Sunday, March 10, 2013

10 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico (NASA, International...
Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico (NASA, International Space Station Science, 05/04/10) (Photo credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center)
Looking northeast to Oak Harbor, Whidbey Island
Looking northeast to Oak Harbor, Whidbey Island (Photo credit: brewbooks)
English: Moorland, Fibla Fiold In the foregrou...
English: Moorland, Fibla Fiold In the foreground are abandoned peat cuttings. In the distance a windfarm. I like the juxtaposition of fossil/renewable energy sources. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A beach after an oil spill.
A beach after an oil spill. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Restoration
Restoration (Photo credit: Ivan Lian)
potencial of renewables
potencial of renewables (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Exhaustable? Local artist and environ...
English: Exhaustable? Local artist and environmentalist uses old car parts and other waste to campaign creatively against non-renewable energy sources. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A lecture played on a Video iPod, via AV outpu...
A lecture played on a Video iPod, via AV output onto an analog TV screen (Photo credit: Tama Leaver)
#Upworthy How to handle a troll limited #nn12 ...
#Upworthy How to handle a troll limited #nn12 print. You have to know the secret password to get one. (Photo credit: Advodude)


Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • OPERATION CONDOR on Trial in Buenos Aires
    March 8, 2013 – Former military officers from Argentina and Uruguay went on trial this week in Buenos Aires for their human rights abuses in Operation Condor, a cross-border conspiracy of dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s to "eradicate 'subversion,' a word which increasingly translates into n ...
  • Peter Jackson, mental fragility, employees and ...
    “If the media had done its job last week Brownlee would by now have resigned for brazenly and deliberately misleading the public and New Zealanders would finally understand just what was at stake for Jackson, Taylor and Warner Brothers over the contractor issue.” ... "For those not aware of ...
  • How To Short The Student Loan Bubble
    SecondMarket Holdings, the private-market securities trading firm best known for allowing numerous overzealous fans to buy FaceBook at moronic valuations, on Monday "will roll out a platform allowing lenders to issue securities backed by student loans directly to investors." Why is SecondMark ...
  • Abbot & Gillard Stir Australian Xenophobia
    While Julia Gillard has vowed 'to stop foreign workers being put at the front of the queue', Tony Abbott is playing his own xenophobic card in relation to boat people. Both are taking the 'low road' with regards to foreigners .. Julia Gillard’s pledge to put foreign workers at the back of the ...
  • Obama in Tehran: Another Thoughtful Review
    “the Leveretts’ real sin isn’t defending the Islamic Republic but holding U.S. policy elites—in government, media, academia, and think tanks—to account in intimate detail for making such a volatile hash out of our Iran statecraft.” .. Obama’s early vaunted overtures to Tehran were empty gestu ...

Independent - London

  • Uhuru Kenyatta victory in Kenya's election fac ...
    Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, won the presidential election by a tiny margin, with 50.03 per cent, a result that his rival says he now intends to challenge in court. Mr Kenyatta faces trial for crimes against humanity after the disputed 2007 presidential vote which unle ...
  • How mobiles help deliver tiny miracles after w ...
    For thousands of children around the world reunited, finally, with their parents after months or years kept apart by disaster, what we call Mother's Day will be a special cause for celebration.Related StoriesNoma, 'the world's best restaurant,' feels the heat after 63 diners get vomiting virusN ...
  • Nelson Mandela in hospital for check-up
    Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid leader, was admitted to a hospital in Pretoria yesterday for a scheduled medical check-up. Doctors say there is "no cause for alarm".Related StoriesNoma, 'the world's best restaurant,' feels the heat after 63 diners get vomit ...
  • Dundee duo caught LA on the hop
    Rappers adopting a stage name, is nothing new. Think of Snoop Dogg or P Diddy. But for some a name change, or straight out lie, is nothing: no price is too great for the fame they crave. They will change the way they look and sound, alter their nationality and even their personality.Related Sto ...
  • The other Americas are booming: Latin America ...
    In the annals of geopolitical insults, few have been more sweeping than Richard Nixon's admonition to a young Donald Rumsfeld as he pondered his future career. "Latin America doesn't matter," he offered. "People don't give a damn about Latin America". He said it in 1971. Would anyone in Washing ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Meteor streaks across Midwest sky
    Cleveland - A meteor was seen across parts of nine states Friday night. Many reports were made to the American Meteor Society from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and southern Ontario, Canada. The meteor was reported around 9 p.m. as people reporte ...
  • Calcium supplements: Why you should think twice
    I've made the argument before that some supplements may be necessary even within the context of a nutrient-dense, whole-foods diet. Some nutrients are challenging to get through food alone, especially if you're not digesting food optimally or you're struggling with a disease that increases your ...
  • General: Heart attack killed a suffering Chavez
    President Hugo Chavez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and inaudibly mouthed his desire to live, the head of Venezuela's presidential guard said late Wednesday. "He couldn't speak but he said it with his lips ... 'I don't want to die. Please don't let me die,' because he lo ...
  • John Cusack: Where are the Democrats to stand ...
    dems ? Do U have any thoughts on Obama's transition from a progressive academic humanist 2 a regressive corporate warlord? - John Cusack (@johncusack) March 06, 2013 Actor John Cusack has been a consistent critic of unmanned drones no matter who occupies the Oval Office, and while tho ...
  • Krauthammer on Paul filibuster: 'Stroke of pol ...
    Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer called Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) filibuster of the John Brennan nomination for CIA director Wednesday a "stroke of political genius." Appearing on Fox News's Special Report, Krauthammer also said, "This will be a moment that people will say has launched h ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • It's only money . . .
    GAZILLIONS OF BUCKS of world debt, graphically created out of US Benjies for your edification by the folks at DEMONOCRACY. Click on the link for the whole compendium. Ya gotta wonder about the sustainability. Reminds me of Kipling: Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their sm ...
  • The best of times, the worst of times . . .
    MOSCOW, 1937: time of terror. The Atlantic has a fine article/book review by Benjamin Schwarz, "Moscow Under Terror". It's a wonderful description of a surreal environment with real horrors, and worthy of pondering. Genrikh Yagoda Yezhov and Stalin
  • Caution . . .
  • Fiction peddlers
    Reading MoS, I'm struck not for the first time, that some senior members of the Air Staff here, I suppose Australia too, live in a fantasy world. If I were in charge (come on, we all have these moments), I'd retire or fire any military leader who couldn't see past the F-35. They be fantasists ...
  • The nitty and the gritty . . .
    If you Facebook, very interesting pictures and information can be found on Blood-Kainai Tribe Politics & News. 

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Downplay Spending Cuts, Then ...
    After downplaying the effects of the government spending cuts known as sequestration, right-wing media are now claiming that President Obama is trying to maximize sequestration pain.Right-Wing Media Before Sequestration: Cuts Are "Chump Change" Fox's Stuart Varney: "Non ...
  • Fox Still Dismissing Spending Cuts As Economic ...
    Fox News hosts have been dismissing the effects of the across-the-board government spending cuts known as sequestration, claiming that "nothing is happening" following the cuts taking effect. But the cuts are already having negative economic consequences that will continue unless the cuts are re ...
  • NRA Leadership Virtually Alone In Opposition T ...
    The National Rifle Association's stand against expanding the criminal background check system to all gun buyers has become a lonely one. The NRA has been abandoned by other gun lobby activists, conservative media figures, and the American public.The NRA's ...
  • Fox Misleadingly Claims Federal Revenue Is "Hi ...
    Fox & Friends misleadingly claimed that federal revenue will be historically high this year to push against calls for additional tax increases. In fact, projected revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) remains below the historical average since World War II.Fox & Friends ...
  • Fox Hypes Bogus Theory That Immigrant Detainee ...
    Fox News pushed Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's theory that the supervised release of some undocumented immigrants is "payback" for her state's immigration enforcement efforts. But the release was nationwide, not just in Arizona, and was in response to impending budget cuts from sequestration.Ahea ...

Global Research.ca

  • Operation Condor: Trial On Latin American Rend ...
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 416 Edited by Carlos Osorio Former military officers from Argentina and Uruguay went on trial this week in Buenos Aires for their human rights abuses in Operation Condor, a cross-border conspiracy of dictatorships…
  • Alleged CIA Assassination Plots Involving Fore ...
    The Church Committee investigated CIA plots to assassinate foreign leaders. This Interim Report, published in 1975, discusses alleged plots to kill: • Patrice Lumumba (Congo) • Fidel Castro (Cuba) • Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic) • Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnam) •…
  • 50 verdades sobre Hugo Chávez e a Revolução Bo ...
    O presidente Hugo Chávez, que faleceu no dia 5 de março de 2013, vítima de câncer, aos 58 anos, marcou para sempre a história da Venezuela e da América Latina. 1. Jamais, na história da América Latina, um líder político…
  • Week in Review: Media Defamation of Chavez and ...
      Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013 By Global Research News, March 4 , 2013 CIA and FBI Had Planned to Assassinate Hugo Chávez By Kurt Nimmo, March 6 , 2013 Malaysia Invaded: Hundreds of Terrorists Land on Beaches,…
  • Israel: A De Facto Member of NATO
    Does the March 2013 Israel-NATO agreement “obligate” NATO “to come to the rescue of Israel” under the doctrine of “collective security”? The agreement tightens the process of US-NATO-Israel military planning relating to any future operation in the Middle East.

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Biofuels: A Natural Energy Alternative
    Chlorella sp. is a species of algae that has a significant proportion of fatty acids to its body mass. For humans, this can be a problem. But, in a world needing more clean energy, fatty biomass is considered a promising option by many scientists and engineers. Why algae? Algae can grow in a bod ...
  • Message to Austin City Council: Make Fact-Base ...
    Would you decide who manages your retirement account by closing your eyes and pointing?  Probably not. Yet, Austin City Council is moving forward with a rash plan to hand over the bulk of its power to govern and oversee Austin Energy to an appointed board.  A well thought-out Austin American-Sta ...
  • Environment Texas launches a Save Texas Rivers ...
    San Antonio Kick-Off is scheduled for Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Whole Foods Market Meeting Room, 255 E. Basse Rd. #130, San Antonio, TX, 78209 RSVP here! This past year, Texas experienced one of its worst droughts: Reservoirs dipped to record lows, and as many as 500 million trees across ...
  • Under The Pipe
    The Keystone XL pipeline is embroiled in controversy from coast to coast. Environmentalists are rallied by its giant carbon footprint, the damage caused by spills, and the destruction of Canada’s boreal forests. Meanwhile, landowners are being forced to give up their property rights and co ...
  • Texans affected by the Keystone XL pipeline – ...
    Today, the the Department of State released a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the new Presidential Permit application for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The Draft SEIS is available at: http://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/draftseis/index.htm. The SEIS acknowledge ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Honduran Peasants Resist Land Grabbing, Occupy ...
    ofranehwomen-small.jpg Last month, Honduras passed legislation to allow the construction of charter cities in the ancestral land of Afro-descendant Garifunas and peasant communities. read more
  • Insights - Winter 2013: Evaluating our Impact ...
    As people interested in making long term and lasting change, we all need to know if we are on the right path. Do our donations, grants and hours of activism make a difference? And could they be doing even more? These core questions drive the evaluation we do at Grassroots International with each ...
  • Stop the Wall youth coordinator arrested as re ...
    Israeli government repression of Palestinian human rights groups continues with arrest of Stop the Wall Youth Coordinator, Hassan Karajah. At 2:30 in the morning of January 23, 2013, the Israeli military raided the home of Hassan Karajah, Youth Coordinator of Grassroots International partner, S ...
  • Climate Justice Statement of Solidarity with I ...
    idlenomore_san_antonio.jpg January 28, 2013 was marked around the world as an International Day of Solidarity with Idle No More, a movement sparked in November 2012 by First Nations women in Canada, in resistance to legislative threats to i ...
  • Brazilian government recognizes Kaiowá’s terri ...
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Climate

