is An Experiment, Duality Is A Game…And Love Is The Answer
• CNN Hero of the Year ‘Mother Robin’ warns that GMOs may cause widespread umbilical cord deformities
• Michael Jackson – “We’ve Had Enough”
• Degenerates Rule America
• Shyness and Internet Browsing May Soon Be Classified As Mental Illness
• Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (Trailer)
• Health Canada Wants Canadians Sick, Diseased and Addicted to Pharmaceuticals
• Antibody Theory: The Fatal Flaw In The Vaccination Agenda?
• Must-see film: Pink Ribbons, Inc
• 10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve
• Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF officials
• Why H.R.3380 the Only Way to Stop the FDA’s Vitamin Grab
• Gabriel – System So Corrupt
• Mercury, Autism And The Global Vaccine Agenda
• The College Conspiracy

 

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• 'She's not Bloomberg:' a union unhappy with th ...
• Mayoral control in Mulgrew's crosshairs, and a ...
• Cat Power reemerges, pretty triumphantly, at T ...
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• Here comes a regular: Rosie Schaap gets a fitt ...
• As Cuomo turned left, his rating with Republic ...

Views & News from Norway

• Doping case dismissed, career ruined
  Doping allegations against Petar Vukicevic, coach and father of Norwegian athletes Christina and Vladimir Vukicevic, were dismissed this week by the state anti-doping agency Antidoping Norge. Norway’s national athletics association (Norges Friidrettsforbund, NFIF) and sports club Vidar nonethele ...
• Telenor attracted to Myanmar
  Telecommunications group Telenor has become the latest Norwegian company to eye Myanmar as a potential new market as the country emerges from years of military rule. Norwegian government officials and Telenor executives have recently visited the country, but remain worried about the levels of co ...
• ‘EEA agreement remains firm’
  Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has confirmed that the country’s main pact for doing business with the European Union (the EEA-agreement, or EØS-avtalen) remains firm as his coalition government seeks a third term this year. Stoltenberg’s coalition partners, often critical ...
• Statoil wants to stay in Algeria
  Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil intends to continue operations in Algeria after a gas processing plant was attacked there earlier this month by radical Islamists, killing 37 foreign workers. Calls have gone out, meanwhile, for an independent review of whether security at the plant was ...
• Ship tunnel plan sails forward
  Plans for a huge tunnel for ships at Norway’s stormy West Cape might finally be given the go-ahead this spring. It would be the first such tunnel in the world and could become a major tourist attraction, but critics blast the project as being a fantasy without social merit. If approved, re ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge 4-Week Group Inter ...
  There are those points in life where it’s all up-hill struggle, when you know there’s so much to be done that it’s not even worth contemplating it all, you just have to keep your eyes on the ground in front of you and keep putting one foot in front of the other. Then there are ...
• Ridge to Valley – a Holistic Watershed Perspective
  This excellent little 20-minute video does a great job of covering the basics of watershed management and landscape rehydration. You won’t hear the words ‘permaculture’ or ’swales’ once, but it’s clear that both are in use here, to great effect. If we can get ...
• Wrapping Up 2012 at ‘Caroola’ (NSW, Australia)
  Caroola Homestead Continuing from the last post, the last few months of 2012 at ‘Caroola’ were a hive of activity, with many visitors taking the opportunity to help out along the way…. Planning After deciding I needed to take the ‘planning’ approach, rathe ...
• Permaculture Park at Lebensgarten, Steyerberg, ...
  Lebensgarten — Garden of Life — is a community located in Lower Saxony, Germany. Built on the site of a former Nazi arms factory, the community has 62 houses. Lebensgarten has a large permaculture park, in which agriculture and human settlements are modeled after nature. This v ...
• How to Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms on Straw
  by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne. I’ve been experimenting recently with growing my own oyster mushrooms, and as you can see from the photos, I’ve met with some success. ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Sandy Hook children to pay tribute to classmates by singing at the Super Bowl http://www.thejournal.ie/sandy-hook-chi ... itter_selfStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:12 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://www.catholicvoice.co.uk/pinay/appendix.htm http://www.catholicvoice.co.uk/pinay/part1.htm#ch5Statistics: Posted by ada — Thu Jan 31, 2013 7:42 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I know CSR isn't a big fan of Zerohedge. I follow them via twitter and I've not seen a dodgy post from ZH about the tribe members. He posted some nonsense once from Debka but since he follows me, I sent him a DM telling him about that mossad run site.Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Thu Jan 31, 20 ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Ognir/Zero Hedge posts: Anyone who spends any amount of time on the internet has seen them. They are the moonbats, the wingnuts, the whackjobs, the Conspiratorialists. They are America’s new Lunatic Fringe, and their numbers are growing. Looks like 'Zero Hedge' sees it as 'us' vs. 'them', wi ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  You have to have a sense of humor, or you become a fanatic. If you want to understand these people and how they operate, then you will appreciate my point...Otherwise you will end up fighting over whether this one is a traitor, or that one...You get nowhere that way. When someone becomes a pro ...

TVNZ

• Japan judo coach to resign after alleged abuse ...
  The Japanese women's Judo coach is set to resign, amid accusations of physical abuse.
• Arab-American groups condemn 'racist' Coke ad
  Arab-American groups have sharply criticized a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad, calling it racist. 
• China sentences two Tibetans for 'inciting' se ...
  A Chinese court has sentenced two people for "inciting and coercing" eight people to set themselves on fire in protest.
• Minute's silence to mark Kiwi's death in London
  A minute's silence will be held in London this Waitangi Day in memory of a Kiwi who died in a freak accident.
• Magnitude 6.7 quake hits central Chile - USGS
  A powerful magnitude 6.7 quake has struck central Chile, the US Geological Survey said

environment 360

• Satellite Analysis Shows Gulf Oil Spills Typic ...
  An analysis of satellite images has revealed that small oil spills that have become common in the Gulf of Mexico are often much larger than reported, U.S. scientists say. Using technology that calculates the size of oil slicks based on differences in the texture of water surface, as captured in ...
• Hazardous Air Pollution in Beijing Triggers On ...
  As Beijing residents continue to endure choking air pollution that far exceeds safe levels, an online poll has found overwhelming support for new clean air legislation. Ten hours after real estate mogul Pan Shiyi Click to enlarge NASA Haze over Beijing, January 2013 posted the poll o ...
• 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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Bureau of Investigative Journalism
  Tags: journalism investigation news
• Climate Dialogue
  Tags: blog environment climate dialogue
• Reef Relief Founders
  Tags: blog environment reef
• Stuart H. Smith attorney: fighting oil, chemic ...
  Tags: oil chemical water radiation pollution
• This Crowded Skin
  Tags: blog politics environment curiosity

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester cancels sp ...
  Spencer invitation to Diocese of Worcester reportedly rescinded.
• STOKING FIRE: Islamophobia Trumps “Pro-L ...
  General freak-out amongst supposed "pro-life" Islamophobes over the growth of the Muslim population.
• Islam Takes Another Step to German Recognition
  Bremen is the third German state to officially recognize Islamic religious bodies.
• Andrew Levine: The Politics of Islamophobia
  An incisive and must read article by senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Andrew Levine.
• ‘I am living in a place where I am a str ...
  Telegraph publishes a racist Islamophobic article by consulting editor at the Salisbury Review, Jane Kelly.

Energy News

• Expert: Napoleonville salt dome may be ‘moving ...
• Kyodo News Advisory: Strong quake jolts easter ...
• Japan Experts: Fukushima Unit 4 is the immedia ...
• TV: Pavement ‘bubbles’ from gas leak — “You kn ...
• Asahi: Gangsters cashing in on Fukushima disas ...

