Monday, February 18, 2013

18 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Basilica of the Immaculate Conception - Our La...
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception - Our Lady of Lebanon Chapel (Photo credit: Serge Melki)
St. Peter's Basilica at Early Morning
St. Peter's Basilica at Early Morning (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/links/

Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Lybian Militia Returns to Benghazi
    An Islamist militia linked to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and kicked out of the city by locals is back openly manning checkpoints and building up support promising much-needed security. Heavily bearded youths from Ansar al-Sharia control the western entrance into Libya's seco ...
  • Privatisation of education in California budget
    Under the cloak of a small increase in school funding, the budget pushes for the dramatic expansion of charter schools. At the same time, it funnels money extracted from the populace into the pockets of Wall Street, in the form of debt payments. The new budget restores little, if any, of the bi ...
  • Pope Benedict Praised By Vatican Exorcist
    Father Gabriel Amorth, 86, who has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms in a career spanning 25 years after being appointed by the late Pope John Paul II, said: "Pope Benedict has done many things for exorcists. "He has allowed them within the catechism of the Catholic Church, consenting th ...
  • Double Standards for Prisoners Vanished In Israel
    This is not the first time Israel has hidden information related to the whereabouts and conditions of prisoners. Consider, for example, reports of the three Iranian diplomats kidnapped by the Lebanese Forces during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, who were reportedly moved to prisons in ...
  • Time to let bankers sample forced labour?
    In the London borough of Camden, 2816 men, women and children – 761 households in all – are about to be kicked out of their homes if they cannot find an extra £90 a week for rent. No-one says they are bad tenants. These families are simply among the victims of the Coalition's benefits cap. ...

Independent - London

  • Terror splinter group claims Nigeria kidnap
    A shadowy Islamic extremist group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of seven foreign building workers in northern Nigeria. Related Stories'Reeva was the mom figure... Pistorius must rot in jail,' says reality TV co-star'Reeva Steenkamp was the mom figure... Oscar Pistorius must rot i ...
  • Family of British grandmother stabbed to death ...
    The family of a British grandmother stabbed to death and beheaded in a frenzied Tenerife knife attack, today came face to face with her killer in court.Related StoriesRussia set for posthumous Magnitsky trialAngela Merkel wades into Amazon neo-Nazi rowTenerife British pensioner beheading: Man t ...
  • Oscar Pistorius 'was involved in freak gun acc ...
    The disabled Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend in a Valentine's Day shooting, was involved in a freak gun accident just weeks before Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead, it emerged today.Related Stories'Reeva was the mom figure... Pistorius ...
  • Russian meteor strike that injured 1,200 peopl ...
    A meteor that rained down on central Russia last week, injuring up to 1,200 people, was in fact a US weapons test a prominent Russian politician has claimed.Related StoriesRussia set for posthumous Magnitsky trialAngela Merkel wades into Amazon neo-Nazi rowTenerife British pensioner beheading: ...
  • Ailing Hugo Chavez back in Venezuela from Cuba ...
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home to Venezuela early today after more than two months of medical treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery.Related StoriesMichael Jackson's hat, a Rolex and MLK souvenirs: Jesse Jackson Jr’s campaign-fund spreePine Bluff: on patrol in the most dange ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Saturated fat is not the culprit in heart disease
    Can we jettison misguided and dangerous recommendations on fat and heart disease - please? Australian research makes a splash It's not often that the mainstream media notices an academic meta-analysis, or study of studies - particularly if it goes against the tide of prevailing dietary advice. ...
  • Iran dismisses world powers' offer to ease san ...
    Iranian Foreign Ministry rejects offer of eased sanctions in exchange for closure of underground nuclear bunker: "They want to take away the rights of a nation in exchange for allowing trade in gold." Dubai - Iran criticized on Monday a reported plan by major powers to demand the closure of a ...
  • Diamond sheds light on basic building blocks o ...
    The UK's national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, is now the first and only place in Europe where pathogens requiring Containment Level 3 - including serious viruses such as those responsible for AIDS, Hepatitis and some types of flu - can be analysed at atomic and molecular leve ...
  • Strong winds, snow pounds Atlantic Canada as t ...
    Halifax - Thousands of people on the East Coast lost power and school was cancelled in Nova Scotia and parts of New Brunswick after blasts of winter wind and wet snow swept through the region. Nova Scotia Power reported about 12,000 outages by 8 a.m. local time. In New Brunswick, NB Power iss ...
  • 'Activating' RNA takes DNA on a loop through t ...
    Long segments of RNA - encoded in our DNA but not translated into protein - are key to physically manipulating DNA in order to activate certain genes, say researchers at The Wistar Institute. These non-coding RNA-activators (ncRNA-a) have a crucial role in turning genes on and off during early ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • 1939 Django Reinhardt Stephane Grappelli Jazz ...
    HASH(0x47289e8)
  • Fox News hetero fail
    One would think that a prerequisite for pontificating on same-sex marriage would be the ability to distinguish between same-sex and opposite-sex unions. The apparently uber-straight titans of heterosexuality at Fox News?   Epic fail.
  • Sublime . . .
    VENEZUELA DONATES free heating oil to 100,000 needy US households. According to Brett Wilkins post in the DIGITAL JOURNAL. For the eighth straight year, Venezuela's state oil company is donating free heating oil to hundreds of thousands of needy Americans.
  • Citizenshipishness
    In an effort to promote a more robust Canadian identity, the Conservatives have produced an incentive and merit based three-tiered Canadian citizenship. First Class The top class of Canadian citizen applies to biological male persons who: - Second generation or greater Canadians who are 1) ...
  • #Brazman doneth
    Wow. Didn't see that coming. Senator Patrick Brazeau has been removed from the Conservative Party's caucus, while sources tell CBC News that he is in a police jail in Gatineau, Que., following an alleged domestic dispute. If he's in jail for a domestic dispute, I hope she or he isn't ...

Media Matters for America

  • The Minimum Wage: Myths & Facts
    Conservative media voices have insisted that an increase of the federal minimum hourly wage from $7.25 to $9 would harm the economy. However, a wealth of economic evidence disputes the claims that minimum wage hikes are job killers, that the minimum wage is already high, and that it only applies ...
  • 5 Myths About Keystone XL, Debunked
    As the State Department nears a decision on whether or not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, the media is exaggerating its economic benefits and downplaying environmental risks to advocate for the project. Here, Media Matters takes on five of the prevailing media myths about Keystone XL. Wou ...
  • Fox Dubiously Claims Minimum Wage Increase Har ...
    Fox News misleadingly claimed that an increase in the minimum wage would harm small businesses. In fact, data show that small businesses in states with a higher minimum wage experience better economic performance and job growth.Fox Claims Increasing The Minimum Wage Could Harm Small Businesses ...
  • Pedophilia Myth Tainted Cable News Coverage Of ...
    As the Boy Scouts of America considered lifting its ban on openly gay members, cable news network coverage of the story gave undue attention to the right-wing smear that exposing young boys to gay scout leaders would put them at higher risk of sexual abuse and/or assault.Boy Scouts Considering R ...
  • Fox News Echoes RNC In Hiding Obama's Focus An ...
    Fox News is parroting a Republican research document that falsely claims President Obama is "pivoting" to jobs ahead of his State of the Union speech. But job creation has been a priority during the entire administration, as Obama has crafted and pushed policies that have created millions of pri ...

Global Research.ca

  • ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias para el conjunto ...
    El pasado 29 de diciembre, el Estado de Israel no se presentó a su segundo Examen (1) Periódico Universal en la decimoquinta (2) Sesión del Consejo de los Derechos Humanos (3). ¿Temía las recomendaciones del informe de Amnistía Internacional? (4).…
  • Guerra y oportunidades en Mali
    Se prevé que la empresa británica de seguridad G4S obtenga unos generosos beneficios gracias a las crisis en Mali, Libia y Argelia. Reconocida como una de las mayores empresas de seguridad del mundo, la marca del grupo se desvalorizó durante…
  • La gira mundial de la opositora cubana Yoani S ...
    Tras cinco años de espera, Yoani Sánchez consiguió por fin el permiso para viajar al exterior. Después de la reforma migratoria vigente desde el 14 de enero de 2013, que permite a todos los cubanos abandonar el país sin otra…
  • A turnê mundial da opositora cubana Yoani Sánchez
    Depois de cinco anos de espera, Yoani Sánchez conseguiu, por fim, a autorização para viajar ao exterior. Depois da reforma migratória vigente desde 14 de janeiro de 2013, que permite a todos os cubanos deixar o país sem outra formalidade…
  • Libya: The Second Anniversary of a Bloody Coup
    This weekend, marking the second anniversary of the start of protests that would usher in a bloody and prolonged NATO-led coup to overthrow the Libyan Jamahiriya and Muammar Gaddafi, offers many reasons to celebrate for those whose intention was the…

TPM Cafe

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

  • How CNN’s Wall-to-Wall ‘Poop Ship’ Coverage Fa ...
     CNN and other news networks missed an ideal opportunity this week to highlight the actual public health risk that poor sanitation conditions pose to millions of people around the world.The insane amount of time CNN spent over the last several days capturing footage and breathlessly reporti ...
  • Anti-Fracking Activists Applaud as NY Further ...
     This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.There is a collective sigh of relief from anti-fracking activists across New York today after news that the decision on whether to lift the state's moratorium on fracking had been further delayed. The news was r ...
  • 5 Power Brokers Who'll Determine the Fate of t ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.On Thursday, visitors to the PipeTech Americas Summit got a speech they weren’t planning on hearing. As employees from pipeline construction companies gathered to discuss new technology and listen to Tom Hamilt ...
  • Hate Eating Corporate Food? Democracy Is the B ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water ...
    Las Vegas exudes an all-you-can-eat mentality. People walk between casinos carrying giant cups of slushy liquor; advertisements blare from speakers on the streets pitching the best shows, best food and best deals; escalators take you across streets and directly into malls. You spend your time ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • $10 million to Cut the Tape!
    The reason that the U.S. is lagging behind in solar energy isn’t because of the cost solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. Solar PV is becoming increasingly more affordable as technologies advance to increase efficiency and manufacturing costs continue to decline. However, the cost associated with get ...
  • Tonight – 6 p.m. – Defend Citizen Control of A ...
    While the proposed resolution to give Austin Energy governance responsibilities to an appointed board has been taken off the “consent agenda”, it’s still alive and kicking. City Council will take up the issue at 6 p.m. this evening (Thurs, 2/14) and I hope you can take a bit of ...
  • New Public Citizen Study Finds Electricity Sho ...
    Costs Would Increase; Existing Power Plants Would Get Windfall The state’s electricity shortfall won’t be solved by paying utilities based on how much power they can generate, rather than how much they actually generate, a new Public Citizen report finds. The report comes as debate rages among r ...
  • Austin for Climate Change Action
    Couldn’t make it to the rally in Washington D.C. to protest the Keystone XL pipeline? It’s okay, neither could we! So instead we’re going to have a rally of our own to show our support and to raise climate change awareness here in Austin. Please join us at 5th and Lamar (in fro ...
  • Bills Filed Seek to Expand Texas’ Clean Energy ...
    Two bills have now been filed in the Texas House that would expand the state’s goals for renewable energy.  Representative Rafael Anchia‘s bill, HB 723, would establish goals for growing renewable energy installations other than large-scale wind through 2022.  Similarly, Representati ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Anti-asteroid space laser proposed
    In the wake of recent events there have been renewed calls for defensive measures against asteroids. The devastation wrought over Russia by a meteor j...
  • Does telepathy exist between couples ?
    Can those of us who choose to spend our lives together feel a telepathic connection with one another ? Some say that members of the same family, espec...
  • World's reptiles facing extinction
    As many as 19% of the reptile species alive today are on the brink of going extinct, say scientists. The Zoological Society of London conducted the st...
  • Asteroid 2012 DA14 flies past the Earth
    The 50m asteroid passed closer to the Earth than any other large asteroid in recorded history. The record-breaking close approach saw the rock pass wi...
  • Scientists develop new malaria drug
    A new type of drug could save millions of lives by targetting the parasite's ability to expel salt. The new treatment is a culmination of research by ...

