Thursday, February 21, 2013

21 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Campanula sp. (Upper Caucasus)
Campanula sp. (Upper Caucasus) (Photo credit: Arthur Chapman)
Caucasus Mountains, Ossetia
Caucasus Mountains, Ossetia (Photo credit: nuttallp)
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English: Faisal ephemeral "KINGDOM of SYR...
English: Faisal ephemeral "KINGDOM of SYRIA" (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Caucasus. Qasara Gorge
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Scoop - NZ

  • Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
    For at least half a decade, the storied British colonial banking power helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, suspected in tens of thousands of murders just in the past 10 years – people so totally evil, jokes former New York Attorne ...
  • Inflation: From Watery Bourbon To Horse-Meat
    We’ve had an endless series of products whose ingredients have been cheapened in order to maintain the price. Consumers won’t be able to taste the difference, the theory goes. So, as the horse-meat lasagna scandal in Europe is spiraling beautifully out of control, we’re now getting hit where it ...
  • Zygier spy case gets even curiouser
    The case of Prisoner X, Australian Jew Ben Zygier, gets ever stranger. It appears that his crime may have been confirming to Australian spooks that Israel was indeed misusing Australian passports to run security operations. From afar Israelis may not have appreciated the fury of the Australia ...
  • Syrian War Is Destabilising The Caucasus
    The civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilising the Caucasus. Chechen Islamists fighting against the Kremlin are supporting the Syrian Islamist opposition. Russia fears that an Islamist regime in Damascus would change the whole balance of power in the region. At the same time, ethnic confli ...
  • Christopher Dorner and the "Burner"
    The tactics employed against Christopher Dorner by the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department are attracting an awkward amount of interest since an audiotape surfaced with law enforcement officials referring to a munition as a “burner”. As in (all quotes from the Feb. 15, 2013 LA Times report ti ...

Independent - London

  • UK to train Lebanese troops amid fears of Syri ...
    Britain will help train 2,000 Lebanese soldiers this year amid heightened concern that Syria's neighbour will be sucked into the country's civil war, the Foreign Secretary has said.Related StoriesSaudi Arabian women take seats on advisory bodyBahrain's royal family infiltrated by hardliners host ...
  • He couldn't, could he? Silvio Berlusconi aims ...
    Scandals are the fertiliser of Western democracy,” said a character in Dario Fo’s stage satire, Accidental Death of an Anarchist. The Nobel Prize-winning Italian writer may have penned this in jest, but it will take on new  resonance this weekend, when  Italy’s corruption-weary public goes to t ...
  • Pistorius prosecution in disarray as lead dete ...
    The extraordinary saga of Oscar Pistorius’s bail hearing took another unexpected turn today when lead investigator Hilton Botha was removed from the case after attempted murder charges against him were reinstated.Related StoriesProsecutors call for lead detective to be dropped from Pistorius ca ...
  • Arrest of match-fixing suspect brings Interpol ...
    Police in Italy have arrested a Slovenian associate of the man they claim is the kingpin in an international conspiracy to fix top-flight football matches. The Slovenian, who had been on the run, flew to Milan from Singapore and gave himself up. Interpol named him as 31-year-old Admir Suljic an ...
  • Peace in Syria looks a vain hope as 53 die in ...
    A huge plume of black smoke hung over central Damascus today after a devastating car bomb killed at least 53 people, adding urgency to renewed efforts to reach a political solution to the civil war.Related StoriesSaudi Arabian women take seats on advisory bodyBahrain's royal family infiltrated ...

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

  • Blood diamonds - the true story
    This documentary examines the little-known truth about how the worldwide diamond trade has funded wars across western and central Africa, leading to the deaths of millions of people.
  • The extraordinary science of addictive junk food
    On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America's largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble, Coc ...
  • Cardinal who covered up pedophilia says he for ...
    Documents from the 1980s have been unearthed which conclusively show Archbishop Roger M. Mahony purposefully and intentionally worked to cover-up the sexual abuses of children. Due to this vile revelation the public has scorned Mahony, to which he says he forgives them for their anger. How gene ...
  • NASA see monster sunspot form in less than 48 ...
    A colossal sunspot on the surface of the sun is large enough to swallow six Earths whole, and could trigger solar flares this week, NASA scientists say. The giant sunspot was captured on camera by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory as it swelled to enormous proportions over the 48 hours spanning ...
  • Lightning storms, flash floods and high winds ...
    Flash and lashing rain saw homes damaged in Melbourne's north and west as a storm hit the suburbs overnight. The wild weather flooded a police station, caused a supermarket roof to collapse and grounded flights at Melbourne Airport. Residents in South Morang and Mernda are cleaning up today af ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Integrity walks . . .
    THE MARCH ON STEVIE continues, the Journey of the Nishiyuu, as the concerned aboriginals progress through Waskaganish yesterday on their way to consult with Stevie and the GG. Be sure to join 'em. 
  • Seriously Consevatives,
    The reason that no amount of marketing and focus groups will sell the Tar Sands to us is because we do not want an "energy sector" that involves them. There's no magic pill here.
  • 1939 Django Reinhardt Stephane Grappelli Jazz ...
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  • 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.

Media Matters for America

  • Ben Carson's Moment
    Dr. Benjamin Carson is the latest in a long line of black conservatives -- from Clarence Thomas to Herman Cain -- relentlessly promoted and propped up by right-wing voices in the media. After Carson used a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in front of President Obama to trumpet conser ...
  • Fox Manufactures Obama Veto Threat For Replaci ...
    Fox News is cropping a statement President Obama made in November 2011 to falsely claim he threatened to veto any replacement for the scheduled across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration. But in that statement, Obama called on Congress to pass "a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by ...
  • Right-Wing Media Downplay Economic Harm From S ...
    Right-wing media are downplaying the economic consequences of across-the-board spending cuts. In fact, economists agree that those cuts - known as the sequester - would lead to thousands of jobs lost and decreased economic growth.Right-Wing Media Claim Sequester Cuts Are A "Rounding Error," "Chu ...
  • Fox News Advocates For Cutting Head Start Prog ...
    Fox News figures are reviving the myth that the Head Start education program is a failure, in light of reports that the program may lose funding. In fact, research shows the program benefits disadvantaged children in that it has a positive impact both early and later on in their lives.Head Start ...
  • The Sequester: Myths And Facts
    Right-wing media outlets have advanced a number of myths regarding automatic across-the-board spending cuts -- commonly called the sequester -- in order to hide the facts behind an inherently harmful economic policy.Will The Sequester Hurt Economic Growth? Will The Sequester Help The Economy? ...

Global Research.ca

  • Bradley Manning Incarcerated without a Trial: ...
    Think of that, count it off . . . 1,000 days; that is how long Bradley Manning has been incarcerated without a trial. Even though he has been incarcerated for nearly three years most Americans have no idea what he…
  • The “Alternative Media” Challenges ...
    The mainstream media is under threat. And the threat is in the form of what is known as the ‘alternative media’. Decades ago, the ‘underground’ media took the form of pamphlets and booklets. These days, it’s no longer ‘underground’ and…
  • On Education, Barack Obama is the President of ...
    By the time his term is over, President Obama and his Race To The Top program will have forced the closure and privatization of thousands of inner-city schools, a feat no white Republican or Democrat could have accomplished. But he’ll…
  • Obama’s Next Big Housing Market Giveaway ...
    For those who missed President Obama’s latest giveaway to the Bank Mafia, we’ll repeat what he said here. This is an excerpt from his recent State of the Union Speech: “Part of our rebuilding effort must also involve our housing…
  • Why The Banking Elite Want Riots in America
    Every indication clearly suggests that authorities in the United States are preparing for widespread civil unrest. This trend has not emerged by accident – it is part of a tried and tested method used by the banking elite to seize…

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

  • The Five Stages of Environmental Grief
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.There is purportedly a Chinese curse that goes, “May you be born in interesting times.” That curse must have landed on everyone alive today! One can scarcely imagine more interesting times than we are living ...
  • 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 ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Forward on Climate Rally – A Call to Activism
    I have been a Public Citizen intern since January of this year.  As a Political Science graduate student, in both Undergraduate and Graduate studies I have been immersed in the political process and the theories behind the ideas that have formed our nation.  When I was a bit younger, I dabbled i ...
  • $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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • Iceland Looks to Export Power Bubbling From Below
    (New York Times) KRAFLA, Iceland — Soon after work began here on a power plant to harness some of the vast reserves of energy stored at the earth’s crust, the ground moved and, along a six-mile-long fissure, began belching red-hot lava ...
  • Fort Collins May Join Longmont in Fracking Ban
    (Times Call) LONGMONT -- Longmont may have company on the fracking front. On Tuesday, Fort Collins set itself up to become the second city in Colorado to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process of using high-pressure fluid ...
  • Enbridge, Energy Transfer to Convert Gas Pipel ...
    (Oil and Gas Journal) Enbridge Inc. and Energy Transfer will jointly develop a project to move 420,000-660,000 b/d of crude oil by pipeline from Patoka, Ill., to St. James, La., and the eastern Gulf Coast refining market by converting ...
  • National Integrated Drought Information System ...
    (Circle of Blue) Since last year, an intense and widespread drought in the United States has pummeled farm production, halted shipping along the Mississippi River, and caused some of the Great Lakes to drop to record lows — and climate ...
  • Unlocking the Climate Conspiracy Mindset
    (New York Times) When I first met the NASA climate researcher Gavin Schmidt a few years ago, we discussed the proliferation of material on the Internet attacking mainstream climate science. I asked him whether he thought clim ...

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

  • Ranking the Senators
    I'm not sure how Sens. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Dick Blumenthal (D-CT) beat out Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the National Journal's ratings of the most liberal members of the Senate. For the most part, the ratings make intuitive sense. But both Sanders and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) are ranked as moderates, ...
  • Set Up for a Drubbing
    Things look really bleak for the Republicans when you lay everything out the way Greg Sargent did in his column this morning. Steve Benen drives home the same point. Recent polling is brutal for conservatives. On almost every issue being debated in Washington right now, about two-thirds of th ...
  • Our Fight Was Different than Rove's
    Karl Rove is taking a beating in the press, as evidenced today by Bloomberg and Politico articles that feature numerous critics both on and off the record. This new quirk in our political culture got me thinking about the left's own internal fight during the height of the Bush administration. ...
  • No Good Goodlatte
    In the immediate aftermath of the Newtown Massacre, I warned you (twice) about the obstacle to reform presented by incoming House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte. Now, The Hill reports that he's going to be a real pain in the ass on immigration reform, too. The chairman of the House Judi ...
  • Everyone Knows McCain is a Former POW
    Jason Horowitz wants to know who John McCain really is. That's easy. I answered it here in the most vicious article I have ever written. I don't know what moved me to write it, and I suspected at the time that I might live to deeply regret writing it. As it turns out, I have absolutely no re ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Krampnitz: Potsdam's Abandoned Nazi and Soviet ...
    The buildings at Krampnitz are falling into ruin; a far cry from the grand installation that once housed Nazi and then Soviet military. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Wonders of design dominate this week’s collection of cool linkage, and combined with some other fascinating titbits, it’s a recipe for some seriously cool linkage. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Delicate Architecture of Water Droplets
    Fragile and fleeting, these beautiful droplets of water create their own architecture – captured brilliantly in these stunning macro photographs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Discovering the Secret Shipwrecks of the Balti ...
    The icy waters of the Baltic Sea preserve shipwrecks like nowhere else; these amazing historical finds offer a glimpse of what lies beneath the waves. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Review: The Rich Don't Always Win
    Americans were once able to wrestle, bit by bit, power and influence from the wealthy elite--and if they did it once, they can certainly do so again.
  • U.S. Could Take a Lesson From France on LGBT R ...
    Same-sex marriage and adoption move forward in France.
  • U.S. Urged to Lean Harder on Bahrain's Ruling ...
    While Washington publicly advocates for open dialogue and reform between Bahrain's regime and the opposition, its policy has so far avoided exerting any real pressure on the kingdom to achieve these ends.
  • Obama Administration Reveals Deep Divisions on ...
    While the official narrative of the Obama administration is sceptical of arming militant groups in Syria, divisions within the administration leave the door open for any number of policies toward the country.
  • Tunisia Boils Over
    The assassination of a progressive Tunisian leader is the culmination of a full-blown socio-economic and cultural crisis that has been brewing in the country for the past two years.

