Thursday, February 14, 2013

14 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II


IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Obama Pushes Universal Preschool Coverage for U.S.
    Following on a surprise announcement supporting a universal preschool guarantee during his annual State of the Union address earlier this week, President Barack Obama spent much of Thursday pushing a suite of new policy initiatives aimed at vastly increasing access to high-quality education and ...
  • Climate Change Threatens Caribbean Coral Reefs
    Scientists and researchers are working together in a new initiative to collect data that will help determine the effects of climate change on coral in the Caribbean Sea. “We want to know how climate change will impact our corals. So we will measure variables that would impact corals due to ...
  • Sahel Region Learning to Reap the Benefits of ...
    In Africa’s Sahel region, agroforestry techniques using traditional plantings known as “fertiliser trees” to increase soil fertility, as well as harvesting and grazing regulations, are offering new solutions to both food and human security. Such approaches were nearly lost in r ...
  • Water, Water Everywhere – and No Early Warning ...
    Muzeka Muyeyekwa from Mapfekera Village in Zimbabwbe’s Manicaland Province wonders what he will feed his three children for lunch. The family’s basic food supplies have run out and they cannot replenish them as the bridge that crosses the local Nyadira River, which links this village with the ou ...
  • Escaping to Ecovillages in Argentina
    Almost imperceptibly, sustainable settlements that combine community living with the preservation of natural resources have mushroomed across Argentina as an alternative to rampant consumerism. Ecovillages, where people grow their own produce in community gardens and live sustainably in close co ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • HARD talk - Hossein Mousavian - Iranian Nuclea ...
    Summary: Can there be a negotiated way out of the high-stakes stand-off between Iran and the West over the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions? A new round of talks is planned for later this month but the basic facts have not changed: Iran's enrichment programme gets ever more sophisticated, ...
  • In State of the Union, Obama Misleads on Forei ...
    Summary: Obama demanded that “the leaders of Iran must recognize that now is the time for a diplomatic solution,” as he warned “we will do what is necessary to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon.” But most of Obama’s so-called diplomacy with Iran has been “predicated on intimidation, ...
  • Embrace the Fatwa
    Summary: As the Western media reported it, the future of U.S.-Iranian nuclear negotiations suffered a major setback on Feb. 7 when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seemed to reject Vice President Joseph Biden's offer of direct talks. "Some naive people like the idea of negotiating with A ...
  • Sanctions imposed on Bank Saderat Iran annulle ...
    Summary: The [EU] General Court today annulled the asset freeze imposed on Bank Saderat Iran, a bank part-owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The judgment followed closely on the heels of the Court's annulment last week of the sanctions imposed on the Iranian Bank Mellat. The Council's pra ...
  • Munich conference breaks Iran-US ice
    Summary: CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Iran and the United States are on the verge of a historical opportunity to repair their frozen relations and thus reverse the spiral of conflict spiral that for years has dominated their interactions. It is the right thing to do and at the right time, given ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Thousand-Year-Old Supernova Offers Clues to th ...
                     New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the remains of a thousand-year-old supernova have revealed clues to the origins of cosmic rays. For the first time the observations suggest the presence of fast-moving particles in the supernova remnant that co ...
  • Extreme Supernova Explosion --Did It Create th ...
                    A supernova explosion occurs every second somewhere in the Universe. New images captured by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory suggests a rare explosion may have created our galaxy's youngest black hole. The new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly d ...
  • "Time-Machine" Algorithm to Reconstruct World ...
                  Researchers from University of California, Berkeley and the University of British Columbia have created a computer program that can rapidly reconstruct “proto-languages” — the linguistic ancestors from which all modern languages have evolved. The computer scientists have ...
  • EcoAlert: NASA Will Livestream Asteroid Flyby ...
                      NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14. NASA places a high priority on tracking asteroids and protecting our home planet from th ...
  • EcoAlert: Space Satellites Confirm Dramatic Lo ...
                     The September 2012 record low in Arctic sea-ice extent was big news, but a missing piece of the puzzle was lurking below the ocean's surface. What volume of ice floats on Arctic waters? And how does that compare to previous summers? These are difficult but important que ...

Natural News

  • Stranded Carnival 'Triumph' cruise ship transf ...
    The stranded Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico has tragically proven to be quite an experiment in human behavior. The ship has been stranded for 96 hours following an engine fire. Ship engines also generate all the on-board electricity, so once the engine burned...
  • Tight budget? Three things you can do right no ...
    The economy is rough and budgets are tight, but there are things you can do right now to save money while still living an organic, non-GMO lifestyle. Here are three of the biggest ones that can save you money not only this year, but year after year: #1) Inve ...
  • Chronic stress leads to diabetes, study finds
    Men who live in a permanent state of stress are 45 percent more likely to develop Type II diabetes than men who are not stressed, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and published in the journal Diabetic Medicine. The...
  • 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...
  • Skipping breakfast hurts your child's IQ
    Children who regularly skip breakfast have lower verbal, performance and full-scale IQs than other children, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. "Childhood is a critical period in which dietary and lifestyle...

Threat Level

  • California County Inching Toward Drone Deployment?
    Will Alameda County become California's first local government to deploy a drone? If the decision were up to dozens of angry residents and several civil rights groups, the answer would be a resounding "No." They urged the Bay Area county's ...
  • Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Sharing of ...
    President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to make it easier to disseminate classified information on threats against critical infrastructure systems and to lay the groundwork for obtaining information from the private sector that would help the ...
  • White House Must Respond to Petition Seeking S ...
    A whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove the Aaron Swartz prosecutor in the aftermath of the internet activist's suicide has surpassed 25,000 signatures. That means the Obama administration is obliged to enter the debate over whether authorities ...
  • Feds Urge Supreme Court to Let Stand $222K Lan ...
    The Obama administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to let stand a $222,000 jury verdict levied against infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota woman who downloaded and shared two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa.
  • DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of El ...
    The Department of Homeland Security's civil liberties watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation's borders may have their electronic devices seized and their contents reviewed for any reason whatsoever -- all in the interest of national security.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Cornyn Declares Obama, Not Bush, Nominees Requ ...
    As things now stand, Senate Republicans will carry through on their threat to filibuster Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense. As the GOP's number two man John Cornyn declared Wednesday, "There is a 60-vote threshold for every nomination." Two votes short of the need ...
  • PBS Misleads with Frontline "Cliffhanger" Docu ...
    While most eyes were trained on the State of the Union address (or a burning cabin in California), PBS on Tuesday aired a documentary on the ongoing fiscal deadlock in Washington titled, "Cliffhanger." In it, the House Speaker John Boehner is portrayed as hopelessly trapped between an equivocat ...
  • Media Forget Bush's "Aggressive" and "Partisan ...
    With Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address just hours away, the media conventional wisdom machine is already busy warning about an "aggressive" and "partisan" speech from the reelected President. Despite four years of unprecedented Republican obstructionism, Politico alerted readers to ...
  • Chris Cillizza, Conventional Wisdom Regurgitator
    When it comes to political commentary and analysis, the only thing worse than conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. But each day, Washington Post writer and MSNBC regular Chris Cillizza walks that fine line between the banal and the inane. And with his latest stenography on the budget, the ...
  • McCain and Friends: Slash Federal Workforce to ...
    Last summer, John McCain was asked about his vote for the August 2011 Budget Control Act, a law which starting March 1st will slash defense spending by $500 billion over the next decade. "I plead guilty. It was a bad thing to do, OK?" But now in his latest effort to avoid just the first year o ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Why So Sad, Single Use Plastic Bag?
    More on Plastic Bags Plastic Bag Ban Community Page – Changing The World Together, One Bag at a Time What are the Pros and Cons of Banning Plastic Bags? Life Cycle of Plastic Bag (Infographic) Our ‘Toxic’ Love-Hate Relationship With Plastics Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ...
  • Share & Swap Online Gathering Place For Crafte ...
    One of our sister sites, Crafting a Green World, has just launched a “share & swap” online gathering place. I think this could be super useful for green crafters and DIYers, so passing along the info. Here’s the full press release: After years of planning and months of deve ...
  • RNA-Like Molecules Found to Self-Assemble into ...
      In the great quest to uncover the secrets to the origin of life on Earth — a discipline referred to as biogenesis theory — there remains a profound (unanswered) question: how do “living” molecules arise from non-living ones? For, to answer such a question means mak ...
  • World Wind Power In 2012 Advances Nearly 20%
    Global wind energy increased by nearly 20% in 2012, helping to boost maximum worldwide capacity to 282 gigawatts (GW), according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). Leading countries helping to increase global wind capacity included the United States and China, who were neck and neck in an ...
  • Ancient Languages Reconstructable Thanks To Ne ...
    A new method has been created that allows protolanguages to be reconstructed, to a degree, by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Berkeley. An effective new computer system the has been created to recreate the ancient root languages that modern languages have descended from. Th ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Rubio, GOP Exhibit "Active Inertia" of a Dying ...
    By @TedFrier Take pity on poor Mark Rubio. You'd be reaching for a bottle of Poland Springs, too, if you had to spit out the dry-as-dust bromides and the well past their sell-by date Reagan-era platitudes that Rubio was forced to expectorate as the Republican Party's designated responder to Pres ...
  • The Ghost of John C. Calhoun, Redux
    By @TedFrier In this week's New Republic cover story, biographer and New York Times book editor Sam Tanenhaus created a big stir linking the Republican Party's problems with minorities to the party's embrace of political pathologies that were last current in the Old South before the Civil War. T ...
  • Let's Just Throw Them Some Old Folks
    By @TomBales1 And Maybe They Won't Eat The Rest Of Us. Well, we're off to pretty much the start I expected.  From "read my lips, no cuts to Social Security"  to so called  technical adjustments in the way cost of living adjustments are calculated... which just HAPPEN to amount to cuts in benef ...
  • Bay State Republicans Cut From Different Cloth
    By @TedFrier As I was cleaning out my basement this weekend I stumbled upon a pile of ghost-written pieces I'd penned for Massachusetts Republicans back when I worked for the party a quarter century ago.   Among the collection was one published in the Attleboro Sun Chronicle for the thirty- ...
  • "Suicide Conservatives"
    By @TedFrier In his New York Times column this morning - "Suicide Conservatives" -- Charles Blow joins a growing chorus who see that today's Tea Party Republicans are the very same "pseudo-conservatives" who a half century ago nominated Barry Goldwater for president and then watched as their rig ...

Care 2

  • PROTEST! JUDGE ALLOWING DOGS TO HUNT WOLVES IN ...
    I pledge to PROTEST ALLOWING DOGS TO HOUND WOLVES IN WISCONSIN!! Wisconsin is the only state to authorize the use of dogs to hunt wolves. The DNR is in the midst of creating a permanent rule for wolf hunting and trapping in the state, Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |   Not ...
  • Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants Styrofoam ban
    Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he wants a Styrofoam ban in New York City to save the environment and cut down on recycling costs. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • SHOCKING: 15-Year-Old Girl Raped, Police Dismi ...
    "In some of the most disturbing and sickening news of the day, New York state police have decided that a 15-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by three boys was in fact not sexually assaulted because both she and the boys are mentally handicapped. " Submitted by Brian M. to Society & C ...
  • Fox News Endorses Straight Marriage, Falls Int ...
    On FoxNews.com, a person with some poorly thought-out ideas defended "traditional marriage" in a tired, unoriginal essay. However, the photo they used in the article by accident was comedy gold and should be shared by the entire Internet. Submitted by J.L. A. to Offbeat  |   Note ...
  • 10 mind-bending facts about black holes
    A short video with facts about black holes. Submitted by Caree C. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • President Obama’s Benghazi Dereliction
    The events of 11 September 2012 are damning for the Presidential legacy of Barack Obama because of his failure to do basic crisis management. Thanks to testimony from SecDef Leon Panetta, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dempsey and CIA nominee John Brennan, the record of Obama’s failure to exercise ...
  • State of the Union–Open Thread
    Okay ladies and gents. Here you go. I can’t bear to watch the arrogant ass. My tolerance for listening to a litany of lies was surpassed months ago. The yawning gulf between the myth of Obama pushed by the fawning media and the actual reality of a disengaged egotist puts the Grand Canyon t ...
  • Crocodile Tears for a Foolish SEAL?
    Esquire is out today with a article that is garnering mountains of attention. The subject? The story of the SEAL who shot Bin Laden and his miserable personal life after leaving the SEALs. The story (read it here) paints a picture of a traumatized warrior trying to find his way in the civilian w ...
  • Brandon Webb and Jack Murphy–The Gullible
    Two retired military enlisted guys–Brandon Webb, Navy SEAL, and JackMurphy, Green B erst–may have been quality guys in the service, but they are proving themselves clueless when it comes to buying a bullshit story about the downfall of General David Petraeus. Now, it is possible that ...
  • Dr. Benjamin Carson Shames Obama
    Several of you have commented on the following video and it certainly is becoming a viral sensation. It is the speech of Dr. Benjamin Carson before the National Prayer Breakfast this week. His remarks, while delivered with the calm logic of a skilled surgeon, were passionate and hard hitting. Ca ...

Futurismic

  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Citizens protest mountaintop-removal mining - ...
    Citizens protest mountaintop-removal mining UK The Kentucky Kernel Opponents of mountaintop-removal mining say there are adverse effects of the process that effect not only the environment, but the health of local communities who can often breath air and drink water that has been polluted by the ...
  • Protesters gather in KY capitol against Mounta ...
    Protesters gather in KY capitol against Mountaintop Mining 14 News WFIE Evansville Several hundred people turned out to protest Mountaintop removal at the Kentucky State capitol today. Demonstrators walked toward the State house in what has became an annual Valentine's Day tradition. Protest ...
  • Hundreds protest mountaintop removal coal mini ...
    Hundreds protest mountaintop removal coal mining WKYT “One reason I am here is because I think a lot of coal miners are losing their jobs because of mountain top removal I think there are better ways to mine coal and there is just no reason to mine coal in such wasteful and destructive way,” sai ...
  • Illinois Senate votes to legalize gay marriage ...
    Illinois Senate votes to legalize gay marriage 14 News WFIE Evansville Several hundred people turned out to protest Mountaintop removal at the Kentucky State capitol today. Demonstrators walked toward the State house in what has became an annual Valentine's Day tradition. ProtestersMore > ...
  • Author Jason Howard To Teach Writing Workshop ...
    Author Jason Howard To Teach Writing Workshop WNKY.net Howard coauthored Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal. His most recent book is A Few Honest Words. This book is a collection of profiles of contemporary roots musicians including Dwight Yoakam, Joan Osborne, Jim ...