Grassroots

Climate

  • The Top 10 Hardest-Hit States for Crop Damage
    (Climate Central) The searing U.S. drought of 2012 devastated the nation’s corn crop, pushing yields down in some states to their lowest levels in nearly 30 years. According to recently-released numbers from the U.S. Department of Agri ...
  • Wyden Floats Plan to Boost Geothermal Energy
    (The Hill) Pieces of new Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden’s (D-Ore.) legislative agenda are beginning to take shape. On Thursday, Wyden introduced a measure aimed at boosting development of geothermal e ...
  • Electricity Costs Rise in New England, Which R ...
    (New York Times) Electricity prices in New England have been four to eight times higher than normal in the last few weeks, as the region’s extreme reliance on natural gas for power supplies has collided with a surge in demand for heati ...
  • Natural Gas Pipeline Draws Last-Minute Protests
    (NYT Green) In a last-ditch effort to block construction of a controversial natural gas pipeline in northeastern Pennsylvania, campaigners urged an interstate regulator on Friday to review the project’s environmental impact. The 44-mi ...
  • Senate Dems' Sequester-Replacement Plan Ends T ...
    (The Hill) A Senate Democratic plan to replace a series of automatic spending cuts would require tar sands producers to start paying into a fund for oil spill relief. The Democratic package would end an exemption for the tar sands ind ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Everything That's Wrong With This Country
    I wish I could make a quick hundred grand by being an idiot. When Marco Rubio paused to take a sip from a water bottle during his response to the State of the Union this week, it become an instant viral sensation. The Florida Senator has now capitalized on the moment to raise more than $100 ...
  • Red State Hypocrisy
    It's ironic that Red State is simultaneously running articles that mock the Chicago chief of police's interpretation of the Second Amendment and the governor of New York's interpretation of what the Supreme Court permits in abortion law. It's true that in 2010 the Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 ...
  • And the March Goes On...
    The gun violence in Chicago continues to strike a little close to home for the Obama family. First, a young women named Hadiya Pendleton, who had just performed in the inaugural parade, was killed by stray gunfire in a Chicago park. That prompted Michelle to attend her funeral and invite the p ...
  • A Caning Will Do
    Silly Steve M., we don't need no stinking reprimands. We have precedent for this. If we want to make Sen. Ted Cruz behave himself, we just need to send Sander Levin over to the upper chamber to do a little Preston Brooks number on him. You know, learn him some respect, as they say down there. ...
  • Original Sin
    When the Republican Party was in its formative stage, it had a little problem. It took most of its members from the disintegrating Whig Party, and most of the rest from northern anti-slavery Democrats. But it needed a bigger piece of the pie if it wanted to have a shot at winning the presidenc ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Purported Christopher Dorner police & SWAT com ...
    I would be interested to hear the audio from this, going to cross post it for reference in case anything happens to the pastebin. A lot of weird stuff in this case, I'm not going to make assumptions but I think this may be relevant. Also good work on the following recording with lots of "burn it ...
  • Source: DOJ Feds currently at the Wells Fargo ...
    A tip passed along from a source stated that today the US Department of Justice arrived at the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage office in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, as "auditors" presumably to search through or perhaps seize mortgage records - the old Honeywell complex around 4th Avenue ...
  • Minnesota Anonymous to protest "Church of Scie ...
    A heads-up for lulzcats in the Minnesnowta region: Minnesota Anonymous people have filed a permit to protest at the Church of Scientology "Ideal Org" at Wabasha & Exchange Streets, (the old Science Museum of MN building) starting at 10:30AM roughly, marking five years of Chanology, the large ...
  • The New 21st Century COINTELPRO Mobius Strip: ...
    A quick update on a number of different fronts developing around 21st century Cointelpro operations. This material includes the important bureaucratic fault line of authorizing "otherwise" illegal government operations, an important topic of research... Granted, Season 3 of the X-Files is playin ...
  • End of the Tar Sands? Under media near-blackou ...
    VIA: Protect the Sacred  Timeline Photos: Here is a picture of Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred. This is the first time a woman has signed such a treaty and she did so on behalf of the Brave Heart Society. Let the healing continue in the name o ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • The gun control test
    There are a few reasons why the politics of gun violence have changed dramatically in the last few months – and why, even with Republicans controlling the House, there is a real chance that meaningful gun control legislation will pass in the coming months. The obvious one is Sandy Hook, w ...
  • Right-wing journal quietly dies
    When the conservative magazine Policy Review recently announced that it was ceasing publication after a 36-year run, few outside the Hoover Institution journal seemed to notice its demise. “The Hoover Institution wants to focus more on the work of its own fellows and scholars,&#8 ...
  • Dear John McCain: Ted Cruz isn’t what’s wrong ...
    The Senate runs, as the wise old men who make up the majority of that institution would tell you, on comity. Recently, Sen. Ted Cruz, who has been in the Senate for about 10 minutes, has been accused of disrespecting the Senate's tradition of comity. He has been accused of "engaging in innuendo" ...
  • Chavez returns to Venezuela after cancer surgery
    [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_small","fid":"426027","attributes":{"alt":"Venezuelas' VTV shows President Hugo Chavez, surrounded by his daughters in hospital in Havana on February 15, 2013","title":"Venezuelas' VTV shows President Hugo Chavez, surrounded by his daughters in hospital in Ha ...
  • Country star Mindy McCready dead in apparent s ...
    [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_small","fid":"425982","attributes":{"alt":"Singer Mindy McCready performing on June 21, 2006 in New York","title":"Singer Mindy McCready performing on June 21, 2006 in New York","class":"media-image media-image-left","style":"float: left;","typeof":"foaf:Imag ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • February 15, 2003. The Day the World Said No t ...
    Our movement changed history. While we did not prevent the Iraq war, the protests proved its clear illegality, demonstrated the isolation of the Bush administration policies, helped prevent war in Iran, and inspired a generation of activists.
  • The Bulgarian Turn
    Not even the intelligentsia in Bulgaria are immune to the siren song of the new nationalism to which more and more Europeans are susceptible.
  • 4 Things Obama Can Do Now to Fight Climate Cha ...
    President Obama took a bold tone on climate in his State of the Union address. Here are four things he can do right now, without Congress, to address climate.
  • This Week in OtherWords: February 13, 2013
    John Cavanagh explains why President Obama's State of the Union address falls short.
  • No Game-Changer
    Obama's State of the Union address nudged the debate in the right direction, but not far enough.

IntelNews

  • Did Aussies ‘burn’ Israel’s Prison ...
    As intriguing questions continue to mount about the case of Israel’s so-called ‘Prisoner X’, two important analyses appeared over the weekend, which could potentially place the incarceration and subsequent death of Ben Zygier under new light. One claims that the Australian-born Israeli was a low ...
  • Interview: Israel’s ‘Prisoner X&#8 ...
    This morning I spoke to SBS Radio Australia’s Greg Dyett about the mysterious case of Ben Zygier, an Australian-born naturalized citizen of Israel, who is said to have killed himself in 2010 while being held at a maximum-security prison near Tel Aviv. As intelNews reported on Wednesday, Zygier, ...
  • Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ supplied Australian pass ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Concerns about the routine use of Australian passports by Israeli spies led to the exposure of Israel’s mystery ‘Prisoner X’, who killed himself in 2010 while in prison, it has been claimed. On Tuesday, ABC Australia reporter Trevor Bromann identi ...
  • Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ identified as Australian ...
    In late 2010, an unnamed man known in Israel as ‘Prisoner X’ allegedly hanged himself while being held at a maximum-security prison near Tel Aviv. On Tuesday, an investigative Australian television program identified the dead man as an Australian citizen who had allegedly been recruited by the M ...
  • News you may have missed #823
    Canada spy chief won't rule out more double spies. Former CIA operative's trial postponed again. Obama officials say Iran building militias inside Syria.

War is a Crime.org

  • Upcoming Iranian Nuclear Talks
      Upcoming Iranian Nuclear Talks   by Stephen Lendman   Multiple previous P5+1 talks were held. America manipulated them to fail. So did Israel covertly. Western nations were pressured to go along.   On February 26, new talks will be held in Almaty, Kazahhstan. Expect no more ...
  • Lieberman's Trial Begins
      Lieberman's Trial Begins   by Stephen Lendman   He's an ultranationalist extremist. He represents the worst of Israel's lunatic right-wing fringe. He matches Netanyahu's zealotry.  He out-Sharon's Sharon.    He's a latter day Kahanist. In 1988, Israel outlawed his ...
  • Citizens Tell Obama to Stop Pipeline and Get S ...
    By Michael Collins (Washington, DC 1/17)  The nation's capital hosted over 40,000 citizens assembled to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.  The crowd urged President Obama to bring to reality his lofty words on climate change in the inaugural address just days ago.& ...
  • Pseudo-Protests and Serious Climate Crisis
    "You elected this president. You reelected this president. . . . Stop being chumps!" --Van Jones Going in, I was of mixed views regarding Sunday's rally in Washington, D.C., to save the earth's climate from the tar sands pipeline.  I still am. Why on a Sunday when there's no government arou ...
  • Syria News - Feb 18
      At least two Hezbollah fighters, five Syrian rebels killed on border - Reuters VIDEO: Hezbollah launch major assault on FSA in Syria - LiveLeak.com Syria: Rebels say kill 12 Hezbollah operatives in Homs - Ynetnews Rebels: 1,000 Hezbollah fighters invaded Syria - ynetnews VIDEO: Hezbo ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • New York City Joins One Billion Rising To Stop ...
    New Yorkers joined the global movement of "One Billion Rising" to gather and dance on Valentine’s Day in order to call attention to violence against women. "If a man knows a woman who is a victim or survivor then he knows what that is like because it will effect her for the ...
  • Historic Tar-Sands Action at Obama’s Door
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan For the first time in its 120-year history, the Sierra Club engaged in civil disobedience, the day after President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address. The group joined scores of others protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which ...
  • BOOK EXCERPT: "Eslanda: The Large and Unconven ...
    Tune in Tuesday for a Black History Month special interview about the extraordinary life of Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, known by her friends as "Essie." She was an author, an anthropologist and and a globally connected activist who worked to end colonialism in Africa and racism in ...
  • Brennan and Kiriakou, Drones and Torture
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan John Brennan and John Kiriakou worked together years ago, but their careers have dramatically diverged. Brennan is now on track to head the CIA , while Kiriakou is headed off to prison. Each of their fates is tied to the so-called war on terror, which und ...
  • Part 2: Daniel Ellsberg and Jacob Appelbaum on ...
    As a lawsuit challenging a law that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens is back in federal court this week, we continue our conversation with perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, and computer security researcher, Jacob Appelbaum ...

Solari

  • The Inventioneers & SMARTwheel
    The Inventioneers are a group of young entrepreneurs inventing tomorrow’s solutions today! Their “why not’ philosophy has led to four provisional patents and one utility patent (pending). Their most recent invention, the SMARTwheel, has been featured on ABC’s Shark Tank and tested at the White H ...
  • Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout
    By Gretchen Morgenson MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the back door. The existence of one such secret deal, struck in July between the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
  • Dr. Benjamin Carson’s Amazing Speech at ...
    Related Reading: Ben Carson on Wikipedia
  • Pope Will Have Security, Immunity by Remaining ...
    By Philip Pullella Pope Benedict’s decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts sa ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “A speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow. But a good heart, Kate, is [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Antwerp’s Towering MAS Museum Boasts Astonishi ...
    Read the rest of Antwerp’s Towering MAS Museum Boasts Astonishing City Views From its Corrugated Glass Windows Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aluminum hand, aluminum medallion, Antwerp, Architecture, belgium, currugated glass, Daylighting, hands, MAS Museum, natural l ...
  • 10 Faux Snakeskin Fashions to Ring in the Luna ...
    Last week, people across the world celebrated the year of the snake, and what better way to ring in the Chinese New Year than to don some cruelty-free, faux snakeskin fashions? There are plenty of reasons to opt for fake snakeskin instead of the real thing, and your options aren’t limited ...
  • FDA Approves World’s First Bionic Eye: The Sec ...
    The FDA just gave official approval to the world’s first bionic eye! Developed by Second Sight Medical Products, the Argus II is a bionic eye that bypasses damaged rods and cones in the retina. A miniature camera housed in a pair of glasses captures a scene, and the video is processed and ...
  • Rev Up Your Juicer with These 6 Delicious Juic ...
    Juicing is a great way to get lots of healthy fruits and veggies into your body fast. Although juices shouldn’t serve as a substitute for regular meals consisting of whole foods, they can provide a good, quick fix for busy mornings or for occasionally adding in certain ingredients that you ...
  • Russian Artist Transforms a Recycled PC into a ...
    An anonymous Russian artist recently transformed the shell of an old computer into a brilliant miniature replica of a living room – complete with an oriental rug, a lamp, and a comfy couch! Other accents include a minute copy of the New York Times and a little toy gumball machine set again ...