  • U.S. Drought Intensifies in Texas and Florida
    (Climate Central) Drought expanded in two key areas of the country last week – Florida and West Texas – where several weeks of low rainfall have allowed already dry conditions to intensify, according to an update to the U.S. Droug ...
  • Is South Dakota ‘Open for Business’ for Wind D ...
    (Midwest Energy News) A South Dakota legislative conference committee agreed Thursday on an economic development proposal that could help the state’s wind industry catch up to its potential. Taxes on wind farm construction in South Da ...
  • Safety Breaches Seen Plaguing U.S. Nuclear Rea ...
    (Bloomberg) Almost one-in-six U.S. nuclear reactors experienced safety breaches last year due in part to poor oversight by federal regulators, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. Incidents including a cooling water leak an ...
  • Two Years After Fukushima, Japan's Nuclear Lob ...
    (Reuters) The crowds of anti-nuclear protesters have dwindled since Japan's "Summer of Discontent" last year, and a new government is keen to revive the country's atomic energy industry, but Morishi Izumita says he is not about to thro ...
  • Oil Price Woes: For Alberta, Life’s a Bitumen
    (Globe and Mail) The hefty discount on Alberta oil – Premier Alison Redford refers to the phenomenon as the “bitumen bubble” – is costing the province dearly. In yesterday’s budget, Finance Minister Doug Horner projected that Western ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Serious Question
    I don't watch The View. I never have, and I don't plan to in the future. But, as I understand it, the show was set up so that Elizabeth Hasselbeck played the role of Alan Colmes, only she was outnumbered 4-1. Is this correct? If it is, then I am confused about why she is getting fired bec ...
  • Odds & Ends
    It's Cabin Boy the Younger's 18th Birthday today. So, we're celebrating. Jackie Robinson sent a telegraph to LBJ during the 1965 police brutality in Selma, Alabama. I have a lot of difficulty tolerating intolerance. Obama's scheduled trip to Israel is coming at a very tricky time ...
  • All Our Billionaires
    That's a graph compiled by Forbes. You can find the embed code for it here In 1978, there was one American Billionaire on the planet, give or take. By 1988, after 8 years of Reagan as President, there were 68. Since 1988, the number of US billionaires has increased to Four Hundred and ...
  • Casual Observation
    If he were alive today, Benjamin Franklin would slap these Republicans' faces and call them bedwetters. Discuss
  • Something To Look Into
    If you haven't read the Lewis Powell memo, you probably should. Or you can read the Greenpeace analysis of the memo. I think it really does represent one of the turning points in our nation's history, and it isn't well enough understood. Powell created the template for a right-wing corpor ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Hot Tips For Growing Your Own Veggies in Green ...
    With increasing discontent surrounding the food industry, people are finding their own grassroots solutions. Here are some helpful tips for growing your own vegetables. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Bloodbath of WWII's Battle of Manila
    Fought by Japanese, US and Filipino forces, World War Two's month-long Battle of Manila destroyed a city and saw the massacre of thousands of civilians. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    Everything from hilarious business-type fails and uniquely Japanese hotel designs, to world-changing African-American nurses, and all shades of animal attraction. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Behind the Gates of Chios' Abandoned Leper Colony
    Lovokomeio was the first, and one of the last, leper colonies in Greece. These days, its crumbling ruins make it a fascinating place to explore. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Lago Epecuén: The Lake That Drowned A Thriving ...
    Over two decades ago the tourist village of Villa Epecuén was submerged beneath a rising lake. Recently, the waters have receded to expose the haunting ruins... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • City Pages Poll: A time for quixotic votes?
    This is a bit of a joke, but after some really bad turns lately, a friend trying to raise my spirits a bit suggested that it would be a good idea to get people to vote for HongPong.com on Best Local Blog on CityPages. Is this high profile? Not really. Trendy? No. In with the cool cats? Dubious. ...
  • Disgusting new FDA rule change would let toxic ...
    Blah this is just worth posting quickly. There is only one public comment on there right now. I have to say the Federal Register website is markedly better than it used to be, good for them. Saw this via: Activist Post: Aspartame in Milk Without a Label? Big Dairy Petitions FDA For Approval. Als ...
  • Immortal Technique joins Alex Jones
    This makes for some amusing Saturday afternoon viewing -- notable independent hiphop artist Immortal Technique joins Alex Jones for about 1hr20min. Getting right at the issues of Latin America, politics, immigration & moar. Format note: I would say that Jones interviews with a pretty wide cr ...
  • The Art of Failing Gracefully: DEA & DOJ need ...
    Hundreds of billions of dollars, between cash flows and valuations, depend upon the ability of American law enforcement structures avidly maintaining their illusionary belief system about laundered drug money, informants, and banking systems. All of this is normal, they say, it's normal to throw ...
  • #ForwardOnClimate: Battle within Sierra Club c ...
    The real question is: Can hydraulic fracturing ever be safe for our environment and public health? Sierra Club’s Oil and Gas Policy: We have reviewed the Club’s Oil and Gas Policy, as revised February 2012, and are pleased that it clearly states the reasons the Club doesn’t support hydraulic fr ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty
    Damage from 20 years of NAFTA shows us why latest trade deal must be stopped. Free trade creates rich people, poor communities.
  • Remembering Elsbeth Bothe, 1927-2013
    For close to 20 years, Elsbeth Bothe brought her special brand of insights and living and social justice into IPS, and she contributed generously, and IPS is much the better for it.
  • Bulgaria: The Next Generation
    Bulgaria's younger generation is distinguished from those who lived during the communist era by an awareness of the rest of the world -- and how it perceives Bulgaria.
  • Defense Braces for a Bad Decade
    Rather than just sitting on the sidelines, watching in anxiety and frustration as this Washington catfight proceeds, defense-dependent communities and workers should get going on the proverbial Plan B.
  • Organizing the Public in East-Central Europe
    NGOs devoted to public works paradoxically became part of the wave of privatization that swept the region.

IntelNews

  • Syrian government accuses Israel of planting s ...
    News media affiliated with the government of Syria accused Israel on Thursday of planting a number of spy devices disguised as rocks, which were found located near “sensitive sites” in the country.
  • News you may have missed #825
    Australian Mossad officer was facing 20 years in prison. MS-13 smuggles missile launchers and teams up with Zetas. Secretive US anti-smuggling program marks one-year anniversary.
  • Venezuela expels US diplomats as Hugo Chávez i ...
    The government of Venezuela moved yesterday to expel two American diplomats from the country, shortly before officially announcing the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The expulsions are seen by some as attempts to curtail communication between United States officials and the Venezuela ...
  • Hamas ‘found tracking devices’ inside weapons ...
    The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday it refused to take possession of a shipment of missiles after its weapons experts discovered they contained a number of carefully hidden tracking devices.
  • Analysis: The Current State of the China-Taiwa ...
    Last week I spoke about the current state of the espionage war between China and Taiwan with Tim Daiss, a Southeast Asia-based American journalist who has been covering the Asia-Pacific region for over a decade. Our discussion formed the basis of a comprehensive piece on the subject, published i ...

War is a Crime.org

  • A Nation Mourns
      A Nation Mourns   by Stephen Lendman   Venezuelans mourn their great loss. Visceral grief pervades the country. Chavez gave so much to so many. He cared. He showed it. He made a difference. He accomplished so much in 14 years.   The torch passes. On Friday, Nicolas Maduro w ...
  • Israeli Violence on International Women's Day
      Israeli Violence on International Women's Day   by Stephen Lendman   Police state harshness reflects official Israeli policy. Palestinians are ruthlessly targeted. On March 8, Israeli security forces stormed the Al Aqsa mosque.    It wasn't the first time. It won't be ...
  • Maryland: A Government of, by, and for Lockhee ...
    What's the world's biggest war profiteer to do if it already owns the federal government but is having trouble kicking around the local government of Montgomery County, Maryland, where it's headquartered?  Why, hire the state of Maryland to step in, of course.  Lockheed Martin lives by ...
  • Syrian Death Squad Invaders Seize UN Peacekeepers
      Syrian Death Squad Invaders Seize UN Peacekeepers   by Stephen Lendman   At this writing, efforts to secure their release continue. Reports suggest freeing them on Saturday likely.    UN officials hoped to do so Friday. Unsafe conditions and darkness delayed things. So ...
  • Chavez: Visionary Leader Extraordinaire
      Chavez: Visionary Leader Extraordinaire    by Stephen Lendman   He and Castro matter most. They don't come any better. They transformed their countries responsibly. Doing so made the impossible possible. They did it against long odds. They won over hearts and minds.   ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

    Democracy Now!

    • Rand Paul’s Filibuster of John Brennan
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan You could say that a filibuster occurs when a senator drones on and on. The problem with the U.S. Senate was that there were too few senators speaking about drones this week. President Barack Obama’s controversial nomination of John Brennan as director ...
    • Breaking News: Hugo Chavez Dies
      After a two-year battle with cancer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died at the age of 58. The news was delivered by Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who said, "It’s a moment of deep pain." Democracy Now! will host a roundtable discussion Wednesday on Chavez’s legac ...
    • FRIDAY: Melanie Warner on How Processed Food T ...
      Tune in Friday when we will speak with former New York Times business reporter Melanie Warner, author of the new book, "Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal." Warner’s journey into examining the 'food processing industrial complex' beg ...
    • Albert Woodfox’s 40 Years of Solitary Confinement
      By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Albert Woodfox has been in solitary confinement for 40 years, most of that time locked up in the notorious maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary known as “Angola.” This week, after his lawyers spent six years arguing that racial bias tainted the g ...
    • See Democracy Now!'s Juan Gonzalez Speak at Up ...
      Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez will be speaking in cities across the country during upcoming screenings of the new documentary based on his groundbreaking book, Harvest of Empire, which takes an unflinching look at how U.S. economic and military interests helped trigger an unprecedented ...

    Solari

    • Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sa ...
      “Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me” ~ Immanuel Kant By Catherine Austin Fitts On Thursday night, Franklin Sanders and I will take an in depth look at what is happening in the precious metals and financial markets and address your [...]
    • Noah Gundersen – “Garden”
      Related Reading: Official Website Noah Gundersen on Wikipedia
    • The Non-Revolution in Digital Payments with Er ...
      “So long as it is digital and centrally controlled, Mr. Global could not care less whether the new currency system is called dollar, peso, franc, gold, silver or wampum beads.“ ~ Catherine Austin Fitts By Catherine Austin Fitts It was the 1990′s. Eric Hughes was a brilliant ma ...
    • Senator Warren Grills US Treasury: How Many Bi ...
      SENATOR WARREN: … if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our internati ...
    • Catherine at GlobalBEM, Holland, Nov 2012
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    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

    Inhabitat

    • 12-Year-Old Sicily Kolbeck is Building Her Ver ...
      When most grade school students embark on a construction project, it’s not usually on quite the scale of a fully-functional residence—but that’s exactly what 12-year-old Sicily Kolbeck has taken on. Her “Le Petite Maison” is a 128 square-foot tiny house that features a 30 ...
    • Average Global Temperatures Poised to Soar Pas ...
      Image by Airs Science Team, NASA/JPL Is it getting hot in here? Absolutely. Don’t let the recent snowfall fool you: 2012 was the hottest year on record for the U.S. and the future isn’t looking much cooler. Recently published research suggests that planet Earth is about to experience ...
    • Meet Bunkie: A Tiny New Prefab House from 608 ...
      Have you ever dreamed of having your own little house in the countryside, just big enough for you and friend or two to hang out and take in the outdoors? 608 Design and BLDG Workshop have just the thing: their new prefab tiny house, cutely called “Bunkie.” Bunkie is a collaborative e ...
    • Designer Rabih Hage Uses Leftover Corian to Cr ...
      London based designer and architect Rabih Hage has used scrap pieces of Corian to make these fabulous pieces of angular furniture. The designs were presented by DuPont Corian at the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair to celebrate their new color palette. Rabih wanted to use off-cuts and pieces of the mat ...
    • Glowing ‘Fish Bellies’ LED Sculpture Reflects ...
      Inspired by the biological diversity of the San Marcos River, JB Public Art recently installed a glowing LED sculpture called Fish Bellies on the campus of Texas State University. Mirroring the progress of a school of fish, Fish Bellies reflects the social and communal spirit of the university’s ...