Memeorandum

  • Small Crew Tows Carnival Cruise Line Ship Towa ...
    New York Times: Small Crew Tows Carnival Cruise Line Ship Toward Port  —  MOBILE, Ala. - For relatives of the 4,200 hungry and dirty passengers and crew members on the stranded Carnival Cruise Line ship Triumph, the focus on Thursday was on a small, dedicated crew of mariners wh ...
  • McCain Says He's Opposing Hagel Because Hagel ...
    Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress: McCain Says He's Opposing Hagel Because Hagel Was Mean To Bush  —  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 you ...
  • Senate Republicans filibuster Hagel nomination ...
    Paul Kane / Washington Post: Senate Republicans filibuster Hagel nomination  —  Senate Republicans delivered a sharp rebuke to President Obama on Thursday when they began a filibuster of Chuck Hagel's nomination as secretary of defense.  —  The confirmation proce ...
  • Confidential, expensive USDA sensitivity train ...
    Caroline May / The Daily Caller: Confidential, expensive USDA sensitivity training: ‘The Pilgrims were illegal aliens’ [VIDEOS]  —  Footage of the United States Department of Agriculture's compulsory “Cultural Sensitivity Training” program reveals USDA em ...
  • In Valentine vote, Illinois Senate approves ga ...
    Joanne von Alroth / Reuters: In Valentine vote, Illinois Senate approves gay marriage  —  (Reuters) - The Illinois state Senate approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday in a Valentine's Day vote spearheaded by Democrats, as gay couples around the country used th ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • 资源开采中&#3034 ...
    非政府组织全球见证在报告中强调腐败问题的存在，呼吁中国海外公司增加透明度中 ...
  • 核聚变：中&#2226 ...
    英国科学家斯蒂文·考利在接受中外对话采访时说，中国有可能找到一条清洁且无穷 ...
  • 怒江水电开&#2145 ...
    怒江水电开发箭在弦上。1月23日，国务院办公厅公布《能源发展“十二五”规划》称&#65292 ...
  • 怒江水电开&#2145 ...
    怒江水电开发箭在弦上。1月23日，国务院办公厅公布《能源发展“十二五”规划》称&#65292 ...
  • 环境评级助&#2001 ...
    虽然中国的环境风险排名优于印度和沙特阿拉伯，但是由于无法获得充足的数据，我 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • It's Just Shocking What the Drone War Cheerlea ...
    In my years reporting on the intentional narrowing of political vernacular to guarantee specific outcomes, I have encountered no better example of Orwellian newspeak than that which now dominates the conversation about America's drone war. Given that, it's worth reviewing the situation becaus ...
  • My Valentine's Day: 28 Years Ago Today I Was S ...
    Today I heard a piece onNational Public Radio about the Rockefeller drug laws. It struck me hard – real hard. That's because 28 years ago today, on Valentine's Day, I blew trial and was sentenced to 15 years to life under the Rockefeller drug laws.I had delivered four ounces of cocaine ...
  • Why You Can Thank Our War on Drugs For Roses G ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.When your love hands you a gorgeous bouquet of large, red, long-stemmed roses this Valentine’s Day, as any botanist will tell you, you’re getting a bunch of sex organs. Although the roses are more beauti ...
  • When God Is Not Enough: Religious States Have ...
    They say that religion is the opiate of the masses, but it seems that the opiates of the religious are antidepressants. A study released yesterday confirmed that Mississippi remains the most religious state in the Union, followed by a handful of its southern belt brothers: Alabama, Louis ...
  • When God Is Not Enough. In a State-by-State Co ...
    They say that religion is the opiate of the masses, but it seems that the opiates of the religious are antidepressants. A study released yesterday confirmed that Mississippi remains the most religious state in the Union, followed by a handful of its southern belt brothers: Alabama, Louis ...

Threat Level

  • California County Inching Toward Drone Deployment?
    Will Alameda County become California's first local government to deploy a drone? If the decision were up to dozens of angry residents and several civil rights groups, the answer would be a resounding "No." They urged the Bay Area county's ...
  • Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Sharing of ...
    President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to make it easier to disseminate classified information on threats against critical infrastructure systems and to lay the groundwork for obtaining information from the private sector that would help the ...
  • White House Must Respond to Petition Seeking S ...
    A whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove the Aaron Swartz prosecutor in the aftermath of the internet activist's suicide has surpassed 25,000 signatures. That means the Obama administration is obliged to enter the debate over whether authorities ...
  • Feds Urge Supreme Court to Let Stand $222K Lan ...
    The Obama administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to let stand a $222,000 jury verdict levied against infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota woman who downloaded and shared two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa.
  • DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of El ...
    The Department of Homeland Security's civil liberties watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation's borders may have their electronic devices seized and their contents reviewed for any reason whatsoever -- all in the interest of national security.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing de ...
    Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Take the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell, stretch it and take off the wheels then make it float and you've basically got the just-unveiled Cigarette AMG Electric Drive Concept. Powered by an all-electric powertrain that offers 2,2 ...
  • Report: Coda Automotive undergoes "massive lay ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Electric Plug In Cars is reporting that there have been "massive layoffs" at California electric vehicle startup Coda Automotive. Apparently, more than 50 employees, "including a substantial part of its sales and marketing staf ...
  • Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
  • Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost
    Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...
  • Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Did Police Order Media Blackout to Cover Up Pl ...
    By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 13, 2013 Audio which indicates police involved in the siege against Christopher Dorner deliberately planned to set fire to the fugitive’s cabin was preceded by an attempt by authorities to impose a media blackout in an apparent effort to cover up the c ...
  • Police Audio Reveals “Plan” to Bur ...
    Police Audio Reveals “Plan” to Burn Down Dorner’s Cabin – YouTube.
  • Shaken Baby Syndrome often just a cover story ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Child abuse comes in many forms, and can result in serious and permanent health conditions such as Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), a type of brain damage that typically afflicts children younger than one-year-old. But the cause of such abuse is not alway ...
  • Activist Post: Psycho Houston Cop Highlights W ...
    John Galt Activist Post The word “psycho” is not used here to be inflammatory. It is generally accepted that the pyschopathic personality is a disorder characterized by amorality, brutality, lack of impulse control, and profoundly lacking empathy. With this make-up, as author of The ...
  • HPV, tetanus vaccines causes deadly new autoim ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) One of the latest technologies being employed in the production of new vaccines involves the use of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), a type of pathogenic bacteria that mimics the phospholipids naturally found in the human body, as customizable vaccine ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Portraits of a nation in decline. An unnecessa ...
    Summary:  Many important stories can be told simply, sometimes even in pictures. So it is with one aspect of America’s decline. Our decisions and the results are easily shown in this post. Fortunately we hold elections every two years, should we wish to organize and change the direction of ...
  • Another way to look at the national debt. More ...
    Summary:   Today we have one example from the flow of comforting words about the government’s deficits. While pleasant reading, written by a knowledgeable expert, it does not withstand close scrutiny. One of the great oddities of history is why nations adopt policies that were so obviously ...
  • Two views on the nature of America’s pol ...
    Summary: What’s wrong with America’s politics? Here we look at two perspectives.  First, the consensus view — it explains the facts AND is emotionally satisfying. Second, a view far outside the consensus, disturbing instead of satisfying, but more operationally useful.  Which v ...
  • The difference between Christianity & Libertar ...
    Summary:  Recently the FM website has focused on the evolution of the America-that-Once-Was into the New America, and the propaganda that drives it. One of the great oddities of this is that we radically change, yet remain unaware of the change. Today we look at one example: Libertarianism, the ...
  • Has global warming increased the frequency & v ...
    Summary:  The debate about climate change has become extreme, as the news media declares quite typical weather (of any kind) to be “extreme” — carefully avoiding showing the historical data that would reveal the lie.  This requires them to conceal the findings of the IPCC and t ...

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Obama Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order
    President Obama bypassed the Congress on Tuesday and signed the much maligned but anticipated cybersecurity executive order. He made the announcement during the State of the Union address, stating: 'We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private email. We know foreign ...
  • BIG BROTHER, ILLUSION, AND REVOLUTION IN THE F ...
    On a global level there exists the Luciferian plan to create an-all prevailing Big Brother State that will attempt to enslave Man under the pyramid-control system of Lucifer, a plan which began after Eden and began to take shape with the building of the Tower of Babel. It is Lucifer’s attempt to ...
  • Video: Christopher Dorner Shootout – Cops say ...
    Once again it has been proven that you are guilty until proven innocent if the government doesn’t like you. The manhunt for Chris Dorner ended in a Waco style arson, set by the LAPD. A local media channel was broadcasting the police scanner live on the air and you can clearly hear the poli ...
  • Sinister Sites: IRS Headquarters, Maryland
    The IRS headquarters in New Carrollton, Maryland is a government building that, despite being constructed with public funds, contains art referring to elite secret societies. More importantly, the art conveys a strange message about the U.S. Constitution, and the American people in general. We’ ...
  • N. Korea conducts 3rd nuclear test, warns more ...
    A defiant North Korea has conducted its third nuclear test, prompting a wave of international criticism from governments and other organization. It also said that more “measures” may follow, raising concerns that more nuclear devices may be exploded

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of the Protest Calling for Shaker Aamer ...
    Stand Up for Shaker Aamer: The Protest at Parliament Calling for His Return to the UK from Guantánamo, a set on Flickr. Today, February 14,  2013, is the 11th anniversary of the day that Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, who has a British wife and four British children, arri ...
  • The Relentless Importance of Closing Guantánamo
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Consumer Overkill: Photos of Piccadilly Circus ...
    Consumer Overkill: Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, a set on Flickr. On September 10, 2012, the BBC World Service gave me an excuse to photograph the West End of London, in all its garish consumer glory, after I had taken part in a news programme, discussing the potential handover of the ...
  • Free Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo: Join the Pr ...
    Please sign the e-petition to the British government calling for the return of Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo. On Wednesday February 13, between 11am and 1.30pm, I’ll be joining representatives of the Save Shaker Campaign and the London Guantánamo Campaign in Parliament Square, opposite the ...
  • Suddenly, Snow: Photos of Brockley at Night
    Suddenly, Snow: Brockley at Night, a set on Flickr. The opportunity to take these photos of the streets of Brockley in the snow, with the pavements empty of people and the streets almost empty of traffic, came to me unexpectedly at 2.45am last night. As I was about to go to bed, I noticed, throu ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • It's All About the Reader (and 24 Other Rules ...
    Whether you maintain a humble personal blog or are an aspiring novelist, this manifesto on writing can help you stay focused on the most important thing about writing: getting read. Compiled by former Guardian editor Tim Radford, these 25 "commandments for journalists" offer clear guidelin ...
  • Why You Should Embrace Work-Life Imbalance
    Why is everybody so concerned about work-life balance? According to one urban legend, based on 1950s pop psychology, workaholics are greedy and selfish people who are bound to die from a heart attack. Not really. As the great David Ogilvy once said: "Men die of boredom, psychological confl ...
  • Let Yourself Splurge a Little for Hitting Savi ...
    Saving money requires a lot of discipline and delayed gratification. However, as the folks at finance blog Wise Bread have written, it's important to make sure that gratification does come. More »
  • Always Take Note of Original Ideas
    Large projects often turn out differently from where they once started. Sometimes that's a good thing, but sometimes it's hugely problematic. When you start anything new, take note of all the original ideas on the table. When problems arise later, it helps to go back and review your initia ...
  • How Long Should Meetings Last?
    Meetings don't have to be terrible things, as long as whoever calls them is willing to organize them well. But how long should meetings typically run? More »

Water Privatization

  • NY Public Housing Threatened by Privatization
    Not even New York City public housing is safe from private developers.
  • Bulgaria Chief Prosecutor: Inspection Will Inc ...
    Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov has informed that his colleagues from the Supreme Administrative Prosecutor's Office had entered the premises of the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) and requested documents on electricity prices. Speaking Thursday before a session of ...
  • Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Prosecu ...
    Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Prosecutor's Office will probe the legality of the acts issued by the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) as a specialized regulatory body overseeing the application of the Energy Act and related subsidiary legislation. The inspect ...
  • Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Prosecut ...
    Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Prosecutor's Office will probe the legality of the acts issued by the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR) as a specialized regulatory body overseeing the application of the Energy Act and related subsidiary legislation. The inspectio ...
  • EU Water Initiative Collects More Than 1 Milli ...
    A group that wants to prevent the privatization of water in the European Union and keep water services in the public sector said its petition has surpassed 1 million signatures.

Guardian

  • French firm accused of being first to label ho ...
    Spanghero bought 42 tonnes from Romanian abattoir and 'had close ties with convicted fraudster'A meat processing firm in the south of France was named Thursday night as having a central role in the horsemeat lasagne scandal as a convicted Dutch fraudster who supplied the meat admitted close ties ...
  • Tottenham Hotspur v Lyon – live! | Rob Smyth
    Minute-by-minute report: How will Spurs fare against Lyon in the Europa League? Find out with Rob SmythRob Smyth
  • Employment tribunal hearing first claim for ca ...
    Judge recuses herself after visit by police officers An employment tribunal hearing the first claim for unfair dismissal on the grounds of caste discrimination has collapsed after information handed to the judge by police led the judge to recuse herself from the case.Vijay Begraj, a former pract ...
  • Warren Buffett to buy Heinz in record food ind ...
    World's third and 69th richest men, Buffett and Jorge Paulo Lemann, buy maker of baked beans and ketchup in $28bn dealBeanz now meanz Buffett: the world's third richest man and most successful investor has turned his attention to store-cupboard comfort foods and snapped up the Heinz baked beans ...
  • Horsemeat found in 'fresh beef' as tests overw ...
    Veterinary drug found in carcasses as three arrests made in fraud inquiryMinisters are struggling to reassure consumers over the horsemeat scandal after tests revealed potentially dangerous contamination of meat with veterinary drugs and Asda confirmed the first trace of horse had been found in ...

McClatchey

  • 100th Tibetan self-immolation reported in a pr ...
    An account released on Wednesday of an ethnic Tibetan man in western China lighting himself on fire earlier this month, calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama before…Click to Continue »
  • Agencies warn Congress not to use humanitarian ...
    Humanitarian groups are lobbying hard against a proposal by several U.S. senators that would turn over the delivery of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to a Syrian opposition council…Click to Continue »
  • Democrats offer long-shot bill to meet Obama&# ...
    Democrats in Congress wasted no time in taking up President Barack Obama?s challenge Tuesday night that lawmakers take a "market-based" approach to addressing climate change, even if their effort has…Click to Continue »
  • Panetta: Congress hurting itself and U.S. imag ...
    The world is nervously watching a dysfunctional Congress and wondering ?whether or not we can rise to the challenges? that face the United States, outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta…Click to Continue »
  • GOP’s complaints about looming spending ...
    Republicans forced the budget crisis that helped create the pending across-the-board cuts in the first place. And Republicans provided crucial votes for the 2011 deal that ended that impasse, an…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghani Christian in Russia spared deportation
    Russian migration authorities have revised a decision to deport an Afghan teenaged girl who claimed to be facing death penalty at home because she converted from Islam to Christianity. "Granting ...
  • Ex-soldier cleared of manslaughter in Afghanis ...
    SHILO, Man. -- A retired Manitoba warrant officer has been found not guilty of manslaughter in a 2010 training accident in Afghanistan that killed a fellow soldier.Paul Ravensdale has been convicted ...
  • Key U.S. general backs keeping Afghan forces a ...
    U.S. Army General Lloyd Austin greets the last group of soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division to cross the Kuwaiti border as part of the last U.S. military convoy to leave ...
  • Kirkwood man goes from hobbyist to drone pilot ...
    ? The decorated Army Command Sergeant Major and his driver pulled up to an airstrip here on a recent day to see a surveillance drone launched.There to greet the top officer was a civilian contractor ...
  • Afghan President Demands Explanation Over NATO ...
    Kabul, Feb 14 (Prensa Latina) Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded explanations today to the command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for Wednesday'?Ös air raid that ...

