Monday, February 11, 2013

11 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Hilary Clinton's Legacy as Secretary of State
    “As a woman I would like to support what she has done. But I don’t see any achievement around the world that she has done—broadly for U.S. foreign policy, and even for women and girls. That’s really unfortunate and I’m sorry to say it. But when I look at each of the regions of the world, she’ ...
  • Nation: New US cold war with Russia
    With the full support of a feckless policy elite and an uncritical media establishment, Washington is slipping, if not plunging, into a new cold war with Moscow. Relations, already deeply chilled by fundamental disputes over missile defense, the Middle East and Russia’s internal politics, have n ...
  • Mali: A Neo-Colonial Plot ?
    On January 11, 2013, France launched a military intervention in Mali, an African country where nearly half the population lives on less than $ 1.25 per day. Paris’ reasons for justifying this operation come straight out of the "war on terror" rhetoric, so dear to the Bush Jr. administration. On ...
  • Obama Opposed Syria War Plan
    Here’s how The New York Times reports the bombshell revelation, which emerged at a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing with Panetta and Dempsey, under questioning from the invariably pro-war John McCain: Did the Pentagon, Mr. McCain continued, support the recommendation by Mrs. Clinton and ...
  • Richard III: Never a Child Killer
    The Princes in the Tower (Edward V and Richard Duke of York) were certainly murdered but not by their uncle King Richard III: a modern jury would dismiss much of the 'evidence' against him before the first tea break. Most of it comes from two propagandists on the Tudor payroll keen to blacken ...

Independent - London

  • Russian coal mine blast kills 18 people, heigh ...
    A deadly blast at a coal mine in northern Russia has killed up to 18 people, the latest tragedy to hit the country’s coal sector, which is plagued by ageing infrastructure and poor safety standards.Related StoriesLife in plastic, it's fantastic: Meet Ukraine’s real-life Barbie girlBreaking: Pope ...
  • Video: Pope Benedict steps down
    Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will be stepping down due to poor health.Related StoriesLife in plastic, it's fantastic: Meet Ukraine’s real-life Barbie girlBreaking: Pope Benedict XVI announces he will resign because of 'ill health'Pope Benedict XVI announces he will resign because of ' ...
  • Pope Benedict XVI announces he will resign bec ...
    Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will resign the papacy because of ill health, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. The decision will send shockwaves through the global Catholic community.Related StoriesLife in plastic, it's fantastic: Meet Ukraine’s real-life Barbie girlBreaking: ...
  • Italy hails 'an outbreak of modernity in the C ...
    Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will resign the papacy because of ill health, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. The decision will send shockwaves through the global Catholic community.Related StoriesLife in plastic, it's fantastic: Meet Ukraine’s real-life Barbie girlBreaking: ...
  • Breaking: Pope Benedict XVI announces he will ...
    Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will resign the papacy because of ill health, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. The decision will send shockwaves through the global Catholic community.Related StoriesLife in plastic, it's fantastic: Meet Ukraine’s real-life Barbie girlPope Bened ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Afghanistan's growing number of child drug addicts
    They play badminton, kick a ball around and huddle over computer games just like normal children. Except that they are recovering drug addicts aged around three to 12, representing a growing proportion of drug users in war-torn Afghanistan. In response, increasing numbers of rehabilitation cen ...
  • United States the target of a massive cyber-es ...
    The US intelligence community has concluded that America is the target of a massive cyber-espionage campaign that is threatening its competitiveness, The Washington Post reported. Citing unnamed officials, the newspaper said the conclusion is contained in the National Intelligence Estimate, a c ...
  • Chris Hayes on drone strikes: 'How much should ...
    On UP with Chris Hayes on Sunday night, the panel discussed the recent white paper on drone strikes obtained by NBC News and how concerned we should be regarding distinctions between citizens and non-citizens. Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, said that with regard ...
  • Los Angeles Archdiocese used cemetery funds to ...
    In order to help pay for a $660 million settlement for the victims of molestation by Catholic priests, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles moved $115 million from the fund for cemetery maintenance, reported the Los Angeles Times. The money in the cemetery fund comes from the families of those buried ...
  • Why we should all worry about being tracked online
    'Riot' software developed to monitor people on social networks is as sinister as it sounds. We need legal safeguards, and fast Separating paranoia from healthy caution in the 21st century is only getting harder, as it gets easier and easier for governments and corporations to track our online b ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Sublime . . .
    VENEZUELA DONATES free heating oil to 100,000 needy US households. According to Brett Wilkins post in the DIGITAL JOURNAL. For the eighth straight year, Venezuela's state oil company is donating free heating oil to hundreds of thousands of needy Americans.
  • Citizenshipishness
    In an effort to promote a more robust Canadian identity, the Conservatives have produced an incentive and merit based three-tiered Canadian citizenship. First Class The top class of Canadian citizen applies to biological male persons who: - Second generation or greater Canadians who are 1) ...
  • #Brazman doneth
    Wow. Didn't see that coming. Senator Patrick Brazeau has been removed from the Conservative Party's caucus, while sources tell CBC News that he is in a police jail in Gatineau, Que., following an alleged domestic dispute. If he's in jail for a domestic dispute, I hope she or he isn't ...
  • Kevin Page
    I don't think Harper had any idea just who he as appointing when he named Kevin Page as Parliamentary Budget Officer. The man cannot be intimidated and will crawl through mud and fire to do his job and then some.
  • "Turning point" and "Disarray"
    Government ministers should know better by now than to say things like this. Turning Point and Disarray are popular terms for describing the early phases of Western wars in developing countries. Really, all they mean are that the war has entered a new phase because the hardscrabble enemy unsu ...

Media Matters for America

  • The 10 Worst Examples In Brent Bozell's "Hater ...
    In light of reports that right-wing Media Research Center president Brent Bozell was called a "hater" for his criticism of Republican leaders, Media Matters for America recalls 10 of the worst examples of Bozell's hateful rhetoric.American Crossroads Spokesman Called Bozell A "Hater" For Critici ...
  • Fox Forwards Claim That Government Seeks "Retr ...
    Multiple Fox News personalities have suggested the Justice Department's lawsuit against Standard & Poor's is 'political retribution,' either papering over or outright ignoring the facts behind the suit. However, the S&P investigation began well before U.S. credit was downgraded, and a ra ...
  • 10 Myths Conservative Media Will Use Against I ...
    As congressional leaders debate a framework for comprehensive immigration reform that will likely grant undocumented immigrants legal status, conservative media are engaged in promoting myths and falsehoods about what reform means for the country.Is It True That 20 Million Undocumented Immigrant ...
  • Major Newspapers Overlook NRA Leader's Flip-Fl ...
    During the January 30 hearing on gun violence, National Rifle Association representative Wayne LaPierre said a proposal to expand background checks would be a "nightmare" for Americans, contradicting his 1999 testimony on behalf of the NRA in support of such an expansion -- a flip-flop highlight ...
  • UPDATED: 16 Media Myths About Proposals To Str ...
    Opponents of stronger gun laws have used their media platforms to continue to promote myths and falsehoods about firearm policy, often parroting gun lobby talking points, in the weeks leading up to today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence.NEW: How do fe ...

Global Research.ca

  • Daniel Ellsberg: Obama, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld ...
    American Government Claims Power that Even King George Didn’t Claim Daniel Ellsberg said this week: [The indefinite detention provision of the defense bill] allows you to put an American citizen – a civilian – in military custody, treated like Bradley…
  • Mass Protests shake US-backed Islamist Regime ...
    Tens of thousands of Tunisians demonstrated Friday to mourn the death of secularist opposition politician Chokri Belaid and demand the removal of the US-backed Islamist government. A one-day general strike called by the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) shut factories,…
  • The US Drone Assassination Program. The Threat ...
    Thursday’s confirmation hearing for John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s nominee for director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, provided a revealing and grim spectacle of the disintegration of what remains of democratic rights in the United States. Some press accounts…
  • Obama’s Shakedown of Medicare
    In a political era of corporate dominance it was inevitable that doublespeak would become the official language of Washington, DC. Now “cuts” to social programs are referred to as “savings,” while the destruction of these programs is “reform.” This is…
  • Police State USA. Glimmer of Hope: Citizens Fo ...
    It’s one of those stories that you had to listen twice when you heard the report on the radio, and then, still in a state of suspended disbelief, I rushed to the internet to check and see if indeed it…

