Thursday, February 14, 2013

14 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • UK case of novel coronavirus
    The Health Protection Agency (HPA) can confirm a further case of novel coronavirus infection in a family member of the case announced on Monday 11 February. The patient, who is a UK resident, does not have any recent travel history and is currently receiving intensive care treatment at The Queen ...
  • UK horsemeat undergoes bute testing
    All horses slaughtered in Britain for human consumption must now undergo testing for the common anti-inflammatory drug, Phenylbutazone. Phenylbutazone, or bute, is banned from entering the human food chain because it can cause rare but serious adverse effects in humans, such as blood discrasi ...
  • Figures behind Kyoto may be too low
    Greenhouse gas emissions in the 1990s could have been underestimated by billions of tonnes, throwing doubt on some of the maths behind the Kyoto Protocol, research by Australian and international scientists suggests. The research team measured real-world changes in the amount of CO2 building ...
  • Italy: political crisis as bank scandal turns ...
    Italian magistrates investigating losses at Banca Monte dei Paschi say the mushrooming scandal has taken a dramatic turn, with political fallout that threatens to rock the country’s elections next month and upset eurozone plans for a banking union.
  • Prisoner X was Mossad Agent, Ben Zygier
    Back in 2010, I reported that Israel had arrested an unidentified individual, and imprisoned him in total secrecy in an Israeli jail. The cell he occupied had once housed Yigal Amir. Even his jailers didn’t know who he was. His jailers apparently did a lousy job of monitoring Prisoner X, as h ...

Independent - London

  • Security guards, electric fences and CCTV coul ...
    Behind a three metre high cappuccino-coloured brick wall topped with an additional metre of electric fencing, neat rows of nearly identical houses stretch down manicured streets, interspersed with sprinklers and palm trees. Golf carts chug by, as dozens of security guards patrol in navy uniform ...
  • Oscar Pistorius: From flagbearer to fallen idol
    It was at the London Paralympics when Oscar Pistorius's mask first slipped. The South African sprinter, whose heroic effort to compete against able-bodied athletes had seen him take part in the Olympics the month before, responded to his first defeat in a 200m final by rounding on the man who h ...
  • Bonjour, Daveed! The puppet David Beckham gets ...
    David Beckham is officially part of French life. Becks has yet to play a single minute for Paris Saint-Germain but his effigy has made its debut on the popular TV satirical puppet show, Les Guignols de l’info.Related Stories'The face of the Church is marred by sins against unity': Outgoing Pope ...
  • Mossad: the service that's really secret
    The murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh at an upmarket Dubai hotel in 2010; the killing of Gerald Bull, a Canadian scientist, on his doorstep in Brussels in 1990; the honeytrap set for Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu in Rome in 1986; the death of Ben Zygier in Israel’s most secure priso ...
  • Tehran refuses access to UN nuclear inspectors
    UN inspectors have returned from talks in Tehran with no deal on access to Iran’s nuclear sites and no date for new talks, failing to produce even a small signal of hope for wider big-power diplomacy aimed at averting a war.Related StoriesIsrael finally recognises the life and death of 'Prisoner ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • "Really strange" sight in Crathes
    "It's really strange, I just don't know what it is." Clare Stewart was on a quiet family walk in Crathes recently, with seven-year-old Melissa in tow her sister stopped to take a picture to remember the day forever. Little did she know that the picture would show more than just her daughter. ...
  • CTC says opposition to a New World Order is te ...
    According to a report from the "Combatting Terrorism Center" at West Point, 'Anti-Federalists' who oppose a New World Order as well as members of several other far right wing activist groups are potential terrorist threats. West Point is the U.S. Military Academy that trains, educates, and prep ...
  • Hidden mic revealed at Guantanamo meeting room
    A senior official for the Guantanamo Bay prison said under questioning today that the government had placed a hidden microphone inside a meeting room but that he was assured it was not used to monitor the private conversations that prisoners have with their lawyers and the Red Cross. Navy Capt. ...
  • Celestial Valentine
    Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this wispy star-forming region, called W5, the oldest stars can be seen as blue dots in the centers of the two hollow cavities (other blue dots are background and foreground stars not associated wi ...
  • Obama's failed state
    Obama's State of the Union address didn't surprise. It reflected rogue leadership. It was beginning-to-end demagogic boilerplate. Defending the indefensible took center stage. Rhetoric substituted for progressive policies. Bombast assured business as usual. Priorities include waging war on h ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Fox News hetero fail
    One would think that a prerequisite for pontificating on same-sex marriage would be the ability to distinguish between same-sex and opposite-sex unions. The apparently uber-straight titans of heterosexuality at Fox News?   Epic fail.
  • Sublime . . .
    VENEZUELA DONATES free heating oil to 100,000 needy US households. According to Brett Wilkins post in the DIGITAL JOURNAL. For the eighth straight year, Venezuela's state oil company is donating free heating oil to hundreds of thousands of needy Americans.
  • Citizenshipishness
    In an effort to promote a more robust Canadian identity, the Conservatives have produced an incentive and merit based three-tiered Canadian citizenship. First Class The top class of Canadian citizen applies to biological male persons who: - Second generation or greater Canadians who are 1) ...
  • #Brazman doneth
    Wow. Didn't see that coming. Senator Patrick Brazeau has been removed from the Conservative Party's caucus, while sources tell CBC News that he is in a police jail in Gatineau, Que., following an alleged domestic dispute. If he's in jail for a domestic dispute, I hope she or he isn't ...
  • Kevin Page
    I don't think Harper had any idea just who he as appointing when he named Kevin Page as Parliamentary Budget Officer. The man cannot be intimidated and will crawl through mud and fire to do his job and then some.

Media Matters for America

  • 5 Myths About Keystone XL, Debunked
    As the State Department nears a decision on whether or not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, the media is exaggerating its economic benefits and downplaying environmental risks to advocate for the project. Here, Media Matters takes on five of the prevailing media myths about Keystone XL. Wou ...
  • Fox Dubiously Claims Minimum Wage Increase Har ...
    Fox News misleadingly claimed that an increase in the minimum wage would harm small businesses. In fact, data show that small businesses in states with a higher minimum wage experience better economic performance and job growth.Fox Claims Increasing The Minimum Wage Could Harm Small Businesses ...
  • Pedophilia Myth Tainted Cable News Coverage Of ...
    As the Boy Scouts of America considered lifting its ban on openly gay members, cable news network coverage of the story gave undue attention to the right-wing smear that exposing young boys to gay scout leaders would put them at higher risk of sexual abuse and/or assault.Boy Scouts Considering R ...
  • Fox News Echoes RNC In Hiding Obama's Focus An ...
    Fox News is parroting a Republican research document that falsely claims President Obama is "pivoting" to jobs ahead of his State of the Union speech. But job creation has been a priority during the entire administration, as Obama has crafted and pushed policies that have created millions of pri ...
  • WSJ Hides Rubio's Obstructionist Past
    The Wall Street Journal ignored key parts of Senator Marco Rubio's (R-FL) Senate record to promote him as "bipartisan" and in "pursuit of legislative harmony." In fact, Rubio has a history of obstructionism, voting against major bipartisan legislation, blocking nominations, and filibus ...

Global Research.ca

  • Pentagon Creates Medal to Honor Drone Operators
    The Defense Department has decided to create a medal to honor US soldiers who sit at a computer and operate armed, unmanned vehicles bombing people thousands of miles away. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday announced that the Pentagon can…
  • The World Cannot Afford More Victims of War
    The threat of war worldwide — against Syria, Iran and beyond — has been consuming headlines for months, accompanied by ever more sensationalist lies by the mainstream media. The tensions are high and the outlook is grim. As Michel Chossudovsky…
  • Iraqi Demonstrator Pelts US Ambassador Bremer ...
    According to press reports, Ambassador Paul Bremer, the American ex-governor of Iraq was pelted with shoes by an Iraqi demonstrator in London last Wednesday Feb 6th In the House of Commons, Hall 6-bit. Bremer’s lecture was supposed to last for…
  • As Obama touts end of Afghan war, US strike ki ...
    A US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday killed 10 civilians, including five children. The deadly attack came just hours after the State of the Union speech in which President Barack Obama falsely claimed that the more than decade-long US war…
  • Bush Was a Total Disaster … Obama Is WORSE
    Preface: I voted for Obama in 2008. More Redistribution of Wealth to the Richest Sure, Bush made the rich richer. But Obama has actually redistributed wealth from the middle class to the very richest more than Bush. Specifically, income inequality…

TPM Cafe

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

  • After 200 days on hunger strike, Ayman Sharawn ...
    Ayman Sharawna is from the village of Deir Samet in Dura-Hebron, south of the West Bank; he is 38 years old. His nine children are patiently awaiting his return. Sharawna was re-arreste ...
  • Palestinian refugees' hardships intensify (An ...
    The war in Syria has compounded what was already an emergency situation for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, UNRWA's top official in the country said Tuesday. Veteran diplomat Ann Dismo ...
  • UN officials voice concern over health of Pale ...
    Two senior United Nations officials today voiced their concern about Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody, particularly following reports of the fast deteriorating health conditions ...
  • Not a Security Threat: How Israel Restricts En ...
    I am 22 years old. I am a little bit less than five feet tall and weigh about 95 pounds. I have never been arrested and have no police record whatsoever-not even for Occupy Wall Street or underage drinking. I recently graduated from university where I made good grades and participated in many th ...
  • Jailed Palestinian hunger striker faces death ...
    "He is chasing death," Samer Issawi's sister, Shireen, says. "My brother is in serious danger." Issawi, 33, has been on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail for more than 203 days. Initia ...

Water - AlterNet

  • Anti-Fracking Activists Applaud as NY Further ...
     This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.There is a collective sigh of relief from anti-fracking activists across New York today after news that the decision on whether to lift the state's moratorium on fracking had been further delayed. The news was r ...
  • 5 Power Brokers Who'll Determine the Fate of t ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.On Thursday, visitors to the PipeTech Americas Summit got a speech they weren’t planning on hearing. As employees from pipeline construction companies gathered to discuss new technology and listen to Tom Hamilt ...
  • Hate Eating Corporate Food? Democracy Is the B ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water ...
    Las Vegas exudes an all-you-can-eat mentality. People walk between casinos carrying giant cups of slushy liquor; advertisements blare from speakers on the streets pitching the best shows, best food and best deals; escalators take you across streets and directly into malls. You spend your time ...
  • Time to Break Up the Monopolies: Why Fixing Ou ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Tonight – 6 p.m. – Defend Citizen Control of A ...
    While the proposed resolution to give Austin Energy governance responsibilities to an appointed board has been taken off the “consent agenda”, it’s still alive and kicking. City Council will take up the issue at 6 p.m. this evening (Thurs, 2/14) and I hope you can take a bit of ...
  • New Public Citizen Study Finds Electricity Sho ...
    Costs Would Increase; Existing Power Plants Would Get Windfall The state’s electricity shortfall won’t be solved by paying utilities based on how much power they can generate, rather than how much they actually generate, a new Public Citizen report finds. The report comes as debate rages among r ...
  • Austin for Climate Change Action
    Couldn’t make it to the rally in Washington D.C. to protest the Keystone XL pipeline? It’s okay, neither could we! So instead we’re going to have a rally of our own to show our support and to raise climate change awareness here in Austin. Please join us at 5th and Lamar (in fro ...
  • Bills Filed Seek to Expand Texas’ Clean Energy ...
    Two bills have now been filed in the Texas House that would expand the state’s goals for renewable energy.  Representative Rafael Anchia‘s bill, HB 723, would establish goals for growing renewable energy installations other than large-scale wind through 2022.  Similarly, Representati ...
  • Nuclear plants nationwide could share the fina ...
    Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd. (NEIL), the company that insures all 104 U.S. nuclear power plants has just around $3.6 billion on hand to pay for claims from broken nuclear plants in California (San Onofre nuclear power station), Texas (South Texas Nuclear Project), Michigan (Cook nuclear power ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Researchers claim DNA proof of Bigfoot
    A group of researchers in Colorado claim to have recorded DNA test results that prove Bigfoot exists. Researcher Dave Paulides maintains that the grou...
  • Was Queen Nefertiti King Tuts mother ?
    A DNA analysis by French archaeologist Marc Gabolde suggests a new link between Nefertiti and King Tut. CT scans and genetic analyses revealed as far ...
  • Scientists turn off the ability to feel cold
    Neuroscientst David McKemy and his team have discovered a way to disable the sensation of cold. The work is based on exploring the connection between ...
  • Would you eat 3D printed meat ?
    As global meat consumption increases so too does scientific research in to artificially producing it. Most people tend to turn their nose up at the ve...
  • What do dogs say when they bark ?
    Research in to the nature of dog barks has revealed that thee may be more to these sounds than we think. Unlike their wild counterparts, domestic dogs...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Daryl Hannah Leads Celebrity Keystone XL Protest
    (Guardian) A celebrity roster of protesters, including climate scientist James Hansen, actor Daryl Hannah, civil rights leader Julian Bond and environmental advocate Robert Kennedy Jr, were arrested on Wednesday after handcuffing thems ...
  • Enbridge Officials Grilled About Pipeline 9B R ...
    (Burlington (Ontario) Post) The city hosted a public meeting last Thursday to give residents a chance to ask Enbridge staff about its Line 9B reversal proposal. Approximately 75 people, including city staff and 10 Enbridge representat ...
  • Health Impacts of Colorado Fracking Leak Unclear
    (The Coloradoan) The gushing fracking water leak has stopped, but many questions remain about its impact. It took at least 20 people to wrest control of the oil and gas well that spewed a horizontal geyser of green-tinted fracking wat ...
  • White House Wants $2 Billion to Give Cleaner T ...
    (Reuters) President Barack Obama wants Congress to create a $2 billion clean-energy transportation fund using fees paid by oil and gas producers on federal lands, the White House said Wednesday, expanding a plan announced in Obama's St ...
  • Hydropower Bill Sails Through House
    (The Hill) The House unanimously approved a bill 422-0 Wednesday that would remove barriers for small hydropower development and could eventually expedite permitting for other hydropower projects. The Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Are NRA Members All Bedwetters?
    Wayne LaPierre is tainting everyone who belongs to the National Rifle Association as some kind of bedwetter. Growing up in my insular little Ivy League town, I almost never saw a gun. One exception was the father of one of my closest friends in elementary school. He had a large gun collection ...
  • Biggest Loser in the World: Jim Inhofe
    If you think that John McCain is a grumpy old man who shouts at clouds, he's got nothing on Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. Neither of them can stand Chuck Hagel for the simple reason that he is a constant reminder that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that our invasion of tha ...
  • A Gun Review, etc.
    I don't know much about guns, but I do know someone who owns a Beretta Cx4 Storm Carbine. He bought it for self defense (that's what he told me and I have no reason to doubt him), and he allowed me the opportunity to fire it a few years ago at a gun club where he was a member. Here's a pictur ...
  • GOP Throws Tantrum, Loses Respect
    The Senate failed to overcome a Republican filibuster of Chuck Hagel's confirmation to be Secretary of Defense this afternoon. The vote was 58-40, with Sen. Vitter not voting, Sen. Hatch voting 'present,' and Harry Reid changing his vote from 'yes' to 'no' for procedural reasons. In other word ...
  • Non-Stop A-Holery
    We have a couple of teenagers living with us who both work about five days a week with (usually) five or six hour shifts. I think they're both making about nine bucks an hour. After the tax withholding, that's about $230 a week for each of them, or $460 combined. The cheapest apartments in th ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Surprisingly clever MMA fighters, legendary Soviet spacemen and stock market crooks meet gaming console fails and awesome examples of graffiti knitting. A cool mix. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Incredible Jellyfish Clouds
    Beautiful, unusually shaped clouds drift through this list, looking like they belong in the deep blue sea, not the sky. Gorgeous virga cloud formations great the eye. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Paradise Lost: The Crumbling English Manor Hou ...
    This once-grand country home, abandoned for a quarter of a century and beginning to decay, stands on the site of a manor house formerly lived in by the poet John Milton. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Fascinating Phenomenon of Whistled Languages
    Learn about a type of language you probably never knew existed; one that mimics the sounds and pitch of ordinary speech and can travel distances as great as two miles! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Death-Defying Cliff Divers Plunge from 90ft Up ...
    The extreme sport of cliff diving is as spectacular to watch as it is dangerous to do – as these images from the 2012 Red Bull World Series finale prove. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Source: DOJ Feds currently at the Wells Fargo ...
    A tip passed along from a source stated that today the US Department of Justice arrived at the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage office in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, as "auditors" presumably to search through or perhaps seize mortgage records - the old Honeywell complex around 4th Avenue ...
  • Minnesota Anonymous to protest "Church of Scie ...
    A heads-up for lulzcats in the Minnesnowta region: Minnesota Anonymous people have filed a permit to protest at the Church of Scientology "Ideal Org" at Wabasha & Exchange Streets, (the old Science Museum of MN building) starting at 10:30AM roughly, marking five years of Chanology, the large ...
  • The New 21st Century COINTELPRO Mobius Strip: ...
    A quick update on a number of different fronts developing around 21st century Cointelpro operations. This material includes the important bureaucratic fault line of authorizing "otherwise" illegal government operations, an important topic of research... Granted, Season 3 of the X-Files is playin ...
  • End of the Tar Sands? Under media near-blackou ...
    VIA: Protect the Sacred  Timeline Photos: Here is a picture of Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred. This is the first time a woman has signed such a treaty and she did so on behalf of the Brave Heart Society. Let the healing continue in the name o ...
  • Kurt Johnson & Corporate NAFTA farm politics, ...
    "[T]he activists we are concerned about here are the ones who want to change the way your industry does business--either for good or bad reasons: environmentalists, churches, Public Interest Research Groups, campus organizations, civic groups, teachers unions, and 'Naderites'." (quoted in Montag ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Bill introduced to regulate domestic drones
    The proliferation of surveillance drones in the United States in the hands of private companies, police forces and government bodies has alarmed civil liberties advocates concerned about privacy breaches the technology could permit. In an attempt to combat warrantless surveillance with drones, a ...
  • Pot's OK but Styrofoam is 'terrible': Bloomberg
    [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_small","fid":"424676","attributes":{"alt":"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks on February 14, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City","title":"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks on February 14, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City"," ...
  • Justin Timberlake’s David Fincher-produced mus ...
    David Fincher, who worked with Justin Timberlake in the "The Social Network," has again directed the singer in a new project -- this one, for his new, much-hyped single "Suit & Tie." The video unveil comes less than a week after the Grammy Awards, during which Timberlake and Jay-Z perfo ...
  • Detroit: A city in foreclosure
    A BOAT LIES on its side in an empty lot. Abandoned in a neighborhood miles from the water, a neighborhood where no one can afford boats, let alone the truck and the trailer that would haul the boat there. But there lies the boat. Now multiply that boat by fifty or even a hundred, tossed over th ...
  • Taibbi: HSBC got away with murder
    In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi takes the Justice Department to task over settling with HSBC late last year in the "largest drug-and-terrorism money-laundering case ever.""The HSBC case went miles beyond the usual paper-pushing, keypad-punching­ sort-of crime, committed by ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ supplied Australian pass ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Concerns about the routine use of Australian passports by Israeli spies led to the exposure of Israel’s mystery ‘Prisoner X’, who killed himself in 2010 while in prison, it has been claimed. On Tuesday, ABC Australia reporter Trevor Bromann identi ...
  • Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ identified as Australian ...
    In late 2010, an unnamed man known in Israel as ‘Prisoner X’ allegedly hanged himself while being held at a maximum-security prison near Tel Aviv. On Tuesday, an investigative Australian television program identified the dead man as an Australian citizen who had allegedly been recruited by the M ...
  • News you may have missed #823
    Canada spy chief won't rule out more double spies. Former CIA operative's trial postponed again. Obama officials say Iran building militias inside Syria.
  • French, US intelligence intensify 23-year hunt ...
    To an important extent, Islamist-inspired groups in the northwest Africa, notably Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) mirror the decentralized insurgency model developed by Islamist groups in Iraq and elsewhere during the past decade. However, the decentralized nature of the insurgency in the ...
  • Did the CIA exclude Israel from its extraordin ...
    The most comprehensive non-classified account of the United States Central Intelligence Agency's extraordinary rendition program has been published by a human-rights advocacy group. It concludes that the CIA was able to build and maintain the program with significant assistance from 54 countries ...

