Monday, February 11, 2013

11 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Bali - Sanur Beach
Bali - Sanur Beach (Photo credit: Kenny Teo (zoompict))
Bali : ALL WALKS OF LIFE
Bali : ALL WALKS OF LIFE (Photo credit: Kenny Teo (zoompict))

Organic Consumers.org

  • EU Bans Animal Testing in Cosmetics
    Though a major victory for animals and animal-rights groups, the recent announcement that the European Union is banning the use of animals in cosmetic testing shines a light on the sparse regulation of the chemicals used by the cosmetic industry in the United States.Click here to read this article
  • US Farmers May Stop Planting GMs After Poor Gl ...
    Some US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant GM crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts.Click here to read this article
  • Cook Organic, Not the Planet
    What if there were an inexpensive technology that could cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50 percent or more? What if this technology over the next 30-40 years could also sequester 50-100 parts-per-million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2), to bring the total ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere down f ...
  • Genetic Changes to Food May Get Uniform Labeling
    With Washington State on the verge of a ballot initiative that would require labeling of some foods containing genetically engineered ingredients and other states considering similar measures, some of the major food companies and Wal-Mart, the country's largest grocery store operator, have been ...
  • High Time for Hemp
    Four years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel and made a powerful symbolic statement about America's food and farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into a working organic garden.Click here to read this article

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Ex-Nuclear Power Plant Worker Reveals Fukushim ...
    Radiation in hair, on clothing....but kids are not allowed even face masks at school Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Huge victory against fluoride in Australia
    Liberal National Party (LNP) of Queensland has cut $14 million of funding and decided to allow local councils to decide for themselves. Cairns stops in Mar joining Murgon, Wondai, Kingaroy, Nanango, Blackbutt, and South Burnett almost 200,000 people Submitted by John Farnham to Health & We ...
  • Vaccination Side Effects, Sponsored by Merck
    U.S. Government Mandates Mercks Gardasil for Immigrants who must accept any vaccination recommended by the government. Rising incidence of reports of death, Guillain-Barré syndrome (6), an autoimmune disorder that can paralyze Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   N ...
  • Fracking Hell : the Untold Story
    Marcellus Shale water polluted - undrinkable Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Solar Powered Airplane Could Deliver Medical S ...
    The Solar Ship is a hybrid aircraft that is powered by the sun and assisted by helium.It can take off or land on a soccer field. That would allow it to deliver medical supplies to remote inaccessible regions . Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  | ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Debunking the GMO Talking Points with Ease
    Debunking the proven lies perpetrated by the biotech industry.
  • FLUORIDEGATE An American Tragedy
    FLUORIDEGATE is a new documentary that reveals the tragedy of how the United States government, industry and trade associations protect and promote a policy known to cause harm to our country and especially to small children who suffer more than any other segment of the population. While governm ...
  • Polish Resistance to GMO Deception Swells to F ...
    The swelling farmers’ protest against the Polish government’s sell-off of prime Polish farmland to foreign multi-national corporations has now spread to five Polish provinces.
  • Hazardous Virus Gene Discovered in GM Crops af ...
    ISIS has warned against the CaMV 35S promoter and called for all affected GM crops to be withdrawn since 1999 while damning evidence on its safety continues to emerge.
  • Sir Julian Joins Polish Farmers in Solidarity ...
    Sir Julian will drive a tractor from Path Hill Farm, carrying Polish flags and placards proclaiming 'Solidarity with the Polish farmers', 'Stop GMO' and 'Free-up Repressive Food Regulations' that inhibit local sales.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • USM campus in state of emergency after tornado ...
    ShareThisUSM campus in state of emergency after tornado tears through Hattiesburg area 10 Feb 2013 A tornado is confirmed to have touched down in Hattiesburg, and damage is being reported on the western side of the University of Southern Mississippi, according to Joanne Culin, a meteorologist ...
  • U.S. trains for mass migration in Caribbean se ...
    ShareThisU.S. trains for mass migration in Caribbean security drill 10 Feb 2013 A simulated wave of Caribbean migrants sailed to the Guantanamo naval base this week for a training drill designed to prepare U.S. troops and security agencies who might someday have to handle the real thing. The exe ...
  • Christopher Dorner Is First Drone Target on US ...
    ShareThisChristopher Dorner Is First Drone Target on US Soil --Police plan to use spy drones in the hunt for a Rambo-style ex-soldier and policeman 10 Feb 2013 Police believe burly, heavily-armed Christopher Dorner is holed-up in the wilderness of California’s snow-capped San Bernardino mountain ...
  • Drone Spotted Hovering Above Neighborhood in W ...
    ShareThisDrone Spotted Hovering Above Neighborhood in West Oakland 09 Feb 2013 On February 8th, 2013 at 3:50 pm a drone was sighted hovering above a neighborhood in West Oakland. There didn’t seem to be a focus, it just maintained its position above properties near a highway. It is not known at ...
  • Philadelphia Courts Begin Using Computer Forec ...
    ShareThisPhiladelphia Courts Begin Using Computer Forecasts to Predict Future Criminal Behavior 07 Feb 2013 Judges in the Philadelphia court system are now taking advantage of powerful new computer models to help determine how much jail time an offender should get. Computers have been forecastin ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL Murdered: Some Thoughts
    04 February 2013 News of Chris Kyle’s shooting has reached around the world.  Many people are asking for my thoughts, and so this morning I write these words in response. Chris was credited with killing about 160 enemy combatants in Iraq. He is called the most deadly sniper in US history. ...
  • FBR: Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State
    Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State Kachin State 29 January 2013 From Free Burma Rangers Despite the Government of Burma declaring a ceasefire, Burma Army troops still continue to launch attacks in Kachin State. In this Report: • Burma Army troops take Hkaya Bum after repeated attack ...
  • Air Force Crashing
    25 January 2013 Team AFMC, The budgetary uncertainties currently facing the Department of Defense combined with a projected $1.8 billion shortfall in Air Force funding for overseas contingency operations, require us to take prudent steps to mitigate budget execution risks. Based on guidance r ...
  • SAR Overnighter
    24 January 2013
  • US Military Preparing to take Gut Shot
    24 January 2013  

The Killing Train

  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...
  • Questioning Natural & Community Capital
    A Conference at York University about Capitalizing Power, organized by Jonathan Nitzan. In my talk, I try to relate Nitzan's "Capital as Power" framework to environmentalist thinking.
  • Two Uprisings
    A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. read more
  • Joe Emersberger's review of Haiti's New Dictat ...
    Joe Emersberger's got a sharp eye for discerning when media information is misleading or false. When the 2004 coup happened in Haiti, Joe published his correspondence with the Globe and Mail reporter in Haiti at the time, and very ably showed me how someone with a keen eye and decent principles ...
  • Duets for Abdelrazik
    I'm listening to Duets for Abdelrazik, which my friend Stefan Christoff sent to me as an early holiday present. It's mellow music considering that it is the story of the thoroughly appalling mistreatment of someone by an appalling system. read more

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • More Evidence Obamacare Ripped Off Americans
    Make no mistake. March 23, 2010 will live in infamy. With strokes from 22 pens, Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
  • Obstructing Hamas/Fatah Unity
    Previous unity talks failed. On February 6, more talks were held. Fatah and Hamas officials met in Cairo. At issue are long-delayed reconciliation and new elections.
  • Democrats Have a Unique Constitutional Duty to ...
    Checking and balancing the Obama administration on its use of drones is also a matter of principle. That is why it is not just appropriate but necessary for Democrats to ask the right questions, raise the right concerns and mount the appropriate constitutional challenges to administration policies.
  • We're in Trouble
    Human civilization has reached a fork in the road. One of two paths must be chosen. Both lead us into the unknown. But one leads toward the destruction of the climate balance on which we depend, the depletion of irreplaceable resources that sustain us, the degradation of uniquely human values, a ...
  • US Air Force Veteran, Finally Allowed To Fly I ...
    Now he's just in a no-man's land. He can't contest the accusations against him because there are none. After being blocked for months from visiting his own country and his terminally ill mother, he's now barred from returning to his home, his job, and his own family. All of this is done by his o ...

Switchboard

  • Lloyd Alter brings it on the car culture, "giz ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC Toronto-based Lloyd Alter is one of the most prolific environmental thinkers and writers on the web.  What I like best about his work is that he avoids the traps ...
  • The Hidden Lives of Wolves
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Anyone who is fascinated by wolves, as I am, will know the name Dutcher.  Specifically, Jim and Jamie Dutcher, who brought wolves into the lives of millions of people through their film ...
  • Polar Bears Will Just Adapt to Land, Right?
    Zack Strong, Wildlife Conservation Fellow, Livingston, Montana   Polar bears use arctic sea ice as a platform to hunt their favorite food, seals.  Unfortunately, climatic warming is rapidly melting the ice.  Without it, scientists ...
  • The American Meat Institute Gets it Wrong on A ...
    Aaron French, Sustainable Agriculture Specialist, San Francisco While nearly every major health organization in the country has sounded the alarm over rising rates of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) h ...
  • Yes We Can Get There From Here
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Last July I published an issue brief called Closer than You Think, pointing out that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2011 were lower than many people realized—about 9 per ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • I Say “Back to Avignon!”
    Well, this doesn’t happen every day: Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who took office in 2005 following the death of his predecessor, said on Monday that he will resign on Feb. 28, the first pope to do so in six centuries. A profoundly conservative figure whose papac ...
  • “Of Course, Second-Rate Was A Massive Im ...
    Shorter Verbatim Dick Cheney: “Frankly, what [Obama] has appointed are second-rate people.” This is a case where the jokes write themselves.
  • The History of Pasta
    This is a really fascinating history of pasta, going way back to at least the 10th century Middle East. Long, but a really good read. Time for dinner as well.
  • Bloomberg
    I’m not sure that giant giveaways of the playgrounds of public housing units to wealthy developers in order to build luxury housing is the best way to change New York City. Unless you are Michael Bloomberg and want Manhattan to be an exclusive island for the residence of the 1%.
  • Sunday Reading
    Melissa Gira Grant on the bad effects of criminalizing sex work. “It is not sex work that exposes sex workers to violence; it is our willingness to abandon sex workers to violence in an attempt to control their behavior.” A compelling story about the brain-damaged former NFL star pla ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Antarctic ice core extracted by DRI scientists ...
    A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Dr. Kendrick Taylor, a research professor with the Division of Hydrologic Sciences at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute, have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past clim ...
  • DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized ...
    Amelia Gulling, DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized at the annual Women To Watch ceremony for the Las Vegas business magazine, Vegas Inc at the Vdara in City Center on Tuesday Jan. 29th.
  • Kathryn Bywaters, Jan. 2013 Featured DRI Gradu ...
    Meet Kathryn Bywaters, an Environmental Science student working on her Ph.D. Her current work focuses on utilizing microalgae and cyanobacteria consortia as a potential source for biofuel production.
  • Gary Trubl, Dec. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate St ...
    Meet Gary Trubl, a student working towards his masters in Environmental Science and currently studying the biogeochemistry related to denitrification of Lake Vida, Antarctica.
  • Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...
    This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]

News Blaze

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

Red Ice Creations

  • Justice Department memo justifies targeted kil ...
    The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. Absolute Sec ...
  • UK Roboticists Build Rex, the Bionic Man
    Rex, the bionic man has arrived and is here to stay. At least for a month, stationed at the London Science Museum. Rex is a two-meter tall artificial human, constructed from the most sophisticated bionic and prosthetic technology its developers could get their hands on. Rex, which is short for R ...
  • All The World Is Staged: Rigged Games and Matc ...
    Europol investigates football/soccer game fixing A wide-ranging match-fixing investigation has uncovered more than 680 suspicious matches - including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games - and found evidence that a Singapore-based crime group is closely i ...
  • Is Madeleine McCann Down Under? Reports in New ...
    Whenever someone calls the Queenstown, New Zealand, police to report that they’ve seen a little girl who looks just like Madeleine McCann, the 4-year-old Briton who disappeared from her parents’ holiday villa in Portugal the night of May 3, 2007, police know exactly whom they are talking about. ...
  • Obama’s CIA pick Brennan: Chose a life in the ...
    Obama’s CIA pick chose spycraft over priesthood John Brennan was headed for the priesthood when, while sitting idly on a bus as a student at Fordham University in the 1970s, he stumbled on a recruiting ad for the CIA. Now, after years of poring through intelligence, trekking with Mideast tribesm ...