Futurismic

  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • IRS Whistleblowers Received Record Payouts in ...
    The Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Office announced that it paid a record $125.4 million in 2012 to whistleblowers that provided evidence of tax cheating, but new rule changes place future recoveries at risk.  The IRS report, which was made public on Wednesday, stated that more than ...
  • OSHA announces interim final rules on Seaman's ...
    Last week OSHA published interim final rules on the Seaman’s Protection Act procedures governing whistleblower complaints under the Act. The Seaman’s Protection Act protects seamen from retaliation for engaging in protected activity under the Act, including providing information to t ...
  • D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh introduces whistl ...
    Yesterday, District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced the "False Claims Act of 2013," which will amend the D.C. False Claims Act to permit whistleblowers to bring tax-related fraud claims. If enacted into law, the bill would permit whistleblowers to seek a qui tam or ...
  • DOJ Considers Long Overdue FBI Whistleblower R ...
    Yesterday, the Department of Justice held a listening session with representatives of the National Whistleblowers Center, American Civil Liberties Union, Government Accountability Project and Project on Government Oversight to discuss needed improvements in the DOJ regulations that implement the ...
  • Whistleblower Scores Victory Over Justice Depa ...
    On January 15, 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland issued a key ruling in support of Justice Department whistleblower Richard G. Convertino in his longstanding Privacy Act lawsuit against the DOJ. The Court ordered the Detroit Free Press to produce all documents related to how ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • President Obama Does Take Some Challenging Que ...
    We already noted that President Obama did his Google Hangout today, and surprisingly admitted that patent trolls are a problem. It's worth noting that he did actually get some directly challenging questions, including about gun control, immigration and a lack of transparency (especially on dron ...
  • President Obama Admits That Patent Trolls Just ...
    As we noted yesterday, President Obama is holding a "Fireside Hangout" via Google Plus today. In a bit of a surprise turn, he took a question about patents and patent reforms, with a specific question about software patents. And, his response was surprising. He admitted that there was a probl ...
  • Microsoft Makes Retail Versions Of Office Sing ...
    Microsoft, long-standing hater of piracy, appears to have decided to step up their targeting system to place their own customers directly in their crosshairs. Your immediate reaction may be to blast the previous sentence as hyperbole, but you would be wrong to do so. Nothing else can explain wha ...
  • Judge Dumps Lawsuit Claiming Copyright Infring ...
    Last year, we wrote about a couple of lawyers, Edward White and Kenneth Elan, suing Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis for daring to republish their legal briefs as a part of their legal databases. As we noted at the time, we hoped that any court ruling would make it clear that posting publicly filed lega ...
  • Chubby Checker Sues Two Companies For $500 Mil ...
    Here's a question that has been keeping me awake for the past several years: what would I call a smart phone application designed to approximate the size of my naughty parts? The answer, of course, is to call it the Chubby Checker, which is exactly what a company did some time ago. Apparently 19 ...

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BroadSnark

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

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War in Context

  • Zygier, treason, and the 2010 Mabhouh assassin ...
    A Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Jarida, reports today that according to Western sources, Ben Zygier aka ‘Prisoner X’ (who is claimed to have committed suicide in a high security Israeli prisoner in 2010) belonged to “band 131,” the Mossad team that assassinated Hamas commander Mo ...
  • Zygier ‘planned to expose deadly use of passports’
    Brisbane Times reports: Security officials suspect that Ben Zygier, the alleged spy who died in a secret Israeli prison in 2010, may have been about to disclose information about Israeli intelligence operations, including the use of fraudulent Australian passports, either to the Australian gover ...
  • Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex
    MIT Technology Review reports: Every summer, computer security experts get together in Las Vegas for Black Hat and DEFCON, conferences that have earned notoriety for presentations demonstrating critical security holes discovered in widely used software. But while the conferences continue to draw ...
  • Video: Gideon Levy — going against the grain
  • How an Australian reporter homed in on Mossad ...
    The Guardian reports: For Jason Koutsoukis, the Australian journalist who first investigated allegations that Ben Zygier was a Mossad agent, the claims initially sounded “outlandish”. In 2009, while living in Jerusalem and filing stories to the Australian Fairfax group, Koutsoukis wa ...

Watts Up With That?

  • New video from Bob Tisdale explains The Impact ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale The following video is an examination and discussion of the sea surface temperature data associated with the recent blizzard called Nemo, and with hurricane Sandy. There’s nothing unusual about those temperatures, and there’s no evidence … Continue reading →
  • The monthly report NOAA never produces – ...
    Here is the latest monthly value from the state of the art Climate Reference Network, (CRN) which never seems to make it into NOAA’s monthly and yearly climate reports. But, I produce these maps now monthly since NOAA doesn’t. You … Continue reading →
  • NOAA: Average temperature of the USA in Januar ...
    National Summary Information – January 2013 Contiguous U.S. warmer and wetter than average for January Drought persists for central U.S.; above-average January snow cover extent for Lower 48 The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during January was 32.0°F, 1.6°F … Continue r ...
  • How to learn nothing from the 2010 flooding in ...
    From Griffith University Flood research shows human habits die hard Climate Change experts examine rebuilding New research has come up with ways to quickly assess flood damage to houses while also showing most people didn’t intend to make changes to … Continue reading →
  • Boxer’s carbon tax proposal would enrich ...
    While the Guardian’s environmental amateur journo Suzanne Goldenberg bloviates about the horrible possibility that some climate skeptic think tanks may have actually gotten a drop in the bucket of funding compared to all the billions of money poured down the … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

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

CFACT

  • Forward the Light Brigade! Speak truth to Gre ...
    Would you or a friend like to join us to enlighten the mall, support our energy future and speak truth to Green power?
  • Obama: Cap and tax and kill the economy!
    Instead of more Solyndras and Chevy Volts, we would prefer the 800,000 barrels of oil a day and the estimated 343,000 new U.S. jobs by 2015 if Keystone XL is allowed to proceed.
  • Bringing back the King of the Jungle
    What can be done to save the King of the Jungle? Well lion populations have declined by 75% over 50 years, and now number only about 30,000. But expert Terry Anderson of the group PERC says protecting lions privately rather than through ineffective endangered species policies is a far better w ...
  • Release: ‘Light Brigade’ to debunk ...
    Join the Light Brigade! CFACT to team up with Center for Industrial Progress to 'enlighten' Sunday's climate rally on the Washington Mall.
  • Cap-and-trade our cars?
    [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5062.mp3] Cap-and-trade regulation to limit carbon dioxide emissions was rejected by Congress. But did you know federal agencies have applied it to cars?

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Asteroid Close Call is a ‘Celestial Torpedo’
    An asteroid about the size of a 15-story building that will “narrowly” streak by the planet Earth on Friday ought to serve as a warning that a serious collision is ‘a matter of time,’ said former Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart on Thursday.
  • Russian Army Aims to Recreate Prometheus Liver
    The Russian military plans to enter the rapidly developing field of bioengineering with a tender for creation of an artificial human liver from human stem cells and animal tissue.
  • First Pink Pelican Hatches in Moscow Zoo
    Moscow zoo is celebrating the birth of a pink pelican, the zoo said on Thursday.
  • Officials Deny Lava Threatens Volcano Scientists
    Emergencies Ministry officials on Thursday dismissed a scientist's claim that lava flowing from the ongoing eruption at the Plosky Tolbachik volcano in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula might threaten a nearby research site.
  • Kazakhstan, Russia Compromise on New Space Port
    The new Kazakh-Russian space launch facility, Baiterek, will be modified for the launch of Zenit carrier rockets, Kazakhstan’s National Space Agency Kazcosmos head Talgat Musabayev said on Wednesday, indicating that the two sides have reached a compromise on the project.

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Mark Lynas: GMO Convert? Or Hired Gun?
    On January 3, Mark Lynas, British author of several books on global warming including Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, told a sold-out audience at the Oxford Farming Conference in Oxford, England, that he was sorry. Sorry that he'd maligned genetically modified (GM) crops. Sorry that ...
  • Why Most Medical Research Cannot be Trusted
    It's old news that drug companies essentially "bribe" doctors into prescribing their drugs by lavishing them with gifts - branded pens and coffee mugs, free lunches, golf outings, "educational" trips to the Caribbean all have been regarded as fair game in the past, although now such free good ...
  • How the Latin American Drug War Will End
    When change comes, it will be brought about by grassroots civil society organizing in the U.S. and in Mexico. Click here to read this article
  • Nearly 50 Climate Activists Arrested Outside O ...
    Forty-eight individuals were arrested outside the White House on Wednesday afternoon as they urged President Obama to take a strong stand on climate change by rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline and embracing a clean energy future without fossil fuels.Click here to read this article
  • New York Fracking: Towns Defend Bans As Gov. C ...
    Brewery Ommegang of upstate New York fills more than 30,000 barrels with beer every year. The primary component of the popular Belgian, wheat and amber ales: water.Click here to read this article

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Empire : Syria and the US: The complicity of s ...
    How will a post Assad Syria be a game-changer for the U.S. and regional players? ( the curiously unmentioned question : is this in fact another NATO Colour Revolution ? ) Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • In Defense of Christopher Dorner
    Christopher Dorner has managed to live his entire life avoiding problems with the authorities.After leaving the navy full time he joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he claimed to have witnessed corruption and the abuse of police power on nume Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat &n ...
  • Harry Targ : Celebrate the 'Historical Revisio ...
    William Appleman Williams text, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, broke new ground in the early 1960s : modern organized opposition to U.S. global expansion began with the war on the Philippines in 1898. The Anti-Imperialist League decried.. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov& ...
  • Report: Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers.
    one week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS) launched our new report, Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers. Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • America how can we stop the quiet coup now in ...
    How did America get to our present situation? What can we do to reform it? A collection of articles on government and the Constitution Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • GM Antibiotic Resistance in China’s Rivers
    This study is the first to address the potential pollution of our environment with antibiotic resistant genes from genetic engineering experiments. It provides the first comprehensive and direct evidence of horizontal gene transfer from genetic engineering and genetic modification. It can be pre ...
  • Monsanto, Sustainable Development and Agenda 21
    We have a global program called Agenda 21, which is intended to strip we the people of our rights in the name of sustainable development, and Monsanto is set to head the agricultural “sustainability” part. A hoax. A farce. A global takeover of mammoth proportions. But it’s for our own good! Afte ...
  • Join Roxy and Barb for a Chat!
    This Tuesday February 12th 8-10 p.m.( EST) GUEST FARM WARS owner Barbara Peterson! TOPICS FRACKING, GMO HEMP, Organic Farming Solutions, Organic SEED Bank Exchange. Pass it on !
  • The GMO Labeling Scam
    To Fed or not to Fed. That is the question. To leave GMO labeling to the states or attempt to pressure the Feds to do it… or both? Or just maybe… none of the above?
  • Debunking the GMO Talking Points with Ease
    Debunking the proven lies perpetrated by the biotech industry.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S. should hit 'pause' button on billions mor ...
    ShareThisU.S. should hit 'pause' button on billions more in Afghan aid: watchdog --U.S. 'reconstruction' aid to Afghanistan approaching $100 billion 13 Feb 2013 The U.S. government should reconsider whether to spend more on reconstruction aid in Afghanistan, the U.S. watchdog that monitors the f ...
  • Roof collapses at Chernobyl nuclear plant: Ukraine
    ShareThisRoof collapses at Chernobyl nuclear plant: Ukraine 13 Feb 2013 A section of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine collapsed under the weight of snow, officials said Wednesday, raising new concerns about the condition of the facility that was the site of the world's worst nucle ...
  • US drone operators, cyber troops to get distin ...
    ShareThisUS drone operators, cyber troops to get distinguished medal: Pentagon 14 Feb 2013 The Pentagon says it is creating the Distinguished Warfare Medal that can be awarded to those US troops who launch assassination drone strikes and direct cyber attacks. The outgoing US Defense Secretary ...
  • Terrorism watchdog questioned 'bewildering' ar ...
    ShareThisTerrorism watchdog questioned 'bewildering' array of terror powers 14 Feb 2013 The terrorism watchdog yesterday criticised the "bewildering" range of anti-terror powers in the UK and said he wished the "evocative" phrase had never entered the law. David Anderson QC, the independen ...
  • Former UVA Professor Arrested at Protest Outsi ...
    ShareThisFormer UVA Professor Arrested at Protest Outside White House 13 Feb 2013 Former University of Virginia professor and civil rights leader Julian Bond was arrested Wednesday outside the White House. Bond was with a group of prominent activists including actress Daryl Hannah and former Co ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • Canada and the Palestine Question, by Dan Free ...
    Dan Freeman-Maloy, whose blog is notesonhypocrisy.com, has collected several significant pieces of research on Canada and the Palestine Question and published them as a single PDF (Aaron Swartz would be proud). He has also done a major talk on the same issue, that elucidates some of the main poi ...
  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...
  • Questioning Natural & Community Capital
    A Conference at York University about Capitalizing Power, organized by Jonathan Nitzan. In my talk, I try to relate Nitzan's "Capital as Power" framework to environmentalist thinking.
  • Two Uprisings
    A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. read more
  • Joe Emersberger's review of Haiti's New Dictat ...
    Joe Emersberger's got a sharp eye for discerning when media information is misleading or false. When the 2004 coup happened in Haiti, Joe published his correspondence with the Globe and Mail reporter in Haiti at the time, and very ably showed me how someone with a keen eye and decent principles ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • "Public Participation" or Citizen Pacification ...
    Christopher Paine, Director, Nuclear Program, Washington, DC On January 31, 2013, I appeared before the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in Rockville, Md., to present NRDC’s views on the agency’s rules governing (and sharp ...
  • CPUC Cuts Plans for New Power Plants in Half i ...
    Devra Wang, Director, California Energy Program, San Francisco The California Public Utilities Commission this week unanimously voted to look first to energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to meet electric needs in Southern California. ...
  • Protect Endangered Sharks: Celebrate Chinese N ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing Chinese New Year -- the longest, most important and festive holiday in China -- began on February 10th. It is a week-long holiday in mainland China that includes family reunions, dinner feasts, and f ...
  • President Calls for Doubling Energy Efficiency ...
    Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York President Obama in his State of the Union address reiterated the moral imperative to turn the tide on dangerous climate change. To do it, he presented a challenge to the nation to double energy eff ...
  • The Start of Something Big?
    Carl Zichella, Director of Western Energy Transmission, San Francisco A historic agreement between California’s Independent System Operator and mega-western utility PacifiCorp to share an “Energy Imbalance Market” (EIM), may be a m ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Long-Term Impact of the Timber Economy
    As some of you know, I have a pretty complex and ambivalent view of the history of the Pacific Northwest, largely because I grew up in a timber-supported household when the industry was disappearing and when environmentalists were suing to end the unsustainable and environmentally unsound forest ...
  • Maybe the White Walkers?
    It’s not quite accurate to say that bureaucrats will do anything to protect budgets, as the relationship between turf, autonomy, resources, and organizational behavior is complex. Nevertheless, as a general first guess it’s usually not wrong to believe that bureaucrats will significa ...
  • Marrying Money Is A Full Time Job
    Marty Peretz is very, very upset that the New Republic is now owned by a non-crackpot: Like many readers of the New Republic, I didn’t at first recognize the most recent issue of the magazine. The stark white cover was unlike anything the New Republic ran during my 35 years as the owner. H ...
  • It’s Valentine’s Day
    And, look, if you’re secular it’s no more commercialized or less arbitrary than any other holiday.   So have fun with the love letters of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson: See also. [HT: reader MKL]
  • Historical Valentine’s Day Thought
    You know who had the worst Valentine’s Day in history? Theodore Roosevelt. The second worst Valentine’s Day might go to the entire Bolivian nation.