    Pogue's Posts

    The Progressive Realist

    • Is the Weakness of the Liberal Order Overblown?
      Last week, Naazneen Barma, Ely Ratner, and Steven Weber offered “The Mythical Liberal Order,” a provocative update to their earlier article on the world without the West. They sought to puncture certain mythologies about the strength of the liberal order, that it never was a strong a ...
    • You Might Have Missed: Threat Inflation, Trans ...
      James Kitfield, “Outsourcing the Fight Against Terrorism,” National Journal, March 7, 2013. In Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. officers honed the tactics they teach here (Baker did several combat tours in Iraq), Americans led the fight against terrorists and insurgents. But in Washington, polic ...
    • Rand Paul's Lonely Stand
      AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Senator Rand Paul walks to a waiting vehicle as he leaves the Capitol after his filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director. read more
    • Top of the Morning: International Women’s Day
      Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Happy International Women’s Day! Top Stories UN Peacekeeping Issues Ultimatum to DR Congo Army Over Rape Allegations MONUSCO ensures accountability for crimes against humanity. “The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has threatened to sto ...
    • North Korean Albatross Around China's Neck
      North Korea's recent nuclear test was a stark reminder to China that the days of a "lips and teeth" relationship with Pyongyang, of Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung half a century ago, are long gone. Nuclear test after nuclear test, missile test after missile test, Pyongyang has time after ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • The Full Jeb
      In February 1998, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal exploded, Lewinsky's lawyer, a man by the name of William Ginsburg, performed the then-unheard-of feat of appearing on all five of the Sunday morning talk shows in a single day. In the years since (according to Wikipedia, at least) 15 other brave ...
    • How Many Big-Time Pundits Are Plagiarists?
      Not long ago I was getting a shiatsu massage in my office when my assistant came in to tell me that he'd gathered the data on government spending that I'd asked for, and written it up in text form so I could drop it into my next column. When I read what he'd written, it looked suspiciously like ...
    • Life at the Bottom
      Flickr/SportsSuburban A female cashier at the McDonalds in Spokane, Washington. The release of 2012 minimum-wage data last Wednesday—which shows that the number of minimum-wage workers has fallen but is still higher than any period since 1998—has underscored the importance of maki ...
    • Hello to 236,000 New Jobs
      There are two things you can say about the recovery: It's slow, and it's remarkably durable. Even with the collapse of fiscal stimulus, the shocks of austerity, and a dysfunctional government, we've seen sluggish growth with just enough to bring down unemployment. And at times—such as the winte ...
    • The Sim City Podcast
        Earlier this week, I sat down with Abby Rapoport and special guest and freelance writer Rowan Kaiser, to discuss the new Sim City. As total wonks, we'd all be fans of the original versions, which require players to build cities and make sure they run properly and efficiently. Will the new gam ...

    Environment _ National Geographic

    drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

    SPL Center

    • Famous Seattle Ceramicist Exposed as Holocaust ...
      For decades, iconoclastic Seattle artist Charles Krafft has made references to Nazis in his highly acclaimed, sometimes shocking pieces of art that most critics and art lovers brand as simple, ironic satire pushing the boundaries. He crafted a ceramic Hitler-bust teapot now in a San Francisco ar ...
    • New SPLC Report: ‘Patriot’ Movement Swells for ...
      The number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups on the American radical right hit an all-time high in 2012, the fourth straight year of explosive growth, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As the new year began, serious talk of gun control, prompted by ...
    • Wonkette Viciously Mocks Stormfront Fundraisin ...
      Don Black needs money – bad. It’s gotten to the point that the former Ku Klux Klan leader and founder of Stormfront – the largest neo-Nazi web forum – is begging for pennies. To no avail, though. With February coming to a close, Black hasn’t raised even half of the $7,500 he needs to pay his [...]
    • Klan Rally Planned for Memphis, But Threat of ...
      It began about two weeks ago, when a local television station in Memphis, Tenn., allowed a man with a hooded face, identifying himself only as “Edward” and speaking on what was apparently his own rear deck, to announce to the world that he would soon be bringing “thousands” of Klansmen to a prot ...
    • Neo-Nazi Threat-Maker Bill White Gets More Pri ...
      Proud heterosexuals — a small and nameless handful of them, anyway – are on the march. And they’re not being very nice about it. Back in June 2012, the Facebook page “Heterosexual Awareness Month” (HAM) was created to “celebrate heterosexuality.” According to the page’s administrators, who ar ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • NYT Report on Selling Post Offices — and Sen. ...
      The New York Times reports in a front-page piece today titled “Post Office Buildings With Character, and Maybe a Sale Price” that the Postal Service “acknowledges that in recent years the sale of post office buildings has accelerated, and in 2011 it hired CBRE, a commercial rea ...
    • NYT Report on Selling Post Offices — and Sen. ...
      The New York Times reports in a front-page piece today titled “Post Office Buildings With Character, and Maybe a Sale Price” that the Postal Service “acknowledges that in recent years the sale of post office buildings has accelerated, and in 2011 it hired CBRE, a commercial rea ...
    • San Onofre: Secret Report Confirms Edison Knew ...
      A secret Mitsubishi Heavy Industries report released today confirms that Southern California Edison knew about serious problems in the radically redesigned replacement steam generators for the San Onofre nuclear reactors years before the defective equipment was installed, yet failed to make chan ...
    • San Onofre: Secret Report Confirms Edison Knew ...
      A secret Mitsubishi Heavy Industries report released today confirms that Southern California Edison knew about serious problems in the radically redesigned replacement steam generators for the San Onofre nuclear reactors years before the defective equipment was installed, yet failed to make chan ...
    • USDA’s Proposed Country of Origin Labeling Rul ...
      “Food & Water Watch commends USDA for taking sensible steps to strengthen Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) requirements for meat. There is overwhelming consumer support for country of origin labels and a growing interest by consumers in knowing the source of their food. The USDA&rsquo ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • To End Violence Against Women, We Must Also Co ...
      Frances Beinecke Today is International Women’s Day, a time for celebrating women’s achievements and calling for greater equality. The United Nations has focused this year’s events on ending violence against women—no ...
    • To End Violence Against Women, We Must Also Co ...
      Frances Beinecke Today is International Women’s Day, a time for celebrating women’s achievements and calling for greater equality. The United Nations has focused this year’s events on ending violence against women—no ...
    • When Public Is Better
      Robert Kuttner Long before we thought of founding The American Prospect in 1989, I came to know Paul Starr through a prescient article titled “Passive Intervention.” The piece was published in 1979, in a now-defunct journal, Wor ...
    • When Public Is Better
      Robert Kuttner Long before we thought of founding The American Prospect in 1989, I came to know Paul Starr through a prescient article titled “Passive Intervention.” The piece was published in 1979, in a now-defunct journal, Wor ...
    • Don't Be Fooled: 7.7% Is Likely a Short-Lived ...
      Dean Baker More than five years into the downturn, it doesn't take much to get people excited about the state of the economy. The Labor Department's February employment report showing the economy generated a better than expected 236 ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

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    Water Wars

    • Thirsty City digs deeper, in vain
      With indiscriminate sinking of borewells having depleted the underground water table in the City beyond distress levels, water wars seem waiting to implode like a dormant volcano in the years to come. Sinking of borewells has become a necessary evil before construction begins at a site. However, ...
    • Water Wars : Everything to Know About the Grea ...
      The infamous Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, but it finally brought water to Los Angeles in 1915, when the City Trunk Line opened for business--the underground pipe ran "rom Sylmar across the Valley (not yet part Los Angeles) through...
    • Forget Peak Oil, We’re At Peak Everything
      The idea that we’re running out of oil may have faded slightly from the list of concerns, but that’s just one of any number of precious natural resources we’re using up far too quickly. Peak oil is the concept that new discoveries of commercially exploitable oil resources do not keep pace with g ...
    • Will China's Consumer Boom Spark U.S. Shortage ...
      Chinese and Indian consumers are living well and eating well. And that could spark a global crisis. The consumer boom in China and India will touch off global inflation and could lead to food and water ...
    • Water politics bleeds Marathwada dry
      With 2012 being a bad rainfall year, districts like Jalna and Aurangabad are teetering on the edge of anarchy due to water-wars

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    The Wonk Room

    • Fox News Guest Receives Racist Rape And Death ...
      Zerlina Maxwell is a feminist writer and frequent guest on Fox News. Last week, while a guest on Sean Hannity’s show, Maxwell argued that arming women is not a way to solve the problem of rape. Among other things, she pointed out that “if firearms were the answer, then the military w ...
    • Gun Makers: People Want Assault Weapons Becaus ...
      Last week, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) released a video condemning proposed assault weapons bans in Connecticut and at the federal level. The NSSF, the firearm industry’s trade association which is based out of Newtown, Conn., interviewed three Connecticut-Based gun manufactur ...
    • Richard Nixon Wanted A Handgun Ban
      Previously unreported tapes of Richard Nixon reveal the president once called for a ban on handguns. The Associated Press reports Nixon took a hard stand during an exchange on May 16, 1972, the day after an attempted assassination on George Wallace: “I don’t know why any individual should have a ...
    • Public High School Students Won’t Learn About ...
      Iowa state Rep. Pat Grassley (R) — the grandson of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — introduced a bill earlier this week that increases the amount of instruction in government and “the tenets of American citizenship” in the state’s high school social studies curriculum, but sp ...
    • After Watching Shell, Statoil Considers Walkin ...
      By Kiley Kroh This week a top executive with Norway-based Statoil said it would be willing to walk away from Arctic offshore drilling if exploration in the harsh and remote environment proves too risky. In an interview at the IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston, Tim Dodson, Statoil’s executive vi ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • Dark Legacy: Systemic Discrimination Against C ...
      It's a new book I'm reading. Got it from the Parliament branch of the Toronto Public Library. Dark Legacy: Systemic Discrimination Against Canada's First Peoples by L.J. O'Connor and Morgan O'Neal, with Lloyd Dolha and Jim Ada. I'm about half-way through it. So far it's talked about the betray ...
    • First Nations Leadership
      Link.
    • Bye Jymn
      My blog-roll link: "Let Freedom Rain" no longer works. Jymn has retired from blogging. Jymn was getting depressed about the failure of the enemies of the harpercons to present a united front against them. Then he had a flame-out over the workplace bullying at the hands of female bosses that he u ...
    • Tom Flanagan's career
    • Bombing War
      This looks like it'll be fairly objective. (Only just started it.)

    on Government Oversight

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    End Homelessness | Change.org

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

    Ceasefire.ca

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
      Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
    • The Flu Season Is Upon Us
      Here are a few of my personal recommendations for avoiding the flu this holiday season. These recommendations are also the best way to slow, or potentially reverse, the aging process, making you look and feel younger than you have in years. In general terms the way to eradicate any and all illne ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
      Today, Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling We ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-22-12
      Today, Kevin exposes the truth behind Subway’s false and misleading advertising, body scanner radiation vs. airplane radiation, and even Your Wish Is Your Command! Self Help: Protect You & Your Family Grass Fed Beef & Dairy Change The Way You Think Health: Your PC, TV or Cell Phone May B ...
    • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
      Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...

    Armies of Liberation

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

    Dark Politricks

    • Seven Killed in Scattered Iraq Attacks
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSeven Killed in Scattered Iraq Attacks – Saturday: 7 Killed, 18 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis In Hawar village, a blast killed two policemen and wounded four others. Two people were killed and two more were w ...
    • Maryland lawmaker introduces bill pushing back ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   A Maryland state Senator has introduced legislation he said would counter local schools’ “zero tolerance” policies regarding mimicking of firearms. WJZ-TV reported on Friday that state ...
    • Enemy of the Revolution: Monopoly Media
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Kim Petersen At this key juncture, I hope the people of Venezuela can now build for themselves a better, brighter future based on the principles of freedom, democracy, the rul ...
    • Indigenous protests in Panama turn violent
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Police in Panama clashed with farmers and indigenous people for a second day Saturday over a planned dam that locals fear will wipe out their way of life. Demonstrators in the western town of Vigui threw ...
    • Chris Hayes on Paul filibuster: Conservatives ...
      Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   MSNBC host Chris Hayes seemed to get a little more agitated than usual on Saturday in debating the effects of Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) 13-hour filibuster against John Brennan’s appointment to ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • Robert Jensen: We Are All Apocalyptic Now: Mor ...
      Dandelion Salad SocialJusticeNOW·Mar 4, 2013 University of Texas Professor Robert Jensen speaks on “We Are All Apocalyptic Now: Moral Responsibilities in Crisis Times” in the First Unitarian Universalist Church Public Affairs Forum. In his talk, Jensen discusses the need for a &#8220 ...
    • New report: Governments must protect land, foo ...
      Dandelion Salad by Sophia Murphy Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy March 1, 2013 IATP has always argued that trade agreements need to respect and promote human rights, not drive a process of globalization that privileges commercial interests and tramples on public interests. In a new pa ...
    • Russia needs wake-up call on Syria and Iran by ...
      by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV March 5, 2013 Is Russia sleepwalking when it comes to defending allies Syria and Iran and ultimately its own vital long-term interests? It seems that Russian leaders are befuddled by the conflict raging in Syria, s ...
    • Ron Finley, Guerilla Gardener: Come To The Gar ...
      Dandelion Salad TEDtalksDirector·Mar 6, 2013 Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where “the drive-thrus are kill ...
    • Bradley Manning: Hung Out To Dry
      Dandelion Salad www.aljazeera.com Mar. 9, 2013 [...] Media outlets went on to draw on WikiLeaks for some of the biggest news stories of the decade. Manning’s leak meant millions of papers sold and pages viewed yet the story of the man himself has been pushed to the margins. Is this just ingratit ...