TPM Cafe

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

  • 5 Power Brokers Who'll Determine the Fate of t ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.On Thursday, visitors to the PipeTech Americas Summit got a speech they weren’t planning on hearing. As employees from pipeline construction companies gathered to discuss new technology and listen to Tom Hamilt ...
  • Hate Eating Corporate Food? Democracy Is the B ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water ...
    Las Vegas exudes an all-you-can-eat mentality. People walk between casinos carrying giant cups of slushy liquor; advertisements blare from speakers on the streets pitching the best shows, best food and best deals; escalators take you across streets and directly into malls. You spend your time ...
  • Time to Break Up the Monopolies: Why Fixing Ou ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Corporate Land Grabs Reveal a Hidden Agenda: C ...
    Writing in National Geographic in December 2012 about “small-scale irrigation techniques with simple buckets, affordable pumps, drip lines, and other equipment” that “are enabling farm families to weather dry seasons, raise yields, diversify their crops, an ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Bills Filed Seek to Expand Texas’ Clean Energy ...
    Two bills have now been filed in the Texas House that would expand the state’s goals for renewable energy.  Representative Rafael Anchia‘s bill, HB 723, would establish goals for growing renewable energy installations other than large-scale wind through 2022.  Similarly, Representati ...
  • Nuclear plants nationwide could share the fina ...
    Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd. (NEIL), the company that insures all 104 U.S. nuclear power plants has just around $3.6 billion on hand to pay for claims from broken nuclear plants in California (San Onofre nuclear power station), Texas (South Texas Nuclear Project), Michigan (Cook nuclear power ...
  • Free Tickets to Documentary Chasing Ice Feb 8-10
    Chasing Ice  is an environmental documentary film, listed in the top 15 best documentaries for the Oscars, coming to Austin TX on Feb 8-10 at Regal Arbor. Chasing Ice follows acclaimed photographer James Balog on an epic journey as he deploys time-lapse cameras at glaciers around the world. &#82 ...
  • Ding Dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? ...
    According to a report yesterday by Terrance Henry of NPR’s StateImpact Texas (click here to read the article), the Las Brisas coal power plant proposed for Corpus Christi has not only been suspended, but Chase Power’s parent company, which was financing the project, has gone out of b ...
  • South-central Partnership for Energy Efficienc ...
    The South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER) enters its second year with an exciting Summit, designed to explore, further develop, and prioritize policies and strategies needed to push energy efficiency forward in new buildings, existing buildings, and electric marke ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Is there an 'evil spot' in the brain ?
    A German neurologist believes he has pinpointed the area of the brain responsible for violent behavior. Professor Gerhard Roth performed a number of e...
  • SETI focuses efforts on known exoplanets
    An effort to listen out for intelligent aliens in the direction of stars with planets has drawn a blank. As the number of known planets around distant...
  • Many languages in danger of dying out
    It is thought that by the year 2100 we will have lost half the languages that are in use today. History shows us that languages used by smaller cultur...
  • Mass spider congregation filmed in Brazil
    Anyone suffering from arachnophobia may want to steer clear of Santo Antônio da Platina for a while. In a scene reminiscent of something from a horror...
  • Captive giant isopod refuses to eat
    A huge underwater bug kept at the Toba Aquarium in Japan has been on a hunger strike for four years. Images of giant isopods have circulated the Inter...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Kerry, Baird to Discuss Keystone XL Pipeline a ...
    (CBC News) The proposed Keystone XL pipeline is likely to be discussed when Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird meets with newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C. With the fate ...
  • The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change ...
    (National Journal) Jimmy Strickland can tell you exactly how much money rising sea levels have cost his business. In 1989, he opened his accounting firm in a one-story brick building near Norfolk's historic cobblestoned Hague district, ...
  • Europe Consuming More Coal
    (Washington Post) JAENSCHWALDE, Germany — Green-friendly Europe has a dirty secret: It is burning a lot more coal. Europe’s use of the fossil fuel spiked last year after a long decline, powered by a surge of cheap U.S. coal on global ...
  • NASA Set To Launch Water-Monitoring Satellite
    (Circle of Blue) Two years ago NASA retired its iconic workhorse, the space shuttle. The agency’s scientific mission, however, did not expire, and the agency marks a milestone on Monday with the launch of the eighth version of the Land ...
  • Despite a Tarnished Reputation, Advocates for ...
    (Midwest Energy News) Matt Rankin, who runs the one-man renewable energy company Prairie Wind and Solar in Wyoming, would love to sell more small wind turbines to customers. But these days, he sees solar power as a more viable market ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The Obsolete State of the Union
    Will you watch the President's State of the Union address? I confess, I will not. Granted, that means I may miss out on some seamy, scandalous or absurd moments of political entertainment, such as the instance when a dimwitted Republican Congressman a few years ago bellowed "You Lie!" at Pre ...
  • What to Expect This Year?
    I think some people are getting a little carried away with the idea that bipartisanship has broken out on Capitol Hill. But that doesn't mean that this Congress will be as unproductive as the last one. Setting aside the crisis over the sequester, there are bills that have a decent chance of bec ...
  • Well, Clutch My Pearls!
    Poor, poor, K-Lo, she is going to be scarred for life after reading about how Dawn Pieke inseminated herself in her bedroom with a gay Australian man's semen sample. She never stops whining about people not following her ideal of perfectly Pope-approved straight missionary not-for-pleasure-stri ...
  • Have Some Doobies
    I can't say I like much of the music being discussed at the Grammys. So, have some music that I do like: Discuss
  • Child Molestation is Expensive
    We've had our own problems in Philadelphia, but this is pretty low. Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of Catholics whose faith could not be shaken: the dead. Under his leadership in 20 ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Fascinating Phenomenon of Whistled Languages
    Learn about a type of language you probably never knew existed; one that mimics the sounds and pitch of ordinary speech and can travel distances as great as two miles! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Death-Defying Cliff Divers Plunge from 90ft Up ...
    The extreme sport of cliff diving is as spectacular to watch as it is dangerous to do – as these images from the 2012 Red Bull World Series finale prove. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    More fun and interesting stories galore – from everyday inventions dreamt up by NASA, to boxing champs with more academic clout than you might give them credit for! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Animal Sacrifice and Spiritual Possession: Unm ...
    With its strange rituals and fetishes, Voodoo remains mysterious to most, but these photos throw some light on the oft-misunderstood religion associated with black magic. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Could Soil Bacteria Be Good For Your Mood?
    Researchers have found that different types of exposure to a certain species of soil bacteria can have neurological effects and could impact mood as a result. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Minnesota Anonymous to protest "Church of Scie ...
    A heads-up for lulzcats in the Minnesnowta region: Minnesota Anonymous people have filed a permit to protest at the Church of Scientology "Ideal Org" at Wabasha & Exchange Streets, (the old Science Museum of MN building) starting at 10:30AM roughly, marking five years of Chanology, the large ...
  • The New 21st Century COINTELPRO Mobius Strip: ...
    A quick update on a number of different fronts developing around 21st century Cointelpro operations. This material includes the important bureaucratic fault line of authorizing "otherwise" illegal government operations, an important topic of research... Granted, Season 3 of the X-Files is playin ...
  • End of the Tar Sands? Under media near-blackou ...
    VIA: Protect the Sacred  Timeline Photos: Here is a picture of Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred. This is the first time a woman has signed such a treaty and she did so on behalf of the Brave Heart Society. Let the healing continue in the name o ...
  • Kurt Johnson & Corporate NAFTA farm politics, ...
    "[T]he activists we are concerned about here are the ones who want to change the way your industry does business--either for good or bad reasons: environmentalists, churches, Public Interest Research Groups, campus organizations, civic groups, teachers unions, and 'Naderites'." (quoted in Montag ...
  • How to check cops checking your driver's licen ...
    Yet another nasty branch on the poisonous tree of data abuse in Minnesota is bearing its digital fruit. Anne Marie Rasmusson, a former law enforcement officer, got 'checked out' by an absurdly sprawling array of Minnesota law enforcement officers illegally abusing their driver's license lookup s ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • The pope resigns, Twitter reacts
    News of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation rocked the Twitterverse this morning. Saying, "I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise," Pope Benedict will be the first pontiff to resign in six centuries.Here's a round up of ...
  • Chris Brown in car accident day before Grammy ...
    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Police in Beverly Hills say Chris Brown escaped injury after crashing his Porsche into a wall while being chased by paparazzi.Lt. Lincoln Hoshino said the collision occurred around noon Saturday. Brown told police that he lost control of his black Porsche du ...
  • New music from Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake
    Yesterday was a big day for singer Justin Timberlake, who performed his new track "Suit & Tie" with Jay-Z at the Grammy Awards, premiered his new Bud Lite Platinum ad and after all of that, dropped a new track, "Mirrors":His upcoming record, "The 20/20 Experience," comes out March 19.The d ...
  • Memo to Obama: Focus on the inequality gap
    If you’re sitting in the well of the House when a president gives a State of the Union address (as I’ve had the privilege of doing five times), the hardest part is on the knees. You’re required to stand and applaud every applause line, which means, if you’re in the ...
  • The GOP “civil war” is going to make both side ...
    If you haven't been paying attention to rubbernecking reports on the most recent "GOP civil war," because you've been paying attention to more important stories like the DoJ targeted killing white paper or the disastrous retooling of once-promising NBC sitcom "Up All Night," here's what you've ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • French, US intelligence intensify 23-year hunt ...
    To an important extent, Islamist-inspired groups in the northwest Africa, notably Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) mirror the decentralized insurgency model developed by Islamist groups in Iraq and elsewhere during the past decade. However, the decentralized nature of the insurgency in the ...
  • Did the CIA exclude Israel from its extraordin ...
    The most comprehensive non-classified account of the United States Central Intelligence Agency's extraordinary rendition program has been published by a human-rights advocacy group. It concludes that the CIA was able to build and maintain the program with significant assistance from 54 countries ...
  • Comment: Are Somalia’s militant Islamist ‘defe ...
    During the past two years, the once powerful influence of Islamic militancy in Somalia appears to be steadily declining. A major indicator of this optimistic trend seems to center on the unprecedented numbers of al-Shabaab members who are defecting --apparently en masse-- and joining the ranks ...
  • Canadian passports still highly coveted by spi ...
    An extensive investigation into a bus bombing that targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria points to the continued attraction of forged Canadian passports for terrorist groups and intelligence agencies.
  • German authorities had monitored Turkish bombe ...
    Some observers were surprised by news last week that the suicide attack at the US embassy in Turkish capital Ankara was perpetrated by secular Marxists, instead of religious extremists. But students of terrorism know that modern suicide bombings have historically been employed by secular separat ...

War is a Crime.org

  • More Evidence Obamacare Ripped Off Americans
      More Evidence Obamacare Ripped Off Americans   by Stephen Lendman   Make no mistake. March 23, 2010 will live in infamy. With strokes from 22 pens, Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).   It's a ripoff. It's a healthcare rationing scheme. It' ...
  • Obstructing Hamas/Fatah Unity
      Obstructing Hamas/Fatah Unity   by Stephen Lendman   Previous unity talks failed. On February 6, more talks were held. Fatah and Hamas officials met in Cairo. At issue are long-delayed reconciliation and new elections.   Reports suggested cause for optimism. It's hard imagi ...
  • Alameda County Drone Hearing - Oakland, CA - F ...
    Say NO to DRONES Tell the Alameda County Board of Supervisors you do not want a spy drone flying over your home.  The Alameda County Board of Supervisors Public Protection Committee will be having a hearing on the Alameda County Sheriff's intention to purchase and deploy a drone. Come tell ...
  • I am hurting too: The hurt of militarized auth ...
    By Dr Hakim ( Dr Teck Young, Wee ) It’s hard for me, an ordinary citizen of Singapore, a medical doctor engaged in social enterprise work in Afghanistan and a human being wishing for a better world, to write this from Kabul. But people are dying. And children and women are feeling hopeless. &nbs ...
  • Syria News - Feb 11
        Netanyahu to discuss Iran, Syria, Palestinians with Obama - Reuters IDF says calm on Syria border 'deceptive' - Ynetnews Israeli Says Syria Twisted Comments by Rebel Supporter - NYTimes.com Syria’s Chemical Weapons Stockpiles Appear Secure, Dempsey Says - Bloomberg U.S. Sending Mes ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Brennan and Kiriakou, Drones and Torture
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan John Brennan and John Kiriakou worked together years ago, but their careers have dramatically diverged. Brennan is now on track to head the CIA , while Kiriakou is headed off to prison. Each of their fates is tied to the so-called war on terror, which und ...
  • Part 2: Daniel Ellsberg and Jacob Appelbaum on ...
    As a lawsuit challenging a law that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens is back in federal court this week, we continue our conversation with perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, and computer security researcher, Jacob Appelbaum ...
  • BOOK EXCERPT: "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Ros ...
    Read the introduction to "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," a new book just out by our guest, historian Jeanne Theoharis. The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil ri ...
  • "12 Things You Didn't Know about Rosa Parks" - ...
    Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks. Tune in Monday to learn more about the celebrated activist in our interview with Jeanne Theoharis, author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2013). In the meantime, read an excerpt from the book bel ...
  • Rosa Parks, Now and Forever
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., thus launching the modern-day civil-rights movement. Monday, Feb. 4, is the 100th anniversary of her birth. After she died at the age of 9 ...