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killin ...
    Government Accountability Office, “Cybersecurity: National Strategy, Roles, and Responsibilities Need to Be Better Defined and More Effectively Implemented,” February 14, 2013. Amanda Terkel and Ryan Grim, “Nancy Pelosi Ambivalent on Drones Program,” Huffington Post, February 14, 2013. House Min ...
  • Is China Choking on Success?
    A popular app on smartphones in Beijing is the US Embassy’s Air Quality Index measurement. No wonder: Until last year, even as the air in China’s capitol has increasingly come to resemble that of an airport smoking area, its ruling elite have refused to make public its air-quality levels or even ...
  • Drone Strikes and R2P
    Rosa Brooks has a fascinating argument in Foreign Policy which ties human rights campaigners’ effective erosion of Westphalian sovereignty over the past 20 years with President Obama’s expanded drone campaign. She suggests that the Responsibility to Protect’s re-casting of state sovereignty h ...
  • Obama Discusses Targeted Killing of U.S. Citiz ...
    Last March, in a House hearing, Representative  Tom Graves asked  FBI director Robert Mueller: “does the federal government have the ability to kill a U.S. citizen on United States soil, or just overseas?” Mueller responded: “I am going to defer that to others in the Department of Justice. ...
  • Top of the Morning: Emergency Yellow Fever Cam ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Chad is Launching Emergency Yellow Fever Campaign Yellow fever is a deadly mosquito borne disease that is easily spread. An outbreak would be very, very dangerous. “The Ministry of Health of Chad is launching an emergency mass-vaccination campaign against yellow fe ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: You Cruise, You Lose
    In 2013, the wonders of our technological prowess never cease to amaze. We can launch remote-controlled planes to smite our enemies thousands of miles away. In your pocket right now, you probably have a tiny computer with more processing power than a Cray supercomputer had a few decades ago. Li ...
  • How a Few Wealthy Individuals Shape the Climat ...
    We’ve highlighted how the U.S. media leads the world in the amount of time given to climate deniers, even though nearly 80 percent of Americans believe in climate change. Now The Guardian reports that conservative billionaires funneled nearly $120 million to more than 100 groups to promote clim ...
  • On "Emboldening" Republicans
    I want to expand on something I brought up yesterday on the utility, for the opposition party, of doing nothing more with your efforts than becoming the biggest pain in the president's ass you possibly can. As of now, Republicans have mounted an unprecedented filibuster against Chuck Hagel's no ...
  • Now Hiring: A Few Good Judges
    Flickr/Cliff Chief Judge David Sentelle’s recent opinion in Noel Canning v. NLRB holding President Barack Obama’s recess appointments unconstitutional is a trenchant reminder that the D.C. Circuit is, as is often said, the nation’s “second most important court after the Supreme Court.” ...
  • Three's a Crowd
    Flickr/Gage Skidmore Here we go again: the false hope, or in some cases fear, of a massive crack-up of the two major parties, with third- and fourth- and maybe more-party candidates running viable races for the presidency. It’s not going to happen. This time, it’s Ron Fournier who repo ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Muslim-Bashing Former FBI Agent John Guandolo ...
    John Guandolo, the former FBI agent who has made a living calling out high-ranking government officials as secret plants working for the Muslim Brotherhood, may have finally crossed the Rubicon into total outrageousness. Oh sure, he’s already gone after college professors who weren’t sufficientl ...
  • Amish Leader Gets 15 Years for Beard Cutting H ...
    The leader of a breakaway Amish sect in Ohio was sentenced to 15 year in prison today for orchestrating the cutting of hair and beards of Amish men and women, a form of religious degradation viewed as punishment, the New York Times reported. Samuel Mullet Sr. was sentenced in U.S. District Court ...
  • Serial Threat-Maker and Neo-Nazi Bill White is ...
    Bill White, the wildly obnoxious neo-Nazi who has made a profession of lobbing criminal threats at his enemies, has apparently been at it again. On Thursday, according to today’s edition of the Roanoke (Va.) Times, White was indicted for threatening to have his ex-wife beaten and “hospitalized” ...
  • Oath Keepers ‘Patriot’ Group Plans 50 Anti-Gun ...
    In the wake of White House moves to implement some gun control by using executive orders, the antigovernment “Patriot” right has exploded with fury, claiming that virtually any regulation amounts to an infringement of the Constitution or even a prelude to a national “gun grab” by federal forces ...
  • Klan Leader Who Plotted to Murder NC Sheriff G ...
    A Ku Klux Klan leader in North Carolina, who once boasted about building a 50-pound bomb to kill a local sheriff, will spend 15 years in federal prison after a 12-year pursuit by prosecutors. Charles Robert “Junior” Barefoot Jr., 50, of Benson, N.C., was sentenced Wednesday in Raleigh by U.S. Di ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • REVEALED: Donors Trust is the Secret ATM Machi ...
    A new Greenpeace analysis released today shows that Donors Trust, a shadowy funding vehicle, has laundered $146 million in climate denial funding from 2002 to 2011. Yesterday’s article in the Guardian referenced part of the Greenpeace analysis.read more
  • Congressional Hearing Ignores Poor Record of S ...
    The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy is holding a hearing today on the role of the states in protecting the environment. One topic under attack is the pending effort by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set federally enforceable safeguards for c ...
  • Ten Years After Feb. 15 Global Protests, A New ...
    We Are Many Trailer Feb 2013 from We Are Many on Vimeo.read more
  • New Report Blames Failed Policies For 790% Jum ...
    A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) attributes staggering growth in the federal prison population over the last 30 years in part to failed sentencing and correctional policies. The ACLU, a longtime advocate for significantly decreasing the federal prison population, suppor ...
  • Federal Medical Marijuana Bills Introduced Tod ...
    More than a dozen Members of Congress co-introduced legislation today that would reclassify marijuana for medical use and provide federal defendants the right to use state law compliance as evidence in medical marijuana trials, a right they're currently denied. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) au ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • A Great Day for the Climate Movement
    Bill McKibben Today was the day. Finally, powerfully, decisively -- the movement to stop climate change has come together. This was the biggest climate change rally in US history. By our count, 50,000 people gathered by the Washington Monum ...
  • 'Forward on Climate' Rally Sends a Message to ...
    George Zornick A sign at the "Forward on Climate" rally in Washington, DC, on February 17, 2013. (Photo by George Zornick)Over 35,000 people descended on the National Mall in Washington on Sunday, huddled together against a stingi ...
  • Attention Humanity: Wake Up and Innovate, or F ...
    Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez I am going to be in Washington DC today to stand up for the planet.(Twitpic) I have never been much of a protest person.  I didn’t even go down to New York for the Occupy protests, although I followed ...
  • Attention Humanity: Wake Up and Innovate, or F ...
    Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez I am going to be in Washington DC today to stand up for the planet.(Twitpic) I have never been much of a protest person.  I didn’t even go down to New York for the Occupy protests, although I followed ...
  • Is The Dietitians’ Trade Group in Bed with the ...
    Ocean Robbins The largest trade group of nutrition professionals—the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics—has a serious credibility problem.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • USA Today On Keystone XL Rally: ‘Tens Of Thous ...
    So that was a heck of a rally. I welcome readers who attended to share their thoughts and pics. If you missed it, you can get details from USA Today‘s story “Tens of thousands demand action on climate change.” Or from the Sierra Club news release, “More Than 35,000 Strong ...
  • PHOTOS: 35,000 Protesters Demand Immediate Cli ...
    On Sunday, an estimated crowd of 35,000 people joined the Forward On Climate rally in Washington, DC, where protesters delivered a clear message to President Obama: Take immediate action on climate change by rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Organizers of the rally described as the & ...
  • Republicans Attack Obama For Drafting Immigrat ...
    On Sunday, Republicans lashed out at a leaked draft of the White House’s plan to reform the immigration system. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said any proposal from the president that lacked Republican input would be “dead on arrival” and is “hurting the effort” at reform. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) ...
  • Gingrich: Republicans Will Oppose Any Immigrat ...
    During an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) admitted that Republicans are likely to oppose any immigration reform proposal introduced by President Obama because they personally dislike the Commander-in-Chief. “An Obama plan led and dri ...
  • Republicans Try To Intimidate Nonpartisan Acco ...
    Last September, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service released a report showing that tax cuts for the rich — contrary to GOP orthodoxy — have minimal effect on economic growth or job creation. Instead, they simply increase income inequality. Republicans pressured the CRS to ...

thwap's schoolyard

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Russian scientists say they've found fragments ...
    The Russian Academy of Sciences said today a team of their scientists on an expedition near Lake Chebarkul where a meteor fell to Earth have found meteor fragments. When it plunged to Earth 1200 persons were injured in and around the city of Chelyabinsk.
  • Alberta asks public for consultations on frack ...
    In a surprising move, Environment Minister Diana McQueen announced that the Alberta government would engage the public in consultations (February 19 - March 21) province-wide on the controversial hydraulic fracking practice and water use in Alberta.
  • Charisma and the Politics of Justin Trudeau
    A lot has been said about Justin Trudeau and the current Liberal Party leadership race but I would like to humbly submit that Justin will be the next Liberal Party leader because his opponents are not as charismatic as he is.
  • Thousands of climate change activists rally on ...
    Tens of thousands of climate change activists descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC. People came from numerous U.S. states and Canada to protest various actions relating to energy forms.
  • The U.S. has to get used to extreme weather wa ...
    Scientists meeting at this week’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston have warned that extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy and the Texas drought are here to stay.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadians right to worry about Mali war
    Steven Staples argues that Canadians are right to worry about being drawn into the war in Mali.
  • A letter from our volunteers – Stop Harp ...
    Our volunteers sent a renewal letter to you through the mail today. We hope that you will read the letter, and that you might consider joining our Peacekeepers monthly donor club!
  • Canada extends Mali mission
    Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced on February 14th that Canada will extend its military support for the French operation in Mali for another month.
  • Worst procurement in Canadian history
    A new report released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives calls on the Canadian government to fix the long-running maritime helicopter procurement fiasco.
  • U.S. drone killings questioned
    A leak of a U.S. Justice Department memo has revealed some of the circumstances under which the U.S. government believes it has the right to extrajudicially execute American citizens.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
    Today, Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling We ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-22-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the truth behind Subway’s false and misleading advertising, body scanner radiation vs. airplane radiation, and even Your Wish Is Your Command! Self Help: Protect You & Your Family Grass Fed Beef & Dairy Change The Way You Think Health: Your PC, TV or Cell Phone May B ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-12-13
    Today, Kevin gives you the solutions to your economic woes and explains why you absolutely cannot put a price tag on your health! Self Help: Inflation Cure Stop Eating Tainted Meat Voice Your Political Support Safest Hair Products Health: Genetically Modified Cows Produce ‘Human’ Milk More Recal ...
  • KT’s Holiday Gift Ideas
    The holiday season is upon us and they can be the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, for yourself and others. So, this holiday, let’s help each other out by giving gifts that will help someone eat healthier, be healthier, and ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Thousands of dolphins swarm into ‘super mega-p ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   It’s an incredibly rare sight, and one that took a tour boat’s passengers completely by surprise last week: thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of dolphins, swarming together in a 7-mil ...
  • Parlor Radicals
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Sue Warrior The Furniture was confused. It had done no wrong, as far as it could tell, and did not see why it should be punished. We refer to The Furniture as a single unit, o ...
  • DHS Advances Plan For “Public Safety” Drones
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMore incarnations of spy technology to undergo testing Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com February 18, 2013 The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its plan to use surveillance drones for “public safety& ...
  • Russian scientists say they have recovered met ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Scientists said Monday they had discovered fragments of the meteor that spectacularly plunged over Russia’s Ural Mountains creating a shockwave that injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of ho ...
  • There Is A Winner In The Currency War
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comZero Hedge Feb 18, 2013 With the G-20 (and G-7) concluding with what appears to be a slap on the wrist and a wink-and-a-nod to Japan, it seems the game of competitive devaluation will continue. Much pixel and ink has bee ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Profiting From Human Misery by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig February 18, 2013 Marela, an undocumented immigrant in her 40s, stood outside the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, N.J., on a chilly afternoon last week. She was there with a group of protesters who appear at the facility’s gates e ...
  • Recipe for Endless Profits to War Profiteers a ...
    by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer February 10, 2013 Ingredients (or should it be Ingreedients?): Imperialist ideologues of all political parties Arms manufacturers (war profiteers) Politicians with no conscience nor regard for international laws or the Constitution Corporate media In ...
  • Thousands Rally in Washington, DC Against Clim ...
    Dandelion Salad AlJazeeraEnglish·Feb 17, 2013 Thousands of protesters have gathered in Washington DC to demand government action on climate change. Organisers say it’s the largest climate change protest in US history. Al Jazeeraa’s Alan Fisher was there. *** Scientist Says Half the P ...
  • Worker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Feb 13, 2013 Can co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned? see Unlivable Wages by Ralph Nader The Mondragon Experiment – Corporate Cooperativism (1980) Socialist Register 2013: The Questi ...
  • Worker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Feb 13, 2013 Can co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned? see Unlivable Wages by Ralph Nader The Mondragon Experiment – Corporate Cooperativism (1980) Socialist Register 2013: The Questi ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • New Whale Species Unearthed in California High ...
    Chalk yet another fossil find up to roadcut science. Thanks to a highway-widening project in California’s Laguna Canyon, scientists have identified several new species of early toothed baleen whales.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Mystic M ...
    Hubble's 20th anniversary image shows a mountain of dust and gas rising in the Carina Nebula. The top of a three-light-year tall pillar of cool hydrogen is being worn away by the radiation of nearby stars, while stars within the ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Ancient ...
    High-Resolution Stereo Camera nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013 by ESA’s Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-colour view of the region southeast of Amenthes Planum and north of Hesperia Planum. ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dark Gec ...
    This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbour, the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86. This cosmic pair is ...
  • Watch Live: Record-Setting Asteroid Flies by Earth
    The day has come for our planet to get a cosmically close visit from asteroid 2012 DA14. The 50-km-diameter space rock will make its closest approach to Earth at 11:24 a.m. PST/ 2:24 p.m. EST, at which point it will ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Michael Lewis Guest Post: How Clear and Inviol ...
    by Michael W. Lewis [Michael W. Lewis is a Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University where he teaches International Law and the Law of War.]  In his Hamdan opinion in 2006 Justice Stevens described the conflict between al Qaeda and the United States as a NIAC (his opinion did not address in ...
  • Events and Announcements: February 17, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey  Calls for Papers After a successful first edition of Young Researchers Conference on Law, “Hëna e Plotë” Bedër University and University of Tirana are organizing the second edition of the series, Current Issues and Trends in International Law. Several topic ...
  • Ohlin on Targeting and the Concept of Intent
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller My friend Jens Ohlin (Cornell) has just posted a very important article on SSRN entitled “Targeting and the Concept of Intent.”  Here is the abstract: International law generally prohibits military forces from intentionally targeting civilian ...
  • First Signs that China Is Taking the Philippin ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku As far as I can tell, the Chinese government continues to pretend as if the Philippines’ Law of the Sea arbitration claim doesn’t exist.  Articles like this one suggest the Philippines government continues to wait for some official or unofficial Chinese re ...
  • Whale Wars Hits Seattle!
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I used to blog regularly about the Whale Wars, my name for the ongoing struggle between Japanese Whalers and those groups devoted to protecting whales.  But I stopped almost three years ago when Australia filed its case against Japan in the ICJ, since nothing importan ...