Russia Today

  • Cairo police deploy water cannons to disperse ...
    Egyptian police are using water cannons to disperse stone-throwing protesters gathered outside the presidential palace in Cairo, AFP reports. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • At least 13 killed, 33 wounded in bomb blast n ...
    At least 13 people have been killed and 33 others wounded in a bomb blast near the Turkish-Syrian border. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Pope Benedict XVI to resign, first pontiff to ...
    Pope Benedict XVI is to resign for reasons relating to his health, according to a Vatican spokesperson. He's the first head of the Catholic Church to quit the highest post since the Middle Ages. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Cancer battle: Scientists engineer new tumor-k ...
    A new genetically-engineered virus has been developed to kill cancer tumors and prevent the growth of new ones, according to a study. It was tested in 30 terminally-ill liver cancer patients and proved to significantly... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Bomb blasts, street battles in Mali city follo ...
    Blasts and street violence continue in Mali’s largest northern city after Islamist insurgent guerrilla raids. France has responded with an air strike, according to AFP. The violence throws into question claims of... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Super Bowl 2013 commemorates American warrior ...
    TV NATION- Can Americans no longer embarrass themselves? This year’s pregame holiday extended to Super Bowl Eve with an un-ironic commemoration ceremony, an all-star gala tribute to football, acclaiming it a venerated touchstone of the American character, the public mob like drunken monks ...
  • Punxsutawney Phil fails to see eclipse of mank ...
    You know it’s GROUNDHOG DAY when newspaper weather forecasts read like articles in the Onion. The unseasonably warm winter that followed a record breaking hot summer has been declared by Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania’s mascot meteorologist to be an “Early Spring”. FOR NATURE ...
  • Time Mag trio wants to stop violence. Whose? L ...
    OMG YES. OF COURSE. STOP THE VIOLENCE. Wait. By whose pinheaded definition? “Too many children are dying” exclaims Gabrielle Giffords! But looking into the eyes of these posterchild sociopaths, you know they’re only talking about domestic gun deaths, the collateral damage of ou ...
  • Idle No More versus War On Terra
    Rap News skewers environmental destruction of Canada and Australia, as alien invasions competing for first place in “War on Terra”, praises IDLE NO MORE for rising against non-indigenous expropriation of the “Commonwealth”.
  • US forces push women to front lines, canon fod ...
    Pentagon lifts ban on women in combat. I guess US prisons have consumed the traditional canon fodder labor pool. What’s the upside to this news –a kinder gentler militarized empire? Fail. Our culture of violence doesn’t breed matriarchs. American women on the front lines is goo ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Michael Isikoff To Rachel Maddow: Obama Has 'M ...
    Published on Feb 5, 2013 YouTube - ThePrincessHira Rachel Maddow spoke to NBC News' Michael Isikoff Monday night about his acquisition of a Justice Department white paper that lays out some of the Obama administration's thinking behind its practice of killing American citizens with drone str ...
  • Operation Gladio Revisited
    As one of the most thoroughly-documented examples of a decades-long program of officially-sanctioned false flag terror, Operation Gladio remains a woefully under-reported piece of the War on Terror puzzle. Today we go behind the trite summarizations of this program to look at it in-depth, examin ...
  • New Conspiracy Funhouse: Parody Interview with ...
    Stew's Conspiracy Funhouse Audio podcast,(conspiracy based sketch comedy,) Kicking off our 3rd year with our best episode yet! Doomsday Preppers gets blasted, a game show parody exposes the Bush family, and an interview with Skeptic Michael Shermer. Plus new parody commercials and music from Sla ...
  • The WTC Dust: Science and Replication
     Bilbo's Blog A few years ago a team of scientists studied the red/gray chips in dust samples of the World Trade Center buildings and came to the conclusion that they were the remains of an active thermitic material, which could have been used as explosives. Since then their claim ...
  • Speaking Truth to Power
    I’ve recently been involved in a series of debates with science blogger Myles Power over the events of 9/11. Though I’m currently working on Part 2 of my response to his YouTube video series, I need to address one issue that’s recently come to my attention. It seems that Mr. Power has decided to ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...
  • Colombian Indian exhibition showcases most end ...
    ONIC's campaign aims to stop the imminent extinction of Colombia's tribal peoples © Juan Pablo Gutierrez/ONICColombian Indian organization ONIC has launched an international photography exhibition to highlight the desperate plight of Colombia’s indigenous peoples. The exhibition, enti ...
  • Brazil to investigate uncontacted Awá
    It is thought there could be up to 100 Awá who live without any contact with outsiders.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s indigenous affairs department (FUNAI) has announced that it will send a team of specialists to investigate the situation of uncontacted Awá, the world’s most threatened tribe&qu ...
  • Angry Papuan leaders demand Jared Diamond apol ...
    Benny Wenda, a Papuan tribal leader, says what Jared Diamond is writing about his people is 'misleading'.© freewestpapua.org/SurvivalLeaders across West Papua have demanded controversial author Jared Diamond apologizes for describing them in his new book as warlike, and strengthening t ...
  • Game of Thrones star speaks out over Colombian ...
    Game of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has done a voice-over for Survival's interview.© SurvivalGame of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has lent her support to a Survival International campaign to finally bring the killers of three Colombian Indian leaders to justice. ...

Greg Palast

  • The Koch Brothers, Hugo Chavez and the XL Pipeline
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine and The Other 98% I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path. The XL Keystone Pipeline. As Nagini, the murderous snake i ...
  • Aaron Swartz Died for Piers Morgan's Sins
    By Greg Palast for Vice.com This is the tale of two geniuses. In 2000, Aaron Swartz, aged 14, had just released his astonishing invention, RSS, to ease the flow of information and news around the Internet. Around the same time, one of Piers Morgan’s stringers hacked into the phone of Sir Paul Mc ...
  • Piers Morgan And My Pee Pee
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Now, if this were a movie, you would hear the audience scream, "DON’T TAKE THE KEY! DON’T GO UP THOSE STAIRS!" The reporter part of my brain was screaming, too: 'THIS SMELLS BAD.' But I couldn’t  hear a thing because, while I was out for the story, the memory of  ...
  • Assault Gun Ban - Weapon of Mass Distraction
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine George Bush told America he'd keep us safe from terrorists by having us take off our shoes at the airport. Yesterday, Barack Obama again took the Oath of Office. And this Obama 2.0 is also going to save America from insane killers – by limiting ammo clips to ten ...
  • Alex Jones, Guns, Piers Morgan – and My Penis
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine This is the first of Palast's weekly columns for VICE – beginning with a bang: a four-part series on Alex Jones, guns, Piers Morgan and Palast's penis. PART ONE: ALEX JONES VERSUS DOWNTON ABBEY Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chai ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • If CDC Were In Charge of Snow Removal
    By Kim Stagliano On Friday a blizzard struck the Northeast with outrageous force. Think "Hurricane Sandy" during the throes of her worst PMS with no chocolate in the house while in a freezer. That. I live in Fairfield County, CT....
  • Toxic Metal Burdens May Epigenetically Play Pr ...
    Estimation of autistic children by metallomics analysis Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 1199 doi:10.1038/srep01199Clarification of the pathogenesis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders is one of the challenges today. In this study, we examine scalp hair concentrations of 26 trace...
  • From the Bolen Report: Jake Crosby on Congress ...
    Not long ago, Jake Crosby, one of our Contributing Editors, submitted an article about the background of the Congressional hearing on autism late last year. I rejected the article because, as I told Jake, it did not meet the standards...
  • Look It Up
    By Cathy Jameson Something’s been bothering me for a long time now. It shouldn’t because many of us would be lost without it. Parents get ripped a new one for using it. But, lots of us, not just autism parents,...
  • Dachel Media Update: A New Genetic Approach
    Feb 7, 2013, Fox Columbia SC: "Autism: A New Genetic Approach" "Lecture on Autism continues Caskey Lecture Series at The University of South Carolina. "The university's College of Arts and Sciences hosted "Autism: A New Genetic Approach" Thursday evening. "Dr....

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Debunking the GMO Talking Points with Ease
    Debunking the proven lies perpetrated by the biotech industry.
  • FLUORIDEGATE An American Tragedy
    FLUORIDEGATE is a new documentary that reveals the tragedy of how the United States government, industry and trade associations protect and promote a policy known to cause harm to our country and especially to small children who suffer more than any other segment of the population. While governm ...
  • Polish Resistance to GMO Deception Swells to F ...
    The swelling farmers’ protest against the Polish government’s sell-off of prime Polish farmland to foreign multi-national corporations has now spread to five Polish provinces.
  • Hazardous Virus Gene Discovered in GM Crops af ...
    ISIS has warned against the CaMV 35S promoter and called for all affected GM crops to be withdrawn since 1999 while damning evidence on its safety continues to emerge.
  • Sir Julian Joins Polish Farmers in Solidarity ...
    Sir Julian will drive a tractor from Path Hill Farm, carrying Polish flags and placards proclaiming 'Solidarity with the Polish farmers', 'Stop GMO' and 'Free-up Repressive Food Regulations' that inhibit local sales.