Solari

  • Links for Money, Magic, & Conciousness
    We had a great discussion this am at the Money, Magic & Consciousness panel moderated by Kimberly Carter Gamble at the Consciousness Life Expo this morning in Los Angeles. There were many participants interested in learning more about the Solari stock model (dividing strategic control from f ...
  • Scrap-Metal Plan Proves Radioactive
    By John R. Emshwiller 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 documen ...
  • FDA Approves First GMO Flu Vaccine Containing ...
    By Jonathan Benson A new vaccine for influenza has hit the market, and it is the first ever to contain genetically-modified (GM) proteins derived from insect cells. According to reports, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the vaccine, known as Flublok, which contains ...
  • Money & Markets – 02.10.2013
  • Geopolitical – Week of 02.10.2012

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Ultra Compact ‘Petit Laundry Swoosh’ Washing M ...
    As far as washing machines go, the pedal-powered GiraDora and the Laundry Pod are pretty small – but the new ultra compact Petit Laundry Swoosh can fit on a countertop! Designed by Japanese company King Jim, the washer uses just over a gallon of water to clean 250 g of clothing in 18 minut ...
  • Incredibly Useful Guide Lists the Pros and Con ...
    Have you been waiting to remove cow milk from your diet because you don’t where to start with some of the alternatives available on the market? If so, you might find this handy guide incredibly useful. Inhabitots discusses the pros and cons of six different milk alternatives, from almond m ...
  • John Patrick Hits NY Fashion Week With Recycle ...
    John Patrick hit New York Fashion Week with Organic’s Fall/Winter 2013 collection made with some exciting new sustainable fabrics. Inspired by his beginnings in New York’s East Village, the designer sought to create a line that would “tell a story” on the catwalk, that wo ...
  • Vaute’s All-Vegan Fashion Line Premiers at New ...
    Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart’s all-vegan fashion line Vaute made its first debut at New York Fashion Week with a host of new designs that sizzled on the runaway. A clothing line that animal rights activists can love too, Vaute now features ready-to-wear tops, satin dresses, shirts and sweaters ma ...
  • Report Finds Renewable Energy is Cheaper Than ...
    In the wake of soaring temperatures that made it impossible for some residents in the Australian outback to pump gas, good news is finally coming to the energy market Down Under. A report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) found that unsubsidized renewables are now cheaper sources of electri ...

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • Report: Afghans Paid $3.9 Billion in Bribes La ...
    Half of Afghanistan’s population paid at least one bribe to public officials over the past year, for a total of $3.9 billion, according to a recent UN report on corruption. $3.9 billion is twice Afghanistan’s domestic revenue, and one quarter the amount international donors have pledged in civ ...
  • The West Must Help Syria's Neighbors Absorb th ...
    At a donor conference in Kuwait last week addressing the ongoing humanitarian crisis unfolding in Syria, more than 1.5 billion dollars was pledged to aid Syrians affected by the conflict. UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency), in conjunction with Mid-East countries hosting the onslaught of refugees, hav ...
  • Top of the Morning: Three Doctors Murdered in ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Yet More Health Workers Murdered in Northern Nigeria Just days after 9 polio workers were murdered, Boko Haram seems to have targeted foreign health workers. “Assailants in northeastern Nigeria killed three North Korean doctors, beheading one of the physicians, in t ...
  • Today in Passive-Aggresive Torture Apologias
    I’ve been been meaning to get to Saletan’s defense of torture for a while. Lindsay, however, has now done it well enough that I don’t really have to bother: If it is reporting, it’s bad reporting. Saletan takes the claims of the most senior architects of torture at face ...
  • The Atlantic Council, Foreign Funding and Inte ...
    Opponents of Senator Chuck Hagel's confirmation to be the next secretary of defense have waged a smear campaign accusing him of everything from anti-Semitism to anti-gay bigotryto poor treatment of staffers. They're nonetheless short of not only a majority in the Senate but even the forty votes ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • New Voters, New Values
    AP Photo/Jerome Delay President Barack Obama holds hands with Vice President Joe Biden following their victory after the 2012 election. Barack Obama would have lost the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections had a new set of voters not joined the American electorate—voters who brou ...
  • Marco Rubio Is the Next Big Thing, For Now
    Just a year or so ago, a young, smart, dynamic politician was poised to take over the Republican party. He was the future of the GOP, being compared to Ronald Reagan and showing his political chops with a rapid rise in visibility and influence as he charmed the Washington press corps. I speak, ...
  • The Nominee the Senate Won't Obstruct
    President Obama's decision to nominate John Brennan to head the CIA was certainly not encouraging to anyone concerned about the administration's record on war powers and civil liberties. Nominating Brennan, who played a significant role in the CIA during the Bush administration, symbolizes the ...
  • Hillary Clinton's Unsurprising Popularity
    Titanic Belfast / Flickr Yet another poll finds that Hillary Clinton is the most popular political figure in the country. The latest survey from Quinnipiac University finds her with 61 percent favorability rating, with only 34 percent who see her negatively. By contrast, President Obam ...
  • A Critical Look at the Art of George W. Bush
    Whatever your political leanings may be, you have to sympathize with the Bush family today as a sentient being existing in the Internet age after a hacker leaked a ream of their correspondence to The Smoking Gun. You probably share too much personal information over e-mail (can I get an amen, D ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Amish Leader Gets 15 Years for Beard Cutting H ...
    The leader of a breakaway Amish sect in Ohio was sentenced to 15 year in prison today for orchestrating the cutting of hair and beards of Amish men and women, a form of religious degradation viewed as punishment, the New York Times reported. Samuel Mullet Sr. was sentenced in U.S. District Court ...
  • Serial Threat-Maker and Neo-Nazi Bill White is ...
    Bill White, the wildly obnoxious neo-Nazi who has made a profession of lobbing criminal threats at his enemies, has apparently been at it again. On Thursday, according to today’s edition of the Roanoke (Va.) Times, White was indicted for threatening to have his ex-wife beaten and “hospitalized” ...
  • Oath Keepers ‘Patriot’ Group Plans 50 Anti-Gun ...
    In the wake of White House moves to implement some gun control by using executive orders, the antigovernment “Patriot” right has exploded with fury, claiming that virtually any regulation amounts to an infringement of the Constitution or even a prelude to a national “gun grab” by federal forces ...
  • Klan Leader Who Plotted to Murder NC Sheriff G ...
    A Ku Klux Klan leader in North Carolina, who once boasted about building a 50-pound bomb to kill a local sheriff, will spend 15 years in federal prison after a 12-year pursuit by prosecutors. Charles Robert “Junior” Barefoot Jr., 50, of Benson, N.C., was sentenced Wednesday in Raleigh by U.S. Di ...
  • Texas Prosecutor ‘Involved’ in Ary ...
    Two men, reportedly masked and dressed entirely in black, gunned down a Kaufman County, Texas, prosecutor this morning as he walked to a city courthouse. The Dallas Morning News reported that the victim had been “heavily involved” in the investigation of members of the Aryan Brotherhood. The ent ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

