Thursday, February 07, 2013

7 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Abbott pushes Rinehardt's plan for Nth. Australia
    The secret draft economic policy document, entitled Vision 2030, also proposes to carve $800 million from the foreign aid budget to be diverted to a mega-project in northern Australia. In an embarrassing high-level leak to The Daily Telegraph, the 30-page document outlines plans for the mass ...
  • Royalty UK: DNA confirms Richard III remains
    Not just the identity of the man in the car park with the twisted spine, but the appalling last moments and humiliating treatment of the naked body of Richard III in the hours after his death have been revealed at an extraordinary press conference at Leicester University. See also .. http: ...
  • PM gets tough on deals for well-off
    This could include changes to family payments, cuts in concessional tax arrangements for self-funded superannuation contributions, a further tightening of the private health insurance rebate, a decrease in the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount, and a clampdown on loopholes such as the exemp ...
  • Facebook loses its cool
    Facebook is losing its shine among Kiwi teenagers, probably because their parents are flocking to it. Auckland digital strategist Justin Flitter said the number of younger users opting to delete their Facebook accounts was "staggering" and he questioned whether it was a snowball effect or sim ...
  • Anne Jones: The Afghan End Game?
    Only one thing is certain in 2014: it will be a year of American military defeat. For more than a decade, U.S. forces have fought many types of wars in Afghanistan, from a low-footprint invasion, to multiple surges, to a flirtation with Vietnam-style counterinsurgency, to a ramped-up, gloves-of ...

Independent - London

  • Parents furious after 8-year-old girl with Dow ...
    An Indiana couple were stunned this week after their 8-year-old girl was sent home from her special-needs class with her shoes duct-taped to her feet and ankles.Related StoriesNine-year-old girl gives birth in Mexico as police hunt for 17-year-old alleged fatherTeen in Kansas found 'handcuffed t ...
  • Parents furious after 8-year-old girl with Dow ...
    An Indiana couple were stunned this week after their 8-year-old girl was sent home from her special-needs class with her shoes duct-taped to her feet and ankles.Related StoriesNine-year-old girl gives birth in Mexico as police hunt for 17-year-old alleged fatherTeen in Kansas found 'handcuffed t ...
  • Daughter who fled Westboro Baptist Church tell ...
    An estranged former member of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church has spoken of her escape from the group and of how she was "brainwashed" throughout her life.Related StoriesNine-year-old girl gives birth in Mexico as police hunt for 17-year-old alleged fatherTeen in Kansas found 'handcuf ...
  • Two Russian fighters 'in Japanese airspace'
    Two Russian fighters briefly intruded into Japanese airspace off the northern tip of the island of Hokkaido, defence ministry says.Related StoriesYou shall go to the ball: Austrian tycoon picks this year's partnerDavid Cameron to demand €7bn cuts in Brussels bureaucracy at EU summitMEPs approve ...
  • Rihanna blows kisses to Chris Brown in court p ...
    Has Rihanna found love in  hopeless place? Not only has she gone back to her former abusive boyfriend Chris Brown, but yesterday she escorted him to a court hearing where the rapper was on charge for failing to complete his community service for abusing her in 2009.Related StoriesNine-year-old ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • New England blizzard - one for the books? Majo ...
    New England blizzard: Forecasters are predicting more than 2 feet of snow in New England, and blizzard conditions, including high winds, blowing snow, and coastal flooding. A major winter storm heading toward New England may not be one for the record books, but even some of the nation's snow-har ...
  • Alzheimer's cases to triple by 2050: study
    Alzheimer's disease cases in the US will nearly triple in the next 40 years, according to new projections Wednesday that suggest there will be nearly 14 million sufferers by 2050. In 2010, there were just 4.7 million people with Alzheimer's disease in the United States. The researchers who mad ...
  • Do Wall Street insiders expect something reall ...
    Why are corporate insiders dumping huge numbers of shares in their own companies right now? Why are some very large investors suddenly making gigantic bets that the stock market will crash at some point in the next 60 days? Do Wall Street insiders expect something really BIG to happen very soon ...
  • Police look for father after 9-year-old Mexica ...
    A nine-year-old Mexican girl has given birth and authorities are looking for the presumed father, who is 17, officials said Wednesday. The girl, identified as Dafne, gave birth by Cesarean section to a baby girl weighing 2.7 kilos (5.7 pounds) and measuring 50 centimeters (20 inches) on January ...
  • Rule-making panel: Coloradans can still lose j ...
    Marijuana users in Colorado may no longer fear arrest but they very well could still lose their jobs after a drug test, a task force set up to recommend rules for legalization decided Tuesday. In other words: Just because Colorado voters approved regulation of marijuana last November doesn't me ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Kevin Page
    I don't think Harper had any idea just who he as appointing when he named Kevin Page as Parliamentary Budget Officer. The man cannot be intimidated and will crawl through mud and fire to do his job and then some.
  • "Turning point" and "Disarray"
    Government ministers should know better by now than to say things like this. Turning Point and Disarray are popular terms for describing the early phases of Western wars in developing countries. Really, all they mean are that the war has entered a new phase because the hardscrabble enemy unsu ...
  • Tom Flanagan
  • Sing Along . . .
    BUGGER THE BANKERS, performed by The Austerity Allstars.
  • Dealing with comment trolls
    McSweeney's style.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Forwards Claim That Government Seeks "Retr ...
    Multiple Fox News personalities have suggested the Justice Department's lawsuit against Standard & Poor's is 'political retribution,' either papering over or outright ignoring the facts behind the suit. However, the S&P investigation began well before U.S. credit was downgraded, and a ra ...
  • 10 Myths Conservative Media Will Use Against I ...
    As congressional leaders debate a framework for comprehensive immigration reform that will likely grant undocumented immigrants legal status, conservative media are engaged in promoting myths and falsehoods about what reform means for the country.Is It True That 20 Million Undocumented Immigrant ...
  • Major Newspapers Overlook NRA Leader's Flip-Fl ...
    During the January 30 hearing on gun violence, National Rifle Association representative Wayne LaPierre said a proposal to expand background checks would be a "nightmare" for Americans, contradicting his 1999 testimony on behalf of the NRA in support of such an expansion -- a flip-flop highlight ...
  • UPDATED: 16 Media Myths About Proposals To Str ...
    Opponents of stronger gun laws have used their media platforms to continue to promote myths and falsehoods about firearm policy, often parroting gun lobby talking points, in the weeks leading up to today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence.NEW: How do fe ...
  • Fox's Varney Claims Historically Low Discretio ...
    Fox News host Stuart Varney claimed that federal discretionary spending is "out of control." In fact, discretionary spending has already been reduced by $1.5 trillion, and non-defense discretionary spending is projected to be at the lowest level in 50 years.Varney: Discretionary Spending Is "Tot ...

Global Research.ca

  • US Violating Human Rights of Children, Says UN ...
    The Obama Administration recently underwent its first U.N. treaty body review, and the resulting concluding observations made public yesterday should be a cause for alarm. The observations, issued by independent U.N. experts tasked with monitoring compliance with the international treaty…
  • The Face of Austerity: Photoshopping Away Poli ...
    Greek police may vainly try to Photoshop away the torture of four alleged bank robbers, but they cannot gloss over the radicalization of Greek youth. The story is as follows. On February 1st 2013, an attempted robbery of two banks…
  • Firms Make Billions as Middlemen in Government ...
    In the network of corrupt and incestuous relations between government financial regulatory agencies and the banks they nominally police, a growing role is played by private, for-profit “consulting” firms that serve as middlemen in the government cover-up of corporate crime.…
  • Extrajudicial Killing: Official US Policy
    Since taking office, Obama headed America toward full-blown tyranny. He enforces Bush administration police state laws. He added more of his own. He governs like a tinpot despot. He targets free expression, dissent, whistleblowing, and other constitutional freedoms. He usurped…
  • Brainwashing and Obama’s War Propaganda: ...
    How much money does it cost to get populations to think a certain way? Answer: it requires a blank cheque. But can Americans really afford it?g and Chief among the pitfalls of managing any global empire – persuading the natives…

TPM Cafe

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

  • 5 Power Brokers Who'll Determine the Fate of t ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.On Thursday, visitors to the PipeTech Americas Summit got a speech they weren’t planning on hearing. As employees from pipeline construction companies gathered to discuss new technology and listen to Tom Hamilt ...
  • Hate Eating Corporate Food? Democracy Is the B ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water ...
    Las Vegas exudes an all-you-can-eat mentality. People walk between casinos carrying giant cups of slushy liquor; advertisements blare from speakers on the streets pitching the best shows, best food and best deals; escalators take you across streets and directly into malls. You spend your time ...
  • Time to Break Up the Monopolies: Why Fixing Ou ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Corporate Land Grabs Reveal a Hidden Agenda: C ...
    Writing in National Geographic in December 2012 about “small-scale irrigation techniques with simple buckets, affordable pumps, drip lines, and other equipment” that “are enabling farm families to weather dry seasons, raise yields, diversify their crops, an ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Nuclear plants nationwide could share the fina ...
    Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd. (NEIL), the company that insures all 104 U.S. nuclear power plants has just around $3.6 billion on hand to pay for claims from broken nuclear plants in California (San Onofre nuclear power station), Texas (South Texas Nuclear Project), Michigan (Cook nuclear power ...
  • Free Tickets to Documentary Chasing Ice Feb 8-10
    Chasing Ice  is an environmental documentary film, listed in the top 15 best documentaries for the Oscars, coming to Austin TX on Feb 8-10 at Regal Arbor. Chasing Ice follows acclaimed photographer James Balog on an epic journey as he deploys time-lapse cameras at glaciers around the world. &#82 ...
  • Ding Dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? ...
    According to a report yesterday by Terrance Henry of NPR’s StateImpact Texas (click here to read the article), the Las Brisas coal power plant proposed for Corpus Christi has not only been suspended, but Chase Power’s parent company, which was financing the project, has gone out of b ...
  • South-central Partnership for Energy Efficienc ...
    The South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER) enters its second year with an exciting Summit, designed to explore, further develop, and prioritize policies and strategies needed to push energy efficiency forward in new buildings, existing buildings, and electric marke ...
  • Rep. Waxman Statement on New Reports on the Cl ...
    Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman issued the following statement on new research from the Pembina Institute and Oil Change International, indicating that the Keystone XL pipeline will accelerate the reckless expansion of the tar sands industry and the climate im ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Earth-like planets could be right next door
    Astronomers have determined that the nearest Earth-like planet could be only 13 light years away. The claim was made based on research using data from...
  • 35 small pyramids discovered in Sudan
    A closely clustered group of pyramids and a number of graves have been found at a site called Sedeinga. The discovery is unusual due to the way that t...
  • Flying Transylvanian dinosaur unearthed
    The 68 million-year-old remains of a previously unknown species of pterosaur have been discovered. Unearthed in Romania's Transylvanian Basin, the lar...
  • Felix Baumgartner fell faster than thought
    The daredevil skydiver is believed to have fallen 15km/h faster than previous measurements indicated. Felix Baumgartner made history back in October w...
  • Will robots steal all our jobs ?
    As robots become increasingly sophisticated, concerns have been raised over future job availability. There's no denying that technology has not only a...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Energy Efficiencies May Cut $169 Billion in Bu ...
    (Bloomberg) The aggressive promotion of efficiency programs could cut $169 billion a year from the energy bills of U.S. business by 2030, according to a report whose authors include Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat. The analys ...
  • The Nuclear Power and Natural Gas Equation
    (New York Times) Duke Energy is weighing the issue of how to replace the power generated by its troubled Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida, which the company has announced that it will permanently shut down. One option is the con ...
  • Coal Shipments Decline on Railways, Replaced b ...
    (ClimateWire) Shipments of coal on U.S. railroads dropped 11 percent in 2012, according to new figures from the Energy Department, reflecting utilities’ continued shift away from coal-fired power generation in favor of natural gas and ...
  • Arctic Ice Unleashing Scramble to Exploit Oil ...
    (Financial Times) For a body that has just undergone the biggest transformation in its 17-year history, the Arctic Council is hopelessly self-effacing. Tucked away at the end of a long, dim corridor inside a building full of ...
  • U.S. Halts Drilling on Gulf Wells With Flawed ...
    (Bloomberg) Deep-water oil exploration has been disrupted from the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil by the discovery of faulty bolts used in safety equipment less than three years after the worst-ever U.S. maritime crude spill. read more

