Thursday, January 31, 2013

31 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

A protest in Utah against Wal-Mart
A protest in Utah against Wal-Mart (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Pruning Shears

  • Away from energy independence, and towards ene ...
    Two of the more loaded words in contemporary politics are independence and freedom. Despite their similarities in meaning they get used in very different ways. Independence is used in a more national sense, which might be natural because of its prominence in what is arguably our founding docum ...
  • Utopian colonies and the deep roots of Occupy
    Last year I worked on a series of posts1 with a loose collection of bloggers, mostly from Corrente. The general theme was arguing against the “diversity of tactics” approach being introduced at numerous Occupy encampments, Occupy Oakland in particular. During this process one of ou ...
  • Testing water and building community
    Last summer I wrote about the Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels program for testing water. Our town’s anti-fracking activists have been using it at their homes for a while now, but around the time of my post we also began free monthly water testing for the community. We are careful to ...
  • Best Music of 2012
    IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.Links will be live for one week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me know and I’ll comply. You heartless, small-minded, ungenerous b******.Here are ...
  • Gun violence, public health and the missing piece
    The massacre in Newtown has once again opened up the discussion of firearms in America. We are getting the usual dumbassery about how this is a punishment from God or the fault of video games (which apparently are unavailable outside of the US) and the usual preemptive whining about how this is ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Are Wal-Mart and Big Food Lobbying the FDA for ...
    High-level executives from some of the U.S.’s largest food corporations are meeting with the FDA behind closed doors this week to lobby for a mandatory federal GMO labeling law. Could it be that bad press and consumer backlash have dulled the enthusiasm of these former biotech cheerleaders? Or i ...
  • Domestic Fair Trade: A Plea to UNFI and Whole ...
    "The union is like having herpes. It doesn't kill you, but it's unpleasant and inconvenient, and it stops a lot of people from becoming your lover." John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market Click here to read this article
  • States Considering Laws That Would Make it an ...
    Three states are the latest states to introduce Ag-Gag laws and lawmakers in 10 other states introduced similar bills in 2011-2012.Click here to read this article
  • Listen Up, Foodies! Saru Jayaraman Thinks You ...
    There's little question that the vast majority of restaurant workers in the United States could use a union. On the whole, their jobs offer low pay and few benefits and employees have little job security. Yet they are also a very difficult group to organize: turnover in the industry is high, the ...
  • The Surprising Connection Between Food and Fra ...
    In a recent Nation piece, the wonderful Elizabeth Royte teased out the direct links between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the food supply. In short, extracting natural gas from rock formations by bombarding them with chemical-spiked fluid leaves behind fouled water-and that fouled water ...

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Capitalism is outdated; is there a better alte ...
    Our economy is a system operating past its limits and outgrowing the earths ability to support it. It will break down and the breakdown is already starting. Toronto Sustainability Speakers Series (TSSS). TED talk by Paul Gilding Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |  ...
  • FAKE FACTS ABOUT ALBERTA PUBLIC SECTOR PAY
    The Fraser Institute twists facts like pretzels to fit their paymasters ideological agenda. There is habitual willingness of mainstream media to reprint this baloney without critically examining it. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Idle No More: An Open Letter to My Non-Aborig ...
    Chief Shining Turtle, Whitefish River First Nation The legislation we are protesting does not just harm us -- it hurts you and your children and your grandchildren Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Myth of Purifying Fracking Water in Saudi ...
    Farmers are losing to Frackers....so are all of us.."The waste from fracking is about 70% of the 8 million gallons of water containing 400,000 gallons of toxic chemicals per well. 649 chemicals are used in fracking water."Please read this great article! Submitted by Shelly Peterson to Environmen ...
  • Livestock falling ill in fracking regions, rai ...
    In the midst of the US domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Radioactive Cattle Found Near Fukushima
    ShareThisRadioactive Cattle Found Near Fukushima 30 Jan 2013 Thousands of cows were abandoned in the evacuated zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after March 2011 events that devastated the Tōhoku region of Japan and released radioactive materials from the plant. Now, nearly ...
  • Obamacare 'Glitch' Allows Some Families to be ...
    ShareThisObamacare 'Glitch' Allows Some Families to be Priced Out of Health Insurance --Employers are relieved that the Obama administration didn't try to put the cost of providing family coverage on them. [LOL! Wake up and smell the Italian Roast. It's not a 'glitch.' Obusha did it on purpose, ...
  • Assange confirms he'll run for Senate
    ShareThisAssange confirms he'll run for Senate 30 Jan 2013 Julian Assange will run for a senate seat in the 2013 federal election. A tweet from Wikileaks says Julian Assange has confirmed he will run for the Australian Senate. Queensland-born Assange, who founded Wikileaks, announced his senate ...
  • U.S. to Bury Almost All Existing Used Nuclear ...
    ShareThisU.S. to Bury Almost All Existing Used Nuclear Fuel; Recycling Deferred at Least 20 Years 28 Jan 2013 There's little hope that the 70,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel dispersed across the United States will ever be recycled, according to a recent study by Oak Ridge National Laborat ...
  • Giffords testifies at heated Senate hearing on ...
    ShareThisGiffords testifies at heated Senate hearing on gun control 30 Jan 2013 "Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important," former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords told her onetime colleagues. "Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do somet ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • FBR: Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State
    Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State Kachin State 29 January 2013 From Free Burma Rangers Despite the Government of Burma declaring a ceasefire, Burma Army troops still continue to launch attacks in Kachin State. In this Report: • Burma Army troops take Hkaya Bum after repeated attack ...
  • Air Force Crashing
    25 January 2013 Team AFMC, The budgetary uncertainties currently facing the Department of Defense combined with a projected $1.8 billion shortfall in Air Force funding for overseas contingency operations, require us to take prudent steps to mitigate budget execution risks. Based on guidance r ...
  • SAR Overnighter
    24 January 2013
  • US Military Preparing to take Gut Shot
    24 January 2013  
  • Press Release from Free Burma Rangers
    FBR Report: Burma Army attacks against Kachin continue despite ceasefire 18 January, 2013 Kachin State, Burma At 5pm Friday, 18 January 2013, Burma Army airstrikes occurred near Lajayang and Laiza in Kachin State.  On Friday evening, the Government of Burma announced a ceasefire to begin 6 ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Civil War; Are We There Yet?
    I don't remember a time where Americans were more divided and at the brink of what may be irreparable harm; the point of no return; a real Revolution, but in our case a not-so- Civil War with modern-day weapons of war.
  • Gun Control or Crappola?
    Assault weapons are a fact of life. Criminals are going to get them the same way they get them now, out of the trunk of an illegal gun dealer's car. Of course they should run background checks at gun shows. It's idiotic that they don't do it now. Some of the arguments made both for gun control a ...
  • Waging War on Immigrants
    Earlier articles discussed Washington's racist war on immigrants. It's longstanding. It mocks notions of welcoming tired, poor, wretched masses yearning to breathe free.
  • Washington's War of Aggression on Syria
    Israel partners with Washington's wars. It's been largely covertly involved against Syria. It's now blatantly overt.
  • Look Not Unto the Morrow
    Robert Fantina, the author of a tragically nonfictional survey of the lives of soldiers in all past U.S. wars, has now published a devastatingly fictional account of the war that the Vietnamese call the American War.