War is a Crime.org

  • February 15 2003, largest mobilization for pea ...
    http://youtu.be/2WPW2L5fmRg   This beautiful video created by Jim T in San Diego.  We were both part of the protest in So Cal on this day 10 years ago.  Jim has supplied a sound track and included photos from every major city on the planet from that day.
  • Syria News - Feb 15
        Syria Gunmen Kidnap 40 Shiite Civilians, Mostly Women and Children - Naharnet Christians Squeezed Out by Rebels Fighters in North Syria - NYTimes.com Armenia tries to help as Christian Armenians flee Syria - usatoday Negotiation continuing between Syria Kurds and the opposition -&n ...
  • Northern Ireland nixes scanners because they d ...
    The millimeter wave scanners are no better at detecting contraband than their radiation-emitting counterparts, the backscatter scanners. But then, we’ve only been telling you that for years. Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Obama's Failed State
      Obama's Failed State   by Stephen Lendman   Obama's State of the Union address didn't surprise. It reflected rogue leadership. It was beginning-to-end demagogic boilerplate.    Defending the indefensible took center stage. Rhetoric substituted for progressive policies. ...
  • Beating Up on Iran Continues
      Beating Up on Iran Continues   by Stephen Lendman   It's continued for decades. Iran's a prime target of choice. Washington deplores independent governments.    It wants pro-Western ones replacing them. It doesn't care if they're democratic, despotic or anything in bet ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Historic Tar-Sands Action at Obama’s Door
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan For the first time in its 120-year history, the Sierra Club engaged in civil disobedience, the day after President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address. The group joined scores of others protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which ...
  • BOOK EXCERPT: "Eslanda: The Large and Unconven ...
    Tune in Tuesday for a Black History Month special interview about the extraordinary life of Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, known by her friends as "Essie." She was an author, an anthropologist and and a globally connected activist who worked to end colonialism in Africa and racism in ...
  • Brennan and Kiriakou, Drones and Torture
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan John Brennan and John Kiriakou worked together years ago, but their careers have dramatically diverged. Brennan is now on track to head the CIA , while Kiriakou is headed off to prison. Each of their fates is tied to the so-called war on terror, which und ...
  • Part 2: Daniel Ellsberg and Jacob Appelbaum on ...
    As a lawsuit challenging a law that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens is back in federal court this week, we continue our conversation with perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, and computer security researcher, Jacob Appelbaum ...
  • BOOK EXCERPT: "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Ros ...
    Read the introduction to "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," a new book just out by our guest, historian Jeanne Theoharis. The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil ri ...

Solari

  • Feliz Día del Amor y la Amistad
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” ~ C.S. Lewis By Kristen Linton Valentine’s Day in my circle of friends is often met with much criticism. Couples feel pressure to spe ...
  • Widely Used Nanoparticles Enter Soybean Plants ...
    By Seed Daily Two of the most widely used nanoparticles (NPs) accumulate in soybeans – second only to corn as a key food crop in the United States – in ways previously shown to have the potential to adversely affect the crop yields and nutritional quality, a new study has found. It ...
  • Quote Du Jour
    “If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility. A humble boss understands that there are things he doesn’t know. He listens: not only to the other bigwigs in Davos, but also to the kind of people who don’t get invited, such as his customers.” - Schumpeter from ...
  • The Richest 1 Percent Have Captured 121 Percen ...
    By Pat Garofalo Last year, economist Emmanuel Saez estimated that the richest 1 percent of the U.S. captured a whopping 93 percent of the income gains in 2010, as the U.S. was emerging from the Great Recession. Saez is now back with updated numbers from 2011, and they make the picture look even ...
  • EU and US Free-Trade Talks Launched
    By BBC News European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the announcement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. A deal would bring down trading barriers between the two biggest economies in the world. EU-US trade is worth around 455bn euros (£393bn; $613 ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Tadashi Kawamata Covers Versailles in a Surrea ...
    Read the rest of Tadashi Kawamata Covers Versailles in a Surreal Cascade of 5,000 Recycled Wooden Crates Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art, crates cascade, Gandamaison, instalation, Recycled Materials, recycled wooden crates, site-specific, Tadashi Kawamata, Versailles
  • Mercedes-Benz Teams Up With Cigarette Racing t ...
    Mercedes-Benz and Cigarette Racing just unveiled the world’s fastest electric boat – the Cigarette AMG Electric Drive. The vehicle, which is set to debut this week at the Miami International Boat Show, borrows many of its components from the SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive. With a total ...
  • Alain Hinant Transforms an Old Belgian Laundry ...
    Read the rest of Alain Hinant Transforms an Old Belgian Laundry Building into a Brilliant Daylit Home Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, Alain Hinant, Art, belgium, brussels, daylight, green renovation, Jean Gilbert, laundry building, Single Family Home, U ...
  • Support the Hariyo Chowk Urban Garden Project ...
    The Sattya Media Arts Collective in Kathmandu, Nepal has set out to transform a vacant site into a modern adaptation of a traditional chowk, or town square. Dubbed Hariyo Chowk or “green square”, the project has served as a place to learn and share tips for urban greening and ways to ...
  • Ethiopia to Develop its Geothermal Energy Pote ...
    The Great Rift Valley countries in Africa have an enormous potential for geothermal energy. With Kenya, Djibouti and Tanzania already developing this potential, Ethiopia is getting serious about it too. Early this year, the Development Bank of Ethiopia announced that it will offer $20 million to ...

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • Drones and the Law: Restoring Checks and Balances
    The Department of Justice has recently released a white paper detailing what it believes to be the scope of the president’s authority to kill Americans suspected of being members of al Qaeda—killings that are usually conducted via drones. The white paper argues that the killing of such suspects ...
  • The "New Foreign Policy Divide"
    Over at ForeignPolicy.com, Tom Wright welcomes us to "the Democratic Party's new foreign policy debate." Wright has noticed a fissure start to crack open, one he expects to pit progressive sister against brother. At issue is America's international role at a time of domestic challenges ...
  • Game of Drones
    AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File The recent release of White House memos outlining the legal justifications the Obama administration believes it has to use drone strikes— against both foreign nationals and American citizens—reminds us that while the American public was otherwise occupied, a ...
  • Top of the Morning: Severely Limited Humanitar ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Humanitarian Access in Darfur Exceedingly Difficult Aid agencies are struggling to access tens of thousands of Sudanese displaced in North Darfur due to fears of further violence amidst a tribal dispute. Aid agencies are struggling to get enough help to tens of thou ...
  • UN Official: Stakes are High for the UN on Mal ...
    United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson met with a small group of journalists on Monday to discuss the role of the UN in managing complex crises and conflicts. The two major topics of discussion were Syria and Mali, where ongoing combat situations need to be alleviated before peacek ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Gunpocalypse Now
    Imagine that after budget cuts force the dismantling of all law enforcement in your area and a natural disaster destroys any semblance of society, a horde of crazed cannibal zombies comes down your street, heading right for your door so they can kill and eat your entire family. Don't you want t ...
  • The Ridiculous, Unprecedented Filibuster of Ch ...
    Secretary of Defense / Flickr As of this afternoon, Republicans have vowed to filibuster Chuck Hagel’s nomination to head the Department of Defense. It’s not hyperbole to say this is unprecedented—the Senate has never filibustered a president’s Cabinet nominee. It would be one thing if ...
  • Explaining the Farce of the Hagel Hearings
    It's easy to shake your head and laugh at the incredible things said by some of the nincompoops who occupy the GOP's backbench in Congress, whether it's Louie Gohmert ranting about "terror babies," or Paul Broun (an actual doctor, for whose patients I fear) saying "All that stuff I was taught a ...
  • A Valentine's Day Vote for Same-Sex Marriage
    For Illinois's same-sex couples wishing to wed, the Valentine's Day candy should be extra sweet. The state senate is expected to vote on a same-sex marriage bill today. “This is an exciting time to be a gay-rights lawyer,” Camilla Taylor, counsel for Lamdba Legal, told me. Taylor has good reaso ...
  • Would Raising the Minimum Wage Kill Jobs?
    President Obama's proposal last night to raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $9 (from $7.25) is sure to rekindle the perennial debate about whether such an increase will stall hiring for low-skilled workers, or whether small businesses will be able to sustain their payrolls with higher wage requi ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Muslim-Bashing Former FBI Agent John Guandolo ...
    John Guandolo, the former FBI agent who has made a living calling out high-ranking government officials as secret plants working for the Muslim Brotherhood, may have finally crossed the Rubicon into total outrageousness. Oh sure, he’s already gone after college professors who weren’t sufficientl ...
  • Amish Leader Gets 15 Years for Beard Cutting H ...
    The leader of a breakaway Amish sect in Ohio was sentenced to 15 year in prison today for orchestrating the cutting of hair and beards of Amish men and women, a form of religious degradation viewed as punishment, the New York Times reported. Samuel Mullet Sr. was sentenced in U.S. District Court ...
  • Serial Threat-Maker and Neo-Nazi Bill White is ...
    Bill White, the wildly obnoxious neo-Nazi who has made a profession of lobbing criminal threats at his enemies, has apparently been at it again. On Thursday, according to today’s edition of the Roanoke (Va.) Times, White was indicted for threatening to have his ex-wife beaten and “hospitalized” ...
  • Klan Leader Who Plotted to Murder NC Sheriff G ...
    A Ku Klux Klan leader in North Carolina, who once boasted about building a 50-pound bomb to kill a local sheriff, will spend 15 years in federal prison after a 12-year pursuit by prosecutors. Charles Robert “Junior” Barefoot Jr., 50, of Benson, N.C., was sentenced Wednesday in Raleigh by U.S. Di ...
  • Texas Prosecutor ‘Involved’ in Ary ...
    Two men, reportedly masked and dressed entirely in black, gunned down a Kaufman County, Texas, prosecutor this morning as he walked to a city courthouse. The Dallas Morning News reported that the victim had been “heavily involved” in the investigation of members of the Aryan Brotherhood. The ent ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Federal Medical Marijuana Bills Introduced Tod ...
    More than a dozen Members of Congress co-introduced legislation today that would reclassify marijuana for medical use and provide federal defendants the right to use state law compliance as evidence in medical marijuana trials, a right they're currently denied. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) au ...
  • Congress Can Avert Dangerous Automatic Cuts an ...
    Unless Congress acts, on March 1 automatic and indiscriminate spending cuts will hit key programs, costing our economy more than 1 million jobs and cutting essential services for millions of low- and middle-income families. But a new infographic released today by the Center for American Progress ...
  • NRA Working to Elect Pro-Gun Judges and Prosec ...
    Today, as the gun control debate continues on the national stage, the Center for American Progress released “NRA Working to Elect Pro-Gun Judges and Prosecutors,” which traces the millions of dollars that the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, or LEAA, has spent in state races&mdas ...
  • Free Press: FCC Should Ignore AT&T's Bullying
    On Thursday, Free Press responded to claims in a blog post by AT&T Senior Vice President Bob Quinn that the Federal Communications Commission is moving too slowly on a petition that would eliminate certain regulations that ensure consumers and businesses have access to quality services at re ...
  • ‘Open States’ Connects You to any U.S. State C ...
    The Sunlight Foundation today launches OpenStates.org — a website anyone can use to discover more about lawmaking in their state. Open States is a comprehensive database of legislative information for all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The website makes it easy t ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • One Billion Rising: Globalizing the Battle for ...
    Laura Flanders There’s talk about union, and then there’s acting in unison. As the President was talking about the State of the Union this week, the organizers of V-day were working with activists all around the world to pull o ...
  • CISPA, the Privacy-Invading Cybersecurity Spyi ...
    Mark M. Jaycox It's official: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act was reintroduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. CISPA is the contentious bill civil liberties advocates fought last year, which would provide a ...
  • 'America Doesn't Torture'—It Kills
    Katha Pollitt If the president can order the killing of 
American citizens abroad should he decide they are involved with Al Qaeda, can he assassinate suspected Al Qaeda–connected US citizens in London or Berlin? What about a suspect& ...
  • Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
    Matt Taibbi The deal was announced quietly, just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians, lawyers and investigators all over the worl ...
  • Denying Minimum-Wage Workers A Raise Is Craven ...
    Heidi Moore The president ignited a controversy in his state of the union speech by saying he wants to raise the minimum wage by $1.50, to $9 an hour. He argued that it is shameful that someone working full-time for the current minimum wag ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Facebook Paid No Corporate Income Tax Last Yea ...
    Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major corporations were able to pay no federal corporate income tax, despite making a combined $205 billion in profits. According to a new report from Citizens for Tax Justice, Facebook joined that illustrious club last year, receiving $429 million in tax rebates despit ...
  • Arctic Death Spiral Bombshell: CryoSat-2 Confi ...
    The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched by a harder-to-see, but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combined result has been a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of its level in 1980. Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via Robinson) Ba ...
  • The Two Biggest Lies In Wayne LaPierre’s State ...
    National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre on Thursday offered a rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union, featuring a range of intensely paranoid — and utterly incorrect — assertions about Obama’s proposals to strengthen gun laws. LaPierre ...
  • Senators Push To End The Research Ban On HIV-P ...
    Twenty five years after an amendment to the National Organ Transplant Act made it illegal for HIV-positive Americans to receive organ transplants from HIV-positive donors — or to even conduct research on such transplants — a bipartisan group of senators is hoping to reverse course. S ...
  • McCain Says He’s Opposing Hagel Because Hagel ...
    Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told us how he really feels about Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel on Fox News this afternoon, saying “people don’t forget” when you cross your own party. Speaking to Fox News host Neil Cavuto, McCain said that he still believed that Hagel would get ...