Desert Research Institute

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

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National Law Journal | U.S.

  • In role reversal, Elizabeth Warren grills fina ...
    In her first appearance as a member of the Senate Banking Committee, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) came out swinging at the seven top financial regulators who appeared this morning to discuss implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act.
  • Separating fiction from fact over the Internat ...
    These days, Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 is the target of much hyperbolic and hysterical attack, based not on facts, but on myth stemming from the diverse agendas of the criticizing parties.
  • Multidistrict litigation over meningitis outbr ...
    A judicial panel on multidistrict litigation involving a company linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak is sending the cases to the District of Massachusetts.
  • Charging for six hours to prepare client's bil ...
    In a disciplinary matter spanning nearly a decade, the North Dakota Supreme Court has suspended from practice an attorney alleged to have charged hours instead of minutes for routine legal tasks.
  • $7.5M contribution swells West Virginia law bu ...
    The West Virginia University College of Law has received its largest gift ever -- $7.5 million from the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust. The donation will be put toward a $25 million law school renovation and addition project that got underway in the fall.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • 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.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Dr. Ketchum’s “Novel North American Hominins” ...
    Breaking update: The paper has been published. But there are some major problems that are being revealed with the publication in which this paper is appearing. Number one that the “journal” (or website) is new, apparently purchased as a way to get the paper published. The domain date is February ...
  • Chris Dorner’s Wallet Found – Twice!
    Chris Dorner’s wallet has been found now....twice. First we learn from USA Today that Chris Dorner’s wallet has miraculously been found within the charred remains of the cabin that he had been hiding out in and presumably died in. However, Chris Dorner’s wallet was also found last Thursday, acco ...
  • Software that tracks your every move and predi ...
    US defense giant Raytheon has developed a controversial software that uses social networking sites to track your movements, able to predict where a person will be and their future behavior. The program has drawn criticism from civil rights groups. A video obtained exclusively by The Guardian sho ...
  • Groundbreaking new encryption app set to revol ...
    For the past few months, some of the world’s leading cryptographers have been keeping a closely guarded secret about a pioneering new invention. Today, they’ve decided it’s time to tell all. Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments’ feathers with a “surveillance-p ...
  • Real-Life ’Vampire’ Addicted to Blood, Doctors ...
    In a chilling case report, doctors in Turkey have described what they claim to be a real-life vampire with multiple personalities and an addiction to drinking blood. The 23-year-old married man apparently started out slicing his own arms, chest and belly with razor blades, letting the blood drip ...

Russia Today

  • British MPs to receive on-the-job mental healt ...
    Stressed and depressed UK parliamentarians will soon have access to a psychiatrist just yards away from the debating chamber, after officials allocated £25,000 a year to providing mental health aid at Westminster. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Mafia plotting to crash Serbian Air Force One ...
    Mafia-linked criminal gangs have been trying to sabotage a Serbian government aircraft with the country's top officials on board, Serbia's Interior Ministry announced. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Hague: Syria turning into jihadist magnet
    War-torn Syria is now "number one" destination for jihadists who could then return to Europe experienced “in weapons and explosives” to carry out terror attacks, Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague warns. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • One-fifth of Russian city apartments have no h ...
    Tens of millions of Russians living in urban areas are struggling with a lack of basic utilities - 1 in 5 city dwellings have no hot water, and 1 in 10 no indoor sanitation. More than 70 percent of the country’s... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 'Prisoner X' took part in Mossad operation of ...
    Another layer has been added to Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ spy story, as new details shed light on Ben Zygier’s dealings with Mossad. An Israeli lawyer says the man – who took his own life in a jail cell – did not seem like... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Nazi Pope misjudged, resigns instead of ending ...
    Pope Ratzinger is stepping down, it’s not an admission of guilt, more like a plea of no contest to the avaricious, woman-phobic, pedophilic neo-religious order’s continued depravity. He’s leaving office to spend more time with his health, an honorable act to be applauded actual ...
  • Super Bowl 2013 commemorates American warrior ...
    TV NATION- Can Americans no longer embarrass themselves? This year’s pregame holiday extended to Super Bowl Eve with an un-ironic commemoration ceremony, an all-star gala tribute to football, acclaiming it a venerated touchstone of the American character, the public mob like drunken monks ...
  • Punxsutawney Phil fails to see eclipse of mank ...
    You know it’s GROUNDHOG DAY when newspaper weather forecasts read like articles in the Onion. The unseasonably warm winter that followed a record breaking hot summer has been declared by Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania’s mascot meteorologist to be an “Early Spring”. FOR NATURE ...
  • Time Mag trio wants to stop violence. Whose? L ...
    OMG YES. OF COURSE. STOP THE VIOLENCE. Wait. By whose pinheaded definition? “Too many children are dying” exclaims Gabrielle Giffords! But looking into the eyes of these posterchild sociopaths, you know they’re only talking about domestic gun deaths, the collateral damage of ou ...
  • Idle No More versus War On Terra
    Rap News skewers environmental destruction of Canada and Australia, as alien invasions competing for first place in “War on Terra”, praises IDLE NO MORE for rising against non-indigenous expropriation of the “Commonwealth”.

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...
  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...
  • Colombian Indian exhibition showcases most end ...
    ONIC's campaign aims to stop the imminent extinction of Colombia's tribal peoples © Juan Pablo Gutierrez/ONICColombian Indian organization ONIC has launched an international photography exhibition to highlight the desperate plight of Colombia’s indigenous peoples. The exhibition, enti ...
  • Brazil to investigate uncontacted Awá
    It is thought there could be up to 100 Awá who live without any contact with outsiders.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s indigenous affairs department (FUNAI) has announced that it will send a team of specialists to investigate the situation of uncontacted Awá, the world’s most threatened tribe&qu ...
  • Angry Papuan leaders demand Jared Diamond apol ...
    Benny Wenda, a Papuan tribal leader, says what Jared Diamond is writing about his people is 'misleading'.© freewestpapua.org/SurvivalLeaders across West Papua have demanded controversial author Jared Diamond apologizes for describing them in his new book as warlike, and strengthening t ...

Greg Palast

  • "I want my fair share–and that's ALL OF IT." T ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Activists alert: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his son Connor Kennedy were arrested Wednesday in Washington while protesting against approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. A rally in Washington, DC, protesting the Pipeline, has been called by Forward on Climate for Su ...
  • Billionaire Burglar Breaks into Obama's Cabin ...
    By Greg Palast for Truth-out A parade of media reports this week name Penny Pritzker as Obama's prime choice for Secretary of Commerce. No longer will criminal bankers have to lobby the administration - because now they'll have one of their own in the Cabinet. We never heard of this guy Barack O ...
  • The Koch Brothers, Hugo Chavez and the XL Pipeline
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine and The Other 98% I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path. The XL Keystone Pipeline. As Nagini, the murderous snake i ...
  • Aaron Swartz Died for Piers Morgan's Sins
    By Greg Palast for Vice.com This is the tale of two geniuses. In 2000, Aaron Swartz, aged 14, had just released his astonishing invention, RSS, to ease the flow of information and news around the Internet. Around the same time, one of Piers Morgan’s stringers hacked into the phone of Sir Paul Mc ...
  • Piers Morgan And My Pee Pee
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Now, if this were a movie, you would hear the audience scream, "DON’T TAKE THE KEY! DON’T GO UP THOSE STAIRS!" The reporter part of my brain was screaming, too: 'THIS SMELLS BAD.' But I couldn’t  hear a thing because, while I was out for the story, the memory of  ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • GM Antibiotic Resistance in China’s Rivers
    This study is the first to address the potential pollution of our environment with antibiotic resistant genes from genetic engineering experiments. It provides the first comprehensive and direct evidence of horizontal gene transfer from genetic engineering and genetic modification. It can be pre ...
  • Monsanto, Sustainable Development and Agenda 21
    We have a global program called Agenda 21, which is intended to strip we the people of our rights in the name of sustainable development, and Monsanto is set to head the agricultural “sustainability” part. A hoax. A farce. A global takeover of mammoth proportions. But it’s for our own good! Afte ...
  • Join Roxy and Barb for a Chat!
    This Tuesday February 12th 8-10 p.m.( EST) GUEST FARM WARS owner Barbara Peterson! TOPICS FRACKING, GMO HEMP, Organic Farming Solutions, Organic SEED Bank Exchange. Pass it on !
  • The GMO Labeling Scam
    To Fed or not to Fed. That is the question. To leave GMO labeling to the states or attempt to pressure the Feds to do it… or both? Or just maybe… none of the above?
  • Debunking the GMO Talking Points with Ease
    Debunking the proven lies perpetrated by the biotech industry.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Japan economy figures worse than expected
    Aljazeera – Japan’s economy remained mired in recession late last year, shrinking 0.4 percent in annualised terms for the third straight quarter of contraction, following weak demand both at home and overseas. Yoshihide Suga, chief government spokesperson, acknowledged the lingering ...
  • Japan’s Economy Unexpectedly Shrinks on Export ...
    Bloomberg – Japan’s economy unexpectedly shrank last quarter as falling exports and a business investment slump outweighed improved consumption, highlighting the challenge facing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he seeks to end deflation. Gross domestic product contracted an annualized 0.4 per ...
  • 100th monk self-immolates in Kathmandu restaurant
    ABC – A Tibetan monk has doused himself in petrol in a Kathmandu restaurant and set himself on fire, marking the 100th self-immolation bid in a wave of protests against Chinese rule since 2009. Police in the Nepalese capital say the exile burned himself near the Boudhanath Stupa, one of th ...
  • Egypt’s women fighting back against sex ...
    Associated Press – Egyptian women are growing increasingly angry and militant as they deal with one of the unintended consequences of the Arab Spring: an epidemic of sexual assault that law enforcement has failed to contain. The backlash, which includes self-defense courses for women and e ...
  • Russia tightens bank account control
    BBC – Russia has introduced fines on transactions by Russian nationals who send money to overseas bank accounts. Amendments to existing laws on financial controls stipulate fines ranging from 75% to 100% of any transfer to a foreign account which did not go through a Russian bank account. ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • Strike With Me to Raise Awareness
    At a press conference in Los Angeles, Water.org co-founder Matt Damon announces his strike to raise awareness for the water crisis.
  • Learning Through Plays
    Children and adults learn about good hygiene practices through a series of street plays, including hand washing and the importance of using a toilet instead of practicing open defecation. They also learn about the connection between water-related illnesses and prevention.
  • A Loan Leads to More
    Mrs. Lalitha Patil lives in Gojaga Village. She took a loan for Rs.10,000/- from Water.org's partner, Grameen Koota (GK), and constructed a toilet in her home. Afterwards, she became highly motivated and decided to work with her village to become completely clean and hygienic.
  • From Kutcha Well to Water Point
    In Assam, access to safe drinking water and sanitation in rural communities and small towns is often unavailable. Community residents are dependent on rain, streams, and rivers for drinking and agricultural water. Additionally, unhygienic practices have contributed to the pollution of available ...
  • Live from Davos
    April Rinne, Director of WaterCredit, speaks with The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore live from The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Watch the full interview here.

Cryptogon

  • Missouri House Bill 545 Would Make Possession ...
    Good luck with that. Via: Missouri House of Representatives: 4. Any person who, prior to the effective date of this law, was legally in possession of an assault weapon or large capacity magazine shall have ninety days from such effective date to do any of the following without being subject to p ...
  • Ben Zygier: Prisoner X
    Via: Reuters: An Australian immigrant, reported to have been recruited by Israel’s Mossad spy agency, was charged with grave crimes before he committed suicide in an Israeli jail, one of his lawyers said on Thursday. The closely guarded case has raised questions in Australia and Israel abo ...
  • USC: New Lithium Ion Battery Design
    Via: USC: Researchers at USC have developed a new lithium-ion battery design that uses porous silicon nanoparticles in place of the traditional graphite anodes to provide superior performance. The new batteries — which could be used in anything from cellphones to hybrid cars — hold three times a ...
  • Intel’s New TV Box Watches You
    Via: Register: Intel has confirmed it will be selling a set-top box direct to the public later this year, along with a streaming TV service designed to watch you while you’re watching it. … Huggers points out that the camera will have a physical shutter on the front, which can be clo ...
  • Pentagon Inks Deal for Smartphone Tool That Sc ...
    In other words, expect cops to be be using this on Americans. Via: Wired: In a few years, the soldier, marine or special operator out on patrol might be able to record the facial features or iris signature of a suspicious person all from his or her smartphone — and at a distance, too. The [...]

The Economic Collapse

  • Who Tells Us What To Think? Does The Mainstrea ...
    Do you believe that you really think for yourself?  Did you come up with your attitudes, opinions and beliefs on your own, or are they continually being shaped and molded by someone else?  Could it be possible that you and everyone around you is actually hooked into a real life version of "the m ...
  • Is It Fair For People On Food Stamps To Buy Pr ...
    Should we all quit working and jump on board the Obama gravy train?  Of course I am being facetious, but when you are barely surviving does there come a point when it just becomes easier to give up and totally rely on the government?  Today, the federal government runs nearly 80 different means- ...
  • Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold ...
    Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old?  What would a "gold for oil" system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy?  Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar?  Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been th ...
  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...
  • Watch The Financial Markets In Europe
    Is the financial system of Europe on the verge of a meltdown?  I have always maintained that the next wave of the economic crisis would begin in Europe, and right now the situation in Europe is unraveling at a frightening pace.  On Monday, European stocks had their worst day in over six months, ...