Common Dreams-Views

  • Barack Obama is Pushing Gun Control at Home, ...
    Gary Younge On 27 January CBS aired an interview with the newly inaugurated President Barack Obama and his outgoing secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, during which the president faced accusations that under his watch America had retreated ...
  • We Must Out-Educate and Out-Innovate Other Nations
    Diane Ravitch My fellow Americans, I have said in previous addresses on this occasion that the key to our future success is to make sure that the education we provide our young people is the best in the world. I have said that we must out-e ...
  • Voting Rights Under Attack
    Ruth Conniff In an incendiary new report, "Rig the Vote: How a National Effort to Attack Voting Rights Landed in Wisconsin", the Center for Media and Democracy and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund show how Republicans an ...
  • What Bush's War on Iraq Wrought
    Adil E. Shamoo All indicators are pointing to a looming sectarian civil war on Iraq’s horizon. It is possible to avoid this civil war, but so far, the country’s leaders are not willing to compromise, and outside parties show lit ...
  • A Rush to Judgment in Bulgarian Blast?
    Gareth Porter Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov’s dramatic announcement last Tuesday on the Bulgarian investigation of the July 2012 terror bombing of an Israeli tourist bus was initially reported by Western news media as ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Ag critical to success of Butte countywide con ...
    EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second story in a two-part series. Implementation of the Butte Regional Conservation Plan would require the purchase of conservation easements on as much as 125,000 acres of Butte County farm and ranch land to offset the
  • Dan Walters: Not all clashes at California&#39 ...
    Much – probably too much – is being made of the newly minted Democratic supermajorities in the Legislature and the prospects of doing this or that.
  • Is the Soda Industry Fizzling Out?
    Dissolving demand hits the soft drink industry.
  • Morning Buzz: Wednesday 2.6.13
    Kevin Roderick: AP floated Speaker Perez for Labor Secretary, Gov. Brown calls the Texas governor's anti-California ad "barely a fart," coverage of Greuel's sop to the LAPD and LAFD unions, Pleitez has a plan now, Trutanich switches on pot shops and more.
  • DWP seeks truce in water wars as L.A. Aqueduct ...
    The attempt to end hostilities in the Owens Valley pleases residents, but has them wondering why it hasn't come earlier. MAMMOTH — For a High Sierra stream whose name evokes mountain serenity, Pine Creek is nobody's idea of harmony with nature.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Justiceline: February 11, 2013
    Welcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice’s morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice Tea Party Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) backs off a previous suggestion that he might support legalizing marijuana: “I don’t want ...
  • Global Ponzi Scheme Revisited: How Climate Ina ...
    Obama has now framed climate action and inaction in moral terms, as a betrayal of future generations. So it seemed like a good time to run this (slightly) updated repost, which explains why our inaction is indeed such a betrayal. That — and it’s my own daughter’s six birthday. ...
  • GOP House Leader Makes A Compelling Case For T ...
    During an appearance on Meet the Press Sunday morning, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) reiterated his new found openness to providing a pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants who were brought into this country as children. When host David Gregory asked Cantor point bla ...
  • Lindsey Graham To Place Hold On National Secur ...
    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is threatening to place a hold on key administration national security nominations unless President Obama explains how the White House reacted to the Benghazi attacks and who “changed” the talking points used by U.N. ambassador Susan Rice during back-to-bac ...
  • Democratic Congressman Destroys GOP Hypocrisy ...
    On ABC’s This Week Sunday morning, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) called out Tom Cole (R-OK) for his claim that President Obama is responsible for the automatic budget cuts set to go into effect if Congress cannot reach a budget deal by March. The so-called “sequester” includes stee ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Another Pointless Post
  • Patti Smith on "Kids are People Too"
    Self-explanatory:
  • Me Playing Peggle
    Oh yeah!
  • Ontario Liberal Sleaze
     The following post will be an expansion of the ideas in a comment I left in response to today's post at Owen Gray's "Northern Reflections" blog. I very much like Mr. Gray, even as he attempts, now and again, to resurrect the Liberal brand in Canada. In the case of today's post, where he wa ...
  • Hockey Royalty
    So, back when they were saying there might not be a hockey season, I was sitting near two elderly ladies. One of them said she'd be glad if there was no hockey season. She hated it and she thought it was stupid. Then she started talking about Prince William's marriage with so-and-so (I forget). ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • mesh partners with Digital Journal /newsrooms ...
    mesh will leverage Digital Journal’s /newsrooms platform to provide real-time content and coverage for mesh '13 attendees and sponsors.
  • Alberta's new oil energy strategy
    Alberta's Premier Alison Redford earlier this year announced the Alberta government's budget shortfalls due to declining oil revenues. With approvals pending on a pipeline to the West Coast and to the US, a new strategy has been developed.
  • Justin Bieber livestream hits bad notes, fails ...
    Whether Justin Bieber has gone off the rails is up for debate, but this latest odd Bieber event is undeniably, well, odd. Snubbed by The Grammys, he decided to put on a livestream event for his fans, running paralel with the music industry's awards show.
  • Video: 'A Certain Scientific Railgun' English ...
    FUNimation has released a preview video for the English dubbed version "A Certain Scientific Railgun." The DVD will be available in April.
  • Red Wings goalie Joey MacDonald on waivers, av ...
    While any NHL talk of a goalie being available is almost entirely centered on Roberto Luongo, there is now another veteran puckstopper on the market and this one could be had for nothing. The Detroit Red Wings have put veteran Joey MacDonald on waivers.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • U.S. drone killings questioned
    A leak of a U.S. Justice Department memo has revealed some of the circumstances under which the U.S. government believes it has the right to extrajudicially execute American citizens.
  • Ceasefire.ca slammed by the pro-war lobby
    Today the pro-war lobby slammed Ceasefire.ca, once again, in the national media. As a Ceasefire.ca supporter, this proves you are having an impact, shaking up the pro-war lobby!
  • Israeli airstrike in Syria
    An Israeli airstrike inside Syria has heightened the already high tensions in the Middle East.
  • Will Canada return to peacekeeping?
    Between 1956 and 1992, Canada was often the single largest contributor of UN peacekeepers. Since the late 1990s, however, Canada has virtually disappeared from peacekeeping. Professor Michael Byers presents the case for re-engagement.
  • Canadian special forces already in Mali
    Canadian special forces soldiers are already deployed in Mali protecting Canadian diplomats, but according to the government they are not on a "combat" mission.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-15-12
    Today, Kevin explains how the media, internet, television, movies, magazines and newspapers are ALL misleading you. Plus, find out why, in life, it’s not about the mistakes you’ve made, but the lessons you’ve learned. Self Help: You Become What You Think About Most Of The Time Success Is A Decis ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-26-13
    Today, Kevin explains how there is one very unique ability that ALL successful people have. Find out what it is and if YOU have what it takes to become a part of this exclusive club! Self Help: Your Wish Is YOUR Command Lose Weight The Safe Way Improve Your Health & Vitality Give Kevin YOUR ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-5-13
    Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino! Self Help: Learn The Secrets ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-9-13
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FTC is monitoring this radio show! Self Help: Click Here If You’ve Ever Taken An Antibiotic Don’t Let Fear Control Your Life Delete Nutritional Deficiencies Videos: Muse – Uprising Bob Basso – We The People Stimulus Package Health: The New Hot Celebrity ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-13-12
    Today, Kevin explains how illegal aliens are hurting America’s economy and what the government should do about it. Plus, find out how well Dr. Theresa Dale’s colon cleanse really works! Self Help: A Weight Loss Program That Works! Take A Stand With Kevin Trudeau! Health: “Top 7 Diets” According ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Why The Banking Elite Want Riots in America
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCivil War 2: The economic imperative for mass social unrest Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet.com February 11, 2013 Every indication clearly suggests that authorities in the United States are preparing fo ...
  • Why The Banking Elite Wants Riots in America
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCivil War 2: The economic imperative for mass social unrest Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet.com February 11, 2013 Every indication clearly suggests that authorities in the United States are preparing fo ...
  • Nigerian, Ghanan and Canadian cardinals floate ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Francis Arinze of Nigeria, Peter Turkson of Ghana and Marc Ouellet of Canada were among the cardinals hotly tipped by bookmakers on Monday to take over from Pope Benedict XVI. William Hill bookmakers nam ...
  • Man Sues TSA For $5 Million Following Peanut B ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com24 hours in a cell for joking about sandwich spread Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Feb 11, 2013 An Arizona man who was arrested at the behest of the TSA, following a wisecrack over a jar of peanut butter is suing the fede ...
  • Radio DJ behind fatal royal hoax back on the air
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   One of the Australian radio hosts at the centre of a royal hoax call controversy in which a nurse was found hanged returned to the airwaves Monday. Michael Christian, with Mel Greig, made the phone call ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig February 11, 2013 On Wednesday a few hundred activists crowded into the courtroom of the Second Circuit, the spillover room with its faulty audio feed and dearth of chairs, and Foley Square outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in ...
  • Bahraini Regime Holds Gun To Head In ‘Negotiat ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV February 10, 2013 The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei described recent American offers of bilateral talks with Iran as tantamount to the US holding negotiations with a gun to ...
  • The American Manifest Destiny by Clive Hambidge
    by Clive Hambidge Guest Writer Dandelion Salad February 3, 2013 Killing from afar Americans and their European poodles coiffeured red white and blue in American power salons are unlawfully targeting, and killing from afar, suspected militants innocent bystanders, and helpers, labelled “collatera ...
  • Ethiopian Annihilation of the Ogaden People, b ...
    by Graham Peebles Guest Writer Dandelion Salad London February 6, 2013 Besieged, abused, ignored In the harsh Ogaden region of Ethiopia, impoverished ethnic Somali people are being murdered and tortured, raped, persecuted and displaced by government paramilitary forces. Illegal actions carried o ...
  • Occupy Sandy–Recovery From The Bottom Up ...
    Dandelion Salad by Peter Rugh SocialistWorker.org February 5, 2013 IT WAS Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, and the sound of pounding drums mingled with subway steel rattling underground, sending a hot pulse through the high-arched edifice of a humble house of worship in Sunset Park, Broo ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Wings of ...
    This image shows the intricate structure of part of the Seagull Nebula, known more formally as IC 2177. These wisps of gas and dust are known as Sharpless 2-296 (officially Sh 2-296) and form part of the “wings” of the ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Color Cr ...
    Though Mercury is not known for having an especially colorful surface, some regions show a strong local contrast in color. Like other craters in Caloris, the interior and ejecta of Atget are darker and bluer than the typical brown volcanic ...
  • Fate of Historic Landsat Mission Hinges on Upc ...
    On Feb. 11, our last hope to rescue the longest continuous dataset of Earth observations from a premature death will be launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Landsat 8 satellite will take over for the ...
  • Check Out This Tiny, 3-D Printed Spaceship
    A tiny spaceship has been built using a microscale 3-D printer. At 125 micrometers long, the craft is about the length of a dust mite and takes less than 50 seconds to produce. The super-fast, high-resolution printer that made the ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Halley’s ...
    A great historical shot from the most recent pass of Halley's Comet in 1986. The Milky Way shines brightly to the right of the comet in this image.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: Why it’s “legal” when the US does it
    The major energy-producing countries are still firmly under the control of the Western-backed dictatorships. So, actually, the progress made by the Arab Spring is limited, but it’s not insignificant.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • At least 166 homes in Israeli settlement built ...
    Dror Atkas: "The contemptible cooperation of the state with land theft in the West Bank is constantly growing... They are trying to retroactively legalize whatever they can in order to enable massive... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s left turn to the far right
    This election has been a personal blow to Netanyahu, but not to the right. Netanyahu misread the public mood, but not on the central issues that should define the left-right divide in Israel: the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Hannu Reime: Neither one nor two states, but a ...
    A continuous theme in ... the book is the view that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a confrontation between the Zionist settler-colonialism and the Palestinian Arab people; it’s the last colonial... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Remembering Howard Zinn
    We remember Howard Zinn, our friend and teacher (and among the first members of the IOA Advisory Board), who passed away on 27 January 2010, leaving a formidable legacy. In the words of his close... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Events and Announcements: February 10, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey  Calls for Papers The 21st Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (‘ANZSIL’) will take place from Thursday, 4 July 2013 to Saturday, 6 July 2013 at The Australian National University, Canberra with the theme of &#822 ...
  • Weekend Roundup: February 1-8, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey This week on Opinio Juris, Duncan started us off by discussing privileges and immunities for diplomats and posed the question of what the public should know in cases like DWIs. His next post offered a discussion of the Native American mutual defense treaty i ...
  • Lubell and Derejko on the Geography of NIAC
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Noam Lubell and Nathan Derejko, both at the University of Essex, have posted “A Global Battlefield? Drones and the Geographical Scope of Armed Conflict” on SSRN. The essay will appear in the same Journal of International Criminal Justice symp ...
  • Ancillary Discovery in Aid of Foreign or Inter ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I have posted on SSRN my latest article, “Ancillary Discovery to Prove Denial of Justice” just published in the Virginia Journal of International Law. It analyzes Section 1782 discovery proceedings in the context of BIT arbitration and argues that th ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, February 8, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian troops are battling rebels around Damascus, trying to halt their advance on the capital. The ICC has demanded the extradition of Libya’s Abdullah al-Senussi to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity under Gaddafi’s regime. A UN survey ha ...

Public News Service

  • Report: $190 Billion Lost to Offshore Tax Dodges
    Report: $190 Billion Lost to Offshore Tax Dodges PHOENIX - Offshore tax havens are blowing a huge hole in state and federal tax systems, according to a new report, which puts the total revenue lost at almost $200 billion dollars a year. That's enough to not only stop the automatic federal spendi ...
  • Expert: Still a Long Road Ahead for Mexican Wo ...
    Expert: Still a Long Road Ahead for Mexican Wolf Recovery PHOENIX – Endangered Mexican gray wolves living in the wilds of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico saw an improvement last year. A wolf count by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows their numbers, rising from 58 to 75. ...( ...
  • AZ Activist: Language Matters in Immigration D ...
    AZ Activist: Language Matters in Immigration Debate PHOENIX, Ariz. - The latest Republican effort to attract Latino voters came in the form of a recent email to U.S. House Republicans, urging them to avoid referring to immigrants as "illegals" or "aliens" in the ongoing debate over immigration r ...
  • New Uses for Old Ski Equipment
    New Uses for Old Ski Equipment PHOENIX - Something new in the snow sports industry is recycling used ski equipment. To make it work will take greater retailer participation as well as convincing skiers to give up their old gear. Skis and snowboards, ski boots and helmets can only be traded at ...
  • World Cancer Day Celebrates Advances in Fighti ...
    World Cancer Day Celebrates Advances in Fighting the Disease PHOENIX - Today is World Cancer Day, a call to celebrate advances in cancer treatments and to work on continuing the fight. Statistics show more people die from cancer worldwide than from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Deni ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
    I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...
  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...
  • Aaron Swartz on SOPA
    The late Aaron Swartz explains SOPA. His recent suicide has been in the news so much that I feel it isn’t worth discussing. His opinions, though, are. Related posts: Aaron Ortiz, Rest in Peace I’m very sorry to say that one of my namesakes... Aaron Ortiz, Flickr Pro These are some o ...
  • Merida and the Bechtel test
    The thing that most resonated about this talk was Colin Stokes’s defense of a particular Disney Princess: Merida, from Pixar’s Brave. I wrote a disappointed rant about that movie when it came out. I still deeply dislike the “You are a princess, act like it!” storyline. I ...
  • Another Civil Coup in Honduras?
    In 2009, the Honduran congress and supreme court perpetrated a messy coup against president Manuel Zelaya. Yesterday President Lobo and the Honduran congress have perpetrated an “institutional” coup against the supreme court, sacking 4 out of its 5 members. This was in retaliation fo ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Anonymous on Dorner and the Killer Clowns know ...
    Anonymous vows action against LAPD due to their mad dog pursuit of Dorner. And so we watched with dread and utter hilarity as the LAPD began to pursue this man. However the department has proven once more that it is incapable of serving the public, look no further than to the women who became LA ...
  • Detroit, An American Autopsy. Is America circl ...
    Shloky thought America still had time to turn things around until he read Detroit, An American Autopsy by Charlie Leduff. Now he’s not sure. What if the land of the free, of prosperity, of two cars and a picket fence succumbed to the corrupt, the incompetent, the immoral? It presents the ...
  • Severn Barrage tidal power subsidy less than w ...
    Credit: commons.wikimedia.org The massive Severn Barrage tidal power project off Wales will be financed with private money but rate subsidy will help it for thirty years, if all goes as planned. When completed, there will be 1026 tidal tubines generating upwards of 5% of the UK’s power. Th ...
  • Our mother and daughter foster cats, have been ...
    Our mom and daughter foster cats, Hippity and Monkey, just got adopted out as a pair to a great home. Live well and prosper, little buddies. We fostered them for six months. It’s always a little sad to see them go. However they are now in their forever homes. No more cages, no more shuttli ...
  • LAPD shoots another innocent person looking fo ...
    This time they shot a white male who is 100 lbs lighter than Dorner. This would appear to make LAPD more inept than the Keystone Cops except people are getting hurt because of the deranged lunacy of LAPD. “I don’t want to use the word buffoonery but it really is unbridled police law ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Pope Benedict’s resignation brings end t ...
    Pope Benedict XVI‘s abrupt resignation on Monday heralds the end of a sad and storm-tossed seven-year papacy. The former Joseph Ratzinger came to the highest office in the Roman Catholic church with a reputation as a challenging, conservative intellectual. But the messages that he sought t ...
  • Mosquito-Fighting Plan Allows Access To Privat ...
    PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) – With West Nile season approaching soon, there’s a controversial bill in the state legislature that would give the government more power to kill mosquitoes. Texas State Senate Bill 186 would allow authorities to legally trespass on private property without a warrant to treat ...
  • Respect and the American Presidency
    There’s a famous radio talk show I listen to. Actually, it’s on late at night and so I listen to the podcast. The host will occasionally have a guest on who will speak about the Obama administration and many times these guests will refer to the president simply as Obama. The host bel ...
  • This Day In History – February 11
    1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England. 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery. 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry “gerrymanders” for the first time. 1861 ...
  • CONFIRMED: Drones are being used to hunt down ...
    Mike Parker express.co.uk   They believe burly, heavily-armed Christopher Dorner is holed-up in the wilderness of California’s snow-capped San Bernardino mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles. The burnt-out shell of his pick-up truck was discovered in the nearby resort of Big Bear, where r ...

