Monday, February 11, 2013

11 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Smart and Caring
    This week the Conference Board of Canada published a significant report relating Canada’s standing on things like child poverty, inequality …Continue reading »
  • Identity Politics
    With the Speaker of the House seated beside me, I addressed a group of my fellow MPs in as frank …Continue reading »
  • Who Are You?
    Who are you? Seriously. For that matter, who are we? Oscar Wilde used to wonder if people really knew themselves, …Continue reading »
  • A Sad Passing
    I want to tell you a story – a personal one, filled with anguish, recovery and hope. Ultimately it’s the …Continue reading »
  • Hyper-partisanship – The Steroids of Pol ...
    It’s become all too common and unfortunately has resulted not only in the fall of grace of numerous individuals but …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
  • Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
    Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: Land Grabs, Nanoparticl ...
    Most of America’s hyper-industrialized farmland looks nothing like the Super Bowl ad’s nostalgic vision. I counted a big majority of white people in the commercial—interesting art direction, considering that, according to the USDA, nearly half of all hired farmworkers are Latino.
  • Is Genetically Engineered Salmon Setting a Dis ...
    The fish, called AquAdvantage salmon and produced by AquaBounty Technologies, is genetically engineered to grow faster than farm-raised Atlantic salmon. And the FDA is trying to approve the fish with a review process that is both inadequate and inappropriate.
  • The New, Exciting World of MOOCs
    More than 18,000 students from around the world have enrolled in “An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health,” taught by CLF director Bob Lawrence and Keeve Nachman.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Meat Safety, McDonalds ...
    McDonalds fish supply is entirely wild-caught Alaska Pollock—why not include small oily fish that are lower on the food chain? They probably tastes the same fried and would have more omega-3-fatty acids.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Horsemeat, Transgenic S ...
    The discovery of horse DNA in supermarket beef products in the UK created quite a stir. But it’s not just horsemeat, offensive enough to horse lovers, there may be pig meat in the beef as well—I can’t imagine British Muslims are taking this news lightly. Food safety issues are being investigated ...

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Consumerist

  • Yet Another Carnival Cruise Ship Stranded Off ...
    We can’t help but feel the pull of deja vu — yet another Carnival cruise ship has been set adrift after a fire in the engine room, a scant  year or so after a similar incident. The Carnival Triumph is currently floating off the coast of Mexico as it waits for a tug boat to arrive and pull ...
  • How Phantom Fees Finally Drove Me Away From Di ...
    Think you don’t need to check over your bills because they’re on auto-pay or you’ve had the accounts for years? Think again! Looking at his DirecTV bill, Warren found two phantom charges that he knew shouldn’t have been there. He had a $10 fee for the high definition sign ...
  • Some Lean Cuisine Ravioli Recalled Because &#8 ...
    Some people like crunchy food, but most of us don’t enjoy the sensation of chewing on glass. This is why Nestlé has recalled some of its Lean Cuisine Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli. According to the company, three consumers reported they had found small fragments of glass i ...
  • My Web Host Bought Me A Domino’s Pizza J ...
    Glen is a web developer in Northern Ireland. He recently switched back to using a web-hosting company he’d left about a year before. And when the provider asked if it could help with anything else and Glen jokingly requested a pizza, he was in for a surprise. It all began when Glen recentl ...
  • Fortune Cookie Maker Nixes Romantic Messages A ...
    Perhaps no one gets more delight out of reading a fortune cookie’s message than a kid — “I’m going to triumph in all my endeavors today! What’s an endeavor?” — which is exactly why one company is changing its cookies’ tune. Apparently parents have been complai ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Oregon Whistleblower Suing for $6.7 million: D ...
    The Oregonian: Whistleblower Lawsuit Seeks $6.7 Million from Oregon Health Authority An Oregon Health Authority whistleblower is suing the state’s Department of Human Services, saying she was discriminated against, mistreated and eventually fired for pointing out financial irregularities. The ...
  • GAP's Radack Outlines Concerns Over Brennan as ...
    This past Monday, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack participated in a press conference to discuss John Brennan’s nomination to become the next CIA Director. Radack expressed concerns regarding Brennan’s involvement in troubling national security practices during t ...
  • Whistleblowers Challenge NDAA 2012 Indefinite ...
    Democracy Now: Daniel Ellsberg – NDAA Indefinite Detention Provision is Part of “Systematic Assault on Constitution” Panel From Right: Michael Moore, Chris Hedges, Jesselyn Radack, Tom Drake, Daniel EllsbergA lawsuit challenging a provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) ...
  • New Questions Surface on Mechanically Tenderiz ...
    ABC7 News (San Francisco): New Questions About Labeling Mechanically Tenderized Meat (VIDEO) This local investigative piece takes a look at the common meat industry practice of tenderizing meat by machine using needles or blades. Without labeling, this mechanically tenderized meat, unlike inta ...
  • Whistleblower Tour Wrap-Up: Auburn University
    GAP returned to Auburn University and its School of Accountancy for the fourth stop on its 2012-2013 American Whistleblower Tour last Thursday (Jan. 31), bringing with us whistleblowers Frank Casey, who sought to expose Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme with his Rampart Investments ...

UK Progressive

  • What Will it Take to Show Real Political Coura ...
    This is The Monday Line By Denis G. Campbell Last Saturday morning at 5:45 am, there was a brutal rocket and mortar attack on Camp Liberty, home to some 3,100 refugees living in what amounts to a very tight trailer park. The attack, condemned by the UN, EU & UK Parliaments, Amnesty Internati ...
  • Coming Tuesday (Hopefully): The State of the U ...
    by Robert Reich 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 cabinet or [...]
  • Ethics Probe: Congressman’s Taiwan Trip Likely ...
      by Justin Elliott ProPublica Feb. 7, 9:30 p.m. This post has been updated. A congressional ethics investigation into a Democratic representative’s trip to Taiwan found “substantial reason to believe” the trip violated federal law because it was paid for by the Taiwanese government. The in ...
  • How the Supreme Court Could Scuttle Critical F ...
    by Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica UPDATE: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the final rule (PDF) on disparate impact under the Fair Housing Act today. In doing so, the agency formalized for the first time a national standard for establishing when housing practices that ...
  • Welcome to the Golden Age of Arms Dealing
    by Tina Dupuy In 2004, the families of eight gunshot victims sued the manufacturer and dealer of the Bushmaster XM-15 used in the DC Sniper rampage for negligence. They won. The NY Times reported, “Under the terms of the settlement, Bushmaster Firearms Inc. of Windham, Maine, the gun’s maker, wi ...

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JoNova

  • WA State Labor leader has it both ways: Carbon ...
    Mark McGowan , the West Australian Labor leader hoping to win the election in March and become Premier of WA, announced that he doesn’t like the Carbon Tax. But apparently he does like emissions trading, showing that he’s as keen as anyone to help large financial institutions reap nice pro ...
  • Most Geoscientists and Engineers are Global Wa ...
    When researchers Lianne M. Lefsrud and Renate E. Meyer asked geoscientists and engineers their opinion about global warming, they discovered that two thirds of them think that the current warming is mostly due to nature. They also found out that skeptics are scientifically informed and in positi ...
  • The WA Labor Opposition Leader just announced ...
    I saw on the ABC news tonight that Mark McGowan announced that he doesn’t like the Carbon Tax. He’s the West Australian state opposition leader and there are just four weeks left before the State election. Strangely I can find no story, no news headline to confirm this. What does it ...
  • EU promises 20% of its whole budget to stop st ...
    So what does this mean? Billions more dollars poured into the uber carbon gravy train? Twenty whole percent? Current climate spending is estimated at  5-7%. So this might be a big increase. Has the EU gone over the waterfall, or is it more a PR exercise where money that would have been spent on ...
  • Fun on Friday. Smile :-)
    ..  This is funny. .. Michael Davis Ford’s Theater part 2 Yes that is Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the front row.You know it’s good when you watch it again and it’s still funny. Notice the way Davis keeps setting up the audience to expect one thing, then gives them something else ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • Buy An RAF Station in England (with bunker)
    First of all, I doubt any readers of this blog have the £2.5 million required to purchase this property… …but if you did, it would make a great survivalist holiday camp. Be the first in the world! 25 acres Very secure, completely fenced and gated Helipad Massive 20,820 sq.ft. bunker ...
  • Supervolcano Campi Flegrei: Alert
    The following news could be anywhere from meaningful to meaningless. The primary problem is that scientists have never witnessed a supervolcanic eruption. They don’t know what indicators they should be looking for, and how much of a warning we get. Presumably an eruption is preceded by a b ...
  • Free Survivalist Book
    For the next few days this Kindle book is available for no charge at Amazon: How to Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag It is a pretty good light overview of what could ultimately be the most important part of all the prepping you do. However, I’ve not yet come across an awesome resource on thi ...
  • The Mystery of the Purple Spheres
    Here are the pictures – and so far nobody knows what they are! They were found in an Arizona desert. Here are some possibilities: Darlene Buhrow, director of marketing for Tucson Botanical Gardens said that after speaking to a botanist learned that, if the spheres are naturally occurrin ...
  • Galactic Center Collision Due Mid-2013
    Note: this is unlikely to affect us here on Earth, but you never know… …a gas cloud with three times Earth’s mass heading towards the usually placid supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The collision won’t be visible to the naked eye, but X-ray telescopes ...

