Thursday, February 07, 2013

7 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Calf Creek Canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante...
Calf Creek Canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Metate Caprock Arch
Metate Caprock Arch (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Opuntia in flower, Grand Staircase-Escalante N...
Opuntia in flower, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Metate Arch and Straight Cliffs, Devil's Garde...
Metate Arch and Straight Cliffs, Devil's Garden, Escalante-Grand Staircase N.M. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Hoodoos in Devils Garden, Grand Staircase-Esca...
Hoodoos in Devils Garden, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Biosingularity

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

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

CFACT

  • Land Trust Flips Private Property to Feds in Utah
    Hoping to thwart commercial development within the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah, a well-heeled Arizona land trust recently flipped several parcels of private land to the Bureau of Land Management.
  • UK Met Office predicts no temperature rise
    [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5061.mp3] After offering a shocking admission several months ago that there has been no discernable global warming for 16 years, the UK Met Office recently followed that up with a revised 5 year prediction about global temperatures showing no increase abo ...
  • “Global Warming” was never about c ...
    What redemptive solutions are urgently implored to combat this phantom "global warming," or rather, "climate change"? We must give lots of money to the UN to redistribute; abandon fossil fuel use in favor of heavily subsidized but assuredly abundant, “free”, and “renewable” alternatives; and exp ...
  • U.S. Leads the World in Red Tape for Mining Pr ...
    What’s the most inhospitable country in the world to the mining of precious metals or minerals? The United States of America – hands down.
  • Court of Appeals punctures a hole in EPA&#8217 ...
    Even though not a gallon of cellulosic ethanol has been manufactured in the U.S., the EPA has continued to predict fantastical production volumes: approximately 5 million gallons in 2010, 6.6 million in 2011, 8.7 million in 2012 and a whopping 14 million gallons for 2013. These predictions esta ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Moscow College Rector Held over Alleged Contra ...
    The rector of the Moscow Institute of Administration and Law has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a colleague, which was thwarted by the police, the Investigative Committee said on Thursday.
  • Grand Imperial Crown Copied to Mark Anniversaries
    It took two months to make the replica of the Grand Imperial Crown that was showcased at a jewelers’ forum in St. Petersburg. Sixty jewelers from Smolensk made it for the 250th anniversary of the coronation of Catherine the Great and the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. Several thousand ...
  • Man Kills Woman in Russia over Empty Bottles
    A resident of central Russia’s Kirov Region has been detained on suspicion of killing a woman for refusing to give him empty bottles, the Investigation Committee said on Thursday.
  • Former Tajik Prime Minister Arrested in Kiev
    Ukrainian authorities this week detained a former Tajik politician, who has long been living in the United States, and got permission from a local court Thursday to keep him in custody for 40 more days in anticipation of an extradition request from Tajikistan, according to Ukrainian prosecutors.
  • Three Russian Bird Species Face Extinction
    Three bird species - the slender-billed curlew, the spoon-billed sandpiper and the golden bunting - are on the verge of extinction in Russia, Russian Bird Protection Union President Vitaly Zubakin said on Thursday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Three Russian Bird Species Face Extinction
    Three bird species - the slender-billed curlew, the spoon-billed sandpiper and the golden bunting - are on the verge of extinction in Russia, Russian Bird Protection Union President Vitaly Zubakin said on Thursday.
  • Azerbaijan to Launch First Comsat Thursday Night
    Azerbaijan is to launch its first telecommunication satellite, Azerspace, on Thursday night, Information and IT Minister Ali Abbasov said Wednesday.
  • Russia Launches Six Globalstar-2 Satellites
    A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket with six Globalstar-2 low-orbit communication satellites lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, Russia's Federal Space Agency, known as Roscosmos, said after the launch.
  • Russia Set to Orbit Six US Telecoms Satellites
    Russia will launch on Tuesday a Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying six Globalstar-2 telecommunications satellites from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
  • New App Lets Users ‘Talk’ With House Plants
    Call it a growth industry. For the gardener on the go, a new service for use on mobile devices lets plants “tell” their owners in real time when they are thirsty and, for outdoor shrubbery, allows even owners who are far from home to give them the water they need immediately.

Pruning Shears

  • Nook & Cranny - 'The Bird With the Broken Wing ...
    Nook & Cranny took the top spot on my best music of 2012 post, so it’s safe to say I’m a fan. They’ve got a new album coming out soon, and here’s a live take of one of the tracks - The Bird With the Broken Wing.Pretty sweet, eh?
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2013 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2013 selections:Systemic DisorderThe Titanic sails at dawnMario Piperni dot ComAlternate BrainThe Mills River Progressivep ...
  • Away from energy independence, and towards ene ...
    Two of the more loaded words in contemporary politics are independence and freedom. Despite their similarities in meaning they get used in very different ways. Independence is used in a more national sense, which might be natural because of its prominence in what is arguably our founding docum ...
  • Utopian colonies and the deep roots of Occupy
    Last year I worked on a series of posts1 with a loose collection of bloggers, mostly from Corrente. The general theme was arguing against the “diversity of tactics” approach being introduced at numerous Occupy encampments, Occupy Oakland in particular. During this process one of ou ...
  • Testing water and building community
    Last summer I wrote about the Sierra Club’s Water Sentinels program for testing water. Our town’s anti-fracking activists have been using it at their homes for a while now, but around the time of my post we also began free monthly water testing for the community. We are careful to ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Cook Organic, Not the Planet
    What if there were an inexpensive technology that could cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50 percent or more? What if this technology over the next 30-40 years could also sequester 50-100 parts-per-million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2), to bring the total ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere down f ...
  • Genetic Changes to Food May Get Uniform Labeling
    With Washington State on the verge of a ballot initiative that would require labeling of some foods containing genetically engineered ingredients and other states considering similar measures, some of the major food companies and Wal-Mart, the country's largest grocery store operator, have been ...
  • Bye-Bye to the Airport TSA Backscatter Machines
    Rapiscan "backscatter" screening machines, which project x-ray beams onto your body using ionizing radiation, are being removed from U.S. airports.Click here to read this article
  • The Unsavory Truth of Food Fraud: Horsemeat Bu ...
    When you buy processed meat, whether from your local grocer or a restaurant, what are you really getting?Click here to read this article
  • How Shorter Work Hours and More Vacation Time ...
    A new report published by a liberal think tank offers an intriguing solution to the problem of global warming: work less, and carbon emissions will be reduced. That's what the Center for Economic Policy and Research says in a new study, according to a report in U.S. News and World Report.Click h ...

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Huge victory against fluoride in Australia
    Liberal National Party (LNP) of Queensland has cut $14 million of funding and decided to allow local councils to decide for themselves. Cairns stops in Mar joining Murgon, Wondai, Kingaroy, Nanango, Blackbutt, and South Burnett almost 200,000 people Submitted by John Farnham to Health & We ...
  • 'CIA Drone Base' in Saudi Revealed
    The facility was established to 'hunt for members of al-CIAda' in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen.( NB Al-CIAda is employed in overthrow of Syria,Libya,Egypt,etc ) First time the CIA used secret facility was to kill US citizen Awlaki. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Vaccination Side Effects, Sponsored by Merck
    U.S. Government Mandates Mercks Gardasil for Immigrants who must accept any vaccination recommended by the government. Rising incidence of reports of death, Guillain-Barré syndrome (6), an autoimmune disorder that can paralyze Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   N ...
  • Fracking Hell : the Untold Story
    Marcellus Shale water polluted - undrinkable Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Solar Powered Airplane Could Deliver Medical S ...
    The Solar Ship is a hybrid aircraft that is powered by the sun and assisted by helium.It can take off or land on a soccer field. That would allow it to deliver medical supplies to remote inaccessible regions . Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  | ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • Debunking the GMO Talking Points with Ease
    Debunking the proven lies perpetrated by the biotech industry.
  • FLUORIDEGATE An American Tragedy
    FLUORIDEGATE is a new documentary that reveals the tragedy of how the United States government, industry and trade associations protect and promote a policy known to cause harm to our country and especially to small children who suffer more than any other segment of the population. While governm ...
  • Polish Resistance to GMO Deception Swells to F ...
    The swelling farmers’ protest against the Polish government’s sell-off of prime Polish farmland to foreign multi-national corporations has now spread to five Polish provinces.
  • Hazardous Virus Gene Discovered in GM Crops af ...
    ISIS has warned against the CaMV 35S promoter and called for all affected GM crops to be withdrawn since 1999 while damning evidence on its safety continues to emerge.
  • Sir Julian Joins Polish Farmers in Solidarity ...
    Sir Julian will drive a tractor from Path Hill Farm, carrying Polish flags and placards proclaiming 'Solidarity with the Polish farmers', 'Stop GMO' and 'Free-up Repressive Food Regulations' that inhibit local sales.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'Historic Winter Storm' Moving Toward U.S. Nor ...
    ShareThis'Historic Winter Storm' Moving Toward U.S. Northeast 06 Feb 2013 A "potential historic winter storm" may dump 2 feet of snow on Boston and eastern Massachusetts as it makes its way up the Atlantic coast, leaving 10 inches or more in New York City. Eighteen to 24 inches (46 to 61 cent ...
  • Debate Over Terrorism Insurance to Be Renewed
    ShareThisBusinesses don't want to pay for the US government's inside jobs: Debate Over Terrorism Insurance to Be Renewed 06 Feb 2013 Bipartisan legislation filed yesterday in the House of Representatives promises to renew the federal terrorism reinsurance program and the debate about whether the ...
  • Canada considers revoking citizenship from dua ...
    ShareThisCanada considers revoking citizenship from dual citizens linked to terrorism 06 Feb 2013 Canada's immigration minister said Wednesday his government should consider stripping Canadians with dual citizenship who commit terrorist acts of their Canadian status. The remarks follow revelat ...
  • Sandy Hook DA cites 'potential suspects,' fear ...
    ShareThisSandy Hook DA cites 'potential suspects,' fears safety of witnesses 05 Feb 2013 Connecticut State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky has argued that unsealing warrants in the Sandy Hook case might "seriously jeopardize" the investigation by disclosing information known only to other "potent ...
  • Hackers access Federal Reserve website, data
    ShareThisHackers access Federal Reserve website, data 06 Feb 2013 The Federal Reserve has acknowledged that an outside party gained access to its website and a limited amount of data, raising questions about the central bank's cyber-security measures. The Fed did not say which of its websites ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...
  • Questioning Natural & Community Capital
    A Conference at York University about Capitalizing Power, organized by Jonathan Nitzan. In my talk, I try to relate Nitzan's "Capital as Power" framework to environmentalist thinking.
  • Two Uprisings
    A Review of Douglas Bland. 2009. Uprising: A Novel. Blue Butterfly Books. read more
  • Joe Emersberger's review of Haiti's New Dictat ...
    Joe Emersberger's got a sharp eye for discerning when media information is misleading or false. When the 2004 coup happened in Haiti, Joe published his correspondence with the Globe and Mail reporter in Haiti at the time, and very ably showed me how someone with a keen eye and decent principles ...
  • Duets for Abdelrazik
    I'm listening to Duets for Abdelrazik, which my friend Stefan Christoff sent to me as an early holiday present. It's mellow music considering that it is the story of the thoroughly appalling mistreatment of someone by an appalling system. read more

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • In Chile, Plunder and Perverse Laws against th ...
    The Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM)in Chile refuses to allow the Chilean government to define the Mapuche people as terrorist criminals when they are fighting to preserve & protect their traditions, language, ancestral organizations & land.
  • Woe to the Victor
    LAPID WON 19 seats. His is the second largest faction in the 120-seat Knesset, after Likud-Beitenu, which has 31 seats. The composition of the House is such that it is almost impossible for Binyamin Netanyahu to form a coalition without him. He can impose on the Prime Minister almost any policy. ...
  • Reagan Would Be 102 -- and Against Obama's Dro ...
    Ronald Reagan was born on this date 102 years ago today. He died in June, 2004,& in the interim Republicans have transformed him into a conservative fetish. He wouldn't recognize his party to day because did not believe in torture, rendition, military tribunals, or in military strikes with a hig ...
  • 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 to be ...
  • The Death Rattle of American Democracy
    Acceptance of assassination, torture, indefinite detention & organizations such as the NSA & CIA are incompatible with democracy or any state dedicated to the rule of law.