Public News Service

  • Social Security in Arizona Goes Paperless on M ...
    Social Security in Arizona Goes Paperless on March 1 PHOENIX - A big change is on the way for those Arizonans who still receive paper checks for their Social Security benefits. According to senior advocate Maribeth Farringer, as of March 1, all federal benefits payments will be made electronical ...
  • Fight a World Food Shortage: Learn to Love Lef ...
    Fight a World Food Shortage: Learn to Love Leftovers PHOENIX – With hundreds of millions of people around the globe hungry and the problem only expected to get worse, one new focus in Arizona and other states is on how to reduce food waste. Professor Jon Foley, director of the Institut ...
  • A Valentine’s Day Call for Responsible R ...
    A Valentine’s Day Call for Responsible Romance PHOENIX - Valentine's Day is the holiday of love, and a number of businesses in metro Phoenix and Tucson are teaming up with Planned Parenthood Arizona to keep the holiday safe and healthy for those who are sexually active. Participating busi ...
  • Some Tax Refunds Will Be Delayed This Year
    Some Tax Refunds Will Be Delayed This Year PHOENIX - Don't plan on spending your income tax refund too quickly this year. Refunds are expected to be delayed for some taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service says it's a result of the last-minute fiscal cliff debate in Washington. ...(Read More)
  • Drug, Device Makers Must Disclose Payments to Docs
    Drug, Device Makers Must Disclose Payments to Docs PHOENIX - It's a little-known aspect of the Affordable Care Act: drug and medical-device makers will soon have to publicly disclose their payments to doctors and hospitals. At the same time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...
  • Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
    I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...
  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...
  • Aaron Swartz on SOPA
    The late Aaron Swartz explains SOPA. His recent suicide has been in the news so much that I feel it isn’t worth discussing. His opinions, though, are. Related posts: Aaron Ortiz, Rest in Peace I’m very sorry to say that one of my namesakes... Aaron Ortiz, Flickr Pro These are some o ...
  • Merida and the Bechtel test
    The thing that most resonated about this talk was Colin Stokes’s defense of a particular Disney Princess: Merida, from Pixar’s Brave. I wrote a disappointed rant about that movie when it came out. I still deeply dislike the “You are a princess, act like it!” storyline. I ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Reversal of Fortune: Why the power elite will ...
    When thugs and criminals become the power elite in a country, the populace eventually finds ways of ousting them or they destroy themselves through their own greed and stupidity, says the Gary North at the Tea Party Economist. What’s that you say, you thought all Tea Party people were dro ...
  • Dorner burned, belongings weren’t. Why?
    Why was Dorner’s body burned to a crisp while his driver’s license, jacket, and guns weren’t even singed, asked the No Agenda podcast on last Thursday’s show.
  • Oberlin Ohio now gets 55% of its power from la ...
    Two nearby landfills are now produce 55% of energy for city of Oberlin Ohio. When garbage decomposes, it produces methane, which can be captured and used to create electricity. This is a double win because methane is a potent greenhouse gas. So, instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, it w ...
  • Bipartisan ineptitude on sequester and budget ...
    The Keystone Cops of Washington DC AKA Congress and Obama spring to action to stop sequester crisis. Not only are most politicians in DC hopelessly beholden to campaign contributions they are also hopelessly incompetent and uninterested in serving those who elected them. Congress and Obama have ...
  • Mark Abernathy / Sabre Rattlers Kickstarter ca ...
    Mark Abernathy plays music perhaps best described as Gospel meets Americana; heartfelt, powerful, raw, and on the edge. I’ve seen Mark perform and listened to his CDs. He has a unique talent that more might want to know about. Now you can. Abernathy just launched a Kickstarter campaign to ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Letters from John Lennon’s killer to be sold
    (CNN) — In his time as a New York City police officer, Stephen Spiro says that it only happened to him once. Typically, the people he arrested wanted nothing to do with him. But then, few things about the case of Mark David Chapman were typical. Chapman, the man convicted of killing former ...
  • Pope Benedict XVI’s leaked documents show frac ...
    VATICAN CITY — Guests at the going-away party for Carlo Maria Viganò couldn’t understand why the archbishop looked so forlorn. Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Viganò ambassador to the United States, a plum post where he would settle into a stately mansion on Massachusetts Avenue, across the stre ...
  • South Africa’s Ramphele launches new par ...
    (Reuters) – Respected anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele launched a new political party on Monday to challenge South Africa’s ruling ANC, saying self-interested and corrupt leaders were threatening the continent’s biggest economy. Invoking the spirit of Nelson Mandela an ...
  • Russian Lawmaker’s Body Found in Barrel ...
    The body of a kidnapped Russian lawmaker has been found in a cement-filled barrel in a cellar outside Moscow, investigators said Monday. “The body of Mikhail Pakhomov, a lawmaker from Lipetsk city council, has been found in one of the cellars of a private garage in a metal barrel filled wi ...
  • This Day In History – February 18
    1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London. 1516 – Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558) was born. 1546 – Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483) died 1564 – Michelangelo, Italian arti ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Feb. 11 and Feb. 15. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Feb. 11 Never forget a...
  • FBX, Eventbrite, Marin Software and more in th ...
    Diligant integrates FBX – Media-buying platform Diligant announced this week that it has begun serving ads through the Facebook Exchange real-time bidding system. Digilant says it is the first partner to serve FBX ads direct in Mexico....
  • Facebook careers: data visualization, India gr ...
    Facebook added 19 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the communications, marketing, sales and infrastructure teams. New listings added to Facebook’s careers page: Software Engineer, Entities – Local Data (New York)...
  • Facebook hires: marketing communications manag ...
    In what appears to be a slower week of Facebook hiring, the social network removed 11 job listings from its careers page this week. Typically, Facebook removes 20 to 30 jobs from its site each week. The 11...
  • Facebook reveals it was hacked, but says no us ...
    Facebook today detailed a malware attack that occurred last month, but which has been remediated and reportedly did not result in any user data being compromised. Facebook says the attack originated when some employees visited a mobile...

Truthout - Tweets

Empty newsfeed.

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Corbett Report- Sibel Edmonds on Gladio Part I ...
    Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com joins us for the third part of our series on Gladio B, the NATO-directed effort to radicalize, enable and protect Islamic terrorists to further their own geopolitical ends. In this edition we discuss the Hood Event, the Gladio A / B transition, Israel’s role ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 17
    “War, Peace, and the Search for Our Humanity” with Kathy Kelly This week, Eric has an in-depth conversation with peace activist and author Kathy Kelly. They discuss the human side of war: the children taken from their parents, the fathers ruthlessly assassinated, the lives permanently shattered. ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Arab Spring and the American Empire Two years on from the start of the Arab Spring, the people are back out on the streets in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and elsewhere. Their demands for democracy have not changed, though the faces of their oppressors may have. This episode looks at the develop ...

Afro Spear

  • Sunday Inspirations
    A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, …Continue reading »
  • “Reckless investment another disaster fo ...
    This week I was musing about two historical colonial and imperiliastic atrocities which reminded me of the death of Chilean …Continue reading »
  • Blacks Withouth Borders
    Greeting’s Everyone! I want to thank you for your comment’s. Let’s continue to grow and learn. I want to introduce …Continue reading »
  • Sunday Inspirations
  • Race & Identity
    I’m Not Black, I’m Coloured – Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope Greeting’s Everyone, First, I need to …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

  • Shin Bet Kept Zygier’s Wife Under Surveillance ...
    Walla reports (Hebrew) that Israel’s security service devised an elaborate cover story for Ben Zygier’s widow to explain his absence to her neighbors after he was arrested.  She told them that he’d contracted cancer and had flown back to his native Australia for treatment.  Aft ...
  • Israel’s Education Minister Accused of Demandi ...
    Gideon Saar, known for his adulterous dalliances with a number of women, has now been accused in a new report by News1 (Hebrew) of at least 4-5 affairs with women who were either his subordinates or who sought his help in getting government positions. It appears, if the description is accurate, ...
  • Israeli Air Attack in Syria Killed IRG General
    Free Syrian Army sources revealed several days ago that an Iranian general, Hassan Shateri (also known as Hussam Hush Nawis) was killed in Syria recently.  First reports made it appear he might’ve been killed by the FSA.  Iran, however, said that he was killed by Israel.  But since it didn ...
  • Israel: End Censorship Now!
    I am the bane of the Israeli censor and security services.  I am proud of it.  There is no need for censorship in Israel.  If Israel wishes ever to be a normal country and western democracy it must end censorship, just as it must end Occupation: NOW! The Ben Zygier tragedy is a case in [...]
  • Israeli Intelligence Sanitized Zygier’s Cell A ...
    The Zygier case continues to develop, sending shockwaves through both the State of Israel and its intelligence services and Australia.  There are new reports from both countries that further damage the reputations of the Mossad, Shin Bet and ASIO (Australia’s intelligence agency). After ma ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • As Data Collection Grows, so Does the 'Data Di ...
    Do you remember when grocery stores didn't know you were pregnant before your parents? Or when newspapers couldn't find naked pictures of you by looking through your phone? Boy, those were the days (When did I get this old?). Still, there's no escaping it. Things are digitizing. Everywhere. W ...
  • The State Decoded Adds Public API, Standard XM ...
    Version 0.6 of The State Decoded is now available on GitHub. This release is a really exciting one -- it establishes a public API for State Decoded sites and creates a standard XML format for importing laws! This is an important release of The State Decoded, one that stands to increase significa ...
  • Facebook's Graph Search Rejiggers Your Persona ...
    The following is a liveblog of an MIT Facebook recruiting event by Matt Stempeck, Rodrigo Davies, and Chris Peterson. We've had all of our data on Facebook for years. And advertisers have used Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform, similar to Graph Search, to segment and target ads a ...
  • Investigating the Technology Underlying Top Ne ...
    “We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die” — Umberto Eco Ever since PBS MediaShift contacted me about contributing to their Idea Lab site again (past posts here), I’ve been taking the opportunity to ponder a new “beat” of sorts, one that wou ...
  • Drone Strikes: Known Unknowns and the Need for ...
    Two weeks ago the United Nations opened an inquiry into the "civilian impact of the use of drones and other forms of targeted killing." Data -- on casualties, targets, frequency, and other topics -- will play an important role in this investigation, led by Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur for ...

Cutting Edge News

  • India and America - U.S. Should Back India’s ...
    It has been a bad half-decade for American foreign economic policy. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha round was mortally wounded in 2008. The last three bilateral trade agreements were stalled and then renegotiated. The next one is not even on the radar screen. While the 11-nation Tran ...
  • The Edge of Space - Clues to the Mysterious Or ...
    In the year 1006 a new star was seen in the southern skies and widely recorded around the world. It was many times brighter than the planet Venus and may even have rivaled the brightness of the Moon. It was so bright at maximum that it cast shadows and it was visible during the day. More recentl ...
  • The Human Edge - Brain Protheses Create a Sens ...
    Rats can't usually see infrared light, but they have "touched" it in a Duke University lab. The rats sensed the light as a sensation of touch after Duke neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis and his team fitted the animals with an infrared detector wired to electrodes implanted in the part of the mamm ...
  • The Edge of Health - Using Transportation Data ...
    In a world of increasing global connections, predicting the spread of infectious diseases is more complicated than ever. Pandemics no longer follow the patterns they did centuries ago, when diseases swept through populations town by town; instead, they spread quickly and seemingly at random, spu ...
  • The Edge of Immigation - Rep. Gutierrez Meets ...
    Americans whose spouses have been exiled for years as a result of strict immigration penalties took their plight to Congress Thursday, begging legislators to help them as lawmakers discuss overhauling immigration laws.Some of the affected families met with a key figure in the immigration fight, ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Arms Race In Libya By Countercurrents.org
    An arms race among European defence contractors to re-equip Libya's armed forces is on. Britain is trying to boost the sale of defence equipment to Libya by sending a Royal Navy warship to Tripoli to act as floating shop window for security firms, amid concern in Whitehall that France and Italy ...
  • 71 Years After Executive Order 9066 (What We’r ...
    On Feb. 19, 1942, the sainted Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 giving the army the unrestricted power to arrest -- without warrants or indictments or hearings -- every Japanese-American on a 150-mile strip along the West Coast (roughly 110,000 men, women, and children) and t ...
  • Birds of Prey: The Record of Impunity For Isra ...
    The Lebanese National News Agency has reported at least 31 breeches of airspace so far in February. Yet the international community has turned a blind eye toward Israel's contempt for international law. UNIFIL, with its average annual budget of over $500 million ( A/C.5/66/SR.31 ), files the sam ...
  • Statement In Support Of The People´s Protests ...
    We are confident that your voice and verdict expressed through countrywide protests will be heard. And we pledge to promote your agenda internationally until your six demands have been met
  • Gangnam Gaza Style: On The Siege, Palestinian ...
    “We wanted to tell the outside world about the impossible circumstances under which we live: that our airport has been destroyed, our fishers are prevented from accessing their sea, that half our population is out of work, that we use tunnels instead of border crossings and donkeys because fuel ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Bill Maher: The Israelis Do Control The State ...
    In case you missed the Bill Maher show on HBO this weekend (and I suggest you do) the host of Real Time echoed the anti-Semitic meme uttered by Chuck Hagel in a speech at Rutgers, that the Israelis control the US Government (especially the state department). Perhaps the HBO star believes i ...
  • IRONY ALERT! Protesters Brave Frigid Temps to ...
    Sometimes pictures are great at showing the irony of a situation. Thousands of global warming moonbats braved the frigid cold yesterday to protest Obama's inaction on global warming, and to urge him to reject the Keystone pipeline. Organizers of the "Forward on Climate" event est ...
  • True Belief, Cynical Manipulation, Peer Pressu ...
    By Barry Rubin “They got them poor boys makin’ frontal assaults with fixed bayonets on that damned ridge and they can’t see the damned Nips that are shootin’ at ‘em….There just ain’t no sense in that….” “Yeah, some goddamn glory-happy officer wants another medal, I guess, and the guys g ...
  • Senate GOP's Cowardly Filibuster Of Chuck Hagel
    No Cabinet nominee has been defeated by filibuster; however in 1990 the Democratic Party controlled Senate voted along party lines, 53-47 not to confirm the nomination of former Senator John Tower to the position of Secretary of Defense. It was  the first time that the Senate had re ...
  • How Obama's SOTU Hid His Foreign Policy Disasters
    By Barry Rubin While the State of the Union message was overwhelmingly domestically oriented, the foreign policy sections were most interesting. I’ll review them here. The president began in the same neo-patriotic mode used in the second inaugural address, with a special emphasis ...

The Real Agenda

  • Comunismo: La Amenaza Inminente
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRERO 18, 2013 Según la historia oficial, el comunismo y sus aliados marxismo y socialismo desaparecieron con la caída de la Unión Soviética el 26 de diciembre de 1991, después de que la URSS fue disuelta por la declaración № 142-H. Después de la ...
  • Communism: The Imminent Threat
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 18, 2013 According to mainline history, Communism and its allies Marxism and Socialism ended with the fall of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991, after the USSR was dissolved by declaration № 142-H. After the supposed dissolution, it was a ...
  • The Genetically Modified Seed Monopoly
    How biotechnology companies monopolize seed markets, escalate seed prices, and eliminate farmer choice By KEN ROSEBORO | THE ORGANIC REPORT | FEBRUARY 18, 2013 This is the first of a 2-part series The introduction of genetically modified crops has corresponded with increasing monopoliz ...
  • The Droned States of America
    BY BRYAN BENNETT | LA TIMES | FEBRUARY 17, 2013 While a national debate has erupted over the Obama administration’s lethal drone strikes overseas, federal authorities have stepped up efforts to license surveillance drones for law enforcement and other uses in U.S. airspace, spurr ...
  • No Peace in Syria unless Assad dies
    Western supported terrorists admit to attacking infrastructure as a strategy to fight the Assad regime. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 15, 2013 “The war in Syria will end up being very similar to that of Libya. We will liberate city by city until we get to Damascus, ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
    There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...
  • The future, and journalism education
    My university played host this weekend to several dozen journalism educators and some very wonderful working journalists. They all came to the Journalism Interactive conference to share what they know and learn new things about digital media and training the next generation of journalists. Most ...
  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
  • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
    To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...
  • Required reading: How open source makes you better
    In this blog post (Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust), Dan Schultz of The Boston Globe describes what amounts to one of the big reasons why news websites are not as successful as they could be. If you borrow code then you are more likely to be familiar with what the rest of the world is doing. I ...