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

One News Page

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

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Oriental Review

  • Turkey: Facing International Responsibility
    The very complexity of Middle East situation and the games of their own played by such influential powers as Iran and Israel resulted in Turkey’s getting bogged down in a web of contradictions. Trying to become a dominant regional force using the Syrian crisis as leverage will hardly lead Turkey ...
  • Israel Strikes Syria: First Act of «Endgame»?
    Speaking at the defense chiefs meeting in Munich, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak finally confirmed what the news agency had been raising ballyhoo about for the previous few days: the Israeli Air Force had launched a military operation against the legitimate government of Syria. It gave rise ...
  • Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: Rising Menace
    The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) has become a concern in Eurasian region. In January 2013 alone, the members of the extremist organization confronted security forces in Afghanistan on two instances during operations in Burkah district of Baghlan province. A government official in Tajiksi ...
  • The Sword of Stalingrad
    2nd February marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the toughest 200-day battle of the Second World War which turned Stalingrad into a landscape of apocalyptic ruins. The two hundred days and night of sheer hell that made up the Battle of Stalingrad altered the course ...
  • Britamgate: Staging False Flag Attacks in Syria
    On January 22 a telling leak cropped up in the Internet. British defense contractor’s BRITAM server was hacked and megabytes of classified internal files of the firm were released to the public. Now the case is acquiring a Britamgate scale due to the publication on Prison Planet. What is the sto ...

BlogHer

  • 'The Walking Dead' Returns: How New Parenthood ...
    The Walking Dead returns to AMC tonight and I for one couldn't be more grateful. Because as a relatively new parent there is nothing more relatable to my life than the Zombie Apocalypse. Let me explain...Image courtesy of AMCI see my life -- as the parent of a 1.5 year old -- in the characters' ...
  • Book Review: Twitter for Good
    Nonprofits can and must use social media to further their mission and engage with their audience. This book review of "Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time" gives some specific outlines on how nonprofits can do just that. Nonprofits and associations seeking to better benchm ...
  • Valentine’s Day Peekaboo Pound Cake
    Editor’s note: How awesome would it be if your kids sliced open a pound cake to reveal a pink heart inside. Well, Amy from Very Culinary has figured out a way to do do just that. Even though this recipe is super-easy, Amy warns that it is a daylong project, so don’t wait until the last minute to ...
  • How About Them Skins and RG3?
    As a DC Native, born in Freedman Hospital (Howard University Hospital for DC newbie Washingtonians) and grew up in Mount Pleasant now currently a Petworth resident, I know DC and I know the Skins history.  What I don’t know is football.Yes, it’s true.  While, I have not an iota of unde ...
  • Dear Media, There Were Women on Obama's Tech Team
    We all know how important President Obama's team of tech and social media experts were in winning the election, but how many of us know about the women on that tech team? Not many, because big media sources often treated the women on the team as invisible. Mari Huertas was one of those women. Sh ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Feb. 8, 2013
    Sakiba Colic, left, and Semsa Hadzo, right,  exchange jokes and laugh outside the shaft of the coal mine in Breza, 20 kms north of Sarajevo, Bosnia, after completing their 8-hour shift at 450 meters under ground on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013.  The mine in Breza is the only one in Bosnia where a gr ...
  • Rep. Rahall: “No comment” on coal& ...
    Earlier this week, a collection of House Democrats in Washington re-introduced legislation aimed at requiring the federal government to more fully examine the growing science that links living near a mountaintop removal mine with increased risks of series illnesses and premature death. We’ ...
  • Another W.Va. coal miner dies on the job
    More bad news this week in West Virginia, this time with a fatal accident at Metinvest’s Affinity Mine in Raleigh County. According to MSHA: A miner was killed at approximately 09:20 p.m., Thursday night. While pushing a scoop bucket insert full of trash onto a hoist, the hoist moved unexp ...
  • When will W.Va. plan for ‘after coal’?
    Gazette photo by Kenny Kemp As I write this, I’m also listening to a variety of state officials and lawmakers as they meet with the statehouse press corps in the AP’s annual “Legislative Look Ahead” event in preparation for this year’s legislative session. There&#82 ...
  • Coal lobby wins another round on mine safety
    We were reminded again just yesterday evening how thin the margin of error is in the coal-mining business, how easy it is for things to go wrong, and lives to needlessly be lost. Yet we’ve seen example after example (see here, here and here) over the last few weeks of how the West Virginia ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A New Way to Do Email | The Next Web
    Your email will land in my ‘Queue’ box and you will receive a reply via email with some information and options. The email states that my inbox currently contains 325 emails and that it takes an average of 3 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes for me to reply to emails. I hope that message alone ...
  • The Excel vs. Software Lifecycle
    In a corporate environment, often the best way to get things done is to circumvent the official software and just write something that works. When we do it, we call it an elegant hack, but when guys in suits who went clubbing last night do it, we call it a terrible, amateur travesty that should ...
  • Excel is King of Software
    Microsoft Excel is one of the greatest, most powerful, most important software applications of all time.** Many in the industry will no doubt object. But it provides enormous capacity to do quantitative analysis, letting you do anything from statistical analyses of databases with hundreds of tho ...
  • Surrounded by Success | Derek Sivers
    Soon after arriving in New York, I was surrounded by successful people. I was only 20 years old, but I learned so much from watching how people become successful, hearing their stories, philosophies, and mistakes. Opportunities were everywhere. (A chance recommendation from my roommate got me a ...
  • A Happy Commercial
    Related Posts:How to Handle BullyingA Talk on Parenting You Should SeeA Guy Talking About LifeThis Drummer is Into ItAtheists and Christmas

Fitwatch

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

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  • Czech taxpayers will pay a trillion for the so ...
    ...trillion of crowns, of course... Because the dear reader probably doesn't know how much the Czech koruna, the peso of ours, is worth, I must tell you that 1 U.S. dollar is about 19 crowns. Still, a trillion is a large number. Czech media published the disturbing calculation by ...
  • James Weatherall: Physics of Wall Street
    When an arrogant would-be physicist and philosopher writes about trillions whose transfers he can't trace or understand... I know James Weatherall primarily as a student of mine who was always too sloppy and lazy to learn the subject properly but who was also breathtakingly self-confident, ...
  • Are tensor products in QM unnatural?
    One aspect of quantum mechanics that makes beginners – including permanent beginners – feel uncomfortable is the fact that its "space of possible states" seems too large to them. The Hilbert space may seem large and if we want to describe composite systems, we need to employ a tensor product of ...
  • Snowstorm: comparison with the 2005 blizzard
    American readers hear about the looming record-shaking snowstorm in the Northeast. But will the event live up to the hype? I would like to hear from the readers in the region whether the snowstorm is indeed more formidable than an ordinary blizzard we experienced in January 2005: 2005 Bl ...
  • Nature, Reuters: Amazon forest will thrive due ...
    Alister Doyle of Reuters, Green Optimistic, Mongabay.com, and others dared to blasphemously discuss a heretical paper in Nature, Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability by Peter Cox and 6 co-authors. Their new modeling concluded t ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • URGENT MESSAGE: New Jersey — Stand and Fight!
    from ANJRPC NJ: The greatest mobilization of the outdoor community in NJ history. Join the Fight: ANJRPC NJ As New Jersey legislators get ready to push up to 43 anti-gun bills that will disarm the law-abiding and do nothing to address school safety or keep firearms from the mentally ill, the Gar ...
  • DOJ kill list memo forces many Dems out of the ...
    Last week’s controversy over Obama’s assassination program forced into light many ignored truths that were long obvious This past week has been a strangely clarifying political moment. It was caused by two related events: the leak of the Justice Department’s “white paper& ...
  • Tens of thousands of U.S. kids subjected to ne ...
    Computed tomography (CT) scans pose radiation hazards — specifically, an elevated risk of developing cancer in later years — that are particularly serious for children. But that doesn’t stop doctors from routinely ordering CTs for kids, even for what used to be considered&#8230 ...
  • Could a Canadian become the next Pope?
    Three Canadian cardinals will be part of the conclave to elect a new Pope, and one is considered a leading contender to take over after Benedict XVI steps down Feb. 28. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Pope Benedict to resign due to health reasons Pope Benedict XVI, 85, will resign ...
  • Censored: Chuck Hagel Saturday Night Live Skit ...
    from SNL, via ttj1776: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: While New Jersey Residents Suffer, Governor Christie Goes on Saturday Night Live by Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Mag: Tens of thousands of... Both ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • "Natural" Extracts Can Trigger Allergies
    By Johanna Congleton, EWG Senior Scientist   Allergies are an increasingly serious health issue for millions of Americans, especially children. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  estimates that the number of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Senators Push for Action on Disease Clusters Bill
    By Jason Rano, EWG Director of Government AffairsTwo years ago, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced the Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Perfume for Babies? Seriously?
    By Nneka Leiba, Senior Analyst Fashion house Dolce & Gabbana is planning to market a perfume for babies.  Founder Stefano Gabbana dropped a broad hint when he posted an Instagram photo of a golden box with a cupid and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • BPA: Why I Became Best Friends with my Slow Cooker
    By Heather White, EWG Executive Director My slow cooker is battered and dinged, and I love it.  Fill it with filtered water and dried beans in the morning, set on low, and by dinnertime, I have a steaming pot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ot ...
  • Study Links Hair Products to Early Puberty in ...
    By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow As a child, one of my least favorite activities was getting my hair styled. It required a lot of time and patience -- two things I had in short supply.  Being raised... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Eurovision winner aims for Top 10
    Margaret Berger, a 27-year-old singer from Trøndelag, claims that just qualifying for Norway’s local version of the Eurovision Song Contest over the weekend already has changed her life. She ended up winning the contest by a huge margin and is unlikely to make many other changes in her per ...
  • More stores may open on Sundays
    Norway’s Labour Party is clearing the way for a re-evaluation of the country’s laws restricting opening times for retail stores. Since Labour leads the government coalition that still has a majority in Parliament, where some opposition parties already support retail liberalization, r ...
  • Royals launch media complaint
    Norway’s royal family has launched a major complaint against one of the country’s biggest magazines that’s best known for its coverage of celebrities and the royals themselves. A palace spokeswoman announced that members of the royal family have had enough of what they consider ...
  • Golden weekend for the Norwegians
    Sports fans in Norway enjoyed a festive weekend as their athletes competing in two separate world championships pulled in a total of four gold medals and one silver in just two days. Biathlon champ Emil Hegle Svendsen mined two of them himself, and finally let some of his feelings show. “I ...
  • Downhill racer makes history
    Norway’s downhill skiing star Aksel Lund Svindal was the subject of universal praise over the weekend after he won yet another gold medal in the World Championships and did something that no other male skier had ever done before: Svindal became the first man to win gold in four World Champ ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Permaculture Education and Research in USA: Ex ...
    Giving opportunities for young people to make a living improving the world is the great need of the hour As more and more people in developed nations (and the USA in particular) become aware of the effects of their personal decisions on ecologies and economies at local and global scales, bo ...
  • Bee Friendly – a Planting Guide for European H ...
    Bee Friendly Planting Guide (8mb PDF) I just came across an excellent new resource for beekeepers. It is published by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation and entitled Bee Friendly — a planting guide for European honey bees and Australian native pollinators. ...
  • Social Permaculture: Principles in Action
    Photo by Lisa DePiano Permaculture as a movement has most of the knowledge, tools and resources that we need to create a regenerative society in the physical sense. Just Google ‘passive solar design’ or ‘aquaculture’ and you will find hundreds of books, articles and ho ...
  • Geoff Lawton Visits Cal-Earth Permaculture Course
    Pictures and Text by Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture For a second year we co-delivered with the Cal-Earth teaching staff a combined Superadobe Earth Building and Permaculture Design Certificate Course.  At the close of our course we were pleased to host Geoff and Nadia Lawton of PR ...
  • Wadeye Permaculture Project Update
    Recently I received a photolog update on the Wadeye permaculture project in the Northern Territories (see previous posts here and here), where myself and other great permaculturist were employed by Earth Ethics to install a permaculture garden system. I like to describe the earthworks as the bon ...