Switchboard

  • Waste Less, Feed More: Ending Food Waste at Ho ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City I started thinking about food waste back when I was climbing mountains. When you are carrying 30 days’ worth of food on your back, every ounce is precious. When we packed, we weighed our dried be ...
  • Hong Kong Taking Major Steps to Address Air Po ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing While the air in Beijing and throughout much of China has been notoriously polluted in recent weeks, Hong Kong (where I currently live) does not fare much better. The poor air quality in Hong Kong ha ...
  • East Coast States Strengthen Power Plant Pollu ...
    Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York Several East Coast states set a bold model for the nation to follow today by strengthening a program that is already successfully reducing the number one contribution to climate change in ...
  • Great Bear Rainforest - Half the forest isn't ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Shortly after I started working at NRDC in 2000, my first trip was to the remote Great Bear Rainforest on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. I was awed by the ecological s ...
  • And, on the eighth day, God created transit
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Diana Lind of Next City has created a brilliant two-minute video highlighting what’s great about public transit.  It takes the style of the terrific Dodge Ram &ldq ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Supreme Court: Overrated As Both Hero And ...
    In comments to djw’s post about law and social change, Russell Arben Fox argues: I just wanted to get across the idea that the process of democratic deliberation regarding same-sex marriage is at a highly fluid point right now; has been for 15 years, at least, and probably will continue to ...
  • Myths of Sisyphus
    Last spring I participated in a “debate” with Martin Katz, dean of the University of Denver’s law school, at a bar association event. It turned out not to be much of a debate: I presented the argument I published subsequently in my article The Crisis of the American School, and Katz, who had rea ...
  • Waiting in Line to Vote
    The past few days have seen several stories on waiting times at the polls in November, spurred by the release of a couple of studies, including one by Charles Stewart at MIT with an N of over 10,000. Key findings from the MIT survey are illustrated here in the NYT piece. With these data we [...]
  • This Day in Labor History: February 7, 1894
    On February 7, 1894, gold miners near Cripple Creek, Colorado walked off the job, leading to one of the biggest victories for organized labor in the Gilded Age after the state of Colorado intervened on the side of the workers. This strike made the Western Federation of Miners the major labor org ...
  • This Week in Gun Fetish Paranoia
    Obama “VIPER” Death Squads v The Second Amendment. From the original MJ story: Various tea party activists, libertarian websites and other conspiracy-minded Obama haters are claiming that Russian security forces have discovered that Obama is about to unleash “death squads&#8221 ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Wind Energy Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel Power ...
    Unsubsidized wind power is now cheaper than electricity produced from new coal- and natural gas-fired power stations in Australia, according to an analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The study said that electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm at a cost of 80 Australian dollars per ...
  • Probing Impact of Warming On the World's Food ...
    One of the few potential advantages attributed to soaring carbon dioxide levels has been enhanced crop growth. But in an interview with Yale Environment 360, botanist Stephen Long talks about his research showing why rising temperatures and an increase in agricultural pests may offset any future ...
  • More than 11,000 Elephants Killed In Gabon Par ...
    Poachers have slaughtered more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004, according to a new study by Gabon’s government and two leading conservation groups. The study said that in the past 9 years, two-thirds of the forest elephants in Minkebe — about 11,100 a ...
  • Will Bold Steps Be Needed toSave Beleaguered P ...
    In a paper released this week, the world’s leading polar bear scientists say the time has come to consider drastic measures to save these iconic animals, including supplemental feeding by humans during ice-free periods and relocating more southerly populations to the High Arctic. BY ED STRUZIK
  • Sea Urchins Offer a Clue To New Way to Capture ...
    British researchers have discovered that sea urchins use nickel particles on their exoskeletons to effectively capture CO2 and turn it into a solid form, an intriguing finding that could offer an inexpensive way to capture and store carbon from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Scientists from New ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Ancient Order Knights of Malta, Militia to the ...
    Once drawn exclusively from Europe’s nobility, the order is trying to shed its image as a purely rich man’s club while still tapping the world’s wealthy to fund its charitable work. But what lies behind the mainstream presentation of the Order? "The Knights of Malta is not merely a “charitable o ...
  • CIA admits full monitoring of Facebook and oth ...
    Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows. But what does the US military use those same networks for? Well, we ca ...
  • How the Vatican built a secret property empire ...
    Papacy used offshore tax havens to create £500m international portfolio, featuring real estate in UK, France and Switzerland Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewellers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the near ...
  • Gun Shoots DNA Bullets to Tag Criminals
    Criminals are often caught because they leave their DNA at a crime scene. Now police can catch a criminal by leaving DNA on the suspect. The technique involves firing a type of paintball gun that shoots a pellet filled with artificial DNA instead of dye. It was built by SelectDNA, a company in t ...
  • Giant Veil of "Cold Plasma" Discovered High Ab ...
    Clouds of charged particles stretch a quarter the way to the moon, experts say. Clouds of "cold plasma" reach from the top of Earth’s atmosphere to at least a quarter the distance to the moon, according to new data from a cluster of European satellites. Earth generates cold plasma—slow-moving ch ...

Russia Today

  • Putin slams Sochi delays, fires Olympic Commit ...
    Heads have rolled after Vladimir Putin’s inspection of Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic venues and infrastructure under construction. A dramatic cost overrun combined with schedule disruptions of some sites has resulted in... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Anti-snow chemicals used in Moscow take 1.3bn ...
    Toxic and even radioactive elements have been found in de-icing substances used for clearing Moscow streets from snow, according to data gathered by a group of activists. City authorities deny the allegations. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Former Assange ally accuses him of becoming L. ...
    Jemima Khan, once a strong ally of Julian Assange, has lashed out at the whistleblower, comparing him to the father of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard after he criticized a film about WikiLeaks that she produced. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Tunisian govt shake-up: A move away from hardl ...
    To quell public fury at the murder of an opposition figure, the Tunisian government has promised elections. Amid claims the ruling Islamist-led Ennahda party was behind the killing, Tunisia’s PM pledged a move towards a... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Moscow denies Russian fighter jets violated Ja ...
    Moscow has denied its fighter jets breached Japanese airspace. The Japanese Defense Ministry earlier said two Russian combat fighter jets briefly entered Japan`s airspace just off the northern island of Hokkaido. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • Super Bowl 2013 commemorates American warrior ...
    TV NATION- Can Americans no longer embarrass themselves? This year’s pregame holiday extended to Super Bowl Eve with an un-ironic commemoration ceremony, an all-star gala tribute to football, acclaiming it a venerated touchstone of the American character, the public mob like drunken monks ...
  • Punxsutawney Phil fails to see eclipse of mank ...
    You know it’s GROUNDHOG DAY when newspaper weather forecasts read like articles in the Onion. The unseasonably warm winter that followed a record breaking hot summer has been declared by Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania’s mascot meteorologist to be an “Early Spring”. FOR NATURE ...
  • Time Mag trio wants to stop violence. Whose? L ...
    OMG YES. OF COURSE. STOP THE VIOLENCE. Wait. By whose pinheaded definition? “Too many children are dying” exclaims Gabrielle Giffords! But looking into the eyes of these posterchild sociopaths, you know they’re only talking about domestic gun deaths, the collateral damage of ou ...
  • Idle No More versus War On Terra
    Rap News skewers environmental destruction of Canada and Australia, as alien invasions competing for first place in “War on Terra”, praises IDLE NO MORE for rising against non-indigenous expropriation of the “Commonwealth”.
  • US forces push women to front lines, canon fod ...
    Pentagon lifts ban on women in combat. I guess US prisons have consumed the traditional canon fodder labor pool. What’s the upside to this news –a kinder gentler militarized empire? Fail. Our culture of violence doesn’t breed matriarchs. American women on the front lines is goo ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Brazil to investigate uncontacted Awá
    It is thought there could be up to 100 Awá who live without any contact with outsiders.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s indigenous affairs department (FUNAI) has announced that it will send a team of specialists to investigate the situation of uncontacted Awá, the world’s most threatened tribe&qu ...
  • Angry Papuan leaders demand Jared Diamond apol ...
    Benny Wenda, a Papuan tribal leader, says what Jared Diamond is writing about his people is 'misleading'.© freewestpapua.org/SurvivalLeaders across West Papua have demanded controversial author Jared Diamond apologizes for describing them in his new book as warlike, and strengthening t ...
  • Game of Thrones star speaks out over Colombian ...
    Game of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has done a voice-over for Survival's interview.© SurvivalGame of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has lent her support to a Survival International campaign to finally bring the killers of three Colombian Indian leaders to justice. ...
  • Jared Diamond's new book 'The World Until Yest ...
    Diamond says that state governments stop tribal people from killing each other, but doesn't mention that an estimated 100,000 Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian authorities.© Jeanne Herbert/SurvivalTribal rights organization Survival International has launched a vigorous critique of ...
  • Survival launches 'Stop Complaining' ad for Ea ...
    Survival's new ad 'Stop Complaining' will bring global attention to the plight of Earth's most threatened tribe.© SurvivalHuman rights organization Survival International has launched a worldwide advertising campaign to raise awareness of the plight of the Awá tribe in Brazil ...