Facing South

  • Big corporations put up seed funding for Repub ...
    A nonprofit that paid for Republican consultants to draw new congressional district maps for North Carolina -- a gerrymander that helped flip the state's delegation to the GOP -- got most of its original funding from big corporations including Exxon, Pfizer and Time Warner. read more
  • Climate change is drowning out 'jobs vs. envir ...
    With the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline intensifying, the old argument that unions must choose between jobs and the environment is losing its grip as climate change becomes more evident and more urgent. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The case for raising the mini ...
    A by-the-numbers look at President Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage. read more
  • The Southern exception
    With North Carolina flipping back into the Republican column, you could say that the new Solid South begins in Henderson, N.C. and ends in Valdosta, Ga., bracketed by Virginia and Florida. read more
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Logic of Surveillance
    Surveillance is part of the system of control.  The more surveillance the more control, is the majority belief amongst the ruling elites.  Automated surveillance requires fewer “watchers”, and since the watchers cannot watch all the surveillance, long term storage increases the abili ...
  • The Logic of Surveillance
    Surveillance is part of the system of control.  The more surveillance the more control, is the majority belief amongst the ruling elites.  Automated surveillance requires fewer “watchers”, and since the watchers cannot watch all the surveillance, long term storage increases the abili ...
  • A reminder
    “If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Only when we understand, deep in our bones, that life and the world are profoundly, vastly unfair, do we approa ...
  • A reminder
    “If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Only when we understand, deep in our bones, that life and the world are profoundly, vastly unfair, do we approa ...
  • The coming catastrophes and the Rawlsian veil ...
    A just society, according to Rawls, is a society whose structure, whose rewards and punishments, are set up before we know what position we will hold in it.  The Rawlsian veil of ignorance cuts deeper than most people realize.  Take for example old-fashioned meritocracy: grades, schooling, intel ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

Empty newsfeed.

new geography

  • U.S. Late to the Party on Latin America, Africa
    President Barack Obama's proposed tilt of U.S. priorities toward the Pacific – and away from the historical link to Europe – represents one of the most encouraging aspects of his foreign policy. Although welcome, we should recognize that this shift comes about three decades too late and th ...
  • Natural Gas Boom: The “Janus” Effect
    The last five years have seen a revolution in terms of the amount of inexpensive U.S. natural gas made available for consumption in power plants, road fuels, and as a feedstock for new and expanded petrochemical plants. We are now even debating the advisability of large volume natural gas ex ...
  • That Sucking Sound You Hear…Solutions to Ameri ...
    There is a crisis in America that’s not being attended to. It is the housing crisis, and its tentacles reach deep into the decline of the American middle class. Particularly, the interlocking dynamics of foreclosure, abandonment, and blight are draining the net worth of millions of A ...
  • America's Oldest Cities
    One of the most important turning points in the social history of the United States occurred at the beginning of the 1940s. This is not about Pearl Harbor or the Second World War, but  rather about the economic, housing and transportation advances that have produced more affluence for more pe ...
  • Blue States Double Down On Suicide Strategy
    Whatever President Obama proposes in his State of the Union for the economy, it is likely to fall victim to the predictable Washington gridlock. But a far more significant economic policy debate in America is taking place among the states, and the likely outcome may determine the country ...

GM Watch

Empty newsfeed.

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Mukherjee presents Indira Gandhi prize for pea ...
    Tweet New Delhi, Feb 18 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2011 to Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. Congratulating Bhatt, the President said her life and ...
  • West beats East in NBA All-Star Game
    HOUSTON - The dueling dynamics of nostalgia and novelty permeated this entire All-Star weekend. On the one hand, there were tributes to Michael Jordan, who turned 50 on Sunday. There was appreciation for David Stern, who presided over his 30th and final All-Star Game as commissioner. Fifteen-tim ...
  • Amid nostalgia and tributes, West wins All-Sta ...
    HOUSTON — The dueling dynamics of nostalgia and novelty permeated this entire All-Star weekend. On the one hand, there were tributes to Michael Jordan, who turned 50 on Sunday. There was appreciation for David Stern, who presided over his 30th and final All-Star Game as commissioner. Fifte ...
  • Paul, Bryant spark West
    Limo driver for O.J. Simpson the night of the killings had a quieter life in Paso after the trial UPDATE: 17-year-old Encino girl dies in crash off Highway 1 at Cuesta College Teach school decision might get changed Signs go up warning against overnight parking on SLO streets Spotlight shi ...
  • Wilshere calls on Arsenal to emulate Chelsea a ...
    The England midfielder has urged the club to unite ahead of the visit of Bayern Munich for the first leg of the last 16 tie at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday Jack Wilshere has called on Arsenal to take Chelsea as inspiration and salvage their season in the Champions League as they prepare to fa ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Guantánamo Trials Plunged into Deeper Discord ...
    The battered credibility of the Guantánamo trials has been further dented by revelations of hidden microphones, intelligence service interference with court proceedings and protests from lawyers who say the US military is preventing a proper defence of the alleged organisers of the 9/11 a ...
  • Spanish Doctors, Nurses March Against 'Pillage ...
  • After 15 Years in Solitary Confinement, Prison ...
    After more than fifteen years held in solitary confinement in one of the nation's most high security prisons, Ramzi Yousef, convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, says that even as a convicted terrorist his treatment is inhumane and unconstitutional. In documen ...
  • Thousands Converge: Demand Action from Obama t ...
    Update: Following a rally on the National Mall, the gathered crowd— estimated between 35,000 to more than 50,000 people—began a march towards the White House just before 2:00 PM ET. Though President Obama is away for the weekend at a private golf resort in Florida—playing a rou ...
  • Nuclear Dump in Washington Leaking Radioactive ...
    Reports that a storage tank for nuclear waste at the Hanford Nuclear facility in Washington state--one of the most contaminated nuclear waste sites in the country--is leaking radioactive waste were confirmed that state's governor Friday. As the Associated Press reports: ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Empty newsfeed.

Energy Collective

  • Chinese Solar Power Innovation Producing Cheap ...
    The cost of producing a conventional crystalline silicon (c-si) solar panel continues to drop. Between 2009 and 2012, leading “best-in-class” Chinese c-Si solar manufacturers reduced module costs by more than 50 percent.
  • Transitioning to Renewable Power: What It Migh ...
    The State of Vermont has hitched its wagon to the star of 90 percent renewable power by 2050, and is pulling mighty hard to build more wind turbines, solar farms, and other renewable power generators.
  • Tesla-NY Times Dispute Reveals Different Truth
    The fact is drivers of all-electric cars quickly become accustomed to their vehicle’s limitations and strengths, and are amongst the most satisfied owners on the road.
  • Canada and the US: Sea-Level Rise vs. Keystone XL
    Recently glaciologist Jason Box of Ohio State University explained how humans have set in motion 69 feet of sea level rise; one of the most damaging consequences of climate change.
  • The Case for Grid-Connected Energy Storage
    If the highest objective of new energy technology is to provide greater flexibility to manage the electricity grid in ways that society deems most beneficial, then no technology—not wind, not solar, not biomass, not new transmission technology—is more important to develop than energy storage tec ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • What do Obama and Abbas have in common?
    By Alan Hart Short answer - both are grovellers (definition in a moment). The president of the United States of America grovels to the Zionist lobby and its neo-con and Christian fundamentalist allies. The Palestinian “president” grovels to Obama as well as Israel’s leaders m ...
  • America Shamed Again: A colonized people
    Paul Craig Roberts Americans have been shamed many times by their elected representatives who cravenly bow to vested interests and betray the American people. But no previous disgraceful behavior can match the public shame brought to Americans by the behavior of the Senate Republicans in the c ...
  • Beating Up on Iran Continues
    by Stephen Lendman It's continued for decades. Iran's a prime target of choice. Washington deplores independent governments. It wants pro-Western ones replacing them. It doesn't care if they're democratic, despotic or anything in between. Subservience to Washington alone matters.Read mo ...
  • People Tell Obama NO XL Pipeline, Start Leadin ...
    Michael Collins (Washington, DC 1/17) The nation's capital hosted over 40,000 citizens assembled to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The crowd urged President Obama to bring to reality his lofty words on climate change in the inaugural address just days ago. By stopping ...
  • They still cling to guns and religion
    Mary Shaw During the 2008 campaign season, candidate Barack Obama was harshly criticized for pointing out that some small-town folks whose jobs have been lost can get frustrated and bitter, and sometimes cling to guns or religion. His words: "Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we ca ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

Empty newsfeed.

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 7 Vegan Aphrodisiacs
    Vegan aphrodisiacs could be just what your body's starving for this Valentine's Day, whether you consider yourself an herbivore or not. Even the most devout steak-eater may want to partake in a meat vacation to enjoy the wonderful side effects of plant-based foods that fuel the libido. No bloo ...
  • Use of Antibiotics in Animals Continues to Climb
    If you believe the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and dozens of other healthcare organizations around the world, the problem of antibiotic resistance—wherein common bacterial infections no longer respond to any of the antibiotics approved to treat them—is becoming so big that we wil ...
  • Find the Best Supplements
    Supplement addicts, listen up! ConsumerLab.com, a third-party service that tests vitamins and supplements to see if they're delivering doses and nutrients as advertised, has just published its annual list of the most popular vitamin, mineral, and supplement brands. Almost 11,000 people respond ...
  • Is Your Cookware Causing Arthritis?
    Nonstick cookware is convenient. With its ability to keep the eggs from sticking to the bottom of the pan, it could even make you feel like a better cook! But that ease in the kitchen should come with a warning label. Certain nonstick chemicals are linked to high cholesterol and thyroid disease ...
  • Why It's Time to Buy a New Couch
    Are you cuddling up to a toxic couch? Chances are the answer to that is yes. Since 1975, the state of California has required all furniture and all baby products, such as nursing pillows and car seats, to be flame retardant. Since the state is so huge, that standard has become a de facto nation ...

big think

  • Virtualization: A Way To Do Much More With Muc ...
    The use of virtualization and cloud computing is growing quickly among companies of all sizes. Currently, 45 percent of servers are virtualized, and surveys show that by 2015, that number will grow to 70 percent or more. Virtualization and cloud computing go hand-in-hand, and virtualizin ...
  • Chinese Connoisseurs Have Bordeaux In Their Sights
    What's the Latest Development? According to CIVB, the trade union representing wineries in France's Bordeaux region, sales of the famous wine were up by 2 percent in volume and 10 percent in value in 2012, thanks largely to increased interest from Chinese consumers. These buyers, along w ...
  • Aid To US Needy, Courtesy Of The United Arab E ...
    What's the Latest Development? In the past two years, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government has been providing financial assistance to needy communities across the US, including building all-weather soccer fields in low-income areas of major cities and providing laptops to every high ...
  • Holding Therapy: Blowing The Whistle on Instit ...
    Evidence has emerged that a bizarre and potentially inhumane treatment which originated in the US is now being used on children in the UK. The therapy involves a caregiver holding a child down and maintaining direct eye contact for extended periods with the express intention of provoking a fit o ...
  • Hungarian Government To Students: Tuition In E ...
    What's the Latest Development? As of this past September, students who choose to attend a university in Hungary's state-funded system must sign a contract requiring them to work two years in the country for every year of their studies. If they break this contract by seeking work outside ...

Information Liberation

  • Cops Swarm Property Over Suspected Meth Lab, F ...
    An Illinois citizen reported their neighbor to police for allegedly manufacturing meth, leading to police "swarming" the suspects residence, only problem is they weren't manufacturing meth, but instead collecting maple syrup...
  • Cop Tells Man "I'm Going To Feed You To The F* ...
    "Your f---ing ass is going home or I'm going to beat the f---ing piss out of you. I see your f---ing ass again tonight I'm going to f---ing split your f---ing skull (unintelligible) with my flashlight... I'm going to feed you to the f---ing 'gator...
  • CA Police Chief: Guns Are Not a Defensive Weapon
    Earlier this month, California police boss Ken James said as part of the concerted effort to wreck the Second Amendment that guns are not used for self-defense. *One issue that always boggles my mind is that the idea that a gun is a defensive we...
  • New Orleans Cops Caught on Tape
    The police commander says he saw no wrongdoing in the video. Hmm. A few questions: 1. What would have happened if the young man*s mother had not arrived so quickly? 2. What would have happened if she had not been a police officer herself? ...
  • Police Officer Shoots a Trainee
    From the Baltimore Sun: According to sources familiar with the investigation, Kern was at the Rosewood Center for a training exercise when recruits peered through a window from another room. He playfully pointed a weapon in their direction, the sour...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Lead Exposure on the Rise Despite Decline in P ...
    BOSTON--Exposure to lead--so toxic--is a problem of the past, right? Wrong. Since the U.S. took lead out of gasoline in 1976 and banned lead paint in 1978, most health scientists, regulators and the public have considered the problem largely solved. But ongoing testing shows that even though t ...
  • Pill to Gill: Antianxiety Drugs in Flushed int ...
    Antianxiety drugs may be making fishes more aggressive. New laboratory tests reveal that even extremely low concentrations of the calming drugs benzodiazepines--more commonly known as Valium, Xanax and others--cause fishes to become less timid and to feed faster, among other effects. [More] ...
  • Russian Meteor Largest in Century
    A meteor that exploded over Russia this morning was the largest recorded object to strike the Earth in more than a century, scientists say. Infrasound data collected by a network designed to watch for nuclear weapons testing suggests that today's blast released hundreds of kilotons of energy ...
  • Proteins Behind Mad-Cow Disease Also Help Brai ...
    Prions are best known as the infectious agents that cause ‘mad cow’ disease and the human versions of it, such as variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease. But the proteins also have at least one known useful function, in the cells that insulate nerves, and are suspected to have more. ...
  • The Real Power of Crystals: Attesting to Atoms
    From Simons Science News ( find original story here ). [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • IDLE NO MORE 38 - Mobilisation Flash du 16 Fév ...
    Nous étions présents, petits colibris apportant leur goutte d'eau à l'incendie qui ravage notre monde en ces jours plus qu'incertains. Vous trouverez dans ce p ...
  • Speech: Street Gangs, Foster Homes and Colonia ...
    Making the connections to stop the violence The following is the text of a speech given at the 2013 Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women in Montreal. Hi, my name is Lucy Ana ...
  • 16 février 2013 - Marche commémorative pour Je ...
    « De l'aide pas des balles! » Le 16 février 2012, Jean-François Nadreau était abattu par la police de Montréal dans son appartement à Hochelaga. Un an plus tard, sa famille et ses proches ont organisé une marche commémorative. La famil ...
  • Concert contre le cancer : des militantEs déno ...
    La compagnie pétrolière albertaine Enbridge s’est associée à l’Institut du Cancer de Montréal pour être commanditaire présenteur du Concert contre le cancer. Tenu à la Maison Symphonique le 15 février dernier, l’événement se voulait une soirée bénéfice pour la recherche contre ...
  • The Globe and Mail as Corporate Apologists: Be ...
    In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates amongst the Ipili people, who were one of the last major ethnic groups to be contacted by the Australian colonial administration of New Guinea, or "white ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quote of the Day: Frying the Planet is OK as L ...
    From Andrew Stuttaford, complaining about liberal spending priorities: We waste a fortune on measures (that will have no impact for decades, if ever) to tamper with the climate. Some of that money would be better spent on asteroid insurance. I can't really come up with anything witt ...
  • Has the Mainstream Media Finally Had Enough?
    I'm curious. It seems to me that something has happened over the past three months: the nonpartisan media has finally started to internalize the idea that the modern Republican Party has gone off the rails. Their leaders can't control their backbenchers. They throw pointless temper tantrums ab ...
  • Friday Valentine Cat Blogging - 15 February 2013
    It's not too late for some Valentine's Day catblogging, is it? Of course not. Today I have two cats for you. On the top is a picture from one of my childhood books, The Valentine Cat. It features a poor-but-honest shoemaker's apprentice, an evil chimney sweep, and a good-hearted princess. Plus ...
  • Here's How Billionaires Launder Their Climate- ...
    Have you been reading today about Donors Trust, the 800-pound gorilla of climate-denial funders that you've never heard of? Well, Andy Kroll told you all about them right here at MoJo last week: Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault on labor unions, climate scienti ...
  • Today We Have Bipartisan Support for Raising t ...
    Over at NRO, Kevin Williamson says that he likes the idea of indexing the minimum wage to inflation and being done with it for good, but Democrats are simply too treacherous to negotiate with: The problem is that in the current political climate, a deal is never a deal. Republicans might ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 381: Rappin for Jesus
    Topic: Rappin for Jesus Pope retires Getting out of Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day as a kid Dating is a hassle Troll better Lady dies after 10 liters of coke a day The new Die Hard Movie Share with your friends:
  • IC 380: Guard Grizzlies
    Topic: Valentine’s Day Men not dating The struggles of being a man in a relationship Dealing with cover thieves Next generation Gaming Papa John’s owner has a lake for a front yard Eminem slander WB and the Justice League movie Share with your friends:
  • IC 379: Amazon Pimping
    Topic: Valentine’s Day approaches Sharing too much on Facebook What happens when your kids see your cleavage pictures? Nobody want’s to go to Boston NYC isn’t that great Amazon should sell whores Taser rachetness Eminem doesn’t have any classic albums Comedy is subjective ...
  • IC 378: Bat Shit Insane
    Topic: Kriss has an epiphany People ain’t shit Chris Culliver says something stupid The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Bruce Wayne is crazy Batman beating Superman is the most realistic fight in comicbooks Comic Book cheat characters R rated comicbook movies Movie News Share with your friends:
  • IC 377: Scallenge
    Topic: Movie discussions Next Batman film Justice League lineup Children stories as movies JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars Movies and Music being generational Fuck It Gene evolved Brian Scalabrine is still better than you Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Extra stations bolster warming-extreme rainfal ...
    A study calling on 8326 weather stations has confirmed that annual precipitation highs are intensifying by around 7% per 1°C warming, explains University of Adelaide’s Seth West
  • Altered pressure patterns bring Eurasia intens ...
    Even as the world warms, stronger high pressures have driven extreme cold events happening since the 1990s in Europe and Asia, says Xiangdong Zhang at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
  • Mild winters raise risk of flu epidemics
    Warm years limit flu transmission, but that makes us more susceptible to the virus the following season, explains Sherry Towers at Arizona State University, meaning health authorities have to watch for severe epidemics as climate changes.
  • Iconic authors help reveal record early flowering
    150 years since Henry David Thoreau observed them, plants flower three weeks earlier thanks to climate change, find Boston University’s Libby Ellwood and her teammates.
  • Temperature cuts swathe through Australian seaweed
    A record heatwave in 2011 completely killed off a seaweed species in one bay and over 1/20 of the area it covers worldwide, finds Dan Smale of the University of Western Australia