Open Your Eyes News

  • UK: No 10 slaps down minister’s claim th ...
    Telegraph – Mr Paterson yesterday suggested that tests on food products could reveal that substances in horse meat passed into the British food chain could prove “injurious to human health”. The Prime Minister called Mr Paterson in to Downing Street this morning and later insisted that the ...
  • Afghan prison probe finds ‘widespread&#8 ...
    Aljazeera – An official investigation into torture in Afghan prisons has found widespread abuse, President Hamid Karzai says, following a UN report into the problem. “According to the report of the commission of inquiry, half of the prisoners interviewed complained of mistreatment, h ...
  • Workouts Cut Prostate Cancer Risk in Whites
    NedPage Today – Another benefit of exercise – at least for Caucasian men – is that it may cut the risk both of developing prostate cancer and having high-grade disease, researchers reported. In a prospective study, Caucasian men suspected of prostate cancer and scheduled for biopsy were le ...
  • Scottish independence: David Cameron launches ...
    BBC – Scotland should remain part of the UK because having two governments looking after its affairs offers “the best of both worlds”, David Cameron has said. The PM said on the No 10 website that he would use arguments of the “head and heart” to keep the UK togethe ...
  • US ambassador claims France payed $17 million ...
    RT – A former US ambassador claims that France shoveled out $17 million to free a group of hostages held in Mali, only to have the money up in the hands of al-Qaeda militants and significantly strengthen the terrorist group. And the hostages were never freed. Former US Ambassador to Mali V ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • Learning Through Plays
    Children and adults learn about good hygiene practices through a series of street plays, including hand washing and the importance of using a toilet instead of practicing open defecation. They also learn about the connection between water-related illnesses and prevention.
  • A Loan Leads to More
    Mrs. Lalitha Patil lives in Gojaga Village. She took a loan for Rs.10,000/- from Water.org's partner, Grameen Koota (GK), and constructed a toilet in her home. Afterwards, she became highly motivated and decided to work with her village to become completely clean and hygienic.
  • From Kutcha Well to Water Point
    In Assam, access to safe drinking water and sanitation in rural communities and small towns is often unavailable. Community residents are dependent on rain, streams, and rivers for drinking and agricultural water. Additionally, unhygienic practices have contributed to the pollution of available ...
  • Live from Davos
    April Rinne, Director of WaterCredit, speaks with The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore live from The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Watch the full interview here.
  • How far would you go?
    When you complete daily actions to earn points, you climb the virtual mountain and can win prizes! Ascend the 7 routes of Kilimanjaro and along the way qualify to win prizes from HP, Intel, P&G, KLM and Eddie Bauer. The more points you have, the better your chances to win the ultimate grand priz ...

Cryptogon

  • China Eclipses U.S. as Biggest Trading Nation ...
    Via: Bloomberg: China surpassed the U.S. to become the world’s biggest trading nation last year as measured by the sum of exports and imports of goods, official figures from both countries show. U.S. exports and imports of goods last year totaled $3.82 trillion, the U.S. Commerce Department said ...
  • Putin Likes The Shiny
    If you’re a fan of the Putin, Action Man photos, you’ll find a keeper if you click through. Via: Bloomberg: When Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is endangering the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly, he’s not just talking. He’s betting on it. Not only has Putin made Russia th ...
  • DHS May Seize Electronic Devices from American ...
    Via: Wired: The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security. The DHS, which secures th ...
  • Americans Are Tapping Into Home Equity Again
    Via: CNBC: Nearly 11 million borrowers are underwater on their mortgages, owing more than their homes are worth, according to CoreLogic, and yet home equity lines of credit are suddenly on the rise again. During the housing boom of the last decade Americans withdrew over $1 trillion in home equi ...
  • Cops Nab 5-Year-Old for Wearing Wrong Color Sh ...
    Via: Take Part: In Mississippi, if kindergarteners violate the dress code or act out in class, they may end up in the back of a police car. A story about one five-year-old particularly stands out. The little boy was required to wear black shoes to school. Because he didn’t have black shoes, his ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...
  • Watch The Financial Markets In Europe
    Is the financial system of Europe on the verge of a meltdown?  I have always maintained that the next wave of the economic crisis would begin in Europe, and right now the situation in Europe is unraveling at a frightening pace.  On Monday, European stocks had their worst day in over six months, ...
  • Do Wall Street Insiders Expect Something Reall ...
    Why are corporate insiders dumping huge numbers of shares in their own companies right now?  Why are some very large investors suddenly making gigantic bets that the stock market will crash at some point in the next 60 days?  Do Wall Street insiders expect something really BIG to happen very soo ...
  • Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccoun ...
    An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe.  It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks.  It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also ...
  • Rise Of The Droids: Will Robots Eventually Ste ...
    Will a robot take your job?  We have entered a period in human history when technology is advancing at an exponential rate.  In some ways, this has been a great blessing for humanity.  For example, I am absolutely blown away by all of the things that my little iPod can do.  But on the other [...]

Desertification

  • Conference on Desertification and Land Degrada ...
    Read at : http://www.desertland.eu/ Welcome to Desertland conference Climate change at a global, regional or local (micro) scale, with its unstable and varying weather conditions, is reflected in the occurrence of extreme events with either excess or with scarcity (deficit) … Continue read ...
  • Agroforestry and commercial tree farming (IRI ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96724/KENYA-Experts-rally-for-agroforestry-commercial-tree-farming KENYA: Experts rally for agroforestry, commercial tree farming In 2010 and 2009, Kenya lost a whopping 5.8 billion Kenya shillings (US$68 million) and 6.6 billion shillings ($77 million), ...
  • More trees, more rain ? (IRINNews)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97428/Will-more-trees-cause-more-rain Will more trees cause more rain? It is commonly believed that destroying trees will influence the climate of a region. But scientific evidence to support that deforestation and afforestation influence local climate &# ...
  • New Era of Food Scarcity (IPS)
    Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/new-era-of-food-scarcity-echoes-collapsed-civilisations/ New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilisations Analysis by Lester R. Brown The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain res ...
  • Desert microbes could halt desertification (Ar ...
    Read at : http://en.arabstoday.net/20130207252372/desert-microbes-could-halt-desertification-in-middle-east.html Desert microbes could halt desertification in Middle East MENA looks forward to agricultural boost Desert soil microbes could help halt desertification and boost agriculture in arid r ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Factory in Greece starts production under work ...
    viome.jpg Striking workers at the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece who have not been paid since May 2011 have decided to restart production under workers' control on 12 February 2013. ...
  • FKMA's 2nd Autonomous Peasant Congress
    FKMA.jpg Short reportage from Indonesian Autonomous Peasant Congress Dozens of peasants from various organizations in several cities in Indonesia, joined in Forum Komunikasi Mas ...
  • Current prisoner list of Anarchist Black Cross ...
    Currently we have addresses of 15 anarchist, anti-authoritarian or anti-fascist political prisoners, or their supporters in Russia and Belarus. Of these, 14 are interested to receive letters of support. Situation with prisoners is ...
  • IWW help in victory against Bad Boss in the ca ...
    "As I swilled the last traces of toothpaste from my mouth this morning, a Wobbly's head flew past the window, shouting the word "victory". From Bristol IWW General Branch: http://www.bristoliww.org.uk/iww-help-in- ...
  • Against privatisation: statement from Sussex U ...
    149479_413329808750425_1265083893_n[1].jpg Following a demonstration of over 300 staff and students in opposition to the privatisation of services at Sussex University; a large group of people have oc ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Edomite Israel Attacked America on Sept. 11, 2 ...
    Listen CLOSELY to PLO’s Arafat, then to Ehud Barak’s statement at the 3:20 mark of the video below.  Keep in mind that this is a mere 60 minutes after the towers were demolished by Israeli terrorist mini-nukes and nano-thermite! Arafat – the man who, according to the Western Je ...
  • The Final Nail in the Edomite Coffin – T ...
    The LIE is officially replaced by TRUTH!!! Now, the big question is, will CHRISTIAN BONEHEAD ZIONISTS still continue to ignore the FACTS OF SCIENCE AND GENETIC STUDIES?? My bet is YES, they will continue promoting the HOAX. http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/debate-on-european-jews- ...
  • Red Symphony – The Smoking Gun of the Ed ...
    This is a most incredible text, that is if you really want to know the TRUTH of who “THEY” are. This is yet more validation on my “Righteous Blood” series of posts. While it may be best to print the text out making it easier to read – it MUST be read and studied.  T ...
  • The Missing Link to Common Diseases – An ...
    Anti-nutrients:  What You Don’t Know is Likely Killing You! By A. True Ott, PhD ND Feb. 2013 ® All rights reserved      Most people know about nutrients such as proteins, complex carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals and the important role they play in human health and vitality.  Conversely, most ...
  • Welcome to Utah’s Above Top Secret NSA & ...
    It costs well over $1 Billion Tax Dollars – yet, like Bush and Kerry’s Yale Skull and Bones’  “crypt” – it’s above top secret – too secret to even talk about.   Don’t like it?  Tough! Welcome to Huxley’s Brave New World. If that’s ...

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Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Will the US Economy Collapse in May
    John Williams, founder of Shadowstats.com, predicts the US dollar will collapse by May 2013 from a massive self-off (i.e. the value of the dollar will crash because other countries will dump dollars in favor of other currencies) by May 2013. ShadowStats.com is dedicated to correcting the d ...
  • New IMF Chicago Plan Video: Stripping Banks of ...
    Last October two International Monetary Fund (IMF) economists (Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof), created a firestorm with their working paper The Chicago Plan Revisited. The document revives a proposal first put forward by professors Henry Simons and Irving Fisher in 1936 during the Great ...
  • Wikileaks Reports FBI Banned from Iceland
    On January 30, 2013, WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson reported that FBI agents who entered Iceland in August 2011 to investigate Iceland’s WikiLeaks operations had been ejected from the country by Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson. Janasson considered it unbelievab ...
  • How Mammograms Don't Save Lives
      According to the co-author of a recent New England Journal of Medicine study, mammograms are largely ineffective in preventing deaths from breast cancer. What the retrospective study by Drs H Gilbert Welch and Dr Archie Bleyer revealed, in essence, was that the mortality benefit of ...
  • FBI Refuses to Disclose Surveillance Policy
    In August the American Civil Liberties filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit with the FBI seeking details of its of its surveillance policy — who it spies upon, how, and under what circumstances. The FBI sent back two 50+ page memos in reply, each totally blacked out excep ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 'Irrefutable' -- the Washington Post on Colin ...
    The Washington Post's below unsigned editorial published the day after Colin Powell's Iraq presentation to the UN Security Council is no longer available on the Post's website Irrefutable February 6, 2003 Editorial, Pg. A36 AFTER SECRETARY OF STATE Colin L. Powell's presentation to the Unite ...
  • Top Wall Street Banker: "It's a Shame We Can't ...
    In his new book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President, Ron Suskind describes the perspective of a top Wall Street banker on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the Obama administration in September, 2009, soon after Obama delivered a speech about financial refo ...
  • Milhous, in Three Acts
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore ACT I: Nixon’s the One Every good Catholic blamed Lyndon Johnson for Kennedy’s death. Not that he had anything to do with the actual assassination (though there were those who believed he did). But we all kne ...
  • Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Supporting ...
    From The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: Almost from the beginning, Kissinger had secretly had all his telephone calls, including those with the President, monitored and transcribed... Nixon was often on the phone with Kissinger for fifteen minutes or longer. The President was r ...
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...
    Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