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The Art of Failing Gracefully: DEA & DOJ need ...
    Hundreds of billions of dollars, between cash flows and valuations, depend upon the ability of American law enforcement structures avidly maintaining their illusionary belief system about laundered drug money, informants, and banking systems. All of this is normal, they say, it's normal to throw ...
  • #ForwardOnClimate: Battle within Sierra Club c ...
    The real question is: Can hydraulic fracturing ever be safe for our environment and public health? Sierra Club’s Oil and Gas Policy: We have reviewed the Club’s Oil and Gas Policy, as revised February 2012, and are pleased that it clearly states the reasons the Club doesn’t support hydraulic fr ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • A Day to Remember A Martyr
    President Lyndon B. Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover deemed Malcolm X's revolutionary internationalism and domestic radicalism subversive and threatening to the U.S. government.
  • 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.

IntelNews

  • US held secret meetings with North Korea after ...
    Senior United States officials traveled secretly to North Korea for talks on at least two occasions following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, according to a leading Japanese newspaper.
  • New information emerges on Hezbollah commander ...
    A Lebanese newspaper has published the most detailed account to date of the 2008 assassination of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah. The car explosion that killed Mughniyah in Syrian capital Damascus on February 12, 2008, is widely believed to have been the work of the Mossad, Israel’s foremost ...
  • First interview in 57 years for chief of Germa ...
    The head of the German military’s counterintelligence service, which is widely seen as the country’s most secretive intelligence organization, has given the first public media interview in the agency’s 57-year history.
  • 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, ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Feb 22
        Syria car bomb leaves at least 53 dead, 235 injured, officials say - latimes.com Syrian National Coalition denounces Damascus "terrorist" bombing - NOW Syria urges UNSC to condemn "terrorist" blasts in Damascus - KUNA Moscow Calls for West to Pressure Extremists in Syria to St ...
  • Doctors Helping Racist Interrogators at Yale
  • Tour de Peace
    Between April 4 and July 3, the entire country (and the other 96% of humanity too) is invited to join in a bicycle ride from California to Washington, D.C.  You can join as a bicycler or as a sponsor. This won't be a ride to raise awareness about cruelty to animals, but it will raise awaren ...
  • The Plague of Civil Obedience
  • TSA’s kinda-sorta apology to 3-year-old girl i ...
    In time-honored fashion, the TSA, once again, offers a weak, responsibility-avoiding apology to 3-year-old Lucy Forcke and her parents Nathan Forcke and Annie Schulte. It took a while, but the national media finally picked up on the story we reported here three days ago about the TSA harass ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Israel, Palestine and the Oscars
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Academy Awards ceremony will make history this year with the first-ever nomination of a feature documentary made by a Palestinian. “5 Broken Cameras” was filmed and directed by Emad Burnat, a resident of the occupied Palestinian West Bank town of Bil’ ...
  • The Oscar Interviews: 2013 Nominees Include "5 ...
    As we reported today , Emad Burnat, the subject of the Oscar-nominated film 5 Broken Cameras and a past guest on Democracy Now! , was detained at Los Angeles International Airport with his family after arriving to attend this weekend’s Academy Awards. In a series of Twitter messages, ...
  • VIDEO: Gregory Peck's Daughter Cecilia Recalls ...
    We speak with filmmaker Cecilia Peck about her father Gregory Peck’s legacy of work that raises important social issues, including his films To Kill a Mockingbird and The Trial of the Catonsville Nine , which landed him on Nixon’s enemies list. "He just had so much decency a ...
  • VIDEO: PBS/AOL Feature Amy Goodman as Part of ...
    Amy Goodman sits down with AOL / PBS filmmakers to talk about her longtime career in journalism, building Democracy Now! over the past 17 years, and how independent media is essential to the functioning of a democratic society. Watch the entire interview or pick one of the segments belo ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Introducing Solari Stories
      This Solari Story, The Fiscal Cliff and Gun Control, is the first of many brief and insightful videos that Catherine will be releasing throughout the year. Check back every Wednesday for more Solari Stories.
  • Will 1 oz of Gold Buy the S&P?
  • Transcript of “Precious Metals Market Re ...
    Transcript of Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Franklin, I have to say the gold and silver market this month has absolutely – I’m still just shaking my head, so I, too, am looking forward to your report tonight. ...
  • Ways and Means Unveils Tax Reform Working Groups
    By Bernie Becker The House Ways and Means Committee formally announced 11 separate working groups they hope will push the ball forward on tax reform. The working groups will not be charged with crafting recommendations or proposals in their issue areas, but will instead be on more of a fact-find ...
  • Storm Survivors
    By The Economist WHEN THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT, a sister organisation of this newspaper, published the first bound edition of “Tax Havens and Their Uses” in 1975, a queue several blocks long formed outside The Economist’s bookshop in London. Interest in offshore financial centres (OFCs) ...

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

  • Volkswagen Confirms Production Plans For the 2 ...
    Volkswagen just confirmed plans to produce its XL1 plug-in hybrid – which gets an astounding 261 miles per gallon! When it is officially unveiled at the upcoming 2013 Geneva Motor Show the XL1 will be the most fuel-efficient production car in the world with a fuel consumption of only 0.9 l ...
  • 6 Tips and Tricks to Make a Small Apartment Lo ...
    There’s definitely a lot to be said for living in a smaller space – hey, Leonardo da Vinci was a fan – but many a tiny apartment dweller has struggled with feeling cramped or confined. If you’ve been wanting to create the illusion of a larger area in your home (or even ju ...
  • UK Horse Meat Scandal Spurs Equine Butcher Sal ...
    Meat photo from Shutterstock UK citizens were recently traumatized to learn that ground “beef” sold by local supermarkets was contaminated with horse meat – but the scandal has inspired a very different reaction in France. Apparently the publicity surrounding the scandal has le ...
  • Starbucks Opens Drive-Thru Made from Recycled ...
    Read the rest of Starbucks Opens Drive-Thru Made from Recycled Shipping Containers in Northglenn, CO Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "leed", Arthur Rubinfeld, Cargotecture, colorado, Denver Starbucks, leed certified, modular, modular starbucks, Northglenn, recycled shi ...
  • Monsanto May Seek to Revive ‘Terminator’ Techn ...
    Photo via Shutterstock Agri-giant Monsanto is headed to the Supreme Court this week for a battle against 75-year-old Indian farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman. If Bowman wins, it could be hailed as a massive win for the little guy, and it would make it harder for companies like Monsanto to enforce patent ...

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • Asking the Right Questions on Afghanistan
    In last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama announced that 34,000 of the 66,000 U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan will be withdrawn by this time next year. The announcement clarifies the pace of the drawdown, but it doesn’t represent a change in policy. The U.S. commitment ...
  • Israel Not Pushing Obama to Arm Syrian Rebels
    A lack of Israeli pressure for the U.S. to intervene and Israel’s ability to go after sensitive targets in Syria on its own are factors in the Barack Obama administration’s reluctance to get more deeply involved in the Syrian civil war. Despite reports that the U.S. may be reconsidering its re ...
  • Airpower in Afghanistan
    My latest at the Diplomat concerns Karzai’s limitations on the use of coalition airpower in support of ANA operations: Given that Afghan Army ground forces have yet to demonstrate a clear advantage over their Taliban counterparts, airpower really is the Afghan government’s“asymmetric advan ...
  • The New Grand-Strategic Divide? A Response to ...
    The style of this piece deviates from what I usually put up here. By way of explanation: I wrote this after some initial indications of interest by Foreign Policy in running a response. But they’ve got a lot on their plate and they no longer seem intrigued. Frankly, that’s for the be ...
  • Top of the Morning: Aid Groups Warn of Humanit ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest US Aid Groups Warn of Harmful Effects of US Budget Sequester The USA is facing a budget crisis resulting from political gridlock in DC. This may exacerbate already dire humanitarian funding shortages. “A coalition of [40] aid groups…delivered a letter to the W ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Gay New World
    If you're a Republican these days, the agita just never seems to end. The public is blaming you for this sequester business (so unfair!), your own colleagues are giving up on fighting Obamacare, the publicdisagrees with you on pretty much every major issue, and to top it all off, this gay-marri ...
  • Goodbye, Petraeus
    AP Photo/Christopher Berkey Fred Kaplan’s book is newsworthy, but not in the way you might assume. Kaplan’s years of re-search and writing for The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War had evidently come to their end shortly before November 9 of last ...
  • Oscar-Worthy Outrage
    If you’ve been tuning into the right-wing media this week, you might be startled to discover a seeming concern about preventing rape. But don’t get too excited: It’s nothing but a gambit to persuade the public on issues of gun safety. It all started in Colorado, where the legislature is debati ...
  • Extremist Republicans Don't Want to be Attacke ...
    Google Images President George W. Bush signing the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The National Review's Andrew Stiles is still upset with Democratic messaging on reproductive rights: Welcome to the scorched-earth phase of the Democrats’ “war on women” campaign ...
  • The Sequester Blame Game
    A key part of the GOP's strategy on the sequester is to blame President Obama for the fact it exists at all. One good example is House Speaker John Boehner's op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal: With the debt limit set to be hit in a matter of hours, Republicans and Democrats in Congress reluc ...