thwap's schoolyard

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canada — Tax Free Savings Accounts-Registered ...
    Canadians have two government sponsored options that enable them to put away a retirement nest egg. Unfortunately many Canadians do not take advantage of the plans. RRSPs represent a tax deferment, while TFSAs are tax exempt.
  • Man who was tossed in jail over a jar of peanu ...
    An Arizona man who spent 25 hours in jail after making a wisecrack about his jar of peanut butter while going through airport security, is suing the TSA. Fifty-year-old Frank Hannibal is seeking $5 million in damages and this time isn't fooling.
  • Toronto's Soulpepper fills Stoppard classic wi ...
    “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is a play in danger of becoming overly familiar, another “modern classic” ruined by time and too many revivals. It takes an energetic cast and vision to make Tom Stoppard's great tragicomedy seem new again.
  • Greater Toronto Area getting new phone area co ...
    Toronto area residents have to soon prepare themselves to remember another set of numbers. The Canadian Numbering Administrator announced Wednesday that 416/647 region will get the new 437 area code, while the 905/289 region will receive a 365 area code.
  • Video: Zombie apocalypse discussed in Canadian ...
    A video showing Canada's House of Commons discussing the subject of zombies and the zombie apocalypse Wednesday has gone viral after it was posted to Reddit

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Worst procurement in Canadian history
    A new report released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives calls on the Canadian government to fix the long-running maritime helicopter procurement fiasco.
  • U.S. drone killings questioned
    A leak of a U.S. Justice Department memo has revealed some of the circumstances under which the U.S. government believes it has the right to extrajudicially execute American citizens.
  • Ceasefire.ca slammed by the pro-war lobby
    Today the pro-war lobby slammed Ceasefire.ca, once again, in the national media. As a Ceasefire.ca supporter, this proves you are having an impact, shaking up the pro-war lobby!
  • Israeli airstrike in Syria
    An Israeli airstrike inside Syria has heightened the already high tensions in the Middle East.
  • Will Canada return to peacekeeping?
    Between 1956 and 1992, Canada was often the single largest contributor of UN peacekeepers. Since the late 1990s, however, Canada has virtually disappeared from peacekeeping. Professor Michael Byers presents the case for re-engagement.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-8-12
    Today, Kevin explains what the United States government would do if American citizens started to rebel! Plus, Dr. Betty Martini explains the DANGERS of Aspartame and why you need to avoid it at all costs! Health: Asparagus May Help Hangovers Wine Protects Skin from Radiation Government: An Army ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-29-12
    Today, Kevin explains why most people will not be successful in network marketing.  Plus, Princess stops by the show to reveal secrets “Kevin” doesn’t want you to know about! Self Help: Maximize Your Downline Success Training Lose A Pound A Day! Government: Wisconsin Fight: Bill Limiting Unions ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-24-12
    Today, Kevin explains why you should not be donating your hard-earned money to large charities and for disaster relief. Plus, Kevin reveals where to find the best quality products in your area! Self Help: Protect Yourself From Meat Glue Shine A Little Light On Me Health: 9 Salads Calorically Wor ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-2-13
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that inflation is already here and that your standard of living is declining rapidly because of it. Self Help: Uncontaminated Meat Further Your Education Manifest Your Every Desire The Only Answer To Cancer Drop-Dead Gorgeous Hair Without The Side Effects H ...
  • Just A Little Reminder…
    I know you’ve seen this list a bunch of times on my blog, but I always like to post it at least once a year as a little reminder… 10 Foods You Should NEVER Eat! 1. Microwaved Food 2. Excitotoxins (MSG – monosodium glutamate, aspartame) and anything you can’t pronounce 3. ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Anti-anxiety drug pollution makes fish fearles ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Anti-anxiety drugs find their way into wastewater where they make fish more fearless and antisocial, with potentially serious ecological consequences, researchers said Thursday. Scientists examining perc ...
  • Why The Elite Would Lose a Civil War
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comManufacturing mass social unrest would be a foolish mistake Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet.com February 14, 2013 Despite the fact that the banking elite wants to generate riots and stir social disorder ...
  • New York bill finally expands legal definition ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Advocates are praising a newly revised version of New York’s “Rape is Rape” bill that classifies any vaginal contact as “rape,” bringing the legal definition of that form of ...
  • American Legion Calls Obama’s Amnesty Plan a “ ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBrian Koenig The New American February 14, 2013 Speaking against President Obamas latest proposal for immigration reform, American Legion National Commander James’E. Koutz called the ambitious plan a bad sequel to ...
  • Nigeria arrests journalists over polio worker ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNigeria arrests journalists over polio worker killings By Veterans TodayThursday, February 14th, 2013 Nigeria arrests journalists over polio worker killings Three Nigerian journalists have been arrested for inciting viol ...

Dandelion Salad

  • How Congress Could Fix Its Budget Woes, Perman ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com February 13, 2013 As Congress struggles through one budget crisis after another, it is becoming increasingly evident that austerity doesn’t work. We cannot possibly pay off a $16 trillion debt by tightening our belts, slashing public s ...
  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order — Improvi ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 12, 2013 EXECUTIVE ORDER - – - – - – - IMPROVING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CYBERSECURITY By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of t ...
  • President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Ad ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert PBSNewsHour Feb 12, 2013 President Obama Delivers the 2013 State of the Union Address. [starts at 14:50] *** Transcript: The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 12, 2013 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Deli ...
  • Rick Rozoff, William Blum and Glen Ford: Afric ...
    with Rick Rozoff and William Blum Featured Writers Dandelion Salad Stop NATO www.killinghope.org February 11, 2013 Gary Null Progressive Commentary Hour Guests: Glen Ford William Blum Rick Rozoff Audio: http://progressivecommentaryhour.podbean.com/mf/web/5fhx9j/PCH021113.mp3 see Ethiopian Annihi ...
  • Exclusive: Assessing the Papacy of Pope Benedi ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) February 11, 2013 In the next few weeks there will be a whole litany of accusations against the Papacy of this retiring Pope, most of which I agree with. We all know what they are. There i ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Valentin ...
    This image of a planetary nebula, which may suggest a rose to some, was obtained with the wide-field view of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Mosaic 1 camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
  • Animals’ Love Lives Look a Lot Like Ours
    How complex are animals' emotions? Fear and panic are one thing; but do animals lust, even love? Animals might not celebrate Valentine’s Day, but according to Virginia Morell, author of Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, ...
  • How to Watch Tomorrow’s Record-Breaking Astero ...
    A large space rock known as asteroid 2012 DA14 will be zipping by our planet on Feb. 15, coming within 28,000 km of Earth, the closest approach ever seen for an object its size. You can catch the event live ...
  • Better Hearing Takes Practice
    Having a conversation in a noisy restaurant can be difficult. For many elderly adults, it's often impossible. But with a little practice, the brain can learn to hear above the din, a new study suggests.
  • Freaky Ways Animals Woo Mates With Gifts
    Across the land on Valentine's Day, lovers and partners exchange gifts. They're not alone. Many animals give gifts, too, and in some ways they're not so very different from us. From firefly spermatophores to bowerbird dens to the love darts ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s rightward shift leaves ...
    Far from marking a revival by the center-left, as most media presented the results, [Israel's 2013] election results signaled a further rightward shift in the center of political gravity in Israel.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Akiva Orr, co-founder of Matzpen, passes away
    Matzpen co-founder Akiva Orr died last week in Israel. He is remembered by friends and comrades around the world. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ was Australian Mossad ag ...
    HRW's Bill van Esveld: "The main concern is over the fact that a person cannot simply be disappeared. That is against the norms of international law. That person's family needs to know what has... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Why it’s “legal” when the US does it
    The major energy-producing countries are still firmly under the control of the Western-backed dictatorships. So, actually, the progress made by the Arab Spring is limited, but it’s not insignificant.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • At least 166 homes in Israeli settlement built ...
    Dror Atkas: "The contemptible cooperation of the state with land theft in the West Bank is constantly growing... They are trying to retroactively legalize whatever they can in order to enable massive... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Combo of Avastin, Second Drug Shows Promise Fi ...
    The drug bevacizumab, also known by the trade name Avastin, shrinks tumors briefly in patients with an aggressive brain cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme, but then they often grow again and spread throughout the brain for reasons no one previously has understood. Now, Mayo Clinic researche ...
  • Technique That Removes Additional Toxins Prolo ...
    * A technique that removes additional toxins during dialysis decreased kidney failure patients' risk of dying from any cause by 30% over three years. * The technique also reduced patients' risk of dying from heart-related causes or infections.
  • Lung Researchers Create New Air Sacs In Mouse ...
    In a study of mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a new molecular pathway involved in the growth of tiny air sacs called alveoli that are crucial for breathing. The scientists say their experiments may lead to the first successful treatments to regrow the air sacs in people who su ...
  • Georgia Regents University Professor New Presi ...
    The APS membership has elected new officers. David Pollock, Georgia Regents University, was elected President-Elect. John Chatham, University of Alabama School of Medicine, M. Harold Laughlin, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Marshall (Chip) Montrose, University of Cincinnati were elected to ...
  • APS Applauds President Obama's Support of R&D ...
    The American Physical Society (APS), the nation's largest organization of physicists, commends President Obama's exhortation in his State of the Union Speech that, "Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race."

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Is Another Treaty Question Headed to the Supre ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Is there a private right of action under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction? The Fourth Circuit said no in 2006, the Second Circuit now says yes in, in an opinion released on Monday (the case is Ozaltin v. Ozaltin; Reuters r ...
  • Cruel Window No More
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford With the publication by the Journal of Legal Education’s recent “Fiction Issue,” and the London Review of International Law announcing that they will include poetry with the goal of expanding and enriching the international legal conversation, I thought this poe ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, February 14, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Self-immolations in Tibet, in protest against Chinese rule, have reached the grim milestone of 100. Japan’s defense chief claims that Japan could have pre-emptive strike abilities in the future, speaking with respect to the third nuclear test by North ...
  • The OTP Makes a Serious Legal Error Concerning ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The OTP has weighed in on Libya’s ongoing challenge to the admissibility of the case against Saif Gaddafi. In its view, although there are serious questions concerning whether Libya is investigating the same conduct as the OTP, Libya is currently w ...
  • Obama’s New Citizenship (Is Anyone Listening?)
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro From the closing of last night’s State of the Union: We may do different jobs, and wear different uniforms, and hold different views than the person beside us. But as Americans, we all share the same proud title: We are citizens. It’s a word that doesn’t jus ...

Public News Service

  • A Valentine’s Day Call for Responsible R ...
    A Valentine’s Day Call for Responsible Romance PHOENIX - Valentine's Day is the holiday of love, and a number of businesses in metro Phoenix and Tucson are teaming up with Planned Parenthood Arizona to keep the holiday safe and healthy for those who are sexually active. Participating busi ...
  • Some Tax Refunds Will Be Delayed This Year
    Some Tax Refunds Will Be Delayed This Year PHOENIX - Don't plan on spending your income tax refund too quickly this year. Refunds are expected to be delayed for some taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service says it's a result of the last-minute fiscal cliff debate in Washington. ...(Read More)
  • Drug, Device Makers Must Disclose Payments to Docs
    Drug, Device Makers Must Disclose Payments to Docs PHOENIX - It's a little-known aspect of the Affordable Care Act: drug and medical-device makers will soon have to publicly disclose their payments to doctors and hospitals. At the same time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking ...
  • Report: $190 Billion Lost to Offshore Tax Dodges
    Report: $190 Billion Lost to Offshore Tax Dodges PHOENIX - Offshore tax havens are blowing a huge hole in state and federal tax systems, according to a new report, which puts the total revenue lost at almost $200 billion dollars a year. That's enough to not only stop the automatic federal spendi ...
  • Expert: Still a Long Road Ahead for Mexican Wo ...
    Expert: Still a Long Road Ahead for Mexican Wolf Recovery PHOENIX – Endangered Mexican gray wolves living in the wilds of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico saw an improvement last year. A wolf count by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows their numbers, rising from 58 to 75. ...( ...

Center for Food Safety

  • As Challenge over Seed Rights Approaches Supre ...
    Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds Investigate Role of Seed Patents in Consolidating Corporate Control of Global Food Supply Today, one week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS) – two legal and policy ...
  • Center for Food Safety Calls on EPA to Follow ...
    New European Pesticide Agency study reports “unacceptable” dangers to bees; supports suspension of use in U.S. Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the cue of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and immediately suspend t ...
  • Congress Passes Damaging Farm Bill Extension i ...
    Biotech riders omitted, but organic and other sustainable programs take a major hit By Colin O’Neil, Director of Government Affairs, Center for Food Safety On September 30, 2012 Congress did the unthinkable when it let the 2008 Farm Bill – the legislation that governs national food and farm poli ...
  • Post-Prop. 37 Poll Shows Strong Public Support ...
    Young voters, communities of color, women pushed landmark initiative to near win; more than one-fifth of ‘no’ voters favor GE labeling An independent post-election poll shows that California voters continue to strongly support the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the wake of Nove ...
  • Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forwar ...
    400,000 public comments, 40 Members of Congress ignored; CFS calls proposed approval of first ever GE animal “premature and misguided” Center for Food Safety sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the contro ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Pope Benedict and cardinals accused of crimes ...
    Hmm, this could be why Pope Benedict XVI resigned. He may have known this was coming and didn’t want to face it plus he probably no longer has the physical strength to do so even if he wanted to. Lawyers for the victims say rape, sexual violence and torture are considered a crime against h ...
  • Solar trade wars coming between US vs China an ...
    Credit: wikimedia.commons.org Trade wars are generally futile and counter-productive. The US and China are already escalating their solar trade war. Now the US has filed suit with WTO against India’s domestic requirements for solar. There are more than 10 solar trade disputes now ongoing a ...
  • Who knew that incendiary tear gas does not cau ...
    Certainly not the San Bernardino Sheriff or the compliant poodles of the mainstream media, none of whom have questioned the ludicrous and laughable contention of law enforcement that firing incendiary tear gas into the cabin Dorner was in no way a factor in it burning down. How law enforcement a ...
  • Gates Foundation Annual Letter – Tracking prog ...
    Bill Gates says in the Gates Foundation Annual Letter, let’s improve the health and living conditions of the world’s poorest people by running it like a business. Track the data. See where results happen and where they don’t. Then modify plans as needed. Gates uses polio vacci ...
  • This just in. Incendiary tear gas does not cau ...
    This startling scientific conclusion is from the San Bernardino Sheriff. Sheriff John McMahon said Tuesday’s fire was caused by officers’ use of incendiary tear gas, after attempts to drive Dorner out of the cabin with conventional tear gas proved unsuccessful.