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • PA: Hates Governor, Supports Gun Control
    The new Franklin & Marshall College Poll shows that people hate Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett and would like to see him tarred and feathered. They also favor universal background checks for gun purchases (94%), banning high-capacity magazines (61%), banning assault weapons (61%), and limiti ...
  • Apologies on a Rant
    It's interesting that the Scots-Irish who populate the South told the Census Bureau that their ethnic heritage is "American." I don't think of them that way. Now, I don't pull rank on anyone. I am related to three passengers on the Mayflower, but I don't exactly celebrate my Puritan heritage ...
  • Serious Question
    An Idaho lawman, introduced a bill that would require all Potato State students to read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and pass a test on it to graduate from high school. I could support that if he also allowed me to introduce a bill that forced all Spudniks to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin ...
  • The Vatican Has Balls
    Monsignor Robert Oliver, a Vatican official charged with prosecuting sex offenders, acknowledges the US media played an important role in helping to expose child abuse in the Catholic church in 2002. At the time, Vatican officials accused the media of irresponsible reporting. Officials say that ...
  • We Need a Real Debate on Drones
    I have a very hard time understanding how the legal framework for anything could be classified, and I make no exception for drone strikes against American citizens. I am not satisfied with the system they have in place and believe that there must be judicial oversight of the program. But anoth ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Fascinating Phenomenon of Whistled Languages
    Learn about a type of language you probably never knew existed; one that mimics the sounds and pitch of ordinary speech and can travel distances as great as two miles! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Death-Defying Cliff Divers Plunge from 90ft Up ...
    The extreme sport of cliff diving is as spectacular to watch as it is dangerous to do – as these images from the 2012 Red Bull World Series finale prove. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    More fun and interesting stories galore – from everyday inventions dreamt up by NASA, to boxing champs with more academic clout than you might give them credit for! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Animal Sacrifice and Spiritual Possession: Unm ...
    With its strange rituals and fetishes, Voodoo remains mysterious to most, but these photos throw some light on the oft-misunderstood religion associated with black magic. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Could Soil Bacteria Be Good For Your Mood?
    Researchers have found that different types of exposure to a certain species of soil bacteria can have neurological effects and could impact mood as a result. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The New 21st Century COINTELPRO Mobius Strip: ...
    A quick update on a number of different fronts developing around 21st century Cointelpro operations. This material includes the important bureaucratic fault line of authorizing "otherwise" illegal government operations, an important topic of research... Granted, Season 3 of the X-Files is playin ...
  • End of the Tar Sands? Under media near-blackou ...
    VIA: Protect the Sacred  Timeline Photos: Here is a picture of Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred. This is the first time a woman has signed such a treaty and she did so on behalf of the Brave Heart Society. Let the healing continue in the name o ...
  • Kurt Johnson & Corporate NAFTA farm politics, ...
    "[T]he activists we are concerned about here are the ones who want to change the way your industry does business--either for good or bad reasons: environmentalists, churches, Public Interest Research Groups, campus organizations, civic groups, teachers unions, and 'Naderites'." (quoted in Montag ...
  • How to check cops checking your driver's licen ...
    Yet another nasty branch on the poisonous tree of data abuse in Minnesota is bearing its digital fruit. Anne Marie Rasmusson, a former law enforcement officer, got 'checked out' by an absurdly sprawling array of Minnesota law enforcement officers illegally abusing their driver's license lookup s ...
  • MPD Tracking OccupyMN Facebook BBQs: Minneapol ...
    Dateline: Pseudo-Secret Minneapolis (aka Fridley): What WCCO called the "secret" "City of Eyes" Strategic Information Center has been located on the Google! Your Federal Stimulus Money & FY2010 Homeland Security Appropriations At Work - A Facility for Spying on Facebook Occupy Barbecues It' ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Clergy are not doctors — and the U.S. has its ...
    The death of Savita Halappanavar -- the woman who died of sepsis in Ireland after being denied her request for termination of a nonviable pregnancy -- drew outrage and attention in the United States late last fall, but one crucial point was often missed. Even in America, where abortion is most ...
  • The plot to derail Chuck Hagel
    There are two ways of looking at Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Carl Levin’s surprise decision to postpone an expected vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Defense secretary.Most likely, Levin is simply trying to deny Republicans an excuse to vote against Hagel, whose co ...
  • Indian child sex victims 'mistreated, humiliat ...
    Story Image:  Photo illustration of children in Mumbai. Child victims of sex assaults in India often find themselves humiliated by the police and mistreated by doctors when they pluck up the courage to report abuse, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.Child victims of sex assaults in India o ...
  • 55 die as Damascus rocked by fighting, shellin ...
    Story Image:  Syrian army forces take position during clashes with rebel fighers in Daraya on February, 4 2013. Rebel belts around Damascus were rocked by fighting and heavy shelling for a second straight day as the army pressed a major offensive that a watchdog said kRebel belts around D ...
  • Aussie wins race to top of Empire State Building
    Story Image:  Australia's Mark Bourne celebrates winning the 36th annual Empire State Building run-up, on February 6, 2013. Bourne, 29, of Canberra, tore up the stairs of the 86-story tower in 10 minutes and 12 seconds.Australian Mark Bourne has won the 36th race to the top of the Empire ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Comment: Are Somalia’s militant Islamist ‘defe ...
    During the past two years, the once powerful influence of Islamic militancy in Somalia appears to be steadily declining. A major indicator of this optimistic trend seems to center on the unprecedented numbers of al-Shabaab members who are defecting --apparently en masse-- and joining the ranks ...
  • Canadian passports still highly coveted by spi ...
    An extensive investigation into a bus bombing that targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria points to the continued attraction of forged Canadian passports for terrorist groups and intelligence agencies.
  • German authorities had monitored Turkish bombe ...
    Some observers were surprised by news last week that the suicide attack at the US embassy in Turkish capital Ankara was perpetrated by secular Marxists, instead of religious extremists. But students of terrorism know that modern suicide bombings have historically been employed by secular separat ...
  • Turkey refused to extradite bin Laden’s son-in ...
    Turkish authorities have reportedly rejected a formal extradition request by the United States for a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, who was arrested in Ankara on Friday following a tip-off by the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • News you may have missed #822 (Israeli airstri ...
    Should we be preparing for another Mideast war? Why did Israel attack Syria now and why did the Syrians admit it? Ex-Mossad head says Syria and Hezbollah will not respond.

War is a Crime.org

  • TSA in Atlanta: theft, theft, and more theft
    We’ve written umpteen times about the prevalence of theft by TSA agents. TSA agents themselves have come forward to say that TSA theft is rampant. read more
  • Where Are They Now? The Reporters Who Got Iraq ...
    By Peter Hart, FAIR blog Ten years ago yesterday, Colin Powell made the Bush administration's case for going to war against Iraq. Much of what he said about Iraq's threats to the United States was false. But the media coverage gave the opposite impression, and most of the pundits and journalis ...
  • Congresswoman Barbara Lee Introduces Bill to A ...
    Washington, D.C.—Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee introduced the “Audit the Pentagon Act of 2013” for increased transparency and accountability in the defense budget. This bipartisan bill will cut the budget of any Federal agency by five percent that does not receive an independent audit for the ...
  • Progressive Caucus Leaders Introduce Measure t ...
    WASHINGTON — Ten members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, led by Co-Chairs Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), introduced The Balancing Act this afternoon, which cancels the across the board “sequester” budget cuts, achieves a fair and balanced approach to long- ...
  • First Constitutional Amendment to be Introduce ...
    Reps. Nolan & Pocan Respond to Over 500 Municipal Resolutions Calling for “We the People” Amendment On Monday, February 11, Move to Amend will join members of Congress as they introduce Move to Amend’s “We the People Amendment” an amendment that clearly and unequivocally states that: 1) Righ ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Part 2: Daniel Ellsberg and Jacob Appelbaum on ...
    As a lawsuit challenging a law that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens is back in federal court this week, we continue our conversation with perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, and computer security researcher, Jacob Appelbaum ...
  • BOOK EXCERPT: "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Ros ...
    Read the introduction to "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," a new book just out by our guest, historian Jeanne Theoharis. The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil ri ...
  • "12 Things You Didn't Know about Rosa Parks" - ...
    Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks. Tune in Monday to learn more about the celebrated activist in our interview with Jeanne Theoharis, author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2013). In the meantime, read an excerpt from the book bel ...
  • Rosa Parks, Now and Forever
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., thus launching the modern-day civil-rights movement. Monday, Feb. 4, is the 100th anniversary of her birth. After she died at the age of 9 ...
  • Obama’s Dirty Wars Exposed at Sundance
    *By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan PARK CITY , Utah — As President Barack Obama prepared to be sworn in for his second term as the 44th president of the United States, two courageous journalists premiered a documentary at the annual Sundance Film Festival. “Dirty Wars: The World Is ...

Solari

  • Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the Uni ...
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  • Can Mature Firms Benefit from Crowdfunding?
    By Vincent Ryan Like the entrepreneurs on Kickstarter trying to raise money to sell hot-chocolate cubes, cut an album, or manufacture a wireless dive-log device for scuba divers, later-stage private companies may soon be finding investors online. But will crowdfunding for firms that are more est ...
  • UK Government Plans to Track ALL Web Use: MI5 ...
    By Damien Gayle UK spy agencies want to install ‘black box’ surveillance devices across the country’s communications networks to monitor internet use, it emerged today. A report by an influential committee of MPs tells how spooks are keen to implement a nationwide surveillance ...
  • Internet Under Assault by Censoring UN, Regula ...
    By Eric Engleman International proposals to control the Internet will continue after a United Nations conference in Dubai and the U.S. should be ready to fight such efforts, lawmakers and a regulator said. “The Internet is quite simply under assault,” Robert McDowell, a member of the U.S. Federa ...
  • Young, Charismatic, Supports Gun Ownership…
    [CAF Note: Bill Cosby used to have a comedy routine about medics. Referring to a military landing, he quipped that their life expectancy from the time they hit the water to the time they almost got to the beach was seven seconds. It appears that the same could be said for charismatic young men w ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Rooftecture OT2: Endo Shuhei’s Perforated Buil ...
    Read the rest of Rooftecture OT2: Endo Shuhei’s Perforated Building Permits Air and Light While Blocking Peeping Toms in Japan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Endo Shuhei, green design, industrial chic, Japan, natural ventilation, oriented strand board, osaka, os ...
  • World’s First Bionic Eye Could Soon Be Availab ...
    For patients with retinitis pigmentosa, a diagnosis used to mean it was the end of the road for good vision. With the disease, photoreceptors in the eye do not function properly, making it very difficult if not impossible to see. But thanks to new technology developed by Second Sight Medical Pro ...
  • Treehouse Point Eco Resort Helps You Reconnect ...
    Read the rest of Treehouse Point Eco Resort Helps You Reconnect With Nature in Washington Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, eco hotel, eco-travel, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green hotel, Issaquah, nelson treehouse supply, pete nelson, S ...
  • BAG Officinamobile Builds Rome’s First Straw B ...
    Seeking to change the perception that straw bale buildings are only suitable for rural areas, Beyond Architecture Group Officinamobile (BAG) recently built Rome’s first straw bale home! The energy-efficient space was designed by a group of students and it’s made entirely from local m ...
  • Report Finds Renewable Energy is Cheaper Than ...
    In the wake of soaring temperatures that made it impossible for some residents in the Australian outback to pump gas, good news is finally coming to the energy market Down Under. A report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) found that unsubsidized renewables are now cheaper sources of electri ...

Pogue's Posts

  • More Things to Love About the BlackBerry 10
    David Pogue finds a score of new smartphone features that BlackBerry has innovated.
  • Three Windows 8 Features Worth Celebrating
    Here are three completely overlooked features in Windows 8, discovered while mucking around in the operating system's deepest, darkest corners.
  • The Fitbit Flex Improves on Its Rivals
    At the Consumer Electronics Show, FitBit flashed the features of the FitBit Flex. It's a silicone bracelet just like the Up and Nike bands, but with neither of the drawbacks - it does track sleep and it does use energy-saving Bluetooth 4.0.
  • C.E.S. 2013: A Genuinely Novel Gadget, the Sel ...
    Google, which has had a successful self-driving car experiment for some time, was not at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. But a few other companies were showing their own take on the concept.
  • C.E.S. 2013: What's New in TVs
    David Pogue walks the floor of the International Consumer Electronics Show and finds humor in the excess -- mostly of it unintended by the companies.