Greg Palast

  • Aaron Swartz Died for Piers Morgan's Sins
    By Greg Palast for Vice.com This is the tale of two geniuses. In 2000, Aaron Swartz, aged 14, had just released his astonishing invention, RSS, to ease the flow of information and news around the Internet. Around the same time, one of Piers Morgan’s stringers hacked into the phone of Sir Paul Mc ...
  • Piers Morgan And My Pee Pee
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Now, if this were a movie, you would hear the audience scream, "DON’T TAKE THE KEY! DON’T GO UP THOSE STAIRS!" The reporter part of my brain was screaming, too: 'THIS SMELLS BAD.' But I couldn’t  hear a thing because, while I was out for the story, the memory of  ...
  • Assault Gun Ban - Weapon of Mass Distraction
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine George Bush told America he'd keep us safe from terrorists by having us take off our shoes at the airport. Yesterday, Barack Obama again took the Oath of Office. And this Obama 2.0 is also going to save America from insane killers – by limiting ammo clips to ten ...
  • Alex Jones, Guns, Piers Morgan – and My Penis
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine This is the first of Palast's weekly columns for VICE – beginning with a bang: a four-part series on Alex Jones, guns, Piers Morgan and Palast's penis. PART ONE: ALEX JONES VERSUS DOWNTON ABBEY Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chai ...
  • Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers – and it's the ketchup. [As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Leslie Manookian on Idaho's Proposed Immunizat ...
    By Anne Dachel On Jan 31, 2013, MagicValley.com from Twin Falls, ID, published the story, Proposed Immunization Database Change Prompts Privacy Concerns. The article was about proposed changes to the state’s immunization database and controversy over medical records and individual...
  • Dachel Media Update: Flu Shot Injury, Chemical ...
    Feb 4, 2013, New Times Miami: Miami Man Contracts Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Nearly Dies After Getting Flu Shot Feb 4, 2013, Forbes: New Reports Reveal Need for Regulation of Chemicals in Infant Products Feb 4, 2013, Yahoo! News: Insulin-requiring diabetes up...
  • National Autism Association Offers Alex & Ani ...
    From the amazing team at National Autism Association. Not only do they protect our kids with safety programs in their BIG RED SAFETY SHOP, they are looking out for our marriages and relationships too by offering this beautiful necklace in...
  • BYU Study on Autism and Fear
    Managing Editor's Note: How do you help your child (or how do you yourself) cope with anxiety and/or fear? K A new study conducted by a BYU professor and two students shows that the severity of autism for children may...
  • Inside The Minnesota Autism Insurance Coverage ...
    By Tim Kasemodel On Wed, Jan 30, 2013, a hearing on insurance coverage for children with autism was held in the MN State House. During that hearing, State Rep. Mary Franson of Alexandria MN addressed the cause of autism. This...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Debunking the GMO Talking Points with Ease
    Debunking the proven lies perpetrated by the biotech industry.
  • FLUORIDEGATE An American Tragedy
    FLUORIDEGATE is a new documentary that reveals the tragedy of how the United States government, industry and trade associations protect and promote a policy known to cause harm to our country and especially to small children who suffer more than any other segment of the population. While governm ...
  • Polish Resistance to GMO Deception Swells to F ...
    The swelling farmers’ protest against the Polish government’s sell-off of prime Polish farmland to foreign multi-national corporations has now spread to five Polish provinces.
  • Hazardous Virus Gene Discovered in GM Crops af ...
    ISIS has warned against the CaMV 35S promoter and called for all affected GM crops to be withdrawn since 1999 while damning evidence on its safety continues to emerge.
  • Sir Julian Joins Polish Farmers in Solidarity ...
    Sir Julian will drive a tractor from Path Hill Farm, carrying Polish flags and placards proclaiming 'Solidarity with the Polish farmers', 'Stop GMO' and 'Free-up Repressive Food Regulations' that inhibit local sales.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Would YOU like to become part of the Open Your ...
    There are currently six volunteers based worldwide who bring you Open Your Eyes News. As we continue to expand, and in advance of our new website launch, we are seeking one additional member to join our team to become a category editor, taking responsibility for publishing articles in one of our ...
  • US: Social Security, health spending to hit $3 ...
    Reuters – Spending on Social Security and healthcare will double to $3.2 trillion a year over the next decade, threatening a sharp rise in national debt unless Congress acts to avoid the danger, congressional researchers warned on Tuesday. Read article
  • Royal Bank of Scotland fined $600m for fixing ...
    ABC – The Royal Bank of Scotland has been fined about $600 million for its role in a rate-fixing scandal. More than a dozen traders at RBS offices in London, Singapore and Tokyo manipulated the London interbank offered rate (Libor), which is used to price trillions of dollars worth of loan ...
  • U.S. Stocks Decline Before ECB Meeting Amid Ea ...
    Bloomberg – U.S. stocks fell, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index jumped the most in a month, as investors awaited a European Central Bank policy meeting tomorrow, offsetting corporate earnings that beat analysts’ estimates. The S&P 500 lost 0.3 percent to 1,507.32 at 9:30 a.m. i ...
  • Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Cen ...
    A 3 part BBC documentary on how Governments have used scare tactics to manipulate their own agendas For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive

L.A. Times - Greenspace

water.org

  • A Loan Leads to More
    Mrs. Lalitha Patil lives in Gojaga Village. She took a loan for Rs.10,000/- from Water.org's partner, Grameen Koota (GK), and constructed a toilet in her home. Afterwards, she became highly motivated and decided to work with her village to become completely clean and hygienic.
  • From Kutcha Well to Water Point
    In Assam, access to safe drinking water and sanitation in rural communities and small towns is often unavailable. Community residents are dependent on rain, streams, and rivers for drinking and agricultural water. Additionally, unhygienic practices have contributed to the pollution of available ...
  • Live from Davos
    April Rinne, Director of WaterCredit, speaks with The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore live from The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Watch the full interview here.
  • How far would you go?
    When you complete daily actions to earn points, you climb the virtual mountain and can win prizes! Ascend the 7 routes of Kilimanjaro and along the way qualify to win prizes from HP, Intel, P&G, KLM and Eddie Bauer. The more points you have, the better your chances to win the ultimate grand priz ...
  • Household Water in Ongata Rongai
    When individuals lack household access to water, they must purchase it from another source. This water cart was selling water for 15-20 KES (USD $0.18 and $0.24) per 20 liters in a neighborhood in Ongata Rongai, Kenya. (The average income per person in Kenya is $2.25 per day. Source: The Wor ...

Cryptogon

  • Former Pilot and ’9/11 Conspiracy Theori ...
    Via: BoingBoing: Phillip (alternately, “Philip”) Marshall, 54, a career airline pilot who claimed to have once served as a contract pilot for the CIA and DEA during the Iran-Contra affair, shot and killed his two teenage children, and the family dog, then killed himself. The apparent ...
  • Postal Service to Cut Saturday Mail to Trim Costs
    Via: AP: The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion annually, the financially struggling agency says. In an announcement scheduled for later Wednesday, the service is expected to sa ...
  • Germany: ‘Game’ to Destroy CCTV Ca ...
    Hide your face but then upload video of your crimes to a website? *chortle* I’d be astonished if this wasn’t a counterintelligence operation. As I was reading the piece, I was wondering if there were any upcoming protests in Berlin, because this activity would be a good way to come u ...
  • Miami Police Officer Luis Hernandez Held Witho ...
    Via: NBC: The Miami Police officer arrested for allegedly kidnapping and sexually battering a woman while on duty is being held without bond, a Miami-Dade judge said Thursday. Luis Hernandez, 27, made his initial court appearance on charges of armed sexual battery by a law enforcement officer an ...
  • Florida Cops Too Busy Drinking Coffee and Scre ...
    That sergeant looks like it’s on the Jabba the Hutt diet. Via: NBC: A group of Miami-Dade police officers was disciplined following a 2010 internal affairs investigation, police documents showed. Five police officers and one sergeant with the Kendall squad were allegedly caught on camera i ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 soo ...
  • Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccoun ...
    An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe.  It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks.  It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also ...
  • Rise Of The Droids: Will Robots Eventually Ste ...
    Will a robot take your job?  We have entered a period in human history when technology is advancing at an exponential rate.  In some ways, this has been a great blessing for humanity.  For example, I am absolutely blown away by all of the things that my little iPod can do.  But on the other [...]
  • Bankrupt, Decaying And Nearly Dead: 24 Facts A ...
    If you want to know what the future of America is going to be like, just look at the city of Detroit.  Once upon a time it was a symbol of everything that America was doing right, but today it has been transformed into a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Detroit was once the fourth- ...
  • Shocking Numbers That Show The Media Is Lying ...
    Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?  Did you know that the increase in the number of Americans "not in the labor force" during Barack Obama's first four years in the White H ...

Desertification

  • Discuss the features of desertification (Googl ...
    Read at : http://www.getbookee.org/discuss-the-features-of-desertification/ Desertification: Cause and Effectto such features as the date and origin of the … of Desertification and discuss the criteria for the writing assignment. Desertification: Cause and Effect 2. alliance.la.asu.edu/../ ...
  • The Million Tree Project 2007-2012 (VIMEO)
    Video seen at : https://vimeo.com/49282921 Just the Beginning: The Million Tree Project from Jonah Kesse In 2007, with the help of Dr. Jane Goodall a small group of volunteers calling themselves Shanghai Roots & Shoots set out with a dream: … Continue reading →
  • DESIRE Project to combat desertification (VIMEO)
    Video seen at : https://vimeo.com/44124906 The DESIRE project – the challenge and the results. from Soil Physics & Land Use PROJECTS The second version of the DESIRE film shows not only the global problem of desertification, but also shows what … Continue reading →
  • Climate Change and Small Scale Farmers in Burk ...
    Video seen at : https://vimeo.com/40290482 Desertification – The Impact of Climate Change on Small Scale Farmers in Burkina Faso from Roland Brockmann An eyewitness report about the situation of peasent farmers in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso. What are … Continue reading →
  • Fighting desertification in Mauritania (VIMEO ...
    Video seen at : https://vimeo.com/50534295 Arabic gum and fighting desertification in Mauritania by Tenmiya from Drynet

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • RIM’s — er, Blackberry’s &#8 ...
    By Mark Evans While the new and much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 has finally launched, there’s another story that I think is as compelling: the public relations campaign that has happened over the past six months that let RIM arrive at yesterday’s launch with the wind in its sails. The PR work has ...
  • BC throws a film party — for India
    \\\|\\\ Tags:  Bollywood, British Columbia, film, India, Ontario, Quebec Del.icio.us Facebook TweetThis Digg StumbleUpon ...
  • Sun News might just get its way
    By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special ...
  • The NHL is back, but I won’t be
    By Montreal Simon A couple of my friends came over this evening to watch the Habs-Leafs game on my big screen TV. And they were surprised to find out that I hadn’t been planning to watch it, until they turned up. And that I wasn’t the least bit excited that the season had finally sta ...
  • An Idle proposal to Canadian journalists: STFU
    By Frank Moher Kevin Newman’s interview with Chief Theresa Spence, aired today on CTV’s “Question Period,” illustrated pretty neatly in its first few minutes all that’s been wrong with mainstream coverage of Spence’s fast, and of Idle No More. Newman began by ...

libcom

  • Violent Squat Eviction in St Petersburg: Three ...
    On 4th February, at around 10pm local time, riot police brutally evicted a group of anarchists, community activists and local history enthusiasts who had been occupying a disused railway station, Warsaw station, in St Petersburg, Russia. ...
  • The new Jim Crow discredited, Advocates demand ...
    BarCodePrisonBars.jpg Radical scholars and social justice activists say the popular discourse of The New Jim Crow promotes a false understanding of mass incarceration in the United States and serves t ...
  • Freedom Bookshop firebombed
    72898_10151473864771873_1823619268_n.jpg London based anarchist bookshop, Freedom was firebombed in the early hours of the morning. On twitter, Freedom said: read more
  • British TV news airs footage refuting South Af ...
    Ben Fogel on the new footage of the Marikana Massacre screened on Channel Four in the UK. Five months after the Marikana Massacre in South Africa, footage of police action at the ‘killing koppie‘ ["hill"] has finally reached the publi ...
  • The community turns out in force for the Hales ...
    halesowen4rally.jpg On Saturday 26th January over 200 people took to the streets of Halesowen to demand the reinstatement of four members of the Maths department who had been sacked. On a cold day, w ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Red Symphony – The Smoking Gun of the Ed ...
    This is a most incredible text, that is if you really want to know the TRUTH of who “THEY” are. This is yet more validation on my “Righteous Blood” series of posts. While it may be best to print the text out making it easier to read – it MUST be read and studied.  T ...
  • The Missing Link to Common Diseases – An ...
    Anti-nutrients:  What You Don’t Know is Likely Killing You! By A. True Ott, PhD ND Feb. 2013 ® All rights reserved      Most people know about nutrients such as proteins, complex carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals and the important role they play in human health and vitality.  Conversely, most ...
  • Welcome to Utah’s Above Top Secret NSA & ...
    It costs well over $1 Billion Tax Dollars – yet, like Bush and Kerry’s Yale Skull and Bones’  “crypt” – it’s above top secret – too secret to even talk about.   Don’t like it?  Tough! Welcome to Huxley’s Brave New World. If that’s ...
  • AGENDA: The Sordid Russell Bloodline Central ...
    The Russell Bloodline – founding fathers of Yale’s Skull and Bones brand of satanism (William Huntington Russell), and his nephew Charles Taze Russell  (Jehovah’s Witness cult).  Birds of a feather, even vultures, stick together indeed.  Everywhere this sub-human Edomite excrem ...
  • AGENDA: The Grinding Down of America — W ...
     Comments on the video “AGENDA: Grinding America Down!”  vimeo.com/52009124 Do you not think God inspires GOOD MEN through the simple faith of Children?   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P8rZJhr8W5M Truly, it is not a “conspiracy” – it is  ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • ALERT: HB44 Threatens Missouri’s RES
  • Introducing the NewPower™ Standard
    the World’s First: Triple-Redundant Alternative Power System For Homes and Business Your Building will never lose power again with this robust power system; 4500 Watt Solar Power Generation 8000 Watt Line-Interactive Inverter / Battery Back-up UPS / Power Center 8000 Watt Stand-by Generator to r ...
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    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog
  • Congressional Democrats Launch Climate Change ...
    EcoWatch Building on President Obama’s  inaugural commitment to address climate change, key congressional leaders announced a new Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change that will be co-chaired by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA). The goal is to provide a Congressional ...
  • 2 Topics Near and Dear to My Heart
    Missouri Farmers and Renewable Energy Information ADDITIONAL FARM REVENUE FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES The following information covers topics that are very dear to my heart. 1) Clean Energy and 2) Farming / Ranching. For everyone who has not read the About Me Page; I was raised on a 4,000 acre ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Wikileaks Reports FBI Banned from Iceland
    On January 30, 2013, WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson reported that FBI agents who entered Iceland in August 2011 to investigate Iceland’s WikiLeaks operations had been ejected from the country by Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson. Janasson considered it unbelievab ...
  • How Mammograms Don't Save Lives
      According to the co-author of a recent New England Journal of Medicine study, mammograms are largely ineffective in preventing deaths from breast cancer. What the retrospective study by Drs H Gilbert Welch and Dr Archie Bleyer revealed, in essence, was that the mortality benefit of ...
  • FBI Refuses to Disclose Surveillance Policy
    In August the American Civil Liberties filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit with the FBI seeking details of its of its surveillance policy — who it spies upon, how, and under what circumstances. The FBI sent back two 50+ page memos in reply, each totally blacked out excep ...
  • US Trained Mali Rebels Who Overthrew Government
    General Carter Ham, the AFRICOM commander for the Pentagon, admitted last week that the US had helped trained the Mali rebels, including Captain Amadou Sanogo, who led the military coup which overthrew Mali’s constitutionally-elected government. In describing the statement ...
  • Was Stevens Running Guns in Benghazi?
    Retired General William G Boykin believes when he was assassinated in Benghazi, former ambassador Chris Stevens was working for the CIA running guns (or preparing to run them), via Turkey, to the  Syrian rebels. He explains his reasoning in an interview with CNSNews.com. Boy ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