The Air Vent

  • Lewandowsky – Strike Two
    Hat tip – Skiphil. – So Dr. Lewandowsky did it again.   He, and his coauthors, falsely used my name in order to support some kind of psychology paper on climate skeptic bloggers titled – “Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on ...
  • Condensation Driven Winds
    I have been receiving emails from the authors of the condensation driven wind theory for several days now as they have published a new paper.   Since I have no time whatsoever, I haven’t even read their latest work. Judith Curry has kindly taken on their guest post and it can be read there ...
  • The Lukewarmer’s Way
    When a climate scientist claims that 2 + 2 =5 and the rest of the scientists tell them it doesn’t, CS turns a blind eye.   Michael Mann’s hokey stick nonsense drives those of us who actually read math completely wild.  When they add extreme need for compulsory planet wide behavioral ...
  • A Reasoned Rejection of Science, Explaining th ...
    Ex-spurt is a commonly misunderstood term.   The true definition of Ex-spurt is, “A drip under pressure”, or perhaps in past tense form, “a drop under pressure.” Often an ex-drip will self-identify as a spurt, but on closer examination he is really just a drip.  Reader (A ...
  • Yellow Science
    Reader Skiphil has left a link to some incredible commentary by our good friend Stephan Lewandowski who apparently holds a PhD in bovine scatology.  There is nothing wrong with being educated in scatology, however, Stephan’s propensity to practice his chosen craft publicly leaves one wonde ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Feb. 4 and Feb. 8. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Feb. 4 Sign here with...
  • Facebook roundup: Developers Live, Promoted Po ...
    Facebook turns 9 – Monday marked nine years since Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com as a social network for Harvard students. The company did not seem to mark the occasion with any public fanfare, though it is...
  • Facebook careers: SMB community support, data ...
    Facebook added 46 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the public policy, human resources, ads analysis, measurement and sales teams. Facebook seems to be looking to improve support for SMBs...
  • Facebook hires: mobile program manager, global ...
    Facebook removed 28 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after filling roles in the areas of communications, software engineering, user operations, strategic partner development, marketing, sales and others. Prior listings removed from Facebook’s careers page: Manager,...
  • Guest Post: Get Ahead of Competitors and Imple ...
    This is a guest post by Sarah Reilly, VP of Sales at Blueye, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer. Facebook recently held a hyped-up press event announcing their new product: Graph Search. In pure Facebook fashion, they...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • It Has Happened Here- The Police State is Real
    The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document. Wheth ...
  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson-Africa Wars: How ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Rob Prince Rob Prince a Lecturer – University of Denver, and writer for the Colorado Progressive Jewish News, join us today to discuss neocolonialism in North Africa. Why are the French really intervening in Mali? How are the arms and drug trades connected? How indepen ...
  • Whitewashing Extrajudicial Killing
    Brennan’s a War Criminal Multiple Times Over Extrajudicial killing is official US policy. Doing so violates fundamental international, constitutional, and US statute laws. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and secu ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Bo Diddley- “Bo Diddley” Tonight’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick is rock ‘n’ roll legend and pioneer Bo Diddley performing his classic “Bo Diddley.” Diddley helped to reshape the sound of popular music worldwide. His original style of rhythm and blues inf ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Anne Frank: Dear Diary
    I just came across this Facebook graphic created by Yuval Ben Ami and Amir Schiby, who are masters of political cartooning and collage.  I always enjoy their Facebook creations.  Today, they’ve created an especially provocative one that will get many people talking and in high dudgeon. But ...
  • Emil Grunzweig’s Assassination: When Terror Is ...
    Can there be such a thing?  When an apparent act of terror, of murdering another human being, isn’t?  Yes, in the case of Emil Grunzweig.  He was a Hebrew University graduate student and one of the founders of the Peace Now movement.  I’m not talking about the Peace Now that exists t ...
  • Israel Lobby Hagel Smear Continues
    GOP Senate mucksters (undoubtedly with the encouragement of Israel Lobby fellow travelers like Bill Kristol) are still traipsing through the ooze to find material with which to smear Chuck Hagel.  The latest is a letter from 25 Republican Senators demanding before they agree to a vote on his nom ...
  • 63% of Iranians Say, Continue Nuclear Program ...
    Now repeat after me: Sanctions…do…not…work.  I coulda told Obama that before he waded neck deep into the Big Muddy on that one…in fact, I did.  A new Gallup poll of Iranians presents what the Washington Post euphemistically calls “worrying” signs that the west ...
  • The Perfect Solution for Obama’s Messy Counter ...
    With President Obama’s drone strikes and assassination lists coming under increasing scrutiny from the press and U.S. Senate; and John Brennan coming in for some rough questioning by overly inquisitive solons, I have the perfect solution: hire Israel to do take over the job. We’ve pr ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Facebook's Graph Search Rejiggers Your Persona ...
    The following is a liveblog of an MIT Facebook recruiting event by Matt Stempeck, Rodrigo Davies, and Chris Peterson. We've had all of our data on Facebook for years. And advertisers have used Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform, similar to Graph Search, to segment and target ads a ...
  • Investigating the Technology Underlying Top Ne ...
    “We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die” — Umberto Eco Ever since PBS MediaShift contacted me about contributing to their Idea Lab site again (past posts here), I’ve been taking the opportunity to ponder a new “beat” of sorts, one that wou ...
  • Drone Strikes: Known Unknowns and the Need for ...
    Two weeks ago the United Nations opened an inquiry into the "civilian impact of the use of drones and other forms of targeted killing." Data -- on casualties, targets, frequency, and other topics -- will play an important role in this investigation, led by Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur for ...
  • How Journalists Can Secure Their Digital Perimeter
    Truism of the day: Your digital perimeter is not secure. You know that. The question for journalists is what can you do right now to strengthen it? Are your editors and managing editors doing enough to help you? As my fellow Knight Fellow Melissa Chan, who was a correspondent in China, points ...
  • OpenBlock Rural Finds Three Key Audiences for ...
    The key lesson from the first year of our Knight News Challenge grant? The future of data journalism and digital public records at rural newspapers depends on building a product that balances the needs of three key audiences: the consumers, professional reporters and content sponsors. The ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Turkey on Edge - Obama Reluctant to Put His Ha ...
    As the civil war in Syria grinds on, refugees flood into crowded camps. So far, the Obama administration has remained cautious about intervening militarily, even while humanitarian appeals have streamed from Syria and to the international community. In Turkey, political and terrorist activities ...
  • Catholic Church on Edge - As Pope Benedict Dep ...
    There is no clear front-runner among the various contenders to occupy the papacy once the current occupant of the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI, leaves on February 28 at 8 pm local time in Rome. Generally, candidates are chosen from among the College of Cardinals. One of these is Cardinal Archbish ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - New Genes for Short-Sig ...
    An international team of scientists led by King's College London has discovered 24 new genes that cause refractive errors and myopia (short-sightedness).Myopia is a major cause of blindness and visual impairment worldwide, and currently there is no cure. These findings, published today in the jo ...
  • Destination India - Tourists Help Conservation ...
    After a temporary ban on tourism in India’s tiger reserves was lifted last October, tens of thousands of visitors are flocking to catch a glimpse of the big cat in the country’s sprawling wildlife sanctuaries. In north India,  tourism is helping to conserve the endangered species. The 6 ...
  • Obama's Second Term - Two Cheers for Rebranding
    Ever since Mitt Romney lost the presidential election, there’s been a lot of talk about how the Republican party needs to “rebrand� itself.Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal wants, among other things, for the GOP to stop being “the stupid party.� Representative Paul Ryan has concluded tha ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Syria In Israeli PM’s Agenda While The Interve ...
    Syria is top on the agenda of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu while the Syrian interventionists appear divided. These make the Syria scene more complex
  • U.S. Seeking Violent Solution To Syrian Crisis ...
    Dahlia Wasfi talks about the 23-month-long crisis in Syria , U.S. support for the Al-Qaeda mercenaries in the war-hit nation and the regional countries' plans for fragmenting and breaking apart Syria and Iraq
  • Nemo, The Blizzard, Snow, Climate Crisis, The ...
    Is there connection between Nemo, the blizzard lashing the northeast US, dumping huge amount of snow, and climate crisis the Earth now experiencing? Scientists search for the answer
  • A Presidential Decision That Could Change Th ...
    Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the “dirtiest,” carbon-rich oil on ...
  • Drones And Our National Religion By David Swa ...
    What happens to myths like these when we discover that flying killer robots make better soldiers than soldiers do? Or when we learn that the president is using those flying robots to kill U.S. citizens? Which beliefs do we jettison to reduce the dissonance in our troubled brains?