Pointman's

  • The Breaking Point.
    If you play team sports, or even just watch them, there’s very often a moment in the struggle between the opposing teams, when one of them breaks. Sometimes it’s sparked by a single incident but more usually, it’s an acceptance by the whole group that they’re going to lose. The opposition are si ...
  • Is being Green left-wing or right-wing?
    I’m the son of a blue-collar upbringing and consequently a blue-collar view of the world. In many of the ways that really matter, I still am. It does give you a realistic outlook on life, which makes you wary of all politicians, irrespective of what their nominal politics might happen to b ...
  • A Tale of Two Davids.
    I’m a people person, who likes talking with people, because each one is a new voyage of discovery. When it comes to media people, the one-way direction of the relationship is a bit too passive for my taste. They talk at me and I listen to them talking and although I take in the words  ...
  • On climate science and all those leaks.
    Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of substantial leaks of sensitive material from deep within the very heart of climate science. In each case, it’s been fairly obvious that the person doing it works in the field and is relatively senior, if only because they have access to ...
  • The shape of things to come; Snailbats, HALsay ...
    Environmental alarmism is by now a well established phenomenon with nearly a four decade long history. In that time, we’ve been on the receiving end of doomsday predictions as diverse as holes in the ozone layer, overpopulation, resource wars, acid rain, a new ice age and the most successf ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    More evidence of fakery: Blue/green screen bleed over into sandy hook shots. iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjhVs5DHReM http://sandyhooktruth.wordpress.com/201 ... k-footage/ Evidence of Compositing/ Chroma Key in Sandy Hook Footage Posted on February 4, 2013 by lynne0312 To begin, I ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Who ever made the vids, keep his day jobStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:33 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Very interesting viewpoint. My POV is a little simpler, however, and perhaps you'll consider it. I think that Las Vegas simply made a phone call to their man in the basement of the SuperDome and told him to hit the switch, freezing the game and betting for a while, and giving San Francisco a c ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Yet another video, except this one was made A MONTH before the game, pointing out numerical "coincidences" in regards to the date of SB 47 (2-3-2013). Worth the 22 minute watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3t2KgzXCPEStatistics: Posted by SavageChrist — Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:10 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Along with SB 47 being the watched event in the history of tell-a-vision (or Talmud Vision to others) according to Nielsen ratings, there are also the following below. From iamray71 @ Youtube: "47 is a big number for these morons. That is the year that the aliens punched through, Crowley ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Memory of Magnetic Landscape Guides Salmon to ...
    Although magnetism has been known to play a role in the remarkable homing ability of salmon, a new study clarifies just how the fish use magnetic fields to travel thousands of miles to their natal rivers to spawn. Researchers at Oregon State University solved this mystery by studying 56 years of ...
  • Wind Energy Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel Power ...
    Unsubsidized wind power is now cheaper than electricity produced from new coal- and natural gas-fired power stations in Australia, according to an analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The study said that electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm at a cost of 80 Australian dollars per ...
  • Probing Impact of Warming On the World's Food ...
    One of the few potential advantages attributed to soaring carbon dioxide levels has been enhanced crop growth. But in an interview with Yale Environment 360, botanist Stephen Long talks about his research showing why rising temperatures and an increase in agricultural pests may offset any future ...
  • More than 11,000 Elephants Killed In Gabon Par ...
    Poachers have slaughtered more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004, according to a new study by Gabon’s government and two leading conservation groups. The study said that in the past 9 years, two-thirds of the forest elephants in Minkebe — about 11,100 a ...
  • Will Bold Steps Be Needed toSave Beleaguered P ...
    In a paper released this week, the world’s leading polar bear scientists say the time has come to consider drastic measures to save these iconic animals, including supplemental feeding by humans during ice-free periods and relocating more southerly populations to the High Arctic. BY ED STRUZIK