  • 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 ...

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • April demands suspension of contract renegot ...
    PCINpact revealed on Feb. 5th 2013 an ongoing renegotiation on Microsoft's "Open Bar" offer to the French Ministry of Defence. The initial contract has been concluded in 2009 without any call for tender and it seems to have neglect[ed] many public procurement principles. April demands the suspen ...
  • Santa Clara Law's Professor Chien to Receive G ...
    Santa Clara Law's Professor Colleen Chien has received a $35,000 research grant from the New America Foundation to expand her work relating to "Start-ups and Trolls". This grant will fund an expanded survey to determine the impacts of Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) on the operations, growt ...
  • Apple secures patent on iPhone's slide-to-unlo ...
    The US Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) has awarded Apple a design patent for the hotly contested 'slide-to-unlock' feature that first appeared on the iPhone's graphical user interface in 2007. The USPTO granted Apple's application for Patent No. D675,639 on Tuesday. The patent describes th ...
  • Connectors, controversy and the LGPL
    With the release of LGPL licensed C and Java connectors for MariaDB and MySQL in November 2012, a number of questions were raised in the community over the drivers' provenance and appropriateness of the LGPL licence. The H went looking for answers... In November 2012, Monty Program and SkySQL a ...
  • Fedora 18 arrives for ARM
    Fedora 18 was published a month ago and now it is available in versions for the ARM architectures known as ARMv5tel and ARMv7hl in the Linux space. The Fedora Project is providing pre-built images for Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice (Tegra), Pandaboard (OMAP4), GuruPlug (Kirkwood), and Beagl ...

WideShut

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- ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

  • Four important reads on Syria
    The first two are excellent, on-the-ground reporting from Aleppo, by the seasoned, native Arabic speaker Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Dec 27 and Dec 28. The second two are from the Carnegie Endowment: This thoughtful Dec 24 piece by Yezid Sayegh: Can the National Coalition Lead Syria?; and this very well ...
  • Crunch time for funding G. Porter's book on Iran!
    Hi, everyone! We have just six days to go in our online fundraiser for Gareth Porter's very important planned book Manufactured Crisis: The Secret History of the Iranian Nuclear Scare. We've just topped getting pledges for 2/3 of the $10,000 we need for this. Can you do anything to help us get ...
  • Palestine and the Arab Spring
    Plenty of western commentators have asserted that the attention that participants in the Arab Spring have been paying to governance issues in their own countries means that somehow they no longer really care about Palestine. (A few people, most notably As'ad Abou-Khalil, have challenged that as ...
  • Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
    Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
  • Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...
    1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...

frogblog

  • Silverstripe wins govt contract
    Good news from Kiwi open-source software firm. It’s great to see Kiwi businesses do well, and with so many challenges facing manufacturers and exporters great to have a good news story coming out of our software industry. According to Stuff: Government websites will switch to free, open-source s ...
  • Solid Energy’s future is in clean energy
    There hasn’t been a great deal of good news lately for Solid Energy. What does the future hold?
  • Reflections on Waitangi Day
    Waitangi this year had many highlights overlooked by the media. Metiria, Kennedy, Denise, David, myself and other young Greens and local volunteers spent two days in the sun, meeting all kinds of people and listening to the flaxroots and grassroots voices of our nation. David Clendon spoke extre ...
  • Liam Dann on defending the status quo
    Liam Dann continued his series of defending the status quo on banking and monetary policy (here and here) this week with his column on Reserve Bank policy. While I appreciate Dann’s contribution to the discussion, his failure to offer a single positive solution effectively denies the huge diffic ...
  • Israel arrests Palestinian lawmakers
    Recent actions by Israel show a concerning disregard for the fundamentals of international law. Coming on top of the air raid on Syria, Israel have now carried out a sweeping series of raids, resulting in the arrest of around a number of Palestinians including three members of the Parliament. Th ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How Vitamin D Performance Testing Can Help You ...
    By Dr. Mercola A robust and growing body of research clearly shows that vitamin D is absolutely critical for good health and disease prevention. Vitamin D affects your DNA through vitamin D receptors (VDRs), which bind to specific locations of the human genome. Scientists have identified ne ...
  • Your Opinion Matters: Please Let us Know What ...
    We are always striving to make your Mercola.com experience better, and no one knows how we can do that better than you! Please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey and share your opinions about our newsletter. We will be using your feedback to serve you better and revise the co ...
  • Bye-Bye to the Airport TSA Backscatter Machines
    By Dr. Mercola Rapiscan "backscatter" screening machines, which project x-ray beams onto your body using ionizing radiation, are being removed from U.S. airports. Since ionizing radiation causes DNA damage that can lead to cancer, and its effects are cumulative, even the supposedly small l ...
  • Beef Burgers Made of Horse Meat and Salmonella ...
    By Dr. Mercola When you buy processed meat, whether from your local grocer or a restaurant, what are you really getting? That's a very valid question these days, as one meat-related scandal after another has been revealed. Most recently, at least 16 people in the US have been sickened f ...
  • New UN Treaty on Mercury Requires Countries to ...
    By Dr. Mercola The momentum toward mercury-free dentistry is gaining speed and, it appears, may be set to become a reality in the 21st century. The final mercury treaty session took place in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2013. There the mercury treaty was finalized, and included important ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Brazil to investigate uncontacted Awá
    It is thought there could be up to 100 Awá who live without any contact with outsiders.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s indigenous affairs department (FUNAI) has announced that it will send a team of specialists to investigate the situation of uncontacted Awá, the world’s most threatened tribe&qu ...
  • Angry Papuan leaders demand Jared Diamond apol ...
    Benny Wenda, a Papuan tribal leader, says what Jared Diamond is writing about his people is 'misleading'.© freewestpapua.org/SurvivalLeaders across West Papua have demanded controversial author Jared Diamond apologizes for describing them in his new book as warlike, and strengthening t ...
  • Game of Thrones star speaks out over Colombian ...
    Game of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has done a voice-over for Survival's interview.© SurvivalGame of Thrones and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena has lent her support to a Survival International campaign to finally bring the killers of three Colombian Indian leaders to justice. ...
  • Jared Diamond's new book 'The World Until Yest ...
    Diamond says that state governments stop tribal people from killing each other, but doesn't mention that an estimated 100,000 Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian authorities.© Jeanne Herbert/SurvivalTribal rights organization Survival International has launched a vigorous critique of ...
  • Survival launches 'Stop Complaining' ad for Ea ...
    Survival's new ad 'Stop Complaining' will bring global attention to the plight of Earth's most threatened tribe.© SurvivalHuman rights organization Survival International has launched a worldwide advertising campaign to raise awareness of the plight of the Awá tribe in Brazil ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • The Benefits of Minimally Invasive Dentistry
    from mercola.com: It’s very difficult to achieve high-level physical health if your dental health isn’t effectively addressed. I’ve been involved with alternatives to regular dentistry for quite some time. I think many people fail to appreciate how important dentistry is to our total health. ...
  • Phony patients selling pricey drugs—Part 1
    from intrepidreport.com: It’s happened to anyone who’s attended an open-mic session at an FDA advisory committee hearing. A queue of “patients” materializes out of nowhere to testify, often in tears, about the crucial need for approval of a drug the public has often not even heard of. Sometime ...
  • Windsor votes to remove fluoride from drinking ...
    from windsorstar.com: Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has changed in the last 60 years … fluoride is not the be-all and end-all to ...
  • Morningland Dairy destroyed by feds, $250,000 ...
    from naturalnews.com: There is a reason why America's founding fathers were willing to shed their own blood to gain independence from the crushing authoritarianism of the Crown of England. Nearly three years after first becoming a target for destruction by state and federal government agencies ...
  • #Video: Avoid Doctors to Protect Your Health!
    Or: If You Want To Get Sick, Go To The Hospital! from therealfoodchannel.com: Simple advice that will save you time, money - and maybe even your life. And the good news is that you don't have to do anything to benefit.