Desertification

  • Drylands Management (Natural Capital)
    Read at : http://naturalcapital1.blogspot.be/2013/02/the-importance-of-drylands-management.html The Importance of Drylands Management by Duncan Gromko Nick and I went to an interesting presentation on drylands by UN Dryland Ambassador Dennis Garrity yesterday afternoon. Dr. Garrity’s talk ...
  • How to Stop Desertification (StepbyStep)
    Read at : http://www.stepbystep.com/how-to-stop-desertification-37834/ By Bukhtawar_salik The earth was handed down to us in a perfect form, rich and healthy. Our actions have wounded it and bared it of resources. Desertification is one of them. As the word indicates, desertification … Con ...
  • WDCD ? World Day to Combat Desertification 17 ...
    A MESSAGE FROM UNCCD 2013 WDCD Concept Note for Publicity Those were the days : one of my conversations with Ambassador Bo KJELLEN (Sweden)
  • 2nd UNCCD Scientific Conference (DNI)
    A MESSAGE OF DESERTNET INTERNATIONAL On behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Committees of the 2nd UNCCD Scientific Conference we would like to inform you that a new date has been announced for the conference. The 2nd UNCCD Scientific Conference … Continue reading →
  • A solution for Land Rehabilitation (Agricultures)
    Read at : http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/east-africa/desertification/vetiver-grass Vetiver grass: A solution for Land Rehabilitation Written by Fiona Imbali  Cultivation of Vetiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) is one of the best ways of preserving soil especially in drylands. It ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Breaking News On the Rat Boiling in the Vat
    Not only is Pope Rat-Zinger in deep Kimchee, but so is the entire Vatican Mafia Mob, it would appear. Breaking News: February 14, 2013 Pope Benedict to seek immunity and protection from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on February 23 - International Tribunal calls on Napolitano to not collud ...
  • The Number of Jesus, The Christ
    “You will be with child and give birth to a son, and YOU ARE TO GIVE HIM THE NAME OF JESUS.” So commanded the Angel Gabriel, to the virgin maiden named Mary, as recorded in the Gospel of Luke, 1:31  WHY JESUS?  What’s in a name, in other words? JESUS, the literal name above all ...
  • A Correspondence with Pastor Jim on Number 17, ...
    I thought a few of my Christian readers may find this quite interesting. “Pastor” Jim worked as an electrical engineer with Hewlett Packard, before becoming the pastor of the small Christian fellowship “church” body that I personally attend here in Utah. Following up on a ...
  • A True American Hero – Dr. Benjamin Carson
    His name is Dr. Benjamin Carson.  He overcame the streets of Detroit, a broken home, racial prejudice, and poverty to become a world-renowned brain surgeon – not only saving the lives of hundreds of people, but enriching the lives of countless others.   He is a most worthy role model for a ...
  • The Rat Has Left the Vat
    The Rat Scurries from the Vat: The Latest Coup in Rome by Kevin D. Annett The Ex Pope and the New Pope? Joseph Ratzinger (l) and the palace coup-master, Cardinal Bertone Theories are abounding this week now that the first pope in seven centuries is resigning his office. But as always, the most d ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • ALERT: HB44 Threatens Missouri’s RES
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  • Introducing the NewPower™ Standard
    the World’s First: Triple-Redundant Alternative Power System For Homes and Business Your Building will never lose power again with this robust power system; 4500 Watt Solar Power Generation 8000 Watt Line-Interactive Inverter / Battery Back-up UPS / Power Center 8000 Watt Stand-by Generator to r ...
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The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Bill Maher Interviews Julian Assange on HBO
      Last Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher interviewed Wiileaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. They discuss the illegal investigation of Wikileaks the FBI tried to carry out in London, the federal grand jury in V ...
  • Update on Indefinite Detention Lawsuit and Appeal
    People may recall that lower court judge Katherine Forrest ruled against the Obama administration in the lawsuit Hedges vs Barrack Obama, which claimed that the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) violates important protections guaranteed in the ...
  • Will the US Economy Collapse in May
    John Williams, founder of Shadowstats.com, predicts the US dollar will collapse by May 2013 from a massive self-off (i.e. the value of the dollar will crash because other countries will dump dollars in favor of other currencies) by May 2013. ShadowStats.com is dedicated to correcting the d ...
  • New IMF Chicago Plan Video: Stripping Banks of ...
    Last October two International Monetary Fund (IMF) economists (Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof), created a firestorm with their working paper The Chicago Plan Revisited. The document revives a proposal first put forward by professors Henry Simons and Irving Fisher in 1936 during the Great ...
  • Wikileaks Reports FBI Banned from Iceland
    On January 30, 2013, WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson reported that FBI agents who entered Iceland in August 2011 to investigate Iceland’s WikiLeaks operations had been ejected from the country by Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson. Janasson considered it unbelievab ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Paul Allen's IP Firm Files new Lawsuit agains ...
    By now everyone knows that Paul Allen's IP firm "Interval Licensing" has sued most everyone in techland including Apple, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and others. Today, Interval Licensing has filed a new patent infringement case against Apple in Seattle's District Court. [PJ: Actu ...
  • Final Rules on First-to-File Regime
    On February 14, 2013, the USPTO published its final rules [PDF] to govern implementation of the first-to-file provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. The new rules will apply to any application claiming with an effective filing date of on or after March 16, 2013. The USPTO has simulta ...
  • Oracle summons Ann Droid in appeal of Java ve ...
    Google didn't copy the code from actual Java functions when it created Android, but it did use what Oracle calls "declaring code" from declarations, headers, signatures, and names of functions. Oracle claimed this amounted to copying the "structure, sequence, and organization" of Java. US Distr ...
  • Dutch government will end protection of non-or ...
    Dutch Secretary of Justice Teeven has issued a draft bill to remove the so-called 'geschriftenbescherming' from Dutch copyright legislation. This is part of the modernization process of Dutch copyright law. The goal is to have a flexible, technology-neutral and future-proof copyright in order to ...
  • 3D Printing Can Turbocharge Mashup Culture
    One of the keys to this next generation of mashups will be a strong understanding of how copyright interacts with physical objects. While copyright will not protect functional objects, it will protect decorative ones. Understanding the difference will mean the difference between a mashup encum ...

WideShut

  • The Story of CHRIS: A Critique of Naming and S ...
    This is the story of C.H.R.I.S. (Children Have Rights In Society) – a website run by a convicted football hooligan who couldn’t be a worse poster child for the name-and-shame concept.
  • Who Are The English Defence League?
    The EDL may claim to be a grass-roots anti-Islamic extremist movement out to protect Britain, but their creation and leadership are fundamentally tied to the war-mongering Zionist ideology of Israel and NEOCON agenda of the US.
  • What Zero Dark Thirty isn’t Telling You about ...
    Critically acclaimed film Zero Dark Thirty might win awards and make money, but that doesn't mean it presents the truth about the CIA and their history with Bin Laden. Why would it? The CIA helped with the film's development.
  • Police Further Contradicted Over Mark Duggan S ...
    Mark Duggan didn't shoot at police, appears to have been unarmed and the pathologist's injury analysis does not match police testimony.
  • Satanic Panic Reemerges In Jimmy Savile Scandal
    Notorious "satanic ritual abuse" psychoanalyst Valerie Sinason, uses the Jimmy Savile scandal to give new coverage of her baseless theories, and the press who once mocked her are eating it up.

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.

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Workers moving back to 19th Century
    “There are twenty-four hours per day given us; eight of these should be for work, eight for sleep, and the remaining eight for recreation and in which for men to do what little things they want for themselves” So said Samuel Duncan Parnell when he emigrated to New Zealand in 1840 and established ...
  • National’s approach to local government is all ...
    As successive Ministers of Local Government,  Nick Smith and David Carter loudly criticised councils for their debt level and  said councils needed to focus on “core services “ without defining what these were. Last year National made major changes to the Local Government Act so that the purpose ...
  • You can’t live on a precarious wage.
    At the symposium on Precarious Work and the Living Wage in our Communities at AUT today Guy Standing – the author of the 2011 book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class – talked about the way our labour markets have changed over the last few decades and the impact on workers. The Precariat refe ...
  • Where will cost of new property development fall?
    The National Government continues to undermine local democracy and erode the autonomy of elected councillors with its plan to limit what local authorities can charge as development contributions. Councils can currently afford the infrastructure costs associated with new subdivisions and other la ...
  • Richard Prosser’s attitude harmful to cr ...
    The beliefs of New Zealand First MP Richard Prosser are anathema to a truly inclusive society. Despite his apology, he has a history of comments that strongly suggest that his widely-panned column represents his real view, regardless of any retraction he needed to make due to the uproar. The rol ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • What You See in the Toilet Can Give You Valuab ...
    By Dr. Mercola When it comes to toileting habits, the topic is not exactly a favorite among Americans – at least for those above the age of four. Mention poop and you can easily clear a room – or at the least, generate some unusual facial expressions, nervous laughter, and wisecra ...
  • Flacking for Big Pharma
    By Dr. Mercola It’s old news that drug companies essentially “bribe” doctors into prescribing their drugs by lavishing them with gifts – branded pens and coffee mugs, free lunches, golf outings, “educational” trips to the Caribbean … all have been re ...
  • Confirmed: Heart Problems Linked to SSRI Antid ...
    By Dr. Mercola In 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety alert on the antidepressant Celexa,1 warning it can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of your heart, which can lead to abnormal heart rhythm and fatal heart attacks. New research published ...
  • Publication Bias—the Hidden Systematic Flaw in ...
    By Dr. Mercola Exposure and concerns over medical research fraud is on the rise, and for good reason. Publication bias — the practice of selectively publishing trial results that serve an agenda — represents a “systematic flaw of the scientific basis of medicine,” Ben ...
  • Safety of Flame Retardants in Question
    By Dr. Mercola The average U.S. home contains multiple sources of toxic flame-retardant chemicals (polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs), as they're widely used in Carpets and textiles Foam insulation Polyurethane foam furnishings Electronics and plastics Moto ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...
  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...
  • Colombian Indian exhibition showcases most end ...
    ONIC's campaign aims to stop the imminent extinction of Colombia's tribal peoples © Juan Pablo Gutierrez/ONICColombian Indian organization ONIC has launched an international photography exhibition to highlight the desperate plight of Colombia’s indigenous peoples. The exhibition, enti ...
  • Brazil to investigate uncontacted Awá
    It is thought there could be up to 100 Awá who live without any contact with outsiders.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s indigenous affairs department (FUNAI) has announced that it will send a team of specialists to investigate the situation of uncontacted Awá, the world’s most threatened tribe&qu ...
  • Angry Papuan leaders demand Jared Diamond apol ...
    Benny Wenda, a Papuan tribal leader, says what Jared Diamond is writing about his people is 'misleading'.© freewestpapua.org/SurvivalLeaders across West Papua have demanded controversial author Jared Diamond apologizes for describing them in his new book as warlike, and strengthening t ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • HPV, tetanus vaccines causes deadly new autoim ...
    from naturalnews.com: One of the latest technologies being employed in the production of new vaccines involves the use of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), a type of pathogenic bacteria that mimics the phospholipids naturally found in the human body, as customizable vaccine adjuvants. But vaccin ...
  • The Benefits of Minimally Invasive Dentistry
    from mercola.com: It’s very difficult to achieve high-level physical health if your dental health isn’t effectively addressed. I’ve been involved with alternatives to regular dentistry for quite some time. I think many people fail to appreciate how important dentistry is to our total health. ...
  • Phony patients selling pricey drugs—Part 1
    from intrepidreport.com: It’s happened to anyone who’s attended an open-mic session at an FDA advisory committee hearing. A queue of “patients” materializes out of nowhere to testify, often in tears, about the crucial need for approval of a drug the public has often not even heard of. Sometime ...
  • Windsor votes to remove fluoride from drinking ...
    from windsorstar.com: Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has changed in the last 60 years … fluoride is not the be-all and end-all to ...
  • Morningland Dairy destroyed by feds, $250,000 ...
    from naturalnews.com: There is a reason why America's founding fathers were willing to shed their own blood to gain independence from the crushing authoritarianism of the Crown of England. Nearly three years after first becoming a target for destruction by state and federal government agencies ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Who Tells Us What To Think? Does The Mainstrea ...
    Do you believe that you really think for yourself?  Did you come up with your attitudes, opinions and beliefs on your own, or are they continually being shaped and molded by someone else?  Could it be possible that you and everyone around you is actually hooked into a real life version of "the m ...
  • Is It Fair For People On Food Stamps To Buy Pr ...
    Should we all quit working and jump on board the Obama gravy train?  Of course I am being facetious, but when you are barely surviving does there come a point when it just becomes easier to give up and totally rely on the government?  Today, the federal government runs nearly 80 different means- ...
  • Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold ...
    Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old?  What would a "gold for oil" system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy?  Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar?  Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been th ...
  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...
  • Watch The Financial Markets In Europe
    Is the financial system of Europe on the verge of a meltdown?  I have always maintained that the next wave of the economic crisis would begin in Europe, and right now the situation in Europe is unraveling at a frightening pace.  On Monday, European stocks had their worst day in over six months, ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Clean Master: One of the Most Useful Free Andr ...
    Freeing up disk space in Ubuntu might be easy. I haven't thought much about doing the same in Android yet though. Clean Master not only has one of the cleanest of designs, it works really well and the app itself is completely free too. Clean Master: Freeing up Disk Space in An ...
  • Ubuntu 13.04 on a Multi-touch Screen
    Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail is still in its alpha state, while its multi-touch capabilities are probably in a very early pre-alpha state. So you can't expect much from a video featuring Ubuntu on a multi-touch screen. Still, worth a watch.  Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail o ...
  • Brand New Unity Mockups Show Some Really Neat ...
    Ever since Canonical introduced Unity desktop, there was no dearth for user-contributed ideas. Some of them were really good too. But over-time, things have changed so much about Unity that most of those mockups became irrelevant. Now, here's a new one that recently came to our notice. Some ve ...
  • Half-Life and Counter-Strike are now Linux Rea ...
    Gaming on Linux is really taking off. Half-Life and Counter-Strike: Source officially arrives on Steam for Linux client and those hugely popular game titles are now playable on Linux! Half-Life and Counter-Strike: Source are now Linux ready! Valve has just released two mor ...
  • 5 Unique Linux Based Products at CES 2013
    January has come to an end and the highlight of the month was undoubtedly, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held annually at Las Vegas. With each new events featuring latest and greatest from the world of consumer electronics, Linux and products based on it are becoming more prominent than ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Did Police Order Media Blackout to Cover Up Pl ...
    By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 13, 2013 Audio which indicates police involved in the siege against Christopher Dorner deliberately planned to set fire to the fugitive’s cabin was preceded by an attempt by authorities to impose a media blackout in an apparent effort to cover up the c ...
  • Police Audio Reveals “Plan” to Bur ...
    Police Audio Reveals “Plan” to Burn Down Dorner’s Cabin – YouTube.
  • Shaken Baby Syndrome often just a cover story ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Child abuse comes in many forms, and can result in serious and permanent health conditions such as Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), a type of brain damage that typically afflicts children younger than one-year-old. But the cause of such abuse is not alway ...
  • Activist Post: Psycho Houston Cop Highlights W ...
    John Galt Activist Post The word “psycho” is not used here to be inflammatory. It is generally accepted that the pyschopathic personality is a disorder characterized by amorality, brutality, lack of impulse control, and profoundly lacking empathy. With this make-up, as author of The ...
  • HPV, tetanus vaccines causes deadly new autoim ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) One of the latest technologies being employed in the production of new vaccines involves the use of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), a type of pathogenic bacteria that mimics the phospholipids naturally found in the human body, as customizable vaccine ...