e!Science News

  • Statistics help clear fog for better climate c ...
    Statistics is an important tool in sorting through information on how human activities are affecting the climate system, as well as how climate change affects natural and human systems, according to a Penn State statistician. read more
  • Wild plants are infected with many viruses and ...
    Researchers have studied viruses as agents of disease in humans, domestic animals and plants, but a study of plant viruses in the wild may point to a more cooperative, benevolent role of the microbe, according to a Penn State virologist. read more
  • Slithering towards extinction
    Nineteen percent of the world's reptiles are estimated to be threatened with extinction, states a paper published February 14 by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in conjunction with experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC). read more
  • Ancient teeth bacteria record disease evolution
    DNA preserved in calcified bacteria on the teeth of ancient human skeletons has shed light on the health consequences of the evolving diet and behaviour from the Stone Age to the modern day. read more
  • Rice University analysis links ozone levels, c ...
    Researchers at Rice University in Houston have found a direct correlation between out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and levels of air pollution and ozone. Their work has prompted more CPR training in at-risk communities. read more

unEarthed

  • Obama Has Spoken, Now He Must Lead
    Americans can’t wait for Congress to address climate change President Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber on Feb. 12, 2013.  (Chuck Kennedy / White House ...
  • Anti-Slime Brigade Packs Florida EPA Meeting
    Don't let agricultural pollutants kill magic waterways, they say Algae outbreak on the Santa Fe River in May of 2012. (John Moran) In a fantastic show of ...
  • What War On Coal?
    Obama can act on climate change by taking on a few western coal mines Coal mining damage caused by West Elk Mine. (U.S. Forest Service) In his State of the Un ...
  • Oil Derricks Won't Be Spoiling The Parks' View
    Court agrees that Utah leases were granted improperly Green River Butte. Thanks to a recent federal court decision, visitors to Utah’s public wild lands ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Toolkit to Fight Against Coal
    Equips communities on how to take on coal burning The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) last week released the "Coal Blooded Action Toolkit," which is a companion to its report, "Coal ...

Brave New Climate

  • Two decades and counting…
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...
  • Energy Policy – substance wins over style
    There’s a gradual, but a rising tide of rational, enviro-progressive scientists out there who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Many of these problems involve touchy subjects, including ways to reduce poverty while improving or maintaining high standards of living el ...
  • Zero emission synfuel from seawater
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...
  • Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
    As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear. W ...
  • 2012 BNC stats in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. (Note: about mid-way through the year, the site closed WP comments and moved them to the BNC Forums – this led to a redirection of many pageviews to the new site). Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tour ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • As Palestinian hunger strikes come to a head, ...
    Four Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strikes to protest their administrative detention and the conditions in which they are being held. While the EU calls on Israel to respect its obligations toward Palestinian prisoners’ human rights, an Israeli NGO reports they are being treated unet ...
  • Collaboration between IDF, settlers reaching p ...
    Israeli democracy is being severely compromised by the army’s collaboration with the settlers, and the fact that more and more Israeli citizens now see the occupation as the natural order of things. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz The following complaint was received from M., a resid ...
  • Jerusalem’s refugee camp: Abandoned by t ...
    Although the Shuafat refugee camp is under the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem Municipality, one look at the lack of basic infrastructure, the sewage running in the streets and the unsafe conditions reveal that it is part of a different world. By Chen Misgav Several weeks ago, during a late Saturd ...
  • Photos: Sudanese refugees in Israel celebrate ...
    The Sudanese refugee community gathers in south Tel Aviv to remember their homeland, celebrate their culture, music and dances and share them local Israelis.  Text by: Adam Bashar Photos by: Activestills.org The idea behind The Cultural Day of the Sudanese refugees community, held at the Goren G ...
  • Looting by IDF soldiers: ‘But on the spo ...
    The occupation has made us accustomed to things we never thought we’d get used to. This, basically, is the meaning of the weary expression “the occupation corrupts.” News that an IDF soldier is suspected of looting was met by the Israeli media with silence. We’re getting ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Uluru wins top tourism award
    The iconic Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park has taken out the top prize at the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards, being named the country’s best major tourist attraction.
  • Celebrating multicultural Australia
    The Gillard Government is celebrating multicultural Australia with a new heritage theme for 2013 looking at the stories and contribution of migrants.
  • Consultation closes on Marine Park draft Manag ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke said the close of this consultation marks the end of one of the Government's most extensive public engagement processes.
  • Gillard Government supports irrigators
    The Gillard Government will support irrigators and irrigation providers to better manage their networks into the future under a new program announced by Water Minister Tony Burke today.
  • Conditional approvals granted for Maules Creek ...
    Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has given conditional approval to the Maules Creek and Boggabri mine proposals, and the Gloucester coal seam methane gas project, subject to strict conditions and further work to minimise their potential environmental impacts.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Today is a Foreclosure Trial in Hillsborough C ...
    Today I have a foreclosure trial in Hillsborough County.  I spent the entire weekend deconstructing every single aspect of the Plaintiff’s case.  Every piece of paper, every bit of evidence they need. Case law. Statutes. Rules of Evidence. But the reality is, none of that will matter. This ...
  • Foreclosures In St. Petersburg and The State o ...
    Given the improvement in local and state residential real estate demonstrated by last week’s 2012 Florida Realtors statistics, there’s a lot of positive buzz, and possibly a bit of wishful thinking taking place among would-be sellers, Realtors, mortgage brokers, appraisers, developer ...
  • HOUSE BILL 87- FORECLSOURES IN ST. PETERSBURG, ...
    Should Florida Legislators and policy makers use our taxpayer dollars to fund a system that throws Florida families out into the street, only to benefit Wall Street hedge funds, institutional investors and foreign governments, like China? This is just one of the fundamental questions that must b ...
  • Florida Consumers Are About to be Punished&#82 ...
    Now that the federal and state governments have finished with all their prosecution of bank and Wall Street executives, now that they have exacted real penalties that are commensurate with the scale and magnitude of the crimes and the wrongdoing, our nations courts are moving quite swiftly to me ...
  • Leaked Emails, Wall Mart Execs Ask, “Whe ...
    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had the worst sales start to a month in seven years as payroll-tax increases hit shoppers already battling a slow economy, according to internal e-mails obtained by Bloomberg News. “In case you haven’t seen a sales report these days, February MTD sales are a total disaster,” ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Reunions
    Here is the link to my latest London Free Press article on our recent team trip to South Sudan – …Continue reading »
  • Identity – Romancing the Community
    It’s Valentine’s Day. Many things to many people, it nevertheless finds a certain commonality in that romance can be as …Continue reading »
  • Identity – If You Eat, You’re In
    Common vernacular says we are “what” we eat. There’s truth in that, but it’s actually how we organize ourselves in …Continue reading »
  • Smart and Caring
    This week the Conference Board of Canada published a significant report relating Canada’s standing on things like child poverty, inequality …Continue reading »
  • Identity Politics
    With the Speaker of the House seated beside me, I addressed a group of my fellow MPs in as frank …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

Empty newsfeed.

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: SOTU, GE Salmon, Russia ...
    Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack wants Russia to back down, and we say “nyet” to Secretary Vilsack. The ecologically sound and sustainable solution is to raise animals for human food without relying on growth promoters like ractopamine or antibiotics.
  • 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.

k2p blog

  • “Bribes are necessary” – Ber ...
    The real question for a CEO then becomes: "Should I decline to bid and jeopardise jobs - and profits - at my own factories, or join the prevailing game and pay the lowest possible bribe I can?"
  • “Not peer-reviewed” but it seems t ...
    The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is causing a dramatic increase in crop yields in Bihar, India. But low -tech crop management is not as sexy and does not lead to publications and scientific career advancement. It does not offer the chance for developing new high-tech plants or fertiliser ...
  • Death image in the snow
    The imprint is angelic in the pristine snow but it reflects the lost quest for survival for the one and survival assured for a few more days for another.
  • Death image in the snow
    The imprint is angelic in the pristine snow but it reflects the lost quest for survival for the one and survival assured for a few more days for another.
  • Indignation over N. Korea’s 3rd nuclear ...
    I find the indignation from all countries and the castigation of the North Koreans for a "provocative" and "dangerous" and destabilising" action less than convincing.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Best Buy Confirms Price-Matching Policy Change ...
    UPDATED WITH CLARIFICATION ON RETURNS, EXCHANGES, PRICE-MATCHING PERIOD, AND A LIST OF ONLINE STORES INCLUDED IN THE PRICE-MATCHING. —————– While Best Buy has yet to confirm or deny rumors about the halving of its return and exchange period, the retailer has ...
  • Florists Hate FTD And Teleflora Even More Than ...
    As a customer, you see ads from the ancient florist wire services like FTD and Teleflora. Readers write in and complain to us about those specific brands, since that’s the website they visit and the brand name that’s familiar. When you order up some flowers, though, that’s not ...
  • This Waffle House Adds 20% Surcharge To Pay Fo ...
    Used to be, if a business wanted to spend money to bolster its security, it would have to eat that cost or pass it on to the customer in the form of higher prices. But one Atlanta Waffle House has decided to keep the menu prices the same, and just tack on a 20% surcharge to cover the extra secur ...
  • Burger King Remembers It Has A Value Menu It S ...
    What do you think of when you hear the words, “dollar menu”? McDonald’s probably. How about “value menu”? Nothing? Yeah, that’s a problem, admits Burger King, confessing the company needs to start working on reminding people it’s got low-priced food item ...
  • Man Claims In Lawsuit That Six Flags Kicked Hi ...
    A man born without hands has had quite a full life — he went to college, got married, had kids, rides a bike and plenty of other things people with both hands do. For fun he enjoys riding roller coasters at Six Flags Over Texas, including the Aquaman Splashdown ride, but he says last May he was ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • At Least 20 CIA Prisoners Still Missing
    by Cora Currier ProPublica 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 Brennan, Obama ...
  • Bye-Bye Bennie: Could California Cover-Up Brin ...
    This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Pope Benedict XVI is gone in ten days. Many inside and outside the Catholic Church are saying, “don’t let the door hit you on the way out.” This papacy, controversial from his initial selection to replace John Paul II, was hit with damning revelations ...
  • Questions Remain After Christopher Dorner Epis ...
    by Dr. Anthony Asadulah Samad One of the most tragic and horrifying episodes in the recent history of our city, state and nation has come to an end…or has it? The national manhunt for ex-LAPD officer, Christopher Dorner, came to an end in a fiery shootout on Big Bear Mountain. There was nothing ...
  • Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Repub ...
    by Justin Elliott ProPublica Some of the nation’s biggest corporations donated more than a million dollars to launch a Republican nonprofit that went on to play a key role in recent political fights. Like the nonprofit groups that poured money into last year’s elections, the decade-old State Gov ...
  • Obama Says We Need to Fix Voting Lines. But How?
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica During the  State of the Union address, Michelle Obama was joined by 102-year-old Desiline Victor, who, like many in Florida and elsewhere, waited hours to vote on Election Day. “By the way,” Obama said in his election speech. “We have to fix that.” But how to fix ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • John Cook of (un) SkepticalScience, admits &#8 ...
    I don’t think John Cook realizes how his latest article affects virtually everything else he’s written. (Repeated on the SMH too.) How accurate is a book when even the title describes a group of people who don’t exist? Will Cook stop abusing English? So he finally admits the ba ...
  • Unthreaded
      . . . Rating: 6.0/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 6.0/10 (7 votes cast)
  • Two asteroids in one day but we spend 6000 tim ...
    The two asteroids were going in opposite directions, so were not related. While everyone was expecting and watching Asteroid 2012DA14, which missed Earth by 26,000 km (17,000 miles), another asteroid blasted through the atmosphere in Russia, injuring more than 1,000 people (mostly by shards of g ...
  • Lies are OK if you believe says Richardson
    Graham Richardson in The Australian Graham Richardson says that a lie is not a lie if you believe what you say: After the 2010 election, Julia Gillard had broken her core election promise that “there will be no carbon tax under a government I lead”. Her credibility has never recovere ...
  • Obama promises to stop storms. Labor is so bro ...
    Thank God for Barack Obama and Greg Combet. For they have The Gift. They can change the weather. Welcome back to another Golden Era of Climate-Hype. Obama’s State of the Union speech and all-new legislation in the US is ramping up the debate again. Greg Combet (Australian minister for the ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

Empty newsfeed.