Coteret

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

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The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Case study: Domain Sponsored Stories and Custo ...
    Daily deals site LivingSocial worked with Facebook ads company Ampush to run Domain Sponsored Stories with Custom Audience targeting to achieve 58 percent return on investment. Ampush says its campaign resulted in 60 percent lower costs per...
  • Facebook allows users to pay to promote their ...
    Facebook will expand its Promoted Post feature to enable users to pay to promote posts their friends made, a company spokesperson tells us. Promoting a post will not make it visible anyone outside of the post’s...
  • Q&A with Facebook Head of Measurement Research ...
    As Facebook puts more emphasis on monetization and more advertisers are spending on its platform, measurement is increasingly important. The social network is still so new and comes with unique ad types and its own vocabulary,...
  • Facebook prompts users to buy their Valentine ...
    Facebook is promoting its Gifts product at the top of News Feed today, encouraging users to buy their friends or significant other a real gift through its service. The social network also tested a number of...
  • Judge dismisses 4 IPO-related lawsuits against ...
    A U.S. district judge today dismissed four cases brought against Facebook by shareholders claiming the company failed to disclose material information ahead of its initial public offering in May 2012, according to Reuters. U.S. District Judge...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Arab Spring and the American Empire Two years on from the start of the Arab Spring, the people are back out on the streets in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and elsewhere. Their demands for democracy have not changed, though the faces of their oppressors may have. This episode looks at the develop ...
  • Obama’s Expanding Kill List
    “Expect no help from “progressives,” who believe in Obama more than they believe in liberty.” Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was passed in order to make it easi ...
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  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Ben Zygier Visited Iran Undercover for Mossad, ...
    UPDATE:Israel has just released (Hebrew and English) its first official statement about its treatment of Ben Zygier.  It has acknowledged without specifically naming him that it held a prisoner under a fictitious name and that the prisoner died in custody.  The State said that it had notified Zy ...
  • Fallout from Zygier Case
    Today, three brave Israeli MKs dared ask the Israeli attorney general, Yaakov Neeman, what he knew about the fate of Ben Zygier, the Australian-Jewish Mossad agent disappeared by Israel’s intelligence apparatus in 2010. Neiman answered that if the story was true, that he knew nothing about ...
  • Prisoner X was Mossad Agent, Ben Zygier
    Back in 2010, I reported that Israel had arrested an unidentified individual, and imprisoned him in total secrecy in an Israeli jail.  The cell he occupied had once housed Yigal Amir.  Even his jailers didn’t know who he was.  His jailers apparently did a lousy job of monitoring Prisoner X ...
  • Famed Conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, May Boycott ...
    I’ve written many posts about the abusive treatment Israel’s security police mete out to distinguished foreign visitors to Israel. They’ve included professors invited to address conferences in the country, an Israeli law professor, the daughter of a Supreme Court justice, Ameri ...
  • Social TV Video: Backroom Deal Between Labor P ...
    This is my newest video segment for Israel’s Social TV. It deals with the backroom deal struck between Channel 2′s Rina Matzliach and Labor Party chief, Shelly Yachimovich that offered the reporter exclusive leaks from Yachimovich in return for Matzliach shutting down any election co ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • The State Decoded Adds Public API, Standard XM ...
    Version 0.6 of The State Decoded is now available on GitHub. This release is a really exciting one -- it establishes a public API for State Decoded sites and creates a standard XML format for importing laws! This is an important release of The State Decoded, one that stands to increase significa ...
  • Facebook's Graph Search Rejiggers Your Persona ...
    The following is a liveblog of an MIT Facebook recruiting event by Matt Stempeck, Rodrigo Davies, and Chris Peterson. We've had all of our data on Facebook for years. And advertisers have used Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform, similar to Graph Search, to segment and target ads a ...
  • Investigating the Technology Underlying Top Ne ...
    “We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die” — Umberto Eco Ever since PBS MediaShift contacted me about contributing to their Idea Lab site again (past posts here), I’ve been taking the opportunity to ponder a new “beat” of sorts, one that wou ...
  • Drone Strikes: Known Unknowns and the Need for ...
    Two weeks ago the United Nations opened an inquiry into the "civilian impact of the use of drones and other forms of targeted killing." Data -- on casualties, targets, frequency, and other topics -- will play an important role in this investigation, led by Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur for ...
  • How Journalists Can Secure Their Digital Perimeter
    Truism of the day: Your digital perimeter is not secure. You know that. The question for journalists is what can you do right now to strengthen it? Are your editors and managing editors doing enough to help you? As my fellow Knight Fellow Melissa Chan, who was a correspondent in China, points ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Book Review - The Noir Forties: The Early Post ...
    Within American popular culture, the 1950s are viewed with some nostalgic longing for a simpler time as depicted in such television fare as Happy Days, Leave It to Beaver, and Father Knows Best. Yet, this era was anything but a period free from global and domestic turmoil. By 1950, the so-called ...
  • The Digital Edge - Quantum Crytography Put to ...
    Recently a Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography (QC) team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography.The demonstration was performed in the electric grid test bed that is part of the Trustworthy Cyber ...
  • Destination Israel - Touring Israel with Paint ...
    Experiencing the land through art ‘offers a whole other level of conversation about the social, religious and artistic aspects of Israel.’ Everybody takes pictures when they travel to a new place. But that’s not the same as experiencing a locale through photography, painting or dance.Sever ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Making Sense of the Air ...
    On January 30, just before dawn, according to international media reports, the Israel Air Force struck a target (or targets) in Syria. While many details of this attack remain shrouded in mystery, since then a number of facts have come into focus.The strike followed months of warnings from Jerus ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Hezbollah & Iran vs. U ...
    The Bulgarians have concluded their investigation of the July 18, 2012, Burgas' bus bombing that killed five Israelis and the Bulgarian driver. They have named the instigators and participants and found Hezbollah responsible. They have done this despite pressure from Western Europe (especially B ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Wetland Trees, A Significant Source Of Methane
    "Methane emissions normally are measured by putting sealed chambers on the ground to capture gas seeping or bubbling from the soil. We also enclosed tree stems in chambers and the results were surprising. About 80 per cent of all methane emissions was venting through the trees."
  • The Emperor’s New Pipeline By David Lillard
    As President Obama mulls over approval of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, he may want to ask David Lillard’s 6-year-old son his point of view, since that little boy and millions of kids around the world will have to live with the climate impacts of tar sands oil on the planet
  • Condemning North Korea’s Latest Nuclear Test I ...
    Just like the people of Iraq suffered more from the sanctions imposed against Iraq than from the alleged despotic rule of Saddam Hussain, the people of North Korea would suffer more from the sanctions than from the vicissitudes of socialistic rule in North Korea
  • The State Of The Union : Warning, Saccharin Ca ...
    The president's State of the Union , cheered by Democratic partisans and jeered by Republicans, left me, someone not affiliated with either party, unsatisfied and concerned. Anyone who follows politics closely knows the sweet words of the president were saccharin, not even real sugar
  • No More Truthless Heroes By Joshua Brollier
    On February 11, 2013, the New York Times reported about the funeral of retired Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle, portraying him as a “warrior and family man.” The highly politicized and massive public funeral, held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington , Texas , points to the severe moral schizophrenia our ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • BREAKING: Archeologists Find Hidden Version o ...
    In a Washington D.C. news conference archeologists working for the Smithsonian Institution have announced an incredible discovery--a hidden version of  the U.S Constitution dated 1790. It was passed by the original 13 States and intended to supplant the version  ratified ...
  • Egyptian Human Rights’ Activist: Obama Lying A ...
    By Barry Rubin In giving his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama will presumably brag about his greatest supposed achievement in the Middle East: Support for democracy and human rights. But consider this amazing fact. Exactly two years ago there were massive demonstration ...
  • NONSENSE! Illegal Alien Tell Congress "Don't C ...
    Under the current laws of the United States, Jose Antonio Varga who testified before congress today is a criminal.  Not a dangerous one,but a criminal nevertheless. When Vargas was 12, his mother sent him to live with his grandparents in the US--ignoring the immigration laws at the time ( ...
  • Sorry Mr. President But You've Added 146,621,9 ...
    It's only February but last night one of the President's statements became leading contender for the Lie of the Year: Tonight, I’ll lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework both parties agreed to just 18 months ago. Let me repeat – n ...
  • Snarky Fact-Checking Transcript of Obama's Sta ...
    Being a political junkie, is rare when I don't anticipate a huge political event just for the pageantry and process.  But there was little anticipation for last night's State of the Union Address by the President because I knew what was coming, bigger government, more taxes, more spending, ...

The Real Agenda

  • Obama confirmed Internet power grab during Sta ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 14, 2013 President Barack Obama announced during his State of the Union that he has signed an executive order to ensure national security against possible cyber attacks. According to Obama, the United States has undergone several rounds of a ...
  • Vaccine injuries in Africa being covered-up
    By CHRISTINA ENGLAND | VACTRUTH | FEBRUARY 14, 2013 Millions of children across Africa have been included in meningitis vaccine trials, many without parental consent. VacTruth recently revealed this information, resulting in many agencies desperately trying to cover up this travesty an ...
  • Mycoplasma: The Linking Pathogen in Neurosyste ...
    Several strains of mycoplasma have been “engineered” to become more dangerous. They are now being blamed for AIDS, cancer, CFS, MS, CJD and other neurosystemic diseases. By DONALD W. SCOTT MA, MSc | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 13, 2013 There are 200 species of Mycoplasma. Mo ...
  • Barack Obama incites the world to declare war ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 13, 2013 If anyone doubts whether the nuclear test carried out by North Korea is real, simply look at the reaction from Western nuclear powers, such as the United States and several European nations. The nuclear test that North Korea conduct ...
  • Vacinas com vírus de insetos geneticamente mod ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEVEREIRO 12, 2013 Uma nova vacina contra gripe chegou ao mercado, e é a primeira contendo células de insectos geneticamente modificados (OGM). Segundo relatos, a Food and Drug Administration dos EUA (FDA) aprovou recentemente a vacina, conhecida co ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm proposal rejected, PSC cites noise c ...
    State regulators on Thursday rejected an application to build a new wind farm in St. Croix County, citing concerns about turbine noise the project would generate for nearby homes. The state Public Service Commission voted 2-to-1 to reject Emerging Energies’ proposal to build the Highland wind fa ...
  • Cape Vincent passes resolution calling for hal ...
    The Town Council, at a special meeting Wednesday, passed a resolution calling on the state Public Service Commission to halt “any discussion, consideration or determination” regarding wind turbine noise impacts until the effects of infrasound and low frequency noise are properly assessed. Local ...
  • Clarendon backs big wind ban
    CLARENDON — Proposed state legislation that would place a moratorium on large scale wind projects has municipal backing. The Clarendon Select Board supports a senate bill calling for a three-year moratorium on industrial sized wind projects. The proposed legislation also calls for Act 250 to ove ...
  • Province knew about health effects from turbines
    Documents released through a Freedom of Information request from an Orangeville resident reveal the government was aware of adverse health effects caused by industrial wind turbines as far back as 2006. While Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak says he is not shocked to learn the g ...
  • State rejects Antrim wind farm proposal due to ...
    After a state committee recently rejected the proposal for a 30-megawatt wind farm in Antrim, it’s unclear whether the Portsmouth-based energy company that’s spent the better part of four years pitching the project will appeal the decision. Antrim Wind Energy LLC, which is based on the Seacoast ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Watchdog asks Gov. McCrory to disclose value o ...
    The North Carolina governor may soon get to appoint all members of the N.C. Utilities Commission -- even though he's heavily invested in the state's largest regulated utility. Now a watchdog group is calling on him to come clean about just how big those holdings are. read more
  • Is the 4th Circuit veering back to the center?
    Once known as the "most aggressively conservative" federal appeals court and the "black hole of capital litigation," the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond has shifted to the center, thanks to six appointments by President Obama. read more
  • Moving forward on climate this Sunday
    On Feb. 17, thousands of people from across the United States will converge on Washington, D.C. to urge President Obama to take action on the climate crisis. Will you be there? read more
  • Will Gov. McCrory help his friend Duke Energy ...
    As commissioners consider whether to approve Duke Energy's controversial electric generation plan, the legislature wants to fire all of them and let Gov. Pat McCrory appoint a new slate. But given McCrory's longstanding ties to -- and ongoing investments in -- the utility giant, watchdogs say th ...
  • Disparate impact and fair housing: Seven cases ...
    Last week, the Obama administration formalized the legal standard it has used to enforce fair housing laws and hold banks accountable for discriminating against minorities. Here’s an overview of key cases from the foreclosure crisis. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • America's Oldest Cities
    One of the most important turning points in the social history of the United States occurred at the beginning of the 1940s. This is not about Pearl Harbor or the Second World War, but  rather about the economic, housing and transportation advances that have produced more affluence for more pe ...
  • Blue States Double Down On Suicide Strategy
    Whatever President Obama proposes in his State of the Union for the economy, it is likely to fall victim to the predictable Washington gridlock. But a far more significant economic policy debate in America is taking place among the states, and the likely outcome may determine the country ...
  • This is Your Government on Crack
    Forget about a fiscal cliff or the threat of sequestrations. Bernanke’s use of the term “cliff” in 2012 is based on the erroneous analogy that fiscal policy had been moving along some level road for a period of time and was just now approaching an “end” or &ldquo ...
  • California Becoming Less Family-Friendly
    For all of human history, family has underpinned the rise, and decline, of nations. This may also prove true for the United States, as demographics, economics and policies divide the nation into what may be seen as child-friendly and increasingly child-free zones. Where California falls ...
  • Time to Acknowledge Falling Private Car Use
    The prospect of falling car use now needs to be firmly factored into planning for western cities.  That may come as a bit of a surprise in light of the preoccupation with city plans that aim to get people out of their cars, but it is already happening.  And it is highly likely to continue ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Life's a Beach at Bahama Breeze!
    So why not enjoy those delightful drinks and escape to the Caribbean from 4-6pm Monday - Fridays and on Sundays from 9pm till closing.
  • Instability in Congo Calls for International R ...
    He explains that it would be a serious mistake for the people of the Congo, for those countries in Central Africa who neighbor and border it, and the global community that the instability in the D.R.C. is not cost free to the United States.
  • Clear Skies for a Cuddly Valentine's Day
    Temperatures in the Northeast will be close to normal for mid-February, including in the major I-95 cities.
  • World Slams DPRK's Nuclear Test
    Ms. Rice says North Korea does not and will not benefit from violating international law.
  • Phoebe Price Launches New Fashion Line That St ...
    Model, actress and designer Phoebe Price had a very special 'Celebrity Hat Show' last weekend to celebrate her new line of hats being worn by stars including Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton, and many others. This article discusses the event.

Worldnews

  • South African Olympic Runner Pistorius to Face ...
    South African Olympic Runner Pistorius to Face Murder Charges Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee nicknamed 'Blade Runner' for the carbon blades he runs on, is escorted by police in Pretoria on Thursday. He will appear in court Friday on charges that he shot and killed his girlfriend, model Reeva ...
  • Mali says to hold presidential election on July 7
    BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali will hold a presidential election on July 7, a key step aimed at stabilizing the country following the French-led military intervention that has ousted Islamist rebels from the main northern towns, the government said on Thursday. Following the recapture late last month b ...
  • Illinois Senate passes same-sex marriage measure
    February 14, 2013 -- Updated 2041 GMT (0441 HKT) (CNN) -- The Illinois Senate passed a measure Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage, voting 34-21. The state House will consider it next. Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, has indicated that he would sign the bill. Illinois would be the 10th state, plu ...
  • Chicago's new Public Enemy No. 1: 'El Chapo'
    February 14, 2013 -- Updated 2041 GMT (0441 HKT) Drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera is seen at a Mexican maximum security prison before he escaped in 2001. (CNN) -- The Chicago Crime Commission named a new Public Enemy No. 1 on Thursday, a designation originally crafted for Al Capone. The ...
  • Obama's plan to tap oil to fund clean energy
    President Barack Obama's proposal to fund clean-energy research with fees paid by oil and gas producers is renewing a debate over whether the promise of innovation tomorrow is worth expanding drilling today. Obama's “Energy Security Trust” -- which he announced this week in the State ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Government says it recovers billions in health ...
    The Obama administration says it recovers $4.2 billion, a one-year record, from Medicare providers and others who falsely billed the government. WASHINGTON — The federal government recovered a record $4.2 billion in the last fiscal year from medical providers and others who fraudulentl ...
  • Court grants Indiana employer relief from cont ...
    (Reuters) - An Indiana company has won temporary court relief from having to provide its employees with coverage for contraceptives and other birth-control procedures, as mandated under the 2010 healthcare overhaul. (Source: Reuters: Health)
  • LSR grades for medical device manufacturers an ...
    Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation for the healthcare industry, is showcasing at MD&M West (Hall D, Booth# 1751) Dow Corning® QP1 liquid silicone rubber (LSR) grades that give medical device manufacturers and fabricators broader material choic ...
  • North Carolina's Medicaid program too troubled ...
    (Reuters) - North Carolina will not expand Medicaid coverage under President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law and will play no role in setting up the required health insurance exchange, Governor Pat McCrory said on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
  • Covance To Present At The Leerink Swann Global ...
    PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Covance Inc. (NYSE: CVD) today announced that it will present at the Leerink Swann Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. (ET).  Investors may access a live webcast of the presentation at...