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

  • Neo-Nazi Threat-Maker Bill White Gets More Pri ...
    Bill White, the imprisoned neo-Nazi leader who spent years pushing the boundaries of the First Amendment, has been sentenced to another 3½ years in federal prison — even as he awaits a trial in yet another of the cases in which he is accused of criminally threatening his enemies. Two years after ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CODEPINK Plans Vigil for Drone Victims Outside ...
    In light of the decision to delay John Brennan’s confirmation as CIA Director and the call by Congress for the administration to release the missing legal opinions about targeted killings, CODEPINK is organizing a week of actions to show the growing opposition to killer drones.read more
  • Obama Administration Delay Leaves Waters of th ...
    In April 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a policy to help restore Clean Water Act protections to waters across the country and to return common-sense safeguards to the drinking water supply of 117 million Americans, which became imperiled after two confusing Supreme Cour ...
  • U.S. Court of Appeals Hears Government Secrecy ...
    On behalf of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Earthjustice argued to defend a court order requiring the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to disclose a document shared with foreign governments during negotiations to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTA ...
  • Reported Obama Energy Pick a “Nail in Coffin” ...
    Reuters is reporting President Obama will nominate Ernest Moniz “to head the Department of Energy as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the process.”read more
  • Conservation Groups Applaud Alaska Reserve Plan
    Today, the Department of the Interior issued a Record of Decision that formally adopts a new Integrated Activity Plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (Reserve). Located on Alaska’s North Slope and almost 22 million acres in size, the Reserve is our country’s largest single ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Keystone XL pipeline will only add to Cana ...
    Heather McRobie The choice President Obama has faced in recent weeks – whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline – has been framed as a choice between losing the support of environmentalists or alienating America's key ally,
  • Feminism's Long March: You’ve Come a Long Way, ...
    Ruth Rosen In 1968, the Phillip Morris Company launched a memorable campaign to sell Virginia Slims, a new brand of cigarettes targeting women, itself a new phenomenon.  It had a brand-new slogan:read more
  • 'Fix The Debt' and Pete Peterson's Long Histor ...
    Lisa Graves Fix the Debt financier Peter G. Peterson knows a thing or two about debt: he’s an expert at creating it. Peterson founded the private equity firm Blackstone Group in 1985 with Stephen Schwarzman (who compared raising taxes ...
  • Lose Your Lawn
    Jill Richardson The inglorious, wasteful and outdated lawns of Downton Abbey... Have you taken your hounds fox hunting lately? You haven’t? Well, maybe you’ve gone to visit a friend’s estate in a horse and carriage? You ha ...
  • Lose Your Lawn
    Jill Richardson The inglorious, wasteful and outdated lawns of Downton Abby... Have you taken your hounds fox hunting lately? You haven’t? Well, maybe you’ve gone to visit a friend’s estate in a horse and carriage? You hav ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Delta meeting marshals support
    More than 300 residents, local officials and community activists converged on the gymnasium at Discovery Bay Elementary School last week for a town hall meeting in support of the Delta.
  • IHT Rendezvous: Concerns Grow About 'Sever ...
    China's other major pollution problem - degradation of its water supply - is drawing increasing attention from environmentalists, and investors.
  • The Coming Crisis in Central Asia
    The American pullout from Afghanistan has the potential to destabilize the entire region.
  • add. formats
    One ton of wheat requires one thousand tons of water ; watering the world's golf courses requires 2.5 billion gallons per day , and 650 gallons only gets you either a pound of rice or one cotton shirt.)
  • Ready to share food, not water
    With low water table and dry borewells, tankers are the only source

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Medicare’s Projected Spending Has Dropped $500 ...
    Medicare will spend $511 billion less between now and 2020 than was predicted two and a half years ago, according to the latest number crunching by the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities. More importantly, this drop occurred completely separate from any changes in government policy — r ...
  • New UN Report Adds To Worries Ahead Of Renewed ...
    A new report released on Thursday by the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that the growth of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium has continued apace ahead of renewed negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Since the release of the last report by the IAEA’s Govern ...
  • New Discoveries May Help Treat Blood Disease T ...
    Scientists may be close to finding a cure for sickle cell anemia, a blood disease that disproportionately affects African-Americans. One in 500 African descendants born in the United States suffer from sickle cell; one in 12 carry the gene for it. The disease can cause symptoms as minor as fatig ...
  • Marriage Equality Campaign Drops Laura Bush Fr ...
    The Respect for Marriage Coalition has acquiesced to Former First Lady Laura Bush’s request not to have her public comments used in a new ad campaign highlighting bipartisan support for marriage equality. The group told Politico it was moving on “to new and different voices:” W ...
  • Scott Walker Proposes Budget That Cuts Taxes W ...
    Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) is proposing a budget that would fund a variety of right-wing priorities by slashing support for public services and local communities, according to an outline of the plan given in Walker’s “State of the State” address Wednesday night. Walker, who h ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Teddy Ruxpin & Divorced Dads
      I have two sons. One is 20 the other is 5. When my first son was around 5 he ended up with a second-hand book from Teddy Ruxpin adventures. Teddy Ruxpin had been some cheesy toy from the mid-1980s. A battery-operated talking bear. Ronald Reagan's deregulation of advertising had allowed t ...
  • Westboro Baptist Church
    So, last night we watched "The Most Hated Family in America" and, no surprise, I was appalled. Now, I don't think that I was expecting any profound insights from a church with the slogan "God Hates Fags" as its main message. I was just surprised at what an uncharismatic, hollow, empty shell of ...
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  • Tim & Eric Interview
    I've only watched 3 minutes of this so far, but it looks really good.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

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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

  • Drone death toll 4700?
    How many people have CIA drone strikes killed in the "Global War on Terror"? Earlier this week U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a supporter of the drone program, put the figure at 4700.
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-5-13
    Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino! Self Help: Learn The Secrets ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-9-13
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FTC is monitoring this radio show! Self Help: Click Here If You’ve Ever Taken An Antibiotic Don’t Let Fear Control Your Life Delete Nutritional Deficiencies Videos: Muse – Uprising Bob Basso – We The People Stimulus Package Health: The New Hot Celebrity ...
  • Why would anyone eat commercial meat in America?!
    An internal government audit, which was not supposed to be released to the public, shows that there are unacceptable levels of heavy metals, veterinary drugs and pesticides in the meat that we eat every single day. This, folks, is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety Inspection Se ...
  • Just A Couple Videos To Brighten Your Day!
    Due to popular demand, here are the songs I have been playing on my radio show: ASK YOUR DOCTOR BYE BYE AMERICAN PIE
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-20-12
    Find out why the mainstream media news anchors are nothing more than actors and puppets! PLUS, Dr. Marc Sorenson joins the show and explains where you can get your Vitamin D3 and why it is so essential to your health and your body! Health: Chocolate Better Than Aspirin For Heart Attacks Orange J ...

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

  • Nugent: Democrats ‘have raped and plundered bl ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Detroit-born southern rocker Ted Nugent explained in his Wednesday column for conservative conspiracy website World Net Daily that in his view, African-Americans should become Republican because Democrat ...
  • Oscar Preview 2013 (Part 2)
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Greg Felton The set of The Cutting Room in WTFNs West Coast studio. Theme music starts up, and a high camera pans down to show a man and a woman seated in upholstered chairs s ...
  • TSA Apologizes For Traumatizing 3-Year-Old in ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com“I don’t want to go to Disney World” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com February 21, 2013 The TSA has offered a terse apology for traumatizing a 3-year-old girl in a wheelchair with spina bifida who w ...
  • TSA Apologizes For Harassing ANOTHER Wheelchai ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comVideo: Agents confiscate stuffed toy, LIE about limits on filming Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Feb 21, 2013 The Transport Security Administration has apologized following yet another incident involving a wheelchair boun ...
  • Defunding Forces Planned Parenthood to Close F ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDave Bohon The New American Feb 21, 2013 Planned Parenthood is being forced to close four of its clinics in Wisconsin after the state enacted legislation to defund businesses that perform or refer for abortions. The fami ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Obey–Film Based on Chris Hedges’ D ...
    Dandelion Salad from Studiocanoe http://vimeo.com/59002146# This is a film based on the book “Death of the Liberal Class” by journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges. It charts the rise of the Corporate State, and examines the future of obedience in a world of unfettered ca ...
  • Sibel Edmonds on Gladio B, Protected Terrorist ...
    with Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Boiling Frogs Post February 20, 2013 Gladio B, Protected Terrorists and Stifled Investigations corbettreport·Feb 19, 2013 AUDIO MP3: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6819 Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com joins us for the second part of our s ...
  • Sounding the Global Warming Alarm by Peter Rug ...
    Dandelion Salad by Peter Rugh SocialistWorker.org February 19, 2013 THERE IS no doorbell at the front gates of the White House–at least not for the public anyway–but the estimated 30,000 to 50,000 people who stood before 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Sunday made perhaps the largest hum ...
  • Jill Dalton: NDAA, The Kill List, A Corporate- ...
    by Jill Dalton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad recoveringarmybrat February 19, 2013 We Cannot Be Silent with Phil Restino and Larry Pinkney www.wolfspiritradio.com Feb. 18, 2013 On tonight’s live 2-hour call-in broadcast of We Cannot Be Silent with co-hosts Phil Restino and Larry Pinkney, aut ...
  • Hubris: Selling the Iraq War + Hubris Isn&#821 ...
    Dandelion Salad ushadrons·Feb 19, 2013 As seen on MSNBC, Hosted by Rachel Maddow, based on the book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, by David Corn and Michael Isikoff. http://tv.msnbc.com http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/201… http://www.amaz ...

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

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Space Lo ...
    This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light. It ...
  • New Dimension: Nebulas Are Even More Amazing i ...
    As unbelievable as it may seem, space photos just got a bit more amazing. Normally, the celestial sights we gaze at are flat -- two dimensional. Now, Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio has rendered some spacescapes in three dimensions.
  • Three Radical New Brain-Mapping Tools Scientis ...
    The Obama administration wants to make a $3 billion investment in mapping brain activity. Scientists say they could make huge strides towards understanding the human brain if they could record every blip of every neuron in a network of thousands, ...
  • Space Tourist to Announce Daring Manned Mars V ...
    The world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito is planning to launch a manned mission to Mars in January 2018 on a round-trip journey lasting 501 days.
  • Curiosity Rover Ready to Analyze Martian Time ...
    After a long and careful hole drilling operation, NASA's Curiosity rover has collecting powdered rock representing the first sample ever acquired from the interior of Mars.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Pictures speak volumes in Oscar ...
    Israelis have been revelling in the prospect of an Oscar night triumph next week, with two Israeli-financed films among the five in the running for Best Documentary. But the country’s right-wing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Certain Mutations Affect Kidney Disease Risk a ...
    * Certain mutations and combinations of mutations in immune-related genes affect individuals' risk of developing a rare but serious kidney condition. * These mutations also affect patient prognosis following different treatments. About half of patients with the condition, called atypical hemoly ...
  • Using Amount of Fish Caught as Measure of Fish ...
    Changes in the amount of fish caught does not necessarily reflect the number of fish in the sea.
  • Catheters Linked with High Risk of Infections, ...
    * Dialysis patients using catheters to access the blood have the highest risks for death, infections, and cardiovascular events compared with patients using other types of vascular access. * Higher quality studies are needed to determine the true safety of different types of vascular access use ...
  • Particle Physics Research Sheds New Light on P ...
    Scientists at Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have established new limits on "long-range spin-spin interactions" between atomic particles. To make the study possible, the team created the first map of electron polarization within Earth induced by the planet's geomagnetic field.
  • U.Va. Darden Professor Mary Margaret Frank Men ...
    The University of Virginia Darden School of Business research Center of Excellence the Initiative for Business in Society (IBiS) recently posed a complex, blunt question: What can we do to curb the rising cost of health care?

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

  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, February 21, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Yesterday, Myanmar held peace talks between ethnic groups in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in an attempt to resolve the ongoing Kachin conflict. British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested to diverting hundreds of millions of pounds sterling from foreign aid into ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey An Israeli soldier has caused outrage because of a photo posted to Instagram showing what appears to be a Palestinian child in the crosshairs of his rifle. Chinese government officials considered using a drone to target a suspected drug lord hiding in Myanma ...
  • The OTP Retracts Its Statement About in Absent ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I noted a few days ago that the OTP made a serious legal error when it suggested that Libya’s challenge to the admissibility of the case against Saif could succeed even if Libya had to try Saif in absentia.  Fortunately, the OTP has recognized its ...
  • Goodbye UNCLOS Dispute Settlement? China Walks ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Breaking news:  China has rejected arbitration under Annex VII of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea with the Philippines, dealing a heavy blow to the future of dispute settlement under UNCLOS (h/t China Law Prof Blog).  According to this China Daily report, &#82 ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Over at the International Economic Law and Policy Blog, Rob Howse brings daily updates of the Seal hearings at the WTO. The New Zealand government has decided to go ahead with plans to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products, but the enactment of the ...