    Your New Reality

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

    Wired - Science

    • Watch Live: City-Block-Size Asteroid Comes Out ...
      An asteroid roughly 64 to 140 meters wide -- about the size of a city block -- will be zipping past the Earth today and you can watch a live show of the event from the Slooh Space Camera consortium ...
    • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Comet Pan-STARRS ...
      Sky-watchers can enjoy a spectacular show this weekend as comet Pan-STARRS streaks overhead. Viewers can see the comet as it brightens during the next few days by looking to the west above the horizon just after sunset. If any amateur ...
    • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Eerily Blank Sun
      Something unexpected is happening on the Sun. 2013 was supposed to be the year of "solar maximum," the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. Yet 2013 has arrived and solar activity is relatively low. Sunspot numbers are well below their ...
    • Video: Retired Lab Chimps Step Outside for the ...
      Watch as chimpanzees who have spent their lives undergoing medical research in laboratories step outside and see the sky for the first time in their new home at Chimp Haven.
    • New Gigantic Telescopes Will Crack the Secrets ...
      From the properties of dark matter to how the universe took shape shortly after the Big Bang, some of the universe’s oldest and best-kept secrets could soon be exposed as construction moves forward on three “extremely large telescopes,” each with ...

    Israeli Occupation Archive

    • Researcher uncovers hidden facts of Israeli-Pa ...
      The Israeli government has been forcing the Palestinian Authority into approving water infrastructure for illegal West Bank settlements for the past 15 years, according to research by a University of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
    • Rashid Khalidi: Brokers of Deceit – How the US ...
      For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
    • Jonathan Cook: Herod exhibit digs up controversy
      Israeli archeologist Yonathan Mizrachi: “Israel wants to present the situation as if it is simply ‘borrowing’ these antiquities from the Palestinians, like it might borrow an exhibit from France or... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
    • Jonathan Cook: Obama’s diplomatic overture wil ...
      Here is the rub. Mr Netanyahu already has a stranglehold on the politics of his potential peace partners. He can easily manipulate the fortunes of the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on the two... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
    • Stephen R. Shalom: Do we know enough?
      In Knowing Too Much, Norman Finkelstein [argues] that both American Jews and the American public more generally are moving away from uncritical support for Israel. This shift, he suggests, holds out... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

    Ria Novosti - Military

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

    NewsWise

    • Electric Car Does Not Interfere with Implanted ...
      A Mayo Clinic study has concluded that patients with implanted cardiac devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators can safely drive or ride in an electric car without risk of electromagnetic interference (EMI).
    • Bathing Abdomen in Chemotherapy Gives Ovarian ...
      A recent study suggests that patients with advanced ovarian cancer who undergo intensive treatment with chemotherapy that bathes the abdomen are significantly more likely to live longer than those who receive standard intravenous (IV) chemotherapy.
    • Science, Innovation, Humanitarianism, Public S ...
      The SGO will recognize excellence in gynecologic cancer research and treatment with the presentation of several awards during the Opening Ceremony at the Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 9, 2013.
    • Rush Scientists Identify Buphenyl as a Possibl ...
      Studies in mice with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have shown that sodium phenylbutyrate, known as Buphenyl, successfully increases factors for neuronal growth and protects learning and memory, according to neurological researchers at the Rush University Medical Center.
    • Dayu Lin, PhD, Named to Prestigious Sloan Rese ...
      Young Scientist Named Among 126 'Rising Stars' in Science.

    Natural Health News

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

    Climategate

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

    Opinio Juris

    • Why the “Public Authority” Defense Does Not Wo ...
      by Kevin Jon Heller I'm grateful to Ken, Wells Bennett, and Marcy Wheeler for speculating that my April 2010 blog post on 18 USC 1119, the foreign-murder statute, is the post referred to in today's New York Times article on the behind-the-scenes machinations that culminated in the CIA using a ...
    • How Microfinance Transformed a Filipino Mounta ...
      by Roger Alford by Roger Alford “Three years ago I could never have dreamed that we would be selling our tomatoes directly to the restaurants in Manila,” said Johnny Rola. Just a few years ago the poor farmers in this mountain village in northern Philippines had little hope. They w ...
    • The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways – KJH and OL ...
      by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Was our very own Kevin Jon Heller, and one of his OJ posts, responsible for causing David Barron and Marty Lederman (widely taken as authors of the Justice Department’s OLC opinion on the lawfulness of targeting Anwar Al-Awlaki with lethal force) t ...
    • AUMF 2.0
      by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein I hope soon to get more directly to the important news of the prosecution of former Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith in U.S. federal court in New York and much else of interest in our pages, but I didn’t want to let pass without comment the als ...
    • Weekend Roundup: March 2-8, 2013
      by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin argued why the OPCD’s small victory over the return of documents seized by Libya may be important in the longer run because of its consequences for Libya’s admissibility challenge. He also quoted from Libya’s late ...

    Public News Service

    • Public Gets Say Today on 5-Year AZ Transportat ...
      Public Gets Say Today on 5-Year AZ Transportation Plan PHOENIX – The Arizona Department of Transportation's latest five-year construction plan is up for public comment in Phoenix today. The proposal contains money only for highways and airports. But Serena Unrein, a public interest advoc ...
    • "Fight All Fires" Policy Change for Forest Service
      "Fight All Fires" Policy Change for Forest Service PHOENIX - For decades, the U.S. Forest Service let small fires in remote areas burn naturally in recognition that fire was part of the natural landscape - and that by letting some fires burn, future large fires could be prevented. Last year, how ...
    • A Civil Conversation on Gun Control?
      A Civil Conversation on Gun Control? PHOENIX - It's a divisive issue in Arizona and the nation, and some are wondering if a civil conversation is possible about proposed gun-control legislation. In Colorado, Mark Kelly, husband of former U.S. Rep. ...(Read More)
    • Putting Food on the Table: Report says AZ Stil ...
      Putting Food on the Table: Report says AZ Still Struggles PHOENIX - Arizona comes in at number 14 on a list of states where people say they lacked enough money to buy the food they needed at some point in the last year. That equals nearly 21 percent of the population, according to a report by th ...
    • Heart Dangers for Women Sometimes Not Obvious
      Heart Dangers for Women Sometimes Not Obvious PHOENIX – A sharp pain or a tight feeling in the chest, along with shortness of breath, are well known warning signs of a heart attack. But according to the American Heart Association (AHA), those are typical signs of a heart attack in men. ...

    Center for Food Safety

    • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
      The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
    • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
      What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
    • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
      The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
    • As Challenge over Seed Rights Approaches Supre ...
      Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds Investigate Role of Seed Patents in Consolidating Corporate Control of Global Food Supply Today, one week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS) – two legal and policy ...
    • Center for Food Safety Calls on EPA to Follow ...
      New European Pesticide Agency study reports “unacceptable” dangers to bees; supports suspension of use in U.S. Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the cue of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and immediately suspend t ...

    Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

    Pensieve

    • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
      I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
    • Escape your demons and make art now!
      Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...
    • Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
      I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...
    • The Drug War, explained
      The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...
    • Aaron Swartz on SOPA
      The late Aaron Swartz explains SOPA. His recent suicide has been in the news so much that I feel it isn’t worth discussing. His opinions, though, are. Related posts: Aaron Ortiz, Rest in Peace I’m very sorry to say that one of my namesakes... Aaron Ortiz, Flickr Pro These are some o ...

    Green Times

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

    The Briefing Room | Investigate

    Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

    • Today in Jayyous
      A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
    • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
      Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
    • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
      As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
    • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
      There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
    • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
      Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...

    Politics in the Zeros

    • Clay Claiborne banned from Daily Kos for speak ...
      Further proof that faux progressive sites like Daily Kos are just Democratic Party shills and relentlessly opposed to any real criticism of the party or of Obama. Thus, they aren’t progressive or even liberal at all, by rather just party hacks who like and support the existing power arran ...
    • Make it stop. School confiscates cupcakes with ...
      Nanny state derangement continues unabated. A Michigan elentary school confiscates cupcakes with toy soldiers on top on the specious and unconstitutional grounds that some parents don’t like guns so therefore all children at the school should not suffer the traumatic indignity of seeing a ...
    • Wilko Johnson. Brit R&B and pre-punk legend on ...
      Former Dr Feelgood and Blockheads guitarist Wilko Johnson was diagnosed recently with terminal cancer and his response is to do a triumphant farewell tour with no tears and no sadness, just blistering guitar riffs and jubilation. Wow. Wiki Johnson and Dr Feelgood have been credited as one of th ...
    • Bob Woodward cites Obama “madness,” says shoul ...
      When a veteran Navy intelligence analyst gets his knickers in a loud public twist over the number of U.S. nuclear-strike capable aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, one might first enjoy the spectacle – but then wonder: why such carryings-on to raise the military threat against Iran? When th ...
    • 13th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me
      This amazing video with a very young Roky Erikson is made even better by the totally dorky intro and kids hanging out by the pool. Many rock videos from that era have announcers and MCs who have no idea what the bands are about. Heh.

    Coteret

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

    Deadline Live

    • CHAVEZ MURDERED; The Assassination Of Hugo Cha ...
      Newsnight also has new allegations by ‘Chavistas’ that US funding is behind three plans to assassinate President Chavez. – Greg Palast After hearing all the ridiculous lies and defamation of Hugo Chavez by the mainstream media, and then having to hear the same thing repeated by ...
    • Chinese Farmers Revolt Against Government Land ...
      The road that runs along the edge of Shangpu village in south China is littered with the hulks of burned-out cars. Farmers have built tents and simple barricades made of rocks and wire. Police have set up their own cordon in a standoff that is approaching two weeks. The villagers are demanding f ...
    • North Korea ends peace pacts with South
      North Korea says it is scrapping all non-aggression pacts with South Korea, closing its hotline with Seoul and shutting their shared border point. The announcement follows a fresh round of UN sanctions punishing Pyongyang for its nuclear test last month. Earlier, Pyongyang said it reserved the r ...
    • N. Korean general says Pyongyang has nuke-tipp ...
      SEOUL, March 8 (Yonhap) — A North Korean general said Thursday that the country has placed long-range missiles armed with nuclear warheads on standby, as Pyongyang said it will not bow to the United Nations resolution condemning its latest atomic weapons test. Full Article
    • This Day In History – March 8
      1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies. 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of ...

    The Air Vent

    • Sandwich Board Skeptics
      Steve McIntyre has a nice post up which I missed for 4 days.   He is very good.  Imagine the work it takes to go to AGU, sit through a Mann lecture expecting bad graphs to be used and be ready with a camera. Hell, even if I had the time, I sure as shit wouldn’t [...]
    • Blind Mice
      I am having a hard time generating the will to write as of late.   It didn’t use to be that way.  I used to get really upset when I read some alarmist garbage or other, all pushing the same fake lines of global doom.   Now there is so much progressive propaganda in the global environment, ...
    • The Power of Underpants
      As you can tell, I have been very busy lately.   I still have been lurking the same blogs and reading the comment threads so my time isn’t quite reduced to zero.   Recently, an article came out regarding some Ohio State researchers who claimed to have invented a process to burn coal and em ...
    • Lewandowsky – Strike Two
      Hat tip – Skiphil. – So Dr. Lewandowsky did it again.   He, and his coauthors, falsely used my name in order to support some kind of psychology paper on climate skeptic bloggers titled – “Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on ...
    • Condensation Driven Winds
      I have been receiving emails from the authors of the condensation driven wind theory for several days now as they have published a new paper.   Since I have no time whatsoever, I haven’t even read their latest work. Judith Curry has kindly taken on their guest post and it can be read there ...

    Focal Point

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

    Inside Facebook

    • Facebook roundup: new board member, free VoIP, ...
      Facebook names UCSF chancellor to board – Facebook this week named UC San Francisco Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann to its board of directors. Desmond-Hellmann was previously president of product development at Genentech, where Facebook CFO David Ebersman previously served...
    • Facebook hires small team behind social startu ...
      Storytelling platform Storylane today announced that it is shutting down and the team is joining Facebook as part of a talent acquisition. Facebook is not buying the Storylane product. Storylane is a community story sharing service and...
    • Facebook condenses Ticker into single post in ...
      Ticker, the real-time activity feed Facebook launched in 2011, is being pretty much retired in the latest redesign of News Feed and replaced by separate feeds that users can choose from. A small remnant of the...
    • Facebook adds run, walk, rate, want to read an ...
      Facebook today announced new ways for lifestyle apps to tap into Open Graph with verbs:  run, walk, bike, rate, quote, want to read and want to watch. These will be known as “built-in” or “common” actions,...
    • Facebook tests Page-Like Sponsored Stories tha ...
      Facebook is testing a new design for page Like stories, both organic and sponsored, that incorporates a page’s cover photo to make the unit more visual and striking in the desktop feed. This design is similar...