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• An Act to assent to alterations in the law tou ...
  The Conservatives have now tabled the legislation that will, in the words of the...
• Time management
  The Conservatives approved a motion of time allocation yesterday, this time on debate of...
• Infographic: Where are all the jobs?
  Amanda Shendruk looks at 10-year projections and points to some clues
• The Mulcair agenda for constitutional change
  Paul Wells on the NDP bill on secession referendums
• The economy in November: still alive, and pret ...
  To recap:... After three months of zero or near-zero growth, Canada’s GDP expanded 0.3

Making It Count - CCPA

• Atlantic Canada’s story of inequality
  Statistics Canada released new data yesterday on high income trends in Canada with nary a mention of the Atlantic Provinces. From a Canadian comparative perspective, the data told a story that was more striking for most of the rest of the country and in particular, Alberta, Ontario, BC and Quebe ...
• It’s Time for an Equality Premier
  Imagine if Ontario’s incoming Premier – lauded for breaking the inequality barrier on two counts – decided to parlay her victory into a post-austerity focus on solutions to income inequality. Now that would be truly groundbreaking. And it couldn’t come at a better time. Brand new data from Stati ...
• A Tale of Two Telecoms or Actions Speak Louder ...
  Where does the Saskatchewan government stand on the privatization of provincial Crown corporations? You’d be hard pressed to come up with a definitive answer after the government’s partial privatization of Information Services Corporation (ISC), the introduction of new private liquor ...
• Our Way or the Norway
  One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces. Norway has been very effective in distributing oil wealth amongst it regions and its population. Its level of income inequ ...
• Seeing inequality through rose-coloured classes
  Amidst the reluctant media coverage of Idle No More exists a particularly irritating contradiction that centres on how wealth and inequality are examined. The Occupy movement was roundly criticized by the elite’s media handmaids for going after the 1%. “Why are you punishing ingenuity and hard w ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

• Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water ...
  “When groundwater reserves ran low in the 1940s, the region turned to Lake Mead. Today, the Las Vegas area gets 90 percent of its water from the no-longer-very-mighty Colorado River as it is corralled behind Hoover Dam in Lake Mead. And now that’s threatened. A new federal study released i ...
• Punjab ranks high in water pollution by industries
  “The SAD-BJP government’s claims about attracting over a lakh crore rupees of investment in Punjab have been proven hollow, evidently by their own admission. Not just are the bigger industries moving out, but Punjab is among the worst performing states in the country when it comes to ...
• Domesticating the Nu? China’s New Leader ...
  Domesticating the Nu? China’s New Leaders Face Big Hydro’s Policy Hazards by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the Univer ...
• Battle for the Mekong takes new turn
  “Laos reached an agreement with downstream countries Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand more than a year ago to suspend construction of the US$3.5-billion (Bt113 billion) dam while independent studies were made on fish migration patterns and the possible threat posed by the dam to food securit ...
• More Threats From Fracking: Radioactive Waste
  “Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection announced Thursday it was embarking on a year-long study of radioactivity in by-products from oil and natural gas development. But findings and any action from the study may come too late for people like Portage, Pennsylvania res ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• Yea … like this will really work
  … and what if they don’t tell the principal they are quitting – dropping out – what we put them in Joe’s tent city … is this really what we pay folks to represent us …  Filed under: Blogroll
• yellow snow … yummy …
  … Anyone actually think ADEQ was NOT going to approve using SEWAGE EFFLUENT to make snow at Flagstaff’s Snowbowl…?    …  Consider the time – $$$ – energy that for-profit water purveyors and their engineers – attorneys – proprietary vendors have expended to get ...
• all things political
   … Like all things “political” and unquestioningly WATER is a political football … SAFE … is subject to “gerrymandering” … … Whereas Mother Nature’s treatment of water rendering it safe follows smooth elongated lines of flow and abundance of open air our for-profit ...
• RETURN OF DEBTORS PRISON
  America Is Turning Into One Big Prison for People in Debt By Steve Fraser, TomDispatch From debtor’s prison to debtor nation. READ MORE» Filed under: Blogroll
• ABOUT THE SAME AS A SNOWBALLS CHANCE IN HELL
  .… In an Arizona GOP dominated State Legislature these ethic proposals have as much chance of success as a snowball’ chance in Hell … Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Controversial research outlines physics behind ...
  It took over two-and-a-half-years for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics to finally accept a paper outlining a new meteorological hypothesis in which condensation, not temperature, drives winds. If proven correct, the hypothesis could have massive ramifications on global policy— ...
• Beyond the resorts: traveling the real and wil ...
  For its stunning variety of ecosystems, the Dominican Republic is like a continent squished into half an island. Lowland rainforests, cloud forests, pine forests, dry forests, mangroves, savannah, coastal lagoons, salt lakes, a rift valley, karst land formations, four mountain ranges—inclu ...
• Living beside a tiger reserve: scientists stud ...
  During an average year, 87% of households surrounding Kanha Tiger Reserve in Central India report experiencing some kind of conflict with wild animals, according to a new paper in the open-access journal PLOS One. Co-existence with protected, free-roaming wildlife can be a challenge when living ...
• Bloodsucking flies help scientists identify ra ...
  Last year scientists released a study that is likely to revolutionize how conservationists track elusive species. Researchers extracted the recently sucked blood of terrestrial leeches in Vietnam's remote Annamite Mountains and looked at the DNA of what they'd been feeding on: remarkably researc ...
• In the kingdom of the black panther
  The black panther has a mythical aura: Rudyard Kipling chose the animal for one of his heroes in the Jungle Book, in the 1970s it became the symbol of an African-American socialist party, while comic guru Stan Lee selected the stunning feline for his first black superhero. But the real black pan ...

Science - NZ Herald

• White Island continuing to produce 'vigorous b ...
  White Island is continuing to produce "vigorous bursts'' of mud, rock steam and gas up to 100m high and larger explosions including molten sulphur are possible, say experts.The seismic activity, which has lasted several days, poses...
• Tech Universe: Wednesday 30 January
  TRAP A CHARGE: The world around us is full of electric charge. And if you're clever enough, as one German designer was, you can harvest that electricity for your own purposes. Dennis Siegel created an
• White Island activity still 'vigorous'
  White Island has been spewing mud and rock several tens of metres into the air in the past few days, as GNS Science warns of a greater risk to visitors.Scientists monitoring the island volcano in the Bay of Plenty say the crater...
• Bee plight could have massive impact on econom ...
  The plight of bees could have a massive impact on the New Zealand economy, a University of Canterbury ecologist says.Ecology professor Jason Tylianakis said New Zealand exports 80 per cent of its food production, and crops such...
• Tech Universe: Tuesday 29 January
  POLES APART: There's an actual pole at the South Pole, but it's replaced every year because it keeps shifting. The ice below the Geographic South Pole mov

The Bovine

• “Everyone is a farmer”, says embat ...
  From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his state’s prohibition on raising so-called “feral” pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesn’t want to … Continue reading ...
• Windsor councillors vote to remove fluoride fr ...
  From Doug Schmidt in the Windsor Star: “Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has … Continue reading →
• New film “Milk” airing tonight on ...
  “Milk”,  the third documentary film in which raw milk and food rights activist Michael Schmidt has figured prominently, airs tonight at 8 pm on CBC’s Documentary channel.  See trailer below: From the cbc.ca promo page for the film: “Milk: The … Continue reading →
• Britain’s FSA goes after farmer and stor ...
  From Louise Gray in The Telegraph UK:  “Selfridges is being taken to court for putting public health at risk by selling fashionable ‘raw’ milk at its flagship London store, the government’s food watchdog has announced. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) … Continue read ...
• Why can’t we test GMOs for health impact ...
  Jokes abound about software end user licence agreements, which, by and large, nobody reads, although to install the product, you do usually have to click on the box that says you have read it and agree to its terms. Well … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Big Brother in Action: EU Wants Power to Sack ...
  "Big Brother" in Action In case you have not already realized it, 1984 has come and gone politically. All that remains is how fast we march down the path of "thought suppression". Here are a couple of articles that will make my point. The Telegraph reports EU wants power to sack journa ...
• Government Expenditures Plus Transfer Payments ...
  Inquiring minds are digging into the 4th Quarter and 2012 Annual GDP Advance Estimate. Heading into the report, the WSJ Economists' GDP Forecasts were +1.6% for Q4 2012 and +1.7% in Q1 2013. "Shocking" Contraction The GDP report was a shocker, coming in at an annual rate of negati ...
• Dissecting the Fed-Sponsored Housing Bubble; H ...
  In the wake of rising housing prices a reader asked if I would revisit my March 2102 article How Far Have Home Prices "Really" Fallen. The reader specifically wanted an update on inflation as measured by the HPI-CPI (a measure of the CPI where actual home prices instead of rent is the larg ...
• China Averts $482 Billion in Local Bank Defaul ...
  The Chinese banking system is insolvent. Of course, the entire global banking system is insolvent, but today's spotlight is on China. Please consider China averts local government defaults. Chinese banks have rolled over at least three-quarters of all loans to local governments that were due ...
• "We Are Going To Kill The Dollar" Says Obama S ...
  Infowars posted an interesting clip of a Kyle Bass interview regarding the fate of the US dollar. Let's take a look at the video. Here's the article reference: Senior Obama Official: “We Are Going To Kill The Dollar”. Kyle Bass ... "How do you solve a problem when you are ru ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Sibel Edmonds on NATO, Terrorism, 9/11 and Dru ...
  Podcast Interview with James Corbett In this ground-breaking interview, famed FBI whistleblower and Boiling Frogs Post founder Sibel Edmonds lays out the thread connecting NATO’s Gladio operations to Turkish paramilitaries and ultra-nationalists, and how the operation continues through cooperati ...
• Obama Prioritizes Targeted Killings
  Brennan Belongs in Prison, Not High Office A previous article said Obama decided who lives or dies. His kill list chooses targets. He designated himself judge, jury and executioner. He chose John Brennan as new CIA director. He’s currently Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Secu ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Rhetoric vs. Reality in Obama’s Terror War Following upon last week’s discussion of drone warfare, this week’s episode places drone war in the context of the “war on terror,” or what the Obama administration has come to call “Overseas Contingency Operations.&# ...
• Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
  Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Fredriksen’s Golden Ocean Group Gains on Specu ...
  (Bloomberg) — Golden Ocean Group Ltd., the shipping company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen, rose the most in a week in Oslo trading after Carnegie Investment Bank AB predicted a [...]
• Boskalis Finances EUR1.3 Billion to Acquire Do ...
  AMSTERDAM–Dutch dredging company Koninklijke Boskalis Westminster NV (BOKA.AE) said Thursday it has closed the debt financing for the intended takeover of Dutch seatransporter Dockwise NV (DOCKW.AE). MAIN FACTS: - Boskalis [...]
• Shell CEO: Both Arctic Drilling Rigs Need Work ...
  LONDON–Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSA.LN) Chief Executive Peter Voser said Thursday that both its Alaska drilling rigs need more work before they can be ready for this year’s drilling season. The Noble [...]
• Ex-President of Sea Star Line Guilty of Price ...
  WASHINGTON – Frank Peake, the former president of Sea Star Line LLC, was found guilty on Tuesday by a federal jury in Puerto Rico of participating in a conspiracy to fix [...]
• Golar Maria LNG Carrier Sold for $215 Million
  By Debbie Cai Golar LNG Ltd. (GLNG) has agreed to sell the company that owns and operates the liquefied natural gas carrier, the Golar Maria, together with its time-charter, to Golar [...]