Public News Service

  • Advocate: Chained CPI Threatens Seniors’ ...
    Advocate: Chained CPI Threatens Seniors’ Long-Term Financial Health PHOENIX, Ariz. - One of the proposals for reducing the federal deficit is something called a "chained CPI," which would be used as a new way of calculating cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security. Chained CPI support ...
  • Índice “encadenado” de Precio ...
    Índice “encadenado” de Precios al Consumidor amenaza a largo plazo la salud financiera de personas en edad avanzada PHOENIX, Ariz. - Un plan para reducir el déficit federal está circulando en Washington; se trata del "Chained CPI" (Índice Encadenado de Precios al ...
  • It's Booming: New Stats on AZ's Outdoor Recrea ...
    It's Booming: New Stats on AZ's Outdoor Recreation Economy PHOENIX - There's big bucks in outdoor recreation for the state of Arizona, according to a new report from the Outdoor Industry Association. The trade group tallied what people spend on outdoor gear and clothing, guide services and trav ...
  • Good News On The Deficit: Medicare Cost Contai ...
    Good News On The Deficit: Medicare Cost Containment Working PHOENIX - In what could be good news on the federal deficit, projections for how much the Medicare program will cost by the end of the decade have fallen by a half-trillion dollars. The Congressional Budget Office now expects Medicare t ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • EU president tells Italians not to vote for Be ...
    Zero Hedge, as always, is full snark ahead, this time on the upcoming Italian election where Berlusconi could win. Something tells us a German telling Italians to vote for a pro-Goldman Sachs endorsed regime in this case embodied in a vote again one person, may have just sealed the outcome of th ...
  • Geothermal could provide 40% of Glasgow heat
    Warm water at the bottom of abandoned coal mines near Glasgow, Scotland could be harnessed to provide heat for 40% of the city of 600,000, primarily for large buildings where installing a geothermal heat pump would be economically viable.
  • Mark Twain, anti-imperialist
    Not only was Mark Twain the most famous person of his era, he was also a fierce anti-imperialist.The quote says it all, “I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” (The image is from a display at the Mark Twain House in Hartford CT, ...
  • Oscar Pistorius defense borders on absurd
    “I fail to understand how I could be charged with murder, let alone premeditated. I had no intention to kill my girlfriend,” said Oscar Pistorius, who strapped on prosthetic legs, walked to the bathroom, and fired through the door at Steenkamp, a tragic mistake that anyone could make ...
  • Former Hartford CT Mayor Eddie Perez attempt a ...
    Former Hartford CT Mayor Eddie Perez, who was convicted on bribery and extortion charges, is taking a novel approach in asking for a retrial, saying that grouping the charges together prejudiced the jury because it made him look “like a liar, a crook and a thief.” Good luck with tha ...

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

  • Non-Compliance / civil disobedience is the ans ...
    February 4, 2013 by AFMTDR, Mac Slavo Via BW Central Residents of Erie County, New York overflow the State’s dictating / Q & A forum concerning the unconstitutional NY Safe Act arms bill. The passion and anger from the people is evident of Erie County resistance. After the first speaker spok ...
  • CISPA Is Back
    Stopping and repealing this should be our TOP Priority. A Free Internet should not be taken for granted! by Stephen Lendman Daily Censored   It shouldn’t surprise. The 2011 Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) never really went away. It ducked and covered for another ...
  • Palestinian filmmaker briefly detained at U.S. ...
    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) — Immigration officials at Los Angeles International Airport briefly detained the Palestinian filmmaker of the Oscar-nominated documentary “5 Broken Cameras” while he was on his way to a dinner preceding Sunday’s Academy Awards. Emad Bur ...
  • George Galloway Storms Out On Israeli Student ...
    George Galloway is being accused of anti-Semitism after he stormed out of an Oxford University debate, telling the student speaker: “I don’t debate with Israelis.” The Respect MP was speaking at an event organised by Christ Church college in favour of the motion “Israel s ...
  • TSA Holds Wheelchair-Bound Toddler at Security ...
    If only we could say we were surprised about the Transportation Security Administration’s newest fumble, which went down at Lambert-St. Louis Airport earlier this month. Security agents allegedly held a three-year-old girl in a wheelchair at security for 20 minutes, took away her stuffed a ...

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

  • FBX has lower CPCs and CPMs but web retargetin ...
    Ads on the Facebook Exchange have lower costs per click and costs per impression, but web retargeting has lower costs per unique and better clickthrough rates, a recent AdRoll study has found. AdRoll also found that...
  • Join us for the first Inside Social Apps Tech ...
    Our Inside Social Apps Conference & Expo brings together the nation’s leading developers, marketers, designers, and managers to discuss the future of the social and mobile app industry. This year, we are launching ISA’s first-ever companion...
  • Facebook lets developers know how often their ...
    Facebook is now offering developers information on how often users find their app through the search bar on Facebook.com, according to a post on the company’s developer blog. Canvas developers will find a Search Results tab...
  • Facebook page posts now support realtime updates
    Facebook has extended its Realtime Updates API to include page posts so developers can receive automatic notifications whenever a change happens on a page. The Realtime Updates API allows developers to subscribe to changes in data...
  • G.I. Joe, Titanic, Rocky and others among this ...
    G.I. Joe is this week’s top gaining page in the People Talking About This metric for movie pages. The page is the main hub for the entire G.I. Joe franchise on Facebook. The main focus of...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • We Need Your Support- Help Us Continue Counter ...
    Boiling Frogs Post Needs $8000 To Meet This Quarter’s Budget! What does it mean to be a ‘True Alternative’ among the too many and too powerful media outlets infested with lies and busy with implementing deception and propaganda? As a long-term truth seeker and activist, and as a founder and dire ...
  • Video Report: Sibel Edmonds on Operation Gladi ...
    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’ ...
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 18
    “Greece: The Political Economy of Depression” with Yanis Varoufakis This week, Eric closely examines the global economic crisis and, in particular, the manifestation of the Depression in Greece. Eric is joined by economist and author Yanis Varoufakis who provides his valuable insight into the or ...
  • We Need Your Support- Help Us Continue Counter ...
    Boiling Frogs Post Needs $8000 To Meet This Quarter’s Budget! What does it mean to be a ‘True Alternative’ among the too many and too powerful media outlets infested with lies and busy with implementing deception and propaganda? As a long-term truth seeker and activist, and as a founder and dire ...

Afro Spear

  • The Message and The Manifesto
    “Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge I’m trying not to lose my head It’s like a jungle …Continue reading »
  • 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 »
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Tikun Olam

  • Saar May Be Forced to Resign Due to Sex Scandal
    I’ve just recorded my latest video segment for Israel’s Social TV on the most recent developments in the Gideon Saar sex scandal. Jerusalem Post reports that he may be forced to step down as education minister if there is a full investigation. Though at this point it’s prematur ...
  • Judicial Post Mortem: Zygier Tranquilized Befo ...
    The Israeli judge appointed to investigate the death of Prisoner X (aka Ben Zygier) took two years to do so.  She released her report only six weeks before Australian TV broke the story open by identifying Zygier as the victim.  Yesterday, a mere eight pages of the report were released (Hebrew) ...
  • Seattle Talk: Iran, Nuclear Impasse and Prospe ...
    This coming Thursday, February 21st at 7PM, I will be speaking with Reza Firouzbakht of National Iranian American Council and Dick Blakney, a Northwest peace activist.  Our topic will be Iran: Nuclear Impasse and Prospect for War at Skinner Auditorium of St. Mark’s Cathedral on Seattle&#82 ...
  • Israeli Attorney General Announces Inquiry int ...
    Today, News1 reports (Hebrew, and Haaretz in English) that the Israeli attorney general, Yehudah Weinstein, has agreed to open a preliminary investigation into charges that education minister, Gideon Saar, had sexual liaisons with underage girls and women who he either supervised or who asked fo ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • How Journalists Can Think Like Programmers
    I'm working on a fun little project at the moment that involves pulling data out of a Google Spreadsheet that is being curated by a team of journalists. The interesting thing about this project is that it so clearly illustrates the difference in thinking between people who regularly work with ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Syria - Jihadist Suspected in D ...
    More than 50 people died when a car bomb exploded in the Mazraa neighborhood of Damascus on Thursday. Syrian state TV reported 200 people were injured from the blast close to the city center. Opposition activists and local residents also report three more bombings in Damascus that day and a mort ...
  • The New Egypt - The Muslim Brotherhood's 213-Y ...
    Two years ago this week, a popular uprising ended Hosni Mubarak's thirty-year reign. Egypt's revolution is still churning, of course, and that country is now deeply polarized between the ruling Muslim Brotherhood, which has embraced many of Mubarak's autocratic tendencies in its attempt to conso ...
  • Afganistan on Edge - Afghan Coming-of-Age Film ...
    The Oscars will be presented Sunday night in Hollywood.  One of the nominees for Live-action Short Film is Buzkashi Boys, a coming-of-age story set in Afghanistan shows a side of life in Afghanistan seldom seen outside the country.The film has vivid shots of the ancient Afghan sport called ...
  • Broken Government - Top Oil Lobbyist: New Clim ...
    The head of a powerful oil industry trade group predicts the Senate will shy away from debate on new Democratic legislation that imposes fees on carbon emissions from coal and petroleum.American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard said he did not expect the Senate to vote on the bill sponsored b ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Car Bombing Kills Score ...
    Syrian state media say at least 53 people have been killed and more than 200 wounded in a car bombing near the headquarters of Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party in central Damascus.State media called the blast a "terrorist bombing" that struck a densely populated area near the al-Mazraa neighborhood. ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The 9/11 Truth Movement Goes To Court In The U ...
    On February 25, in the small town of Horsham in the United Kingdom, there will be a rare and potentially groundbreaking opportunity for the 9/11 truth movement. Three hours of detailed 9/11 evidence is to be presented and considered in a court of law where the British Broadcasting Corporation (B ...
  • What Went Wrong In The Global Climate Negotiat ...
    First paper by Climate activist Pablo Solon kick starting "Climate Space", a discussion forum, in time for the World Social Forum in Tunisia, March 2013 initiating a discussion on climate change, looking for possible solutions
  • The Women’s Movement, The Next Half-Century B ...
    I always knew this was the longest revolution, one that would take a century or more to unfold. It’s upended most of our lives, and significantly improved so many of them. Nothing will ever be the same. Yet there’s still such a long way to go. I doubt I’ll see full gender equality in my lifetime
  • When Lives Hang In The Balance By Joharah Baker
    The lives of four Palestinian hunger strikers are hanging in the balance, teetering between life and death. Two in particular – Samer Issawi and Ayman Sharawneh have crossed the 200-day mark without food. The sheer number of days is staggering, difficult for any person to wrap their heads around ...
  • Photographing Tragedy: What Victims Actually ...
    When one looks at scenes of fleeing refugees from Syria via images of their squalid refugee camps and hears their pleas for solidarity, mercy or for God’s help to end their suffering, one finds eerie similarities between their experiences and those of the Palestinians, Lebanese and Iraqis

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

  • Five Months After Benghazi-The Terrorists Resp ...
    By Barry Rubin Five months ago, radical Islamists in Libya murdered four American officials. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the Obama Administration would not rest until those responsible were caught. Yet it seems as if nothing has been do ...
  • Allegheny College Gives Masturbation Class-In ...
    Allegheny College bills itself as a unique place where students embrace the College's total educational experience.  They brag that their students have the uncanny ability to create unusual combinations of interests and talents.  And the latest news about the school certa ...
  • Schumer Tells Hagel Sob Story-->Uses Anti-Sem ...
    WARNING! Before you read this post you might want to grab a box off tissues...this is a very sad story. If you listen closely you will hear the world's smallest violin playing "My Heart Bleeds For You." Chuck Schumer told a very very sad story about his meeting with Chuck Hag ...
  • THANK YOU OBAMACARE! Universal Studios Droppin ...
    Nancy Pelosi was right! Now that its passed and being implemented we are finally learning all about Obamacare...and it's awful. Universal Studios Orlando provides limited health insurance for it's part time workers...or at least will until the end of the year. The theme park announced that ...
  • Obama Calls For Fixing Sequester--WITH SPENDIN ...
    Maybe I am missing something here but isn't Obama trying to fix the automatic spending cuts which were his idea as part of last year's budget ceiling deal? Then why did he allow for the crafting of a fiscal cliff deal which raised taxes, then spent all that new revenue plus another almost $4 t ...