    Truthout - Tweets

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    ReDress News

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

    Amazon Rainforest

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

    Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

    • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
      Sting- “The Windmills of Your Mind” This week we have a request for our Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick and it’s from none other than Sibel. The song is Sting’s version of The Windmills of Your Mind from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. Noel Harrison performed it origi ...
    • Obama Authorizes Killing Americans Domestically
      Tyranny in America is Hardwired! Rogue leaders overstep. They never quit. Tyranny in America is hardwired. Bush authorized it for eight years. Obama exceeds his worst policies. He masquerades as people friendly. He does so fraudulently. American freedom is vanishing. It’s doing so in plain ...
    • Podcast Show #106: The Speedy Ascent from Soft ...
      The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Charlie McGrath Charlie McGrath of WideAwakenews joins us to discuss our speedy ascent from soft tyranny to hard tyranny. We talk about the creeping police state practices at home, perpetual wars abroad, the divisive and destructive Right-Left paradigms, public ap ...
    • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 7, ...
      Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
    • Connecting the Dots: Afghan Heroin, NATO, Azer ...
      Azerbaijan in Operation Gladio-Plan B Over the last few weeks James Corbett and I have been discussing US-NATO Gladio Operations in the Islamization and Terrorization of Central Asia- Caucasus, and the real lords of the booming Afghan heroin business. If you haven’t already, watch our video inte ...

    Afro Spear

    • sat’day riddymz
      My favourite Biggie song ever! R.I.P. Christopher Wallace: May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997
    • Perspective
      Greeting’s Everyone, I have decided to take a step back this week in the hopes of receiving your opinion. Yes, …Continue reading »
    • Byts and Bytes
      President Hugo Chavez and race: The shift from avoidance to inclusion The Good, Racist People Hugo Chavez: New World Rising …Continue reading »
    • Sunday Inspirations
      24-year-old Arthur Zang, a Cameroonian engineer, invented the Cardiopad. The Cardiopad is a portable, touch screen device that enables heart …Continue reading »
    • Black Pete, Zwarte Piet: The Documentary
      Greeting’s Everyone, I need to thank Adrianne George who contributes to Black Expat.com. I just happen to find this post …Continue reading »

    Tikun Olam

    • Hanoch Levin’s “How to Spot an Arab Terrorist”
      A friend from Israel sent this quotation from Israel’s most brilliant political satirist, Hanoch Levin.  It was quoted in Uri Blau’s latest Haaretz article about a poor Palestinian family whose land is cut off from its native village by the Separation Wall.  This fact has also caused ...
    • Obama: Yes, We Can…Kill U.S. Citizens
      In 2008, we all whispered or shouted the slogan, “Yes, we can.”  It was a mantra.  It expressed all the hope for change of progressive Americans after eight dismal years of Bush-Cheney horrors.  Now it is five years later and all those hopes and dreams lie shattered in pieces on the ...
    • Can Next Israeli Government Be Even More Extre ...
      The answer is, to paraphrase the old Obama slogan: “yes, it can.”  For starters, instead of appointing Yair Lapid to be foreign minister, which would project a mesasge of calm and reassurance to the international community, Bibi appears to intend to save that portfolio for his old pa ...
    • Iron Dome System Failed Miserably
      After Operation Pillar of Smoke, the IDF claimed that its Iron Dome anti-missile system performed brilliantly destroying 84% of its targets.  Defense Minister Barak sang its praises, Israeli civilians breathed a sign of relief to finally have a weapon that could protect them from incessant Gaza ...
    • Israel Social TV Video: Israeli Judicial Syste ...
      This is my latest video for Israel Social TV which reviews the three posts I’ve written over the past two years about the immunity granted to price tagger Dor Oved by the Israeli judicial system because his father is a Shabak agent and mother a police official.

    If Americans Knew

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

    David J. Gregory

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

    Unsuitable Blog

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

    Subalternate Reality

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

    Idea Lab | Technology

    • Lessons Learned From My Three-Day Social Media ...
      I realized recently that I had become way too attached to looking at social media on my phone and on my computer -- basically all the time. This is a phenomenon that we talk about a lot at the Reese News Lab. We know that there are spikes in activity on social media from desktops during l ...
    • Public Lab's 'Spectral Challenge' Promotes Ope ...
      This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Chris Fastie. During the BP oil spill in 2010, as aerial mappers walked coastlines and boated waterways to document environmental impacts, we encountered tarry clumps in the sand or reddish clayey masses floating around the boat. We often weren ...
    • Pop Up Archive and PRX Launch Audio Archiving ...
      This post was co-written by Bailey Smith, co-creator of Pop Up Archive, with help from Jake Shapiro, CEO of Public Radio Exchange. We believe that archiving can be so easy it doesn't even feel like archiving -- and that an entire new generation of meaningful content is waiting to be created, ...
    • Spending Stories, Open Spending Are Moving Bey ...
      2013 is going to be a big year for the spending stories project. In 2012, as we explained in more detail on our blog, we improved usability of our platform for spending data and developed stronger community ties around the world. Now we're primed to roll out some really empowering resources for ...
    • Beyond Foursquare: Geolocation Services Prolif ...
      This is the second in an ongoing series on the state of geolocation apps, sites and services. Also see: "How the geolocation revolution has evolved" In part one of this series, we looked back at the early days of geolocation, with Platial kicking off the geoloco revolution in the practical ...

    Cutting Edge News

    • Iran on Edge - The Decline of Iran in Muslim Eyes
      Iran, once admired by many many in the Middle East for resisting U.S. influence in the region, is rapidly losing support among the Arab and Muslim public, according to a new public poll.The survey was conducted by the Zogby Research Service of Washington D.C., for the Arab American Institute. It ...
    • Afghanistan on Edge - 18 Killed in Afghan Atta ...
      A suicide bomber riding a bicycle blew himself up outside the Afghan Defense Ministry Saturday while U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was in Kabul, but the Pentagon chief was nowhere near the scene. Another suicide bomber in the eastern city of Khost killed a policeman, children and other civi ...
    • China on Edge - China’s South a Window on Ec ...
      China recently began service on the world's longest high-speed rail line, which stretches from its political nerve center in the north to Guangzhou - one of country’s key economic centers in the south. Both the high-speed rail and Guangdong’s massive city of Guangzhou are windows into the tr ...
    • The Edge of Terrorism - US Captures Al-Qaeda S ...
      Earlier this week, Americans learned about the arrest and extradition to the US of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a former al-Qaeda during the attacks on New York and Washington on 9/11. Abu Ghaith is also a son-in-law to the terrorist group’s late leader, Osama bin Laden. His arraignment on a series of ...
    • America on Edge - Partner Abuse Counseling for ...
      Only about one in five central Pennsylvania women who have experienced intimate partner violence is asked or counseled by a health care provider about abuse, according to Penn State medicine and public health science researchers. Overall, approximately only one in nine women has received prevent ...

    High Country News

    CounterCurrents

    • Currency Concerns Under Uncertainty: The Case ...
      Changes in China’s external payments in relation to changing expectations, reminds us of the need for the re-regulations that arise with destabilising expectations and rising uncertainty, which is not one of a piece with perfect information. As formulated by Keynes in 1936 with the publication o ...
    • Venezuela After Chávez Nilantha Ilangamuwa In ...
      What will happen to Venezuela after an uncertain death of the President Hugo Chavez? Here is Patrick O'Donoghue to discuss present political trends in the country. He is former news editor of VHeadline.com and London correspondent for Las Verdades de Miguel (Venezuelan) weekly newspaper based Ca ...
    • Damascus University Students Resist US Civilia ...
      More than 200,000 full-time and ‘open-learning’ students at Damascus University, the 6th largest in the World and founded in 1901, are feeling some effects of the harsh Obama Administration’s civilian targeting sanctions. Iran’s millions of students are also increasingly in the cross-hairs of th ...
    • Secret Israeli Torture To Death Of Jewish Aust ...
      Dual Israeli and Australian citizen and Jewish Australian father of 2, Ben Zygier, was secretly imprisoned for 11 months in solitary confinement by the Israelis in 2010 until he was either killed by the Israelis or, as alleged by the Israelis, committed suicide in a suicide-proof cell
    • Understanding The Anger And Frustration Of Mus ...
      Those who killed Zia ul Haq physically might have wanted to eliminate him but in his death Zia will become a rallying point for Muslim youths who will raise their voice against injustice and for their fair share in India’s development and power structure which nobody would be able to ignore

    Contagious Love Experiment

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

    Yid With Lid

    • Graham and McCain Demonstrate What's WRONG Wit ...
      No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be sub ...
    • Domestic Terrorist Brett Kimberlin is Back And ...
      Remember international "Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day," last May? It was precipitated by the domestic terrorist's campaign of intimidation against conserve bloggers such as  R.S. McCain, Aaron Worthing, Liberty Chick, Patterico,  and others. Eventually Kimberlin's croni ...
    • Who Is the "Imperialist Tool" in the Middle East?
      By Barry Rubin Let's examine claims from the radical academia currently hegemonic in North America and Europe. What is fascinating is that a well-informed observer can easily demolish such claims. That's precisely why such people are not being trained today and those who do exist must ...
    • Roger Ailes Insults Ashtrays-Says Biden's As D ...
      According to a new book Roger Ailes: Off Camera,’’ by Zev Chavets President Barack Obama is “lazy’’ and “never worked a day in his life,’’ the SCHMOTUS Vice President Joe Biden-- “he’s as dumb as an ashtray,” and Newt Gingrich is a “sore loser.” All this raises the question, Why does the F ...
    • House GOP Votes to APPROVE Obamacare
      It's like what the good witch says at the end of the Wizard of Oz "You've always had the power to go back to Kansas." Well Mr. Speaker you have always had the power to kill Obamacare. But today Speaker Boehner and most of the House Republican Caucus have demonstrated they never really want ...

    The Real Agenda

    • Whole Foods will label GMO foods
      By CANDICE CHOI | AP | MARCH 8, 2013 Whole Foods says all products in its North American stores will have labels disclosing if they contain genetically modified ingredients by 2018. The company says it’s the first national grocery chain to set such a deadline for labeling foods t ...
    • Centers for Disease Control warns about threat ...
      By JULIE STEENHUYSEN | REUTERS | MARCH 8, 2013 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday warned state and local health officials about potential infections from a deadly virus previously unseen in humans that has now sickened 14 people and killed 8. Most of the i ...
    • Imposing Sanctions is a Declaration of War
      By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 8, 2013 If one looks through the list of events that can unleash military conflict between two or more nations, short of an unexpected military attack, sanctions is probably one of the top triggers for aggression. In a world as interconnected a ...
    • Study: Moderate link between processed meat co ...
      By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 7, 2013 Everything in moderation is good, right? How about when the moderate adjective is given to the chance of death at an early age? According to a new study published on the BMC Medicine Journal, the relation between consumption of processe ...
    • Food monopolists are taking over the world foo ...
      By J. D. HEYES | NATURAL NEWS | MARCH 6, 2013 There was a reason why our founding fathers were leery of monopolies – because they knew that too much power and influence in too few hands was not conducive to liberty and freedom. That’s one reason why they would likely be con ...

    Wind Watch

    • In Newark, a ringing vote against ridgeline wind
      NEWARK — Selectboard member Tommie Rodger upended the wooden ballot box, and torn bits of paper cascaded onto the counting table. On half sheets torn from notebooks, on Post-it notes, on little corners of white paper ripped from the town report, voter after voter had scrawled “Yes” or “YES!” — o ...
    • Court tells DEP to lower nighttime noise level ...
      PORTLAND, Maine — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday vacated a decision by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection over nighttime sound requirements for the Saddleback Ridge Wind Project in Carthage, Canton and Dixfield. The court unanimously agreed with the groups’ appeal of a ...
    • Everpower legal claim dismissed by judge
      ALLEGANY — Officials reported on Friday that Cattaraugus County Supreme Court Judge Michael Nenno dismissed a lawsuit in its entirety that had been filed by EverPower Wind LLC. against the Town of Allegany Planning Board. Commenting on the lawsuit, John Hare, Allegany town supervisor, said the t ...
    • Senators give update on wind legislation changes
      GRAFTON — Vermont towns and “local control” would gain under revised legislation now under consideration in the Vermont Senate, three senators said at a forum on commercial wind development. The discussion, hosted by Friends of Grafton’s Heritage, which is fighting a proposed wind project in Gra ...
    • Winds of change blowing through wind power ind ...
      BICKLETON — As the superintendent of the Bickleton School District, Ric Palmer negotiates contracts, supervises the district’s single K-12 building, teaches classes, schedules sports and dons coveralls and a welding mask to fix buses in the garage. Starting in 2016, however, the 58-year-old plan ...