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 soo ...
  • Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccoun ...
    An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe.  It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks.  It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also ...
  • Rise Of The Droids: Will Robots Eventually Ste ...
    Will a robot take your job?  We have entered a period in human history when technology is advancing at an exponential rate.  In some ways, this has been a great blessing for humanity.  For example, I am absolutely blown away by all of the things that my little iPod can do.  But on the other [...]
  • Bankrupt, Decaying And Nearly Dead: 24 Facts A ...
    If you want to know what the future of America is going to be like, just look at the city of Detroit.  Once upon a time it was a symbol of everything that America was doing right, but today it has been transformed into a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Detroit was once the fourth- ...
  • Shocking Numbers That Show The Media Is Lying ...
    Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?  Did you know that the increase in the number of Americans "not in the labor force" during Barack Obama's first four years in the White H ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Half-Life and Counter-Strike are now Linux Rea ...
    Gaming on Linux is really taking off. Half-Life and Counter-Strike: Source officially arrives on Steam for Linux client and those hugely popular game titles are now playable on Linux! Half-Life and Counter-Strike: Source are now Linux ready! Valve has just released two mor ...
  • 5 Unique Linux Based Products at CES 2013
    January has come to an end and the highlight of the month was undoubtedly, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held annually at Las Vegas. With each new events featuring latest and greatest from the world of consumer electronics, Linux and products based on it are becoming more prominent than ...
  • Ubuntu Grabs 1.12 Percent OS Market Share on S ...
    Steam's January 2013 hardware and software survey results are out. And OS market share on Steam is already showing signs of changes. Barely two months old Ubuntu on Steam has grabbed more than 1 percent market share with almost non-existent marketing push from Canonical (VALVE did some adverti ...
  • Ubuntu Phone Android Live Wallpaper is One of ...
    Ubuntu for Phones initiative was able to generate enormous interest in brand "Ubuntu". It was one of the biggest hits at CES 2013 and smartphone demos featuring Ubuntu Phone OS became instant hits on YouTube. Now, here's one for the fans. A brand new Ubuntu Phone OS style live wallpaper for An ...
  • Valve Now Actively Promoting Steam for Linux, ...
    This has been an amazing turn of events. Until an year or two ago, Valve Inc. was a company popular among Windows users primarily. A great number of Linux users maintained a dual boot system with Windows on it because of the lack of good games for Linux, especially those from the Steam library ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Cancer Report (Full Version) – YouTube
    The Cancer Report (Full Version).flv – YouTube.
  • Yet more evidence emerges that our universe is ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) There’s a lot of buzz in the news about a new scientific study that statistically supports the idea that our known universe is actually a grand computer simulation. This is mainstream science, and the idea isn’t a whacky as you might fir ...
  • Hidden, deadly viral gene found in commercial ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) Just a few months after a now-famous Italian study found that Monsanto’s NK603 genetically-modified (GM) corn causes serious organ damage and tumors in mammals, a report issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has uncovered that m ...
  • Sandy Hook: Law Enforcement Officials Now Admi ...
    By Shepard Ambellas theintelhub.com February 6, 2013 NEWTOWN — New information has now been brought forth by Connecticut State Attorney Stephen Sedensky, suggesting that records pertaining to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have been sealed to possibly hide the identity of witnesses fr ...
  • Sandy Hook Super Hoax Government Involved Plz ...
    Sandy Hook Super Hoax Government Involved Plz Share – YouTube.

Veterans Today

  • J-BIG Vs. P-small
    It would be impossible to grasp the success of Israel and Zionism without scrutinizing the role of Jewish culture, ideology and the significant impact of the Sabbath Goy within the American Administration but also in Palestine.
  • Hillary Clinton: Profile of Imperial Arrogance ...
    She was Washington's 67th Secretary of State. She served from January 21, 2009 - February 1, 2013. She's arguably America's worst.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    In August 2010, President Obama announced the Blue Button. Today, it has been downloaded 2.7 million times and the program has been adopted by both the Department of Defense and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  • Obama: Jobs Destroyer
    The latest jobs report underwhelmed. Economist David Rosenberg said "classic measures of employment dispersion or breadth receded significantly."
  • Harnessing The Imagination
    One of the most dismal futuristic images I've seen was recently painted by Chris Hedges in the opening of an article he entitled A Time for "Sublime Madness".

electric politics

  • Congo Nocturne
    The Europeans required over a thousand years to come up with the European Union (and the EU still doesn't work right). The Congo, approximately the same size as Europe, has never had any history of legitimate, national self-governance. When Europeans started exploring the region in the late 1800 ...
  • On Magical War
    Secure in the ignorance of our traditions we treat war as if it were a game, as if we should try to win when we play. Oorah! But if we think like a human being war assumes a great deal more complexity, indeed, a necessary ambiguity. Dr. David Keen challenges conventional wisdom in a great book, ...
  • Wampum Wranglers
    So Mr. O won't mint the magic coin. He says. Well, good luck to him, then, getting the Southern secessionists to grovel. More's the pity, though, that neither side have a clue what they're talking about. Essentially, they're disputing the finer points of a primitive theory of value: call it wamp ...
  • Speaking Truth
    These days, the only reasonable thing to say to Power is, "Here's the arrest warrant, please come quietly." But Speaking Truth, that's a different story. We speak truth to affirm and reaffirm who and what we are, what the reality of the world is, and why it is the way it is. Not an easy task &md ...
  • Counting Electors
    If the Republican Party were to adopt a scorched earth policy — counting electors one way in certain swing states and another way in solid red states — they could conceivably lock in a Republican presidential win for the next several election cycles. As a practical matter it would no ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • NATO-Trained Kosovo Army To Be Activated in June
    Voice of Russia February 7, 2013 Kosovo to get an army in June Kosovo Security Force coat of arms Kosovo is planning to convert its lightly-armed Kosovo Security Force into a full-fledged army. Established in 2009, the force consists of 2,500 active and 800 reserve members and is primarily respo ...
  • Afghan War: Retreating NATO Troops To Transit ...
    ForUm February 7, 2013 Ukraine offers NATO troop withdrawal from Afghanistan through its territory Ukraine has proposed the North Atlantic Alliance and partners transit services for the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan through its territory, the UKRINFORM news agency reports. The head ...
  • U.S. To Deploy Interceptor Missile Warship To ...
    WAVY February 6, 2013 USS Barry to deploy NORFOLK, Va. – USS Barry will embark on a Ballistic Missile Defense deployment Thursday. The ship will leave Naval Station Norfolk and head to the European theater as part of the Phased Adaptive Approach… USS Barry last deployed in July of 20 ...
  • Michel Corday: Future description of these hor ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Michel Corday: Selections from The Paris Front ==== Michel Corday From The Paris Front (1934) Translator not identified 1917 – A friend rang me up on the telephone to reproach me for my extreme views, for wanting an immediate ...
  • Japan And China: War Is Around The Corner
    Global Times February 6, 2013 Japan sends dubious signals of war Japan on Tuesday lodged a protest against China, claiming Chinese military frigates locked their fire-control radar on to a Japanese navy vessel as well as a helicopter. Details of the situation remain unclear. The Japanese defense ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

FRS

  • A staggering map of the 54 countries that repo ...
    by Max Fisher, Washington Post, February 5, 2013 After Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA launched a program of “extraordinary rendition” to handle terrorism suspects. The agency’s problem, as it saw it, was that it wanted to detain and interrogate foreign suspects without bringing them to the United State ...
  • A staggering map of the 54 countries that repo ...
    by Max Fisher, Washington Post, February 5, 2013 After Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA launched a program of “extraordinary rendition” to handle terrorism suspects. The agency’s problem, as it saw it, was that it wanted to detain and interrogate foreign suspects without bringing them to the United State ...
  • Niger: US considering new drone base in Africa
    [Other reports have said that the US is already utilizing numerous remote airstrips throughout Africa for drone surveillance, and are actively preparing them for armed drone deployments. As this article points out, the utilization of drones is accompanying the AFRICOM deployment of military trai ...
  • Niger: US considering new drone base in Africa
    [Other reports have said that the US is already utilizing numerous remote airstrips throughout Africa for drone surveillance, and are actively preparing them for armed drone deployments. As this article points out, the utilization of drones is accompanying the AFRICOM deployment of military trai ...
  • BBC: “Israeli forces arrest Hamas membe ...
    4 February 2013 [Photo:   Israel launches regular operations in Palestinian run areas of the West Bank.] Israeli forces in the West Bank have arrested at least 20 members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.  Those arrested, in overnight raids all over the West Bank, included three members o ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Giffords’ Plea for More Gun Control Legislatio ...
    Gun control legislation won’t solve all of the country’s gun violence problems, but at least laws would put the authorities in the position to enforce tighter measures and make it harder for criminals to get access to certain weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 31, 2013
  • Georgia Storm Warnings Get an “A,” Preparation ...
    Tornadoes struck West Georgia again. The only lesson that seems to have been learned from prior disasters is to provide a ton of warnings. But we had those back then. What we need are protective shelters, not hallways.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Jan 30, 2013
  • Benghazi: Yes, Secretary Clinton, it Does Matt ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to know "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Either the administration had faulty intelligence reporting which needs to be exposed or President Obama lied about Benghazi.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 23, 2013
  • President Obama's Right: We're Made for This M ...
    At his second inauguration, President Barack H. Obama hit on something universal when he added a line apparently not in his prepared remarks.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jan 21, 2013
  • Congress Must Limit Executive Order Powers Now
    Congress needs to take steps now to define what the president can and cannot pass by executive order. President Obama's discussion about passing gun control legislation through executive order should be the catalyst.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Jan 15, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Feathered ...
    Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: We have a winner! So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example: Hey ...
  • Scientists Reconstruct Scampering Common Ances ...
    A detailed tree of life maps out the evolution of placental mammals--a group that includes whales, bats, and humans--and traces the myriad forms of life to their shared parent. After six years of collaboration between over twenty scientists from research institutions across the country, researc ...
  • Moths Looking For Love Drive A Robot Exoskeleton
    Scientists put moths in the driver's seat to learn about tracking odors autonomously. If Mothra saw this contraption there'd be some Japanese scientists on the lam. But since she's distracted, scientists strapped hapless male silkmoths into an drivable exoskeleton and lured the specter of night ...
  • Second-Hand Abuse: Bad Bosses Make The Whole O ...
    An emotionally abusive supervisor ruins the workplace environment for everyone. A bad boss doesn't just harm the employees he torments directly. He damages non-targeted workers, too, according to new research in the Journal of Social Psychology. Hostile behavior toward subordinates -- like bei ...
  • Watch The Solomon Islands Earthquake Travel Al ...
    Yesterday's magnitude 8 earthquake sent seismic energy rippling round the world. Nobody in the American midwest felt the massive magnitude 8 earthquake that shook the Solomon Islands, 7000 miles away, and sent a tsunami wave crashing into villages yesterday, but waves of seismic energy did trave ...

Veterans Today

  • J-BIG Vs. P-small
    It would be impossible to grasp the success of Israel and Zionism without scrutinizing the role of Jewish culture, ideology and the significant impact of the Sabbath Goy within the American Administration but also in Palestine.
  • Hillary Clinton: Profile of Imperial Arrogance ...
    She was Washington's 67th Secretary of State. She served from January 21, 2009 - February 1, 2013. She's arguably America's worst.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Febr ...
    In August 2010, President Obama announced the Blue Button. Today, it has been downloaded 2.7 million times and the program has been adopted by both the Department of Defense and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  • Obama: Jobs Destroyer
    The latest jobs report underwhelmed. Economist David Rosenberg said "classic measures of employment dispersion or breadth receded significantly."
  • Harnessing The Imagination
    One of the most dismal futuristic images I've seen was recently painted by Chris Hedges in the opening of an article he entitled A Time for "Sublime Madness".

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • HM Imported BoE Guv'nor: Most Powerful CBanker
     I am currently watching former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney testify before Britain's Monetary Policy Committee about what he will do once he assumes the equivalent position at the Bank of England in July. These are difficult times for the UK; of that there's no doubt as a double-dip ...
  • United States vs S&P: Sovereign Ratings Next?
    It is with great interest that I am following the ongoing civil suit by the United States against the rating agency Standard and Poor's. Awhile ago, Tim Sinclair over at Warwick University came out with a book entitled "The New Masters of Capital" describing how credit rating agencies supposedly ...
  • EU-Mercosur FTA vs Trade-Willing 'Pacific Alli ...
    Which does not belong? In case you missed it, recent talks between EU and Latin American leaders again failed to produce an FTA that has long been under consideration, EU-MERCOSUR. This was at a CELAC gathering in Santiago, Chile where European leaders who bothered to make the trip alike Angela ...
  • South Korea Declares Int'l Currency War on Japan
    Ho hum, another week, another declaration by a non-Western country that it will attempt to staunch the inflow of capital from elsewhere that is driving up the local currency and making imports less competitive. Japan of course started the latest salvo when the LDP regained power and promptly dec ...
  • US GDP Shrinks, But Stocks Near All-Time Highs?
    The partisan wuss Krugman and his various acolytes have long argued that the United States is "doing better" than Europe for the main reason that, instead of starting processes of fiscal consolidation, the Americans have the fiscal and monetary spigots wide open. On the other hand, there are tho ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 soo ...
  • Who Controls The Money? An Unelected, Unaccoun ...
    An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe.  It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks.  It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also ...
  • Rise Of The Droids: Will Robots Eventually Ste ...
    Will a robot take your job?  We have entered a period in human history when technology is advancing at an exponential rate.  In some ways, this has been a great blessing for humanity.  For example, I am absolutely blown away by all of the things that my little iPod can do.  But on the other [...]
  • Bankrupt, Decaying And Nearly Dead: 24 Facts A ...
    If you want to know what the future of America is going to be like, just look at the city of Detroit.  Once upon a time it was a symbol of everything that America was doing right, but today it has been transformed into a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole.  Detroit was once the fourth- ...
  • Shocking Numbers That Show The Media Is Lying ...
    Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?  Did you know that the increase in the number of Americans "not in the labor force" during Barack Obama's first four years in the White H ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    It was encouraging to learn today that German researchers working with catholic officials to produce the latest, supposedly independent, supposedly research based support for Vatican lies about endemic child rape by catholic religious have had enough and pulled the plug on the project. Read the ...
  • Fire’s Too Good for These Devils
    As much of Australia prepares to face catastrophic bush fire conditions today, I hope everyone is safe from fires and comes through unscathed. That even includes the church’s carefully protected child rapists and those who sacrifice additional children to cover up their crimes. Fire is too ...