The Real Agenda

  • Is the U.S. stepping up Internet control push ...
    By BARRY GREY | WSW | FEBRUARY 21, 2013 The Obama administration is utilizing unsubstantiated charges of Chinese government cyber-attacks to escalate its threats against China. The past two days have seen allegations of hacking into US corporate and government web sites, hyped by the U ...
  • More Austerity as a “Solution” to Austerity?
    By KEVIN ZEESE and MARGARET FLOWERS | IT’S OUR ECONOMY | FEBRUARY 21, 2013 As the economy shows signs of recession, the leeches return. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have issued a new report calling for even deeper austerity. It is not what the economy needs as it stagnates and ...
  • Gender-bending compounds in toys, floors, cars ...
    Landmark study by the World Health Organization warns gender bending chemicals in your home, food and car ARE linked to a huge range of diseases By FIONA MACRAE | UK MAIL | FEBRUARY 20, 2013 Chemicals found in every home may cause breast cancer, asthma, infertility and birth defects, g ...
  • Apple’s ‘ecosystem’ control ...
    By JASON STEIN | LAUNDRY SERVICE | FEBRUARY 20, 2013 Apple is evolving into an ecosystem, a network that connects to and controls everything from your home to your car to your office. This has the potential to be as impactful as the iPhone and iPad. Today I use iOS apps to control my s ...
  • Secret talks between U.S. and North Korea
    American military planes carried Americans officials and equipment to the Asian country. Officials spoke about the country’s affairs post Kim Jong Il’s death. By YOSHIHIRO MAKINO | ASAHI SHIMBUN | FEBRUARY 20, 2013 Senior U.S. administration officials held secret talks in N ...

Wind Watch

  • Fear and loathing blowing through bush
    Aggrieved farmers from NSW’s central west are gearing up for the mother of all legal battles, fighting an enemy that has ripped apart their communities and pitted neighbours against each other. Their targets – wind farms. As the federal government fumbles over its proposed report on ...
  • ‘Intolerable’ wind turbines drove ...
    A distraught Co Roscommon couple had left their home in recent days, having found it no longer tolerable to live beside two wind turbines, John Kelly (Lab) said. They had no intention of returning to their property, owing to the ill-effects they had endured. “That is the sad reality of what wind ...
  • Wind project kills eagle one month after startup
    ReWire has learned that the North Sky River Wind project, which attracted fierce opposition from environmental groups concerned about potential threat to eagles and California condors, was the site of a golden eagle death in January. Ileene Anderson, who let ReWire know about the kill and is the ...
  • Wind farm opponents speak in favor of moratorium
    Hundreds of people showed up Tuesday for a hearing on a bill that would put a moratorium on wind farm projects in the state. Those supporting the moratorium heavily outnumbered those opposed to the bill. Many traveled from northern parts of the state to explain why they think the wind turbines a ...
  • German ‘green revolution’ may cost ...
    Germany’s transition to renewable energy may cost up to 1 trillion euros ($1.34 trillion) in the next two decades, the environment minister said on Wednesday, piling pressure on his opponents to back plans to cap power price rises before the election. With an eye on the September vote, Pet ...

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

  • Civil rights leader John Lewis recounts remark ...
    U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia tore down many barriers in his rise from sharecroppers' son to civil rights activist to Medal of Freedom recipient. And he's about to break another as the first sitting member of Congress to author a graphic novel telling his inspiring life story. read more
  • Will Southern Democrats derail immigration reform?
    The biggest obstacle President Obama faces in his push for immigration reform may be Senate Democrats facing tough races in 2014. But given the changing face of the Southern electorate, their wavering on reform may be short-sighted. read more
  • Gov. McCrory's disconnect on beaches and offsh ...
    In his first State of the State address this week, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory called for offshore oil and gas exploration. He proposed using some of the revenues for beach replenishment -- but offshore drilling would only worsen the state's coastal erosion problem. read more
  • Mississippi charter school supporters fought a ...
    The current debate over charter schools in Mississippi appears to be the latest battle in a longstanding war on public education -- and on teachers' unions. read more
  • Study details economic benefits of North Carol ...
    As some conservative lawmakers target the state's renewable energy law for repeal, a new study details its benefits to the state's economy and consumers. 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

  • Bootstrapping
    Out of most crises comes opportunity.  Unemployment in the developed world, especially amongst the highly skilled, is opportunity for those countries willing to seize it. Does your country not have the medicine it needs?  There are plenty of people capable of making and even inventing those medi ...
  • Bootstrapping
    Out of most crises comes opportunity.  Unemployment in the developed world, especially amongst the highly skilled, is opportunity for those countries willing to seize it. Does your country not have the medicine it needs?  There are plenty of people capable of making and even inventing those medi ...
  • 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 ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Is the Family Finished?
    Sitting around a table at a hookah bar in New York’s East Village with three women and a gay man, all of them in their 20s and 30s and all resolved to remain childless, a few things quickly became clear: First, for many younger Americans and especially those in cities, having child ...
  • Transit Legacy Cities
    Transit's greatest potential to attract drivers from cars is the work trip. But an analysis of US transit work trip destinations indicates that this applies in large part to   just a few destinations around the nation. This is much more obvious in looking at destinations than the more typic ...
  • How We Should Navigate the Florida Archipelago
    Leafy, timeless rural routes and monotonous, flat highways have characterized Florida’s network of state roads since the early 20th century. Vacationers in the Sunshine State either stick to the interstates – often a hot, frustrating parking lot – or consign themselves to the stop-and-go, confu ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

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    Posted: February 21, 2013 Arsene Wenger will keep his job with the Arsenal even if the club fails to qualify for next season’s Champions League. According to several reports Wenger continues to maintain the unequivocal support of majority shareholder Stan Kroenke and the teams director ...
  • Businesses benefit from Capital's sunshin ...
    Sunny skies and warm nights have had Wellingtonians forsaking the kitchen and visitors flocking into the city. As the bumper summer season continues, restaurants, bars and hotels have been reaping the benefits, with more locals and visitors venturing out in the evening. Restaurant Associatio ...
  • Hyderabad blasts: 12 dead, 57 injured in, ...
    NEW DELHI: At least 12 people were killed and 57 injured in two near simultaneous blasts in Hyderabad and the death toll could go up, home minister Sushilkumar...
  • Sam Stosur crashes out against Roberta Vi ...
    FORMER US Open champion Samantha Stosur lost to doubles specialist Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-2, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championships. Stosur's loss follows a quarterfinal exit in Doha last week as well as disappointing second round defeat at the Australian Open. Stosur made 28 ...
  • Sensex records biggest slump in 9 months
    Key benchmark indices on Thursday ended nearly two per cent lower dragged by index heavyweights ICICI Bank, RIL and ITC along with weakness in global markets on the back of concerns that US Federal Reserve may scale-back its economic stimulus or third round of quantitative easing (QE3). The ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Express Scripts accuses Ernst & Young of steal ...
    (Reuters) - A unit of Express Scripts Holding Co has sued Ernst & Young and one of the accounting firm's former partners for stealing trade secrets and corporate data to boost Ernst & Young's own healthcare business. (Source: Reuters: Health)
  • Health plans confident of health exchanges
    NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The vast majority of business leaders at healthcare plans say they are confident they will be successful being a part of the new health exchanges, a poll says. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
  • Cholesterol metabolism regulated by bacteria i ...
    Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, show that cholesterol metabolism is regulated by bacteria in the small intestine. These findings may be important for the development of new drugs for cardiovascular disease.
  • Will the slap heard 'round the country have la ...
    By now the story has become familiar, though it's no less gut-wrenching: A grown man is accused of hurling a racial insult at a crying toddler on an Atlanta-bound flight and then slapping the child when he won't quiet down. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
  • Analysis Links Ozone Levels, Cardiac Arrest
    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. Rice statisticians Katherine Ensor and Loren Raun announced their findings at ...

Common Dreams

  • Stirring International Tensions, Israel Green- ...
    In a move that many anticipate will incite international protest, Israel has authorized oil drilling in the occupied Golan Heights territory, awarding the first contract to a US-Israeli energy firm. Considering the land's official status as an Israeli-occupied Syrian territory, awarding a dr ...
  • UN: No Compensation for Cholera We Caused in Haiti
    The United Nations, blamed for causing the outbreak of cholera in Haiti which killed over 7000 and sickened over half a million, has rejected a November 2011 claim for compensation on behalf of victims of the disease, stating, "claims are not receivable." ...
  • Investigation Finds High-Class, Crisis-Peddlin ...
    A new online resource launched on Thursday aims to show that behind the scenes of the ongoing fiscal battles in Washington—including the current fight over 'sequestration'—a billionaire-funded and CEO-backed media campaign is operating as an 'astroturf supergroup,' us ...
  • Virginia Lawmakers Approve Strict Voter ID Bill
    Photo: Keith Ivey/flickrVirginia lawmakers have approved a new measure imposing strict requirements for photo identification at the polls. read more
  • Hottest, Most Extreme Year Ever Saw 'Most Anti ...
    In 2012, as the nation was watching climate change manifest in the hottest, most extreme year on record, it also had "the most anti-environmental House in our nation’s history," the League of Conservation Voters announced on Wednesday. The group's findings are presented in th ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • An Argument in Defense of Haredi Jews and Agai ...
    James Petras Israel is heading towards a profound internal crisis: a Jew-on-Jew confrontation, which has major implications for its relations with the Palestinians, as well as its Arab neighbors. The conflict is between the highly militarized Zionist state and the Haredi religious movement ove ...
  • Targeting Jeremy Hammond
    by Stephen Lendman America is no democracy. It never was an isn't now. Obama enforces police state harshness. It's official policy. Lawless entrapment reflects it. More on that below. Hammond is one many victims. Some call him the other Bradley Manning. They do so for good reason. He founde ...
  • CISPA Is Back
    by Stephen Lendman It shouldn't surprise. The 2011 Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) never really went away. It ducked and covered for another day. It's more about destroying personal freedom than online security. It gives government and corporate supporters unlimited ...
  • The Leeches are Back and are Urging the Wrong ...
    By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Co-directors, It's Our Economy Leeches could also be used in bloodletting. The withdrawal of so much blood as to induce syncope (fainting) was considered beneficial, and many sessions would only end when the patient began to swoon. As the economy shows signs ...
  • Israel's War Criminal of the Year Award
    by Stephen Lendman Imagining honoring crimes of war, against humanity and genocide. Imagine calling war on humanity honorable. Imagine granting a nation's highest civilian award for waging it. It shouldn't surprise. Obama will receive Israel's Presidential Medal of Distinction. More on h ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Canada heading for 'bitumen cliff'
    A new study published by the CCPA and the Polaris Institute shows how the failure to carefully regulate the bitumen industry is putting Canada on a dangerous economic and environmental trajectory. The study, by Tony Clarke, Jim Stanford, Diana Gibson, and Brendan Haley, shows that the curren ...
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