    Tippers News

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

    The Freeman

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

    Teaching Online Journalism

    • Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
      I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...
    • Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
      There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...
    • The future, and journalism education
      My university played host this weekend to several dozen journalism educators and some very wonderful working journalists. They all came to the Journalism Interactive conference to share what they know and learn new things about digital media and training the next generation of journalists. Most ...
    • What people search for online
      When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
    • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
      To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...

    Facing South

    • FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: Women and ...
      A story in a 1977 issue of Southern Exposure reported on how in the midst of the Great Depression Jessie Daniel Ames organized a mass "revolt against chivalry" that linked the anti-lynching campaign with the struggle for sexual emancipation. We share it today in honor of International Women's Da ...
    • INSTITUTE INDEX: Follow the drone money
      In the wake of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) filibuster this week raising concerns about the Obama administration's policy on the domestic use of drones against U.S. civilians, we take a by-the-numbers look at U.S. drone use and drone makers' political clout. read more
    • VOICES: Scarlet Letter licenses? Give me one, too.
      North Carolina will soon begin issuing driver's licenses to undocumented youth with a pink banner and bright red letters that say "NO LAWFUL STATUS" and "LIMITED TERM." Jeff Shaw with N.C. Policy Watch tells state transportation chief Tony Tata why he wants one, too. read more
    • Lawsuit seeks withheld information about leaki ...
      Clean water advocates have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard over its refusal to release public records about a chronic leak from Taylor Energy oil wells off the Louisiana coast. Caused by an underwater mudslide during Hurricane Ivan, the spill has been foul ...
    • New battle over voter ID in the South
      Once again, Southern states are pushing to enact new voting restrictions including voter ID laws. But has the public debate changed? read more

    Worldpress - Africa

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

    Telegraph UK - oil

    Ian Welsh

    • The Cassandra Complex
      The prophet Cassandra was blessed with the ability to foretell the future: but cursed that no one would believe her. Except that this is the way that prophecy works, if people believe a dire prophecy, it generally doesn’t come true.  My friend Stirling Newberry calls this a “self-unf ...
    • Rand Paul’s Filibuster
      Rand Paul, if you haven’t seen the news, is filibustering Brennan’s CIA nomination in order to get clarification from the President that American citizens can’t be killed without due process in the United States. I’m seeing a lot of “liberals” and “progr ...
    • Rand Paul’s Filibuster
      Rand Paul, if you haven’t seen the news, is filibustering Brennan’s CIA nomination in order to get clarification from the President that American citizens can’t be killed without due process in the United States. I’m seeing a lot of “liberals” and “progr ...
    • The Keys to Prosperity
      I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing a book on how to create prosperity.   Let’s run through the basics. First, you have to produce enough.  Goods and services.  Everything from food and shelter, to music and philosophy. Second, because prosperity means widespread affluence, ...
    • The Keys to Prosperity
      I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing a book on how to create prosperity.   Let’s run through the basics. First, you have to produce enough.  Goods and services.  Everything from food and shelter, to music and philosophy. Second, because prosperity means widespread affluence, ...

    Media Consortium

    Reality Asserts Itself

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

    Great Beyond ( Nature )

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    new geography

    • New York Catholic Schools Take a Beating From ...
      In a heart-breaking scene in the 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman, a young mother is crying in her Harlem apartment, which overlooks her daughter’s school. Bianca, her daughter, has been barred from attending graduation. The villain isn’t a union boss or a bureaucrat in Albany – instead, it ...
    • New York City's Revival: The Post-Sandy Apple
      Although its manufacturing jobs are gone forever, New York continues to ride the crests of its paper-profits prosperity. Housing in once-notorious slums now costs more than $1.5 million. The waterfront is getting a green-space makeover. The city’s future depends on Wall Street’s ability to at ...
    • The Real Winners Of The Global Economy: The Ma ...
      Something strange happened on the road to our much-celebrated post-industrial utopia. The real winners of the global economy have turned out to be not the creative types or the data junkies, but the material boys: countries, states and companies that have perfected the art of physical pr ...
    • Communities Need to Build Better Millennial Co ...
      A remarkable, but mostly unnoticed, 2012 study found a powerful correlation between a community’s civic health and its economic well being. The analysis by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and its partners found that the density of non-profits whose purpose was to encour ...
    • The Age of Bernanke
      To many presidential idolaters, this era will be known as the Age of Obama. But, in reality, we live in what may best be called the Age of Bernanke. Essentially, Obamaism increasingly serves as a front for the big-money interests who benefit from the Federal Reserve's largesse and intere ...

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    Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

    Margaret's News

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

    Solar Energy / Energy Boom

    News Blaze

    Worldnews

    • Syrian refugees could triple by end of 2013, s ...
      Syrian refugee numbers could increase by up to two or three times by the end of 2013 if Syria's civil war continues, said the United Nations refugee agency chief. António Guterres, the agency's...
    • Arresting Tevez show delights Mancini
      08:45, Mar 10 2013 Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has joked that he would be happy for Carlos Tevez to get arrested more often if it meant he kept scoring hat-tricks. On Thursday evening, Tevez was arrested on suspicion of driving while disqualified, which carries a maximum...
    • India faces epidemic of missing children
      A staple storyline of popular Bollywood films over the years has been about siblings getting lost in a village fair or being forcibly separated by a hideous villain, only to be reunited years later. The happy endings normally spelled success: moviegoers went home happy while the filmmaker went l ...
    • U.S. Air Force stops reporting data on Afghani ...
      WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With debate intensifying in the United States over the use of drone aircraft, the U.S. military said on Sunday that it had removed data about air strikes carried out by unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its monthly air power summaries. U.S. Central Command, which oversee ...
    • Afghan leader alleges US, Taliban are colluding
      RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai is accusing the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will...

    Alex in Wonderland

    MY Daily Apple

    Common Dreams

    • Door Opened for Gun-Wielding Teachers in South ...
      South Dakota became the first state in the U.S. to officially allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom on Friday, after Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a bill into law that will allow individual school districts to autonomously decide on the matter. ...
    • 'No Nukes!': Fukushima Protesters Out in Force ...
      Thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tokyo Saturday, to remind their government of the 19,000 people who died two years ago in the Fukushima nuclear disaster—urging that such a catastrophe should not be allowed to happen again. ...
    • Chaos in Egypt After Port Said Ruling
      Egyptian police helicopter flies through smoke form fires set by protesters at police officers' club in Cairo, following ruling ( AP / Maya Alleruzzo)Anger and unrest in the Egyptian city of Port Said exploded once again Saturday, following a mixed court verdict over last year's soccer stadi ...
    • Across US, Health Concerns Vie with Fracking P ...
      Peter “Pete” Seeger is a 93-year old U.S. folk legend who resides in Wappinger Falls in southern New York. He can be spotted occasionally on the traffic-heavy Route 9, flanked by world peace signs and armed with a banjo. Seeger is famous for his protest songs – which tackle top ...
    • Rightwing Fraudster Who Helped Sabotage ACORN ...
      James O'Keefe, the rightwing political operative made famous by masquerading as an investigative journalist while producing bogus videos using hidden cameras, has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a suit brought by a former employee of the now defunct community organizing group ACORN. ...

    The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

    Examine Religion - Tweets

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    Energy Collective

    Green House - USA Today

    Prior Art

    Peoples Voice

    • Oprah at Harvard
      by Stephen Lendman Harvard's Crimson announced it. Oprah will deliver Harvard's 362nd Commencement address. President Drew Faust called her "journey from her grandmother's Mississippi farm to becoming one of the world's most admired women one of the great American success stories."Read more ...
    • Chavez: A Personal Tribute
      by Stephen Lendman He's gone. His two-year cancer struggle ended. It claimed him. He's sorely missed. He was one of Latin America's most notable leaders. His charisma was special. It was real. His spirit lives.Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.
    • Obama Authorizes Killing Americans Domestically
      by Stephen Lendman Rogue leaders overstep. They never quit. Tyranny in America is hardwired. Bush authorized it for eight years. Obama exceeds his worst policies. He masquerades as people friendly. He does so fraudulently. American freedom is vanishing. It's doing so in plain sight. Obama us ...
    • Syrian Death Squad Invaders Seize UN Peacekeepers
      by Stephen Lendman At this writing, efforts to secure their release continue. Reports suggest freeing them on Saturday likely. UN officials hoped to do so Friday. Unsafe conditions and darkness delayed things. So does dealing with rogue killers. They're not rebels. They're Western-recruit ...
    • AIPAC Conference Day Two
      by Stephen Lendman AIPAC operates lawlessly. It's an unregistered foreign agent. It prioritizes militancy, war, occupation harshness, apartheid, racist hate, and Israel uber alles. It's a dagger in the heart of rule of law principles and democratic value. It menaces world peace. Its annual ...

    Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

    • Great resource for labour researchers and acti ...
      If you haven’t run across the Citizen’s Press website yet, we recommend that you take a look. Citizen's Press is a Canadian online publication for progressive, union-oriented researchers, activists and organizers. There is also valuable information from the US. The site is organized into editor ...
    • Alternative Federal Budget 2013: Coming soon!
      More than ever, Canada needs a budget that allows us to take back our fu­ture and to restore a sense of the public good — a sense that we can do bet­ter together rather than continuing on the dead-end path of austerity and market-driv­en “solutions” that don’t benefit the major­i ...
    • Continuing collaboration for municipal tax reform
      CCPA-NS is continuing its work, in partnership with The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce, to ask that the Province of Nova Scotia undertake a study into the potential for a shift from municipal property taxes to municipal income taxes as the principa ...
    • Collaborating for municipal tax reform
      Collaborating for municipal tax reform. This is a first. We have partnered with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, and the Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce to ask that the Province of Nova Scotia undertake a study into the potential for a shift from municipal property taxes to municipal ...
    • Canada heading for 'bitumen cliff'
      A new study published by the CCPA and the Polaris Institute shows how the failure to carefully regulate the bitumen industry is putting Canada on a dangerous economic and environmental trajectory. The study, by Tony Clarke, Jim Stanford, Diana Gibson, and Brendan Haley, shows that the curren ...

    World Wide Hippies

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    FourWinds10

    • DESTROYING PRECIOUS LAND FOR GAS
    • SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS FACE 6 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ...
      nOV. 13, 2012 San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality. Although residents of the city are forced to drink toxic wast ...
    • Obama Ignores Huge Dangers In Approving Arctic ...
      Sept. 1, 2012 The Obama administration today gave Shell Oil the initial approval to begin controversial and dangerous oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, despite the fact that a critical oil-spill containment vessel is still awaiting certification in Bellingham, Wash. Until now, the Arc ...
    • BEIJING'S POLLUTION ALARMS NEIGHBORS
    • Chinas Yangtze River 'Turns Blood Red': Reside ...
      Sept. 10, 2012 It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see. But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday. The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast ...

    Crisis Maven

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

    Capital Flow Analysis

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

    R-Squared Energy Blog

    • Why Environmentalists are Wrong on Keystone XL
      Bill McKibben and and other protestors are being naive in choosing this particular battle. They won't make any meaningful impact on climate change even if they manage to stop Keystone XL. The reason that is important is that they could be channeling their energy into things that could potentiall ...
    • How Oil Can Improve Our Long Term Energy Situation
      Environmentalists are generally opposed to opening up areas to additional drilling, while on the other side are people who believe that underneath U.S. territory lies an ocean of oil, waiting to be tapped -- if environmentalists would only get out of the way.
    • Exclusive: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress B ...
      A member of the Department of Strategy at the USAF Air War College takes on the Navy's biofuels program and the Great Green Fleet with a scathing report being sent to Congress and the nation's top military leaders.
    • Book Review – Reinventing Fire
      While I disagree with Amory Lovins on many topics, the man is definitely a visionary. In his latest book Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era, Lovins and his coauthors make the case for retrofitting 120 million buildings, and for fundamentally changing our transportat ...
    • Al Gore Profits From Fossil Fuels He Vilified
      What Gore doesn't seem to understand is that this is the same cost-benefit analysis that results in the world's rising use of fossil fuels. He is like many environmentalists who don't seem to understand the real reasons we are dependent upon fossil fuels.