Switchboard

  • LaHood Leaves a Legacy of Strong Investment in ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City At the League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit in 2010, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood wasn’t, like many attendees, wearing a fluorescent bike pin on his lapel. But he d ...
  • NRDC China Environmental News Alert (January 3 ...
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • CalOSHA Investigation: Chevron Intentionally a ...
    Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco The fifteen thousand people who streamed into Bay-Area hospitals knew there was something terribly wrong with Chevron’s Richmond refinery when it caught on fire on August 6th, 2012.  What they ...
  • Members of Congress Say No to Airguns
    Michael Jasny, Senior Policy Analyst, Vancouver, B.C., and Santa Monica Today more than 30 members of Congress wrote to President Obama and Interior Secretary Salazar, urging the administration against opening the U.S. east coast to airgun explorati ...
  • New Secretary of State John Kerry Can Be a Str ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing On Friday, Senator John Kerry will become the new U.S. Secretary of State. In his confirmation hearing last week, Senator Kerry spoke of climate change and its link to U.S. domestic energy policy. Se ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Bigots of the Day
    Tennessee legislators.
  • Turn of the Century Paris in Color
    What an utterly wonderful set of color photos from Paris in the early 20th century. I love black and white photos and black and white cinema but seeing these things in color really changes one’s perspective.
  • Patty Andrews, RIP
    One of the last links to World War II-era popular culture has passed.
  • Why Unions Matter
    I know that this is kind of Unionism 101, but since we as a nation are now in a remedial state when it comes to understanding why we need labor unions, Eric Liu’s piece on non-unionized workers should be concerned about organized labor’s decline is important: First, the fact is that ...
  • Amateur Hour
    I thought this Laura Seay piece lambasting English language coverage of Mali pretty outstanding. I know nothing about Mali and thus haven’t commented on it except to express sadness at the loss of cultural heritage (and yay! most of the Timbuktu manuscripts have survived thanks to people t ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized ...
    Amelia Gulling, DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized at the annual Women To Watch ceremony for the Las Vegas business magazine, Vegas Inc at the Vdara in City Center on Tuesday Jan. 29th.
  • Kathryn Bywaters, Jan. 2013 Featured DRI Gradu ...
    Meet Kathryn Bywaters, an Environmental Science student working on her Ph.D. Her current work focuses on utilizing microalgae and cyanobacteria consortia as a potential source for biofuel production.
  • Gary Trubl, Dec. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate St ...
    Meet Gary Trubl, a student working towards his masters in Environmental Science and currently studying the biogeochemistry related to denitrification of Lake Vida, Antarctica.
  • Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...
    This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...
  • Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • More fallout from ruling on recess appointment ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit shook up both Washington and Wall Street last Friday, when it invalidated President Obama's January 2012 recess appointments of three members of the National Labor Relations Board. Now D.R. Horton, a company that's been tangling with the NLRB in a k ...
  • Advocacy groups split over PTO proposal to dis ...
    A patent office proposal to require disclosure of a patent's true owner so the agency can publish up-to-date information has sparked debate.
  • Collectors hound consumers for a million dispu ...
    The Federal Trade Commission gets more complaints about debt collectors than any other industry, with consumers claiming that they're being hounded for debts they don't owe or for the wrong amount of money.
  • License denied to law grad investigated for ch ...
    The Ohio Supreme Court has refused bar admission to a graduate who witnesses accused of continuing to write down answers to the bar examination after time was called.
  • SEC not liable for sleeping through Madoff fraud
    A federal appellate court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Southern California attorneys against the U.S. government for failing, through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to stop Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff from bilking investors out of more than $60 billion.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Act of War? Israeli Jets Bomb Syria Site
    In what was the first clear instance of aggression by Israel toward Syria, overnight Israeli jets conducted a bombing run over a military site in Syria, targeting what according to Israel was a military convoy heading to Lebanon. As Al Arabiya reports: "Israeli jets bombed a convoy on Syria’s bo ...
  • Bizarre Catacombs, Death Cult? Capuchin Cataco ...
    If you’ve got a secret yearning to join mummified cadavers, and your tastes lean to the bizarre, you should spend at least an hour at these catacombs under the Capuchins Monastery. Some 350 years ago, it was discovered that the catacombs contained a mysterious preservative that helped mummify th ...
  • DARPA’s 1.8 Gigapixel ARGUS-IS: World’s Highes ...
    DARPA and the US Army have taken the wraps off ARGUS-IS, a 1.8-gigapixel video surveillance platform that can resolve details as small as six inches from an altitude of 20,000 feet (6km). ARGUS is by far the highest-resolution surveillance platform in the world, and probably the highest-resoluti ...
  • Hoodwinked at Sandy Hook by Hollywood Hypocrit ...
    "Oh, the irony. Armed, security-surrounded and weapon-protected Hollywood Hypocrites demanding a plan from the money-grubbing Law-making Liars of Washington to enforce gun-control laws under the pretense of making people "safer." While they teach the youth of today, by their ACTIONS, that it’s o ...
  • The Return of COINTELPRO?
    “Democracies die behind closed doors” – Judge Damon J. Keith For 15 years (1956-1971) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ran a broad and highly coordinated domestic intelligence / counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence PROgrams). What was originally deemed a ...

Russia Today

  • Failed referendum leaves Bulgaria without nucl ...
    A referendum on nuclear energy in Bulgaria failed due to low turnout, and the country's ruling party has confirmed it will not build a new nuclear plant. Critics warn that without nuclear energy, Bulgaria may become a... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Syria files UN complaint over Israeli airstrik ...
    Syria has filed an official complaint to the United Nations over an Israeli airstrike on a military research center near Damascus. The move followed a threat from Iran that Israel would face “serious consequences” for... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Al-Qaeda threatens US and Europe, promises 'ea ...
    A message posted on a jihadist website on Sunday promised that “terrible” attacks will soon strike the US, France, Denmark and other European countries. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Israel must remove all Jewish settlers from oc ...
    A UN human rights inquiry has called on Israel to remove all Jewish settlers from the West Bank and cease expansion. The report said the settlements violate international law, and are an attempt to drive out... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Toothless sanctions? Iranian oil trade booming ...
    Iran has quickly found ways to circumvent the EU sanctions imposed on its oil trade in July. After dipping sharply in summer of 2012, Iranian crude oil exports rose again by the end of the year. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Time Mag trio wants to stop violence. Whose? L ...
    OMG YES. OF COURSE. STOP THE VIOLENCE. Wait. By whose pinheaded definition? “Too many children are dying” exclaims Gabrielle Giffords! But looking into the eyes of these posterchild sociopaths, you know they’re only talking about domestic gun deaths, the collateral damage of ou ...
  • Idle No More versus War On Terra
    Rap News skewers environmental destruction of Canada and Australia, as alien invasions competing for first place in “War on Terra”, praises IDLE NO MORE for rising against non-indigenous expropriation of the “Commonwealth”.
  • US forces push women to front lines, canon fod ...
    Pentagon lifts ban on women in combat. I guess US prisons have consumed the traditional canon fodder labor pool. What’s the upside to this news –a kinder gentler militarized empire? Fail. Our culture of violence doesn’t breed matriarchs. American women on the front lines is goo ...
  • Israel caught birth controlling the Falash Mur ...
    How’s this for a Wikipedia item update? After five years of having denied the practice, the Israeli government admits it is secretly administering birth control injections to its Falash Mura population, reducing that community’s birth rate by half. Falash Mura you may ask, translates ...
  • Target of Occupy Denver boycott expects DPD to ...
    DENVER, COLORADO- Downtown eatery co-owner Jon Schlegel thought the homeless were defenseless when he led an effort to criminalize sleeping or seeking shelter out-of-doors last year. Instead Schlegel incurred the wrath of Occupy Denver, who’ve maintained a now seven-month long Boycott Snoo ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The WTC Dust: Science and Replication
     Bilbo's Blog A few years ago a team of scientists studied the red/gray chips in dust samples of the World Trade Center buildings and came to the conclusion that they were the remains of an active thermitic material, which could have been used as explosives. Since then their claim ...
  • Speaking Truth to Power
    I’ve recently been involved in a series of debates with science blogger Myles Power over the events of 9/11. Though I’m currently working on Part 2 of my response to his YouTube video series, I need to address one issue that’s recently come to my attention. It seems that Mr. Power has decided to ...
  • Lupe Fiasco Kicked Off Stage At Obama Inaugura ...
    On June 10th 2011, I posted the official video and lyrics for Lupe Fiasco's "Words I Never Said" ft. Skylar Grey. So he was already cool in my book. Now I think hero is more befitting than cool. As recently reported on 9/11blogger: Score one for truth, justice and accountability. "At the Obama ...
  • Quotes Rant
    Ok, this is getting ridiculous! Why the hell would Albert Einstein ever say that?! He was a physicist, not a botanist! I found this image on the front page of David Icke's site and it's obvious from the file name that it came Facebook - probably some "truth" page. I called BS immediately ...
  • NIST FAIL! The science of denial...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Game of Thrones star speaks out over Colombian ...
    Game of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has done a voice-over for Survival's interview.© SurvivalGame of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has lent her support to a Survival International campaign to finally bring the killers of three Colombian Indian leaders to justice. ...
  • Jared Diamond's new book 'The World Until Yest ...
    Diamond says that state governments stop tribal people from killing each other, but doesn't mention that an estimated 100,000 Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian authorities.© Jeanne Herbert/SurvivalTribal rights organization Survival International has launched a vigorous critique of ...
  • Survival launches 'Stop Complaining' ad for Ea ...
    Survival's new ad 'Stop Complaining' will bring global attention to the plight of Earth's most threatened tribe.© SurvivalHuman rights organization Survival International has launched a worldwide advertising campaign to raise awareness of the plight of the Awá tribe in Brazil ...
  • Victory for ‘human safari’ campaign as court b ...
    The campaign against 'human safaris' to the Jarawa tribe has won an important victory.© SurvivalSurvival International’s campaign to stop ‘human safaris’ in India’s Andaman Islands has gained an important victory, after the Supreme Court banned tourists from traveling along the road wh ...
  • Indigenous protests sweep Canada
    Idle no more protesters marching in Victoria, BC, December 21, 2012.© r.a. paterson/ Creative Commons LicenseNative people across Canada have blockaded roads, bridges and railway lines as part of the grass-roots indigenous movement Idle No More. From British Columbia, where dozens of protesters ...