The Progressive Realist

  • The Promise and Peril of a UN Peacekeeping Mis ...
    The head of UN Peacekeeping Herve Ladsous briefed the press today, leaving a strong impression that a UN peacekeeping mission for Mali is coming in the near future. The mandate and structure of the mission is for the Security Council to decide, but it looks like key Council players have agreed, ...
  • Presidential Killing Powers Need Checks and Ba ...
    A secret Justice Department memo detailing in great length when the president has the authority to unilaterally order American citizens killed without so much as a criminal charge has been released.  The 16-page white paper titled "Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. ...
  • Human Rights Watch: Iraq Becoming More Authori ...
    Human Rights Watch in its annual world report found that Iraq has become more authoritarian in the last year. In 2012, the government clamped down upon the opposition, demonstrators, and reporters. The security forces continued to carry out arbitrary arrests, mass detentions, and tortured people ...
  • The Trials of Chuck Hagel
    Last week's U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on former Sen. Chuck Hagel's nomination as secretary of defense was contentious and nasty. Hagel almost certainly will be confirmed but he was badly battered in the process. His former Senate colleague and fellow Vietnam veteran John McCain, R-Ariz. ...
  • Billions of Dollars at Risk in U.S. Reconstruc ...
    Congress has appropriated close to $90 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction projects, but the U.S. has yet to see a return on the investment. The latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found “delays, cost overruns, and poor construction of infrastr ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Rising Tide of Anti-Black Racism
    Google This image was distributed by a Republican organization in San Bernardino, California during the 2008 Presidential election. Thomas Edsall has a fascinating column in today’s New York Times on the persistence of racial resentment in the Obama-era. For those not familiar wi ...
  • Today's Delicious Right-Wing Infighting
    For many years, those of us on the left have joked that all it takes is two Democratic members of Congress having trouble deciding what to eat for lunch to produce a "Dems in Disarray!" headline. Overstated though it often is, there's an underlying truth there, which is that liberals have frequ ...
  • The Moderate's GOP Survival Guide
      AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who made waves in her 2010 campaign when she said she "dabbled into witchcraft." Karl Rove and big Republican donors are trying to rescue the GOP from more Christine "I am not a witch" ...
  • Darrell Issa's Tight Spot
    Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the status of the undocumented produced a united front of Republican support for legalizing those immigrants, but not allowing them to become citizens. Well, an almost united front. As Kitty Felde of Los Angeles public radio staton KPCC reported, o ...
  • Guns—Not the Mentally Ill—Kill People
    Flickr/JenXer After a year of violent tragedies that culminated with the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, America is finally having a conversation about gun control. For the many who want to decrease access to firearms in the wake of several mass shootings, new laws ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Bombs and Racist Propaganda Found in Connectic ...
    Just down the road from the scene of the December school massacre in Newtown, Conn., police in Stamford have discovered a home filled with bomb-making materials, assorted firearms, and white supremacist and anti-police propaganda. Stamford police and FBI agents today identified and interviewed a ...
  • Struggling National Alliance Takes Another Hit ...
    In a growing campaign to embarrass and oust the chairman of the once influential National Alliance (NA), California member Jim Ring, widely seen as the real leader of the notorious neo-Nazi group, has resigned in order to “save the organization from going into complete obscurity.” Ring quit last ...
  • Texas Prosecutor ‘Involved’ in Ary ...
    Two men, reportedly masked and dressed entirely in black, gunned down a Kaufman County, Texas, prosecutor this morning as he walked to a city courthouse. The Dallas Morning News reported that the victim had been “heavily involved” in the investigation of members of the Aryan Brotherhood. The ent ...
  • Police: Hostage Taker in Alabama Standoff Has ...
    The man who ignited a hostage standoff in southern Alabama when he shot a bus driver and took a child into an underground bunker is a “survivalist” who has ties to the antigovernment movement, an official with the Dale County Sheriff’s Office told Hatewatch this morning. The gunman i ...
  • TeaParty.org Drops the (Other) H-Bomb
    Godwin’s Law, an Internet adage started by lawyer and writer Mike Godwin in 1990, states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” The law’s point, Godwin explained in a 1995 article for Wired magazine, was the Internet see ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Sanders, Schakowsky Propose Tax Fairness Act
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today introduced a bill to stop profitable corporations from sheltering income in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens. The legislation also would end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs and factories overseas.  Sanders’ bill and a companion measure ...
  • Star Lawless Slams Oil Giant Shell Outside Court
    Film and TV star Lucy Lawless and seven activists were today convicted and sentenced to 120 hours community service each for attempting to stop an Arctic-bound oil drilling ship last year. Along with six Greenpeace volunteers, the New Zealand actress occupied the Shell-chartered Noble Discoverer ...
  • MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop R ...
    Today, MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for a ground-breaking push to address violence against women in Haiti. Haiti’s government is now considering a legal reform measure that wou ...
  • Survey Finds Independent Businesses Benefit fr ...
    An annual survey has found that independent businesses experienced solid revenue growth in 2012, buoyed in part by "buy local first" initiatives and growing public interest in supporting locally owned businesses. But the survey also documented significant challenges facing independent ...
  • Survey Finds Independent Businesses Benefit fr ...
    An annual survey has found that independent businesses experienced solid revenue growth in 2012, buoyed in part by "buy local first" initiatives and growing public interest in supporting locally owned businesses. But the survey also documented significant challenges facing independent ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Imagining a ‘Just Recovery’ from Superstorm Sandy
    Michelle Chen Three months have passed since Hurricane Sandy battered New York and trashed the New Jersey coastline, and she hasn’t left.read more
  • A New Era: From Occupation to Workers' Control
    Willie Osterweil This week, Strike Debt tweeted out triumphantly: “It’s a new era. First machine fired up at worker owned factory. #NewEraWindowsandDoors”. For those of us who’ve been following news about the Chicago ...
  • Global Day of Action for MAP Test Boycott: Man ...
    Jesse Hagopian Yesterday, February 6, was a national day of action to support Seattle teachers’ boycott of the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test. The response was astounding. We received messages of solidarity from across the c ...
  • Drones, Surveillance Towers, Malls of the Spy ...
    Todd Miller Before September 11, 2001, more than half the border crossings between the United States and Canada were left unguarded at night, with only rubber cones separating the two countries. Since then, that 4,000 mile “point of p ...
  • US Media Yet Again Conceals Newsworthy Governm ...
    Glenn Greenwald The US media, over the last decade (at least), has repeatedly acted to conceal newsworthy information it obtains about the actions of the US government. In each instance, the self-proclaimed adversarial press corps conceals ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Is the Soda Industry Fizzling Out?
    Dissolving demand hits the soft drink industry.
  • Morning Buzz: Wednesday 2.6.13
    Kevin Roderick: AP floated Speaker Perez for Labor Secretary, Gov. Brown calls the Texas governor's anti-California ad "barely a fart," coverage of Greuel's sop to the LAPD and LAFD unions, Pleitez has a plan now, Trutanich switches on pot shops and more.
  • DWP seeks truce in water wars as L.A. Aqueduct ...
    The attempt to end hostilities in the Owens Valley pleases residents, but has them wondering why it hasn't come earlier. MAMMOTH — For a High Sierra stream whose name evokes mountain serenity, Pine Creek is nobody's idea of harmony with nature.
  • Survey of nation's largest cities finds wa ...
    (Phys.org)—Although reports of drought conditions, water wars and restrictions have often painted a bleak picture of the nation's water availability, a new University of Florida survey finds that conditions aren't quite so bad as believed.
  • February calendar:
    1 Erie Auto Show Thursday and Friday, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, noon-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Bayfront Convention Center presented by Automobile Dealers of Erie County features new car models automotive accessories Nationwide race car on display. Cost 5 at ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • How The ‘Scouts’ Safety’ Argument Reveals Cons ...
    Ever since the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced last summer that it would not be changing its policy prohibiting gay Scouts and Scout leaders, conservatives have rallied to defend the organizations “core value” of anti-gay discrimination. This effort seemed to explode over the p ...
  • 8 Programs That Have Already Faced Devastating ...
    Even without the spending cuts included in the so-called “sequester,” America’s domestic spending levels are scheduled to hit historic lows in the coming years. That’s because the Budget Control Act, signed into law as part of the plan to raise the debt ceiling in August ...
  • Health Officials Worry That Whooping Cough Is ...
    This past year, the United States experienced the worst whooping cough outbreak in decades. Public health officials warn that the unusually high number of pertussis cases is partly due to the fact that “unacceptably low” numbers of Americans are getting their shots — but it cou ...
  • Guest Post: What Marco Rubio Doesn’t Understan ...
    By Alan Pyke Senator and 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is a “hiphop connoisseur,” or so the National Journal’s social media person would have us believe. The last time Rubio cashed in some rap cred was in a November interview with GQ, and that interview appears to h ...
  • Ignore The Political Rhetoric: Women Support G ...
    Last week, at a hearing on gun safety legislation, a witness from an anti-feminist group was brought forth to argue that the US’s current gun laws are a boon to women’s rights. Women, witness Gayle Trotter said, need AR-15s because, “They have good handling. They’re light. They ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Oh That Miley!!
    She's doing something. Or something. And she did something to her look. Oh yeah. And 10 years ago, Colin Powell helped lie the USA into a war against a country that never attacked the USA and over a million Iraqis are dead as a result. [Please note. I have nothing against Miley Cyrus. She's ju ...
  • Stalin Documentary
    A  monster yes. It's somewhat surreal watching Madeleine Albright and Zbigniew Brzezinski talking about his crimes though. Such a world.
  • My Assange Journey
    Wikileaks, headed by Julian Assange, revealed the hideous atrocities of the USA in Iraq and elsewhere. Right on cue, the liberal corporate media went into its traditional (and stupid) attack mode. "Assange has blood on his hands!" said the blood-soaked US government, on the specious grounds tha ...
  • thwap the Online "Activist"
    For reasons that will be a big secret for now, the old thwapster thinks he's going to take an indefinite break from online "activism" I can't see wasting my time bloviating on the inter-toobz about how this or that atrocity is a shitty atrocity. The phone lines are open though. You're free to s ...
  • 34 Homeless Deaths in Toronto
    This post was supposed to get done yesterday but I did a bunch of other good things instead. It's something that's been on my mind for a while. I might very well have missed something, but I seem to recall that when a homeless person froze to death in Toronto during the Mike Harris regime, ther ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • As Canada and US step on the gas, Australia ma ...
    With the population of Illinois, Australia has gas to spare. Developments in Canada and the US are, however, expected to undercut Australia’s push to become one of the world's largest exporters of hydrocarbons.
  • For Final Fantasy's 25th anniversary, select t ...
    To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the popular "Final Fantasy" series, Square Enix is having a two-week promotion where twelve select titles will be available for 50% off via the Playstation Network (PSN).
  • Woman from Vancouver Island, Canada related to ...
    Some 21,000 fought in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, 16,000 more humans than live in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island, Canada. Leslie Ibsen lives there and it turns out she is related to the most famous man to die at Bosworth, King Richard III.
  • Canadian Senate reports on price differences i ...
    Canadians are often miffed to find out that they pay considerably more for the same items in Canada than in the United States, even when the Canadian dollar is at par with or above the value of the US dollar.
  • So The Priestly is as Canadian as Tim Horton's eh?
    A recent Canadian themed airing of How I Met Your Mother introduces the "The Priestly" donut. The episode revolved around interviews being conducted at a Vancouver Tim Hortons about fictional Canadian superstar character Robin Sparkles.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Ceasefire.ca slammed by the pro-war lobby
    Today the pro-war lobby slammed Ceasefire.ca, once again, in the national media. As a Ceasefire.ca supporter, this proves you are having an impact, shaking up the pro-war lobby!
  • Israeli airstrike in Syria
    An Israeli airstrike inside Syria has heightened the already high tensions in the Middle East.
  • Will Canada return to peacekeeping?
    Between 1956 and 1992, Canada was often the single largest contributor of UN peacekeepers. Since the late 1990s, however, Canada has virtually disappeared from peacekeeping. Professor Michael Byers presents the case for re-engagement.
  • Canadian special forces already in Mali
    Canadian special forces soldiers are already deployed in Mali protecting Canadian diplomats, but according to the government they are not on a "combat" mission.
  • Canadian special forces to Mali?
    Will Canadian special forces soldiers be sent to Mali? Prime Minister Harper has clearly stated that his government is “not considering” a “direct” military role in the current conflict. But can his words be trusted?