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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

  • Exclusive: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress B ...
    A member of the Department of Strategy at the USAF Air War College takes on the Navy's biofuels program and the Great Green Fleet with a scathing report being sent to Congress and the nation's top military leaders.
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Global Threat Lurking in Your Kitchen
    Canned food: Yes, it's full of salt, but could that innocuous can be harboring a "global threat"? It could, all thanks to bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical used to make canned-food linings. BPA falls into a class of chemicals known as endocrine disruptors, which act like hormones in you ...
  • Vegetarian Diets: Not Necessarily Better for t ...
    The world's food industry contributes up to 30 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change and all its disastrous effects. Many of those emissions come from energy-intensive, highly polluting sectors of the industry like cattle and processed-food production. Not only ...
  • Are Superfoods Just Hype?
    Superfoods have been hailed with keeping nearly every organ in our bodies running smoothly, including the master control center, the brain. But a new study published online in the journal Neurology may leave you wondering if all of the berries and other antioxidant-packed goodies are even worth ...
  • 7 Must-Have Seeds for Your 2013 Veggie Garden
    The best vegetable seeds aren't always apparent when you're scanning through a seed catalog during the lingering winter weeks. Catchy names and brilliant photographs may lure you in, but will the plant produce? To make your vegetable gardening planning easier, we reached for Derek Fell's book, ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • A Day In the Life Of An Advertising Newsroom
    During this year’s Super Bowl, brands like Oreo and Tide didn’t just stick to their traditional pre-planned paid advertising routine—they tried something new.  Along with six others, they flexed their social media muscles and jumped on the unexpected blackout bandwagon, creating new content in r ...
  • 5 Mind Memes for February 21: Google Glass, As ...
    Google Glass. Life Extension. Life Extinction. These are among the brainiest memes included in the inaugural post of our new blog, Mind Memes, which offers quick reads on the Internet sensations that people are talking about and that are also truly worthy of your attention. So here are our top f ...
  • With Nanotechnology in a Capsule, Scientists C ...
    What's the Latest Development? A capsule containing two complimentary enzymes measuring just 10 nanometers thick could be a vessel for new vaccines and a powerful cure for hangovers, says Yunfeng Lu, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UCLA. The two enzymes, which car ...
  • Self-Help for Higher Education: Should Large ...
    “How to Make the Most of Your College Education” has become a popular blogging theme.  Megan McArdle got things started this time, but the most sensible contribution has come from the professor writing under the name Cattle King.  All I’m going to do is comment one portion of King’s “two cents . ...
  • Gasoline Alternative Created Inside Yeast Cells
    What's the Latest Development? Using yeast cells, biochemical engineers at MIT have found a way to boost the production of isobutanol, a chemical which has long been considered a possible alternative to gasoline fuel. "The scientists engineered yeast so that isobutanol synthesis takes pl ...

Information Liberation

  • 'No Hesitation'
    You know the score... You*re not a cop, you*re little people! - LAPD Captain Harry Bryant to retired *Blade Runner* Rick Deckard, who was reluctant to resume his career as a state-licensed killer. Barack Obama*s advertised purpose in visiting Mi...
  • Man Tells Cop "He Should Be Courteous to Other ...
    The cop apparently tried to lie about the incident, but witnesses contradicted him. Now he's been arrested....
  • Montgomery County, MD Police Arrest Man For Vi ...
    My name is Jared Parr. On the evening of January 15th, I was on my way home from work when I noticed a cop pulling people over for making a right turn when it's not allowed (4-6pm M-F). I've uploaded a previous video where I had a conver...
  • Robert Ethan Saylor and the Garrity Precedent
    Ethan Saylor had Down syndrome. He was in a movie theatre and Zero Dark Thirty had just ended. Saylor wanted to watch the film all over again. A theatre employee said he either had to buy another ticket or leave. When Saylor didn*t budge, they ca...
  • Barrett Takes Stand Against 'Assault On Libert ...
    BARRETT*S POSITION REGARDING THE ASSAULT ON LIBERTY02.20.13 Barrett*s Position Regarding the Assault on Liberty February 20, 2013 Barrett opposes those who are illegally disarming the American public from their efficient arms and creating su...

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

  • Exercise, alcohol, fruit and veg
    There was a strike at the BBC yesterday, so the usual “You and Yours” on Radio 4 was replaced with an annotated compilation of recent in-depth reports by Michael Moseley from past episodes (I believe). It made for an interesting alternative podcast listen on my dog-walk today. He dis ...
  • Five major challenges to avoid food crunch
    Growing population and an increasing poverty gap are major challenges for global food security especially when the issue of biofuels produced from crops is introduced. According to Tahereh Alavi Hojjat of DeSales University, in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA, governments around the world must ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Calculating the Nation’s Annual Energy-E ...
    American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (register for free access) http://aceee.org/research-report/e133 We estimate that in 2010 between $480 and $670 billion (midpoint of $574 billion) was spent on energy-efficient goods and services.  Of these expenditures, between $72 billion and $1 ...
  • As Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Develops, Fi ...
    Headwaters Economics http://headwaterseconomics.org/interactive/wui-development-and-wildfire-costs A new set of interactive maps and tables show that 84 percent of private lands near fire-prone public forests in the West today remain undeveloped, and new building in these areas will increase fut ...
  • Driving Innovation: How Stronger Laws Help Bri ...
    The Center for International Environmental Law / by Baskut Tuncak http://www.ciel.org/Publications/Innovation_Chemical_Feb2013.pdf [Business Green]  [A report published last week by the US NGO] the Center for International Environmental Law … found stricter chemical regulations help to boo ...
  • Ending America’s Energy Insecurity: Why Electr ...
    Homeland Security Affairs (February 2013, v9, Article 4) / by Fred Stein http://www.hsaj.org/?article=9.1.4 The homeland/national security threat posed by the United States’ dependence on foreign oil has been part of the American discourse for years; yet nothing has been done. No pragmatic, real ...
  • OpenStates.org: Search State-level Legislative ...
    Sunlight Foundation http://openstates.org/ Browse legislative activity by jurisdiction and law maker, search by keyword or bill number. Learn about status, break down votes, view bill texts and supporting documents. Search for bill texts across states, and run alerts. Includes District of Columb ...

Scientific American - News

  • Nitrogen Pollution Soars in China
    Nitrogen-containing pollutants from agriculture, transport and industry in China has increased by more than half in 30 years, a study shows, adding to concerns about the country’s deteriorating environment. [More]
  • China Slow to Start Fracking for Natural Gas i ...
    After more than a decade of spectacular growth fuelled by coal, China finds itself sitting on a bonanza of shale gas. Its reserves are the world’s largest, beating even those of the United States. But developing this vast resource won’t be easy, as a bidding last month for shale-gas ...
  • Diminutive Discovery: Moon-Size Exoplanet Circ ...
    A newfound world called Kepler 37 b could easily blend in to the long and growing list of known extrasolar planets , given its nondescript name. But the new addition to the catalogue of 800-plus exoplanets stands out in at least one major respect--it is far smaller than any planet yet discovere ...
  • Can Ethanol from Corn Be Made Sustainable?
    A new plant is rising from the fields around Emmetsburg, Iowa--one that will ferment into ethanol the cobs, stems and husks of corn from nearly 50,000 hectares of farmland. Such cellulosic ethanol offers a way to get the energy and environmental security benefits of biofuels without disrupting ...
  • Predictable Evolution Trumps Randomness of Mut ...
    Although mutations, the driver of evolution, occur at random, a study of the bacterium Escherichia coli reveals that nature often finds the same solution to the same problem again and again. [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

  • Positive Approaches to Stigma
    Groups advocate for peer support, traditional healing for Aboriginal women with HIV/AIDS VANCOUVER—In 2003, when her lungs almost co ...
  • Pidgin packed - outside
    DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE - Protests continued tonight outside the Pidgin Restaurant across from Pigeon Park. Organizers were concerned  after Vancouver Police tactics escalated today with police harassing people in the Carnegie Community Centre for information about one of the protesters and parki ...
  • Women Waters Ceremonial Walk
    From the organizers: "The purpose of this Women Waters Ceremonial Walk is to gather the people from the four sacred directions; the yellow people, the black people, t ...
  • 'The Black Presence in Halifax is Profound'
    Photography exhibit chronicles African-Canadian culture, history Halifax boasts the oldest Bla ...
  • LIVE: 11th Annual Homelessness Marathon
    From 5pm til 7am, live from the streets to your radios Click above to listen to the national stream of the 11th annual Homelessness Marathon. For the 11th year straight, Montreal's CKUT 90.3FM brings you the Homelessness Marathon. Broad ...

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

  • There Are Always New and Inventive Ways to Den ...
    Brad DeLong links today to his wife, Ann Marie Marciarille, who in turn links to a New York Times article from a few days ago about small companies who choose to self-insure for health coverage. Here's the basic drill: Regulations are looser for companies that self-insure, so more small c ...
  • Journalism and the Death of Hildy Johnson
    Megan McArdle writes today about our elite class and its growing lack of connection to the working class world: Since I moved to Washington, I have had series of extraordinary conversations with Washington journalists and policy analysts, in which I remark upon some perfectly ordinary fa ...
  • Spending Cuts Still (Much) More Popular Than T ...
    The good news for Democrats in today's new Pew/USA Today poll is that if Congress and the president fail to reach an agreement on the sequester, 49 percent of the public say they'll blame Republicans. Only 31 percent say they'll blame Obama. He's obviously winning the PR battle here. But no ...
  • Telling the Truth About Education—and About Ed ...
    In a recent column about the limitations of data, David Brooks wrote this about the debate over how effective economic stimulus has been: "As far as I know not a single major player in this debate has been persuaded by data to switch sides." This got Bob Somerby's attention. Had he ever change ...
  • Today's Advice: The Doctor Will Not See You Now
    So what's in my morning copy of the LA Times today? Let's take a look. Page A1: Stomach stapling is a crock. "A new study has found that the surgery does not reduce patients' medical costs over the six years after they are wheeled out of the operating room." Actually, it's worse than that: ...

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

  • Cave deposits reveal permafrost concern
    Greenhouse gases currently trapped in the frozen soil risk release past a 1.5°C temperature threshold for melting at the permafrost boundary, found in a 500,000 year record collected by Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford, and his colleagues.
  • 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.

e!Science News

  • Journey to the limits of spacetime
    Voracious absences at the center of galaxies, black holes shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy. read more
  • Researchers propose new way to probe Earth's d ...
    Researchers from Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have described a new technique that might one day reveal in higher detail than ever before the composition and characteristics of the deep Earth. read more
  • Should grandma join Facebook? It may give her ...
    For older adults looking to sharpen their mental abilities, it might be time to log on to Facebook. read more
  • Researchers 'nanoweld' by applying light to al ...
    Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to melt or "weld" specific portions of polymers by embedding aligned nanoparticles within the materials. Their technique, which melts fibers along a chosen direction within a material, may lead to stronger, more resi ...
  • Floral signs go electric
    Flowers' methods of communicating are at least as sophisticated as any devised by an advertising agency, according to a new study, published February 21 in Science Express by researchers from the University of Bristol. However, for any advertisement to be successful, it has to reach, and be perc ...