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backofthebook

  • Canada’s latest export: Hate
    By Montreal Simon He has always been an enemy of gay people. A man who would murder their rights tomorrow, if he thought he could get away with it. He has voted against every bill that would make them equal, or protect them from hate crimes. He discriminates openly against gay organizations. He ...
  • The Newfoundland solution
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Any actor, writer, director, or producer will tell you the film and television industry is unstable: The feed bag is either overflowing or has just enough grains to sustain you through the lean months. But with the B.C. film industry on the verge of collapse, as Hollywoo ...
  • RIM’s — er, Blackberry’s &#8 ...
    By Mark Evans While the new and much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 has finally launched, there’s another story that I think is as compelling: the public relations campaign that has happened over the past six months that let RIM arrive at yesterday’s launch with the wind in its sails. The PR work has ...
  • BC throws a film party — for India
    \\\|\\\ Tags:  Bollywood, British Columbia, film, India, Ontario, Quebec Del.icio.us Facebook TweetThis Digg StumbleUpon ...
  • Sun News might just get its way
    By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Repeat After Me: Ontario is not Greece
    The Fraser Institute has a new report warning Ontario could become the next Greece or California because of the size of its debt. Of course we know Ontario is not Greece or California, and such comparisons are disingenuous. But it is possible that Ontario could find itself in a similar mess if i ...
  • Atlantic Canada’s story of inequality
    Statistics Canada released new data yesterday on high income trends in Canada with nary a mention of the Atlantic Provinces. From a Canadian comparative perspective, the data told a story that was more striking for most of the rest of the country and in particular, Alberta, Ontario, BC and Quebe ...
  • It’s Time for an Equality Premier
    Imagine if Ontario’s incoming Premier – lauded for breaking the inequality barrier on two counts – decided to parlay her victory into a post-austerity focus on solutions to income inequality. Now that would be truly groundbreaking. And it couldn’t come at a better time. Brand new data from Stati ...
  • A Tale of Two Telecoms or Actions Speak Louder ...
    Where does the Saskatchewan government stand on the privatization of provincial Crown corporations? You’d be hard pressed to come up with a definitive answer after the government’s partial privatization of Information Services Corporation (ISC), the introduction of new private liquor ...
  • Our Way or the Norway
    One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces. Norway has been very effective in distributing oil wealth amongst it regions and its population. Its level of income inequ ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • The California Public Goods Charge- A Tantalis ...
      The California Public Goods Charge- A Tantalising First Glimpse of Policy Success? by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy Today, I’ll b ...
  • DWP seeks truce in water wars as L.A. Aqueduct ...
    “The region’s economy and wildlife have struggled in a stunning landscape of snowcapped peaks, cascading streams and sage plains dotted with alfalfa fields and cattle ranches, and flanked by lava flows and dormant volcanoes. At dry Owens Lake, the focus of an agonizingly complex and ...
  • PAYA: The Untold Story of the LA-Owens Valley ...
    “Jenna Cavelle, an adventurer, blogger and journalist, photographer, and now conservation and resource studies researcher at Berkeley, is making a film about the Paiute’s use of water in Owens Valley.  From her bio at Peakwater.org (which she co-founded): Jenna works with members of the Pa ...
  • Cry me a river, build me an aqueduct, and…
    “Hydro-librium signifies the balance of water, an ironic caption depicting the not so equated water dispute between the Owens Valley and city of Los Angeles. As Los Angeles began to flourish as a result of purchasing water rights from the Owens Valley, the playa began to pay the price for ...
  • Joining A Global Nexus Conversation
      by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy This year Abu Dhabi made history, simultaneously hosting the 6th World Energy Future Summit and the in ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • NO NEW POSTS UNTIL WEDNESDAY …. 13 FE ...
    …. NO NEW POSTS  UNTIL WEDNESDAY …. 13 FEBRUARY 2013 … Filed under: Blogroll
  • … NO … “we” gave that power/permi ...
    … NO … “we” gave that power/permission to “W” Bush … see Patriot Act … who passed it on to Obama … Obama Gives Himself Permission To Kill 02-07-2013  •  Antiwar.com After stonewalling for more than a year federal judges and ordinary citizens who sought the revelatio ...
  • McCain …… fool … clown &#823 ...
    …McCain …… fool … clown … self-anointed grand inquisitor … take your pick …   John McCain: The grand inquisitor McCain has long been more at ease than his colleagues in   It usually takes a lot to rattle the Pentagon’s top brass, but John McCain’s got a ...
  • And what …? You are just now figuring ...
    … And what …?   You are just now figuring that out … better late than never … Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccountable Central Bank Of The World Secretly Does 02-07-2013  •  theeconomiccollapseblog.com An immensely powerful international organization that most ...
  • WHAT NO NEW TOYS
    … What … you want your town to be the only place without one of the new toys…? New FAA drone list reveals over 20 more public entities authorized to fly drones over United States 02-07-2013  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/ The new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) drone aut ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Pity the pangolin: little-known mammal most co ...
    Last year tens-of-thousands of elephants and hundreds of rhinos were butchered to feed the growing appetite of the illegal wildlife trade. This black market, largely centered in East Asia, also devoured tigers, sharks, leopards, turtles, snakes, and hundreds of other animals. Estimated at $19 bi ...
  • The beginning of the end of deforestation in I ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper, a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on efforts to slow the Southeast Asian nation's high rate ...
  • Paradigm shift needed to avert global environm ...
    Global strategist, trained educator, and international lecturer Daniel Rirdan set out to create a plan addressing the future of our planet. His book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse, published this year, does just that. "It has been a sixty hour a week routine," Rirdan told mongabay.com i ...
  • In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...
    Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhou ...
  • Genetics discover new lion subspecies in squal ...
    They languished behind bars in squalid conditions, their very survival in jeopardy. Outside, an international team of advocates strove to bring worldwide attention to their plight. With modern genetics, the experts sought to prove what they had long believed: that these individuals were special. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a squid
    A species of oceanic squid can fly more than 30 metres through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said.The Neon Flying Squid propels itself out of the ocean by shooting...
  • Sam Judd: Carbon capturing kina
    It could be that technology on how to capture carbon is catching up with polluters. Many climate sceptics have long suggested that 'if global warming ever becomes a real threat, technology will save us when it needs to.'I confess...
  • Peter Bromhead: Mexican hat particle
    Recently, while entertaining a family friend - who happens to be some sort of rarefied astro-nuclear physicist from Sweden - I attempted to show off my intellect by asking: "so, how's the God particle going?"Our guest had recently...
  • Tech Universe: Friday 8 February
    AS THE WHEEL FOLDS: Even though wheelchairs may fold up for easy transport in a car or plane, their wheels don't get smaller. That's where the
  • Scientists to scour quake-hit suburbs for data
    Teams of scientists will scour the quake-shattered eastern suburbs of Christchurch over the next fortnight to gather vital information to improve earthquake hazard and risk assessments in New Zealand.Scientists from the University...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt off to BC this week to face co ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “When you follow the tedium of the legal justice system, you begin to understand why some defendants, even though they are innocent, decide to cop pleas rather than follow the process … Continue reading →
  • Will a token Federal GMO labeling law pre-empt ...
    Although the hubbub around California’s Proposition 37 to require GMO labeling may have died down, following it’s supposed defeat at the polls, concerns about GMOs have by no means gone away. The latest big story in the march to label … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk rally at the B.C. legislature
    Video from Christian Tatonetti on Youtube:  Although this documentary was not posted until March 2012, it was originally shot during the raw milk demonstration at the B.C. Legislature (in Victoria, B.C.) on Nov 23 2011, which was the fifth anniversary of the November … Continue reading →
  • A farmer, a banker, and a factory farmer walk ...
    Now  here’s the original Chrysler superbowl ad, narrated by Paul Harvey: Amanda Oborne’s commentary, from Civil Eats: “Superbowl “Farmers” Ad: Heartfelt and Misleading I grew up in a small town, population 15000 if you counted every cow in the valley. … Contin ...
  • Food activists are making a difference — ...
    Maybe YOU are a food activist. Perhaps you blog about food issues. Maybe you go to demonstrations, and come out to support your farmer at court appearances. Maybe you make a point of buying raw milk, even though you could … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Krugman's Explicit Endorsement "Time to Kick t ...
    Angry Bear's column How To Debate Paul Krugman in response to my January 26 column How to Debate Paul Krugman: "Ask Questions Like a Child" was rather humorous for what it did not say. Three-fourths of the Angry Bear article was a rebuttal of nothing I said, but rather a rebuttal of somethi ...
  • 'Sequester' Fearmongering by Obama and Republicans
    Republicans don't want military spending and Democrats don't want cuts in social programs. The best thing to do would be doubling or tripling the cuts, but compromise tends to work in the other direction. Thus one should not be surprised by this can-kicking idea: Republicans Propose Job Fr ...
  • Europe à l’Hollandaise; Socialists Who Wrecked ...
    It's crystal clear Hollande's disastrous socialist policies are not working for France. The solution should be obvious, scrap the policies. Instead, Hollande wants a grand harmonization with the rest of Europe following the lead of France into the gutter. Please consider Europe à l’Holland ...
  • McDonald's Global Sales Slump 1.9 Percent; Pri ...
    Most people love McDonalds, but I am in the distinct minority. Regardless, global sales are down perhaps an indication that the price people are willing to pay for convenience has at least temporarily reached a peak. Reuters reports, McDonald's January sales drop more than anticipated Mc ...
  • German Trade Surplus Hits Five-Year High; Reba ...
    Looking for evidence of rebalancing in Europe? Don't look here: German 2012 trade surplus soars despite weak December reports Germany's trade surplus was the second highest in more than 60 years in 2012, pointing to an underlying resilience in Europe's largest economy, although both imports ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • Iran stresses parliamentary ties in ECO
    Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says the establishment of an inter-parliamentary forum in the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) will promote regional solidarity.
  • Fajr Filmfest 2013 wraps up in Tehran
    The 31st Iran’s most important film presentation and competition, Fajr International Film Festival, has wrapped up during an award ceremony in Tehran’s Milad Tower.
  • Inequality soaring in Britain: report
    The gap between the very rich and the less fortunate in Britain has risen sharply since the 1990s, a study has found.
  • Iraqi parliament speaker survives blast
    Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi has escaped an apparent assassination attempt in an incident where his convoy was struck by a roadside bomb in the northern province of Nineveh.
  • UK PM gets new warning against EU vote
    Former British Labour leader Neil Kinnock is warning Prime Minister David Cameron against insisting on a referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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  • IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S. Arms Fuel Asian Tension
    After a year of intense diplomatic standoff and territorial brinkmanship among disputing states in the South and East China Seas, the U.S. military ‘pivot’ to the region appears to be in full swing – a move that could further aggravate an already combustible regional dynamic. Against the b ...
  • Christian or Muslim – ‘We are All Victim ...
    At the entrance to the Evangelical church in Mopti, central Mali, military soldiers stood on either side of the door as Pastor Luc Sagara greeted his parishioners for Sunday mass. The presence of the soldiers were a stark reminder that less than three weeks ago the town was under occupation by I ...
  • Execution Sparks Unrest in Kashmir
    “Give us his body; we want to give him a respectable burial…” this is the overwhelming demand across Kashmir following the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru who was convicted for his role in the attack on the Indian parliament on Dec. 13.  2001. Nine people died in the attack. Guru was convicted by ...
  • Israel Goods Boycott Movement Rises
    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 Israel. They are renewing a call for the boycott of Israeli goods. “The Israeli army destroye ...
  • Argentina Pins Hopes on Bumper Grain Harvest
    Argentina has better prospects in 2013 after modest growth in 2012, thanks to an excellent grain harvest and the recovery of Brazil, its main market. But high inflation remains an unsolved challenge. Since the government took control of the National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC) in 200 ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Embrace the Fatwa
    Summary: As the Western media reported it, the future of U.S.-Iranian nuclear negotiations suffered a major setback on Feb. 7 when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seemed to reject Vice President Joseph Biden's offer of direct talks. "Some naive people like the idea of negotiating with A ...
  • Sanctions imposed on Bank Saderat Iran annulle ...
    Summary: The [EU] General Court today annulled the asset freeze imposed on Bank Saderat Iran, a bank part-owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The judgment followed closely on the heels of the Court's annulment last week of the sanctions imposed on the Iranian Bank Mellat. The Council's pra ...
  • Munich conference breaks Iran-US ice
    Summary: CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Iran and the United States are on the verge of a historical opportunity to repair their frozen relations and thus reverse the spiral of conflict spiral that for years has dominated their interactions. It is the right thing to do and at the right time, given ...
  • "Iranian Mothers for Peace" Alert the World on ...
    Summary: "Iranian Mothers for Peace," in an open letter of January 2013 to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, and Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Heath Organization, have alerted the responsible world bodies and human rights organizations to the critical shortage ...
  • Hagel Hearings Showcase Pro-Israel Agenda
    Summary: If former Defence Secretary-designate Sen. Chuck Hagel’s lacklustre performance at his confirmation hearing Thursday heartened neo-conservatives and other hawks opposed to his nomination, those who argued that the Israel lobby has been exerting too great an influence on U.S. foreign ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase i ...
                The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 200,000 years ago,Homo sapiens (modern humans) evolved in Africa. Is the human species entering another evolutionary inflection poin ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 250,000!
                                             Join the 251,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governme ...
  • The Visible Universe: "Seven Trillion Dwarfs a ...
                   The European Space Agency’s Herschel space telescope has discovered that previously unseen distant galaxies are responsible for a cosmic fog of infrared radiation. The galaxies are some of the faintest and furthest objects seen by Herschel, and opened a new window on the ...
  • Mars' Milestone: Most Advanced Planetary Robot ...
                     NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to collect a sample on Mars.The ...
  • Antarctica's Unique Dry Valley Pond --Offers C ...
                              A camera installed above Don Juan Pond in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys took 16,000 images in two months, documenting geological processes in real time. The processes that keep Don Juan Pond liquid in Antarctica could be at work on Mars as well. A team ...