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-12-13
    Today, Kevin gives you the solutions to your economic woes and explains why you absolutely cannot put a price tag on your health! Self Help: Inflation Cure Stop Eating Tainted Meat Voice Your Political Support Safest Hair Products Health: Genetically Modified Cows Produce ‘Human’ Milk More Recal ...
  • KT’s Holiday Gift Ideas
    The holiday season is upon us and they can be the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, for yourself and others. So, this holiday, let’s help each other out by giving gifts that will help someone eat healthier, be healthier, and ...
  • Find alternative ways to stay healthy…
    On my show, I’ve always discussed why you should be using natural cures and remedies on a daily basis. The drug companies’ only goal is to keep you sick, and fill their wallets in the process. They are not looking to cure anyone. Natural remedies have been passed down through generat ...
  • Eliminate Those Deadly Chemicals In Your Body
    Our US Government does not want you to know what their own agency, The Center for Disease Control, just reported in their own study. They took thousands of American citizens and checked their blood and urine for 212 toxic chemicals. They took a random sample of them and all 212 toxic chemicals w ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • 27-year-old granddaughter leaves Westboro Bapt ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   ‘We’ve done things that hurt people’ says 27-year-old, who is leaving anti-gay organisation with her sister Grace One of the most prominent members of the Westboro Baptist church has le ...
  • Do Wall Street Insiders Expect Something Reall ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Snyder Economic Collapse Feb 7, 2013 Why are corporate insiders dumping huge numbers of shares in their own companies right now? Why are some very large investors suddenly making gigantic bets that the stock mark ...
  • North Korea’s secret gulag prisons serve as mo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJ. D. Heyes Natural News Feb 7, 2013 They say technology is making the world smaller, and that is especially true of surveillance technology, as Google Earth proved once again recently by exposing the location of scores ...
  • Can Fox News break its fatal embrace with irre ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   After a decade of phenomenal ratings growth, America’s leading conservative media brand faces a crisis of ideological identity Recent headlines about Fox News have given liberals gleeful Schadenfre ...
  • Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy Speech
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comI know many C4L members are interested in reading or watching Senator Paul’s speech from earlier today at Heritage. The full text of Senator Paul’s speech is below: Foreign policy is uniquely an arena where w ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael Ratner: Zero Dark Thirty, Manhunt and ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews·Feb 4, 2013 Michael Ratner: Recent films and Obama’s lack of prosecution of CIA and Bush Cheney for torture is creating conditions for its public acceptance. *** Globalizing Torture: Ahead of Brennan Hearing, International Complicity in CIA Rendition Exposed dem ...
  • Chris Hedges: NDAA: This Is The Final Battle B ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 6, 2013 Chris Hedges: NDAA May Already Be Detaining Americans 2/6/13 Kenny Steven Fuentes·Feb 6, 2013 Chris Hedges speaks at the 2/6/13 press conference following oral arguments made at Federal Courthouse in New York City. Hedges v. Obam ...
  • Chris Hedges: NDAA: All These Laws Are Being P ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 6, 2013 Atiq Zabinski· Feb 4, 2013 Chris Hedges speaks at the People’s Recovery Summit organized by Occupy Sandy. The Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, Brooklyn, NY, February 2, 2013. Text of speech at Breaking the Chains of Debt ...
  • Cash Hoarding, Tax Evasion, and the Corporate ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com February 5, 2013 The following is Part 3 of my three-part exclusive series for Occupy.com. Part 1: Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control Part 2: The “Real” Recovery: Welcome to the Network of Glo ...
  • Daniel Ellsberg: NDAA Indefinite Detention Pro ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow·Feb 5, 2013 www.democracynow.org/ A lawsuit challenging a law that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens is back in federal court this week. On Wednesday, a group of academics, journalists, and activists will present oral arguments in co ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • How to Deflect Killer Asteroids With Spray Paint
    A fresh paint job might be all that’s needed to prevent a giant asteroid from raining destruction upon our planet. Though strange-sounding, the strategy would make use of a real-world phenomenon known as the Yarkovsky effect, named for the Russian engineer ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Pretty V ...
    This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in Orion's stellar nursery and still in its formative years, variable star LL Orionis produces a wind more energetic than the ...
  • Live Chat: Are We Doing Science the Right Way?
    As much as they love research, many scientists lament the state of their profession these days. Is the push to publish ruining scientific discovery? Is science really self-correcting? Does peer review work? Are labs the right size? Does the quest ...
  • In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
    All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.
  • Feeding the Final Frontier: 3-D Printers Could ...
    One day in the future, astronauts on a long-term deep-space mission might have the ability to use 3-D printers to make delicious, nutritious meals. With the 3-D printing revolution taking over design, engineering, and products, perhaps the final frontier includes ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: Why it’s “legal” when the US does it
    The major energy-producing countries are still firmly under the control of the Western-backed dictatorships. So, actually, the progress made by the Arab Spring is limited, but it’s not insignificant.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • At least 166 homes in Israeli settlement built ...
    Dror Atkas: "The contemptible cooperation of the state with land theft in the West Bank is constantly growing... They are trying to retroactively legalize whatever they can in order to enable massive... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s left turn to the far right
    This election has been a personal blow to Netanyahu, but not to the right. Netanyahu misread the public mood, but not on the central issues that should define the left-right divide in Israel: the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Hannu Reime: Neither one nor two states, but a ...
    A continuous theme in ... the book is the view that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a confrontation between the Zionist settler-colonialism and the Palestinian Arab people; it’s the last colonial... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Remembering Howard Zinn
    We remember Howard Zinn, our friend and teacher (and among the first members of the IOA Advisory Board), who passed away on 27 January 2010, leaving a formidable legacy. In the words of his close... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • International Law Expert on Remote Drone Strik ...
  • Blame It on Barney: Student Perceptions of an ...
    So why are students' perceptions of the T. rex stalled in the early 1900s, when the dinosaurs were depicted as upright, somewhat slow-moving tail draggers? A Cornell University research team sought answers after years of anecdotally observing students drawing the T. rex incorrectly.
  • Kansas Universities Host International Summit ...
    The Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit is coming to the Kansas City metropolitan area March 2-4 at the Sheraton Overland Park Hotel at the Convention Center.
  • Reports Show Fewer Adolescents Getting Substan ...
    New reports by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) find that overall, from 2002 to 2011, the percentage of adolescents receiving substance abuse prevention messages in the past year from media fell significantly - from 83.2 percent in 2002 to 75.1 percent in 20 ...
  • Meeting Probes Latest in Alzheimer's Disease I ...
    At the 7th Human Amyloid Imaging conference held in Miami, Florida, 250 experts discussed the hottest topics in Alzheimer's brain imaging. What's in store for 2013? Read about new compounds that image tau--one of the disease's toxic proteins, ground rules for scanning patients for plaques, and a ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, February 7, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey France is seeking UN Peacekeepers for Mali amid the ongoing conflict. Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in order to discuss potential areas of cooperation in the future. The Canadian government is thinking ...
  • Obama Orders Classified OLC Memo Released to C ...
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein According to NPR: President Obama directed the Justice Department late Wednesday to give Congress access to classified information that details the rationale for targeted strikes against U.S. citizens believed to have links to al-Qaida. NPR’s C ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey A Chinese navy vessel aimed a type of radar normally used to aim weapons at a target at a Japanese navy ship in the East China Sea, prompting a Japanese protest. President Barack Obama has plans to visit Israel, the West Bank and Jordan this spring, raising ...
  • “I Have Big Heels to Fill”
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Secretary of State John Kerry made a few opening remarks (video here) yesterday at the State Department that are worth quoting. “So here’s the big question before the country and the world and the State Department after the last eight years: Can a man actu ...
  • White Paper
    by Deborah Pearlstein I set out to begin to untangle the strings of argument in the DOJ white paper, and find myself, after three pages of writing notes myself, having untangled only as far as the paper’s page 5 (of 16). There is something wrong with a memo like this. Let me see if I can expla ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Activist: Language Matters in Immigration D ...
    AZ Activist: Language Matters in Immigration Debate PHOENIX, Ariz. - The latest Republican effort to attract Latino voters came in the form of a recent email to U.S. House Republicans, urging them to avoid referring to immigrants as "illegals" or "aliens" in the ongoing debate over immigration r ...
  • AZ Takes Part in Global Effort to End Violence ...
    AZ Takes Part in Global Effort to End Violence Against Women PHOENIX - Arizona will be a part of a global event taking place in 189 countries and aimed at ending violence against women everywhere. One Billion Rising is the brainchild of author and activist Eve Ensler, who traveled around the wo ...
  • New Uses for Old Ski Equipment
    New Uses for Old Ski Equipment PHOENIX - Something new in the snow sports industry is recycling used ski equipment. To make it work will take greater retailer participation as well as convincing skiers to give up their old gear. Skis and snowboards, ski boots and helmets can only be traded at ...
  • World Cancer Day Celebrates Advances in Fighti ...
    World Cancer Day Celebrates Advances in Fighting the Disease PHOENIX - Today is World Cancer Day, a call to celebrate advances in cancer treatments and to work on continuing the fight. Statistics show more people die from cancer worldwide than from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Deni ...
  • Arizona Goes Red Today for Women's Heart Disease
    Arizona Goes Red Today for Women's Heart Disease PHOENIX – You can expect to see plenty of folks in Arizona with a bit more color in their clothing Friday, because it's National Wear Red Day. The annual event is held to encourage people to wear red to help raise awareness that heart dise ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Calls on EPA to Follow ...
    New European Pesticide Agency study reports “unacceptable” dangers to bees; supports suspension of use in U.S. Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the cue of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and immediately suspend t ...
  • Congress Passes Damaging Farm Bill Extension i ...
    Biotech riders omitted, but organic and other sustainable programs take a major hit By Colin O’Neil, Director of Government Affairs, Center for Food Safety On September 30, 2012 Congress did the unthinkable when it let the 2008 Farm Bill – the legislation that governs national food and farm poli ...
  • Post-Prop. 37 Poll Shows Strong Public Support ...
    Young voters, communities of color, women pushed landmark initiative to near win; more than one-fifth of ‘no’ voters favor GE labeling An independent post-election poll shows that California voters continue to strongly support the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the wake of Nove ...
  • Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forwar ...
    400,000 public comments, 40 Members of Congress ignored; CFS calls proposed approval of first ever GE animal “premature and misguided” Center for Food Safety sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the contro ...
  • Center for Food Safety, Save Our Seeds File Su ...
    Case pitting corporations against farmers set to impact the future of seed patents Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS)—two organizations dedicated to promoting safe, sustainable food and farming systems—challenged the agrochemical giant Monsanto and its restrictive “seed ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...
  • Aaron Swartz on SOPA
    The late Aaron Swartz explains SOPA. His recent suicide has been in the news so much that I feel it isn’t worth discussing. His opinions, though, are. Related posts: Aaron Ortiz, Rest in Peace I’m very sorry to say that one of my namesakes... Aaron Ortiz, Flickr Pro These are some o ...
  • Merida and the Bechtel test
    The thing that most resonated about this talk was Colin Stokes’s defense of a particular Disney Princess: Merida, from Pixar’s Brave. I wrote a disappointed rant about that movie when it came out. I still deeply dislike the “You are a princess, act like it!” storyline. I ...
  • Another Civil Coup in Honduras?
    In 2009, the Honduran congress and supreme court perpetrated a messy coup against president Manuel Zelaya. Yesterday President Lobo and the Honduran congress have perpetrated an “institutional” coup against the supreme court, sacking 4 out of its 5 members. This was in retaliation fo ...
  • Fractal Reality
    We inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Americans view news through their reality tunnels
    Reality tunnels: With a subconscious set of mental “filters” formed from their beliefs and experiences, every individual interprets the same world differently, hence “Truth is in the eye of the beholder”. Public Policy Polling finds that PBS is the only news source that ...
  • Farming and food. How to replace hard work wit ...
    Wow, as the chart show, we truly have a magnificently inefficient method of farming and growing food. What makes a job needlessly difficult? It’s when the energy expended to do it is MUCH greater than the outcome. Here’s an example from the US food industry. It compares the energy used to ...
  • New and exciting places for Windows to crash
  • Pretzel logic: Democrats defending Obama kill ...
    It’s almost comical watching Democrats defending Obama ‘I can kill citizens without a trial’ policy. They’d be howling if a Republican president did it. But I guess ordering US citizens someone killed with no firm evidence of a plot and without a chance to defend themselv ...
  • Windowfarms. vertical hydroponics for easy ind ...
    Windowfarms is an easy to assemble and use vertical hydroponics system. No grow lights are needed. Just put them by a sunny window and harvest food year round. A Windowfarm is a vertical, indoor garden that allows for year-round growing in almost any window. In the hydroponic system, nutrient- ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – February 7
    1478 – Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist and author (d. 1535) was born. 1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. 1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886) was born. 1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the seco ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – February 6 2013
    WEDNESDAY 2.6.13 – Talk host Tom Donahue speaks out (http://tomdonahuereports.com/) and its Bob Marley’s Birthday! Yee haw. (Apologies to all this show will offend – or not)
  • City in Virginia Becomes First to Pass Anti-Dr ...
    Resolution bans all municipal agencies from buying or leasing drones By Jason Koebler USnews.com     A statue of Thomas Jefferson overlooks the Charlottesville, Va., campus of the University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Va., has become the first city in the United States to formally p ...
  • Is The NYPD’s “Protect & Serve&#82 ...
    WeAreChange recently got the opportunity to meet and Interview Joe Lozito, the selfless hero who put his life on the line to stop a serial killer. The story is only magnified when Joe finds out, that while being stabbed by the serial killer, the NYPD was standing by watching everything unfold fr ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – February 5 2013
    TUESDAY 2.5.13 – Jack Blood details the US Federal Govt’s war on those who believe in the NWO. Also the Alabama Standoff is over – with help from the Military… and Leaked documents from the DOJ justify the assassinations of Americans….and Beyonce’ loves the &# ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Nanigans Ad Engine optimizes for mobile app us ...
    Facebook ad company Nanigans today announced a new solution for developers to optimize their mobile app install ads to acquire the most profitable customers and generate higher ROI than on other ad networks. Nanigans says it considers in-app...
  • PageData Launches New Comparative Dashboard Tool
    Inside Network is excited to announce the release of the Comparative Dashboard Tool in PageData, our Facebook analytics service. The Dashboard allows users to create a personalized list of Facebook Pages and easily compare them for...
  • Facebook brings friendship pages to mobile sit ...
    Facebook has introduced mobile versions of its “friendship pages” that show two users’ history on the social network. For now these are primarily able the be accessed from m.facebook.com, but a spokesperson tells us they will be...
  • BlackBerry, Nokia, more among this week’s top ...
    BlackBerry is this week’s top gainer in the People Talking About This metric for electronic pages. The wireless handheld device company saw just under one million additional engagements across its 17 region specific pages totaling to...
  • Iron Man benefits from Super Bowl blackout as ...
    “Iron Man” was one of the biggest winners during the Super Bowl blackout on Sunday. The Paramount Pictures film received as many as 2,000 new Facebook fans per minute following its commercial, which happened to be the...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
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  • Podcast Show #105: Who is the New John Yoo?
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Jesselyn Radack Jesselyn Radack joins us to talk about the case of CIA officer John Kiriakou and his decision to plead to a lesser charge, and the abuse of the Espionage Act and persecution-prosecution of government whistleblowers by President Obama. Ms. Radack sh ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
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Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Bulgaria Blames Hezbollah, Bibi Blames Iran
    Bulgaria finally released its much-anticipated report on the terror bombing at its airport last year which killed five Israelis.  It said that several of the bombers and accomplices had clear connections to Hezbollah’s military wing. As I’ve said many times here, I don’t suppor ...
  • Labor Party Deal With Channel 2 Reporter Shuts ...
    In my conversations with leaders of the Eretz Chadasha Party, they noted that it had been shut out of news coverage by most of the major Israeli media.  Now I know why, at least in the case of one TV channel.  Labor Party chief, Shelly Yachimovitch made a deal with Channel 2′s politics rep ...
  • Obama Assumes Secret Powers to Pre-Empt Cyber- ...
    The NY Times reports that the Obama administration, continuing its aggressive approach to national security threats, has issued a secret ruling giving the president broad power to pre-emptively attack any nation or group planning a cyber-attack against the U.S.  Wow.  This is a rabbi hole that i ...
  • Jerusalem Post’s Anti-Semitism Fetish Leads to ...
    J’Accuse! The Jerusalem Post is known for perpetrating hoaxes based on fake reports of anti-Semitism.  It published a story purporting that Norway was riddled with anti-Semitism.  Turns out the report was written by someone who made almost all of it up. He mistook his own personal fear of ...
  • Republican Jewish Coalition Lies Saying Didn’t ...
    A few days ago I posted here that I received an anti-Hagel robocall from the Republican Jewish Coalition.  Jim Rutenberg picked up on my report and included it in his post at the NY Times Caucus Blog.  He later updated his post with a denial from the RJC: The Republican Jewish Coalition called M ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Investigating the Technology Underlying Top Ne ...
    “We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die” — Umberto Eco Ever since PBS MediaShift contacted me about contributing to their Idea Lab site again (past posts here), I’ve been taking the opportunity to ponder a new “beat” of sorts, one that wou ...
  • Drone Strikes: Known Unknowns and the Need for ...
    Two weeks ago the United Nations opened an inquiry into the "civilian impact of the use of drones and other forms of targeted killing." Data -- on casualties, targets, frequency, and other topics -- will play an important role in this investigation, led by Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur for ...
  • How Journalists Can Secure Their Digital Perimeter
    Truism of the day: Your digital perimeter is not secure. You know that. The question for journalists is what can you do right now to strengthen it? Are your editors and managing editors doing enough to help you? As my fellow Knight Fellow Melissa Chan, who was a correspondent in China, points ...
  • OpenBlock Rural Finds Three Key Audiences for ...
    The key lesson from the first year of our Knight News Challenge grant? The future of data journalism and digital public records at rural newspapers depends on building a product that balances the needs of three key audiences: the consumers, professional reporters and content sponsors. The ...
  • How the Geolocation Revolution Has Evolved
    This is the first post in a series on geolocation startups and services. For years, entrepreneurs, tech observers and journalists have known two things about the geolocation space: It holds an enormous amount of promise, and it's taking an awfully long time to get there. Geolocation s ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Proprietary Wireless Technologies in Home Auto ...
    A new study from IMS Research projects that just 10 per cent of the smart home nodes that will be deployed during the period 2010 to 2017 will include proprietary wireless technologies.Yet annual shipments of these technologies are projected to grow from less than 3 million nodes in 2012 to 6 mi ...
  • The Race for Batteries - Norway is Leader in D ...
    The Norwegian shipping industry is teaming up to take a leading role in developing battery-powered ships. The first four hybrid vessels will start to sail in 2013/14.In 2015, the world largest fully electric ferry, will start to regularly cross Norway's largest fjord. “15 years ago, the Norweg ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - Terrorist Bomb in Turkey: ...
    On Feb. 1, a Turkish national named Ecevit Sanli walked up to the side entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara like many others had done that day. Dressed inconspicuously, he waved a manila envelope at the man inside the guard booth as he approached the entrance. The security guard had no reason ...
  • Edge of Medicine - Hunger, Stress and Drugs Tu ...
    Hunger, thirst, stress and drugs can create a change in the brain that transforms a repulsive feeling into a strong positive "wanting," a new University of Michigan study indicates.The research used salt appetite to show how powerful natural mechanisms of brain desires can instantly transform a ...
  • Electronic Edge - A Look Inside the New BlackBerry
    Building off the momentum of an international product launch in New York that featured not only a corporate re-branding and the naming of a Grammy-award winning artist as its new global creative director, one had to wade through a lot of flash and sizzle to get down to what was really importantâ ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Hagel To Senate-It's None of Your Dammed Business!
    Those of you who followed last week's Chuck Hagel confirmation hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee may remember the Defense Secretary nominee was scolded for not providing the requested financial information regarding the corporate and nonprofit organizations he was affiliated with ...
  • Exclusive: The REAL Reasons Obama is Going to ...
    Yesterday's news that President was going to Israel sometime in March was surprising to some (myself included). After all he already won the election without going to Israel during his first term, he did all he could to demonize the Jewish State ever since he became president, and lets face it h ...
  • BREAKING! Postal Service To End Saturday Delivery
    In a move that should have happened years ago, the US postal service will announce today that beginning in August they will cut back regular mail delivery to five days a week (packages will still be delivered on Saturdays). During the last fiscal the postal service lost $15.9 Billion.a $10+ Bill ...
  • Chuck Hagel Should Not Be Confirmed, But Proba ...
    Regular readers of this site know the various objections that have been raised regarding Senator Chuck Hagel's nomination to replace Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense but thanks in a big part to overt and de facto support from Jewish organizations i ...
  • Another Barack ObamaCare Lie Exposed
    he President said it over and over, "No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people," Obama said addressing the American Medical Association. "If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll ...