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Elections, jobs critical for Haiti's current a ...
    The outgoing head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti says that during his 20-months tenure, security had greatly improved in the Caribbean country, but delayed elections and unemployment still threatened stability.
  • Haiti: Security Council calls for timely elect ...
    Reaffirming its commitment to Haiti as the United Nations seeks to complete its peacekeeping mission in the crisis-beset country, the Security Council has urged all political actors to work constructively on priorities, including credible 2013 elections and security sector reform.
  • Dismissal of Honduran Supreme Court judges an ...
    A United Nations independent expert today expressed grave concern over the decision by the Honduran Congress to dismiss four Supreme Court judges, and called on the Government to reconsider its decision.
  • UN rights office concerned at alarming' levels ...
    The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern at an "alarming" pattern of violence in Venezuelan prisons, with the latest incident leaving 58 inmates dead and around 100 injured.
  • UN chief saddened by tragic fire at Brazil nig ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was saddened to learn of the tragic fire that occurred at a nightclub in Brazil on Saturday night, which led to the death of hundreds of people.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Sea Shepherd Investigation Results in Indictme ...
    Back in 2010, Sea Shepherd activist, pelican rescuer and lead singer for Pennywise Zoli Teglas discovered that the Hump Restaurant in Santa Monica was serving whale meat to special customers.  Sea Shepherd responded with an investigation and sent in undercover activists to gain the trust of the ...
  • Young Population Activist Bindi Irwin Stifled ...
    Original post by Joe Bish of the Population Media Center Many of you may recall the 2006 death of Steve Irwin, an Australian wildlife expert,television personality, and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter” (he was pierced in the heart by a stingray). You may not know, howe ...
  • Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Launches Two ...
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the world’s leading direct-action conservation non-profit, today has filed two petitions on the White House  “We The People” page of the website which seek the U.S. Government’s support in upholding conservation law regarding protecting at-risk whales in the An ...
  • Life on the Brink
    LIFE ON THE BRINK  Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation Edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist University of Georgia Press, December 2012 About the book Life on the Brink aspires to reignite a robust discussion of population issues among environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, ...
  • Wild Utah Project needs your help!
    HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising chall ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Sandy Hook... CT Cop Goes Public... Exposes Co ...
    Connecticut cop Mark S. Mann breaks down all the evidence and facts surrounding Adam Lanza’s killing spree. ~ Thomas Dishaw - A Must hear 2 part Audio read more
  • Where Did The Water Go?... 2 Great Lakes Hit L ...
    Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels ever recorded, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday, capping more than a decade of below-normal rain and snowfall and higher temperatures that boost evaporation. ~ Mini Documentary read more
  • The Second Amendment Explained by Edwin Vieira
    Power of the Purse Power of the Sword Edwin Vieira speaking about the Second Amendment at a library in Westport, Connecticut ~ Videos   read more
  • Why Police Lie Under Oath
    THOUSANDS of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury’s believing their word over a police officer’s are slim to none. ~ Michelle Alexander read more
  • An Inquisitive Couple Visits Newtown, Connecti ...
    Sandy Hook School is now enclosed with barbed wire fencing as well as 'No Trespass' and 'Surveillance' signage. ~ Many photos - related articles read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • The Difference Between Risk Awareness And Situ ...
    My own interpretation sums up the difference as scope and proximity. Risk awareness often involves a larger scope or reach while Situational awareness is usually close to you and affecting your immediate survival.   Risk Awareness Risk awareness is very broad and applicable to all sorts of ...
  • A Magnifying Glass For Survival
    A magnifying glass is great for starting fires. It works well as long as the tinder is small and dry like shaved wood, crunched leaves, etc. I keep a magnifying glass in each one of my kits, as well as traditional methods to start a fire like a lighter, matches, magnesium fire-starter and Vaseli ...
  • IRS Raids Are A Federal Abuse Of Power
    IRS audits of small businesses are apparently soaring. The tactic being used is to ‘shock-and-awe’ as businesses are stormed by overwhelming force. It’s similar to what you might see on a SWAT raid of a drug house, or an aggressive paramilitary raid on a terrorist. They are arm ...
  • When Does A CyberAttack Turn Into A Shooting War?
    They’ve infiltrated our banks. They’ve ransacked our technology industry. They’ve hacked into networks of news media. They’ve breached the networks of the Chamber of Commerce. Every day the Pentagon is attacked 3 million times. They’ve read our email by taking down one of America’s technol ...
  • Paul Harvey ‘So God Made A Farmer’ ...
    Here’s the text and audio of Paul Harvey’s original 1978 ‘So God Made a Farmer’ speech, that recently played in a Super Bowl ad by Ram Trucks which stood out from the rest according to many Americans. Unfortunately the American farmer is a dwindling breed… one which ...

Fast Company

  • Timbre, A Music App That Finds Concerts Nearby
    The almost too-simple music app helps you discover new bands playing at a venue near you. Music services often try to pack a lot of features into tiny apps, from social discovery (Spotify) to ticketing (Songkick) to streaming radio (Pandora). By comparison, Timbre feels shockingly spartan. ...
  • The Software Coders' Guide To Kickstarting A H ...
    Thanks to 3D printers and cheap prototyping, a new era of physical goods startups is here. Here's how to make the switch to hardware without running afoul of rules and backers. When I quit working at the social network my brother had founded in Spain in 2005, it had grown into 10 million a ...
  • Watch: Contemporary Korean History, Told As A ...
    The people go up against dictators and tanks in this satirical demo. Video games aren’t the first thing you think of when discussing history. But this video summarizing the last 65 years of South Korean history is oddly appropriate, especially after a series of hilarious, low-fi prop ...
  • Wireless LED Lights That Don’t Shine Like LED ...
    Can Philips’ latest offering usher in both efficient lights and the future of the connected home? Kickstarter successes like SmartThings and Ubi--both of which serve to make our homes more wired--show the huge demand for consumer appliances and decor that are just as smart as our pho ...
  • Is This The Google Chromebook Pixel?
    How a leaked video spurred some exciting Internet rumors. Earlier today a video mysteriously appeared on the Google Plus site of usually well-informed Chrome expert François Beaufort that seems to be the leaked announcement or ad of the much anticipated and rumored Google Chromebook ...

Jadaliyya

  • Remembering Chokri Belaid
    A Figure from the Revolutionary Left Assassinated Chokri Belaid, the heavily mediatized leader of the Popular Front (Jabha Chaabya), was shot several times early Wednesday morning at his home in Menzah 6. The charismatic figure of the revolutionary left was shot with two to four bullets; the go ...
  • Baki 7our Mansour on Algeria, Mali, and Social ...
    [This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.]  Jadaliyya (J): What motivated you to start blogging  Baki 7our Man ...
  • Zaha Hadid: Black Square, White Cube, and the ...
    The staircase of Zaha Hadid Architects’ recently opened Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing is sleek and straightforward. Its intention is functional; its design is simple (as simple as a contorted, suspended mass can be). A departure from the use of a tr ...
  • روايات موسيقية من اسطنبول
    [تنشر هذه المقالة ضمن إتفاقية شراكة وتعاون بين "جدلية" و"معازف" ] Politiki Mousiki* روايات موسيقية من اسطنبول "ya khabibi ya lelelli" آخر الأخبار الفنية الواردة عن فرق النفخ البلقانية تؤكد أن “الفتاة المصرية” (“مصرلو” بالتركية) ما زالت تحافظ على شعبيتها الأكيدة ...
  • الشرطة تكافح الشعب
    (1) نشر  في 26 يناير2013  على حساب "صفحة الشرطة المصرية" على تويتر -وهي صفحة يديرها مجموعة من ضباط الشرطة بعيداً عن الصفحة الرسمية لوزارة الداخلية- رسالة موجّهة لكل من رئيس الجمهورية ورئيس الوزراء تشير إلى أنّهما وضعا الشرطة المصرية أمام المدفع مع اختبائهما "كالعادة&quo ...

mediagazer

  • At New York Times, 65% of digital-only subscri ...
    Rick Edmonds / Poynter: At New York Times, 65% of digital-only subscribers are ‘entirely new’  —  The New York Times has analyzed its digital-only subscriber base and found that nearly two-thirds are “entirely new” customers.  Gannett reported essent ...
  • RIP Everyblock - I'm very saddened by today's ...
    Adrian Holovaty: RIP Everyblock  —  I'm very saddened by today's news that EveryBlock has been shut down by NBC News.  —  I founded EveryBlock in 2007 after receiving a grant from the Knight Foundation.  It was launched in January 2008 by an original team of ...
  • Coming Soon: A Juniors' Edition of The New Yor ...
    Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Coming Soon: A Juniors' Edition of The New York Times?  —  A new CEO is supposed to bring a new way of looking at problems.  So how's this for some new thinking from New York Times Co. chief Mark Thompson: He's looking at launching an edition of the ...
  • Warner Music Group Buys EMI Assets for $765 Mi ...
    Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: Warner Music Group Buys EMI Assets for $765 Million  —  12:02 p.m. |  Updated The Warner Music Group, the smallest of the three remaining major record companies, said on Thursday that it had reached an agreement to pay $765 million for the Parlo ...
  • Farewell, neighbors - We're sorry to report th ...
    The EveryBlock Blog: Farewell, neighbors  —  We're sorry to report that EveryBlock has closed its doors.  —  It's no secret that the news industry is in the midst of a massive change.  Within the world of neighborhood news there's an exciting pace of innovat ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • 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. ...

no frakking consensus

  • How Committed to Science is David Suzuki?
    23 years ago, David Suzuki declared science “fundamentally flawed.” These days he delivers speeches to naturopath conventions.
  • Why Taking WWF Money Matters
    If the IPCC had done the sensible thing and banned activist publications, would the institute run by its chairman still be receiving activist cash?
  • Pachauri Takes WWF Money
    Last week, a sustainability summit organized by the chairman of the IPCC was held in India. The World Wildlife Fund provided funding.
  • David Suzuki & John Abbott College
    A Quebec school refuses to say whether David Suzuki's student bodyguards spent time alone with him.
  • Is Climate Change Like Gravity?
    If climate change is as straightforward a scientific concept as gravity, why does the IPCC continue to produce multi-thousand-page reports?

