Thursday, February 21, 2013

21 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Crowley Tug lineup
Crowley Tug lineup (Photo credit: Konabish ~ Greg Bishop)
Saint Paul Skyline
Saint Paul Skyline (Photo credit: Mr.OutdoorGuy)
philippines manila jeepney
philippines manila jeepney (Photo credit: FriskoDude)
Hugh Jones (Carbon Trust)
Hugh Jones (Carbon Trust) (Photo credit: EOI Escuela de Organización Industrial)
San Francisco sky
San Francisco sky (Photo credit: davidyuweb)
cambodia
cambodia (Photo credit: danblah)
Brazil Waterfall
Brazil Waterfall (Photo credit: @Doug88888)
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo credit: RobertCiavarro)
NPT-Jugenddelegation
NPT-Jugenddelegation (Photo credit: Kampagne Atomwaffenfrei)
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Information Underground

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

TVNZ

environment 360

  • To Control Floods, The Dutch Turn to Nature fo ...
    The Netherlands’ system of dikes and sea gates has long been the best in the world. But as the country confronts the challenges of climate change, it is increasingly relying on techniques that mimic natural systems and harness nature’s power to hold back the sea. BY CHERYL KATZ
  • Chinese Air Pollution Triggers Steep Rise in N ...
    A spike in Chinese air pollution over the last three decades has caused a 60 percent increase in the levels of nitrogen pollutants that ultimately end up back on the nation’s land and in its water, a new study has found. In an analysis of 270 monitoring sites across the country, researchers foun ...
  • Camera Trap in Amazon Gives Stunning Glimpse o ...
    Using footage from a camera trap trained on a single “colpa” salt lick in the remote jungle of the western Amazon, a Peru-based conservationist has captured a rare glimpse into the region’s robust biodiversity, YouTube/Paul Rosolie WATCH VIDEO: Biodiversity in the Peruvia ...
  • New Global Standard Aims to Reduce Water Waste ...
    The UK-based Carbon Trust has introduced what it calls the first global standard on water management and reduction in hopes of encouraging more sustainable water use by businesses. The new standard, created by members of the group along with four early-adopting companies, including Coca-Cola Ent ...
  • Grisly Trend: Green Activists Are Facing Deadl ...
    With activists killed in Brazil, Cambodia, the Philippines, and elsewhere, 2012 may have been the worst year yet for violence against those working to protect the environment. So far, little has been done to halt this chilling development. BY FRED PEARCE

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backofthebook

  • A Modest Opinion – A day in the life of ...
    By Nathaniel Moher On Jan. 28th, Stephen Harper took a break from using the Internet for the purpose of helping all machines become sentient and thus beginning the robot revolution, in order to take to Twitter and post some pictures of a day in the life of Stephen “I Swear I’m Not A Robot – [... ...
  • Taxes are bad — unless, of course, they& ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net Here’s a puzzle for my readers: try to guess which one of the following two editorials, each of them discussing a slight bump in the tax rate for the wealthiest individuals, comes from The Globe and Mail, and which one comes from the local leftist rag: An extra two per c ...
  • You’re paying for your government’ ...
    By John Klein (aka Saskboy) The Conservative government is out of control. The Guardian UK newspaper confirms what environmentalists have already suspected (since the Conservatives have openly accused them previously): This Conservative government regards environmentalists as a threat to nationa ...
  • John Baird at the Crossroads
    By Montreal Simon It was an extraordinary sight. John Baird sitting next to Julian Fantino at a committee meeting this morning, blasting the hideous anti-gay statements of a Canadian religious organization. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird took aim Tuesday at “offensive” and &#822 ...
  • Steven Tyler’s anti-nip slips bill
    By Mark Leiren-Young Forget what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — if Steven Tyler has his way, what happens in the Aloha State will stay safely under the grass skirt. Yes, Hawaii could become a safe haven for the species known as “tabloid fodder.” Liv Tyler’s dad, who used to sing with a ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Mali: Drinking Water a Priority in North
    “The humanitarian situation in northern Mali is still a source of concern. Displaced persons in the north-east corner of the country lack food and water. The ICRC and the Mali Red Cross are working to help people who have been affected by the conflict. “The country is facing a diffic ...
  • Can Jakarta ever root out the problems that ca ...
    “Jakarta, Indonesia, is one of Asia’s most flood-prone cities. Every year hundreds of thousands of citizens living in the capital of Southeast Asia’s largest economy brace for the loss of business, shelter and livelihoods. Each year, as the rainy season approaches, the authorit ...
  • The Folks Behind the PGC- Coalitions, Mixed Ma ...
      The Folks Behind the PGC- Coalitions, Mixed Markets and People Power by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy California is a like a nation-sta ...
  • Nuclear Dump in Washington Leaking Radioactive ...
    “On Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy said liquid levels are decreasing in one of 177 underground tanks at the site. Monitoring wells near the tank have not detected higher radiation levels, but Inslee said the leak could be in the range of 150 gallons to 300 gallons over the course of ...
  • Protesters Call On Obama To Reject Keystone XL ...
    “Tens of thousands of protesters turned out on the National Mall Sunday to encourage President Obama to make good on his commitment to act on climate change. In his Inaugural address from outside the U.S. Capitol, the president said: “We will respond to the threat of climate change k ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • Join hands and sing Kumbaya
    … Like other whistleblower who have gone before him … Bradley Manning … likely suffer at the hands of our government while we politely turn a blind eye … deaf ear … join hands and sing Kumbaya … Bradley Manning nears 1000 days in US jail with no trial 02-20-20 ...
  • Look it’s OK to cut and slice and dice progra ...
    … Look it’s OK to cut and slice and dice programs … just none in my congressional district … Lawmakers go NIMBY on sequester By: Scott Wong   Congressmen are lobbying to try to spare key projects back home from the sequester. Filed under: Blogroll
  • still we sit quietly on our butts and do noth ...
    … but still we sit quietly on our butts and do nothing to change it …why…?  Poll: 15% approve of Congress Eighty-one percent of Americans disapprove of Congress’s job performance. more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/poll-15-approve-of-congress-87817.html Filed under: Bl ...
  • … Trust us … we’d never use it on ...
    … Trust us … we’d never use it on you … unless corporate and congress thought is was a good idea … Proposed Asteroid-Destroying Satellite Sounds An Awful Lot Like A Death Star 02-20-2013  •  popsci.com   After the double-whammy of a meteorite hitting Russia and a nea ...
  • .. They did it once they can sure do it again ...
      … They did it once they can sure do it again … Did Law Enforcement Intentionally Burn Chris Dorner Alive Waco Style? 02-19-2013  •  Daily Paul.com Watch video here … http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4yh9JEgXJmQ Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films ...
    Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or ...
  • Beyond the resorts: traveling the real and wil ...
    For its stunning variety of ecosystems, the Dominican Republic is like a continent squished into half an island. Lowland rainforests, cloud forests, pine forests, dry forests, mangroves, savannah, coastal lagoons, salt lakes, a rift valley, karst land formations, four mountain ranges—inclu ...
  • Pity the pangolin: little-known mammal most co ...
    Last year tens-of-thousands of elephants and hundreds of rhinos were butchered to feed the growing appetite of the illegal wildlife trade. This black market, largely centered in East Asia, also devoured tigers, sharks, leopards, turtles, snakes, and hundreds of other animals. Estimated at $19 bi ...
  • The beginning of the end of deforestation in I ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper, a forestry giant that has been widely criticized for its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflict in Indonesia, today announced a zero deforestation policy that could have a dramatic impact on efforts to slow the Southeast Asian nation's high rate ...
  • Geneticists discover distinct lion group in sq ...
    They languished behind bars in squalid conditions, their very survival in jeopardy. Outside, an international team of advocates strove to bring worldwide attention to their plight. With modern genetics, the experts sought to prove what they had long believed: that these individuals were special. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Tracker telescope to be launched
    The first space telescope dedicated to detecting and tracking asteroids, satellites and space debris is set to be launched next week.The Canadian Space Agency's NEOSSat (the Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite) is slated for...
  • Grow an ear with 3D printing - it can be done
    Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it's possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3D printer and injections of living cells.The work is a first step toward one day growing customised new ears for...
  • Mosquitoes immune to repellent - research
    Mosquitos can grow immune to repellent in as quickly as three hours, according to new research. The study, which tested mosquitoes' response to the insect repellent DEET, showed that the insects were able to ignore the smell of...
  • Russian scientists recover meteor fragments
    Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains, and preliminary tests are turning up information about its contents.However, local residents seem more interested in the black...
  • Grant Guilford: Dung beetle plan a risky gamble
    A controversial decision by the environment authority to approve the introduction of 11 new species of dung beetle to this country has exposed serious weaknesses in our biosecurity processes.Doubts about the proposed benefits and...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt reflects on the Little Chilliw ...
    I cannot stop thinking about Susan Beach our counterpart acting, yes acting lawyer for Fraser Health in our recent court proceedings in BC. We met the first time at the door of courtroom 208 in New Westminster BC. Yes it … Continue reading →
  • B.C. raw milk trial news roundup
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “I had contact with both Schmidt and Watson as the trial wrapped up, and they were encouraged that the judge allowed the trial to go on for six days instead of … Continue reading →
  • The BC raw milk court proceedings
    Wondering what happened in court out there in B.C. last week, with Fraser Health accusing Michael Schmidt and Gordon Watson of contempt of court? Well, the author of the Bank of Common Sense blog has been public spirited enough to … Continue reading →
  • FDA and Health Canada going after raw milk che ...
    Remember a few days ago we wrote about that article from the Ontario Farmer about how the FDA and Health Canada were seeking public input on raw milk policy? Well it seems that what they were really on about was … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk family’s day in court in B.C.
    From the Hella Delicious blog: “Just got back from the New Westminster courthouse. Our cowshare family spent a loving day together listening to the interactions between the lawyers, judge, Gordon Watson and witnesses over what seems to be unravelling as … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • France Sinks Further Into Gutter; PMI Accelera ...
    While laughing at the amusing exchange of letters between the CEO of Titan and Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Industrial Renewal of France, I awaited the latest PMI report on France, expecting findings to be horrific. The PMI reports are out today, and inquiring minds will note the Markit ...
  • House Subcommittee on Economic Growth Demands ...
    In a long overdue, yet surprising move, Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Economic Growth demands answers on Bernanke's exit strategy. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is demanding that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke explain exactly how he plans to wind down the Fed's massi ...
  • Montebourg Translation: In Praise of France, O ...
    The story of an "incredible letter" from Maurice Taylor, CEO of Titan, to Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Industrial Renewal of France starts with a question Taylor asked Montebourg: "How Stupid Do You Think We Are?" In his letter, Taylor blasted French workers, French unions, and he also th ...
  • Montebourg Responds, Cites Normandy Landings a ...
    The amusing story of a letter from the CEO of Titan, regarding the unproductive nature of French workers, continues. For background please see Incredible Letter from CEO of Titan to France Minister of Industrial Renewal, Blasting French Unions and USA: "How Stupid Do You Think We Are?" ...
  • Greek Official Sends 2000 Cases of Fraud and E ...
    Reader "Lefteris" from Greece writes ... Hi Mish, The General Inspector of Public Administration in Greece, Mr. Rakitzis, stated that he has send more than 2000 cases of proven corruption to justice, and none of them has brought any results. This person, by the way, is considered a ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • Plane crash in Georgia kills 5: Officials
    Five people have been killed when a small airplane crashed at an airport in the southeastern US state of Georgia, officials say.
  • ‘UK team worked to lure imams, muezzin’
    A report unveils an operation, suspended in 2010, by a team of Britain's dispatched forces in Afghanistan to attract the support of mosques’ imams and muezzin (the people at mosques who lead and recite the call to prayer).
  • ‘Suspects arrested over Belaid’s murder’
    Tunisian security forces have arrested a number of suspects reportedly in connection with the murder of leftist opposition leader Shokri Belaid, the Interior Ministry says.
  • Israeli forces attack Palestinians
    Israeli security forces have attacked a large crowd of Palestinians who demonstrated in solidarity with several thousand Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
  • 3 killed in Las Vegas car-to-car shootout
    Three people have been killed and at least four injured during a car-to-car shooting and crash in the US city of Las Vegas.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • In Utero MRI
    The brain is a hugely complex organ made from expansive networks of cells, all connecting and communicating with one another, quickly and effectively. This vast array of connections begin to form in u...
  • Bone repairing gene therapy paste
    A bone-repairing calcium-rich paste that also carries a fracture-healing gene-therapy DNA message has been developed by scientists in Germany. The material, which could be injected into broken bones...
  • Mosquitoes become desensitised to DEET
    Mosquitoes become less sensitive to the common repellent, DEET (N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide), after continued exposure to the chemical. DEET is a widely used mosquito repellent. and has been shown in ...
  • Fruit flies defend eggs using alcohol
    Fruit flies protect their eggs by laying them in alcohol-laced fruit, but only when there are parasitic wasps around, new research has revealed. So-called endoparasitic wasps lay their eggs in the la...
  • Immune disguise for nanoparticles
    A means of masking nanoparticles from the immune system so that they can operate in the body for longer has been revealed by scientists in America. They body's tissues are constantly patrolled by h...

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Despite Right-Wing Opposition, Hagel Looks Set ...
    Despite an appeal Thursday by 15 right-wing Republican senators for President Barack Obama to withdraw the nomination of Chuck Hagel as his next defence secretary, the former Republican senator from Nebraska appears virtually certain to be confirmed as Pentagon chief by the full Senate next week ...
  • Arms Bazaars Proliferate as U.N. Tries to Regu ...
    When a 20-year-old went on a deadly shooting spree killing 26 students and teachers in an elementary school in Connecticut last December, there was the inevitable outcry either for a ban or a tight control on gun shows, where firearms can be purchased over the counter with no background checks o ...
  • Carnival Food Carts Go Solar in Northern Argentina
    It’s carnival time in sunny northwest Argentina, and as usual, food vending carts are everywhere. But some of the carts are different this year: they offer food cooked on the spot – by the sun. During carnival festivities in the Andean highland region of La Puna, which last almost the whole mont ...
  • Market Gardening Provides Livelihoods for Refu ...
    Standing behind her market stall in Masisu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which overflows with cabbages, carrots and onions, Marceline Dusabe does not fit the traditional profile of an internally displaced person. She, unlike many others displaced by the internal conflict in North K ...
  • Agriculture on the Air
    The sun is just beginning its descent as a knot of farmers gathers around a small, portable radio in the grounds of the Nachol Pilot High School in Bangladesh’s northwestern Chapainawabganj district, about 300 kilometres from the capital, Dhaka. The voices of Kauser Ali and Dhiren Karmakaur &#82 ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Make Tehran a Serious Offer
    Summary: Western leaders appear positively lackadaisical about striking a deal with Iran. As the New York Times recently reported, “Mr. Obama’s aides seem content with stalemate.” If the alleged threat from Iran’s nuclear program is so urgent that the United States—or Israel—would even consid ...
  • U.S. Hostility Towards the Islamic Republic of ...
    Summary: "For more than thirty years, American analysts and policy-makers have put forward a series of myths about the Islamic Republic: that it is irrational, illegitimate, and vulnerable. In doing so, pundits and politicians have consistently misled the American public and America’s allie ...
  • Iran Backs Nuclear-Free Middle East in Dig at ...
    Summary: Iran supports the establishment of a Middle East free of nuclear weapons and backs efforts to dispose of existing ones in the region, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said today. source: Bloombergread more
  • Obama’s ‘Engagement’ on Iran ‘Was a Cover’ for ...
    Summary: One of the most prevalent criticisms of Obama’s foreign policy on Iran is that he appeased those conniving mullahs and allowed them to charge full speed ahead on a nuclear weapons program. This is the type of critique you hear from establishment DC think-tanks, Republicans in Congres ...
  • UN chief violates principle of impartiality on ...
    Summary: The UN secretary general, in an interview with the US daily Washington Post, released on February 15, said “The United Nations must be swift in judging whether diplomacy can resolve world concerns about Iran’s nuclear program, or invite the risk that Iran will use talks as a cover to ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Evidence of Water on Primordial Moon --Rivals ...
                     There is water inside the moon – so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within the Earth. Over the last five years, spacecraft observations and new lab measurements of Apollo lunar samples have overturned the long-held belief that t ...
  • Kepler Mission Reveals an Alien Planet Size of ...
                     An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system that's about the size of the Earth's moon. It is one of three planets orbiting a s ...
  • Predictable Evolution? --Identical Mutations i ...
                                      Understanding how and why diversification occurs is important for understanding why there are so many species on Earth. In a new study published on 19 February in the open access journal PLOS Biology, researchers show that similar—or even identical—mu ...
  • Saturn's Shockwaves Reach Supernova Force
                     During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies. This is similar to the acceleration that takes place around distant supernovas. ...
  • "Guardian Jupiter" --Is the Gas Giant Earth's ...
                      On 1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the planet Jupiter. The comet, discovered the previous year by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy, was observed by astronomers at hundreds of observator ...