2012 Blog

  • DNA Evidence of Bigfoot?
    I think that there might really be Yeti in the Himalayas, and there’s a lesser chance that Bigfoot is also real, in North America. So I was really excited to read the following at Red Orbit: A team of scientists has published the results of a five-year study of DNA samples from Sasquatch i ...
  • Meteors Hurting Humans: Actually Quite Common!
    In my book Survive 2o12, the appendix on the threat of asteroids and comets (follow the link to read it online) lists reports of modern era meteorites that have killed people or animals – it’s not a small list: 588 AD, 10 people, China 1490, supposedly 10,000 people, China 1511, Fra ...
  • Recent Human Evolution Determined
    It’s quite easy to spot Asian folks from behind. I always thought they just had shinier black hair than other races, but actually they have thicker hair. As do Native Americans, who originated from Asia. And we also know that some Asian people are more prone to sweating. Well, these are bo ...
  • Salmon Use Magnetic Field To Navigate
    This is meaningful, because for every animal that does get studied in this way (because scientists are curious about how they navigate from A to B), there will be dozens of other animals that use the same bio-technology but are not studied. Consequently, the butterfly effect from a magnetic pole ...
  • Another Free Book: Prepping On A Budget
    Also by George Shephard, this is a light overview to help inspire deeper research into how to prepare for the worst: Prepping on a Budget  Free for “the next few days”. 72 pages. Your're reading Another Free Book: Prepping On A Budget by Robert Bast, and originally posted at 2012 Bl ...

Facing South

  • Big corporations put up seed funding for Repub ...
    A nonprofit that paid for Republican consultants to draw new congressional district maps for North Carolina -- a gerrymander that helped flip the state's delegation to the GOP -- got most of its original funding from big corporations including Exxon, Pfizer and Time Warner. read more
  • Climate change is drowning out 'jobs vs. envir ...
    With the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline intensifying, the old argument that unions must choose between jobs and the environment is losing its grip as climate change becomes more evident and more urgent. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The case for raising the mini ...
    A by-the-numbers look at President Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage. read more
  • The Southern exception
    With North Carolina flipping back into the Republican column, you could say that the new Solid South begins in Henderson, N.C. and ends in Valdosta, Ga., bracketed by Virginia and Florida. read more
  • 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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US-Saudi Funded Terrorists Sowing Chaos in Pak ...
    Baluchistan, Pakistan – long target of Western geopolitical interests, terror wave coincides with Gwadar Port handover to China. Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province, bordering both US-occupied Afghanistan as well as Iran, was the site of a grisly market b ...
  • Pawns, Pygmies and the Pope in Fake Falkland War
    On 11 June 1982, Charles Haughey, then Irish PM (Taoiseach), had described the friendly duel in Falkland Island as “a ridiculous war”.  After more than thirty years, tensions are rising, with some looking at the prospects of a fresh war over the Island territory – a return to the heydays o ...
  • A Bomb in the Year of the Snake
    Everything about North Korea has to be speculative. That has been and is still the main problem. But one speculation seems to be ending, finally. It concerns China’s apparent ambivalence about North Korea’s nuclear program. Increasingly, Beijing is coming out on the ‘right side of history’. Whic ...
  • Russia – Pakistan: the Way is Open for N ...
    At the start of February this year, a trilateral meeting dealing with the situation in Afghanistan came to an end in London between the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan and British prime minister.  The outcome of the meeting was an agreement for a strategic Pakistan-Afghanistan partnership ...
  • Turkey: Facing International Responsibility
    The very complexity of Middle East situation and the games of their own played by such influential powers as Iran and Israel resulted in Turkey’s getting bogged down in a web of contradictions. Trying to become a dominant regional force using the Syrian crisis as leverage will hardly lead Turkey ...

BlogHer

  • Moms Stand Up Against Gun Violence - Action Week!
    Gun violence is the number 2 killer of children between the ages of 2 and 19.Friends, MothersI know the topic of gun control is an extremely volatile issue. I want to make it clear that I am NOT opposed to guns, hunting, or homeowners having guns in their homes.What I AM opposed to is the lack o ...
  • How Employee Referrals Lead to New Jobs
    [Editor's Note: Networking is important for a job search and can lead to the fast track to a new job. Getting referred by an existing employee always gives you a leg up. It certainly did wonders for me when I was changing companies a decade or so ago. -Paula G A recent article in The New Yor ...
  • 21 Signs You Might Have a Teen in Your Home
    Remember the days when Fisher Price decorated your house and your living room looked like Geoffrey the Giraffe puked all over it? Those days are like wine and roses compared to what your house looks like when you have teens living with you. Here are the signs that a teen is living in your house ...
  • Are You Freaking Kidding Me "Downton Abbey"? [ ...
    There are going to be season three spoilers in this wild rant about what Julian Fellowes and his sadistic creative team have put us through.So don't read any further if you haven't watched last night's Downton Abbey US season three finale.Seriously...there are going to be spoilers.Image courtesy ...
  • How to Attain and Maintain a Clutter-Free Home
    I wish someone had told me this years ago, instead of pointing me toward The Container Store, or the magazine Real Simple, or suggesting that closet systems and storage bins were the answer to my problem. Finally, after years of clutter and struggling to keep our house clean, my husband and I le ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Energy policy: One step up and two steps back
    The coal-fired Plant Scherer in operation at Juliette, Ga. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File) In some ways, we should probably see the latest op-ed commentary from West Virginia University’s mining engineering professor, Syd Peng, as a major victory for science and truth. Unlike just about all o ...
  • Friday roundup, Feb 15, 2013
    Relatives of miners killed in a blast at the Vorkutinskaya coal mine, mourn during the funeral ceremony in Vorkuta, Komi region in northern Russia, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013.  A blast at a coal mine in northern Russia on Monday killed 18 people, officials said. (AP Photo) The Philadelphia Inquirer ...
  • 3 W.Va. coal miners killed in the last week
    Well, Alpha Natural Resources President Kevin Crutchfield was certainly right about one thing he said the other day: While I am pleased with the efforts all of our employees are making on accident reduction, the loss of three of our fellow employees in 2012 is a somber reminder that there remain ...
  • MSHA seeks to close troubled slurry impoundment
    Vicki Smith over at The Associated Press has a pretty interesting story out this morning: The U.S. Department of Labor wants a federal judge to order the immediate shutdown of a potentially dangerous West Virginia coal slurry impoundment it says hasn’t been certified by a professional engi ...
  • Gov. Tomblin steers clear of key coal issues
    Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, delivers his annual State of the State speech on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, in Charleston, W.Va. W (AP Photo/Randy Snyder) Last evening, as West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin delivered his State of the State address, a family up in Marion County was suffering, in the after ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Reminder About Jobs and Profit
    It’s important to remember something about jobs: every industry is trying as hard as it can to automate human workers out of existence in order to maximize profit. And they’re finding some success. We should only expect that success to continue, and to accelerate. Remember what th ...
  • Embedding Github Repositories
    I’m quite taken with the concept of using Github to track important life items, such as goals, beliefs, plans, etc. What I’ve wanted to do is both maintain these things through Github and keep them current on my website. And I may have found a way to do this. My Github BugOutBa ...
  • Email: Top vs. Bottom Posting
    I’ve always been taught it’s polite to trim emails and type the reply below the text I’m responding to: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >> Top-posting. >>> Wh ...
  • Alternatives to Posterous for Web Clippings to ...
    I use Posterous primarily for selecting some text on a page, activating the Posterous bookmark, and then having it get sent to my blog (along with a link to the original article). It’s a solid way to highlight excellent content while adding commentary, in just a few seconds. But now Pos ...
  • On the Argument That Conservatives Give More t ...
    I have many conservative friends who love to throw this argument at me when I speak of their lack of compassion for those who are weak, ignorant, or otherwise powerless. This is how I generally respond. - I believe that most of those conservatives are donating the money because: it& ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

Empty newsfeed.

reference frame

  • AMS-02 dark matter results in 2-3 weeks
    ...and they may be pretty exciting... The BBC and The Globe And Mail (via Gordon) bring us some details about the looming dark matter announcements. In particular, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a $1.5 billion gadget operating from the International Space Station, should reveal ...
  • Nick Cave: Higgs Boson Blues
    I have listened to lots of songs by Nick Cave because he's been among the most favorite musicians of my former German Australian roommate (this is how he moved in except that I didn't have that much furniture yet). ;-) Your humble correspondent only became fond of his duet with Kylie Minogue tha ...
  • Ernest Moniz, MIT: Chu's successor?
    Some sources including Reuters speculate – or spread rumors – that Barack Obama is considering a nuclear physicist at MIT, Ernest Moniz, as a replacement for Steven Chu. I don't think I have ever met him. His CV reveals that he's worked both on nuclear power and nuclear weapons. He is a nuc ...
  • Al Gore, president of Earth Inc, didn't mentio ...
    Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore uploaded a new video to YouTube – the first video on his YouTube channel – in which he announced a new company, Earth Inc. The video has attracted more than 1,000 viewers in three days. Well, it was probably 200 viewers seeing it 5 times but it's sti ...
  • Should we build a defense system against meteo ...
    We were promised that today, the 2012 DA14 asteroid would pass just 27,700 km away from the surface of Earth today (watch live later tonight). That would be the closest distance recorded by humans for an object of this or larger size (diameter about 50 meters). Also, we were told that no ob ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • TV habits of children can affect mental health ...
    Changing the channel on what TV children watch could improve their behaviour but watching too much regular programming may have harmful long-term consequences, new research suggests. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: British doctor gives wrong vaccines to children for more than thre ...
  • Provincial police forces face cuts as federal ...
    Provincial police forces will have to look elsewhere for money as a federal program that injected millions into boosting police forces expires. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Quebec police arrest 2nd suspect in kidnapping of couple Quebec provincial police are looking for a third ...
  • Snow and wind storm pounds the Maritimes
    Heavy snow and driving wind have forced closures and created dangerous driving conditions around the Maritimes, with power outages reported in some areas of the region. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Second winter storm in a week hits the Maritimes People in all three Maritime pr ...
  • Russian scientists confirm meteorite fragments ...
    Search teams have collected pieces of a space rock that struck Russia last Friday and scientists confirm that specimens taken from the edge of a big hole in a frozen lake are fragments of the meteorite. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Meteorite falls near Russian border, injuring ...
  • Joe Schlesinger: The ping-pong player who chan ...
    Zhuang Zedong, the Chinese table tennis champion who opened the Cold War doors to ‘ping-pong diplomacy,’ died last week. His simple act of friendship toward a U.S. player was an example for today’s world, Joe Schlesinger writes. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Qu ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Biathlon bounty set new records
    Norwegian athletes’ performance at the Biathlon World Championships that ended in the Czech Republic over the weekend resulted in a haul of 11 medals in 11 events, eight of them gold. It was a feat that no nation had ever managed before, and the Norwegians’ domination was so complete ...
  • Police release right-wing extremist who threat ...
    The 27-year-old right-wing extremist who unleashed a massive police operation on Wednesday, after he was overheard talking about plans to blow up the Norwegian Parliament, was a free man Friday night. Police claimed they had no legal grounds to hold him in custody any longer. The young Norwegian ...
  • Berger mined more gold, not Svindal
    Norway’s biathlon queen Tora Berger pulled in more gold medals this week after competing again on Friday night at her “ski-shooting” sport’s world championships in the Czech Republic. Her fellow Norwegian skiing star, Aksel Lund Svindal, wasn’t as fortunate on Frida ...
  • Behn ‘complicates’ royal complaint
    A stinging complaint launched by Norway’s Royal Palace against celebrity magazine Se og Hør last week seemed to lose some of its credibility this week, when news broke that the king and queen’s own son-in-law, Ari Behn, entertained at a Se og Hør staff luncheon and got paid by the ma ...
  • Breivik prosecutor switches sides
    Svein Holden became a familiar face last year not just to Norwegians but to TV viewers around the world, when he helped lead the prosecution of the man who bombed government headquarters in 2011 and massacred 69 persons on the island of Utøya. Now the articulate 39-year-old lawyer is making a ma ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Put Your Questions to the Experts, Round 4b: G ...
    Geoff Lawton at the Zaytuna Farm entrance Photo © Craig Mackintosh This is Part B of the fourth installment in our popular Q&A series. In case you didn’t catch it on previous occasions, we added a new sub-forum titled ‘Put Your Questions to the Experts!‘, where our forum members put ...
  • Heating The Greenhouse Rocket-Style
    by Rob Avis Our new rocket mass heater is now functionally done. After installing a proper chimney, it really hums! Above is a video that we produced showcasing its construction. I have now fired it four times for about an hour to an hour and a half to drive off any remaining moisture in ...
  • Bioshelters for Year-Round Food Production
    Coldframes Manhattan, New York At the beginning of the 1900s, many modern cities were growing vegetables under glass during the winter months. Truck farmers in these cities, including Manhattan in the USA, and Paris in France, were able to grow significant amounts of food in simple cold frames ...
  • Gardening with Perennial Vegetables DVD
    I’m announcing the release of the Gardening with Perennial Vegetables DVD, the companion to my Perennial Vegetables book. Almost three hours long, the DVD visits my own cold-climate garden, Las Canadas in the Mexican cloud forest, and ECHO in subtropical Florida. Many species are cover ...
  • Warmest Decade on Record Brings Record Tempera ...
    by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute Photo © Craig Mackintosh In recent years weather events have whiplashed between the extremes of heat and cold, flooding and drought. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases — largely from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas — ha ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • A Child On Death Row - The Story of Shareef Cousin
    From Resurrection After Exoneration: “I was a child. Death row didn’t affect me like it would now. Today, I’d go crazy!” On July 3, 1996, when Shareef Cousin was only seventeen years old, he became the youngest inmate on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As a matter of fa ...
  • What Do We Have Left?, By Oliver M.Thomas Jr.
     Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Mardi Gras are over.  Today we celebrate Ash Wednesday, the beginning of  Lent where sinners take at least 40 days off to discipline their lives, give up worldly lusts and desires that control them most of the year, and make a pact with God ...
  • Idle No More Comes to the Gulf Coast, By Cherr ...
    Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Last Sunday, January 20, I had the pleasure of seeing a short-term dream materialize, when over 100 folks traveled from every Gulf state to attend a gathering organized by Idle No More – Gulf Coast, of which I am proudly a part. Idle No More is the ...
  • How NOT to be a Gentrifier With Your Theater: ...
    New Orleans has seen a recent theatre resurgence. Below is a critical perspective on this wave of new theatre from educator and writer Catherine Michna, reprinted from her local blog catherinemichna.wordpress.com. I spent this past weekend at the Network of Ensemble Theater’s MicroFest in New O ...
  • Women With A Vision, Recovering From Arson, Pu ...
    Women With A Vision, a community-based non-profit founded by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color, has just made a downpayment on a building in Midcity New Orleans. The Vision House will enable the organization to co ...