Natural News

  • Argentina's regime leader Kirchner freezes foo ...
    A few days ago, Argentina's populist female president Cristina Kirchner ordered a price freeze on food products. This price freeze was levied against the largest food retailers in the country, and it is just the latest example of utterly insane economic policies made...
  • Can positive video games make us better people?
    A computer simulation giving people temporary superpowers may actually cause them to behave more empathetically in real life, according to a study conducted by researchers from Stanford University and published in the journal PLOS ONE. Because prior research has shown...
  • Magnesium: Helping people achieve better health
    Magnesium is one of the many minerals that are essential in improving overall health. It is known as the fourth most abundant mineral found in the human body. Around 50 percent of the magnesium in the body can be found in the bones while the remaining 50 percent is present...
  • 21 minutes a year to save your marriage
    A simple seven-minute writing exercise performed three times a year prevented married couples from losing affection for each other over time, researchers from Northwestern University found in a study published in the journal Psychological Science. "I don't want it...
  • Good doctors feel their patients' pain, literally
    In a new study that helps illuminate why a good doctor-patient relationship is so important, researchers have found that doctors' brains respond to patients' experiences the same way they would respond to their own. The study was conducted by researchers from Massachusetts...

Threat Level

  • DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of El ...
    The Department of Homeland Security's civil liberties watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation's borders may have their electronic devices seized and their contents reviewed for any reason whatsoever -- all in the interest of national security.
  • Secret Surveillance Court Gets New Presiding Judge
    Perhaps the only thing we know about the ongoings of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- other than it granting the government unfettered spy powers -- is that it's getting a new presiding judge. The 11-judge court was set ...
  • Mobile-Phone Towers Survive Latest iOS Jailbre ...
    Thank God the nation's mobile-phone towers are still operating, despite more than 1.7 million downloads of the latest iOS jailbreaking software -- evasiOn -- which was released days ago. While trying to prevent federal regulators from legalizing jailbreaking, Apple had ...
  • Genetic Privacy Front and Center at Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court later this month will hear a major genetic-privacy case testing whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes. The case has wide-ranging implications, because at least 27 states and the federal government have ...
  • Vulnerability Lets Hackers Control Building Lo ...
    A critical vulnerability discovered in an industrial control system used widely by the military, hospitals and others would allow attackers to remotely control access systems, elevators, electricity and boiler systems, video surveillance cameras, alarms and other critical building facilities, sa ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • McCain and Friends: Slash Federal Workforce to ...
    Last summer, John McCain was asked about his vote for the August 2011 Budget Control Act, a law which starting March 1st will slash defense spending by $500 billion over the next decade. "I plead guilty. It was a bad thing to do, OK?" But now in his latest effort to avoid just the first year o ...
  • Powerline, Free Beacon Praise Bush's "Stroke o ...
    stroke of genius" in President Bush's latest initiative on climate change: It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who un ...
  • For Republicans, Everything is the Holocaust
    In just their latest failed effort to peel away supporters from one of the Democratic Party's most reliable constituencies, Republicans in 2012 still lost among Jewish voters by over a 2-1 margin. The reasons for the GOP's consistently dismal performance are no mystery. Survey data show that J ...
  • Yoo Too, President Obama?
    Back in December 2005, John Yoo was asked if any law or treaty could prevent the President of the United States from torturing someone, "including by crushing the testicles of the person's child." Yoo, then head of President Bush's Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, responded ...
  • GOP is Taking "the Matter with Kansas" Nationa ...
    In his 2005 book What's the Matter with Kansas, Thomas Frank provided a case study in how conservatives in his home state successfully used social issues to get working class Americans to consistently vote against their economic self-interest. But that formula failed spectacularly in 2012, as R ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Strobe Light Star Discovered, LRLL 54361
    A strange strobe-light-like star, LRLL 54361, has just been discovered by NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. The ‘star’ is actually two separate stars that orbit each other very closely, and every 25.34 days release a large burst of light. In the past, what appears to ...
  • Comet Or Asteroid Almost Definitely Contribute ...
    The exact cause of the mass extinction 66 million years ago, that included the dinosaurs, has been a matter of considerable debate over the past three decades. There’s been a lot of evidence pointing towards asteroid or comets impacts, but also some towards the role that volcanos or change ...
  • Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Gains Steam In ...
    The fossil-fuel university divestment campaign, started by the international climate change organization 350.org, is gaining momentum, as over two hundred student groupshave now formed official campaigns on campuses across the United States. This week, author, activist, and 350.org founder Bill ...
  • Earth-Like Planets Only 13 Light-Years Away, N ...
    Earth-like planets may be as close as just 13 light-years away, orbiting around red dwarf stars, new research suggests. By utilizing data that was obtained by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), have discovered that about 6% ...
  • NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity Captures Image Of ...
    A recent image taken by NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, shows a shiny, metallic, somewhat strange looking object protruding out of a rock. The image was taken on January 30, 2013, by Curiosity’s Mastcam. At first glance it appears to be a piece of iron, that hasn’t been oxidized, ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Bay State Republicans Cut From Different Cloth
    By @TedFrier As I was cleaning out my basement this weekend I stumbled upon a pile of ghost-written pieces I'd penned for Massachusetts Republicans back when I worked for the party a quarter century ago.   Among the collection was one published in the Attleboro Sun Chronicle for the thirty- ...
  • "Suicide Conservatives"
    By @TedFrier In his New York Times column this morning - "Suicide Conservatives" -- Charles Blow joins a growing chorus who see that today's Tea Party Republicans are the very same "pseudo-conservatives" who a half century ago nominated Barry Goldwater for president and then watched as their rig ...
  • I have a dead computer
     A new one is on its way to me, but  it won't be here until . Monday.  The roundup will return then. --BG
  • This Attitude Lingers In Too Many
    The excerpt is from the Supporting South Dakota Reservations Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SupportSDrez?ref=stream .  The attitude toward the "lesser" races displayed by Mr. Baum was not an aberration in his day and sadly it is not that much of an aberration today. As Mr. Baum so e ...
  • Right Seeks to Silence Both Opponents and Its Own
    By @TedFrier The right wing mind works in strange and mysterious ways. Earlier this week, Bill O'Reilly was beating his usual war drums against "liberal media hypocrisy" when he lied to his audience, telling viewers NBC had not bothered to report about President Obama's controversial drone po ...

Care 2

  • Miss a Traffic Ticket, Go to Jail? The Return ...
    The following is part of a series that looks at the diverse ways poverty is criminalized in America, such as laws targeting the homeless, the surveillance of welfare recipients, the re-emergence of debtor's prisons, and extreme policing tactics--> Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture &n ...
  • Emergency petition to stop radioactive silverware
    Will the zipper on your new pants be radioactive? STOP DEPT OF ENERGY PLANS to dump 14,000 tons of radioactive scrap metals into the manufacturing of consumer products. Submitted by Angelika Roll to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • How Cows Kill Rainforests: The Flip-Side of a ...
    Fifty-five square feet of rainforest is destroyed for every quarter pound hamburger that comes from a cleared rainforest cattle farm. While most of us blame automotive and industrial emissions for pollution, climate change and global warming, livestock Submitted by Tamara Hayes to Environment ...
  • SAVE BACTRIAN CAMEL ---PLEASE SIGN!!!
    The Bactrian camel is a two-hump camel with a shaggy coat and an almost U-shaped neck. It is the only remaining Old World camel in the wild. It lives in the harsh arid plains along the border between China and Mongolia Submitted by Julie E. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • PYGMY-THREE-TOED SLOTH ---PLEASE SIGN!!!
    Detailed population census of Critically Endangered pygmy three-toed sloth May be fewer than 100 left alive. Current data suggests that there could be fewer than 100 pygmy sloths left, making them one of the most endangered mammals in the world. MORE Submitted by Julie E. to Animals  | ...