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

  • Lie, Lie, Lie, Lie…
    The Republican Machine knows the sequester will be, and is unpopular. Their only hope is to tell everyone, shout it from the mountaintops that the sequester was 100% President Obama’s fault. Their only chance to save face is to make a lot of bs noise. Obama demanded it etc. Blah, blah, bla ...
  • 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 ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • From hunger striking prisoners to occupation-t ...
    From Jenin to Gaza, Palestinians express solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli detention. Also, Sudanese cultural celebrations, highways through Palestinian Jerusalem communities, Nabi Saleh’s struggle, and pressure on an Israeli chocolatier.         &#16 ...
  • Settlers indicted for attacking Palestinian an ...
    Nothing can excuse the mauling of sheep or the uprooting of trees, yet this type of vandalism is protected by Israeli security forces in the West Bank on a regular basis. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz With some surprise, we learned a couple of days ago that one of our old files, from [...]
  • A promise: My first time in Bil’in will ...
    Last week I went to the Friday demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil’in for the first time. Some of the people who know me found it hard to believe. “Only now? Next week they will be marking eight years of demos, and only now you come, Ami?” Yeah. I guess I’m what you [...]
  • Fake peace talks are far worse than no peace talks
    With Tzipi Livni joining Netanyahu’s government and President Obama heading to the region, we might be in for another round of a pseudo-’peace process,’ which has become a code name for an attempt to impose ‘a deal’ on a Palestinian pseudo-leadership. Hatnuah – Tzipi Livn ...
  • WATCH: The Palestinian village of Susya – a gl ...
    Repeated demolition attempts by the army and right-wing groups are threatening to destroy the Palestinian village of Susya. “Thus shall it be done to the people whom the state does not delighteth to honor,” (but is delighted to get a hold on their land). This is Susya’s story. ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • US NEWS: Florida’s Fair Foreclosure Act ...
    Any plan designed to speed up the foreclosure process in Florida and uncork the bottleneck of paperwork jamming up the court system may sound like a good idea at first. After all, who wouldn’t want to see the last several years of this foreclosure crisis become nothing more than aRead the ...
  • The Bank Attorney Speaks…And He’s ...
    Here’s what the story says: You know the type: the borrower’s lawyer contests foreclosures by challenging every aspect of your Complaint; he raises MERS as an issue when MERS is not even named in the mortgage; he serves boilerplate discovery requests (likely downloaded from the Inter ...
  • I am a foreclosure defense attorney in St. Pet ...
    In my practice, I defend homeowners facing foreclosure in the Tampa, St. Petersburg area.  Currently, and over the years, I have had the great pleasure of representing thousands of homeowners across the State of Florida who face a David v. Goliath battle that pits them, often families of limited ...
  • The LPS Non-Prosecution Agreement, IT’S ...
    The fundamental proposition that I operate under is that this nation cannot heal because the cancer, the wounds that were inflicted upon the American economy, the American people have been ignored. Through settlement agreements, collusion, corruption and government misfeasance, malfeasance and j ...
  • FORECLOSURE BACKLOG CLEARED! 100,000 FAMILIES ...
    One thing that should be front and center with all this attention over House Bill 87 and the claimed need to: REFORM FLORIDA’S FORECLOSURE LAWS TO WE CAN CLEAR THIS FORECLOSURE BACKLOG! NOW! I just returned from a courtroom where the existing laws, court funding and procedures were allowin ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Identity – Digital Soul
    The London Free Press had a feature article this past weekend on our digital identity, aptly titled “Our Digital Soul”.  …Continue reading »
  • Identity – You and We
    Communities have their own kind of DNA.  They came together over years of development, experience, leadership, tough times, migration, ups …Continue reading »
  • 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 »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Peces y Plantas—Juntos Felices
    First, find an afterschool teen pregnancy prevention program for underserved Baltimore Latino high school students. Then put those teenagers inside a greenhouse that supports a delicate aquaponics demonstration project. What do you get? For starters, a lively translation project that reaches out ...
  • Food & Faith Project launches contest to inspi ...
    All congregations that successfully complete the Good Food Challenge will receive a 2013 Good Food Sanctuary certificate, and entering will also put your congregation in the running for one of three cash prizes.
  • Flexitarianism—A Unique Perspective on Consume ...
    Can you reap the benefits of a vegetarian diet without giving up meat entirely? Can you have your meat and not eat it too?
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

  • Airbus invokes “Plan B” while Drea ...
    Airbus has dropped lithium-ion batteries for the A350 so as not to jeopardise introduction of the aircraft in 2014 while the grounding of the Boeing Dreamliner is likelt to continue till the summer and perhaps till October 2013.
  • Mississippi abolishes slavery!
    The State of Mississippi officially ratified the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery … nearly 150 years after most of the states in the union did.
  • “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.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • It Is Our Journalistic Duty To Ask You If Peop ...
    We came across something today on the ever-surprising Internets that has our brains doing whatnows and ohnotheydidnts all over the place, and we need your help to get a handle on the situation. Specifically — ahem — are people really stealing pregnancy tests and peeing on them right there in the ...
  • Thief Dressed As Deliveryman Walks Out Of Flor ...
    Valentine’s Day is a chaotic time for florists, with temporary help mixing with regular staff to get everything delivered on time and to the right recipient. (Well, mostly.) In Chicago, one busy florist claims that a man took advantage of the floral fracas to walk off with 21 flower arrang ...
  • GE Wants To Spend $836 For Repairs On My $500 ...
    Reader Philip bought a new washer and dryer on sale last year after Black Friday. They were finally delivered when the family moved into a new house last week. When the time came for the inaugural wash, the machine made a loud banging sound and hopped around the room. GE sent a repairman who, on ...
  • Don’t Take The Car Cup Holder For Grante ...
    There are some things we see every day, to the point where they’ve become invisible. For example, the humble cup holder in your car. Sure, it doesn’t do anything beyond its one designated purpose, it doesn’t play your iPod or update your Facebook status for you. But it’s ...
  • Former Teavana Employee Confirms That Workers ...
    Last week we heard from a fellow consumer advocate/customer who was disappointed that the Teavana tea she was convinced to buy in the store by its heavenly taste didn’t taste as good once she got it home. She spoke to a worker who said they use more tea in the store samples than the instru ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Countrywide Financial Whistleblower's Award Ov ...
    Los Angeles Times: $3.8 Million Jury Award to Countrywide Whistleblower Overturned   An appeals court judge has ruled that Countrywide Financial whistleblower Michael Winston, a former high-level executive for the mortgage specialist, was not wrongfully terminated from employment when Bank ...
  • Radioactive Leaking at Hanford: Daily Whistleb ...
    Associated Press: Hanford Nuclear Tank in Washington is Leaking Liquids Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced that the Hanford Nuclear site, the most contaminated in the US, is leaking radioactive waste. This puts an enormous amount of pressure on both federal and state officials to resolve ...
  • New Egyptian Law May Provide Former World Bank ...
    LaEx-World Bank Managing Director Mahmoud Mohieldinst weekend, Egypt’s lower house of Parliament formally sanctioned a “reconcilement law” which, according to the head of the justice ministry’s legislative committee, Sherif Omar, is designed to “encourage businessmen to settle their financi ...
  • The Evolution of the Perception of the Whistle ...
    NPR: Government Slowly Changes Approach to Whistleblowers The institutional governmental attitude toward whistleblowers has seen a shift in recent years, according to this NPR piece. While it used to be commonplace that federal whistleblowers made positive impacts while bringing ruin to their ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Connecting Entitlement Reform to Immigration R ...
    by Robert Reich I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. Bush, as was Laura Bush. And Ken Starr (remember him?) And then, the next year, Hillary Rodham was born. And soon Newt Gingrich (known as “Newty” as a boy). And [...]
  • IRS Should Bar Dark Money Groups From Funding ...
    by Kim Barker ProPublica A former Illinois congressional candidate and a government watchdog organization have teamed up to sue the Internal Revenue Service, claiming the agency should bar dark money groups from funding political ads. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by David Gill, his campaign com ...
  • Can Vote-By-Mail Fix Those Long Lines At The P ...
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica In his State of the Union address, President Obama returned to a point he’d made on election night: The need to do somethingabout long voting lines. Obama announced his plan for a commission to “improve the voting experience in America.” But often missing from dis ...
  • Aer Lingus v Ryanair
    by BTNews Ryanair’s latest bid to take over Irish rival Aer Lingus has been blocked by the EU Competition Commission.  Ryanair called it “political” citing BA’s takeover of bmi, which it claimed was a monopoly, and said that it would challenge the court’s decision.  Ryanair had ...
  • Murdoch’s Circle: The Growing News Internation ...
    by Lena Groeger ProPublica This chart, which has been updated, was originally published February 15th. From phone hacking to bribery, the corruption at News International has involved many players — increasingly, ones close to Rupert Murdoch. We’ve mapped out the players involved in this g ...

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JoNova

  • Topher’s new video: The Forbidden Histor ...
    A video that ought to be shown to all students in every school. A concept that I don’t remember being mentioned during my education. I like his clean uncluttered style, the snappy irreverent wit. … Thanks Topher, and thanks to all the people who supported him to make this possible (l ...
  • Worlds Greatest Treasurer and Gillard, achieve ...
    With Wayne Swan, Treasurer of Australia, being man of the moment this week, it’s the perfect time to revisit a comment left by Jaymez where he compares the nation to a household and adds up just how fast the House of Australia went broke. — Jo Lesson One: Sending the House of Austral ...
  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • Another Expert Agrees With Dark Comet Theory
    Astronomer David Asher (from Armagh University) has agreed with Bill Napier and Janaki Wickramasinghe (Cardiff University) that “dark comets” are real and dangerous. The following quotes are from a paper by Napier and Asher published in Astronomy & Geophysics. http://star.arm.ac. ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Civil rights leader John Lewis recounts remark ...
    U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia tore down many barriers in his rise from sharecroppers' son to civil rights activist to Medal of Freedom recipient. And he's about to break another as the first sitting member of Congress to author a graphic novel telling his inspiring life story. read more
  • Will Southern Democrats derail immigration reform?
    The biggest obstacle President Obama faces in his push for immigration reform may be Senate Democrats facing tough races in 2014. But given the changing face of the Southern electorate, their wavering on reform may be short-sighted. read more
  • Gov. McCrory's disconnect on beaches and offsh ...
    In his first State of the State address this week, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory called for offshore oil and gas exploration. He proposed using some of the revenues for beach replenishment -- but offshore drilling would only worsen the state's coastal erosion problem. read more
  • Mississippi charter school supporters fought a ...
    The current debate over charter schools in Mississippi appears to be the latest battle in a longstanding war on public education -- and on teachers' unions. read more
  • Study details economic benefits of North Carol ...
    As some conservative lawmakers target the state's renewable energy law for repeal, a new study details its benefits to the state's economy and consumers. 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

  • Crisis of Papacy
    The on-going events reflect the fact that the Catholic Church goes through crisis today. It has failed to stand up to the process of dechristianization spreading up in the Western society. Actually it is the collapse of the very institution of Papacy. A Pope’s resignation is usually outstanding ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Plan Your Oscar Party With Our Recipe Blowout: ...
    The Academy Awards are coming up on Sunday. Whether you're planning a blowout Oscar-watching party or just kicking it with a few friends, here are some menus that are inspired by the nominees for Best Picture. Image: Flickr via miss karen Sit back, have a drink, eat a tasty meal, and queue u ...
  • Explaining The Food Chain To a Kid
    The other day, I was teaching my step-son about the food chain and all that goes with it. Eian and I regularly do science experiments and learn about the world around us after school. His mother and I had changed our diet to a vegan diet a few weeks prior so naturally, Eian is going to ...
  • 5 Red Carpet Fashion Trends to Buy Right Now
    From the Emmys to the Grammys, celebrities rocked some of the hottest fashion trends this awards season. When it comes to red carpet style, in my opinion there are three ways to go: classic, sexy, or daring. Celebrities have a way of inspiring everyday women to be sexy, classy, and daring, becau ...
  • Ready or Not, Hotmail Switches to Outlook
    I put together a quarterly newsletter for my neighborhood association. The association president is a retired Ph.D. professor from the local university. She's not a stupid woman. But she keeps complaining to me that she's having a problem sending me information for the newsletter because the uni ...
  • My Daughter Is Sad Because God Is a Boy
    Editor's Note: One thing I've learned that kids do quite well is make parents scratch their heads, think outside of the box and seek answers that they might not have known needed seeking. Wendy Thomas Russell had a conversation that made her delve deeper into the whys and wherefores of God's gen ...