Common Dreams

  • Scientists: US Must Act Now Against 'Dangers' ...
    (Photo: Rick Loomis/ LA Times)Scientists are proposing to reclassify the most polluting of plastics as hazardous materials hopefully enabling governments to do something about the 140 million tons of plastic that litter our roadsides, waterways and shorelines each year. ...
  • Coalition Pushes Legislature to Restore Cuts t ...
    A coalition of 32 medical groups and nonprofits is asking state lawmakers to restore cuts to women’s health care services that, while aimed at Planned Parenthood, have hit other providers of care to poor women, especially in rural areas. “The damage has been extensive,” said Dr ...
  • 'Carbon Fee & Dividend' Bill Introduced to Bat ...
    The day after two new opinion polls revealed overwhelming public support for "significant action on tackling climate change"—and several days ahead of a planned climate rally in Washington billed as the "largest in US history"—two Senators on Thursday announced th ...
  • Protests Mark Anniversary of Bahraini Uprising ...
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  • At Least 20 CIA 'Black Site' Prisoners Still M ...
    In one of President Barack Obama first acts in the White House, he ordered the closure of the CIA’s so-called “black-site” prisons, where terror suspects had been held and, sometimes, tortured.  The CIA says it is “out of the detention business,” as John Brenna ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Israel Fuels Syrian Fire, Risking Regional Out ...
    By Nicola Nasser** The timing of the Israeli air raid early on January 30 on a Syrian target, that has yet to be identified, coincided with a hard to refute indications that the “regime change” in Syria by force, both by foreign military intervention and by internal armed rebelli ...
  • So God Made Republicans
    Joel S. Hirschhorn Stupid people have the right to vote. Stupid people propel our consumer economy and waste money on myriad things because they are stupid shoppers. Stupid people have the right to own guns, lots of guns. Stupid people have free speech. So, no surprise, in our representativ ...
  • Time to Drop Money from Helicopters?
    By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Co-directors, It’s Our Economy Milton Friedman of the Chicago School of Economics suggested in 1969 that dropping money out of helicopters for citizens to pick up was a sure way to restart the economy. This was consistent with long-held views; in 1948 ...
  • Escalating Pressure on Iran
    by Stephen Lendman Secretary of State John Kerry's clear where he stands. He laid down markers. He demands Iran comply with Washington's demands. Left unsaid is what follows otherwise. On February 26, nuclear talks will resume. P5+1 countries (Washington, Britain, Germany, China and Russia) ...
  • America's Deplorable State of the Union
    by Stephen Lendman Obama's annual State of the Union addresses reflect beginning-to-end doublespeak duplicity. Empty rhetoric signals business as usual. Policy prioritizes corporate empowerment, rewarding rich elites, letting popular needs go begging, funding America's war machine, and crackin ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Saskatchewan's Anti-Poverty Plan, Does it Meas ...
    In the summer of 2012, the Saskatchewan government published its anti-poverty strategy, From Dependence to Independence, claiming that no previous administration in the province had approached the challenge of poverty “with a comparable commitment to holistic, cross-government solutions.” Our n ...
  • CETA: Constraining Manitoba's Economic Prospe ...
    This report also examines the potential impact of providing foreign investors with increased access to public procurement and the impact of weakening the provincial government’s ability to promote regional development and to ensure that Manitobans benefit from the province’s natural resource ...
  • Canada’s tax system needs ‘fairness’ reform
    According to a new study by CCPA economists Marc Lee and Iglika Ivanova, Canada’s tax system is in dire need of reform. Fairness by Design: A Framework for Tax Reform in Canada finds that ad-hoc tax changes over the last two decades have seriously weakened the redistributive role of Canada’s ta ...
  • Community Health Innovation: You decide!
    Federal budgets have always been very removed from everyday life. But it doesn't have to be that way. They can be participatory and ask regular Canadians how they want their tax dollars spent, instead of having Ottawa tell them where the money will go. This year, as part of CCPA's Alternative F ...
  • Breaking the Silence Around Bullying
    With mass mobilizations like Idle No More re-imagining how we work together for progressive, just and caring communities, standing up against bullying and calling out and naming oppressors is taking on an even greater resonance these days.  The winter 2013 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves f ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • Obama Ignores Huge Dangers In Approving Arctic ...
    Sept. 1, 2012 The Obama administration today gave Shell Oil the initial approval to begin controversial and dangerous oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, despite the fact that a critical oil-spill containment vessel is still awaiting certification in Bellingham, Wash. Until now, the Arc ...
  • BEIJING'S POLLUTION ALARMS NEIGHBORS
  • Chinas Yangtze River 'Turns Blood Red': Reside ...
    Sept. 10, 2012 It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see. But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday. The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast ...
  • GEOS-5 - Aerosois - [aerosols whipping around ...
  • Fracking Our Food Supply
    Dec. 1, 2012 Many fracking operations take place on food producing farms. (photo: Onearth) n a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams of upstate New York. The diners are here, with their checkbooks, to supp ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Book Review – Reinventing Fire
    While I disagree with Amory Lovins on many topics, the man is definitely a visionary. In his latest book Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era, Lovins and his coauthors make the case for retrofitting 120 million buildings, and for fundamentally changing our transportat ...
  • Al Gore Profits From Fossil Fuels He Vilified
    What Gore doesn't seem to understand is that this is the same cost-benefit analysis that results in the world's rising use of fossil fuels. He is like many environmentalists who don't seem to understand the real reasons we are dependent upon fossil fuels.
  • EPA Doubles Down on Unicorns
    In my previous column — Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work — I used an analogy to describe the US government’s approach to cellulosic ethanol mandates. In brief, they have mandated that something that does not exist — commercial cellulosic ethanol volumes — be ...
  • Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work
    There is a reason I don't ride a unicorn to work. It isn't because it's too far to work. Nor is it because it rains here in Hawaii nearly every day and I might get wet. It isn't because the powerful automobile lobby has convinced me that driving a car to work is a better option for me. No, it's ...
  • The Amazing Reversal of the US Oil Industry
    Oil production in the US began to rise in 2009, in response to record capital expenditures by oil companies in the face of sharply rising oil prices. The rise has been sustained to the point that production rose all four years of President Obama's first term.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 7 Vegan Aphrodisiacs
    Vegan aphrodisiacs could be just what your body's starving for this Valentine's Day, whether you consider yourself an herbivore or not. Even the most devout steak-eater may want to partake in a meat vacation to enjoy the wonderful side effects of plant-based foods that fuel the libido. No bloo ...
  • Is Your Cookware Causing Arthritis?
    Nonstick cookware is convenient. With its ability to keep the eggs from sticking to the bottom of the pan, it could even make you feel like a better cook! But that ease in the kitchen should come with a warning label. Certain nonstick chemicals are linked to high cholesterol and thyroid disease ...
  • Why It's Time to Buy a New Couch
    Are you cuddling up to a toxic couch? Chances are the answer to that is yes. Since 1975, the state of California has required all furniture and all baby products, such as nursing pillows and car seats, to be flame retardant. Since the state is so huge, that standard has become a de facto nation ...
  • The New Way to Prevent Breast Cancer
    Preventing breast cancer isn't about professional breast exams or other screening tools—it's about stopping the disease before it takes hold in your body in the first place. The truth is, while more treatment breakthroughs for breast cancer continue to enter the healthcare system, a plan for st ...
  • Is the "Natural Life" Always the Best Way to Live?
    You eat organic food from your backyard garden and heal life's common ailments with food, not pharma. And your relatives all think you're crazy. So who's right? Nathanael Johnson wanted to know the answer to that question, and he wanted to support it with scientific evidence. The child of self ...

big think

  • With This Vaccination System, The Needles Are ...
    What's the Latest Development? Scientists at Kings College London created a silicone mold of a microneedle array and then used it to make tiny disks of dried live vaccine that, when applied to the skin of mice, created an immune response that was equal to that created by the same amount ...
  • New System Pinpoints Car Locations To 2 Meters
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers at Carlos III University in Madrid have designed a satellite navigation system that combines GPS with gyroscopes and accelerometers to enable equipped cars to be located to within 2 meters in cities. According to the team, it can be installed in ...
  • For the Love of Technology
    Let Valentine's Day be a time to reflect on our love affair with technology. Are school leaders in this relationship because they believe in the power of technology to enhance education or are school leaders looking at technology as a beautiful piece of 'eye-candy'?    This year, ...
  • Are You Dating a Psychopath?
    Are you dating or have you ever dated a psychopath? There are actually clear signs, or "tells," to use a poker analogy, according to Kevin Dutton, the Oxford psychologist and author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success .  Reg ...
  • Well, At Least The Hole In The Ozone Layer Is ...
    What's the Latest Development? The European Space Agency reports that in 2012, the hole in the ozone layer located over Antarctica was smaller than it's been in the previous 10 years, and claims that it's proof that the phasing-out of human-produced, ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons ( ...

Information Liberation

  • Report: WIPO Rejects Ron Paul's RonPaul.com Co ...
    Via RonPaul.com's Facebook: WIPO, an agency of the United Nations, today rejected Ron Paul's UDRP complaint over RonPaul.com due to a formality. Ron Paul's lawyers have been given the option of refiling or amending their complaint until February 19 ...
  • Police Ludicrously Claim Dorner Cabin Fire Was ...
    The San Bernardino Sheriff*s office is ludicrously claiming that the cabin fire which killed Christopher Dorner was not started intentionally, despite numerous references to a plan to *burn down* the building that were heard on police scanners during...
  • How Many Wallets With ID Cards In Them Did Dor ...
    Just like the suspected 9/11 terrorist*s explosion-proof passport that was found magically intact amid the ground zero rubble, the mainstream media is now reporting that suspected cop killer Christopher Dorner*s wallet and identification card were fo...
  • More on Police Lies
    Letter to the editor published in the New York Times: Last fall, the criminal defense clinic at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law represented a young black man charged with possession of a knife (recovered from his pants pocket) after he was searche...
  • Jaywalking "Follow the Leader" Experiment
    Mark Dice demonstrates how easy it is to persuade people to break the law and put themselves in danger by jaywalking, simply by telling others waiting at the crosswalk that it's okay to cross, and by taking the lead and waking out into the intersec...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Sciencebase to be grilled by Cambridge student ...
    UPDATE: 2012-02-13 It’s on again and this year I can offer a little advice on how to get a popular science book published if any students are interested in hearing my thoughts on that. Also, I’ve dropped the price for students on the PDF version of Deceived Wisdom for the next couple ...
  • Supersonic ping pong ball
    What happens when a ping pong ball moving at supersonic speed hits a bat? This video, which is dripping college degrees, explains the physics and shows a few test shots. NO amount of wrist action can defeat supersonic… Do not try this at home. I’m talking to you “King Julian&#8 ...
  • Evernote Penultimate now free
    Evernote has made its hand-writing app for iPad free as of now. Always keen to grab any worthwhile freebies, I took a look and was quite surprised and pleased to see what they are using as a demonstration screenshot: Evernote Penultimate now free is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogEvernote ...
  • End-of-January Kindle Sale
    UPDATE: 2013-01-31 Amazon UK has the Kindle version of my book – Deceived Wisdom – at a knock-down price of just 99p today. Remember there are Kindle apps for most mobile devices and computers, so you don’t need an actual Kindle to take advantage of the offer. You don’t n ...
  • DCD, dicyandiamide, 2-cyanoguanidine
    2-Cyanoguanidine, also known as DCD (dicyandiamide) is a nitrile derived from guanidine used as a curative agent for epoxy resins in packaging. Since 2004, it has been used in New Zealand by farmers hoping to lower the environmental impact of livestock by reducing the rate at which soil microbes ...

RFF Library

  • Issue Brief: Water Resource Issues, Policy and ...
    Brookings Institution / by Scott Moore http://bit.ly/VUEwAo …In short, China’s water resource challenge consists of both water quantity and quality issues, each of which present distinctive challenges for Chinese policy. Although the Chinese government is implementing perhaps the world’s m ...
  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Recent Activities ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42942.pdf [PEN-e] Summary: In the wake of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, the federal government, state governments, and responsible parties faced an unprecedente ...
  • Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Key Issues
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41668.pdf …The 112th Congress debated numerous legislative options addressing the Keystone XL pipeline. The North American Energy Access Act (H.R. 3548) would have transferred permitting authority for the Keystone XL pipeline ...
  • The Leverage of Demographic Dynamics on Carbon ...
    Demography (February 2011, v48, n1, p371-399) / by Emilio Zagheni http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13524-010-0004-1 This article provides a methodological contribution to the study of the effect of changes in population age structure on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. First, I propose ...
  • Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty
    National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12568 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible for protecting Americans against significant risks to human health and the environment. As part of that mission, EPA estimates the n ...