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

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • "Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen P ...
    When I went to college, this line of thinking became more formalized. I was taught how to think about the design of software systems more holistically. I was trained to understand something called "extensibility" which is the notion that the code that I was writing should be flexible enough to b ...
  • Tim Cook reportedly opposed patent suits again ...
    As its relationship with Samsung has become strained, Apple reportedly tried to secure exclusive access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. smartphone chips by making an investment offer in the custom chip maker in excess of $1 billion. The offer was ultimately rejected, but such an ar ...
  • Insight: Apple and Samsung, frenemies for life
    Indeed, a series of recent court rulings suggests that the smartphone patent wars are now grinding toward a stalemate, with Apple unable to show that its sales have been seriously damaged when rivals, notably Samsung, imitated its products. That, in turn, may usher in a new phase in the complex ...
  • Vernon Hugh Bowman, Petitioner v. Monsanto Com ...
    Docket No., 11-796 Arguement Date: February 19, 2013 QUESTION PRESENTED: Patent exhaustion delimits rights of patent holders by eliminating the right to control or prohibit use of the invention after an authorized sale. In this case, the Federal Circuit refused to find exhaustion where a farm ...
  • Farmers use of genetically modified soybeans g ...
    His legal battle, now at the Supreme Court, raises questions about whether the right to patent living things extends to their progeny, and how companies that engage in cutting-edge research can recoup their investments. [PJ: Doesn't that sentence tell you right away where the problem lies?] - ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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

frogblog

  • Biggest Gay Out
    This Sunday was definitely the biggest Big Gay Out I have attended, with some news reports estimating crowds of 15,000 people. The event is one of the highlights of the LGBTI calendar with a really positive and welcoming environment. I spent most of the day wandering around, not getting sunburnt ...
  • Keep Our Assets – Inspired by Invercargill
    On Saturday, we took a break from the South Island Green Policy Conference and hit the streets of Invercargill to collect signatures for the “Keep Our Assets” petition final push. About half the Green MPs and a team of local and regional volunteers collected more than 500 signatures in a single ...
  • General debate, February 10, 2013
  • 370,000 signatures already collected to stop a ...
    Can you join us for one last big weekend of collection on the 16th and 17th of February? We’re on track to submit the petition before any asset sales are started. A referendum will give every New Zealander who wants a smart, green future a chance to be heard. There will be collection point ...
  • Submit to sink the lid on Auckland pokies
    Auckland Council is currently reviewing its Class 4 (pub and club pokies) gambling policy, and I’m encouraging people to have their say on this important issue. Councils across New Zealand have some control over the number of pubs and clubs with pokie machines. The policy review will be the firs ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • 'Canary In Your Trousers': Why Erectile Dysfun ...
    By Dr. Mercola Many men are reluctant to discuss erectile dysfunction (ED), but this isn’t only a matter that affects your intimate life. Even slight problems maintaining an erection can be a sign of serious health problems elsewhere in your body, namely in your heart. The Connecti ...
  • Surprising Health Hazards Associated with All- ...
    By Dr. Mercola Fruits are loaded with healthy antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, which is why eating them in moderation is fine for healthy people. However, many benefit by restricting their fruit intake. Fructose, a simple sugar found in fruit, is preferentially metabolized to fat in yo ...
  • Major Producer Reveals the Benefits of Astaxan ...
    Click HERE to view the entire interviewBy Dr. Mercola A little-known carotenoid called astaxanthin is now believed to be the most potent antioxidant nature has to offer.  Astaxanthin's benefits are so numerous, I've written several articles to cover its many activities, from UV-radia ...
  • Sunless Tanning: Why Baking Is Out and Faking ...
    By Dr. Mercola “Dermatologist-recommended” sunless tanning lotions and sprays are being called “a better way to get that golden glow.” The basic message? Skip the sun and simply “fake” your tan with a bronzer or sunless tanner instead  Most people li ...
  • How Addiction to Plastic Poisons Our Planet
    By Dr. Mercola We live in a throwaway society. The next time you’re in a grocery store, take a look around you and note the number of items packaged in plastic. The problem is, these petroleum-based plastics are designed to last forever. So you have products for short-term consumpti ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...
  • Colombian Indian exhibition showcases most end ...
    ONIC's campaign aims to stop the imminent extinction of Colombia's tribal peoples © Juan Pablo Gutierrez/ONICColombian Indian organization ONIC has launched an international photography exhibition to highlight the desperate plight of Colombia’s indigenous peoples. The exhibition, enti ...
  • Brazil to investigate uncontacted Awá
    It is thought there could be up to 100 Awá who live without any contact with outsiders.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s indigenous affairs department (FUNAI) has announced that it will send a team of specialists to investigate the situation of uncontacted Awá, the world’s most threatened tribe&qu ...
  • Angry Papuan leaders demand Jared Diamond apol ...
    Benny Wenda, a Papuan tribal leader, says what Jared Diamond is writing about his people is 'misleading'.© freewestpapua.org/SurvivalLeaders across West Papua have demanded controversial author Jared Diamond apologizes for describing them in his new book as warlike, and strengthening t ...
  • Game of Thrones star speaks out over Colombian ...
    Game of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has done a voice-over for Survival's interview.© SurvivalGame of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has lent her support to a Survival International campaign to finally bring the killers of three Colombian Indian leaders to justice. ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • The Benefits of Minimally Invasive Dentistry
    from mercola.com: It’s very difficult to achieve high-level physical health if your dental health isn’t effectively addressed. I’ve been involved with alternatives to regular dentistry for quite some time. I think many people fail to appreciate how important dentistry is to our total health. ...
  • Phony patients selling pricey drugs—Part 1
    from intrepidreport.com: It’s happened to anyone who’s attended an open-mic session at an FDA advisory committee hearing. A queue of “patients” materializes out of nowhere to testify, often in tears, about the crucial need for approval of a drug the public has often not even heard of. Sometime ...
  • Windsor votes to remove fluoride from drinking ...
    from windsorstar.com: Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has changed in the last 60 years … fluoride is not the be-all and end-all to ...
  • Morningland Dairy destroyed by feds, $250,000 ...
    from naturalnews.com: There is a reason why America's founding fathers were willing to shed their own blood to gain independence from the crushing authoritarianism of the Crown of England. Nearly three years after first becoming a target for destruction by state and federal government agencies ...
  • #Video: Avoid Doctors to Protect Your Health!
    Or: If You Want To Get Sick, Go To The Hospital! from therealfoodchannel.com: Simple advice that will save you time, money - and maybe even your life. And the good news is that you don't have to do anything to benefit.

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...
  • Watch The Financial Markets In Europe
    Is the financial system of Europe on the verge of a meltdown?  I have always maintained that the next wave of the economic crisis would begin in Europe, and right now the situation in Europe is unraveling at a frightening pace.  On Monday, European stocks had their worst day in over six months, ...
  • Do Wall Street Insiders Expect Something Reall ...
    Why are corporate insiders dumping huge numbers of shares in their own companies right now?  Why are some very large investors suddenly making gigantic bets that the stock market will crash at some point in the next 60 days?  Do Wall Street insiders expect something really BIG to happen very soo ...
  • Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccoun ...
    An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe.  It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks.  It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also ...
  • Rise Of The Droids: Will Robots Eventually Ste ...
    Will a robot take your job?  We have entered a period in human history when technology is advancing at an exponential rate.  In some ways, this has been a great blessing for humanity.  For example, I am absolutely blown away by all of the things that my little iPod can do.  But on the other [...]

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Brand New Unity Mockups Show Some Really Neat ...
    Ever since Canonical introduced Unity desktop, there was no dearth for user-contributed ideas. Some of them were really good too. But over-time, things have changed so much about Unity that most of those mockups became irrelevant. Now, here's a new one that recently came to our notice. Some ve ...
  • Half-Life and Counter-Strike are now Linux Rea ...
    Gaming on Linux is really taking off. Half-Life and Counter-Strike: Source officially arrives on Steam for Linux client and those hugely popular game titles are now playable on Linux! Half-Life and Counter-Strike: Source are now Linux ready! Valve has just released two mor ...
  • 5 Unique Linux Based Products at CES 2013
    January has come to an end and the highlight of the month was undoubtedly, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held annually at Las Vegas. With each new events featuring latest and greatest from the world of consumer electronics, Linux and products based on it are becoming more prominent than ...
  • Ubuntu Grabs 1.12 Percent OS Market Share on S ...
    Steam's January 2013 hardware and software survey results are out. And OS market share on Steam is already showing signs of changes. Barely two months old Ubuntu on Steam has grabbed more than 1 percent market share with almost non-existent marketing push from Canonical (VALVE did some adverti ...
  • Ubuntu Phone Android Live Wallpaper is One of ...
    Ubuntu for Phones initiative was able to generate enormous interest in brand "Ubuntu". It was one of the biggest hits at CES 2013 and smartphone demos featuring Ubuntu Phone OS became instant hits on YouTube. Now, here's one for the fans. A brand new Ubuntu Phone OS style live wallpaper for An ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • AUSTRIANS VOTE BY TWO THIRDS FOR DRAFT ARMY IN ...
    *Austrians vote overwhelmingly to keep conscription in historic referendum and triumph for direct democracy *Mainstream media propaganda machine suffers death blow as new style of political campaign emerges *Politicians use internet to connect with grass roots, bypass corporate media *Austria&#8 ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...

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 ...
  • An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride Documen ...
    An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride Documentary – YouTube.

Veterans Today

  • The War for the Spirit
    We are entitled to search for the truth. The real crime committed by the National Socialists – the exclusion, disempowerment, deportation, enslavement, death by omission and by commission and expulsion of a people simply because they were that people – was a terrible one.
  • Afghan History Suppressed: Part I: Islamists, ...
      by Dean Henderson (Part one of a three-part series excerpted from Chapter 8: Project Frankenstein: Afghanistan: Big Oil & Their Bankers…) The Wall Street Journal reported awhile back that the Syrian government had reversed a ban on women teachers wearing Islamic face coverings in the ...
  • Drone Wrath for a Compliant Society
    The military has transformed warfare into a deadly computer game with drone weapons. Media programs like Weaponology or Future Weapons on the Military Channel provide detailed examples of the lethalness of autonomous technology.
  • Elite Underground
    Elite Underground   by Rand Clifford — Imagine a machine tunneling seven miles per day through solid rock, boulders and clay…virtually anything below the waterline. A machine whose heart is a compact nuclear reactor circulating liquid lithium at 2,000 degrees F. through a rotating fa ...
  • France Sets Sight on “African Dream”
    “Hollande’s France is out for Africa, whether with or without the established players of the region ” Moving well into the 1st quarter of 21st century, the global dimension for areas under influence of great powers has changed to a great extent. A review of international political spectrum refle ...

electric politics

  • Wrangling the Facts
    From the earliest times diplomacy has been a balance between honest interlocution and soothing ephemera. The art, some say, of allowing another person to have things your way. And always — always — with an iron requirement for accurate factual appraisal. Ambassador Dan Simpson is one ...
  • Congo Nocturne
    The Europeans required over a thousand years to come up with the European Union (and the EU still doesn't work right). The Congo, approximately the same size as Europe, has never had any history of legitimate, national self-governance. When Europeans started exploring the region in the late 1800 ...
  • On Magical War
    Secure in the ignorance of our traditions we treat war as if it were a game, as if we should try to win when we play. Oorah! But if we think like a human being war assumes a great deal more complexity, indeed, a necessary ambiguity. Dr. David Keen challenges conventional wisdom in a great book, ...
  • Wampum Wranglers
    So Mr. O won't mint the magic coin. He says. Well, good luck to him, then, getting the Southern secessionists to grovel. More's the pity, though, that neither side have a clue what they're talking about. Essentially, they're disputing the finer points of a primitive theory of value: call it wamp ...
  • Speaking Truth
    These days, the only reasonable thing to say to Power is, "Here's the arrest warrant, please come quietly." But Speaking Truth, that's a different story. We speak truth to affirm and reaffirm who and what we are, what the reality of the world is, and why it is the way it is. Not an easy task &md ...