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/5/13 - Should the United States return to a ...
    gold-standard.procon.org – Should the United States return to a gold standard? – Read pro and con quotes from Ron Paul (pro), Paul Krugman (con), Lewis E. Lehrman (pro), Ben Bernanke (con), Steve Forbes (pro), Ezra Klein (con), and other politicians, academics, businessmen, and journalists.
  • 2/5/13 - ProCon.org Reader Survey, 2013
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org Reader Survey, 2013 - Please take a couple of minutes to tell us about yourself, and let us know how we’re doing and what we can do to improve.
  • 2/4/13 - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of Wh ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of What It Is and What It Is Not - Our compilation of authoritative responses to 62 questions on Obamacare now includes a new section on the 19 taxes, penalties, fees, and deduction eliminations within the PPACA and Reconciliation Act.
  • 2/1/13 - Illegal Immigration Solutions Introdu ...
    immigration.procon.org - Illegal Immigration Solutions Introduced by Congress and President Obama
  • 1/28/13 - Voting Systems & Use: 1980-2012
    votingmachines.procon.org - Voting Systems & Use: 1980-2012 - Find the availability of voting systems in US presidential elections from 1980 to 2012 by percentage of registered voters, as well as explanations and quotes from organizations (like the US Election As ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • What counts as good evidence for policy?
    What counts as good evidence for policy? It’s a question that’s fundamental to work in the Science Policy world and it was the focus of a debate, jointly organised by the Science and Technology Studies Department at UCL and the SPRU at the University of Sussex, earlier this week. The assembled p ...
  • User-friendly science for resilience
    In a month that saw a blanket of snow and a flurry of flood warnings in quick succession, last week’s Wilton Park workshop ‘Building global resilience to natural hazards’ could not have been more apt. Fortunately the UK weather held off long enough to allow a host of experts from around the glob ...
  • User-friendly science for resilience
    In a month that saw a blanket of snow and a flurry of flood warnings in quick succession, last week’s Wilton Park workshop ‘Building global resilience to natural hazards’ could not have been more apt. Fortunately the UK weather held off long enough to allow a host of experts from around the glob ...
  • Tomorrow’s World: Will Intellectual Property a ...
    In his recent ‘Tomorrow’s World’ speech at the Policy Exchange, the Right Honorable David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities and Science  sets out a vision for how the UK could become a world leader in eight future technologies (building on the Chancellor’s speech at the Royal Society in Nov ...
  • Post-revolutionary science
    Last year’s Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt’s first free presidential election made headlines around the world. There have been differing perspectives on what a Muslim Brotherhood victory might mean for science. For example, it was recently reported in Nature that some Egyptian scientists we ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Maryland Wants Wind
    Windy forecast for Old Line State. Photo: wikimedia commons Maryland Governor Martin O’ Malley is standing by his promise to promote offshore wind development by championing the introduction of the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013. The bill, introduced on January 21st, would be the ...
  • Portugal Nominates Gorringe Seamounts for MPA
    Turn that frown upside-down, pink frogmouth! (In the Gorringe Bank. © Oceana)  We are thrilled to announce another ocean victory this week! In an ambitious step for ocean protection, Portugal has decided to nominate the rich ecosystem of the Gorringe Bank as a new Marine Protected Area. ...
  • Triumphs for Troubled New England Fish
    The mythical Atlantic cod. (Via Wikimedia Commons) We are excited about two big wins this week for the future of fish in New England. The first is a major legal victory that establishes the first full count, cap, and control fishery in the Northeast. This lawsuit settlement means that the Ne ...
  • Congress Provides Minor Relief for Fisheries D ...
    Image of Hurricane Sandy via NASA. Congress has finally passed a long-awaited supplemental appropriations bill to bring relief to those affected by Superstorm Sandy and to promote better preparedness for future disasters. On top of the $9 billion agreed to in early January for direct flood i ...
  • 10 Reasons to Prevent Seismic Airgun Testing i ...
    Image via Current.com. Yesterday, members of both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate sent letters to President Obama urging him to stop proposed seismic airgun testing in the Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is currently deciding if seismic airgun testing s ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Chris Hedges on ‘Debt Peonage’: That 1% – 99% ...
    “Stop beating the dead horse,” I was chastised when I kept paying attention to the Occupy movement beyond that sliver of attention deemed newsworthy. The movement evolved, still continues in various projects. I’ve never stopped paying attention. And for good, or really bad, reasons: the inequali ...
  • Queer Talk: Boy Scouts Delay Decision on Gay S ...
    Evolving, as a generalization, isn’t a fast or easy process. The Boy Scouts evolving process on allowing gay boys and men to be scouts and leaders illustrates that nicely. In the latest round, after saying they were going to consider changing from the top-down policy of what amounts to “no gays ...
  • Dueling Reports on Hagel, Republicans Suddenly ...
    “Senator Levin had said the vote could happen ‘as early as Thursday,’ and that is still the case,” Levin spokesperson Tara Andringa said. – Josh Rogin TWO REPORTS reveal the smallness of Hagel haters like Sens. James Inhoffe, Jeff Sessions and Lindsay Graham inside the Se ...
  • Karl Rove Targets Ashley Judd by Mocking Kentu ...
    The ad uses clips of Judd saying, among other things, that she is “aggressively and delightfully radical” and would “follow” Obama anywhere. Those kinds of quotes aren’t likely to engender her to Kentucky voters, who overwhelming voted Republican in the last preside ...
  • No More Saturday Mail, But Do You Care?
    NEVER FEAR, you won’t be getting mail on Saturday, but your packages will still arrive. From Reuters: Apparently trying an end-run around an unaccommodating Congress, the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse pack ...

Hudson New York

  • Paying People to Hate You
    And so it was that I found myself once again in a meeting in the twilight world of Brussels -- an ugly city filled with ugly buildings, ugly overpriced food and overpaid officials. The objective of any visit must always be a hit-an-run: to get in and get
  • Sharia Law Swallowing Indonesia
    Although Indonesia, "the world's largest Muslim country" with an 87% Muslim population, was once considered a moderate Muslim country, day by day it has been leaning more and more towards conservative Islam and Sharia laws. Initiated in 2009, bylaws in
  • Another Attempt to Murder Free Speech in Denmark
    Lars Hedegaard, a well-known seventy-year-old free speech activist and critic of Islam, narrowly escaped a murder attempt on February 5 outside his home in Copenhagen, Denmark. An unidentified assailant wielding a handgun fired a shot at Hedegaard, but
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: December, 2012
    As usual, the month of Christmas saw an uptick in Christian persecution under Islam, in a variety of forms, from insults to murders. In Iran, Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani—after being imprisoned and tormented for years for converting to Christianity, then
  • "If They [Muslims] Had Gotten Rid of the Punis ...
    The most influential Sunni leader in the Middle East has just admitted what many of us who grew up as Muslims in the Middle East have always known: that Islam could not exist today without the killing of apostates. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, head of the Muslim

Urban Survival

  • How Spain Collapses World
    You likely already know that Spain is broke…and you’ve no doubt followed the break-away actions in Catalonia.  But we’re about midway between a quiver and a pucker this morning as we read the results of the latest Spanish bond auction. … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Offering Anonymous a Gift or ‘th ...
    There’s a war at other levels being played out although so far it is not exactly center-stage in the mainstreammedia (MSM) because a lot of people might freak out if they realized - as I infer in my book Broken … Continue reading →
  • This Delicate Recovery
    When the Monday report on Manufacturing came out – weaker than expected – I wasn’t at all surprised.    “New orders for manufactured goods in December, up three of the last four months, increased $8.6 billion or 1.8 percent to … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Who are the PermaBears and MegaPreppers?
    Every since I started writing about the Second Depression back in 1996-1997 when UrbanSurvival was launched as my MBA capstone project, I’ve been eyeing the economy (and the politics in the driver’s seat) with a good deal of suspicion.      … Continue readin ...
  • Global Stagonomics
    If there’s a term to invent which would pretty well sum-up how this year will work out, I’m not familiar with it.  So, as a public service, we’re starting the new week with a new word: stagonomics.   Stagflation is … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • Key to Climate Preparedness: Building Social C ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Is climate preparedness and resilience mostly if not entirely a question of costly investments in physical infrastructure? Safe to assume if we keep in mind bits of pithy wisdom ...
  • Waste Less, Feed More: Ending Food Waste at Ho ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City I started thinking about food waste back when I was climbing mountains. When you are carrying 30 days’ worth of food on your back, every ounce is precious. When we packed, we weighed our dried be ...
  • And, on the eighth day, God created transit
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Diana Lind of Next City has created a brilliant two-minute video highlighting what’s great about public transit.  It takes the style of the terrific Dodge Ram &ldq ...
  • A Clean, Flexible AND Reliable Grid - How We G ...
    Allison Clements, Senior Attorney, Project for Sustainable FERC Energy Policy, New York The BiPartisan Policy Center released a report today called Capitalizing on the Evolving Power Sector: Polices for a Modern and Reliable U.S. Electric Grid.&nbsp ...
  • Hong Kong Taking Major Steps to Address Air Po ...
    Barbara Finamore, China Program Director, Beijing While the air in Beijing and throughout much of China has been notoriously polluted in recent weeks, Hong Kong (where I currently live) does not fare much better. The poor air quality in Hong Kong ha ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Police Misconduct in Cleveland
    WKYC in Cleveland has a report about lawsuit settlements against the city for police misconduct. Video at the link above.Police Misconduct in Cleveland is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 6 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, February 5, 2013: Miami-Dade, Florida: The police department has fired a sergeant and two officers and suspended three others without pay in what is considered one of the worst … Continue reading →National Police Miscon ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, February 2 to Monday, February 4, 2013: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A police officer has been charged; he fired 13 bullets in the direction of a building. After the police were … Continue reading →National Police Misc ...
  • The Truth About Police Lies
    Professor Michelle Alexander in the New York Times: Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the … Continue reading →The Truth About Police Li ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, February 1, 2013: Quantico, Virginia: Virginia State Police are conducting a criminal investigation of the Quantico Police Department after an audit revealed $1,000 in cash was missing, along with … Continue reading →Na ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Yahoo partners with Google f ...
    Yahoo has announced a display ads partnership with Google, it’s confirmed that Facebook has deleted data used for its controversial face recognition feature in Europe, and Twitter revamps search in... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Vine’s new ratin ...
    On today’s Daily Dose, we look at Vine’s new App Store rating, Google’s eighth billion dollar purchase, and ponder over the fact that Apple has served more app downloads than song sales.... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Dell goes private, About.me cl ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Dell goes private in $24.4 billion acquisition, About.me splits from AOL and Amazon launches a new currency. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →
  • TNW Daily Dose: Samsung sells three TVs per se ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, j2 Global buys IGN Entertainment from News Corporation, Samsung sells three TVs every second and Raspberry Pi’s Model A board goes on sale in Europe. You... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Path settles with the FTC ov ...
    Path settles with the FTC over user data privacy, Facebook launches physical cards for its Gifts product, and also re-enables the controversial Photo Tag Suggestions in the US. It’s all... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Feb 1st - Reef Day of Action events
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  • Go LED and kill Hazelwood?
    By Trent Hawkins According to analysis conducted by Beyond Zero Emissions, lighting in homes is responsible for about seven per cent of household electricity use, and around 30 per cent of electricity for commercial and retail buildings. That's quite a large amount of energy use, but it could ...
  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...
  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...
  • This summer, BBQ without cooking the planet
    For the summer holiday season, the first thing on everyone's mind is naturally how to minimise their carbon emissions. Well, maybe not the first thing on everyone's mind, but it is at least possible to have a barbie without contributing extra greenhouse emissions – and probably more convenient ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Over 11,000 elephants killed by poachers in a ...
    Surveys in Gabon's Minkebe National Park have revealed rare and hard data on the scale of the illegal ivory trade over the last eight years: 11,100 forest elephants have been slaughtered for their tusks in this remote protected area since 2004. In all, poachers have cut down the park's elephant ...
  • Amphibian, tapir paradise in Honduras being ra ...
    Located in a mountainous area near the border with Guatemala, Cusuco National Park in Honduras is recognized by researchers as a critical refuge for endangered amphibians in a country that has suffered from widespread deforestation. But while the park largely escaped the devastation that has aff ...
  • Palm oil company thugs attack Sulawesi village ...
    Local thugs, allegedly linked to an oil palm plantation company, attacked a group of villagers in Indonesia’s Gorontalo province on the island of Sulawesi last week, injuring eight people, including a woman and a small child.
  • Over 1,500 wolves killed in the contiguous U.S ...
    Hunters and trappers have killed approximately 1,530 wolves over the last 18 months in the contiguous U.S., which excludes Alaska. After being protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for 38 years, gray wolves (Canis lupus) were stripped of their protected states in 2011 by a legislative ...
  • Head of IMF: climate change is 'the greatest e ...
    Climate change not debt or austerity is "the greatest economic challenge of the 21st Century," according to Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Lagarde painted a stark picture of the challenges the worl ...