Veterans Today

  • Struggling to Care For Our Broken LA Veterans
    Americans have always taken care of their war veterans. As early as 1636, the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts passed a law stipulating that the colony would support soldiers who became disabled during the American Indian Wars.
  • Nigeria arrests journalists over polio worker ...
    Three Nigerian journalists have been arrested for inciting violence by saying on a radio show that polio immunizations were an anti-Islam Western conspiracy, just days before health workers administering the vaccines were killed.
  • Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic?
      By Jonas E. Alexis “Even in times of social stress and upheaval the Constitution and Bill of Rights have served as a legal firewall to institutional anti-Semitism.” David Turner, The Jerusalem Post   In the previous article, we have implicitly pointed out that anti-Semitism is foreign to ...
  • Intel Dump, Wednesday February 13, 2012
    Where did Williamson's ideas come from? Williamson, a "prince of the church," had access to the Vatican archives. They contain the most extensive archives on World War II in the world today, including materials capable of bringing down the oligarchical power that so many today serve, the very ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday it has added more than 1,000 mental health professionals and 200 support staff over the past eight months to meet the needs of returning veterans, but still has more to do to meet the requirements of an executive order issued by President Barack Obama.

electric politics

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

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Stop NATO

  • Kosovo: NATO Army Without A State
    Voice of Russia February 14, 2013 Kosovo: Army without a state? Jovana Vukotic NATO Military Committee led by its Chairman Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola and NATO Joint Force Command Naples, Admiral Mark Fitzgerald visited Kosovo in 2012 and attended a demonstration of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF ...
  • Romain Rolland: Hatred and holy butchery; the ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From Clerambault (1921) Translated by Katherine Miller One day as he was walking alone, he saw a crowd on the other side of the street, he crossed over calmly and found himself ...
  • NATO, Pentagon Complete Transformation Of Azer ...
    News.Az February 14, 2013 NATO and US experts to help Azerbaijan in developing military institutions US and NATO experts are to visit Baku on 18-19 February for assistance to the development of military educational institutions of Azerbaijan. The statement came from the news service for the Defe ...
  • NATO Incorporating Formerly Neutral Ireland
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization February 12, 2013 Ireland: an important partner in peace and security ==== One of the Irish EU Presidency’s priorities is to further develop deployable military capabilities in support of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy – and it is important to ensu ...
  • Interview: American war with Russia in the Arctic
    Voice of Russia February 12, 2013 Why were weapons cached in Russia by the West? – Rozoff John Robles Audio First part of the interview with Rick Rozoff Voice of Russia regular contributor Rick Rozoff continues with the story of the Polar Bear Expedition or what was also called the America ...

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Intel Hub

  • “Survive and Thrive” Founder Ferna ...
    By JG Vibes theintelhub.com February 15, 2013 As a vocal activist in his community, Fernando Antonio Salguero has had to deal with an unfortunate amount of legal trouble, simply for exercising his natural rights and promoting freedom. Just a few months ago, Fernando was arrested for handing out ...
  • Violence Continues in Egypt-Child Killed
    By Sarah Dee theintelhub.com February 14, 2013 The IntelHub recently reported about the violence that had broken out in Egypt between police and protesters at the end of January 2013. The fighting has since tapered off to some extent, but the death of a child that occurred February 3rd has the g ...
  • Missouri Democrats Plan Outright Gun Confiscat ...
    By Alex Thomas theintelhub.com February 14, 2013 In the last few months we have seen what can only be described as an all out assault on private firearm ownership in America. From calls for universal background checks to plans for an assault rifle ban, elements of the federal government, in conj ...
  • Friday: Asteroid DA14 to Graze Earth, a Near M ...
    Shepard Ambellas | A rather large asteroid is going to graze earth Friday, with a near miss by astrological terms. Let's hope NASA's calculations are right.
  • Could SARS-like Virus be the Beginning of a UK ...
    By Kimberly Paxton  theintelhub.com February 14, 2013 BREAKING:  During the last couple of hours, a third patient in the UK has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. The patient, a male from Qatar had, according to sources, spent time with the second patient, who is hospitalized in Manchest ...

FRS

  • Tumultuous 60′s: an announcement of a fo ...
    [While many other books on the movements of the 60's and 70's in the US have either ignored or dismissed/denounced the role of Maoism in the United States, this announcement of a forthcoming book, "The Heavy Radicals: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980"  by Aaron Leo ...
  • Tumultuous 60′s: an announcement of a fo ...
    [While many other books on the movements of the 60's and 70's in the US have either ignored or dismissed/denounced the role of Maoism in the United States, this announcement of a forthcoming book, "The Heavy Radicals: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980"  by Aaron Leo ...
  • Indian reactionaries have high hopes for Nepal ...
    [Nepal's UCPN(M), led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Baburam Bhattarai, has now consolidated their abandonment and renunciation of the Nepali revolution and People's War, in a Convention which declared their adoption of capitalism.  Recently, revolutionary activists have broken with the UCPN(M) and i ...
  • Indian reactionaries have high hopes for Nepal ...
    [Nepal's UCPN(M), led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Baburam Bhattarai, has now consolidated their abandonment and renunciation of the Nepali revolution and People's War, in a Convention which declared their adoption of capitalism.  Recently, revolutionary activists have broken with the UCPN(M) and i ...
  • MXGM Statement – Dorner, Racism, and Sta ...
    The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) maintains that regardless of what one may think of Christopher Dorner and the rights or wrongs of his actions, we want to call attention to the truth’s stated in Dorner’s manifesto regarding the pervasiveness of racism in the Los Angeles Police Department ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Dorner Case Tests the LAPD
    It seems an inappropriate time to review the firing of fugitive Christopher Dorner--yet that's what LAPD chief Charlie Beck ordered.Contributor: Anthony Ventre Published: Feb 11, 2013
  • Giffords’ Plea for More Gun Control Legislatio ...
    Gun control legislation won’t solve all of the country’s gun violence problems, but at least laws would put the authorities in the position to enforce tighter measures and make it harder for criminals to get access to certain weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 31, 2013
  • Georgia Storm Warnings Get an “A,” Preparation ...
    Tornadoes struck West Georgia again. The only lesson that seems to have been learned from prior disasters is to provide a ton of warnings. But we had those back then. What we need are protective shelters, not hallways.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Jan 30, 2013
  • Benghazi: Yes, Secretary Clinton, it Does Matt ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to know "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Either the administration had faulty intelligence reporting which needs to be exposed or President Obama lied about Benghazi.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 23, 2013
  • President Obama's Right: We're Made for This M ...
    At his second inauguration, President Barack H. Obama hit on something universal when he added a line apparently not in his prepared remarks.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 21, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • A Jilted Babylonian Scribe Wrote This Heartbre ...
    Happy Valentine's Day from the Popular Science archives. Thousands of years ago, a hurt and confused Babylonian man used a triangular stylus to jab a message to his lover into a small piece of wet clay: To Bibea: May the gods for my sake preserve your health. Tell me how you are. I went to Ba ...
  • Scientists Engineer Mice That Can't Feel The Cold
    And that could mean better pain medication. In the depths of winter, nothing seems as tempting as the inability to feel how frostbitten your toes are. Thanks to a group of neuroscientists at the University of California, that could soon be possible (though maybe not advisable.) They were able ...
  • How Powerful New Telescopes Are Helping Us Spo ...
    NASA is watching closer than ever as another space rock gives Earth a close shave. Soon, we'll get even closer as a new spacecraft visits an asteroid. A giant space rock is hurtling toward Earth eight times faster than a speeding bullet, and it’s scheduled to buzz our geosynchronous satellites ...
  • Love Is A Messy Science
    A meta-look at the complicated (and sometimes contradicting) research on love and relationships. Happy Valentine's Day! Every few months, a new study comes out that claims to have unleashed the secrets of human romance. It's a new technique to predict whether a relationship will last, or a new ...
  • New York Fashion Week Lands On Mars
    Mars is just so trendy right now. Much of the clothing in New York’s Fashion Week appears to have been designed by people from another planet, but in this case there’s actual extraterrestrial inspiration. Designer Nanette Lepore, who apparently is known for frilly outfits, drew inspiration fro ...

Veterans Today

  • Struggling to Care For Our Broken LA Veterans
    Americans have always taken care of their war veterans. As early as 1636, the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts passed a law stipulating that the colony would support soldiers who became disabled during the American Indian Wars.
  • Nigeria arrests journalists over polio worker ...
    Three Nigerian journalists have been arrested for inciting violence by saying on a radio show that polio immunizations were an anti-Islam Western conspiracy, just days before health workers administering the vaccines were killed.
  • Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic?
      By Jonas E. Alexis “Even in times of social stress and upheaval the Constitution and Bill of Rights have served as a legal firewall to institutional anti-Semitism.” David Turner, The Jerusalem Post   In the previous article, we have implicitly pointed out that anti-Semitism is foreign to ...
  • Intel Dump, Wednesday February 13, 2012
    Where did Williamson's ideas come from? Williamson, a "prince of the church," had access to the Vatican archives. They contain the most extensive archives on World War II in the world today, including materials capable of bringing down the oligarchical power that so many today serve, the very ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday it has added more than 1,000 mental health professionals and 200 support staff over the past eight months to meet the needs of returning veterans, but still has more to do to meet the requirements of an executive order issued by President Barack Obama.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Sharia Chameleon: Egypt's Clerics Decide on IMF?
    People who are not distracted by business or trade from commemorating God - Sura 24:37 There's an interesting new complication in Egypt's never-ending quest to obtain IMF loans (which we aren't even sure the IMF wants to give anyway). Islamist lawmakers from the Salafist party want to add even ...
  • More Than WTO, Vatican Needs Third World Head
    Aside from China's arranged leadership succession, there are two more noteworthy ones this year at global institutions. The one we had long expected is that of WTO director-general. Since the WTO's formation in 1995, there has only been one from a developing country, Supachai Panichpakdi of Thai ...
  • Growing Export Markets by Immigration in Canada
    Pro-migration voices like myself usually argue that the exchange of people is mutually beneficial for destination and source countries alike. Destination countries--usually wealthier Western nations experiencing declining birth rates--benefit from having newer workers joining the labour force wh ...
  • HM Imported BoE Guv'nor: Most Powerful CBanker
     I am currently watching former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney testify before Britain's Monetary Policy Committee about what he will do once he assumes the equivalent position at the Bank of England in July. These are difficult times for the UK; of that there's no doubt as a double-dip ...
  • United States vs S&P: Sovereign Ratings Next?
    It is with great interest that I am following the ongoing civil suit by the United States against the rating agency Standard and Poor's. Awhile ago, Tim Sinclair over at Warwick University came out with a book entitled "The New Masters of Capital" describing how credit rating agencies supposedly ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Who Tells Us What To Think? Does The Mainstrea ...
    Do you believe that you really think for yourself?  Did you come up with your attitudes, opinions and beliefs on your own, or are they continually being shaped and molded by someone else?  Could it be possible that you and everyone around you is actually hooked into a real life version of "the m ...
  • Is It Fair For People On Food Stamps To Buy Pr ...
    Should we all quit working and jump on board the Obama gravy train?  Of course I am being facetious, but when you are barely surviving does there come a point when it just becomes easier to give up and totally rely on the government?  Today, the federal government runs nearly 80 different means- ...
  • Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold ...
    Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old?  What would a "gold for oil" system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy?  Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar?  Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been th ...
  • Show This To Anyone That Believes That “ ...
    How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing all around us?  It just astounds me when people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that "things are getting better" in America.  Are there people out there that are really that blind?  If you want to see the economic colla ...
  • Watch The Financial Markets In Europe
    Is the financial system of Europe on the verge of a meltdown?  I have always maintained that the next wave of the economic crisis would begin in Europe, and right now the situation in Europe is unraveling at a frightening pace.  On Monday, European stocks had their worst day in over six months, ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    It was encouraging to learn today that German researchers working with catholic officials to produce the latest, supposedly independent, supposedly research based support for Vatican lies about endemic child rape by catholic religious have had enough and pulled the plug on the project. Read the ...

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Global hotspots top agenda as UN chief meets w ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Secretary of State John Kerry held talks in Washington D.C. today on a range of issues, including Syria, Mali and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the United Nations chief stressing the importance of United States leadership in tackling global challenges.
  • Venezuela must release judge who suffered sexu ...
    A group of United Nations experts today urged Venezuela to immediately release Judge María Lourdes Afiuni, who has been in detention for the past three years and was the victim of sexual violence and aggression during the time she was incarcerated.
  • Ban calls for stronger ties between UN and Org ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for increased cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS), stressing that the Americas have much experience and knowledge to contribute to the world.
  • Elections, jobs critical for Haiti's current a ...
    The outgoing head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti says that during his 20-months tenure, security had greatly improved in the Caribbean country, but delayed elections and unemployment still threatened stability.
  • Haiti: Security Council calls for timely elect ...
    Reaffirming its commitment to Haiti as the United Nations seeks to complete its peacekeeping mission in the crisis-beset country, the Security Council has urged all political actors to work constructively on priorities, including credible 2013 elections and security sector reform.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Dave Foreman speaking in Cerrillos, NM
  • Sea Shepherd Investigation Results in Indictme ...
    Back in 2010, Sea Shepherd activist, pelican rescuer and lead singer for Pennywise Zoli Teglas discovered that the Hump Restaurant in Santa Monica was serving whale meat to special customers.  Sea Shepherd responded with an investigation and sent in undercover activists to gain the trust of the ...
  • Young Population Activist Bindi Irwin Stifled ...
    Original post by Joe Bish of the Population Media Center Many of you may recall the 2006 death of Steve Irwin, an Australian wildlife expert,television personality, and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter” (he was pierced in the heart by a stingray). You may not know, howe ...
  • Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Launches Two ...
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the world’s leading direct-action conservation non-profit, today has filed two petitions on the White House  “We The People” page of the website which seek the U.S. Government’s support in upholding conservation law regarding protecting at-risk whales in the An ...
  • Life on the Brink
    LIFE ON THE BRINK  Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation Edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist University of Georgia Press, December 2012 About the book Life on the Brink aspires to reignite a robust discussion of population issues among environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Who is Pope Benedict XVI?
    Who is Pope Benedict XVI? Does he factor into Bible prophecy? What has been his role in the last days? My research into this man turns up some intriguing facts that are no less relevant since his resignation. ~ Bob Schlenker - Photos read more
  • Pope’s Last Mass will be on Ash Wednesday in S ...
    Amid the buzz created by the Pope’s announcement that he will retire, it could be easy to miss the fact that his last Mass will be on Ash Wednesday and not in the normal location for the first day of Lent. ~ David Uebbing read more
  • 'Petrus Romanus The Final Pope'... Tom Horn on ...
    For more than 800 years scholars have pointed to the dark augury having to do with "the last Pope." The prophecy, taken from St. Malachy's "Prophecy of the Popes," is among a list of verses predicting each of the Roman Catholic popes from Pope Celestine II to the final pope, "Peter the Roma ...
  • Pope Benedict Resigned To Avoid Arrest and Sei ...
    Diplomatic Note was issued to Vatican just prior to Pope Benedict resignation... New Pope and Catholic clergy face indictment and arrest as “Easter Reclamation” plan continues. read more
  • Prophecy of the Popes... Petrus Romanus the Fa ...
    Author and publisher with a specialty in End Times and prophecy, Tom Horn, discussed his new research on the prophecy of the Popes, and how 2012 will be the fulfillment of St. Malachy's prediction that the Catholic Church will see one final Pope before its destruction. ~ Coast2Coast - Audio ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • 3 Stages Of SHTF
    Slippery Slope The first stage of SHTF begins with creeping normalcy and shifting baseline. This is happening now, and has accelerated rapidly. It has been happening slowly for many years… the inability of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually. People that do not make ...
  • 10 Tips How To Save Water When Bathing
    If your water supply becomes low, limited, or scarce, or you’re just looking to conserve or save a little money on hot water, follow some of these tips to save water while being more efficient how you bathe and clean yourself.   1. Take a shower, not a bath. A bathtub may use 35 gallo ...
  • How Far Inland Would A 300 Foot Tsunami Go On ...
    Back in 2011, I wrote an article titled “300 Foot Tsunami And East Coast Destruction” regarding the possibility that a catastrophic volcanic eruption and subsequent marine landslide of one of the Canary Islands collapsing into the ocean in the Eastern Atlantic could lead to a mega-ts ...
  • Survival Retreat Land Size Considerations
    I originally wrote this article during 2010, but felt it worth re-posting How much land should a survival retreat or bug-out-location have surrounding it? What are the minimum land requirements while shopping for a retreat location? Does it really matter? There are some logical answers to these ...
  • Tips To Stay Safe During A House Fire
    REACT React when you hear your smoke alarm. If you hear your smoke detector or alarm going off, get out of bed, wrap yourself in a blanket if there’s one handy and get the heck out of there! Shoes or slippers are a good idea if they are handy, but do not take the time [...]