Scientific American - News

  • Natural Hazards: New York City vs. The Sea
    Joe Leader's heart sank as he descended into the South Ferry subway station at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York. It was 8 p.m. on 29 October, and Hurricane Sandy had just made landfall some 150 kilometers south in New Jersey. As chief maintenance officer for the New York City subway ...
  • Can Early Deep-Brain Stimulation Surgery Help ...
    Over the past decade a kind of brain surgery known as deep-brain stimulation (DBS) has helped some Parkinson's disease sufferers develop better control of their physical movements. But the risks that come with the invasive procedure--not to mention the costs--keep physicians and patients c ...
  • Being There: Scientists Enlist Inuit for Long- ...
    During the summer in Qaanaaq, Greenland , an Inuit hunter paddling next to a resting narwhal observed a thin gauzelike layer coming off the narwhal's body and dissipating into the water. The event lasted only a few seconds, but Connecticut-based dentist Martin Nweeia, a Harvard University a ...
  • Touching the Light: Rats Get Fitted with Star ...
    Geordi La Forge, the chief engineer of the USS Enterprise -D, could perceive a large swath of electromagnetic spectrum with his wraparound VISOR prosthetic. Now a few rats have received real-life prototypes of these Star Trek props. [More]
  • Adobe Homes in Peru's Andes Tell Centuries-Old ...
    HUANCAVELICA, Peru – Sonia Salazar’s house, like most in her neighborhood, is built of adobe bricks made from mud that soaked up centuries of emissions from mercury smelters. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Dangerous Times: Hereditary Chief Beau Dick
    "A Compassionate Plea to All Mankind" Hereditary Chief Beau Dick along with family members & supporters complete their long walk from Quatsino near Port Har ...
  • No Justice Anywhere
    Supreme Court shuns survivors of Congo massacre linked to Canadian mining firm MONTREAL—A recent ruling has slammed the door on a group of Congolese people whose lives and fami ...
  • Sharing Their Stories: Missing and Murdered In ...
    It is estimated that over 700 Indigenous women have gone missing and been murdered in Canada since 1980. The issues of violence against Indigenous women is often thought to be an issue that takes place just in the prairie provinces or in BC along the highway of tears, but violence against Indige ...
  • Jour 1 des audiences sur l’article 500.1 du Co ...
    Compte rendu La contestation constitutionnelle de l’article 500.1 du Code de sécurité routière s’est entamée le lundi 11 février à la Cour municipale de Montréal. La requête qui vise à faire invalider l’article a été dépos ...
  • Is There a Regulator in the House?
    Through the Fracking Rabbit Hole with Nova Scotia Environment NOEL, Nova Scotia -- At the moment, Nova Scotians have two aspects of the continuous fracking debate on the table. First ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Capitalism: is we is or is we aint?
    David Seaton's News Links Read carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending is not only the key to economic re ...
  • Droned if we do, etc
    David Seaton's News LinksIt’s insane how vulnerable we’ve made ourselves, like drunks failing to look around as they walk into traffic. Hackers could shut down the way we live, and if they hacked into drones or nuclear codes, determine the way we die. If you think it through, which most of us av ...
  • What might a revolution look like?
    David Seaton's News Links I finished up my last post saying:(...) simply by nationalizing Monsanto and Walmart we would have a perfect, planned economy… in other words we are all dressed up and waiting for Lenin.And several people have since asked me what I meant by that.It comes in two parts th ...
  • Monsanto and the banality of evil
    A discussion about Monsanto arose in a private technology forum that I attend, which dredged up the following from me and that in turn I'd like to share with my regular readers. DSMy great uncle was one of the original chemists of Monsanto... the boss had no money for the payroll and he paid t ...
  • Is middle class renewal in any way based on ch ...
    David Seaton's News Links Fracking illustrated It seems to me that the challenge of rebuilding the American middle class: bringing back the jobs, ensuring good public education, health care and decent pensions is now to a great extent predicated on a very controversial "energy revolution": the l ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • I Think Voldemort Has Put a Curse on SOTU Resp ...
    Last week I wrote that everyone fails when it comes to delivering a reply to the State of the Union address. "I would run, not walk, if party leaders asked me to give the SOTU response," I said. "My kid has a piano recital that night. It's my anniversary. Anything. I think you'd have to be nut ...
  • "Friends of Hamas": World's Dumbest Front Group?
    Apparently I missed the news that the latest right-wing conspiracy theory about Chuck Hagel is that he once received funding from an organization called "Friends of Hamas." If you have a room temperature IQ, your first thought is that this is a distinctly unlikely name for a terrorist fro ...
  • The Politics of Tech is Usually Pretty Simple
    Whenever you read about some kind of political dispute over a tech issue, you should be aware that it's almost certainly really a fight among two or more of the following four groups: Telcos Cable companies Hollywood Silicon Valley Everything else is just fluff. There are occasio ...
  • GOP Not in Kansas Anymore
    Over at the New York Times Magazine, Robert Draper has a long piece about the woes of the Republican Party. A lot of it focuses on their inability to embrace the kind of technology favored by young people, but Ed Kilgore points out that the problem goes way, way deeper than technology. Here's ...
  • Deregulation May Not Have Lowered Air Fares Af ...
    American Airlines has now officially announced its merger with US Airways, which brings to an end the era of massive consolidation in the domestic airline industry. This era was sparked by the 1979 deregulation of the industry, and Steven Pearlstein declares it a success: While cons ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Dogs spot the dog
    Dogs pick out faces of other dogs, irrespective of breeds, among human and other domestic and wild animal faces and can group them into a category of their own. They do that using visual cues alone, according to new research by Dr. Dominique Autier-Dérian from the LEEC and National Veteri ...
  • Love of musical harmony is not nature but nurture
    Our love of music and appreciation of musical harmony is learnt and not based on natural ability, a new study by University of Melbourne researchers has found. read more
  • First animal model of recent human evolution
    The first animal model of recent human evolution reveals that a single mutation produced several traits common in East Asian peoples, from thicker hair to denser sweat glands, an international team of researchers reports. read more
  • Sewage lagoons remove most -- but not all -- p ...
    2012 marked the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, which established regulations for the discharge of pollutants to waterways and supported the building of sewage treatment plants. Despite these advances, sewage remains a major source of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) a ...
  • MOND used to predict key property in Andromeda ...
    Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property measured in faint dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda. read more

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Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Seen Ted Nugent Lately?
    If you see the Motor City Madman, ask him how he dodged the draft. From what he said a few years back it had something to do with him crapping in his pants for a week before going in for his interview, and filling his urine test cup with poop. Way to go Ted. A [...]
  • Mail Deliver On Saturday Over Thanks To Republ ...
    Do you like getting mail delivered on Saturday? Too bad. It is over. The Republican plan to destroy the Post Office so the “private sector” which technically means billionaires that own most of the stock in most corporations can make more dough. Thanks to the Republican Postal Destru ...
  • The Republicans Want To Re-Brand Their Party
    Buuuhahahahahah. It is all I can do to keep from laughing. For 30 years the GOP has been helping the wealthy, and the corporations they own rape our families, and transfer our assets to the top 1%. Now the outlook for our children is worse than it was for us. And they want to re-brand? [...]
  • Republicans Want To Screw More People Out Of T ...
    Since fewer and fewer people are willing to vote for Republicans for president the Republicans have a plan. Since Republicans  have drawn districts where they control the state even though more people vote for democrats, they want to change the electoral map. They want to keep Texas the same, bu ...
  • Hey Debt Ceiling Traitors
    We don’t have to raise the debt ceiling. All we have to do is tax billionaires at the same rate of the middle class, and we would have a budget surplus. That’s right. Surplus, without having to starve granny, or refuse medical care to babies. Then we could tax corporations at the eff ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
    Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
  • Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

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  • Birthright now offering skateboarding, hip hop ...
    As if it wasn’t enough to offer Jews around the world a trip to Israel totally free of charge, the Birthright industry is now marketing “the only skateboarding trip to Israel” and a “hip hop” trip. This is in addition to the already popular “niche” tours ...
  • From prisoner releases to Gaza beaches: A week ...
    Some Palestinian prisoners are released while solidarity continues for those on hunger strike, demonstrations target the separation wall, settlements, and school closures, and life goes on amid Gaza’s rubble.                  
  • Solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and & ...
    The recent success in dealing with racism on the soccer field could be an example of how to deal with the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Except when taking into consideration that an extreme act of violence was ‘needed’ first. My colleague Noam Sheizaf wrote recently about the racism o ...
  • What do Palestinian teenagers wish for in 2013?
    New Year’s resolutions offer us a glimpse into the hopes of the children who live under Israeli occupation. A colleague of mine, a fellow journalist and writer, teaches English to Palestinian children in Hebron. I visited her recently in the West Bank and she generously shared her teenage ...
  • Prisoner X: A false-flag agent?
    An already reported, Iran-related  story  developed in parallel to that of Prisoner X, with numerous factors allowing for overlap. Could Zygier have compromised a false-flag operation to enlist an Iranian armed opposition group?  It’s always difficult to try and discern the full picture wh ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Celebrating multicultural Australia
    The Gillard Government is celebrating multicultural Australia with a new heritage theme for 2013 looking at the stories and contribution of migrants.
  • Consultation closes on Marine Park draft Manag ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke said the close of this consultation marks the end of one of the Government's most extensive public engagement processes.
  • Gillard Government supports irrigators
    The Gillard Government will support irrigators and irrigation providers to better manage their networks into the future under a new program announced by Water Minister Tony Burke today.
  • Conditional approvals granted for Maules Creek ...
    Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has given conditional approval to the Maules Creek and Boggabri mine proposals, and the Gloucester coal seam methane gas project, subject to strict conditions and further work to minimise their potential environmental impacts.
  • Applications open for sustainable environment ...
    Community groups across Australia will be supported by the Gillard Government to continue their work protecting our precious environment.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Foreclosures In Amerika- The Banking Elite, Co ...
    The lamestream media is all a flutter with reporting about how new foreclosure filings are up.  But no one is talking about a far more important aspect of foreclosures….. THE VAST MAJORITY OF FORECLOSED PROPERTIES ARE SEIZED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Well, not the federal government exact ...
  • 2013 is NOT The Year Wall Street Took Over Flo ...
    Earlier in the week, my colleague and North Florida’s Best Foreclosure Defense Attorney, Chip Parker wrote a post entitled, 2013, The Year Wall Street Completes Its Purchase Of Florida’s Court System Believe me, I understand perfectly the sentiment in Chip’s post.  I find it in ...
  • Florida’s 2nd District Court of Appeals- ...
    JOSE EDILBERTO PALACIOS, Appellant, v. FLORIDA FUNDING TRUST; EASY HOMES 123, LLC, as Trustee of the Marigold #1441 Trust dated 01/07/06; LYNN BROWNING, Beneficiary of the Marigold #1441 Trust dated 01/07/06; WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.; and BARBARA COLLINS, Appellees. 2nd District. Case No. 2D09-3335. ...
  • NUCLEAR BOMBSHELL! FLORIDA’S (un)FAIRFOR ...
    NOT MY WORDS…THE WORDS OF SOMEONE FAR SMARTER, FAR MORE AUTHORITATIVE….. THE BEST THING TO DO WITH THE BILL AS IT’S CURRENTLY WRITTEN IS TO…. DROP IT! But will the powers that are pushing this wrong-headed legislation listen to perhaps the most respected lawyer on matters ...
  • Bank of America- The Keystone Cops And The &#8 ...
    Naked Capitalism keeps hammering on this story…….but of course the mainstream media just keeps ignoring it….and they will indeed keep ignoring it. It is, after all, just another story of corruption…..and shows fascism hard at work within the United States government.  It& ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Identity – Romancing the Community
    It’s Valentine’s Day. Many things to many people, it nevertheless finds a certain commonality in that romance can be as …Continue reading »
  • Identity – If You Eat, You’re In
    Common vernacular says we are “what” we eat. There’s truth in that, but it’s actually how we organize ourselves in …Continue reading »
  • Smart and Caring
    This week the Conference Board of Canada published a significant report relating Canada’s standing on things like child poverty, inequality …Continue reading »
  • Identity Politics
    With the Speaker of the House seated beside me, I addressed a group of my fellow MPs in as frank …Continue reading »
  • Who Are You?
    Who are you? Seriously. For that matter, who are we? Oscar Wilde used to wonder if people really knew themselves, …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • FDA Feeling the Heat on Genetically Engineered ...
    Opposition is building rapidly to a pending approval of the first genetically engineered animal in the U.S. food supply—AquaBounty’s GE version of the Atlantic salmon. The opposition is so strong, in fact, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration just extended its public comment period by anot ...
  • Finally, USDA Issues New Rules on Competitive ...
    You know those vending machines in public schools? Finally, the USDA will insist on healthy options.
  • 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.

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Consumerist

  • Oh Lordy, Here’s A Bunch Of Stuff About ...
    This week has seen a declaration of war between a New York Times reporter who wrote a scathing review of the  Tesla S electric car and its network of free superchargers and the company’s head honcho and “product architect” Elon Musk. Being your ever faithful servants, we though ...
  • Carnival Triumph Tow Rope Breaks, Prolongs Pas ...
    The passengers of the Carnival Triumph (probably) never imagined that they’d get to extend their trip by several days. They certainly didn’t picture themselves living like 19th-century steerage passengers, if 19th-century steerage passengers had cans of Pringles and defecated in plas ...
  • Sen. Warren Asks Bank Regulators If “Too ...
    In her first hearing as a member of the Senate Banking Committee, Massachusetts Senator and longtime Consumerist favorite Elizabeth Warren grilled a panel of regulators on their tendency to settle with law-breaking banks rather than go to trial. “We all understand why settlements are impor ...
  • Neighbor Feud Escalates To Malicious Magazine ...
    Is there no end to the misery in the world caused by homeowners associations? In Minnesota, a woman could end up in prison for ten years after signing a neighbor up for two dozen magazine subscriptions. The animosity between neighbors began when one neighbor turned another in to the homeowners a ...
  • Chicken & Waffles, Garlic Cheesy Bread & Srira ...
    There are things on this Earth which simply boggle the mind, flavors we never imagined could become a reality in the form of a potato chip. Lays is seeking to bring a taste dream come true for some of its fans, as it’s picked three finalists in its quest for a new flavor: Chicken & Waf ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Wyoming's Leading Paper Attacks 'Ag Gag' Legis ...
    Casper Star Tribune: Legislature Needs to Stop Anti-Whistleblowing Legislation in its Tracks This masthead editorial details why proposed Ag Gag legislation in Wyoming – which would criminalize whistleblowers taking undercover video at farm operations – is "egregious." The bill was drafted in ...
  • Former OSC Head Bloch Pleads Guilty: Daily Whi ...
    AP: Ex-Whistleblower Pleads Guilty Scott Bloch, former head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) – the office mandated to ensure the implementation of the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) for government employees – pled guilty to injury of government property this week and now faces up to ...
  • Terrifying! “Economic Jihad” and Cyber Surveil ...
    This week, the House of Representatives will consider the “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act,” a piece of legislation that would allow America’s intelligence agencies to share and protect the voluminous data they collect about America’s citizens with the keepers of America’s financia ...
  • Indiana Senate to Take Up 'Ag Gag': Daily Whis ...
    ABC 57 News (IN): Senate Committee to Hear "Ag Gag" Bill A controversial Ag Gag bill in Indiana will go before a Senate Committee today. The legislation – one of several that have been introduced in various states so far this year – would prevent people from taking pictures or video at agricul ...
  • American Whistleblower Tour Inspres Florida In ...
    FIUSM: Whistleblower Tour Sheds Light on Growing Concerns in Businesses GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour made an impactful stop at Florida International University lastThursday, where financial industry whistleblowers Eric Ben-Artzi (Deutsche Bank) and Michael Winston (Countrywide Financial) ...

UK Progressive

  • The Biggest Republican Lie
    by Robert Reich Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) says Senate Republicans will unanimously support a balanced-budget amendment, to be unveiled Wednesday as the core of the GOP’s fiscal agenda. There’s no chance of passage so why are Republicans pushing it now? “Just because someth ...
  • Texas Politics, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio and th ...
    by Brent Budowsky Rick Perry will not be reelected governor of Texas. Odds are 60 percent he does not run for reelection, 60 percent he is defeated in a primary if he runs, and 50 percent he is defeated by a Democratic nominee if Perry wins a primary and Texas Democrats choose a strong candidate ...
  • Op-Ed: Drone WARS; DOJ Legalised Death Squads ...
    by Jeanine Molloff CIA Director candidate John Brennan all but cries crocodile tears for the ‘agony’ he feels, every time a presidential ordered ‘targeted’ drone murder is decided.  In fact, Brennan claims to go through such deep agony over these extra-judicial assassinat ...
  • IRS Wins Big Tax Ruling against Bank of New Yo ...
    by Jeff Gerth ProPublica A federal tax court judge yesterday ruled that the Bank of New York Mellon had improperly claimed foreign tax credits through a complex deal arranged by Barclays. In the wake of the ruling, BNY Mellon said it will take a charge of $850 million but also said it would appe ...
  • Why We Need an Investment Budget
    by Robert Reich Part of the President’s State of the Union message and of his second term agenda apparently will focus on public investments in education, infrastructure, and basic R&D. That’s good news. But how do we fund these investments when discretionary spending is being cut to the bon ...

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JoNova

  • Lies are OK if you believe says Richardson
    Graham Richardson in The Australian Graham Richardson says that a lie is not a lie if you believe what you say: After the 2010 election, Julia Gillard had broken her core election promise that “there will be no carbon tax under a government I lead”. Her credibility has never recovere ...
  • Obama promises to stop storms. Labor is so bro ...
    Thank God for Barack Obama and Greg Combet. For they have The Gift. They can change the weather. Welcome back to another Golden Era of Climate-Hype. Obama’s State of the Union speech and all-new legislation in the US is ramping up the debate again. Greg Combet (Australian minister for the ...
  • The Emerson v Bolt argument on air… does ...
    Is this “national debate”? There’s been a big “todo” over a tweet made by  Trade Minister Craig Emerson saying that Andrew Bolt was wrong to claim the world hadn’t warmed for 16 years. (Which means Emerson disagrees with the UK Met boys, the latest IPCC draft report ...
  • Peer Review failure: Science and Nature journa ...
    The peer review system has decayed to the point where the culture of the two “top” science journals virtually  guarantees they will reject the most important research done today. It is the exact opposite of what we need to further human knowledge the fastest. Science and Nature are p ...
  • WA State Labor leader has it both ways: Carbon ...
    Mark McGowan , the West Australian Labor leader hoping to win the election in March and become Premier of WA, announced that he doesn’t like the Carbon Tax. But apparently he does like emissions trading, showing that he’s as keen as anyone to help large financial institutions reap nice pro ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • Salmon Use Magnetic Field To Navigate
    This is meaningful, because for every animal that does get studied in this way (because scientists are curious about how they navigate from A to B), there will be dozens of other animals that use the same bio-technology but are not studied. Consequently, the butterfly effect from a magnetic pole ...
  • Another Free Book: Prepping On A Budget
    Also by George Shephard, this is a light overview to help inspire deeper research into how to prepare for the worst: Prepping on a Budget  Free for “the next few days”. 72 pages. Your're reading Another Free Book: Prepping On A Budget by Robert Bast, and originally posted at 2012 Bl ...
  • Pope Benedict XVI Resigns = Last Pope Scenario
    I often preface my posts with a disclaimer of sorts, so here we go: this could just be a coincidence! However, if there was something real and cataclysmic connected to the 2012 meme, it wouldn’t be surprising if the higher-ups at the Catholic Church knew about it. And we know that they are ...
  • Buy An RAF Station in England (with bunker)
    First of all, I doubt any readers of this blog have the £2.5 million required to purchase this property… …but if you did, it would make a great survivalist holiday camp. Be the first in the world! 25 acres Very secure, completely fenced and gated Helipad Massive 20,820 sq.ft. bunker ...
  • Supervolcano Campi Flegrei: Alert
    The following news could be anywhere from meaningful to meaningless. The primary problem is that scientists have never witnessed a supervolcanic eruption. They don’t know what indicators they should be looking for, and how much of a warning we get. Presumably an eruption is preceded by a b ...