Natural News

  • 21 reasons to try organic sulfur
    (NaturalNews)When Rockefeller decided he needed to increase his profits and control the world's usage of fertilizer, he convinced the farmers that the petro-chemical fertilizers would enable them to spend more time farming instead of spreading manure. What he never told them was...
  • Fast food raises risk of childhood allergies a ...
    Children who eat more fast food are significantly more likely to suffer from more severe asthma, eczema and rhinitis, according to a large international study published in the journal Thorax. The researchers noted that all three conditions are rising in prevalence...
  • Inner calm and connection in 30 seconds with t ...
    I had the pleasure recently of speaking with yoga teacher Amy Weintraub, well-known author of Yoga for Depression. Amy will be joining us soon on Mental Health Exposed. As I was reviewing some of her material, I decided to try a short breathing exercise that she teaches...
  • Forget good vs. bad; watch out for 'ugly chole ...
    Most health-conscious people have heard, by now, about two types of cholesterol: HDL cholesterol, known colloquially as "good cholesterol," and LDL cholesterol, also known as "bad cholesterol." Now, a new study from researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark...
  • How to heal yourself physically and emotionall ...
    The mystery surrounding essential oils and their therapeutic value in both physical and emotional healing is truly astonishing, as these 100 percent natural plant and herb extracts have been shown to be highly effective medicines when taken internally, applied topically...

Threat Level

  • Zendesk Security Breach Affects Twitter, Tumbl ...
    Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. The San Francisco-based company announced ...
  • RIAA Says Google’s Anti-Piracy Search Algorith ...
    The Recording Industry Association of American said Thursday that Google's algorithm change to lower rankings of sites with "high numbers" of copyright-infringing removal notices has had no "demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large amounts of piracy."
  • White House Must Respond Publicly to Ban on Mo ...
    The President Barack Obama administration must enter the mobile-phone-unlocking fray. Thanks to a whitehouse.gov petition reaching 100,000 signatures Thursday, the administration must respond publicly about a recent decision by copyright regulators making it illegal to unlock mobile phones purch ...
  • Drug-Dog Alerts Are ‘Up to Snuff,’ Supreme Cou ...
    The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it relatively simple for police to search vehicles after a trained police dog alerts to the smell of narcotics.
  • Sign Now: White House Petition to Legalize Mob ...
    Want to force the President Barack Obama administration to enter the mobile-phone-unlocking fray? Sign a whitehouse.gov petition by Saturday and, if the petition reaches 100,000 signatures, the administration must respond publicly about a recent decision by copyright regulators making it ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Low Capital Gains Tax Rates Fueling Record Inc ...
    Last month, an analysis by Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez revealed that the top 1 percent of American earners captured all the income gains during the first two years of the current economic recovery while the other 99 percent lost ground. Now, a new analysis by Congressional Research Service ...
  • Memo to Media: GOP Debt Ceiling Hostage Taking ...
    As the federal government nears the March 1st deadline to avoid the $1.2 trillion, ten year budget sequester, the media are breathlessly playing the blame game. While House Speaker John Boehner continued to decry "the Obama sequester" in a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "the President is ragi ...
  • PM's Barak and Olmert, Not Hagel, Warned Israe ...
    adjunct of Israel," the right-wing media machine is back with a new attack aimed at derailing the Obama defense nominee's confirmation. Citing an attendee at an April 2010 conference at Rutgers University, the Washington Free Beacon is now claiming that Hagel called Israel Prime Minister Benjam ...
  • Happy President's Day Abe, from the Party of L ...
    Six days after Abraham Lincoln's 204th birthday, the Great Emancipator is very much in the news on this President's Day. Pundits, polls and politicians of both parties are once again recognizing America's 16th president as its greatest. Inspired by the Oscar-nominated film, a Mississippi physic ...
  • Let's Make a Sequester Deal!
    Barring a last minute miracle compromise, on March 1 the first year of the $1.2 trillion, decade-long budget sequester will begin. With few exceptions, that's a development neither party wants to come to pass. For Democrats, the sequester doesn't just mean the potential loss of 750,000 jobs in ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Into The Ma ...
    The first sample of material ever taken from the inside of a rock on another planet has been obtained by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity. NASA just released new images showing the drilled material. The sample material will give researchers a look into what Mars was like during the rock materia ...
  • Bumblebees Locate Specific Flowers By The Elec ...
    Bumblebees and other pollinators are able to locate and distinguish the individual electric signals given off by flowers, new research from the University of Bristol has found. The flowers’ use of electric signals to communicate with potential pollinators is a surprise to many researchers, ...
  • Correcting Myths About Recent French Study & Meat
    Robert Goodland, who has extensively studied the relationship between food and global warming, recently posted the article below on Free From Harm’s website. I’m reposting it in full to help counter some of the major misconceptions that have surfaced after the publishing of a recent ...
  • Solar Flare Producing Plasma Loops Seen Produc ...
    Enormous loops of super-hot plasma, much bigger than the Earth, are seen raining down onto the surface of the Sun in a spectacular new video just released by NASA. The plasma rain was caught on film by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) last year when a mid-strength solar flare was re ...
  • Trainsforming America (Environmental Film Fest ...
    Train Commute Haiku #559: Your North Face parka Leads me to believe you’re on A grand adventure Continuing on with PlanetSave’s coverage of a recent Environmental Film Festival in Florida, here’s a post on the new documentary Trainsforming America: Trainsforming America — ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Right Projects Own Extremism on Others
    By @TedFrier Listening to Jennifer Rubin slander the President's nominee for Defense Secretary, it's hard not to think about those members of the old Soviet politburo who argued "world peace" is what would happen when everyone was a communist and an "imperialist" was someone who didn't want worl ...
  • The Answer Is Obvious_Congress Simply Sucks
    By @TomBales1 Actually, once you've seen the title you've pretty much seen the whole post.  Congress has sucked for flipping decades and the fact that they still suck isn't all that surprising or newsworthy except in regard to the ever increasing depths of suckosity at which the motley con ...
  • The Kochs_Hopefully Not The Face Of Even The 1%
    By @TomBales1 Yeah, I know.  Wishful thinking, right? "We've got to save the middle class!", shouts the middle class.".  Yeah, sure. So what are you gonna do about the situation today?  "Today?  Oh uh... well the college football games are on today, lots of big games going o ...
  • Lindsey Graham Got His Answer
    By @TedFrier Senator Lindsey Graham asked Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hegal to name one Senator who was "intimidated by the Jewish Lobby," name one "stupid thing" the Senate had done "as a result of pressure from the Israeli Lobby." Well now we know: The Senate has just filibustered a Pre ...
  • Only Liberals Now Stand Up For Standards
    By @TedFrier Andrew Sullivan said something today that helps to explain why many former conservatives like me now call ourselves liberal. Regarding the potential that the Senate for the first time in its history may filibuster a cabinet nominee, Sullivan said liberals, far more than conservative ...

Care 2

  • Looming Sequester Likely to Impact Funding fo ...
    Cutting $30 million from international family planning funding would mean that: 1,560,000 fewer women and couples would receive contraceptive services and supplies; 450,000 more unintended pregnancies, including 210,000 more unplanned births, wou Submitted by J.L. A. to Health & Well ...
  • 4 ways the sequester could affect science, the ...
    The slate of spending cuts could wreak havoc on everything from USDA meat inspections and FDA drug reviews to EPA research and national park staffing. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell your senators: Protect our parks ! PLEASE ...
    Our parks are amazing, and theres no replacing them, yet year after year Congress depletes park funding. And this year, because of this underfunding, the park service is planning cuts to parks, campgrounds, historic sites, and wildlife refuges, Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |  ...
  • Action needed on two year anniversary of delay ...
    Two years ago today, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted a proposal to update the standard that protects workers from exposure to crystalline silica dust. Submitted by J.L. A. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Oceana Study Uncovers Widespread Seafood Fraud ...
    33% of Seafood Mislabeled in Grocery Stores, Restaurants & Sushi Venues Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Sequester Bamboozle
    Boy. Listening to the caterwauling from Obama and some Republicans over the impending sequester, one would think this is the result of magic and forces beyond human control. If I did not know better I would swear this is what the Mayan prophets had in mind when the warned about the end of the lo ...
  • Worrying Economic Signs
    While some in the media continue to indulge the fantasy that we are in a booming recovery (Shep Smith on FOX is one of these clowns), the actual news is disturbing and alarming. First, there is Japan: GDP data reveal Japan mired in recession . . . The yen has fallen by about 16 per [...]
  • Update on the Benghazi Talking Points
    Man, Susan Rice does not know when to be quiet. She appeared Thursday night on the Daily Show: Appearing on The Daily Show with host Jon Stewart last night, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice addressed the ongoing criticism of the administration of President Barack Obama and its handling of the attack o ...
  • President Obama’s Benghazi Dereliction
    The events of 11 September 2012 are damning for the Presidential legacy of Barack Obama because of his failure to do basic crisis management. Thanks to testimony from SecDef Leon Panetta, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dempsey and CIA nominee John Brennan, the record of Obama’s failure to exercise ...
  • State of the Union–Open Thread
    Okay ladies and gents. Here you go. I can’t bear to watch the arrogant ass. My tolerance for listening to a litany of lies was surpassed months ago. The yawning gulf between the myth of Obama pushed by the fawning media and the actual reality of a disengaged egotist puts the Grand Canyon t ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal Country Bank First to Report Carbon Footp ...
    Mother Jones Coal Country Bank First to Report Carbon Footprint to Shareholders Mother Jones PNC is the only major bank based in Appalachia, a region where coal and gas extraction is a major business. It has long lent to mining companies, including those engaged in mountaintop removal, which inv ...
  • Ashley Judd is serious - Salon
    Salon Ashley Judd is serious Salon “Mountaintop removal is such an obscene practice for the people living in Appalachia — and it's only been around since George W. Bush — that they've turned against it. At first they held their tongue, but now coal companies are bailing on miners ... Mul ...
  • Swarthmore Hosts Summit On Fossil Fuel Divestm ...
    Swarthmore Hosts Summit On Fossil Fuel Divestment Swarthmore College The Phoenix Online By and large, extractive industries have continued to use the same technologies for their drill rigs and mountaintop removal equipment as they have been using for decades. This equipment is often not efficien ...
  • 'Development is the new word for peace' - Cabr ...
    'Development is the new word for peace' Cabrini College Loquitur When we think of peace, it's easy to imagine a bunch of hippies sitting outside of a VW bus, eating sustainable kale and protesting anything from mountaintop removal to afterschool programming cuts in Nicaragua – while ...
  • Mulling Senate bid, Ashley Judd meets with Dem ...
    Mulling Senate bid, Ashley Judd meets with Democratic officials CBS News But some have predicted her opposition to mountaintop removal mining will set her apart from most other Kentucky politicians who are allied with the Blue Grass State's mining industry. If Judd does decide to jump into t ...

Memeorandum

  • Benedict retired 'after gay prelate inquiry' ( ...
    John Hooper / Guardian: Benedict retired ‘after gay prelate inquiry’  —  Pope's staff decline to confirm or deny La Repubblica claims linking ‘Vatileaks’ affair and discovery of ‘blackmailed gay clergy’  —  A potentially explos ...
  • Why Republican governors are saying yes to Med ...
    Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog: Why Republican governors are saying yes to Medicaid, no to Obamacare's exchanges  —  In the span of a month, some of Obamacare's most ardent opponents have come to embrace one of the law's most crucial programs: The Medicaid expansion.  —  ...
  • In Gun Debate, a Bigger Role Seen for Insurers ...
    New York Times: In Gun Debate, a Bigger Role Seen for Insurers  —  In a society sharply divided over efforts to curb violence and the right to bear arms, both sides of the gun debate seem to agree on at least one thing: a bigger role for the insurance industry to play in a heavi ...
  • A BAD IDEA GETS WORSE (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)
    Charles P. Pierce / Esquire: A BAD IDEA GETS WORSE  —  Ed Kilgore is a good man.  He's been very kind to the blog since its toddlerhood.  Which makes it something of a surprise that he's trying so very hard to kill me.  He calls attention to this horror in the New ...
  • Jon Huntsman Endorses Marriage Equality: 'We M ...
    Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress: Jon Huntsman Endorses Marriage Equality: ‘We Must Demand Equality Under The Law For All Americans’  —  Former GOP Presidential candidate and Utah governor Jon Huntsman has endorsed marriage equality.  Huntsman, a Mormon whose prev ...

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China Dialogue

  • 环保机构对&#2906 ...
    罗伯特۰梅在接受中外对话采访时说，民间组织和学术界需要拓宽工作重点以帮助人& ...
  • 智能手机能&#2154 ...
    一篇新报告指出，“众包”出行能够为中国城市减排减压中国城市超常的增长已经为&# ...
  • 美国发起新&#1996 ...
    我们来评估谁在引领新一轮清洁技术竞赛：中国还是美国？在去年的总统竞选中，无 ...
  • 中国减排：&#2088 ...
    抛开谈判桌上“应该减多少”和“可以减多少”的政治博弈，中国减排的实际能力和&#28 ...
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    非政府组织全球见证在报告中强调腐败问题的存在，呼吁中国海外公司增加透明度中 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • What Led Chris Dorner to Go Off the Edge: Work ...
    This article first appeared at Not Safe for Work Corporation.In the days after his lethal rebellion and violent death, Christopher Dorner has become many things to many different people: a one-man Alamo hero who died fighting the police state; a crazy black man who started murdering cops beca ...
  • Are Republican Brains Different?
    A brain scan study recently revealed that Democrats and Republican process and understand risk in different ways, with Democrats more attuned to their emotions and those of others, while Republicans are more driven by fear and potential reward.The study analyzed the brain scans of 83 people a ...
  • Republican Brains, Not The Same As Democratic ...
    There may be a scientific explanation for Republicans’ craziness.A brain scan study recently revealed that Democrats and Republican process and understand risk in different ways, with Democrats more attuned to their emotions and those of others, while Republicans are more driven by fea ...
  • You've Got a Long Way to Go, Baby!
    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: “You’ve come a long way, baby.”  The company plastered it on billboards n ...
  • Jon Stewart Sends Up The Lies and Deceit of th ...
    Ever feel like you might—just might—be able to get rich, if only you were better at denying yourself that Venti Caramel Macchiato and buying the right bonds? Just a little more scrimping here, and investing there? You definitely heard it somewhere, on television maybe, that you ...

Threat Level

  • Zendesk Security Breach Affects Twitter, Tumbl ...
    Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. The San Francisco-based company announced ...
  • RIAA Says Google’s Anti-Piracy Search Algorith ...
    The Recording Industry Association of American said Thursday that Google's algorithm change to lower rankings of sites with "high numbers" of copyright-infringing removal notices has had no "demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large amounts of piracy."
  • White House Must Respond Publicly to Ban on Mo ...
    The President Barack Obama administration must enter the mobile-phone-unlocking fray. Thanks to a whitehouse.gov petition reaching 100,000 signatures Thursday, the administration must respond publicly about a recent decision by copyright regulators making it illegal to unlock mobile phones purch ...
  • Drug-Dog Alerts Are ‘Up to Snuff,’ Supreme Cou ...
    The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it relatively simple for police to search vehicles after a trained police dog alerts to the smell of narcotics.
  • Sign Now: White House Petition to Legalize Mob ...
    Want to force the President Barack Obama administration to enter the mobile-phone-unlocking fray? Sign a whitehouse.gov petition by Saturday and, if the petition reaches 100,000 signatures, the administration must respond publicly about a recent decision by copyright regulators making it ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

AutoblogGreen

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – Tell me, do the evil ...
    “Tell me, do the evil men of this world have a bad time? They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don’t suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us instead of feeling sorry. [...]
  • IN MEMORIAM: LIBYAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 114
    At 10:30 a.m. on 21 February 1973, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 took off on its regularly-scheduled flight from Tripoli to Cairo. The plane, a Boeing 727, was being piloted by a French crew under a contractual arrangement between Air France and the Libyan national airline. After a brief stop ...
  • US Supreme Court slams door in 9/11 widow’s face
    By Dr. Kevin Barrett February 19, 2013 “Information Clearing House” – On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, the United States Supreme Court slammed its door in the face of the last 9/11 family member seeking justice through the American legal system. Ellen Mariani, whose husband Neil ...
  • Settled Science Update : Global Warming Means ...
    That snow outside is what global warming looks like | George … http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/…/uk-snow-global-warmin… Dec 20, 2010 – George Monbiot: Unusually cold winters may make you think scientists have got it all wrong. But the data reveal a chilling truth. Snow is consi ...
  • Peanut oil in vaccines behind widespread peanu ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) More than one million children living in America today suffer from peanut allergy, and a significant percentage of these have such severe symptoms that they must carry around self-injectable epinephrine just in case they accidentally become exposed ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The World of Wonders: Everybody Goes Nuts Toge ...
    Summary:  We live in an age of wonders, in which things unforeseen — or even unimagined — become daily fare for the news, or remain unremarked.  This is the third chapter in this series, attempting to open your eyes to the amazing things taking place.  Today we have the second half o ...
  • The World of Wonders: Monetary Magic applied t ...
    Summary:  We live in an age of wonders, in which things unforseen — even unimagined — become daily fare for the news, or even remain unremarked.  This is the second chapter in this series, attempting to open your eyes to the amazing things taking place.  Today we have a guest post by ...
  • The world of wonders: Democratic Party takes c ...
    Summary:  We’ll take a break on the FM website from exploring our future (seen in the seeds of today) to look at our present.  We are surrounded by wonders, ranging from the never-before-seen (our monetary and fiscal stimulus policies) to the hail of unexpected technologies. Even in the mu ...
  • Public employee unions – an anvil chaine ...
    Summary:  The Democratic Party has received one of the greatest boons possible in the madness of its major opponent. But they have a burden that offsets much of this advantage in their core supporters — attorneys and public employee unions. The former exract their benefits from society lik ...
  • Portraits of a nation in decline. An unnecessa ...
    Summary:  Many important stories can be told simply, sometimes even in pictures. So it is with one aspect of America’s decline. Our decisions and the results are easily shown in this post. Fortunately we hold elections every two years, should we wish to organize and change the direction of ...