Greg Palast

  • Aaron Swartz Died for Piers Morgan's Sins
    By Greg Palast for Vice.com This is the tale of two geniuses. In 2000, Aaron Swartz, aged 14, had just released his astonishing invention, RSS, to ease the flow of information and news around the Internet. Around the same time, one of Piers Morgan’s stringers hacked into the phone of Sir Paul Mc ...
  • Piers Morgan And My Pee Pee
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Now, if this were a movie, you would hear the audience scream, "DON’T TAKE THE KEY! DON’T GO UP THOSE STAIRS!" The reporter part of my brain was screaming, too: 'THIS SMELLS BAD.' But I couldn’t  hear a thing because, while I was out for the story, the memory of  ...
  • Assault Gun Ban - Weapon of Mass Distraction
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine George Bush told America he'd keep us safe from terrorists by having us take off our shoes at the airport. Yesterday, Barack Obama again took the Oath of Office. And this Obama 2.0 is also going to save America from insane killers – by limiting ammo clips to ten ...
  • Alex Jones, Guns, Piers Morgan – and My Penis
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine This is the first of Palast's weekly columns for VICE – beginning with a bang: a four-part series on Alex Jones, guns, Piers Morgan and Palast's penis. PART ONE: ALEX JONES VERSUS DOWNTON ABBEY Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chai ...
  • Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers – and it's the ketchup. [As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • The Recovery Room: Explaining It
    By Julie Obradovic So, last time we looked at the definition of recovery. As I suspected, there is no singular definition. Likewise, I have found, there is no singular way to explain it. If you’re like me, trying to explain...
  • Dachel Media Update: Death in Facility, Six In ...
    Jan 29, NY Daily News: NY: Death of autistic man at Queens Village mental health facility last summer ruled a homicide Jan 29, Philadelphia Inquirer: Six-in-one vaccine is goal of GSK's Indian joint venture NY Daily News: “Rasheen Rose, 33,...
  • Protect Children: National Autism Association ...
    Managing Editor's Note: From our friends at National Autism Association who are always looking out for the health, well being and safety of our children, whether tots or adults. Read their white paper, Behind Closed Doors: What’s Happening to Students...
  • Dachel Media Update: School Nurse, Vaccine Cou ...
    Jan 29, 2013, Voice of Orange County: OC's Top School Nurse on the Wisdom of Vaccinating Kids Jan 29, 2013, Personal Liberty Digest: Vaccine Court Tacitly Admits Vaccines Cause Autism Jan 28, 2013, CBS8 San Diego: Mother who drowned 4-year-old...
  • Michael Pichichero's Reasoning on Mercury for ...
    By Jim Thompson Dr. Michael Pichichero is an industry scientist and he endorses a mercury-based compound called Thimerosal as a “safe” and “effective” preservative in vaccines worldwide. In a recently published report “Perspective – Report to WHO: No New Concerns...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • The Sharia saw: The terrifying device Iran use ...
    Daily Mail – Looking like something devised for a grisly horror movie, this crude saw is being used to amputate the fingers of criminals in Iran. In a series of photographs released by the country’s state news agency, a blindfolded man is led to the machine where two hooded men put his han ...
  • EU says pesticides linked to bee decline shoul ...
    BBC – The European Commission has proposed that member states restrict the use of certain classes of pesticide that are believed to be harmful to bees. Sprays that use neonicotinoid chemicals should only be used on crops that are not attractive to the insects they said. Read article
  • US economy surprises with contraction
    ABC – A local economist says surprise news that the US economy shrank during the final three months of last year should not dampen investor confidence for long. America’s annual rate of gross domestic product slipped 0.1 per cent in the December quarter. The result was the worst the ...
  • Australian scientists get HIV to attack itself
    DW – David Harrich of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Australia says he and his team have created a mutant protein that inhibits multiple steps in the life cycle of HIV. Dubbed Nullbasic, “potent” inhibitor was created by modifying a protein in the Human Immunod ...
  • The tiniest particles that may be a threat as ...
    The Independent – Europe is failing to control a burgeoning industry in microscopic materials, prompting claims that it has failed to heed the lessons from millions of asbestos deaths, according to a hard-hitting new report. Despite early warnings of the damage some nanomaterials could cau ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • From Kutcha Well to Water Point
    In Assam, access to safe drinking water and sanitation in rural communities and small towns is often unavailable. Community residents are dependent on rain, streams, and rivers for drinking and agricultural water. Additionally, unhygienic practices have contributed to the pollution of available ...
  • Live from Davos
    April Rinne, Director of WaterCredit, speaks with The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore live from The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Watch the full interview here.
  • How far would you go?
    When you complete daily actions to earn points, you climb the virtual mountain and can win prizes! Ascend the 7 routes of Kilimanjaro and along the way qualify to win prizes from HP, Intel, P&G, KLM and Eddie Bauer. The more points you have, the better your chances to win the ultimate grand priz ...
  • Household Water in Ongata Rongai
    When individuals lack household access to water, they must purchase it from another source. This water cart was selling water for 15-20 KES (USD $0.18 and $0.24) per 20 liters in a neighborhood in Ongata Rongai, Kenya. (The average income per person in Kenya is $2.25 per day. Source: The Wor ...
  • Rainwater Harvesting
    Tabitha is a 28 year old primary school graduate living within Rongai town. She lives on a 1-acre farm with her husband’s family and their 4 year old daughter. The family’s semi-permanent (corrugated sheet metal walled) bungalow houses 5 adults and 2 children, which is connected to the electrici ...

Cryptogon

  • The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy
    Via: New York Times: Politicians across the political spectrum herald “job creation,” but frightfully few of them talk about what kinds of jobs are being created. Yet this clearly matters: According to the Census Bureau, one-third of adults who live in poverty are working but do not earn enough ...
  • Cryptogon Reader Sends Contribution
    Eileen sent $75. Thank you.
  • The Hugo Chavez ‘Socialist Revolution&#8 ...
    Same as it ever was: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Anthony C. Sutton Via: Bloomberg: Since taking office in 1999, Hugo Chavez has spread his socialist revolution in Venezuela by seizing more ...
  • What to Do with Thousands of Tons of Radioacti ...
    Via: Wall Street Journal: The Department of Energy is proposing to allow the sale of tons of scrap metal from government nuclear sites—an attempt to reduce waste that critics say could lead to radiation-tainted belt buckles, surgical implants and other consumer products. The department, in a doc ...
  • Disclosure: I’m Long PowerShares DB Agri ...
    Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I bought some DBA.

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

  • Climate Change Global Effects: Large Wars, Mig ...
    Read at : http://scienceheathen.com/2013/01/21/climate-change-global-effects-large-wars-migrations-disease-outbreaks-desertification-agricultural-failure/ Climate change will result in vast changes occurring to the world over the next few hundred years. And many of these changes won’t be physica ...
  • DESERTIFICATION AND POVERTY IN THE AFRAM PLAIN ...
    Read at : http://africanclimate.net/en/publications/developing-eco-charcoal-certification-fight-against-desertification-and-poverty-afram DEVELOPING ECO-CHARCOAL CERTIFICATION TO FIGHT AGAINST DESERTIFICATION AND POVERTY IN THE AFRAM PLAINS The Afram Plains District is an important producer of C ...
  • Desertification – great environmental challeng ...
    Read at : http://www.monre.gov.vn/v35/default.aspx?tabid=675&CateID=59&ID=124981&Code=JR2G124981 The United Nations has warned that desertification process is one of the “greatest environmental challenge of our time”. In the context of climate change, the development of l ...
  • Increasing Uptake of Carbon Dioxide (Science D ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130129171427.htm Spring May Come Earlier to North American Forests, Increasing Uptake of Carbon Dioxide Jan. 29, 2013 — Trees in the con­ti­nen­tal U.S. could send out new spring leaves up to 17 days ear­lier in the com­ing … Continue ...
  • Resilience, food security and nutrition (IFAD)
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.be/2013/01/principles-and-practice-for-resilience_26.html Principles and practice for resilience, food security & nutrition by Ertharin Cousin (Executive Director, World Food Programme), Jose Graziano da Silva (Director General, Food and Agriculture Organiza ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • CIA Psy-Op 101 — How the Controlled Medi ...
    The year was 1951.  The place, a small village in the south of France named Pont-Saint-Esprit.  WW II was over, and the “cold war” was just beginning. On 15 August , a strange “epidemic” rocked this village.    Marked by acute psychotic episodes similar to “zombie&# ...
  • China’s Real “Agenda” and Po ...
    This post is a must-read follow up to the movie “Agenda: Grinding America Down.” Remember, the word EDOM literally means RED.   Is it merely coincidence that Communist China is symbolized by a RED FLAG with a YELLOW PENTAGRAM?  Is it merely coincidence that communist leaders in China ...
  • Mike Adams – The Health Ranger – N ...
    Ok friends.  Please understand that I am not “attacking” Mike Adams.   Dozens of concerned e-mails show how Adams has quite a following. I am simply searching for truth. Both Adams and Rima Laibow appeared in the CCHR (a division of Scientology) anti-psychiatry film.    Adams has wri ...
  • Water! God’s Miracle We Take For Granted
    Fifteen years ago, I started my mineral supplement business – originally named Energy Images.   Today it is incorporated and is named Mother Earth Minerals.   I personally designed my company logo to represent the planet earth surrounded by a dark delta pyramid of evil dissipating thanks t ...
  • Must Watch Video: AGENDA: Grinding America Down
    If I were to recommend one video to sum up the problem with America (and the world), this would be it.  It is not a modern problem of the 21st century.  It is the problem plaguing mankind since the dawn of creation – a group of fallen angels and their human “usefull idiots” are ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی ؚرای نجات سرؚازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای ٟز؎کی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید ؎ده است که ٟادزهر تولید ؎ده در انستیتو رازی تهران، ؚهترین دارو ؚرای مقاؚله ؚا نی؎ مارهای کؚرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان ØšÙ‡ فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاؚ غذای خود را ؎کست
    ه گزار؎ رسیده ØšÙ‡ کلمه، متعاقؚ دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان ؚا ؚرخی از نمایندگان و ٟیگیری های محمدرضا تاؚ؎ و اؚوتراؚی فرد و مذاکره آنها ؚا رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و ؚا ؚردا؎تن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی ØšÙ‡ اعتصاؚ غذای خود ٟایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Was Stevens Running Guns in Benghazi?
    Retired General William G Boykin believes when he was assassinated in Benghazi, former ambassador Chris Stevens was working for the CIA running guns (or preparing to run them), via Turkey, to the  Syrian rebels. He explains his reasoning in an interview with CNSNews.com. Boy ...
  • Wild Dophin Approaches Diver for Help
    A wild dolphin approached a Hawaiian diving instructor last week after getting entangled in a fishing line and getting the hook caught in its dorsal fin.  Note how the animal positions its body to make the hook easier to remove and how the diver users his hands to communicate. In all proba ...
  • Anonymous - Response to Obama's 2013 Gun Contr ...
    The hactivist group speaks out strongly in favor of the second amendment. In a classic act of YouTube censorship, the original video was taken down. Fortunately viewers copied it to numerous mirror sites. If video fails to play try one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ5V5g9ZHkM htt ...
  • Dotcom Strikes Another Blow for Internet Freedom
    Kim Dotcom New Zealand Folk hero Kim Dotcom has struck another blow for Internet freedom by launching a new cloud file storage service, called MEGA, one year to the minute after the FBI shut down Megaupload, froze his funds and induced New Zealand security services to launch a SWAT team ra ...
  • How Cell Phones are Killing Off Honeybees
    If video fails to play, go to Resonance – Beings of Frequency (This is Part II of a two part film review of the 2012 documentary by British filmmaker James Russell. The first described the link between cell phone technology and the growing cancer epidemic.) Honey Bees and Migrator ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