Fast Company

  • FAA Approves UAV Testing Sites
    The FAA is approving six test flight ranges for drones in the United States in a huge boon to the burgeoning demand for commercial and law enforcement UAVs. The FAA has approved six test ranges for drones in the United States where unmanned aircraft can legally be flown. Earlier this after ...
  • How You Can Fall In Love Every Day, According ...
    A new book looks at the science of positive emotions and comes away with a radical rethinking of love. At this point, we’re hip to the realities of love. Not all relationships start with a meet cute in a bookstore, and not all unions carry on happily ever after. So we’ve adjust ...
  • “Bridge” Design Residencies Will Offer Plum Jo ...
    A new program by the Designer Fund will pair great designers with great startups. It raises the question: Why’s this marriage so hard in the first place? Path, Dropbox, Pinterest, Airbnb. They’re some of the most high-profile startups in the world. And now through March 10, the ...
  • Conquering The Curse Of Being An Expert
    When you know more than anyone else in your field, how do you keep learning? History explains. Here’s a great story from a thread on Quora about intellectual honesty, excerpted from Secrets, the memoir of famed antiwar activist Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg was a DoD consultant at the ti ...
  • Use These Magic Mushrooms To Light Up Your Desk
    Yukio Takano’s LED desk lights add a little fungal brightness to your workplace. A colorful shock of mushrooms clinging to a log or rotten stump can be one of the more delightful (and tasty) discoveries to make when out for walk in the woods. A Japanese mushroom-enthusiast-cum-lamp-d ...

Jadaliyya

  • Syria Media Roundup (February 14)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • Two Years and Counting: The Bahrain Uprising, ...
    Over the last two years, the fickle eye of the international media has strayed from the ongoing demonstrations in Bahrain. In February 2011, with the advent of the Arab uprisings, Bahrainis took to the streets to demand constitutional reform, equal rights, and, eventually, the overthrow of the r ...
  • Two Years and Counting: The Bahrain Uprising, ...
    Over the last two years, the fickle eye of the international media has strayed from the ongoing demonstrations in Bahrain. In February 2011, with the advent of the Arab uprisings, Bahrainis took to the streets to demand constitutional reform, equal rights, and, eventually, the overthrow of the r ...
  • Dear Bahrain... With Love
    Valentine’s Day and the color red symbolize love. The world over, shops and streets are decked out with red decorations, red boxes, red wrapping paper, red cards, and red roses. In Bahrain, the color red also symbolizes love, just a different kind of love. Streets there are covered in red too, t ...
  • The Maspero Massacre: Adding Injustice to Insu ...
    Amidst the marches, street battles, and political deadlock covered night after night by the Egyptian media, one recent story almost escaped notice. On 4 February Michael Farag and Michael Shaker were each sentenced to three years in prison for having stolen weapons from the armed forces. With no ...

mediagazer

  • Whistleblowers and press 'threatened by propos ...
    Vikram Dodd / Guardian: Whistleblowers and press ‘threatened by proposed new police powers’  —  Investigative journalism at risk from government plan to weaken protection for writers and their sources, warn campaigners  —  The government is proposing ...
  • CBS Profit Misses Estimates as Streaming Reven ...
    Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg: CBS Profit Misses Estimates as Streaming Revenue Slumps  —  CBS Corp., owner of the most-watched U.S. television network, posted fourth-quarter results that missed analysts' estimates as online licensing fees declined.  The company announced a $1 bi ...
  • That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Does ...
    John M. Broder / New York Times: That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn't  —  The Model S at the Tesla Supercharger in the Interstate 95 service plaza in Milford, Conn.  —  Elon Musk , the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has now responded in detail to t ...
  • CBS Takes Minority Stake in AXS TV (Andrea Mor ...
    Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable: CBS Takes Minority Stake in AXS TV  —  Cable net gains access to live events like Grammys, Tonys under multiyear agreement  —  CBS Corp. has acquired a minority ownership stake in AXS TV in exchange for providing the ei ...
  • [UPDATED] Jayson Blair got $3,000 to speak at ...
    Jim Romenesko: [UPDATED] Jayson Blair got $3,000 to speak at an ethics forum in 2009  —  In the fall of 2009, Edward Wasserman invited disgraced journalist Jayson Blair to speak at Washington and Lee University's Journalism Ethics Institute.  The title of his talk was &ldqu ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/11/13 - Deaths in the Conflict, 1987-2012
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Deaths in the Conflict, 1987-2012 - View updated charts that show the number of deaths in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 1987-2012, broken down between the First and Second Intifadas and the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed by region.
  • 2/11/13 - Obama Expected to Discuss Israeli-Pa ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - Obama Expected to Discuss Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks in First Visit to Israel Since Elected
  • 2/8/13 - Do electronic voting machines improve ...
    votingmachines.procon.org  - Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process? - Find new pro arguments from voting machine manufacturers ES&S, Hart Intercivic, and Scytl; and new con arguments from David Dill of Verified Voting, Dr. Nathaniel Polish from Daedalus Technology Gro ...
  • 2/7/13 - Population Estimates of Undocumented ...
    immigration.procon.org  - Population Estimates of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States, 1969-2011 - View charts and graphs that show the steady rise in the undocumented immigrant population in the United States from an estimated 540,000 people (or 0.3% of the US population) in 196 ...
  • 2/5/13 - Should the United States return to a ...
    gold-standard.procon.org – Should the United States return to a gold standard? – Read pro and con quotes from Ron Paul (pro), Paul Krugman (con), Lewis E. Lehrman (pro), Ben Bernanke (con), Steve Forbes (pro), Ezra Klein (con), and other politicians, academics, businessmen, and journalists.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Cymrodyr Cymru: Carlton House Terrace hits Cardiff
    The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences. This national remit can sometimes be overlooked given how much of our activity takes place at Carlton House Terrace in London. This week I have been reminding myself that the rest of the UK exists by visiting Manchester and Cardif ...
  • Time to get smarter on justifying science spend?
    What are the prospects for UK science? We know that the research budget fared comparatively better than other areas of public spend in 2010 (up to 2014/15) but these are difficult times, and what might happen after 2014/15, and following the next election? In Barack Obama’s State of the Union ad ...
  • Never say no
    On Thursday 7 February 2013, the Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Professor Martyn Poliakoff, and I were privileged to watch the birth of a new tradition at the Tanzania Academy of Sciences. It was the first ever induction of new Fellows since the Academy was set up in 2005, and has quadr ...
  • What counts as good evidence for policy?
    What counts as good evidence for policy? It’s a question that’s fundamental to work in the Science Policy world and it was the focus of a debate, jointly organised by the Science and Technology Studies Department at UCL and the SPRU at the University of Sussex, earlier this week. The assembled p ...
  • User-friendly science for resilience
    In a month that saw a blanket of snow and a flurry of flood warnings in quick succession, last week’s Wilton Park workshop ‘Building global resilience to natural hazards’ could not have been more apt. Fortunately the UK weather held off long enough to allow a host of experts from around the glob ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Cod's Comeback
    The stately Gadus Morhua. Photo: Wikimedia Commons While things look bleak for cod populations in the United States, particularly on Georges Bank and in the Gulf of Maine where late last month regulators slashed quotas for these beleaguered stocks, cod off of Norway and Russia are providing a ...
  • Protecting Habitat in the Dry Tortugas a Boon ...
    Three hours west of Key West by boat is lonely Fort Jefferson, a Civil War-era fort marooned in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and encrusted in coral reefs. Here the color of the water ranges from cerulean to toothpaste-aquamarine as magnificent frigatebirds, masked boobies, and sooty tern ...
  • Diving into the Unknown
    On Friday Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to explore the waters off of the remote Desventuradas Islands more than 500 miles off the coast of Chile. Already the team is sending back fascinating footage. Below is an expedition journal entry from Enric Sala, National Geographi ...
  • Oceana Visits Dr. Oz
    Oceana campaign director Beth Lowell dropped by the set of Dr. Oz yesterday to talk seafood fraud with the doc in a segment about mislabeled foods. In December Oceana released its seafood fraud report for New York City which found that 39 percent of seafood tested in the area ...
  • Greater Protections for Great Whites
    West coast white sharks one step closer to protection Photo: David P. Stephens The unique population of great white sharks off California has been awarded ‘candidacy’ status under the California Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Game Commission unanimously voted to advance white sharks to ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Saddle Up, Leon, Hagel Vote Fails 58-40 (Blame ...
    INHOFE’S FILIBUSTER was hilarious in one regard, which was he actually felt compelled to go to the Senate floor to say it wasn’t a filibuster, even though 51, not 60, votes is a majority. It made Republicans look even more foolish, because Inhofe obviously was embarrassed himself. Se ...
  • The Sexist Conservative Democratic Fear of Ash ...
    They see her losing the Senate contest — an uphill climb for any Democrat — and potentially poisoning the conservative brand of some state Democrats. – Kentucky Democrats Fear Judd May Drag Down Ticket SO, LET me get this straight. Sexist Democrats who are also conservative are afraid that ...
  • News Desk: FreedomWorks Concoct Video of Clint ...
    MOTHER JONES reports this bizarre and extremely offensive narrative, which Tea Party honchos thought was a good idea. In one segment of the film, according to a former official who saw it, Brandon is seen waking from a nap at his desk. In what appears to be a dream or a nightmare, he wanders dow ...
  • News Desk: Paralympic Champion Oscar Pistorius ...
    ON THE day proclaimed #1billionrising, the Twitter hashtag being used for standing up against violence against girls and women, this story is emblematic of what Joyce and so many other women and men, including Robert Redford, have been emphasizing. Oscar Pistorious now a symbol of something beyo ...
  • Valentine’s Day at the Movies… and “Sexpectati ...
    Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, l ...

Hudson New York

  • Ban Remains on Muslim Prayer in Spanish Cathedral
    A court in southern Spain has acquitted eight Muslims who were accused of resorting to violence to break a ban on Muslim prayers in a cathedral in the city of Córdoba. The church was once the world's second-biggest mosque and remains the single most
  • Freedom of Expression? Not for Palestinians
    In another story the Western media apparently refuses to cover, any Palestinian who dares to criticize Hamas or the Palestinian Authority risks being arrested or summoned for interrogation. Palestinian journalists are now hoping to bring this to the
  • Iran to Buy North Korea's Nuclear Plans on the ...
    Before the North Koreans successfully launched a (non-functioning) satellite into orbit on December 12, 2012 there were reports, notably by space expert and NBC News consultant, James Oberg, that Iranian missile experts had been spotted in North Korea.
  • Did Brooklyn College's Political Science Depar ...
    The co-sponsorship by the Brooklyn College political science department of an anti-Israel hate fest, from which pro-Israel students were excluded, may have violated the First Amendment. Had the event been sponsored only by student and outside private
  • German Church Becomes Mosque
    Muslim plans to convert a former Lutheran church in the city of Hamburg into a mosque is generating controversy across Germany. From Berlin to Dortmund to Mönchengladbach, the gradual proliferation of mosques housed in former churches reflects the rise

Urban Survival

  • Urge to Merge Day
    What could possibly top this in terms of size of merging or co-joining, which there usually seems to be a lot of on Valentines Day as we look at the US Airways/ American Airliners merger?   The main thing which … Continue reading →
  • Coping: What About Love?
    Of all the days world leaders ignore, which local school boards studiously delete from curricula, and which seems lost in a world of texting and no time to lose, this is the one which I find most disappointing of all. … Continue reading →
  • Testing, Testing, Hello, Testing (1…2&#8 ...
    Reports this morning have it that North Korea has popped its third nuclear test so once again we have leaders of various countries, such as Japan, calling for meetings where further sanctions will be on the agenda.   Where this … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With my Critic in Ecuador
    Had an interesting email from him this week, the ex pat fellow who is living beyond the reach of US authorities (so he thinks) down in Ecuador.  this particular epistle is headlined “Friend who do sports….”   “…Do it with … Continue reading →
  • National Theatrics: The Stand Up’s S.O.U.
    Tomorrow night will feature the State Of the Union address by president Obama to congress.  Rand Paul will deliver the Tea Party reply.   There seem to be two tracks of it getting played large:  One is obviously the economy … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Glenn Beck goofs on Marco Rubio water gaffe
    Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican Senator, gave... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    On the Thursday, February 14 edition of the Alex... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • BREAKING: Christopher Dorner Is OFFICIALLY ... ...
    Charred Remains in Cabin Positively Identified as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • How to Store Food For Survival ~ Steve Shenk
    Why The Government Wants You Dependent: an Alex... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Is Obama The AntiChrist?
    "And I beheld Satan as BARAK O'BAMAH - Lightning... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