WIRED Magazine | 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.

PakAlert

  • DHS/FEMA Raising an Army
    Take a good look at this picture. The US government is training Latino youth as a kind of Hitler Youth or Communist Red Guard to put down American resistance to NWO/Communist tyranny. The Nazis and the Communists were both Illuminati creations. They both had armed forces loyal to the Party to ...
  • The Moral Decoding of 9-11: Beyond the U.S. Cr ...
    I was sceptical of the 9-11 event from the first time I saw it on television. It was on every major network within minutes. All the guilty partieswere declared before any evidence was shown.The first questions of any criminal investigation were erased. Who had the most compelling motives for th ...
  • One People’s Public Trust Lawfully Forecloses ...
    Many of you have heard… many have not. Announced publicly on 25 December 2012, the system of Corporate-Governmental rule has been foreclosed. Legally foreclosed… via one of its own mechanisms. The “Powers That Be” are now the “Powers That Were”. All debt has been erased and corporations – includ ...
  • Rethinking Facebook
    Many of us in print and broadcast media are rethinking our association with Facebook. Several of our journalistic brothers and sisters have been censored and/or otherwise treated unprofessionally by this entity. Facebook has become replete with trolls who patrol the cyber corridors of this monol ...
  • Systematic Population Reduction of the America ...
    Most agree that the globalists must perpetrate a false flag event on an unprecedented scale in order to consolidated centralized power on the road to a tyrannical one world government

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington and Omar Deghayes Discuss Aaf ...
    The power of Islamophobia, it seems, is such that when a tabloid newspaper — the Daily Star — published an article with the headline “Mosque terror doc fundraiser,” claiming that “Britain’s biggest mosque is under investigation after it scheduled a fundraising ...
  • The Destruction of the NHS in North West London
    Yesterday’s news was expected, but it still hit hard. Following proposals put forward last June, the Joint Committee of North West London Primary Care Trusts proposed the closure of four of the nine A&E Departments at hospitals in north west London, and on Tuesday, despite vigorous cam ...
  • Defend London’s NHS: MPs, Doctors and Ac ...
    Defend London’s NHS: A Week of Action, a set on Flickr. Last week, from February 9 to 16, campaigners across London — in Lewisham, in Hammersmith, in Ealing, in Archway and in Kingston — who are fighting to save essential frontline services from the government (which is committ ...
  • In the Belly of the Beast: Photos of a Walk th ...
    In the Belly of the Beast: A Walk through Lower Manhattan, a set on Flickr. Regular readers will recall that, last month, I visited the US to campaign for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay on the 11th anniversary of its opening, taking part in events in Washington D.C. and McLean, Virg ...
  • Photos: Save Lewisham Hospital Rally, February ...
    Save Lewisham Hospital Rally, February 15, 2013, a set on Flickr. In Lewisham, in south east London, Save Lewisham Hospital campaigners, trade union representatives and concerned residents of the London Borough of Lewisham attended a rally at the war memorial opposite Lewisham Hospital, on Lewis ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Overcome the Anxiety That's Keeping You ...
    Achieving your goals is tough enough, but if you suffer from anxiety it becomes even more difficult. Here, clinical psychologist Dr. Alice Boyes shares her best tips for conquering anxiety. More »
  • Identify Your "Broken Windows" to Keep Bad Hab ...
    Common sense dictates that bad habits will eventually catch up to you. However, in a post for Psychology Today, Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project suggests that bad habits may also diminish your happiness. Her source? Police work. More »
  • Install the Ubuntu Touch Preview on Your Nexus ...
    If you just can't contain your excitement for Ubuntu's new phone and tablet OS, Ubuntu Touch, you can flash the developer preview on your Nexus phone or tablet right now. More »
  • The Ask Lifehacker Podcast Is Live Right Now [ ...
    This week on the podcast we're talking about getting to inbox zero in one hour flat, the advice you need for your first job, and tweaking your gaming rig's settings for optimal performance. We're also answering your questions about how much RAM a Macbook can handle, how to travel interna ...
  • Do Multiple Monitors Make You More Productive?
    Some of us are so used to using multiple monitors, it would be near impossible to give them up. Others are happy with just one display. Do you think multiple monitors make you more productive? More »

Water Privatization

  • Daniel Golden: Privatization is the problem, n ...
    Dear Editor: Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution. In keeping with this right-wing corporate dogma, Scott Walker is considering selling off the 37 state-owne…
  • Dan Poresky takes on City Council at Allentown ...
    Opponents of leasing Allentown’s water and sewer systems intend to campaign against any member of City Council who won’t agree to delay voting to approve that 50-year lease until after the May 21 primary election. City Council expects to vote on a final agreement for a lease before the end of Ap ...
  • CMIA Capital Partners and China Merchants Tech ...
    Singapore, Feb 20, 2013 - (ACN Newswire) - CMIA China Fund IV L.P., a private equity fund managed by CMIA Capital Partners, and China Merchants Technology Holdings, a leading Chinese State-Owned Enterprise, ...
  • Panelists hear concerns about Allentown water, ...
    Residents quiz panel on environmental standards, rate hikes, possible layoffs. Environmental standards, rate increases and protections for city employees were among the concerns raised by Allentown residents Tuesday night during a public forum on the city's proposed lease of its water and se ...
  • Private company will operate Splashdown this s ...
    In this photo from May 2011, Drake Seipert, left, and Alex Shepard, both of Washington, get drenched as they play at Splashdown. The Fondulac Park Board recently entered into a one-year contract for $296,000 with USA Pools to manage and operate Splashdown.

Guardian

  • Lyon v Tottenham – as it happened | Rob Smyth
    A storming 90th-minute goal from Mousa Dembele stunned Lyon and put Spurs through to the last 16Rob Smyth
  • Vicky Pryce retrial decision triggers defence ...
    Case of Chris Huhne's ex-wife is complex and highly unusual, say senior legal figures, adding that a hung jury is extremely rareBritain's jury system should not be judged by the outcome of a single, complex and highly unusual case, senior lawyers have warned following the collapse of the Vicky P ...
  • Eastleigh byelection: PM denies Tories hiding ...
    PM embroiled in row with BBC after Maria Hutchings pulls out of hustings, as Lib Dems say she is 'running scared' of mediaThe Tory byelection campaign in Eastleigh suffered a blow when the prime minister was forced to deny that the party's candidate was being hidden away because she was a "loose ...
  • Oscar Pistorius lead detective taken off case ...
    South African police chief removes Hilton Botha from Pistorius case after he is charged with seven counts of attempted murderThe case against Oscar Pistorius took another astonishing turn on Thursday when the lead detective investigating the case was sacked after being charged with seven counts ...
  • India: three girls raped and murdered, aged 5, ...
    Outrage over sexual violence given new fuel after police recorded deaths as 'accidental' after bodies were found in a wellIndia has been hit by another case of sexual violence after three sisters aged five, nine and 11 were raped and murdered in a remote village.The three girls, who lived with t ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Outgoing Commander Cites Progress in Southwest ...
    By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2013 As he prepares to conclude a year of command in one of the most challenging regions of Afghanistan, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. ...
  • Two British servicemen shot dead by rogue Afgh ...
    Two British servicemen were shot dead by a rogue Afghan soldier with a personal grievance, their inquest has heard.Sergeant Luke Taylor, 33, of the Royal Marines, and Lance Corporal Michael Foley, ...
  • VIDEO Soldiers killed by Afghan sergeant
    Two soldiers were gunned down by a rogue Afghan soldier with a "personal grievance" after a row at the gates of their base, an inquest has heard. Sgt Luke Taylor, 33, from Bournemouth, and ...
  • Taliban Vows to Keep Targeting Afghan Officials
    The Taliban says it will continue to target Afghan officials and civilians linked to the United States. The threat made Thursday by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid comes despite a warning from ...
  • NATO Weighs Financing Larger Afghan Security Force
    BRUSSELS - NATO defense ministers are seriously considering a new proposal to sustain Afghanistan's security forces at 352,000 troops through 2018, senior alliance officials said Thursday. The ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • IRS On Verge Of Crippling Whistleblower Program
    Whistleblower Advocates Submit Extensive Comment  in Response to Proposed IRS Regulations Yesterday, the National Whistleblower Center ("NWC"), the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense and Education Fund ("Fund"), Bradley Birkenfeld, Scott Rosen, and Gene Ross jointly ...
  • IRS Whistleblowers Received Record Payouts in ...
    The Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Office announced that it paid a record $125.4 million in 2012 to whistleblowers that provided evidence of tax cheating, but new rule changes place future recoveries at risk.  The IRS report, which was made public on Wednesday, stated that more than ...
  • OSHA announces interim final rules on Seaman's ...
    Last week OSHA published interim final rules on the Seaman’s Protection Act procedures governing whistleblower complaints under the Act. The Seaman’s Protection Act protects seamen from retaliation for engaging in protected activity under the Act, including providing information to t ...
  • D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh introduces whistl ...
    Yesterday, District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced the "False Claims Act of 2013," which will amend the D.C. False Claims Act to permit whistleblowers to bring tax-related fraud claims. If enacted into law, the bill would permit whistleblowers to seek a qui tam or ...
  • DOJ Considers Long Overdue FBI Whistleblower R ...
    Yesterday, the Department of Justice held a listening session with representatives of the National Whistleblowers Center, American Civil Liberties Union, Government Accountability Project and Project on Government Oversight to discuss needed improvements in the DOJ regulations that implement the ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Copyright Dispute Means Germans Can't See All ...
    You might have heard about last week's Russian meteor strike. The news, which broke quickly and was so odd that many initially suspected a hoax or even a viral marketing campaign, was rapidly realized as legitimate. Part of what helped the news spread so quickly was a ton of videos uploaded to ...
  • Makers Of Firefly 'Fan-game' Abuse DMCA To Try ...
    DarkCryo is a somewhat controversial operation that has been trying for a while to build an "unofficial" multiplayer online game based on the Joss Whedon TV-show/movie/cult classic Firefly. As we've discussed in the past (directly about Firefly, even) we think that this kind of fan creativity s ...
  • Arguing That 'Copyright And The First Amendmen ...
    Some guy trying to sell his book about how copyright infringement is all a big, bad plot of big, bad companies has a silly and ill-informed article trying to tarnish Aaron Swartz's reputation by making statements about what he believed and what he fought for that have little basis in reality. T ...
  • White House Petition Concerning Legality Of Un ...
    Earlier this month, we wrote about a White House Petition, asking to make unlocking mobile phones legal again, since it had been made infringing again, thanks to the Librarian of Congress omitting it from the list of DMCA exceptions last year. As we noted, the White House had recently bumped up ...
  • Justice Sotomayor Doesn't Want Cameras In The ...
    This adminstration is having a hard time reaching its goal of being the "transparentest place on earth," what with its executive orders, state secrets and a whole lot of "as you were" in reference (deference?) to existing Bush-era policies. To make matters worse, Obama's appointees are provi ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
  • Trans Issues are Core Issues
    A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
  • Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
    According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • ‘Israeli contempt for the feeble Jews of the D ...
    Sefi Rachlevsky writes: Ben Zygier didn’t betray his country. Ben Zygier was betrayed. Between his two home countries, he was placed in a situation he couldn’t deal with. Those who know the facts can attest to this. From the outset of this affair, Israeli contempt for the feeble Jews ...
  • The Zygier Affair: the cover-up
    AFP reports: Israeli guards supposedly keeping a round-the-clock watch on a mystery dual nationality prisoner held in isolation failed to notice his suicide for a full hour, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Although his cell was fitted with four CCTV cameras, the guards did not see Ben Zygier, ...
  • Oscars-bound Palestinian film-maker describes ...
    The Guardian reports: An Academy-nominated Palestinian film-maker has spoken of the “unpleasant experience” of being detained by US immigration officials when he arrived for this weekend’s Oscars ceremony. Emad Burnat said that he was held for about an hour at Los Angeles airpo ...
  • Ruth Rosen: Feminism’s long march
    On February 12th, the Senate passed a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) with broad bipartisan support. But House Republicans (who killed the legislation in the last Congress) have yet to introduce their version of the bill. They’re still hung up on what might seem li ...
  • Elliot Abrams’ plan to divide the Palestinians
    By Mark Perry Some stories you have to work for – while others just fall in your lap. That was the case for me in the summer of 2006, when a senior source inside the Pentagon laid out the Bush administration’s covert program to arm and then set loose a Fatah militia in Gaza. It [...]

Watts Up With That?

  • Harvesting Fog: The No-Regrets Option
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written before about the “no-regrets” option when one is faced with uncertainty. It relates to one of my favorite rules of thumb. I often live my life by my “rules of thumb”, general guidelines … Continue reading →
  • Pot, Kettle, James Hansen, censorship, NASA an ...
    Readers may recall this oh so terrible squashing of free speech by the White House limiting NASA public employee Dr. James Hansen’s ability to talk to the media. It seems that the issue has been repeated today, but there’s a … Continue reading →
  • CSIRO ‘solar sponge’ soaks up CO₂ ...
    From the ‘CO2 must be assimilated’ department comes this press release from CSIRO. I have to wonder if this is a ‘spongeworthy’ project. ====================== CSIRO scientists have created a ‘solar sponge’ which captures and then releases carbon dioxide using ...
  • New Climate Central writer appears to be a for ...
    From the weather is not climate unless Dr. Mann says it is department comes this disturbing admission. From Tom Nelson, an illustration of the sort of defective thinking we see in some people who think climate and weather have no … Continue reading →
  • Pielke Jr. appears to get booted from a journa ...
    Mark Steyn writes at The Corner (NRO): Score-Settled Science Since being sued by fantasy Nobel Laureate and global warm-monger Michael E Mann for mocking his hockey stick, I’ve taken a greater than usual interest in the conformity enforcers of the … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

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

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

CFACT

  • Nepal tigers change stripes to accommodate people
    To protect endangered species, laws are sometimes needed to change or restrict human activity. But when it comes to endangered tigers in the Himalaya’s, it appears nature isn’t waiting for humans to get it together. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5069.mp3]
  • Ethical Oil vs. Conflict Oil
    CFACT’s Marc Morano was at our Light Brigade counter protest to Sierra Club & 350.org’s climate rally on February 17, where the Green protestors were opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. As Morano points out in this video, however, America must get its oil from somewhere--the only question is ...
  • Anti-BPA baby bottle blather baseless
    The alleged danger of the chemical BPA in baby bottles was one of last year’s biggest scare stories. But Angela Logomasini of the Independent Women’s Forum says these fears are unjustified. . . [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5068.mp3]
  • Gore Effect strikes global warming rally
    The Gore Effect lives on! Sunday's D.C. climate rally, hosted by Sierra Club and 350.org, was afflicted with unusually cold weather. CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, was on the scene as part of CFACT's Light Brigade counter-protest.
  • Eco-activist: Dismantle pipeline by “any ...
    CFACT's Marc Morano was at our Light Brigade counter protest to Sierra Club & 350.org's climate rally on February 17 and he interviewed some of the activists there. He found that the mood was very angry, with some protestors declaring the Keystone XL pipeline must be dismantled by "any mean ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Space Station Orbit to be Readjusted
    Russia's Progress M-17M resupply spacecraft will readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, a Russian space industry source said.
  • US Doctors Warn of ‘Unnecessary’ Routine Medic ...
    A group of leading US medical societies released its latest list Thursday of close to 100 routine medical tests, treatments and procedures that the medical professionals say are often unnecessary, costly and could cause more harm than good.
  • New App Lets Users Play ‘Disease Detective’
    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to stop a deadly epidemic that is sweeping through your town.
  • Russian Military to Develop Anti-Meteorite Def ...
    The Russian Aerospace Defense Forces will develop a series of measures aimed at protecting the Russian soil from falling meteorites and other dangerous space objects, commander of the western military district’s aviation Maj. Gen. Igor Makushev said on Wednesday.
  • Russian Meteorite Ignites Funding for US Aster ...
    In the aftermath of Friday’s meteorite that crashed and injured more than a 1,000 people in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, some private asteroid-detecting telescope projects in the United States have seen a surge in both interest and financial donations, a sign of renewed global concern about the ...

Pruning Shears

  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...
  • Nook & Cranny - 'The Bird With the Broken Wing ...
    Nook & Cranny took the top spot on my best music of 2012 post, so it’s safe to say I’m a fan. They’ve got a new album coming out soon, and here’s a live take of one of the tracks - The Bird With the Broken Wing.Pretty sweet, eh?
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2013 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2013 selections:Systemic DisorderThe Titanic sails at dawnMario Piperni dot ComAlternate BrainThe Mills River Progressivep ...
  • Away from energy independence, and towards ene ...
    Two of the more loaded words in contemporary politics are independence and freedom. Despite their similarities in meaning they get used in very different ways. Independence is used in a more national sense, which might be natural because of its prominence in what is arguably our founding docum ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Lose Your Lawn
    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 haven't done that either, have you? Most of the popular trends of 19th century British aristocracy are not the norm in 21st century America. Except for one: ...
  • Secret Funding Helped Build Vast Network of Cl ...
    Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science Click here to read this article
  • Walmart's Big Push into Groceries is Not Good ...
    Groceries make up more than half of Walmart's retail sales, an amount that's risen significantly over the past 10 years.Click here to read this article
  • Omega-6 Fats in Processed and Deep Fried Foods ...
    A recent article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) throws conventional dietary advice on its ear. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), Americans should not reduce their consumption of omega-6 fats (think vegetables oils), and might even benefit from eating a little more.Click h ...
  • 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. Nestle was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and ...