Sierra Express

  • NRA blocks palm oil smuggling
    Principal Collector at the National Revenue Authority (NRA) Customs & Excise post at Gbalamuya, Kambia district, Malcolm Sigismond Wilkinson has debunked allegations that one of Sierra Leone’s local commodities, palm oil, is being massively smuggled to Guinea from the northern towns of Sierr ...
  • In Lunsar… Fishermen and farmers complain of b ...
    Member of Parliament from Bonthe district, Hon Brima Conteh representing the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has made a formal complaint to the legislative house concerning the experience of low agricultural yield and lesser fishing outputs by fishermen and farmers in Lunsar Township, which he ...
  • College Graduation Postponed
    The 2010-2012 graduation ceremony for students of the College of Travel and Tourism Studies (CTTS) for both the Freetown and Lungi campuses has been postponed from 26th January to Sunday 24th February 2013 at the British Council Auditorium in Freetown. The postponement of the ceremony was as a r ...
  • SLCB 40th Anniversary Programme of Activities
    Sierra Leone Commercial Bank (SLCB) 40th anniversary programme is as follows: 2nd February 2013      Launching of Celebrations with Hosting of Flags in all branches with Main event at headquarters and launching of essay competition for SSS 9th February 2013       Awards Ceremony at the Miatta Co ...
  • Sierra Leone Commercial Bank the ‘Peoples Bank ...
    On February 15, 1973 President Dr Siaka Probyn Stevens’ vision of an indigenous commercial bank became a reality, as the country’s first indigenous bank, the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank (SLCB), opened its doors to customers that day. Established under the Companies Act of 1948, with its first o ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy prices up 2.4pc in first GDT auction sin ...
    Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, the first since news emerged last month that small traces of a nitrate inhibitor had been found in some of the company's milk powder. The GDT-TWI Price...
  • Chinese dairy giant enters NZ market with $210 ...
    The establishment of a new player in New Zealand dairy product manufacturing took a step closer today when China's Yashili entered into a conditional agreement to buy industrial land for a proposed infant milk formula plant at Pokeno,...
  • Chinese dairy giant buys land for $210m factory
    China's Yashili New Zealand Dairy Co has entered into a conditional agreement to buy industrial land for a proposed infant milk formula plant at Pokeno, in the Waikato.The company is waiting on Overseas Investment Office (OIO) approval...
  • Sue Kedgley: Another food scare, another crisis
    It's always interesting to see how corporations and governments respond to a food safety crisis.There's invariably a temptation to cover up, procrastinate, deny or downplay a food safety risk because of its potential to scare off...
  • Mood grim on sheep and beef farms
    A long spell of dry weather and the high kiwi dollar are causing "a deepening pessimism" to spread among sheep and beef farmers around the country.Federated Farmers' latest

Hit & Run | Reason

  • 66 Percent Say Technological Innovation Depend ...
    According to the recent Reason-Rupe pollAmericans believe private not public investment primarily drives technological innovation. This does not mean Americans ignore public investment’s role, but that the economy’s technological engine is primarily fueled by risks and investme ...
  • A.M. Links: Cabinet Muzzled Over Cuts, John Br ...
    Cabinet officials say they've been told to keep their mouths shut about looming sequestration spending cuts unless they get clearance from the Office of Management and Budget. The Pentagon is exempt, though, and the resulting chatter has reinforced the impression that the cuts ar ...
  • Glenn Reynolds, Michelle Fields Talk Higher-Ed ...
    Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit talks higher education bubble with Michelle Fields of Next Generation. It's a sharp and concise explanation of why college costs have pumped up over the past several decades - and why the smartest students are increasingly turning a gimlet eye toward ...
  • Judge Andrew Napolitano: Obama Gives Himself P ...
    After stonewalling for more than a year federal judges and ordinary citizens who sought the revelation of its secret legal research justifying the presidential use of drones to kill persons overseas—even Americans—claiming the research was so sensitive and so secret that it could not ...
  • Brickbat: Let Go of My Lego
    Sheila Cruz says officials at Hyannis West Elementary School in Massachusetts reprimanded and threatened to suspend her 5-year-old son Joseph after he made a gun out of Legos. Barnstable Public Schools Superintendent Mary Czajkowski said the boy made other students uncomfortable. " ...

Mercury Rising

  • Truth Is The Daughter Of Time: Richard III Eme ...
    The last Plantagenet king, a man whose enemies had centuries to malign him virtually unchallenged but whose fellow Yorkshire folk knew his true nature, has been found under the tarmac of a Leicester parking lot, thanks to the dedication of Philippa Langley: “Today marks the culmination of ...
  • Ireland takes responsibility for enslavement a ...
    This is an issue that Phoenix Woman has covered previously. Thirty thousand women were effectively enslaved by the Catholic Church, with the collusion of the state, and without due process. The Magdalene Laundries were not finally closed until 1996. Now Ireland has stepped up to the plate to adm ...
  • Dan Burton, Anti-Vaccine Lunacy, And Scientology
    While reading Orac’s recent post on how budding antivaccine activist Jake Crosby has turned against the SafeMinds people who trained and indoctrinated him in antivaccine doctrine, I noted with great interest Orac’s quotation of the following words of Crosby’s: For several month ...
  • Dan Burton, Anti-Vaccine Lunacy, And Scientology
    While reading Orac’s recent post on how budding antivaccine activist Jake Crosby has turned against the SafeMinds people who trained and indoctrinated him in antivaccine doctrine, I noted with great interest Orac’s quotation of the following words of Crosby’s: For several month ...
  • Obama Adminstration Joining Overseas Publisher ...
    It’s sure starting to look that way: In 2011, we wrote about an important copyright case involving three publishers suing Georgia State University for daring to have “e-reserves” that allow professors to make certain works available to students electronically via the university ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Revolutionary Qualities
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  • Psi in the News
    Russell Targ talks Remote Viewing and the reality of ESP,  Daniel Loxton tackles the question of “Why is there a Skeptical movement?”, Radford University students build a psychomanteum to contact the dead, and Steve Parsons discusses how social media has changed psychical research, in this edi ...
  • Witchi Tia To
    In 1969, my friends and I heard an exciting song on the radio, entitled Witchi Tia To. We couldn’t get enough of it. Performed by a band called Everything Is Everything, the song mesmerized us. The lead vocalist on the song was Jim Pepper, and it would be several years before I knew who he w ...
  • Year of the Water Snake: A Time of Transition ...
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  • Demand Investigation into Prosecution of Aaron ...
    [Action Alert] • On January 11, 2013, facing trumped up felony charges and potentially decades in prison, Aaron Swartz made the tragic choice to end his life. He was only 26. read more

Desertification

  • World Bank Unmoved on Auditor’s Criticism of F ...
    Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution’s decade-long forest policy, expressing their “strong disagreement” with some assertions in the report. The assessment, written by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the ...
  • OP-ED: Weird, and Getting Weirder
    Weird is the only way to describe January temperatures whipsawing between record warm and arctic cold over a span of a few days. Experts say that is what climate change looks like: weird, record-shattering weather. Here’s a fact that goes beyond weird to astonishing. Anyone who is 27 years ...
  • Peering into the Energy Crystal Ball
    Trying to predict the future of the energy sector is like trying to predict the weather in London in an era of global warming. But delegates had a go at it during the three-day World Future Energy Summit that ended in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 17. They foresee new world leaders in the energy sector, [...]
  • Digging for Water, But Striking Oil
    The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil. But when the oil-blessed region runs out of water, there could be a change in the political landscape, triggering potential conflicts. The world’s future wars, experts predic ...
  • Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation
    Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems. “We’re all scared,” said Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at St ...

Blogging Canadians

  • "A Piece of Shit Singer who Spends Her Days on ...
    What do you call a piece of shit singer who spends her days on YouTube looking for people's ideas to 'borrow'? "Beyonce." by "Radical Comedian" As originally posted on: Radical Comedian (RadicalComedian) on Twitter January 1, 2013
  • "The Copyright Monopoly" and "a Hegemony that ...
    The 16th Century Religious Wars And Today’s Copyright Monopoly Wars Have More In Common Than You Think by Rick Falkvinge As originally posted on: TorrentFreak January 20, 2013 People in power have always tried to prevent the common folk from obtaining knowledge that threatens their power. ...
  • "The Academic Class"
    The following tweets were originally posted by "Anti-Academics" on Twitter via its account (https://twitter.com/AntiAcademics), variously, on December 19, 2012; December 21, 2012; December 22, 2012; December 23, 2012; December 24, 2012; December 25, 2012; December 26, 2012; December 29, 2012; ...
  • "This Thing"
    Paranoid Syrian Man Thinks Government Out To Get Him As originally posted: The Onion January 29, 2013 DAMASCUS—Describing an extensive conspiracy that supposedly reaches the highest corridors of power, a paranoid Syrian man told reporters Tuesday he believes the government is out to get hi ...
  • The Corporation
    The other day I spent 3 hours writing anti-corporate pamphlets on my corporate desk. Fuck productivity. by "Texts To My Boss" As originally posted on: Texts To My Boss (TextsToMyBoss) on Twitter January 17, 2013

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

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

Nick Turse

  • nickturse:Americans in Vietnam never seemed ...
    nickturse: Americans in Vietnam never seemed to run out of ways to burn things down, whether it be flame tanks, flame boats, napalm canisters dropped from planes, helicopters armed with white phosphorus rockets, or simply ground troops with zippo cigarette lighters.  The means were seemingly e ...
  • life:In January of 1963, LIFE magazine publi ...
    life: In January of 1963, LIFE magazine published the powerful cover article, “We Wade Deeper Into Jungle War,” and illustrated it with not one or two photos but with a dozen pictures — most of them in color — by the great photojournalist, Larry Burrows. See more: LIFE magazine, January 25, 1963.
  • Max Fisher of the The Washington Post writes: ...
    Max Fisher of the The Washington Post writes: “A just-out report, released by the Open Society Foundation, sheds new light on its shocking scale. According to the report, 54 foreign governments somehow collaborated in the program. Some of those governments are brutal dictatorships, and a few ar ...
  • Vietnam: Flame tanks of the 1st Tank Battalion ...
    Vietnam: Flame tanks of the 1st Tank Battalion burn a village during Operation Doser near Binh Son in the Quang Ngai Province Americans in Vietnam never seemed to run out of ways to burn things down, whether it be flame tanks, flame boats, napalm canisters dropped from planes, helicopters arme ...
  • killanythingthatmoves:One of a group of “lim ...
    killanythingthatmoves: One of a group of “lime gatherers” in South Vietnam’s Binh Long Province killed in August 1970 by soldiers from the U.S. 25th Infantry Division.  Photo from: Buy the book: Also available as an ebook:

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