  • Energy Storage: Belgium to Build Artificial Island
    Belgium is planning to construct an island in the North Sea for the sole purpose of storing wind energy.
  • Nicholas Stern: I Got It Wrong On Climate Chan ...
    Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then.
  • 2012 -- The Best of Times or Worst of Times fo ...
    Yogi Berra might have been referring to the solar industry when he said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” But that never stops people from trying! As we look back at the many predictions about the solar industry for 2012, it’s instructive to see how they stacked up ...
  • Newest Solar Energy Development Could Be Gamec ...
    Despite other recent technological advances, if you’re familiar with solar energy it’s easy to find articles validating that the greatest vice of the industry is its inability to compete with the costs and efficiencies of energy mainstays like oil, coal, and natural gas.
  • Scaling Solar and Wind: A Hard Look At Energy ...
    Despite recent explosive growth rates, the wind and solar power industries must overcome key innovation challenges before they can contribute a substantial share of national or global energy supplies.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • New York Times claims huge attack by Chinese h ...
    Hackers with possible ties to the Chinese military have repeatedly attacked the New York Times' computer systems over the past four months, possibly in retaliation for a series of stories that the paper ran exposing vast wealth accumulated by the family of outgoing premier Wen Jiabao, the newspa ...
  • Judge John Gleeson: Not Done Yet
    What must also be remembered is that judges have been sentencing according to the mandatory Guidelines for a generation now, such that the sentences imposed because the Guidelines required it have become the norm. What was a shockingly high sentence in 1987 is routine sentence in 2013. That's w ...
  • Greg Kroah-Hartman on Samsung-Laptop Driver Issue
    Hm, who would have thought that just randomly poking memory of a laptop would brick it. Long ago Samsung told me that it was just fine to be doing this, and that there would not be any problems (I based the samsung-laptop driver on code that Samsung themselves gave me.) Turns out, it wasn't tr ...
  • Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung lap ...
    Booting Linux using UEFI just once on various Samsung laptops is enough to permanently stop them working. Several reports have been posted on the Ubuntu bug tracker, but the problem is likely to also be present in other Linux distributions, as it appears to be caused by a kernel driver for Samsu ...
  • Nothing happens if a bus hits Facebook
    It may sound weird to claim a company that generated $1.2 billion in Q3 2012 (at a net loss) and boasts a billion accounts is not an elite tech company. This is not to argue that Facebook has no value, just that we need to stop including it in the conversation with those other four. Even wit ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Tower of Power vocalist Rick Stevens – music s ...
    Rick Stevens arrest 1976. Credit:sfgate.com Rick Stevens, original lead vocalist for Tower of Power, was recently released from prison after doing 36 years for a triple homicide over a drug deal gone bad. He credits music for saving him in prison because it gave him something to focus on and aff ...
  • How Columbus OH bounced back and is thriving
    Columbus OH was recently nominated as a finalist in the Most Intelligent Cities contest. Things were dire for a while for them. The politicians, business, and citizens joined together. Taxes were raised slightly. They used the money for business expansion, bike paths, rebuilding roads, and more ...
  • The rise of the lunatic fringe is an early warning
    That cracking you hear around the edges of society from the so-called lunatic fringe needs to be taken seriously. It’s not just marginals acting out and getting violent. People have lost faith in the government, and for good reason. Our government is corrupt, favors banksters above all, ig ...
  • Economy and war update
    Whoopsie, the economy is faltering. That means it’s time for Obama to send hundreds of billions more to the banksters again and maybe start another war.
  • Internal Revenue Service offers free online pr ...
    The Free File Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of industry-leading tax software companies partnered with the Internal Revenue Service, today announced the launch of the 2013 Free File program. Since its inception in 2003, Free File has offered free online commercial tax preparation software for ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Spin doctor goes from Newmont to manage mining ...
    The former public relations manager at Newmont Gold, Sefton Darby, is going to start a new job as national manager for minerals at New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals – an arm of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. In my opinion this is a considerable conflict of interest. ...
  • Cochlear implant funding should be based on need
    It didn’t get much media coverage, but the recent announcement by the Government that they are increasing funding for cochlear implants for one year is a welcome one. Last year I tabled a petition in parliament from Lyn Polwort calling for more funding for adult cochlear implants to enable parit ...
  • Skynet strikes: $616.57 for three songs
    The Copyright Tribunal have handed down the first penalties for copyright infringement under the so-called Skynet three-strikes law.
  • The bus stop theft that wasn’t
    Last night, as I left Auckland for the first week of Parliament for the year, I did something quite foolish. I was waiting for my bus to the airport (the stop is literally right in front of my apartment building — I can look down from my bedroom window and see it), when I realised [...]
  • Metiria Turei’s debate in reply to the P ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • TVs In Kids' Rooms Linked To Obesity And Unhea ...
    By Dr. Mercola Putting a television in your child’s bedroom may seem like a special treat, but it’s one that could be setting them up for a lifetime of poor sleep habits, and by association, obesity. And it’s not only TVs that are to blame. Computers, video games, cell ...
  • Link Between Fetal Exposure to PVC Plastic Che ...
    By Dr. Mercola When you get out of the shower in the morning, you probably don’t pay much attention to your vinyl shower curtain, except to maybe note when it needs a cleaning. And if your home contains soft, flexible plastic flooring, such as vinyl or those padded play-mat floors for ...
  • Coca-Cola Rolling Out New Misinformation Campa ...
    By Dr. Mercola A new Coca-Cola ad campaign that encourages people to come together to fight obesity is drawing fire from consumer advocates and obesity experts.1, 2 Coke says it’s trying to make consumers more aware of the healthy choice beverages Coke makes; critics say Coke is simp ...
  • Insecticide ‘Unacceptable’ Danger to Bees, Rep ...
    By Dr. Mercola Systemic insecticides known as neonicotinoids have become the fastest growing insecticides in the world. Two prominent examples, imidacloprid and clothianidin, are used as seed treatments in hundreds of crops. Virtually all of today's genetically engineered Bt corn, for instanc ...
  • First Genetically Engineered Flu Vaccine Now o ...
    By Dr. Mercola As recently reported, a hardier than normal type of flu has spread around the US, and much earlier than normal, causing some states to declare public health emergencies. To speed up flu vaccine production, the US FDA has approved a new insect-based, genetically engineered flu ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Game of Thrones star speaks out over Colombian ...
    Game of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has done a voice-over for Survival's interview.© SurvivalGame of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has lent her support to a Survival International campaign to finally bring the killers of three Colombian Indian leaders to justice. ...
  • Jared Diamond's new book 'The World Until Yest ...
    Diamond says that state governments stop tribal people from killing each other, but doesn't mention that an estimated 100,000 Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian authorities.© Jeanne Herbert/SurvivalTribal rights organization Survival International has launched a vigorous critique of ...
  • Survival launches 'Stop Complaining' ad for Ea ...
    Survival's new ad 'Stop Complaining' will bring global attention to the plight of Earth's most threatened tribe.© SurvivalHuman rights organization Survival International has launched a worldwide advertising campaign to raise awareness of the plight of the Awá tribe in Brazil ...
  • Victory for ‘human safari’ campaign as court b ...
    The campaign against 'human safaris' to the Jarawa tribe has won an important victory.© SurvivalSurvival International’s campaign to stop ‘human safaris’ in India’s Andaman Islands has gained an important victory, after the Supreme Court banned tourists from traveling along the road wh ...
  • Indigenous protests sweep Canada
    Idle no more protesters marching in Victoria, BC, December 21, 2012.© r.a. paterson/ Creative Commons LicenseNative people across Canada have blockaded roads, bridges and railway lines as part of the grass-roots indigenous movement Idle No More. From British Columbia, where dozens of protesters ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • #Video: Avoid Doctors to Protect Your Health!
    Or: If You Want To Get Sick, Go To The Hospital! from therealfoodchannel.com: Simple advice that will save you time, money - and maybe even your life. And the good news is that you don't have to do anything to benefit.
  • Vaccine Court Awards Millions to Two Children ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as "vaccine court," has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for "pain and suffering" and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens of millions of dollars. The ...
  • 2 meter opponents arrested in Naperville: 'A s ...
    from chicagotribune.com: Two vocal opponents of Naperville’s initiative to install wireless electric meters on homes were arrested after interfering with the installation process, according to city officials. Police are accompanying crews this week as they install smart meters at homes that p ...
  • BPA Substitute Could Spell Trouble: Experiment ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: ScienceDaily: The industry responded by creating “BPA-free” products, which were made from plastic containing a compound called bisphenol S. In addition to having similar names, BPA and BPS share a similar structure and versatility: BPS is now known to be used in every ...
  • Regulators Discover Hidden Viral Gene in Comme ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: Independent Science News:  In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fra ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu Phone Android Live Wallpaper is One of ...
    Ubuntu for Phones initiative was able to generate enormous interest in brand "Ubuntu". It was one of the biggest hits at CES 2013 and smartphone demos featuring Ubuntu Phone OS became instant hits on YouTube. Now, here's one for the fans. A brand new Ubuntu Phone OS style live wallpaper for An ...
  • Valve Now Actively Promoting Steam for Linux, ...
    This has been an amazing turn of events. Until an year or two ago, Valve Inc. was a company popular among Windows users primarily. A great number of Linux users maintained a dual boot system with Windows on it because of the lack of good games for Linux, especially those from the Steam library ...
  • A 10.1 inch Tablet that Dual-Boots Android 4.0 ...
    Kite (Nibbio in Italian) is a Full-HD tablet made by little known Italian electronics firm, DaVinci Mobile Technology. Kite tablet will be powered by Samsung Exynos 4412 quad-core processor and is supposedly going to dual boot latest stable versions of Ubuntu and Android, an idea no oth ...
  • Top 5 Fast, Lightwieght and Free Android Launchers
    First, we introduced you to a chosen collection of 6 awesome launchers for Android. Then we featured 3 more launchers tailor-made for Android 4.0 ICS+ operating system. Since then, a lot of our readers have been asking for more lightweight alternatives to the ones we already featured. SPB Shel ...
  • Ubuntu Phone OS Demo at CES 2013: Showcases Ca ...
    Yet another video is up showcasing several new features of Ubuntu Phone OS. While the first video, demoed by Mark Shuttleworth himself, illustrated how slick the OS has become since it was announced, the second video here features default Camera and Photo apps, Facebook integration and brill ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