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Five Invasion Plots, Three Continents, Identic ...
    As the sabre rattling against Syria gets ever louder, the allegations ever wilder and terrorist financing (sorry, aiding the legitimate opposition) look at the justifications presented for a few other murderous incursions Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |  &n ...
  • Gaia Health
    A different take on health Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT! Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs: ...
    CFL bulbs emit high levels of ultraviolet radiationUVC and UVA rays. The UV rays are so strong that they can actually burn skin and skin cells. Experts say the radiation could initiate cell death and cause skin cancer in its deadliest form, melanoma. Submitted by Ellyn S. to Health & Wellness & ...
  • Secret Memo by Donald Rumsfeld Proves Iraq War ...
    Everyone Knew Iraq Had No WMD … and Was Not Behind Anthrax Attacks or 9/11 It has been extensively documented that the White House decided to invade Iraq before 9/11: so a false justification also needs to be concocted. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |  &nbs ...
  • The Nethercutt Provision
    Bilateral Immunity Agreements short circuited any justice for victims of torture,genocide,occupation,etc. Here's how they were imposed. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Flu vaccine almost 'completely ineffective' in ...
    ShareThisFlu vaccine almost 'completely ineffective' in people over 65 --Hospitalizations and deaths some of highest ever recorded for elderly 21 Feb 2013 This season's flu vaccine was almost completely ineffective in people over 65, which could explain why rates of hospitalization and death hav ...
  • NYPD and Microsoft build high tech crime fight ...
    ShareThisNYPD and Microsoft build high tech crime fighting 'dashboard' 21 Feb 2013 ...Such a hypothetical scenario may seem like something out of a futuristic crime drama, but the technology is real, developed in a partnership between America's largest police department and Microsoft Corp., a ...
  • Obama to GOP: Let's make a deal to deny Dems d ...
    ShareThisObama to GOP: Let's make a deal to deny Dems drone documents, and I'll give you Benghazi info --Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 21 Feb 2013 We read, from the New York Times, the following news summary: White House Tactic for C.I.A. Bid Holds Back Drone Memos 21 Feb 2013 The White ...
  • Bluefin Tuna From Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown S ...
    ShareThisBluefin Tuna From Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Still Have Traces of Radiation --Plant still leaking radiation into ocean nearly two years later 20 Feb 2013 ...Last week one of the authors of the study from last year, Daniel J. Madigan from Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station--alo ...
  • Drone Makers Take Aim at U.S. Market
    ShareThisDrone Makers Take Aim at U.S. Market --FAA plans to expand drone use in the U.S. in 2015 19 Feb 2013 American firms that make drones are aiming their sights on the U.S. market as the next frontier for the controversial technology. With a declining defense budget expected to limit spend ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • Can 1.7 Billion Dollars Imagine Wrong?
    21 February, 2013 Countercurrents.org A review of Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (Penguin Books 2009) If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? It's a daunting task to critique a book by a billionaire. JK Galbraith once wrote that conventional wisdom has it that wea ...
  • Canada and the Palestine Question, by Dan Free ...
    Dan Freeman-Maloy, whose blog is notesonhypocrisy.com, has collected several significant pieces of research on Canada and the Palestine Question and published them as a single PDF (Aaron Swartz would be proud). He has also done a major talk on the same issue, that elucidates some of the main poi ...
  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...
  • Questioning Natural & Community Capital
    A Conference at York University about Capitalizing Power, organized by Jonathan Nitzan. In my talk, I try to relate Nitzan's "Capital as Power" framework to environmentalist thinking.
  • Two Uprisings
    A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. read more

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Burma Spitfire enthusiasts vow to continue search
    A British Spitfire enthusiast vowed Tuesday to continue searching for the World War II planes in Burma after the project's sponsor pulled out saying stories of buried aircraft were just "legend"
  • UN warns of ‘immense’ challenges in reaching d ...
    A UN spokesperson on Tuesday warned of “immense” challenges in reaching displaced Kachin in the conflict-torn northern Burma, two days after a convoy of humanitarian aid reached the Hpakant region
  • 1 dead, 14 missing after vessel sinks off Phil ...
    One person has drowned and a search is underway for 14 others still missing, after a ship with 24 Burmese crew on board sank off the coast of Pangasinan province, in northwestern Philippines.
  • Military spending challenged in parliament
    Burma’s notorious armed forces will continue to receive the largest portion of next year’s national budget, despite criticisms from a number of MPs over the lack of transparency in the ministry’s expenditures and policies
  • Thai couple accused of torturing young Karen g ...
    A Thai couple accused of kidnapping, torturing and enslaving a 12-year-old Karen girl for over five years, are on the run from authorities today after refusing to show up for police questioning, according to Thai media

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The SOTU, and the Politics of Invisible Labor
    Political rhetoric on equal opportunity for achievement belies a dark reality. The joy of achievement may come at the expense of a decent working life for others. While Obama and Rubio emphasized different visions of government's role in helping to spur equal opportunity, they were both lacking ...
  • Perils of the Keystone XL Pipeline Confront Obama
    On Feb 17, 48 people, including Bill McKibben and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., were arrested for open, non-violent civil disobedience mostly for refusing U.S. Park Police orders to keep moving on the White House's sidewalk (with some protestors actually attaching themselves to the fence in front of t ...
  • Backfire!
    Republicans are prepared to let the sequester kick in if Democrats don't agree to an equal amount of cuts in entitlement spending. In essence, Boehner is prepared to support a policy that he says threatens national security and jobs.
  • Complete Domination Of Poor Consumers At The G ...
    There is this "economic murder" at the pump when oil companies and their retailers cabal to raise the prices of gasoline sky-high that "kill" the household budget of barely surviving poor consumers. While there are natural causes that disrupt the law of supply and demand which trigger prices to ...
  • Why Syria Matters
    This article outlines why Syria is a target nation of NATO and the corporate forces behind the attempt to establish a permanent New World Order dominated by a small group of the international elite. It is critical for citizens of NATO governments to understand what is being done in their name ...

Switchboard

  • Fracking in Illinois: Starting with Standards
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Illinois has the potential to be the next state washed over in the fracking wave moving across the country. That could be a big problem as companies are buying up mineral rights in m ...
  • Seeking Industrial Livestock Information is No ...
    Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Over a period of several months, NRDC and the Pew Charitable Trusts have successfully pressed EPA for information it has collected on a major source of water pollution –large livestock operations, ...
  • Will California Restore the Lower San Joaquin ...
    Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco From their headwaters in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Merced, Tuolumne and Stanislaus rivers were historically wild, teeming with salmon that sustained native Americans, early sett ...
  • Ohioans deserve and demand transportation choices
    Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. The Ohio state legislature is in the midst of debating Governor Kasich's proposed $6.1 billion budget for transportation. Unfortunately, the budget is heavily tilted towards road funding, ...
  • Illinois poised to lead the nation in strong f ...
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago Six months ago, the notion that Illinois could step forward as a national leader in regulating the risky and problematic process of horizontal hydraulic fracturing would have provoked deep skepticism.  An ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • George Bailey: Communist
    Maybe some of you have heard about this before, but I just found out this week that It’s a Wonderful Life was communist propaganda. Communist stooge begs before capitalist hero Or so said a FBI memo in 1947: To: The Director D.M. Ladd COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY ( ...
  • O.J. In Pretoria?
    As most of you know, Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend.   His explanation – that he fired 4 shots though a closed bathroom door because he thought there was in intruder behind it — is both 1)implausible in the extreme (sure, whenever I hear someone in a bathroom with the door clo ...
  • Chinese Environment
    We all know that the Chinese environment is just a bit degraded. And then there’s this of course: But luckily the Chinese government has a hot new plan to solve at least the air problem: Ah, yes—the Chinese government will stop at nothing to reduce pollution that has enveloped parts of the ...
  • Your Use Of Data For Any Purpose But Validatin ...
    Andrew Gelman gets it exactly right about David Brooks’s attempt to lash back at being thoroughly humiliated by Nate Silver without responding directly. Anybody who reads sportswriting has seen Brooks’s argument a million times. In its purest form, it can be found in blog posts by bl ...
  • The NCAA: Upholding the Finest in American Hyp ...
    The NCAA, an organization with such open-decision making practices and clear accountability as to provide lessons to the mafia, is forcing a University of Minnesota wrestler to give up his music career or be declared ineligible for profiting off his own image. Can we please just disband this org ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Legal aid groups face funding woes if sequestr ...
    The nation's providers of civil legal assistance for the poor could face more staffing reductions and provide services to fewer people if Congress is unable to resolve its latest budget crisis by March 1.
  • ABA seeks help monitoring law graduate employm ...
    The American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has put out a request for proposals for a process by which it can better police the postgraduate employment data that law schools release.
  • Business leaders welcome DOJ's push against tr ...
    As the White House unveiled a new comprehensive strategy to combat U.S. trade secret theft February 20, lawyers and business leaders suggested the plan could lead to more collaboration between the Department of Justice and corporations.
  • Midsize-firm study suggests culture is a big s ...
    Maintaining a collegial culture is the key advantage that midsize law firms believe they enjoy in recruiting lawyers, according to a study by Georgetown University Law Center.
  • U.S. lawyers win maneuvering room when represe ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that the work-product protection applies to pretrial discovery work exchanged among Justice Department lawyers representing federal agencies with opposing interests.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • To Control Floods, The Dutch Turn to Nature fo ...
    The Netherlands’ system of dikes and sea gates has long been the best in the world. But as the country confronts the challenges of climate change, it is increasingly relying on techniques that mimic natural systems and harness nature’s power to hold back the sea. BY CHERYL KATZ
  • Chinese Air Pollution Triggers Steep Rise in N ...
    A spike in Chinese air pollution over the last three decades has caused a 60 percent increase in the levels of nitrogen pollutants that ultimately end up back on the nation’s land and in its water, a new study has found. In an analysis of 270 monitoring sites across the country, researchers foun ...
  • Camera Trap in Amazon Gives Stunning Glimpse o ...
    Using footage from a camera trap trained on a single “colpa” salt lick in the remote jungle of the western Amazon, a Peru-based conservationist has captured a rare glimpse into the region’s robust biodiversity, YouTube/Paul Rosolie WATCH VIDEO: Biodiversity in the Peruvia ...
  • New Global Standard Aims to Reduce Water Waste ...
    The UK-based Carbon Trust has introduced what it calls the first global standard on water management and reduction in hopes of encouraging more sustainable water use by businesses. The new standard, created by members of the group along with four early-adopting companies, including Coca-Cola Ent ...
  • Grisly Trend: Green Activists Are Facing Deadl ...
    With activists killed in Brazil, Cambodia, the Philippines, and elsewhere, 2012 may have been the worst year yet for violence against those working to protect the environment. So far, little has been done to halt this chilling development. BY FRED PEARCE

Red Ice Creations

  • Prominent American Scientists Call For Eco-Dic ...
    In a peer-reviewed paper by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, a group of well-known scientists calls on government and scientists to start with the planned social engineering of “norms” and “values” in regards to environmental policies. In addition, they propose putting into effect ...
  • Treasure-Filled Warrior’s Grave Found in Russia
    Hidden in a necropolis situated high in the mountains of the Caucasus in Russia, researchers have discovered the grave of a male warrior laid to rest with gold jewelry, iron chain mail and numerous weapons, including a 36-inch (91 centimeters) iron sword set between his legs. That is just one am ...
  • Russian meteorite: hunt for debris begins, but ...
    A race for cosmic souvenirs has begun after scientists said there were still many pieces of the meteorite that fell to earth near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk last week waiting to be found. The extraterrestrial origin of 53 rock fragments collected on the frozen surface of Lake Chebarkul was ...
  • European Bank CEO Admits: "The Whole Thing Is ...
    European Bank CEO Admits: "The Whole Thing Is Doomed" 2013 02 21 As the European parliament attempts to create a budget and Draghi repeats how the temporary lull in European growth is merely a prelude to a growth renaissance in the second half of the year (not to be confused with the verbatim l ...
  • CISPA IS BACK! Destroying Online Privacy
    Congress Is Trying to Kill Internet Privacy Again House lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that civil liberties groups say would destroy the right to Internet privacy as we know it. An earlier version of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA (pdf), passed the House back in ...

Russia Today

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Not My Tribe

  • Do you care about two white people in South Af ...
    Could this ugly crime matter less? Except that the media is exploiting the story to deny domestic violence (The Blade Runner couldn’t have meant to kill his model girlfriend, she was so beautiful). And except now that it looks like the Oscar Pistorius case is taking a JonBenet Ramsey turn. ...
  • Fracking protest message at Denver 350 rally c ...
    DENVER, COLORADO- Score another success for Colorado Fractivists who crashed this weekend’s climate rally with their unequivocal anti-fracking message. The February 17 event was intended to urge President Obama “Forward on Climate”, to borrow his most recent campaign vagarity, ...
  • Manitou Indian Center yet Idle No More
    MANITOU SPRINGS- Idle No More organizers from Denver and Pueblo woke the sleepy local Native American community with a spirited gathering on Saturday, smack in the middle of Manitou, neath the town clock, only blocks from the CS Indian Center.
  • Rogue vigilante Chris Dorner burned at the sta ...
    Tuning in to developments with fugitive cop-killer Chris Dorner in Big Bear on Tuesday, I half expected a Fahrenheit 451 denouement, where an impatient television audience is given a contrived final scene, fitting the short arc of the average attention span for corporate media fodder. I remember ...
  • Nazi Pope misjudged, resigns instead of ending ...
    Pope Ratzinger is stepping down, it’s not an admission of guilt, more like a plea of no contest to the avaricious, woman-phobic, pedophilic neo-religious order’s continued depravity. He’s leaving office to spend more time with his health, an honorable act to be applauded actual ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking False Arguments
    Great article on ae911truth.org right now teaching "How to Handle False Arguments Used to Reject the WTC Evidence." The piece notes, "Links to AE911Truth.org and the informative FAQ responses listed on the website can also be utilized." Another good idea for refuting false arguments is to ...
  • CANCER IS CURABLE NOW! - FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
    Related: Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk Ways to help from Fire Fighters for 9/11 Truth
  • Michael Isikoff To Rachel Maddow: Obama Has 'M ...
    Published on Feb 5, 2013 YouTube - ThePrincessHira Rachel Maddow spoke to NBC News' Michael Isikoff Monday night about his acquisition of a Justice Department white paper that lays out some of the Obama administration's thinking behind its practice of killing American citizens with drone str ...
  • Operation Gladio Revisited
    As one of the most thoroughly-documented examples of a decades-long program of officially-sanctioned false flag terror, Operation Gladio remains a woefully under-reported piece of the War on Terror puzzle. Today we go behind the trite summarizations of this program to look at it in-depth, examin ...
  • New Conspiracy Funhouse: Parody Interview with ...
    Stew's Conspiracy Funhouse Audio podcast,(conspiracy based sketch comedy,) Kicking off our 3rd year with our best episode yet! Doomsday Preppers gets blasted, a game show parody exposes the Bush family, and an interview with Skeptic Michael Shermer. Plus new parody commercials and music from Sla ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
    Many Embera-Katío have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto Andágueda in ...
  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...
  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...
  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...
  • Colombian Indian exhibition showcases most end ...
    ONIC's campaign aims to stop the imminent extinction of Colombia's tribal peoples © Juan Pablo Gutierrez/ONICColombian Indian organization ONIC has launched an international photography exhibition to highlight the desperate plight of Colombia’s indigenous peoples. The exhibition, enti ...

Greg Palast

  • Thousands demand Obama to Smoke Pipe
    Rally Against Keystone XL Pipeline Photos by Zach D Roberts, photojournalist funded by the Palast Investigative Fund, at Sunday's rally in Washington DC, on assignment for Truth-out.  More photos here.
  • "I want my fair share–and that's ALL OF IT." T ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Activists alert: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his son Connor Kennedy were arrested Wednesday in Washington while protesting against approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. A rally in Washington, DC, protesting the Pipeline, has been called by Forward on Climate for Su ...
  • Billionaire Burglar Breaks into Obama's Cabin ...
    By Greg Palast for Truth-out A parade of media reports this week name Penny Pritzker as Obama's prime choice for Secretary of Commerce. No longer will criminal bankers have to lobby the administration - because now they'll have one of their own in the Cabinet. We never heard of this guy Barack O ...
  • The Koch Brothers, Hugo Chavez and the XL Pipeline
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine and The Other 98% I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path. The XL Keystone Pipeline. As Nagini, the murderous snake i ...
  • Aaron Swartz Died for Piers Morgan's Sins
    By Greg Palast for Vice.com This is the tale of two geniuses. In 2000, Aaron Swartz, aged 14, had just released his astonishing invention, RSS, to ease the flow of information and news around the Internet. Around the same time, one of Piers Morgan’s stringers hacked into the phone of Sir Paul Mc ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Update: Recovery, Females Protect ...
    Feb 20, 2013, Rocky Mount, Virginia--Franklin News Post: School board to review comprehensive autism plan Feb 19, 2013, San Jose Mercury News: Recovery from autism Feb 19, 2013, Montreal Gazette: Opinion: The tragic myths about vaccines Feb 19, 2013, Boston...
  • Banned Wakefield Films From British TV Emerge ...
    Three controversial television films suppressed as part of the continued persecution of Andrew Wakefield are now available to watch on YouTube. The drama ‘Hear the Silence’ starring Hugh Bonneville as Andrew Wakefield and Juliet Stevenson as a mother trying to...
  • The Canary Kids Film Project: How to Stop the ...
    By Beth Lambert I believe that we have the power to stop the autism epidemic in its tracks. In order to do this, we must increase the number of people who understand the roots causes of the epidemic. We must...
  • Dachel Media Update: CT Vet In Doghouse over V ...
    MARCH 2013, Chicago Magazine: When Autistic Children Are Children No More Feb 18, 2013, WFTV-Orlando FL: Autism Answers: A Married Couples' Mission Feb 18, 2013, KTAR-TV Phoenix, AZ: Lawmaker wants parental consent for isolation room use Feb 17, 2013, CBS-MN:...
  • The Recovery Room: Why Recovery Matters
    By Julie Obradovic Sitting in the waiting area of the barbershop, I grabbed the March issue of Chicago Magazine to read. The cover boasts a list of the top 100 most powerful Chicagoans with Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the front....