The Real Agenda

  • Rich European nations meet to plot against the ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 7, 2013 In the twentieth century, political Summits were seen as meetings to achieve common ground for the benefit of one or two nations. Then came globalism, a movement that intended to transform the world into one slave system governed by ...
  • Assassinating Americans is ‘legal’ ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 6, 2013 The Law Office of the White House has established that it is legal to kill a U.S. citizen overseas “if a senior government member” ensures that the target to kill is someone who poses an “imminent threat to the coun ...
  • Ted Nugent mops the floor of a gun store with ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 6, 2013 Ted Nugent attempted to have a friendly discussion about the Second Amendment and gun control with CNN’s Piers Morgan, but after Morgan failed to use common sense during the interview, Nugent fired away some of the most logical ...
  • Obama to extend his powers to launch ‘pr ...
    The latest power grab enables the President of the United States to launch pre-emptive attacks on anyone suspicious of planning to attack U.S. infrastructure. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 5, 2013 President Barack Obama will have the authority to order preventive cyber a ...
  • Argentina freezes food prices to avoid higher ...
    By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA | AP | FEBRUARY 5, 2013 Argentina announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products Monday in an effort to break spiraling inflation. The price freeze applies to every product in all of the nation’s largest supermarkets — a group including Walmart, ...

Wind Watch

  • Value of land cut by wind farms
    A Victorian council has conceded that a wind farm development still in its early stages has slashed the land value of its neighbours, and agreed their land rates should be cut. In what is believed to be an Australian first, South Gippsland shire council has amended the rates notice for one neigh ...
  • Are utilities using deep pockets to battle loc ...
    Are large utility owners using their deep pockets to force communities to reduce their property valuations below fair market value to avoid paying their fair share of property taxes? The issue was raised this past week at both the Berlin city council meeting and a meeting of the Coos County Comm ...
  • Falmouth Selectmen support removing wind turbines
    The Falmouth Board of Selectmen voted Jan. 30 to support removing the town’s industrial-sized turbines, Wind 1 and Wind 2 at the Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Facility, in hopes to unify a divided community. “Typically government and good leaders think of the greater good of all. As a thoughtful ...
  • Grid constraints mean less power output from w ...
    A utility official says that some big wind projects in the region are not performing as planned due to constraints on the transmission grid. The news came as Vermont lawmakers focused on both climate change and a moratorium on new wind development. The Vermont Electric Cooperative buys electrici ...
  • Wind turbine collapses in high wind
    A controversial 115ft wind turbine has collapsed after being hit by heavy winds. The £250,000 tower, which stood as tall as a ten storey building, was hit by gale force gusts of 50mph which caused the blades to spin out of control. The structure then caught fire and collapsed at a farm in Bradwo ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
  • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
    To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...
  • Required reading: How open source makes you better
    In this blog post (Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust), Dan Schultz of The Boston Globe describes what amounts to one of the big reasons why news websites are not as successful as they could be. If you borrow code then you are more likely to be familiar with what the rest of the world is doing. I ...
  • Teaching programming to journalists
    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate journalism course that I will begin teaching in January. I’ve been learning Python and starting to learn about jQuery. I’ve got some advantages: I learned HTML in ...
  • Most-viewed posts in 2012
    According to my WordPress stats, these are the posts with the most pageviews in the past 12 months: Best social media tools for journalists (5,669) Timelines in journalism: A closer look (4,365) A few words about digital audio recorders (3,626) How to shoot video interviews (3,465) 10 Rul ...