Facing South

  • Watchdog asks Gov. McCrory to disclose value o ...
    The North Carolina governor may soon get to appoint all members of the N.C. Utilities Commission -- even though he's heavily invested in the state's largest regulated utility. Now a watchdog group is calling on him to come clean about just how big those holdings are. read more
  • Is the 4th Circuit veering back to the center?
    Once known as the "most aggressively conservative" federal appeals court and the "black hole of capital litigation," the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond has shifted to the center, thanks to six appointments by President Obama. read more
  • Moving forward on climate this Sunday
    On Feb. 17, thousands of people from across the United States will converge on Washington, D.C. to urge President Obama to take action on the climate crisis. Will you be there? read more
  • Will Gov. McCrory help his friend Duke Energy ...
    As commissioners consider whether to approve Duke Energy's controversial electric generation plan, the legislature wants to fire all of them and let Gov. Pat McCrory appoint a new slate. But given McCrory's longstanding ties to -- and ongoing investments in -- the utility giant, watchdogs say th ...
  • Disparate impact and fair housing: Seven cases ...
    Last week, the Obama administration formalized the legal standard it has used to enforce fair housing laws and hold banks accountable for discriminating against minorities. Here’s an overview of key cases from the foreclosure crisis. read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • A Bomb in the Year of the Snake
    Everything about North Korea has to be speculative. That has been and is still the main problem. But one speculation seems to be ending, finally. It concerns China’s apparent ambivalence about North Korea’s nuclear program. Increasingly, Beijing is coming out on the ‘right side of history’. Whic ...
  • Russia – Pakistan: the Way is Open for N ...
    At the start of February this year, a trilateral meeting dealing with the situation in Afghanistan came to an end in London between the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan and British prime minister.  The outcome of the meeting was an agreement for a strategic Pakistan-Afghanistan partnership ...
  • Turkey: Facing International Responsibility
    The very complexity of Middle East situation and the games of their own played by such influential powers as Iran and Israel resulted in Turkey’s getting bogged down in a web of contradictions. Trying to become a dominant regional force using the Syrian crisis as leverage will hardly lead Turkey ...
  • Israel Strikes Syria: First Act of «Endgame»?
    Speaking at the defense chiefs meeting in Munich, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak finally confirmed what the news agency had been raising ballyhoo about for the previous few days: the Israeli Air Force had launched a military operation against the legitimate government of Syria. It gave rise ...
  • Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: Rising Menace
    The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) has become a concern in Eurasian region. In January 2013 alone, the members of the extremist organization confronted security forces in Afghanistan on two instances during operations in Burkah district of Baghlan province. A government official in Tajiksi ...

BlogHer

  • Will You Be Mine? BlogHer's Valentine's Shoe Shot
    You can feel the love in the air at Belmont! We decided to wear Valentine-themed shoes today to share this love with all of you. OK ... not everyone has the love drug: Miriam and Lori wore dark shoes in protest of the artificial holiday. Then, there are Valerie and Jane, who showcased a more tre ...
  • The Future of Food: Farmers Markets Go Virtual
    In the San Francisco Bay Area, we're pretty spoiled when it comes to farmers markets. There's a market within easy striking distance of most area residents six days a week year-round. But in most parts of the United States, that's not the case, which means it can be more challenging for those wh ...
  • The Blessing and Curse of Being Raised by a Gr ...
    Editor's Note: Being raised by an amazing mom is a fantastic thing. But as Ashley at I Love Your More than Carrots has found out the hard way, it often means that the bar for mothering is set awfully high. Maybe that's not a bad thing exactly, but it can put a lot of pressure on a mom. It sounds ...
  • Chemicals in Clothing: The Hidden Price of Fashion
    Don’t we all like to feel fashionable from time to time? This past week thousands have gathered in New York City for Fashion Week, and what a better time to talk about the hidden price we pay for our fashionable clothes. <> Debbie Downer is at it again! – Don’t worry, the ...
  • Fun Cruise Ship: A Waterslide, Raw Sewage & On ...
    What happens when more than 4,000 people get trapped in a listing, floating toilet with no working stabilization system and sewage backing up in showers? Can you believe this story about Carnival Cruise Lines' disabled boat? Someone has to say it: Holy shit. @momofali @ritaarens OMG me too. I' ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Gov. Tomblin steers clear of key coal issues
    Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, delivers his annual State of the State speech on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, in Charleston, W.Va. W (AP Photo/Randy Snyder) Last evening, as West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin delivered his State of the State address, a family up in Marion County was suffering, in the after ...
  • Coal miner killed in Illinois
    This sad news this morning comes from the coalfields of Illinois, where according to MSHA: A miner was killed Wednesday evening after being pinned between the tail of the continuous mining machine and the coal rib.  The victim was the continuous mining machine operator and had the remote control ...
  • Crutchfield: Much to be done on ‘Running ...
    This morning, Alpha Natural Resources is announcing its 4th quarter and full-year financial results for 2012 (a net loss of $2.4 billion for the year), and offering this outlook for 2013: After a period of cyclical weakness in the global metallurgical coal market in the second half of 2012 durin ...
  • UMWA continues Patriot-Peabody protests
    Members of the United Mine Workers of America take part in a protest outside the of headquarters of Peabody Energy, one of the companies the union accuses of orchestrating business deals that bankrupted Patriot Coal, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, in St. Louis. Ten people were arrested during the pro ...
  • Heads in sand: W.Va. leaders keep denying reality
    President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gestures as he gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool) As the reactions star ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Republicans vs. the Postal Service
    The Postal Service is a public service for We, the People, not a business. The Service is hamstrung by people who pretend it is supposed to compete and then won’t let it. They won’t help with taxpayer dollars and say it has to compete in the marketplace (again: the Department of Defense is n ...
  • Yours vs. Mine in Application UI | Dustin ...
    After thinking about this stuff for a very long time, I’ve settled pretty firmly in the camp of thinking that interfaces should mimic social creatures, that they should have personalities, and that I should be communicating with the interface rather than the interface being an extension of m ...
  • Republicans vs. the Postal Service
    The Postal Service is a public service for We, the People, not a business. The Service is hamstrung by people who pretend it is supposed to compete and then won’t let it. They won’t help with taxpayer dollars and say it has to compete in the marketplace (again: the Department of Defense is not r ...
  • A New Way to Do Email | The Next Web
    Your email will land in my ‘Queue’ box and you will receive a reply via email with some information and options. The email states that my inbox currently contains 325 emails and that it takes an average of 3 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes for me to reply to emails. I hope that message al ...
  • The Excel vs. Software Lifecycle
    In a corporate environment, often the best way to get things done is to circumvent the official software and just write something that works. When we do it, we call it an elegant hack, but when guys in suits who went clubbing last night do it, we call it a terrible, amateur travesty that sh ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Branes as a generalization of charged particles
    As a "theory of everything" (TOE), string/M-theory contains all good ideas in physics. During the 20th century, people realized that the framework of quantum field theory is a "theory of nearly everything" (TONE). Not surprisingly, quantum field theories play an important role in string the ...
  • Engineers, geoscientists: only 36% believe in CAGW
    Fritz Zwicky would celebrate 115th birthday today. He was quite a character. James Taylor's blog at Forbes points out an interesting peer-reviewed survey Science or Science Fiction? Professionals’ Discursive Construction of Climate Change by Lefsrud, Meyer (PDF) in Organization Studies, a ...
  • Goddard, Watts vs Tamino: Arctic ice
    Grant Tamino Foster funnily and angrily reacted to an innocent observation by Steven Goddard and (later) Anthony Watts. They pointed out, without too much ado, the innocent fact that since the beginning of the observations in 1979, the year 2013 has seen the greatest increase of the A ...
  • Klaus on abdication of Benedict XVI
    I was sorry to learn about the reports that Benedict XVI resigned. Whatever the reasons behind the Pope's surprising decision were, the decision makes me sad. For 8 years, Benedict XVI has been not only the leader of the Catholic Church but also a globally prominent statesman. ...
  • Susskind, Hrabovsky: The Theoretical Minimum
    Sean Carroll locates and praises a new book by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. (Funny, in the Czech spelling, Jiří Hrabovský is a rather famous guy in the Czech TV News and P.R. industry.) This book's goal is to teach you everything you need to actually follow and do physics – includ ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Mother accused of killing son was depressed, h ...
    The husband of an Edmonton woman accused of killing their seven-year-old son says his wife was suffering from severe depression. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Edmonton mother charged with 1st-degree murder Police have charged the mother of a seven-year-old boy, believed... Accu ...
  • T.L. Davis – Honest Truth of Bold Tyranny
    The future is now. We are being asked a very serious question by Governor Cuomo and Barack Obama: “What are you going to do about it?” I contend that there has been only one thing that has gotten through the heads of the tryannical collectivists in our government, that the people wil ...
  • Green tea, red wine stop Alzheimer’s in its tracks
    Chemicals naturally occurring in green tea and red wine can actually put a stop to the process that leads to brain damage in Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds and published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry… NaturalNe ...
  • Obama Cybersecurity Executive Order – FULL TEXT
    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Repeated cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure demonstrate the need for improved cybersecurity. The cyber threat to critical in ...
  • Join us at 7 p.m. ET for the great online dati ...
    As Cupid’s algorithms grow in popularity, so too must daters learn how to navigate the increasingly complex world of online dating. We’re interested in three key debates about the “right” dating formula: paid or free sites? General or niche? Serendipity or strategy? Join ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • California Set to Declare BPA Toxic to Reprodu ...
    By Alex Formuzis, VP for Communications Full disclosure. Over the years (not in the last 15) I've been asked to leave several establishments for various reasons. There was the Paragon Bar in Seattle, Charlie B's Saloon in Missoula, Montana,... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • "Natural" Extracts Can Trigger Allergies
    By Johanna Congleton, EWG Senior Scientist   Allergies are an increasingly serious health issue for millions of Americans, especially children. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  estimates that the number of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Senators Push for Action on Disease Clusters Bill
    By Jason Rano, EWG Director of Government AffairsTwo years ago, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced the Strengthening Protections for Children and Communities... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Perfume for Babies? Seriously?
    By Nneka Leiba, Senior Analyst Fashion house Dolce & Gabbana is planning to market a perfume for babies.  Founder Stefano Gabbana dropped a broad hint when he posted an Instagram photo of a golden box with a cupid and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • BPA: Why I Became Best Friends with my Slow Cooker
    By Heather White, EWG Executive Director My slow cooker is battered and dinged, and I love it.  Fill it with filtered water and dried beans in the morning, set on low, and by dinnertime, I have a steaming pot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ot ...

Quick Hits

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

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Views & News from Norway

  • Hamar company celebrates its ‘historic&# ...
    A television production company in Hamar was celebrating its coveted Emmy award this week, after bringing home the prestigious television industry award after last weekend’s ceremony in New York. Fabelaktiv, with just 14 employees, can now claim that it’s behind one of the world&#821 ...
  • Rough seas for Hurtigruten
    Higher costs, lower revenues and a spate of unfortunate events cast Norway’s venerable coastal shipping line Hurtigruten into rough seas last year. The line logged a heavy loss, twice as big as the one the year before, but now hopes for smoother sailing. This year also seems off to a turbu ...
  • New terminal to fuel Arctic growth
    The mayor of the area around Norway’s famed North Cape was jubilant this week, after Statoil announced that it intends to bring oil from its huge Skrugard and Havis fields in the Barents Sea to an onshore terminal near Honningsvåg. Statoil and local officials alike hope the new terminal wi ...
  • Court convicts Rwandan defendant
    The Oslo City Court sentenced a man accused of playing a major role in genocide in Rwanda to Norway’s longest prison term of 21 years on Thursday. The defendant, 47-year-old Sadi Bugingo, emigrated to Norway after the genocide in 1994 and had been living in Bergen with a wife and children ...
  • Shamed Storting ‘improves routines’
    Leaders of Norway’s Parliament (Storting), faced with a barrage of criticism from MPs and employees for failing to provide enough information about a bomb threat on Wednesday, said Thursday that they’re “immediately” introducing new routines to improve communication. Secu ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Heating The Greenhouse Rocket-Style
    by Rob Avis Our new rocket mass heater is now functionally done. After installing a proper chimney, it really hums! Above is a video that we produced showcasing its construction. I have now fired it four times for about an hour to an hour and a half to drive off any remaining moisture in ...
  • Bioshelters for Year-Round Food Production
    Coldframes Manhattan, New York At the beginning of the 1900s, many modern cities were growing vegetables under glass during the winter months. Truck farmers in these cities, including Manhattan in the USA, and Paris in France, were able to grow significant amounts of food in simple cold frames ...
  • Gardening with Perennial Vegetables DVD
    I’m announcing the release of the Gardening with Perennial Vegetables DVD, the companion to my Perennial Vegetables book. Almost three hours long, the DVD visits my own cold-climate garden, Las Canadas in the Mexican cloud forest, and ECHO in subtropical Florida. Many species are cover ...
  • Warmest Decade on Record Brings Record Tempera ...
    by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute Photo © Craig Mackintosh In recent years weather events have whiplashed between the extremes of heat and cold, flooding and drought. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases — largely from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas — ha ...
  • Working With Principles for Creating More Effi ...
    In rural Africa it’s pretty hard to come by fuel sources which are a good alternative to wood. Gas is too expensive. Kerosene is also pretty expensive and quite a dirty fuel anyway. Wood also has the advantage that it burns quite slowly so that you can slow cook over a fire for several hou ...

Pointman's

  • We’re going to have to do something about peer ...
    Not too many years ago, there were two researchers who discovered that stomach ulcers were not the result of a stressful lifestyle, but simply an infection. The idea that ulcers were related to a high stress lifestyle was so deeply embedded in the medical establishment psyche, they couldn’t get ...
  • The Breaking Point.
    If you play team sports, or even just watch them, there’s very often a moment in the struggle between the opposing teams, when one of them breaks. Sometimes it’s sparked by a single incident but more usually, it’s an acceptance by the whole group that they’re going to lose. The opposition are si ...
  • Is being Green left-wing or right-wing?
    I’m the son of a blue-collar upbringing and consequently a blue-collar view of the world. In many of the ways that really matter, I still am. It does give you a realistic outlook on life, which makes you wary of all politicians, irrespective of what their nominal politics might happen to b ...
  • A Tale of Two Davids.
    I’m a people person, who likes talking with people, because each one is a new voyage of discovery. When it comes to media people, the one-way direction of the relationship is a bit too passive for my taste. They talk at me and I listen to them talking and although I take in the words  ...
  • On climate science and all those leaks.
    Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of substantial leaks of sensitive material from deep within the very heart of climate science. In each case, it’s been fairly obvious that the person doing it works in the field and is relatively senior, if only because they have access to ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • What Do We Have Left?, By Oliver M.Thomas Jr.
     Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Mardi Gras are over.  Today we celebrate Ash Wednesday, the beginning of  Lent where sinners take at least 40 days off to discipline their lives, give up worldly lusts and desires that control them most of the year, and make a pact with God ...
  • Idle No More Comes to the Gulf Coast, By Cherr ...
    Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Last Sunday, January 20, I had the pleasure of seeing a short-term dream materialize, when over 100 folks traveled from every Gulf state to attend a gathering organized by Idle No More – Gulf Coast, of which I am proudly a part. Idle No More is the ...
  • How NOT to be a Gentrifier With Your Theater: ...
    New Orleans has seen a recent theatre resurgence. Below is a critical perspective on this wave of new theatre from educator and writer Catherine Michna, reprinted from her local blog catherinemichna.wordpress.com. I spent this past weekend at the Network of Ensemble Theater’s MicroFest in New O ...
  • Women With A Vision, Recovering From Arson, Pu ...
    Women With A Vision, a community-based non-profit founded by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color, has just made a downpayment on a building in Midcity New Orleans. The Vision House will enable the organization to co ...
  • Turning Problems Into Parades, By Nick Slie
    This weekend is MicroFest USA: New Orleans: RENEW. The event is a celebration of the renaissance that has taken place in New Orleans' performance and social justice fields since Hurricane Katrina.  Part festival, part think-tank, part community tour, and part dance party, the all-local prog ...