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • HRW: Mexico security forces colluded in disapp ...
    BBC – The pressure group Human Rights Watch says Mexico has failed to properly investigate human rights abuses committed by the security forces. The group has documented almost 250 disappearances during the term of former President Felipe Calderon. It says evidence suggests that in more th ...
  • Georgia Death Penalty Under Renewed Scrutiny A ...
    NPR – A Georgia inmate’s execution was halted Tuesday night with less than an hour to go. Prison officials had already given Warren Lee Hill one of the drugs when a federal appeals court stepped in. Hill has an IQ of 70 and his attorneys have long claimed that he’s mentally imp ...
  • Adults cut back fast food, but U.S. kids still ...
    Reuters – American adults have made a little progress in recent years in cutting back on calories from fast food, but children are still consuming too much fat, U.S. health researchers say. French fries, pizza and similar items accounted for about 11 percent of U.S. adults’ caloric i ...
  • UK: One in ten school-starters is obese, a fig ...
    Daily Mail – One in 10 children is obese when they start school, say shocking new figures. By the time they are ready to go to senior school, the proportion has doubled to almost 20 per cent. Overall, three in 10 boys and girls aged two to 15 are overweight or clinically obese – so f ...
  • Vladimir Pekhtin, Putin ally, quits over forei ...
    BBC – A senior figure in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party has resigned after anti-corruption campaigners accused him of owning homes in the US. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Cooking up toxic air pollution
    When UC Davis scientists collected air pollution particles in Fresno and then exposed laboratory mice to them, they found that one of the most toxic sources was the backyard grill.
  • Some plastics should be classified as hazardou ...
    Less than half of the 280 million metric tons of plastic produced each year ends up in the landfill.  A fair bit of the rest ends up littering the landscape, blown by the wind or washed down streams and rivers into the sea.
  • Religious beliefs drive hunting decisions in A ...
    Stanford researchers have discovered that the introduction of Western religions is changing hunting patterns in the Amazon and affecting the region’s biodiversity.
  • Climate change threatens wolverines; protectio ...
    Citing shrinking mountain snowpacks as a result of climate change, federal wildlife officials are proposing to list wolverines as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
  • Does Central Valley irrigation boost the South ...
    Irrigation in California’s Central Valley pours so much water vapor into the atmosphere that it significantly drives up summer rainfall and runoff in the Southwest, according to a new study.

water.org

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

Cryptogon

  • Zuckerberg, Brin Join Forces to Extend Life
    Via: AFP: Famed founders of Internet rivals Google and Facebook joined forces on Wednesday to back big-money prizes for research aimed at extending human life. Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg, along with their spouses, joined Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner to award 11 scientists $3 milli ...
  • The Drones Come Home
    Via: National Geographic: What Jay Stanley of the ACLU calls his “nightmare scenario” begins with drones supporting “mostly unobjectionable” police raids and chases. Soon, however, networks of linked drones and computers “gain the ability to automatically track multiple vehicles and bodies as th ...
  • $10 An Hour Jobs Requiring College Degrees
    Via: New York Times: The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the new minimum requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting even the lowest-level job. Consider the 45-person law firm of Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh here in Atlanta, a place that has seen tremendous growth ...
  • ‘No More Hesitation’ Targets Train ...
    In other news: DHS Buying 1.6 Billion Rounds of Ammunition. Via: Reason: What if I told you police in your town could desensitize themselves to the idea of shooting a (armed) child, pregnant woman, or young mother, for just a couple of bucks? The “No More Hesitation” series from Law ...
  • Secret U.S. Military Flights Carried Officials ...
    Via: Asahi: Senior U.S. administration officials held secret talks in North Korea on at least three occasions in 2011 and 2012, The Asahi Shimbun has learned. Although the visits had potential implications for Japan, Washington did not inform its security partner at the time and only informally ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Big Dogs On Wall Street Are Starting To Ge ...
    Why are some of the biggest names in the corporate world unloading stock like there is no tomorrow, and why are some of the most prominent investors on Wall Street loudly warning about the possibility of a market crash?  Should we be alarmed that the big dogs on Wall Street are starting to get v ...
  • 20 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Heading For ...
    Is the U.S. economy about to experience a major downturn?  Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of signs that economic activity in the United States is really slowing down right now.  Freight volumes and freight expenditures are way down, consumer confidence has declined sharply, major retail ...
  • Money Is A Form Of Social Control And Most Ame ...
    Is America really "the land of the free"?  Most people think of money as simply a medium of exchange that makes economic transactions more convenient, but the truth is that it is much more than that.  Money is also a form of social control.  Just think about it.  What did you do this morning?  W ...
  • Abolish The Income Tax: You Won’t Believ ...
    The federal income tax is a bad joke and it needs to be abolished.  All over the nation, hard working American families are being absolutely crushed by oppressive levels of taxation, and our politicians are constantly coming up with new ways to extract money from all of us every single year.  Me ...
  • Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains ...
    If the economy is improving, then why are many of the largest retail chains in America closing hundreds of stores?  When I was growing up, Sears, J.C. Penney, Best Buy and RadioShack were all considered to be unstoppable retail powerhouses.  But now it is being projected that all of them will cl ...

Desertification

  • The Sahel needs $1.6 billion again (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97505/Why-the-Sahel-needs-1-6-billion-again-this-year Why the Sahel needs $1.6 billion again this year The 2013 Sahel Regional Strategy calls for US$1.66 billion to help meet humanitarian needs and build up resilience among vulnerable groups – an id ...
  • Locust threat looms (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97522/Egyptian-farmers-fearful-as-locust-threat-looms Egyptian farmers fearful as locust threat looms Scattered pockets of locusts in southern Egypt and northern Sudan are a threat to agricultural land, warns the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ...
  • ‘Sand dams’ bank water for dry sea ...
    Read at : http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/sand-dams-bank-water-for-dry-season-in-semi-arid-kenya ‘Sand dams’ bank water for dry season in semi-arid Kenya Source: Alertnet // Isaiah Esipisu Barely a month after heavy rains pounded Kenya, many seasonal rivers in the country’s semi-a ...
  • Forests and Poverty Alleviation Efforts (IISD ...
    Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/cifor-highlights-role-of-forests-in-china%E2%80%99s-poverty-alleviation-efforts/ CIFOR Highlights Role of Forests in China’s Poverty Alleviation Efforts The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has highlighted a World Development article on the ...
  • Eradication of Hunger (IISD / ECOSOC)
    Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/joint-un-meeting-on-food-security-and-nutrition-promotes-eradication-of-hunger/ Joint UN Meeting on Food Security and Nutrition Promotes Eradication of Hunger The Special Joint Meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Second Committee ( ...

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backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – A day in the life of ...
    By Nathaniel Moher On Jan. 28th, Stephen Harper took a break from using the Internet for the purpose of helping all machines become sentient and thus beginning the robot revolution, in order to take to Twitter and post some pictures of a day in the life of Stephen “I Swear I’m Not A Robot – [... ...
  • Taxes are bad — unless, of course, they& ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net Here’s a puzzle for my readers: try to guess which one of the following two editorials, each of them discussing a slight bump in the tax rate for the wealthiest individuals, comes from The Globe and Mail, and which one comes from the local leftist rag: An extra two per c ...
  • You’re paying for your government’ ...
    By John Klein (aka Saskboy) The Conservative government is out of control. The Guardian UK newspaper confirms what environmentalists have already suspected (since the Conservatives have openly accused them previously): This Conservative government regards environmentalists as a threat to nationa ...
  • John Baird at the Crossroads
    By Montreal Simon It was an extraordinary sight. John Baird sitting next to Julian Fantino at a committee meeting this morning, blasting the hideous anti-gay statements of a Canadian religious organization. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird took aim Tuesday at “offensive” and &#822 ...
  • Steven Tyler’s anti-nip slips bill
    By Mark Leiren-Young Forget what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — if Steven Tyler has his way, what happens in the Aloha State will stay safely under the grass skirt. Yes, Hawaii could become a safe haven for the species known as “tabloid fodder.” Liv Tyler’s dad, who used to sing with a ...

libcom

  • Tim Burgess: 'celebrity' Charlatan scab
    Tim-Burgess-scab.jpg As journalists at the BBC strike to defend their jobs while senior execs get huge payoffs, former front man of middle-of-the-road Britpop act The Charlatans, scabs on them by cove ...
  • Factory in Greece starts production under work ...
    viome.jpg Striking workers at the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece who have not been paid since May 2011 have decided to restart production under workers' control on 12 February 2013. ...
  • FKMA's 2nd Autonomous Peasant Congress
    FKMA.jpg Short reportage from Indonesian Autonomous Peasant Congress Dozens of peasants from various organizations in several cities in Indonesia, joined in Forum Komunikasi Mas ...
  • Current prisoner list of Anarchist Black Cross ...
    Currently we have addresses of 15 anarchist, anti-authoritarian or anti-fascist political prisoners, or their supporters in Russia and Belarus. Of these, 14 are interested to receive letters of support. Situation with prisoners is ...
  • IWW help in victory against Bad Boss in the ca ...
    "As I swilled the last traces of toothpaste from my mouth this morning, a Wobbly's head flew past the window, shouting the word "victory". From Bristol IWW General Branch: http://www.bristoliww.org.uk/iww-help-in- ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Why I Support RMEF – and Why I Hunt &#82 ...
    Over the last 40 years,  I have personally witnessed most of scenes depicted in this great RMEF video, as I have “hunted” big game and “fished” from Alaska to most western states.   At least for me, “hunting” is much more about becoming one with nature and nat ...
  • True Ott Interviewed on Red Ice Radio
        It was my distinct pleasure to spend a few hours expressing my world-views with Mr. Henrik Palmgren on his Red Ice Creations. http://www.redicemembers.com/secure/radio/program.php?id=683 In my opinion, Henrik is doing a tremendous job identifying the problems facing the world, and ...
  • Ex-Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino Speaks His ...
    With all due respect, Mr. Bongino - What good does it do to vote, when the voting polls are rigged and controlled by computers run by Edomite companies?  Isn’t it incumbent to PROTEST and FIGHT for honest voting as well??? “Those who cast the votes decide nothing, Those who count the ...
  • Those Who Forget History – Are Doomed to ...
    This essay is from an anonymous author – very likely a Native American. True   Here’s some history that you might recall but is applicable today: December 29, 2012 marked the 122nd Anniversary of the murder of 297 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservatio ...
  • Evidence of Benevolent Intervention in a Craze ...
    Please understand, friends, that I am not in any way a new-age UFO enthusiast who channels cryptic messages for humanity via a closet-full of stylish tin-foil hats.    I am merely a truth-seeker.   Therefore, I am also a Christian, because Jesus is truly the “Truth”, the WAY, and the ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • What is dropping from the sky?
    Reblogged from todaysweather: href="http://todaysweather.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/download.jpg"> Daily I walk my dog Bella on our local beach which is on the Salish Sea. I look at the new logs that have washed up the night before, Bella the sticks. I watch the birds flying into the saltwa ...
  • Poll Results:How can I help you save money on ...
    How can I help you save money on your Winter Time Heating Bills?   Answer Percent Add Insulation 20% Solar Energy System 0% Stop Air Leaks 20% Energy Efficient Doors and Windows 0% Complete Weatherization 40% Free Green Site Evaluation 20% Other 0%   Adding Insulation:  See the Certain ...
  • Up-Cycled Wood Flooring Project
    Creating Additional Seating and Stage-Shady Jacks Saloon BUILD NOTES HARDWOOD FLOOR STAGE-EXTRA SEATING Customer Must Haves Create Additional Seating Area (64) for the Ever-Growing Lunch and Dinner Crowds Build a New Stage for the Bands that play every Friday Night / Special Events New Stage and ...
  • Up-Cycled Wood Flooring Project
    Creating Additional Seating and Stage-Shady Jacks Saloon BUILD NOTES HARDWOOD FLOOR STAGE-EXTRA SEATING Customer Must Haves Create Additional Seating Area (64) for the Ever-Growing Lunch and Dinner Crowds Build a New Stage for the Bands that play every Friday Night / Special Events New Stage and ...
  • Local SEO for the St Louis Region
    The Proof is in the Stats-[Changes to 3 Simple Key Words that I had mistakenly left out and from Linking my Service Page to the Green Blogs]. As a true DIY person I believe in handling all the projects I can do In-House. Luckily when it comes to Local SEO techniques I accepted the free offer for ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Creating Schools that Facilitate Change
    Paulo Freire This is the fifth of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) he originally published in Daily Censored. In this fifth section Dr Weil presents the other side of the &ldquo ...
  • Indoctrination: the Real Purpose of Public Schools
      This is the fourth of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) he originally published in Daily Censored. In this fourth section, Dr Weil identifies the true mission of public schools, acco ...
  • Reducing Students to a Commodity
    This is the third of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) he originally published in Daily Censored. In this third section, Dr Weil traces identifies the conservative ideologues and corporate ...
  • Are Schools Creating Citizens? Or Workers and ...
    US schools train kids for jobs that have been shipped overseas This is the second of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) he originally posted at Daily Censored. In this section Dr Weil challen ...
  • Taking Back Our Schools
    This is the first of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil, a public interest attorney, prolific writer and staunch advocate for public education. He has given me permission to reprint an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) h ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • From 'Epilogue: The Execution of Michael Moore'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore It was the night of March 23, 2003. Four nights earlier, George W. Bush had invaded Iraq, a sovereign country that not only had not attacked us, but was, in fact, the past recipient of military aid from the United States. ...
  • Statement of Emad Burnat, Co-Director of '5 Br ...
    Last night, on my way from Turkey to Los Angeles, CA, my family and I were held at US immigration for about an hour and questioned about the purpose of my visit to the United States. Immigration officials asked for proof that I was nominated for an Academy Award® for the documentary 5 BR ...
  • Ten Years Ago Today from the Washington Post: ...
    The Washington Post ran this front page article referring with no caveats to Saddam Hussein's "chemical and biological weapons" exactly ten years to the day before printing quotes from a made up "interview" Michael Moore supposedly gave to an Iranian magazine 2-Week Window Frames Bush's Decisio ...
  • Ten Years Ago Today from the Washington Post: ...
    The Washington Post ran this article referring with no caveats to Iraq's made up "weapons of mass destruction" exactly ten years to the day before printing quotes from a made up "interview" Michael Moore supposedly gave to an Iranian magazine EU Leaders Agree: Inspectors Should Get More Time ...
  • 'Irrefutable' -- the Washington Post on Colin ...
    The Washington Post's below unsigned editorial published the day after Colin Powell's Iraq presentation to the UN Security Council is no longer available on the Post's website Irrefutable February 6, 2003 Editorial, Pg. A36 AFTER SECRETARY OF STATE Colin L. Powell's presentation to the Unite ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • The Chromebook Pixel, for whats next
    So what's next? Today we're excited to announce our newest laptop-the Chromebook Pixel-which brings together the best in hardware, software and design to inspire the next generation of Chromebooks. With the Pixel, we set out to rethink all elements of a computer in order to design the best lapto ...
  • Independent Booksellers Sue Amazon and Publish ...
    At the heart of the lawsuit is the idea that the top publishers signed secret contracts with Amazon that allowed them to code their e-books in such a way that the books could only be read on an Amazon Kindle device or a device with a Kindle app. The booksellers are pushing for open-source coding ...
  • Survey shows companies need Linux talent and t ...
    Great news for Linux pros and bad news for hiring managers. A survey says companies are will be desperate for Linux pros in the next six months. Plus, the salaries for Linux staffers are on the rise. - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet
  • What Is Linux Advocates?
    Linux Advocates, the website, was born out of a passion for Linux and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). My colleague, respected tech journalist Katherine Noyes (aka "Linux Girl"), and I have felt for a long time that there was an unmet need for a news and opinion site dedicated to Linux Advo ...
  • Accidental Empires, Chapter 5 Role Models
    My point is that the early pioneers of microcomputing stole freely from the mainframe and minicomputer worlds, but there wasn't really much worth stealing, so nobody was bothered. But with the introduction of 16-bit microprocessors in 1981 and 1982, the mainframe role model was scrapped altogeth ...