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electric politics

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

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Stop NATO

  • William Blum: “There is a drone with Ass ...
    Voice of Russia January 28, 2013 ‘There is a drone with Assange’s name on it’ – William Blum John Robles Assange will be assassinated if freed, expert says. In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, William Blum, an American author, historian, and critic of United States foreign policy ...
  • Space War: U.S.’s Former Nazi Scientists ...
    Voice of Russia January 31, 2013   ‘America’s Nazi scientists fulfilling dream of ruling the world’ – Bruce Gagnon John Robles Audio: Download   In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, Bruce Gagnon shares little known facts about the militarization of space ...
  • Turkey: Four NATO Missile Batteries Operational
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization January 30, 2013 Four Patriot batteries operational in Turkey (Bundeswehr photograph) NATO now has command and control of two Dutch and two German Patriot batteries located in Adana and Kahramanmaras in the south of Turkey. These four Patriot anti-missile syste ...
  • Guy de Maupassant: The army, murdering those w ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Guy de Maupassant: Why does society not rise up bodily in rebellion at the word “war”? Guy de Maupassant: I only pray that our sons may never see any wars again ==== Guy de Maupassant From Boule de suif (1880) Translator unknow ...
  • Syria: Israel Launches Deadly Air Raid On Mili ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti January 31, 2013 Syria Says Israel Strikes Military Facility BEIRUT: An Israeli airstrike hit a military research center in Syria on Wednesday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported, citing a statement by the Syrian army’s general command. “Israeli fighter jet ...

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Intel Hub

  • Manufacturing Scarcity
    By Dawie Coetzee C4ss January 31, 2013 While we are agreed that the prevalent system of State capitalism depends on the maintenance of artificial scarcity, there seems to be some lack of clarity about the ways in which this is achieved. Specifically there are questions over whether the result of ...
  • Violence Erupts in Egypt’s Coastal Cities-Gove ...
    By Sarah Dee theintelhub.com January 31, 2013 Riots have been raging along Egypt’s coast line in the cities of Cairo and Port Said. Mobs of angry protesters have gathered to voice their grievances against Islamist President Muhammed Morsi and to mourn their dead. Though Egyptian President Morsi ...
  • Sundance Film Fest Awards Documentary: ’Dirty ...
    By Sarah Dee theintelhub.com January 31,  2013 The Sundance Film Festival took place in Park City, Utah last week and the documentary ‘Dirty Wars’ came out on top, taking the Cinematography Award in the U.S. Documentary Category. The film’s director, Richard Rowley, of Big Noise Films and other ...
  • Nightmare Hostage Situation in Algeria-6 Kille ...
    By Sarah Dee theintelhub.com January 31, 2013 A high-stakes stand-off between the Algerian troops and the Islamist armed captors, known as the “Battalion of Blood,” encamped at the Amenas Gas Field in Algeria has caused an international hostage crisis. A breaking Reuters story describes the esca ...
  • Initial Daily Mail Report: ‘TWENTY SEVEN ...
    Shepard Ambellas | More information and strange events regarding the Sandy Hook shooting has surfaced lately then you can shake a stick at. Well, here's another one for you.

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Just Relax For A Minute And Watch This Incredi ...
    Can you believe something this beautiful happens 182 days a year? This is an edited, single-shot (not time-lapse) video of the moon rising over Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand two days ago. It was filmed by Australian Astrophotographer Mark Gee, who was sweet enough to share it ...
  • Petting Mice Reveals Chemical Reason Why Massa ...
    Chemically stimulating the neurons in mice that respond to stroking could lead to better pain relievers for us. Do animals actually enjoy petting? Mice seem to, according to new research from the California Institute of Technology, where scientists picked out the neurons that fire when a mouse ...
  • Chinese Entrepreneur Offers Canned Designer Ai ...
    It's a publicity stunt, but a good one. Chen Guangbiao wants to bring attention to China's air quality problem before it's too late. Here’s a publicity stunt that we can unequivocally get behind: Chinese billionaire entrepreneur Chen Guangbiao has released a line of designer canned air in China ...
  • FYI: What Is Deer Antler Spray, And Why Would ...
    NFL players have been accused of using deer antler spray, a banned performance enhancer with a bizarre name. A new report from Sports Illustrated connects Baltimore Ravens player Ray Lewis with deer antler spray, also known as deer antler velvet, one of the oddest-sounding performance enhancer ...
  • NASA's Newest Robot Is A Fun-Sized, Moon-Minin ...
    RASSOR drops the scientific instruments of its cousins for 100 pounds of durability. Meet RASSOR, NASA's newest mini-space explorer. What you're looking at is a prototype. But one day, NASA plans to send something similar to moon. RASSOR--pronounced "razer" and short for Regolith Advanced Surf ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Global and regional climate update
    Is recent flooding and heavy rainfall unusual? I've written at length about the excessive rainfall the UK has experienced, particularly last year but also since the late 1990's; six out of the years from 1998 to 2012 are in the top ten wettest on record, based on Met Office rainfall data which ...
  • In the big freeze - but for how long?
    Amounts of snow across some parts of our region are the deepest since December 2010, with 21 cms being reported at Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale at midday, and a notable 18 cms in the middle of Sheffield at Weston park. Waddington in Lincolnshire is reporting 14 cms of snow. There are some big ...
  • Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
    Many parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire had their first snowfall of the winter yesterday, with coastal areas suffering the largest falls with around 10cms (4 ins) of fresh snow being reported by yesterday evening. With high pressure developing across Scandinavia, cold air will be with us ...
  • Met Office scale back global warming forecast
    A new global temperature forecast published by the Met Office, through to 2017, has scaled back projections of the amount of warming they expect compared with previous estimates. The new projection can be seen below with more details on the Met Office website. I have written several times ...
  • Dry weather returns to UK following 2nd wettes ...
    2012 averaged across the UK was the second wettest on record in data which stretches back to 1910, falling short of a new record by only 6.6mm. In total 1330.7mm fell last year, compared with the average of 1154mm. A new record has been set across England and Wales with 1205mm of rain. And ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • US GDP Shrinks, But Stocks Near All-Time Highs?
    The partisan wuss Krugman and his various acolytes have long argued that the United States is "doing better" than Europe for the main reason that, instead of starting processes of fiscal consolidation, the Americans have the fiscal and monetary spigots wide open. On the other hand, there are tho ...
  • Obvious? IMF & Another Egyptian Regime Change
    The facts of the matter are as follows: (a) The IMF wanted Egypt to achieve "broad-based domestic and international support" for reform prior to lending $4.8 billion or so to the country in a statement dated 20 November 2012; (b) Since then, the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Muhammad Morsi ...
  • Fleeing Egypt? Buy Caribbean Dual Citizenship
    Mur-dah! Today, let's look at the utterly fascinating intersection of e-commerce, nationality for sale, and the turn for the worse in any number of Middle East countries. I saw the banner advertisement above while visiting Ahram Online that pretty much sums up the mood in Egypt and that outstand ...
  • Antigua & Online Gaming: Fighting the US Bullies
    The United States likes to throw its weight around the international political economy; that much is obvious. Given the sheer girth of its residents, this is not something to be easily ignored. However, like all bullies, the United States can be put in its place if you stand up and fight for a p ...
  • Globalization's Victims: Filipino Workers in A ...
    The Philippines is famously a country of migration with an estimated one-tenth of its population of ninety million working overseas. I am of the belief that there is nothing wrong with that. After all, the UN Declaration of Human Rights Article 13 (2) states: "Everyone has the right to leave any ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