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Newspaper Funded By UN and EU Denies The Holocaust
    Ma'an News is an "independent" Palestinian newspaper fund by the European Union and the United Nations.  On Jan. 30th Palestinian Media Watch PMW exposed that Ma'an, published a vicious Antisemitic article. Three hours later, Ma'an removed the article and promised to reexamine their p ...
  • Pope Resigns Says He's Too Old For the Job
    In a move that even surprised the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI announced today that he would be resigning at the end of this month due to his  advanced age and diminishing strength The 85-year-old pope announced his decision during a meeting of Vatican cardinals Monday morning. Dea ...
  • California Has Shortage of Doctors Because of ...
    According to  Richard Foster, the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid,  Obamacare will lead to a dearth of doctors---the plan will drive doctors away from accepting medicare,  and would expand insurance coverage to an estimated 34 million people who now ...
  • The "Arab Spring" Murdered with Bullets, Hijac ...
    "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing." --Edmund Burke By Barry Rubin And if the good men are murdered by the forces of political evil than they certainly cannot do anything. Hence, the outcome is assured. Thus, the "Arab Spr ...
  • Hagel More Worried About Israel Than Iran and ...
    Former Vice President Dick Cheney said last night that Obama has jeopardized U.S. national security by nominating substandard candidates for key cabinet posts and by degrading the U.S. military. "Frankly, what he has appointed are second-rate people," he said. Here is another example of wha ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.S. Homeland Security Department approves ‘Su ...
    By DAVID KRAVETS | WIRED | FEBRUARY 11, 2013 The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of n ...
  • European bureaucrats take a haircut after budg ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 11, 2013 European officials are preparing to apply extreme cuts to their budgets beginning next year. The budget negotiations held last week resulted in a reduction in administrative costs, slightly more than the latest estimates, although l ...
  • If this vaccine injures my child, who is respo ...
    By JEFFREY J. AUFDERHEIDE | VACTRUTH | FEBRUARY 11, 2013 Have you ever asked your doctor about the safety of vaccines, only to have your concerns dismissed? If so, you’re not alone. Doctors are quick to tell you there is nothing to worry about. They are quick to say something like, “Th ...
  • Asesinar a los estadounidenses es “legal ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRERO 10, 2013 La oficina legal de la Casa Blanca ha establecido que es legal matar a un ciudadano de los EE.UU. en el extranjero “si un miembro del gobierno” asegura que el objetivo de matar a alguien que representa una “amenaza ...
  • Consumo de alimentos fritos aumenta incidencia ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRERO 9, 2013 Consumir alimentos fritos más frecuentes, como las patatas o el pollo, se asocia con un mayor riesgo de cáncer de próstata, según un estudio realizado por investigadores del Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center en Seattle, EE.UU.. ...

Wind Watch

  • Lee County residents say no to wind farm
    DIXON – Mainstream Renewable Power wants to put up turbines in southwestern Lee County, but neighbors urge Lee County officials to reject the company’s proposal. On Monday, the county’s zoning board of appeals held its 25th hearing for the planned 53 turbines. Residents made their closing statem ...
  • Utility responds to wind turbine complaints, s ...
    Blade icing has halted operations at the wind farm four times since 2013 began, Schoenlein said. ... Schoenlein said the company found a problem with a connection path from its ice sensors on its Met towers. The sensors are designed to signal a Duke Energy office in North Carolina if they sense ...
  • Vote to remove Falmouth’s wind turbines ...
    Falmouth Board of Selectmen’s decision last week to remove the two town-owned wind turbines at the wastewater treatment facility could have implications not only for Falmouth, but for wind projects across the state and the country, according to both proponents and opponents of the project. If th ...
  • Turbine flicker, noise at center of Kingston d ...
    The debate about the noise and flicker caused by five wind turbines in Kingston continues. “We can’t live like this. We need help. This is torture. We are suffering,” said Doreen Reilly, of Kingston. Reilly has lived at her home on Leland Road for 20 years. In May of 2012 the 4 ...
  • Wind war in Oklahoma
    A war over wind is brewing in Canadian County and soon more Oklahomans could be affected. Last year an out-of-state company started putting wind turbines just outside of Calumet. Now some residents fear that wind farm could be a threat to their health and safety. Fox 25 spoke with the company be ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • The future, and journalism education
    My university played host this weekend to several dozen journalism educators and some very wonderful working journalists. They all came to the Journalism Interactive conference to share what they know and learn new things about digital media and training the next generation of journalists. Most ...
  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
  • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
    To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...
  • Required reading: How open source makes you better
    In this blog post (Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust), Dan Schultz of The Boston Globe describes what amounts to one of the big reasons why news websites are not as successful as they could be. If you borrow code then you are more likely to be familiar with what the rest of the world is doing. I ...
  • Teaching programming to journalists
    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate journalism course that I will begin teaching in January. I’ve been learning Python and starting to learn about jQuery. I’ve got some advantages: I learned HTML in ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Will the Supreme Court break ...
    This month the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a landmark case challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Considered the heart of the law, the section prohibits racially discriminatory election changes in covered jurisdictions, most of which are in the South. read more
  • The South and "the Great Gerrymander of 2012"
    The mismatch between who voters chose for Congress, and the actual makeup of the U.S. House after the 2012 elections, has sparked a new debate about gerrymandering. But what's the best solution to ensure the wishes of voters are honored? read more
  • VOICES: We got 99 problems and the Super Bowl ...
    Some New Orleanians may be laughing about Sunday night's blackout during the Super Bowl, but Rosana Cruz is infuriated by the overblown language about what amounted to a minor inconvenience given the very serious problems the city and Louisiana faces. read more
  • NC DHHS appointee behind discredited pro-absti ...
    The woman picked to lead North Carolina's early childhood education programs is facing media scrutiny for derogatory statements she's made on social media. In 2005 she was at the center of another controversy: a widely-discredited government website accused of anti-gay bias and peddling false in ...
  • Climate conspiracy theorist returns to NC legi ...
    John Droz of the American Tradition Institute, a conservative group know for attacking climate scientists, visited North Carolina this week to warn lawmakers that science is under attack -- but his presentation left the actual scientists in the room shaking their heads. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • A reminder
    “If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Only when we understand, deep in our bones, that life and the world are profoundly, vastly unfair, do we approa ...
  • A reminder
    “If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Only when we understand, deep in our bones, that life and the world are profoundly, vastly unfair, do we approa ...
  • The coming catastrophes and the Rawlsian veil ...
    A just society, according to Rawls, is a society whose structure, whose rewards and punishments, are set up before we know what position we will hold in it.  The Rawlsian veil of ignorance cuts deeper than most people realize.  Take for example old-fashioned meritocracy: grades, schooling, intel ...
  • The coming catastrophes and the Rawlsian veil ...
    A just society, according to Rawls, is a society whose structure, whose rewards and punishments, are set up before we know what position we will hold in it.  The Rawlsian veil of ignorance cuts deeper than most people realize.  Take for example old-fashioned meritocracy: grades, schooling, intel ...
  • Iraq wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for ...
    Stirling Newberry has up an important piece on how protected works are used to pay for imports. You should read it.  There’s a reason the laws against “piracy” are more punitive than those against, say, negligent murder.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • California Becoming Less Family-Friendly
    For all of human history, family has underpinned the rise, and decline, of nations. This may also prove true for the United States, as demographics, economics and policies divide the nation into what may be seen as child-friendly and increasingly child-free zones. Where California falls ...
  • Time to Acknowledge Falling Private Car Use
    The prospect of falling car use now needs to be firmly factored into planning for western cities.  That may come as a bit of a surprise in light of the preoccupation with city plans that aim to get people out of their cars, but it is already happening.  And it is highly likely to continue ...
  • The Cities Winning The Battle For The Fastest ...
    In an era in which many businesses that pay high wages have been shedding jobs, the wide-ranging employment category of professional, scientific and technical services has been a relatively stellar performer, expanding some 15% since 2001. In contrast, employment dropped over 20% in such ...
  • Is Urbanism the New Trickle-Down Economics?
    The pejoratively named “trickle-down economics” was the idea that by giving tax breaks to the wealthy and big business, this would spur economic growth that would benefit those further down the ladder. I guess we all know how that worked out. But while progressives would clear ...
  • Dispersion in the World's Largest Urban Areas
    No decade in history has experienced such an increase in urban population as the last. From Tokyo-Yokohama, the world's largest urban area (population: 37 million) to Godegård, Sweden, which may be the smallest (population: 200), urban areas added 700 million people between 2000 and 2010. N ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Plane crashes in Liberia with Guinea delegation
    MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's information minister says that a plane carrying an official delegation from Guinea to attend Liberia's Armed Forces Day celebration in the capital has crashed. Lewis Brown said Monday that the plane went down in Charlesville, near Liberia's largest airport, som ...
  • Nigeria are super again
    Nigeria 1 (Mba 40) Burkina Faso 0 Nkareng Matshe JOHANNESBURG: With just a single-goal win in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations final last night, Nigeria managed to end years of underachievement, settle an old score and, perhaps, mark the start of a rejuvenation similar to that which made them such ...
  • Kei Kamara desperate to seize chance at Norwich
    Kei Kamara has come a long way since fleeing the battle fields of Sierra Leone's civil war and migrating to America as a refugee. The latest chapter in the 28-year-old's journey has brought him to the Barclays Premier League via a loan spell with Norwich and Kamara is determined to make a succes ...
  • Bollywood returning to Kashmir, tourist footfa ...
    With Jammu and Kashmir remaining peaceful, Bollywood filmmakers are returning to the state which was once their favourite shooting destination. Kashmir Valley has witnessed turmoil since 1989, but violence...
  • Mali troops in house-to-house search for Gao m ...
    Malian troops are carrying out house-to-house searches following running battles with Islamist militants in the northern town of Gao on Sunday. There are fears some fighters could be hiding among the population, the BBC's Thomas Fessy reports from Gao. He said Gao was calmer now following S ...