WideShut

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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frogblog

  • Lignite coal to stay in the hole
    I am celebrating today after the news that Solid Energy will be dropping its Lignite project in Southland. This is a win for the climate and our environment and for Southland.
  • Removing discrimination: one small step at a time
    One of the biggest challenges that many disabled people  face is negative attitudes towards them, and assumptions made by others that their lives are not worth living, which can lead to systematic discrimination .   Antenatal screening  programmes, such as  the national screening programme for D ...
  • Wheeler on the death of manufacturing etc. etc.
    It’s interesting to compare yesterday’s speech by Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler with Sir Paul Callaghan’s vision for a prosperous New Zealand. Wheeler describes New Zealand’s manufacturing sector as a sunset industry, in terminal decline due to globalisation, competition from low wage cou ...
  • Speculating on spectrum
    Today Communications Minister Amy Adams announced the Government’s plans for allocating the 700MHz spectrum that has been freed up by the switchover to digital TV. It’s a big deal for New Zealand and I’m urging that the Government engage and consult with Māori and the public over the opportunit ...
  • Christchurch Schools – Proposals or Promises?
    At the schools rally in Christchurch on Tuesday, Board Members and parents were talking about the promise broken by the Minister of Education. A number of schools such as Central New Brighton and Branston Intermediate had been clearly told they would have until the end of 2014 to prepare for mer ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Omega-6 Fats in Processed and Deep Fried Foods ...
    By Dr. Mercola A recent article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) throws conventional dietary advice on its ear. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), Americans should not reduce their consumption of omega-6 fats (think vegetables oils), and might even benefit from eating a li ...
  • Walmart’s Big Push into Groceries is Not Good ...
    By Dr. Mercola Groceries make up more than half of Walmart’s retail sales, an amount that’s risen significantly over the past 10 years. The rise makes sense from a business standpoint, since shoppers are still spending more on basic needs like food than they are on electronics or ...
  • Research Shows Placebos May Have A Place In Ev ...
    By Dr. Mercola A placebo is an inactive treatment or substance, such as a sugar pill or sham procedure, that looks and feels just like a regular medical treatment. Patients receiving a placebo generally believe it is the same as the typical standard of care, and many experience what’s ...
  • U.N. Launches Drone Investigation Into Legalit ...
    By Dr. Mercola The “military industrial complex” has become the military industrial government... It doesn’t stop with the military; other industries seem to have taken over our healthcare, banking, food and agriculture at the federal level as well. To say that your civil l ...
  • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Threatens Y ...
    By Dr. Mercola When it comes to nutrition, it is very important that you have the right to freedom of choice. Unfortunately, organizations such as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), formerly known as American Dietetic Association (ADA), are threatening your freedom of choice and in ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
    Many Embera-Katío have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto Andágueda in ...
  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...
  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...
  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...
  • Colombian Indian exhibition showcases most end ...
    ONIC's campaign aims to stop the imminent extinction of Colombia's tribal peoples © Juan Pablo Gutierrez/ONICColombian Indian organization ONIC has launched an international photography exhibition to highlight the desperate plight of Colombia’s indigenous peoples. The exhibition, enti ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield antitrust lawsuits ...
    from reuters.com: A litigation onslaught facing the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and its 38 member health plans over alleged antitrust violations has snowballed ahead of a legal status conference scheduled for Thursday. Three more lawsuits were filed last week alleging a conspirac ...
  • UN Offers Banquet Of Blemished Food To Highlig ...
    from reuters.com: The United Nations treated government ministers and officials to a meal of blemished African fruit and vegetables on Tuesday to highlight how perfectly edible food is being rejected by European supermarkets. The five-course meal for 500 delegates at a week-long United Nati ...
  • Justices Skeptical Of Farmer Who Planted Paten ...
    from latimes.com: In a closely watched patent case, Supreme Court justices appeared ready to dash the hopes of an Indiana farmer who claimed the unfettered right to plant the next generation of Monsanto Co.'s genetically modified soybeans. The justices strongly suggested in oral arguments T ...
  • FBI Probes Suspected Insider Trading In H.J. H ...
    from washingtonpost.com: The FBI has launched a probe into suspected insider trading activity that took place one day before H.J. Heinz announced that it would be acquired for $28 billion by a private investment consortium. The FBI confirmed the criminal investigation on Tuesday, days after the ...
  • #Video: Getting Dad Off The Death Diet
    from therealfoodchannel.com: A heart warming story about a daughter who saved her father's life with food. Fortunately for the dad involved, his daughter, Dina Knight, understood the simple difference between healthy and unhealthy food.

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Big Dogs On Wall Street Are Starting To Ge ...
    Why are some of the biggest names in the corporate world unloading stock like there is no tomorrow, and why are some of the most prominent investors on Wall Street loudly warning about the possibility of a market crash?  Should we be alarmed that the big dogs on Wall Street are starting to get v ...
  • 20 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Heading For ...
    Is the U.S. economy about to experience a major downturn?  Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of signs that economic activity in the United States is really slowing down right now.  Freight volumes and freight expenditures are way down, consumer confidence has declined sharply, major retail ...
  • Money Is A Form Of Social Control And Most Ame ...
    Is America really "the land of the free"?  Most people think of money as simply a medium of exchange that makes economic transactions more convenient, but the truth is that it is much more than that.  Money is also a form of social control.  Just think about it.  What did you do this morning?  W ...
  • Abolish The Income Tax: You Won’t Believ ...
    The federal income tax is a bad joke and it needs to be abolished.  All over the nation, hard working American families are being absolutely crushed by oppressive levels of taxation, and our politicians are constantly coming up with new ways to extract money from all of us every single year.  Me ...
  • Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains ...
    If the economy is improving, then why are many of the largest retail chains in America closing hundreds of stores?  When I was growing up, Sears, J.C. Penney, Best Buy and RadioShack were all considered to be unstoppable retail powerhouses.  But now it is being projected that all of them will cl ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 6 Most Good-Looking Music Players for Linux
    There is no dearth for good quality music players in Ubuntu. Even the default Rhythmbox is pretty darn good. But how many of those music players can be considered as good-looking? It is a tricky question since looks are very subjective. Anyway, here's a collection of 6 best music players for L ...
  • A Brilliant New Voice Recognition App for Ubun ...
    This has to be the find of the day. I was skeptical about the relevance of a full-fledged voice recognition application in a desktop OS like Ubuntu. But all that changed once I saw the video demonstration of the same. Not only does the app looks awesome, it is tightly integrated with Ubuntu' ...
  • Canonical Unveils Ubuntu on Tablets: "It is th ...
    Ubuntu is on a roll. Barely a month and a half after the official unveiling of Ubuntu for Phones, Canonical has just revealed their next flagship product, dubbed as Ubuntu on Tablets. With the introduction of platforms tailor-made for phones and tablets now, Canonical have made their intenti ...
  • Glovebox: A Glimpse of What Ubuntu Phone OS is ...
    Several UI elements of Ubuntu Phone OS were instant hits across the web when it was first introduced to the public. And like its desktop counterpart, one of the most distinctive feature of Ubuntu Phone OS which sets it apart from the crowd was its left mounted, vertically placed launcher. Now ...
  • KDE Plasma Active Running on Nexus 7
    KDE's Spark Tablet running Plasma Active user interface was quite a phenomenon during CES 2012, though there was no trace of it during the just concluded CES 2013. Only recently, we showcased a video of Ubuntu 13.04 running on a multi-touch device, now here comes a new one featuring KDE Plasma ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – Tell me, do the evil ...
    “Tell me, do the evil men of this world have a bad time? They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don’t suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us instead of feeling sorry. [...]
  • IN MEMORIAM: LIBYAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 114
    At 10:30 a.m. on 21 February 1973, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 took off on its regularly-scheduled flight from Tripoli to Cairo. The plane, a Boeing 727, was being piloted by a French crew under a contractual arrangement between Air France and the Libyan national airline. After a brief stop ...
  • US Supreme Court slams door in 9/11 widow’s face
    By Dr. Kevin Barrett February 19, 2013 “Information Clearing House” – On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, the United States Supreme Court slammed its door in the face of the last 9/11 family member seeking justice through the American legal system. Ellen Mariani, whose husband Neil ...
  • Settled Science Update : Global Warming Means ...
    That snow outside is what global warming looks like | George … http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/…/uk-snow-global-warmin… Dec 20, 2010 – George Monbiot: Unusually cold winters may make you think scientists have got it all wrong. But the data reveal a chilling truth. Snow is consi ...
  • Peanut oil in vaccines behind widespread peanu ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) More than one million children living in America today suffer from peanut allergy, and a significant percentage of these have such severe symptoms that they must carry around self-injectable epinephrine just in case they accidentally become exposed ...

Veterans Today

  • Will Washington Grasp the Hand Being Offered b ...
    - I have never visited such a complex country, evolving culture, populated by idealistic people of great warmth
  • Rising Star UKIP: Another Tool of The Zionist ...
    A few weeks ago YouGov, with the European Parliament in mind and using two different methods, put support for UKIP at between 17% and 19%. So the Conservatives are under pressure while the LibDems (on a measly 8%) are set to lose badly.
  • Recently Released Protocol Shows Ariel Sharon ...
    The Israeli State Archives has just released the protocol of a cabinet meeting from 1983 in which bloated Israeli war pig Ariel Sharon shows his fear of the exposure of Israel's coordination with a Christian Lebanese militia to commit genocide against the Palestinian people in the Sabra and Shat ...
  • Hyderbad: “You Strike & We will Strike b ...
    The message of ‘21/2 Hyderabad serial terror attack’ — By Feroze Mithiborwala — The strategic& political target of the terror attack, is the historic 2-day Strike of the Working classes, where more than 12 core or 120 million workers both from the organized & unorganized sect ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    Of the more than 100 feature articles which appeared on our health page in 2012, Veterans and their families found these top 10 to be the most popular, and we hope, the most helpful.

electric politics

  • A Hermeneutic and an Erotic Philology (of Brig ...
    It's not that Brigitte Bardot brings life to the meaning of the word pulchritude, although of course she does, it's that somehow she forces us to cherish our ignorance of her. A truly rare (and great) gift. And if in the superposition of a spacetime vortex she fundamentally altered the history o ...
  • Wrangling the Facts
    From the earliest times diplomacy has been a balance between honest interlocution and soothing ephemera. The art, some say, of allowing another person to have things your way. And always — always — with an iron requirement for accurate factual appraisal. Ambassador Dan Simpson is one ...
  • Congo Nocturne
    The Europeans required over a thousand years to come up with the European Union (and the EU still doesn't work right). The Congo, approximately the same size as Europe, has never had any history of legitimate, national self-governance. When Europeans started exploring the region in the late 1800 ...
  • On Magical War
    Secure in the ignorance of our traditions we treat war as if it were a game, as if we should try to win when we play. Oorah! But if we think like a human being war assumes a great deal more complexity, indeed, a necessary ambiguity. Dr. David Keen challenges conventional wisdom in a great book, ...
  • Wampum Wranglers
    So Mr. O won't mint the magic coin. He says. Well, good luck to him, then, getting the Southern secessionists to grovel. More's the pity, though, that neither side have a clue what they're talking about. Essentially, they're disputing the finer points of a primitive theory of value: call it wamp ...

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Stop NATO

  • NATO To Consolidate Global Network Around Stri ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization February 21, 2013 NATO Defence Ministers agree to expand exercises and multinational cooperation NATO Response Force NATO Defence Ministers agreed [on] concrete goals for more ambitious training and exercises to maintain the lessons of interoperability at their ...
  • Georg Brandes: Abrupt about-face, the glorific ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Georg Brandes: Selections on war ==== Georg Brandes From French Youth (1913) Translated by Catherine D. Groth The first group of great writers who came after the Franco-Prussian War, men like Zola and Maupassant, hated war and wrot ...
  • David Ackles: Will you take the sun away in on ...
    ==== Musical selections Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts ==== David Ackles (1970)
  • U.S. Senator: Drone Attacks Have Killed 4,700 ...
    Voice of Russia February 21, 2013 US drones killed 4,700 people worldwide “Sometimes you hit innocent people and I hate that.” A US senator has estimated the total number of drone attack fatalities at 4,700 people, including civilians. As many have been murdered in America’s continuing secret bo ...
  • U.S. Continues News Cold War With Russia
    China.org.cn February 20, 2013 Are temperatures dropping to a new Cold War? By Zhao Jinglun ==== If NATO further expands to Georgia and Ukraine, crossing the Kremlin’s “Red Line,” hostility would be further heightened. The missile-defense installations are supposedly aimed at I ...

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Intel Hub

  • TSA Searches Three Year Old Wheelchair Bound D ...
    Alex Thomas | In an absolute disgusting display of the American police state, TSA thugs recently harassed a three-year old disabled girl as her and her family attempted to board a plan bound for Disney World.
  • The Secret Weapon Of Mass Destruction Nobody A ...
    By Chris Carrington theintelhub.com February 21, 2013 Nikoli Tesla found while experimenting with eccentric wheels that standing on the platform during the experiment gave him a pleasant buzzing feeling throughout his body. He also found that staying on the platform for longer than a minute or t ...
  • Killing the Dollar: G20 & IMF Push for Global ...
    New American | The end goal is to transform the IMF into a global Federal Reserve, with the ability to flood the world with huge new volumes of loans and currency. It would also wield vast financial regulatory powers.
  • Gun Control Was – Historically – About Repress ...
    Washington's Blog | I was raised to be against guns. My parents hated guns, and believed that they only lead to crime and accidental shootings.
  • TSA Officers Could Be Defined As Felons In Kansas
    Tim Brown | It looks as if Kansas legislators have had just about enough of the “security theater” of airport screening by the Transportation Security Administration.

FRS

  • Technology of Exploitation: Intensifying Worke ...
    Tesco accused of using electronic armbands to monitor its staff Supermarket grades employees on efficiency and can reprimand them for breaks, says ex-worker Kevin Rawlinson , The Independent, Wednesday 13 February 2013 Tesco workers are being made to wear electronic armbands that managers can us ...
  • On February 23, International Protests of Brad ...
    By Nathan Fuller February 15, 2013 Bradley Manning Support Network PFC Bradley Manning has been in jail awaiting trial for nearly 1,000 days for exposing war crimes, corruption, and widespread abuse. When he returns to court in Fort Meade, MD, for a pretrial hearing from February 26 to March 1, ...
  • Philippines: Rebels attack pineapple plantati ...
    From the Sun Star-Cagayan de Oro Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Undetermined number of armed men believed to be members of the New People’s Army (NPA) stormed the main office and plantation of Del Monte Philippines in Camp Philips, Bukidnon, Tuesday evening. Radio reports said the rebels, numbering ...
  • Arundhati Roy speaks out against Indian rape c ...
    Channel 4 News, Friday 21 December 2012 The writer Arundhati Roy tells Channel 4 News she believes rape is used as a weapon in India and that women in the country are “paying the price”. Filed under: Adivasis, Arundhati Roy, Dalits, Delhi, India, Women-India, Working Class Tagged: Ar ...
  • Arundhati Roy speaks out against Indian rape c ...
    Channel 4 News, Friday 21 December 2012 The writer Arundhati Roy tells Channel 4 News she believes rape is used as a weapon in India and that women in the country are “paying the price”. Filed under: Adivasis, Arundhati Roy, Dalits, Delhi, India, Women-India, Working Class Tagged: Ar ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • SOTU: Obama was Right to Call for Nuclear Arms ...
    The U.S. has more than enough nuclear weapons to defend itself, and it has no moral high ground to call on countries like North Korea and Iran to not create any while we hoard and/or build more nuclear weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Feb 13, 2013
  • Dorner Case Tests the LAPD
    It seems an inappropriate time to review the firing of fugitive Christopher Dorner--yet that's what LAPD chief Charlie Beck ordered.Contributor: Anthony Ventre Published: Feb 11, 2013
  • Giffords’ Plea for More Gun Control Legislatio ...
    Gun control legislation won’t solve all of the country’s gun violence problems, but at least laws would put the authorities in the position to enforce tighter measures and make it harder for criminals to get access to certain weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 31, 2013
  • Georgia Storm Warnings Get an “A,” Preparation ...
    Tornadoes struck West Georgia again. The only lesson that seems to have been learned from prior disasters is to provide a ton of warnings. But we had those back then. What we need are protective shelters, not hallways.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Jan 30, 2013
  • Benghazi: Yes, Secretary Clinton, it Does Matt ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to know "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Either the administration had faulty intelligence reporting which needs to be exposed or President Obama lied about Benghazi.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 23, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • It's Unlikely That You Have Ever Really Eaten ...
    DNA testing of retail seafood finds that fish fraud is rampant around the nation. Oceana, an organization dedicated to ocean conservation, has bought over 1,200 samples of fish from restaurants and stores around the country, and submitted them to DNA testing to identify their species. The fina ...
  • Mechanical Sniffer Detects Old Book Smell, Cou ...
    A project at the British Library seeks to chemically analyze that old-book smell to help librarians determine what they need to do to preserve aging collections. That old book smell may be loveable, but it's also a sign of books' decay. Now the British Library is working with a chemical detecti ...
  • New Study Says Unfairness Really Ruffles Crows ...
    A new experiment found crows and ravens have a sense of fairness, just like people and dogs. People, primates and dogs all react negatively when others get a better reward for doing the same work. Now a small study has found that crows and ravens dislike unfairness, too--the first time researc ...
  • FYI: Now We've Looked Below The Surface, Why I ...
    Anyone looking for evidence of life there had better hope it's not red all the way down. Mars is so associated with red--its very name is after the bloody god of war--that it’s weird to think about it in any other color. Rocks, dust, and even the atmosphere appear in hues of cinnamon, rust and ...
  • New Commission To Set Standards For Troubled F ...
    After years of reports of troubled crime labs, the U.S. Department of Justice is putting together a commission that will set standards, a professional code and education requirements for forensic scientists. The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for a little outside help standardizing the ...