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Voiceless Victim

  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    It was encouraging to learn today that German researchers working with catholic officials to produce the latest, supposedly independent, supposedly research based support for Vatican lies about endemic child rape by catholic religious have had enough and pulled the plug on the project. Read the ...
  • Fire’s Too Good for These Devils
    As much of Australia prepares to face catastrophic bush fire conditions today, I hope everyone is safe from fires and comes through unscathed. That even includes the church’s carefully protected child rapists and those who sacrifice additional children to cover up their crimes. Fire is too ...
  • Smokescreen Council Working for Deceitful Chur ...
    The CEO of the Council Which Should Not Exist, Francis Sullivan, is following in the footsteps of church officials by claiming, without basis, to speak for victims of the serial child sex offenders enabled and protected by his church. This week’s comments include a stated desire to be &#82 ...

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Haiti: Security Council calls for timely elect ...
    Reaffirming its commitment to Haiti as the United Nations seeks to complete its peacekeeping mission in the crisis-beset country, the Security Council has urged all political actors to work constructively on priorities, including credible 2013 elections and security sector reform.
  • Dismissal of Honduran Supreme Court judges an ...
    A United Nations independent expert today expressed grave concern over the decision by the Honduran Congress to dismiss four Supreme Court judges, and called on the Government to reconsider its decision.
  • UN rights office concerned at alarming' levels ...
    The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern at an "alarming" pattern of violence in Venezuelan prisons, with the latest incident leaving 58 inmates dead and around 100 injured.
  • UN chief saddened by tragic fire at Brazil nig ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was saddened to learn of the tragic fire that occurred at a nightclub in Brazil on Saturday night, which led to the death of hundreds of people.
  • Haiti: top UN official calls for delayed elect ...
    The top United Nations official in Haiti today called on the Government of the beleaguered Caribbean country to carry out free and fair elections, which have been delayed for over a year, as soon as possible within 2013.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

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Modern Survivalism

  • Preps for the Flu or Cold
    If and when you come down with the flu, it will be too late to go out and get medicines for treatment. One of the big differences between the flu and a cold is that the flu comes on very fast. Once you begin to notice that you are getting sick (weakness, aches, onset of [...]
  • Best First Aid Kit 2012
    The best first aid kit of 2012 is based on review data, customer rating, popularity, and its availability on Amazon.com. From the more than 6,000 first aid kit products that were available, “The Complete First Aid Kit” is the ‘best first aid kit’ of 2012. Again, the word ...
  • Survival Cooking
    Survival cooking is a high priority matter for a prepper or person who is aware of modern day risks, who puts plans in place as contingency against emergency, disaster, or even collapse. While cooking is not imperative for every survival situation, it is a means to maintain a safe and healthy di ...
  • List of ‘Collapse’ Medical Supplies
    Ken adds: This is a re-post of a guest article on Modern Survival Blog from ‘Nurse Amy’ of DoomAndBloom.net. This list is a good reminder that we should consider our medical supplies in addition to our other preparedness supplies.   Guest post: by ‘Nurse Amy’ Here&#8 ...
  • Social Chaos Survival Guide
    Definition of Social Chaos A condition or place of great disorder or confusion A disorderly mass A state of utter confusion Lacking order or predictability Complete disorder Behavior so unpredictable as to appear random Anarchy Bedlam Disorder Pandemonium Turmoil   There is no single accura ...

Fast Company

  • In A Predictive, Algorithmic World, Are Machin ...
    The answer, according to Adaptly’s Charlie Neer, is probably yes. But that’s not a bad thing, if humans rethink their role in relation to technology. At least once a week I speak with a media director who spends millions on search through Google and puts his or her employee&rsq ...
  • The Top 10 Biking Cities In America, Mapped By ...
    These beautiful maps--where each dot represents one commuter--create beautiful impressions of each city’s transportation patterns. John Nelson is the designer behind the maps visualizing all varieties of transportation in the Seattle metropolitan area, which have lately caught the ey ...
  • Cars.com Saving the Drama For Your Mama (Who W ...
    A pair of teasers for Cars.com’s Super Bowl ad show that the brand is not afraid of a little drama and neither should you be. TNT proved beyond a shadow of a doubt last year that they know drama, but apparently Cars.com has been boning up on the theatrics as well. A pair of just-rele ...
  • See What You Can Do With Drone Filmmaking
    Filmmakers are increasingly turning to camera-equipped drones to film aerial shots. Here, a German expert gives us the 400-foot view of a new mode of moviemaking. Berlin-based filmmaker Christopher Kippenberger believes that quadrocopters--cheap, inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles--are t ...
  • Why NFL Helmets Will Never Be Concussion-Proof
    Experts agree, even if a concussion-proof helmet were possible, such a solution would bring new injuries of its own--to the sport and its players. Imagine that you drive a car straight into a building at 40 mph. Despite airbags and seatbelts, you’d probably feel lucky to be alive. Bu ...

Jadaliyya

  • ثورية الوسيلة وسلطوية الغاية
    فض الأمن اليمني اعتصاماً سلمياً ؚالقوة يوم 25 ديسمؚر الماضي عندما اتجهت مجموعة من ال؎ؚاؚ نحو دار الر؊اسة مطالؚين ؚقرارت صريحة لعزل أحمد علي عؚدالله صالح وعلي محسن من الجي؎، وغالؚ القم؎ مدير جهاز الأمن السياسي. هذا الخؚركان سيؚدو مفهوماً Ù‚ØšÙ„ أكثر من عام، لكن ؚعد تنحي الر؊يس الذي ثارت ضده الجماهير ...
  • Despite New Program Promising Open Access, JST ...
    [The following article was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more information on the publishing world as it relates to pedagogy and knowledge production, follow Tadween Publishing on Facebook and Twitter.]    ...
  • لا أسف ولا ندم
     Ù„ا أسف ولا ندم: الحنين الاستعماري في أوساط اليمين الفرنسي المتطرف في الساؚع ع؎ر من أكتوؚر 1961، ت؞اهر م؊ات الآلاف من الجزا؊ريين سلمياً في ؚاريس للاحتجاج على الانتهاكات التي تحدث لحرياتهم المدنية.  في خضم حرؚ الاستقلال (1954-1962)، انخرطت جؚهة التحرير الوطني في نضال عنيف ضد فرنسا اعت ...
  • ال؎ؚاؚ والثورة: فقدان الوجهة
    كان عام 2005 هو العام الذي تصاعدت فيه مطالؚ التغيير، و؎هدت فيه مصر في عهد ن؞ام مؚارك حركة غير مسؚوقة في ال؎ارع من أجل إصلاح الن؞ام السياسي ومنعه من ارتكاؚ خطي؊ة التوريث، و؎هدت الؚلاد مواجهة ؚين الن؞ام والمعارضة التي حركت ركودها حركات اجتماعية مثل كفاية وغيرها، كان موضوع هذه المواجهة تعديل المادة ...
  • The Opposition’s Lost Bet on the Economic Crisis
    Egypt faces a severe economic crisis that has not been seen since the late 1980s, when the country was on the verge of bankruptcy. The budget deficit soared to almost LE100 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year, and is expected to exceed LE 200 billion by its end in July 2013. Th ...