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No Quarter

  • Brandon Webb and Jack Murphy–The Gullible
    Two retired military enlisted guys–Brandon Webb, Navy SEAL, and JackMurphy, Green B erst–may have been quality guys in the service, but they are proving themselves clueless when it comes to buying a bullshit story about the downfall of General David Petraeus. Now, it is possible that ...
  • Dr. Benjamin Carson Shames Obama
    Several of you have commented on the following video and it certainly is becoming a viral sensation. It is the speech of Dr. Benjamin Carson before the National Prayer Breakfast this week. His remarks, while delivered with the calm logic of a skilled surgeon, were passionate and hard hitting. Ca ...
  • Obama Not Talking Turkey on Arming Syrian Rebels
    I believe the Obama Administration is engaged in a deliberate disinformation campaign designed to persuade the American public that President Obama put the kibosh on providing arms to Syrian rebels. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the public record demonstrates the exact opposi ...
  • Grand Bargain Tehran, the Remake
    Larry Johnson) appeared February 7th on John Batchelor’s program regarding Larry’s article, “John Brennan, Confirmation Open Thread.” I spoke again with a colleague, Reza Kahlili (nom de guerre) of the Fordow event [the Iranians' nuclear site] of January 21, 2013 that we ...
  • John Brennan, Confirmation Open Thread
    Today’s performance by Brennan is a true view of the man. He is a human dreidel. Quite an accomplishment for an Irish guy from Jersey. My fundamental problem with Brennan is that he is the quintessential bureaucratic toady. If your ass is hanging over him, he is a booty licking monster. Yo ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • On Civil Disobedience, XL Pipeline and the Sie ...
    On Civil Disobedience, XL Pipeline and the Sierra Club CounterPunch The national green groups drew a line in the sand over mountain top removal, yet it continues unabated. Now they have drawn another line. Is there no line that cannot be crossed? This is why the decision to use non-violent direc ...
  • Four year mining lawsuit settled - WKYT
    Four year mining lawsuit settled WKYT ... and was designed to protect the city's water system. The settlement included an alternative water supply to be drilled. Lynch Mayor Johnny Adams says this settlement helps protect the area from mountain top removal mining. Four council members ... ...
  • Global warming threatens ability to grow abund ...
    Global warming threatens ability to grow abundant food Billings Gazette Alberta tar sands, Wyoming shale oil, deep ocean drilling (and spilling), mountaintop removal coal mining and hydraulic fracking. These are our desperate, last-ditch attempts to extract hard to reach, lower-quality fossil en ...
  • Grins and Grimaces - Knoxville News Sentinel
    Grins and Grimaces Knoxville News Sentinel Based in Charlottesville, Va., the Southern Environmental Law Center compiles an annual list of the top 10 endangered places in the Southeast. The center's 2013 report cites mountaintop removal in Tennessee and Virginia as one of this year's mos ...
  • Mining ban to be attempted again - Independent ...
    Mining ban to be attempted again Independent Herald The Cumberland Mountains on a hazy summer afternoon near the Scott/Campbell County line. Several of the ridgelines have been identified as possibly being suitable for mountaintop removal mines. (Independent Herald photo/Ben Garrett. Click to pu ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama's State of the Union: Aggressive (Glenn ...
    Glenn Thrush / Politico: Obama's State of the Union: Aggressive  —  President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech will be less a presidential olive branch than a congressional cattle prod.  —  Emboldened by electoral victory and convinced the GOP is unwillin ...
  • Iran and Hezbollah build militia networks in S ...
    Washington Post: Iran and Hezbollah build militia networks in Syria in event that Assad falls, officials say  —  Iran and Hezbollah, its Lebanese proxy, are building a network of militias inside Syria to preserve and protect their interests in the event that President Bashar al-
  • Sen. Inhofe threatens filibuster to block Hage ...
    Meghashyam Mali / The Hill: Sen. Inhofe threatens filibuster to block Hagel  —  Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) on Sunday threatened to filibuster former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)'s nomination for Defense secretary, if necessary to prevent his confirmation.  —  &ldqu ...
  • State lacks doctors to meet demand of national ...
    Michael J. Mishak / Los Angeles Times: State lacks doctors to meet demand of national healthcare law  —  Lawmakers are working on proposals that would enable physician assistants, nurse practitioners, optometrists and pharmacists to diagnose, treat and manage some illnesses.&nbs ...
  • Fugitive's rant puts focus on evolving LAPD le ...
    Michael R. Blood / Associated Press: Fugitive's rant puts focus on evolving LAPD legacy  —  Associated Press/Reed Saxon - FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 file photo, officers in a patrol car keep watch in front of the West Los Angeles police station as yellow tape prohibits ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • 怒江水电开&#2145 ...
    怒江水电开发箭在弦上。1月23日，国务院办公厅公布《能源发展“十二五”规划》称&#65292 ...
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    核能只有具备与其它能源竞争的能力，才能继续生存。但即使有中国这个大市场，这 ...
  • 中国食品安&#2084 ...
    不断变化的膳食结构、食品安全和用水问题给新一代领导人带来了巨大的挑战。2013年1&#2 ...
  • 终结非法犀&#2927 ...
    一项新的研究表明，在非法犀牛贸易这个问题上，中国非但不是个大麻烦，反而可能 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Bogus Child Abuse Charges for Pregnant Drug-Us ...
    Editor's note: America has a long history of treating the poor like criminals, from legislation banning the transportation of poor people across state lines to anti-vagrancy laws that could land you in jail if you didn't have a job or a home. We've come to rely on the criminal justice system ...
  • The GOP Plan to Flush Your State’s Economy Dow ...
    The GOP has plans for a comeback. But it may cost you a lot. The idea is to capitalize on recent Republican state takeovers to conduct an austerity experiment known as the new “red-state model” and prove that faulty policies can be turned into gold.There will be smoke. There will ...
  • LAPD Takes Aim at Wave of Asian ‘Maternity Tou ...
    Six pregnant Asian-looking women cross the road. Two others cross in the opposite direction. In a nearby store, about 10 compare baby clothing.Something is happening in the suburbs of Los Angeles.Nearby, a string of so-called “maternity hotels,” where Asian women — often Ch ...
  • Naked if I Want To: Lena Dunham’s Body Politic
    In Hollywood, it seems you’re only allowed to be naked if you’re Megan Fox. If you’re not, you had better be apologetic about it, like Melissa McCarthy in “Mike & Molly.” But God forbid you’re a woman with an unconventionally beautiful body and you& ...
  • Sex in the Wild (a First-Hand Account)
    “Naked lungs,” nudibranchs: Undulant sea slugs, frilled and harlequin. They are hermaphrodites and cannibals. Male or female, mate or lunch: permutations abound.Imagine: you meet at San Francisco’s sea-themed Farallon restaurant, “a resemblance of a beautiful underwat ...

Threat Level

  • DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of El ...
    The Department of Homeland Security's civil liberties watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation's borders may have their electronic devices seized and their contents reviewed for any reason whatsoever -- all in the interest of national security.
  • Secret Surveillance Court Gets New Presiding Judge
    Perhaps the only thing we know about the ongoings of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- other than it granting the government unfettered spy powers -- is that it's getting a new presiding judge. The 11-judge court was set ...
  • Mobile-Phone Towers Survive Latest iOS Jailbre ...
    Thank God the nation's mobile-phone towers are still operating, despite more than 1.7 million downloads of the latest iOS jailbreaking software -- evasiOn -- which was released days ago. While trying to prevent federal regulators from legalizing jailbreaking, Apple had ...
  • Genetic Privacy Front and Center at Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court later this month will hear a major genetic-privacy case testing whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes. The case has wide-ranging implications, because at least 27 states and the federal government have ...
  • Vulnerability Lets Hackers Control Building Lo ...
    A critical vulnerability discovered in an industrial control system used widely by the military, hospitals and others would allow attackers to remotely control access systems, elevators, electricity and boiler systems, video surveillance cameras, alarms and other critical building facilities, sa ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Not Learning from History: a Listeria and Salm ...
    I am always a bit shocked that we seem never to be able to learn from history – even if it is recent. Largest Death Toll in Decades In September... Continue Reading
  • Horsemeat Lasagna may contain “bute” and be li ...
    And, we thought it was just about mislabeling (a.k.a. “Food Fraud”) The Guardian reports that contaminated horsemeat could prove “injurious” to people’s health, the environment secretary Owen Paterson said on... Continue Reading
  • 2011 Retail Meat Report of the National Antimi ...
    The NARMS retail meat surveillance program is a joint effort of the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and health departments in 11 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut,... Continue Reading
  • Schnucks E. coli Outbreak – should pay more at ...
    On March 23, 2012 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its final update of the multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to romaine lettuce.[1]  The... Continue Reading
  • Norovirus Class Action Filed Against Golden Corral
    Customers of the Casper, Wyoming Golden Corral filed a class action lawsuit against the restaurant today, alleging they were part of a norovirus food poisoning outbreak that was traced to... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Gun Control — No matter what your opinio ...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZo4hbGJjVI&feature=youtube_gdata_player Gun Control — No matter what your opinion, you need to see this – YouTube.
  • At last, the truth: Butter is GOOD for you &#8 ...
    By Joanna Blythman Like my grandmother before me, I have never had a tub of margarine in the house. Perhaps thanks to her, my gut instinct has always told me that butter is better for you. Not only does butter taste incomparably better, it’s a natural product that human beings have been ea ...
  • 85 Percent of Major Brands of Chewing Gum Stil ...
    Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times If you are still purchasing chewing gum from conventional manufacturers, STOP TODAY! Don’t buy another pack or even chew another piece until you read this report. The following is a comprehensive list of major brands to avoid due to their toxic formulat ...
  • Washington hearing farce: High-ranking pedophi ...
    By Quoriana On October 4, 2012, a hearing of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, chaired by New Jersey politician Chris Smith, took place in Washington, which hearing was announced by the committee as “Listening to Victims of Child Sex Trafficking” in the Netherlands. During the ...
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    An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride Documentary – YouTube.