Veterans Today

  • Will Washington Grasp the Hand Being Offered b ...
    - I have never visited such a complex country, evolving culture, populated by idealistic people of great warmth
  • Rising Star UKIP: Another Tool of The Zionist ...
    A few weeks ago YouGov, with the European Parliament in mind and using two different methods, put support for UKIP at between 17% and 19%. So the Conservatives are under pressure while the LibDems (on a measly 8%) are set to lose badly.
  • Recently Released Protocol Shows Ariel Sharon ...
    The Israeli State Archives has just released the protocol of a cabinet meeting from 1983 in which bloated Israeli war pig Ariel Sharon shows his fear of the exposure of Israel's coordination with a Christian Lebanese militia to commit genocide against the Palestinian people in the Sabra and Shat ...
  • Hyderbad: “You Strike & We will Strike b ...
    The message of ‘21/2 Hyderabad serial terror attack’ — By Feroze Mithiborwala — The strategic& political target of the terror attack, is the historic 2-day Strike of the Working classes, where more than 12 core or 120 million workers both from the organized & unorganized sect ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    Of the more than 100 feature articles which appeared on our health page in 2012, Veterans and their families found these top 10 to be the most popular, and we hope, the most helpful.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • 2014 Sochi Winter Games = 1936 Berlin + Oligarchs?
    A vainglorious leader with an authoritarian streak; a country with a chip on its shoulder against Anglophone powers; and massive Olympic spending to burnish a national reputation--where did we see all these things before? The parallels are not exactly edifying, but they're there nonetheless. Re ...
  • England's Comeuppance to EU Exit: Scots Exit UK
    British politics are weird. No sooner did British Prime Minister David Cameron appease Eurosceptics within his party by promising a referendum on the UK remaining in the EU by 2017 that he warned the independence-minded Scottish National Party (SNP) about breaking away from the United Kingdom th ...
  • Of Quota Reform and American IMF Hegemony
    Two things strike me as notable with the recent news that the US plans to finalize changes in the shares of quotas at the IMF and thus the voting rights there: 1. Given that the US has effective veto power at the IMF by virtue of having more than 15% of quota shares when a quorum of 85% is nece ...
  • Sharia Chameleon: Egypt's Clerics Decide on IMF?
    People who are not distracted by business or trade from commemorating God - Sura 24:37 There's an interesting new complication in Egypt's never-ending quest to obtain IMF loans (which we aren't even sure the IMF wants to give anyway). Islamist lawmakers from the Salafist party want to add even ...
  • More Than WTO, Vatican Needs Third World Head
    Aside from China's arranged leadership succession, there are two more noteworthy ones this year at global institutions. The one we had long expected is that of WTO director-general. Since the WTO's formation in 1995, there has only been one from a developing country, Supachai Panichpakdi of Thai ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Big Dogs On Wall Street Are Starting To Ge ...
    Why are some of the biggest names in the corporate world unloading stock like there is no tomorrow, and why are some of the most prominent investors on Wall Street loudly warning about the possibility of a market crash?  Should we be alarmed that the big dogs on Wall Street are starting to get v ...
  • 20 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Heading For ...
    Is the U.S. economy about to experience a major downturn?  Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of signs that economic activity in the United States is really slowing down right now.  Freight volumes and freight expenditures are way down, consumer confidence has declined sharply, major retail ...
  • Money Is A Form Of Social Control And Most Ame ...
    Is America really "the land of the free"?  Most people think of money as simply a medium of exchange that makes economic transactions more convenient, but the truth is that it is much more than that.  Money is also a form of social control.  Just think about it.  What did you do this morning?  W ...
  • Abolish The Income Tax: You Won’t Believ ...
    The federal income tax is a bad joke and it needs to be abolished.  All over the nation, hard working American families are being absolutely crushed by oppressive levels of taxation, and our politicians are constantly coming up with new ways to extract money from all of us every single year.  Me ...
  • Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains ...
    If the economy is improving, then why are many of the largest retail chains in America closing hundreds of stores?  When I was growing up, Sears, J.C. Penney, Best Buy and RadioShack were all considered to be unstoppable retail powerhouses.  But now it is being projected that all of them will cl ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Haiti: fight against cholera continues, but cl ...
    The United Nations has ramped up its efforts to eliminate cholera in Haiti. At the same time, claims against the Organization on that matter are "not receivable," a spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, after officials in the Caribbean nation were informed of the decision.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into murd ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the murder of Marcelino Vázquez, the owner and manager of a radio station in Paraguay.
  • Haiti must ensure justice for victims of past ...
    A senior United Nations official today urged Haiti to ensure there is no impunity for human rights violations committed during the presidency of Jean-Claude Duvalier, who is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.
  • UN kicks off Year of Quinoa' with focus on wor ...
    Top officials from the United Nations and the Andean community of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru today launched the International Year of Quinoa' to raise awareness of the nutritional, economic, environmental and cultural value of a food that has been traditionally cultivated for thousands ...
  • UN experts urge US Congress to renew Violence ...
    Two United Nations experts today urged the United States House of Representatives to approve a revised bill which strengthens the legal options for female victims of violence and sexual abuse, and extends protections to indigenous, immigrant and gay victims.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • 'America's Lawless Empire...The Constitutional ...
    Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein visited Harvard Law School for the event, "America's Lawless Empire: The Constitutional Crimes of Bush and Obama," both men discussed what they called lawless, violent practices by the White House and its agencies that have become institutionalized by both politica ...
  • Insulin Doubles Death Rate in Type 2 Diabetics
    A new study clearly documents that the standard treatment for type 2 diabetes is a killer, resulting in more than double the deaths. The treatment justification has always been based on irrelevant criteria—just as it is with most pharmaceutical treatments. ~ Heidi Stevenson read more
  • Large Study Finds Criminal Behavior in Adults ...
    Time spent in front of the television during childhood and early adolescence is linked to criminal behavior in adulthood, according to research published online in Pediatrics. ~ Eric W Dolan read more
  • Coast 2 Coast AM - George Knapp... 95% Of Amer ...
    George Knapp is joined by survival expert and health guru, Blake Sawyer. Blake explains how the United States will no longer be a viable place to live and people should consider immigrating to locations in the less populated Southern Hemisphere. ~ Coast 2 Coast AM - Audio read more
  • Preparing for a Gun Ban
    The Gun Grabbers are in full swing to ban your semi-auto rifles and magazines over 10 rounds. What should you be looking for in case there is a reinstatement of an assault weapons ban? ~ Video read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • TOOLS Around The Garden
    A list of tools, some of which you may want to consider having around for the yard, garden or for outdoor work around the homestead. You might want to get some of them before any chance of collapse… A Hat Asparagus Knife Axes Brooms – several types Buckets and Containers Bulb planter ...
  • Dust Mask, N95, or Respirator
    What is the difference between an ordinary dust mask, N95 mask, and respirator? The answer is important to understand. First, a dust mask is used where particles in the air such as ordinary dust, dust from wood, concrete, construction dirt, drywall, fiberglass and other materials are present. Th ...
  • 30 Uses For Salt
    Aside from all of the uses that salt performs in terms of baking chemistry, food flavor and food preservation, salt has a number of other uses…   Remove Rust Make a paste using 6 tablespoons of Morton® Salt and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Apply paste to rusted area with a dry cloth and ...
  • Disinfectant Bleach-Water Ratio
    Bleach is one of the most widely available and affordable disinfectants on earth. Clorox® brand liquid bleach was introduced in 1913 and has played a critical role in helping to protect public health by killing germs that cause illness. For years, bleach has helped purify water – particularly du ...
  • 15 Reasons Why You Need Food Storage
    Do You Need Food Storage? Listed below are a few things that can and have happened around the world. 1: Severe weather events: A major flood, tornado outbreak, or hurricane will leave people isolated until rescue or repair efforts are successful. This can take days, weeks or longer. Power and ut ...

Fast Company

  • Google's Chromebook Pixel Hits The Market
    The highly anticipated touchscreen will run customers $1,299. It appears the Google Chromebook Pixel has officially arrived. Weeks after a weird video leaked that began ramping up the rumors about the touchscreen laptop, the high-end Google laptop was debuted Thursday at a press event in S ...
  • The Fastest Way To Conservation Is Increasing ...
    Sure, it’s good for animals to have more space and more food, but what’s really important to ensuring the survival of creatures like elephants? Making sure there is economic opportunity for the people who live near them. New research shows that for African elephants, countries ...
  • U.S. Army: USB Devices Are Security Risks
    Army officials in South Korea say their top security headache comes from troops charging their phones via USB cable. According to U.S. Army forces in South Korea, their top cybersecurity headache comes from troops and military employees charging their phones by hooking up USB cables to the ...
  • Egypt Crowdsources Censorship
    Egypt's communications ministry is asking citizens to report web pages showing blasphemous content. The Egyptian government is now crowdsourcing censorship efforts. A new web page created by the country's National Telecommunications Registry Agency, allows citizens to report blasphemous we ...
  • Robots Can Now Tend Your Garden For You
    Harvest Automation’s new robots are the latest addition to the farm. One of Harvest Automation’s new nursery bots can work 10 hours a day for $40--a lot less than even an illegal worker might get for the same job. And, as an employer, you have no issues with sickness, or slacki ...

Jadaliyya

  • Syria Media Roundup (February 21)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • Highly Unorthodox: The Week Lebanon Went Secul ...
    When some future historian writes a chronicle of 21st-century Lebanon, she will likely devote a bemused footnote to the odd events of February 2013, when the country’s leaders saw fit to tear down a pillar of the confessional regime one week, only to erect another one a week ...
  • London Event: 'Syria Through a Lens' Screening ...
     Syria Through a Lens A documentary on the life and works of slain Syrian filmmaker and activist Bassel Shahade.  Thursday, February 28th 2013 7:00 PM G3 Main Building The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, WC1H 0XG London Syria Through a Lens&n ...
  • اعتقال، تعذيب، اختفاء، الظلم مستمر
     [الشريط من إعداد حركة "مصرّين" يتضمن شهادات من أقرباء المعتقلين والمختفين"]
  • "تودّد" أو "الثورة التي لا تؤنّث لا يعوّل عليها"
    على امتداد أربعٍ وثمانين ليلة من ليلة وألف ليلة، في ظلال الحكي الشهرزادي (الأنثوي) في أبهة الحضور الذكوري لشهريارالثقافة/السلطة/الذكر (وكما سيتضح تباعاً الذكر/اللغة)، في حضور السطوة "المسرورة" للسيف المذكر أيضاً، وعلى ركام إناثٍ/حكيٍ سابقٍ على شهرزاد، ظلت تلك القّاصّة، تسرد على مسامع ا ...

mediagazer

  • 4 Lessons From The Web's Most Ruthlessly Addic ...
    Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan / Fast Company: 4 Lessons From The Web's Most Ruthlessly Addictive Site  —  With its four-foot-long homepages and hundreds of sidebar images, the Mail Online breaks every rule of web design.  It's also winning the web (and design awards).  &md ...
  • CNBC Buys 'Nightly Business Report' From Atala ...
    Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder: CNBC Buys ‘Nightly Business Report’ From Atalaya  —  “Nightly Business Report,” the pioneer public television series that has struggled in recent years, is getting a new, deep-pocketed commercial owner, the 24-hour busine ...
  • As FCC Chief's Term Nears End, Speculation Gro ...
    Sam Gustin / TIME: As FCC Chief's Term Nears End, Speculation Grows Over Possible Successor  —  Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana ...
  • Facebook blocks access to NBC.com after report ...
    Reuters: Facebook blocks access to NBC.com after reports site is infected  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has blocked users from accessing the NBC.com website following reports that the site is infected with a computer virus.  —  Facebook users were told “This ...
  • Soledad O'Brien to Take on New Role at CNN (Br ...
    Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Soledad O'Brien to Take on New Role at CNN  —  Soledad O'Brien will leave CNN's morning show in the spring, but she won't be leaving the cable news channel altogether.  —  Ms. O'Brien, who is well-known for CNN documentaries like &l ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  •   ...
    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 ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/21/13 - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medi ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana Defeated - The House Rules Committee gave HB84 an "unfavorable report," which killed the bill on Feb. 20, 2013. Eight states currently have pending legislation that would legalize medical marijuana if passed.
  • 2/21/13 - Incarcerated Felon Population by Typ ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Incarcerated Felon Population by Type of Crime Committed, 1974-2010 - As of 2010, US state and federal prisons housed a total of 1,552,600 inmates. In state prisons, 53.2% of the prisoners are in for violent crimes, while in federal prisons 52.1% are in for drug-relate ...
  • 2/19/13 - NEW: Should churches (defined as chu ...
    churchesandtaxes.procon.org – NEW: Should churches (defined as churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, etc.) remain tax-exempt? – Read pro and con quotes from religious leaders, scholars, politicians and organizations including the US Supreme Court (pro), famous atheist Richard Dawkins (con), th ...
  • 2/19/13 - Raw Milk Laws State by State
    milk.procon.org - Raw Milk Laws State by State - The sale of raw milk in stores is legal in 12 states. 17 states only permit raw milk sales on farms; 4 states only allow raw milk acquisition through "cow-share” agreements; and in 17 other states all sales of raw milk are prohibited. Our new char ...
  • 2/15/13 - Do religious displays on public prop ...
    aclu.procon.org - Do religious displays on public property violate the Constitution? - Read pro and con arguments from the ACLU (pro), Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (con), retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (pro), and the Republican National Committee (con).

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Brian Cox does some heavy lifting for UK science
    A personable presentation and a skilled Q&A given by Brian Cox last night, on receipt of the 27th Royal Society Michael Faraday award and lecture. Cox shared a story, his own personal timeline – a scientific journey littered by moments and personalities (Apollo, Benoski, Sagan, Feynman, the ...
  • Ashes to Ashes
    “Ashes to ashes” is how Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) John Beddington’s term in office has been coined, as he started with the crisis around the volcanic eruption of ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano and is coming to a close with the issues around Ash die-back disease affe ...
  • Memorable metaphors and the Two-Row Wampum
    There are a few big ideas – or metaphors for them – that tend to resurface time and time again in my mind. Admittedly, these are usually provided by the likes of Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett or Bob Dylan. But more frequently than you might think, the world of science policy offers up ...
  • Cymrodyr Cymru: Carlton House Terrace hits Cardiff
    The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences. This national remit can sometimes be overlooked given how much of our activity takes place at Carlton House Terrace in London. This week I have been reminding myself that the rest of the UK exists by visiting Manchester and Cardif ...
  • Time to get smarter on justifying science spend?
    What are the prospects for UK science? We know that the research budget fared comparatively better than other areas of public spend in 2010 (up to 2014/15) but these are difficult times, and what might happen after 2014/15, and following the next election? In Barack Obama’s State of the Union ad ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Oceana CEO: A Shocking Report on Your Seafood
    Do you know what you're serving? Photo © Oceana   Do you know what you are serving your family tonight? If it’s fish there’s a good chance that you don’t. Today Oceana unveiled its landmark national seafood fraud report, one of the largest of its kind and one that should make consumers ...
  • NY Times Talks to Oceana About Seafood Fraud
    Right now on the New York Times TimesCast Oceana senior scientist Kimberly Warner is discussing Oceana's landmark National Seafood Fraud Report issued today. You can watch that interview above and read the Times' take on this sweeping investigation. The report found that one third of the seafoo ...
  • Marylanders Rally for Wind Power
    ©Oceana/Caroline Wood More than 60 people (and one adorable dog) attended a lively rally last Wednesday outside the State House in Annapolis, Maryland. The mood was festive and ripe with anticipation, as attendees held signs, listened to several speakers, and spoke to the press. Oceana handed ...
  • Pura vida! (Pure life!)
    On February 8, Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to explore the waters off of the remote Desventuradas Islands more than 500 miles off the coast of Chile. By documenting marine life and habitat the team hopes to persuade the Chilean government to protect more than 60,000 ...
  • Free Diver Swims With Great White Shark to Sav ...
    While we’re going to file this under the “don’t try this at home” category, a promotional video for the GoPro underwater camera showing a free diver from Hawaii swimming with a great white shark is bringing immense amounts of attention to this majestic predator, and encouraging many to rethink t ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: Laura Bush Objects and Barack Obam ...
    I did wonder when I first saw the ad campaign launched by The Respect for Marriage Coalition, pushing for marriage equality, if the four people featured in the video ad knew about it. The quotes by all four – Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Laura Bush and Colin Powell – are all from public comments. ...
  • Top Story — Politico Stumbles, Categorizes Wom ...
    It’s not that Clinton didn’t try to do big things, State Department watchers say. But Obama’s determination to avoid new foreign entanglements — and his insistence on tight control over diplomacy — dictated a narrower approach, focusing on women’s rights and smaller international initiatives, li ...
  • USA Today/PEW Poll: Voters Align More with Oba ...
    President Obama starts his second term with a clear upper hand over GOP leaders on issues from guns to immigration that are likely to dominate the year, a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll finds. On the legislation rated most urgent — cutting the budget deficit — even a majority of Republican v ...
  • Jon Stewart Rewrites John McCain’s “Country Fi ...
    The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook THIS IS the most deserved evisceration of a politician in a long time, with no one asking for it more than Senator John McCain.
  • In Another Republican Reversal on Obamacare, G ...
    “We’re not going to expand Medicaid…” – Gov. Rick Scott AS OBAMA reaches his highest approval rate in 3 years, Republicans one by one continue their crack up over Obamacare. Florida’s Rick Scott is the latest. Gov. Rick Scott announced Wednesday a proposed thr ...