Facing South

  • Art Pope still funding climate disinformation
    Conservative mega-donor Art Pope has helped finance a movement to discredit mainstream climate science. Now North Carolina's budget director, he will help make important fiscal decisions for a state facing serious threats from climate change. read more
  • In Walmart and fast food, unions scaling up a ...
    Attempts to unionize Walmart stores have been met with firings, outsourcing, and even closings. Now employees of the Arkansas-based retail giant are exercising their rights to redress grievances together -- whether or not a majority can be rallied to support the effort. read more
  • Obama's flip-flops on money in politics: A bri ...
    Critics say the president's plan for a new nonprofit group to push his second-term agenda opens the door to influence by corporations and other big donors. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: States' rights wielded agains ...
    A by-the-numbers look at how claims of "states' rights" -- once used to defend racial segregation -- are being used to justify legislative assaults on the interests of economically struggling citizens in North Carolina, Mississippi and elsewhere across the South. read more
  • Watchdogs dig up troubling questions about fed ...
    The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy fought the Obama administration in court to get it to disclose details about the $8.3 billion in loan guarantees it offered private companies to build two nuclear reactors at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle. Though heavily redacted, the documents they got sugg ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Is Urbanism the New Trickle-Down Economics?
    The pejoratively named “trickle-down economics” was the idea that by giving tax breaks to the wealthy and big business, this would spur economic growth that would benefit those further down the ladder. I guess we all know how that worked out. But while progressives would clear ...
  • Dispersion in the World's Largest Urban Areas
    No decade in history has experienced such an increase in urban population as the last. From Tokyo-Yokohama, the world's largest urban area (population: 37 million) to Godegård, Sweden, which may be the smallest (population: 200), urban areas added 700 million people between 2000 and 2010. N ...
  • How Green Are Millennials?
    Besides his history-making embrace of full equality for gays and lesbians, the most surprising part of President Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address may have been the emphasis placed on dealing with the challenge of climate change. The president devoted almost three whole paragraph ...
  • More Bubble Trouble in California?
    Just six years since the last housing bubble, California is blowing up another. This may seem like good news to homeowners and speculators alike but it could further accelerate the demise of the state's middle class and push more businesses out of the state. On its face, a real estate tur ...
  • Why Are There So Many Murders in Chicago?
    After over 500 murders in Chicago in 2012, the Windy City’s violence epidemic continues – 2013 saw the deadliest January in over a decade – and continues to make national news.  The New York Times, for example, ran a recent piece noting how Chicago’s strict gun laws can’t ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Panetta warns of 'crisis' in military readiness
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Looming across-the-board budget cuts present the U.S. military with the most significant readiness crisis in more than a decade and quick action is needed to avoid the spending reductions, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned during testimony Thursday before the Senate A ...
  • HARRIS: Give Wizards props for rebound toward ...
    Facebook Follow @washtimes Should combat standards be lowered for female service members? View results ANALYSIS/OPINION: One thing you learn over many years in the sports media business is people will bet on anything. Go to Google and type in “Super Bowl prop bets” and you’ll s ...
  • Panetta Testifies Before Senate Panel on Attac ...
    WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told Congress on Thursday that it would take two to three years to add the 35 new Marine security guard detachments that the United States plans to deploy to improve the security of American diplomatic compounds abroad. Enlarge This Image Step ...
  • Obama says he prays for humility in Washington
    JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is telling leaders at the annual National Prayer Breakfast he hopes they maintain the morning's bipartisan spirit a little longer. The president says he often returns from the gathering and turns on cable news, only to find ...
  • I like to work with people I know: Vindu Dara ...
    Tweet New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Familiarity with the cast and crew is important for Vindu Dara Singh who confesses that he likes to work with people he is on good terms with. "I like to work with my friends. I can't work with people who push me into doing something. I like to work at my own pace. ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Early Intervention for Premature Infants Incre ...
    12/20/2012, The Cochrane Library, Programs aimed at helping premature infants and their families once they leave the hospital have been found to increase IQ in the period up to school age and improve cognitive skills, finds a new review in The Cochrane Library. (Source: Health Behavior News Service)
  • Iowa Hospital First in U.S. to Get New Chemo P ...
    Clinicians at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa are now the first in the U.S. to have an i.v.STATION ONCO robot from Health Robotics (Bolzano, Italy) that compounds and dispenses injectable chemo medications. The drugs are expensive and are essentially poisons that require careful hand ...
  • High UV-B Exposure May Increase Allergy, Asthm ...
    A new Australian study has found a link between living closer to the equator and higher odds of allergy and asthma. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Have a look at The Psychology Daily, the new psychology portal powered by MedWo ...
  • The Secret About Cosmetic Surgery That Doctors ...
    A secret about cosmetic surgery exists that several physicians are hiding from their patients. The truth is many doctors performing cosmetic surgery in the USA are not actually cosmetic surgeons, a claim made by a growing number of board certified cosmetic surgeons around the country. Currently, ...
  • SENSODYNE REPAIR AND PROTECT (Stannous Fluorid ...
    Updated Date: Feb 4, 2013 EST

Common Dreams

  • Chris Dorner's Facebook Manifesto
    From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648 To: America Subj: Last resort Regarding CF# 07-004281 I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last coup ...
  • TransCanada CEO Meeting With State Dept. Official
    The CEO of the company behind the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is meeting with a senior State Department official "behind closed doors," The Hill reports on Thursday. According to the article, TransCanada's Russ Girling's meeting on Thursday will be with Kerri-Ann Jones, Assi ...
  • Justice Dept. Argues Appeal of NDAA Ruling
    The ability of the U.S. government to jail people without charge or trial is back in court. A group of reporters, scholars and activists — including Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges — are suing the Obama administration over the controversial provision in the National Defense Authorizati ...
  • Tunisia in 'State of Siege' Following Oppositi ...
    (Photo: Anis Mili/Reuters)One day after the "shocking" killing of opposition leader Shokri Belaid, Tunisia remains in a "state of siege" as labor leaders call for a general strike and continued street demonstrations against the government spark deep internal rifts. ...
  • Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement 'Totally Inad ...
    Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan in case of an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Articulating Smart Grid Benefits to End-Consumers
    The outage during the 2013 Super Bowl provides an opportunity for the smart grid industry to make conversations about energy infrastructure modernization relevant to end-consumers' daily lives.
  • The Water-Food-Energy Nexus
    By 2050, demand for resources is set to increase significantly as the global population grows to nine billion and becomes more prosperous. Global economic growth is being driven largely by emerging markets. Over the medium term, the World Bank estimates economic growth of 6% in developing countr ...
  • Stewart Brand on Nuclear Energy
    Environmentalist Stewart Brand, one of the principal founders of the green movement in the United States, speaks on environmentalism and green arguments in favor of nuclear energy. Take a look and have a listen!
  • Energy Innovation: New Fracking Methods?
    The energy industry is attempting to make hydraulic fracturing nontoxic. Is this really possible? Believe it or not, it may be achievable. About one half of a percent of fracking fluid contains chemicals; the rest consists of water and sand. But a new product named CleanStim that may improve thi ...
  • Biofuel Battle Heats Up
    The farm crop and biofuel industries gave a big sigh of relief last week when the EPA announced its proposed 2013 volume and percentage standards for biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and cellulosic biofuels. The proposal will be open for a 45-day public comment period and EPA will conside ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • LOS ISRAELITAS SON LOS GRANDES PERDEDORES EN E ...
    El análisis de James Petras Los cancilleres de Irán, Ali Akbar Salehi y de Argentina Héctor Timerman, durante la firma del acuerdo.“Quiero mencionar rápidamente el acuerdo alcanzado entre Irán y Argentina, para formar una comisión investigadora sobre el as ...
  • Israel Fuels Syrian Fire, Risking Regional Out ...
    By Nicola Nasser** The timing of the Israeli air raid early on January 30 on a Syrian target, that has yet to be identified, coincided with a hard to refute indications that the “regime change” in Syria by force, both by foreign military intervention and by internal armed rebellion, ...
  • Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Con ...
    By Andrew Gavin Marshall We live in a corporate culture, where most of us have worked or currently work for corporations, we spend our money at corporate venues, on corporate products, watch corporately-owned television shows and movies, listen to corporate-sponsored music; our modes of transpo ...
  • Hillary Clinton: Profile of Imperial Arrogance ...
    by Stephen Lendman She was Washington's 67th Secretary of State. She served from January 21, 2009 - February 1, 2013. She's arguably America's worst. From 2001 - 2009, she was US Senator from New York. In 2008, she challenged Obama for the Democrat party's presidential nomination. Su ...
  • France Has Forgotten the Battle of Algiers, Af ...
    by chycho Let’s continue our conversation from Part 1. One of the most amazing aspects of the African resource wars is that within their own countries, most western powers have been able to stifle opposition for their participation. An incredible achievement considering the state of ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Don't frack the law! Open letter and video cal ...
    Leading environmental organizations, unions and other organizations, including the CCPA, released an open letter today, calling on all BC political parties to recommit to 2007 legislation on greenhouse gas reduction. If BC continues with its Natural Gas Strategy, it will break its own law. Read ...
  • Repeat After Me: Ontario is Not Greece
    It's an apples to oranges comparison, of course, but the Fraser Institute's attempt to frame Ontario as the next Greece because of debt level is flawed for other reasons too. CCPA Director Trish Hennessy assesses the report's conclusions and says it's time we shift the conversation beyond auster ...
  • It's Time for an Equality Premier
    Trish Hennessy suggests in this blog that moving from austerity to finding income inequality solutions in this province could be the ideal way to address growing social unrest while helping to grow the economy.  
  • Fix our tax system. Improve quality of life. R ...
    BC has the lowest taxes in Canada, and it's not a good thing. We don't have the money we need for important public services, and at the same time, we haven't seen any economic benefit from a decade of tax cuts. But we can do something about it. Read the report or four-page summary; share and do ...
  • Income inequality on the rise, especially in l ...
    Income inequality in Canada is on the rise—especially in the country's largest cities. CCPA analysis of new data finds the richest 1% of Canadians make almost $180,000 more today than they did in 1982 (adjusted for inflation), while the bottom 90% of Canadians saw income gains of only $1,700. ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • GMO Farming, Glyphosate Significant Causes of ...
    June 29, 2012 Water pollution and air pollution has been and continues to be a serious issue in many nations. Both of these pollution types are successfully bringing down the health of not only humans, but also animals, plant life, and the ecosystem as a whole. While the causes of water pollutio ...
  • Amazon of Europe Threatened by a Straightening
    BELGRADE, Jun 30 2012 (IPS) - Wildlife is being increasingly threatened around the Danube river, the “Amazon of Europe”. The need for profit is taking over from the need to protect natural resources along the river. Austria and Croatia are engaged in a major project to tame the Danub ...
  • WHY ARE COWS TAILS DROPPING OFF?
  • ~WHAT THE FRACK?
  • Oil may be seeping from Deepwater Horizon site
    Dec. 13, 2012 CBS News has learned that BP is set to embark Thursday on the fifth day of a little-known subsea mission under Coast Guard supervision to look for any new oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The BP oil rig exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending a total estima ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Al Gore Profits From Fossil Fuels He Vilified
    What Gore doesn't seem to understand is that this is the same cost-benefit analysis that results in the world's rising use of fossil fuels. He is like many environmentalists who don't seem to understand the real reasons we are dependent upon fossil fuels.
  • EPA Doubles Down on Unicorns
    In my previous column — Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work — I used an analogy to describe the US government’s approach to cellulosic ethanol mandates. In brief, they have mandated that something that does not exist — commercial cellulosic ethanol volumes — be ...
  • Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work
    There is a reason I don't ride a unicorn to work. It isn't because it's too far to work. Nor is it because it rains here in Hawaii nearly every day and I might get wet. It isn't because the powerful automobile lobby has convinced me that driving a car to work is a better option for me. No, it's ...
  • The Amazing Reversal of the US Oil Industry
    Oil production in the US began to rise in 2009, in response to record capital expenditures by oil companies in the face of sharply rising oil prices. The rise has been sustained to the point that production rose all four years of President Obama's first term.
  • Five Energy Predictions for 2013
    Normally when I list the Top 10 stories of the year, I close the post by making predictions for the upcoming year. For 2012, my predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • How to Bake a Birthday Cake for Your Dog
    Dog cake recipes like this one created especially for a pup's birthday celebration can really make your pet feel special, plus they're fun to make. We turned to Henrietta Morrison, founder of the British natural pet food company Lily's Kitchen, for some tips on whipping up the perfect dog birth ...
  • Protect Your Child from These 5 Pesticide Threats
    Your child's health becomes the center of your universe when you become a parent. And while most parents wouldn't dream of harming a child, chemical companies and lackluster laws have made it tough to protect kids from pesticide threats. Chemical pesticides aren't required by law to go through ...
  • Household Pesticides May Spell Doom for Backya ...
    Commercial beekeepers have been devastated in recent years by the mysterious illness known as colony collapse disorder, which causes honeybees to abandon their hives and never return. One-third of all honeybee colonies in the U.S. have succumbed to the disorder since its discovery in 2008. Savi ...
  • How Bob Marley's Kids Are Saving the World
    Bob Marley's music may conjure up images of palm trees and sandy beaches, but the musician, who would have turned 67 years old today, was a real humanitarian and social activist whose songs spoke more of equality and dignity for the world's downtrodden than of happy-go-lucky island life. Durin ...
  • 6 Surprising Natural Snacks Your Dog Will Love
    Recent pet treat recalls prove that when you purchase over-the-counter snacks for your dog, you could be getting more than you paid for—and not in a good way. In early 2013, Chinese-made Hartz brand Chicken Chews and Oinkies Pig Skin Twists were recalled for containing trace amounts of antibiot ...

big think

  • The Potential of Connectivity in the 21st Century
    It’s strange to think how young the Internet is, considering its enormity and complexity, and yet how powerful it has become as a means to connect people from around the world and influence our everyday lives and society as a whole.   In 1992, there was one website. Three years later, th ...
  • Rules of Engagement: How to Discuss the Israel ...
    The student center at Brooklyn College will be abuzz Thursday evening at 6:30 when two speakers propose boycotting, divesting and applying sanctions on Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians. The run-up to the panel discussion has ignited a huge flap between supporters and opponents of Isr ...
  • 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand Design Available Fo ...
    What's the Latest Development? A five-year-old boy born without fingers on one hand now has a new grasp on life thanks to a mostly-online collaboration between an American amateur mechanical engineer and a South African man, as well as a pair of 3D printers. The Robohand uses a proven sy ...
  • Next Up: Binoculars That Can Literally Tell Wh ...
    What's the Latest Development? California biometrics company StereoVision Imaging has received money from the US military to develop what it's calling a "Wireless 3D Binocular Face Recognition System." The concept is fairly straightforward: Equip a set of binoculars with scanners that ca ...
  • These Cars' Airbags Are For Cyclists
    What's the Latest Development? Danish design company TNO has received €1 million from the Dutch government to help design and develop a type of exterior airbag that, when deployed, will cushion a cyclist in the event of a collision. An onboard system determines the likelihood of a crash  ...