Press TV

• US tire company to close French plant
  Despite strong opposition from union officials, the US-based Goodyear Tire Company has announced plans to close a plant in France, creating upto 1,173 job losses.
• Police, protesters clash in Bangladesh
  Police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing protesters in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka as a nationwide strike has brought much of the country to a halt.
• Strong earthquake strikes south Alaska
  An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has struck waters off the southeastern coast of Alaska, but there were no immediate reports of major damages on land or the possibility of a tsunami.
• ‘Israel after creating instability in ME’
  Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has condemned Israel’s airstrike on Syria, saying that the Tel Aviv regime seeks to create insecurity and instability in the region.
• UK keeps mum on Israeli raid on Syria
  Britain has refused to comment on the Israeli raid on Syria, which targeted a military research center near Damascus based on "suspicions" of chemical weapon transfers.

SciDev.net

• Abdus Salam's Unfinished Business
  Abdus Salam used his genius to promote science in the developing world, but his legacy remains unfulfilled, says Athar Osama.
• Funding running out for Aceh tsunami research ...
  Aceh's tsunami research centre is running out of funds, placing its research and preparedness in danger and leaving its staff without pay.
• Focus on Gender: A role for mHealth in sexual ...
  Research is needed into how women and girls could use mobile phones to get help after sexual violence, says Henrietta Miers.
• Asia–Pacific Analysis: Pushing for a strong cl ...
  Although the region is not a big polluter, the threat of climate change means it should lead the way on cuts, argues Crispin Maslog.
• China and India catching up in the innovation ...
  China and India are collaborating with global partners and becoming innovative in their own right, according to new research.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

More Sources

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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Liberian Homes Demolished as Global Leaders Meet
  Fatou Nernee is scavenging through the debris of her home, which was razed to the ground by bulldozers belonging to the Monrovia City Corporation in Liberia. She is looking for something to keep as a treasured memory of a place she called home for over 20 years. Nernee and many others have been ...
• Japan Values Women Less – As It Needs Them More
  Despite anti-discrimination laws and a steadily growing number of employed women, Japan is falling behind the rest of the world on gender equality. Widespread discrimination persists, and has only grown more subtle over the past years. Japan is one of the world’s most industrialised countr ...
• Israel Using Crowd Control Weapons ‘Unlawfully’
  The Israeli army is systematically using crowd control weapons and live ammunition unlawfully against Palestinians in the West Bank, signaling a widespread breach of military regulations and an alarming culture of impunity, a leading Israeli human rights group has warned. At least ten Palestinia ...
• Exorcising the Ghosts of Brazil’s Dictat ...
  At 8 a.m. on Oct. 25, 1975, Brazilian journalist Vladimir Herzog voluntarily reported to the São Paulo headquarters of the government’s intelligence agency and was never seen alive again. The facilities he had been summoned to were just one of the detention and torture centres that were ac ...
• Shell Case Shows Failure of Nigerian Judiciary
  The decision by The Hague over Shell’s liability for polluting in the Niger Delta shows that justice is possible – but it is extremely hard to achieve if you are taking on a massive multinational, says Amnesty International’s Africa programme director Audrey Gaughran. While The Hague dismissed m ...

My AntiWar

• “Going to Tehran”
  Summary: People have been emailing me recently about my review of the Leveretts’ new book, “Going to Tehran”, which I mentioned in an earlier post. I thought it was a great book then, and still do so, even though people have complained about a variety of issues, for example th ...
• French Forces Pressing Mali Campaign Seize Reb ...
• British Army’s Iraq Torture and Murder I ...
• Over $1 Million Spent on Anti-Hagel Advertising
• Bomb Blast in Afghan Market Kills 2 Children, ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• "Going to Tehran"
  Summary: People have been emailing me recently about my review of the Leveretts' new book, "Going to Tehran", which I mentioned in an earlier post. I thought it was a great book then, and still do so, even though people have complained about a variety of issues, for example the suggestion tha ...
• US: We are not sanctioning medicial supplies t ...
  Summary: In mid-November last year the first casualty of the sanctions on Iran was Manouchehr Esmaili-Liousi. Manouchehr was a 15-year-old from a nomadic tribe near the city of Dezful. He died in the hospital after the hemophilia medication that is produced in Europe and the US was not able t ...
• Building Blocks: The obsession that is prevent ...
  Summary: Following two days of talks last week, officials from Iran and the IAEA threw in the towel, failing again to clinch a deal on access to sites, people, and documents of interest to the agency. The IAEA's immediate priority is to get into certain buildings at the Parchin military base ...
• US-led economic sanctions strangle Iran's drug ...
  Summary: Economic sanctions against Iran are affecting the availability of essential and life-saving drugs in the country, forcing patients to turn to an unregulated black marke source: Lancetread more
• Pretty in Pink: The Parchin Preoccupation Paradox
  Summary: The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has just released an important new expert report on Iran’s nuclear program, specifically on the Parchin site of much recent interest to the IAEA. The report is a must-read for a number of reasons, not the least of which is ...

The Daily Galaxy

• The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 245,000!
                                           Join the 249,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governme ...
• TW Hydrae --"An Aging Star Found Creating New ...
                    A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding the surprising star called TW Hydrae may be massive enough to make even more planets than we have in our own solar system. The fi ...
• Ancient Mars Water Flows Hint Life was Once P ...
                  Ridges in impact craters on Mars appear to be fossils of cracks in the Martian surface, formed by minerals deposited by flowing water. Water flowing beneath the surface suggests life may once have been possible on Mars. Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters o ...
• Did a Comet Airburst 13,000 Years Ago Stunt Hu ...
                         Comet explosions did not end the prehistoric human culture, known as Clovis, in North America 13,000 years ago, according to esearchers from Royal Holloway university, who, together with Sandia National Laboratories and 13 other universities across the United St ...
• WISSARD Team Finds First Ever Signs of Microb ...
                Scientists drilling in Lake Whillans, a remote body of water buried 2,600 feet below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, have discovered evidence of living bacteria. The finding follows the recent discovery that microorganisms live within clouds in the troposphere, suggesting t ...

Natural News

• Doctors kill 2,450% more Americans than all gu ...
  Everyone agrees the Sandy Hook shooting was a tragedy. Lots of people subsequently exploited the deaths of those children to push a political agenda of disarming Americans by claiming "guns kill people." But compared to what? Swimming pools kill people. Horseback...
• Hugging loved ones can reduce stress and lower ...
  Almost everyone loves to be hugged - even those that pretend they don't. Hugging is an immediate way for us to bond with loved ones, and virtually every culture on Earth appreciates the feelings of well-being that arise from a warm physical embrace. According to a new...
• Popular dog treats found to be unhealthy, cont ...
  A popular dog treat contains far too many calories to be a healthy snack for most dogs and may harbor dangerous, disease-causing bacteria, according to a study conducted by researchers from Tufts University, the University of Guelph and published in the Canadian Veterinary...
• Magnesium and Atrial Fibrillation
  "Create the Disease and Offer the Cure" appears to be the overriding mandate of allopathic medicine subsuming what I learned in medical school - "First Do No Harm." The most recent "disease" is asymptomatic atrial fibrillation. The article on a physician's site reads...
• Parents clueless that their kids are abusing p ...
  Although prescription drug abuse among both children and adults now rivals illegal street drugs in both prevalence and lethality, most parents are not particularly concerned about such abuse among children and teenagers, according to the most recent University of Michigan...