Hudson New York

  • The Collapse of Iran's Rial
    "Wealth comes like a turtle and goes away like a gazelle." -- Persian Proverb The Iranian economy has been imploding, at times even nudging news of Iran's nuclear program off of the front pages. In the first ten months of 2012, the Iranian currency, the
  • A Hard Reckoning
    Bashar Assad faces a hard reckoning. Not the one that comes from rebels battling for control of key Syrian assets, or the one that may come some day from charges of genocide at the International Criminal Court. The reckoning that comes from understanding
  • The Islamization of Spanish Jurisprudence
    Spain has acceded to the demands of the Islamist government in Morocco by agreeing that Moroccan children adopted by Spanish families must remain culturally and religiously Muslim. The agreement obliges the Spanish government to establish a "control
  • Will a Notorious Anti-Semite Become The Pope?
    Among those being considered to succeed Pope Benedict XVI is a notorious anti-Semite, Cardinal Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras. His name has appeared on various media short lists and his photograph was featured, along with other possible
  • What Is Really Blocking the Peace Process?
    Hamas and Fatah are lying not only to their people, but also to the rest of the world -- something the international community should take into consideration when dealing with the two parties. Hamas is now holding US President Barack Obama responsible

Urban Survival

  • Prepper Ben and $800 Gold
    (Ellijay, GA.) Rather than jump into the crossing data this morning, we ought to focus on “framework and observations” first.  Since all the data points in the world don’t mean anything unless you can do something useful with them, this … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Faraday Cages
    Hmmm…seems to be a hot topic on many people’s minds these days but not too much about practical matters this, so time for a serious prepping note here.   What is a Faraday Cage? As you know, there are plenty … Continue reading →
  • Budget Theatrics
    The markets are set to open a bout flat this morning, pending some economic data which we will get to in a minute.  The main feature of the week, however, seems likely to be the national distraction/pastime known as the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Back to the WuJo
    Oh my…we’d had such a dry spell of good WuJo events, I was thinking the world might actually be reverting to a sane, reductionist place where everything would work out just according to calculated odds….nothing more…nothing less.    That is … Continue read ...
  • Tempest in a Tortilla: Immigration
    (East  Ellijay, GA.) Once again, the White House seems to be taking something of a jab at Congress where a bi-partisan bill on immigration has been in the works.  Seems instead of waiting for congressional processes, the WH is about … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • You Don't Have to Take Our Word For it: Americ ...
    Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. For years now, the Natural Defenses Resource Council and other environmental/health groups have known that Americans want tough action to curb carbon pollution, based on a long r ...
  • Marine Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibili ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco Experience and scientific study both reveal that plastic now pollutes the farthest reaches of the world’s oceans.  From the deep seabed of the Arctic, to once-pristine coasts &nd ...
  • Fracking in Illinois: Starting with Standards
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Illinois has the potential to be the next state washed over in the fracking wave moving across the country. That could be a big problem as companies are buying up mineral rights in m ...
  • Seeking Industrial Livestock Information is No ...
    Jon Devine, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Over a period of several months, NRDC and the Pew Charitable Trusts have successfully pressed EPA for information it has collected on a major source of water pollution –large livestock operations, ...
  • Will California Restore the Lower San Joaquin ...
    Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco From their headwaters in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Merced, Tuolumne and Stanislaus rivers were historically wild, teeming with salmon that sustained native Americans, early sett ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reap ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, February 20, 2013: Washington Park, Illinois: Court documents show a police officer was accused of violating a woman’s civil rights by allegedly arresting her with no justification, then shooting … Continue reading & ...
  • 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.  … Continue reading →Robert Ethan Saylor and the ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, February 16 to Tuesday, February 20, 2013: Mt. Pleasant, Texas: An officer pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14-years-old. He has been sentenced to 50 … Continue reading →National Police Mis ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, February 15, 2013: New Orleans, Louisiana: Police are denying allegations of police misconduct after a video was released that shows multiple plainclothes officers accosting two teenage boys for no … Continue reading →N ...
  • Holding Bad Cops Accountable
    From the Washington Post: [W]hen I interviewed community members who had filed complaints against officers, I was disappointed to learn that, despite my reassurances and best efforts to conduct impartial inquiries, many complainants believed that a fair investigation was simply … Continue ...

Total Collapse

  • Russia Puts Nuclear Bombers On High Alert Over ...
    A truly unsettling Space Forces Command (VKS) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin had ordered a fleet of Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers equipped with Kh-55 nuclear armed cruise missiles to “prepare for strikes” against US targets in the Pacific should Russia be a ...
  • Russia Goes On High Alert After UFO Shoot-Down ...
    A grim report prepared by the Space Forces Command (VKS) circulating in the Kremlin today says that one of its air defense units operating in “high alert”status, and located at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk, fired at and destroyed an “unidentified cosmic object” at an altitude of 20 k ...
  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky denies meteorite, claims ...
    Russian nationalist lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, long known for his flamboyance and outrageous remarks, said Friday that meteorite fragments had not rained down on Russia in the morning, but that the light flashes and tremors in several of the country’s regions resulted from US weapons tests, ...
  • Russian Navy to Get over 50 Warships by 2016
    The Russian navy will receive more than 50 new warships by 2016, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. In the coming three years, 18 surface warships, 30 special-purpose and counter-subversion vessels as well as six multi-purpose strategic submarines will be put into service, the ministry said in ...
  • Obama Warned To Prepare For Hillary Clinton Death
    A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s return to the United States that her health prognosis was “grim” as her likelihood o ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Amazon in Canada, Sony ...
    In today’s Daily Dose; Sony announces the PlayStation 4, the issue of unlocking cell phones in the US goes to the White House and the Amazon app reaches Canada. You... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: HTC’s latest, Ub ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, HTC unveils its latest offering, Canonical takes Ubuntu to tablets and drawing with a pen becomes three-dimensional. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: China looks set to topple th ...
    China looks set to overtake the US as the top market for active iOS and Android devices, Amazon parts company with alleged ‘neo-Nazi’ security firm in Germany, and Sony gives... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Kickstarter goes mobile, Tesla ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, eBay expands in Ireland, Moo and Kickstarter take their business mobile and Tesla spat continues with journalist. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: AOL snags gdgt, Apple loses ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Apple lowers its prices and loses a trademark battle as AOL snags both the GDGT property and several of its former employees. You can catch The... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Activists warn of industrial palm oil expansio ...
    Industrial oil palm plantations are spreading from Malaysia and Indonesia to the Congo raising fears about deforestation and social conflict. A new report by The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), dramatically entitled The Seeds of Destruction, announces that new palm oil plantations in the Congo ...
  • Controversial palm oil project concession in C ...
    Satellite mapping and aerial surveys have revealed that a controversial palm oil concession in Cameroon is almost entirely covered by "dense natural forest," according to a new report by Greenpeace. The activist group alleges that the concession, owned by Herakles Farms, is under 89 percent fore ...
  • 15 percent of Guyana's reptiles and amphibians ...
    Fifteen percent of Guyana's 324 known species of reptiles and amphibians are found nowhere else in the world, reports a comprehensive new assessment published in the journal Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
  • Photo: Pod of 100,000 dolphins spotted off Cal ...
    A 'super mega-pod' of some 100,000 dolphins was spotted off the coast of San Diego last week, according to a report from NBC San Diego.
  • Featured video: Saving the Amazon through maps
    In a new video ethnobotanist, Mark Plotkin, talks about recent—and historical—efforts to preserve the Amazon rainforest through map-making and technology. Today scientists like Plotkin are teaching indigenous people how to digitally map their territory to win land rights over the for ...

Sierra Express

  • SLPP women’s leader joins APC
    The Sierra Leone People’s party (SLPP) Women’s Leader in Koinadugu District, Hawa Marah, has declared for the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) during a mammoth meeting in Kabala Town on the 17th February, 2013. The big meeting was convened in honour of the Minister of Trade and Industry, ...
  • Scrap Metal Secretary Fires Back
    The Secretary-General of the Scrap Metals Association, John Kpaka, has vehemently condemned recent media reports alleging that the association is disorganized and lawless with an overdue executive that is not result-oriented. In a recent press release, Mr. Kpaka dismissed the accusation as total ...
  • FC Serwo Lifts Rev-Emile Jones Trophy
    FC Serwo, a Lumley-based soccer outfit, on Sunday 17th February 2013, defeated Real Mack FC 2-0 to lift the covetous Rev. Emile Jones Trophy at the MAFA playing field. Real Mack’s 2:0 defeat came as a surprise to the jam packed stadium as spectators viewed Real Mark FC as the potential side to c ...
  • Porous Borders Undermine Economy
    Sierra Leone has porous borders with dozens of illegal and unmanned crossing points of which scores of illicit immigrants use to  flow into the country, thereby depriving the Immigration Department of much needed revenue and, consequently, undermining our economy. The problem is being largely fa ...
  • Mother Earth Knows How to Feed… (Doti Sabi Eat…)
    The greatest loss of the century Is also the saddest date in my memory 2011, Monday, the 21st of February; The day that we lost our dearest Mummy.   Two solemn years have just rolled by When you left without saying ‘goodbye’ The gap is still wide, the tears are yet to dry But we ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy clear of DCD from November - Ministry
    Testing for a toxic agricultural substance in New Zealand dairy products has found no traces of it after mid-November last year.The Ministry for Primary industries and the dairy industry conducted voluntary testing after dicyandiamide...
  • Dry summer pushes up world dairy prices (+graphic)
    Dry conditions in the North Island helped drive milk product prices higher at the latest fortnightly global dairy auction, but ongoing strength in the New Zealand dollar is acting to take the cream off the top for farmer returns,...
  • World dairy prices up 3.1pc overnight (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction rose by the most in five months, adding to positive sentiment that has pushed the kiwi dollar to near a 2 ½ - year high.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 3.1...
  • Secret meeting on new Fonterra HQ
    A secret Auckland Council agenda item revealed the Wynyard Quarter as a possible site for Fonterra's planned new $100 million campus-style world headquarters.The confidential agenda item - prepared for a full council meeting on...
  • Herd investments lift LIC profit 7.3pc
    Livestock Improvement Corporation, which compensated some farmers for selling bull semen that caused 'hairy calf' mutations, increased first-half profit 7.3 per cent as dairy farmers raised their herd investment, even as farmgate...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Talking About Preppers on the Radio
    I'll be on Jerry Doyle's radio show tonight, starting circa 7:30 eastern time, to discuss my recent article about preppers. Check here to see if a station near you will be airing the interview.
  • The Failed Promise of Electronic Health Records
    Health care only got two mentions in President Obama’s first inaugural address: One was a declaration that “our health care is too costly,” the other was a promise to “wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its costs.” A few weeks after giving the speec ...
  • Big Bird Wants You to Eat Better, Theme Park D ...
    The notably pear-shaped Big Bird has joined Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity Let’s Move campaign. Maybe they’ll suggest kids eat rocks to aid digestion like many birds do. Not unlike taxpayer-funded sports stadiums, terminals for cruise lines get local subsidies, and people are q ...
  • Noah Berlatsky on America’s Imperial Ad Men
    The art of communicating with the people—public relations—is a notoriously messy business, involving a mixture of persuasion and selective editing, if not outright deception. The art of communicating with foreign publics—sometimes called public diplomacy—is even more fraught. The inh ...
  • Salt Lake Liberates Kids' Lemonade Stands, Juk ...
    The Salt Lake County Council slashed 150 pages of business regulations over the last year, eliminating dozens of license requirements and 45 different fees. Here's the news from Salt Lake: The council eliminated licenses for “amusement devices,” operating jukeboxes, circuses, c ...

Mercury Rising

  • Look out below, Asia edition
    Don’t know what this means. CNBC: A massive sell-off in Asian stock markets on Thursday erased the previous day’s strong gains after Wall Street fell on minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting, which sparked concern about the central bank’s bond-buying program. ...
  • FOX News Lies About Solar Power. Sun Rises In ...
    Wow, FOX is really working to earn atta-boys from the dirty-energy folks: From the network that brought you WMD in Iraq, we learn that sure, solar power works in wacky places like Germany, but it would never work in the US because the Germans, bronze gods that they are, get far more sunlight tha ...
  • Mandiant: Anonymous Helped Expose China’ ...
    Something the NYT wouldn’t tell you, but Huffington Post will: Security researchers and government officials have long claimed that China is behind a growing number of cyber attacks against American computer networks, a charge that China has repeatedly denied. But Mandiant’s 73-page ...
  • Oh yes, that bank bailout
    Robin Harding and Tom Braithewaite at the FT reports that the Fed is balking at exiting its purchase of assets from the banks to keep them from going under. At the moment, it holds $ 1.6 Trillion and is expected to purchase $1T more. At the moment, it’s paying at 0.25%, or just $4B/year. B ...
  • Donors Trust Exposed as Billionaire Puppet Sho ...
    [Posted in different form at DK] Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, in partnership with Mother Jones and Center for Public Integrity (via DemocracyNow): Conservatives used a pair of secretive trusts to fund a media campaign against windfarms and solar projects, and to block state agencies from pl ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Psi in the News
      James Randi lauds the benefits of Social Darwinism and eugenics, Chris Jensen Romer says goodbye to skepticism, Marc Demarest gives us a fascinating piece on the history of ectoplasm, and Rupert Sheldrake inspires mixed martial artists in this edition of psi in the news.  read more
  • New York Times Closes Environment Desk
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  • Apocalypse of the Mountain Tops
      The following is excerpted from The End of the World, published by OR Books. read more
  • HiveMind Consciousness Party
    Welcome to the first day-long HiveMind, where you can learn with hands-on workshops and talks, connect with like-minded people, receive healing, nutrition, and art, dance, and be. read more
  • In the Neurosoup: A Talk with Krystle Cole
    I've been a fan of Krystle Cole for a while now.  She's well known for her numerous informational videos about psychedelics.  Her website, Neurosoup.com, provides information for a broad spectrum of entheogens, entactogens, and other little helpers to the human pursuit for greater un ...

Desertification

  • In Conservatives’ Canada, It’s Not ...
    Canada’s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal. The RCMP, the national police force, and Canada’s spy agency CSIS are increasingly conflating terrorism and extrem ...
  • Sahel Region Learning to Reap the Benefits of ...
    In Africa’s Sahel region, agroforestry techniques using traditional plantings known as “fertiliser trees” to increase soil fertility, as well as harvesting and grazing regulations, are offering new solutions to both food and human security. Such approaches were nearly lost in r ...
  • Thawing Permafrost May Be “Huge Factor&# ...
    Thawing permafrost is emitting more climate-heating carbon faster than previously realised. Scientists have now learned that when the ancient carbon locked in the ice thaws and is exposed to sunlight, it turns into carbon dioxide 40 percent faster. “This really changes the trajectory of th ...
  • New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civi ...
    The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new oil. Land is the ...
  • World Bank Unmoved on Auditor’s Criticism of F ...
    Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution’s decade-long forest policy, expressing their “strong disagreement” with some assertions in the report. The assessment, written by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Ottawa Press Gallery finally catching up on Tr ...
    The disgraceful and obscene amounts of money Liberal leader wannabe Justin Trudeau makes booking himself as a speaker is not newly known as for example, I blogged about it back in July 2010 (see here) Nice to finally see the Press Gallery catch up with us lowly bloggers but now will they also lo ...
  • Far too late for Brits trying to brush off cob ...
    The damage has been done and nothing, absolutely nothing can turn back the clock now. In a way, I am glad that we in North America have Britain and the rest of the EU as examples of what can happen to us  too if  we don't employ and deploy drastic measures with the utmost haste wit ...
  • Musical Performer / Pop Celebrity Beyoncé Know ...
  • "Us as a Couple"
    The following email has been slightly edited in terms of content (in all cases, simply to shield the identity of a person), and has been edited from its original formatting. From: [. . . .] To: dbmoore1972@gmail.com Subject: What we talked about last time Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:20:48 -05 ...
  • "Intellectual Protectionism"
    Anticopyright. by Charles Johnson As originally posted on: Rad Geek People’s Daily February 6, 2013 All of the original work on this website is free content. It’s free content because I am against copyright, and indeed all forms of so-called intellectual property. Copying is not theft, and ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Israeli forces attack Palestinians
    Israeli security forces have attacked a large crowd of Palestinians who demonstrated in solidarity with several thousand Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
  • Bahraini forces attack demonstrators
    Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces have attacked demonstrators marking the anniversary of the killing of a protester as Manama continues its brutal crackdown on peaceful protests.
  • Israeli settlers attack West Bank village
    A number of Palestinian vehicles have been vandalized by Israeli settlers in northern West Bank, in the latest in a series of acts of aggression by the Zionist occupiers.
  • Israel licenses US oil Co. to drill in Golan
    The Israeli regime has awarded a US energy company a license to drill for oil on Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.
  • Saudis stage fresh protest in Riyadh
    People in Saudi Arabia have taken to the streets of the capital, Riyadh, to hold yet another anti-regime protest demanding the release of political prisoners.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • Nick Turse talks to Bill Moyers about his book ...
    Nick Turse talks to Bill Moyers about his book Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam and about the ghosts of people and issues not properly put to rest in the years following the Vietnam war. In Vietnam, says Turse, a person who dies outside his or her home dies “a bad deat ...
  • "Why not make a TV series about firewood?’”
    jaimelfuller:   “What I’ve learned is that you should not ask a Norwegian what he likes about...
  • A white horse wanders through Baghdad, Iraq, A ...
    A white horse wanders through Baghdad, Iraq, April 2003. Christopher Morris/VII
  • Americans in Vietnam never seemed to run out o ...
    Americans in Vietnam never seemed to run out of ways to burn things down, whether it be flame tanks, flame boats, napalm canisters dropped from planes, helicopters armed with white phosphorus rockets, or simply ground troops with zippo cigarette lighters.  The means were seeming ...
  • Shiite family members exhume the bodies of rel ...
    Shiite family members exhume the bodies of relatives who were executed by the regime at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq, April 25, 2003. The father of this family was imprisoned and killed for being overzealous in his following of the Shiite religion. Ron Haviv/VII

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