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Stop NATO

  • NATO Warships In “Terrorism” Exerc ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations February 11, 2013 NATO Group Conducts Exercise with Norwegian Navy Ahead of Defence Against Terrorism Mission ==== The 7-day exercise facilitated realistic training with regard to surface, air and electronic warfare environments and it ...
  • Mediterranean Dialogue: U.S. Leads War Games W ...
    United States European Command February 8, 2013 Nine Countries Meet to Plan Exercise Phoenix Express 2013 Lt. Cmdr. Kim E. Dixon, U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs ==== Phoenix Express, in its eighth year, is one of four African regional Express series exercises designed to test skills learned from ...
  • NATO Chief: Door Is Open For Ireland’s M ...
    The Irish Times February 11, 2013 Door is open for Ireland to join Nato, says military alliance’s chief Suzanne Lynch The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) would welcome any application by Ireland to join the organisation, its secretary general has said… In an interview with ...
  • Anatole France: The tutelary gods of world war
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Anatole France: Selections on war ==== Anatole France From a letter to Michel Corday (1917) Translator unknown You have realised, dear friend, that President Wilson has his own plans, which are not the plans of England, France, or ...
  • Assassination Bureau: Justification Of U.S. Dr ...
    Press TV February 9, 2013 Justification of US drone killings a travesty: Analyst Audio The justification of targeted killings by the United States government is “a travesty” according to U.S. law, an analyst said. U.S. senators are reportedly considering an idea to create a secret “a ...

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Intel Hub

  • New Bill Seeks to Severely Restrict Homeschool ...
    By Brandon Turbeville ActivistPost.com February 11, 2013 According to an email alert sent out by the Home School Legal Defense Association, a new bill is being introduced in the South Carolina State House of Representatives that would threaten the ability of South Carolinians to effectively and ...
  • Mysterious Disease Leaving Philadelphia Women ...
    CBS February 11, 2013 It’s a mysterious, newly discovered disease that strikes mainly young women, and it’s often misdiagnosed. Doctors who discovered it, here in Philadelphia, say it’s like your brain is on fire. 3 On Your Side Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl says it starts with personality cha ...
  • CISPA’s Back: Hacking, Online Espionage Resurr ...
    RT Feb 11, 2013 The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced before the US House next week following a spate of cyber espionage and hacking attacks. Civil liberties advocates have criticized the bill for violating privacy laws. The House Intelligence Committee’s ...
  • Christopher Dorner Becomes ‘First’ Human Targe ...
    By Mike Parker Express.co.uk February 11, 2013 Infowars Analysis: This is actually not the first time Americans have been targeted with surveillance drones. In 2011, police used a Predator surveillance drone against a family in North Dakota who were accused of stealing six cows. If Dorner is tar ...
  • Tornado Destroys Homes in Mississippi
    By Chris Carrington  The Daily Sheeple February 11, 2013 A powerful tornado has ripped through the state of Mississippi leaving dozens of people hurt and hundreds of homes destroyed report Associated Press. This comes just 24 hours after a major snow storm killed 10 people and caused huge amount ...

FRS

  • A rape a minute, a thousand corpses a year
    by Rebecca Solnit, in Al Jazeera 10 February 2013 Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender, writes Solnit.     [Photo:  The lives of half of humanity are still dogged by, drained by and sometimes ended by pervasive type of violence [AFP ...
  • The hanging of Afzal Guru is a stain on India& ...
    Despite gaping holes in the case against Afzal Guru, all India’s institutions played a part in putting a Kashmiri ‘terrorist’ to death Arundhati Roy, The Guardian, Sunday 10 February 2013 Indian police bring Afzal Guru to court in Delhi in 2002. Photograph: Aman Sharma/AP Sprin ...
  • India: Desperate state seeks spy drones and mi ...
    Drone robots to add more teeth to anti-Maoist operations The Times of India, February 4, 2013 KHARAGPUR: After drone missiles of the US military, drone robots will come to the help of Indian security forces in anti-insurgency operations. The robots are being developed at a research institution i ...
  • India: Desperate state seeks spy drones and mi ...
    Drone robots to add more teeth to anti-Maoist operations The Times of India, February 4, 2013 KHARAGPUR: After drone missiles of the US military, drone robots will come to the help of Indian security forces in anti-insurgency operations. The robots are being developed at a research institution i ...
  • A rare show in iron-fisted monarchy: “Sa ...
    MARIAM RIZK, Associated Press, February 10, 2013 CAIRO (AP) – Residents of the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh say more than 100 people have demonstrated to call for the release of people detained without charge.  Saudi security officials say they arrested at least five people. They spoke ano ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Giffords’ Plea for More Gun Control Legislatio ...
    Gun control legislation won’t solve all of the country’s gun violence problems, but at least laws would put the authorities in the position to enforce tighter measures and make it harder for criminals to get access to certain weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 31, 2013
  • Georgia Storm Warnings Get an “A,” Preparation ...
    Tornadoes struck West Georgia again. The only lesson that seems to have been learned from prior disasters is to provide a ton of warnings. But we had those back then. What we need are protective shelters, not hallways.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Jan 30, 2013
  • Benghazi: Yes, Secretary Clinton, it Does Matt ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to know "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Either the administration had faulty intelligence reporting which needs to be exposed or President Obama lied about Benghazi.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 23, 2013
  • President Obama's Right: We're Made for This M ...
    At his second inauguration, President Barack H. Obama hit on something universal when he added a line apparently not in his prepared remarks.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 21, 2013
  • Congress Must Limit Executive Order Powers Now
    Congress needs to take steps now to define what the president can and cannot pass by executive order. President Obama's discussion about passing gun control legislation through executive order should be the catalyst.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 15, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Fox News Claims Germany Has More Solar Power T ...
    Actually, Germany has significantly less sun--they're just putting their rays to better use. In this segment of Fox & Friends, called "Pulling the Plug: The Dim Future of Solar Power," co-host Gretchen Carlson asked asked Fox Business reporter Shibani Joshi why Germany has been able to gen ...
  • A Shattered-Glass Dog And Other Amazing Photos ...
  • A Shattered-Glass Dog And Other Amazing Photos ...
    Including robot elephants, a 42-wheel BMW concept, and more Click to enter the gallery
  • A Famous Pianist Serenades Endangered Tortoise ...
    The world's most successful pianist visited the London Zoo to provide a sexy soundtrack, but the tortoises were not impressed. When you're an endangered species, people will do anything to help you get busy. For a few Galapagos tortoises at the London zoo, that meant bringing in the world's mo ...
  • BigPic: Northeastern U.S., Meet Nemo
    Like Sandy, but colder Sandy was a colossal storm that formed when two giant low-pressure systems merged over the northeastern U.S. in early November. Nemo, on the other hand, is a colossal storm that formed when two giant low-pressure systems merged over the northeastern U.S. in February. But ...

Veterans Today

  • The War for the Spirit
    We are entitled to search for the truth. The real crime committed by the National Socialists – the exclusion, disempowerment, deportation, enslavement, death by omission and by commission and expulsion of a people simply because they were that people – was a terrible one.
  • Afghan History Suppressed: Part I: Islamists, ...
      by Dean Henderson (Part one of a three-part series excerpted from Chapter 8: Project Frankenstein: Afghanistan: Big Oil & Their Bankers…) The Wall Street Journal reported awhile back that the Syrian government had reversed a ban on women teachers wearing Islamic face coverings in the ...
  • Drone Wrath for a Compliant Society
    The military has transformed warfare into a deadly computer game with drone weapons. Media programs like Weaponology or Future Weapons on the Military Channel provide detailed examples of the lethalness of autonomous technology.
  • Elite Underground
    Elite Underground   by Rand Clifford — Imagine a machine tunneling seven miles per day through solid rock, boulders and clay…virtually anything below the waterline. A machine whose heart is a compact nuclear reactor circulating liquid lithium at 2,000 degrees F. through a rotating fa ...
  • France Sets Sight on “African Dream”
    “Hollande’s France is out for Africa, whether with or without the established players of the region ” Moving well into the 1st quarter of 21st century, the global dimension for areas under influence of great powers has changed to a great extent. A review of international political spectrum refle ...

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Internat'l Political Economy

  • Growing Export Markets by Immigration in Canada
    Pro-migration voices like myself usually argue that the exchange of people is mutually beneficial for destination and source countries alike. Destination countries--usually wealthier Western nations experiencing declining birth rates--benefit from having newer workers joining the labour force wh ...
  • HM Imported BoE Guv'nor: Most Powerful CBanker
     I am currently watching former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney testify before Britain's Monetary Policy Committee about what he will do once he assumes the equivalent position at the Bank of England in July. These are difficult times for the UK; of that there's no doubt as a double-dip ...
  • United States vs S&P: Sovereign Ratings Next?
    It is with great interest that I am following the ongoing civil suit by the United States against the rating agency Standard and Poor's. Awhile ago, Tim Sinclair over at Warwick University came out with a book entitled "The New Masters of Capital" describing how credit rating agencies supposedly ...
  • EU-Mercosur FTA vs Trade-Willing 'Pacific Alli ...
    Which does not belong? In case you missed it, recent talks between EU and Latin American leaders again failed to produce an FTA that has long been under consideration, EU-MERCOSUR. This was at a CELAC gathering in Santiago, Chile where European leaders who bothered to make the trip alike Angela ...
  • South Korea Declares Int'l Currency War on Japan
    Ho hum, another week, another declaration by a non-Western country that it will attempt to staunch the inflow of capital from elsewhere that is driving up the local currency and making imports less competitive. Japan of course started the latest salvo when the LDP regained power and promptly dec ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...
  • Watch The Financial Markets In Europe
    Is the financial system of Europe on the verge of a meltdown?  I have always maintained that the next wave of the economic crisis would begin in Europe, and right now the situation in Europe is unraveling at a frightening pace.  On Monday, European stocks had their worst day in over six months, ...
  • Do Wall Street Insiders Expect Something Reall ...
    Why are corporate insiders dumping huge numbers of shares in their own companies right now?  Why are some very large investors suddenly making gigantic bets that the stock market will crash at some point in the next 60 days?  Do Wall Street insiders expect something really BIG to happen very soo ...
  • Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccoun ...
    An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe.  It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks.  It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also ...
  • Rise Of The Droids: Will Robots Eventually Ste ...
    Will a robot take your job?  We have entered a period in human history when technology is advancing at an exponential rate.  In some ways, this has been a great blessing for humanity.  For example, I am absolutely blown away by all of the things that my little iPod can do.  But on the other [...]

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Voiceless Victim

  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    It was encouraging to learn today that German researchers working with catholic officials to produce the latest, supposedly independent, supposedly research based support for Vatican lies about endemic child rape by catholic religious have had enough and pulled the plug on the project. Read the ...
  • Fire’s Too Good for These Devils
    As much of Australia prepares to face catastrophic bush fire conditions today, I hope everyone is safe from fires and comes through unscathed. That even includes the church’s carefully protected child rapists and those who sacrifice additional children to cover up their crimes. Fire is too ...