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

  • Never enough: The latest coal-mining legislation
    A big victory in circuit court  — overturning a board ruling that promised to reduce coal-mining pollution (see here and here) — apparently isn’t enough for the industry lobby up at the West Virginia statehouse. There are a couple of new bills out this week … First, there ...
  • Taking a stand: W.Va.’s mine safety &#82 ...
    Photo courtesy of Gov. Tomblin’s Office. Gov. Tomblin calls for statewide mine safety stand down during press conference at the State Capitol. Last year, West Virginia led the nation in coal-mining death, as our state did  in 2010, 2008, 2006 and 2004. Over the last decade, at least 127 We ...
  • Are coal-mining deaths part of our ‘way ...
    Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and mine safety chief Eugene White answer questions from reporters during a press conference this morning at the Capitol. We’ve got today’s big coal industry news on the Gazette’s website: Citing a string of recent mining deaths, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin toda ...
  • MSHA’s Joe Main: Recent coal-mining deat ...
    This statement was just issued by Joe Main, assistant labor secretary for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: Yesterday, the coal industry marked its sixth mining fatality in less than one month. Four of those deaths occurred in West Virginia. Starting Thursday morning, MSHA inspecto ...
  • Another W.Va. coal miner dies on the job
    UPDATE: Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin plans to issue an executive order this afternoon calling for a “safety stand down” at the state’s coal mines. Here’s the news in this morning from the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training: Shuttle Car Operator Joh ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Higgs Data Hints at Universe End | ABC Sc ...
    If confirmed, the discovery would help resolve a key puzzle about how the universe came into existence some 13.7 billion years ago – and perhaps how it will end."This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now, there’ll be a catastrophe," Lykken says ...
  • China’s Army Hacking the U.S. | NYTimes.com
    The most fascinating elements of the Mandiant report follow the keystroke-by-keystroke actions of several of the hackers who the firm believes work for the P.L.A. Mandiant tracked their activities from inside the computer systems of American companies they were invading. The companies had given ...
  • Free Will Revisited
    At a recent team meetup in Atlanta I had the chance to talk to someone who actually enjoyed hearing about my perspective on free will, a moral framework, and a quasi-universal method of evaluating political propositions. Normally, peoples’ eyes glaze over at a one or two levels of depth ...
  • 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 ...

Fitwatch

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

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  • The Balkans aren't ready for investments
    Bulgarian government collapsed due to Czech-controlled electricity ČEZ, the Czech Power Group, is Central Europe's largest listed company with market capitalization exceeding $17 billion. Its 70% remains state-owned but the rest is large enough so that it's one of the two main movers of the ...
  • Ludwig Boltzmann: a birthday
    Ludwig Boltzmann was born on February 20th, 1844, in Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire. He hanged himself 62 years later, on September 5th, 1906, near Trieste, (then) also in the Austrian Empire, where he was on vacations with his wife Henriette von Aigentler and a daughter. They had 3 ...
  • Unstable Universes: guest blog
    Guest blog by David Berenstein, Assoc. Prof. in Santa Barbara It’s a fine day for the Universe to die, and to be new again! Well, maybe not, but the Internet is abuzz with a reincarnation of the unstable universe story. (You can also see it here, or here, the whole thing is trending in Goog ...
  • Nicolaus Copernicus: 540th birthday
    Off-topic, Higgs: Fox News, BBC, and others are suddenly excited by the possibility suggested by the Higgs boson mass that our Universe is intrinsically unstable. See some 4-month or years old TRF blog entries. Mikołaj Kopernik was born on February 19th, 1473 – half a millennium and 9.5 months ...
  • Nima at STScl: don't modify gravity, understand it
    ...because it is a moral issue... It's not the first time when Nima Arkani-Hamed gave a "totally negative" talk on a similar issue but it's a fun time. Twelve days ago he came to The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland – the terrestrial headquarters for Hub ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Academics split on Canada’s religious freedom ...
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls Canada’s new ambassador of religious freedom “a scholar, a man of principle and deep convictions,” but the emphasis on Dr. Andrew Bennett’s academic qualifications has some scholars of religion scratching their heads. CBC | Top Sto ...
  • Canada’s Oscar hopefuls feted ahead of Sunday’ ...
    Canada’s Oscar hopefuls gathered in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles Thursday to be feted by the Canadian Consulate ahead of their appearance at the Academy Awards Sunday night. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Oscar nominees led by Lincoln, Life of Pi The Civil War- ...
  • Google Glass: No longer just the stuff of scie ...
    The hubbub today about Google Glass, the search company’s new wearable computer technology, got CBC business columnist Don Pittis thinking about a 2007 novel by science-fiction author Charles Stross, in which police officers are able to access information databases through their eyewear. C ...
  • More defibrillators will go into hockey rinks, ...
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the government will spend $ 10 million to put more defibrillators in Canada’s hockey rinks. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Harper avoids backing Netanyahu’s call for ‘red line’ on Iran Benjamin Netanyahu continues to prai ...
  • 4 people shot in Whitby, Ont.
    Four people have been shot in Whitby, Ont., and one victim has been transported to a Toronto hospital with serious injuries, according to Durham Regional Police. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: 40 people still in hospital after Russia meteor explosion More than half of the windows ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

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Views & News from Norway

  • Church plans to introduce Norwegian ‘Tha ...
    dThe Hamar diocese of the Norwegian state church has formed a committee to work towards creation of a national holiday similar to “Thanksgiving”  in the US. The idea is to celebrate the bounty of the annual harvest in Norwegian schools, the church and homes. They’re calling it ...
  • Bjørgen cherishes new gold medal
    Marit Bjørgen, the Norwegian cross-country skier who was diagnosed with heart trouble just two months ago, won her latest gold medal on the opening day of the Nordic World Ski Championships at Val di Fiemme in Italy on Thursday. She literally jumped for joy. “I’m incredibly glad,&#82 ...
  • Doctor facing death wins big prize
    Dr Per Fugelli, a general practitioner in Norway who’s lately advocated more openness around death while dealing with a cancer diagnosis himself, has been awarded this year’s Freedom of Expression Prize from the country’s Fritt Ord Foundation. Fugelli, who was diagnosed with ca ...
  • Jobs created for police graduates
    Complaints over short-staffing within the police, and a lack of jobs for graduates of the state police academy, seemed to vanish this week when the state Police Directorate announced creation of 350 new positions. The new positions will be ready to be filled by this summer. The expansion of poli ...
  • Massive support for refugee children
    In a case where emotions are running high but principles weigh heavily, a little boy testified in court this week in a plea to let he and his refugee parents stay in Norway. Overwhelming public support for seven-year-old Nathan Eshete, especially from his hometown of Bergen, has put the governme ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Before Permaculture: Keyline Planning and Cult ...
    Freshly keyline plowed (source) Plan the work then work the plan. — P.A. Yeomans Intro In the mid 1950s, Australian engineer P.A. Yeomans demonstrated a new system of land management he called the Keyline system. The consensus of the time, championed by people like Dr H.H. Bennett, was ...
  • All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars
    In short, this is a fabulous 44 minute documentary. And for good measure, the essense of the banking industry, stated in less than two minutes: Further Reading/Watching: Money as Debt The Money Masters
  • Oyster Mushroom Production: Prosperity and Pro ...
    The desire for sustainable projects for non-government organisations and the need of reliable sources of income for small scale farmers is ever increasing in Tanzania and the ‘developing world’. Within international development ‘sustainability’ is a buzz-word often bandie ...
  • Fracking for Shale Gas
    A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here. Shale gas could be a useful stop-gap substitute for more conventional fossil fuels on our way towards fully green renewable energies, but health and environmental risks incl ...
  • Stories from our Food Gardens (e-Book)
    The world is dotted with individuals that are driving change from the inside out, inspired by the principles and approach of permaculture. I wanted to share with you “Stories from our Food Gardens” an e-publication made possible by the Saville Foundation here in South Africa, writte ...

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 ...

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    How independence might threaten one of the SNP's favourite industries
    The Economist
    By contrast, the Scottish National Party (SNP), which runs Scotland's devolved government, has spent years talking up the country's renewable-energy prowess and British dependence on it. With some justification: Scotland exported 26% of the electricity ...
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    Challenge and Opportunity: Financing Renewable Energy Projects
    AOL Energy
    Structuring renewable energy projects that provide acceptable investment returns is often helped by using feed in tariffs in European and other markets, but tax equity vehicles are more common in the US. Tax equity arrangements can be structurally ...
    Reid: strengthen renewable energy standards
    Elko Daily Free Press
    CARSON CITY (AP) — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid called on Nevada lawmakers to tighten the state's renewable energy standards in a wide-ranging speech Wednesday that also called on them to repeal term limits, reject voter identification requirements and ...
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    EPA sets renewable fuel standards, tackles fraud
    The Hill (blog)
    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a public meeting to be held in Ann Arbor, Mich., on March 8, to discuss a proposed rule to set guidelines for the annual quotas and other standards to be required for renewable fuels in 2013. It has ...
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    Knowledge Of Full Sandy Damage To SI's Ecology May Take Years To Discover
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    As Staten Islanders continue to struggle to rebuild their homes and businesses from Hurricane Sandy, scientists say it may be years before the full scope of damage to the island is known, as from plant life to wildlife, nearly every aspect of the ...
    Frank Trainor, Emeritus Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Dies
    UConn Advance (blog)
    Francis (Frank) Rice Trainor, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, died on Feb. 12, in Storrs, after a short period of declining health. He turned 84 on Feb. 11. Trainor was known to his ...
    Letchworth ecology business continues to grow
    Comet 24
    Commenting on the company's expansion plans, managing director Nancy Thomson said: “With the commissioning of this new building, we are amalgamating our laboratory facilities, previously in Works Road, Letchworth, together with other ecology ...
    Berwyn's Heritage School students have the ecology bug
    Suburban Life Publications
    Berwyn's Heritage School students have the ecology bug. By JOE SINOPOLI - jsinopoli@shawmedia.com. Created: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:17 p.m. CST. Updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:35 p.m. CST. Comments (...) Text Size: ...
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    Body of missing Canadian woman found in hotel water tank, officials testing ...
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    LOS ANGELES – Canadian tourist Elisa Lam had been missing for about two weeks when officials at the historic Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles found her body in a water cistern on the hotel roof. Guest complaints about low water pressure prompted a ...
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