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The difference between Christianity & Libertar ...
    Summary:  Recently the FM website has focused on the evolution of the America-that-Once-Was into the New America, and the propaganda that drives it. One of the great oddities of this is that we radically change, yet remain unaware of the change. Today we look at one example: Libertarianism, the ...
  • Has global warming increased the frequency & v ...
    Summary:  The debate about climate change has become extreme, as the news media declares quite typical weather (of any kind) to be “extreme” — carefully avoiding showing the historical data that would reveal the lie.  This requires them to conceal the findings of the IPCC and t ...
  • The Idiocies of “Oversight” and &# ...
    Summary:  As the Republic dies, most American doze. But some burn with anger. Like that that motivated Arthur Silber when writing this guest post. Should that fire spread then change might becomes possible. Due to the collapse of our political institutions, we’re reduced to the most basic ...
  • Listen to hear the state of America (and its c ...
    Somehow, sometime, we fell asleep. Not physically. America still fights wars for no visible reason in distant lands. We still invent Ipads, boy bands, and pop tarts.  We (businesses, households, and governments) fecklessly borrow trillions. We root for our favorite sports teams. But somehow the ...
  • Obama repeals Magna Carta, asserting powers ou ...
    Summary:  The Republic  is at war against an adaptive foe that seeks its destruction. Not al Qaeda, which might no longer exist in meaning form, but internal foes seeking its overthrow. That they’re moving incrementally, small steps slowly growing larger with each success, only masks the b ...

WIRED Magazine | 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.

PakAlert

  • Sandy Hook Tragedy: Corporate Media’s “Lone Gu ...
    A cross section of kill-to-injury ratios of major mass shootings suggests that if Adam Lanza acted alone in carrying out the Sandy Hook Elementary School carnage he was among the most accurate killers in modern history, exceeding even the lethal damage meted out by Al Capone’s machine gun-wieldi ...
  • Another FBI Patsy Arrested in Fake Bomb Plot t ...
    The FBI is at it again, boasting about stopping another contrived terror plot of their own making. This time they nabbed a right-winger working with the Taliban which happen to be an FBI agent provocateur
  • Obama Waives Bush Law Banning Child Soldiers
    Here’s a headline we’ll guarantee you simply won’t find in the mainstream media – On October 3, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law “Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008,” a law that made it a federal crime to recruit or use soldiers under the age of 15. The law also gave the Unit ...
  • CIA admits Full Monitoring of Facebook and oth ...
    February 8, 2013 - Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows. But what does the US military use those same net ...
  • NEMO Blizzard a Product of Homeland Security A ...
    For years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has looked for ways to control hurricanes with geoengineering aerosols due to the proven effectiveness of aerosols at modifying the weather. In 2008, the DHS received $64 million to test the effect of aerosol geoengineering on hurricanes ...

Andy Worthington

  • Save London’s NHS: Week of Action Begins ...
    As a week of action begins to raise awareness of the threat to NHS services across London, with A&E Departments and other services at risk from Ealing to Lewisham, the new Save London’s NHS has issued a press release providing further information to add to the information I made availa ...
  • Shops, Flags and the BBC: Photos of Regent Str ...
    Shops, Flags and the BBC: Regent Street in September, a set on Flickr. Back in December, I promised to publish five photo sets from the 1,700 photos from September that I hadn’t had the time to publish at that time (out of the 10,000 or more photos of London, taken since last July, which a ...
  • On Terrorism, America Has Lost Its Way
    Last week at Guantánamo, a farcical dance played out, as it does every six months or so. Representatives of the US mainstream media — and other reporters from around the world — flew to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to witness the latest round of the seemingly interminab ...
  • Photos: Mostly Camberwell, At Night
    Mostly Camberwell, At Night, a set on Flickr. Recently, I’ve been posting a variety of photos from my visit to the US in January, to campaign for the closure of Guantánamo on the 11th anniversary of the opening of the prison (see here, here, here and here), my more recent visit to Brighton ...
  • Guantánamo and Shaker Aamer: Andy Worthington ...
    Listen here to my show with Omar Deghayes on Radio Free Brighton. And please sign the petition calling for the release of Shaker Aamer. Last week, when I visited Brighton to take part in “Freedom from Torture,” an event organised by the University of Sussex Amnesty International Soci ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • Seesaw Crowdsources All Your Decisions
    iOS: Making decisions is tough, but if you're looking for a little help, Seesaw is an app that makes creating polls your friends can vote on for any type of decision simple. More »
  • Why You're So Afraid of Change (and What You C ...
    Change freaks us out—probably even more than public speaking, but it's the sort of amorphous issue that we don't think about because it manifests itself subtly in so many ways. Whether a relationship starts or ends, you're moving, you've got a new job, or you've lost someone you love ...
  • How Much Coffee Do You Drink Every Day?
    We all know what caffeine does to your brain, but coffee is still a big part of most daily routines—often more than just a cup. How much do you drink in a day? More »
  • The Beginner's Guide to Coupons
    Love them or hate them. Take them or leave them. The truth still stands—using coupons can save you a lot of money…if you know how to use them correctly. More »
  • Astrid Integrates with Your Gmail, Turns Your ...
    Chrome: Astrid is your favorite to-do list manager, and now it integrates with your favorite email service. The Astrid Chrome extension now brings your to-dos into Gmail, and makes it simple to add any email as a to-do item on your list, or just manage your to-dos without ever leaving Gmai ...

Water Privatization

  • Senate panel terms KESC privatisation illegal
    ISLAMABAD: The Senate's Standing Committee on Water and Power on Friday termed the privatisation of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) unlawful and sought details of the 'questionable deal' from the Privatisation Commission.
  • Corbett privatization plan worries beer distri ...
    Local beer distributors are worried that the changes to the alcohol business proposed by Gov. Tom Corbett might just be the end of their livelihood. Under the governor's plan, announced Jan. 30 in Pittsburgh with further details included in this week's 2
  • Allentown water lease opponents try to build o ...
    Opponents of plans to lease Allentown’s water and sewer systems are trying to persuade municipalities surrounding the city to formally oppose the deal. In addition to its own residents, Allentown provides water and/or sewer service to several neighboring municipalities. The opponents, who call t ...
  • Frost & Sullivan: Rapid Urbanization in Brazil ...
    - High usage of chemicals in wastewater treatment stokes interest in organic chemicalsSAO PAULO, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The consistent expansion of Brazil's urban population has spawned a parallel ...
  • Frost & Sullivan: Rapid Urbanization in Brazil ...
    SAO PAULO, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The consistent expansion of Brazil's urban population has spawned a parallel demand for potable water; the country is expected to require 570.0 cubic meters per ...