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NRDC Switchboard

  • "Public Participation" or Citizen Pacification ...
    Christopher Paine, Director, Nuclear Program, Washington, DC On January 31, 2013, I appeared before the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in Rockville, Md., to present NRDC’s views on the agency’s rules governing (and sharp ...
  • President Obama: Protect Bristol Bay, Stop th ...
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA NRDC staff attorney Taryn Kiekow and I were in Washington, D.C. this week for meetings at the White House, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, and congressio ...
  • CPUC Cuts Plans for New Power Plants in Half i ...
    Devra Wang, Director, California Energy Program, San Francisco The California Public Utilities Commission this week unanimously voted to look first to energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to meet electric needs in Southern California. ...
  • Protect Endangered Sharks: Celebrate Chinese N ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing Chinese New Year -- the longest, most important and festive holiday in China -- began on February 10th. It is a week-long holiday in mainland China that includes family reunions, dinner feasts, and f ...
  • President Calls for Doubling Energy Efficiency ...
    Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York President Obama in his State of the Union address reiterated the moral imperative to turn the tide on dangerous climate change. To do it, he presented a challenge to the nation to double energy eff ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • DC Moves to Reduce Wrongful Convictions
    From the Washington Post: Courts and police in the nation’s capital will change how they conduct lineups of suspects, when they notify defendants about informants and how long they retain criminal trial records, all in response to errors that have … Continue reading →DC Moves t ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, February 13, 2013: Honea Path, South Carolina: A police officer was charged with causing a two-vehicle accident. He was backing a truck across the highway when he was hit … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, February 12, 2013: Atlanta, Georgia: Ten current and former law enforcement officers across several metro Atlanta agencies have been charged in an undercover police corruption investigation. Federal agents made … Continue re ...
  • 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 … Continue reading →More on Police Lies is a post ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, February 09 to Monday, February 11, 2013: Auburn, Washington: A police officer is under investigation for allegedly groping a pregnant, handcuffed woman. Another police department is now conducting a … Continue reading &#859 ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW Daily Dose: Kickstarter goes mobile, Tesla ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, eBay expands in Ireland, Moo and Kickstarter take their business mobile and Tesla spat continues with journalist. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: AOL snags gdgt, Apple loses ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Apple lowers its prices and loses a trademark battle as AOL snags both the GDGT property and several of its former employees. You can catch The... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Tiny modems, original online c ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Broadcom reveals the world’s smallest LTE modem, Spotify expands across Europe and Netflix teams up with DreamWorks Animation to release original content for kids. You can... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook tests ‘ ...
    Facebook tests ‘Buy Tickets’ buttons for events, Kim Dotcom’s Mega pays out for vulnerabilities discovered in its code, and Google’s Solve for X program gets a website refresh. It’s all... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Twitter Search goes ba ...
    Apple may accelerate its dole-out of surplus cash to investors, Twitter Search results finally start to go back further than a week, and Spotify finally lands on Windows Phone 8.... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Don't waste solar energy on coal
    Matthew Wright Port Augusta is the ideal location in South Australia for a solar thermal power plant, due to its very good direct annual solar radiation and its proximity to a strong piece of grid infrastructure that services the old lignite burning power plants that are located there, owned ...
  • Greens push 100pct renewables plan for W.A.
    By Giles Parkinson The Greens Party has unveiled an ambitious new document that outlines possible pathways to turn Western Australia – one of the most energy-intensive states in the world – into one where its stationary energy needs are powered 100 per cent by renewable energy sources in les ...
  • Go LED and kill Hazelwood?
    By Trent Hawkins According to analysis conducted by Beyond Zero Emissions, lighting in homes is responsible for about seven per cent of household electricity use, and around 30 per cent of electricity for commercial and retail buildings. That's quite a large amount of energy use, but it could ...
  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...
  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Indigenous knowledge reveals widespread mammal ...
    Over the course of four years, a team of elite Australian researchers journeyed through the remote landscapes of Northern Australia to tap a vanishing resource: the wealth of knowledge carried by the indigenous inhabitants. Their study, published this year in Biological Conservation concludes th ...
  • Will Amazon species lose the climate change race?
    Deforestation could increase the risk of biodiversity loss in the Amazon by forcing species to migrate further in order to remain at equilibrium with changing climates, says new research. "As migration models are made more realistic through the inclusion of multiple climatic, biotic, abiotic and ...
  • World's biggest camera trapping program hits 1 ...
    The world's largest study of wildlife using remote camera traps has captured one million photographs. The project, known as the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network, takes photos of mammals and birds in 16 protected areas across 14 tropical countries in Asia, Africa, as well ...
  • Unique song reveals new owl species in Indonesia
    Want to find a new species of owl? Just listen. A unique whistling call have led scientists to discover a new owl on the Indonesian island of Lombok, according to a new study in PLoS ONE. Two scientific expeditions, occurring separately but within a few days of each other, both noticed something ...
  • Genetics study claims to prove existence of Bi ...
    A new study purporting to uncover DNA evidence for Bigfoot has been published today in DeNovo Scientific Journal. While Bigfoot-enthusiasts have long argued that the cryptic monster is an unidentified ape species, the new study says their genetic evidence shows the Sasquatch is in fact a hybrid ...

Sierra Express

  • Jesse Mahlon Lebby – Simplicity is the essenc ...
    Simplicity in music.  This is the watchword of Jesse Mahlon Lebby singer/songwriter, producer and founder of Jem Recordings. Mahlon grew up on a diet of Gospel music, the popular music of Motown and Lennon and McCartney that his parents used to play at home. ‘I learned how to make simple, ...
  • Sowei mask from Sierra Leone on display in London
    Sowei mask spirit of Sierra Leone, 14 February 2013 – 28 April 2013  British Museum – The British Museum is featuring a free exhibit of a Sowei mask collected in 1886 by Thomas Joshua Alldridge for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London, where it represented the exotic ‘otherness’ of ...
  • Energy generation and distribution for nationa ...
    A government that performs will always see her citizen asking for more. This is what is happening with the Koroma administration. In five years, following his election into office in 2007, President Ernest Koroma performed exemplary well, that there was the strong desire on the part of voters to ...
  • Agenda for Prosperity: A formula for rapid gr ...
    When Sierra Leone’s President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma assumed office in 2007, his administration strived to chart a bold new path for accelerating the advancement of Sierra Leone on all fronts after a decade-long civil conflict that almost left the country’s infrastructures in ruins.  (Phot ...
  • A Black Pope – Francis Cardinal Arinze?
    On Monday, as the western part of the world was waking up, the news that Pope Benedict XVI was resigning from the papacy, sent shock waves around the world, but it also started the most intense speculation as to who would succeed him.  It was the same type of speculation that took place in 2005 ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Herd investments lift LIC profit 7.3pc
    Livestock Improvement Corporation, which compensated some farmers for selling bull semen that caused 'hairy calf' mutations, increased first-half profit 7.3 per cent as dairy farmers raised their herd investment, even as farmgate...
  • Theo Spierings: Fund float boosts Fonterra footing
    When the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund made its debut on the NZX last December, the co-operative was finally able to put its capital structure on a firm footing.The fund was launched as part of Trading Among Farmers - a unique structure...
  • Dairy prices up 2.4pc in first GDT auction sin ...
    Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, the first since news emerged last month that small traces of a nitrate inhibitor had been found in some of the company's milk powder. The GDT-TWI Price...
  • Chinese dairy giant enters NZ market with $210 ...
    The establishment of a new player in New Zealand dairy product manufacturing took a step closer today when China's Yashili entered into a conditional agreement to buy industrial land for a proposed infant milk formula plant at Pokeno,...
  • Chinese dairy giant buys land for $210m factory
    China's Yashili New Zealand Dairy Co has entered into a conditional agreement to buy industrial land for a proposed infant milk formula plant at Pokeno, in the Waikato.The company is waiting on Overseas Investment Office (OIO) approval...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Unions Look to Stalk Their Way into Our Hearts ...
    Grover Norquist and Patrick Gleason of Americans for Tax Reform are using Valentine’s Day to remind us that unions are powerful enough to get themselves exemptions from laws that protect citizens from stalkers in several states. Via Reuters: Every state has made stalking a cri ...
  • Revealed: Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party!
    Did you know that Big Tobacco invented the Tea Party movement? So claims Brendan DeMelle in a recent Huffington Post piece headlined "Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers." Said study, published by the journal Tobacco Control, is ...
  • Nancy Pelosi Defends Drone Policy, Rand Paul W ...
    Nancy Pelosi rejected the idea that Democrats are less critical of Barack Obama’s drone polices than they would have been had George Bush had the same policy. Pelosi explained she wasn’t sure if the public should be informed when American citizens are targeted, saying “it just de ...
  • David Harsanyi on Obama’s Reactionary Jobs Plan
    Does it bother anyone else, writes David Harsanyi, that the president of the United States seems to believe that our collective future entails assembling battery parts in a government-subsidized factory for $9 an hour? Is that really what Americans envision for their kids -- an assem ...
  • Justin Amash, Libertarian-Leaning Congressman, ...
    National Review says that Michigan Republican sources tell them Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), the second-termer endorsed by Ron Paul who does a very good job holding down the hardcore libertarian fort in Congress, might try to decamp to the Senate next year: “People are asking h ...

Mercury Rising

  • Attacking Penny-Ante Cleantech Waste While Ign ...
    This article bashes a battery company that got stimulus money: A company that received $150 million in government stimulus funds to build a facility to manufacture battery cells for electric cars has yet to begin mass-market production and misused some of the funds in questionable labor costs, a ...
  • Murdochgate expands again
    Lisa O’Carroll and Josh Halliday, The Guardian: Six former News of the World journalists, two of whom now work for the Sun, have been arrested by Scotland Yard officers investigating a new line of inquiry in relation to phone hacking. In a dramatic new twist to the phone-hacking scandal on ...
  • The Post Office Isn’t Going Broke: It&#8 ...
    The following is a public service announcement courtesy of Credo: Dear Friend, The United States Postal Service has just announced that due to budget shortfalls, mail will no longer be delivered on Saturdays starting in August. It’s true the post office faces financial challenges. But the ...
  • Solar-Powered Rail: It’s A Reality In Fr ...
    Hat tip to a Solar Roadways Facebook page commenter for this story from June of 2011 about the world’s first solar-powered high-speed railway tunnel: The 3.6-kilometer (2.2-mile) tunnel, built to protect trains from falling trees as they pass through an ancient forest near Antwerp, is cove ...
  • Surprise! Wind Now Cheaper Than Coal In Austra ...
    Here’s something you probably won’t see on FOX News any time soon, even though it’s from Rupert Murdoch’s homeland: Something interesting is happening in Australia. A new study by the research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance has found that unsubsidized renewable energy ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Psi in the News
    Sign up has started for the 56th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, the inventor of Xerox got some inspiration from a seance experience, a new horror movie based on the Ganzfeld experiments hits post-production, and baby chicks get involved with psi experiments at the Instit ...
  • Post-Mayan Prophesy: 2013 & The New Planetary ...
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  • Methoxetamine
    My friend and I hadn't slept much the night before, and we were pushing the boundaries of good sense when we decided to drive into town from our campsite and ingest what we thought was a modest amount of the unknown white powdered substance, methoxetamine. read more
  • Voicing the Unvoiceable: Why Energy Healing Is ...
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  • Become a Human Vibrator
    This month, Evolver is exploring love, sensuality and relationships. We are joined by tantric experts Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson, who are offering the Reality Sandwich/Evolver community both in-person and Skype sessions.  In-person sessions take place in New York City. To learn mo ...

Desertification

  • Sahel Region Learning to Reap the Benefits of ...
    In Africa’s Sahel region, agroforestry techniques using traditional plantings known as “fertiliser trees” to increase soil fertility, as well as harvesting and grazing regulations, are offering new solutions to both food and human security. Such approaches were nearly lost in r ...
  • Thawing Permafrost May Be “Huge Factor&# ...
    Thawing permafrost is emitting more climate-heating carbon faster than previously realised. Scientists have now learned that when the ancient carbon locked in the ice thaws and is exposed to sunlight, it turns into carbon dioxide 40 percent faster. “This really changes the trajectory of th ...
  • New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civi ...
    The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new oil. Land is the ...
  • World Bank Unmoved on Auditor’s Criticism of F ...
    Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution’s decade-long forest policy, expressing their “strong disagreement” with some assertions in the report. The assessment, written by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the ...
  • OP-ED: Weird, and Getting Weirder
    Weird is the only way to describe January temperatures whipsawing between record warm and arctic cold over a span of a few days. Experts say that is what climate change looks like: weird, record-shattering weather. Here’s a fact that goes beyond weird to astonishing. Anyone who is 27 years ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Musical Performer / Pop Celebrity Beyoncé Know ...
  • "You Fucking Moron"
    Knock knock. "Who's there?" A conservative woman to tell you that God hates feminists. "Get the fuck out of here you fucking moron!" by "Radical Comedian" As originally posted on: Radical Comedian (RadicalComedian) on Twitter December 24, 2012
  • "Capitalism, and Especially Its Finance Divisi ...
    Gilds by "IOZ" As originally posted on: Who is IOZ? May 3, 2012 Many people believe that in our system of state capital, the capital comes first. Well, only if you mean The Capital. Capitalism, and especially its finance division, is just rent-seeking; actually, the state owns everything ...
  • "A Piece of Shit Singer who Spends Her Days on ...
    What do you call a piece of shit singer who spends her days on YouTube looking for people's ideas to 'borrow'? "Beyonce." by "Radical Comedian" As originally posted on: Radical Comedian (RadicalComedian) on Twitter January 1, 2013
  • "Duly Elected or Appointed Officials" and the ...
    Diagram of Necessary and Proper Clause by Jon Roland As originally posted on: Constitution July 9, 2012 One of the most controversial clauses of the Constitution is Art. I Sec. 8 Cl. 18, which reads: [The] Congress shall have Power [...] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and prope ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Israel forces wound 2 Palestinians
    Israeli forces have shot and wounded two Palestinians near Gaza’s border with the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
  • 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.
  • S Arabia, ally to West and terror exporter
    Saudi Arabia is viewed as a land of contradictions by many outsiders, as the country continues its widespread support for extremism and terrorist groups while being propped up by the West.
  • Saudi activist calls for child abuse law
    A Saudi Arabian human rights activist has called for the approval of new laws in the country on child abuse and domestic violence after a five-year-old Saudi girl was beaten to death by her father.
  • Regional awakenings reach Saudi shores
    New calls for nationwide protests in Saudi Arabia indicate the wave of revolutions in the Arab world has not left the kingdom unaffected.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • thepoliticalnotebook:10,000 anti-fascist dem ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: 10,000 anti-fascist demonstrators in Dresden yesterday, the beginning of the 68th anniversary of the Allied firebombing of the city in 1945, formed a human chain to block neo-Nazi protesters from marching. Neo-Nazi protesters have, in the past, used Dresden’s anniversary ...
  • As South vietnamese troops pass by in the Ca M ...
    As South vietnamese troops pass by in the Ca Mau peninsula, a mother grieves over her daughter, who was badly wounded by machine gun fire from a U.S. helicopter, the week of Sept. 15, 1963. The soldiers had landed by helicopter in response to an attack by Viet Cong guerrillas on a South Vietnam ...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:Today is the anniversar ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Dresden during WWII. (Actually, today, tomorrow, and the next day are.) The attack took between 25,000 and 100,000 lives, but specific figures remain unknown. During the air attack, 2600 tons of high explosive and incendiary ...
  • The body of an Iraqi farmer who was killed in ...
    The body of an Iraqi farmer who was killed in his truck after failing to stop at a checkpoint is seen near Kerbala, Iraq, March/April 2003. Christopher Morris/VII
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    tamturse: #Hoboken waterfront #NYC #EmpireState
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