mediagazer

  • Just Read It: Magazine Publishers Push Minimal ...
    Susan Currie Sivek / MediaShift: Just Read It: Magazine Publishers Push Minimalist Apps Without Fluff  —  “Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity,” read the headline of a recent article at The Onion.  A (fictional) Internet user commented: “Every time I ...
  • Chinese Hackers Stole Every New York Times Emp ...
    Adam Martin / New York Magazine: Chinese Hackers Stole Every New York Times Employee's Password  —  On Wednesday night, after enduring four months of hacking, the New York Times finally reported its computer network had been infiltrated and that it had ousted its attackers, who ...
  • Al Jazeera America: Time for a New Cable Model ...
    Nikolas Kozloff / The Huffington Post: Al Jazeera America: Time for a New Cable Model?  —  In a witheringly condescending article, Guardian columnist Michael Wolff recently mocked the launching of Al Jazeera America, a new cable network that will compete with the likes of Fox, C ...
  • Time Inc. Cuts Some 500 Jobs, Biggest Layoffs ...
    Nat Ives / AdAge: Time Inc. Cuts Some 500 Jobs, Biggest Layoffs in Years  —  Storied Publisher Resumes Reductions to Employee Rolls  —  Time Inc., the publisher of magazines including Time and Sports Illustrated, has begun eliminating about 6% of its head count & ...
  • Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 ...
    Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months  —  SAN FRANCISCO — For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters an ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Facebook warns costs will grow faster tha ...
    Facebook has warned Wall Street that its costs will grow faster than sales this year, as the social networking site battles for a larger slice of the mobile advertising market. Facebook has spent the past few quarters struggling to harness this growth to drive revenues, partly because of the ...
  • UK's Cameron in Algeria for security talk ...
    British Prime Minister David Cameron has arrived in Algeria for security talks, just two weeks after a hostage crisis at a gas plant in the Sahara. Cameron was received on Wednesday by Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and later also had talks with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the national ...
  • Reasons to raise and keep chickens (Photo ...
    No movie with a rural farm scene is complete without the chicken. Usually a car or person on horse back drives or rides up to a house in the midst of a fluttery and squawking flock of chickens trying to get out of the way. But chickens are not just found on the farm, they also can be found t ...
  • Heavy snowfall likely next week in Himach ...
    SHIMLA: The weather department has predicted heavy snowfall in many districts of Himachal Pradesh - including Kullu, Shimla, Chamba, Lahaul-Spiti, Kangra and Kinnaur - from February 4 to 6. It has also issued an advisory to...
  • 'Himalayan Viagra' Overharvesting Threate ...
    A seemingly insatiable demand for the so-called "Himalayan Viagra" may cause lasting ecological damage to the high-altitude regions where the fungus is found. The odd-looking, tubular Yarsagumba is being dangerously overharvested to supply the Chinese market, according to a new study. Herald ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • 10 Reasons to Prevent Seismic Airgun Testing i ...
    Image via Current.com. Yesterday, members of both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate sent letters to President Obama urging him to stop proposed seismic airgun testing in the Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is currently deciding if seismic airgun testing s ...
  • Feeding the World with Wild Seafood
    The Economist hosts it's Feeding the World summit this week in Amsterdam. What food requires no fresh water, produces little carbon dioxide, does not use any arable land, and provides healthy, lean protein at a cost accessible to the world’s poor? WILD SEAFOOD. This is the same question our ...
  • Rescued Right Whales Show off New Calves
    Right whale calf swims with it's mother. Courtsey of NOAA. One of the dangers whales face is entanglement in fishing gear such as longlines, traps and pots.  When officials become aware of these events, disentanglement teams are sent out to assess the situation and free the whales w ...
  • CEO Note: Big Win for Wind
    Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless If you’ve been paying attention to news out of the nation’s capital, it would seem that there’s little to be encouraged about. But what you might not have heard is the genuinely good news that emerged when the dust settled on the so-called “fiscal cliff” deal just af ...
  • Massachusetts Tackles Seafood Fraud
    Massachusetts legislators are taking a stand against seafood fraud, which includes mislabeling or substituting one type of fish for another that is cheaper, less desirable or more readily available, usually for financial gain.  Oceana commends the Massachusetts Legislature for taking up the ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Andrea Mitchell and the Clinton Interview
    Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy IT’S THE last time I’ll get to use the Paul Szep graphic of former Secretary Clinton holding up the world, because it’s now Secretary John Kerry. NBC’s grand dame of foreign policy taped her inter ...
  • Without Weapons, Wayne LaPierre Shoots Blanks
    THE PRIZE in the current gun safety and control debate has always been universal background checks. It is the mother of all wins that nothing else matches, because absolutely nothing hits the target of gun violence more directly. Senator Dick Durbin took it to the N.R.A.’s LaPierre, who co ...
  • Kerry’s Farewell, Cites Money in Politics, and ...
    SENATOR KERRY said so long to the Senate today. What he said about money won’t make it through the cacophony, but nothing is changing our democratic republic more. I also want to say that Gov. Deval Patrick is a schmuck. I’ve never cared much for Patrick and I care even less now. No ...
  • Gabby Giffords Speaks, NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Fo ...
    “Thank you for inviting me here today. This is an important conversation for our children, for our communities, for Democrats and Republicans. Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do ...
  • Obama Hits Three-Year High in Approval Rating
    Fully 60 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of Obama in the new poll, up slightly from October but a clear shift in opinion from an election year in which his ratings hovered in the mid-to-low 50s. And by 39 percent to 26 percent, the president now has more “strongly” positive rati ...

Hudson New York

  • Anti-Semitism in Europe
    In 2012, the number of anti-Semitic crimes in France sharply increased. The six-month period that followed the March killings in a Jewish school in Toulouse were particularly harsh. The killer , Mohammed Merah, became a hero in many suburbs, his name on
  • Oxford University and Churches in Europe Champ ...
    Anna Baltzer, of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, who was exposed here at Gatestone Institute as lying about her background, is apparently still appearing in a debate Oxford University in the UK today, January 31st, as originally scheduled,
  • The Czech Republic and the Arab World
    A vote in the United Nations General Assembly is often the consequence of a complicated assessment of national interests and a response to international pressures, rather than of actual convictions on a particular issue. The Czech Republic was the only
  • Brooklyn College Political Science Department ...
    The international campaign to delegitimize Israel by subjecting the Jewish state—and the Jewish State alone—to boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) has now come to the most unlikely of places: Brooklyn College. The political science department of that
  • Obama's Soft Threat to Democracy and Britain
    In a high-stakes gamble, British Prime Minister David Cameron said last week, in his long anticipated speech about the European Union, that he would like the EU to be an open, internal market based on nation states rather than the centralizing and

Urban Survival

  • “Ritual” Thursday
    OK, I’ll admit it:  Most mornings we’d start off with a cleverly worded story about the Fed non-decision on rates but before we attempt that here’s an email that came in from my friend G.A. Stewart to keep an eye … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With our “Boundaries of Awarenes ...
    If you’re an astute reader, you no doubt caught the change in the column this week ahead of the Amazon ad.  We’re back to the simple “More after this” cutaway.   Reader John T, however, along with several others, were … Continue reading →
  • Housing Roars Ahead–Sort of…
    The Case-Shiller/S&P Housing Index numbers have just been released and while we don’t know how much of the increase is due to venture groups sucking up the middle/upper income properties in places like Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Tampa, what is … Continue reading →
  • “Dignity Mortgages?”
    (A special post will be issued about 8:15 AM Central with the Case-Shiller/S&P Housing report which is expected to be up…) If you want to know what’s going on  in housing, other than this morning’s Case-Shiller/S&P Housing Data (which will … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With “Aging is a Lie!”
    I don’t get very excited about most developments in healthcare.  Why?  Because while most practitioners who do face-time with patients are busy with the reality of the delivery model: Things like Paperwork, governmental regulations, pop inspections from the state, massive … ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • NRDC China Environmental News Alert (January 3 ...
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • CalOSHA Investigation: Chevron Intentionally a ...
    Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco The fifteen thousand people who streamed into Bay-Area hospitals knew there was something terribly wrong with Chevron’s Richmond refinery when it caught on fire on August 6th, 2012.  What they ...
  • Members of Congress Say No to Airguns
    Michael Jasny, Senior Policy Analyst, Vancouver, B.C., and Santa Monica Today more than 30 members of Congress wrote to President Obama and Interior Secretary Salazar, urging the administration against opening the U.S. east coast to airgun explorati ...
  • New Secretary of State John Kerry Can Be a Str ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing On Friday, Senator John Kerry will become the new U.S. Secretary of State. In his confirmation hearing last week, Senator Kerry spoke of climate change and its link to U.S. domestic energy policy. Se ...
  • Health Experts and PA Victims Tell NY to Hold ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City A group people who live (or, in one case, used to live) in heavily fracked parts of Pennsylvania paid a visit to Albany today to share their stories and to urge Governor Cuomo not to allow new fracking in ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, January 30, 2013: Nora Springs, Iowa: A police officer was arrested and charged with child endangerment. He allegedly choked his victim, causing him to have difficulty breathing and leaving … Continue reading →Nationa ...
  • ATF Mess in Milwaukee
    ATF set up a undercover sting operation.  But criminals stole weapons from them and the ATF, in turn, rips off citizen-landlord.  Note also that when the citizen lodges complaints about damages and unpaid bills, he is threatened with criminal charges.   … Continue readi ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, January 29, 2013: Walnut Creek, California: The family of a hairdresser killed by police is seeking $15 million in a wrongful-death suit filed against four members of the police … Continue reading →National Police Misc ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, January 26 to Monday, January 28, 2013: Ellsworth, Maine: A cellphone text message led to an argument between an off-duty police officer and his live-in companion. He was arrested after … Continue reading →Nationa ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, January 25, 2013: Los Angeles, California: A secretive cellphone spy device known as StingRay, intended to fight terrorism, was used in far more routine LAPD criminal investigations 21 times … Continue reading →National ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW Daily Dose: Blackberry not RIM, Yandex no ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Blackberry (not RIM) launches new brand, OS and phones, Yandex withdraws Wonder and Google wants your teenagers. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Google hands out Raspberry Pis ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Mozilla announces ‘Click to Play’ for plugins, Google donates Raspberry Pis, the New York Times starts incubating and Foursquare takes aim at business managers. You can... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Twitter’s transparency r ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, a gas leak at Samsung’s semiconductor plant in South Korea, Twitter’s transparency report, Plurk funding and Chinese games consoles. You can catch The Daily Dose every... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Bye-bye Symbian, hello Vine fo ...
    Bye-bye Symbian, Hello Vine for Twitter and blogging for Quora, all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mozilla’s device ...
    Nikon’s new image sharing space, Deezer and Spotify expand internationally and Mozilla’s mobile devices. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Feb 1st - Reef Day of Action events
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  • Go LED and kill Hazelwood?
    By Trent Hawkins According to analysis conducted by Beyond Zero Emissions, lighting in homes is responsible for about seven per cent of household electricity use, and around 30 per cent of electricity for commercial and retail buildings. That's quite a large amount of energy use, but it could ...
  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...
  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...
  • This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
    For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • 14 Bornean elephants found dead, likely poisoned
    Wildlife officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah have found the bodies of 14 Bornean elephants in Gunung Rara Forest Reserve, and suspect that more may be found dead. While tests are pending, they believe the elephants were likely poisoned due to damage in the animals' digestive tracts. Only a ...
  • Asian bear farming: breaking the cycle of expl ...
    In the forests of Asia, bears are being captured. These captives will be sent to bear farms, most unregulated and illegal, where they will be kept alive in a small cage, locked away for life. Their bodies will be used as renewable natural resources, from which profit will be made through the ext ...
  • China responsible for 46 percent of global coa ...
    A new chart by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows how China's coal habit has grown to such an extent that it now accounts for 46.9 percent of the world's consumption. In 2011 coal consumption hit 3.8 billion tons in China, making up nearly half the world's coal use of 8.1 billion t ...
  • Featured video: the miracle of mangroves
    Mangroves are among the most important ecosystems in the world: they provide nurseries for fish, protect coastlines against dangerous tropical storms, mitigate marine erosion, store massive amounts of carbon, and harbor species found no-where else. However, they are vanishing at astonishing rate ...
  • 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— ...