Information Underground

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

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Two New Polls Show Strong Support for Obama Ac ...
    Roughly two-thirds of the American people support President Obama taking significant action on climate change, according to two polls released the day after Obama’s State of the Union address. A poll for the League of Conservation voters showed that 65 percent of Americans want Obama to ta ...
  • Interview: A Conservative Who Believes Climate ...
    Republican Congressman Bob Inglis lost his 2010 re-election bid after telling a campaign audience he believed in human-caused climate change. Bob Inglis Since then, he has served as executive director of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, which seeks to convince conservatives that cli ...
  • Middle East Water Loss Is Starkly Documented b ...
    A pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites has documented a precipitous drop in freshwater supplies in the arid Middle East over the past decade. NASA said that since 2003 parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran had lost 144 cubic kilometers of total stored freshwater, an amount roughly equivale ...
  • To Catch a Rhino: Saving a Species
    Last month, six white rhinos were captured at a private game reserve in South Africa and transferred to a quarantine facility for relocation to neighboring Botswana, which has lost its entire rhino population to poaching. E360 contributor Adam Welz joined the operation and produced a photo essay ...
  • Norwegian Retrofit Seeks To Create ‘Energy-Pos ...
    Two office buildings in Norway are being retrofitted so they will generate more power than they use when the project is completed next year. The three- and four-story buildings, in the town of Sandvika, near Oslo, will generate geothermal and solar energy on site, making the buildings “energy po ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • John Baird at the Crossroads
    By Montreal Simon It was an extraordinary sight. John Baird sitting next to Julian Fantino at a committee meeting this morning, blasting the hideous anti-gay statements of a Canadian religious organization. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird took aim Tuesday at “offensive” and &#822 ...
  • Steven Tyler’s anti-nip slips bill
    By Mark Leiren-Young Forget what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — if Steven Tyler has his way, what happens in the Aloha State will stay safely under the grass skirt. Yes, Hawaii could become a safe haven for the species known as “tabloid fodder.” Liv Tyler’s dad, who used to sing with a ...
  • A Modest Opinion – We see your Obama and ...
    By Nathaniel Moher We’ve done it Canada! Sure, America has just entered the second term of their first black President, but we Canadians just elected our first female Premier! The future is now and the future is equality! I can’t believe it’s taken this long! For ages now people have been saying ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Over the past few years I have offered up numerous solid ideas to fix the world, and more specifically the United States of America (which, if we’re being honest, probably couldn’t point out the world on a globe). Most of my ideas haven’t been implemented, although they should ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • When in Doubt, Sue!
    Megan Thode, a former masters student at Lehigh University in Bethleham, PA, is suing the school for $1.3 Million over a C+ grade she received.Her claim? Lehigh had a ‘vendetta’ against her and are suing the university for breach of contract and sexual discrimination. Okay.
  • When Nutrition Became a 'Thing'
    Dr. Nevin S Scrimshaw, a nutritionist, saw the devastating effects of malnutrition in children across the developing world beginning in the early 1950s. 
  • The Heart Attack Grill Lives Up to Its Name
    This is not a nice story, but if it jolts anyone out there to change a destructive way of life, it can be a grim public service
  • Yuval Levin on the State of the Union Speech
    Surprisingly devoid of real policy proposals
  • What’d You Think of the SOTU?
    We asked Daily Beast readers for one-word reactions to President Obama's State of the Union address. Here's what you said.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Tuition hike and the media between 2005 and 20 ...
    I’ve contended for the last two years that between 2005 and 2010, an intensive public relations campaign was undertaken with the aim of increasing tuition fees in Québec. I believe it was crucial when the proposal to hike fees was formally submitted in Raymond Bachand’s first budget, the Liberal ...
  • Sweet heart, bitter pill: Rising, dancing, and ...
    On Valentine’s Day this year women around the world will be dancing. One Billion Rising, a new initiative from Vagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler, calls on women to dance their way to a future without violence. Now, I’m all for dancing, but I’d like to add a little counting into the mix.  Each ...
  • The City of Regina’s Unquenchable Thirst for B ...
    It seems the City of Regina just can’t get enough of bad deals. Hot on the heels of the City Plaza debacle and the stadium funding mess, the City has now announced its intention to enter into a 30-year contract with a private corporation to upgrade its waste water treatment facilities. Jus ...
  • Repeat After Me: Ontario is not Greece
    The Fraser Institute has a new report warning Ontario could become the next Greece or California because of the size of its debt. Of course we know Ontario is not Greece or California, and such comparisons are disingenuous. But it is possible that Ontario could find itself in a similar mess if i ...
  • Atlantic Canada’s story of inequality
    Statistics Canada released new data yesterday on high income trends in Canada with nary a mention of the Atlantic Provinces. From a Canadian comparative perspective, the data told a story that was more striking for most of the rest of the country and in particular, Alberta, Ontario, BC and Quebe ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Nigeria: UN Unveils Platform for Global Water ...
    “Each year brings new pressures on water. One-third of the world’s people already live in countries with moderate to high water stress. Competition is growing between farmers and herders; industry and agriculture; town and country. Upstream and downstream, and across borders, we need ...
  • In California, Reading the Snow to Tell the Fu ...
    “In California’s water system, one of the world’s most sophisticated and complex, the snowpack plays a leading role by supplying water to more than 25 million people and almost one million acres of farmland. Snow that accumulates on the Sierra Nevada’s 400-mile range starts to melt in the ...
  • Desalination Seen Booming at 15% a Year as Wor ...
    “In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, 158,438 residents of the city of Copiapo suffered daily cutoffs of tap water last year as Anglo American Plc and other companies helped suck nearby aquifers dry for their mines. With little water left for drinking or mining, the government of Presi ...
  • Spreading the Nexus and Finding it Everywhere
    Spreading the Nexus and Finding it Everywhere by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbright. Applying for Ph ...
  • Power-Hungry Brazil Builds Dams, and More Dams ...
    “When it is completed in 2015, the Jirau hydroelectric dam will span five miles across the Madeira River, feature more giant turbines than any other dam in the world and hold as much concrete as 47 towers the size of the Empire State Building. And then there are the power lines, draped alo ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • YOUR TURN GOVERNOR
    … Perhaps like McCain antics during our President’s state of the union message … Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer can make and take some asinine stand about this merger … … Hey she can surround US Airways with her National Guard … Or maybe JOE can stage some live video ...
  • What’s next … McCain throws a shoe …
    … And “we” dare wonder where civility has gone when those we elect to represent us make fools not only of themselves but of all those in the state they represent … … What’s next … McCain throws a shoe …  Filed under: Blogroll
  • slaughter of innocents does not befit one awa ...
    … The slaughter of innocents does not befit one awarded a Nobel Peace prize … what a mockery …   Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | The Hubris of the Drones  ….   Read the Article   Each innocent killed by drones gives rise to second thoughts by those judges who prema ...
  • That’s American politics
    … That’s American politics … work both sides of the street … collect from both sides … walk the fence … and we continue to buy it … Good News: Obama Recommits to Clean Energy. Terrible News: Obama Recommits to Dirty Energy   Robert Pollin, Read the Article &#1 ...
  • Here’s my question … why the hell do th ...
    … Here’s my question … why the hell do they have these deal$ in the first place … I know I sure as hell was not asked or did I vote on it … did you …?   Fixing Medicare By Eliminating Drug Makers’ Sweetheart Deal, Not Benefits Read the Article at The Center fo ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Pity the pangolin: little-known mammal most co ...
    Last year tens-of-thousands of elephants and hundreds of rhinos were butchered to feed the growing appetite of the illegal wildlife trade. This black market, largely centered in East Asia, also devoured tigers, sharks, leopards, turtles, snakes, and hundreds of other animals. Estimated at $19 bi ...
  • Geneticists discover distinct lion group in sq ...
    They languished behind bars in squalid conditions, their very survival in jeopardy. Outside, an international team of advocates strove to bring worldwide attention to their plight. With modern genetics, the experts sought to prove what they had long believed: that these individuals were special. ...
  • The beginning of the end of deforestation in I ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper, a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on efforts to slow the Southeast Asian nation's high rate ...
  • Meet Cape Town's volunteer 'toad shepherds'
    August marks the last month of winter in South Africa, and, as temperatures begin to rise, activists in Cape Town prepare for a truly unique conservation event. Every year at this time western leopard toads (Amietophrynus pantherinus) endemic to the region and Critically Endangered, embark on a ...
  • New species of bioluminescent cockroach possib ...
    While new species are discovered every day, Peter Vršanský and company's discovery of a light-producing cockroach, Lucihormetica luckae, in Ecuador is remarkable for many reasons, not the least that it may already be extinct. The new species represents the only known case of mimicry by ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Tech Universe: Thursday 15 February
    UNFOLDING DRAMA: Pull the 25 Kg Hungarian Moveo electric scooter from the back seat of your car,
  • Sea slug can re-grow its detachable penis
    Losing your penis after sex would be most men's worst nightmare. Fortunately for one particular sea slug, it can grow its detachable penis back.Researchers in Japan have found that the nudibranch Chromodoris reticulata loses its...
  • Westpac signs deal with new IBM centre
    Westpac has been named as the anchor customer of IBM's first New Zealand delivery centre, which launches today in Auckland.The centre - at Unitec Institute of Technology's Mt Albert campus in Auckland - hopes to employ up to 400...
  • Tech Universe: Thursday 14 February
    FRESH EYES: The Second Sight Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is now on the market in the US. If the na
  • Hole in ozone layer recovering
    The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica appears to be recovering, with new satellite images showing the hole the smallest it has been

The Bovine

  • Health Canada and FDA inviting comments on raw ...
    On February 11th, The Ontario Farmer reported that Health Canada is inviting comments on whether regulations regarding raw milk ought to be made or changed. The story quotes Barfblog blogger Dr. Doug Powell on the risks and dangers posed to … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt off to BC this week to face co ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “When you follow the tedium of the legal justice system, you begin to understand why some defendants, even though they are innocent, decide to cop pleas rather than follow the process … Continue reading →
  • Will a token Federal GMO labeling law pre-empt ...
    Although the hubbub around California’s Proposition 37 to require GMO labeling may have died down, following it’s supposed defeat at the polls, concerns about GMOs have by no means gone away. The latest big story in the march to label … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk rally at the B.C. legislature
    Video from Christian Tatonetti on Youtube:  Although this documentary was not posted until March 2012, it was originally shot during the raw milk demonstration at the B.C. Legislature (in Victoria, B.C.) on Nov 23 2011, which was the fifth anniversary of the November … Continue reading →
  • A farmer, a banker, and a factory farmer walk ...
    Now  here’s the original Chrysler superbowl ad, narrated by Paul Harvey: Amanda Oborne’s commentary, from Civil Eats: “Superbowl “Farmers” Ad: Heartfelt and Misleading I grew up in a small town, population 15000 if you counted every cow in the valley. … Contin ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Eurozone Economy Contracts .6% in 4th Quarter; ...
    As expected in this quarter (but not by economists) eurozone economies contracted at the sharpest rates in four years with Germany, France, and Italy falling short of consensus estimates. The eurozone consensus was .4%. The 17-nation bloc shrank at .6% quarter-on-quarter while the broader 2 ...
  • Can People or Corporations Have Too Much Cash?
    Is it possible to have too much cash for your own good? I believe the average 7th grader would easily recognize the inherent absurdity of such a question. However, the average economic writer does not understand what the average 7th grader does. For example, please consider Apple isn' ...
  • Japan Contracts Third Straight Quarter; No Escape
    Economists predicted an end to the recession in Japan. However, economists were wrong again as Japan fourth-quarter GDP shows economy still in recession Japan's economy contracted for the third consecutive quarter in October-December, showing the country is struggling to escape from a m ...
  • Reflections on Rand Paul's Response to Obama's ...
    I invite you to listen to senator Rand Paul's response to president Obama's misguided agenda as delivered in the president's State of the Union Address. Specifically Rand Paul says ... Democrats believe that the government is the economic answer to all our economic and social i ...
  • Reader Reflections on "Watson" the Medical Com ...
    In response to Meet Watson, Your Doctor in a Pizza-Size Box, reader Robert writes ... Watson was most likely named for Thomas J. Watson, first president of the modern IBM company, not Sherlock Holmes' sidekick. It will be interesting to see how Watson makes out.  CAD (Computer Ai ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Arab Spring and the American Empire Two years on from the start of the Arab Spring, the people are back out on the streets in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and elsewhere. Their demands for democracy have not changed, though the faces of their oppressors may have. This episode looks at the develop ...
  • Obama’s Expanding Kill List
    “Expect no help from “progressives,” who believe in Obama more than they believe in liberty.” Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was passed in order to make it easi ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • STX OSV Completes OSCV Hat Trick
    Recently acquired STX OSV, a global designer and shipbuilder of offshore and specialized vessels, announced Thursday three separate orders from three different companies totaling at least NOK 1.4 billion, or [...]
  • OCEARCH and Caterpillar: a Partnership to Save ...
    The following images depicts a tragedy which is quietly unfolding around the world. On top of a factory building in Hong Kong, over ten thousand shark fins are being dried [...]
  • Bolidt Blends Science, Art, and Psychology int ...
    Full scale decking work on the luxury cruise ship Norwegian Getaway is underway at Meyer Werft. Deck and flooring specialist Bolidt reports a shift in its workload at the Papenburg [...]
  • Farstad Expands Subsea Construction Vessel Fle ...
    Farstad Shipping ASA has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Farstad Supply AS, announced today the signing of a NOK 825 million (USD $150 million) newbuild construction contract with STX OSV AS for [...]
  • Toisa Signs OCV Newbuild Order with Hyundai Heavy
    South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries and Toisa Limited announced an order today to build a multipurpose offshore construction vessel (MOCV). With a 900 ton and a 200 ton offshore [...]

Press TV

  • Bomb attacks kill 14 in Pakistan
    At least 14 people including five security personnel are killed and some 34 others wounded in three separate bomb attacks in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region.
  • State of Union TV viewers hits 13-yr. low
    US President Barack Obama's annual speech has drawn an audience of 33.5-million television viewers, making it the smallest crowd for the event in 13 years.
  • Israel forces wound 2 Palestinians
    Israeli forces have shot and wounded two Palestinians near Gaza’s border with the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
  • Iran launches largest NGL plant in PG
    Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the largest associated petroleum gas (APG) plant in the Persian Gulf, built on the southern Iranian island of Siri to produce condensate and gather associated gas.
  • Plan to remove Mecca portico protested
    A 17th-century portico in Mecca’s Grand Mosque has turned into the latest bone of contention between the Saudi government intent on renovating the city and those who favor preservation of old architecture and monuments.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Fish on Pharmaceuticals
    Psychoactive drugs, such as the anti-anxiety drug Oxazepam, can get into rivers in biologically relevant concentrations and may be altering the way that fish behave, according to research published in...
  • (Power) Walk This Way
    A group of US and Chinese researchers have developed a generator that can convert footsteps into electrical power, which may pave the way for large scale energy harvesting in urban areas. We are surr...
  • DNA break-up ages eggs in ovaries
    It's a sad fact that a woman's egg cells don't last forever, and we eventually lose our fertility. Women are born with over a million potential egg cells, but only 500 turn into mature eggs, and they'...
  • Origins of Cosmic Rays
    Over the century since they were first discovered, cosmic rays have been something of a mystery. These particles (mostly protons) that hurtle through space at high speed and crash into the Earth's upp...
  • Soft robots take a leap forward
    When you think of robots do you think of leaping bits of silicone powered by explosions? Probably not, but researchers based at Harvard University in the US have made just such a device. The small t...

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