Information Underground

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

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Meteor Strike in Siberia Rains Down Debris and ...
    A 10-ton meteor broke apart 20 to 30 miles above the ground in western Siberia, raining chunks of debris over a large area, causing a powerful boom that damaged buildings across a vast territory, and injuring more than 1,000 people, mostly from shattering glass. The Russian Academy of Sciences s ...
  • Why I Came to Washington to Protest the Keysto ...
    By Rick Bass It’s not exactly as if hell has frozen over, for me, an oil and gas geologist to be protesting – maybe even beyond the extent allowable by law – the folly of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. I’ve hugged a tree or two before, written some letters opposing this or that dam, mine, c ...
  • 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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Parliamentary reform idea: Get out of the House
    By Seth Klein and Shannon Daub [Note: Samara Canada has been gathering ideas for reforming Parliament. All the ideas they have collected are being posted on their blog, which you can find here. What follows is our contribution.] Here’s the big dilemma: Whatever reforms are made to Parliamentary ...
  • Tuition hike and the media between 2005 and 20 ...
    I’ve contended for the last two years that between 2005 and 2010, an intensive public relations campaign was undertaken with the aim of increasing tuition fees in Québec. I believe it was crucial when the proposal to hike fees was formally submitted in Raymond Bachand’s first budget, the Liberal ...
  • Sweet heart, bitter pill: Rising, dancing, and ...
    On Valentine’s Day this year women around the world will be dancing. One Billion Rising, a new initiative from Vagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler, calls on women to dance their way to a future without violence. Now, I’m all for dancing, but I’d like to add a little counting into the mix.  Each ...
  • The City of Regina’s Unquenchable Thirst for B ...
    It seems the City of Regina just can’t get enough of bad deals. Hot on the heels of the City Plaza debacle and the stadium funding mess, the City has now announced its intention to enter into a 30-year contract with a private corporation to upgrade its waste water treatment facilities. Jus ...
  • Repeat After Me: Ontario is not Greece
    The Fraser Institute has a new report warning Ontario could become the next Greece or California because of the size of its debt. Of course we know Ontario is not Greece or California, and such comparisons are disingenuous. But it is possible that Ontario could find itself in a similar mess if i ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

Empty newsfeed.

Revolutionary Politics

Empty newsfeed.

Peakwater

  • Paiute Indians Help Map the History of the L.A ...
    “Working on a documentary project in the Owens Valley on land owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) can be a little dicey. A truck zooms by as UC Berkeley scholar Jenna Cavelle and Paiute elder Harry Williams begin one of their mapping expeditions. “Is this DWP land? ...
  • Traces Of Anxiety Drugs May Make Fish Act Funny
    “The water is likely to be considerably cleaner upstream and downstream from the sewage plant where the Swedish perch were captured. Adding more uncertainty in this case: Benzodiazepines have been used for decades in Sweden, so they have no doubt been in this aquatic ecosystem for many yea ...
  • Nigeria: UN Unveils Platform for Global Water ...
    “Each year brings new pressures on water. One-third of the world’s people already live in countries with moderate to high water stress. Competition is growing between farmers and herders; industry and agriculture; town and country. Upstream and downstream, and across borders, we need ...
  • In California, Reading the Snow to Tell the Fu ...
    “In California’s water system, one of the world’s most sophisticated and complex, the snowpack plays a leading role by supplying water to more than 25 million people and almost one million acres of farmland. Snow that accumulates on the Sierra Nevada’s 400-mile range starts to melt in the ...
  • Desalination Seen Booming at 15% a Year as Wor ...
    “In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, 158,438 residents of the city of Copiapo suffered daily cutoffs of tap water last year as Anglo American Plc and other companies helped suck nearby aquifers dry for their mines. With little water left for drinking or mining, the government of Presi ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • JUST WHOM DO THEY $ERVE
    Those we elect in Arizona “to serve & to protect” us … choose instead to diligently work to cripple our authority over them … take a look at one of their latest pending changes in our laws …   AIRZONA … HCR2033, proposing an amendment to the state constitution that wo ...
  • Monkey $ee … Monkey do
    … Monkey $ee … Monkey do … HEY … Congre$$$ luxuriates on corporate’$ dime … so what they expect $taff not to follow suite … Congressional staffers often travel on tabs of foreign governments 02-17-2013  •  Washington Post Congressional staffers flew business c ...
  • Now act surprised
    … Now might be an excellent time for you to read and consider … DUMBING US DOWN … by John Taylor Gatto … Corporations Advise School Closings, While Private Charters Suck Public Schools Away   Kristin Rawls, AlterNet: Read the Article As charter proponents aim to cash in o ...
  • IF proven true … this is totally unaccep ...
    … IF true and the question is how and who determine truth … this action is totally unacceptable… Obama Gives Foreign Cops New Police Powers in U.S. 02-17-2013  •  . A little-discussed executive order from President Obama giving foreign cops new police powers in the United State ...
  • An alliance to do what …?
    Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Beyond the resorts: traveling the real and wil ...
    For its stunning variety of ecosystems, the Dominican Republic is like a continent squished into half an island. Lowland rainforests, cloud forests, pine forests, dry forests, mangroves, savannah, coastal lagoons, salt lakes, a rift valley, karst land formations, four mountain ranges—inclu ...
  • Pity the pangolin: little-known mammal most co ...
    Last year tens-of-thousands of elephants and hundreds of rhinos were butchered to feed the growing appetite of the illegal wildlife trade. This black market, largely centered in East Asia, also devoured tigers, sharks, leopards, turtles, snakes, and hundreds of other animals. Estimated at $19 bi ...
  • The beginning of the end of deforestation in I ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper, a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on efforts to slow the Southeast Asian nation's high rate ...
  • Geneticists discover distinct lion group in sq ...
    They languished behind bars in squalid conditions, their very survival in jeopardy. Outside, an international team of advocates strove to bring worldwide attention to their plight. With modern genetics, the experts sought to prove what they had long believed: that these individuals were special. ...
  • Meet Cape Town's volunteer 'toad shepherds'
    August marks the last month of winter in South Africa, and, as temperatures begin to rise, activists in Cape Town prepare for a truly unique conservation event. Every year at this time western leopard toads (Amietophrynus pantherinus) endemic to the region and Critically Endangered, embark on a ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Hawaii detection system to give warning of fut ...
    The meteor that caused devastation in the Russian town of Chelyabinsk could have struck the British Isles if it had entered the Earth's atmosphere at a slightly different time of day, according to astronomers.They said the impact...
  • Grim 'Tankograd' in clean-up mode
    As a small army of people worked to replace windows shattered by the explosion from a meteor, many joked about what had happened. One of the most popular jests: residents of the meteor were terrified to see Chelyabinsk approaching.Chelyabinsk,...
  • Astronauts push for asteroid alert
    A space rock even bigger than the meteor that exploded like an atom bomb over Russia could drop out of the sky at any time and there isn't much the world's scientists can do.But some former astronauts are hopeful the cosmic coincidence...
  • Tech Universe: Thursday 15 February
    UNFOLDING DRAMA: Pull the 25 Kg Hungarian Moveo electric scooter from the back seat of your car,
  • Sea slug can re-grow its detachable penis
    Losing your penis after sex would be most men's worst nightmare. Fortunately for one particular sea slug, it can grow its detachable penis back.Researchers in Japan have found that the nudibranch Chromodoris reticulata loses its...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt in B.C. re charges
    Michael Schmidt was to appear in B.C. court to face contempt charges, along with fellow raw milk advocate Gordon Watson, Feb 13 – 15th. As yet we’ve had no report on the outcome of those court proceedings. However the story … Continue reading →
  • Health Canada and FDA inviting comments on raw ...
    On February 11th, The Ontario Farmer reported that Health Canada is inviting comments on whether regulations regarding raw milk ought to be made or changed. The story quotes Barfblog blogger Dr. Doug Powell on the risks and dangers posed to … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt off to BC this week to face co ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “When you follow the tedium of the legal justice system, you begin to understand why some defendants, even though they are innocent, decide to cop pleas rather than follow the process … Continue reading →
  • Will a token Federal GMO labeling law pre-empt ...
    Although the hubbub around California’s Proposition 37 to require GMO labeling may have died down, following it’s supposed defeat at the polls, concerns about GMOs have by no means gone away. The latest big story in the march to label … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk rally at the B.C. legislature
    Video from Christian Tatonetti on Youtube:  Although this documentary was not posted until March 2012, it was originally shot during the raw milk demonstration at the B.C. Legislature (in Victoria, B.C.) on Nov 23 2011, which was the fifth anniversary of the November … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Rebalancing in Spain Stage Two: 20,000 Iberia ...
    The "rebalancing" in Spain continues along the lines I have suggested, not as suggested by economists and those who think there is guaranteed future of the eurozone. Via Google translate from El Economista, please consider Strike by Iberia Starts Monday The nearly 20,000 workers are cal ...
  • Spanish Debt Grows by €146 Billion, Largest Ev ...
    Proof there is no rebalancing in Europe is easy to find. For example, El Pais reports Spanish Debt Grows by €146 Billion. What follows is a Mish-modified translation of the above Google-translation. Key Points The public debt exceeded €882 billion at the end of 2012 Debt Grew b ...
  • Sinking Yen a "Byproduct, Not a Focus" of Trad ...
    Japan is in the forefront of the news with ridiculous statements such as a the sinking yen is a "Byproduct, Not a Focus" of its foreign trade policy. I have a simple question "Even if that statement is believable, what difference does it make?" The answer is none. Regardless, statements fr ...
  • Can You Beat a Chimpanzee in a Memory Test?
    Here is an interesting video showing the ability of chimpanzees to memorize and recall random patterns of light flashes better than what one in a thousand humans could do. All chimps seem to have this recall ability. Play the video, it's fascinating. The Financial Times has a re ...
  • 2012 Export Growth by Country; China and US at ...
    Inquiring minds are looking at charts from the New York Times that show U.S. Trade in 2012 Outpaced Many Other Countries. In 2012, United States exports of goods rose 4.5 percent from 2011, a faster rate of growth than that of 10 other major countries but well below the growth rate of Chines ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson-Delving into the ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Professor Ira Chernus Professor Ira Chernus from the University of Colorado at Boulder joins us today to discuss John Kerry’s shocking admission that Foreign Policy is Economic policy. What is the motivational relationship between war and select economic interests and ...
  • Video Report-Know Your Terrorists: Ayman Al-Za ...
    An Excellent video report from James Corbett of Corbett Report: We are told a certain tale about the story of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man and the inheritor of the Al Qaeda operation…but we are not told everything. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    The Moody Blues- “Nights in White Satin” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick is Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues. Written by Justin Hayward in1967, it was first featured on the album Days of Future Passed. The Moody Blues have sold more than 70 million albums world ...
  • Corbett Report- Sibel Edmonds on Gladio Part I ...
    Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com joins us for the third part of our series on Gladio B, the NATO-directed effort to radicalize, enable and protect Islamic terrorists to further their own geopolitical ends. In this edition we discuss the Hood Event, the Gladio A / B transition, Israel’s role ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 17
    “War, Peace, and the Search for Our Humanity” with Kathy Kelly This week, Eric has an in-depth conversation with peace activist and author Kathy Kelly. They discuss the human side of war: the children taken from their parents, the fathers ruthlessly assassinated, the lives permanently shattered. ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • (Power) Walk This Way
    A group of US and Chinese researchers have developed a generator that can convert footsteps into electrical power, which may pave the way for large scale energy harvesting in urban areas. We are surr...
  • DNA break-up ages eggs in ovaries
    It's a sad fact that a woman's egg cells don't last forever, and we eventually lose our fertility. Women are born with over a million potential egg cells, but only 500 turn into mature eggs, and they'...
  • Synthetic biology: making anti-malarials
    Mark - I've got a story in this week's edition of Nature which is really a milestone in the battle against malaria, but it's also a milestone for science of synthetic biology. Now, this involves addin...
  • Origins of Cosmic Rays
    Over the century since they were first discovered, cosmic rays have been something of a mystery. These particles (mostly protons) that hurtle through space at high speed and crash into the Earth's upp...
  • Soft robots take a leap forward
    When you think of robots do you think of leaping bits of silicone powered by explosions? Probably not, but researchers based at Harvard University in the US have made just such a device. The small t...

Related articles

Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)