WL Central

  • 2013-02-04 Julian Assange receives Yoko Ono Le ...
    On 3 February 2013 at a private dinner at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, attended by more than 150 guests, Julian Assange will receive the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts 2013 for his WikiLeaks work including, amongst other releases, Collateral Murder. This award is ...
  • 2013-02-02 Exclusive: CIA Drug Money Plot to O ...
    WikiLeaks Central presents an exclusive interview with Chilean journalist Patricio Mery, who claims the CIA has been actively plotting to destabilise or even assassinate Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, after US anger over decisions such as the granting of political asylum to Julian Assange an ...
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 14 January 2013 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of statements made by members of the Swedish Executive and government officials on the Assange case. read more
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 28 November 2012 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of links to evidence relating to the existence of a criminal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks. read more
  • 2013-01-02 Inside the Hourglass, A World Risin ...
    With economic and military force, in the last decades the United States has attained sole superpower status in the world. The legacy of the US empire carries a dark history: genocide of natives, slavery of blacks and criminalizing immigrants from the South. None can deny that much of US hegemon ...

U N News

  • Elections, jobs critical for Haiti's current a ...
    The outgoing head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti says that during his 20-months tenure, security had greatly improved in the Caribbean country, but delayed elections and unemployment still threatened stability.
  • Haiti: Security Council calls for timely elect ...
    Reaffirming its commitment to Haiti as the United Nations seeks to complete its peacekeeping mission in the crisis-beset country, the Security Council has urged all political actors to work constructively on priorities, including credible 2013 elections and security sector reform.
  • Dismissal of Honduran Supreme Court judges an ...
    A United Nations independent expert today expressed grave concern over the decision by the Honduran Congress to dismiss four Supreme Court judges, and called on the Government to reconsider its decision.
  • UN rights office concerned at alarming' levels ...
    The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern at an "alarming" pattern of violence in Venezuelan prisons, with the latest incident leaving 58 inmates dead and around 100 injured.
  • UN chief saddened by tragic fire at Brazil nig ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was saddened to learn of the tragic fire that occurred at a nightclub in Brazil on Saturday night, which led to the death of hundreds of people.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Sea Shepherd Investigation Results in Indictme ...
    Back in 2010, Sea Shepherd activist, pelican rescuer and lead singer for Pennywise Zoli Teglas discovered that the Hump Restaurant in Santa Monica was serving whale meat to special customers.  Sea Shepherd responded with an investigation and sent in undercover activists to gain the trust of the ...
  • Young Population Activist Bindi Irwin Stifled ...
    Original post by Joe Bish of the Population Media Center Many of you may recall the 2006 death of Steve Irwin, an Australian wildlife expert,television personality, and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter” (he was pierced in the heart by a stingray). You may not know, howe ...
  • Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Launches Two ...
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the world’s leading direct-action conservation non-profit, today has filed two petitions on the White House  “We The People” page of the website which seek the U.S. Government’s support in upholding conservation law regarding protecting at-risk whales in the An ...
  • Life on the Brink
    LIFE ON THE BRINK  Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation Edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist University of Georgia Press, December 2012 About the book Life on the Brink aspires to reignite a robust discussion of population issues among environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, ...
  • Wild Utah Project needs your help!
    HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising chall ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • H.R. 75 ... American Sovereignty Restoration ...
    Mr. BROUN of Georgia introduces bill to end U.S. membership of United Nations ... Contact your legislators urging passage of this bill. The United Nations is a dangerous and useless body of globalists threatening world peace and sovereignty. ~ Document read more
  • Another Lie!... America is NOT Broke!
    Contrary to what the power brokers would have you believe in order that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life that people live in a third world country, the globalists want you to believe that you are broke and there is nothing you can do about it. America is no ...
  • Ruby Ridge
    Ruby Ridge was the site of a deadly confrontation and siege in northern Idaho in 1992. It involved Randy Weaver, his family, Weaver’s friend Kevin Harris, and agents of the United States Marshals Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation. It resulted in the death of Weaver’s son Sammy, his ...
  • An Inconvenient Tooth
    An Inconvenient Tooth is a documentary film about fluoride. It was released September 6th, 2012 at the city hall in Portland, Oregon. Fluoride does horrible damage to human bones, thyroids, the pineal gland, and many other areas of the body, yet big industry, the medical establishment, and t ...
  • Sandy Hook... CT Cop Goes Public... Exposes Co ...
    Connecticut cop Mark S. Mann breaks down all the evidence and facts surrounding Adam Lanza’s killing spree. ~ Thomas Dishaw - A Must hear 2 part Audio read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Tips To Stay Safe During A House Fire
    REACT React when you hear your smoke alarm. If you hear your smoke detector or alarm going off, get out of bed, wrap yourself in a blanket if there’s one handy and get the heck out of there! Shoes or slippers are a good idea if they are handy, but do not take the time [...]
  • Shoveling All Day
    No post today… I’ve been shoveling all day and now it’s time to rest the aching bones
  • 6 Tips For Bug Free Food Storage
    The following are a few quick tips regarding food storage in 5 gallon buckets, and a few preventative measures to keep bugs and critters neutralized.   Diatomaceous earth Use food-grade diatomaceous earth for grains. All grain already has the eggs of insects in it – it’s just th ...
  • The 2nd Crash, The Big One, Is Coming, And It& ...
    This one is going to be different. It’s not a correction, it’s a crash. Economic forecaster Harry Dent says “I see the Dow Jones Average winding down, week after week… falling through the 12,000 mark… below 10,000, then 9,000, 8,000… to 6,440 – where it’s likely to rally briefl ...
  • NOT to sound paranoid, but seriously, WHAT are ...
    The story below continues to worsen, in that more and more LARGE ammunition purchases by and for the DHS are apparently dwarfing that of the military itself, all which began during 2012. They have also just purchased 7,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC ASSAULT RIFLES. All this for a department that is NOT the ...

Fast Company

  • Reaction To Pope's Resignation A Mixture Of Sh ...
    Speculation is beginning to rise over the state of the 88-year-old's health. Pope Benedict XVI's shock announcement this morning that he was resigning at the end of the month has completely dominated the Twittersphere this morning (in Italy, he was being run a close second by #justinbieber ...
  • Sniffing Opportunity, Ad Guys Bring Manly Scen ...
    Draftfcb Chicago has an aromatic new entry into the agency IP game, Archer Air Superiority room spray. “I guarantee you, we’re the best-smelling agency in the country,” says Todd Tilford, chief creative officer of Draftfcb Chicago. That’s thanks to a supply of Arche ...
  • San Francisco’s Bay Bridge Is About To Become ...
    The project, called Bay Lights, involves 25,000 LEDs that will flash out a pattern that won’t repeat for two years. San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is the dollar store version of the famed Golden Gate Bridge: it’s a bridge that transports cars, sure, but it’s less attrac ...
  • Peek Inside The Notebooks Of The World’s Best ...
    There’s doodling, and then there’s doodling. Doodle is one of those great words that really captures the essence of the activity it describes, something frivolous and lighthearted but also a little bit lazy. Writing the word in cursive, which for some reason seems perfectly app ...
  • Amazon's Super-Depot In The U.K. Raises Questi ...
    The Financial Times feature quoted a manager as saying of his staff, "You're sort of like a robot, but in human form. It's human automation, if you like." An in-depth feature by the Financial Times throws stark light on life at one of Amazon's super depots in the U.K. The firm, No. 2 in Fa ...

Jadaliyya

  • Spring 2013 Internships at ASI . . . Now Avail ...
    The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) is now offering new internship opportunities that involve training and production at various levels in one of ASI’s five organizations: Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya, Forum on Arab and Muslim Affairs, Quilting Point, and Tadween Publishing.  The internshi ...
  • Media On Media Roundup (February 11)
    [The "Media On Media Roundup" is an initiative to survey published material in the news and broadcast media that deals with journalism, coverage, or mass communication practices about the region. The items collected here do not reflect the views of the Media Page Editors or of Jadaliyy ...
  • المـوجات الثـلاث للثـورة المصرية
    ليست المرة الأولى التي تُلقي إحدى موجات الثورة زجاجات المولوتوف الحارقة في مواجهاتها مع السلطة، ويبدو أنها لن تكون الأخيرة. فهناك دم سال على خطوط المواجهات وفي أقبية السلطة، وهناك ثورة لم تخمد لأنها عصية على القمع، وتمرد لا يهدأ لأن السلطة لم تتغير. تدعي السلطة الحاكمة وجهاز الدولة (ويجادل بعض ا ...
  • If You Are From the North, You Are Guilty: On ...
    A displaced Timbuktian entered a store in Bamako. “As-salamu alaykum,” he said. The manager stiffened and eyed him suspiciously. “Why do you greet me with ‘As-salamu alaykum?’” he asked. “Because we are both Muslim,” the Timbuktian said in the heavily-accented Bambara typical of the Songhay of ...
  • “The awakening of a radical reality”? Reflecti ...
    (PhotoCairo 5 was held between 14 November and 17 December 2012. It was organized by the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo and curated by Mia Jankowicz.) PhotoCairo 5 was not photography and not Cairo. It was a mélange of video, conceptual art, installations, and photographic productions ...

mediagazer

  • Newspapers Turning Ideas into Dollars (Project ...
    Project for Excellence in Journalism: Newspapers Turning Ideas into Dollars  —  In America's embattled newspaper industry, some business innovations are showing clear signs of success, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.  While many of these are occurring ...
  • The Inconvenient but Vital Drone Debate (David ...
    David Carr / New York Times: The Inconvenient but Vital Drone Debate  —  Last week, the debate over drone strikes broke out into plain view during the confirmation hearings for John O. Brennan, President Obama's choice to head the Central Intelligence Agency.  Given that th ...
  • The newsonomics of pressing innovation (Ken Do ...
    Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of pressing innovation  —  Technology changes everything, right?  —  We've seen that truism restated as iPads reignite longer-form reading, as smartphones and tablets increase minutes of news usage, and as Kindl ...
  • In Venture With NBC, Esquire Expands Into Tele ...
    Bill Carter / New York Times: In Venture With NBC, Esquire Expands Into Television  —  Esquire, the magazine that has relied on the printed page for the last 80 years, is about to make a move into television.  —  On Monday, NBCUniversal will announce that it has ...
  • Financial Times editor Lionel Barber: 'News no ...
    Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Financial Times editor Lionel Barber: ‘News now is not the newspaper’  —  As the FT celebrates its 125th birthday, Barber outlines his plans for a digital revolution  —  Pink is a colour associated with good health and in th ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