Information Liberation

  • Is America a Police State Yet?
    If you need to ask the question, then the answer is *yes*. But that is a glib response and I do not feel glib about America's slide through the nine rings of political hell. A police state is generally defined as a totalitarian government that exe...
  • 'To See and Not Believe': City Workers Paint H ...
    Surveillance footage showing city workers in Tel Aviv painting a handicapped spot around a woman's legally parked car and towing her car away has shocked many around the world after it was uploaded to the victim's Facebook page. Hila Ben Baruch...
  • Cops Man Random Revenue Enhancement Checkpoint ...
    Emboldened by years of "sobriety" checkpoints and a lackluster citizen response to serial violations of the Fourth Amendment, the Florida Highway Patrol will enforce expanded efforts at revenue enhancement this month. "According to Public Affairs ...
  • Gun Ban Repealed! As City Council Meeting Turn ...
    February 05, 2013 KING 5 News / Q13 News / KOMO 4 News...
  • Is The NYPD's "Protect & Serve" Policy A Thing ...
    WeAreChange recently got the opportunity to meet and Interview Joe Lozito, the selfless hero who put his life on the line to stop a serial killer. The story is only magnified when Joe finds out, that while being stabbed by the serial killer, the NY...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Supersonic ping pong ball
    What happens when a ping pong ball moving at supersonic speed hits a bat? This video, which is dripping college degrees, explains the physics and shows a few test shots. NO amount of wrist action can defeat supersonic… Do not try this at home. I’m talking to you “King Julian&#8 ...
  • Evernote Penultimate now free
    Evernote has made its hand-writing app for iPad free as of now. Always keen to grab any worthwhile freebies, I took a look and was quite surprised and pleased to see what they are using as a demonstration screenshot: Evernote Penultimate now free is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogEvernote ...
  • End-of-January Kindle Sale
    UPDATE: 2013-01-31 Amazon UK has the Kindle version of my book – Deceived Wisdom – at a knock-down price of just 99p today. Remember there are Kindle apps for most mobile devices and computers, so you don’t need an actual Kindle to take advantage of the offer. You don’t n ...
  • DCD, dicyandiamide, 2-cyanoguanidine
    2-Cyanoguanidine, also known as DCD (dicyandiamide) is a nitrile derived from guanidine used as a curative agent for epoxy resins in packaging. Since 2004, it has been used in New Zealand by farmers hoping to lower the environmental impact of livestock by reducing the rate at which soil microbes ...
  • Fossil perspective on economic growth
    A paper from a researcher at Fukushima University caught my eye recently. Not least because it was from that university, but also because the city was in the news again because of proposals to plant a wind farm off the coast there. Moreover, the paper is about how fossil fuels drive economic gro ...

RFF Library

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Large Facilities ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ [From Email Alert] Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted the second year of greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions data on its website, which provides public access to emissions data by sector, by greenhouse gas, and by geographic region such as ...
  • BP Energy Outlook 2030
    British Petroleum http://bit.ly/Vlms4w [Oil and Gas Journal] The North American shale gas and tight oil revolution will reshape global markets, changing economic expectations and rebalancing trade flows, BP PLC said in its BP Energy Outlook 2030. “As the US becomes 99% self-sufficient by 2030, o ...
  • Beyond the Congressional Budget Office: The Ad ...
    Institute for Energy Research / by Joseph R. Mason http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/beyond-the-congressional-budget-office/ The Institute for Energy Research released today a groundbreaking study that assesses the recent Congressional Budget Office analysis of revenues gained by opening ...
  • Treaty Design and Duration: Effects on R&D, Pa ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Bard Harstad http://bit.ly/UVG9QV Climate policy is complicated. For a treaty to be beneficial, one must think through carefully how it will work, once it is implemented. Unfortunately, the effects are often difficult to predict. Crucial question ...
  • Food, Water and Energy: Know the Nexus
    GRACE Communications Foundation / by Peter Hanlon, Robin Madel, Kai Olson-Sawyer, Kyle Rabin and James Rose http://www.gracelinks.org/1802/issue-paper-know-the-nexus Food, water and energy systems are inextricably linked, and as recent events like droughts, oil spills and increasing food prices ...

Scientific American - News

  • Large Hadron Collider Is Set to Halt for Upgrades
    With the discovery of the Higgs boson or something very like it under its belt, the world’s most powerful particle collider is ready to take a well-earned rest. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will shut down on 11 February ahead of around two years of upgrade work. [More] ...
  • Genes Mix Faster Than Folk Tales
    Have you heard the story of the good sister and the bad sister? When they leave home, the good sister is kind to the people and animals she meets, and is rewarded in gold. The bad sister is haughty and greedy, and is rewarded with a box of snakes. [More]
  • Landsat 8 Satellite Set to Rescue Global-Chang ...
    When Landsat 5 fell silent on 6 January, scientists across the globe mourned its passing but gave thanks for its fortitude. The satellite had lasted a record-breaking 28 years, snapping images of the changing planet from melting glaciers to burning rainforests, while its successors faltered ...
  • Air Pollution Delivers Smaller Babies
    Pregnant women who have been exposed to higher levels of some types of air pollution are slightly more likely to give birth to underweight babies, a large international study has found. The results are published online today in Environmental Health Perspectives . [More]
  • Oral Mystery: Are Agriculture and Rats Respons ...
    Next time you are waiting for your turn at the dentist's chair, why not let your mind wonder about something more appealing? Here’s a relevant topic: A long time ago tooth decay was a rare occurrence. Our early relatives, including the Neandertals, hardly ever had caries. In fact, we m ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Map of Annual Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March
    Below you will find two maps. The first is a map of the scheduled events for the Annual February 14th Women's Memorial March, created by myself. The Second is a crowd sourced map of missing and murdered indgenous women created by the hacker group Anonymous.    Annual February 14th ...
  • Map of Annual Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March
    Below you will find two maps. The first is a map of the scheduled events for the Annual February 14th Women's Memorial March, created by myself. The Second is a crowd sourced map of missing and murdered indgenous women created by the hacker group Anonymous.    Annual February 14th ...
  • Using US Co-operatives to Tame Recessions, Red ...
    Overview The Cooperative Solution by E.G. Nadeau is a small book that sees significant possibilities for the co-operative movement’s impact on the whole national economy of the United States. He sees that now is an overall advantageous time to shift the economic system in the United States ...
  • The Way the Town is Now
    Canadian mine brings violence and social division to Oaxacan community SAN JOSÉ DEL PROGRESO&m ...
  • Convergence nationale pour freiner Harper: les ...
    Des mois de préparation. Près de 150 militant-e-s dans une salle. Derrière, les succès du mouvement étudiant. Sur la route, la fébrilité du mouvement Idle No More. Et devant, l’agenda conservateur. ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What might a revolution look like?
    David Seaton's News Links I finished up my last post saying:(...) simply by nationalizing Monsanto and Walmart we would have a perfect, planned economy… in other words we are all dressed up and waiting for Lenin.And several people have since asked me what I meant by that.It comes in two parts th ...
  • Monsanto and the banality of evil
    A discussion about Monsanto arose in a private technology forum that I attend, which dredged up the following from me and that in turn I'd like to share with my regular readers. DSMy great uncle was one of the original chemists of Monsanto... the boss had no money for the payroll and he paid t ...
  • Is middle class renewal in any way based on ch ...
    David Seaton's News Links Fracking illustrated It seems to me that the challenge of rebuilding the American middle class: bringing back the jobs, ensuring good public education, health care and decent pensions is now to a great extent predicated on a very controversial "energy revolution": the l ...
  • The Israeli elections
    David Seaton's News Links“This is a government that will not be able to make decisions on anything — on the peace process, on equal sharing of the burden or on budgetary matters,” Emmanuel Rosen, a prominent television analyst, said early Wednesday on Channel 10. “The next elections are alrea ...
  • The Inauguration and the Speech
    David Seaton's News LinksI found Obama’s message encouraging, but then again the president always speaks/reads well.His speech was a direct attack on the Reagan revolution and made important social democratic points about solidarity and equality -- health and education -- being directly connecte ...

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  • Racial Resentment and Fox News
    In the New York Times today, Thomas Edsall presents some evidence that racial resentment has increased in the Obama era, especially among Republicans. Jamelle Bouie comments: Edsall sees this as a crucial through-line in the ongoing story of GOP extremism. Growing racial resentment has d ...
  • No Need to Panic About the Sequester Yet
    The resolution of the fiscal cliff crisis drained so much energy from both Congress and the president that they agreed to punt on the sequester, a set of automatic $1 trillion spending cuts agreed to in 2011. But they didn't punt for long: the sequester was only delayed until March 1. Today is ...
  • Quote of the Day: Capitalism Red in Tooth and Claw
    From Stuart Staniford: This is capitalism doing what it does best: brutal competition to get more and more efficient, the weakest going to the wall, and a critically important technology becoming cheaper and cheaper. Click the link to see what technology he's talking about.
  • How's Your 401(k) Doing?
    The Great Recession took a big toll on 401(k) retirement plans. The chart below, from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, shows the general volatility of 401(k) accounts: they go up smartly during booms (1996-99, 2002-07) and plummet during busts (2000-02, 2007-08). The average accou ...
  • Marco Rubio Agrees to Take One For the Team
    Jonathan Bernstein asks the question of the day: Marco Rubio is going to give the Republican response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address this year. My only question: Why? Why would he want to do that? The SOTU response is, basically, a no-win proposition. ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 378: Bat Shit Insane
    Topic: Kriss has an epiphany People ain’t shit Chris Culliver says something stupid The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Bruce Wayne is crazy Batman beating Superman is the most realistic fight in comicbooks Comic Book cheat characters R rated comicbook movies Movie News Share with your friends:
  • IC 377: Scallenge
    Topic: Movie discussions Next Batman film Justice League lineup Children stories as movies JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars Movies and Music being generational Fuck It Gene evolved Brian Scalabrine is still better than you Share with your friends:
  • IC 376: Hulkamania
    Topic: America is ruining football 8 hours of pregame show Lingerie Football loses the lingerie XFL = What if Twitter Fans ran football The good ole days of Professional wrestling What happened to Hulk Hogan? Professional wrestling porn Obama’s 2nd Inauguration Algeria doesn’t negoti ...
  • IC 375: Young C Murda Jr
    Topic: Gotta have a little “ism” in you Using disrespectful words Kev tells an infidelity story Worst.Friend.Ever Carl Jr. is awesome Kriss doesn’t fuck with Obama anymore Working on the Enterprise actually sucks Higher body count: Picard or Kirk Herschel Walker = old man stren ...
  • IC 374: #SoftC-erved
    Topic: #softc lame niggas still mad When the lights come on the roaches scatter Karma’s a bitch You’re not really about that life Where Michael Cane Tears rank Being Human comes back SyFy wins but we need more space based SciFi Ben Affleck could direct Batman Hot Indian chicks are li ...

Simple Climate

  • Mild winters raise risk of flu epidemics
    Warm years limit flu transmission, but that makes us more susceptible to the virus the following season, explains Sherry Towers at Arizona State University, meaning health authorities have to watch for severe epidemics as climate changes.
  • Iconic authors help reveal record early flowering
    150 years since Henry David Thoreau observed them, plants flower three weeks earlier thanks to climate change, find Boston University’s Libby Ellwood and her teammates.
  • Temperature cuts swathe through Australian seaweed
    A record heatwave in 2011 completely killed off a seaweed species in one bay and over 1/20 of the area it covers worldwide, finds Dan Smale of the University of Western Australia
  • Delays raise emission halt urgency
    Staying under the 2°C warming target demands a serious action rethink, find Steve Davis at University of California, Irvine and team-mates, after updating a method that breaks down the steps needed into “wedges”.
  • Climate limits room at the global dinner table
    With farming producing up to one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and more people wanting more meat, agricultural research faces big challenges to avoid us having to make more difficult choices about what we eat.

e!Science News

  • High-energy X-rays shine light on mystery of P ...
    The Art Institute of Chicago teamed up with Argonne National Laboratory to help unravel a decades-long debate among art scholars about what kind of paint Picasso used to create his masterpieces. read more
  • Unique peptide could treat cancers, neurologic ...
    UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have synthesized a peptide that shows potential for pharmaceutical development into agents for treating infections, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer through an ability to induce a cell-recycling process called autophagy. read more
  • Smartphones, tablets help scientists improve s ...
    The next advance in weather forecasting may not come from a new satellite or supercomputer, but from a device in your pocket. University of Washington atmospheric scientists are using pressure sensors included in the newest smartphones to develop better weather forecasting techniques. read more
  • The deep roots of catastrophe
    A University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth's core, and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of Earth's most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. But don't worry. He says it won't happen for perhaps 200 million years. read more
  • Improved X-ray microscopic imaging
    X-ray microscopy requires radiation of extremely high quality. In order to obtain sharp images instrument and sample must stay absolutely immobile even at the nanometer scale during the recording. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen (Sw ...