    Discovery Educator Network

    Rodale News

    • The Grocery Store That's Changing the Food System
      Big news for people concerned about avoiding genetically modified organisms (GMOs): Whole Foods, the nation's largest natural and organic foods retailer, has just announced that by 2018, all products sold in its stores must indicate whether they contain GMOs. "We’re responding to our custo ...
    • The Infection You Don't Want to Catch
      Summer brings with it a lot of really great things: beach trips, long lazy days, and fresh food from your garden. It also brings with it an increased chance of catching MRSA, according to a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The original intent of the study was to analyze the nu ...
    • New Ad Campaign Aims to Sell Organic to the Masses
      Last November, voters in California narrowly defeated Proposition 37, a law that would have required labeling of genetically modified foods (GMOs). Thanks in large part to a deceptive advertising campaign funded by almost $50 million in contributions from biotechnology and big food companies, t ...
    • BPA in Moms May Lead to Smaller Babies, Study ...
      A chemical used in canned foods and plastic containers could impact the long-term health of newborn babies, finds a new study from the Netherlands. The researchers collected urine samples from pregnant mothers at various points during their pregnancies and then compared the moms' urine levels o ...
    • Testing Shows Widespread Contamination in Food
      The old-school rules of dealing with food contamination seemed pretty straightforward: Cook meat until it reaches germ-killing temps and thoroughly clean any juice from raw meat from the countertop or cutting boards. Scientists on the cutting edge of food safety are identifying a whole new clas ...

    big think

    • Don't Mess with the Internet: Lessons From the ...
      While the media may have reported the failure of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) as the result of high-level interventions from Silicon Valley big shots, that was not the case. So argues Elizabeth Stark, who was on the front lines of the battle for a free and open ...
    • Marriage doesn't benefit everyone
      You've heard it time and time again:  marriage is good for your health.  Studies have shown that married folks not only live longer but also enjoy better health than their singleton peers.  Married couples have a lower risk of strokes, cancer and heart attacks.  Married folks are less de ...
    • Your Body: The Key to Your House, Your Car, Yo ...
      What's the Latest Development? A new wireless authentication system called BodyCom could change the way locked doors are opened and the way firearms are activated by using the human body as a password. "[The technology] uses capacitive coupling to transmit a signal between a pocket-sized ...
    • How Nanoparticles May Transform Cancer Treatment
      What's the Latest Development? A team of Swedish scientists have created a nanoparticle capable of delivering non-toxic cancer-treatment drugs directly to tumors in the body which are both biodegradable and traceable using MRI machines. "The method makes nanoparticles spontaneously build ...
    • Got a smartphone? Take part in the Great Brain ...
      There has been much chatter recently about the new found potential of "big data". Google NGram for example, tracks usage of words in books and Google Flu Trends does what it says on the tin. The vast quantities of data that are now available enable new possibilities for experimenting with data i ...

    Information Liberation

    • Anarchism vs Minarchism: Larken Rose Debates A ...
      Small government, or no government? Is it a debate between order and chaos, or tyranny versus liberty? Larken Rose debates Attorney Tom Willcutts....
    • CBS News: 'Bad Cops Rarely Fired for Bad Behavior'
      Police chiefs across the country are finding it nearly impossible to fire some of their own officers, in part because of arbitration and union rules. Senior correspondent John Miller reports....
    • Iraq Shows the Failure of Militarism and Socialism
      With the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq upon us, there are three things that I find particularly fascinating. First, the people who favored the invasion have different rationales for why they favored the invasion. Some of them sa...
    • City, ParkAtlanta officials get tickets dismissed
      ATLANTA - ParkAtlanta, the company that enforces parking laws in the city, has been controversial since day one. Their contract says they are not supposed to show favoritism. FOX 5's I-Team examined nine months of ParkAtlanta tickets to fin...
    • What Holder Really Said
      It took a 13-hour filibuster from Senator Rand Paul to wring this terse statement from Attorney General Eric Holder: "It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: `Does the President have the authority to use a weapo...

    Be Responsible - Be Free!

    • Bogan Pride
      What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →
    • The Thirty-Second Version
      That’s all the time I’ve got to compose this post… Sorry about the absence, but you all know why. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this with you, courtesy of Zero Hedge and the blogger known as Gannicus. Learned … Continue reading →
    • Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
      Last Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart, south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
    • Early Exit For 2012
      If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
    • Early Exit For 2012
      If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →

    Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

    • World Book Day Confusion
      It hadn’t occurred to me that there might be more than one World Book Day. Apparently (thanks Bob O’Hara) we Brits celebrate and promote literacy on 7th March to get around school holidays, which is why yesterday all the kids trotting up to school were dressed as characters from thei ...
    • Molecular Logic
      I first wrote about the pioneering work of Prasanna de Silva – AP to his friends and colleagues – back in the early 1990s in publications such as New Scientist, Science and others. It really was pioneering, he and his team at Queen’s University Belfast were starting to find way ...
    • Deceived Wisdom World Book Day Offer
      World Book Day Offer: To celebrate WBD – 2013-03-06, I’ve made the e-version of Deceived Wisdom just 99p (about $1.50) for the day. You can buy it in PDF, mobi or ePub format for your computer, device or other e-reader from my publisher E&T through the Sciencebase site. Click the ...
    • Deceived Wisdom World Book Day Offer
      World Book Day Offer: To celebrate WBD – 2013-03-06, I’ve made the e-version of Deceived Wisdom just 99p (about $1.50) for the day. You can buy it in PDF, mobi or ePub format for your computer, device or other e-reader from my publisher E&T through the Sciencebase site. Click the ...
    • Hawking, Sagan and Arthur C Clarke – “together”
      Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and Arthur C Clarke were brought together (Sagan via satellite link) in conversation to discuss life, the universe and everything back in 1988. Hawking, Sagan and Arthur C Clarke – “together” is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author o ...

    RFF Library

    • Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey 2012
      Ceres http://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/naic-report/view [From a Climate Wire article by Evan Lehmann, sub. req'd]  U.S insurance companies are generally unprepared for risks related to climate change, with some denying that climbing temperatures could affect their business and others negle ...
    • Breaking Down Federal Investments in Clean Energy
      Information Technology and Innovation Foundation http://bit.ly/10dq6ys The United States has failed to create a comprehensive energy policy that provides robust and consistent support for innovation. Although the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulated public investments in energy innov ...
    • A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temper ...
      Science (March 8 2013: v339 n6124 p1198-1201; DOI: 10.1126/science.1228026) / by Shaun A. Marcott, Jeremy D. Shakun, Peter U. Clark, Alan C. Mix (This article is available to “Science” subscribers, including RFFers.) http://bit.ly/XXGZ0R [Wall Street Journal introduction to article] ...
    • Reply to “Reply to ‘Comment on “Hydrocarbon Em ...
      Accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres via Council on Foreign Relations ‘Energy Climate and Security’ blog / by Michael A. Levi http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/files/2013/03/JGRResponse-Accepted.pdf [From the author's blog] …Last fall, JGR published ...
    • Liquefied Natural Gas Exports: an Opportunity ...
      Peterson Institute for International Economics / by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Allie E. Bagnall, and Julia Muir http://www.piie.com/publications/pb/pb13-6.pdf Prohibitions  or restrictions on US exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are a bad idea.  LNG exports will deliver economic benefits to the U ...

    Scientific American - News

    • Red Wine's Link to Health Gains Support
      The discovery that a compound in red wine may provide a healthier and longer life had guaranteed popular appeal, but the suggestion has been attacked from all sides. One such skirmish -- a debate about the hypothesized benefits of one particular compound -- may now be resolved. [More] ...
    • Global Average Temperatures Are Close to 11,00 ...
      Global average temperatures are now higher than they have been for about 75% of the past 11,300 years, a study suggests. And if climate models are any indication, by the end of this century they will be the highest ever since the end of the most recent ice age. [More]
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    • Yes, Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs Now What?
      Fifteen years ago Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, marking the beginning of what Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Erik Brynjolfsson calls the new machine age--an era driven by exponential growth in computing power. Lately, though, people have been feeling uneasy a ...
    • Still in Search of the Energy Unknown: A Q&A w ...
      NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Can a government agency capture the explorer's urge of Christopher Columbus , Neil Armstrong or James Cameron ? That's what the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy hopes to do, in the words of Deputy Director Cheryl Martin, who is currently heading AR ...

    First Truths

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

    Media Co-Op

    • Journée des Femmes / International Women's Day ...
      Montréal 08 mars 2013 - #manifencours #JournéeDeLaFemme http://blogocram.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/montreal-08-mars-2013-manifenc... http://www.flickr.com/photos/blogocram/sets/72157632959087902/ . MANIF 8 MARS / MARCH 8 DEMO http ...
    • Second Chief Withdraws from 'Made In Nova Scot ...
      Eighth day of hunger strike sees influential chief tweet his resignation from negotiating body K'jipuktuk (Halifax) –  The eighth day of Shelley Young and Jean Sock&#3 ...
    • Canadian Arrogance
      Harper and the death of Hugo Chávez Within hours of the death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, Canada’s Prime Minister St ...
    • Food for Thought: Federal Government Will Not ...
      United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food presents report on Canada On March 4 and 5, 2013, Food Secure Canada organized 50 events across the country to connect with Ol ...
    • Honest Look at Venezuela Confusing, Painful fo ...
      "A journalist," economist Mark Weisbrot wrote last year, "can say almost anything about Chávez or his government and it is unlikely to be challenged, so long as it is negative." Canadians need only turn on the ...

    David Seaton's News Links

    • Whither post-Chávez Venezuela
      To put the entire subject of Venezuela into perspective from a yanqui point of view, I suggest reading the following snippet by Matthew Yglesias.The late Hugo Chavez is controversial because of American aspirations to global military hegemony. People who vocally oppose those aspirations find t ...
    • On the death of Hugo Chávez
      A little old lady interviewed by El País in a mourning crowd of Venezuelans gave the most insightful analysis of Hugo Chávez and his probable legacy: "He gave us an identity!". Latin America is filled with people like that old lady, they are the overwhelming majority: poor, brown, left ...
    • Italy's elections and the Five Star Movement
      David Seaton's News LinksThe "Grillini": this time the revolution won't be televisedThe election that made Beppe Grillo, an anti-establishment blogger-comedian, leader of the largest parliamentary force in terms of votes cast was an election that passed a damning verdict on Italy’s corruption-in ...
    • Capitalism: is we is or is we aint?
      David Seaton's News Links Read carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending is not only the key to economic re ...
    • Droned if we do, etc
      David Seaton's News LinksIt’s insane how vulnerable we’ve made ourselves, like drunks failing to look around as they walk into traffic. Hackers could shut down the way we live, and if they hacked into drones or nuclear codes, determine the way we die. If you think it through, which most of us av ...

    MoJo - Kevin Drum

    • Atrios Has a Question
      And I have an answer: because it would have meant raising taxes. St. Grover would not have given his blessing.
    • Friday Cat Blogging - 8 March 2013
      Don't worry: during the festivities revolving around the 10th anniversary of Friday Catblogging, ordinary Friday Catblogging will continue as usual. Today we're back to quilts. This one is called "Tesselated Pinwheels," and it was made from reproduction 1930s fabrics that were left over from t ...
    • Here's Why I Don't Think Republicans Will Reac ...
      Greg Sargent is doing yeoman's work trying to convince me that some kind of deal to replace the sequester is possible. You can read his full argument here, but I think this is a fair summary: Republicans really, really want to replace the sequester. They don't like the defense cuts; they ...
    • Some Advice For Our Next Financial Crisis
      I've long believed that the core problem with our modern banking system is that it relies on too much leverage. Way too much. Banks with less debt and more capital are far more stable, which means that even if they're too big to fail, they're just a lot less likely to fail in the first place. ...
    • 10 Years Ago Today I Came to My Senses
      Friday Catblogging isn't the only thing that's 10 years old this month. It's also the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War. However, if I'm going to memorialize anything about this, I figure I should memorialize the 10th anniversary of when I finally came to my senses about the war. It happened on ...