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

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/8/13 - Do electronic voting machines improve ...
    votingmachines.procon.org  - Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process? - Find new pro arguments from voting machine manufacturers ES&S, Hart Intercivic, and Scytl; and new con arguments from David Dill of Verified Voting, Dr. Nathaniel Polish from Daedalus Technology Gro ...
  • 2/7/13 - Population Estimates of Undocumented ...
    immigration.procon.org  - Population Estimates of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States, 1969-2011 - View charts and graphs that show the steady rise in the undocumented immigrant population in the United States from an estimated 540,000 people (or 0.3% of the US population) in 196 ...
  • 2/5/13 - Should the United States return to a ...
    gold-standard.procon.org – Should the United States return to a gold standard? – Read pro and con quotes from Ron Paul (pro), Paul Krugman (con), Lewis E. Lehrman (pro), Ben Bernanke (con), Steve Forbes (pro), Ezra Klein (con), and other politicians, academics, businessmen, and journalists.
  • 2/5/13 - ProCon.org Reader Survey, 2013
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org Reader Survey, 2013 - Please take a couple of minutes to tell us about yourself, and let us know how we’re doing and what we can do to improve.
  • 2/4/13 - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of Wh ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of What It Is and What It Is Not - Our compilation of authoritative responses to 62 questions on Obamacare now includes a new section on the 19 taxes, penalties, fees, and deduction eliminations within the PPACA and Reconciliation Act.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Never say no
    On Thursday 7 February 2013, the Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Professor Martyn Poliakoff, and I were privileged to watch the birth of a new tradition at the Tanzania Academy of Sciences. It was the first ever induction of new Fellows since the Academy was set up in 2005, and has quadr ...
  • What counts as good evidence for policy?
    What counts as good evidence for policy? It’s a question that’s fundamental to work in the Science Policy world and it was the focus of a debate, jointly organised by the Science and Technology Studies Department at UCL and the SPRU at the University of Sussex, earlier this week. The assembled p ...
  • User-friendly science for resilience
    In a month that saw a blanket of snow and a flurry of flood warnings in quick succession, last week’s Wilton Park workshop ‘Building global resilience to natural hazards’ could not have been more apt. Fortunately the UK weather held off long enough to allow a host of experts from around the glob ...
  • User-friendly science for resilience
    In a month that saw a blanket of snow and a flurry of flood warnings in quick succession, last week’s Wilton Park workshop ‘Building global resilience to natural hazards’ could not have been more apt. Fortunately the UK weather held off long enough to allow a host of experts from around the glob ...
  • Tomorrow’s World: Will Intellectual Property a ...
    In his recent ‘Tomorrow’s World’ speech at the Policy Exchange, the Right Honorable David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities and Science  sets out a vision for how the UK could become a world leader in eight future technologies (building on the Chancellor’s speech at the Royal Society in Nov ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Greater Protections for Great Whites
    West coast white sharks one step closer to protection Photo: David P. Stephens The unique population of great white sharks off California has been awarded ‘candidacy’ status under the California Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Game Commission unanimously voted to advance white sharks to ...
  • Americans Deserve Better in the Arctic Ocean
    Coast Guard helicopter hoists crew members from the Kulluk. Photo: Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis Alaskan waters can be harsh and unforgiving. Operating here requires careful planning, attention to detail, and, most of all, respect. Unfortunately, we have watched as Shell ha ...
  • Oceana and National Geographic Launch Expediti ...
    The DeepSea prepares for a dive Today we’re proud to announce that Oceana and National Geographic are embarking on a truly unprecedented expedition to one of the most remote and unexplored areas on earth, the Desventuradas Islands. 530 miles west of the desolate Atacama Desert in Chile are ...
  • Alaskan Skate Nurseries Gain Protection
    On Thursday, six skate nurseries in Alaska’s Bering Sea were designated as “Habitat Areas of Particular Concern.”  Skates are a member of the ray family, and live on the seafloor.  The designation requires consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service before activities such a ...
  • Oceana CEO: Historic win for Europe's Fisheries
    Bottom trawlers embark from Roses, Spain in Catalonia. ©Oceana/Juan Cuetos I just received some tremendous news out of Europe. After almost two years of debate, the European Parliament has voted to overhaul the management of its fisheries, the fifth largest in the world.   The Euro ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Senator Lindsay Graham to Put Hold on Obama No ...
    I want to know who changed the talking points. Who took the references to Al Qaeda out of the talking points given to Susan Rice? We still don’t know…. I want to know what our president did. What did he do as commander in chief? Did he ever pick up the phone and call anybody? [...]
  • News Desk: Pope Benedict XVI Set to Abdicate
    THE PAPACY of Benedict XVI has been marred from the start by the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, which the hierarchy has handled horrifically from the moment it was revealed. The Pope refused to defrock one priest who molested 200 deaf boys. The documents emerge as Pope Benedict is ...
  • ‘Man Prayer’: On February 14, One Billion Risi ...
    It shouldn’t be necessary, the efforts required to get people to pay serious attention to the violence done daily to women and girls around the world. The horror should have “one billion” and more demanding it stop, should shame billions out of our silence. It’s only a few days before V-Day’s On ...
  • Obama, Democrats, Tea Party Extremists and Tho ...
    “When I think about what it means to be a Democrat in this day and age, I start with the basic proposition that we are all created equal, that we’re all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights,” Obama told House Democrats on Thursday at a retreat in Virginia, offering a glimpse of ...
  • Queer Talk: Two Phelps’ Granddaughters Leave W ...
    One evening years ago in Nashville, I stood with about 500 LGBTs and allies in front of the Metro Courthouse, where the City Council was meeting. We were standing in support of adding sexual orientation to the city’s nondiscrimination code. We ultimately lost that round, but some years later, wo ...

Hudson New York

  • Erdogan: "The Image of the Jews Is No Differen ...
    In November 1998, the Institute for Jewish Policy Research released its annual report on current trends in anti-Semitism across the world. In the section for Turkey, the journal quoted the then-mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in June 1997, at a
  • France, the Sick Man of Europe
    France is the sick man of Europe -- at least, that is how the French themselves apparently see it. Last month, a survey published in the leading newspaper, Le Monde, found that a large majority of the French believe that France's economic power and
  • The Hamas-Egyptian Alliance
    Did Hamas dispatch 7,000 militiamen from the Gaza Strip to Egypt to protect President Mohamed Morsi, who is currently facing a popular uprising? Reports that appeared in a number of Egyptian opposition media outlets in the past few days claimed that the
  • The high cost of defending Israel
    Whenever I speak in support of Israel or in criticism of its enemies, the dogs of defamation are unleashed against me. The attacks, all from the hard left, seemed coordinated, focusing on common ad hominem themes. They accuse me of being a plagiarist, a
  • Paying People to Hate You
    And so it was that I found myself once again in a meeting in the twilight world of Brussels -- an ugly city filled with ugly buildings, ugly overpriced food and overpaid officials. The objective of any visit must always be a hit-an-run: to get in and get

Urban Survival

  • National Theatrics: The Stand Up’s S.O.U.
    Tomorrow night will feature the State Of the Union address by president Obama to congress.  Rand Paul will deliver the Tea Party reply.   There seem to be two tracks of it getting played large:  One is obviously the economy … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Spring ‘Dream Weather’
    It’s hard telling where all the odd dreams came from overnight, but I have a list of suspects.  One would be the electrically charged weather than came through East Texas on Sunday at about 2-AM.  By 4 AM, there was … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Global Conspiracy
    Reader Robert sent in a pretty interesting op/ed note, which may set you off scratching about for details and deeper readings… —— “George, Please refer to the One Peoples Public Trust website.  They are claiming they have perfected a claim … Continue reading &# ...
  • The Digital Storm
    Much is beingf made today about the digital impacts of the snow, which is now falling, on much of the nation’s northeast.  While reports circulate that FEMA is predicting blackouts, there’s been something of a run on ATM’s as people … Continue reading →
  • How Spain Collapses World
    You likely already know that Spain is broke…and you’ve no doubt followed the break-away actions in Catalonia.  But we’re about midway between a quiver and a pucker this morning as we read the results of the latest Spanish bond auction. … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • The Hidden Lives of Wolves
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Anyone who is fascinated by wolves, as I am, will know the name Dutcher.  Specifically, Jim and Jamie Dutcher, who brought wolves into the lives of millions of people through their film ...
  • Polar Bears Will Just Adapt to Land, Right?
    Zack Strong, Wildlife Conservation Fellow, Livingston, Montana   Polar bears use arctic sea ice as a platform to hunt their favorite food, seals.  Unfortunately, climatic warming is rapidly melting the ice.  Without it, scientists ...
  • The American Meat Institute Gets it Wrong on A ...
    Aaron French, Sustainable Agriculture Specialist, San Francisco While nearly every major health organization in the country has sounded the alarm over rising rates of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) h ...
  • Yes We Can Get There From Here
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Last July I published an issue brief called Closer than You Think, pointing out that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2011 were lower than many people realized—about 9 per ...
  • Latin America Green News: renewables get a pus ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. February 2-February 8, 2013 Chile: “Caring for our energy toget ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, February 7, 2013: Minneapolis, Minnesota: A state trooper, who was named Officer of the Year in 2002, has been found guilty of theft by swindle and four counts of … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFee ...
  • Worst of the Month — January 2013
    We are starting a new feature here on the web site.  We’re basically going to highlight what we think was the worst police misconduct story each month.   We invite feedback from our readers–whether by email or postings on our Facebook … Continue reading →Wo ...
  • Two Women Shot by LAPD
    From the LA Times: Two women who were shot by Los Angeles police in Torrance early Thursday during a massive manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer were delivering newspapers, sources said. The women, shot in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue, … Continue reading →Two Women Shot by LAPD is a ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, February 6, 2013: Herkimer, New York: A police officer has been charged with second-degree murder in his son’s shooting at a motel. He says he shot his son after … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct Ne ...
  • Police Misconduct in Cleveland
    WKYC in Cleveland has a report about lawsuit settlements against the city for police misconduct. Video at the link above.Police Misconduct in Cleveland is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Twitter Search goes ba ...
    Apple may accelerate its dole-out of surplus cash to investors, Twitter Search results finally start to go back further than a week, and Spotify finally lands on Windows Phone 8.... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Yahoo partners with Google f ...
    Yahoo has announced a display ads partnership with Google, it’s confirmed that Facebook has deleted data used for its controversial face recognition feature in Europe, and Twitter revamps search in... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Vine’s new ratin ...
    On today’s Daily Dose, we look at Vine’s new App Store rating, Google’s eighth billion dollar purchase, and ponder over the fact that Apple has served more app downloads than song sales.... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Dell goes private, About.me cl ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Dell goes private in $24.4 billion acquisition, About.me splits from AOL and Amazon launches a new currency. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Samsung sells three TVs per se ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, j2 Global buys IGN Entertainment from News Corporation, Samsung sells three TVs every second and Raspberry Pi’s Model A board goes on sale in Europe. You... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Go LED and kill Hazelwood?
    By Trent Hawkins According to analysis conducted by Beyond Zero Emissions, lighting in homes is responsible for about seven per cent of household electricity use, and around 30 per cent of electricity for commercial and retail buildings. That's quite a large amount of energy use, but it could ...
  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...
  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...
  • This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
    For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...
  • BZE Awards its Volunteers
    BZE relies on its dedicated and skilled volunteers for much of our research and public education initiatives. All our volunteers deserve an award! Today we are recognising those people that have excelled themselves in 2012. A big thank you to them and to all the people that have volunteered fo ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • 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 ...
  • Child labor caught on film at palm oil plantat ...
    School-age children were caught on camera working for a palm oil plantation company, PT Sinar Sawit Andalan (SSA), in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province.
  • Snake pictures celebrating the Year of the Snake
    Sunday, February 10, marks start of Chinese New Year. 2013 is the "Year of the Snake" — specifically the water snake.
  • New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Aus ...
    Electricity supplied from a new wind farm is cheaper than that from a new gas or coal-fired power plant in Australia, reports a new analysis published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
  • Report: nearly half the timber from Mozambique ...
    Forty-eight percent of the timber making its way from Mozambique's forests to Chinese companies was harvested illegally, according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which blames the problem on widespread corruption and poor governance. The illegal logging cost Moza ...