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Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Mail Deliver On Saturday Over Thanks To Republ ...
    Do you like getting mail delivered on Saturday? Too bad. It is over. The Republican plan to destroy the Post Office so the “private sector” which technically means billionaires that own most of the stock in most corporations can make more dough. Thanks to the Republican Postal Destru ...
  • The Republicans Want To Re-Brand Their Party
    Buuuhahahahahah. It is all I can do to keep from laughing. For 30 years the GOP has been helping the wealthy, and the corporations they own rape our families, and transfer our assets to the top 1%. Now the outlook for our children is worse than it was for us. And they want to re-brand? [...]
  • Republicans Want To Screw More People Out Of T ...
    Since fewer and fewer people are willing to vote for Republicans for president the Republicans have a plan. Since Republicans  have drawn districts where they control the state even though more people vote for democrats, they want to change the electoral map. They want to keep Texas the same, bu ...
  • Hey Debt Ceiling Traitors
    We don’t have to raise the debt ceiling. All we have to do is tax billionaires at the same rate of the middle class, and we would have a budget surplus. That’s right. Surplus, without having to starve granny, or refuse medical care to babies. Then we could tax corporations at the eff ...
  • Worried About The Deficit?
    Maybe we could have some of the Americans that have 8 trillion dollars sitting in the tax havens pay some taxes? You know, the folks that are hoarding all the money their “investments” squeezed out of your family. Remember, for every dollar Mitt Romney pays in taxes, I pay $4, if you ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • New entry permits grant Israeli nationality to ...
    On February 4, 2013, a Palestinian resident of the West Bank received this entry permit when he crossed the Allenby Bridge from Jordan. The big blue letters at the top inform the holder that the State of Israel’s Border Patrol has granted him entry, making it look as though the territory h ...
  • Legal panel: IDF doesn’t follow own proc ...
    The Turkel Committee, appointed following the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara, determined that the IDF didn’t follow its own procedures in cases of Palestinian civilian casualties. However, the committee also believes that the IDF should continue to be the one probing its own actions. The Turkel ...
  • From protest villages to hunger strikes: A wee ...
    This week: Palestinians erect a new West Bank protest village, show solidarity with hunger striking prisoners and demonstrate against the occupation, while a 61-year-old Israeli woman is evicted from her home and Eritrean asylum seekers call for an end to the dictatorial regime in their home cou ...
  • Palestinian textbook case closed, but more tru ...
    This week’s publication of a U.S.-funded study cleared the Palestinians of charges that their schoolbooks ‘demonize’ Israel. This was not, however, the first hoop they’ve been made to jump through, and it won’t be the last. The Israeli and U.S. Jewish establishment ...
  • Attack on NY ‘boycott Israel’ pane ...
    After Alan Dershowitz started a campaign against a BDS panel at Brooklyn College, the institution’s funding was threatened by ‘pro-Israel’ officials. The college stuck to its guns, but the entire fiasco is an excellent example of the double standard ailing the debate on Israel ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • URGENT! LIVE! FLORIDA HOUSE BILL 87 IS LIVE NOW!
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  • Quiet Titles, Loan Audits And Other Scams That ...
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  • SCAM ALERT! VERY IMPORTANT- MARTIN ANDELMAN PO ...
    Foreclosure Defense Attorneys Matt Weidner and Tom Cox tell Mandelman what’s working and what’s not for homeowners in foreclosure courts.  If you’re following someone’s advice in an effort to save your home from foreclosure, how do you know the advice your getting is correct?  If you’re planning ...
  • David J. Stern, Florida’s Foreclosure Ki ...
    From the Palm Beach Post: The Florida Bar is seeking disciplinary action against Florida foreclosure baron David J. Stern, whose massive law firm collapsed in 2011 amid allegations that it mishandled the cases of the nation’s largest mortgage holders by filing forged and fraudulent court documen ...
  • Florida House Bill 87, Flawed at Conception&#8 ...
    The “crisis” the continues to impact the prosecution of foreclosure cases in Florida is no crisis at all.  Quite the contrary.  The fact that foreclosures have slowed in this state is a reflection that our state’s elected circuit court judges finally recognized the fraud and th ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Smart and Caring
    This week the Conference Board of Canada published a significant report relating Canada’s standing on things like child poverty, inequality …Continue reading »
  • Identity Politics
    With the Speaker of the House seated beside me, I addressed a group of my fellow MPs in as frank …Continue reading »
  • Who Are You?
    Who are you? Seriously. For that matter, who are we? Oscar Wilde used to wonder if people really knew themselves, …Continue reading »
  • A Sad Passing
    I want to tell you a story – a personal one, filled with anguish, recovery and hope. Ultimately it’s the …Continue reading »
  • Hyper-partisanship – The Steroids of Pol ...
    It’s become all too common and unfortunately has resulted not only in the fall of grace of numerous individuals but …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Is Genetically Engineered Salmon Setting a Dis ...
    The fish, called AquAdvantage salmon and produced by AquaBounty Technologies, is genetically engineered to grow faster than farm-raised Atlantic salmon. And the FDA is trying to approve the fish with a review process that is both inadequate and inappropriate.
  • The New, Exciting World of MOOCs
    More than 18,000 students from around the world have enrolled in “An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health,” taught by CLF director Bob Lawrence and Keeve Nachman.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Meat Safety, McDonalds ...
    McDonalds fish supply is entirely wild-caught Alaska Pollock—why not include small oily fish that are lower on the food chain? They probably tastes the same fried and would have more omega-3-fatty acids.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Horsemeat, Transgenic S ...
    The discovery of horse DNA in supermarket beef products in the UK created quite a stir. But it’s not just horsemeat, offensive enough to horse lovers, there may be pig meat in the beef as well—I can’t imagine British Muslims are taking this news lightly. Food safety issues are being investigated ...
  • If You Grow It, They Will Taste It
    A faith garden is what you might expect: a plot of land, a lot of mulch, some herbs, some tomatoes, a ton of squash. But it’s also food woven into tradition, a commitment to feeding those who are less fortunate, and a plan to help children connect with the Earth.

k2p blog

  • German Education Minister to appeal against lo ...
    Dusseldorf University has voted to strip Education Minister Annette Schavan of her doctorate after an investigation into plagiarism allegations.
  • Good grief! “Unfriending” leads to ...
    This may not be bad science but it could be a gross exaggeration of its importance to call it trivial science. A study based on 582 responses gathered by Twitter no less! Unfriending someone on social media can apparently lead to real life avoidance. Almost a profound finding.
  • Altruism among plants? or do they mean nepotism?
    There is a suggestion that plants can be "altruistic" but requires a rather curious definition of altruism as being only when the benefactor is related to the beneficiary. I would have thought that this was a case of nepotism among plants rather than altruism.
  • Altruism among plants? or do they mean nepotism?
    There is a suggestion that plants can be "altruistic" but requires a rather curious definition of altruism as being only when the benefactor is related to the beneficiary. I would have thought that this was a case of nepotism among plants rather than altruism.
  • Noted in Passing 2nd February 2013
    A weekly post on things that were interesting or which I would have liked to have blogged about …….

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Consumerist

  • The End Of Saturday Mail Delivery Is Awesome F ...
    While there are plenty of people greeting the looming end of Saturday mail delivery with a shrug (“Less junk mail on the weekends, awesome!”) there are those out there who see the change as a significant upset in a valued service. They are the DVD-by-mail customers, the ones who try ...
  • I’m Probably Going To Miss My Wedding Wh ...
    Consumerist reader David is supposed to be getting married on Thursday in Ecuador, but he’s now dealt with two airlines and three different airports and it appears he might not be walking down the aisle at his own wedding. The problem began when David’s US Airways flight from Philade ...
  • The Sears Coupon That’s So Restrictive, ...
    Consumerist reader Cliff recently received this coupon for $5 off any purchase of $25 or more from Sears. Seemed generous enough of the retailer. That is, until he looked at the manifold restrictions put on the offer. (Scroll down to see the full detail of the restrictions on this coupon.) First ...
  • Yard Sale Proves Fruitful For Man Who Found Fi ...
    Anyone who’s ever picked through a garage sale, yard sale or antique store can relate to the thrill of finding something unexpected and desirable amid the heaps of broken old toys and worthless junk. And sometimes, the best finds of all stay hidden even after the transaction has been made. ...
  • Girls Scouts: We’re Totally Hip To The I ...
    Listen, the Girl Scouts of America are totally down with this whole Internet thing, as well as social media. Which is good, because the organization has stirred up a bit of a social media controversy over a recent clarification that scouts can’t use PayPal to accept payment for their wares ...

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    Henry Red Cloud Leads the Renewable-Energy Charge at Pine Ridge
    Indian Country Today Media Network.com
    There is a revolution under way to bring renewable resources to Native American people. Led by modern-day warrior Henry Red Cloud, a direct fifth generation descendent of Red Cloud, the famous Lakota war chief, and Trees, Water & People (TWP), ...
    Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal & Gas In Australia, Bloomberg New ...
    CleanTechnica
    A new analysis from research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance has concluded that electricity from unsubsidised renewable energy is already cheaper than electricity from new-build coal and gas-fired power stations in Australia. The modeling from the ...
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    Green Plains Renewable Energy's CEO Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings ...
    Seeking Alpha
    We are here to discuss our quarterly financial and fiscal year results and recent developments for Green Plains Renewable Energy. There is a slide presentation for you to follow along with as we go through our comments today. You can find that ...
    Measure would delay renewable energy mandates in Kansas
    Kansas.com
    Senate Bill 82 seeks to amend current statutes that require the Kansas Corporation Commission to establish renewable portfolio standards that would require energy companies to have net renewable generation capacities of 10 percent by 2011, 15 percent ...
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    Great Lakes water drop could hinder ecology and economy
    CBC.ca
    Researchers at The Great Lakes Institute are concerned with falling water levels in the Great Lakes Basin. But experts say the area's eco-system won't be the only one to suffer. More than a decade of below-normal rain and snowfall and higher ...
    Ecology Center hires new director
    Mount Shasta Herald
    The Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, after a five month long nationwide search, has announced the hiring of Patti Moss as its new executive director. Email; Share; Print. Mount Shasta Herald - Mount Shasta, CA. Writer. Feb. 6, 2013 8:41 am ...
    Our dams will not impact ecology in India: China
    The Hindu
    The Chinese government said on Monday that the new hydropower dams it is planning to build on the Brahmaputra river would not impact flood control efforts or the ecological environment in downstream regions. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it was ...
    USA: Ecology Approves Bellingham's Shoreline Master Program
    Dredging Today
    Ecology Approves Bellingham's Shoreline Master Program. The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has approved Bellingham's updated shoreline master program, helping protect 38 miles of shorelines along rivers, lakes and streams in the city.
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    Nazi Salute Lands Maine Girls in Hot Water
    ABC News
    Nazi Salute Lands Maine Girls in Hot Water. CUMBERLAND, Maine February 7, 2013 (AP). Members of a Maine high school girls' basketball team have been disciplined after a picture surfaced online of team members giving a Nazi salute. The principal and ...
    DWP seeks truce in water wars as LA Aqueduct nears 100
    Los Angeles Times
    On many mornings over the last decade, residents from the eastern Sierra enclave of 40 Acres cut a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power chain so they could open a gate and redirect the creek's water their way. On many afternoons, DWP workers ...
    Councilor touts year-round outdoor drinking fountains
    Boston Globe
    At a City Hall hearing Thursday, O'Malley plans to push the city and state to install more outdoor bubblers, a.k.a water fountains. He is suggesting that some bubblers should be weather-proofed and remain on all year so joggers such as himself always ...
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    Jim Rogers Bullish on Water-Tech Investments, Russian Ruble
    Bloomberg
    Rogers, who is chairman of Rogers Holdings in Singapore where he lives with his wife and two young daughters, said he isn't interested in owning lakes, reservoirs or other sources of water that could be confiscated by governments in times of turmoil ...
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