    Insanity Report

    • IC 385: Sith Council
      Topic: Sith Council Forms: Kriss, Kev, Tye Diamond & Rodimus Prime Trolling Trolls When is it okay to talk about people? Tye goes on a date with Ebony from Catfish Calling 9 year olds cunts Epic Facebook Trolling Charlamagne “Gets Real”….stupid Dumb Nigga Logic Video Games ...
    • IC 384: Horrible People
      Topic: Kriss is allergic to the office Nasty ass coworkers Kriss & Kev are horrible people Fantasia has a beef with JET Magazine Iron Man 3 Shailene Woodley as MJ EA says game prices will go up Share with your friends:
    • IC 383: Chicks Can’t Fight
      Topic: UFC 157 First Women’s fight in the UFC The vocal minority of sexist men Dana White is an awesome sports commissioner Kev recaps his NYC trip Kev goes to the Church of Scientology Mass Effect 3 DLC Playstation 4 Share with your friends:
    • IC 382: Life Coaching
      Topic: Phenomblak joins Kriss & Kev for a completely random and off topic show. Share with your friends:
    • IC 381: Rappin for Jesus
      Topic: Rappin for Jesus Pope retires Getting out of Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day as a kid Dating is a hassle Troll better Lady dies after 10 liters of coke a day The new Die Hard Movie Share with your friends:

    Simple Climate

    • Projected warming set to exceed civilisation’s ...
      11,000 years during which human civilisation has emerged have not seen temperatures ‘even close’ to what model forecasts predict, a record built by Shaun Marcott from Oregon State University and his teammates shows.
    • Evidence rethink puts CO2 and ancient warming ...
      A rise in temperatures that caused the last major global defrost has now been placed in the same 150-year window as an accompanying CO2 increase by Frédéric Parrenin from the French National Centre for Scientific Research and his teammates, rather than happening 800 years before the CO2 change a ...
    • Cave deposits reveal permafrost concern
      Greenhouse gases currently trapped in the frozen soil risk release past a 1.5°C temperature threshold for melting at the permafrost boundary, found in a 500,000 year record collected by Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford, and his colleagues.
    • Extra stations bolster warming-extreme rainfal ...
      A study calling on 8326 weather stations has confirmed that annual precipitation highs are intensifying by around 7% per 1°C warming, explains University of Adelaide’s Seth West
    • Altered pressure patterns bring Eurasia intens ...
      Even as the world warms, stronger high pressures have driven extreme cold events happening since the 1990s in Europe and Asia, says Xiangdong Zhang at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

    e!Science News

    • Deep Brain Stimulation shows promise for patie ...
      In a world first, a team of researchers at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre and the University Health Network have shown that Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in patients with chronic, severe and treatment-resistant Anorexia Nervosa (anorexia) helps some patients achieve and maintain improvements in ...
    • Processed meat linked to premature death
      In a huge study of half a million men and women, research in Biomed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine demonstrates an association between processed meat and cardiovascular disease and cancer. read more
    • Siberian fossil revealed to be one of the olde ...
      Analysis of DNA extracted from a fossil tooth recovered in southern Siberia confirms that the tooth belonged to one of the oldest known ancestors of the modern dog, and is described in research published March 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Anna Druzhkova from the Institute of Molecula ...
    • Bats not bothered by forest fires, study finds
      A survey of bat activity in burned and unburned areas after a major wildfire in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains found no evidence of detrimental effects on bats one year after the fire. The findings suggest that bats are resilient to high-severity fire, and some species may even benefit fro ...
    • Monell scientists help identify a missing link ...
      Working with a multidisciplinary consortium of 19 researchers from nine institutions, Monell scientists have provided critical information to identify CALHM1, a channel in the walls of taste receptor cells, as a necessary component in the process of sweet, bitter, and umami (savory) taste percep ...

    unEarthed

    • Michigan State U Must Be Greener Than Spartan Deep
      University has a historic coal ash contamination problem “Simply moving dangerous coal ash from one site to another contaminated site on campus is not being ‘Spartan Green.'" ...
    • Florida's Water Is Looking Ashen
      Tons of toxic, mostly unregulated coal ash, threaten state's lifeblood Coal ash landfill at Florida's Stanton Energy Center, February 2012. (Angelique Giraud / CWA) ...
    • FTC Resisting Common-Sense Changes To Refriger ...
      EnergyGuide and ENERGY STAR labels obscure configurations and features The addition of a through-the-door ice dispenser can make a big difference in a refrigerator's energy usage. ...
    • Without Coal Ash Rule, Litigation Helps Commun ...
      Lawsuits by local and national groups clean up toxic coal ash sites Pennsylvania residents Sabrina Mislevy and Barbara Reed stand near the Little Blue Run coal ash dump site. Litigation has ...
    • A Wise Pause On Arctic Drilling
      
Shell suspends oil drilling operations indefinitely Sea ice in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) Shell announced that the co ...

    Brave New Climate

    • Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
      In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...
    • Two decades and counting…
      Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...
    • Energy Policy – substance wins over style
      There’s a gradual, but a rising tide of rational, enviro-progressive scientists out there who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Many of these problems involve touchy subjects, including ways to reduce poverty while improving or maintaining high standards of living el ...
    • Zero emission synfuel from seawater
      Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...
    • Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
      As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear. W ...

    Indigenist Opinion

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

    Republicans are a Disease

    • Republicanism Is A Disease
      You didn’t hear it here first. “So Republicanism is a disease” from Daily Kos. - So Republicanism is a disease -
    • Fuck You Bill O’Riley
      Hey Bill, suck my dick. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending is all you rich bastards say. To hell with the poor, the elderly, and the struggling. Just cut services. Let them starve, or die from working themselves to death for an ever smaller paycheck. Billo spewed “It’s almost l ...
    • Will Texas And Arizona Be Blue In 2016?
      According to a study done by The Center For American Progress - Study - between now and the 2016 elections 185,000 white voters will become eligible to vote in Texas, and 900,000 Latinos will also become eligible. Man, that is a lot of new Democrats in Texas. No wonder the Republicans are crappi ...
    • Woodward Trying To Make Nice
      Bob Woodward will be remembered for two things. Watergate, and not reporting the identity of the Valerie Plame leakers before the 2004 election when he knew who they were. I am assuming “they” told Woodward who the leakers (traitors) were because they knew ‘ol Bob was a Bush su ...
    • Ann Romney Happy To Blame Media Bias
      It appears that Ann Romney thinks the media was biased during the campaign, and treated President Obama better than her husband. Here is a transcript from a Fox Lies interview: “Do you think the media was in the tank for Barack Obama?” the Fox News host wondered. Ann’s response: “Anytime y ...

    Appalachia Rising

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

    Amped Status

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

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    • WATCH: Al Jazeera takes on the segregated bus ...
      Al-Jazeera’s Inside Story covers the segregated bus debate and the question of apartheid in Israel. Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna is joined by Ben White, Mustafa Barghouti and Gregg Roman in what turns out to be probably the biggest shellacking of an Israeli spokesperson I have ever seen o ...
    • Seeking asylum in Israel: Deportation without ...
      Instead of giving asylum seekers the benefit of the doubt, as international law prescribes, in Israel, the district courts find doubts, the Supreme Court approves, and persecuted peoples are deported before the merits of their cases can be examined. Everyone can sleep soundly. Israel’s asy ...
    • Two cheers for Chavez
      The controversial Venezuelan leader, who died Tuesday, did more good than bad – and the good he did was extraordinary.     Any political leader who buddies up conspicuously with Ahmadinejad and Assad, showing indifference to their victims and freedom-seeking opponents at home, loses his sh ...
    • When Israel’s military aggression agains ...
      Violence against Palestinians is no longer reserved for Israeli soldiers or settlers, who still justify their actions with “security.” The young Israelis who have been attacking Palestinians, unprovoked, on the streets of Western, educated, democratic Israel, have no such excuse. In the last wee ...
    • After marathon is cancelled, will Gaza’s ...
      On March 5, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which works with Palestinian refugees, announced it was cancelling its third international marathon in Gaza in mid-April. The race was called off due to the decision of the Hamas leaders in Gaza not to allow women to participate. Th ...

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    • Elderly, Sick Man Dies Because of Wells Fargo ...
      The most horrific foreclosure story you’ve heard…… His death came more than two years after Wells Fargo mistakenly mixed up his Hermosa Beach address with that of a neighbor in the same condo complex. The bank’s typo led Wells Fargo to demand that Delassus pay $13,361.90 ...
    • YOU…IN FORECLOSURE….YOU’RE A ...
      Have you noticed what’s happening all around you?  The state and federal governments are turning against the people that are in foreclosure and they are attacking.  The governments are attacking and now the banks are attacking as well.  And just so you don’t think I’m being dra ...
    • Report to Florida Senate: Foreclosure Delays C ...
      As the Florida Legislature considers foreclosure reform, the bills they are considering DO NOTHING TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM THEY HAVE BEEN PRESENTED. The problem, which is made very clear in the attached video, is that Plaintiffs who filed foreclosure cases, choose not to pursue those cases. One m ...
    • (cell phone) Cameras in Florida Courtrooms, Ce ...
      The State of Florida, and this state’s entire judicial system have been recognized across the country and indeed around the world for being champions of open and accessible government and for supporting the rights of all citizens to document the important functions of all levels of governm ...

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    Vaccine Awakening

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

    2020 Science

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

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Study: batteries causing renewable energy bottleneck
Wired.co.uk
For countries to switch their electricity generation from fossil fuel to renewable sources, they'll also have to dramatically reconfigure their electrical grids to be able to store electricity when there is oversupply. However, a study looking into the ...
Iowa City hosts Biomass Crop Workshop on renewable heat, power
Iowa Farmer Today
Farmers in the Iowa City area may be especially interested in the topic because the University of Iowa (UI) has committed to procure 40 percent of its energy (electric power, natural gas, coal and biomass) from renewable sources by 2020. Since 2003 ...
Oklahoma is ahead of schedule in renewable energy goal, officials say
NewsOK.com
An Oklahoma Corporation Commission report on the 2012 status of the renewable energy goal is expected in the next few weeks. The 2011 report showed more than 2,750 megawatts of renewable energy capacity and another 165 megawatts that came from ...
Community Partners helps Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy go smoke-free
SW Iowa News
From left, Harrison County Department of Home and Public Health Tobacco Coordinator Julie Florian and SIRE Ethanol employees Laura Schultz, Kristi Harrington, Stephanie Utterback, Bill McInturf, Betty Harmsen, Tammy Mullett, Justin Schultz and Dan ...
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Oil spill readiness plan covering 1600 vessels approved | Washington ...
Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has given its final approval of the Washington State Maritime Cooperative's (WSMC) umbrella oil spill readiness plan that covers more than 1,600 commercial vessels that transit Puget Sound and Grays ...
Ecology starts review of the Oak Harbor shoreline program update, seeks public ...
Access Washington
BELLEVUE – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) seeks public comment on Oak Harbor's recently updated shoreline master program. The proposed updated shoreline program will guide construction and development on the city's 13 miles of ...
Second International Conference on Chemical, Ecology and Environmental ...
Cordis News
Ranging from death of fish and other to forest decline, ecological effects can be long- or short-term changes in the normal functioning of an ecosystem, resulting in economic, social, and aesthetic losses. These potential effects are an important ...
Wareham Land Trust hosts 'River Ecology and Restoration' talk
Wareham Week
Beth Lambert, river restoration program manager for the Division of Ecological Restoration of Mass. Fish and Game, will present. An overview of the historic use of rivers in Massachusetts will be followed by a presentation of river restoration projects ...
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As Fracking Increases, So Do Fears About Water Supply
New York Times
From 2009 to 2012, water production from one well on his ranch fell by two-thirds, a problem Mr. Fitzsimons linked to nearby wells pumping water for fracking operations. A study commissioned by his groundwater district found that in a five-county area ...
List of Texas Water Projects Draws Concerns Over Conservation
StateImpact Texas
As the state looks to fund water projects, concerns are being raised that not enough conservation is being encouraged. Within days of the announcement earlier this year that the state legislature could get serious about funding new water projects in ...
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Use of recycled water trickles into Delta region
San Jose Mercury News
Recycled water use reduces the amount of fresh water pumped from the Delta and provides a sustainable, water supply that can withstand droughts, low snowpacks and restrictions on water withdrawals, Gary Darling, Delta Diablo Sanitation District's ...
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South Florida Water District needs to complete its unfinished reservoir
Sun-Sentinel
Here we go again. Water managers are back touting another plan to build a badly needed reservoir in southwest Palm Beach County, this nearly five years and about $280 million after halting construction on a city-sized reservoir once hailed as the key ...
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