Threat Level

• New York Times Hacked Again, This Time Alleged ...
  In a dramatic announcement late Wednesday, the New York Times reported that hackers from China had been routing through the paper’s network for at least four months, stealing the passwords of reporters in an apparent attempt to identify sources and ...
• Kim Dotcom’s Mega Gets Third-Party Search Engine
  The file-sharing site Mega, introduced two weeks ago by infamous file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom, just became a lot more useful to content pirates, thanks to a community-fed search engine of links to content hosted on Mega's servers.
• Activists Flood Government Agencies With FOIA ...
  In honor of the transparency fights that coder and internet activist Aaron Swartz led while alive, an online records processing service has submitted 153 public records requests on behalf of members of the public.
• Court Upholds Conviction in Dead Sea Scrolls E ...
  A New York appeals panel is upholding the e-mail impersonation conviction of the son of a famous Dead Sea Scrolls scholar -- setting aside contentions that the e-mails were constitutionally protected satiric hoaxes or pranks.
• Researchers Find Serious Security Flaws in Uni ...
  Researchers have uncovered three sets of serious security flaws in the protocol for Universal Plug and Play, a component embedded in nearly 7,000 different kinds of devices -- including routers, printers, media players and smart TVs -- that would make ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Public Sector Austerity Still Slowing U.S. Economy
  All along, the real danger of the so-called "fiscal cliff" wasn't that U.S. national debt would increase, but instead that it would drop too quickly. Now, the surprise news that the American economy contracted by 0.1 percent in the last quarter of 2012 is providing a case in point. Along with ...
• John McCain Comes Full Circle on Immigration-- ...
  The new bipartisan immigration framework announced by the "Gang of 8" brought some great news for Mitt Romney. After he lost the Hispanic vote by 44 points in 2012 (up from just 9 in 2004), Senate Republicans have apparently concluded you can have illegals, for Pete's sake. But at least for no ...
• Lincoln's Heir
  One sure sign of the success of Barack Obama's second inaugural address on Monday is that right and left shared a common assessment of its impact. Conservatives decried the "amazing" speech (Charles Krauthammer) as "among the best of the past half-century" (David Brooks) precisely because liber ...
• Gun Control Foes Resurrect Confederate Constit ...
  President Obama's gun control proposals have predictably--and disturbingly--spawned protests with names like "Gun Appreciation Day" and the February 23rd "Day of Resistance." But with their bills calling for the nullification of new national gun laws and the imprisonment of federal officials en ...
• Mississippi Governor Declares No One Without H ...
  This week, Mississippi Republican Governor Phil Bryant had great news for the residents of the Magnolia State. Whether you have insurance or not, cancer or cardiac disease, diabetes or dialysis, Bryant declared, "There is no one who doesn't have health care in America." Rejecting the Affordabl ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

• The Iraq War ‘Surge’ Myth Returns
• When Truth Tried to Stop War
• How Congress Undermined 9/11 Cases
• Obama’s Annoyance with Media
• Reality Bites Back

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Asteroid 2012 DA14 Will Just Barely Miss The E ...
  Asteroid 2012 DA14 is going to just miss the Earth on February 15th. It will pass by at a distance of just 14,913 miles, which is closer than many satellites orbit. If it did strike the Earth, which it may in the future, the 164ft long asteroid has about as much destructive potential as an H-bom ...
• North American Forests Might Encounter Spring ...
  New research on trees in the continental United States has found that new spring leaves might start to bud up to 17 days earlier in the coming century then they did prior to the current anthropogenic climate change. The research is behind a new study by Princeton University researchers who used ...
• Science of Aging News: ‘Super Agers’ With More ...
  The following is a roundup of some of the most notable, recent advances and discoveries in Aging research. Like the body’s muscles, our brain matter shrinks as we age. Brain lobes become skinnier. Neurons “die off”. An average person at 80 has significantly less brain matter th ...
• Samples Taken From Isolated Antarctic Lake Ben ...
  An Antarctic research team has accomplished what no other team has ever accomplished previously by drilling through 800 metres (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach an isolated subglacial lake and taking water and sediment samples. Isolated from our atmosphere for thousands of years, the sample ...
• Climate Change Impacting Health, Safety And Ec ...
  A new report authored by leading scientists and experts explains that the effects of climate change are going to continue threatening the health of coastal communities throughout the United States. The report emphasises the need for increased coordination and planning to protect US coastal commu ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• SLWSS President Presented with Diamond Jubilee ...
  Editor Steve Dills reported on the award ceremony in the Sylvan Lake News. Graeme Strathdee, preside
• What Successful People Do In The Morning!
  What successful people do in the morning By Jessica Stillman | Inc – Thu, Jun 14, 2012 9:24 AM ED  
• Health Topics
  Red meat shortens lifespan We’ve heard many times before that too much red meat is bad for us,
• Cattle and the freshwater pearl mussel
  Reblogged from The Geography and Environment postgraduate blog: It was Sunday 22nd July around 19:30
• My Path to Veganism
  Since High school when I became aware of the great nutritional evil of fast food, particularly Micke

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• How Neoliberal Tax and Financial Policy Impove ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com November 23, 2012 Image
• Israeli War Crimes: “Surgical Strikes” against ...
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 24 November 2012 Image by txen
• Post-Election: Expect More Drone And Space War ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Nov. 20, 2012 Image by World Can’t Wa
• Israeli Сrimes Expose US Arab Despots by Finia ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from Strategic Culture Fou
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This is What Co ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Nov. 19, 201

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC Mother Nature is trying to save us from ourselves and she's more than meeting us half way. Trees are expected to start leafing up to 17 days sooner in the spring, meaning they will have more than two weeks each year of bonus carbon consumption by the atmosphere. Israel just hits Syria ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By @BGinKC What kind of jerk comes out guns-a-blazin' instead of keeping the damned thing in his waistband and asking "can I help you kids find someplace? You look lost." Phillip Walker Sailors has been charged with malice murder after a GPS unit sent a carload of kids to his driveway and he sho ...
• HB 350: "Nobody move suddenly, he's got a duck ...
  "When ducks are outlawed, only outlaws will have ducks." "I will give up my duck when they pry my cold dead fingers from around it." "Teachers and school administrators should have rubber duck training so they can be prepared for any contingency." "Rubber ducky, you're the one, you make bath tim ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By@BGinKC This damned fool does realize,  doesn't he, that the last time a budget was balanced the President who balanced it was a Democrat? Of course, deficits only matter when there's a Democratic president. Boy Scouts Get With the Times -- They're Considering removing their ban on gay le ...
• "Liberal! Liberal! Liberal!"
  By @TedFrier Conservatives really need to get their history straight. Either President Obama is a "reactionary" liberal, as Charles Krauthammer insists, committed to an "unyielding" defense of the 20th century welfare state" while clinging "zealously to the increasingly obsolete structures of So ...

Care 2

• Mark Kelly directly confronts NRAs Wayne LaPie ...
  Former astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), directly confronted National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre during Wednesdays Senate hearing on gun violence. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |  &nbsp ...
• APN Welcomes Kerry Confirmation; Reiterates Ca ...
  Americans for Peace Now (APN) today warmly welcomed the Senate's confirmation of Senator John Kerry as the next Secretary of State. APN praised Kerry's strong track record as a foreign policy leader and reiterated its call for President Obama ... Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov&# ...
• Strange planetary systems may be most promisin ...
  To get warmth and liquid water for E.T. life astronomers believe a planet near a white dwarf star would be the best bet. The heat from these expired stars lingers for billions of years. Logged by Sunstroke author David Kagan in Doomwatch Legacy. Submitted by Dan M. to Science & Tech   ...
• Stop The Euthenization Of A Dog (because they ...
  Just when you think that you have heard it all, along comes an excuse that completely boggles the mind. Tomorrow, a dog, name unknown, will be put to death at an overcrowded animal control in Jackson, Tenn., after his owner surrendered him there Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals ...
• Urgent Action Needed: Sea Shepherd Needs Your ...
  Conservation Group Launches Two White House Petitions; Has 30 Days to Collect 100,000 Signatures. Article contains links to the petitions. Submitted by Brian M. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Homegrown Terrorists on the Rise
• The Question No One Is Asking About Keystone XL
• Tomgram: Nick Turse, Chuck Hagel and Murder in ...
• ‘Bleeding Kansas’ Threatened with Bloodshed by ...
• Women in Combat: A Distraction from the Real Issue

Paul Krugman

• Calvinist Monetary Economics
  Visceral dislike of easy money does not a sound analysis make.
• Incestuous Amplification, Further Illustrated
  VSPs together, feeding their shared delusions.
• Incestuous Amplification, Economics Edition
  If you don't share the misconceptions, you don't count.
• My Talking Head Does Morning Joe
  Teevee time.
• Failures
  Somebody's,anyway.