Alex in Wonderland

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Common Dreams

  • Thousands March to 'Lift the Burden' of Auster ...
    Over 100,000 Irish citizens took to the streets Saturday in protest of six years of severe austerity cuts and rocketing costs of living since the financial crisis plunged the country's banking system into an endless debt spiral. Organized by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), 'Li ...
  • Seeking Salvation, 30 Million Hindus Bathe in ...
    (Photo: AFP)Tens of millions of Hindus have gathered in the Indian city of Allahabad on Sunday for a ritual bath in the sacred Ganges River in the "most auspicious day" of the world's largest religious festival, the Kumbh Mela. ...
  • 'Future of Food at Stake' as Indiana Farmer Ta ...
    75 year-old Indiana soybean farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, is taking agriculture giant Monsanto to the US Supreme Court over one of the most "systemic crisis" in modern farming: who controls the rights to the seeds planted in the ground. "I really don't consider it as David and G ...
  • 'Future of Food at Stake' as Indiana Farmer Ta ...
    75 year old Indiana soybean farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, is taking agriculture giant Monsanto to the supreme court over one of the most "systemic crisis" in modern farming: who controls the rights to the seeds planted in the ground. "I really don't consider it as David and Goli ...
  • Israel Goods Boycott Movement Rises
    Um Abed plants an olive tree in support of Palestinian farmers. (Photo: Eva Bartlett/IPS)Tawfiq Mandil, 45, stands amongst hundreds of Palestinian farmers, activists, and international supporters in the Gaza Strip’s eastern Zeitoun district, about half a kilometre from the border with Isra ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Why Keystone XL is Not in the U.S. National In ...
    Secretary of State John Kerry’s first major international meeting came with Canadian foreign minister John Baird. At the press conference, Secretary Kerry faced questions about Keystone XL.
  • Increasing Evacuation Zones May Increase Risk
    Carefully conducted analysis suggests that expanding evacuation zones around nuclear power plants may increase the risk of latent cancer fatalities in the unlikely event of an accident that releases radioactive material.
  • Super Bowl Outage May Charge the Battery Industry
    The numbers are in and the competition was not even close. Last Sunday, the best Super Bowl ad was the one for back-up power. While other ads may have exhibited more charm and humor, the ad for back-up power lasted 34 minutes, as against 30 seconds for most other ads. And best of all, the ad ...
  • Keystone XL: John Kerry and His Canadian Count ...
    Newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Canadian counterpart, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. In any such bilateral meeting, it is paramount that each participant trust the words of their counterpart.
  • Renewable Energy and Conservation Get a Push i ...
    “Caring for our energy together” will be the slogan of Chile’s Energy Efficiency Expo, which will be held in Santiago in March, bringing together key stakeholders from the supply and demand side to showcase newly available technologies.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Man in Search of Humanity: Lessons from the Bo ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD “….Human nature is at least in part wicked and in part foolish, how can human beings be prevented from suffering from the results of their wickedness and folly? ….Men simply do not see that war is foolish and useless and wicked. They think on occasion ...
  • More Evidence Obamacare Ripped Off Americans
    by Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. March 23, 2010 will live in infamy. With strokes from 22 pens, Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). It's a ripoff. It's a healthcare rationing scheme. It's a boon to predatory providers. It's a plan to enrich insurers, ...
  • Obstructing Hamas/Fatah Unity
    by Stephen Lendman Previous unity talks failed. On February 6, more talks were held. Fatah and Hamas officials met in Cairo. At issue are long-delayed reconciliation and new elections. Reports suggested cause for optimism. It's hard imagining why. Israel and Washington ruptured relations ...
  • Record Numbers of US Military and Veteran Suicides
    by Stephen Lendman Headlines like this should shock: Suicides Outpace War Deaths. Surge in Military Suicides. Nearly Two Dozen Veterans Commit Suicide Daily. These reports and similar ones reveal imperialism's dark side. War takes its toll. Civilians suffer most. So do many combatants a ...
  • Mavi Marmara Massacre Whitewash Redux
    by Stephen Lendman In May 2010, Israeli commandos committed premeditated murder. They killed nine humanitarian activists in cold blood. They did so in international waters. They were trying to bring vitally needed aid to besieged Gazans. Israel wants them isolated. It wants them suffocat ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Don't frack the law! Open letter and video cal ...
    Leading environmental organizations, unions and other organizations, including the CCPA, released an open letter today, calling on all BC political parties to recommit to 2007 legislation on greenhouse gas reduction. If BC continues with its Natural Gas Strategy, it will break its own law. Read ...
  • Repeat After Me: Ontario is Not Greece
    It's an apples to oranges comparison, of course, but the Fraser Institute's attempt to frame Ontario as the next Greece because of debt level is flawed for other reasons too. CCPA Director Trish Hennessy assesses the report's conclusions and says it's time we shift the conversation beyond auster ...
  • It's Time for an Equality Premier
    Trish Hennessy suggests in this blog that moving from austerity to finding income inequality solutions in this province could be the ideal way to address growing social unrest while helping to grow the economy.  
  • Fix our tax system. Improve quality of life. R ...
    BC has the lowest taxes in Canada, and it's not a good thing. We don't have the money we need for important public services, and at the same time, we haven't seen any economic benefit from a decade of tax cuts. But we can do something about it. Read the report or four-page summary; share and do ...
  • Income inequality on the rise, especially in l ...
    Income inequality in Canada is on the rise—especially in the country's largest cities. CCPA analysis of new data finds the richest 1% of Canadians make almost $180,000 more today than they did in 1982 (adjusted for inflation), while the bottom 90% of Canadians saw income gains of only $1,700. ...

World Wide Hippies

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Al Gore Profits From Fossil Fuels He Vilified
    What Gore doesn't seem to understand is that this is the same cost-benefit analysis that results in the world's rising use of fossil fuels. He is like many environmentalists who don't seem to understand the real reasons we are dependent upon fossil fuels.
  • EPA Doubles Down on Unicorns
    In my previous column — Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work — I used an analogy to describe the US government’s approach to cellulosic ethanol mandates. In brief, they have mandated that something that does not exist — commercial cellulosic ethanol volumes — be ...
  • Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work
    There is a reason I don't ride a unicorn to work. It isn't because it's too far to work. Nor is it because it rains here in Hawaii nearly every day and I might get wet. It isn't because the powerful automobile lobby has convinced me that driving a car to work is a better option for me. No, it's ...
  • The Amazing Reversal of the US Oil Industry
    Oil production in the US began to rise in 2009, in response to record capital expenditures by oil companies in the face of sharply rising oil prices. The rise has been sustained to the point that production rose all four years of President Obama's first term.
  • Five Energy Predictions for 2013
    Normally when I list the Top 10 stories of the year, I close the post by making predictions for the upcoming year. For 2012, my predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Is the "Natural Life" Always the Best Way to Live?
    You eat organic food from your backyard garden and heal life's common ailments with food, not pharma. And your relatives all think you're crazy. So who's right? Nathanael Johnson wanted to know the answer to that question, and he wanted to support it with scientific evidence. The child of self ...
  • The Truth about "Clean" Natural Gas
    Touted as a "clean-burning" fuel that will wean Americans off dirty coal and imported oil, natural gas is turning out to be no bargain for the environment. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just released its most recent statistics on greenhouse-gas emissions, and pegged natur ...
  • How to Bake a Birthday Cake for Your Dog
    Dog cake recipes like this one created especially for a pup's birthday celebration can really make your pet feel special, plus they're fun to make. We turned to Henrietta Morrison, founder of the British natural pet food company Lily's Kitchen, for some tips on whipping up the perfect dog birth ...
  • How Lotions and Shampoos Fuel Childhood Obesity
    There's no denying that an overload of sugar, fat, and calories fuels childhood obesity. But there's more to the story than too many potato chips and a bad video game habit. Your child's shampoo could be in play, too. "Diet and physical activity are still the leading causes of childhood obesity ...
  • Protect Your Child from These 5 Pesticide Threats
    Your child's health becomes the center of your universe when you become a parent. And while most parents wouldn't dream of harming a child, chemical companies and lackluster laws have made it tough to protect kids from pesticide threats. Chemical pesticides aren't required by law to go through ...

big think

  • Are We Teaching Citizens or Automatons?
    Since the standards-based model of education overtook American public schools a generation ago, the answer to this question has been simple: prepare students for college and get them ready to be productive participants in the workforce. The new Common Core Standards Initiative — already adopted ...
  • Can the Visual Arts Have the Blues?
    “Ain't got no rest in my slumbers/ Ain't got no feelings to bruise/ Ain't got no telephone numbers/ I ain't got nothing but the blues,” goes Jazz composer Duke Ellington’s 1945 song “Ain’t Got Nothing But the Blues.” Jazz wins credit as the only original American art form (and rightfully so), bu ...
  • The Controversy and Confusion about the Monty ...
    In an earlier post, I discuss George Tsebelis’s game-theoretic explanation for why penalty has no impact on crime.  Tsebelis argues that the “Robinson Crusoe Fallacy” – the confusion of decision theory and game theory – is responsible for the erroneous view that increasing the penalty for crime ...
  • How Close Are We to Simulating the Human Brain?
    What's the Latest Development? Though our understanding of how the brain works has advanced substantially in the last decade, our ability to replicate its functions pales by comparison. Such a lack of know-how is the driving force behind several high-profile attempts to recreate what the ...
  • Taking It Too the Streets
    We used to live in a world where content producers chose the channels of distribution. Now the consumers choose.* That means the producer has to deliver the message over many channels, optimized for each. For those who hate long videos, you make short ones and post them where they visit onli ...

Information Liberation

  • Police seeking Dorner opened fire in a second ...
    David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work Thursday morning when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way. Seconds later, Perdue's attorney said, a Torrance police cruis...
  • Torrance neighborhood rattled by police shootings
    TORRANCE, Calif. (KABC) -- Two women were mistakenly shot in their vehicle by LAPD officers during the search for Christopher Dorner. Another man was shot at by Torrance Police nearby during the same search. Residents waking up to the sound of gun...
  • TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (Fu ...
    This film follows the political persecution of the co-founders of the Pirate Bay for the crime of advancing technology....
  • Penelope Soto Forced to Prostrate Herself Befo ...
    "Do you understand I have power, slave? Do you understand I can ruin your life, slave? Do you understand I rule you and can do anything I like to you, slave? Beg for my mercy, worship at my feet, tell me I rule you." Judge Rodriguez-Chomat ...
  • 'Heroes' View Us as Little More Than Collatera ...
    Rarely, will Americans witness the kind of full-scale manhunt now going on throughout Southern California and the San Bernardino mountains, as hundreds of heavily armed and armored police and federal agents hunt down Christopher Dorner, a 33-ye...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Supersonic ping pong ball
    What happens when a ping pong ball moving at supersonic speed hits a bat? This video, which is dripping college degrees, explains the physics and shows a few test shots. NO amount of wrist action can defeat supersonic… Do not try this at home. I’m talking to you “King Julian&#8 ...
  • Evernote Penultimate now free
    Evernote has made its hand-writing app for iPad free as of now. Always keen to grab any worthwhile freebies, I took a look and was quite surprised and pleased to see what they are using as a demonstration screenshot: Evernote Penultimate now free is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogEvernote ...
  • End-of-January Kindle Sale
    UPDATE: 2013-01-31 Amazon UK has the Kindle version of my book – Deceived Wisdom – at a knock-down price of just 99p today. Remember there are Kindle apps for most mobile devices and computers, so you don’t need an actual Kindle to take advantage of the offer. You don’t n ...
  • DCD, dicyandiamide, 2-cyanoguanidine
    2-Cyanoguanidine, also known as DCD (dicyandiamide) is a nitrile derived from guanidine used as a curative agent for epoxy resins in packaging. Since 2004, it has been used in New Zealand by farmers hoping to lower the environmental impact of livestock by reducing the rate at which soil microbes ...
  • Fossil perspective on economic growth
    A paper from a researcher at Fukushima University caught my eye recently. Not least because it was from that university, but also because the city was in the news again because of proposals to plant a wind farm off the coast there. Moreover, the paper is about how fossil fuels drive economic gro ...