Guardian

  • Syria crisis: jihadi rebels seize dam - Monday ...
    Follow how the day unfolded after fighters from al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra took control of Syria's largest damMatthew Weaver
  • Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation – live ...
    • Pope Benedict XVI to step down • Pontiff says his age means he lacks strength to do job • First pope to resign in 600 years • Peter Turkson, Mark Ouellet or Francis Arinze may be successor • Read news story: Pope resigns due to age and declining health • Read a summary of key events • Post you ...
  • Hunt statement on adult social care cap: Polit ...
    Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including Jeremy Hunt's statement on adult social careAndrew Sparrow
  • Independent Scotland would have little influen ...
    Westminster would control Bank of England decisions even if Scotland kept sterling as its currency, says Michael MooreAn independent Scotland would not be allowed a role in setting policy for the Bank of England or the pound even if it formed a currency union with the UK, a cabinet minister has ...
  • Chris Huhne 'constantly badgered' Vicky Pryce ...
    Georgia Beesley tells court her mother felt pressured into taking driving penaltyChris Huhne's ex-wife confided in her eldest daughter that he had forced her to take his speeding points, a court has heard.Georgia Beesley, 37, a management consultant, said Vicky Pryce spoke to her in 2003: "I rem ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. starts using Pakistani route for Afghan p ...
    An Afghan horse cart carries stolen American protective concertina wire on March 5, 2010 near Sha-Wali-Kot in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. The U.S. military is expected to launch a ...
  • Kabul Urged To Protect Sexually Abused Children
    risk of sexual abuse . HRW has urged the Afghan government to raise the legal age of consent to protect children, and to expand the law passed in 2009 on violence against women -- which defined rape ...
  • U.S. Begins Withdrawing Military Equipment Fro ...
    The U.S. military has started withdrawing military equipment from Afghanistan through Pakistan as it prepares to pull out most of its combat troops next year. Marcus Spade, a spokesman for U.S. ...
  • Afghan Government Confirms Torture Abuse in Pr ...
    Kabul, Feb 11 (Prensa Latina) The Afghan government confirmed the use of torture, abuse and outrageous punishment in prisons, at the conclusion of an official investigation directed by the office of ...
  • Afghanistan coach wants more BCCI support
    Kabir Khan , the Afghanistan coach, has called for the BCCI to provide more support to Afghanistan cricket, highlighting England's support for their neighbouring Associate nations. "If ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh introduces whistl ...
    Yesterday, District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced the "False Claims Act of 2013," which will amend the D.C. False Claims Act to permit whistleblowers to bring tax-related fraud claims. If enacted into law, the bill would permit whistleblowers to seek a qui tam or ...
  • DOJ Considers Long Overdue FBI Whistleblower R ...
    Yesterday, the Department of Justice held a listening session with representatives of the National Whistleblowers Center, American Civil Liberties Union, Government Accountability Project and Project on Government Oversight to discuss needed improvements in the DOJ regulations that implement the ...
  • Whistleblower Scores Victory Over Justice Depa ...
    On January 15, 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland issued a key ruling in support of Justice Department whistleblower Richard G. Convertino in his longstanding Privacy Act lawsuit against the DOJ. The Court ordered the Detroit Free Press to produce all documents related to how ...
  • OSHA Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Retirement Hom ...
    On January 10, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in federal court against S.E.M. Villa II Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates S.E.M. Terrace, a retirement facility in Milford Ohio. The lawsuit claims that S.E.M. Villa violated the whistleblower provisions of the Occ ...
  • BNSF Railway Co. Agrees to Revise Personnel Po ...
    In a January 15, 2013 press release, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that OSHA and BNSF Railway Co. had reached an agreement for the company to revise personnel policies that violate the whistleblowers provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act and discourage employees from reporting w ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Copyright Boss: 'It's Great Mechanics Now Need ...
    The Copyright Office continues to show that it is completely out of touch and tone deaf to the mess that copyright laws create today. We've talked a few times about how abuses of copyright law have created messes for industries that you might think would never have to deal with copyright on a r ...
  • Homeland Security: Not Searching Your Laptop D ...
    We've written many times over the years concerning the legality of Homeland Security searching your laptop at the border without reasonable suspicion. Many courts have held that, effectively, the 4th Amendment does not apply at the border, so they don't need a warrant to search your laptop. Ho ...
  • Three Strikes May Decrease File Sharing, But I ...
    A year ago, we asked what could possibly be the "value" in "cracking down on piracy" if that didn't then lead to increased sales. It's an issue that we've dealt with time and time again. We ask people a simple question: would you rather stop piracy or make more money? Most people note that th ...
  • Ron Paul, UN Hater, Asks UN To Take RonPaul.co ...
    A year ago, we pointed out how hypocritical it was for Ron Paul (at the time still a Congressional Representative and a candidate for President) to file a ridiculous lawsuit, clearly abusing trademark law, in an effort to unmask some anonymous internet users who had made a video that attacked an ...
  • Two Famous Journalism Institutions Shame Thems ...
    Two of the most respected and forward looking schools for journalism are the Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and the Poynter Institute. I've long been a fan of both, but I'm now quite disappointed in both of them too. Last week, we had a few stories concerning ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
  • Trans Issues are Core Issues
    A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
  • Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
    According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...
  • Schools Teach Shame and Bullying
    I came across this news story yesterday. Some school official told a girl’s mother that, if her daughter wanted to end the harassment she was subjected to, she should get a breast reduction. Because, you know, how dare you have a body that might make people think of sex. And then there is ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Solar radiation management — a cheap, easy fix ...
    Climate change has resulted from unplanned geoengineering — for most of the last two centuries, we have been pumping vast quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere without pausing to consider the results. So geoengineering that would involve seeding the upper atmosphere with solar ...
  • The Guantanamo prosecutor who decided that bei ...
    Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch, a military prosecutor at Guantanamo, truly believed that Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty, but he also believed Slahi’s interrogators should face prosecution for torture. Jess Bravin writes: It would be months before Stu Couch got a fuller picture of the Sla ...
  • Israel needs to be threatened by international ...
    In Haaretz, Yitzhak Laor writes: It’s doubtful if there was such foolishness in global politics since World War II as the settlement enterprise. The fact that the Israeli political leadership has engaged in it since 1967 makes the pill all the more bitter. The sparse population in the West ...
  • The Israel lobby’s efforts to marginalize BDS ...
  • Saddam and the U.S. failed, so why should Mali ...
    Patrick Cockburn writes: The civil war in Syria is destabilising Iraq as it changes the balance of power between the country’s communities. The Sunni minority in Iraq, which two years ago appeared defeated, has long been embittered and angry at discrimination against it by a hostile state. ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    The Week That Was: 2013-02-09 (February 9, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end … Continue reading ...
  • Bird Language
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One fine day, after exhausting my meager means and concluding that my hopes of being struck by financial lightning were as ungrounded as Ben Frankin’s kite, I found myself yielding to exigency. “Exigency”, as far … Continue reading →
  • Has Global Warming Stalled?
    Guest Post By Werner Brozek, Edited By Just The Facts In order to answer the question in the title, we need to know what time period is a reasonable period to take into consideration. As well, we need to know … Continue reading →
  • Paul Ehrlich joins the Royal Society, rants on ...
    Josh writes: “All the text Paul Ehrlich is saying comes from his recent tweets.“ And the Bishop says “it’s a hoot”. I wonder where he got the idea that its was “the greatest snowstorm on record for the city” when … Continue reading →
  • Open Thread Weekend
    Topics of general nature per the blog masthead today. Behave, don’t make me come back here.

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • 3D printing breakthrough with human embryonic ...
    A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for the very first time. It is hoped that this breakthrough, which has been published today, 5 February, in the journal Biofabrication, will allow three-dimensional tissues an ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Raise Mens Death Risk ...
    Men taking calcium supplements may be running a nearly 20 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests.Both men and women take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss. In this study of calcium intake, the risk of dying from heart disease was higher for men b ...
  • Researchers unveil first artificial enzyme cre ...
    There’s a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig’s lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like billions of years ago, when life on earth began to evolve – long before they became ingredients for new and improved products, from detergents to foods a ...
  • HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus)

  • Alya Red: A Computational heart
    Alya Red is a project of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for simulating a human heart. In this video we explain the scientific background of the project, and show scientific visualizations of simulations using the computational electromechanical model applied to a rabbit heart.

CFACT

  • Three keys to energy efficiency: End subsides ...
    Senator Mark Warner asked CFACT via the National Journal: "How will energy productivity jump start the economy?" Let us count the ways!
  • Land Trust Flips Private Property to Feds in Utah
    Hoping to thwart commercial development within the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah, a well-heeled Arizona land trust recently flipped several parcels of private land to the Bureau of Land Management.
  • UK Met Office predicts no temperature rise
    [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5061.mp3] After offering a shocking admission several months ago that there has been no discernable global warming for 16 years, the UK Met Office recently followed that up with a revised 5 year prediction about global temperatures showing no increase abo ...
  • “Global Warming” was never about c ...
    What redemptive solutions are urgently implored to combat this phantom "global warming," or rather, "climate change"? We must give lots of money to the UN to redistribute; abandon fossil fuel use in favor of heavily subsidized but assuredly abundant, “free”, and “renewable” alternatives; and exp ...
  • U.S. Leads the World in Red Tape for Mining Pr ...
    What’s the most inhospitable country in the world to the mining of precious metals or minerals? The United States of America – hands down.

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...
  • Nook & Cranny - 'The Bird With the Broken Wing ...
    Nook & Cranny took the top spot on my best music of 2012 post, so it’s safe to say I’m a fan. They’ve got a new album coming out soon, and here’s a live take of one of the tracks - The Bird With the Broken Wing.Pretty sweet, eh?
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2013 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2013 selections:Systemic DisorderThe Titanic sails at dawnMario Piperni dot ComAlternate BrainThe Mills River Progressivep ...
  • Away from energy independence, and towards ene ...
    Two of the more loaded words in contemporary politics are independence and freedom. Despite their similarities in meaning they get used in very different ways. Independence is used in a more national sense, which might be natural because of its prominence in what is arguably our founding docum ...
  • Utopian colonies and the deep roots of Occupy
    Last year I worked on a series of posts1 with a loose collection of bloggers, mostly from Corrente. The general theme was arguing against the “diversity of tactics” approach being introduced at numerous Occupy encampments, Occupy Oakland in particular. During this process one of ou ...
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