No Quarter

• Obama’s Victory Economy, NOT!
  Imagine what the left wing media would be writing and crying about if George W. Bush was still the President and offered up this kind of pitiful economic outcome: The US economy shrank 0.1 per cent at an annualised rate in the fourth quarter of 2012, the first contraction in three years, rattlin ...
• Marco Rubio, Lightweight Poser
  During the Presidential election, I was open to consider Marco Rubio as a fresh voice of promise for the Republican party. I thought he had some substance. Boy, was I wrong. Watch the following exchange last week with Hillary Clinton over the debacle in Benghazi, Libya. Rubio started off with so ...
• More On Why Women Should Not Serve in the Infantry
  Let’s face it. The sole reason that women are now “approved” for possible service in combat units is career service, i.e. getting promoted. In other words, we want to jeopardize our nation’s security just so some woman in the military can feel good about herself. What a c ...
• The Keystone Pipeline Project (open thread)
  From an article titled, “Approving Keystone XL Pipeline Would Be a Big Win for Obama,” from U.S. News & World Report: Gov. Dave Heineman’s approval this week of the Keystone XL pipeline reroute through Nebraska rocketed one of America’s most important energy decision ...
• Disqus Has Changed Its Password Policy (open t ...
  I have noticed that some of you are experiencing difficulty signing in to Disqus. Disqus now requires that passwords be no longer than 6 characters. To change your password, go to Disqus’s home page. Click here. By the way, the following images are screenshots. You will then receive an e-m ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

• Human Rights Film Festival sheds new light on ...
  Human Rights Film Festival sheds new light on growing social issues The Duquensne Duke 21, the 2013 Film Series will show seven award-winning documentaries covering human rights issues of mountain-top removal mining, genocide and abuse towards women. The screenings of the films are free, open to ...
• National Journal opines that Ashley Judd divor ...
  National Journal opines that Ashley Judd divorce is bad news for Mitch McConnell The Courier-Journal (blog) That might be a chore for Judd because she has been critical of mountaintop removal mining. Many in Eastern Kentucky depend on coal to put food on their tables. And remember what the coal ...
• Local CD Review: The Lonetones - Knoxville Met ...
  Local CD Review: The Lonetones Knoxville Metro Pulse As a songwriter, she's abstract and dreamy—a contrast to McCollough's more straightforward lyrics about mountaintop removal, idealism, and Steph herself. Swapping frontperson duties over and over, yin and yang, they don't duet much ...
• EPA threatened with lawsuit over W.Va. waterwa ...
  DailyTech EPA threatened with lawsuit over W.Va. waterways spiritofjefferson (blog) Meanwhile, another coalition of environmental groups announced Monday that it was reopening a separate lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Interior over the so-called stream buffer zone rule for mountaintop re ...
• Uncertain future for US towns built on coal - ...
  Aljazeera.com Uncertain future for US towns built on coal Aljazeera.com Mountaintop removal, the most notorious form of surface mining, faces mounting regulation and an organised opposition that the West Virginia Coal Association has called "radical anticoal extremists". Opponents of m ...

Memeorandum

• Tennessee "Don't Say Gay" bill would require t ...
  Katie McDonough / Salon: Tennessee “Don't Say Gay” bill would require teachers to out their students  —  Language in the bill also appears to endorse counseling for students who are “at risk” of being LGBT  —  If you thought that you'd hea ...
• Venomous Antisemitism published by European fu ...
  Palestinian Media Watch: Venomous Antisemitism published by European funded Ma'an  —  Venomous Antisemitism published by Palestinian Ma'an News Agency  —  funded by  —  Danish, Dutch and UK governments and the EU, UNDP, and UNESCO  —&nb ...
• Tornado leaves extensive damage in NW Georgia; ...
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Tornado leaves extensive damage in NW Georgia; 1 reported dead  —  At least one death and numerous injuries were reported Wednesday as storms, including a tornado, hit parts of Bartow, Gordon and other northwest Georgia counties, leaving destruction ...
• RUBIO'S AMNESTY A PATH TO OBLIVION FOR GOP (An ...
  Ann Coulter / Human Events: RUBIO'S AMNESTY A PATH TO OBLIVION FOR GOP  —  RESIZE:  —  Apart from finding out that Barack Obama did far worse in his re-election than nearly any other incumbent who won re-election, the only thing that perked me up after Nov. 6 was ...
• Cops handcuff and interrogate boy, 7, for hour ...
  New York Post: Cops handcuff and interrogate boy, 7, for hours over missing $5: family  —  This kid was no killer — but some callous Bronx cops sure treated him like one.  —  Instead of earning himself a simple trip to the principal's office, a terrified 7- ...

Energy & Environment News

• U.S. Navy to Scrap Vessel Stuck on Philippine Reef
  Philippine officials are examining potential legal violations and fines against the United States after a $277 million ship ran aground in a protected coral reef.
• Officials Back Deep Cuts in Atlantic Cod Harve ...
  New England fishery management officials say the only way to save the centuries-old cod fishing industry is to sharply limit it.
• DealBook: Renewable Energy Industries Push for ...
  With government approval, investment structures more commonly used by the oil, gas and real estate industries could make wind and solar companies more appealing to investors.
• French Lights to Be Dimmed to Save Energy
  Major attractions like the Eiffel Tower will remain lighted, and there will be exceptions for celebrations, but France is directing shops and offices to turn their lights off at night.
• Green Blog: A One-Stop Shop for Water Worries
  A new mapping tool visualizes water stress and scarcity around the globe.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 6.0, Southeastern Alaska
  Thursday, January 31, 2013 09:53:43 UTC Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:53:43 AM at epicenterDepth: 9.70 km (6.03 mi)
• M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
  Thursday, January 31, 2013 06:42:10 UTC Thursday, January 31, 2013 05:42:10 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.20 km (21.87 mi)
• M 5.4, Santa Cruz Islands
  Thursday, January 31, 2013 05:18:14 UTC Thursday, January 31, 2013 04:18:14 PM at epicenterDepth: 45.70 km (28.40 mi)
• M 5.0, Santa Cruz Islands
  Thursday, January 31, 2013 05:16:58 UTC Thursday, January 31, 2013 04:16:58 PM at epicenterDepth: 25.00 km (15.53 mi)
• M 5.6, Santa Cruz Islands
  Thursday, January 31, 2013 04:31:33 UTC Thursday, January 31, 2013 03:31:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 32.90 km (20.44 mi)

China Dialogue

• 中国新能源&#6530 ...
  中国新能源行业正处在最困难的时刻。从寂寂无名到风光无限，再到哀鸿遍野，仅仅 ...
• 10年回顾：从&#29 ...
  在国家层面的“环保风暴”逐渐销声匿迹之时，民众参与的环境社会运动走上前台。&# ...
• 中国在水资&#2830 ...
  在水资源保护领域，中国一方面以小规模创新模式领先于世界。然而，另一方面，政 ...
• 中国企业如&#2030 ...
  2005年，中国企业发布的可持续发展报告只有9份，2011年已达898份。中国企业节能减排与“&#325 ...
• 寻找雪域环&#2044 ...
  去年，青藏高原民间环保组织青海省三江源环境保护协会（以下简称三江源协会）全 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Churches Threaten to Pull Funding If Boy Scout ...
  The Boy Scouts of America announced earlier this week that they are considering an end to their decades-long ban on gay members, leaving it to regional and local councils to dictate membership guidelines on sexuality.The news was met with cheers from scouts across the country who ha ...
• Would African-Americans Have Been Better Off I ...
  The same day that President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines for their first joint interview, on 60 Minutes, NAACP President Ben Jealous delighted conservatives with his headline-making interview on another Sunday news program. Appearing on Meet the Press, ...
• What My Husband Said Before He Died
  “I’m a mangy gray dog with its ribs showing named van Gogh,” my husband told me not long before he died. “I have soulful brown eyes.” In real life, his name was Kevin, and he had blue eyes. But my husband was always a writer. Words were his tool, employed skillf ...
• Gun Control Agenda Is Launching White Paranoid ...
  The battle over gun control has exposed a truth the mainstream media is apparently too shy to mention: A bunch of far-right, white, mostly Southern, paranoid extremists are preparing for armed revolution and apocalypse. They speak treason: literally.They are preparing to "defend" America from ...
• Libertarian Developer's Ayn Rand Fantasy Is De ...
  This article first appeared on theNation.com. For more great articles subscribe here. Check out what the loopy Ayn Randroids are up to now. In long-suffering Detroit, a libertarian real estate developer wants to buy a civic crown jewel, Belle Isle, the 982-acre park designed by Frederick ...