RFF Library

  • Tethys, a Database on Wave, Tidal, Current Ene ...
    International Energy Agency | US Dept. of Energy http://mhk.pnnl.gov/wiki/index.php/Knowledge_Base [From Press Release]  …the database will help industry regulators and energy project developers deploy sustainable ocean energy projects in an environmentally responsible manner. Develop ...
  • Energy 2030: Doubling U.S. Energy Productivity ...
    Alliance to Save Energy / Nicole Steele and Floyd DesChamps http://ase.org/resources/energy-2030-recommendations More ASE resources:  http://ase.org/resources A diverse coalition of energy leaders unveil a set of recommendations designed to double U.S. energy productivity by 2030. [From Press Re ...
  • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity f ...
    United Nations Development Programme http://www.unep.org/publications/contents/pub_details_search.asp?ID=6284 This report presents insights on both critical water-related ecosystem services and also on the wider ecosystem services from wetlands. The objective is encourage additional policy momen ...
  • Maternal Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution ...
    Environmental Health Perspectives (published online before print: February 6, 2013) / by Tracey J. Woodruff, et al. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2013/02/1205575/ [San Francisco Chronicle] Mothers who breathe the kind of pollution emitted by vehicles, coal power plants and factories are significantly ...
  • Can The U.S. Get There From Here? Using Existi ...
    World Resources Institute / by Nicholas M. Bianco, Franz T. Litz, Kristin Igusky Meek and Rebecca Gasper http://pdf.wri.org/can_us_get_there_from_here.pdf [PowerMag.com] The Feb. 6 release of “Can the U.S. Get There from Here? Using Existing Federal Laws and State Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gas ...

Scientific American - News

  • Few Answers on How to Effectively Help Childre ...
    In the aftermath of traumatic events like the Newtown massacre, Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, children need to heal, just as adults do. But in turning to research to find out what approaches work best for young people, one finds little guidance, according to a research review publish ...
  • Explosive Power of Combustion Makes Floppy Lit ...
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  • What Are Dogs Saying When They Bark? [Excerpt]
    Excerpt from The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think , by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. Published by Dutton, a Member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. © 2013 Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods. Excerpted with permission from the publisher. All Rights Reserved. [More] ...
  • Oscars Honor Ingenious Screen Engineering in " ...
    (ISNS) -- The goal of every movie is for the audience to suspend its collective disbelief and become immersed in the world created on screen.  With special effects breakthroughs continuing to raise the bar for movie audiences, the technical folks behind the scenes are convening on Saturday ...
  • California to Unveil New Flammability Standard ...
    California unveiled a proposal on Friday that would transform its controversial fire safety standards by dropping a requirement that has led to widespread use of flame retardants in U.S. couches and other furniture. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Who is behind McGill Compliments?
    A Chat with McGill Compliment's Anonymous Mastermind about the Social Project CKUT correspondent Vanessa Vyvial interviews an anonymous representative of McGill Compliments. McGill Compliments is a social project that started last seme ...
  • Centring the Black Nova Scotian Experience
    Book Review: Theorizing Africentricity in Action Theorizing Africentricity in Action: Who We Are Is What We See Delvina E. Bernard and Sus ...
  • Montréal 09 février 2013 – #manifencours #Plan ...
    Montréal 09 février 2013 - #manifencours #PlanNord 2.0 http://blogocram.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/montreal-09-fevrier-2013-manif... http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogocram/sets/72157632727474973/show/ + 2013-02-09_10h09 #manifencou ...
  • A History of Pride
    Participation in first Halifax Pride Parade required courage HALIFAX — An exhibit at the Spring Garden Road Memorial Public ...
  • Interview with an Organizer: Bruce McComber an ...
    In late 2012 and early 2013, the wave of Indigenous protest known as Idle No More has swept through Canada and has reached around the world. Though some high profile spokespeople have emerged, it is the hard work of countless people at the ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Droned if we do, etc
    David Seaton's News LinksIt’s insane how vulnerable we’ve made ourselves, like drunks failing to look around as they walk into traffic. Hackers could shut down the way we live, and if they hacked into drones or nuclear codes, determine the way we die. If you think it through, which most of us av ...
  • What might a revolution look like?
    David Seaton's News Links I finished up my last post saying:(...) simply by nationalizing Monsanto and Walmart we would have a perfect, planned economy… in other words we are all dressed up and waiting for Lenin.And several people have since asked me what I meant by that.It comes in two parts th ...
  • Monsanto and the banality of evil
    A discussion about Monsanto arose in a private technology forum that I attend, which dredged up the following from me and that in turn I'd like to share with my regular readers. DSMy great uncle was one of the original chemists of Monsanto... the boss had no money for the payroll and he paid t ...
  • Is middle class renewal in any way based on ch ...
    David Seaton's News Links Fracking illustrated It seems to me that the challenge of rebuilding the American middle class: bringing back the jobs, ensuring good public education, health care and decent pensions is now to a great extent predicated on a very controversial "energy revolution": the l ...
  • The Israeli elections
    David Seaton's News Links“This is a government that will not be able to make decisions on anything — on the peace process, on equal sharing of the burden or on budgetary matters,” Emmanuel Rosen, a prominent television analyst, said early Wednesday on Channel 10. “The next elections are alrea ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • We Humans Are Terrible Eyewitnesses
    Today's lesson is about misguided headline writing. A friend just sent me a news article with the following headline: Drunk eyewitnesses are more reliable than expected Here's the story: Some researchers in Sweden rounded up three groups of people. One group was left sober, one got ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 8 February 2013
    Today Domino is performing her Queen Bee act while stretched out on a "Flying Geese" quilt. This is actually from the second set of pictures I took. After looking through the first set, I realized that a close-up didn't allow you to see why this quilt is called Flying Geese, so a few minutes a ...
  • Whose Idea Was the Sequester?
    This is hardly the most pressing issue in the world, but it's been niggling at me all morning. Here is Charles Krauthammer today: For the first time since Election Day, President Obama is on the defensive. That’s because on March 1, automatic spending cuts (â&#128 ...
  • The Iron Triangle Meets the Sequester
    Over at NRO, Robert Costa and Katrina Trinko catch up with Tom DeLay, who makes a point so obvious about the sequester that I'm surprised I hear this so seldom: Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, who was meeting with a few of his former colleagues on Wednesday at the Capitol, s ...
  • Quote of the Day: Come Visit Sunny Germany!
    From Fox Business reporter Shibani Joshi, explaining why Germany, whose capital is at about the same latitude as Edmonton, has adopted solar power more successfully than the United States: They're a smaller country, and they've got lots of sun. Right? They've got a lot more sun than ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 380: Guard Grizzlies
    Topic: Valentine’s Day Men not dating The struggles of being a man in a relationship Dealing with cover thieves Next generation Gaming Papa John’s owner has a lake for a front yard Eminem slander WB and the Justice League movie Share with your friends:
  • IC 379: Amazon Pimping
    Topic: Valentine’s Day approaches Sharing too much on Facebook What happens when your kids see your cleavage pictures? Nobody want’s to go to Boston NYC isn’t that great Amazon should sell whores Taser rachetness Eminem doesn’t have any classic albums Comedy is subjective ...
  • IC 378: Bat Shit Insane
    Topic: Kriss has an epiphany People ain’t shit Chris Culliver says something stupid The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Bruce Wayne is crazy Batman beating Superman is the most realistic fight in comicbooks Comic Book cheat characters R rated comicbook movies Movie News Share with your friends:
  • IC 377: Scallenge
    Topic: Movie discussions Next Batman film Justice League lineup Children stories as movies JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars Movies and Music being generational Fuck It Gene evolved Brian Scalabrine is still better than you Share with your friends:
  • IC 376: Hulkamania
    Topic: America is ruining football 8 hours of pregame show Lingerie Football loses the lingerie XFL = What if Twitter Fans ran football The good ole days of Professional wrestling What happened to Hulk Hogan? Professional wrestling porn Obama’s 2nd Inauguration Algeria doesn’t negoti ...

Simple Climate

  • Altered pressure patterns bring Eurasia intens ...
    Even as the world warms, stronger high pressures have driven extreme cold events happening since the 1990s in Europe and Asia, says Xiangdong Zhang at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
  • Mild winters raise risk of flu epidemics
    Warm years limit flu transmission, but that makes us more susceptible to the virus the following season, explains Sherry Towers at Arizona State University, meaning health authorities have to watch for severe epidemics as climate changes.
  • Iconic authors help reveal record early flowering
    150 years since Henry David Thoreau observed them, plants flower three weeks earlier thanks to climate change, find Boston University’s Libby Ellwood and her teammates.
  • Temperature cuts swathe through Australian seaweed
    A record heatwave in 2011 completely killed off a seaweed species in one bay and over 1/20 of the area it covers worldwide, finds Dan Smale of the University of Western Australia
  • Delays raise emission halt urgency
    Staying under the 2°C warming target demands a serious action rethink, find Steve Davis at University of California, Irvine and team-mates, after updating a method that breaks down the steps needed into “wedges”.

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    Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that one of the most aggressive invasive ant species in the United States -- the Argentine ant -- appears to have met its match in the Asian needle ant. Specifically, the researchers have found that the Asian needle ant is successfully ...
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    A new study suggests that exercise may reduce Caucasian men's risk of developing prostate cancer. And among Caucasian men who do have prostate cancer, exercise may reduce their risk of having more serious forms of the disease. Unfortunately, the benefits do not seem to apply to African-American ...

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Brave New Climate

  • Energy Policy – substance wins over style
    There’s a gradual, but a rising tide of rational, enviro-progressive scientists out there who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Many of these problems involve touchy subjects, including ways to reduce poverty while improving or maintaining high standards of living el ...
  • Zero emission synfuel from seawater
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...
  • Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
    As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear. W ...
  • 2012 BNC stats in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. (Note: about mid-way through the year, the site closed WP comments and moved them to the BNC Forums – this led to a redirection of many pageviews to the new site). Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tour ...
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    The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

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    Do you like getting mail delivered on Saturday? Too bad. It is over. The Republican plan to destroy the Post Office so the “private sector” which technically means billionaires that own most of the stock in most corporations can make more dough. Thanks to the Republican Postal Destru ...
  • The Republicans Want To Re-Brand Their Party
    Buuuhahahahahah. It is all I can do to keep from laughing. For 30 years the GOP has been helping the wealthy, and the corporations they own rape our families, and transfer our assets to the top 1%. Now the outlook for our children is worse than it was for us. And they want to re-brand? [...]
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    Since fewer and fewer people are willing to vote for Republicans for president the Republicans have a plan. Since Republicans  have drawn districts where they control the state even though more people vote for democrats, they want to change the electoral map. They want to keep Texas the same, bu ...
  • Hey Debt Ceiling Traitors
    We don’t have to raise the debt ceiling. All we have to do is tax billionaires at the same rate of the middle class, and we would have a budget surplus. That’s right. Surplus, without having to starve granny, or refuse medical care to babies. Then we could tax corporations at the eff ...
  • Worried About The Deficit?
    Maybe we could have some of the Americans that have 8 trillion dollars sitting in the tax havens pay some taxes? You know, the folks that are hoarding all the money their “investments” squeezed out of your family. Remember, for every dollar Mitt Romney pays in taxes, I pay $4, if you ...

Appalachia Rising

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    Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
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    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
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    Inslee taps new director for state's Department of Ecology
    Yakima Herald-Republic (press release)
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    Stranded Carnival Cruise Ship Passengers Without Running Water or Power
    ABC News
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    Investing in Water Good Long-Term Bet, Goldman Head Says
    Bloomberg
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    Israel Says Galilee Water Needs Cut by Rain, Desalination
    Bloomberg
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    Water On Mars? Salty 'Don Juan Pond' In Antarctica May Hold Clues To Red ...
    Huffington Post
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