Sierra Express

  • High Level Ministerial Meeting on MCC Compact ...
    Recently Sierra Leone was announced by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) of the United States government to be eligible for Compact programme, having passed twelve out of twenty performance indicators used by the MCC to assess developing countries in the areas of good governance, econom ...
  • Burkinabé President seeks UNIDO support and di ...
    ADDIS ABABA January 29, 2013 – On the margins of the African Union summit of Heads of State, Blaise Compaoré, President of Burkina Faso, held a meeting with UNIDO Director General, Kandeh Yumkella.  (Photo: Press Conference with President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso) Mr. Compaoré explo ...
  • Prosperity Agenda – Nah Mumu?
    Wealth brings excitement and importance, plus respect. That is the case of present-day Sierra Leone, or at least that is what President Koroma’s ‘Agenda for Prosperity’ is ladling us with, that the nation is confronted with huge economic prospects.  (Photo: Elias Bangura, author) I don’t need to ...
  • In Sierra Leone more health officers in ACC Dr ...
    The Anti-Corruption graft (ACC) has set in motion an action to probe into the activities of two members of APC government, namely, the current deputy minister of Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Mahmoud Tarawally and the sacked deputy minister of Health and Sanitation, Mr. Bobor Sawyer.  ( ...
  • As President Koroma champions development, roa ...
    As President Koroma champions the Agenda for Prosperity, road construction and development are key priorities for nation building. The ongoing construction of the Hillside bye-pass road is critical to the expansion of economic activities in the capital. In this road construction business one com ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Editorial: Milk formula fuss warning for exporters
    The words "New Zealand" have to be synonymous with food safety. The country cannot afford its reputation as a pure and wholesome food producer to be tarnished anywhere in the world, but especially in milk fed to babies and especially...
  • 'Entering the grip of a drought'
    Hot, dry weather has many Bay of Plenty dairy farmers struggling to make ends meet and Tauranga staring down the barrel of the third driest month in living memory.A mere 4mm of rain will have fallen in January, if the forecast for...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Battle plan lacking for dairy ...
    New Zealand Ambassador Carl Worker's fulsome apology for the "confusion" caused to Chinese consumers over the detection of DCD residues in New Zealand-sourced milk is clearly an attempt to stop the trade risk to New Zealand dairy...
  • Theo Spierings: Testing for DCD
    There were two drivers that prompted our decision to test for DCD.Two New Zealand fertiliser companies were asking us to actively support their use of DCD products as a way of reducing nitrate leaching.At around the same time,...
  • Swift backlash over dairy DCD
    An exporter selling New Zealand-made infant formula in China has been shocked by the swiftness with which sales fell through the floor after news of an agricultural chemical's presence in Kiwi milk products broke in the Chinese media...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Jerry Brito on How the Threat of Draconian Pun ...
    Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old computer prodigy and Internet activist, was facing decades in prison for violating federal hacking laws when he took his own life earlier this month. Many commentators, including Lawrence Lessig and Glenn Greenwald, have argued that prosecutorial zeal drov ...
  • Poll: Americans, Especially Young Ones, Say Pe ...
    The recent Reason-Rupe poll finds a slim majority of Americans favor allowing private ownership of assault weapons, 44 percent say Americans should be prohibited from owning these types of firearms. Support is drawn down partisan lines with 68 percent of Republicans opposin ...
  • A.M. Links: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac May Nee ...
    Pull out your mad money! Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are probably going to get another few billion in bailouts from the taxpayers. Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor in the Aaron Swartz case who once planned to ride her conviction rate into the Massachusetts governor's office, recently ...
  • Judge Napolitano on Immigration and Freedom
    Nativism is the arch-enemy of the freedom to travel, as its adherents believe they can use the coercive power of the government to impair the freedom of travel of persons who are unwanted not because of personal behavior, but solely on the basis of where they were born. Nativism teac ...
  • Brickbat: Flyboys
    Inspections of Air Force bases across the globe uncovered more than 32,000 examples of "unprofessional" or "obscene" material displayed in common areas or stored on government computers. Those include pornographic movies, a video titled "Achmed the Dead Terrorist," a photo of New E ...

Mercury Rising

  • Johnny Cash, One Control Advocate
    Just watch — you’ll like it:
  • The Gatekeepers: interviews of six heads of Sh ...
    The director of the recent film The Gatekeepers, Dror Moreh, was interviewed by DemocracyNow. The film includes some astonishing quotes from the directors of Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police. Moreh complained that DemocracyNow had decontextualized the quotes to portray the Palestinians as ...
  • US claims authorization to intervene in Mali
    Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy: 1) The Obama Administration has apparently made a legal determination that the conflict in Mali is covered under the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. Most of the reservations about whether President Obama has the legal authority to engage in m ...
  • What happens when you tolerate/aid coups
    Via Adrienne, AP’s Alberto Arce reports that Honduras is “no longer functioning” in the words of Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy. Street surveillance cameras turned off for non-payment, with threats of cutting off police radio as well. Teachers unpaid for six months. Soldi ...
  • News from the Vatican
    Betty Clermont has an epic post on the nature of intramural and extramural conflicts in the Vatican. While I think that reports of the Church’s demise are just a bit premature, the main thread is that there has been a lack of accountability, particularly with regard to financial transactio ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Psi in the News
    The Parapsychological Association has opened up a new membership category, more on Dr. Julie Beischel’s recently released e-book Among Mediums: A Scientist's Quest for Answers, Guillermo Del Toro discusses his personal encounters with the unexplained, and two articles on the science of un-h ...
  • The 7th Annual Tucson Gem & Jam
    Gem and Jam is a music and art festival in Tucson, AZ that coincides with the largest international gem & mineral show in the world, bringing in close to a half a million people. It starts on February 7, and lasts till February 9.  read more
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  • Be Brave
    Mikki Willis of Elevate Films is directing an amazing movie called Be Brave. It's a true story about a young man who set out on a mission to unite the world, but his quest was cut short when he made a critical mistake in a Mayan cave. read more

Desertification

  • OP-ED: Weird, and Getting Weirder
    Weird is the only way to describe January temperatures whipsawing between record warm and arctic cold over a span of a few days. Experts say that is what climate change looks like: weird, record-shattering weather. Here’s a fact that goes beyond weird to astonishing. Anyone who is 27 years ...
  • Peering into the Energy Crystal Ball
    Trying to predict the future of the energy sector is like trying to predict the weather in London in an era of global warming. But delegates had a go at it during the three-day World Future Energy Summit that ended in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 17. They foresee new world leaders in the energy sector, [...]
  • Digging for Water, But Striking Oil
    The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil. But when the oil-blessed region runs out of water, there could be a change in the political landscape, triggering potential conflicts. The world’s future wars, experts predic ...
  • Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation
    Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems. “We’re all scared,” said Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at St ...
  • OP-ED: Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of ...
    Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we unequivocally learned that the fossil fuel energy that powers our societies is destroying them. Accepting this reality is the biggest challenge of the brand new year. Re-engineering our societies and lifestyles to prosper on green a ...

Blogging Canadians

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

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CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Spring 2013 Welcome Letter From Dean Mogulescu
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your winter holidays, and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming semester. Whether you are a new or returning student, I am happy to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the Spring 2013 term, and to thank you ...
  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
    In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
  • Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
  • I am a marathoner.
    Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...

Dissident Voice

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

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