Threat Level

• New York Times Hacked Again, This Time Alleged ...
  In a dramatic announcement late Wednesday, the New York Times reported that hackers from China had been routing through the paper’s network for at least four months, stealing the passwords of reporters in an apparent attempt to identify sources and ...
• Kim Dotcom’s Mega Gets Third-Party Search Engine
  The file-sharing site Mega, introduced two weeks ago by infamous file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom, just became a lot more useful to content pirates, thanks to a community-fed search engine of links to content hosted on Mega's servers.
• Activists Flood Government Agencies With FOIA ...
  In honor of the transparency fights that coder and internet activist Aaron Swartz led while alive, an online records processing service has submitted 153 public records requests on behalf of members of the public.
• Court Upholds Conviction in Dead Sea Scrolls E ...
  A New York appeals panel is upholding the e-mail impersonation conviction of the son of a famous Dead Sea Scrolls scholar -- setting aside contentions that the e-mails were constitutionally protected satiric hoaxes or pranks.
• Researchers Find Serious Security Flaws in Uni ...
  Researchers have uncovered three sets of serious security flaws in the protocol for Universal Plug and Play, a component embedded in nearly 7,000 different kinds of devices -- including routers, printers, media players and smart TVs -- that would make ...

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Veal Recalled Due to E. coli O157:H7
  San Jose Valley Veal, a Santa Clara, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,260 pounds of veal trimmings that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s... Continue Reading
• Cantaloupe on my mind – Without Pathogens Please!
  I had the opportunity to meet a number of the best and the brightest in the produce industry today, and learned much about what they are now doing to make... Continue Reading
• Topps Meat E. coli – Two Strikes You’re Out!
  Strike 1. On September 7, 2005, the Albany County Health Department (ACHD) was notified that a child was hospitalized with a diagnosis of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).  Preliminary laboratory testing... Continue Reading
• A Cannery Out of Control with Botulism and Ban ...
  This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary... Continue Reading
• Marler Clark Retained in Raw Ground Beef Salmo ...
  We were retained today by two sisters who each spent a week in the hospital after suffering Salmonella Typhimurium infections after eating raw ground beef kibbeh (that they thought was... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Slow Wine and Vinitaly International Wine Tast ...
  The Fun of Learning About Italian Wines and Tasting Great Wines: Slow Wine and Vinitaly International NYC Wine Tasting.
• BlackBerry Announces New Flagship Phone Z10
  BlackBerry Z10 Unveiled As BlackBerry's Newest Flagship Smartphone
• Interview: John Campbell from Lamb of God
  Lamb of God founding member takes a moment to discuss the future, the past and share some amusing band stories
• RIM Changes Name to BlackBerry, Releases Black ...
  RIM Launched BlackBerry 10, and Changed it's Name to BlackBerry at it's Launch Event Wednesday Morning.
• Lights, Action...Social Media: Movies and Travel
  Movies shape where we decide to travel, and Social Media shapes what movies we see.

Time - Top Stories

• Marco Rubio Courts Base While Crossing the Aisle
  Marco Rubio Courts Base While Crossing the Aisle
• In Burma, Media Reform Tests the Limits of Fre ...
  Both the government and the opposition are adjusting to the new media ecosystem
• Why Some Americans Working Abroad are Ditching ...
  Tina Turner says she's turning Swiss because she's lived in Switzerland for years now. But there are tax benefits for giving up an American passport
• Israeli Jets Bomb Military Convoy in Syria
  Israeli Jets Bomb Military Convoy in Syria
• Didier Drogba Leaves China: Inside a Failed So ...
  Didier Drogba Leaves China: Inside a Failed Soccer Experiment

Invisible Opportunity

• Police state gone wild: Couple facing 60 days ...
  by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) An Indiana couple saved a wounded baby deer and nursed it back to life, saving its life and giving it a home. They named it “Little Orphan Dani.” When Indiana state officials got word of this courageous act of compassion, they ordered th ...
• Most 9/11 Commissioners Don’t Buy The Of ...
  Most 9/11 Commissioners Don’t Buy The Official Story, Why Do You? – YouTube.
• Iceland President: Let Banks Go Bankrupt
  Iceland President: Let Banks Go Bankrupt – YouTube.
• Max Igan: Sandy Hook An American Coup d’ ...
  Max Igan: Sandy Hook An American Coup d’état ~ FULL LENGTH – YouTube.
• 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 ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

• Deflating the housing bubble – an update
  Summary:  Since the first post here about the housing crisis in December 2007, it’s been described here as not just a central piece of the economic weakness but a illustration of our political dysfunctionality — our inability to use a crisis to identify structural weaknesses and gene ...
• About the future of an American army with wome ...
  Summary: Martin van Creveld discusses a timely topic: “To Wreck a Military“, Small Wars Journal, 28 January 2013. He describes the likely results of employing women as soldiers, no matter how politically and ideologically necessary. Here we examine his claims, however impolitic. His ...
• Why America’s growth is slowing, and a s ...
  Summary:  The 21st century holds many economic challenges for the world.  Rivals (eg, China). The robot revolution (job losses from the next wave of automation). And slowing technological growth, an essential driver of the US economy.  This is a follow-up to Has America grown old, and can no lon ...
• What will China’s new leaders do? Bold o ...
  Summary:  China is one pole of the 21st century world. Skeptics have predicted China’s crash for over a decade.  Even the IMF has began warming about China’s over-investments and shake banking system. Now a new generation of leadership take command. Much depends on their decisions, w ...
• Too many “takers”? Look to science ...
  Summary:  People’s favorite fantasies don’t reveal what they’ll do, but provides a window into their thinking. Conservatives talk about the problem of the “takers” (ie, the “47%”). A famous science fiction author describes one solution in his best-sellin ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Turbulen ...
  This mosaic of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the trail of a great northern storm on Saturn raging in full force. The contrast in the images has been enhanced to make the turbulent parts of the storm (in white) ...
• Live Chat: The Science of Gun Violence
  Each year, roughly 30,000 people in the United States die of firearm-related homicides and suicides. When President Barack Obama recently unveiled his ambitious gun control agenda, he called the death toll “a public health crisis” and ended a 17-year freeze ...
• ‘Sound Maps’ May Help Pigeons Navigate
  A new study proposes that birds use infrasound -- low-level background noise in our atmosphere -- to fly by "images" they hear. These acoustical maps may also explain how other creatures steer.
• It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near- ...
  Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesized laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily lifelike ways. The particles aren't truly alive -- but they're not far off, either.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Earth Fr ...
  The Earth as seen from the Moon. LROC NAC mosaic of images snapped on 12 June 2010 during a calibration sequence, E130954785L and E130954785R.

PakAlert

• MK Ultra, Civilian Disarmament, WW3, the CFR A ...
  “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watch ...
• Why the Sudden Barrage of Live-Fire Military D ...
  An unannounced Army drill with military helicopters and machine gun fire simulating a raid on an empty school terrorized a Houston community on Monday.
• U.S. Government Claims – Just Like the Nazis – ...
  In the classic history of Nazi Germany, They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer writes: “What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so co ...
• 228 Sheriffs Saying ‘NO’ to Obama Gun Control
  Sheriffs have risen up all over our great nation to stand up against the unconstitutional gun control measures being taken. The following is a list of sheriffs and state sheriff’s associations from who have vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s unlawful gun control measu ...
• Who Runs The World? Solid Proof That A Core Gr ...
  Does a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy elitists control the world? Do men and women with enormous amounts of money really run the world from behind the scenes? The answer might surprise you. Most of us tend to think of money as a convenient way to conduct transactions, but the truth is tha ...