Sierra Express

  • New School for Yams Farm Sierra Leone
    The intention of Ripsta Culture Foundation Sierra Leone in collaboration with Children Crossing Cultures, Suomi Sierra Leone Seura in Finland to start a school for the deprived children in Yams Farms has materialized as a temporary structure has been erected to commence learning with 80 pupils w ...
  • Youth Excellence Awards – Sierra Leone
    Nomination forms are now available across various locations in Freetown, Bo, and Makeni for Sierra Leone’s inaugural Youth Excellence Awards.   Any individual between the ages of 15-35 of Sierra Leonean nationality, parentage, or birth is eligible. Winners will be revealed at an awards gala at t ...
  • 2013 African Diaspora World Tourism Awards an ...
    African Diaspora World Tourism Awards & Travel Show Expo will explode in Atlanta, Ga. (USA) on April 26-28, 2013. The three-day eventwill also include a Travel Show Expo, an Africana Culture Performances Extravaganza, a Hall of Fame Luncheon and Visit Africa and Caribbean luncheons, in addit ...
  • Former Sierra Leone Special Court Investigator ...
    Prince Taylor, a former Defence investigator at the Special Court, must serve a total of 2½ years on his conviction of interfering with Prosecution witnesses, Justice Teresa Doherty ruled today. Prince Taylor was convicted on 25 January 2013 on five counts of contempt of court. The first four co ...
  • This Week In: English Football – Is The Title ...
    Manchester City fell a further two behind their neighbours in the title race last weekend, as they were held to a 2-2 draw by Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium.  It could have been worst for Mancini’s men in there bid to retain the Premiership trophy, as the Reds took the lead with 15 minutes to [...]

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy prices up 2.4pc in first GDT auction sin ...
    Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, the first since news emerged last month that small traces of a nitrate inhibitor had been found in some of the company's milk powder. The GDT-TWI Price...
  • Chinese dairy giant enters NZ market with $210 ...
    The establishment of a new player in New Zealand dairy product manufacturing took a step closer today when China's Yashili entered into a conditional agreement to buy industrial land for a proposed infant milk formula plant at Pokeno,...
  • Chinese dairy giant buys land for $210m factory
    China's Yashili New Zealand Dairy Co has entered into a conditional agreement to buy industrial land for a proposed infant milk formula plant at Pokeno, in the Waikato.The company is waiting on Overseas Investment Office (OIO) approval...
  • Sue Kedgley: Another food scare, another crisis
    It's always interesting to see how corporations and governments respond to a food safety crisis.There's invariably a temptation to cover up, procrastinate, deny or downplay a food safety risk because of its potential to scare off...
  • Mood grim on sheep and beef farms
    A long spell of dry weather and the high kiwi dollar are causing "a deepening pessimism" to spread among sheep and beef farmers around the country.Federated Farmers' latest

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Shouldn't Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell Pay F ...
    The Dayton Daily News (one of the most consistently interesting regional papers in the country) has a great story on the spendthrift ways of the U.S. Senate, the World's Greatest Deliberative Body that has been unable or unwilling to pass a budget for coming up on four years straigh ...
  • City Outlaws Roommates
    Last week, city council members in Watertown, New York, which is 70 miles north of Syracuse, voted 3-2 to outlaw roommates. Via Your News Now: A woman living on Thompson Boulevard in the city brought concerns to the council because she said her [next-door] neighbor was living w ...
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from the Holy See
    Pope Benedict XVI announced today that he'll be retiring at the end of the month, citing health reasons for his decision. If you're wondering how many times that has happened in the past, the answer, according to The Washington Post's Max Fisher, is four. The retiring popes range f ...
  • 'Largest Annual Spending Cut in History' Actua ...
    Here's a cup of bitter stuff to start your week: On Saturday, The Washington Post looked back at the spending cuts made in the April, 2011 budget deal. During the negotiations, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that his party's goal was to get "the largest spending cuts that ...
  • A.M. Links: Pope to Resign, Dorner Target of D ...
    Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will resign at the end of the month, saying that he is finding it difficult to carry out papal duties at his age. Ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner is now a target of drones. Officials hope that thermal cameras on UAVs will help in ...

Mercury Rising

  • Solar-Powered Rail: It’s A Reality In Fr ...
    Hat tip to a Solar Roadways Facebook page commenter for this story from June of 2011 about the world’s first solar-powered high-speed railway tunnel: The 3.6-kilometer (2.2-mile) tunnel, built to protect trains from falling trees as they pass through an ancient forest near Antwerp, is cove ...
  • Surprise! Wind Now Cheaper Than Coal In Austra ...
    Here’s something you probably won’t see on FOX News any time soon, even though it’s from Rupert Murdoch’s homeland: Something interesting is happening in Australia. A new study by the research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance has found that unsubsidized renewable energy ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Westboro Schism
    David Batty, The Guardian: One of the most prominent members of the Westboro Baptist church has left it after spending her life as part of the fervently anti-gay movement. Megan Phelps-Roper, who looked after social media for the church best known for its slogan “God hates fags”, ann ...
  • Truth Is The Daughter Of Time: Richard III Eme ...
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Reality Sandwich

  • Does Prophecy Work?
    The following is reprinted from Supernatural: Writings on an Unknown History with the permission of Tarcher/Penguin (www.tarcherbooks.com). read more
  • Sex in the News
    Can MDMA improve your long-term love, Ed Koch is dead but his greatest failure lives on, why some people lie about relationships, and more in this week's sex in the news.  BONUS! To get you all groomed up for Valentines Day (and smelly sexy) my friends at ProjectFIG are giving Sex in the ...
  • Coming Clean: A Conscious Guide to Food Cleanses
    This article is excerpted from Coming Clean: A Conscious Guide to Food Cleanses, recently released by Evolver Health e-books, a new series of novella-length digital titles.  read more
  • This Week in Psychedelics
      Johns Hopkins studies challenging mushroom trips, the NY Public Library archives Timothy Leary's papers, and actors consume mescaline for a Sundance film in this week's psychedelic news. read more
  • Deep Basement Mysteries
    Hey you media-munching Evolvernauts!   If you haven't checked it out already, bounce on over to our new YouTube channel, EvolverNetTV. In effort to propagate Evolver's hyper-dimensional logos deeper into the brush of the cybersphere, we're rolling out YouTube playlists by co ...

Desertification

  • New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civi ...
    The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new oil. Land is the ...
  • World Bank Unmoved on Auditor’s Criticism of F ...
    Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution’s decade-long forest policy, expressing their “strong disagreement” with some assertions in the report. The assessment, written by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the ...
  • OP-ED: Weird, and Getting Weirder
    Weird is the only way to describe January temperatures whipsawing between record warm and arctic cold over a span of a few days. Experts say that is what climate change looks like: weird, record-shattering weather. Here’s a fact that goes beyond weird to astonishing. Anyone who is 27 years ...
  • Peering into the Energy Crystal Ball
    Trying to predict the future of the energy sector is like trying to predict the weather in London in an era of global warming. But delegates had a go at it during the three-day World Future Energy Summit that ended in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 17. They foresee new world leaders in the energy sector, [...]
  • Digging for Water, But Striking Oil
    The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil. But when the oil-blessed region runs out of water, there could be a change in the political landscape, triggering potential conflicts. The world’s future wars, experts predic ...

Blogging Canadians

  • "A Piece of Shit Singer who Spends Her Days on ...
    What do you call a piece of shit singer who spends her days on YouTube looking for people's ideas to 'borrow'? "Beyonce." by "Radical Comedian" As originally posted on: Radical Comedian (RadicalComedian) on Twitter January 1, 2013
  • "Duly Elected or Appointed Officials" and the ...
    Diagram of Necessary and Proper Clause by Jon Roland As originally posted on: Constitution July 9, 2012 One of the most controversial clauses of the Constitution is Art. I Sec. 8 Cl. 18, which reads: [The] Congress shall have Power [...] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and prope ...
  • "Encroaching Tyranny on either a National or G ...
    ON SECESSION AND SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE by Michael Hill As originally posted on: DixieNet.Org November 14, 2012 The voluntary union (or confederacy) of States known as the United States was born of a secessionist movement against Great Britain, and our Declaration of Independence is, at bas ...
  • "The Embedded Reporter"
    Why did the embedded reporter cross the road? "Because there was a story that need a pro-military bias!" by "Radical Comedian" As originally posted on: Radical Comedian (RadicalComedian) on Twitter January 1, 2013
  • "Some Parts of the Country" and "the Governmen ...
    Diagram of Tax/Spend/Welfare Clause by Jon Roland As originally posted on: Constitution July 8, 2012 A useful exercise is to diagram the clauses of the U.S. Constitution using the Reed-Kellogg method many of us learned in public school. Here is the diagram for a slightly abbreviated versi ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • 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.
  • Powerful blast heard in Damascus
    A powerful explosion has been heard outside the French embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, as Syrian soldiers continue battling foreign-sponsored militants on the outskirts of the city.
  • Syria Army kills several militants
    The Syrian Army has killed several foreign-sponsored militants, and confiscated a large cache of weapons and ammunition from terrorists in Damascus suburbs.
  • Palestinians rally against Israel project
    Hundreds of Palestinian people have held a demonstration against Israel’s new road project in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
  • Bomb hits Poland amb. to Iraq’s convoy
    Polish foreign ministry says the convoy of the country's ambassador to Iraq was struck by a roadside bomb but the ambassador escaped unharmed.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • globalpost:NEED TO KNOWIt’s time to pick a ...
    globalpost: NEED TO KNOW It’s time to pick a new pope. Breaking reports from the Vatican say that Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month. We didn’t see that one coming. There’s no official word yet as to why – but as to who’s next, the speculation begins now. Mali’s army has w ...
  • If you missed my conversation with Bill Moyers ...
    If you missed my conversation with Bill Moyers about my new book, Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, you can watch it here or at Moyers & Company.
  • aakritiu:teachingliteracy:mightymur:The f ...
    aakritiu: teachingliteracy: mightymur: The final, brilliant word on passive voice. “She was killed [by zombies.]” “Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” Why didn’t they tech us this in school?!
  • 8th Avenue at 13th Street and Jackson Square, ...
    8th Avenue at 13th Street and Jackson Square, West side to , Manhattan (10/27/40)
  • killanythingthatmoves:Troops in the field re ...
    killanythingthatmoves: Troops in the field regularly carved their unit’s initials or numbers into corpses, adorned bodies with their unit’s patch, or left a “death card”— generally either an ace of spades or a custom- printed business card claiming credit for the kill. Company A, 1st Battalion ...

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