Andy Worthington

• From Guantánamo, An Innocent Man Pleads for Re ...
  I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
• Save Lewisham Hospital: More Photos of the Mas ...
  Save Lewisham Hospital: More Photos of the Massive Protest on January 26, 2013, a set on Flickr. So now we wait. On Saturday, as this second set of my photos shows — following on from the first set here — around 25,000 people marched through Lewisham, in south east London, to a rally ...
• Save Lewisham Hospital: Photos of the Huge Mar ...
  Save Lewisham Hospital: The Huge March on January 26, 2013, a set on Flickr. On January 26, 2013, in Lewisham, in south east London, I took these photos of an extraordinary demonstration, in which an estimated 25,000 people marched from the centre of Lewisham, past Lewisham Hospital and up Georg ...
• A Hollow Inauguration
  On January 11, the 11th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, I was in Washington D.C., with various human rights groups, lawyers, mainly religious anti-torture groups, and other concerned individuals, calling on President Obama to fulfill the promis ...
• Omar Deghayes and Andy Worthington Discuss Gua ...
  On Tuesday January 29, 2013, I will be in Brighton — and, specifically, the University of Sussex, in Falmer — for an event organised by the Sussex University Amnesty International Society entitled, “Freedom from Torture: Guantánamo Bay Panel Event with former detainee and leadi ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Evernote Penultimate now free
  Evernote has made its hand-writing app for iPad free as of now. Always keen to grab any worthwhile freebies, I took a look and was quite surprised and pleased to see what they are using as a demonstration screenshot: Evernote Penultimate now free is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogEvernote ...
• End-of-January Kindle Sale
  UPDATE: 2013-01-31 Amazon UK has the Kindle version of my book – Deceived Wisdom – at a knock-down price of just 99p today. Remember there are Kindle apps for most mobile devices and computers, so you don’t need an actual Kindle to take advantage of the offer. You don’t n ...
• DCD, dicyandiamide, 2-cyanoguanidine
  2-Cyanoguanidine, also known as DCD (dicyandiamide) is a nitrile derived from guanidine used as a curative agent for epoxy resins in packaging. Since 2004, it has been used in New Zealand by farmers hoping to lower the environmental impact of livestock by reducing the rate at which soil microbes ...
• Fossil perspective on economic growth
  A paper from a researcher at Fukushima University caught my eye recently. Not least because it was from that university, but also because the city was in the news again because of proposals to plant a wind farm off the coast there. Moreover, the paper is about how fossil fuels drive economic gro ...
• NASA solar montage of Elmer the Elephant
  We usually think of the sun as that big glowing ball in the sky, at least on days when we can see it, grey here again (ahead of imminent snow storms). But NASA can paint a different picture using specialized instruments, either in ground-based or space-based telescopes, which can “see&#822 ...

Common Dreams -News

• Student Loan Delinquencies Skyrocket Signaling ...
  Young people are more likely than ever to default on their students loans, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO Labs), signaling that the monstrous debt situation is worsening and will continue to plague our next generation of graduates. ...
• Americans Working More, Earning Disappointing ...
  If you've found yourself working harder and longer for little payout, you're not alone. Most U.S. workers, according to a new paper released Wednesday from Economic Policy Institute president Lawrence Mishel examining trends in work hours and wages from 1979 to 2007, have been working mo ...
• Obama’s Flip-Flops on Money in Politics: A Bri ...
  When President Obama told supporters that he would morph his campaign into a new nonprofit that would accept unlimited corporate donations, the announcement set off a familiar round of griping from campaign finance reformers. The creation this month of Organizing for Action, which will prom ...
• Washington Urged to Stress Diplomacy in Mali
  WASHINGTON - As Washington broadens its military “footprint” in the Sahel region of Africa, U.S. analysts are urging the administration of President Barack Obama to devote more effort to diplomacy, especially in Mali. read more
• 'Outbreak of Rage' and Egypt on the Brink
  Reporting from Port Said, Egypt, Democracy Now! correspondent and frequent Nation contributor Sharif Abdel Kouddous explains why the young Egyptian government could be on the brink of collapse: read more

Lifehacker

• Five Survival Skills the Movies Taught You Wrong
  CPR will save someone's life in a matter of seconds. Tilt your head back and look at the clouds to stop a nosebleed. If an animal spots you in the woods it will chase you relentlessly and maul you. Movies are great at telling stories, but they're horrible at teaching basic survival skills ...
• DaisyDisk Figures Out What's Taking Up Space o ...
  OS X: When you start running out of space on your Mac, the best way to figure out where it's all gone is to use a disk space analyzer. DaisyDisk, one of our favorite disk analyzers, is on sale for only $5, down from its usual price of $10. More »
• Six Reasons You're Not as Happy as You'd Like ...
  No one ever said that life was easy, and none of us ever assumed that we'd get all that we desire without hitting at least a few obstacles along the way. But come on! Does everything have to always be so hard? If this sounds like you, take heart; you're not alone. And believe it or not, th ...
• Evernote Updates Penultimate and Hello Apps, P ...
  iPhone/iPad: Penultimate is one of the nicer handwritten notes apps for the iPad, and with a recent update that adds integration with Evernote, the app has gone free. Evernote's also released the new version of its iPhone contacts management app, Hello, to add social network integration an ...
• Eating Breakfast In the Morning Keeps You Thin ...
  We've all heard that weighing yourself once a day helps control weight, that you can lose 50 pounds in five years by walking a mile a day, or that people who eat breakfast are thinner. But as the New York Times points out, most of the weight loss theories we've heard don't actually have a ...

Water Privatization

• Will this shot of liquor privatization be easi ...
  THE GOVERNOR STEPPED UP to the podium and assured Pennsylvanians that his bold plan to privatize liquor stores was "certain to offer greater variety, better prices, more convenient hours and locations . . . and effective and helpful service."
• Fitch Affirms Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer A ...
  Fitch Ratings affirms the following ratings on Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Puerto Rico :
• Town joins chorus against merger
  Black Mountain aldermen have condemned a state seizure of the Asheville water system, joining a growing chorus of towns and cities hoping to derail a forced merger.
• Pontiac’s Public Works employees say they were ...
  PONTIAC — The last day on the job for 10 employees at the city’s Department of Public Works is Thursday, and some of them say they were misled as the department’s functions were contracted out to five private companies.
• No privatization planned for LSU's Lallie Kemp
  While most of LSU's south Louisiana hospitals are set for privatization, the head of the LSU hospital system says its facility in Tangipahoa Parish will stay under university control for the foreseeable future.

Guardian

• Transfer deadline day: January 2013 – live!
  Minute-by-minute report: All the transfer news and rumours as the January transfer window slams shut in the Premier LeagueJacob SteinbergBarry Glendenning
• Syria may respond to Israeli air strike, says ...
  'Scientific research centre' north-west of Damascus was damaged in attack, according to Syrian state TVSyria's ambassador to Lebanon has said Damascus has the option to respond to what it says was an Israeli air strike on a research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital on Wednesday.Syri ...
• EU peace fund to target young Northern Ireland ...
  Part of €150m fund to be used to train working-class youth who feel they lost out in power-sharing deal, commissioner saysThe EU is to target young men like those currently engaged in loyalist street violence and riots over the union flag controversy in Belfast as part of its new multimillion-eu ...
• Bali drugs: UK government accused of breaching ...
  Review sought after Sandiford was refused legal aid and now faces execution by firing squad for drug smuggling in IndonesiaThe government's failure to provide an "adequate" lawyer to represent a British woman sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug smuggling is a breach of her rights, the high ...
• Defence budget rise applies only to equipment, ...
  No 10 says other parts of defence budget will not be protected from cuts in 2015-16The defence budget will not be protected from cuts in 2015-16, except for spending on equipment, Downing Street has said.The prime minister's team rushed to clarify their position on Thursday after it was reported ...

McClatchey

• Complex portrait of doctor linked to Sen. Bob ...
  By most appearances, Dr. Salomon Melgen embodies the great American immigrant success story: A native of the Dominican Republic, Melgen has earned renown as one of South Florida's leading eye…Click to Continue »
• Court decision throws future of consumer prote ...
  A cloud of uncertainty hovers over Washingtons newest consumer watchdog agency.Click to Continue »
• Senators think bipartisanship will work in imm ...
  Two authors of the Senate bipartisan agreement on immigration from both parties see their work as a hopeful sign of a new wave of bipartisanship in Congress.Click to Continue »
• Gun debate begins in Congress, but both sides ...
  A Capitol Hill hearing on gun control Wednesday brought together both sides of the debate, but the sharp differences on display showed that common ground could prove to be elusive.Click to Continue »
• Colombian rebels say they have 'right' to take ...
  Peace talks with the nation's largest guerrilla group were put on edge Wednesday after the rebels defended the recent kidnapping of two policemen saying they were legitimate "prisoners of war."Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• VIDEO Militia keep the peace on Afghan border
  Markets in the Bajaur region of Pakistan - which borders Afghanistan - are once again bustling with activity and schools and hospitals are being reconstructed in areas previously dominated by Taliban ...
• Deadly blast at Afghan bird fight
  Kandahar, Afghanistan - A bomb exploded among spectators at a bird fight in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing a teenager and wounding up to eight other people, police ...
• Taliban bomb hits bird fight spectators
  Afghan spectators watch a quail fight in Mazar-i Sharif on December 7, 2012. Gambling on animal fighting is popular but was banned by the Taliban during their ...
• Commander of coalition forces seeks sustained ...
  Marine General John Allen, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, has claimed he has suggested that the White House maintain a considerable U.S. military presence through the summer ...
• 1400 graduates inducted into Afghan army
  A total of 1,400 soldiers Thursday graduated from the Kabul Military Training Centre (KMTC) and were commissioned into the Afghan National Army. The soldiers were inducted after completing a ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Two More Politicians Claim Video Games Are The ...
  It's only been slightly over a week since the administration announced its plan to have the Center for Disease Control conduct a study on the link between video games and so-called "gun violence" and it's already looking as though the study won't be necessary. This isn't because ...
• And... Yet Another Regulator Flips Out About U ...
  Here we go again. Yet another local transportation regulator who either doesn't understand Uber or (perhaps more likely) understands it all too well has decided to give Uber all the free Streisand Effect publicity it needs to build its reputation in the market by trying to pass legislation to s ...
• Former RIAA VP Named 2nd In Command Of Copyrig ...
  We've talked in the past about how unfortunate it is that the US Copyright Office seems almost entirely beholden to the legacy copyright players, rather than to the stated purpose of copyright law. That is, instead of looking at how copyright can lead to the maximum benefit for the public ("pro ...
• Russian Ministry Of Culture Publishes Draft An ...
  Presumably as part of the overall agreement for Russia to be allowed to join the WTO, the Ministry of Culture there has published a draft of its anti-piracy law (via @PostActa). Here's the google translation of a story on the roem.ru site: The Ministry of Culture has published the text of t ...
• VLC Multimedia Player Shows Changing Open Sour ...
  Licenses lie at the heart of open source -- and many other kinds of "open" too. That's because they are used to define the rights of users, and to ensure those rights are passed on -- that the intellectual commons is not enclosed. Their central importance explains in part the flamewars that er ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
• Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
  According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...
• Schools Teach Shame and Bullying
  I came across this news story yesterday. Some school official told a girl’s mother that, if her daughter wanted to end the harassment she was subjected to, she should get a breast reduction. Because, you know, how dare you have a body that might make people think of sex. And then there is ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  The internets are rapidly finishing the job Aaron Swartz started. Must read article on what is happening to women who are pregnant. Arrests. Deaths. Involuntary commitment. Medical tests. I am so glad my parents did not have access to microchipping technology. Though I suspect I would have gotte ...
• Pregnancy, Coercion, and Responsibility
  I was reading about this abortion restricting bill in Michigan. While I realize that it is another attempt to regulate abortion out of existence under the guise of safety and regulations, something in that article struck me. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has approved a controversial package of a ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• New York City Schiller Conference Unanimously ...
• End Obama’s Alliance with the Assassins of Ben ...
• State Legislators Begin To Move for Glass-Steagall
• FDIC Vice-Chair Thomas Hoenig: Remove the Safe ...
• Russia’s Gerasimov Scores Patriot Deployments ...

War in Context

• Is Israel baiting Iran?
  Last week, Ali Akbar Velayati, an aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared that an “attack on Syria is considered attack on Iran.” Yesterday, in a dangerous act of brinkmanship, Israel called Iran’s bluff. But Israel doesn’t want to be perceived as risking provoking a war ...
• Nick Turse: Chuck Hagel and murder in Vietnam
  Think of it as the Great Obama Shuffle.  When U.N. ambassador Susan Rice went down in flames as the president’s nominee for secretary of state, he turned to ally, former presidential candidate, and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry (who had essentially been ...
• Israeli air strike in Syria
  The New York Times reports: Israeli warplanes carried out a strike deep inside Syrian territory on Wednesday, American officials reported, saying they believed the target was a convoy carrying sophisticated antiaircraft weaponry on the outskirts of Damascus that was intended for the Hezbollah Sh ...
• Morsi rejects calls for new unity government i ...
  The New York Times reports: President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt, meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, rejected calls for a new unity government in response to the violent demonstrations rocking his country and defended his decision to impose a state of emergency and curfew in three c ...
• Egypt: Video of snipers in Port Said?
  Issandr El Amrani writes: There have been some disturbing reports of what is described as sniper fire (although it may simply be gunfire, not actual snipers) in Port Said in the last two days. The videos below, some of which whose provenance cannot be verified, paint a rather scary picture The o ...

Watts Up With That?

• Do Increasing Temperatures Lower Crop Yields?
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading these claims that we’re all going to starve because of global warming. People say it’s going to be the death of agriculture, that increasing temperatures will cause significant drops in crop yields. … Continue reading →
• Understanding the historical probability of dr ...
  While there is wailing and gnashing of teeth over the current midwest drought, We have this interesting piece from the American Society of Agronomy : Droughts can severely limit crop growth, causing yearly losses of around $8 billion in the … Continue reading →
• Wikipedia climate fiddler William Connolley is ...
  Apparently Mr. Connolley has edited 5428 Wikipedia articles, most about climate. Die Kalte Sonne: Unbelievable but true: The Wikipedia umpire on Climate Change was a member of the UK Green Party and openly sympathized with the views of the controversial … Continue reading →
• Duplicate science: ‘funding agencies may ...
  From the: …comes this press release that makes me wonder why the University of Virginia spent close to a half million dollars trying to keep Dr. Michael Mann’s emails out of an FOIA request and lawsuit by the State attorney … Continue reading →
• Oooops! (at least they didn’t name it &# ...
  So much for Endurance… From Louise Gray at The Telegraph: Wind turbine collapses in high wind A controversial 115ft wind turbine has collapsed after being hit by heavy winds. The £250,000 tower, which stood as tall as a ten storey … Continue reading →

treehugger

• 10 More Ways To Hide The Bed (Some of Which Yo ...
  Every tiny apartment does not have to have an expensive Murphy bed.
• Samsung 13-Watt 900 Lumens LED Lightbulb Review
  I spent a few weeks testing this new 13W 900 Lumens LED lightbulb by Samsung. Here's my experience with it, along with thoughts on LED technology in general.
• Foster + Partners Unveils Design For 3D Printe ...
  It's a giant dome made out of moon dust
• Watching A Huge Golden Moon Rise In Real Time ...
  This. Is awesome.
• Nature Blows My Mind! Tiny Island Home to Thou ...
  The Ilha de Queimada Grande is a forbidden island because stepping foot on its shores is just asking for death.

Biosingularity

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

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• Pine bark beetle epidemic could harm drinking ...
  [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/252/5024.mp3] Pine bark beetles continue to kill millions of acres of trees in Western states. But now, a new study shows the epidemic in Colorado could lead to the contamination of drinking water supplies, as well.
• FrackNation: Must See Movie!
  My favorite parts of the movie were the extensive sections featuring the landowners who lease their land for frac’ing -– who are portrayed in Gasland and Promised Land as unwitting dupes of evil industrialists. But these landowners knew far, far more about both frac’ing and water than the pseud ...
• It’s final: Taxpayer-funded A123 auction ...
  A123 Systems is but one of a number of companies that have gone bankrupt after receiving millions of Obama Administration stimulus dollars.  It was among a laundry list of bankrupt companies, lead by Solyndra, that caused an uproar in Congress and lit sparks in the presidential debates when it w ...
• Crunch time for the Keystone Kops
  President Obama has a perfect opportunity to restore ethics and common sense to America’s energy and environmental policies. Our planet and children hope he makes the right choice and says Yes to Keystone.
• A tsunami of governmental global warming lies
  It’s bad enough when major environmental organizations continue to lie about a “global warming” that does not exist in lieu of a planetary cooling cycle now entering its 17th year, but when those allied with the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are also in charge ...

Ria Novosti Online News

• White Lion and Tiger Cubs at German Zoo
  Four white tiger and four white lion cubs were born at Germany’s Serengeti Park zoo in October and November.
• Aeroflot Boeing 777-300ER Grounded by Missing ...
  Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, has been forced to cancel the first commercial flights by its new Boeing 777-300ER airliners scheduled for Friday due to lack of a type certificate for the plane, Aeroflot said on Thursday.
• Transmissions from a Lone Star: Of Iranian Mon ...
  “Space,” as 1970s prog-rock legends Hawkwind once told us, “is deep.” But that’s not all, for as Yuri Gagarin also informed us, it can be a disappointing place for religious believers.
• Armored Actors: Reporting From Mosfilm’s Milit ...
  The Mosfilm Military-Technical Base, in Alabino near Moscow, has seven parking bays for over 300 vehicles. The tanks and armored personnel carriers stored here have “starred” in hundreds of war movies.
• Domestic Violence in Russia
  Russian family violence-related statistics

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• South Korean Satellite Makes First Contact wit ...
  After a successful Wednesday launch, South Korea’s scientific satellite made its first contact with a ground station on Thursday, the Yonhap news agency said.
• Russian Scientists Approve ‘Space-Grown’ Veget ...
  Vegetables grown on board the International Space Station (ISS) can be consumed without fearing food poisoning, Russian scientists believe.
• S.Korea Puts First Satellite in Orbit
  South Korea’s KSLV-1 carrier rocket placed a research satellite into its designated orbit on Wednesday, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) reported, putting Seoul into the club of space powers.
• No Crisis in the Russian Space Industry – Rosc ...
  Despite a number of failures in the past few years, rumors of a crisis in the Russian space industry are “absolutely wrong,” Federal Space Agency Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday.
• Space Station Crew Uses Laser Channel to Beam Data
  Russian astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have transferred scientific data using a laser communication channel for the first time in international practice, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday.

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